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> how do you deal with absence of working task manager?

I see people offering nice advice here but I mostly do ps aux | grep thing and then kill (-9) it... or killall :)

> any random hang-up is a forced restart, no way to kill offending process as EVERYTHING just freezes up.

I had the everything freeze up experience initially on a Dell laptop and frankly don't know what was the cause. Maybe missing microcode updates or old firmware? Nowadays it almost never happens (I don't remember it happening over the months). I have an app crash (like Firefox) ~once a month but it's so rare I barely notice.
Astronomers questioned the reliability of the first photo of a black hole
if you have to ask... probably.
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This makes me think a bit about how digital technology is changing the way humans use their intelligence. Memorization is de-emphasized since I can look up anything at any time. Instead, it's more valuable to use space in my brain to learn concepts and "meta" reasoning tasks.

We're probably becoming smarter in terms of general intelligence but dumber in terms of remembered knowledge. There's only so much space up there.
Modifying the argument, I'd say even the companies that do need Snowflake or Databricks for an analytical use case tend to get run over by the hype train post adoption and start using it everywhere as an anti-pattern and causing much bigger problems operationally.
This is not wholly a UK phenomenon. People describing themselves as populists in the US media tend to come from a handful of schools, all quite distinguished.
You'll note there are also plenty of "defenders" on this page. It turns out the community is made up of people with a wide range of opinions.
> Nobody should offer that service.

An extremely entitled Silicon Valley view.

> AOL will delete accounts unused for 90 days.

This appears to be inaccurate today, so it's definitely not been true for the last fifteen years. Many of the seniors I've helped with computers have definitely forgotten to go on the Internet for more than 90 days at a time.
Literally can't read through this on Chrome iPhone 13 because it keeps jumping back to the top :(
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Would be nice to have a review of your scores at the end - did I do better on location or time?
Apple has always been kind of an awful desktop experience IMO. Never understood why so many technical users like it. Windows 11 is becoming so much worse though.

Thank goodness for Linux being the solution for 99% of time.
Thanks for the advices. For books or ebooks it's bullshit imo so I would not do it. But affiliate links for rogaine I will check.
> I see scan lines (of the NTSC/PAL variety) when I zoom in.

Color vector monitors still have discrete phosphors. You're not seeing discrete scanlines, you're seeing discrete lines of phosphors.

> I also don’t see how this scheme would be less possible with NTSC/PAL.

Vector drawn video games must necessarily be on an all black background. Video games that draw backgrounds and sprites typically illuminate the entire screen. Your character will move around on a colored background. It wouldn't make any sense to do a long exposure on an illuminated background; it would just be a picture of the background with some blurriness where the sprites occasionally were.
The Signed System Volume is exactly the same everywhere, on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. It doesn't selectively install architecture-specific binaries.

The "personalization" is basically firmware updates specific to your Mac. These are a lot bigger and more complicated on Apple silicon than on Intel. You can see this with the --downloadassets argument to the createinstallmedia tool:

https://scriptingosx.com/2018/10/include-assets-in-external-...

The same thing happens with iOS updates.
>Visiting for 2-3 days //

Long weekend "city breaks" are pretty common amongst the UK middle classes.

Can you not go to a conference when in holiday? Isn't the difference who is paying - if you pay then it's a holiday, if work pays then it's business. Could work just give you a bonus to cover the amount at some later point?

What's the rationale for not allowing business travel but allowing the same people to travel for tourism?
> Edit: I have a regedit file with the value "about:blank" and it just takes a double click.

That's awesome. Just emailed the link to myself to add it to my decrapify scripts.
I think your second point is vastly overstated for 99% of companies and their use cases. There are precious few situations that can't be handled decently well by a simple RDBMS, and a simple ETL process into an analytical data store for reporting. Almost everything that exist fits one of three buckets: 1) CRUD app, 2) reporting tool, 3) business process app. And almost all of this is for internal use only. It's really only a handful of enterprise things that need massive scalability and performance, and consumer-oriented stuff (much of which is pretty niche and also doesn't need massive global scalability).
Then you’re a woman that is dressing and acting like a man. It’s a personal choice and no one should have any problem with it. But claiming you are now a man makes no sense.
Eating sugar is the absolute worst thing you can do if you have functional hypoglycemia.
Does vim follow semver? (vim predates semver...) So how do you know you're comparing apples-to-apples?

Look at the breaking changes in each ripgrep major release. I don't use major releases as a means of breaking popular workflows. I use major releases even when there are very small breaking changes with minimal impact.
Not the OP - but I think it's the use of the word "basic" that turns a lot of people off.

"Basic" in Windows is all stuff you can easily do with a mouse. Getting anywhere with Linux requires comfort with the command line, OK, but even after spending a decent amount of time, there are lots of system-specific and application-specific commands that you need to master to actually get the system humming. And a total rabbit hole when errors start to pop up. Getting a handle on all of this, being able to understand and fix errors, this is well beyond "basic" and the condescending attitude "just need to learn a few more basic skills" is a huge turn-off. Saying nothing is more helpful than telling someone they just need to learn "basic skills."
context matters.

you’re calling it an organization, that alone typically indicates a larger scale, in which supporting something internal might be feasible. or at least it is a term used by those that have been there. you’re also referencing politics, which, again, that’s highly suggestive of a specific type of experience. experience within scale if not at scale.

please don’t mistake my intent to be that open source never makes sense. with the right plan and personnel, it can work better.

with the right scale and support, open source projects are started, though they aren’t always open from day one.
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Sorry that you're going through that. As someone who once had severe hyperacusis, I sympathize with your situation as my own whispers as well as keystrokes would hurt my ear. It was challenging to browse the web due to the inability to type in a website URL or input into a search bar.

One of the hardest parts of this disability is that it is invisible and so difficult to explain to a third party. People think you are overly dramatic.

In many cases, hyperacusis does get better on its own with time, so keep hanging in there.

Good luck to you.
I was responding to a suggestion that fear occurs when the trigger is a “real” threat. But of course, the feeling is the same regardless of whether the hazard is real.

Also, since I’ve already been accused of hair-splitting, I might as well point out:

> can't avoid a panic attack

There’s no need to avoid a panic attack. In fact, trying to avoid a panic attack feeds the panic.
App Store (softwareupdated) takes forever to update Xcode for some reason. I suspect some accidental nonlinear behavior. Downloading Xcode.xip from https://developer.apple.com/downloads and directly unpacking and replacing is way faster. Then I run a script to remove all the useless platforms.
With some "neurological disorders", the malady could be called a deviant unconscious action.

So a cure could be to make the unconscious action, conscious.

All kinds of unconscious action can be made conscious. Even the beating of the heart.
Ah the old "people only disagree with my politics because they are tricked".

You would utterly faily an ideological turing test.
Here we go with the metadata again. Viewing metadata means nothing as it can be easily changed by the user while retaining the actual data. Rename the file, change the creation date. Instead of naming the folder “classified military pics” you name it “Susan’s 5th birthday party”.

Metadata means nothing.
https://help.aol.com/articles/reasons-aol-deactivates-or-del...

Looks like they extended it to a year ... which is still half as long as we're talking about in the case of Google.
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Surprisingly I first learned about it from their previous lawsuit, several years ago, which I guess skip lagged won because they are still around.
I had noticed the parallel between decrapify and Doctorow's enshittification.

There are a few scripts, some very richly detailed, to do this.

I'm kinda hoping for a setting "bugme: no"
Even door open one ? I never minded those.
I know how to use ps or top. what to do when you cannot launch terminal even?
That's the definition of 'anectodal evidence' though. The nice thing of desktop environments is that people (still) have enough freedom to organize windows the way they want without a platform owner telling them what's "best for them".
imagines dystopic future where instead of going to prison, people convicted of crimes get 'outserviced' and all their accounts get deleted and then they exist as ghosts on the outskirts of everyone else's digital lives
Dupe of at least:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090876 (10 days ago, the actual policy, 78 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791895 (1 month ago, speculation, 29 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966318 (3 months ago, original announcement, 216 comments)
The banned packages list is surprisingly not that long, and a good chunk of the packages listed there are systemd helper utilities:

https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt
Thanks for the list. Affiliate links for anti balding products is ok imo, my moral sense allows me to do it at least haha.

I contribute to open source and by experience begging for donations does not work much unfortunately.
Nah, I don't think that's a LLM, I think that's someone who speaks English as a second language and has been taught in the highly formal UK style.
No, for instance Chirp Spread Sprectrum (mentioned by @tonyarkles in another reply), which is what you would patent (and there are patents on it) has nothing to do with software, although it can be implemented in software using SDR.
So lots of quantity comparisons, only private funding considerations and single EU countries vs US vs China.

Reminds me of the GDP comparison between US and EU without the consideration of the debt.
Sure you can but it’s pointless if the party isn’t aligned that way and you’ll never see your views implemented in legislation.
> Nvidia lacks hardware video decoding on Linux

That's… not true. Fact, they don't support VA-API, but there is support for some other methods like NVDEC.

Programs like mpv can use it directly while for something like Firefox you can use a wrapper like nvidia-vaapi-driver[1].

It's not ideal, but that's what you get from buying their stuff.

[1] https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver
My Civic lever isn't all that hard to open. I believe the invention called "springs" allowed that to happen, no need for electronics.
Yea I mostly agree. I am thinking about adding affiliate links.
Wait, gold-plated cables aren't bullshit?
Just in case this might be useful: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver works with Firefox.
If you've seen government intervention in markets be absolutely destructive then it makes sense to vote for the party that is more pro-market.

Not to mention that national Dems are significantly to the left of the median Hispanic American in terms of social policy (especially on gender and race).
Yep, imagine how difficult it is for the blind. I had to explain that tapping and swiping this light brick in their hand could order pizza. Pretty much witchcraft.

Android does have that feature on some phones, it's called App Pinning.
Can you combine that with "load the tabs from last session"?

I don't use windows very often, so I usually shut it down instead of hibernate so I can access its drive if needed from Linux. So it's a pain to reload all the pages from the last time, because I'll probably need them, that's why they were active.

In my case, I've found a "blank tab" or similar extensions which works well enough.
Mosquito magnet here. The only trick I've used that worked was to move to a place that wasn't so infested.

Sorry - I realize that isn't very helpful, but that was my real experience and solution. I really hope scientists figure out what makes some people more of a target. I wish that all of those best place to live rankings had mosquito population as part of their equation.
For those looking to understand some of the history of the anti-systemd feelings, I found this presentation useful: The Tragedy of systemd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo)
You should not believe everything you read.

If tobbaco smoke was radioactive then the cigarettes would have been radioactive (you don't make a material radioactive just by setting it on fire) and would have caused a health hazard for stores employees.
The most common reasons for analytics and AI project failure
For general browsing, that's often the case, but for solving tasks, I often see people using the "snap to side" feature in Windows. It means you can view two windows side-by-side without faffing around dragging window sides around, and it's really useful if you're trying to cross-reference data on a smaller screen.

Although I think that sentence would probably be better written "It's safest not to presume [...]", as in, don't make assumptions about screen sizes here.
Announcing a couple months out is pretty typical. But it doesn't really influence whether I attend an event or not. And if there's some keynoter I really want to see, there's always video.
The audio book helps with this a lot imo. I prefer the original to the recent Andy Serkis recording, but both are great.
I'm not disagreeing with you at all. If you value financial stability over taking a stand about things you might disagree with, then lying for survival is aligned with your values. Using the ideas I described above, this would be completely acceptable for the person doing that.
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Again, it's not part of the license nor are you forced to select between "cite GNU parallels or pay 10000 EUR". You're free to use it however you want since the software is GPL, including ignoring any of the output from using the tool if you so chose to.
We have a right of privacy, cookie banners are an attempt to discredit that.
The last 2/3 of the book are the best part!
This is the way I've always done it. Grab the package for manual install. Using the App Store version was always a massive pain.
It definitely is. It also sort of applies to legacy enterprise, too, in a different flavor: "If the tool or system is easy to use and accessible (thing classic LAMP stack), then shadow IT is guaranteed to exist and start using it." The more modern version flavor is that "if a cloud service exists, then your enterprise architecture will expand to consume it [whether it's necessary or not]."
you can get started with many of these companies with just a credit card with monthly billing. just like the major cloud vendors.
Because it has become a new fad and people jump into it without understanding the risks, which lead to injury.

I spent a very long time training for hand stands (pressing up) , it is an advanced skill.

In Ashtanga yoga it is considered an advanced level which some yogis may never achieve.
Neither did XML originally. XML schema was sort of bolted on via some conventions of defining a schema in the root element. The XML 1.0 spec doesn't mention those. XML Schema is a separate standard that came later. Likewise namespaces are a separate specification as well and not part of the XML specification.

The XML specification does have Document Type Definitions (DTD), which were sort of inherited from SGML. This is an optional declaration with its own syntax that defines a DTD. I don't think they were that widely used. XMl Schema started out as an attempt to redefine those in XML.

The nice thing with XML Schema was that you could usually ignore them and just use them as documentation of stuff that you might find in a document. Typically, schema urls wouldn't even resolve and throw a 404 instead. More often than not actually. My go-to tool was xpath in those days. Just ignore the schema and cherry pick what comes back using xpath. Usually not that hard.

The culture around Json is that it emerged out of dynamic language communities (Javascript, Ruby, Python, etc.) with a long tradition of not annotating things with types and a natural aversion against using schemas when they are not needed. Also, they had the benefit of hindsight and weren't looking to rebuild the web services specs on top of json but were actively trying to get away from that.
A Terabyte of data can be still vast, depending on how different and unstructured they are. If you have thousands of different logfiles-formats, datadump-formats and various complex fileformats, then you need a very different solution than you would need to handle a terabyte of uniform data in a csv-file or similar.
switch to another tty(ctrl+alt+(f1..f12)), log in and launch htop from there.

Unless you are dealing with a kernel panic, this will work.
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I see so many beautiful charts made with R.
And not that many made with Python.

So I wanted to prove that it was doable with Python too!
I wrote 22 tutorials to create stunning charts I love with Matplotlib.

Why are R people creating more polished charts??
Just because the pay is higher does not mean it draws the best people
> First, Microsoft account sign-in was made mandatory instead of optional (though third-party tools like Rufus can work around this, and Windows 11 Pro still lets you use a local account if you know all the right buttons to click). It's the Microsoft account sign-in that prompts most of the annoying behavior during the OOBE process.

I think this is becoming yet another "boiling the frog" strategy: You don't even have to make this stuff completely impossible - you only have to add enough friction and general unpleasantness that the (mental) costs of using a local account exceed the benefits.

Then companies have their cake and eat it too: To everyone saying they are now forced to use an account they can reply "oh no, it's technically still possible to use the software without an account, so no coercion happens" while everyone who actually tries to do so will either give up or look like a lunatic.
Is it really fair to characterize replacing a 30 year old app as churn?
Is it necessarily lying?

If you go to a conference for a hobby that's tourism, right?
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Extended, or you were never right in the first place? As I said, many people I've worked with have been off their AOL accounts for extended periods, I've never heard of an account deletion in practice.

And of course, the key issue is: You can also call them! Which invalidates any comparison to an unfeeling, unapproachable behemoth like Google, which will not speak to you and will never make exceptions in their policies.
ctrl+alt+f2 to switch to tty2. Log in and reap whatever is hanging. Logout. ctrl + alt + f7 (usually) to get back to the GUI.
Frameless windows in general bring plenty of problems, that's why they are rare. And those problems worsen with time as it's far harder to make 2 unconnected (glass from windows to car frame's seal) surfaces mate precisely.
Too many ads, can't read.

For an old experiment like this there is probably lots of better sources available, incl. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink?wprov=sfla1
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If I look at the US the growth doesn't reach the majority of people so I prefer the European way.
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> "The main point we’re trying to get across is that you simply do not know how users are going to visit your website or web app. Instead of making design decisions on strict, limited breakpoints, keep in mind the sheer amount of fragmentation there is in viewports."

I don't know how useful this is.

setting breakpoints allows some sanity in the build and testing process otherwise you have an infinite scope for issues which of course would be pretty lucrative for a boutique agency.

> "This goes all the way back to planning your projects too. When mapping out page content, ask yourself how it will be for the weird viewport sizes that don’t fit the typical mould? Always try to simplify and condense content to make it useful for everyone."

it's really not that complicated. keep the amount of crap (stuff that can go wrong) like animations, weird font sizes and font faces, javascript to a minimum. and dont do stuff like hijacking the scroll, zoom or other common behaviours. just dont do anything unless you absolutely have to.

but thats why the web is such a hostile platform. difficult to manage high user/client expectations with pragmatism.
Of course, but HN does tend to have a lot more patience for scrappy startups that scrappy lone, non-commercial devs from what I can observe.

The question was rhetorical, I know that this place is frequented by quite a lot of people who wish to be part of the next YC batch, so they see themselves in the shoes of the startup, rather than the solo dev.

Still, I don't think it should be this way.
Welcome to the modern world, whenever there is any policy - someone somewhere will shout "wont someone think of this specific intersection of 10 different situations".

The truth is there are many reasons to be against this policy, you dont have to go in search of fake rationales
> I've noticed that the most lucrative jobs are seldom "alertable" public postings.

I haven't really come across those kind of positions that are secret or not advertised.

> The best ROI for my time has always come from responding to recruiters who message me...

That's a very romantic view of the real-world experience of random messages on LinkedIn, many times with even the wrong name on them.
That might be his conscious experience when performing the skill, but doesn't really explain it. The real skill is in quickly reversing the appropriate phonemes. And then the question is why does that, controlling for practice time, come easier to some than others.
I was hoping to read some kind of solution at the end of all this huge text. Some radical way to do layouts without using viewports. Instead I got a link to buy a book from some author.

Why is this even here? This is a long ad with useless data points.