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bionade24··on Gentoo Linux 2022 Retrospective
Please provide an actual example of systemd breaking which you experienced yourself. This generalised criticism mixed up with hate towards other software initiated by him long ago can't spawn any discussion and leaves your claims undisputable.
bionade24··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
VSCode is often stated as the best-performing Electron software, Teams is at the opposite end.
bionade24··on NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions
I am German and support the degradation of this "crime" to a delict, but even if 1/3 of the emprisoned is there bc of riding without a ticket, which I can hardly believe without a source, you leave out a very important aspect. Most if not all of those aren't emprisoned because they were caught 3 times without a ticket, but because they were on probation when they were caught. Most of those got probation immedeately in court. The law was created in the 1930s by the Nazi government because people "hacked" the new ticket machines, which weren't as secure as today. This wasn't an issue before when selling tickets was done by humans. Sadly western Germany always has been too conservative to change it, the reunification would have been a good chance to overthink every law that originated from the 3rd Reich.
bionade24··on GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
I also do not understand why people claim that mercurial is more beginner-friendly. Especially putting relatively basic features into optional modules is very confusing in the beginning.
bionade24··on I still use Flash
There are 2 editions of Minecraft. One, is the original one, now called Java edition. They definately still work on it, because despite not running well on Java > 8 for a long time, it now does. But afaik, they're still stuck on LWJGL 2.

The newer one written in C++ was first called "pocket edition" and targeted mobile. It's now called "Bedrock edition" and is also the version that has RTX support.

It'll be hard to move the modding community over to the Bedrock edition. I personally don't have any knowledge how limited modding is in the latter one.

bionade24··on New MH370 debris suggests that pilots lowered landing gear
Idk if I'm drifting too far to support my argument, but I'd assume the pilot may didn't want to experience the g forces or was unsure till the end.

In the end, I'm not settled on this & we really need to find & recover the plane.

bionade24··on Ask HN: How to not be jealous of other people despite being a failure
> "okay, you're gonna be inferior than others (Economically, chances wise, socially, etc) from now on, and that is OK".

I totally understand that & were about to comment the same thing on a comment of someone who suggesting accepting it, because I lived with a person in a similar situtation as yours.

I didn't wanted to write this immedeately, but you telling multiple times that college is so important, I'd may suggest that you try out disciplines that are respected & well-paid in other countries & move (assuming citizens from the secret country do get visas easily).

Repeating "college is the only option to success" doesn't help you moving forward when you're maybe actually good at something physical & could retire as a millionaire in another country. There are also lots of places around the world that need guides that speak the language of the tourists well. Please don't limit your scopes on the example, you may have to research & try a bit.

bionade24··on Ask HN: How to not be jealous of other people despite being a failure
> Everyone I see around me is so much more accomplished than I am, socially, academically, or in whatever else.

Ok, so you care about reputation. I especially didn't suggest trashman, I didn't even think of that. Please don't put the fields I suggested in the same category. Stop thinking academia is the only respectable path.

bionade24··on New MH370 debris suggests that pilots lowered landing gear
In my opinion, more humans would suggest landing in water without gear is better.

Additionally, the Sully incident is famous enough that a pilot should have read about it.

To me, this move is more logical if you assume the pilot wanted to die as quick as possible, the nose wouldn't tear apart, only the back like it happened with this passenger jet: https://youtu.be/KCuh_2M4o3A?t=293

bionade24··on Ask HN: How to not be jealous of other people despite being a failure
I'm not really sure if this is the direction you want to pursue, but have you tried to develop skills that primarily don't require a high IQ? E.g. crafting, entertainment or tourism. Here in Germany, crafters are very needed & get a good salary, which seems important to you. If you get a "Meister" title & found your own company later in your career, you could potentially even earn more than in the fields your classmates graduated.
bionade24··on New MH370 debris suggests that pilots lowered landing gear
https://archive.md/xLgCE
bionade24··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
No (at least in Germany, can't speak for whole Europe) the price is settled by the most expensive electricity producer currently serving. Gas power plants are used regularly to stabilize the network, but they didn't drive the electrity price that high because Germany has way more gas power plants than usually necessary. Only the modern ones were used.

This year though, since France struggles so hard with their nuclear power plants, gas power plants are running 24/7, even older, less efficient ones.

This led to the price of electricity determined by gas power plant operation costs all day.

bionade24··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
You can call it failed or success after 10 years in operation. Before that, it's still an ongoing process. Infrastructure is for the long-term.
bionade24··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
Sadly, many people don't understand that. Either because the refuse everything said & done by him or because they don't see the actual motivation he had to act in that way.

Applies to many other entities, too.

bionade24··on The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
For the heating BHKWs (Blockheizkrafwerke) of many cities in Germany it's still cheaper to run on gas than switch to burning oil. Since the communal industry are legally structured as companies, the mayors aren't allowed by law to switch to oil if it is more expensive, even though it could ease the shortage.

In Poland, coal prices absolutely skyrocketed because Russian coal isn't available anymore & consumers directly interfer with the market.

Relatively, Gas is still cheap. If people all would switch to electric heating quickly, electrity prices would go up proportionally because we would need to buy more form neighbouring countries in close-border regions to keep the network stable.

bionade24··on Twitter Office Supply Auction
The people seem to say despite the not new anymore slow & often-failing frontend. The old frontend is down regularly. Not sure why they don't drop it completely if the care so little about it's uptime.
bionade24··on European parliament VP taken into custody
This is a just title. German parliament also has multiple "Bundestagsvizeprädsidenten", theoretically one parliament vice president for each faction.
bionade24··on Debunking common myths about the Autobahn
I agree, and if we had decided to create an autonomous car only line where the speed gets controlled by a central computer, this would apply. You still shouldn't ignore that the higher the speed, the more likely larger speed differences can appear. At some point external force will slow down cars significantly faster than the brake of the vehicle behind.
bionade24··on Cologne-based translation startup DeepL is worth a billion dollars (German)
Deepl does offer https://linguee.de for single-word translations, explanation & contexts. Not sure why the link to it on the Deepl page is gone now.
bionade24··on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
That's true. The US gov only needs to intimidate enough, more authoritan reactions on journalism wouldn't stop the people still risking it either.
bionade24··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
On Linux this is adressed by systemd-homed, which encrypts at least your home partition in sleep mode. Attackers could still try to manipulate the rootfs & hope the user doesn't detect it before using the device again.
bionade24··on Why talent sorting in Germany is flawed
The author is very misinformed about the state of student decision-making in Germany & it feels like he describes the state people did who are now older than 40 years. One big thing he doesn't account for is the German school grading system, which doesn't work like the American & thus with easier & less necessary school subjects in last decades, A* equivalent grades are easier to reach. People who want to medicine often choose strategically, things that are easy. They ignore that taking physics & chemistry would help them tremendously at the beginning of university. So a good margin struggles with physics & chemistry for medicine in the beginning of their studies.

Those people are, in my personal impression, neither STEM interested or intellegent, you can't just map grade to skill. There are highly intelligent people going into medicine, but I doubt they would do diffrently if they get an "Ivy league" equivalent offer. Most of the medicine students aren't top-notch.

bionade24··on Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip
Nvidia does already use RISC-V in their GPUs, too. Those small controller chips aren't comparable with CPUs.
bionade24··on DontBuyDell.com
I have a XPS 13 9310 2-in-1, bought directly after release & put Linux on it. For a brand new released Laptop, this was the best Linux experience I had. Dell's preinstalled Ubuntu wasn't available as an option, but on other devices I used it always sucked, not suprising if the Ubuntu Kernel is much older than the device release. I don't understand why they do this half-baked thing.

Build quality is very good, except for the standoffs, the silicon is getting loose 2 years later. This was much better on Precision devices I had before.

I think this website is a rant by a disappointed customer, but does have lots of valid criticism listed.

bionade24··on DontBuyDell.com
The USB C ports get a lot of flex fast, but the connection remained stable in my experience, regarding both data & power.
bionade24··on DontBuyDell.com
I do have the 2-in-1 version of the XPS 9310, which was only available with Windows, replaced it with Archlinux. In the 1st ~3 months after launch (of the Windows product, Dev version wasn't released yet) I experienced this problem too, but nowadays, s2idle drains the battery < 5%/day. So I highly guess your Ubuntu version has an old kernel where it's bugged.

Which takes us to the main issue, the preinstalled Linux on all Dell machines I had is garbage, premium support only helpful for Windows customers. Why do they then even offer this option? Sadly, when Lenovo started offering Linux preinstalled, they claimed it's a feature that they only ship open source drivers, even on nivida machines. Don't know much about the HP dev one, but partnering with System76 is hopefully making this a better OOTB experience.

bionade24··on My thoughts on the Framework laptop
Seems more like you do have these problems but they don't matter to you personally.
bionade24··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
Limit this to the specific headers of these Webbrowsers though, please.
bionade24··on Xournalpp++ – closs-platform, open source note taking software
The problem sadly is Wayland. While wayland generally improves touch input, Xournalpp has those hiccups & glitches, for the ones are know are actually GTK bugs. I'm still sticking with Wayland though. I used Xournalpp one year before I switched on Xorg.
bionade24··on Hetzner now provides IPv6 only dedicated servers
Oh god in 20 years reverse NAT (reverse as in reverse Proxy) will be a thing because IPv6 still won't be supported by all network providers.
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