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lunchables··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
I can't speak for everyone but I have a Windows 7 VM just for things like this. But I can say I don't think I've ever needed to use it. I run photoshop (cs5) in wine, although I could program get by with gimp I rarely do anything other than crop or rotate a photo. For Office I just use Google Docs or LibreOffice depending on the situation. I'd say 90% the former 10% the latter.
lunchables··on Quintillion CEO’s Promise to Wire the Arctic Was $1B Scam
Didn't Holmes found the company?
lunchables··on Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this
It's really just a non-issue. Flour could be compressed, but its not really in reality. The minor differences really don't matter much. Of course you can also sift it, which will not only help if it was somehow really heavily compressed but also breaks up clumps.
lunchables··on Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition
I've never tried MST on AMD so I cannot comment. But of course it goes without saying that by picking NVIDIA it won't be magical and trouble free for everyone.
lunchables··on Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
>I shudder to think of how much I'd have to add to make it even close to something like Eclipse.

It depends on what you use in Eclipse, really. But vim has plugins to do things like autocompletion, there's many ways to access console (:term), etc. It's all done through plugins, you just use whatever plugin manager to add them. It's very simple.

>I am hobbyist programmer and a parent, so I don't get a lot of time to do programming these days. When I do I don't like fiddling my half-baked tmux/vim setup. I just wanna write code. So I use IDEs.

Me too, but the day or two it took to get vim setup to function as an IDE also meant I had all the power that comes along with vim. For me it is well worth the time investment of a few hours for something I'll use for years and years and be more productive than using Eclipse. And allows me to go between my normal text editor and IDE and share all my keybindings and workflows.

I think a good trade off would be something like a vim plugin for Eclipse. PyCharm for example has IdeaVIM which is a plugin that brings a lot of the power of vim to that IDE.

I just couldn't give up all the power of vim just for the out-of-the-box IDE features like autocomplete when I can just add them to vim.

lunchables··on Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
Can't you argue the inverse as well? Cloudflare isn't sending EDNS Client Subnet to any other authoritative name servers, is anyone else having problems? Or are 99% of people working just fine without this optional EDNS information? So isn't it archive.is who is the 1% who isn't following the standard configuration? Which is to still resolve correctly even without the option EDNS information? Sure, it might not be the best possible answer for a client, but you can still return an answer?
lunchables··on Learning Vim incrementally (2010)
Really curious to hear why vim cannot replace an IDE or TextMate? Maybe it depends on your very specific use case? I certainly replaced my IDE(s) with vim and some plugins.

I'm a vim user, certainly one who was alive long after "good GUI editors." My first programming was done in Visual Basic over 20 years ago.

lunchables··on Intel slashes prices in face of AMD competition
>Nvidia's Linux support absolutely puts AMD to shame.

Huh? AMD "just works". NVIDIA requires a dance of (Fedora) DKMS kernel modules and binary blobs. What am I missing? I buy AMD just because it's been frictionless to get working, I don't mind if theres a small performance penalty I pay for it.

lunchables··on Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
Setup a seperate SSID called "DadDied" with a simple password, scrawl it onto the fridge door with a knife. Have this SSID give out standard ISP DNS. Bonus points if you setup the SSID on the ISP supplied router, bypassing all the equipment you installed behind it.
lunchables··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
How is that different on a tiling window manager? I would assume a smaller screen would be more apt to using a tiling window manager.

It automatically makes the window you're using take up 100% of the screen. You can also switch between tiling and a maximized view in pretty much every tiling wm. Also, there are usually multiple desktops (or even better, "tags" like in dwm) which allow you to easily switch between applications in any of the different tiling modes.

lunchables··on DigitalOcean block storage is down
The saying we always use is "If it is not in 3 places, it doesn't exist."

And another: "3 copies, at least one offsite"

lunchables··on DigitalOcean block storage is down
Another really good option is single packet authorization. Which, again, a little more complex than port knocking but also another step up in security.

https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/docs/SPA.html

lunchables··on People don’t want to commute; they just don’t want to miss out
Yes - it is absolutely insane:

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ca/sa...

(Note that is ~700 sq feet, not meters)

But, you also make literally twice as much money, so it easily offsets the extra rent.

lunchables··on Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run
It is actually growing rapidly in Japan. But I think one reason that smartphone usage in adults in Japan is lower than other developed countries is because of their aging population. Their birthrates have been so low, it is hard to offset an aging population who are living longer and are unlikely to adopt smartphones.
lunchables··on Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run
https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article...

"An information technology worker from Johnson County recently told The Star about the issue after he stumbled across hospital pager information while playing with an antenna, which he bought to get TV channels on his laptop computer. With a simple program, the antenna picks up radio signals that can be digitized.

Except instead of picking up local TV stations, he started seeing things like this, with the patient's and doctor's names included:

RQSTD RTM: (patient's name) 19 M Origin Unit: EDOF Admitting: (doctor's name) Level of Care: 1st Avail Medical Diagnosis: TONSILAR BLEED, ANEMIA, THROMBOCYTOPENIA

It was the personal patient data of a 19-year-old man, broadcast across the airwaves for anyone to read. And it was coming from a local hospital, which was sending the message to a doctor on a pager."

lunchables··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
>why anyone would want to spend time on tiling windows, it looks so tedious.

Weird, I always ask people the opposite. Why would you spend time manually positioning windows when the window manager can do it for you?

What is "tedious" about tiling window managers?

lunchables··on Apple is evaluating new keyboard mechanisms to make thinner MacBooks
I assume you mean WSL2, because I'm using LTSB and stuck on WSL and it's unusable garbage. Not that I've used WSL2 just heard that it is better.

On WSL (one? whatever) there is no raw socket access, zero. Cannot run something as simple as tcpdump. Plus the copy and pasting (CTRL-SHIFT-c/v) is incredibly annoying and inconsistent. Also the redraw in the terminal is really screwed up, half the time I try to go back to WSL and my terminal prompt is drawn in 3 different places on the screen.

lunchables··on CentOS Stream
>6 month release cycle of Fedora always felt awkwardly in-between, not having the stability of lts nor the continuity of rolling

I run both Arch and Fedora, and since I think around Fedora 28 I've found that the upgrades are painless enough that it hasn't been much of an issue. The recommendation years ago was to do a full re-install of Fedora (every 6 months!) which was kind of a hassle, but these days its very simple.

lunchables··on CentOS Stream
>I’ve appreciated RH putting in effort like Software Collections to bring more modern versions of tools

Then you are going to love Modularity and Application Streams:

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/15/rhel8-introduc...

lunchables··on My Talk at Microsoft
That's my problem with "Microsoft [heart] Linux" - there was never any apology. They attacked linux and open source for years and now suddenly they want to be best friends.

I need to see some real contrition and proof that they understand all the things they did were wrong so I can be convinced they won't repeat the same behavior. Otherwise it just sounds like an abusive partner begging you to take them back.

lunchables··on Tmux Tutorial
What features specifically are in screen that aren't in tmux?
lunchables··on Tmux Tutorial
If you've used screen for 10 years, learning tmux will take about 10 minutes. There's also some handy plugins: https://github.com/tmux-plugins

Really, if screen works for you, tmux isn't going to change your life. And I say this as someone who used screen for at least 10 years before switching to tmux.

lunchables··on Tmux Tutorial
I use git and GNU stow. ssh in, clone the repo, stow tmux. Takes ~10 seconds on a new host. Also includes all the other dot files I use (bash, vim, etc).
lunchables··on Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps
>Its less of an eyesore being in the center of the device instead of the top left corner.

I genuinely have no idea what the back of my phone looks like. All I'm concerned with is the quality of the photos it takes.

lunchables··on Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies
I'd rather tariff external corn than subsidize internal corn. That would mean we make enough to support ourselves but don't pay tax dollars to support someone selling their corn to other countries.
lunchables··on 200k people applied for jobs at Amazon in a single week
They announced they were hiring 30,000 people. Having even 10 people apple for 1 job isn't highly unusual. So having 200k apply for 30k jobs doesn't seem odd. Plus because its a big announcement from a huge company, it will draw in far more than the usual random job ad on monster.com. I don't see anything surprising about this. One of the largest companies on earth had a huge hiring blitz and it brought in applicants from all over the country (and world, probably).
lunchables··on Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
But we removed the entire cost of the physical cable network from the equation. Unless you mean the cost of your internet service PLUS the cost of the streaming services should be about equal to your "traditional cable package" ? If so, then you're probably not far off. Except that the cable providers don't also get some margin off delivering the programming anymore.
lunchables··on Being ‘Indistractable’
>much like procrastination. It's a mess of things all clumped together like a rats nest of wires.

This is such an important point. I struggle with procrastination and learning the underlying causes are what helped me make huge progress. I cannot recommend "The Now Habit" enough to anyone who struggles with procrastination and guilt that surrounds it. It really was life changing for me. One of, if not the, most important books I've read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95708.The_Now_Habit

lunchables··on StarTram
It is really incredible, so smooth and quiet - and so fast! What surprised me the most was how the track was banked in the curves like a race track.
lunchables··on What is the new Apple U1 chip?
Which is less than half of the peak value, I don't know what your point is? If we were having this conversation a year ago or a year from today, his guess would have been way off. That's why its a coincidence.
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