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I don't want to talk about vaccines anymore. Whatever study people have to cherry pick or whatever beliefs you may hold, whatever your stance is, most people have made the decision on whether or not to be vaccinated.

What I wish we focused on instead, is the medical system as a whole. We've been hearing stories everyday about how hospitals are on the brink of collapse. Why, in 2 years of this pandemic, have we not devoted the resources to expanding bed capacity and staffing hospitals? Why is testing still so unsustainable? From day 1 of the pandemic, from social distancing, to masking, to now getting vaccinated, the messaging has been do all of these things to avoid overwhelming the hospitals so it seems weird to me that 2 years later the messaging is exactly the same.

I'm more interested in how Jeff manages to maintain 200 open source repos and still have time for all the other extracurricular he does like the graphics card RPi testing he has going on. Please tell me your time management secrets.

Definitely not off topic. I do not use Obsidian but while Obsidian is a knowledge base software, I can absoslutely see the appeal of being able to organize your thoughts and notes into a full-fledged article and then push to something like Bookstack for public/team consumption.

Setting this up sounds like a tremendous waste of time while DDG has already setup all the bangs for me.

The comments in HN threads regarding the vaccines are bizarre. The majority of stances here essentially boil down to "the vaccine is fine" vs "the vaccine is bad."

You're playing with semantics. Someone is selling ownership to something they do not own.

Let's give OpenSea the benefit of doubt and say they don't know their platform is being used to illegally sale things the distributor doesn't own. I see no reason they shouldn't be held to the same copyright rules that Youtube is after the Youtube vs Viacom judgement that says Youtube has to put forth a good faith effort to upholding copyright on their site. As far as I know OpenSea has no tools to do. If they are seeking a 13B valuation then they absolutely have the resources to implement tool for artist to more easily protect their work and seek compensation if their work is stolen and sold. Also people saying "I see no difference between OpenSea and eBay" are naive. The dose makes the poison and it is much easier for me to steal some artist work and sell it as an NFT than it is for me to steal my neighbor's phone and sell it on eBay. There is a huge risk in getting caught and both eBay as well as cell phone manufacturers have tools in place to reduce theft such as blacklisting the stolen phone's IMEI.

OpenSea is a great example of break the law until you get caught and then pay a small fine. They just haven't reached the "get caught" part yet. Putting utter ridiculousness of NFTs aside, a lot of the art on the site is straight up stolen and artist have very little recourse in what they can do. Here is a good Twitter thread from Loish summarizing the state of affairs for artist https://nitter.net/loishh/status/1470340143970230277

You're showing your age. There was a time when you could ask Netflix for any number of DVDs for almost any movie and have it sent to you.

NFT sites like OpenSea not doing anything to fight stolen art is a massive problem and the artist community has very little recourse.

Because you are already using it for other things.

> Are we not allowed to be judgemental?

I am far from innocent here but I'm gonna say no. You are saying IoT is far from a worthy cause. Really? Is it not worthy that my aging grandparents can open the door from their bed and not have to go downstairs, turn on their lights in the dead of night from their phone so they don't have to risk stumbling and falling when reaching for the light switch, or even just more accurate track their health? I think those are all pretty worthy causes.

I'll second this. I'm pretty techno-savvy if I do say so myself but I haven't the slightest when it comes to self-hosting and security concerns also prevent me from doing it.

Out of curiosity, what did you not like about Bullshit Jobs?

I try not to make a habit of so brazenly committing fraud.

Personally experienced this. I bookmarked a keyboard I was interested in purchasing in a month or so. When I went back it was a completely different item with the same reviews. Just today in fact, I was looking for an office chair seat cushion and found a very telling reddit comment from 3 years ago[1].

I know Amazon has a bulletproof return policy for the most part but I don't want to be hassled with returning everything. This just results in me just not using Amazon. You may be able to justify it for large purchases because of Amazon's return policy but for something as mundane as a can opener or seat cushion? Just shop elsewhere.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/a72co8/seat_cushi...

Going to somewhat hijack this to ask a question. Are there any popular non-Rails uses for Ruby? I'd like to learn Ruby but it seems that Python and Ruby occupy the same space and use cases so you really only need to know one of them.

Watching HN debate unions is always a good time. Blizzard is right, being in a union generally means you can't negotiate for yourself but seeing as the workers are in this position to begin with, negotiating for themselves clearly wasn't working out.

Tried Wayland recently on Fedora 35 with an AMD GPU and found that it causes issues with a lot of Proton games that I don't have on X.org. So, Wayland is still a "no thanks" for me.

I saw this a while ago and wanted to contribute so I found my way to their source. Unfortunately, this was my first interaction with SourceHut, the site they use as their central point of development, and found it completely unintuitive. After 15 minutes of fumbling around I basically just said "I'll try it again later" and never got back to it. This might just be because this was my first encounter with the site.

I'd ask you why you aren't interested but then I'd be asking you to talk about your feelings.

> Remarkable is advertised as an E-Ink reader as well as a writing device. In reality, this only works if you have e-pub books on your hard drive. Where can you get e-pub books? Basically nowhere

What? I'll give you that the two largest distributors, Amazon and Barnes and Nobles don't sell epub but pretty much everyone else who sells ebooks does including Google Books. Also, you can use Calibre to turn any other ebook format into an epub.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

When it comes to crypto I am completely uninformed. In my uninformed opinion, I think there is probably something of value in crypto and the blockchain but I can't see it under the intense amount of bullshit the crypto community comes up with and I am not willing to dig through that mountain.

This is not surprising. Tesla is notorious for pushing QC on to the purchaser and fixing all the faults after the fact. Everyone I know who owns a Tesla has had some sort of problem that they had to get fixed almost immediately after purchasing.

>Second issue, perhaps I'm a poor typist, but my fingertips frequently got stuck between the keys, causing mistakes by triggering adjacent keys.

This is a new one on me. I have never heard of this happening to anyone. My recommendation for you would get a low profile mechanical keyboard like the Keychron K3 or Logitech G915

I agree with you for the most part but

>The problem with "knowledge assimilation" aka note taking is that after a certain point, you have more "knowledge" than you even want. The extra becomes noise. At first, the idea to clip and save anything interesting seems so fascinating but soon you realize that you have saved so much that it's become a problem.

This doesn't matter at all. The thing with Obsidian and other bidirectional linking tools is that if you never see a note again, if you never link to it again then it doesn't matter. There is no cluttering the system.

I toyed with Racket a while ago and enjoyed it but is there any practical application for it or would I just be using it for fun?

It is a completely different undertaking but my point is, I'm willing to give System76 credit here and wait and see how this plays out instead of jumping to cynical conclusions about how terrible this will be.

I remember when PopOS was first announced and everyone was like "terrible decision, just use one of the many distros already out there." Yet, PopOS is now one of the most popular and most recommended distros out there.

Everything I know about Zenimax leads me to believe they are the absolute worst.