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> Is 32GB enough RAM or am I going to be seeing usability issues?

It should be sufficient for quite some time, until you run 15+ VMs simultaneously or so. I reach this limit only when I open too many https links each in its own VM.

> Am I going to take a huge hit in performance if I am running this stuff in a virtual machine like llamafile which runs on the CPU?

Anything relying on GPU gets significantly slower on Qubes (without the passthrough); ordinary apps relying in CPU are fast though.

> I assume you cannot screen share across Qubes.

You can: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/while-video-streaming-google-me...

> Secondary GPU for pass through is less appealing, but I suppose I can stomach it. Is there a good guide on how you configured this?

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/create-a-gaming-hvm/19000

> Problems getting web cams or microphones working?

These work reliable for me.
Are you sure it's dengue-native, not dengue-naives?
That is an interesting idea, but I don't really see what the purpose would really be.

As you said, having these kinds of FHS containers really is only actually useful for proprietary software, with free software being adaptable for a "non-standard" filesystem. Of course, it's sometimes helpful to do this even for free software, which is of course why this is an option, but I do struggle to see what would be the idea with making it the default for all non-PID1 apps in such a system.

All I could really reckon is that it might be easier for user familiarity, but at least in my experience, one gets used to the new layout pretty quickly. You'd ideally be configuring the whole system in either Nix language or Scheme anyway, so things like `/etc` are a bit superfluous, and since you can get `/bin/sh` and `/usr/bin/env` symlinked for things that expect it, most things should work anyway. Well, unless done poorly, but nothing one couldn't patch.
And even on the PC side, every game drawn for a CRT monitor looks worse on a LCD because you don't get the free horizontal antialiasing or the tiny black spaces between horizontal lines...

And then some people do masterpiece remasters like that Silent Hill where they removed the fog because modern systems can draw more. Also ruined the atmosphere.
How does Perplexity Pro compare to others?
What system that systemd replaced was so bad that it needed to be replaced by the init system.

I am not against new software, but if using a new piece of software, requires replacing dozens of other system components, then something is going very wrong.

The thought process behind people at Redhat who think "We need a new system logger, you know the init system is the perfect place to develop that" is just inexplicable to me.
Financial entitlements, such as to various medical services, higher welfare rates, reduced tax rates. (I've heard a psychologist flat out admit to giving people a diagnosis based wholly on the medical services they wanted them to receive, not based on if they actually qualified for the diagnosis)

Accommodations, such as extra time on tests, a more comfortable working environment, more attention and time having school staff attend to them.

Affirmative action schemes.

Exclusion from military drafts.

Extra leeway in social situations in general - in specific ways.

Entitlements. The fact of having a right to something. Privledges. Special treatment. A benefit granted by law or custom.

Now I am not suggesting that being diagnosed with a disability in fact makes your life better and easier on merit of having all these wonderful entitlements. If you talk to disabled people a lot you will notice what a lot of them stress how they don't want special treatment and make a point of independence. There's reason for that. Nevertheless, people often THINK these sort of entitlements would be very helpful for a person, since superficially entitlements seem awesome when you aren't yet thinking of second order effects.
Did Eich use his position to advance his advocacy? That's really the only question of merit. If he applied his views to hiring or firing decisions, that's an HR and legal matter all of its own.
Last summer, I (33m) was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and began treatment with a mouthguard. It took me almost no time to get used to sleeping with one. And it had a great effect on my sleep quality, but lately, I've been experiencing more and more trouble with my jaw. Considering switching to a CPAP soon.
Too little, too late I'd say. This pattern is already thoroughly normalised.
Blizzard wanted "Warcraft in Space". Designers came up with gameplay, which would be hard to implement in the existing warcraft engine. Engineering told the designers; we can do everything you want, but then we need extra time to build a new engine first. Everyone agreed and the best game of all time was made.

The 'refactor' was integral to the success of starcraft, and is definitely a tradeoff that needs to be weighed for new products.
Could be but I'm only talking of what I can consciously control. I do know I snore if I sleep on my back, that's probably sleeping with the mouth open.
Why not guile with guix?
Which Go strengths would you recommend Haskell absorb?
Setup is a noun, set up is the corresponding verb.
That's a pretty strange rule of thumb. Using twice as much water as rice (by volume) is much easier, not to mention infinitely more hygienic. Don't forget the salt.
I live here!
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In the healthy orgs I have worked in, it is a give and take relationship between product and engineering. Engineering should absolutely push back on some things and needs to also push for engineering specific projects. No spherical cows, just adults talking about needs and priorities.

The current place I am at has a history of eng doing anything product wants and not saying no or "yes and." As a result, the eng side is a mess, builds are slow, service and data boundaries are muddled, and shipping working software continues to slow. Incidents are rising and customers are starting to churn and larger customers are harder to sign.

As part of eng leadership, my role is helping teams learn what a healthy product and eng relationship looks like, which includes pushing back and gaining alignment on the need for eng focused projects.
The entire thing was simply that he had donated to some Christian organisations, some of which spent some of their time advocating against gay marriage. That was it.
Many comments are missing the point here (although the article doesn't properly explain neither); it's not about resolution, but about fixing imperfections in filming:

> The recent Cameron restorations were based on new 4K scans of the original negative, none of which needed extensive repair of that kind. [...] The A.I. can artificially refocus an out-of-focus image, as well as make other creative tweaks. “You don’t want to crank the knob all the way because then it’ll look like garbage,” Burdick said. “But if we can make it look a little better, we might as well.”

The only movies which would require upscaling to 4K are those released between about mid-2000s to mid-2010s, the advent of native digital cinema, but filmed in 2K. Everything before was filmed in 35mm film, which can be scanned to 4K with information to spare; everything after is filmed in native digital 4K or more.

Moreover, upscaling which deal only with resolution has absolutely no need of AI. Any TV will decently upscale in _real-time_ a non-4K movie, and more sophisticated techniques can give basically indistinguishable results. 2017's _Alien: Covenant_ was voluntarily produced in 2K but released in 4K through upscaling and the image look just great.
As I said twice now already, efficiency is not just a question of rendering pixels. When you take the entire development lifecycle into account, there is a vast opportunity for improvement. This path is an obvious continuation of current trends we see today: Why spend time optimising when you can slap on DLSS? Why spend time adjusting countless lights when you can use real time GI? Why spend time making LODs when you can slap on Nanite? In the future people will ask "Why spend time modelling polygons at all when you can get them for free?"
>I just learned to sleep with my mouth closed and I watch my breathing during the day too, and avoid breathing through my mouth

It's not something you "learn" if you have apnea.

And if you don't, you don't normally have to learn it, it's natural, though some people might be accustomed otherwise.
Not planning to. It’s my first Swift/iOS project. I neither want to polish it nor maintain it publicly. Happy to share it privately, email is in the bio.
I’m planning on a blog post describing the general approach though!
You're conflating direct property theft with a very different practice. It's also a very US-centric way of thinking; the rights of the individual going above the common good. Squatting rights used to exist to protect the impoverished from absent landlords.

This is an old practice in the UK, older than the US by many centuries, and it's why many states in the US also adopted it in some measure when the union was formed. Most countries have similar laws, and people are often surprised by that fact. Squatters were a common sight across the UK because no one effectively owned land - the monarchy or the church owned it. Traditionally in an English village, there were several classes of people. At the lower end were the incomers known as borderers or squatters, who would erect a cottage or a hovel on common or waste ground to house themselves and would pay rent to the Manorial lord or would work on his demesne several days a week. The building of the cottage was generally tolerated or even sanctioned under customary rights.

To understand the spirit of the law, I recommend reading about the 17th-century Diggers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

Your personal property is protected. Reframe the intent. Imagine if Blackrock or Vanguard came in and bought out a county, land property and all, then just left it completely unused and untended. The place would fall to squalor. Squatters' rights mean you could continue to live and work that land without their permission. It was common in the 60s and 70s for communes to move into unoccupied mansions in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales). Many of these homes were (still are) owned by oligarchs who had no intention of living there. They own it because it's an appreciating asset that drives up house prices in the area, forcing out local families, buying up the subsequent properties, and making ghost towns. Without a vacancy tax, there's no disincentive for people to own empty houses in places where people want to live besides the squatting laws.

It should be noted, that squatting in residential property became a criminal offence in 2012. "Professional" squatting happens now in vacant commercial buildings (like Ramsay's restaurant), or on disused land. The restaurant they're occupying has been vacant since 2015 - 9 years now. Squatters can apply to become the registered owners of a property if they have occupied it continuously for 10 years, acted as owners for the whole of that time and had not previously been permitted to live there by the owner. I guess these people will suggest that they have lived there continuously for the last 9 years (they likely haven't, which is why it'll get thrown out in court) and live there for the next year to try and take ownership.

They have a couple of Instagram accounts up about the whole thing it looks like:
https://www.instagram.com/camdenartcafe/
https://www.instagram.com/autonomouswintershelter/
It's not double counting, it's just the average difference from CPI vs McDonalds hamburger inflation
>They clone a git repository

I think this is a bad starting point. To learn Unix, first learn git. Sure, it’s one command for them to type that can be given to them, but I know a lot of people who are scared of anything git related and it would create a barrier to entry, especially for those who have no other reason to know much about git (like every non-dev).

This also creates a chicken and egg situation. I need to clone a git repo using the command line to start using the command line. Without already knowing commands like ls, cd, and pwd, I may not clone it to the right place, or be able to find it once it’s cloned. I’ve seen this countless times, even from people working in the tech industry.

> 1. I know a lot of people have already tried to do this. Can you point to any existing learning tools that have really knocked it out of the park?

vimtutor is decent, as a hands-on way to learn vim. Though, few people seem to have the patience to actually go through it. Learning the command line is self-selecting in a way. Those who has the willingness to use a lot of the current materials are the ones who will have the willingness to use it day to day.

Learning how to read the man pages, more than just the command to type, should be an early required part of learning, but it often skipped. There is a lot to be said for becoming good at using the reference material that will always be with you, and not having to hope someone wrote a blog post about the exact issue a person is having. Making something to help users learn that really well, will pay dividends.
Does anyone know of a similar tool for complete wiring of a system?
> So the end goal is to not make any modifications to the host image.

IMO the goal should not be to have a immutable host image, but to have a immutable rootfs of each process. Immutable host base images might contain libraries or software that is not required by the application, they are more difficult to update, because they need to be updated as a unit, and probably require a reboot.

To make this stable, you need to hack around with A/B partitions for a fallback. IMO this would not be necessary if we had every package just installed under its checksum under `/pkgs` or what ever, an then use overlayfs to create a file system customized for every process. All that is required here to revert back is the old 'profile' and then start the old packages from the `/pkgs`. Like NixOS does it.

However NixOS doesn't use overlayfs, they use symlinks and patching of the paths in the sources to archive it.

Using overlayfs would also allow changing the package path (`/pkgs` here, or nixos package store `/nix/store`) at runtime, because the software would not require patches, so people could install an additional store in their home directory for instance.
Depends on if he cares more about his current movie project(s) than his old ones. He still needs $$

I bet even Kubrick would have been tempted if the situation came about.
Diet is another thing to try. A family member went on a low histamine diet (carnivore) and no longer has any of these issues. It's not a very fun diet, but they also were able to get off of their blood pressure medicine and had a bunch of other conditions clear up.
That sounds like the mouth guard I use because I grind my teeth at night but the mouth guards the article is talking about are different. These mouth guards for snoring move your lower jaw forward while a mouth guard for grinding doesn't.
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Hello everyone, I'm an indie hacker and, like many others, I also use various database management software. About a year ago, I evaluated several database-related apps, and my ideal app should be lightweight, simple, and beautiful. Finally, I decided to create my own and recently completed it.

This is my first released product called Dataflare, built using Rust/Tauri/React. It supports dozens of databases and has a size of only 30MB. It is simple enough but still lacks some functionalities.

Hope it will be useful to you, and if possible, please provide me with some feedback.
Yes of course.
If you can't read a shell script you shouldn't be doing any of that.

As a private individual you can obviously do whatever you want with your system, but if your job is technical support you need to be able to understand and write code at a basic level.

Nowadays everybody who has a technical job has to learn how to write code. It doesn't matter what that technical role is, but only will be more and more of a prerequisite to do anything.
Science begins from experience, and develops from there.

It's not like religion, which starts from holy scriptures.

Though many think science should just be something we take in as a holy scripture, unconnected to our personal experience, and even when it doesn't match it.
I played against hardcore gamers and didn't bother. They may have cold head, but I have fun. I once though about playing games with cold head, but the idea is so ridiculous it didn't fly at all.
Totally, each will get you from A to B, but there is a reason most people don't buy a Ford Focus. Phones are the same, the response was asking why people buy Apple, I was just explaining there are loads of human reasons why people go for the premium option.
Pl/dotnet Postgres extension enabling C#/F# as languages
There's big science and little science.

You can use the scientific method to see what works for you. Those results may or may not be applicable to others.

You can use the scientific method on a representative group. Those results may or may not have anything to do with a specific case.

Both are scientific and have their limits.

If you're trying to address an issue related to your own health, you only need a sample size of 1.
It's not actually made from a single soft plastic, the inner lining is soft, and the outer parts are quite hard. I don't think there's a non-plastic mouthguard in the market.
Not Unix but Lions OS[1]. Also, why would you want to build Unix on top of seL4? I think we can have better ideas than that in today's state of the art.

[1] https://trustworthy.systems/projects/LionsOS/
In NixOS you have only one central package store `/nix/store`, so all packages need to be installed there. This is necessary, because the software is patched to use that path. IMO patching it this way is a bit hacky, when there a better options.

If overlayfs is used, the software would not require patching, so you could have multiple package stores if you like. Maybe a package store in `~/.nix/store` as well. This would allow with a immutable rootfs (e.g. immutable `/nix/store`) to still install packages per user, or even per project a different package store.
> DECT in general (the successor to CT-2 which Rabbit used) is still going strong, though in some bubbles people are shocked to hear anyone uses anything other than a mobile phone.

A lot of modern baby monitors use DECT. Works much better than the old timey one-way radio type too, You'll get alerted if the connection drops, and on a lot of models you even get two-way communication.
Apple will never get me back until they release a folding phone. Even then I don't think I'd go back now, I've got my android set up exactly how I want it, with iOS I'd have to make some sort of compromise.
- The Thin Red Line.

The narative structure is hard to get the first time you watch the movie, but once you get it, it can change the way you see (the/our) nature.

- The Secret of NIMH.

Saw it the first time at 4 or 5 and was in awe, but it tooks several more years to understand it fully.

- The Truman Show.

It's basically my life.

- Akira.

No particular reason, except it's the first Manga which gets international recognition and propulsed the industry in the grown-up domain.
Initially I think it was out of their own pockets, and they had a bunch of keen volunteers, who were also launching 'pong sats' high altitude balloons for highschool science experiments. While I was around the went from launching rockets out of boxes at ground level to doing it 20 miles up. More recently I think they've had some DoD funding
Yeah, that's a surprising revival. I thought it died for good this time.
Astronomers in general consider being at the bottom of an ocean of air a major nuisance.
Nonzero chance it's still connected to a phone line or some such.
It got revived suddenly, there's going to be a new release soon.
Remind me never to ask HN to check if my indicators are working.
Which ones do you have in mind? I don't miss X in the slightest.
I live in Thailand, and I've never had Dengue. I'm thinking about traveling to Bangkok for a Qdenga shot. Even though ADE doesn't seem to be a concern, I have gotten quite paranoid about any injections that trigger the immune system as I've now had allergic reactions to both vaccines and antibiotics. So I feel a little bit nervous about it.
> now that a team of international researchers revisited the site and published their findings in English in the journal PLOS One, scientists around the world are learning about the boats for the first time

It's regrettable that research had to be published in a specific language for scientists to leverage. Maybe recent advances with language models can change the game here and make knowledge more accessible across all fields.
I remember building something very similar (actually it was more or less identical) using Mathematica many, many years ago. I never released it, because it was a fringe project with fringe dependencies and an even tinier audience back then. Oh, and it was terribly slow, because GPU acceleration was not yet really a thing. So it's kind of sad to see that this project here is using MATLAB, because that drastically cuts down its own potential audience as well. If I was developing something like that again today, I'd do it in Python/CUDA or at least in a full OSS approach. Over the years there have been a bunch of publications that came up with interesting geometries with curious properties, but everyone had to re-do the analysis software from scratch. Something truly open and maintainable might improve the situation and incentivise more work in that direction.
in contrast with some other commenters, I'm actually not bothered by the terrible website—it makes me think their priorities are in the right place
Upscaling exactly 2x is also an option.
Or say, that one actress in the pool scene where you see her from behind nude and, in low definition, nothing could be seen. Once they upscaled it, things were... more visible.
So why aren’t you all screaming about those as much as you scream about TikTok
His transport maps, like https://busrouter.sg, were a great inspiration for me.
It's not, and it's a bit worrying that it's not widespread knowledge.
Check this - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933932

Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs

Disagree with - "Elon Musk can teach you a lot about risk-taking and branding, but much less about competing in the auto business."

But overall funda is pretty good.
> It's kind of strange that psychology has this dual role of both giving advice to the [healthy] and managing the [unhealthy]

That's medicine!
Squatting is not stealing. There isn't abundant access to the resource such as in digital piracy, but the squatted goods are not damaged and will return to their lawful owner. If they are damaged, that's a case of degradation, which is another offense completely disconnected from squatting (both can occur separately).

Squatting rights are necessary in any property system. In many European countries they were setup after WWII because an absolute property system was failing the people: there were many abandoned buildings whose owners were dead/missing/gone and many people whose dwellings had been destroyed. Squatting saved many lives, and so did the laws that legalized squatting.
It’d still lift a lot of building materials.
Thanks for your work, it's very inspiring to see what one person can achieve on their own, compared to inefficient whole teams that cost 2 million euros to a public agency for a basic transport map.
I don't know why you seem to have such a bone to pick with transformers but imo it's still interesting to learn about it, and reading your dismissively toned drivel of "just" and "simply" makes me tired. You're barking up the wrong tree man, what are you on about.