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It's The Register being pedantic and a bit argumentative.

There's a reasonable argument that Chrome OS is Linux--or at least more so than Android is. But it's not so much that it's "the wrong kind of Linux" according to purists as the article says but that it mostly addresses a different use case than installing Fedora or Ubuntu and therefore, IMO, it generally makes sense to treat them separately unless your point is that some form of Linux (and *nix generally) has a pretty large market share on both desktop and mobile.
ChromeOS is an immutable Gentoo installation. The offered additional Linux environment is, understandably, based on Debian in order to allow for the most compatibility with .deb packages. Of course you can't natively install .deb packages on Gentoo and especially so if you don't have the rights to install spurious packages on the system, so Google "has to" offer the Linux experience in a roundabout way.

Of course, they could base ChromeOS on Debian directly and be done with it, but then they'd lose the incredible ease of custom tailoring to the hardware that Gentoo offers.
VanMoof did improve technically with their S5. However they also mentioned they had a 10% return rate on their older S3, which probably was very costly.
Also they never had a dealer/service network like other brands have in Europe as they were B2C.

Your requirements (more range, more torque, removable battery) are specific to your region. As VanMoof is sold a lot in The Netherlands, a flat country where people make short trips, the bike specification actually made a lot of sense (bigger batteries add weight and cost and removable batteries make frames more bulky).

An alternative could be Cowboy.
Chrome automatically prunes history for quite a while now. Which I personally dislike, as I sometimes need to find something I visited a long time ago.
I'd say noise plays a major role. I've driven a noisy car for years and now that I'm driving a quiet one I frequently switch a bit too late when I'm distracted.
There was a time when Firefox felt a lot slower than Chromium, but for a few years now it's been close enough (even if still somewhat slower) to not bother me, while Firefox clearly offers superior functionality and much better performance under high load. The last time Chromium has felt attractive compared to Firefox was a really long time ago. Glad to see it moving in the right direction still.
They aren't that similar. US has at-will employment, it's very straightforward. In the UK that's only true for a short period, then Euro-style worker protections start kicking in.
But ChromeOS is also GNU/Linux
One drama series that does this very well is the Lincoln Lawyer. Everyone there is a character with personality, motivation. All of those are, at least to me, rooted in who / what they are: lawyer, criminal, LGBTQ, people of color... And nobody is without flaws.

Grey's Anatomy on the other hand... well it was great early on, had some up and downs, hit a rock during amd just before Covid, then recovered is now a little bit too on the nose regarding certain issues. Yes, send a pro-Choice message. Yes, highlight the hard reality of strict anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion laws. Or racism, or the obesity pandemic. But please, don't turn it into a lecture, entertainment is not the right format for the that. A lecture is.
Just the fact that it sounds like it maxes out at 35mph it sounds intensely safer than your average heavy and fast SUV/pickup/EV
In the Firefox Nightly blog, there is some discussion of the performance improvements they've delivered in each release: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org

For example: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-ban...

> The two big jumps are from these two fixes. Great job, Performance Team!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069
That's like saying "If your car runs too slow, toss out the back seats."

History and extensions are there for a reason. And managing the cache is the browser's job, not the user's.
It was always a gimmick with a very limited cost-effective timeline. In the future we will (rightly) view DoorDash and the like as a relic of a uniquely profligate era, I suspect, whether it is a drone or a car/driver delivering.

Sending life-saving medicine to a remote township with a drone makes sense. Drone-drop pizzas do not, given planetary circumstances. For that matter, neither does the whole institution of single-meal delivery.
It was replaced by NATO. With a new king. /s
That's not a joke though and the whole point is made with the weird title
container tabs != tab grouping

tab grouping uses the same cookies everywhere, whereas container tabs provide isolated workspaces each with their own set of cookies
Thanks for the context--I wasn't aware of that.
ChromeOS, unlike Android, uses glibc and other GNU userland.
What do you mean? You have every right to repair your VanMoof; they not only didn't try to stop me, they actively encouraged me to do it myself or just go to a local bike shop every time I called them for service.

I know it's a common (and shitty) thing these days, but in this case, it isn't like the bikes are going to stop working.

I think this article sort of implied (without really saying) that would happen, but it won't. It's theoretically possible that you could "brick" a VanMoof bike by:

1. locking it with the VanMoof app

2. forgetting your hardware unlock code

3. not downloading your bike token/passcode, thus preventing third-party apps from connecting to it

4. waiting for VanMoof to be gone, so you could no longer get the bike details , and thus would never be able to use any third party app

...except that the hardware unlock code is only 3 digits, so you might be able to brute force that if you really wanted to (?)

It's possible you could get the bike locked to "0 power assist" setting, though, and never be able to change it, so that's why I strongly recommend all VanMoof bike owners to download their bike details[1] ASAP so that they can use third party apps to manage those things.

[1]: https://keyexporter.grossartig.io
And that is one recurring problem I see across HN in recent times, where people merely make comments/claims based on only reading the title and completely disregarding the contents of the article shared.

It might be that the title may be clickbait-y, but that is I guess to be expected in this day. Someone reading has the choice to just not interact if that title is too much bait.
Unless the title is a joke which it is. The whole point of the article is that linux blowhards try to ignore ChromeOS as Linux.
Follow up: what percentage of the posters who like ads are producing incredibly bad content that works right in the algorithm and blocking people, with Google's help, from reaching quality/relevant videos they want to see?

I don't find very much in terms of actual entertainment there, when I look. I follow a few channels, no idea if they make money at it and I don't care because their videos are 100% related to the topic at hand and not why I need a therapist from aiassistedminimum wagetherapy.com
Are they containerized? I have separate containers for work and personal stuff, with separate sessions for Gmail, GitHub, etc.
Semantics != behavior.

In truth, I'm having hard time deciding if you're trolling or actually truly, sincerely not understanding this.

Read the wiki page. Implement a few Null Objects. If you still have questions, about this trivial concept, then I'll be happy to go a few more rounds.
This argument kind of falls apart when you start trying to maintain or improve plumbing, HVAC, and electrical through the house. It's much easier to do that through the wood and drywall of a typical American house.
Google Cloud changed the scope of our Startup Credits and now we are billed
Hello hackers,

We have been in Google for Startups Cloud Program with a $100,000 grant for 6 months by now.

On June 23 2023 without further notice, Google have changed the scope of our credits from "Following service: all of Google Cloud Platform." to "Certain usage; see the terms of the promotion for details." and now we are billed for the marketplace service we used to use with Google Cloud Credits with no problem.

We have exchanged lots of e-mails with cloud billing support and it seems nobody seems to know something about this. Google Cloud for Startups team hasn't responded our email for more than 10 days, given they said they will respond in 5 days.

Our point of contact from the marketplace service stated that "GCP Startup Credits cannot be used towards their product on GCP MP purchases" given we used their services for 6 months.

We planned our cash-flow on the yearly-basis and now I have a huge bill. Is there anybody experienced a similar situation and got a proper explanation to that and what to do in such situation?
can this handle multiple email domains on the same server?

i.e. mary@domaina.com and mary@domainb.com as different email accounts?
Show HN: Live-Streaming an Egg
Carrying forward the Silicon Valley S2.E10 egg live-streaming as a joke

https://egg.dyte.io
That's not what container tabs are. Think of it as isolated environments for groups of sites. You can even set it up so that each new link opens in a new environment, without any cookies, etc.
Don't forget Bruce Willis. There's definitely a place for these kinds of actors. I think Chris Pratt is fine for that niche.
I don’t see many non superhero or non franchise movies coming out of Hollywood. It sure sounds like the moneymen’s influence: why not milk a sure thing?
How are tab groups relevant here?
> All processors are C VMs at the end of the day.

That would be a poor argument back in the 80s; and is increasingly wrong for modern processors. Compiler intrinsics can paper-over some of the conceptual gap, but dropping down to inline assembly can't be entirely eliminated (even if it's relegated to core libraries). Lots of C code relies on certain patterns compiling down to specific instructions, e.g. for vectorising; since C itself has no concept of such things. C is based around a 1D memory model which has no concept of cache hierarchies. C has no representation of branch prediction, out-of-order instructions, or pipelines; let alone hyperthreading or multi-core programming.

After all, if processors were "C VMs", then GCC/LLVM/etc. wouldn't be such herculean feats of engineering!
Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”
That's not new at all. The amount of acting in any Rat Pack movie is about zero. A lot of classic black and white comedies and musicals are just actors doing vaudeville or Broadway schtick with a camera running.

It can still be fun and enjoyable, but it's not Acting.
Agreed.

If there's a 3rd party aggregator (for taxis, restaurants or whatever), the final price that the customer pays would include both the aggregator's profits + the individual service provider's profits.

If the individual service providers all came together and made an app themselves, the aggregator-profits can be eliminated, resulting in potentially reduced prices for the customers.

I think (probably wrongly) one of the reasons they don't usually come together is because by making such an app they would effectively be helping their competitor(s), which they may not necessarily want to (because they don't see the bigger picture?).

In my city (in Asia) a subset of taxi drivers realized this and even made an app, but it didn't really work well due to poor marketing and because visitors to the city didn't want to set-up a new app just for 2 days etc.

On the other hand, if all the service-providers do co-operatively make an app for their services, what prevents a cartel from developing? The government?

I guess there should be a high baseline level of trust to make it work.
Three sprays of perfume means you're probably overcompensating in the opposite direction. Not to make you anxious, but being around overpefumed people gives me headaches - hate it.

Daily showers, deoderant, and shower after workout or heavy sweat should be more than sufficient.
"Internet of Things" pretty much by definition requires a connection to the internet, somehow. Technologies like zigbee/thread/etc. can get a device to the internet indirectly via a gateway, but nothing about them is inherently "more" IoT than just connecting to the internet directly. The "Things" part of "IoT" is covered by the Nano ESP32 being a physical "thing", which is able to interface with the real world via the GPIO pins.

Arduino is presumably using the term "IoT" because they're interested in emphasizing that this device can connect to the internet without buying additional hardware, unlike most Arduinos that have existed.
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I don’t believe that’s the reason. I think it’s project management priorities.

It’s possible to write efficient code to this day, examples of very complicated software implemented that way are triple-A videogames. However, it’s relatively hard (and therefore expensive) on quite a few levels. Performance targets should be accounted in functional specs, all developers should be aware of these targets, software must be specifically designed for performance, people (or better yet, robots) should continuously profile software, project management should prioritize performance-related issues and bugs.

And another thing. The hardware performance progress between 1975 and 2005 was exponential, driven by rapid advancements in photolithography. In these decades, we observed quite a few times that for many software products it’s often a better strategy to ship sooner relying on hardware progress to “fix” the performance, compared to spending time and money on software optimizations. The hardware performance progress slowed down substantially around 2010. Still, we have a generation of people in all positions over the industry who learned their experience in these decades of exponential explosion of compute power.
Trust Stephen Wolfram to get the idea behind this. I agree completely.

My own work in Stable Diffusion is way less about prompt engineering or approximating 'human art' and much more in exploring its capacity for vivid and plausible hallucination, likewise the beginnings of my experiments with LLAMA.

There is a kind of meaning to these spaces when you can compellingly imply something with purpose and integrity, but it's not prescriptive, or it's not a human thought. I'm looking for the evocative, but I'm willing to be a lot more collaborative about what it evokes… people's explorations into negative prompting are fascinating to me, even though I think it's something of a false path.

Telling AIs to replace human artists and follow instructions while aping their styles is not useful behavior (except economically, and even then it's degenerative). Using AI to do what you'd have to inflict brain damage on an artist to do, is more interesting and ethical :)
How do those 32 hours end up by day (ie 6, 8, 6, 8, 6)?
You can have your bank account set to allow overdrafts or reject them.

But even then, it works different if you’re using it at a point of sale with your debit card and a scheduled payment that doesn’t immediately show up as pending.

It’s just a hassle that can easily be avoided by separate joint accounts.

Of course we have a small savings account that takes care overdrafts automatically (with a $12 fee).
I have Whatsapp 2FA enabled, but to be honest it’s a pain. It’s a PIN that the app asks you to confirm again and again forever, every few days.
We're doing this, aren't we? :)

Let's hope the BART and ChatGPT folks crawl it soon enough haha

https://jdsalaro.com/bookmark/quote/thurstons-paean/
I'm gonna say punk's the odd one out there, because Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren were there at the heart of it with SEX right from the get-go. So the time-to-commercialization on that one might actually be zero, or possibly negative, which gives it a slightly different character.

(I can see the other point of view, which is that Westwood was a nobody until consumerism took her and her designs to its bosom).
I think the article makes a good point. ChromeOS is very much a Linux desktop in most ways. Over 7% of desktops is a much nicer number too :)
It has nothing to do with "in recent times," people have been doing it here for well over a decade.
> Because it basically covers what PNaCL, Java plugin, Flash plugin, Silverlight asm.js were doing.

Right but it doesn't right now? Like you can't just write arbitrary code as you would with a Java plugin, or a PNaCL C++ plugin. Wasm is extremely difficult to use for those use cases.

> Then we have all those startups trying to reivent bytecode executable formats in the server, as if it wasn't something that has been done every couple of years since late 1950's.

Yes, because people really want this and the solutions have all been fraught with security issues historically.
Also annual miles / kms tend to be very low, so the overall risk is usually quite contained as you say.
It looks to measure a bunch of little JavaScript-driven interactions. It has been around for a while, so I guess it probably measures what it says it measures.

OTOH, you might feel it doesn’t mean much depending on your priorities. I mean, JavaScript is bad anyway. So I guess anyone they cares about performance/security blocks it as much as possible and/or avoids JavaScript heavy sites.

Or, big picture, Firefox wasn’t built by a spying company, so even if Chrome had much better benchmarks switching to Chrome would be a silly thing to do.
The midlife crisis is a need for novelty, specifically the brain is not stupid, it sees that everything around is either collapsing or freezing in place and it wants to fight that, reverting to the days of college when everything was about building up and dynamism.

If and only if you get back to the same levels of building up and dynamism of the college days , and you are still sad/depressed, you could claim that the thing is not outward related.
But this is not only predictable but acknowledged. It’s not ideal to fail to communicate and not realize it. It’s not ok to identify as someone who just doesn’t communicate and bottles up their emotions until they’re problematic.

It might not be easy. But to do otherwise is a recipe for failure. And we’d be dumb to not acknowledge that. You shouldn’t marry someone you’re not comfortable talking to About difficult things. That’s like the whole point of having a trusted partner.
Well, biology is probably a lot closer to ML in this way. My experience in chemistry or material science is that 99% of the time if you do anything wrong it totally doesn't work at all.

This is fairly typical in software as well.
Container tabs isolate sessions. I don’t think tab grouping is related.

Firefox allows you to create/manage multiple containers, and set up rules to assign specific sites to specific containers if desired.

I think the closest feature in Chrome is the ability to create multiple profiles, but this is less flexible/ergonomic IMO.
OK, I'd believe that I guess.
Firefox was a great browser, haven’t tried it in years. Last I tried it was slow memory hog. They also fired a whole bunch of great engineers during Covid.

Many websites I tried looked off it didn’t work in Firefox. Had to switch to chrome.
All we have to do is vote to drop copyright lengths to 10 years.
Metatype: an open source declarative API development platform
2022 - does not fill me with optimism. Is this still maintained? Meanwhile we had a few releases of python
> Chrome still feels snappier

I actually tested this and Firefox is significantly faster in rendering CSS and tables. (Not sure about complex Javascript.)

Chrome's snappiness is mostly UI smoke and mirrors, actual sites load faster for me in Firefox.
AFAIK RowHammer is already a non issue on the latest hardware since the module will speculatively refresh rows that may be vulnerable. ie: If a ton of writes happen to row B then rows A and C will have a refresh triggered too.
> Ignoring all the commercial Unixes as they are effectively all dead now,

Ironic that this article would ignore Mac OS, a somewhat notable commercial Unix.
Moving cargo makes money, moving people loses money.
If you live in a Western city and genuinely don't know anyone who owns a car, it's not much of a surprise that you never understood old car culture - how would you?
Nushell is a great project and I’ve taken it for a spin, but it isn’t developed enough yet to even come close to rivaling PowerShell. The PowerShell ecosystem is robust, and I can import a module for just about anything I need to do. I’ll be keeping an eye on Nushell though…
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I have in the past lost my sense of smell due to polyps in my sinuses that were caused by allergies. Removal of the polyps fully restored my sense of smell (even made it better than before)
I'm just waiting for the vertical tabs support to give a new chance for Firefox.
I was about to say the same thing until I read your comment. 100% agree, for some the line between work and leisure is very blurred.
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Maybe FF should take some tips on those UI "smoke and mirrors". What feels faster is what users are going to go off of. For example, a page that fully loads in 1 second vs a page that incrementally loads in 1.5 seconds - the latter may feel faster because the time to start loading is faster.
It is getting worse, and some of it is back-ported to Win10, so it isn't as simple as comparing Win11 now to Win10 now to note the differences.

Comparing from either base point in time is valid. There are probably win10/win11 comparisons out there if searched for (if not, maybe someone reading this wants to write one and get the attention from publishing it :) )
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You're latching to one minor point and ignoring main points like 'According to POSIX we can't define strscpy's return value', and 'We are standardizing a widely used function while strscpy is used in exactly one place - and a strscpy which fixes the return value is used nowhere'.
"Is that running Linux?" is a question that's becoming harder and harder to answer.

Have an Android phone? Technically yes. It runs the Linux kernel but not GNU (probably, unless you've installed a layer with gnu).

Have a Chrome OS device? It runs GNU/Linux and most have a user layer that can run Debian.

Have a Windows device? wsl exists and is quite nice. Lots of developers use it.

Is Windows Linux too now?
I don't know what you're relying on for the idea that C is not a popular language, but it is extremely popular.
There is no trumpet winsock download nor a TUCOWS link.

So it is not worth wasting your 28.8 modem power for it.
You can also save some more weight by never filling the gas tank up to more than 25% capacity.
Definitely attractive, but probably too short/not built enough these days. I doubt Michael J Fox would have been a leading actor today too. Can't decide if Bruce Willis would have made the cut, but I would lean towards not. His roles went to the steroided up Rock/Vin Diesel.

It is not just US cinema though. I see the same in other countries' movie markets such as India's. Possibly just that population increase of potential actors made it more competitive, so minimum standards increased.
I develop cross-platform desktop software. I have one backend/set of build flags for Linux binaries, and another very distinct one for ChromeOS. For me, it makes sense to differentiate the two.
See also https://arewefastyet.com.
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