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My experience is the exact same, I so want to be able to have a snappy low latency desktop experience in Linux and it is just not happening. Today I run a "lightweight" Ubuntu Mate workstation with an i7 + dedicated GPU and it's still worse latency wise than my Windows XP PC was more than 15 years ago. Not good. Really not good.

I'm with you on this one: Win10 is a travesty and is literally forcing me (and the organisation I work for) to switch to Linux distro. Cannot have Pro editions randomly install Candy Crush and reset privacy settings at Microsoft's leisure. No.

What is potentially most interesting with this project is that the thermal mass allows a 14 hr down-cycle - could a regular-on-grid fridge be run like this, or close to it, with economic benefit in terms of electricity use?

Or would this simply just cause spikes in electricity usage to compensate for the down-cycle along with increased mechanical wear?!

Empty 99% of the time - no, they are generally used in busy areas of larger cities where multiple bus-lines overlap (at least that goes for Copenhagen)

Like the look of this but given increasing privacy concerns I absolutely believe that the Moz experiments data policies are plain wrong. At least allow a non-data collecting variant, otherwise you will never find out how many users this could have had :/

Download area (https://www.gimp.org/downloads/) lists both OSX and Windows builds as not available and in turn redirects Windows & OSX users to older builds pages, both of which are currently 404s. Be good to just go over these things in cursory sense before publicly announcing new release.

Good to hear that you are dedicating attention to Riot's UI which is currently the only decentralized app I use :). Less often really is better when it comes to UI, case in point: having to admin Google Apps could be great but is in fact a pain due to sluggish JS redrawing plus constantly re-arranged navi-bar(s)/icons/text/etc. causing one to NEVER be properly fast with it which is a pain for anyone working on daily admin tasks for an organisation (me).

Also, thanks for drawing attention to my ignorance when it came to the protocol aspect: can see key players ARE built on proper protocols.

This issue (i.e. not building upon an existing protocols such as IPFS or bit torrent tech) is persistent within the alt-net / distributed-net community and means that MANY services have fickle/hacked-together (in the bad way) feel to them. Even stuff like Riot.im (which is built on top of the Matrix protocol) has a sluggish/react-js-overload feel to it.. plus the deep&wide stack makes it incredibly hard to understand/trust the system in a meaningful way.

Also, I believe that part reason for the success of Hacker News and Reddit is largely their extremely simple, non-intrusive and non-animated interfaces - making flashy front-ends for distributed-net apps is a lost cause. Bittorrent took off because the tech was right; not because of a animated web interface that could correctly scale to mobile.

Thanks for being "that guy": it is awful & even ublock can't filter the particular issues out since the nonsensical blogger theme is embeddded left and right in both inline and external scripts..etc.

> coffee

Should not be on that list.

"In the most comprehensive study of coffee drinking and systemic markers of inflammation and immunity to date, we found that heavier coffee consumption was associated with lower levels of a number of different inflammatory markers, including chemokines (CX3CL1/fractalkine, CCL4/MIP-1β), cytokines (IFNγ, sTNFRII) and basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2)." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4490956/

Will be adding to AMD's bottomline since I will be buying their CPU/GPU next time my workstation needs updating. This is fundamentally due to the grief caused by Intel's handling (or the lack of it, is perhaps more accurate description) of Spectre/Meltdown crisis.

Simply do not interested in Intel's kind of mentality when it comes to the hardware that runs all my computing. Nah.

I can recommend this read: https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/the-difference-b...

UX doesn't enter into my criticism here.

Exactly this yes.

Personally wish people would stop tinkering with the UI - polish but do not tinker/change needlessly. Case in point being that Linux likely remains fringe as a desktop platform simply because of it's continual tendency to morph on the UI side of things.

Then again, Win10 is going down the same route so maybe it will all even out (...).

Yeah, could be that you see 200% improvement on first call and then proceed to suffer 2000% slowdown unless this is benchmarked properly.

Great art & concept. Tech feedback wise: I'm getting an odd ~2 second delay whenever I click something which is making it bit difficult since it's a point and click adventure - might simply be the server that's mildly overloaded; you could put it behind cloudflare?

Fixing sharing economy - develop proper distributed system that runs akin to bittorrent/bitcoin model with guaranteed feedback mechanisms that mitigates against systemic abuse. Super hard job. But it would, if solved, truly revolutionize/create the shared economy space.

"completely meaningless" may well be putting it a bit harshly: there is good lessons to be learned by drawing on lessons learned across different fields of computing.

7ms is hardly anything but apply it to a list of only a 1000 elements and you have now slowed down the user experience by 7000ms (I know, this would all be buffered and hidden, etc. but this is just one tiny component and eventually all this stuff leads to real perceptible awful jankiness that could have been avoided if people allowed themselves to think a bit about performance).

PHP 5.6.x and old version of Node too - this article is too old to be of serious use.

"In other words, you can use libdisco to securely connect peers together," - any idea as to best practise in terms of using Golang library for next step: connecting the peers through firewalls..etc.? Bittorrent clients have become masters when it comes to automating UDP protocol use along with selective hole punching of firewalls on Win/OSX but they are complex beasts to learn from!

The risk with this sort of meta-discussion is that it drowns the original question about drug policy in an ocean of other relevant questions. I think it would be more interesting to line up the countries that are currently close to trying out a similar policy to Portugal and finding ways to support the movement or at least discuss the particular, national, issues faced.

There's slightly older (2009) systemic review of Portugal's drug policy and it's effects available at: https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decrimina... which is also interesting and has fair bit of stats to back the discussion up with.

How did you get a LTSB license? I tried getting a license off ebay but unlike Pro licenses I have bought in the past the whole thing failed to work.

OK, once: "Coming features All: End to end encryption" is implemented then I'm up for giving this a try. The plain text format and markdown support is good features.

Exactly, I am so happy that there still a good amount of "reason" within the EU block to oppose this sort of pseudo capitalism. Which in essence is just exploitation in that it feeds a tiny amount of shareholders while letting the Gov/populace pay the bill in terms of infrastructure.

Same reason tax evasion by corporations should be ended since it not only devalues society but actively feeds on it while undermining the positive potential that a managed free market actually allows ALL players, not just the few that have gotten too big to fail.

Agree, appreciate the idea but find the font (ornate, "bookish" & large) and spacing of that website (overkill) very unfriendly on the eye.

Really great visualizations of search algorithms - would love to have brief description of technique used for actual graphics/audio output (only 600LOC but my C is craptastic so..)

Yep, proper Windows support is a must for easy to use dev setup - Go is OK'ish in this sense but Crystal is currently really difficult to get running (either vm or Win10 Linux sub-system or Cygwin hack needed!)

And additionally they made Intel up their game - honestly appreciate that!

Wait what.. ends with: "So now the JS library listens on the special classes and acts accordingly. This as opposed to what we had earlier is that now for N number of times we work with data from the backend the JS code responsible for it is the same. So for instance if you compare JQuery to Bootstrap. whereas you write some amount of JS to use J [cut-off]".

Surely this is just re-factored JS then?!

You can adjust daytime/sunset/night-time under one view (via upper right "grill"-options icon / "Adjust day & night colors together") as 3 separate sliders - works fine for my use-case scenario. What I'm most happy about is that they've fixed the stuttering issues when using special graphic modes (games..etc.) in v4! :). Also, for the lazy Win upgrade: https://justgetflux.com/dlwin.html