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I think that describes aptly why no paradigm is fitting for everyone...

> 1) The WM must remember where my windows were and put them back when reopened. Never mind how X apps took on this responsibility, under Wayland the app should not know its context. It's also not right to put the burden on every app when it could be in the WM to provide consistency and unburden all the other devs.

I want to explicitly put them where I want (on which virtual desktop) and have it always be the same on reboot. If I want to change the default location, I want to change it explicitly.

Reason is because then I can have single shortcut that always leads me to the right VD with right app. <Super> + 4 is always IDR, <Super> + 2 is always Firefox etc. and I don't want that to change because yesterday for work I did I needed a bit different layout temporarily.

> 2) I use a 55" screen where the "desktop" metaphor is apt. Workspaces are for small screens with maximized windows, which don't really need other layout methods anyway.

I'd probably just had it split it in tiles. I never want to move a window and I never need to have space in-between them.

I want to put apps that I interact with constantly near eachother and references I use close, and preferable just have easy keyboard/mouse way move/swap them around

My current setup is just 2 fullscreen apps on 2 monitors. I'd sometimes want third (or big one split into tiles), but that's about it. I sometimes split one in 2, say 2 pieces of documentation, or chat + something else but many apps benefit from full wide on 24 inch screen.

> 3) I have space for the launcher to be ever present.

I don't get the point of launcher ever showing up uninvinted

I don't see the need of launcher ever sharing same space with apps, it's not like they interact. It's for launching.

alt+f2, type what I need to run, enter, that's entire interaction required. I guess I wouldn't mind if some extra widgets could live there like rss/mail/weather, as there is plenty of space, but it is for launching, so it should be overlay

So, what is someone's idea of perfect desktop might be hell for someone's else. It's basically no size fits all.

> I also don't want my windows to shrink and move around when I do invoke that panel. That's so jarring and completely unneeded.

At this point I think GNOME guys are looking for reason they are still employed and change shit for no good reason.
Feels like a counter to Terraform for_each.
Crack on mate. We have a huge amount of choice these days. I too am a massive HA fan - I manage six of them - one at home, one in the office and four at customer sites.

My rule one is that any important HA related stuff needs to be local and also fail safe. So my Reolink cameras never access the internet at large. I use PoE switches and a UPS for them. My doorbell is PoE powered too and also UPS backed. It has a wired chime too, so even if HA is dead it will still ring something.

I run HA on a Thinkcentre which is a bit of a gas guzzler but as you say, an Odroid is fine too.
Few dozen extra pounds is not what is causing the issues like making surgery or care hard. It's not that there's that so so many (quick search shows 20% of ICU patients are morbidity obese) but that caring for that percentage takes larger amount of the resources. From what my family member tells me, the situation is like this: for issue X you might stay in an ICU bed for Y days. For a morbidly obese patient, the care or operation can take an extra day (need special resources) but worse, they take much longer to heal or be in good enough shape to leave the bed. So they stay in the beds much longer. Basically the same issue we saw with covid: when people stay in the ICU beds longer and longer it quickly sucks up all available resources. Add up all the extra complications needed to care for the obese and that it's becoming more and more common, you start to see the issues pile up.
Yet knowing a lot about crypto and blockchain, thinking about what works and doesn't, and over years reading papers and understanding the technology...

I can not think of a single usable problem that blockchain solves.
Do quantum computers not have a need for strong magnetic fields? Or is the magnetic field requirement weak enough that it can be serviced by non-superconducting magnets?
I'm familiar with history (my Russian political history class was fascinating). For example, the US placed its missiles in Turkey before the Cuban missile crisis. Of course we did! We also have airplanes flying near their borders and a fleet of subs, too.

Russia's leadership is paranoid and not to be trusted- and their stated claims for why they invaded are ridiculous. Russia put themselves at far greater risk - because now half their force and hardware is destroyed. RFK's analysis of history - or rather his stated claims - are more part of his propaganda than they resemble any sort of truth.

He's really not some sort of genius who is misunderstood and being maligned by the establishment. I mean, maybe he's being maligned in excess of his actual stupidity, but it's hard to tell. I think specifically his claims that the CIA and FBI helped kill his father and uncle, along with the HIV_causes-AIDS denial really establish just how crazy he is.
Complaining about voting is explicitly against the community guidelines
It's great that machinery can separate out the most valuable components of trash. But ...

It's not just about materials handling. It's also about the fact that there is almost no market for recycled plastic. Alumin(i)um cans, hell yes. Glass, cardboard and paper can be effectively recycled (though we were better off back when we made glass bottles sturdy and reused them). But no one wants the plastic. That's why "reduce" (use less plastic) and "reuse" (can we use that plastic object again before tossing it?) is a hell of a lot more important than recycling.
It solves the "we can't possibly package the software for all versions of libc out there" and the "there are all those programs that must run at the same time, it's hard to correctly install them all" problems. People push it to solve the "this program needs executable A version 1, that program needs executable A version 2, both programs must run at the same time" one, that should never be a big issue anyway.

But then, we have none of those problems at work and people still believe it's a panacea. I don't know what people believe they gain by it.
DARPA Kicks Off Design, Fabrication for Draco Experimental NTR Vehicle
> I’m really at a loss as to what point of mine you’re trying to refute.

I was interested in your proclamation that

> the idea of a single tuna being worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is fantasy

It seems it's not a fantasy, and that it will become more and more common. That's what mitsubishi is betting on, and in essence what we've seen in Futurama's episode A Fishful of Dollars.

> You need to look at the typical price rather than some one-off maximum

Not if we're trying to determine if "a single tuna being worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars" is fantasy or not.

> They essentially are listing the largest bluefin tuna ever caught and using the highest price per pound ever

The table header (and referenced article) clearly states that those are "Max weight" and "Max price". Records.

> It’s several orders of magnitude away from $5,000 per pound

Sure. Even the OP you're reacting to is stating that prices are starting at $20 per pound. The same prices are in the article I've provided. That fishermen don't get as much is a sad reality of our system, so not at all surprising.
When Google announced the EME DRM in the semi-public W3C HTML working group, it created a massive backlash. So W3C moved the EME spec under a new, closed, invite-only working group, and then announced that there is a consensus among everyone (there), and it can move forward to become a recommendation. They didn't even fix known bugs in the spec written by Google (e.g. architecture diagram in the EME spec is factually incorrect).

So I don't think this rubber-stamping W3C will do anything. They have no power over Google, and they know it.
> For example, automatic, trustless guarantee of both quality of transport and payment for shipping goods.

I am very, very skeptical your example would work purely with smart co tracts for this.

I can think of a bunch of ways where real world interactions would cause all sorts of problems that would have to be sorted out by regular contract law.
What GNOME takes from macOS is mostly things that are shared with iPadOS, interestingly. The Mac-unique bits, especially anything power user oriented, don’t typically get copied.

So if anything I’d say that GNOME is more like a desktop reimagining of iPadOS.
Hm I prefer the Baobab one

What's an example of where you'd want to see the "siblings" ?

In my experience with disk files and function profiles, the parent-child and path to the root is what solves the problem
Well, asking to rewrite all your stuff, especially such large platforms as Photoshop is a very big undertaking and resource investment. Don't see where the grudge comes from.

E.g. if someone comes to our organization and ask to rewrite half of what we do in their new language, we won't move. Should that someone hold a grudge against us?
It wouldn’t need to be a conspiracy. An employee of a three letter agency just gets “poached” by said company. Resigns from agency. Works for company, still keeps in contact with his friends at agency. Setting up those demos and meetings for their latest product are easy now.
If a website doesn’t work in Firefox (due to a bug in Firefox or the website or because the website blocks Firefox), please file a bug report on https://webcompat.com/

Mozilla developers will then try to reach out to the website’s owners, add a fix or workaround in Firefox, or (as a last resort) spoof Chrome’s User-Agent string to bypass the website’s Firefox block.
Only 17% of the US landmass is used for agriculture, so averaging it out like this doesn’t make much sense.
> There is no real way to do that without some sort of oracle, and then you've just moved the problem back a step (i.e. you need to trust the oracle).

Sure, and of course this is desirable. The "oracle" is a trusted external API (the bank, the DMV, the municipality, whatever). Some people may not like that these institutions are the arbiter of ownership or whatever, but of course we expect to be able to trust these institutions more so than strangers from craigslist.

I haven't mentioned anything about "digital keys" to the house, or "titles on blockchain", or the US specifically, you brought up all that and then argued against it. Honestly, I'm not really a crypto-bro, just a guy who's had trouble with exactly this kind of transaction. And I'm not personally invested in ideals like radical decentralization, or implementation details like super pure smart-contract ecosystems that disallow external oracles. I just want less friction AND less risk when I'm trying to buy a motorcycle on craigslist, or a house in an arbitrary (i.e. potentially non-US) jurisdiction.
> point is the impulse and the acceptance of the impulse has the same result

You're arguing someone with implicit biases has the same effect on the world as one who proudly says Jim Crow-era lynchings were justified and slavery wasn't bad? Come on.

When people say soft impulses are different from intentional discrimination, they aren't saying the implicit biases are okay. They're just saying they're different. The word "racism" currently plays--within this context alone--the simultaneous roles of referring exclusively to the former, exclusively to the latter and to both collectively.

Attacking someone who hasn't acknowledged their implicit biases by comparing them to a Southern revanchist isn't only unproductive, it's counterproductive. Disagreement and standstill are almost guaranteed by the structure of the discussion, irrespective of the strength of anyone's arguments.
I am building an incentivized market to keep data available on the web(3) without having a centralized entity taking care of it. Without a smart contract running on a block chain this isn't possible. https://permanentum.io
> the only way WEI would prevent bots would be by preventing you from running the browser on an operating system without 3rd party software installed

Or by isolating the browser from third party software. Android does not let applications mess with each other. Windows already prevents non-elevated applications from touching elevated applications (i.e. running as administrator).

What makes you think that Windows won't add an "untouchable" mode to executables belonging to "approved" browsers? The kernel is already locked down so you won't be able to bypass it that easily.
I guess, if you completely ignore what's been said through this hearing.
he accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of using the pandemic to trigger a "coup d’état against Western democracy." (in his book The Real Anthony Fauci)

he claimed pandemic restrictions were worse than nazi germany ("you could at least hide in the attic like Anne Frank". She was sent to a concentration camp and died after being discovered.

On HIV and AIDS: he explicitly blames HIV on vaccine research. "Kennedy then claimed that “the medical research on these diseases and vaccine research has actually created some of the worst plagues in our history. Anybody who reads The River will come away pretty much convinced that HIV also came from a vaccine program, there’s plenty of evidence on that as well.”"

These are all quoted directly attributed to him, so it's hard to see how we're misinformed.
Great tip! Didn't know about this.

A similar one: ~/.config/git/ignore is a global private gitignore.

Great for files across repos which you always want to ignore, such as temporary files from an editor
> Managed properly

What makes you think it's being managed properly? Fertility rate 0.78 in Korea signals uncontrollable plummet to 0. TFA: 1.2 million small businesses have owners aged about 70 with no successor, prime minister Fumio Kishida: "Our nation is on the cusp of whether it can maintain its societal functions" - sounds anything but managed properly
Eh it’s not a huge deal with stable diffusion because you can inpaint. So you mask out the bad hands and generate a few dozen iterations that merge perfectly with the rest of the image. You’re bound to get something that looks good.

With SD2.1 I’d generate 100 or so images using inpainting and the “good fingers” was about 1% hit rate. If it’s up to 10% that’d be great because generating 10 images takes just a few seconds on an A100
quick googling appears to indicate that it was produced in trace amounts as a consequence of other experiments at that time and only was investigated in and of itself in larger amounts more recently? Awaiting more info from better informed people.
My comment was flagged, even though I was trying to provide context to explain why she experienced such a strong reaction to her SNL stunt. The parent comment and many supportive sibling comments remain unflagged, which leaves the impression that I was downvoted and flagged simply because people didn't like a more critical viewpoint, not because the comment lacked substance or was intended to inflame.
I guess you could say you don't need Amazon, the problem of getting goods is solved by physical stores. Yet, millions of people find value in ordering through Amazon instead.

There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases.
It's not clear when his most recent post is; the server says "Last-Modified: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:00:31 GMT" but I believe I saw references to this post before that in the current discussion.

(What's with the trend of completely omitting any dates on a blog?)
Given the obsession with changing what a person invests over the obsession with exercise, I'm not sure people really know how effective exercise is.
I have similar setup. One improvement that I really liked (for those few times where I don't use the usual map) is that rofi have alt+tab search in window titles which helps massively to find any temporary app or terminal I might've run somewhere.
I know a lot of cali people that recycle a lot and cash in on plastic bottles and bags and all that. I think it's good but also creates a "cobra effect" type perverse incentive where people are more inclined to get plastic containerd stuff because of the potential reward instead of getting a brita for example. There is a different front page post about reduce/reuse being as imprtant than recycle but imho, reduce is most important. Less trash == better life.
I'm not aware of any reason we would be connecting to windows.net. I would be surprised if VS Code did not already have access to Desktop / Documents / etc. but if this is the case, then Continue reads the currently open files as context for the LLM. It would be very useful to hear more about the details of these two cases so we can try to better reproduce and solve the problem. Would you be interested in opening a new issue? (https://github.com/continuedev/continue/issues/new)

Continue will cache Python packages in ~/.continue/server/env after the first download, but there might be something else causing slower startup. Will look into this as well!

Meilisearch is an open-source search library. We connect to meilisearch.com only in order to download the software, which then runs completely locally to power search in the dropdown as you type. The line of code where we do this is here: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/blob/ce76e391775034c...
Well, Marxism-Leninism did more good for the Soviet Republics in its first 40 years there (beating back an imperialist invasion, rapidly developing industry, beating the Nazis, putting the first man in space, raising the standard of living nearly to par with the West despite being a feudal backwater in 1917, etc) than capitalism has done for those countries since we finally beat them thirty years ago. And, public opinion bears that fact out. So, I'd say the jury's out on just how much of our improvements to standards of living can be attributed to giving 10 people all the money in the world, vs (for example) attributing it to scientific advancement in general.

edit: sadly dang has once again taken it upon himself to stop communists from posting on HN. I'm sure most of y'all agree with this in the first place. at any rate take this as an open invitation to drag me in the comments with whatever ridiculous nonsense you can dream up. I won't be responding to any of it because I literally can't. thanks
the necessity of debt to measure and trade is dubious at best, selfish and evil at worst

people advocating for this are on the receiving end of a very extractive and destructive system
true,

UFO == Unknown Flying Object

at least since the cold war the US had a lot of interest to capture any unknown flying objects and also not disclose much information about capabilities, scope etc. of such a program

Can this objects be strange? sure I mean it who knows what the Soviet Union invents. Just looking at some of the research Nazi Germany did (and which ended up in the hands of the US) they would be stupid not to do so just to be sure not to miss something.

But does that mean such a program had anything to do with aliens? Not really. But if you already have the program you already keep track of any unexplained aerial phenomena, so people speculating about aliens is basically guaranteed.

Why would you still disclose such things today?

Maybe you where responsible for some missing/crashed Soviet Aircraft or maybe some civilian casualties. Maybe by researching what causes what phenomena you develop some unusual plan which was never used (or build) but has successors which could be relevant if a WW3/Cold War2 starts. Who knows.

What I know is that all the examples about how supposedly we now have stuff based on alien tech seem nonsensical to me, as there is a long paper trail of how people invested that stuff it's parts it's non widely available predecessors etc.

Similar a program not related to aliens seems likely.

And people, including employees etc., coming up with all kind of "interesting" ideas what such a secret program actually does is also well in the area of what I would expect given my understanding of humans.
Nah, if that was the case it might've been actually decent...
If I tell you that there's a remote code execution in libfoobar-1.03 through 1.15, how long does it take you to verify where libfoobar is installed, and what versions are in use? Remember, nobody ships an image layer of libfoobar, it's a common component, though not as common as openssl.

Is there one command, or one script, which can do that? You need that, basically daily.

Is there one command to rebuild with the new libfoobar-1.17, and at most one more to test for basic functionality? You need that, too.
Don't listen to engineer estimates. Instead, promise aggressive estimates to your own boss. Artificial urgency is the best because the deadline is only to impress the bosses, not for any real customer.

Later when the deadlines slide by a mere 2 weeks, blame the engineer saying that the time given to them was "generous".

Use performance ratings as a tool to set them up for failure, but only after getting the guarantee of a backfill headcount.
> Irish Potato Famine

I'm no expert on 19th century Ireland, but the economic system there appears to be a vestige of feudalism rather than a free market. There was no free market for land:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Tenants...

> Just google for a few examples

Cite what you want.
Archbishop Wojtyła helped overthrow communist regime in the Polish People's Republic, which caused significant hardship among Polish people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic
It's all good, we're talking past each other slightly. Thanks for the clarification on non-determinism. I think you're giving sensible advice for the world as it is, I'm speculating as to what the world should be.

Minor changes in compiler version and input source leading to widely varying output is a definite hazard. Especially when people change their code to make it run faster, or change the compiler to make some code run faster. That's one with no clear good solution.
It has been proposed that alternative mechanisms besides SC can create diamagnetic effects. I think we're waiting on more informed updates because the people with the competence to comment on this are probably working furiously in a lab right now rather than commenting.

edit: useful comment elsethread by macromaniac on plausibility of diamagnetic effects
It's not really that expensive. Is it more than masaca? Yes but not fabulously so. You can still make well over 20 tortillas on a bag for $10?
> If you are prepared to live without everything "other human beings" offer you, then sure -- but you're not prepared to do that. So you must reach some sort of agreement with "other human beings" even if that means obeying the occasional "order".

I don't obey their orders. If I cooperate with another entity I do so on my own terms. I am only morally accountable to myself and must reckon with any consequences of my actions that might reflect harm upon me. I have agency.

So yes, I must operate in an ordered system but at no point am I morally obligated to another actor.
> "Our nation is on the cusp of whether it can maintain its societal functions"

Because they are headed for societal collapse, perhaps? Unless you think their prime minister is lying.
This was a pretty good read, if somewhat depressing.

One optimistic thing I've noticed with respect to cheap (close-distance) travel is that personal electric scooters and bikes are becoming more noticeable on streets and sidewalks. I own a scooter and have considered consolidating vehicles with my wife, since I ride my scooter to work (winters are the main drawback).

Transportation is called out specifically as a reason for dread in this terrific article https://www.residentcontrarian.com/i/32348260/transportation Hopefully small electric transport can help.