Linux Mint 21.3 on T14s is fantastic. Only minor bluetooth issues which come and go with kernel updates. Love the three-finger swipe to switch workspaces.
You may already be aware of this, but the T14s is "just another" Intel box, whereas the X13s is Snapdragon/arm64. I despise the random nomenclature of their product lines for that very reason. But IMHO a blog post about Ubuntu on more Intel stuff would not make the front page versus "here's the current state of arm64 on the desktop" is something I have keen interest in. I still have high hopes someone is going to have better luck with Microsoft's Dev Kit since it comes with a lot more ram (recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35757277 et al https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%20dev%20kit )
as it stands - not as it should be or as i'd like things to be - i think that suicide is becoming a valid and reasonable life choice. suicide is unnecessarily emotionalized and moralized in my opinion. it is okay to decide that the party is over and take the consequential steps. but i think it should be a personal decision. i find it despicable when the government starts to incentivize or encourage it as it seems to be the case in canada. but i also think it's just as despicable to criminalize it like in germany.
Well, it's not that he is the dark lord but rather that he is so far ahead of the curve in the craft of mathematical modeling in physics (he won the Fields Medal) that he can easily solve a lot of actual mundane problems but he chooses not to. Incidentally this seems to be the legacy of String Theory after 50 years, a powerful tool for mathematical modeling in physics and not a direct road to the ToE.
So, when you come up to him as a fellow theoretical physicist and criticize his "platonic" stance his reply would be - if he is bothered at all to answer: "Ah, so the thing you are working on, did you try ... gives essentially an elegant mathematical solution to your theoretical problem that you were trying to solve for months."
Of course this is embedded in an institutional failing - namely funding throughout the 50 years.
But as Planck - who found himself reluctantly in the middle of a turning point - remarked on how insurmountable institutions and the persons associated with it can become: Science progresses funeral by funeral.
On this note: Ed Witten's dad a theoretical physicist himself, still lives at the ripe age of 102.
I've worked in start ups where they don't have automated tests.
The code quality is not as good. But that imo is not a symptom of lack of tests. It's a symptom of being a start up and the desire to move fast.
As for mysterious error or bugs that occur the rate at which we get them in the code is no larger than code with tests.
It turns out that manual testing and static checking is mostly enough.
I think for most stuff testing is an illusion. It's one of those faith based mantras developers follow without any basis in science. There are a few applications where I feel automated tests are required but they are not the majority of software projects.
I've worked in plenty too. They start out faster. Delivery and quality both decrease almost imperceptibly for a long period. When somebody who understood how everything was built leaves because they got offered 20% more elsewhere, delivery and quality both plunge quite a lot and the decline accelerates.
It's incredibly unusual for them to recover delivery speed and quality after not doing automated testing for so long. It's incredibly hard to "bolt on" testing afterwards - both because the culture and context isn't there but also because the tooling and infrastructure can't be built up in a week. Most companies in this state look for quick fixes like:
* Elaborate branching strategies
* Entirely different versions of the software for different clients (because you're too afraid to upgrade them all).
* Ever more infrequent releases.
The next step is technical bankruptcy. That's when your devs start whingeing about wanting to do a full rewrite. That's usually the point where you've probably ended up losing money overall by dodging tests.
It can work without tests you manage to hit product/market fit before the decline sets in, but I find that companies in this situation often tend to struggle developing and will often stagnate. 1/50 might tap into some undiscovered new market opportunity and hit it out of the park either way but it's rare.
> It's a symptom of being a start up and the desire to move fast.
My take is that you can only move fast when you are not in a hurry. If you are in a hurry, you need to work slower, or things will be messed up with no time to fix it.
Thus, usually, there is no need to move fast, since if you can, you are not in a hurry anyway.
i'm wondering what platform could presently take twitter's place for publishing news like this? twitter gets a lot of flak here for political reasons. but it seems it nonetheless serves a societal purpose.
Any Fediverse site works. Most are more publicly accessible than Twitter (no limited number of views, and you can actually see replies). The big advantage is that every organisation can run their own server and not be dependent on a single company.
Twitter is a content aggregator. It doesn't publish news. The Twitter post links to the site "unusual whales" which provides an incomplete text of the story which you can find verbatim on numerous news sites, likely aggregated into numerous other news feeds, any of which could serve as a more authoritative source.
There is no unique value-add from Twitter in this case, except to push the visibility of some random crypto news site.
