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> Things like the compositor crashing

I had many crashes, daily, and thought it was due to KDE but then they happened with other WMs too. Then I thought of trying to run the CPU at a lower frequency - lo and behold, no more crashes. Sucks that I can't use my laptop to its fullest power but I'm too tired to deal with the constant crashes at max CPU.

> startup scripts not running in a reproducible way

Never had this issue - all the startup scripts executed as expected.

> weird behavior around multiple monitors

The only weird behavior happened when my DE crashed where panels moved to wrong desktops (I have a three-monitor setup). Once the crashes stopped, haven't had this issue and it remembers the panel settings but on rare occasions I have seen the refresh rate of one of the monitor change from 60 to 30Hz.

> dock sticking to the wrong edges

This never happened to me but see comment above regarding panel moving to wrong desktop (even then edge orientation was retained).

> every problem I've googled for (sddm most recently)

I have suffered from this SDDM issue too - eventually swithed to lightdm and everything works.

> When will plasma be livable in general?

I think it is livable already but thats what it is - just livable and I'm not sure if I would call it highly polished / rock solid - I still find rough edges E.g. adding each widget to panels increases CPU usage by 1% or so even though I'm not adding any CPU intensive widgets; moving icons on the panel is weirdly jumpy and some icons refuse to move; I have to install plugins and weird workarounds to enable panel transparency etc. I have seen panel woes mentioned multiple times in this thread and elsewhere; I think many people would greatly appreciate a feature to export/import panel config (even the entire desktop config) so that even if your panels etc mess up (ideally not but lets be real), you can just restore from the last known good setup. This would make such a big difference to the user experience.

The cleanest and most stable of the environments I have seen was Gnome 2.12 (I think that was the version with Ubuntu Dapper Drake). Intuitive, good balance between features and cleanliness and generally got out of the way. Since Gnome 3 and its radical changes came out, I have been searching for a DE that sticks to the conventional design (no going into rabbit hole of tiling WMs for me) and errs on the side of more features/flexibility. I did dabble with Cinnamon/XFCE/Pop desktop but I always felt that there wasn't sufficient flexibility/features (direct or via extensions). I think Plasma, with all its issues, caters the best to the aforementioned needs. So KDE it is for me, until something better comes along (which given the current ecosystem, is unlikely).
Bob Kahn on the Birth of “Inter-Networking”
the thing you're missing here is that some people have strong emotional attachments to their subreddit communities, to the point of considering it to be part of their identity. I was like this, once, many years ago, and while I can't quite understand why anyone would've stayed on an obviously-sinking ship this long, I can see where they're coming from.

the thing that should've clued you into this is how emotionally-charged and defensive the language used by these people is (let alone the desire to stage a virtual "protest"…)—once you see this pattern, it's easy to identify going forward.
Thanks, I agree... it was never intended to be a "real company", which was ultimately to my detriment. The irony of killing it hurts, so I'll probably just leave it up for the existing users, and (hopefully) find some other payment processor. It only costs me a few dollars per month to host it, so I am not super worried about the money, but it's a huge motivation killer to be ousted from Stripe. I was happy with keeping it "indie and scrappy" and only friends using it, and I went through a lot of pains to make it so the architecture was always break-even, but I never expected my payment processor to bail on me.
Exactly! No rows, tables or SQL. But instances of Models in a persistent image.
"think Google Play Music, except we won't disappear. currently in early access."

You can't just give up at the first sign of a payment issue, otherwise you're no better than google ;)
I have a two-liner shell script that turns a csv into a virtual SQLite db (./to_sql.sh foo.csv) and lets me use the full power of SQLite. Usually that’s enough for my purposes, but I do use pgsql‘s copy from csv to generate tables representing foreign data imported from a csv (say census info or NAICS occupation codes).
Because the answer is that nobody uses Bitcoin for anything legitimate other than speculation, paying off ransomware debts to criminals and just down right scams and fraud.

I am yet to see any viable usecase of this bitcoin mania that is legitimate and doesn’t need tons of energy waste to accomplish its goal.

For almost 15 years of bitcoin it has completely failed and we have no use for it.

So yes, we should never switch to bitcoin for daily purchases (because it fails at that) and we should never switch to an ‘alternative’ like bitcoin if that said alternative is even worse than the current system, which it is.
The 100 gallon average includes laundry, bathroom, home landscaping, golf courses and other things as well. Very little of that would be for drinking.
I do notice the backlight unevenness in very dark scenes. I also wish it had HDR.

Everything else is fine; it's got local dimming so the contrast is really good, and viewing distance is such that higher resolution would do nothing.

Response and refresh are essentially a non issue for movies -- it can handle 24Hz content just fine.

Why should I throw a perfectly good box full of hazardous waste in the trash?
You'll never need that much power at home. Level 2 AC 240V 30-50A is fine for overnight charging.

The way Tesla Supercharging works is by using a large bank of batteries for the heavy bursts of power draw (>100kW) during the initial periods of charging when the battery is warm and at a low percent. The batteries at the station are backfilled with less current from the grid in the background during periods of low use. At least that is how I understand it.

but yeah, maybe trucks with huge batteries may be able to take advantage of it down the road.
The magic session link was such a great idea. I could easily add a session to my work computer.
The Museum of Annoying Experiences (2021)
Well... while this clearly didnt work on you... It may have for others. I can easily imagine someone who is on their own for the first time suddenly realizing they don't really know how to make new friends or talk to people. Someone shouts something positive at them, they respond and start a conversation, and from there a friendship might start.

Is it going to happen every time? Nope. But lots of people are not going to initiate an interaction, even if they are lonely. If someone else does, though, they will engage.

I'm saying this as someone who has pretty bad social anxiety, doesnt really like talking to strangers, and someone who has pretty bad depression.
The pre-pandemic work arrangements were in what is called a meta-stable state.

"If the ball is only slightly pushed, it will settle back into its hollow, but a stronger push may start the ball rolling down the slope" [1]

They only looked normal because there just aren't many mechanisms for society to explore (at scale) nearby states that might be more adapted but require a lot of energy to reach.

We have now tunneled by force into a more stable state. Everybody knows that massive amounts of knowledge work can be done remotely. There are tradeoffs of-course, a new equilibrium must be reached, but it has nothing to do with the old one.

That is a good thing. Somehow we should be able to get to better states without going through existential risks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability
Sometimes the 'cheeriest' people are the most depressed. I think Robin Williams is a prime example.
In something like C# or Java with a good ide I imagine it's not too bad.

Interpreted languages like Python and JavaScript do suffer when code bases reach a certain size.
> We can give out USB condoms but we cant make people use them!

I don't work in BigCo IT, but shouldn't you just change the OS configuration to ignore the phone? Or is it also about training them to use safe charging practices for when your OS policies aren't there to force them?
Just reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_1FbjuJp4E
The specific problem I have is you used to be able to have a window float between virtual desktops, but that recently went away. FWIW, I spent most of my time on a real OS ssh'd into my mac. Assuming networking started on the Mac when I last rebooted it. Why do people put up with macOS?
That's definitely not correct. The first sentences in Wikipedia date its use to the Roman Kingdom and Republic, long before Augustus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator
I was looking into composting toilets for a while when I was day dreaming about a camper van build. Based on what I saw, the systems which use peat moss are very effective at composting human waste and virtually eliminating all the smells. The key to these systems is to separate solid matter from the liquid which is where the "sewage" smells tends to come from. A number of the systems I looked at used urine diversion to keep the solids more dry and speed up composting.
53% of parents say climate change affects their decision to have more kids
You need to ensure no noticeable amounts of pathogens remain else they’ll be present in sme of the crops which then sicken people who eat them.
> It just sounds crazy to plan to pull that much power charging a car at a time.

For comparison, a normal gas station pump is like about 4MW of power (fuel).
Of course you can't. Post-scarcity is a new thing; you can't go to societies of the past and see its effects.

But you act as though adding any features to our society and economy that move toward taking better care of all our people would somehow ruin the whole thing.

Now, to answer your initial question:

Provide governmental support for small businesses during the transition—local grocery stores, small family farms; not the ones already making hundreds of millions+ in profit every year. A lot of this support wouldn't even need to be monetary—remember, this isn't even talking about making food free or anything; it's just talking about moving to a non-profit model. The most obvious type of assistance is legal (to understand what being a non-profit means and how to legally go about making those changes) and accounting (to understand what this will mean for their books).

I don't believe that massive chain supermarkets and agribusiness conglomerates should get much in the way of financial support for this kind of change—they've already been making huge amounts of money for their execs and shareholders. And, again, only one of those groups actually has to stop making money off this. While I would 100% support separate measures to reduce the exec pay disparity, that's out of scope for this particular discussion. Going non-profit just means you don't have shareholders who get to make money off the business—and, vitally, you don't have shareholders pushing the business to make more profit at the expense of pricing people out of staples or reducing the quality of the food.
I said "has wanted to be" - because intent is not always the same as outcome.
I don't know if they're planning on changing that, but `-q|--quiet` will suppress this. It just sets the log level to error, and the new version message is info level.
Asus Patches Highly Critical WiFi Router Flaws
I moderate several subreddits and have written my own apps/bots that perform various functions, such as updating CSS flair based on a remote set of changing assets, monitoring posts, etc.

I am quite okay with the planned API costs, timeline, and communication. How were you affected by the changes? I read the Apollo guy's posts, but the reality is that he had built a very, very profitable business serving Reddit's content to the masses.
Yes. Well all those positions are just employees as well, not owners.
I have been on reddit since digg did their redesign. For the past many years I have only used the Apollo mobile app. I have zero desire to switch to the official app as it is awful.

Apollo is reddit to me so instead, I will be hanging out here more and kbin.social
Most ORMs or just DALs can automate step 3 for you. If you’re using a strongly typed language with any type of ffi support, you’ll probably already have native cast from int to enum available (unless you’re using rust where that’s considered unsafe by default).
In 2014 the government passed a law making ripping explicitly legal. In 2015 the music industry sued and the High Court ruled that the law was contrary to some EU directive and thus invalid. But I don't know if that law was annulled by the court decision, or if it was merely dormant until we left the EU. The Brennan ripping devices are still on sale. Do you have a link to this case?
This is an interesting idea, is there any reason why the government owns the supply of money but they don't own a way to transfer it? Especially with electronic money, why isn't there a government payment processer? It kind of touches on the topic of taxes too, doesn't it?

If the government owned a transaction system and you used that exclusively then they'll know everything you bought and sold. It's already an honour system so it's not like you're eliminating cash or even need to. Paranoid people could continue to use cash and the tax system would work exactly the same for those people. The government transaction system would be a convenience for most of the population.

I'm spitballing here - my comment may not even make sense in context.
Pretty much all psychological advice given by people is at best useless and often very harmful. I used to have serious bouts of depression and social anxiety. All the well intended advice like “just go out there” “cheer up, it’s not too bad” usually just made me hide even more.

Looking for professional help can be even more depressing. Besides the money issue it’s very hard to find a therapist you click with. I went to quite a few therapists. Some felt almost hostile or dismissive towards me and others just useless.
> This means it’s not possible to race data, dead lock, live lock, etc. While this statement is true when you look at fibers as a N:1 proposition

Deadlocks are still possible when using fibers backed by a single thread if you serialize your fiber execution. Here’s an example I’ve seen in the wild:

Imagine a serialized job server implemented with fibers that, when closed, waits for all jobs to finish by posting a final bookend job and waiting for it to finish. This works, unless you decide to close the server inside one of your serialized jobs—you’ve now created a deadlock where your job server is waiting for itself to finish closing.

I’m sure an N:1 deadlock is also possible without serialization, but I can only think of contrived examples.
Rivian is the next automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging plugs
To me that means you can easily flag someone down without having to interrupt them by speaking mid call.

In person also allows for async conversations during demos/presentations and is much easier to read the room for the speaker.
Sure was annoying to wait to load
Interesting. The Jonestown "doctor" who devised the Flavor Aid solution was in my dad's social circle at the University of Houston in the late 60s. UCSD is my alma mater (different school from San Diego State fwiw).
"IBM compatible" was a result of reverse engineering, not open source.

And it also has no meaning in this context. What is "compatible" with a WiFi chip or a storage controller? They're all already compatible with each other. The driver is the thing that converts from the device-specific operations to the APIs provided by the kernel. The kernel APIs are already public and anyone can implement them for their own hardware.
UK's cost of living went through the roof and quality of life has decreased dramatically. It became a third-world country with first-world prices. I wouldn't recommend it at the moment.
I can't recall a WFH article that didn't just boil down to a CEO or adjacent just "vibing" things weren't working.
EDX doesn’t touch retail money. Retail money is radioactive. By taking general public money you open yourself up to all sorts of high bar scrutiny.
>>You are welcome to do as you please.

Personally, I wouldn't even go that far. Some choosing to give up their personal life in exchange for always-on work life push the needle into normalization for the rest of us that DON'T choose that.
Why not just go whole hog and name the project Motorola?
Unfortunately, fmt.Errorf makes errors.Is/As useless. In fact, errors.Is is mostly useless in general, since very few Go libraries have any error types at all. You're usually stuck with parsing error messages if you actually want to handle errors programmatically, even for much of the standard library.
Am I still missing something?

950,000 divided by 40000 = 23.75 liters

I feel like that is an absurdly low amount for a person to drink per year.

Also, I don't think the 100 gallon number includes industrial use like "golf courses".

> The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors. In addition, there are other miscellaneous uses of water in the house which may be very significant, depending on the degree of water conservation by the household.

https://water.phila.gov/pool/files/home-water-use-ig5.pdf
That sounds super interesting! Any source you can share to learn more about how that works in Germany?
Another point not raised here is that Google Search very likely creates incentives or fears to NOT use non-Google advertising solutions because one of the ranking factors that Google uses is "site speed".
I'm baffled how black square box can be winner of RedDotDesign.
>"Benzene is everywhere, particularly in trace amounts in otherwise harmless products."

Note ->

Everywhere 'Today' because of your listed modern products.

Not, Everywhere because it is some natural thing.

Saying it is "Everywhere" seems to imply it is ok. The point is, we are all exposed now.
I block every unknown number that is not in my contact list.

With Android, you can do this by turning "Do Not Disturb" *ON* and setting appropriate parameters to allow known callers through as normal.

Unknown numbers still show up in my call log so I can look them up online at my leisure to see who they are, where they're from and call them back ... or not. No paid service required in the USA.
I mean, I could - and once again, I am reminded of the fact that I get to sit in front of a laptop instead of doing hard physical labor that I can literally see construction workers doing down the street.

But I can get a paycheck elsewhere, without the company suddenly doing a 180 on me with regard to my other benefits!
I don't like ChromeOS, but I gotta admit it's a perfectly fine name for the system. They don't bury the lede ("this runs Chrome") and they suffix it with a brief product identifier. If you are looking for a device with Chrome on it, this will qualify. If you need a Windows machine or a Mac, they aren't pretending to compete with them.

Is there a more straightforward name that even makes sense here?
That's funny, I had the opposite reaction the more I read about him
> EVs are still overwhelmingly charged overnight at home

And Tesla would like to be in that business too, with PowerWall batteries and "solar roof" panels.

If they're succeeding well here is another matter though.
A bunch of villains selling clouds to Hugh Dennis?
I'm no longer religious, but in the past considered joining a church just because it was absolutely the easiest way to make friends in a new area. Decided not to because it felt pretty unethical but I'm positive that is in large part why a lot of people go to church. It's a social event.
> Our decision to have lower taxes, because we don’t need to raise more money, seems an odd thing to criticize us for.

I don't see where the Cayman Islands were criticized.
Mods are arbitrary at the best of times, but in my case it came from an admin, banning me from the whole site. That seemed unusual. Particularly for something that seems so innocuous. The mods of the subreddit saw no reason to ban me.

I also made some silly quips about spez in the same timeframe. It is possible he was salty about it and arbitrarily chose a comment to reference in the banning, not being the true reason. It certainly would not be out of character.
For first time, US task force recommends screening adults for anxiety disorders
It’s more like may 2020. I don’t know anyone who got a car delivered in 2019 ( mine included) that has support for ccs
Google Music (fka Google Play Music) have license agreements! e.g. https://www.cmrra.ca/socan-csi-strike-licensing-deal-with-go...

Part of the reason google/youtube are quasi-monopolistic is that they've already been through all of this, they've had the arguments and the lawsuits in various different territories, and they've reached agreements and paid money to deal with the copyright issues.
The reddit API terms are written to imply not allowing users to bring their own key.

Given how antagonistic reddit has been to 3rd party apps during this one can assume they would make this explicit if anyone tried.
And an even more difficult time accepting that people will hate them for it regardless of their intentions. After all it's all to easy to lie about having good intentions, even to yourself.

We're evolutionarily hard wired to do what's best for ourselves, which often includes being altruistic to gain more social acceptance. That's why being "lonely" is a problem at all, we feel emotional pain to get us to work with the group, since that's what's always meant longer survival.
Looks promising! Any thoughts about making this a VSCode extension?
That doesn't even sound like a BTRFS problem; I recently (couple weekends ago) had the same UUID cache problem with an XFS partition.
Except that the author explicitly said command-tilde didn't work for their requirements.
> And I'm coming from a position of really loving NeXTStep and Classic Macs. In the classic era, we had consistent design guidance. Now it's a mish-mash of random recommendations which may or may not carry on to the next OS rev. And NeXTStep had it's problems, but at least it booted consistently.

If your argument is that Linux or Windows are any better on this front, I beg to differ.

Don't get me wrong. I love Linux. But it's hardly a bastion of design consistency or user-friendliness.

As for Windows? I mean... come on. When's the last time anyone tried to steal design ideas from Microsoft? Everything good about Windows was stolen from somewhere else, and, in my not-so-humble opinion, implemented poorly.
Sure, it’s a carrot for me doing work.

And if my boss had that attitude, I’d be out the door very quickly. I’ll let others enjoy that carrot.
That's probably there so that users don't plug their phones into the PCs. Also saves desk space.
I’m with you on this. I think the only way to build out a network at this point is with EV manufacturers or governments subsidizing the costs. You can’t turn a profit selling the electricity because the gross margins are so much lower and the real estate costs are so much higher than petroleum-based products. The amount of profit earned per parked minute is going to be exponentially lower.

And the grid connections are not a trivial problem to scale. At some point you exceed the capacity of normal grid connections and you start to require higher voltage feeds and bigger transformers, and that cost is massive. And as the network grows, you’ll need to scale the number or size of substations, which is also not trivial.