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I game using Steam on Pop_OS![1] with a home-built AMD machine and, while I know there are some background processes (Proton) that run to establish and maintain a compatibility layer, it's nearly seamless to me as a user. The most I really see is a progress bar that appears before some games where Vulcan shaders have to be pre-rendered. In my experience everything needed for Windows-native games to run on Linux is handled automatically, without any configuration, runtime flags, or anything else.

Early on I consulted ProtonDB to see if my games would run, but honestly now I don't even look at it any more. While YMMV depending on the games you play, I haven't encountered really any major bugs and zero crashes. The most I found was some strange shadow texture rendering artifacting in Baldur's Gate 3, but it was contained to a particular part of a particular map.

A decade ago it was kind of rough, but now? I am never going back to Windows for gaming. Playing games on Linux is light-years better than what it used to be. If you're curious but haven't tried it because you had bad experiences in the past, I'd encourage anyone to give it another go.

1: https://system76.com/pop/

I think your company is PSE, correct?

I try to be in bed by 9pm and up by ~4:30am most days, including weekends. If I sleep in on weekends too much, it ruins my schedule for the following week and I feel exceptionally tired on Mondays.

(Late 20s, work a 7-3 as an engineer, married but no kids. Really like this schedule.)

I agree with your opposition to this development with respect to people moved per unit of energy consumed. I think development funds are much better spent on improving the efficiency, reliability, and capacity of mass transit systems for large and crowded urban areas. However, that's not really fodder for sexy startup material.

Additionally, if these are widely adopted, I can imagine a highly-crowded Class G (or D, if near an airport -- and how do you establish two-way comms between ATC and an autonomous flying taxi?) airspace ending badly for passengers or bystanders in crowded metropolitan areas. This may be why KittyHawk has done their R&D in New Zealand, rather than in the US under FAA regulations.

there's also this gem: "I'm not a professional photographer. I'm merely a hobbyist."

o_O

indeed; for those who may not be familiar, see 'behavioral economics' [0] for the ways that known quirks in human reasoning can be used to game consumers. don't buy a house without learning about it.

there are two great books I recommend for those interested: predictably irrational [1] and the upside of irrationality [2]. personally, I think the first is better than the second as a layman's introduction to it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expand...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benef...

the roads in and around the cleveland metro area have high traffic loads; undergo long periods of fluctuating cold temperatures during the winter; and get nailed periodically by lake-effect snow and ice.

as such, they experience lots of freezing and thawing, experience high traffic from lots of tractor trailers and snow plows, and get coated with de-icing materials (salt, or more recently sand-based grit in some areas). synergistically, these conditions are extremely rough on paved roads, so potholes are ubiquitous and painful.

i would agree here. both of my parents and the wife have just as much time logged on their full-updated 5s' as well and, save for foreseeable decrements in battery performance, they think their system performance is generally indistinguishable from new.

at a $700 price point for two years of os updates and three years of security updates, it seems runner-up to iphones with four year (or more) timelines on os updates, maybe longer for security updates, for a comparable price point.

+1 here too for a Linux version. this might also help you expand to markets like academia, where vector-based graphics are desirable and often used in paper and technical document creation, and where Linux is frequently used as well.

this is one the only articles i've ever read where "honking" is used in a serious capacity as an adjective.

I think what's needed is a strategy for making actual data analysis an easier and more visible component of the peer-review and publishing process. Submissions are typically sent to three people for review, and the decision to accept or reject is made based on the feedback or criticism given. If the reviewers are busy, overworked professors, they may not have the time to really perform a deep dive into the data and conduct an independent analysis. Furthermore, it's likely these submissions don't include enough data for a proper statistical review.

This is the 21st century, where most if not all reputable journals have an online presence and submission portal. It would be great if authors had to upload their anonymized data sets in a common format (.csv?) that can easily be imported into statistical analysis packages (ex: Minitab, read into R, etc). Journals provide analysis and test recommendations, reviewers run the tests, upload their independent analysis results as part of the review process. The idea here is to produce something like an auditable paper trail.

There has to be some sort of solution for this problem, especially in 2017. Hiding behind shitty (or worse, deceitful) data analysis shouldn't be possible.

take it for what it's worth, but according to this bbc article published in 2014...

> "The latest US spy satellites, in comparison, are reported to be able to pick out objects less than 10cm (4 inches) across."

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140211-inside-the-google-e...

for those of you so inclined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping

There really should be a legend on here:

1) There are boxes of two different colors here, light green versus yellow. I read the Iliad in high school, so I forget if there are actual differences that the creator was attempting to codify. I shouldn't have to look it up, good information design should make that apparent to the unfamiliar viewer.

2) I assume the crosses are meant to signify that the character died at some point? If that's true, perhaps another signifier would be more appropriate, since that seems to the uninitiated to be associated with the death of a Christian person. Since this was written sometime beyond 1,000 B.C.E., I'm going to say that those people weren't Christians.

Would love for someone with the time/ability to edit that map to make these updates.

From TFA:

> We test individually each one of the 150 VPN apps under consideration.

> Two people executed a total of 5,340 tests manually for three months and connected to all end-points mentioned in the GUI of a given VPN app.

Okay, that's brilliant, but I'd love to see the actual data as well. Even if it's impractical to include the data in an appendix (page number limitations in the published work, et cetera), hosting it online and linking to it in the article would be great.

I'm a scientist and geek. Show me the data!

Reads article about the identity of Shakespeare, still doesn't know the identity of Shakespeare.

But seriously, if you need a tl;dr search for "It's at this point," read that paragraph, and note that what she found was that Shakespeare was a real man, not the pen name of someone else.

That's the discovery. Save yourself 20mins of reading a poorly-written article.

[EDIT: spelling.]

Agreed, also anecdotally. I'm a sub-30 with a dedicated workspace, and I find that it mentally partitions leisure from work--something I find important while working in a space that's usually devoted to leisure.

I would be interested to hear from others here who do not maintain this distinction yet also successfully work from home. What strategies do you employ for maintaining this separation despite the "death of the home office"?

While the linked explanation makes obvious parallels between the lambda calculus and other programming languages, I think Rojas is even yet more accessible:

http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf

Asked and answered decades ago[0,1].

[0]: https://people.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncer... [1]: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/vetta/CS764.dir/bounded.pdf

Depending on which version of Android you're running, you may be pleasantly surprised. Manually encrypted an HTC One m9 (Lollipop) and found no noticeable performance decrement, and now with it enabled by default in Marshmallow it's unnoticeable.

For Mac, FileVault2. For Debian, LUKS full-disk.

It's tangential, but while on the topic of securing lost laptops, you should also password-protect GRUB and BIOS. Ideally, all three will use different passwords that are relatively long. Properly securing these elements in addition to having full-disk encryption will make your lost laptop useless to the would-be thieves.