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Good point. The market segment of keeping companies on MS platforms is one I had not considered. That will certainly contribute to Linux not gaining a marketshare, and possibly fragment the overall Linux developers' ecosystem.

They can embrace Linux, but they can't extend it in any meaningful way. By which I mean they can't ever create a Microsoft brand of packaged Linux. The Linux marketshare is already flooded with distros, and any software that earns revenue running on Linux runs on all the major distros more or less equally well. What could Microsoft create for which Microsoft Linux would be an option so compelling that companies would pay money to buy Microsoft Linux?

For example, MS could create a whole new graphical alternative to X and Wayland that works better than them both. Their challenge for capitalizing on that would be to create a software that works only somewhat well on X or Wayland, but works perfectly on MS Linux. I predict the Linux crowd will not use it. At best, they'll end up providing an alternative for the benefit of MS aficionados.

Payload size would be very helpful, but they don't need that to shortlist candidates. Correlating the timestamps of when the comment appeared on HN and when the domain name was accessed from an internal IP may be enough, subject to luck. Considering that Google is already tracking (crawling) the entire web for its core business, adding a few tweaks should not make much of a difference to their system load.

I don't work for Google. My company has strict policies to discourage employees talking to the public about internal affairs. That was the case with my previous two employers too. Frankly, it makes sense from their POV to not have their dirty laundry made public. And I take similar precautions as a matter of self-preservation anyway. I don't want anything I write here to be used against me either by my current employer or any of my future employers.

Google could be keeping track of which of their internal IPs visited which HN pages, etc.

Facebook is probably experimenting with that... except for humans. Explains why Zuckerberg would put tape over his own computers' cameras.

This needs a multipronged approach. Regulations, where regulations work, consumer advocacy where consumer advocacy works, plant-based meat emulations where emulations work, and so on. Honestly though, I'm quite pessimistic that this problem will be solved in the next 50 years. As China and India have become more affluent, their meat consumption has only increased, just the way it happened in the west. And I know from looking around that even educated people here don't care how their meat was farmed.

It still seems pretty stressed. I only wanted to see some examples; I did not want to enter fresh sentences myself. If you could add a section to your website to show previous queries and results across all simulations, that might be good enough for most visitors.

I'm Indian, and have lived in various parts of India for years at a time. I have never come across anyone whose name was Pajit. I've only ever seen "Pajit" because of racist trolls online.

I guess this is the source of all the insider jokes that people have been making for the past couple of days.

> Section 508 requires your PDF to be accessible to users of assistive technology—like screen readers or Braille displays.

Have people filed official complaints about this? I think once the complaint is official (instead of tweets) the department is obligated to respond to it.

It looks like a native Breeze themed KDE application. If I did not know I was on the Nana website, I would have assumed it's all Breeze.

I don't understand what you're asking. Vaccines are recommended because that's usually the best course of action. That doesn't mean that vaccines will work 100% of the time... if that's what you were asking. Safety...? We're not talking about experimental vaccines whose safety is not well understood. If you have specific allergies or specific medical conditions, I'm sure your doctor would either recommend an alternative that does not have that allergen or suggest some other course of action.

No doctor says "everyone should take all vaccines NOW". More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html

I don't know what to make of MiFit copying all such information. I had assumed they copy it to show notifications on the watch. Does Lumen reveal that Xiaomi is sending that data to their own servers?

Nothing in medicine is as straightforward as that. Most cancer treatments end up wiping out or suppressing many different kinds of cells, and a temporary suppression of white blood cells is considered an acceptable side effect. AIDS will have to be cured. A strong immune system often attacks donor organ cells, so the immune system is intentionally weakened. We may eventually develop solutions for all three issues, but I don't expect it to happen in our lifetimes. Heck, I predict we'll be cloning body parts in labs to obviate the need for anti-rejection meds long before we learn to fine-tune our immune response.

Doesn't matter if they were previously immunized. A compromised immune system can wipe out previous immunity.

Cancer patients, AIDS patients, organ recipients all have compromised immune systems. They'd all be at risk because of irrational choices their colleagues made.

Ideally, all researchers would upload their works to an open access repository. If that were already happening, there would be no need for a country-specific arxiv. An Indian arxiv may motivate people in the Indian research ecosystem to upload their works as a matter of national pride. I may not sympathize with the motivation, but as long as the papers are freely accessible, I have no reason to complain.

It is possible with VMPK, and some people have shown they can play great music on it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfSF_RpxjI) but I don't know how hard it is to get to a stage where we can be productive. It would be helpful if you have an NKRO keyboard.

How do you use a computer keyboard? Is it via VMPK? Could you please share your keymaps?

> Perhaps we have lots of non-CS-graduates here?

I think so. I'm an EE.

If for some reason, we had as many horse riders as drivers, none of that would be true. Horses would be as much a part of modern industry as chicken and cattle already are. IOW, there would be huge enterprises to ensure only good genes went into new horses, enterprises to ensure a steady supply of fodder to keep the horses of megacities fed, proportionately larger sewage system, and so on.

I tried a copy-paste from KCharSelect, but it doesn't work.

> The mostly IT folks you will meet in west (or on call support call) are never from this caste

And how the heck do you know this? With very few exceptions, I don't know the caste of most of my colleagues. FYI, the government already has enforced quotas in schools, colleges, and government jobs for most of the traditionally "backward" castes. In private industry, we people don't go around announcing our castes to colleagues, suppliers, or customers, and no one cares.

India is uncannily similar to Latin America in that way. AFAIK, Indians haven't yet dared to storm police stations and extract prisoners for a lynching. Usually WhatsApp forwards lead to lynchings before the police are even aware of anything weird going on.

The police are distrusted here, often, with good reason. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-bengaluru-students...

Neither I nor the paper I cited use the phrase "Junk DNA".

> The non-coding genome is a large part of what causes us to look different from a mouse or a fruit-fly.

Now that's just fantasy. There have been a lot of changes since our common ancestors with mice and fruit flies. We are all animals and obviously would share genes that perform analogous functions -- like common genes for controlling wing shapes and organ shapes. But would you like to point me to evidence in the human DNA that codes for fruit fly wings? And what role do you think having virus DNA in our genome plays in our development?

DNA encodes information. Information theory does play a role. But as mannykannot pointed out, the topic of the conversation is something else.

As far as the purpose of DNA is to tell the rest of the cell what proteins to synthesize, over 85% percent of our DNA is never translated to protein [1]. But leave alone our knowledge of DNA, biology rarely works in a manner that's best suited for functional efficiency. For examples, look at how the vagus nerve evolved, or look at vestigial organs. The question for the gene is rarely "is this the most efficient way of doing things?" Rather, it is "is this strategy good enough for me (and my descendants) to pass on my genes?"

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205562/

That is equally true (or false) of many other kinds religious teaching. I haven't reconfirmed it just now, but I'm pretty sure the bible and the quran promise similar punishments for something as heinous as murdering an innocent or as harmless as blasphemy.

I agree with your comment about scaling, but I think you have underestimated the firmware deployment figures.

Ultimately, whatever we write that goes into firmware is hidden from the customer. The customer pays a price per unit, and other hardware vendors are competing against your product. This competition keeps the overall cost low. Except at the very top level like Intel or Samsung, semiconductor manufacturers seem to be fighting one financial crisis after another.

Competition does not work like that in Software. The products (even in the same domain) are all too different from each other, so though they may be competitors, they are rarely in direct competition.

> and the satisfaction of being proved right in his predictions of disaster.

Any brief accounts of what his predictions were? I don't want to read The Gulag Archipelago. Something I could read, watch or listen to in 30 minutes would be ideal.

I have come across a few accounts of how the USSR collapsed. Some of them mentioned Solzhenitsyn briefly. As I recall, the major factors were political scheming and manipulation, followed by opposition of dissent, followed by opening up of the press, which finally showed the citizens how bad they really had it there. Gorbachev tried various measures to handle the situation, but they all proved ineffective. That's the version I know.

Solzhenitsyn may have been a great writer. But as far as I know, his role in the collapse of the USSR was minor. The end result would have followed pretty much the same timeline.

This is the best short explanation I have come across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqt3U48MFcY

> And they’re just two of the many parrots in the world who have surprised us with their intelligence, skills and longevity.

About said longevity, it was my understanding that parrots (most birds?) commonly get arthritis in their wings as they age. This is a fatal condition to a flying lifestyle. Given that, is their longevity in captivity really a surprise?