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GNOME has an interesting progress history.

- Initially, Miguel De Icaza started GNOME in 1997, he also created the Gnumeric spreadsheet for GNOME, and when .NET was released, he together with Nat Friedman (CEO and Co-Founder of Github), started Helix Code which later become Ximian/Xamarin and Mono. Miguel De Icaza abandoned GNOME even before 2013, and finally left Linux in 2013.

- Several default apps in GNOME were written in C# Mono, namely F-Spot and Tomboy Notes.

- Nat Friedman also created the Beagle Desktop, which is a search-and-indexing tool for GNOME back in 2006.

- Ximian Desktop developed the Evolution Groupware Suite, to allow GNOME to be used in office environments. Evolution had become GNOME's standard email client.

- Eric Sink, which led the SpyGlass browser team that licensed the Mosaic browser, which had become the codebase for Internet Explorer, developed AbiWord, which is GNOME's standard word-processor.

- In 1999, Andy Hertzfeld from Apple together with other Apple engineers, started Eazel, which created the Nautilus File Manager, which is had become the standard file manager for GNOME.

- Novell Desktop introduces the Compiz compositor in 1999, also SLED10 has a new GNOME Main Menu, which become a standard menu for SuSE.

- Novell also spearheaded the Tango Desktop project, which provides theming consistency for GNOME and it's apps. Later, Tango Desktop was adopted by other projects as well.

- RedHat developed the NetworkManager layer, also, Robert Love from Xamarin (Now Google) contributed heavily to the project. NetworkManager, makes it easier to configure and switch WIFI networks in Gnome.

Several underlying tech that build GNOME comes from:

- GTK+ toolkit, that is the basis GNOME comes from GIMP Image Editor.

- GNOME has several WM throughout the years, starting with Sawfish, then MetaCity and then Mutter.

- Ubuntu having invested heavily on Compiz, tries to keep Compiz and GNOME 3, AFAIR, they have initially opposed the GNOME 3 direction of using Mutter and several GNOME 3 design principles, hence they have developed the Unity Desktop. I am not sure what mainline contribution that comes out from Unity, as I didn't follow after Unity.

GNOME was actually a fun project, several changes had happened to GNOME, but IMHO, it's a masterpiece out of orchestrated chaos.
For a single basic VST? Yes it would. I'm not talking about full projects. I'm familiar with the things you need to tweak to get optimum performance, but Windows and MacOS can handle 1 instrument out of the box. Almost 500ms latency in 2024 without poking around is absurd.
Doesn't strace use the ptrace() system call under the hood?
I see the efforts required to create the little app, but inference via llama.cpp or core Ml is trivial and the models are open weights, so it makes more sense to have a free app for this: most of the value is in the LLM which is free.
Now do all the losers.
Not the hardware, but the software, stripping down, SDK included, as much as possible for my own usage.

Then you realize how filthy the software stack is... and not for the good reasons.
Of course you can get those with `apt-get source` or just grab them from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ directly, e.g. look for .orig.tar.xz, .dsc and .debian.tar.xz files in http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/coreutils/. Not really sure who downloads all source in ISO form, seems rather pointless.
I love the idea, that's the future. However you should be aware that the explanation of second law of thermodynamics generated by the LLM you used in your app store screenshot is wrong: the LLM has it backwards. Energy transfers to less stable states from more stable states, and not the reverse. (I use LLMs for science education apps like https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/explayn-learn-chemistry/id6448..., so I am quite used to spot that kind of errors in LLM outputs...)
Buffet has given mixed signals on this.

On one hand (and I think the strongest hand) he has endlessly endorsed low-cost index funds.

But on the other hand, he has been known to scorn wide portfolios as 'de-worseification'. He himself picks a handful of companies after much analysis (and does very well at it, of course).

For anybody that's not Warren Buffet, diversification is a great idea.
The headline doesn't match the article: of the three people interviewed, the first loved it, but taxpayers paid for hers. The second liked it, but doesn't know if he'll ever make the money back, and the third didn't like it.
Absolutely true, that's why I said "for my use case". The Deck is amazing, it just doesn't have enough juice to give me the gaming experience I want.
How to mod any lens for anamorphic bokeh
It is shocking to me that the terms "genocide", "apartheid", and "terrorism" are seen by neutral parties as any way inaccurate in the Palestinian context. Sure anyone can argue these are inflammatory or choose not to use the terms personally, but they are indisputably semantically accurate terms.
I wanted to say the same thing but I attempted to use an intuition pump
Or, in the case of one particularly annoying site I tried to order from--a name mismatch.

The site was clear upfront that everything had to match EXACTLY or they would cancel the order. I logged in to my online banking and copy and pasted my debit card details to make sure there were no issues.

The one thing I didn't think to copy and paste was my own name because, I mean, I know my own name, right?

Apparently not as I'd entered "John Public" and to my surprise my debit card was issued to "John Q Public".
Instead of fines, it should be forced price reductions.
Is it still true? I recently discovered Debian's live installer, it seems quite apt. Now that Debian installers come with non free firmware, this difference is also gone.
You willing to have your clients rely on your advice as counsel to do that?
This article makes a good point comparing the relatively small magnitude of fines paid to revenue earned. It follows that perhaps fines are not deterring.

Perhaps a stronger deterrent would be injunction-based: companies found to be in violation of regulations and laws might be enjoined completely from operating in a commercial space. "One strike and you're out."
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Everyone except for almost the entirety of the UN, and a good chunk of the domestic American citizenry.

That it could even seem like "everyone is on Israel's side" should probably explain just why it is so important to post about, even if there are risks.

Silence is mistaken for complacency.

And make no mistake, if you stopped paying your share of the funds that go to arm and back up Israel as it carries out a genocide, the IRS wouldn't be silent about that either.

That all said, companies do get a lot of leeway, and I'm not sure where I'd fall on particular changes to rules there -- it would depend a lot on specifics. Sometimes convictions require sacrifice.
You don't need to read them, look at their relative positions on their dial and have an idea. This is how they work.

When I look at them, I have an idea of my speed within +/- 3KM/h and rev. within +/- 200 RPM. No read, just glance. I let my brain process.

I don't read my car's dials either. Temperature gauge even has no numbers, but three sections: Too cold, normal, too hot. The same dial even has some large, smart hysteresis programmed into it. If the engine doesn't move out of its tolerance, it always shows the middle, meaning "it's alright".

Same for speed, rev and fuel. I just look at the needle's position. Fuel is also esp. problematic because the best you can get is a guess. Unless you "guess and dampen", it'll just move/change all the time.
I don't doubt that heat pumps are cheaper than gas bottles for a moment, especially in Europe, but it sounds like they also added a bunch of insulation at the same time as installing the heat pump.

Anyway, newer heat pump systems are great. I'm low-key hoping the 13 year old gas furnace in my attic kicks the bucket so I can replace it with another of the same system we use to heat/cool the downstairs.
Articles on same site from October:

Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38005816

Dublin woman fired by Israeli company over anti-Israel social media posts

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/23/dublin-woman-f...
Definitely not pointing fingers (I'd take the stance of Linus in giving nVidia the middle finger).

Just from the point of a consumer trying to get work done on my machine and deliver things in a reasonable time frame.

I expect to be able to flash a USB, plug it into my computer and have things work. The default settings for installing Ubuntu do not let you use 4tb drives without custom partitions, not ideal.

And RPM Fusion straight up doesn't work with fedora, have to boot into a cli and spend a few days trying to get the closed source drivers to work with no success.
Nice, a time/date on each comment might be useful, so you can find the jobs posted an hour ago rather than 5 days.
I'm not a fan of Ubuntu, but this sounds a lot worse than it is. This is just about discontinuing the ISOs that contain source code. You can certainly disagree with them doing this, but my initial reaction based on the headline was that this was similar to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux announcement a few months ago when its significantly more benign.
Is there ever a way to see why an article was flagged and hidden on HN?
Sure, but not because of technical reasons though. This won't solve that.
FYI, the disclaimer, “The frontend source code for our solution is completely open source. However, the API and backend is proprietary and can be accessed via a paid license.”
Boy Apple marketing tactics are getting creative.
New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster
Interesting subject often overlooked in our humanist (as valuing human life over everything) societies.
On the subject, the bias I have found the most often when discussing it is when someone says that « a life has no price, everything should be done to save it ».
Such views often results in overlooking real risks and focusing on fears.

Even if I agree that value is not cost, having a number is better for decision making than having nothing, especially in engineering projects.
Humanity will find a way to survive. Well some of it anyway.

Still pretty grim seeing such broad loss of diversity in nature
related :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38744050

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38741160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38847523

Most are flagged. This one will probably be next if popular. Dang did explain it in the last one, and I respect his position.
and yet they will happily say to you: "just get software compatible with a shitty office suite from a crappy company determined to kill interoperability" and expect you to eat it.
We basically licked the problem for food production but the issue is distribution.

We now have specific terms for genocide, and varying amount of labor rights, such as non-free versus free labor, characterizing levels of deception, coercion, and force.

Homelessness is a political problem that has no business of existing, because affordable housing will have huge benefit for everyone.
It can use the same format as the Unix find utility. This utility has a -print0 flag to separate filenames by NUL characters instead of newlines if desired.
I have no real problems reading analog clocks where precision isn't a concern, but those usually have a ~20 years head start of getting accustomed and I'm also usually not concerned about running someone over either.

I also agree with most men of culture that analog clock faces absolutely look better than digital.

But with that said, if I had to choose strictly on the basis of practicality: I would choose digital clock faces. They're quicker and easier to read, and they're always more precise.
This (at least the headline) reads like an advertisement for heat pump systems.

I doubt that anyone has calculated the total cost of owning and operating such a system. It might pay off in a super modern highly insulated home. Otherwise, good luck with these systems. The high upfront and maintenance cost and the expected lifetime of about 15 years make this look like a very questionable proposition to me.
Isn’t it just an indicator that you’re ready a corporate communications PR bullshit piece?
> Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, Stratcom Chief Says

That's what happens when you use an unsupported windows version. /s

Nobody wants to maintain old stuff, everybody want something new.
Chesterton's Fence, Bayes' theorem, and the decay of tradition
Boeing doesn’t make trains. This phone fell out of the sky.
Thanks, you are right, the compiler has some C++ support also.
I thought this was a new kind of air-source heat pump without all the problems of existing ones, but no, it's just a heat pump. Inappropriate for many (possibly most) dwellings in the UK, and the government is bribing people to install them.

For what it's worth, I think systems like https://www.tepeo.com/the-zeb will eventually replace gas in the UK, not ASHPs.

Similar technology is being trialled at some army barracks: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/30/military-trials-...
I applaud your effort. To give you some constructive criticism, here is some feedback.

I went to the GitHub page, and on the direct link you shared, there are multiple broken images in the readme—the demo video, technology logos, etc. It is a glaring miss that within the first content of the page is a broken video. It shows a lack of attention to detail, even large details.

Next, I looked to see if there are tests/test suites for the project, as it lists working with a dozen different technologies, and I did not find one. Those dependencies will eventually have breaking changes, and with the numerous interconnected front-ends, bugs are just waiting to happen without tests.

I was curious about your license fee and navigated to the Enatega website, which is very slow. It took more than five seconds to generate the HTML page. Web best practices are the largest paint of your website. It should happen in less than two seconds, and five is off the charts.

I was curious if your company's website, Ninjascode, was any better, but it was even worse. It took 35 seconds for the server to send the HTML page.

You will lose customers because people will not spend thousands of dollars to license and trust software when the creators cannot serve a good experience on the marketing sites and don't QA their work.

That would be my overall advice: there needs to be more attention to detail. And then secondly, forming a plan to keep software error-prone as the tech stack and code changes over time.
I'm in the same boat. I disable auto-lock. However, it would be nice to have a setting for 30 minutes or an hour, but thankfully my battery will die before that's needed.
Why does the fact that an employee isn't ok with Israel (in this context, a government) mean that she shouldn't work at Wix (a company)?

I don't agree with all the policies of my country's government (UK). Does that mean I shouldn't work for any British company?
Their suggested fix function doesn't even work for us, so why are we subjected to this without an opt-out?
Heat pumps could actually lead to a net increase in energy usage in northern areas because they can double as air conditioners for cooling in the summer. Normally homes in northern areas don't have AC and you just have to get through the relative short period when its hot enough that it would be nice to have. But with heat pumps, you just switch to AC mode. Also, those periods of hot weather are getting hotter and longer in duration.
Not just bananas .. I can't think of any foods that have zero radioactive material in them.

The world is naturally awash with unstable isotopes and low level cosmic radiation.
Likewise, when it comes to politics I've found "evidence based" to be a red flag. Most of the people using it mean seem to have come to a particular position first, then cherry picked whatever evidence they could find to back up that position. Ironically enough, it usually signifies someone who's ideologically devoted to a particular position.
If it was assasination, who did it as it happened so soon afterwards? I would assume that it took long time for Iran to find out the Stuxnet.
What is the pushback exactly against fining based on average yearly revenues ?

The EU has been issuing fines to google as mentioned ($8 billion still owed) but I never understood why they can't simply charge a 20% of revenue within the EU.

The fines are not to redeem some income for the EU, they're to deter bad actors. This is just not happening.
Could you imagine adding additional fine to shareholders? Like a reverse dividend? I wonder what disasters or blesses this will cause
Now your code performs worse. Benchmark both.

You'll find that the reduce is much slower than the for loop.

This commonly doesn't matter when the body of the loop is something with an IO delay however.

Also except for embedded applications or kernel programming, stack space or variables are so plentiful.

You are better off using more variables.
I'm not sure about HTMX, but this kind of behaviour is what Unpoly https://unpoly.com/ excels at

I played with it recently and it was pretty easy to enhance a completely non-js CRUD type app and have it fall-back gracefully. Seems a similar concept to HTMX but has a more batteries included / high-level approach.
The thing is that "No Evidence" is just flat untrue. If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, that is in itself evidence that aliens did the deed. It is wildly unpersuasive evidence, but nonetheless evidence. People like to believe that "someone says" isn't evidence, which is wildly disconnected from how human society works. Even alleged facts boil down to "someone says". The vast majority of people who know the constant of gravity never measured it for example, they just work with what someone told them - an authority figure saying something is quite strong evidence.

Having evidence for untrue things also turns up naturally because of statistical mirages.

"No evidence" is a phrase that gets used in untruthful ways. There usually is evidence, of everything. True, false or irrelevant - there will be evidence of it in some form or another. The question is what standard the evidence reaches, not whether it exists.
You are currently using the successor of DHTML.

Dynamic HTML was a marketing term used by Netscape and Microsoft to refer to the combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Also under that umbrella term you have the introduction of the div tag for IE or the layer tag for NS4 (also NS4 included a JS version of CSS)

It was “dynamic” because you could do effects like hover menus using JS snippets or the first iterations of CSS (ohh the memories of my first Geocities pages). But, XHR APIs didn’t existed yet.

Edit: it seems that the marketing term was used mainly by Microsoft for IE.
Letting veterans teach while working on their degree, which is what that law does, is a great idea.

And curating the education offered in public universities is a great idea too. Public universities must serve public purposes. CRT serves to undermine the society, not reinforce it.

It’s especially important to get rid of it in a majority-minority state like Florida. CRT education is racism. It teaches minority kids a different worldview and values from white kids—and an inferior one. My mom was born during British colonization, but she was educated as an equal person. She can tell you about Plato and Tolstoy. My kids—thanks to living in a blue state—are learning how to whine about “white men” and see themselves as different, and aggrieved. They will not be equal citizens when they grow up, because they are being socialized to be a lower, dependent class.
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As an aside… I am been amazed lately at the Bluetooth range I do get. I remember when the technology was in its infancy and it was extremely short range… like same room no walls if you are lucky. These days I can leave my laptop at the docking station and walk nearly across the building before having issues.
What would have been his motivation to assist with this operation ?
But demand is lower in the summer, so this shouldn't effect renewable energy requirements.
We're people in these downturns enjoying life? Our downturn is self made and (was) avoidable. But instead our captains are drunk and refuse to steer the ship away from icebergs that we can clearly see.

You can of course still be content in life and ignore all this. I'd like to think that humanity can be better, what makes me sad is that we aren't, or our current system of society and government makes it impossible.
Why is it okay to attack Iran? Unless in a state of war, it seems just as “not-evil” to do this to the US or UK, no?

It also hit much wider than just Iran's centrifuges.

Infected computers by country:

Iran 58.9%

Indonesia 18.2%

India 8.3%

Azerbaijan 2.6%

United States 1.6%

Pakistan 1.3%

Other countries 9.2%
Isn't this one reason they use umbrella companies anyway ? IE: Meta Alphabet etc

> and laws might be enjoined completely from operating in a commercial space. "One strike and you're out."

They can just move the 'assets' of that bad actor to another one and continue as normal ?
Day 7 is 2% of the year. Is it not enough deterrent? If my portfolio is missing 2% growth per year I’d be pretty worrying
I found this to be a remarkably sincere article. It focuses on the author's personal experience and strategies or mindsets they've found helpful in various situations.

It's not the generic platitudes for all readers in all circumstances, but that's what makes it valuable to me. It's a perspective quite different from my own, with more experience in some areas and less in others, shared concisely and powerfully.
"Irans nuclear bomb program"

Sounds like Murican propaganda to me.

Whats next? Russia's mass murder Nuclear program?
I'm not surprised that's the case. For probably 15 years Ubuntu was the Linux distro for a variety of reasons, most simply because it was the most user friendly. Desktop Linux in the old days was a mess of different layers from different groups which didn't quite mesh together. I recall using some distros over a decade ago where you had three or four different Settings GUIs to look through to figure out how to customize something. Ubuntu, while not perfect, was far ahead of its peers. If you go on Steam and look at system requirements for Linux games, they still list the recommended Ubuntu version, that's how widespread it was.

Now though? The rest caught up. Even in the last five years things have become incredibly painless across most desktops and environments. Ubuntu still has the big (for Linux) brand recognition, but on the desktop isn't anything special anymore, and if anything has begun alienating its users with forced snap packages, Amazon bloatware (although I think that was removed finally) and forced system upgrades.
Politicians usually use the phrase "I haven't seen any evidence' which is an even weaker form.