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I find bedrock has much better performance than java. It runs very nicely using the MCPE launcher on linux.

Yes, another MATE user here (UbuntuMATE). I like how efficient and boring it is. It's also very consistent.

But I'm worried we're being left behind with the shift to Wayland.

Maybe that is unfounded.

I guess because people want to track some things about their health, and people provide good pieces of software with a simple UI to do it, and this is more useful that, say, writing it down in a notebook, or in a text file or notes app.

I guess also people feel that corporations _shouldn't_ be allowed to do bad things with it.

Sadly, we already know with experience in the last 20 years, that many people don't care about what information they give to large corporations.

However, I do see more and more people increasingly concerned about their data. They are still mainly people involved in tech or related disciplines, but this is how things start.

As a doctor, I often get asked when I'm going to be replaced by AI, or if AI can help in my work.

The reality is that our work efficiency could have been made so much efficient with a bit of decent user-friendly software that is optimised for the user.

I also love computers and IT, but as a result I understand highly-optimised (usually open source) software.

The proprietary system we have at work is a mess. Inconsistent widgets, some keyboard shortcuts for some dialog boxes, but not for others. Lots of forms that need filling that I shouldn't be having to fill out (it's the same every time but I have to go through the whole process just to speak to a patient over phone).

As others have mentioned here, senior doctors used to look at the patient, and give their opinion. Admin and junior doctors would turn it into action in a safe way, following protocol and prescribing advice to make it happen.

These days senior doctors are checking in their patients themselves, clicking through many menus to order blood tests, checking out their patients, writing their patient letters, and basically sorting out the majority of the admin for enacting what they recommended should happen.

How does this affect other insects?

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Or better, just take a different device?

> IMO it is in fact dark pattern and goes against of how people perceive "Share" action

Yes, exactly this. I use 'share' all the time on my phone between various apps which privately share photos, webpages etc with other people through messaging apps. That is my current understanding of what 'share' means.

Lots of people here stating that this is an epigenetic change rather than a change in the genetic sequence, which I think is missing the point somewhat.

Epigenetic changes are an important part of your genetic make-up. To give you an example, the only reason that your skin cells remain your skin cells when they divide, and your liver cells remain your liver cells when they divide, is due to the epigenetic make up. Their DNA is the same, but the cells are very different, and epigenetics pass that information along when the code is copied.

In the same way, these stress-related epigenetic changes are being copied down and inherited by the generation two under.

This is already known, I think it was first seen in the Swedish famine cohort. At that time it was not clear it was due to epigenetics, but there was a clear signal in the health of those descendants [1], published here in 2002.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/5200859

If anyone wants to see a continuation of this subculture, have a look at this:

https://youtu.be/V_akDC1ztXQ?si=wxMOxlfvaN4IRSnw

and this:

https://youtu.be/iD9xk3SDSYc?si=KD5TvSg4UDMb-sh8

On my commute to work, I often run into a very sudden traffic slow-down. It's general practice round here to slow down carefully, checking rear mirrors and to put your hazard lights on as you're doing so. My hazards on my ID3 are not a proper button (it is a 'touchbutton'). It is awful, I can't find it by feel, but I want to keep my eyes on the road in these kind of situations.

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My daughter just asked me for the 'tiny' laptop. She has taken my Thinkpad X60 which runs linux mint. It's getting on for 20 years old soon!

A roundabout looks to be more appropriate here compared to the previous junction. The only thing that catches my eye as a UK-driver is the road markings would go against the way we would mark roundabouts in the UK. The dashed lines should indicate where the priority is - and that is on the roundabout, so in the UK there would be lines going across the road as you approach the roundabout, indicating that you are a minor road connected to a major road which has priority.

Driving in Morocco is a very special experience. Some roundabouts follow the 'priority on the right', which is a default if the junction doesn't indicate priority, in much of Europe (especially France). This means you give way to those approaching the roundabout, as they are on your right. But there are also roundabouts where you have priority on the roundabout. The only way to tell are to look at the road markings which help to indicate the priority.

Reminded me of an interesting way to optimise a layout[1] here. I feel like something similar expanded to also optimise balancing between hands etc could work well.

[1] https://youtu.be/EOaPb9wrgDY?si=x1hY8SP5noPWamWP

Ironic, didn't we find out they had patented sudo a decade ago?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/11/micro...

Absolutely.

Well that is a prescient piece.

Thank you for your thoughtful short story.

Is this going to be a problem for my mutt and mbsync setup?

Can I suggest going one further and have esc mapped to tap, ctrl to hold. You can also map double escape to :noh in vim, which allows you to quickly remove highlighting.

Do we remember when the referenced article from here [1] hit the top of HackerNews soon after the Max crashes?

[1] https://christinenegroni.com/irony-of-pilot-laying-blame-on-...

Comparing Boeing's woes to the A320 crash is to take a false middle ground. The A320 crash was the result of pilot risk taking for the purpose of showing off the plane. It didn't happen as the inevitable consequence of a company that prioritised profits over safety and had established management culture and government relationships to enable that.

The Netflix series Downfall is very good and focuses a lot on the root causes of these technical issues (i.e. business-focus of the company).

There should be people on life sentences for manslaughter of 346 people that happened as a result of corporate greed and a company culture which made company profits the only important metric of success.

The Tiddyverse sounds epic.

So someone who reaped all the benefits of living in a social system where education is of a certain standard for all then moves to a deregulated country with huge wealth, education and health inequalities, but has ended up on the rewarding side of that, is now wondering why things are so different.

What are you people in France paying for electricity at the moment?

Hackernews is another example.

Isn't this the case for any GPL-like license? Anyone wanting to build commercial software based on GPL-licensed code has a choice - either publish the full source code, or try to negotiate a closed source license with the copyright holder.