charlieok

I like that wsl is a thing when I'm on a windows machine, but it can also serve as a reminder of the often unnecessary frictions that exist between operating systems.

When the answer to a "how do I do X on windows" question begins with "start WSL", my primary reaction is frustration because they're basically saying "there's not a good way to do that on Windows, so fire up a Linux VM".

Just to pick my most recent example, from today. I wanted to verify the signatures on some downloaded rpm files, and the rpm tools work on linux. I know, rpm files are native to a family of linux distros, so it's not surprising that the tools for retrieving and verifying their signatures don't work on windows but... it also seems reasonable to want a world where those tools can install and run on windows, straight from a PowerShell session, with no VM.

Multiply that by all the little utilities that that can't be deployed across multiple operating sytems, and it just seems like some incompatibility headaches are never really going to go away.

I like the idea of converting the executive branch to be just the cabinet and not the president or vice president.

National elections for a few of the most significant ones (e.g. secretary of state, attorney general). Maybe Congress appoints the rest.

When designing a system to be resistant to attack, it helps to split up roles. A "superadmin" type of role is a vulnerability. Similar idea here.

The bar for "the greatest calculator app development story ever told" it should be noted, is quite high :)

    https://www.pacifict.com/story/

cool, seems like the ideal device for something like Circa Solar as watch face

  https://www.circa.bio/

Although as far as I can tell, Circa Solar isn't open source. But maybe there's another similar thing that is?

I always liked the idea of an "apparent solar time" watch face, and never did find a way to do that with Apple Watch.

This got me curious enough to skim the article looking for the answer to whether 3M "convinced" her. It looks like the answer is:

    * They kept relevant information from her, including studies they'd done on the subject before
    * They sidelined her research efforts and made her feel unwelcome there
    * She grew to dread the subject and avoided staying involved with it
    * "when friends asked Hansen about PFAS, she would change the subject. Still, she repeatedly told [her husband] — and herself — that the chemicals were safe."

I guess you could read that as saying 3M "convinced" her if you really wanted to, but I'd have looked for a different way to describe it. It helps to remember that article authors don't usually get to write the headline.

Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated from as a result.

Censorship resistance is a nice principle that I agree should carry a lot of weight in a lot of situations, but it isn't everything.

agreed, and it should be great for form factors in the range of apple tvs, mac minis, soho-size network switches, NUCs. If what you want is a homelab cluster, a 19 inch rack seems needlessly large. If only this 10 (or is it 10.5?) inch rack were a more standardized form factor, with gear designed to slide right in and out of it.

if you're going to bother syncing your shell history across machines, you probably also would strongly consider syncing your entire home directory.