ObscureScience

This one was recently up in HN: https://dumbermini.com/

Yeah, why should it not be desireble to give them access to the good properties of such devices and the internet?

I guess it could disable the killswitch

"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.

To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.

Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.

I read it as the latter. With all the bots out there running their own blogs and making commits to projects that was the context I assumed. It reminded me of this one https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

You mean point of local maximum in the mass field?

I don't get it. Why should not tickets be submitted for when a new feature worsen the usability of the product?

I didn't read malice into the post, just using a tongue-in-cheek tone.

My reading was "letting them know doing bad choices will not quitely be accepted".

But I may ofcourse read something into it that wasn't meant.

The analogy would be mandatory inspections of certain components or manufacturing processes to see that rules and specs are followed while assembling.

This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage. But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.

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How do you think Firefox is making money, since it has no payed features? Hint: it has Google search as the default search engine.

While it's hard to know what comes of it, there is also https://ladybird.org/ to challenge to monopoly of Blink.

I don't believe that is true (but I am certainly outside of my expertise). As far as I understand it, sex chromosomes (specifically the Y chromosome) are responsible for genitalia differentiation, but the relevant genes of the chromosome needs to be expressed for it to happen. Whether it's the Y chromosome itself that is inactive, or genes on the other chromosomes that supress it I have no clue about.

In your Windows vs. Linux example, Linux just doesn't do a lot of things very well on the UI/UX side of things (e.g., window management, driver support, an out of the box experience).

That judgement confuses me a lot. Window management, drivers and out of the box experience has been much better in Linux for the last 10 years in my experience. Sure, there are some companies that don't ship drivers for Linux or the configuration software is not fully fledged. Window management has almost always been better in Linux, but of course depends on the WM. Windows innovated one nice feature in Vista (aero snap) which most desktop environments has implemented since.

If you install Fedora, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, what are you lacking from that out of the box experience? Generally no driver installation needed, and no cleaning up of bloatware.

I don't see any relation. Pigz is a multithreaded reimplenentation of gzip (drop in replacement)

That table is unfortunately quite old. I can't personally say what have changed, but it is hard to put much confidence in the relevance of the information.

Anyone knows if the Starlet co-processor is accessible from NetBSD?

This one was pretty reasonable: "The perils of your eyelashes torture my libido into a state of crass belief in Roman Catholicism"

Electrical safety -> not destroying your GPU does seem like something sellable.

It could probably be spinned into some performance pitch if you really want to.

There are actually cross play solutions such as https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser, there are some limitation, but not too many. Basically disabling the features that only exists in one version.

I was an early user of Keybase, and at one point they started promoting this crypto currency, including giving away some starting capital. I understand it as a serious project for payments, rather than a cash grab for early adopters. After years of stable value (not even following inflation) it recently shot up in value on trading markets (Trump effect?). However it now seems to be going back down again.

What are your thoughts on this specific currency. Is it worth "betting on" (not specifically trading, but buying as a well functioning payment resource)?

Cool, I was thinking about the other way around, using an analog computer to build synthesizers.

Yeah almond potatoes should not be parboiled in my opinion. I prefer to halve them (not smaller/slimmer pieces).

I notice that many of the tools (at least in the repos linked) seem to have stopped development since a couple of years.

As some of these are wrappers for tools or use APIs that could mean that they do not work any more, or without special configuration. Or that things are stable, and the tools are "done".

What I have mainly have been looking for in the free software ecosystem is a good tool to work with PDF tagging/structure/element attributes.

At work I really have only been able to do the work I need on random PDFs with Adobe Acrobat. It seems strange that this is the case as PDF is now an open standard.

It would be interesting to see this using median income or similar meassure rather than GDP per capita. Inequality by itself doesn't have to be a problem (depending on economic ideology) but if all purchasing power is restricted to a few ultra rich that should be relevant to the discussion of whether a country is rich.

I don't see how it would be different if the owner change, as long as the borrow takes precedence.

If the moved value still is not allowed to be read or mutated while borrowed elsewere I don't trivially see the issue.

My understanding of this is that he managed to hype the language with certain killer features. A lot of people were enthusiastic and invested alot of time in learning and building in it. Evan than "suddenly" said they wanted to take the language in another direction and dropped some of the core features and pricipals that drew people in. While perhaps a mischaracterization, it comes a cross as a kind of "bait and switch" or at least undependable.