CountSessine

There's no pot of gold in most cases. But I still think there's a good case for unionization.

But I can tell you from experience - it's definitely not "one lazy guy" - it becomes endemic because the process for dismissal becomes so costly. It's extremely demoralizing working alongside people who are "working the system" and are lazy as fcuk. It's better to just leave.

The parent comment simply makes the point that people vote with their own interests in mind, but say otherwise as long as it doesn’t cost them. We don’t just “tolerate” performance art politics - we actively encourage and vote for it because the alternatives are expensive and unpalatable.

It’s much more comfortable to “blame profits” or “blame campaign financing” or blame Jeff Bezos or blame capitalism than to acknowledge that in a city that maximizes global utility and wellness, you might not have the right to keep poor people from living near you.

Granted, writing an RPM is a special kind of hell, but at least you don’t have to package everything with your program. But actually you can still do that - I’ve done that plenty of times in embedded. You can always ship your program with its dependant libraries the way you always have to on Windows. In fact it’s a lot easier because most 3rd party libraries were originally coded on Linux and build more sanely on Linux. And RPATHs are pretty easy to figure out.

Linux gives you options.

And then Microsoft spent the next 20 years explaining/complaining to everyone (and this includes Chen) why they couldn’t make UTF-8 a code page because it would mean revalidating all of those -A functions for 4-byte characters when they were originally intended for only 3-bytes?

2. I’m pretty that I’ve got it wrong and it was Sasser, not Blaster.

So hopefully ReactOS, while implementing Win2k, includes the XPSP2 mitigations?

- The xps 17 "feels" more solid and less creaky. It's probably less survivable, but it feels like a higher-quality machine

- The wifi seems great, but lately I've been having problems with the microphone. It just stopped working in Windows a week ago, presumably after an update?

- The keyboard isn't quite as good as the thinkpad, but the thinkpad extreme's keyboard isn't nearly as good as the keyboard in my old thinkpad t520. Lenovo are hell-bent on gimping their keyboards until they're no better than anyone else's, and reviews suggest that they've finally succeeded with the x1 extreme gen 4. The xps 17 keyboard is nice, but I notice a squeaking noise from the enter and right shift keys when I type.

- The xps 17's battery life is a lot better. My thinkpad's battery life was puzzlingly bad, even under windows.

My understanding is that the noise model is very different - that LTE/ofdm are very good at getting around radio noise by-frequency - ie a bunch of interference at a particular frequency. But 3G/umts/cdma was very good at dealing with multi-path distortion because of the whole chip-code-orthogonality property and the fact that the radio would have multiple time-shifted taps on the antenna. That would mean that in theory LTE would be better at dealing with persistent environmental noise, but 3G would be better in a city where the phone is receiving that same signal but reflected against buildings and slightly time-shifted.

I doubt this makes any difference in your case - it's probably just that 3G is typically on 850MHz and that LTE is probably on a higher frequency like 2300MHz which wouldn't propagate as well.

Yeah this is what I would think. My understanding is that in North America a lot of plum 800MHz bands are currently occupied by 3G umts.

edit - yes, both Verizon and AT&T are dedicating a single band of 850MHz spectrum for umts. So this would let them move that to 4G or 5G.

The thinkpad was pretty good, and wayland on fedora worked beautifully (I only used integrated graphics in linux, didn't even try to get the discrete gpu working). The one thing that really didn't work in linux was the fingerprint scanner - it would fail about 7/8 times I used it, which is really too bad because fedora has really nice fingerprint integration with sudo.

Also, something seemed to be a bit funny about it's displayport implementation - when it was connected to my DP monitor and went to sleep, the monitor would wake it back up again almost instantly and it would get into this weird back-and-forth between sleep mode and waking. That happened in both linux and windows. This doesn't happen with my new xps.

Otherwise it was pretty smooth sailing. It was a well-built computer with a nice keyboard. I might get another thinkpad at some point, but I'm loving this super-compact 17" 16:10 display on the xps.

And good luck even getting to that point. If you have a family, you'll have to live without them for upwards of 10 years while you work alone in the US waiting for your number to come up in the lottery.

I've actually heard good things about the AU system too - apparently Canada considers AU&NZ their biggest competition in attracting immigrants.

Go all public and expand Medicare and move to a single-payer system like Canada and the UK. Or go all private by killing Medicare altogether, fixing Medicaid as a public backstop, and heavily regulating pricing and doctors' salaries and insurance premiums like Germany and Switzerland. But anything is more humane than the weird mix the US has come up with.

Single-function knobs should be mandatory for anything you might need to reach for while you’re driving, but seriously - what’s with the physical control fetish?

Not really - remember that Wayland is mostly just doing things the way every other OS (ios, mac, android, windows) does them - passing around raster buffers to user-processes.

Most of the complaints have to do with the politics behind Gnome+GTK, KDE+Qt, and FreeDesktop. It was always ridiculous to have all of these settings stored in and managed by X11 - no other OS manages user shortcut and keyboard settings this way. When you take away X11, presumably you'd want to take away the bad separation-of-concerns as well, right? So it doesn't make sense for Wayland to be managing these things, right?

But then someone else needs to pick up the ball. The fact that everyone is writing their own compositor is just another symptom of the ridiculous project-fragmentation that has always afflicted desktop linux. They could have cooperated and made a common compositor, but everyone had to build their own.

Where unionization works well, it's been because the government regulated to create competitive unions. In Germany, once a company unionizes, the union has special rights and privileges within the company, including access to the company's books and executive meetings. And things like union-busting are illegal. There's a lot of legislation in place to prevent the sort of abuses that North America has always seen with "company unions". But they can't join together with workers at other companies to form industrial labour monopolies either, so you still get market competition.

Don't get me wrong - I think everyone does better with union negotiations (even managers to some extent - at least with a union contract, everyone's expectations are clear). But it definitely pays to be represented there at the negotiating table. It's a challenge to convince the younger workers to take an interest in this.

Settings -> AppleID -> Subscriptions?

It’s on your phone? You don’t have to use iTunes at all? I wouldn’t have even thought to use iTunes? Unsubscribing is the easiest thing in the world - much easier than PayPal. It’s right there in the Settings app.