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You are right. Distros failed us completely by choosing systemd.

Completely agree. The problem is not upstream, but downstream. Distros should have done better job and chosen a better default system manager and not systemd.

You build your software the way you want and like. If others don’t like that it breaks POSIX they should stop using it instead of complaining. Or fork it.

You love it that all your communication is controlled by only a single for profit company?

I wonder how you will feel the day FB decided to ban you for whatever rule their algorithm would decide you violated.

From the original story sounds like one of the traits you have to have is luck. Lots and lots of luck.

Anecdotal, but I got an Apple Watch because I never liked the squeezing feeling of the chest strap of my Suunto. I put them to test for the first couple weeks and both at rest and while running the difference in the HR reported by both was less than 1bps.

The font rendering looks awfully similar to that of Xorg. Does it use the library/code/fonts?

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think it was PUBG that came up with the battle royal concept. I believe H1Z1 had battle royal mode before PUBG existed.

A very close childhood friend of mine got killed last April. I didn’t learn the news till August cause I didn’t have a FB account.

There is a price to pay for sticking to your principles.

> Such as?

Shadow profiles for example.

I am not saying that the grand-parent is on to something, but I would be careful when calling anything done by them as "nonsense conspiracy theory". They have proved these "conspiracy theories" to be true quite a few times.

No need to be aggressive, as I am not being cynical. I am genuinely asking, because I couldn't see any immediate need for it in their main product.

Why would you need voice recognition for them? What is the use-case?

Interesting, why does FB need a speech recognition system?

Don't consume the corporate cool-aid. Google, and for that matter any other company, is not its employees, it is its stockholders.

> No one really knows why bodies have changed so much

How can one claim this?

> So, sure, if a few people don't want to have any debt, that's great. But if everyone stopped borrowing we'd be in a lot of trouble.

Why would we be in trouble. Explain it to me like I know nothing about economics?

The answer might be obvious to you, but it is not to me. That's why I asked..

Aren't there any unions for the these kind of jobs?

What I find strange about tipping is that the employees get pissed of with the customer if he doesn't tip.

If I was in their shoes I would be pissed of with my employer for making "beg" the customers for getting my salary.

Imagine if as a software engineer I was told I would be paid half of what I am getting paid now, and for the other half I would have to go and ask for a "tip" from the end users. I would be absolutely furious.

Under law or according to your opinion?

> Meanwhile I'm relatively happy in my current, non-abusive world of HN!

Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but is it non-abusive or is it our little bubble?

Yeah, I get it, even art has to follow some ground rules to begin with, but do we know what exactly is it that makes Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” such a great composition?

> A lot of engineers have the mentality of "engineering is hard, but design is just whatever some color matching and styling".

Just anecdata, but as an engineer I think engineering is easy and design is hard.

For engineering you just have to follow logic, reasoning, good practices and have discipline. Also you can test your code to death to make sure everything is correct.

For design you have to have an artistic nature.

The problem is not the NULL but the lack of types.

+1 recommendation for Bitwarden

I, on the other hand, re-joined Facebook after years of absence and was really disappointed. It’s all politics and memes. Just an eponymous Reddit.

Great deal for Amazon. 50% of the sales goes to them with 0 risk.

I wonder if after the monthly seller fee, the returns and any unsold merchandise, if they will make any profit at all.

FoundationDB always sounded amazing, BUT, the way they disappeared when it was bought by Apple left a bitter taste in my mouth and I don't think I would ever trust them enough to build my business around their product.

Sorry to moan but the front page has four AWS lambda language stories. Can we consolidate them to one?

Do you have any proof that the subscription economy trend is driven by the consumers?

You totally jump the gun there!