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I'm with you, but I think this post also highlights the need for protected land. I'd really hate to see any National Forest land go away because everyone who wants to live somewhere with a view now can.

More people/better infrastructure in Gunnison, CO would be great. Maroon Bells getting a housing development and a golf course? Not so great. I'm worried that more people in small mountain towns near national forests has the potential to slowly eat away the national forest.

I took linear algebra through a community college and had one of those rare, really awesome CC instructors. He had spent most of his career at Cray and later Raytheon and then semi-retired as a community college instructor. He took time to make really great interactive Jupyter notebooks. That combined with 3 brown 1 blue videos really made linear algebra click for me.

My only regret is that I took the class as a six week short course. I think my recall would be better if I had taken the full semester. We covered all the material, but missed out on the longer spaced repetition. Linear Algebra was by far my favorite pure math course, I hope to revisit it soon. Maybe Strang's lectures are the way to do that.

Honestly, /g/ is no small part of why I ended up in tech. In 2011 I was a bored econ student spending my nights working programming problems posted to /g/, trying to get gentoo to run on my macbook pro (eventually giving up and 'ricing' crunch bang so I could post pictures of my desktop..) and arguing about things I didn't understand.

It was a fun distraction, but eventually I outgrew it. I'm sure if I dug around I could find my old /g/ folder full of stupid tech memes.

I have an original pinebook and it would be usable for light computing tasks (note taking/light programming in vim, web browsing with FF + no script) if not for the awkward keyboard layout. The other issue with the pinebook is the Mali 400 GPU is not open source, so if you are after a fully open device the pinebook is not it. IIRC there are also some video acceleration issues caused by the Mali 400 drivers.

The new pinebook pro looks like a better product, but I don't own one so I can't really comment.

Or better yet, eternal terminal. That way you can keep your scrollback

https://eternalterminal.dev/

I’m at a FAANG for the first time, but was previously at a big financial company with a relatively large IT org. It would’ve been nice to have an option to use Linux there. I think FAANGs are the exception not the norm.

Edit: or maybe I haven’t been picky enough with my employers.

This is a really good sign. I hope this means more corporate IT support for Linux desktops. This is the first year I've been able to use Linux (Fedora 31) on a corporate owned machine (T490s) and I don't think I could go back. For my work, it really is a better experience.

I've also been using Fedora as the primary OS on my personal devices since 2011 (T410 -> x220 -> T470s and a couple of custom PCs). I stay on fairly standard hardware and really haven't had any major issues in the past 9 years.

I'm completely unfamiliar with this, but could they not get HAM licenses and operate on amateur radio frequencies? Or simply turn what they are doing into a podcast?

Or is the issue that their target audience only has access to AM/FM radios?

Really it's meant to solve the fragmentation that already exists. Cisco developed the standard, but it's completely open.

I believe Cisco is the only large vendor that's implemented it, but there are Linux and BSD implementations, which should make it easy for any Linux or BSD based NOS to implement it in the future.

Honestly this problem will probably be mostly solved in hardware with larger FIBs/TCAMs

Edit - I should clarify the problem I'm referring to here is fragmentation, not exhaustion.

LISP is meant to solve this problem, but it's yet to be deployed outside of the test network. It could also be used to address exhaustion to some extent by allowing the use of prefixes longer than /24 on the internet, although that is not the intention.

https://www.lisp4.net/

https://neverthenetwork.com/notes/lisp/

Full disclosure, the second link is my blog.

I made a slideshow in LibreOffice Impress for my grandfather's funeral last week. We ended up playing it via PowerPoint because of how the chapel's AV system was set up.

PowerPoint rendered the images in the ODP poorly, like it jacked the contrast up to 100. Saving the document as a PPTX within LibreOffice and then playing it on PowerPoint fixed the issue. From my naive perspective MS Office seems to have issues with ODF just like LibreOffice has with docx/pptx/xlsx/etc.

I took linear algebra after college (I hold a non-technical bachelors) through a local community college.

3blue1brown is what made linear algebra really click for me. My professor also gave us some jupyter notebooks to play around with that really helped. Unfortunately he developed these himself and I don't believe they are publicly accessible.

I also purchased 'Coding the Matrix' by Philip N. Klein, which gave me another perspective on Linear Algebra. I primarily used it as an additional reference. I've been meaning to do a front to back reading of the text, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It's got some pretty decent exercises.

I'm in the same boat. We use redhat jumpboxes for a lot of our tools at work. I'm kinda the department linux guy. It'd save me a lot of time if I could just tell people to modify their .ssh/config with nano instead of needing to explain how to navigate/insert/save/quit in vi.

If anyone has issues with ANC, I suggest giving Etymotic IEMs a shot. I have ER2XRs, they provide a quoted 34-42dB of isolation. I never had a problem with the deep insertion, they sound great and are relatively cheap.

This isn't necessarily directed at OP since he's been using Bose since 2004

They make really great IEMs as well. I've got my ER2XRs on right now. They sound great and when music isn't playing they basically act as earplugs.

They are a great option for people who have issues with ANC.

As a user I don't think I'd ever go to .new directly. If you've got some other way to get users there from the main site, you might as well use a query string, path, subdomain or some combination of the three.

I'm not a web dev, but I've dabbled a bit over the years. So I guess I could be missing something. I'm sure the right marketing could make this work.

I agree. It's just compounded by social media. It could be that I'm affected by this more than other people, but I've spoke with friends and family with similar experiences. Luckily I'm mature enough now to recognize this.

I also want to be clear that most of the negative thoughts I have aren't due to people being "too good" or "not good enough". It's due to the things people share. I see lots of anger in my facebook feed, usually related to politics, but not always. It's just a very dramatic place.

I don't want to think of what my early teenage years would've been like had social media been more accessible. Don't get me wrong, I would've loved to have access to MySpace from anywhere, but I don't think it would've been healthy and I certainly wasn't mature enough for it.

I'm 28 and spent a lot of my childhood playing video games (N64, GameCube and later Xbox 360) and reading. I still play video games and read as an adult (although much less often due to work and personal obligations). I have also gone through periods where I waste tons of time on social media.

Social Media is mostly mindless, it makes me think negative thoughts about my neighbors and friends, it makes me want to go out and spend money on things I don't need and I get caught in this cycle where I feel like I constantly need to check it. Fortunately, I recognize this and its not a problem any more but its a very easy trap to fall into.

Books and video games have never made me feel this way.

Assuming someone sleeps 8 hours a night and spends 100% of their 40 hour a week job in front of a computer and no other time in front of a screen, that's about 36% of an adult's waking hours.

My total screen time is higher than that, but that's largely my fault (although I do work 50+ hours a few weeks out of the year). If you work in tech your going to spend a lot of time in front of screens, likewise fishing guides spend a lot of time staring at water.

I live in Dallas-Fort Worth and grew up near Amarillo, TX. In high school I regularly drove a few miles (like less than 5) away from the city to look at lights. I've noticed in DFW you've got to get much much further away from the city. I can't really put a number on it, but I know even 20 miles out of town you can still only see the brightest stars.

The article references this line from the glob documentation: "The glob module finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell, although results are returned in arbitrary order."

That wasn't added until Nov 4, 2018 (Edit: see below it was actually Nov 16, 2015 - still more than 6 years ago) so I'd be hesitant to put blame the scripts author. After all he wrote it ~6 years ago. Testing is obviously important and probably even more so in the scientific world, but the article makes it sound like this line of documentation has been in place since the library was first written.

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/52465e1b8bb7af23d64...

Edit: Correct commit from 2015 https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f3c094e687898be24e... and the related issue https://bugs.python.org/issue25615

I own a pinebook. It's a fun little machine, but if you need anything other than light web browsing (without javascript) and basic text editing it's insufficient. It's also based on an Allwinner SoC that only has ok Linux support: https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page.

Also, the keyboard is cramped and has an odd layout.

Slab would be part of main memory, not to be confused with swap.

~10% of the utilization on my system is slab.

[bjames@lwks1 ~]$ grep "Slab\|MemTotal\|Active:" /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 65976620 kB

Active: 6139820 kB

Slab: 605988 kB

That's hardly insignificant.

It sounds to me like slab allocation is specifically used to allocate small blocks of memory (less than a page). Ie a slab might be set aside for integers, then if an application (edit: not applications, see rayiner's comment below) needs to store an integer it gets stored in that slab instead of somewhere else in memory. I'm not a Linux developer, so I hope I'm not spreading bad info. Maybe someone else can chime in.

I assume this would largely be short lived allocations so I can see where optimizations here would lead to power savings.

When this happens it's typically due to undiagnosed cardiomyopathy (which is very difficult to detect). It's true that when something like that happens to someone they would've lived longer had they not been an endurance athlete, but most endurance athletes live about as long as their less-active peers.

I get a yearly physical just to be safe, but honestly running is my favorite way to decompress and I'd need some kind of diagnosis before giving it up.

Check out the Forerunner 945, it's near feature parity with the Fenix 6, but it's in a plastic body. I've got a FR935 (which is basically a Fenix 5 in a plastic body) and it's seriously great for anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors.

That's hardly true, the two devices have very different purposes. I couldn't run an ultramarathon (or even a shorter trail race) in an apple watch. That's before we even start talking about features. The battery would die long before I finish.

The FR945 that was released this year has far more features than the apple watch (including the emergency features). Even comparing the Apple Watch 4 to my FR935 (released in 2017), the Apple watch would be a huge step down for my purposes. That's all without mentioning the fact that I'd probably break the apple watch on my first outing.

The Apple watch might be a better smart watch for day-to-day use, but next to a Garmin it's pretty obvious which is the toy.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/product-comparison-calculator?ty...

Wish you wouldn’t have shown me that.. this time next year I’ll be surrounded by a pile of Sony GM Lenses.

Yeah, I'm curious too. I've got a E-M5.2 and the photos I get on it are consistently better than what I get on my Xr. I mostly shoot in Aperture priority mode, but I switch to full manual in tricky situations. I do very basic editing with Darktable.

Before I bought my E-M5.2 I had an E-PL2, looking at some of the pictures I took with the kit lens they are generally still better than the pictures I've taken on my phone.

Yeah, there's also the benefits you get from longer exposures and the ability to swap lenses. I carry an Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 and Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6, which gives me a massive focal length range to play with in a relatively small package.

For a hobbyist like me M43 is great and won't be replaced by a cell phone any time soon. And as much as I'd like an A7iii I can't justify the extra cost and lens size for what I do.

People have always questioned the usefulness of smaller sensor cameras (Ie M43) with the improvement in cellphone cameras, but it looks like I'll still carry my Olympus EM5.2 when I travel.

The iPhone 11 gets great social media photos, but I wouldn't want to get any of those printed (at least not larger than 4x6). Of course the best camera is the one you have with you so I am still happy to see the improvements over my Xr and my wife's 8+.