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> I didn't say they did.

You sure as hell heavily implied it then:

>> so Red Hat refused to bundle it or support it, and wrote its own environment instead.

Unless by "wrote its own environment" you mean "packaged GNOME instead of KDE".

> (And it was SuSE, now just SUSE. When attempting to rebut, attention to detail is paramount.)

Got me. Except I'm not the "journalist".

> How long do you think this stuff takes?

Considering development on it didn't begin until late 2008, about two years after the supposed "drastic need to shift"? 2.5-3yrs, give or take.

> Well that failed then, didn't it?

And so did the Zune. Yet it was still designed as an iPod-killer.

> [[Citation needed]]

You're making the claims in your half-researched/personally-biased article.

You cite them, ideally in the "article" itself.
The fundamental difference is qualia, which is physically inexplicable, and which LLMs and neural networks show no sign of having. It's not even clear how we would know if it did. As far as I can tell, this is something that escapes all current models of the physical universe, despite what many want to believe.
Gotta love that the embassy stamp is in Comic Sans, it conveys a sense of true professionalism
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Self-play works for Go, because the "world" (for lack of a better term) can be fully simulated. Human language talks about the real world, which we cannot simulate, so self-play wouldn't be able to learn new things about the world.

We might end up with more regularised language, and a more consistent model of the world, but that would come at the expense of accuracy and faithfulness (two things which are already lacking).
As someone teaching their five year old to read, I think people way underestimate the amount of training data the average human child gets. And perhaps, since we live in a first world country with universal education, and a very rich one at that, many people have not seen what happens when kids don't get that training data.

It's also not just the qualia of sensation, but also that of the will. We all 'feel' we have a will, that can do things. How can a computer possibly feel that? The 'will' in the LLM is forced by the selection function, which is a deterministic, human-coded algorithm, not an intrinsic property.

In my view, this sensation of qualia is so out-there and so inexplicable physically, that I would not be able to invalidate some 'out there' theories. If someone told me they posited a new quantum field with scalar values of 'will' that the brain sensed or modified via some quantum phenomena, I'd believe them, especially if there was an experiment. But even more out there explanations are possible. We have no idea, so all are impossible to validate / invalidate as far as I'm concerned.
What do you mean? Do you have pointers? What freedom are you speaking about? Doesn't ring a bell.

The only related thing I can think of is the argument that permissive free software license lets people build proprietary software on top of the licensed work, but the argument is not surprising and it's still true. I also don't remember slavery being mentioned. That would be a bit much. Now I can't manage to link this matter of fact with the discussion, KDE and GNOME both being GPL software.
Absolutely, this is a often ignored or missed aspect of building systems. Quantifying risk in a fashion that all parties have the same understanding of said risk can be very difficult. There has to be a common language and agreed upon thresholds of risk. After developing shared understanding of risk, it's much easier to highlight and change the behaviors of individuals and the teams.
Don't you understand how slices work?
Have you literally never been on a metal forum?
Space is hard
Ask HN: Why is senior care so expensive?
For example a dementia patient might pay $11,000 a month in the US for memory care. Staff members are very sparse maybe five people on the floor at any given time serving say 20 clients. Staff members may be making $50,000 a year. Medical Care is minimal it's all almost manual labor ADLs (activities of daily living) washing them bathing, dressing, feeding, behavioral redirection,etc. Staff complains that they don't have enough people to do one-on-one care which dementia patients often require. But with that kind of funding they could probably afford it at least a two to one ratio. Even given overhead which is minimal real estate cost and that's about it. We are not talking ICU or even general hospital care we are talking about ADLs for the most part. Please no complaints about greedy insurance companies etc. greedy insurance companies should want lower cost too plus long term senior care is normally funded mainly by patient themselves as I understand it. I am truly interested in the economics. Surely if it could be done cheaper people would do it to compete.
If you have a competent/adequately resourced IT department, sure, of course. It’s also possible that a different department set up Slack without consulting IT.
At 300W there's only so much power that can become heat. With 80 kW flowing through the wire, if the insulation melts due to excessive wire resistance you call the fire brigade.
Yeah, all that, but I also remember that many would-be developers were at that time not convinced that C++ was the way to go. Gnome hence was decidedly not using C++ (for the better or worse, i.e. C++ is today a nicer, much more acceptable and accepted language than it was in the mid-nineties, but basing the object system on C makes it easier for other languages to interface with).
> “His academical record”

Here at the General 1950s Engineering Corporation, we hire clean-shaven men who did well in college, are dedicated breadwinners for their family, and killed at least five enemies in the war.
How did you get that from what I wrote?

And notably, it’s entirely possible to rent without a credit check. Just not big corp places.

My current place didn’t check my credit, and they weren’t the only ones. I was disappointed they didn’t. But a lot of the cookie cutter places will.
That is rather silly.

Cinnamon is based on GNOME 3. So, logically, it could not have been affected, because it did not exist at the time. It is based on something that happened following these legal threats.

Budgie came along after that.

Legal threats: 2006-2007.

GNOME 3 and Unity: 2011.

Cinnamon: 2012.

Budgie: 2014.
One of the key insights presented is that "fine" in that time would more closely translate to "fee" in our current world. Basically a decent examination showing that folks were more "aware" of the impact of things than we've given them credit for.
Oh boy… This is a sentiment a large portion of workers feel, and a large portion of workers aren’t remote.
Go on then, show that to be the case.

I was. I do. Were you?
This seems entirely reasonable to me. I built an application which gets used by the network team and consumes a JSON config file. The team edits a simple YAML file which is then heavily processed/checked and emitted as JSON.

I’ve been completely explicit that if there is some other language or process they want to use then I’m more than happy to assist.
Well, yes, +1 for "uncomplicated", I just wouldn't say the term is related to complexity.

Most any software can be broken down in a modular way so that the units could be understood by a junior and you'd rarely need to think about more than one cluster of interactions at once. Maybe this is naive, but up until now found it to be true - that said, I never worked in rocket science.
Denied, but not shown wrong in any way.

Reminder: anything other than denial means admission, and that exposes them and their employers to legal threats.
> How could we get as much "chrome" (user interface elements) off the screen as possible, to make every pixel available for what the user was doing?

A bit of a shame how that basically good idea turned into "let's just fill the screen with pointless whitespace instead".
You are very hostile and keep calling me names, and I don't even know who you are.

Why do you keep attacking a stranger? Do you hate me for some reason? Because it certainly feels like it.
And a big reason for GTK’s continued proliferation (even beyond GNOME) is that GTK is easy to write/generate language bindings for, enabling it to be practically used with many different languages. Qt being restricted to just C++ and/or JS dampens its appeal.
I agree with this. It's very frustrating seeing environmentalists frame the struggle to reduce anthropogenic climate change and pollution and use sustainable renewable resources and so on as some kind of moralistic obligation to some sort of abstract concept of nature, which is due deference and submission as something morally "greater" than ourselves that demands service, and as some kind of struggle to project very weird and Christian notions of virginity and purity onto the environment. It makes the logic singularly unappealing to those who are not interested in subjecting themselves to sacred ideas and don't buy into the ideas of duty and obligation, much less to an abstract concept, and don't like the aesthetics of purity — and it is all the more infuriating because all that pseudoreligious stuff is built on a false premise anyway, as you point out. The "Earth mother" or whatever the fuck will be fine, we are doing all of this for ourselves and our own standards of living and aesthetic values and nothing more, so why pretend otherwise?
What about free software? That is, how can human society achieve good quality free software if it is physically impossible for free software to develop? Because personal income for free software developers is important.

I guess since it's personal income, then it's a personal problem for free software developers then? That's fine, but income level coincidentally correlates with high quality software.

I guess free software just doesn't matter then.
> theoretical questions about SOLID, OOP , the difference between a GET and a POST, what is an inner join, or similar.

The last two of those don’t strike me as particularly theoretical.
Hmm, SOLID is very well-known and the principles are ubiquitous good practices for object-oriented programming and also useful for software dev in general.

Certainly, asking about them and , especially, asking the candidate to critique them is a very good question.
Agreed. Triggers always feel really clever and powerful, but they live outside your regular application code and are therefor more or less invisible. This will eventually break the law of least surprise.

On top of that, triggers are hard to test.
Qt has fully supported Python bindings as well, and there's increasingly capable Rust bindings from the community, too.
A magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden robocall
> Have you literally never been on a metal forum?

Is it common to talk about data science in metal forums?
> Sounds like a load of bull to me.

Why? That's a harsh thing to say to me when all I'm trying to do is explain some history a lot of rich and influential people would prefer was forgotten.

> Why write this post to complain then?

I'm not complaining. I am trying to counter FUD that is obscuring documented history.
> We test how opiniated the candidate is when it comes to technology by asking outrageous questions (relative to the Status Quo): Why dependency injection is bad. We like people with opinions, but we find difficult to work with "evangelists".

This is a great point. The more senior someone is, the more often their answer should end up, 'it depends'. Evangelists often end up not following the standards set in an existing project causing all sorts of maintenance issues later. They also often to seem to always be arguing for rewrites because it doesn't fit their opinionated view of the world.
I guess it's a bit of this and bit of that. The products I've sold before or discussed with others were on the former side. I think that was largely due to the metrics that are usually used to qualify (churn, MoM growth, etc.) are bit less impactful compared to a mature, stablized product.

It's mostly seen as a jumping board for them to quickly get going, compared to finding idea, building it, getting some SEO footing, etc. That's just my anecdotal experience btw.
I also love Gnome. It’s my favorite DE. It gets out of the way, has a consistent UI, and is beautiful out of the box with no fiddling.

Thank you, Gnome designers and devs! (Also, I love PaperWM, and am looking forward to the tiling project y’all are brainstorming about.)
Iommu protection against I/O attacks: a vulnerability and a proof of concept
SOLID is a meaningless term in my corner of the industry (firmware, where we follow the SPAGHETTI method), so I read SOLID as a placeholder for whatever the acronym-of-the-week is. With that in mind, I came to a totally different conclusion. I want to ask questions that most interviewees get wrong, because that's how you narrow down a large pool of candidates to a small pool of finalists. Augmented by a reasonable quantity of questions, pointed questions like these can serve to isolate a signal from noise.
There is a future where they're locked out of the servers.
Which is great, but GTK still has it solidly bested for language choice.
I wrote this and I use Xfce too.

The Docky/Plank thing has always mystified me, so can I ask: why?

An ordinary Xfce panel will do that and if you add the "docklike taskbar" plug in it integrates really well, without needing additional 3rd party tools and the extra RAM they use.

So... just: why?
ooh wow I just let my days pass
This is really fun, thank you for sharing it!

Recently, I've personally and professionally been going between TUI and deep 3D (mesh shading FTW) so this was fun to see. Your work is inspiring me to think about how to apply those principles to my own work. There have been other ascii renders but I've not seen anything quite like Consol3.

I made a half-baked PR with some initial Mac support [1]. I don't have time this weekend but I'll pull on it later -- or maybe somebody here with more low-level Mac skills than me can take a look?

[1] https://github.com/Victormeriqui/Consol3/pull/37
thanx you for your hosting recommendation.

Our website, wikiroutes.info, utilizes various map layers for different countries, and in our mobile version (90% visits), maps are disabled by default to optimize user experience. Our crowdsource editors often require access to the freshest layers from multiple sources for comparison purposes. It's important to note that the audiences of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and wikiroutes.info partially overlap, and by using OSM, we inadvertently promote their service as well. While we appreciate your concern about our use of OpenStreetMap's tile servers, we've never received complaints about this practice before. It's worth noting that our project brings significant social impact to the community, akin to the contributions of OpenStreetMap.
The start of “Into the storm” after Morgoth says “She, the mistress of her own lust” on a spoken intro track gives me the shivers to this day and I still consider it the best banging start of the album I have ever heard.
What makes you think this time will be any different?

> The bridge is currently burning and much of the world still doesn't notice its being burnt alive.

Citation required.
Turns out that 3D graphics also involves a lot of linear algebra.

That's also why GPU are so effective at neural networks. There is a lot of the same maths.
In case you are unaware, Congress has its own nonpartisan think tank that produces information products for legislators on current issues of potential interest. It’s called the Congressional Research Service. Their reports used to be secret, but now most reports are available publicly at crsreports.congress.gov.
A 90fps 8k UHD 10-bit movie that's 3 hours long is 120TB uncompressed. You might think that's too much, muh compression algorithms etc, but we have consumer devices that can use this kind of storage, and no economic means of transporting one-to-many, multi-TB files. I would absolutely welcome them, and use it to distribute the entirety of libgen (hypothetically, don't lock me up yet). Or really high resolution VR porn or documentaries. Either way there's good uses for it. It won't replace your hard drive but there's a market gap to fill.
Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma
As a good test for how important a signal this is, the interviewer should ask it to a few of their top performers.
$15k!
Just so long as the Gadsden is next to the thin blue line, go wild. Love a good random giggle throughout my day.
Many of the bands. Sticking to power metal and just from the top of my head: Rhapsody of Fire and related bands, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Sabaton, Kamelot, Iced Earth, Gloryhammer, Ayreon and related bands (not quite power metal but the overlap in audience is large I believe)...

I would even guess that in this genre, more albums are concept than not.
I do remember GNOME3 being presented as "the future" and those of us who liked GNOME2 being told roughly that we were hopeless old duffers who didn't understand modern UI/UX design and to essentially @#$#$k off to XFCE if we didn't like it. IMO it was the desire to put Linux on mobile devices and tablets that seemed to be driving it all - something commercial in other words. Those of us "just using GNOME2" were evicted like the squatters we were.

This is why I like the fragmentation of Linux - really what's the problem? Those who want uniformity can go to windows and enjoy having everything dictated to them. I did #$%#$ off to XFCE and I am using it now very happily. Later MATE and Cinnamon came out to save the rest of us "luddites" and I realised then that I wasn't alone in my chagrin which was quite cheering.

Nobody explained the hit on GNOME2 by talking about "threats from Microsoft" and I can't understand how copying the Mac made Linux desktop safer legally since Apple isn't known for refraining from legal action either.

I always thought GNOME AND Windows copied the Motif style of menus in windows which I didn't like because I was weaned on GEM on the Atari and on DOS. I don't know though.
Do you have something I could read about this? I didn't know about this aspect and I'm interested / curious.
Yes, we might have different stresses as a species now, but I'm not sure we have any more stress than we had thousands of years ago.
Only ones I ever found worthwhile are D and maybe I.
Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?
OnlyOffice is a free and open-source (AGPL license) office suite that seems more polished and easier to use than LibreOffice. LibreOffice, compared to OnlyOffice, feels clunky, harder to use and dated.

Why hasn't it seem more adoption compared to LibreOffice, especially by Linux distros?

Why is LibreOffice favored over OnlyOffice?
I’m curious what you mean by this. I daily drive Fedora + Gnome. My foot terminal + neovim fills the screen entirely, except for the top bar which I can disable / hide if I wish.

Are you talking about the fat window titlebars? Those are too big, imo, but I have removed them from foot, Firefox, and Brave. I don’t use anything else often enough for it to bother me.
Agreed.

Anyone can learn acronyms, principles, etc by heart and repeat in an interview. The real useful questions are about reasons for them, purposes, limitations, etc. I.e. to test the candidate's critical thinking and experience.
Isn't the retention window something that should be chosen by the customer?
And yet I'm still slower at this specific thing on Mac OS because I always first have to make sure the right window is focused or I'm in the wrong context menu. Meanwhile on per-window menus that's guaranteed. Also those buttons are the same size as almost all other buttons in the system, it's not difficult to hit them reliably.

Edit: also if Apple cares so much about this, why do they make the close/minimize buttons so tiny?
Overly rigorous interviews are a problem in the IT industry, articles like this are a proof.

> If you google ‘top 10 X interview questions’ where X is your technology, and a question is on that list you should probably know the answer.

Even if the company is not using that aspect of the technology in their work? What if the candidate has referrals and experience that already presents them as proficient?
Subsequently, we were contacted by employees of OSM, and we have fulfilled all their requirements.
Yeah I'm fully aware of carbon offset fraud. I believe much of the carbon neutrality comes from buying actual clean energy – something that is much clearer cut as a good thing. I believe there is a component of carbon offsetting, but the fraud risk and general quality of carbon offsets is something the company seems acutely aware of, and seems to put a lot of effort into not falling into the traps.

Google has been doing this since well before it was cool. It's not some attempt to green-wash an image, it's deeply ingrained in the company in my experience and there's a lot of effort to do it right.
Seems like an opportunity to build a business providing lower cost, higher quality Senior care, right?

Amazon and Uber have shown the way: ignore laws you don't like, taxes you'd rather not pay, and build your business in spite of the regulations that distort the current market. Once you've absorbed all the competition you're legal "by default" and accepted as an Institution that cannot be challenged. (Payoffs to politicians prolly help a lot here, too).

Imagine a Day Care facility for those under 5 and over 65. Let the kids take care of the old folks and vice versa. Most of the real work will be done by the customers and all you gotta do is sit back and let nature take its course. The real job an administrator at such a place would have would be keeping busybody regulators from destroying the shop.
Whoa..hi Dang! Sorry for the response delay... was hopelessly tied up. May I send it now?
Being deceptive about your identity during the commission of a crime is illegal?

If I dress up as a Best Buy employee and drag a television out of a loading dock and into the bed of a truck, that's definitely illegal, but I don't think it's any more illegal than if I did it in jeans and a T-shirt.
My understanding is that SD cards are not good for even medium-term storage. They have to be powered on regularly or there's a good chance the data will be corrupted or lost entirely.
S (Single responsibility principle) is very important, not only for OOP but for good, maintainable software design in general (yes, even if you do firmware stuff).
Related: "Getting the RK3588 SoC supported in upstream Linux (2023)", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356530
Buying clean energy to run your datacenters does however have a huge impact on this, and as far as I understand it, that's where much of the current solution is.
> But maybe I missing the point?

maybe! coding can be playful and computers are for everyone.

https://github.com/whymirror/why-archive/blob/master/shoes/n...

https://imgur.com/a/GeZUEh6
I would recommend that you master English. You have a solid foundation but you what you have written demonstrates that you have not learned to use proper grammar or punctuation. I live in the US and work in the software industry. I have worked with at least 100 young Indians like you, and I haven't encountered a single one who has mastered reading and writing in English. Read classic and modern English-language novels and non-fiction that interests you. When you write in English, pay close attention to spelling and punctuation. Write the way they do in the books you read. It is not the same as the way people speak in videos or in daily life. Do that, and you will always have a one-up on your peers. Your self-esteem will increase, and you will have your choice of whatever field you choose to pursue.

After that, focus on Python :)