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Of course many of these things are subjective, and likely post-facto reasoned by people, because we get very fiery over these things, but here are some of my “rebuttals”:

> The horizontal panel across the top of the screen is an egregious waste of space, especially on modern widescreen displays where vertical pixels are valuable.

OSX has a similar toolbar, windows has a much bigger one at the bottom. It is valuable space, but I think it is well-used, will come back to it later.

> A graphical task switcher was one of the most substantial UI improvements in Windows 95. GNOME banishers this to usually hidden, minor feature. That's bad design. GNOME is actively hostile to beginners and less proficient users.

It is available by a single flick of the mouse (Fitt’s law: the corner is basically infinite sized) for beginners/when you are constrained to mouse/(minor point but even on touchscreen). For power users there is the super key, and for laptop users the swipe up with 3 fingers in a smooth motion is easily the best way to get to the activities tab. Besides the “task switcher” at the bottom, I personally am much quicker to discern which application I want to switch to based on how I expect it to look, vs an icon. Windows didn’t add a popup of how it looks for no reason to their task switcher.

> keyboard

It is quite customizable (if nothing else, by plugins), but I think it is unfair to take it as a negative that gnome2 hotkeys no longer work. It is quite clearly not an incremental change from that, for that go with Mate.

> titlebar

I am undecided on whether it’s a good thing or not. Your previously mentioned vertical space problem is literally the reasoning behind that, so it is not made on a whim. Otherwise, I have never really rolled up a window for real use, besides playing with animations back in the compiz days. I don’t find it useful. Minimization is also an interesting question - there could definitely be improvements here (maybe the sketch area of i3 and alia be a better option?), but it is absolutely usable. I usually just make multiple desktops and group activity-relevant windows on a same one.

> I do not normally store files on my desktop, except the temporary holding place, but I do use it as a convenient place to store convenient shortcuts to my normal working folders. It's my computer, and therefore I get to choose where to store things. It is not the position of the desktop designers to decide that I cannot store things on the desktop.

Feel free to reenable that with a single extension.

> file manager

You can use any file manager, it should not be a criticism of the Gnome DE, just because it runs under the same project. The same is true for your criticism of GTK.
I recently read Culture Code, about organizational culture, and it talks about Pixar quite a bit.

It is mentioned that after some failures, Disney purchased Pixar then had Pixar execs, including Ed Catmull, come to Disney to instill a culture similar to the one at Pixar. The story is told as a success, with the films you cite as examples of that.
Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings
Most particles can be removed by your immune system. Things like asbestos are bad specifically because the kinds of particles asbestos becomes are very difficult to phagacytose (and remove).
Before the never ending sequels on the Pixar side, they actually have settled into a complementary relationship.

Pixar does the more adventurous stuff, crazier ideas, totally different kinds of plots and stories/worlds/characters, with a focus on storytelling rather than songs etc.

Whereas Disney Animation (with recent titles like Tangled, and the Frozen movies) is the 3d version of what Disney's Animation Studios always did best, take classic stories, and turn them into quasi-musicals with a modern twist, but do it in a really talented way.

In my 20s, I used to get mad about the idea that Disney just stole story ideas and made it their own, but this was too reductionist. There is immense talent involved in actually taking an old story, modernizing it, adding all the original music, creating that original new world, building scenes, dialog, all that stuff. And I appreciate it and give Disney a lot more credit nowadays. Whether it's Beauty and the Beast or the Lion King, or modern hits like Frozen and Tangled, they really add a lot in their interpretations of these stories, and make it their own.
It’s not just plastics. It’s how capitalism works around the world. I wrote about it two years ago:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=362

Back when I wrote it, I suspected the industry intentionally worked with government to distract the public, and now in this article it is confirmed:

Under public pressure, a company like Coca-Cola or Nestlé pledges to insure that the packaging for its products gets recycled. When the pressure eases, it quietly abandons its pledge. Meanwhile, it lobbies against any kind of legislation that would restrict the sale of single-use plastics. Franklin-Wallis quotes Larry Thomas, the former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, who once said, “If the public thinks recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment.”
That is not true. Maybe it is your experience but it is not universal. And you have to look at that particular device you used. Depending on the distro you most likely will have to do additional configuration to enable different power saving features on Linux.

From the Thinkpads I have seen and used (last one in 2023) I haven't yet seen one that is "fully supported" out of the box on Linux and all of them required some degree of tinkering.

By the way Arch wiki has a nice overview on configuring power saving properly, in case you ever need it in the future: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management
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Per the root post of the thread:

> _and you like the taste_

If you don’t, that’s fine, and your preferences need not be imposed on your peers.
It's one thing to spy, but the devices that phone home will stop working if they receive a command to do so. Smart TV's have a 'kill switch, so do smart tractors. And companies are willing to use it - Amazon will delete your account for giving them bad publicity. Google will delete you account if you use a chargeback.

In the current legal landscape, most 'smart' things don't belong to you
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F... the on fire part :D
You don't need the pressure of VC capital to have greedy business owners try to do vendor lock-in.
Would there still be as much pushback? Yes.

Open office environments are terrible for productivity, stress, health, etc. — the science is pretty well settled here.
Here's another "summary of what happened" vis-a-vis XMPP: niche protocol is still niche after big player enters and, eventually, exists the space.

XMPP is doing fine, and ActivityPub will be doing fine after Meta. People crying end of the world for them are just using different - and wrong IMHO - metrics for what "dead" means.
He tries to discredit the pro-russian TG channels.
I wish. I have it justified to me as "our SQL is not good" as the reason to use ORMs in my workplace. The result is code that primarily centers around the idea of fetching objects into memory and flushing them back to the database. JOINs are not used, you do lookup chains in Java instead. And if you need to update a field, you fetch the entire object into memory (a SELECT *), update one field and flush the whole thing back to the database. That's what an ORM gets you. A plainly wrong way of thinking about how to manipulate data for developers.

It's not that they don't know SQL. They know SQL. The problem is, the only SQL they know is fetching objects by primary key/some other condition because that's the only thing an ORM does well. The SQL table could very well be a dumb key-value store because that's all that their code treats the SQL database like.
I was surprised to see Cars listed as one of the ones that people generally hate. I’m a little biased because my son absolutely adored that movie, and I have fond memories of him taking his Lightning McQueen toy around with him everywhere. But over many repeated watchings both my wife and I agreed it was a quality production.

It has a good cast with Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, and even Larry the Cable Guy puts in a pretty decent performance. The minor characters are charming, too (including George Carlin and Cheech Marin).

The story is fairly timeless and reminiscent of Doc Hollywood. I don’t know how they manage to make it work so well with anthropomorphic cars, but somehow they do. The main character has a good arc, and there’s a good amount of nostalgia. I don’t think I ever cried, but I definitely felt something - which is more than I can say for the Cars sequels.

Would I go and watch it now without kids? No. But Pixar put out a movie that entertained kids and adults alike. Earned $462 million at the box office. Made an absolute killing in merchandise sales (and I thought the toys were pretty high quality, especially the die cast Tomica cars here in Japan). I have a lot of respect for what they were able to do with Cars. Not so much for the sequels, though.

They also call Monsters University a mediocre sequel, but I tend to prefer it over Monsters Inc. Pretty much for the same reasons as Cars - good cast, timeless story reminiscent of Revenge of the Nerds, and my kids loved it.
Such as adding saltpeter, lots of sugar or smoking.
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I would add La La Land to the list. I don't like musicals, but this one was great.
I'm not changing anything, I'm quoting the headline: "Rubio Says He’s Heard Shocking ‘Firsthand’ Account..."
Like the others said, that is not a bug, you can add other chess moves. One bug however is that bold characters break other answers.
Also republished on Hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2023/06/27/honda-headunit-reverse-engin...
I'd like to promote British cuisine by including cheese on toast in your list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_on_toast
You’re adding a lot of baggage to the poster here that they never implied. It’s pretty important to have a pulse on what’s important to employees.

Employers taking the posters point into consideration may mean that they’re a remote first company, but they also provide coworking passes for people that appreciate not working from home.

In the same way that pre-covid management monoculture was “WFH could never work”, the monoculture now risks being dominated by people who have dedicated home offices who seemingly can’t empathise with people who appreciate commuting somewhere, feigning outrage at anyone who could dare suggest that there are multiple perspectives.
BTW, really dislike when companies call us such names. I imagine the reason is to create an atmosphere of security/family, but on me it creates the opposite reaction.
Yeah I don’t get it. I consider the few movies that made me feel a strong emotion to be my favourite ones. I thought that’s what cinema (and art in general) was about, making you feel something rather than indifference or boredom.

And it’s not like there isn’t a shitload of movies that try to make you cry and fail miserably, so I don't think there's a cheap trick.
I prefer going to the office, not because of the social aspect, but because I strongly prefer separating my work from my personal life

I really enjoyed back when working from the office was optional and I was the only one showing up!
I hope it didn't take too much of your time to ramble all of this.

One thing I'm interested in is the dark pattern you accused me of.

Users literally cannot use it beyond the trial period if they don't pay, and I don't collect credit card info before the trial.

Are you saying someone might accidentally pay for this?
It depends which you are comparing. Rates are usually expressed in average per 100k hours of block time (slightly rosier than wheels up time). Classic 737's serviced and flown by major American carriers and 739's on small foreign carriers today are entirely different beasts.
No, I meant that they wanted a separate political entity (or at least Moriscos' leaders wanted that). As you can guess, they were assumed to be traitors and expelled of Spain.

> But let’s say for a moment you might even be passably correct? Why did they rebel? Was it because they were being violently subjugated by the crown?

They were subjects of the Crown, as the things worked that way then, if you rebel against the Crown you were killed. Obeying the Crown in the XVI century meant to follow the official religion. The Muslims did the same some centuries earlier so I can imagine that "forcing people to practice a religion" was a common practice during that era.

> (Keep in mind that crown went on to do a lot more subjugating in the New World. The Spanish crown loved murdering people who weren’t Catholic.)

Well, of course the Spanish Empire was subjugating its subjects the same way English or French were doing. That was a common practice during that time (not that I'm defending that). In the case of the Spanish Empire, they were lucky to find people that were slaved by the Mexica (common known as Aztecs by us) and they rely on their help to conquest what is now Mexico. You can guess the other parts of Hispanic-America suffered a similar fate.

I don't get your point, you are using current culture and values to judge facts that happened 5 centuries ago. Of course they were evil and inhumane, what did you expect?
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I’m hard core work from home but that actually sounds awesome now that we have a toddler.
Apple Testing Its Autonomous-Vehicle Tech at Chrysler's Old Proving Ground?
Disney bought Pixar in 2006 and put Ed Catmull of Pixar and John Lasseter of Pixar in charge of both Disney animation and Pixar.
Lots does. I work for a company that among other things makes leading edge ASICs. The tools and probes and things required to test and handle wafers and the chips that come back from packaging can't be sent to peoples' houses. Some people have to work various manual steps in that process at times. It's surprisingly hands-on, especially in early stages of characterization and yield and performance tuning.

The vast, vast majority of person-hours required to go from drawing board to bits of silicon running in customer's computer can be done entirely without physical presence though.

I know mechanical and structural engineers and it's much the same for them.
Hahah, that is probably the one lesson that ActivityPub has NOT learned from XMPP.

ActivityPub can support new vocabulary through an extension mechanism based on JSON-LD, and I honestly am curious to see where serious efforts in this direction will take us. So far only the group interested in code forges were doing any extension work, but I haven't tracked them closely.
In the case of LLMs, I really wish we would stop referring to models where the source code and/or weights were leaked as "open source". Likewise, for those where they were deliberately released but the license restricts them to "non-commercial use" or allows commercial use so long as the use "does not compete" with the company that released them.
What firewall rules can I put in place to block whatever telemetry my devices are shipping to you?
Indeed! ”Now let’s assume a perfectly spherical cancer patient…”
ORMs can handle joins just fine. It just sounds like not understanding the tool.
No, we just need something like Yellow Pages where consumers can take a look whenever they want to be informed about new products.

We must stop the vicious cycle of producers having to pay higher and higher prices to get attention (which is what Google loves).

And we certainly don't want ads everywhere because we don't want to drive up global consumption unnecessarily.
> I compare (negatively) to “Saving Private Ryan”

I think the word you want here is "contrast"; i.e., "Contrast this to Saving Private Ryan, which..."
How did the generic masculine emerge?
Thank you for sharing, very informative!
> embraced and extended it

... but not extinguished it, I see you are careful to avoid mentioning. Yes, XMPP is doing at least as "fine" as it was before Google started using it seriously.
I decided to pay for TomTom Go because I can't stand ads during navigation.Their privacy policy is much better as well. Seriously Google Maps must be a goldmine for intelligence agencies- it makes Tiktok look benign.
I meant if you use SqlAlchemy Core you get out mostly ActiveRecord behavior. If you use SqlAlchemy ORM you get latter behavior.
Laravel Eloquent is nice to use, I've heard criticism before, but not that it is an anti-pattern.
I have a soft spot for FreeBSD. I hope someday we’ll have a lightweight container solution that works across the BSDs (macOS included), Linux and maybe even Windows. POSIX is all you need.
>apps like WhatsApp are far more popular.

Popular doesnt mean 'in-group'.

>I get it may help you feel more confident about your Android preferences to concoct these weird theories about iOS buyers being brainwashed

No, we learned this during my MBA. Apple is basically 50% of your marketing classes. I'm not sure you want to call academics incorrect here. They were spot on, they knew you'd come to apologize. Your identity is wrapped in Apple. An attack on Apple, is an attack on you.

Meanwhile I hate google and microsoft. I'm agonistic and trying to find anything better. Heck, I even think Linux isnt great for consumers given all the USB issues I've had.

Do Apple fans complain about butterfly keyboards, international high stakes security breaches, and holding your phone wrong? Or do they rush to Apple's defense. Weird you don't see people doing that in Google and Microsoft threads.
That's hilarious. I wouldn't been too confident about the magnetic properties though... ;)
I am not really surprised I'm afraid.

Unions often DO get involved in these things, they make no progress, divide their members and it prevents them actually doing their actual day to day job.

Has the AFL-CIO balanced the national budget yet? No. And wasting time on that has meant less attention has been paid to membership or issues where they could have made some difference.

We saw the same thing with the Amazon unionisation attempts last year: what started as (a broadly supported and popular and achievable ) campaign to get better wages, less terrible conditions and some job security rapidly morphed into making Amazon go carbon neutral, fixing racism in america and end global warming. I would like all those things. But if you want me to put my job on the line our goals need to be achievable, and frankly beneficial to me directly. And the Amazon unionisation fizzled pretty rapidly.

Again, if people want to join campaign groups (EFF etc) then that is their right. But that's just not what a union is for (any more than the EFF should represent me in salary negotiations).

To be clear in the specific case of the AFL-CIO, they are NOT a union (at least not one of workers). So it makes sense for them to campaign on whatever they and their members feel is important.
How did this make it to the first page on HN?
>proprietary extensions to RCS

Oof gross. Do you have any further reading? I couldn't find anything on it.
What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy:

> The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent

See? Nothing to worry about, just your name, email and address. Very little that could actually pinpoint who you are or where you are.

Ref: https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles
And the free courtesy cigarettes that would be in little glasses on the table
> What really determines how long a house will last is water/moisture management.

What really matters is the foundation.
My whole point: error handling is decided at the caller-end trivially. They can try-catch/use ?/just unwrap, whatever it doesn’t concern the implementation. Async/blocking is not like that, as it can itself recursively contain similar “decision-points”, and the final caller cares about all of them, as it might change semantics.
Yeah, consumption went down, but it caused numerous other issues that proved to be far greater. All you’ve shown is that reduced consumption of alcohol reduces the metrics of social problems associated with alcohol. That says nothing to my point which is that the other problems end up being far greater when you go in with such a profoundly callous mindset. Prohibition caused a 24% increase in crime overall with murder in particular going up 13%. And at the end of Prohibition people still drank and we still have all the same issues with alcohol and drugs now, just worse. And then Reagan tried the same approach again, and it failed again. How many dead bodies do you wish to see on top of the 100k overdoses to somehow solve this issue? Would a stack of dead bodies twice as tall satiate? At some point we as a society gotta realize that murdering people en-masse as a response to social issues is just not effective.
That markets and companies don't respond as fast as machine traders do seems to confuse and anger people and then make them denounce the whole thing.
You have to repeat the password before a bomb explodes. I tried to somehow copy it using developer tools, but did not manage to do it in time :(
As a person who dislikes musicals, I concur that Grease is an amazing movie. The songs were relatable in an innocent way (i.e. finding summer love). The songs I hear in movies today... they aren't innocent. They talk about things like hating the person you love, and other similarly unhealthy concepts. It is a stark departure from the songs of old.
This is precisely what Tinyx is doing: A "private" fork in a license that would make it impossible to contribute code back to Xorg.
Don’t get me started on the fucking gamification of the start menu with microsoft reward coins (+100 to try bing on edge) to drive microsoft internal team KPIs

This is as bad as Facebooks legendary QP abuse in metrics season that everyone used to win their PSC because we are talking about 300$ product here, Win11 PRO that is as crammed with adware - tiktok, instagram, office, onedrive, blah blah blah as in the worst days of steve balmer now.
Another reason why the whole development story for Windows desktop currently sucks.
That's kinda interesting - I imagine a lookup table was introduced as as an optimisation in the first place. I'm at work and I've had meetings so I haven't seen the linked video (or one of the ones where Kaze patched some functions in to get SM64 running at a constant 60fps) but I'm really keen to do so when meetings subside :) These little self-contained optimisation problems are really appealing, especially when someone smart has done something cool and innovative
I was actually reacting the the hyperbolic title "plastics are poisoning us". And while the article is more nuanced and rather well researched, the subtext essentially "ban plastics", and judging by most of the comments here, that's what most people took away.

My argument is essentially that while it is perfectly normal and expected that researchers study the health risks associated with plastics, and that it is just as expected that we address the issues we discover, we have to make sure the solution is not worse than the problem. And since plastics are what I believe to be relatively harmless for the massive and careless use we make of them, I think it is an important consideration.