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I'm not sure usability is moving in the right direction with KDE. Over the past years, more and more applications started to hide menus by default, sometimes adding hamburger menus instead.

There is also a "new way" (I believe QtQuick-based) for applications to create popups, which results in them not being separate windows anymore. System Settings makes prominent use of them for example and those popups just behave entirely different than one is used to. As far as I know it's not even possible to navigate these popups with the keyboard.

ASML doesn't sell chips, you're probably thinking about TSMC.

FYI: "Signal backup servers" currently seems to mean either Google Cloud Storage or CloudFlare R2 according to https://github.com/signalapp/storage-manager/blob/e45aaf5bd1...

@greysonp verified they're indeed incremental for media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45170515#45175402

> There are a couple of problems with the existing backup:

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> 1. It is non-incremental.

I wonder if that's differently with the newly announced functionality. Their announcement doesn't sound like it:

> Once you’ve enabled secure backups, your device will automatically create a fresh secure backup archive every day, replacing the previous day’s archive.

I suspect the human worker still had a headset to listen in to the orders at the drive-through and just intervened when she heard that order.

That vastly depends where you live and what you use electricity for. Most of Europe for example uses much less energy [1], although that will probably change as heat pumps are becoming more and more widespread.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_countries_by_electric...

> […] so I am surprised he has done that and expected stability at 100C regardless of what Intel claim is okay.

Intel specifies a max operating temperature of 105°C for the 285K [1]. Also modern CPUs aren't supposed to die when run with inadequate cooling, but instead clock down to stay within their thermal envelope.

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241060/...

I raised that exact same issue to AWS in ~2015 and even though we had an Enterprise support plan, AWS response was basically: well, you problem.

We then ended up deleting the S3 bucket entirely, as that appeared to be the only way to get rid of the charges, only for AWS to come back to use a few weeks later telling us there are charges for an S3 bucket we previously owned. After explaining to them (again) that this way our only option to get rid of the charges, we never heard back.

I'm so angry about that license change, as it makes impossible to use Vagrant anymore. For example the version of Vagrant in Debian is stuck to the pre-license change commit and Debian doesn't publish Vagrant boxes for new releases anymore. I've yet to find a replacement, which works as seamlessly across different operating systems.

Companies always have a choice: Comply with local regulations or leave the market. Nobody is forcing US companies to offer their services in the EU.

Not sure about scripts, but I download and store everything I know I'll only need until the next reboot in /tmp and naturally that tends to be quite a lot from time to time. That worked fine for decades, so I'm not sure what's the benefit if storing the contents of /tmp in memory instead.

I honestly don't understand that change, as most desktops are RAM limited as well, especially as Debian is regularly used for older machines, which aren't supported by Windows 11 anymore.

> been running "unstable" since 2007 as my daily driver, work-horse, dev-machine, ... Not once faced a "problem" I couldn't recover from.

To be fair, sid had various bugs leading to unbootable systems since then. While it's possible to recover in such situations without re-installation or data loss, I believe that makes the term "unstable" quite fitting.

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942432

> If your PyPI account only has a single verified email address from a custom domain name,add a second verified email address from another notable domain (e.g. Gmail) to your account.

Isn't that just increasing the attack surface for all account holders following that suggestion for all cases but domain expiry?

Their repository description:

> The main code repository of CoMaps, a community-led fork of Organic Maps. Reinforced with commitment to transparency, privacy and being not-for-profit.

Alpha 27 of 0 A.D. has a notable performance regression for a subset of users, compared to earlier versions. Users not affected by this regression should see improved performance, thanks to improvements like the added Vulkan support.

The regression in performance seems to be caused by a change in Spidermonkey. For details check out https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7714

That said, even without this performance regression, 0 A.D. is prone to run slow in late game when lots of units are on the map. There are several reasons for that, but maybe the most intuitive one is that 0 A.D. is still largely single-threaded and therefore doesn't make use of the multi-core capabilities of modern CPUs. As you can imagine changing that is no easy feat and takes a lot of effort. As the number of volunteers to 0 A.D. is limited, nobody has picked up that topic yet.

If you enjoy 0 A.D. and want to improve it: it's Open Source and contributions are always welcome!

The Framework Laptop 12 is new, you probably switched to a Framework Laptop 13.

As it's visible from existing material the bezels on the Framework Laptop 12 will be huge and as it's a touchscreen, its readability will be worse.

From all what I've heard over the years, they have a problem staffing the service teams. I imagine with the AI craze that just got worse, as they certainly shifted resources to work on that.

If they really have staffing problems, it'd make sense in the short-term to shut down services which don't bring in much revenue. In the long-term that might fire back if AWS customers loose trust in the services they're using still being there in the future.

The obvious solution to a possible staffing problem would of course be not fire a certain percentage of your employees every year.

> "When we want to innovate. When we want to really, really innovate on interesting products, I have not seen an ability for us to do that when we're not in person," Garman said.

I have the suspicion that this is not caused by remote versus in person, but rather by not giving engineers enough space for innovation. All you hear is that teams are understaffed at AWS.

Also a high turnover rate caused by regularly firing a certain percentage of your employees certainly isn't beneficial either to solve understaffing and foster an environment where people innovate.

While one could argue whether Tesla or another company is the leader in this space, don't all promising self-driving approaches rely on this paradigm?

> The AWS mentality is still stuck in 2005 when a t2.micro was a decent computer.

The T2 EC2 instance family got announced in 2014: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/announcing-amazon-ec2-...

> Primarily append-based, hence robust to corruption

It's so robust, it doesn't even let you modify the journal if you want to (e.g. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20673).

> Support for in-line compression

Mind that journald only supports compressing single lines, but not the whole journal (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/31358), which is pretty limiting.

No, that's a completely different (and in my opinion inferior) product.

IMO it's mainly because of management decisions, like shutting down Stack Overflow Jobs, focusing too much on AI, not listening enough to the needs of the community, ...

I'm confident humanity will get Bloodborne to run on the Steam Deck, before going extinct.

Germany also has giant piles of nuclear waste and doesn't even know yet where to store it permanently. Recently an assessment concluded that the process to select such a storage facility might take at least until 2074! [1]

[1]: https://www.base.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BASE/DE/fachin...

There is also git-as-svn, which provides access to a git repository through SVN: https://git-as-svn.github.io/git-as-svn/htmlsingle/git-as-sv...

This article is just quoting the original source of this information, which would be a much better link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/26/24206529/intel-13th-14th-...