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As a Gnome 40+ user for the past three years, and before that, XFCE and Awesome WM, based on my experience... NONE of these desktop/WM managed to resolve cluttering.

Awesome WM gives you an organized clutter if you opened too many windows that's not bare-minimum terminals, while XFCE with all it's window UI elements made the clutter even worse (but you can just minimize the window). The new Gnome just made it so that opening more than three windows under the same workspace gives you nightmares due to lack of a dock as well as minimize buttons.

(Now, to clarify, I had good experiences with all the desktop/wms mentioned above, so it's not a criticize, more of pointing out my desires)

If you take a look at the screenshot presented in the article, I don't really think it's a productive desktop any more because it takes at least 5 seconds to find the window that you wanted. I mean, I'm sure MATE has tried it's best there, but... I think we are all limited by the lack of imagination of how a good desktop should be like.

For me, I resolved my clutter problems by installing a Dock extension as well as (most importantly, actually) adding an external monitor. So finally I can comfortably open more than 6 windows at a time :) (Yep, I keep the tree windows that I wanted on the main monitor and throw the rest of clutters to the second one :)
Airlines mostly dislike 20,000 mAh power banks that can self-ignite in the checked-in luggage.

If they detect something like that in your luggage, they will kindly ask you to take it in the cabin.

They never cared about CR2032 cells.
I do understand that there's a niche market for this. Though honestly, thinking all the R&D costs, that niche market (which gets even smaller with that price tag) can't offset those costs.
Blobby Volley is the only true tiebreaker! (Also good for passing time while games were installing from disc)
No, probably because the bossman the ”partner” rang up told him to calm down and that it wasn’t worth his job to scream at contractors.
Purchase synthetic bio-oil CO2 sequestration from Charm Industrial at $600/metric ton. They already have this in production, and sequester CO2 in the form of shitty biodiesel in spent oil wells. You can go net zero immediately and literally.

https://charmindustrial.com/
JSON without comments is hell, forcing one to 1) convert JSON configuration to YAML. 2) add comments to YAML and admire it. 3) convert YAML to JSON for sending to the server.
I used to use Emacs for everything, even Telega and SICP. But... elfeed and GNU's are damn slow compared to the opposite approach: Unix, sfeed, lynx -dump for inline HTML info, castget, mutt, msmtp, isync, slrn and amused/mpv. MuPDF and sxiv for media. That's it, plus some CLI gemini/gopher browser.

And, yes, I managed to bind slrnpull with GNU's avoiding a huge chunk of time. And, SLRN was much faster. On hackability, I don't care, awk/sed/sh it's my glue, and perl+CPAN for a big task.

In the end, it's being run on a batch basis with cron, so I have the ultimate Unix tools: let the tools do the hard work themselves with scripts, so you just ignore anything else and focus on your current task. Mails, news posts and RSS's are currently managed in the background, a single script will download and upload all the data.
Oral tradition was past down from generation to generation, but then entertainers/performers would spread that knowledge. Children likely enjoyed those shows. They must've been as creative as a few props to bring about the imagination.
When I first saw Unreal Engine 5 with Nanite, I thought this is it. Well it turns out there were lot of area where Nanite couldn't be used in Unreal 5.0, Luckily after 1.5 year with 5.3 seems to have added most of the missing pieces.

Which makes me wonder what else is cooking in the pipeline.
That would even be cheap for that era. But for today's age with all the alternatives and advanced devices, it's extremely expensive.
This is really interesting. Wonder how does it compare to tomcat or undertow for Java
The dirty secret was windows XP was just a skinned Win2k and the components were very similar.

I remember resisting XP for awhile and instead editing INF files so drivers would install on 2k for me.
https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/hazmat/packsafe/reso...
Has me curious if it was a scope thing where there was, at one time, a locally scoped print()...or just the usually-writes-python guy was trying to debug something and forgot to remove that.
> It's starting to rot at 25 years, lying in the rain and mud and beetles. There are logs much much older than that lying around the local woods. There are stumps over a century old.

Limited to rot resistant trees, such as cedars. Even then, not shielded from the rain for 25 years and not seeing much rot would be amazing.
Next time in the news: "Huge silicon dioxide discovery in the desert could end semiconductor shortage soon."
Probably is a good starting point. But it's not computer science, which is (IMO) a mathematical or at least more formal approach.

edit: does look good, I'll dive in.
I once got a dressing down for clearing someone's browser history. Instead of using bookmarks, this person relied on the browser's history.
The problem is that it will be a lot harder to grow food after 3°C of warming and also to get people drinking water. At some point your "deepening relationship" has to feed billions of people. That's assuming the heating is stopped at that point. Otherwise it gets worse until people are starving, which might eventually reduce CO2 emissions.
Really?

Maybe it's location dependent...

I live in an European city, I have multiple butchers, bakeries and fruits and vegetables shops within walking distance.

My area is most certainly not an upscale area, quite the reverse in fact.
Interesting. Perhaps it's a cultural thing. I know almost nobody using these. I mean, I know a few people (using much cheaper ones) but that's it.

I doubt with this price tag they can sell enough to offset R&D and marketing costs.
2/3 Ace (Amiga Computer Expo) 2000 Bill McEwan CEO of Amiga Explains AmigaDE [video]
It's like saying buildings existed before it's been built because there's already drawings on it, so why build anything.

The missing component in the thesis is that it argues that consciousness is just an abstract, immaterial object that consists of states. That's not true because to be conscious you need matters.
> budget overruns, delayed schedules and failed projects

How the fk is that unique to nuclear powerplants? Also, did you take into account the same shit for coal plants as well, that are multiple orders more numerous?
Of course you can put these in checked bags. These contain tiny primary cells. TSA will issues with only Lithium batteries over 100wh.
Where did you get the information that batteries are not allowed? Please post a source for that claim.
Well if we're comparing the recycling of old soda cans to lithium batteries... I had to throw a few old phones away recently. I Googled and found a mobile phone store near me that accepted e-waste for free, so I went a bit out of my way and took the phones there. I was not, however, given a bit of cash for every phone I returned..!
Finally something exciting!
If only this had event push capabilities usefull for discoverability and announcement patterns over various sinks http/nats/mqtt/amqp ...
Bog-standard evolution is perfectly capable of large qualitative differences. Animals couldn't fly until they did. Land animals didn't exist until they did. Multi-cellular beings weren't until they were. We can empirically see this, so your question should be flipped to "how can we explain such developments within evolution?" (We can, but that's a different discussion).
Well good luck with that. I'm sure the dozen or so Linux laptop gamers in the world will be ecstatic.

I mean why wouldn't you buy a machine incapable of sufficiently cooling itself under load, with an operating system for which only a small fraction of games run well, to play games? /S
Bill McEwan CEO of Amiga talks and demonstrates a hardware-agnostic operating system... AmigaDE (Amiga Anywhere) 21/9/2000 at ACE (Amiga Computer Expo) 2000 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ~1,000 people attended. The software could be run on top of another OS or natively (without any other OS)… making it very flexible. The demo includes loading the same software onto 2 different OS's without recompilation (using the same floppy). The portability was achieved by writing a small virtual (under 120KB) virtual processor so that the software always sees the same hardware/processor. The virtual processor was easy to write. The small size of the virtual processor means it had no effect on the speed of the machine... and in fact the demo's Bill shows us run much better on the virtual processor than on Windows or Linux. It is unclear how much progress was made on AmigaDE after this.. but the explanation appears similar to the one Bill gave when demoing OS5 (the ACE demo actually has a lot more detail).
Now you can edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending! At least one can on an iPhone 14.
Regarding use case. We have a bunch of frontend apps that are integrations to one of our external platforms - they get hosted in an iframe on there.

To simplify the builds we have a expressjs app that is a simple static server and proxy for API requests.

I can see something like this easily replace that - all we need is static files and a /API* endpoint to proxy - avoiding cors issues.
I think Lee is one of the biggest critics of Proton, and Valve embracing it as the default way to deploy games on Linux.

From Valve's point of view makes complete sense, dedicate resources to a single point of development that improves how their whole catalogue runs on Linux, as opposed to paying porting companies/individuals - like Lee - for each game to be ported to a native Linux version.

It also makes complete sense that Lee (and Ryan C. Gordon - icculus) to be against a platform that makes their skills irrelevant[1] and actively cuts their contracting opportunities. Therefore a promotional piece for these skills might be silent on an otherwise relevant topic.

[1] and also theoretically provides worse performance and compatibility.
I built something like this, but with much simpler syntax and automatic https simply bc I'm not smart enough to reliably set up server blocks and letsencrypt every time I route a new app.

AppServe takes care of all that, and even if I did know the syntax by heart to do it in nginx, this is still faster.

https://github.com/donuts-are-good/appserve
You need to build carbon capture at emission sites however.
Carbon density in regular air is too low for capture to be efficient, it needs to be captured as the air exits fossil fuel power plants, which is difficult enough as is (I believe we can reasonably get about two thirds of the CO2 this way) to not be enough at all.
All in all, carbon capture is just a way to pretend to solve issues while only dealing with symptoms. GHG (and CO2) are just one of the many consequences of the excessive pressure our society has on our environment, and solving just one consequence won't save us from all the other (resource exhaustion, biodiversity collapse, GHG besides CO2).
Yeah, same with programming certainly - the feeling as a kid of just pushing through to get something done no matter what the code looks like. Now you’re second guessing everything and trying to do a professional job. But it’s rare as an adult to be able to throw yourself into a new pursuit without judgment. With the internet everyone knows what ‘good’ looks like, everybody’s hustling, everything’s professionalised.

The ability to experience raw, messy joy is something you’re not taught to cherish.
> more efficient devices, more robust consumer products that can be replaced once a decade or less, more local production to reduce long-distance transportation, PR campaigns against over consumption

You're advocating for degrowth policies.

Degrowth is an evil, destructive, murderous mentality, and if you support it, you're evil.

The only thing we should be doing is building more energy production capacity. Primarily nuclear, and also some solar (to use for e.g. air conditioning and maybe some energy intensive industries that don't need constant power).

Carbon capture is a good way of supporting more energy production.
Building Edge Clamps [video]
Forests are carbon storage. They sorta become carbon neutral over time, but they generally won’t burn by themselves in many kinds of climates.
These people have completely disappeared
Yeah, I could read those deck lists all day. Wonderful stuff.
This is about their automatics, but parts availability (especially aftermarket) and service information is relatively scarce and expensive compared to e.g. GM/Allison. Their bus/truck transmissions also shift quite roughly, almost like a manual.

ZF is what I'd consider very stereotypically German engineering: optimised for efficiency and cost, at the expense of longevity and serviceability, with very little margin for overload.
> “I was a bit disappointed,” says Professor James Nazroo, who studies racial inequalities at the University of Manchester

Don't worry James, I'm sure you'll find a way to interpret this data to benefit your future career in race baiting.

> and has previously criticised efforts to estimate life expectancy for different ethnic groups in England and Wales.

Of course he gives it the good old college try.
Miyazaki is very much a Japanese postwar boomer, 3 or 4 years really make no difference. He went through the reconstruction period and the following building bubble, which deeply shaped his relationship with nature (and loss thereof). He grew up with the work of Tezuka Osamu. His work ethic is classic death-march postwar Japanese, graduated in the '60s and went through a traditional career at Toei. Ghibli was founded in 1985, when Japan was still riding the wave of postwar economic growth and the yen were flowing to all sorts of new businesses. He struggled to establish successors in the classic mold of postwar-boomer family-run businesses.

He is a boomer, there is no question about it. Whether you find that term offensive is not here nor there.
Learn to manaweave, cheat, call “judge”, fix matches and artistically stack the deck when cracking fetches and you’ll be there in no time. Too much variance to go regularly 9-0 and stuff like that
$215 cheaper without windows?

Why I have been told windows OEM price is around $20 all along? (windows OEM price should be public info).
Constant-time string comparison algorithms
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Here's my attempt at using chatgpt to help me write a blog, looks good.
Isn't trauma often permanent? Even if it's that a kid got his red fire truck stolen from him in kindergarten and now he has attachment issues. Or someone deals with horrible things in their past. It can be ridiculous or completely founded, but it's not fleeting or "very fast". It's not DNA but it _seems_ engrained, however incorrect the conclusion may be.
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"in the beginning of the Monty Python film, the gravestone with the title "The Meaning of Liff" appears before a lightning bolt strikes the last F and converts it to an E."

I remember wondering 'what was that all about?'
Now this I can understand—why would you do that?!
Bats carry viruses that have higher fatality rates than those from other mammals
That's unfortunately not the case.

Yes, mRNA based meds had been going through proper testing. They kept failing due to severe safety problems that only appeared after multiple doses.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/

It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project

mRNA is a tricky technology. Several major pharmaceutical companies have tried and abandoned the idea, struggling to get mRNA into cells without triggering nasty side effects.

The problems were big enough that Moderna was being written up as an impending car crash. As recently as 2017 their drugs weren't safe enough to deploy in humans because the body reacted badly after being exposed to multiple doses.

So what did they do? Well, unfortunately for us, they didn't know how to solve the safety problems and gave up. Instead they switched from drug development to vaccine development, and why did they do that?

The indefinite delay on the Crigler-Najjar project signals persistent and troubling safety concerns for any mRNA treatment that needs to be delivered in multiple doses, covering almost everything that isn’t a vaccine, former employees and collaborators said.

Oh dear. Safe only if you don't take it more than once.

The reason no further mRNA tech has come to market since isn't because the pandemic made the same things happen faster. It's because the problems with mRNA drugs were never actually solved. The pandemic obliterated all standards and safety mechanisms, creating a mass hysteria that steamrollered any objections in its path. Now the hysteria has faded, the problems are reasserting themselves.
I rely on my browsing history all the time. I don’t always know to bookmark a page the first I visit, oftentimes realizing its importance or utility much later.

I think that’s something you should ask before doing. Cache and cookies aren’t as important, but history is useful.
Any lan party organiser or participant worth his damn knew a variation of K4HVD-.. by heart for those reinstall situations :P
because its cheap, uncomplicated and reliable.
At the theatre school my son goes on weekend they have the “think” principle.

Is it True
Is it Helpful
Is it Inspiring
Is it Necessary
Is it Kind
What’s the advantage of server side WebAssembly over just running a Rust/whatever application?
My Tsundoku pile of unread books
Always struck me as a weird descrepency in William Gibson's "Idoru":

> (...) His computer there, a featureless black cube. A shallower shelf of the juice-carton board supported a pale blue microwave, unopened ramen bowls, and half a dozen tiny steel cans of coffee.

> One of these, freshly microwaved, was hot in Chia's hand. The coffee was strong, sugary, thickly creamed. She sat beside him on the lumpy bed ledge, a padded jacket wadded up behind her for a cushion.

I mean, you can't (well shouldn't) microwave a steel can, right?
You need to copy the result to https://markmap.js.org/repl
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Oh yeah good point! I always wonder why no one sees the very simple things you can do in a city. It shouldn't cost much to add trees etc. to a city with such a big impact
The article mentions that seeing a collection of historical Japanese vending machines would be neat: there's a great episode of "Strange Parts" on YT that's an engineering focused visit to an informal Japanese vending machine museum.

https://youtu.be/gzxW3B3_Pak
A company had me implement that in Rust during an interview. It was pretty hard
The animation seems to show that the rotor has a DC (ie. constant) field. That is easy to do with slip-rings and a DC current source, but with any induction mechanism, there must be a rectification stage on the rotor. They don't show any of that.
Is there another option out there or are you referring to the lomography back? I shot pack film for many years and switched to Instax Wide when that ran out, but I miss using a camera with manual focus.
It sounds smart but what counts as surprising is entirely context dependent and most programs won't be aware of your context.

E.g. a command line app where you put a subtly wrong switch in that does exactly what it thought you wanted and prints nothing while outputting a 0 exit code is dangerous.
You’re unlikely to encounter any issues with Node in a small project. It’s possible though that you’ll need some module that is not working with Deno.
His son by now is like Prince/King Charles... He's spent most of his life in the shadow of a parent who was supposed to eventually hand him the reigns, but never really trusted him enough to actually do it.
I found this to be much better than the remake. The seventies grittiness suited the story. Available on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyNzc9cbF4EWeXnVOQhXG6_wG...
People here defending AirBnB in NYC don’t realize how easy it is to become a multi-property slumlord with AirBnB. A successful rental could easily cover the cost of two apartments. So you rent one full time and live full time in the other. Now add another rental, and another, etc. It’s easy to see how this can snowball and completely deplete rental stock for people that actually that just want a place to live.