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So the stuff they collect doesn't need 12 different kinds of bags/bins, and the (financial) incentives are correctly aligned. I think it's a good system and pretty convenient, but I'd wish they recycle & process the waste even better afterwards. But the hardest part – getting the population on board – seems to be well-established.
Recycling is difficult, some materials are relatively easy (aluminium cans, steel), some not so much (plastics f.e. tend to degrade, some materials are energy intensive to recover). Contaminants are a major issue that still need more public awareness. But we're going in the right direction.
The lack of eval/meta-programming fallbacks is a shame though, but I guess they kept the focus on a small, performant subset.
It would be nice to have gems compiled with this AOT compiler that can interact well with MRI.
When it comes to packaging/bundling more standard ruby (including gems) we'll still need tebako, kompo, ocran – and then there's a bunch of older projects that did similar things too like ruby-packer, traveling ruby, jruby warbler etc.
It's nice to have another option, but still, I'm hoping for a more definitive solution with better developer UX.
A bit like base16 but with more definitions and better semantics.
Off-topic: it'd be nice to have a configuration spec to define the look (and maybe even the behaviour) of the different CLI & TUI libraries out there. For things like colours/borders/corners/shadows/scroll- & progressbars etc.
Right now every library does its own thing, which can be quite jarring when using different apps.
For me personally, weight doesn't matter that much, and neither does configurability (I guess by now they have data on the most popular port choices for example).
But size (as small/minimal as possible for a given screen and keyboard size – minimal bezels for both) and strength (no flex, solid hinge) do matter to me.
I understand these two things conflict with themselves, and with the framework's repairability and configurability.
Still, I'd like to see some true innovation there. I'm just afraid they painted themselves into a corner with their current mainboard design, and won't be able to diverge from that to bring us something truly solid yet compact and repairable.
Any chance for different encryption keys per subvolume?
I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on other runtime approaches like contracts.ruby, literal.fun and LowType of course.
I'm using Matter (over Thread, mostly) with Home Assistant – in addition to using it with Apple HomeKit, but I could have done it exclusively HA. My devices get an IPv6 ULA from the border router, HA can directly talk to them without any internet or cloud involved. Does this qualify?
It's true that certain non-standardized features are only available through "extensions" ie. the device vendor app. But both Thread and Matter get new revisions, and the devices get firmware updates in a standard way (again, installable via Home Assistant) to take advantage of new features and stability updates. All of this has gotten better with time.
But the best thing about Matter is that I'm not locked into a specific ecosystem or dependent on an app from the device vendor. So, in my view it has been a slow start but with steady improvement. And the right direction IMHO.
I wouldn't expect to see all the important news of the tens of thousands of packages I don't have installed in the release notes.
I was hit by this using unstable (before they made a NEWS item), but when upgrading my stable machines to trixie I got a proper warning/reminder of this specific thing.
Are taxes – any taxation at all – a good idea? I would say yes – funding common infrastructure and services as charities or private companies seems doomed to fail. Making all financial transactions secret would make tax evasion rampant.
What about money coming from criminal enterprises, ie. money laundering. What about extreme concentration of money, having an outsized and untraceable influence on our political system and increasing regulatory capture to the extreme.
I'm not against disruption of our financial system in principle, but it seems we'll first need to also come up with good answers on how we organize society. A society of working poor, with a small but extremely wealthy elite doesn't seem like a good deal – even for the extremely wealthy.
There's also (the older) solargraph.
I myself am unsure where I stand on RBS. I wouldn't mind more use of it in my gem dependencies, but would probably not like it if it was enforced everywhere.
For now I'll stick with improving my test/spec-writing skills, and maybe some runtime type checking like https://literal.fun/
However, my only major issue with it was the difficulty (back then) for laying out PDFs. Most people I worked with found it a lot easier to layout in HTML/CSS and converting to PDF from there; so we went that way.
If I were to look for a way to manipulate existing PDFs I'd definitely use HexaPDF. I'll re-evaluate its (more recently) improved layout capabilities again and consider it for my next project. And I also think the dual-licensing model is fair.
Congrats on the 10-year/1.0 milestone.
But I'd like to see more general-purpose embedded-focused distribution with systemd. The only ones I know about are the special-purpose LibreELEC/Jelos/Rocknix/Lakka variants.
It'd be nice to see such a distribution, but with proper package management. I was hoping https://distr1.org/ would become this, but it seems like it's been more or less abandoned.
I assumed it was a bit slow because of the long startup lag; but it seems it's mostly because of my slow (WiFi) network, and is even worse with X forwarding.
I just tried opening the same (simple) application through waypipe and through X forwarding, and using waypipe it's actually a lot more usable.
(Using waypipe 0.9.0-1 as packaged in Debian).
waypipe works. Instead of doing `ssh -X user@host <command>` I do `waypipe ssh user@host <command>`.
Could be faster, but it does work.
Since you're referring to Brexit, you mean a political entity like the UK's House of Lords? A lot of the people in the pro-Brexit camp were often blaming EU unelected bureaucrats but seemed to be perfectly fine with their own unelected, appointed for life (and in some cases hereditary) lords.
I would like to understand why. I agree with you it's not all "the Russians' fault", and I may have jumped the gun a bit with my earlier comment. There's definitely a weakness in the disconnect between Brussels and the states/citizens.
Is it a fundamental belief that local government is "better" or more adapted to local circumstances at least? ("sovereignty trumps economy"). Or that a vote for the EU parliament is too "diluted"? Maybe, but being a part of the EU is a trade-off: there's a lot of advantages in being a part of a bigger trading and political bloc.
After the (IMHO) unmitigated disaster that was Brexit, very few other member states still have an appetite for leaving the EU. But it'd be better if the EU was something they'd enthusiastically want to be a part of, instead of begrudgingly. However, eurosceptics seem to have difficulty articulating the changes they'd want to see.
Makes me hope or wish for a cross-website pseudonymous karma system, to at least rein in this kind of public opinion gaming.
Back on-topic: this website seems to be a net positive, already it's challenging some of my preconceptions in that some EU member states are apparently more or less corrupt than I was expecting.
What are you talking about? Yes we did. Curfew, essential services only, no non-essential travel, etc etc.
A simpler design often correlates with a sturdier design, too.
To take the AppleTV NTSC/composite plug as an example: I won't ever have to worry about having to explain to my mom which cable and connector to use when plugging it in.
That said, their "simplicity" should not come at the cost of repairability (replacing batteries, …) and openness (running Linux, …).
Currently looking for a clean, thin, sturdy, compact 12" ultrabook with just a couple of TB4 ports and proper Linux support. Dell XPS 9310 comes closest at the moment.
Real-time stimulus + rails.
This announcement is the final nail in the coffin I suppose. I hope some company will come out with great quality, well-designed, minimal laptops. That run Linux perfectly.
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