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I have a Unicomp but I'm disappointed that the resistance varies a lot from key to key. Maybe I got a bad unit?

Just to say more directly say what someone else said: this is ahistorical. What you're talking about, Windows UAC, is a relatively recent innovation in the Windows world, first introduced with Windows Vista. Obsession (maybe well-placed) with limiting usage of root for security reasons was a concept in Linux system administration well before that.

Also, the normal UAC setup for a consumer device does not require a password, just pressing a button.

You have a pay a premium for that next-day, on-site warranty. But it's worth it.

I agree, but one friendly nit-pick: capitalized "Anonymous" is the hacktivist thing, and lower-case "anonymous" is the ordinary adjective. People acting as Anonymous are also anonymous, but not everyone acting anonymously is Anonymous.

It is really going to be a farce when the same jurisdictions that so zealously enforced the lockdown against churches, the same governors that threatened and said vitriolic things about small anti-lockdown protests, now refuse to enforce those same rules against the people organizing and involved in these mass protests.

You're talking about this US military policy like it wasn't just another panicked reaction at the height of the crisis.

The vast vast vast majority of young people with coronavirus don't have any of those long-term side-effects. Most of them don't get more than the sniffles, if any symptoms at all.

If you've looked at the anecdotes about how readily the virus spreads, you'll realize that avoiding people until a vaccine is ready is ridiculous. The public health plan, all along, has been for most people to get the virus, but at a slower rate ("flatten the curve"). Being this deathly scared of the virus for that long just isn't a feasible plan.

The chance of a college kid dying from coronavirus is exceedingly small. If they aren't sick in some special way (severe diabetes, HIV), then why are we even worried? Isn't this just an easy way to let the virus pass through a huge chunk of the population while they are away from their older, more vulnerable family members?

Humor is powerful, which is why people want to control what you are allowed to laugh at.

A funeral, attended by many people, is rather different than a drive and walk through nature with the people you live with. Anyhow, the hypocrisy angle makes sense. Two strikes for everyone involved: one for coming up with the stupid rules and two for then breaking them themselves/covering it up.

Driving around was one of the ways I kept my sanity through all this. I'm sorry your government came up with such stupid rules.

I'd be contemptuous of such stupid rules too. How is going for a walk outdoors a problem? Why is it relevant how far he drove to get there? I can't help but think that the Brits have taken the scolding aspect of this lockdown way too far.

The GNU tools are not fully compatible with the Windows ABI and they don't support some important Windows features. There are great reasons to use the GNU tools, like compiling unix programs that do not otherwise target Windows.

But you are swimming upstream if you use the GNU tools for general Windows development. Windows is a complex, integrated system that has evolved over a long period of time and is very different from unix-like operating systems. The peculiarities that exist in MSVC and associated tools are not just the whimsies of Microsoft devdiv engineers and product managers, but often tie in to operating system functionality. If you try to develop Windows applications with mingw, you will eventually hit weird problems and errors that simply would not exist if you used Microsoft's toolchain.

If you want an alternative to Microsoft's compiler, then consider llvm, which is aiming for full ABI compatibility and even produces PDBs (though I'm skeptical that they're as complete as the ones generated by Microsoft's tools). But the compatibility is incomplete, so ymmv.

I set x=0 to get all of the alerts. I also found that the text notifications are more reliable than the app-based notifications.

I'd rather they update all of my merchants instead of assume that I want to cancel this or that. Citi has a nice feature that shows you all of your recurring charges. Maybe try to use a feature like that?

I also have it set up to send a text message to my phone any time my card is used.

I'm amused at all the highly-paid software engineers in this thread who legitimately feel entitled to their Silicon Valley pay-scale. The only reason you make more than the fellow laying your tile is because of supply and demand, not because you deserve it. If anything, he certainly works harder and longer and risks more health consequences than you.

If Facebook is offering less than the market price for that labor, then employees will go elsewhere. Otherwise, they're paying the "right" amount for workers in that market. There's no moral dimension to this question.

Your mental model is all wrong. There's no moral calculus being used to determine how much you earn. If you want to think like that, then you'd have a hard time justifying differences in pay for different lines of work, especially since they don't correlate with how much or how hard you work. You don't make more than the guy laying tile because you work harder than him. It's because there's a lot more people who can do what he does than what you do.

Labor is a market. It's supply and demand. All of that stuff you're talking about--the cost of eating out vs. cooking, rent in Silicon Valley vs. Wisconsin--doesn't need to be calculated. The market price for labor in a city is how much you need to offer to get enough qualified people to work for you in that city. People’s preferences, for eating out, for living here or there, are factored in to how much they’re willing to work for.

It's just supply and demand. The willingness of a worker to supply labor at a certain price (i.e. salary) is, for normal human beings, going to vary with his cost of living.

I’ve had this same issue with a different laptop. On my machine, any change in WiFi network or Bluetooth device availability would cause the laptop to spin up, prevent sleep, and drain battery. One trick is to turn off connected standby and switch to “disconnected modern standby”. That disables the WiFi and Bluetooth chips during standby, which should solve your issues. The only downside I’m aware of is that the machine will take a few seconds upon awakening to reconnect to WiFi and Bluetooth peripherals.

Alternatively, you can disable connected/modern standby altogether and revert to traditional S3 sleep. You lose that instant-on tablet effect, but it should fix the excess battery drain too.

Given that the main use case is stuff like running machine learning tools, the only people directly targeting DX12 on WSL will probably be framework/library developers, who might want to add DX12 as one of the graphics systems they support. If that's the case, the vast majority of developers won't notice any difference other than more software supporting graphics acceleration when run in WSL (or, another way of looking at it, when Linux is running on the WSL "hardware"/"platform").

Sure, nothing stops you from targeting DX12 directly in your application code, but why would you do that? At that point, you'd just target Windows since your users would have to be running it anyway.

You can debug a normal kernel over the network. I imagine you can do the same with a unikernel.

Perhaps but then you will kick yourself the first time you want to give a customer or business partner access to your modifications. Unforeseen business needs or opportunities can always make you need to distribute a tool you previously thought would only be internal. I'm not saying this is a slam-dunk reason to not use GPL tools, but I'm just pointing out that there is a legitimate worry here that is not fully alleviated by your point.

For it to be informative, you need to provide the adequate context that explains it. "New evidence shows that coronavirus can cause long term breathing problems" suggests that this is something unique or unexpected about this, when it's really par for the course for any upper respiratory infection that takes a turn for the worse.

Neat. I think the page would be better if the sample art was better looking.

The "experts" get it wrong all the time. They have the same dysfunctions as any other community of people, including orthodoxies, group think, and other defects to their capacity to solve problems.

A python dependency is unfortunately out of the question for me, but that is a really cool project.

Does anyone know of something like this for Windows? Would be nice to build a small UI around some powershell scripts I have, without having to resort to a full WinForms application.

Postal voting undermines the secret ballot. People in your life with power over you can demand to see your ballot.

>Congress shall encourage the practice of Judeo-Christian religion by its own public exercise there of, and shall make no laws abridging the freedom of responsible speech (unless such speech is in a digital form or contains material that is copyrighted, classified, proprietary or offensive to non-Europeans, non-males, differently abled or alternativley prefferenced persons), or the right of people to peaceably assemble (unless such assembly takes place on corporate or military property or within an electronic environment), or to petition the government for redress of grievances (unless such grievances relate to national security).

http://www.textfiles.com/100/billrights.fun

There's a big market for Office add-ins. API docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/outlook/...

I should have added that it's definitely very different from how it was four years ago.