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I'm not assuming I'm the default. I've worked countless jobs where I'm the "linux guy". These are the most common points of failure for everyone.

You have yet again showed how you are one of the 0.1%.

Why should the defaults be to accommodate for you?

I've been using linux for over 30 years. I'm in that group photo on the Debian.org homepage, given Linux conference talks spanning decades...

I know I'm in a very small minority and don't expect everyone to be me.

I work a support shift at a cloud hosting company and constantly deal with our customers struggling with linux on the same pain points over and over and over again. We have a bunch of auto-replies to explain things because everyone trips over the same broken sidewalk and people insist it's not broken but instead, it's beautiful design. Alright, whatever. Keeps me employed. Cool.

This is the same problem that mathematics has. Elite mathematicians insist that they should give zero shits about trying to explain things and their convoluted impenetrable explanations are elegant - it's an ultra-exclusive nerd club and most people aren't invited regardless of their interest.

Making things more approachable is somehow, cognitively unavailable to them or against some deeply held constitution. Whatever it is, it's not happening.

Some people think iOS is successful and some people think Mobian should be. I try to understand the first group and not insist everyone be in the second.
The Devil's Plan is in my top5 reality shows easily

There was very little extra drama and everyone was super smart and tried to game the game into getting everyone as far as possible.

And the metagame with the secrets within secrets was chefskiss perfection
It's still a smartphone - with web browsing, mail and everything else what's available out-of-the-box. And Bambu will cut out even local network access and, as they stated in "Terms of Use", can lock print jobs until you update firmware. Far from 1:1 analogy...
Take Steam, for example, when it comes to games. It remains a platform for 'traditional downloadable software,' where indie developers can still make money. It also has a very large and active community
https://kimono-koans.github.io/opinionated-guide/#before-a-s...
XMPP leaked the features that drove these other apps to win - not the same.
> While I use RSS, I think we need to recognize that it's slowly going away.

Do we?

> Even a single publisher that's missing a feed will be a deal-breaker for any new adopters.

Is a single publisher not being on your favorite social media app also a deal breaker? Where does this absurd requirement come from - most people already end up visiting multiple sources for their daily updates. If RSS can reduce that it's useful even if you still need more than one.

> And RSS is an over-complex solution anyway

It's extremely simple compared the "modern" alternatives (social media APIs).

> I still don't understand why this solution has not taken off yet. It's clearly optimal.

Because it doesn't actually improve anything over the status quo. You still need to do the work to implement it whether it's inline or a separate file for the feed and the inline version is more prone to breakage with website changes.
I think it is perfectly fine that people that actually live in an area get to decide what it looks like. If people don't involve themselves in that process and it is monopolized by people "with too much time on their hands" that is their fault. If they don't like the busy bodies then they should make time and actually go to the meetings.

You decide you own level of involvement in the community.

> I note that your example doesn't seem to have a problem putting car parks in, incidentally.

It is very interesting that whenever you bring up an example where it illustrates a particular point well, they will try to find anything they can point to so they can dismiss the general point being made. Guess what, a place in rural England that you can only travel easily to via car or coach will prioritise parking.

BTW I suspect knowing that area, you probably couldn't build anything other than parking in those places.
The law hasn't made it difficult to use alternatives to tiktok, which are free and numerous.
I bought a printer. It had some stuff. I didn't want that stuff to be gone after I bought it. That's a bait-and-switch, because they didn't explicitly say "be aware, that stuff is going away on Jan 2025".
Like I said Threads did this and it was effective.

So much so all the journalists left for BlueSky and they have had to reverse it.
This is the right way to use CI/CD systems, as dumb orchestrators without inherent knowledge of your software stack. But the problem is, everything from their documentation, templates, marketplace encourage you to do exactly the opposite and couple your build tightly with their system. It's poor product design imo, clearly optimising for vendor lock-in over usability.
I ThouYS may have a point. It seems to me that Prusa were tempted to go after the prosumer/pro market and invested a lot of time and engineering horsepower into higher spec machines (Prusa XL, HT90) and resin printers (SL1S).

A lot of 3D printer companies have tried to go this route. It is not a strategy that tends to succeed.

I don't know their sales numbers, but I would be willing to bet that the ROI on those printers is nowhere near their bread-and-butter, high volume, mass market models.

I think their priority should have been to build something like the Core One (a P1S killer) rather than these expensive and risky forays into pro/prosumer land. The Core one is, realistically speaking, at least 24 months late to market. This was avoidable.

Everyone who operates a 3D printing farm, and who isn't a complete muppet, knows that closed down products like those of Bambu Labs are risky. Both because some 3D printer manufacturers kind of have a history of being dickish, and because the big boys are coming after Bambu labs with their patent lawsuits and whatnot. There are clear risks in dealing with companies like Bambu.

Dealing with Prusa involves significantly less risk. This reduced risk has value. You can charge a bit more for Prusa products due to the reputation of the company.

Most people I know who own 3D printers would rather have done business with Prusa. But Prusa only had the MK4 on offer and were burning cash on, let's be frank, irrelevant vanity projects.

Yes, Prusa were very much asleep at the wheel. Or at least, they had some strategic lapses in judgement. Let's hope they understand their customer base better now. I'd be happy to be a bit patient with them if it means we can get something that performs like Bambu printers, but from Prusa.

I'll even be willing to pay perhaps as much as 20% more just because I trust Prusa more than Bambu.
Reminded me of this scene from IT Crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LLJFSBnS4
The issue is that those cities end up growing into the countryside. I like there is a big green barrier between Greater Manchester and Macclesfield.
He never loses his own money - he gets paid for licensing his name and brand and for his "expertise". It's the investors who get defrauded.
> Contrast ratios don’t go away in light mode. The contrast ratio of black-on-white is the same as white-on-black.

WCAG is known to be inaccurate for dark mode because contrast ratios do change when you switch the color order. See this improved way to measure contrast that takes this into account:

https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/APCAeasyIntro.htm...
If you ask 'Why?', you're a philosopher, and you're Essays
It's conflating a bunch of things.

Menial routine work for juniors has been eliminated or automated to the margins, that much is true. No office-boys and far fewer supermarket cashiers. For those with people skills, there's plenty of café work, but that's about it.

On the flip side though, the educational/academic landscape for the upper quartile of young adults is hugely more competitive. Nobody is making it to a Russell Group uni on cruise control, and getting top grades AND having a part time job AND hobbies and a social life isn't easy.

Then you have menial work that's actually fairly skilled. Social care, childcare and so on. That's not something a student is going to do for a couple of years on the way to something better.

And a shift, for various reasons, to the contracted-out agency model for cleaning. Mostly done by immigrants, but they work harder than most semi-retired Brits would be willing to. Even if they're less flexible than the old boy who'd fix a bad door or window as well as sweeping the floor, and have none of his loyalty.

UberEats on the other hand is taking the mick. A lot of their workers are undocumented, the self-employed contractor status allows the operator to avoid the normally stringent penalties for immigration law breaches. I don't know if they lobbied for the law to be that way, but it's a massive loophole. So this is illegal work and maybe shouldn't be conflated with legit immigration. How much it's a problem I'm not sure.. the actual numbers are quite small, but like the loudspeakers on the bus thing, it's a very visible breach of the norms and rules, so there's an argument that it's bad for society on that basis. And like I say, the operator is blatantly exploiting it, they can't be blind to what's going on. I'm pretty liberal on immigration, miss the positive contribution the former Eastern Bloc countries made prior to Brexit, but the whole food delivery sector is overdue a clean out.
Never had TikTok, but that's exactly what I thought when Youtube introduced Shorts and I found myself spending long sessions in them.

However, now I think it's the same infinite scroll we already had in twitter and reddit -- but instead of text and images, now it's just videos.

At the beginning the content was really dumb and bad, but after some time it became way better. Now my feed is basically cooking recipes, chemistry experiments, interesting physics facts, bits from my favorite comedians, etc. Maybe Youtube learned my tastes, or maybe the content creators learned how to exploit better the platform. Either way I'd say I'm happy with the result now.

I still think some people are getting brainwashed by certain content, but in the same way as they were getting brainwashed in twitter and reddit.
PCIe group releases draft spec for PCIe 7.0 – full release expected in 2025
15 minutes videos presenting the Janus cosmological model.

There's a cool computational experiment to be done : making a particles system which creates galaxies, simply by allowing the mass of particles to be negative (the attractive Newton's force Gm1m2/d² would become repulsive only when particles are of opposite signs.)

An AI might be able to code this faster than a human...
When food delivery apps arrive, everyone puts on weight
mx linux i like
Looks overly complicated.
>> Ubuntu is better than Microsoft 95

Wow, incredible progress in just 30 years!
That's a boring, played-out stereotype that wasn't even true 30 years ago, let alone now. If you've never set foot in a UK supermarket I could see you perhaps still languishing under this delusion.
> The speed run of the French engineer is to be admitted to a good engineering school, to be recruited on diploma in a large state body, to spend 3-5 years there with a low salary but great responsibility, to be recruited by a Swiss or American company, profit.

Your comment is on point, though I’d slightly adjust the part about French engineers career goal. From my experience, many French engineering peers were not even aware that companies in France (Big Tech or Fortune 500) could offer six-figure salaries. They also often have never heard of leetcode/system design/behavioral interviews. They assume their career trajectory depends almost entirely on the ranking/prestige of their engineering school (which is true for french companies), but in practice, most U.S. recruiters/companies don’t even know what a French engineering school is. A bachelor/master degree and a good grind on leetcode is enough for them.

For most students I studied with, the dream is to secure a 45K~50k salary right after graduation, and target 80k as an end-of-career goal, by following this path:

-Attend a top engineering school.

-Join a CAC40 company as a software engineer.

-Transition into management after 10–15 years.
Completely wrong on the root causes. Britain used to have a large hardware industry, where these people would actually get to do proper engineering.

The difference between Germany and Britain is that Germany still has large, successful and innovative hardware companies and it still has decent engineering jobs. Britain has lost them, together with the companies which once offered them.

But these jobs didn't vanish into thin air, they vanished to India and China, which now control the companies making "British" cars (MG, Lotus, Jaguar, Landrover, etc.).

There is the delusion in many Western people that e.g. China just can not do proper engineering and that outsourcing jobs there will not work. This is false. Most engineering jobs people do can be done just as well by people on the other side of the world for half the pay. The only reason you get paid twice the money for the same thing is institutional inertia, a company can not move it's development all at once to there other side of the world, so there need to be people locally to do engineering, even if it is more expensive. This is not something which will remain true forever.

These Hardware jobs are paid terribly because they well paid for the global market rate.

It is not geography, or lack of innovation or VCs. It is outsourcing.
Senior doctors are paid OK actually. Consultants are paid between 105-140k [1] with a big pension contribution too. That's not Goldman pay, but also quite secure and a big pension contribution from the employer which isn't included in the salaey. Also scope for very nice NHS/private combo. Also at this point, to have any medical care in the UK, you basically need to know a doctor...

Now, sure, that salary might be too low, and working for the NHS seems like hell but it would seem the money isn't the main obstacle. Maybe not right now for 2 years ago that was a very good pay.

There are other pay-related issues. Marginal tax between 100 and 150 or so is incredibly high, around 60-70%. This is because many nasty things kick in there. Tax free allowance shrinking for example. Doctors are double screwed in some cases, as by law they have to contribute a lot of their salary to pension, and in this threshold often exceed their allowance - which is a real kick in the nuts, seeing how they can't reduce it, and anyway, pension saving should always be seen favourably in a place like UK. These are by the way some of the reasons for doctor shortages in the UK, senior doctors have little incentive to work harder, many cut their hours with little difference to their net pay.

But these aren't strictly linked to their headline salary.

[1] https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
So like I said originally these jobs are few and far between. The point is that in the UK the salaries are much lower than those in the US and this is across all experience ranges.
Now I need to get a physical VT 330 (for the graphics).

I'm using an emulated MAME vt240 for reference (I promised I'd add Tektronix support to VTE)
> only conditional 'skipping' of instructions.

Something you have to consider if you want short fixed length opcodes. I guess you could call it "Macro Op Fission."
Author hasn't been to SW London on a sunny weekend then. £5K bikes strapped to the top of £70K cars as far as the eye can see.
> the large majority of laissez-faire capitalists still want a government

That may be true, but even a majority doesn't make it true that "Laissez faire capitalists still want a government". You'd have to prepend a "most".

> anarcho-capitalism, not laissez-faire capitalism

All anarcho-capitalists are laissez-faire capitalists, only not all laissez-faire capitalists are anarcho-capitalists.

> My observation is that DRM is essentially independent of copyright or intellectual property

You say "DRM is a technological means to enforce private control independent of the (limited) legal monopoly from copyright. It's legally enforced by the DMCA".

I say "Without government force to back it up, who would care?". The DMCA - Digital Millenium Copyright Act - is a market intervention designed to produce artificial scarcity where naturally there would be none, in order to generate money for government cronies.
in LA, it’s 45-60+ minutes to drive anywhere. work if you’re lucky. groceries. gym. social activities.

I’ve had 3 hour commutes in Chicago suburbs too.

Austin and the Bay Area are awful too. Did all of them.

Now I live in a town where it’s no more than 15 minutes to anything.
I usually create a PDF of the docs and add that to the LLM , works quite well.
>Because if you wanted to enforce that kind of protectionism you would still do it under the guise of privacy or security. Meaning you would simply impose such laws that would make it impossible for TikTok to operate, while at the same time being good for privacy.

Well that's exactly what happened. Except it's just a pretense that it's about security or privacy, which is a very easy thing to do.
Ask HN: Does the constant 'AI' hail also hurt your mojo?
As likely many of you, i love being an engineer.

Lifelong learning may sound like torture for many in different fields, for me it was always a great outlook for the future and a reassuring promise of never getting bored again. (I think i was not genuinely bored since 20 years.)

I love 1) thinking and learning about, 2) planning and 3) tinkering on / implementing solutions for problems with technology.
Doing this somewhat successfully, kept up my motivation and passion.

But since the LLM hype and the writing on the ever closer coming wall, saying that most of my skills will be obsolete in the near future somewhat cripples this mentality. I'm not as excited anymore and often stop at 2), because i tell myself: "And in 2 years some MBA will push a button to come up with a much better solution, skipping all the work i put into building up my mental models."

I know that this ironically aligns with the overall goal of technology, but why me? :)

I can imagine, that some of you are also struggling with this and would be happy to hear your thoughts or coping strategies.

My current coping strategy is to think, that i can still learn about how nature and things work, till the end of my days, but the active part of solving problems is missing.
Free market capitalism doesn't really exist. The baker is the only baker in town, and could choose to increase prices and become filthy-rich (but doesn't, because he's a nice person). There are government regulations preventing me from setting up my own bakery without jumping through hoops – which is just as well, because if I could set up a bakery, I'd be selling people flavoured mud, sawdust, and plaster dust (zero-calorie bread: tastes just like the real thing!).

Mutually-beneficial transactions are a good description of what's happening, but that's not a description we can use to do systems-level thinking, because it's not what's "really" going on.
This. And the smart one is cheaper because it's a collection device for data on you that they can sell.
Why everyone wants to get rid of software engineers?
Loved the one in Kansas City! There are some great, thematically-similar museums in other countries as well, if you ever find yourself there:

- the Vasa in Stockholm, Sweden is a ship dredged from the harbor and stabilized, sank in 1628

- the Mary Rose in Portsmouth, England is a Tudor ship that sank in 1545 that was raised and stabilized

In both cases a ton of work was done to stabilize and preserve the remains of the ships that is, imo, almost more interesting than the ship itself.
If banning Tik Tok is an easy political stunt then why has this spawned a couple several thousand comment posts in the last 48 hours alone?
I use Github Actions as a fertile testing playground to work out how to do things locally.

For example, if you've ever had to wade into the codesigning/notarization quagmire, observing the methods projects use with Github Actions to do it, can teach you a lot about how to do things, locally.
> You can't run AWS lambda or DyanmoDB locally too (well you can but it's a hassle). So by that logic, we shouldn't use them at all.

No, applying the logic to something like Lambda would mean implementing handlers like:

function handle(lambdaRequest, lambdaContext) {
return myFunction(
stuffExtractedFromLambdaRequest(lambdaRequest),
stuffExtractedFromLambdaContext(lambdaContext)
);
}

Then there's no need to go through the hassle of running Lambda functions locally; since we can just run `myFunction` locally instead.

Dynamo isn't the same, since it's just a service/API that we call; we don't implement its logic, like we do for CI tasks, Lambda functions, etc.

Whilst you're right that it's a hassle to run DynamoDB locally (although not too bad, in my experience); that's also not necessary. It's fine to run code locally which talks to a remote DynamoDB; just set up the credentials appropriately.
I see this misconception a lot for resigning France.

First, there are some "protected classes" of resigning that allow you to be eligible for unemployment right after you resign, for example: moving to follow your spouse, resigning less than 3 months after having been laid off, going back to study or... creating a company!![1] :).

Second, you are entitled to unemployment benefits even if you resign without "a good reason". The issue is that you can only request your benefits 4 months after having resigned. This leads to many people believing that you just do not get anything if you resign; because who wants to eat the 4 months of no income?

This 4 months waiting period is not advertised at all, and my complotist self believes it might be on purpose; if you don't know about it and don't request it, that's less money for the government to spend :^).

[1] Conditions apply (having worked uninterrupted for the last 5 years)
Never had such problems.

That said, my current laptop came with Linux preinstalled so I knew I would not have hardware issues.

I would also rather have one off issues to install than unpredictable issues later on. Subjective preference, of course. I have had lots of issues with Android. Never at the start, but with app upgrades.
Vaclav Havel has a few things to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless
Xfce (gtk really) has issues with fractional scaling, afaik. I can’t use neither 1x nor 2x on my 27”/1440p display.
It's not a surprise that EU countries perform similarly as they have to abide by the same laws and therefore are all restricted in the same ways. For example EU drone regulations prohibit the flying of autonomous drones therefore killing innovation in that area.
'The Brutalist' Criticised for Its Use of AI
I guess I am in the minority and being contrarian again.

I don't have a problem with lock down, repair etc. At least not with the current iteration of computing.

While they are bad, these lock down means less competitions. And having less competition means less choices, etc, all of that leads to my final point which in my view is perhaps the most important, these company create crap products, software and services.

If they had continue to innovate and push I would have less of a problem. Look at Microsoft, and now to a less extend Apple as well. In the pursuit of more revenue they now make crap.

Therefore the more personal computing in my view isn't the benefits listed. It is to keep the company itself honest. To make them aware they need to innovate. To give a damn, to make something better.
Oh yeah "immigration". Can't wait for the immigration discourse in 10 years time, when people all over the world, rich and poor, christian, muslim and jew, white and black, are being displaced because they're homes are literally uninhabitable because the frequency of out of control weather events has gone up.

Will you allow "climate refugees" into your neighbourhood? Will you be a climate refugee yourself?