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>I still am looking for this magical theme that makes QT apps feel like it fits on a GNOME desktop.

Qt does the work to integrate with Windows and OSX, by this I do not mean that it paints the exact shame of border colors on the buttons but more deeper integration, like integrating with the native System Tray, desktop APIs, the correct order of OK/Cancel buttons.

For linux the Qt devs are aware that each distribution has it's own colors,, fonts and crap so it would be a waste to target only a distro say Red Hat.

KDE did the work to make GTK apps integrate as much as possible but I think GNOME did zero work to integrate Qt or KDE apps and they tried sabotaging everyone else by removing the Tray or the server decoration.

I am not that type of user that needs all apps to have the exact same buttons otherwise my brain segfaults, I use KDE apps, GTK apps, Java apps, Electron apps. What I want from this apps is to use same Open File Dialogs and not be like GTK where the native GTK file picker has a weird sorting option for files and folders that do not match any other popular and sane system.

Also I remember GNOME guys claiming that you do not need thumbnails in the File Picker, that you are doing it wrong and the reality was that it was not easy to add the feature so they preferred to push that excuse that you are doing it wrong.
It's not a bias for 2d projection. If someone tells me to "go east in a straight line", I think about how practically I'd go about it. In this case, I'd take a compass, point myself to go east, and keep adjusting my bearing so that I keep facing east. Bonjour, France.
> according to the VX team: "The database DOES NOT contain information from individuals who use data opt-out services. Every person who used some sort of data opt-out service was not present."

You're good, perhaps! The rest are opted-in for a data leak.
MuxCraft did not have any gambling until 2020, where it was already in serious decline like most older german servers

They added gambling as what seemed a last ditch effort to attract new users
Incapability due to regulatory and bureaucratic burden is real incapability.

and frankly, while we have made some technical advances, we have also suffered severe logistical, political, and capital losses, especially in context of the aforementioned bureaucratic and regulatory burden. We have also suffered, IMO, loss of capability in our elite engineering echelon.

The F-35 is a perfect example of what I’m describing. Technically brilliant in some ways, sure. Pretty lame and terrible in others. Debatably an advance over previous generations of aircraft, at the very least.

Today’s NASA is a completely different animal than the NASA which put a man on the Moon.

I don’t see SpaceX doing it either. Not today. Maybe tomorrow. Let’s wait and see.
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Love this app
Side note for those with ... let's just say unhealthy spending habits: is there a list of all the hardware stuff that HN'ers launched/kickstartered?
I think the core insight OP may be looking for is that your dictionary is just an illusion - that concepts being related to other concepts to various degree is all that there is. The meaning of a concept is defined entirely by other concepts that are close to it in something like a latent space of a language model.

Of course humans get to also connect concepts with inputs from other senses, such as sight, touch, smell or sound. This provides some grounding. It is important for learning to communicate (and to have something to communicate about), and was important for humans when first developing languages - but they're not strictly necessary to learn the meanings. All this empirical grounding is already implicitly encoded in human communication, so it should be possible for an LLM to actually understand what e.g. "green" means, despite having never seen color. Case in point: blind people are able to do this, so the information is there.
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I mean, we’d probably be living like the Jetsons if the US routed 20% of the defense spend to STEM.
Pretty sure it has been dead for a while. I personally never saw the point but I suppose the whole mantra of Serenity was developing everything from scratch.
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Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims
> marketing their property, doing or managing maintenance, and dealing with tenants

This is property management, not being a landlord. The fact that landlords exist who can fully outsource the management and still turn a significant profit is a sign that our housing market is deeply flawed.
lots of small companies are reliant on the cheap prices big tech companies offer. by taxing big companies all that does is shift the burden of costs to the small business, making it harder for them to grow.
Studiositas and Curiositas
The virtue of courage is a habitual strength of the will that enables its possessor to be ready to suffer for a good cause. Excess of this strength is foolhardiness; its defect is cowardice.

In a similar fashion, we all have a natural desire to know, the pursuit of knowledge is good in and of itself. However its defect is negligence, and its excess is curiositas.

This article examines curiositas and its corresponding virtue studiositas. Although it is framed in the context of a Christian viewpoint, it may offer insights to people from all faith backgrounds or from a non-faith perspective.
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> No, you need a system to fund new companies, only capitalism does that naturally.

I'm not sure why you have come to believe this. Companies can start small and grow large as they need to. As companies grow and gain employees, those employees gain equal control over their company in the same way that citizens to a country gain the ability to vote. I'm not sure where this conception comes from that we need to have the entire country vote on starting new companies, that has nothing to do with this.

> capitalism does that via rich people

You appear to think that the goal of this is to eliminate wealth inequality, but that's not the point at all. You appear to be importing your conceptions about communism into this conversation, but this has nothing at all to do with communism. This is a market economy where companies are structured as democracies rather than as monarchies.
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I would suggest the same hardware solution, where the USB powers a device-side presentation of the raw data into a more universal mass storage device. This also allows file transfer to any device without requiring special software. I did something like this in 2008 or so (using a FTDI chip and PIC mcu, and boy was it ever slow).
I feel it's not that they don't know how to be ethical so much as it is they don't care
It'a a priori obvious that this is valid, but politics, propaganda etc do not run for the benefit of the common man.
Germany does have the biggest EU user base, but you’re right, the language was german
There are still strong property rights and ownership of the economy should be more distributed, but they don't advocate for some elite government entity to come scoop up everything and decide who gets what or outlaw people from owning land and property.

Unlike capitalism, instead of a factory making some kind of widget or product (example: ice cream) that makes one individual very rich and provides a low salary to a hundred workers, you'd have thousands of people across the country doing all kinds of jobs like that and hopefully making a living wage. Unlike communism, you don't have a fully centralized power dictating all aspects of life.

I'm no expert on this theory though and it isn't perfect. Such a society probably doesn't build an iPhone...maybe that is the point haha. Or maybe it can, but I'm guessing technological advancements and discoveries would take longer with less efficiency and specialization.
The array doing beamforming can be spread out much farther. If the DSN were being built now, I'd think its antennas would look more like the Square Kilometer Array.
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"Don't Stop Believin'"
https://archive.is/ACaWH
We may (much) better control their renewal (control on new production) and employ some good "enemy", like a microorganism(s) feeding on (some of) them. It's not an easy problem for sure.
Warren Buffett files documents with the SEC to disclose his positions, if it is held by Berkshire Hathaway.

FWIW, what deepfuckingvalue is doing is fine by me as long as he isn’t telling a private group to buy a shitload of calls because he is going to move the price of GME by tweeting about it.
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This article is interesting, but feels like a bit of a stretch to me, particularly when making assertions as bold as "I suspect the only reason it’s not spelled out is because Tolkien assumed any reader would understand that intuitively." I am not a master of the LotR lore, but my assumption when reading the books years ago was that Tolkien wanted an idyllic utopian society of rural leisure, and didn't necessarily work out a fully realistic plan for how such a society could be sustainable long-term in the real world with real humans. LotR is a fantasy world, and such worlds are filled with fantasies: imaginary things that are unrealistic and don't need to be physically feasible.
Yeah, but now there are three, not just two. GTK, GNOME and Qt, rather than just Qt and GTK.
Do you write Iulius Caesar or Julius Caesar? Same writing system (or rather, it even originated there).

Generally, even without the counterexample, you just postulated an arbitrary, somewhat contrived rule. "Cities can have different names, people cannot, but only as long as the writing system matches". You can want this, but good luck with getting language to adhere to it.

If I'd correct Germans for all their "misuse", or at least idiosyncratic use, of English expressions (handy, public viewing, "learnings"...), it wouldn't make anybody happy. I put "misuse" in quotes deliberately, because German has just adopted these words into different meanings and connotations, just like Japanese did, and that's okay.

Language prescriptionism is not realistic.
I am a big proponent of IR over CEC or (shudder) Bluetooth. IR is wireless by default, there's almost no input latency, and it's open enough where you can get a universal remote like Harmony and do anything you want.

CEC on the flip side is wired only, only works with certain devices, and its success is dependent on manufacturers coming to some sort of agreement. CEC is missing some sort of bridge, something where other non-CEC devices can control everything on the bus. Something that can remap buttons for specific devices.

CEC has also led to a lot of devices outright not adding IR remotes to their setup anymore, which makes any sort of external control 100x harder and prone to failure. I have an LG OLED TV, Pioneer AV receiver, and an Nvidia Shield. My choices for remotes are either the Shield's terrible Bluetooth-based remote that eats 2xAAA's every week, or the LG's magic wand where anything other than the TV doesn't support the pointer and tons of buttons can accidentally be pressed resulting in webOS rearing its ugly head on my display (with ads as a bonus!).

With IR in the mid 2000's I could get a Harmony that would control every single device in my cabinet. If their database didn't have a remote's profile, you would have to learn the extra buttons and program it, but you could do it. There were certainly downsides, like activities were poorly planned and the lack of a bidirectional communication meant that the remote was often out of sync for what devices were actually on.

Honestly, as much as the post trashes on USB, I would almost want CEC's capabilities to be a part of USB. Let me route my USB keyboard, mouse, remote, gamepad, whatever to whatever device in the chain. Let me remap any of those buttons to talk to a specific device in the chain. Basically, let me have a KVM that relays inputs based on configuration.
That does not seem to be devil's advocacy but rather changing maximamas' position to one which is more defensible.

The argument is "the children will find a way", which was exactly the argument with smoking.

In practice, history tells us that fewer children found a way to get tobacco and smoke on school grounds.

Why should we think that a school ban would have no effect on smartphone use on school grounds?
Maybe there is a nuance that I am missing, but having in mind that an exception can be thrown "in any of your code, regardless of whether it could have possibly raised an exception before" when writing code seems sane to me. It seems like the issue being raised is that people are expecting code snippets to be perfectly transactional, which also seems wrong.
A more quality version of the epub of the servile State can be found at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hilaire-belloc/the-servile...
I suggest the post author and you look into nu as the package build language. It's uniquely suited for this task, being a cross-platform shell[1] with real programming language features, data types, and using built-in uutils instead of relying on platform-dependent coreutils. It also limits mutability[2], favoring a more functional than imperative approach, which would at least theoretically help with reproducibility. A guy from Determinate Systems recently made an experiment on integrating nushell to nix and the results were positive. Take a look: https://determinate.systems/posts/nuenv/

1: https://www.nushell.sh/

2: https://www.nushell.sh/book/thinking_in_nu.html#variables-ar...
Maybe we need to just make sure their concentration is below thresholds?
This is a great example of why everything should be opt-in given the risk the individuals incur, not to mention the company.

If society appropriately disincentivized data collection, we could even get to where companies don't see customer data as an asset instead more as a liability.
Okay, you also made a drag and drop terminal app for rebasing?? Super cool products all round. True hacker news.

https://toaster.llc/debase/index.html
And there are clearly folks here who are more than happy to carry water for them. It's nice of them to identify themselves so readily, they stick out like giant Winnie the Pooh dolls.
I feel like bopomofo and pinyin don't serve the same purpose as katakana.

If Chinese folks want to write Churchill, they might write:

A) Churchill

B) 丘吉尔

But they will never write:

C) Qiūjí'ěr (the pinyin for B)

I've never seen an adult Chinese use pinyin for anything other than typing (as an input method for Chinese characters).
Hmm. There’s a reference in Don’t Stop Believin’, but I don’t think that’s the song you’re referring to.
Thank you for sharing this. I've added it to my reading list!
> With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage

The same credentials I use to buy new music: my password manager master password.

> and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from.

Syncthing directory; set and forget just works on all my devices.

> If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made.

Streaming services don't vanish when I primarily listen to DRM free music. Sometimes I find new music on Youtube. I usually find new music from word of mouth.

I don't know, I just don't see any of these as limitations that I run into.
> probably being the person who most deserved a Nobel prize but didn't get it

You probably want to read up a bit on the remarkable life of Lise Meitner.
There needs to be more configuration, which I don't know that CEC supports. I think it's fine to have a mode where it fits 80% of scenarios where your STB remote can control your TV and sound bar, but doing anything other than that is so limited.
Agreed on all counts, especially the central issue with nix and the properties that I'd want out of a replacement. I think CUE ( https://cuelang.org/ ) is a perfect language for this.
(by plum brook, do you mean NASA? If so, I've met some smart people from there and other NASA posts, but also met some of the worst employees that epitomize some of what the discussion is against - very toxic, against any new ideas, refusing to retire, shirking duties etc. at one point one org had an average age of 59+, that's very indicative of a refusal to move on).

>it is also not terrible at hiring very competent/smart people through their commission system

I suspect you would get a very different perspective if you talked to enlisted servicemembers (or subordinate officers). I would argue the commissioning system is better than the previous aristocratic commissioning system, but still relatively poor at mating skills to positions.

I think churn is a couple of problems for a couple of different potential reasons:

1) constantly moving positions tends to leave the more complicated problems unsolved. For one, it's difficult to truly understand the dynamics of a complicated system in a short period. Secondly, if someone is concerned with promotion, attacking small problems tends to get you a win during your tenure, while it's unlikely you'll make much headway on a really difficult or complicated problem. Even worse is the commander who has all kinds of great ideas they want implemented even before they really understand the problem (ie the 'good idea fairy' dilemma)

2) military churn can bias toward giving people responsibility beyond their capability, simply because they need someone to fill that role. This is especially with younger organizations (and the military definitely biases young). Meaning you tend to people with a lot of power/responsibility before their frontal lobe is even fully developed.

Now I do think the military does a pretty good job at accountability, which can mitigate some of those factors. But if that's the case, we should be trying to optimize for "accountability" and not "churn".

The better military organizations seem to have "churn" in the uniformed services in charge but a steady cadre of professional civilian staff supporting them.
While I appreciate the effort you put into writing this book, I can't help but wonder how different your advice will be from what's already available. Many books and resources claim to offer mentorship and guidance, but they often fall short of providing practical, actionable advice.
> I don't think any conventional PCs have CEC transceivers. The solution, if you are mad enough to want one, is a USB CEC adapter.

I have no idea what the status is, but there has been work on driver support for AMDGPU and Nvidia-supporting Noveau drivers dating back to 2018. https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Nouveau-CEC-Tunnel . The official kernel docs link forward to a pretty helpful https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis-new/admin-guide/c...

It's notably CEC over DisplayPort AUX, not HDMI. It'd be super interesting to know if this would tend to work with HDMi adapter or not?

I did have a battle a couple years back, where my dad said the main thing keeping him from using the mini-pc & monitor and instead sitting at the desk with an old janky laptop was that there were keyboard shortcuts for adjusting the brightness. I tried like 6 programs and one (and only one) actually did let me adjust the monitor's brightness (via the Intel integrated graphics)! (And then wrote some gnome keyboard shortcuts to wire that up). I remember it being brutal, a slog, trying all sorts of stuff, but it was so rewarding to see (and made me so much happier than software dimming).

(Epilogue: dad still doesn't use that nice ass computer or screen.)

For many a years, CEV was something seemingly only available on raspberry pi & other sbc. It seems like CEC is still sort of an afterthought for most desktop environments. A pity! Ideally computers should be a nexus of control, but so often we accept the limited personas we are handed, don't delve deeper.

Interesting write-up! I'd only known abstractly about CEC, known there's some mind of toolbox of options in it & that most PCs don't really use that.
I'm mainly going off of the story of how IIRC a couple of years ago, PH was forced to wipe most of their site due to left-wing activists pressuring payment processors into threatening to block PH's basic means of doing business if they didn't meet the somewhat absurd demand of filtering out all harmful/unethical material.

Sure, they technically didn't use the legal system, they just used the technicality that payment processors hold the same power over internet-dependent companies as a government.
Hopefully the health insurance industry is next. They siphon way more money out of the general populace than COVID rent increases.