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>These days, you can do anything on Linux that you do on Windows, except for some 3d Gaming. And that is because hardware vendors refuse to support Linux in the way they support Windows. It is the fault of Video vendors, most notability Nvidia.

Even GPU drivers work fine for 90-99% of games on Linux. The biggest issue keeping certain games from running on Linux is actually anti-cheat support:

https://areweanticheatyet.com/
I’ve not seen results that sound anything like that. Do you have a link to support your claim?
This is critical. I get these "Explanation of Benefits" from United, and they always show some enormous sticker price with a "discount." Something is clearly whack with these discounts.

It would be too much credit to call it "financial engineering". Do you know who mostly benefits from these (basically) fraudulent "discounts"?
The more eye candy you want, the larger are the requirements. I compared it to dmenu or rofi, which offer little eyecandy, but allow for very simple and fast operation.

The GUI config utility can run anything fancy, a browser, an Unreal engine, etc. It runs at configuration time, and can be much more demanding than at an arbitrary menu use time, especially on a busy machine.

The problem is not the 100MB spent for a download. The problem is 100MB that need to be resident in RAM for the operation of the menu.

This only means that this implementation does not solve my problems. If it solves someone else's, it's unironically great. I wish the project to prosper.
I have been running Fedora as a daily driver for two years now. It’s even the Sway spin so it’s not the happy path. No issues at all. Been through at least one major version upgrade with zero issues. Maybe even two. It’s a total non-issue.

> This is at the core of it, I think. Forcing a user to compile C code is a bad user experience; it often fails due to linking or other dependency-related errors.

Huh? If you’re compiling your own code in a mainstream Linux distribution then I’m not surprised you have to nuke and pave.

It’s a distribution, meaning they build and distribute the software for you.

Flatpak deals with all the applications that don’t need to be built into the operating system itself.
In my experience, Nvidia drivers only work well under Nix, because their native installer loves to mess stateful systems.
Also (42 points, 2 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553154

The letter: https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25472740-lett...
You can have sexy women in your movies without being sexist. No one, aside from some crazy weirdoes, is telling men not to be horny. A lot of the bond girls are really boring characters that just exist to get fucked. Pierce Brosnan's character in The Thomas Crowne Affair is not that far off from his Bond persona but his love interest is an actual character and that movie is so much hotter.
Health insurance companies conspiring with each other and with providers to drive up costs is not an unintended consequence of the ACA, it is a predictable consequence of monopolistic collusion. Imagine saying "all the grocery stores are intentionally increasing the cost of eggs in order to increase their cut" -- that's just straightforward illegal behavior that should be a slam-dunk anti-trust suit. Don't blame the ACA for that.
> If somebody does to desktops like what Google did for smartphones, [...]

Somebody does to desktops what Google did for smartphone. The company is called Microsoft, and the behaviour is called blatant monopoly abuse.
Both Crucial and Samsung, which produce a significant number of OEM drives for the likes of Dell, HP, etc.
Both can be true. They're even complementary I'd say: the DEI policies are like social greenwashing for how poorly they treat their employees.
I reread the books multiple times. I was actually pretty impressed with how well they cast each character. Which is impressive because I think that's one of the hardest things to do.

But, the dialogue and storytelling were terrible. They invented new, pointless content. There's ~18k pages of source material. Amazon's job was to figure out how the hell to pair that down without compromising the original story. Instead, they went for visuals over storytelling
Best comment about the UK I've seen in a while. Focuses on the immutable facts — doesn't necessarily take "one side". So true.
We're actually in agreement. Lots of my time is doing what you suggest, which is why I wish there was a time series capable version
> linux is not an operating system

Correct, there are some Gnu/Linux-en,
and there is Android/Linux.

Which may not be a classical desktop OS, but some platforms like Samsung phones emulate floating window management and multitasking, making it an okay desktop OS.
And Android has a huge market share, so perhaps "Linux won over Windows" already, just not on the desktop.

Did the author do any fact checking, proton (developed for Steam OS) runs so many games, it is unbelievable.

Trollish opinion piece behind the link.
Why can't we just cut out the middle men and just make people buy things? This sounds like a colossal waste of time so that we can feel like people have free-will and their purchases signal demand.
6. Hardware support and compatibility

is somewhat true. State of the video drivers from AMD are not good on Windows and atrociously bad on Linux. NVIDIA are drivers are barely of the acceptable quality on Linux.
There is no single measure of inflation. There are multiple different ones, each with their own pros and cons and suitability for purpose. CPI is a common one, and that would put $1.15 in Jan 1962 at $12.09 in Nov 2024.
I've been using Linux for 15+ years. Here are my counterpoints.

1. Linux is a software ecosystem. Varying flavors and options to fill almost any need of computing solution.

2. Bugs and Regressions are crowd-source community solved. Bugs don't last long if it's keeping something from working.

3. There are so many open-source games native to Linux/Windows/Mac that don't get enough attention. Most of them are free too.

4. Filesharing on linux is as simple as a command line operation. See rsync. Also there are countless GUI apps that use rsync.

5. Funding is everywhere in Linux and open source software. See IBM, RedHat, Google, Microsoft, Amazon among a few.

6. Hardware drivers are plentiful for Linux. Hardly have any issues.

7. The community will help you. They've helped me for years.
Beware of the hidden catch here. The account that adds the credential to the group “owns” it. So if that account goes away for any reason so does the credential.
Were standard credit card interest rates ever much below 20%? I think 20-25% has been the normal range for 20+ years (since I've had credit cards), though laws like the one passed under Obama do reign in the banks a little in terms of how brutally they can destroy a delinquent customers livelihood (like limiting default rates and banning other creditors from charging default rates when you default with one creditor).

I always check out the balance transfer offers I receive and use that as a gauge for how cheaply creditors are willing to extend credit. Even with the prime rate jumping up in recent years, you can still get the same 12 months at 0% interest with a 4-5% transfer fee. There was a time during the low-rate era where the average was closer to 18 months and 3% fees, whereas the last few years have leaned towards 9 months and 5%. But the variance has been pretty tame.
So I disagree with the author completely, but enterprise is where MS actually shines.

I can't imagine trying to manage 1000's of users, file access, permissions, etc from cobbled together bash scripts.

M365/Azure/AD is how all large orgs are run. The only time I see Linux in this space is for some one off VMs running apps in Docker or something.
Hey I'm the author. I did this on DDR4 RAM. Specifically, it was F4-3600C18D-32GVK in two slots and MD16GK2D4320016AXR in the other two.
laughing on behalf of all the VFX folks who work on movies all day using desktop Linux https://vfxplatform.com/linux/

Yeah, I get that this is called out under business / professionals, but I've also used Ubuntu (more recently Pop!_OS, and Fedora before that) as a daily driver for >a decade and given small-form-factor PCs with Ubuntu to relatives who have successfully used them for web and basic LibreOffice work for years without major issues.

When people ask me for recommendations for a family PC these days, I tell them to just get an iPad or Mac Mini though.
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Not really, no. It was pretty weak sauce aside from the skiing intro.

I found both Dalton outings pretty silly, though one of us gave us an early appearance by Benicio Del Toro. Dalton deserved better, as did Brosnan modulo _Goldeneye_, which is for me a top-5 entry.

I disagree on your conclusion re: "decent original Bond" between '77 and '97, but I'd argue that the success of _Skyfall_ and _No Time To Die_ does show they got around to it.
Agreed. I've seen every Bond movie (except the original Casino Royal. Does that even count?) and I couldn't tell you the plot of any of them. I can remember some moments from several but not the plot.
you guys don't code in comic sans?
Those fans would probably be as vocal if a white actor was casted for the main role in a Black Panther movie.
1: I just don't see who these articles are written for. Linux is on the desktop, it's called Steam Deck, and millions are are using it. So, the author is wrong here in the spirit of the question, and the truth of the question.

2: The statement "Linux developers spend very little to no time checking that their code changes don't cause regressions or breakages" cannot be applied to all or possibly most developers. What packages is TFA talking about here? Maybe TFA means "Denuvo developers spend very little time checking that their code changes don't cause rootkits or kernel exploits - in Windows."

3: "Lack of general software" - TFA seems to be arguing that because software is not specifically compiled for Linux, it is therefore not "available", which is laughably false. My entire Steam library works just fine on the Steam Deck and in Debian. In fact, many of those games run on Steam/Proton when they could not be made to run on modern versions of Windows.

4: "Poor file and folder sharing" - I don't think TFA has ever tried Samba in an all-Linux environment, but I will grant that permissions across machines can be tricky. You know, like sharing folders between Windows XP, 7, 10, and 11.

5: "Lack of funding on the desktop" - Listen, I don't think IBM/RedHat are underfunded. I don't prefer Gnome Desktop, but it's perfectly functional, and funding doesn't seem to be an issue there. Maybe we should ask Canonical if they've ever funded desktop work.

6: "Hardware support and compatibility" - Listen, I'm using an HP 1012 laser printer. Microsoft stopped writing drivers for this perfectly usable printer in Windows 8. I'm using a modern GPU (Radeon 6700XT) that has drivers built right into the kernel. I'm using a scanner that was new when Windows 2000 was new, and I can tell you, it won't work in Windows anymore but it will for sure work in Linux. Once again, TFA does not give examples.

7: Ok, I'll give him this one. You can pay for commercial support for Linux if you want it, though! Canonical and Redhat would love to have your money.

Summing up, it seems like this guy is just complaining that Linux isn't a commercially-supported O/S, except it is, if you pay for it. Maybe he means "Linux isn't Windows." So, his entire premise is wrong, and trolly. And speaking of trolls, you'll see TFA's name in the ars forum if you search, and I'll give you two guesses what his posts there look like.
This should have an option to allow using system fonts (e.g. Consolas) to replace the proposed garbage fonts (such as https://www.codingfont.com/MajorMonoDisplay ).
The white on grey text on this site is absolutely brutal on my eyes. I agree that Source Code Pro is a great coding font though.
The first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises cleaner future
I don't agree with your premise regarding "what this thread is about".
The article said 15000 were laid of in April and at the same time 2000 H1B visas were requested.
> The only thing enforcing these invariants in production is the interplay between your database schema and the queries you execute against it."

I'm unsure that I agree. The two examples you gave, establishing that IDs are unique and that updates to entities in the system are serializable (and linearizable while we're here), are plenty doable without having to touch the real database. (In fact, as far as the former is concerned, this dual approach to testing is what made me adopt having a wholly separate "service"[0] in my applications for doling out IDs to things. I used to work in a big Kafka shop that you've almost certainly heard of, and they taught me how to deal with the latter.)

That said, I'd never advocate for just relying on one approach over the other. Do both. Absolutely do both.

> I'm pretty sure "don't repeat yourself" thinking has led to the vast majority of the bad ideas I've seen so far in my career. It's a truly crippling brainworm, and I wish computer schools wouldn't teach it.

I brought up WET mostly to comment that, if there's one place in software development where copying and pasting is to be encouraged, testing is it. I'd like to shelve the WET vs. DRY debate as firmly out of scope for this thread if that's alright.

0: It's a service inasmuch as an instance of a class implementing an interface can be a service, but it opens up the possibility of more easily refactoring to cross over into running against multiple databases later.
Myself I'm in the other camp; I genuinely don't understand how people find things like MacOS or Windows usable as a desktop.
Hardware support is so much better in Linux it's not even funny. I mean you can't even install windows server on most PCs because there aren't any drivers ! This trolling is beyond ridiculous.
meh... My only issues are: sound/multimedia and inconstant font size/type, other than that, perfect.
The benefits outweight the issues.
> It is the fault of Video vendors, most notability Nvidia.

And even that's gotten better in recent years, too. Nvidia hasn't fixed everything, but two of the biggest concerns (not supporting Wayland and fighting community drivers) have began to be addressed recently. It's beginning to look like Nvidia is taking desktop Linux seriously, albeit slowly. Most of these changes landed in the 555-series drivers, which are still pretty fresh, maybe even still in beta iirc.
It certainly feels like I'm watching shows with scenes where nothing happens but everyone just "says" their motivation over and over inexplicably not saying / doing anything else ...

The Godzilla series Monarch (another show I quit on) was like that with the younger characters constantly just saying their motivation (and still inexplicably not keeping it straight, it changed randomly). But they never DO anything about it, they just use up all the time saying it. It made them seem very wishy washy / spineless dispite supposedly being adults.

Come to think of it the Lord of the Rings series has a lot time wasting repetition too...
Half the time I try to use gemini questions about the c++ std library, it fabricates non-existent types and functions. I'm honestly impressed it was able to solve any of the AoC problems.
While I agree on the itch scratching. I also don’t necessarily feel like the type of womanizing I see in bond is a display of toxic masculinity. So, just because MI can be enjoyed without it doesn’t mean it needs to be culled in our modern world. I’m not a super fan but my impression/memory is most of the women that are being womanized are also extremely capable, strong, powerful, even deadly women and they’re usually always flirtatiously consenting in their exchanges. While I don’t need it, it does give me a different understanding of bond as a person/character than I know of the MI guy whose character’s name or personality outside of the mission I can’t even recall from memory.

Bond is a holistic character. He’s whole life is a male fantasy. He’s suave , has an awesome job, cars, adventure, fights, etc. MI is just doubling down on the action and adventure part highlighting the physical capabilities of the main character. You don’t really care about his personality (perfect role for Tom Cruise imo)

In any case, I feel like it’s become normal to characterize all masculinity as toxic and statements like yours is kind of like the “people who say only bad guys worry about privacy” to put a HN tech spin on it. You allowing and excusing it in a way and I feel like it’s a slippery slope
Windows has been isolating dependencies for a while now too, but for security, since their entire security model was pretty awful before, largely because of the need to support decades-old applications that business customers / governments still rely on. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-protectio...
People who have issues with it, just don't get Broadcast (one to all) messaging has always been controlled by the ruling classes.

Freedom of Speech can be given to everyone very generously, if Broadcasting (distribution) is controlled.

During the hey days of newspapers without Postal subsidies/Railway subsidies and paper mill subsidies it was very expensive for publishers to ship tons of paper across the country everyday. Even today world wide lot of Govts run the Post Office and Railways. And they subsidize rates for newspapers and magazines. Good luck getting that subsidy if you piss off the wrong people.

Same story repeats with licenses for radio/tv/satellite spectrum. Today its just Ads or control of the content factory (see who owns all the loss making news orgs in the land - Corporations). Ad supported just means who ever can bid most for the ad. And the Elites can outbid the plebs every day of the week.
And that's just when considering core system components. But non-technical users will expect any odd-ball peripheral they pick up at Office Depot or Best Buy to work as advertised out of the box, and it probably will not.
Actually, a lot of them complained that Black Panther had too many black people in it. They considered it unwatchable and impossible to relate to.
Using LLMs to generate tests is bizarre. If anything, humans should write the tests and the LLMs should make it pass.

Tests lose value the further away from the spec they drift. Writing a test after the code causes drift. Writing with an LLM causes even more drift.

It ends up being a ritual to appease the unit testing gods rather than an investment that is supposed to pay dividends.
My retired parents would disagree, having happily used Linux Mint for years now. Whenever I need to use Windows while teaching in school, I wonder how people put up with a system that is so user-unfriendly, some would even call it hostile.

The main difference, I feel, is that with Windows you can tell the system is built with a company's interests in mind, while in Linux this feeling is absent, and instead, you can tell the user is at the center of attention. And even if the system may not be perfect, it constantly evolves for the better. Just this difference ensures I will never go back again, nor will I ever recommend anything else.

With Windows, the system is a boss, with linux, you are the boss :)
20 years ago, one of my professors pointed out during a review that "benchmark is not research." Now I see literally everywhere benchmarks with very basic conclusions. I'm not criticizing this particular work, but such publications are low-effort unless they point to something new.
The Amiga had unified memory almost 40 years ago, at least for the first 512K to 2 megabytes (depending on hardware, which Agnus chip, etc.)
Your comparison of ethanol distillation to drug synthesis assumes that recipes for drug synthesis are public like instructions for distillation. Recipes for drug synthesis are trade secrets, not public knowledge.

If you want to synthesize organic compounds (drugs or otherwise), you need to know organic chemistry in order to make your own recipes. To give an example, this guy made his own recipe for making cinnamaldehyde from styrofoam, using what he learned from his college Organic Chemistry classes and a substantial amount of background research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMaTrgUKC1w

He did not follow a recipe from someone else because there was none. Chemists have worked out a number of reactions that can be chained together to make arbitrary organic compounds. Organic chemistry teaches the better known / more widely useful ones. That gives the foundation needed to do these things.

Please do not make me regret sharing my knowledge by bringing politics into a technical discussion. I am under doctor's orders to avoid political discussions.
Forgot the url, it should point [here](https://git.nunosempere.com/NunoSempere/fermi)
https://winlator.org/
And how many standard deviations to the right from the average is Gwendolyn Christie?
> Britain wanted to leave EU, not quit trade.

This sentence doesn’t make sense. The trade agreements are part of being in the EU. Wanting to leave the EU is literally wanting to stop being part of the single market. Obviously they have worse trade. They decided to leave the trading union.

This is not punishment. This is literally what Britain asked for.
Victor Mono, an absolute pleasure to use. Though Jetbrains Mono seems to give it a run for its money. The deciding factor seems to be the italic cursive font. Just enough differentiation to really set comments apart from the meat of the code.
Yes. They were lower on average: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/credit-card-in...
The connection establishment in SCTP is so much more heavyweight that I wouldn't really put them in the same category
Volkswagen and Skoda Flaws Allow Engine Disruption and Owner Data Theft
I'm referring to Linux being the basis of Android.
Sure, if I want to spend weeks and months of time learning how to:

* move my arms again, so I can learn how to
* push myself up again, so I can learn how to
* move my legs again, so I can learn how to
* crawl, so I can learn how to
* walk.

Cost of entry is a very real issue with NixOS and many/most of us are not interested in taking that time, so until it's easy / reasonable to use for most people's lived experiences, it'll sit on the backburner of Linux installations.
For most use cases, PostgreSQL is cheaper and faster to run.

A lot fewer are "web scale" than think they are. For ones who are, there are other competitors like Snowflake that work well.

As for scaling, it depends what you want to do. If you want to do things that look like joins, maybe it wasn't the right choice. Though I've definitely succeeded.
Godfather of AI Throws Support Behind Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI
I don’t understand your logic. In both cases it was the USA that broke these laws. Even though they were Danish laws, it was USA that ultimately a) built an illegal airbase, and b) illegally stored, and illegally transferred illegal weapons.

The damages from these illegal activities remain to this day, they were done by the USA for USA benefits. USA is very much the exploiter here, there is no spinning it otherwise.

Greenland has more exploiters than just Denmark. USA is very much Greenland’s second worst exploiter in history.

Also a note here, this is all before the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (which the USA hasn’t signed), and before the establishment of the Inatsisartut. So Danish laws ware the only way in which Greenlanders were able to affect their own affairs. Denmark has since then granted Greenland autonomy and signed and ratified the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.