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Hi. Thx for your reply.

And no - of course not. I'm really just interested in that point as I know Migadu for many years now and i can't understand how you can be so against Google (Gmail) on the one hand and then launch a product on the market that works more or less directly with Google or is based on it.

Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here? Hence my question here.
Oh like this. I’m not sure I would enjoy overloading my git repository and merge requests with the dependencies. I was thinking about having a proxy or forking all the dependencies.
What other companies out there that seem to behave in a villainous way? Uber under Kalanick? Oracle?
You guys had some really nice reactors too. Not just the ones recently shut down, but gas-cooled ones as well (THTR-300), and the infamous sodium-cooled one SNR-300, which got cancelled by protests after it was 100% completed and fueled but before it ever turned on. It's now an amusement park :( :(
> / It’s a concept for now but this 1000W system with retractable solar panels is going into production in Q4 of this year.

Author fails with no mention of price, considering the seller has similar, standalone products available. [0]

I'm guessing it'll be at least $5k.

[0] https://www.jackery.com/pages/solar-panels
Why do that when there are ready to go OS options that require no config?
I’d have very much preferred something like this, too:

https://www.frontgate.com/bluetooth-slide-out-keyboard-for-i...
Very cool. The article mentions a newer version that has two 1080p screens, one for each eye. Does this mean the older version you're using is more capable in this regard?
As a vegan for both ethical and environmental reasons, it's so hard to find clothes that are plastic free, animal free and also durable. I see you highlight some brands as being plant based so I really commend this effort. Thank you!
You know, if parts of your country are as south as the Sahara desert, it just makes a lot of sense to install solar. Just like solar makes a lot more sense in the US than in Germany, which is more to the north than all parts of the US except Alaska and the most northern parts of WA/MT/ND/MN.
A semantic search engine for Steam games sounds like my jam. You should put a link to it in your HN profile!
if you liked Fury, you should check out the Russian movie T34. some really great CGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5BlybdjhVg
If they can recruit enough servers into their botnet, they sure, why not?
God, it was so, so convenient. Near instant turnaround time for fixes. It was especially good in combination with 'pop', which returned control to the calling function just before calling the current one. It gave you a sort of limited form of do-over, with the caveat that it didn't try to undo any effects of the called function so far. Or you could just fix and restart.
> Probably they go to bed too late?

It does eventually settle into some kind of rhythm, although the agreement that they should not take their devices into their bedrooms at bedtime definitely helps with them actually going to sleep at a sensible time.
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Sure, I'm not saying it's easier. It would be completely stupid to go down the webapps road if the desktop apps one was both better and easier.

I kind of find it ironic, though: why not write one desktop app that only supports the latest version of Windows, and tell your users to use that? If you're big enough, surely you can force them to use the OS you want, right?

I am convinced that most people who love webapps kind of hate the idea of being forced to use the latest version of Windows. But somehow they find it okay to force everyone to use Chromium? What's the difference?
As if there's more than one: gnu.

Yeah, there's more than one if you count Gentoo, OpenWrt and Linux from scratch.
Again, devils advocate, but the people worried about AI (like Yudkowsky) are absolutely worried about it killing all humans. You can read more about the specifics on lesswrong.

With moon life I presume the worst case is some infectious and fatal disease that's difficult to contain?

The first one sounds like a bigger problem to me, but maybe it's not a discussion worth having. So, fair enough.
Assembly is still used in whole program coding to this day, for example some modern music synthesizers are written in assembly code.
True. Also, people using pirated Windows make anyway a critical mass where legit users can find someone to ask for help. Microsoft doesn't care about piracy as long as regular users know more people that would help them with Windows than for example with Linux. If tomorrow all users of pirated Windows OS and related software would magically migrate to Linux, the monetary loss for Microsoft would be zero, but more legit users might be incentivized to switch away from it because of the sudden raise in Linux knowledge around them. I'm sure Microsoft would be absolutely terrified by such scenario.
And then there's user profiling and advertising, which works also on pirated copies, but that's another story.
Liquified natural gas.
Whenever I read stuff like this it always sounds made up. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve installed Linux and I’ve literally never had these issues.
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Thanks, I'll check that out also!
Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.
> STAY where you are. Money is freedom, accumulate until you reach escape velocity.

This is the current plan. I'm just wondering when to stop?

> It's nice when job and personal interests align, but if your workplace is non-toxic and paying well, consider very carefully before letting it go

Very true. I'm just afraid it's trending towards a toxic situation for me, because with my current mindset it will be hard to actually reach goals, setting me up for failure.
There are still many things that could only run on Windows. That people need to use for their job. Otherwise I can see a lot more people switching to Linux.
Another thing is that there is not enough pushback from the community at large.

My PhD thesis was less than 40 pages long. The introduction was 1/2 a page (basically "if you need an introduction you should not read this, here are 3,4 books to get you started").

Then I copied/pasted from my articles and then came the acknowledgments (which I actually fund valuable because I wanted to thank my advisor for his non-science-related help and a friend for her magnificent idea that turned around the thesis. And my parents, wife, dog etc.)

Then the conclusion ("brilliant work")

And then a discussion with myself about everything that I fucked up and what could be improved (my advisor fainted on that one).

The jury was 8 people. The younger/more dynamic ones were super happy (especially that they made their review a page long as well). The older ones were disgusted and said that clearly. I got my PhD.

I fought in Academia for a few years to bring some change but eventually left (also for other reasons). If I was to stay for my whole career I would have tried again and again to change the status quo.
I would like to apply but not to create an account on ycombinator.com or upload my personal data to a ycombinator server.
I did some research to prove you wrong, because I don't think continuum is the right concept, but it turns out that Turing seems to agree with you. Quoting him in "Computing Machinery and Intelligence":

> In short, then, there might be men cleverer than any given machine, but then again there might be other machines cleverer again, and so on.

So now I think you're both wrong :) Particularly I take issue with the assumption that the "cleverer" relation is transitive. We've only really studied a few relations in this space:

- pushdown automatons are cleverer than finite state machines

- turing machines are cleverer than pushdown automata

- humans are cleverer than turing machines (I'd argue for this, but others would disagree)

Presumably there are other points which we have overlooked or not yet discovered. For instance, maybe something which has the "memory" quality of a pushdown automaton, but lacks the "state tracking" property of a finite state machine. When compared with an FSM, such a thing would not be more or less clever than it, it would just be clever in an orthogonal way.

I strongly suspect that two intelligences (of greater power than the theoretical machines that we yet have) could meet and discover that they each have a capability that the other lacks. This would be a situation that you couldn't map onto a continuum--you'd need something with branches, a tree or a dag or a topological space: something on which the two intelligences could be considered cousins: neither possessing more capabilities than the other, but each possessing different capabilities. (Unlike the FSM example, they would have to share some capabilities, otherwise they couldn't recognize each other as intelligent).

Further, I suspect that in order to adequately classify both intelligences as cousins, you'd have to be cleverer than both. Each of the cousin-intelligences would be able to prove among themselves that theirs is the superior kind, but they'd also have to doubt these proofs because the unfamiliar intelligence would be capable of spooky things which the familiar intelligence is not.
Sure, but the same group of people that complains about (the publishing of) papers, is then in a position to change that, but doesn't. All those people that went through this process and complained, then (well.. a few years later) sit in univeristy comitees that decide what the hiring (and scoring) rules are, what are the requirements fo TAs, for professors and tenures, etc., and decide, that the "pain of publishing" is an ok thing to subject new generations to.

edit: i'm from slovenia, univeristies here are "autonomous" (not a direct part of the government.. except for being government funded), and they decide all the internal rules themselves.
You're better off without the Store, but in rare event that it's actually needed for something there are scripts on GitHub to add it back in.
Yes, globally we are using more coal now than ever.

And fossil fuel usage is still increasing.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...
Even Elon, "I don't own a house" (but I have a holding company that owns several), but "I stay in a friend's $50M home which has a household staff".
Gosh, do I hate the constant animations. I guess I'm one of the last 10 people on Earth who hate phones and this version of Windows definitely looks like it took a lot of inspiration from smart phone OS's.
> installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever.

Did it... get a lot better recently? Last time I installed Windows on a laptop I had "fun" getting it the drivers so it could use the Wi-Fi card so it could pull the rest of itself down.
> What parts of your job can benefit from applying your software engineering skills? It could make things a lot more bearable, perhaps even enjoyable.

Thank you, this sounds like a good first step to getting some more passion into my day to day.
Your point is correct, but I'm not surprised by the difference. I think "legibility" is the term of art here. Writing a paper like this makes it almost[1] certain to the institution he is applying to that he is capable of writing a paper of this quality, while all the other metrics (GPA, GRE, etc) are much more probabilistic. Since someone incapable of writing such a paper is probably unsuited for a PhD, it seems entirely appropriate to choose applicants who have demonstrated ability to clear this bar over those that have not.

[1] "Almost" to account for the slight chance that he didn't actually author the paper but somehow managed to get his name put on it anyway.
Yeah, that's not what I'm talking about and I don't share the same experience. I have 20+ years of experience with Windows and Linux.

I've installed Windows 7-11 on entire fleets. I've run multiple corporate-wide Windows upgrade projects for multiple companies and environments. I've built gold images and templates for Citrix and VDI environments. There really is no hardware configuration needed at all.

I've never had any problems running games or any software in Windows due to drivers or configuration issues. In fact, I run all my creative software specifically in Windows because there's nothing to think about at all.

The only time I've had any kind of hardware or driver issues is with external hardware like testing apparatuses or machinery. I haven't had to mess with drivers in Windows in probably 10 years or more.
> I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated.

I have to disagree. It's absolutely necessary for a lot of workflows, especially when people are collaborating on a doc in real time during a meeting (super super common), or when you've got 10 reviewers of a doc all leaving their feedback in comments, and comments responding to comments, over the course of the same hour.

The model of clean commits works well for code. It doesn't work well at all for business team documents that are in-progress.
Thanks for the link. Amazing penetrative power. More importantly, I had no idea how difficult it would be to pull a pilum out.
It was used during the 80s.

Like I said, I'm not telling anyone what to do. Everyone can feel free to call anything whatever they want, to use or reuse symbols as they see fit. The signifier is not the signified.

Just wanted people to know. Because like I said, if your goal is to communicate, you might want to know if you're using something that has another, emotionally-loaded interpretation.
This is not the first product of the kind and won't be the last one. And they look great in theory but get complicated and very confusing and ultimately never find their place. People don't need an integrated tool that does everything. People need a few very good tools that work well with each other. Confluence/Jira is such an example, and to some extent Google's suite and Microsoft's, plus a few more. Unless you can do it better than them in each category -- doc, spreadsheet and project management etc -- people won't choose your product over those. (RIP Google Wave.)
The problem with modern apps is not that they are separate. The problem is that they are walled gardens with deliberately reduced interoperability, using non-open protocols and APIs.
Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
His name is "Jad Sleiman", "Grievant" is how he's referred to in an arbitration case, just like "Plaintiff" would be used in a court case.
No it isn't. If it's done off company time, it's not company business. Period.
Yet you feel compelled to comment. Strange.
“Markers” are irrelevant. Either your body is capable of producing male gametes or it’s capable of producing female ones.
I remember installing Linux around that time and getting p0wned immediately upon connecting it to the Internet.
XP was likely the first memorable intro to windows for many developers in the home context. It was designed to be appealing to look at and a fresh coat of paint.

By comparison, you’d be hard pressed to find a non-enthusiast who really remembers the differences between 95/98/ME/2000 because they largely looked similar.

Unlike 2000, it was also aimed at home use. The prior home use system was ME which was also not very well received at the time. XP unified the business and home segments.

Add to that, the immense PR failure that was Vista, and a very long life for XP, it’s not surprising that it has the most fondness in people’s psyche.
Probably a lot of folks were simply not introduced to it. I would love to run an OS with support for current APIs but with the Windows 2000 UX.
Yeah the hard case to solve is “prove it’s still <ID principal> that is generating the challenge”.

With GenAI I wonder if images will be considered valid ID for long. “Generate a new video of face with camera pan” is currently hard (not impossible) to forge, but I doubt it will be in a year or two.

You get back to multifactor auth, but then the system is more stateful, and still, what is the incentive not to share your ID & password with underage friends?

(These challenges will also be faced with the OP’s scheme as well.)
> You are very early into your career and in a pretty great spot. Don't waste it.

You know, I can't really argue with that.

> Wish you all the best!

Thanks, to you as well.
What do you think about the constant surveillance on children/teens by their own parents and the long term psychological trauma it may leave behind from knowingly being monitored 24/7?

Children used to go out, do things, come home. Now children have zero privacy. Into the teen years, they can't get into trouble, learn, socialize, etc. They just sit at home because their parents are constantly watching their GPS location and reading their texts.

Is porn worse than the damage done by the mistrust?
Meta's CTO says they will start to demo internally "the most advanced pice of consumer hardware ever developed" so we may be getting there sooner than most people think.
We currently have a Conservative government, and they hate the NHS. Anything they can do to sink the NHS or destroy its reputation and push people toward private healthcare is a win to them.

I wouldn't be surprised if this Palantir stuff involves an extremely onerous contract, and probably terms that the NHS cannot even afford long term, and the Tories knowingly entered into it any way.
I'm running 13.2 rel in an RPi3 using a 32GB SDCard. It was a hobby project at first. Now I'm running `freeradius3-mysql-3.2.3`, PHP-FPM + daloRadius (a simple web interface for freeradius), tailscale, nut, gstat_exporter, node_exporter, mysql-server (tuned to consume less memory) and consumes just 300 MB of RAM.

I would like to have a comparison with DietPi running the Pi, but so far with a few optimisations the performance has been great. Granted that the Radius server serves 2 ubiquity APs in a SOHO with a handful of WiFi connections and it's nowhere near a full-blown "campus" level deployment - that would require a huge mysql server.

However, even the specs for the freeradius server + SQL were something like 2GB IIRC, the combo runs fine.
This page[1] has a pretty good explanation. "Simplified process" probably wasn't the correct term to use.

I think in a new product that integrates an RF module, you still have to at least do testing for unintentional emissions. And if you do something like change the antenna, in my understanding it's possible to update the FCCID instead of recertifying and getting a new FCCID but you'd need support from the original vendor which is probably unlikely. It is obvious that lots of small companies do not do any testing/certification and a lot of webshops practically encourage you to mix and match radios and antennas so I don't think this is well-enforced anywhere.

One funny thing is you're actually not supposed to change antenna types as an end user either. Radio module manufacturers are supposed to use proprietary connectors or integrated antennas to avoid this so the end user can't just buy a high gain antenna and connect it. Unfortunately (or fortunately) this usually means they use reverse polarity SMA connectors instead of SMA connectors. RPSMA connectors became so popular that today it's easier to buy an RPSMA antenna than an SMA antenna.
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Just what the world needs! Another over-bloated over-priced massive SUV!

I'd much rather see $6000 Chinese EVs flooding the US. Then the idiot wealthy can float through a sea of cheap chinese EVs in their bloatmobiles...
I'd love to know (in as much detail as you are allowed) what you feel the strengths and weaknesses of CHEETAS is.
Technically that can be amended, so it's still possible. I agree it's ridiculously unlikely though.
If you're sticking with linux for audio, go ahead and crib a little from AVLinux[1] or UbuntuStudio[2]. I feel like with all the modern "conveniences", things that were simpler two decades ago have gotten a lot harder!

[1] http://www.bandshed.net/avlinux/

[2] https://ubuntustudio.org/tour/audio/
Oops, yeah, maybe time to test the waters myself. Experiencing how it is out there might just give me a reason to stick it out.
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completely false. I saved and opened RTFs with word97 in school for macOS compat
Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper
"Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide." :(
> The Irish State announced [..]

It's interesting how quickly the EU went from a Trade Union to a Government consisting of states.
That last line: not great.
I can see how that went:

* "ok, extrovert-feely, DJ this party and be quick about it!"

* "but the CEO said the quarterly results are due by EOD tomorrow!"

* "are you going to oppose the MBTI? you sure aren't a culture fit are you?"

edit1: formatting

edit2: the point of the above flippant story is that the 'test' marked a person for failure and made their departure a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> Pick some smaller companies whose mission really sings to you. Start applying.

Yeah I think it's time to send out some applications and see what's really out there. Thank you.
In the EU it is legal to buy a second hand software license. I presume you can buy one from these.

I did a quick search, but all of them seem to ask you to contact them for a quote. They claim 50-70% price reductions.
> this weird broken minimal thing

Windows LTSC isn't broken, or minimal... it's LTS! It's stable and more likely to remain so.

> the point of the effort

Installing LTSC takes exactly as long as installing any other version of Windows 10. Although maybe there are slightly fewer nag screens, and post-install it's much, much easier to support as there are no unnecessary feature upgrades.

> I run Linux for my work

For what it's worth, the Linux:Windows install ratio in the home is something like 2:1, although if we start counting VMs then it's more like 5:1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35373155/
And malicious sites can decide that the user is a promising target for grooming or scamming, etc.
The purest culture fit.