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I use Krita if I need CMYK, but I don't do much print work anymore. (Both work great on Linux.)

Maybe on Mac. Works great on Linux at 4k+ with an nvidia.

@dang, just wanted to say thank you for providing related threads, and also thank you for your even-handed moderation even on items you might disagree with; your care really shows on contentious threads and certainly elevates the level of discourse on HN.

> Leave the discussion to adults.

This is rude and condescending. Please restate your counter-argument to be more substantive.

Are you talking about a laptop power supply vs an ATX desktop power supply? Even most enthusiast ATX power supplies that I've seen don't use SMT for the main power board, probably because of the weight of the components.

For example, Here's a (very packed!) modern 1600 watt (!) powersupply from Corsair: https://cdn.cplonline.com.au/media/description/POW-COR-AX160...

You can definitely see that SMT is used for the distribution side, but you can see single-layer boards used closer to the A/C side as well.

It is absolutely an OS issue, but neither mobile OS has any incentive at all to do anything to make PWA's actually work.

In fact, they have every incentive to make sure they don't work. You can see this in their constant regressions in areas that only actually matter to PWA's.

I will say this: Google has been a lot more fair and open to PWA's and related tech (like WebRTC) than Apple. Apple absolutely hates the idea of any web app that might survive outside of the app store. In fact, for a very, very long time you couldn't even upload a photo on Craigslist with a standard HTML "Browse" button, because "IOS doesn't have a filesystem." It was a conscious decision to not allow the camera to be accessed except from within an IOS app.

All Apple has to do is change the APIs from version to version and poorly document the changes. Would Apple do such a thing? Of course not. Apple is too noble and good for that -- exactly like how they work with WebRTC right now.

Most people buy pickups currently probably don't really think CO2 emissions are a big deal, but perhaps there's an undiscovered pickup market that Ford's going to tap into; perhaps an urbanite who normally wouldn't consider a pickup but thought the Cybertruck looked interesting.

Perfect for taking the boat to the lake on the weekend.

... well, unless you actually back it into the lake on the boat ramp! Hmm..

Kinda sounds like a question in a FAANG interview.

The referenced study is here: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2023170118

If they ever get to it and if it's economically feasible. Meanwhile, people are trying to buy old Tesla's and repair their batteries on their own (see numerous youtube videos), which seems very dangerous, or they just go to the junkyard.

The mercury didn't leak out when you dropped a watch battery on the floor.

> CFL bulbs are fine; put the dead ones in a box then take the box to the hardware store once every 3 years when it fills up.

So you live with a box filled with fragile glass tubes with mercury in them that you keep putting more glass tubes with mercury in for three years? When you take them to the hardware store, do you double bag them to keep the mercury from leaking when the tubes inevitably shatter against all of the other bulbs? Is that mercury ever recovered in "recycling", or does it just poison a land fill for the next thousand years?

> CFL bulbs are fine; they last years and they don't heat up your house like crazy.

Please tell that to my IKEA and other CFLs that were lucky to last one year. And a properly made incandescent can last many years as well. In fact, when I was a kid, my family restored a 200+ year old home that had a very, very old bulb in it (it was large and looked like an old Edison bulb -- it was bigger than my fist) that still worked great -- it was nice and bright and probably on the order of 150 watts. It was probably from the 1940's, because there were old magazines from the 1940's stacked underneath it. (Great old mags like Popular Mechanics that had ads for "Buy U.S. War Bonds" in them).

CFL's used to (and still) cost a lot more than incandescents. Four to ten times as much when the mandate was introduced, and they were almost as unreliable as cheap incandescents, and produced a horribly cold blue light.

For incandescent bulbs, yes, the heat issue is an issue, and the fact that they're much, much less efficient, but they didn't contain dangerous metals or present a serious environmental hazard when they were disposed of.

LED bulbs did actually exist 20 years ago; in 2000, a friend gave me one (I tried it out and was decidedly not impressed), and I saw them in Fry's for $25+ dollars in 2000 dollars. They were not very bright and had some real issues (and big heat sinks, interestingly enough).

But I miss incandescent bulbs, and believe that the market would have moved us over to LED's soon enough. I would have chosen LED's now over most incandescents, but I'd still prefer incandescents for a few types of uses.

The irony is that the really inefficient incandescent bulbs -- bright and hot halogens -- were not banned; only the run of the mill $1 bulbs (in fact, literally, you could buy a 4 pack of Sylvanias in the dollar store, because that's how I bought bulbs in college).

That's the problem with these mandates: they just harm the poor people, because people who create these mandates are definitely not poor and don't really care -- but these technocrats know better, because of some future energy emergency that never materialized. The CA blackouts wouldn't have been close to mitigated by everyone switching over to CFLs, but it probably helped corporate interests and whoever manufactured all those CFLs clogging up landfills.

And now we have at least a century's worth of oil just in shale that wasn't even accessible 25 years ago, and the sea levels never rose in 2014 as Al Gore so confidently predicted. (I wonder if he bought property in Miami after the prices dropped!) Is this push toward electric cars just another greenhouse warming, ozone depleting, nuclear winter, DDT-thins-bird-eggs proto-catastrophe? We don't know, but it seems clear that the science on macro-events is settled only in hind-sight. Personally, I think we should ban volcanic emissions.

$25 USB-C: https://solokeys.com/products/solo-usb-c?variant=23528357560... For those not familiar, solokeys was an open source project that became a company via kickstarter (and now indiegogo)

Maybe they'll just take 30% of any crypto mined on their card. That seems fair.

cgroups predate systemd by quite a lot (even if systemd absorbed yet another unwitting victim)

and channels... extremely useful for network servers.

Why don't we do that now instead of ventilating?

Sounds useful for Ebola patients. Dehydration is apparently the thing that kills you the fastest. However, it could be very hazardous to your (very loving) friend.

tl;dr: researchers discovered that pumping liquid perfluorocarbons, which can absorb large amounts of oxygen, directly into the anus of the tested mammals (not humans, yet) can help them survive even in low oxygen (or even completely deprived of oxygen, for 4 times longer) environments.

The idea is that this will enable a less invasive way of ventilation for oxygen-deprived patients (i.e., covid-19) than tracheal intubation. It's even possible a patient could be ventilated from (pardon) both ends simultaneously.

In this case, this gas would be injected directly into the rectum, so you could switch back to lungs as soon as the lungs were clear (or run both simultaneously). At least, that's the theory.

Nor can you store gasoline for long unless you stabilize it (and even then), and certainly not safely in most residences. Classic car owners run into this issue, as do the diesel tanks for generators in datacenters (diesel is much more stable than gasoline)

Read more about HOTP and TOTP here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC-based_One-Time_Password

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-Time_Password

Implementations vary, but TOTP was developed on top of HOTP and presents a standardized method to expire OTP codes.

Even though TOTP is provably safer than SMS, it looks like the reason why they want SMS/push as a "primary" is so that they can suck in more phone numbers, since hardware keys have an additional cost that most people won't have. Phone numbers will let them do better ad targeting.

Read my comment again. You will see that what I'm actually saying is that McDonalds and other large national chains would actually end up stronger after hiking minimum wage.

That is true, but it is why I said "nearly". The largest cost in any fast food restaurant is almost certainly labor.

If the U.S. were to double the minimum wage from $7 to $15, it would make sense to invest in robotics firms, or perhaps the largest fast food chains like McDonald's.

Why? Because lower-price restaurants would have a choice: dramatically raise their food prices (which would almost certainly drive inflation across the board as everyone in all industries would hopefully see raises to deal with increased costs of living) or try to minimize the hit. If the latter, this would set off an immediate price war, even if unintentional, because McDonald's especially would strive to keep their prices from changing as little as possible.

Then, the smaller chains that couldn't afford to reduce their workforce and/or invest in efficiency or robotics wouldn't survive. You would see less competitive chains like Popeye's closing up on Interstate exits, and their marketshare would be handed over to the larger chains.

The unintended consequences of a massive shift like that would be enormous, and it would absolutely result in a stronger national chains and probably destroy or badly harm local eateries -- especially the ones that were trying to be price competitive. Get ready to see your local small businesses under severe pressure, while profitable operations like McDonald's and Chik-Fil-A will mop up the smaller places, and this is across the board at any low-skill, low-wage places, not just restaurants.

It's a lot more risky for the business though, which means that more marginal areas will not have a McDonald's if they can't do the volume.

I agree, but when compared to Andy Griffith (the country rube sheriff?), and everything just seemed more "wholesome"; perhaps an idealistic tale of days gone by, but also perhaps an aspirational tale for those who might value the community sometimes found in small, rural places.

I'm picturing the same, but my guess is that it's using a time-synced serializability graph or MVCC in some way.

However, even a "basic" distributed lock system (like a consistently-hashed in-memory DB, sharded across reliable servers) might provide both the scale and single source of truth that's needed. The difficulty arises when one of those servers has a hiccup.

It'd be a delicious irony if it was based on hardware like an old-school mainframe or something like that.