If it's easy to patch this out, I wonder if there will be manufacturers that will choose to do so for their official ROMs. It would be extra value for the brand, imho. A reason to choose, say, Samsung, over a Pixel phone, if Samsung were to patch this restriction out, for example. After all, they also have the Galaxy Store which is also offering apps that I doubt they'll want Google to regulate.
I'd argue that the systemd trend actually is the one that's change-adverse.
I remember that before systemd there was a lot of innovation when it comes to init systems… the flexibility of the script-based inits made it so most distros had their own spin. And there was more diversity in components that now are part of systemd. I’d argue that ever since systemd became the de-facto standard, innovation in those areas has become niche. Distros are becoming more homogeneous and less open to changes in that sense. Some components are becoming more and more interdependent and it's becoming harder to ship, for example, Gnome, without systemd.
At least Scheme is a kind of established language that has uses outside of this specific application.
One of the "What's Stopping it" arguments this article makes about Nix is it's "arcane syntax", to the point that the first thing proposed was to replace the Nix language with something more standard.
Yes.. the thing is that with asexual reproduction you can reproduce way more and much faster.. so even though each individual division might have less variability, you have many more generations of splits and a bigger population that ends up being forced to spread around more to different conditions and eventually leading to mutations faster than they would have otherwise.
Also, the ease of reproduction makes each individual more disposable, and at that point it doesn't make as much sense to have more mechanisms to protect your genetic material from mutagens, you can just let the mutants die when they are not fit and produce new ones until ultimately you hit the jackpot and achieve a new resistance. This is what makes bacteria so adaptable, with new strains appearing every day.
I feel the question wasn't so much about the sexual process (fusion of genetic information of two individuals) but about sexual differentiation (separation of this information into two parts) . At least, to me "uni sex" is not the same as "no sex". These are different things, in biology you can find creatures that reproduce sexually but do not have sexual differentiation.
I mean, you could say there's no inherent goal on anything, goals are always subjective/constructed, so from that perspective nothing ever makes sense.
But I think the question was how is it possible that sex differentiation could have contributed to make us fit and adapted even though in the surface it might seem to be more like an obstacle to reproduction (and thus, survival).
My guess is that specialization allows for higher level social structures that can more easily organize to survive. You have extreme cases with the bees, ants, etc. whose individuals can even have different sets of chromosomes and are very specialized for specific roles, making them so successful that you have them all over the planet for far longer than humans, millions and millions of years with hardly any changes.
Windows 35.5%
11 18.5%
10 16%
7 0.8%
2000 0.1%
8.1 < 0.1%
8 < 0.1%
iOS 29.6%
Android 15.9%
Macintosh 12.3%
Linux 5.2%
Chrome OS 1.4%
Other < 0.1%
If we exclude Android and iOS (which make for 29.6 + 15.9 = 45.5%), then the contribution of each of the others would increase (by 100/45.5 = 2.19), leading to 11.388% (5.2 * 2.19).
Honestly, I'm more interested in reliability and mechanisms to prevent data loss...
Last I checked, the exFAT implementation that MS released to the public was missing some key features that made the Linux port less reliable, particularly for removable storage devices (making it not much better than old school FAT). Has that been fixed already?
All you need is the promptbar. No need to waste resources rendering a bloated page. Have the AI summarize the contents in one sentence and then speak it out loud so I don't have to read.
I mean, isn't that what "get on or get left behind" means?
It does not necessarily mean you'll lose your job. Nor does "get on" mean you have to become a specialist on it.
The post picks specifically on things that didn't catch on (or that only catched on for a period of time but were eventually superseeded), but does not apply it to other successful technologies.
I agree that we shouldn't worry (at least for the moment), but I think the main reason is the lack of locks, both when it comes to hardware (no locked bootloader) and software (getting root access is trivial, so you can uninstall whatever components you might not like and with updates not being mandatory you can keep it under your control).
With SteamOS, you already have an ecosystem, which is Steam. There is (at least for now) a clear distinction between Hardware manufacturer and software provider.
Currently, the only officially sanctioned version of SteamOS is the one that is shipped with Steam Deck (even though that might change soon), which is hardware sold by Valve (ie, the same company making the software). Meanwhile, most people using Android don't use Pixel / Nexus devices and thus their hardware is not being sold by Google.
So I'd say this depends entirely on how do the new manufacturers wanna go about it when it comes to offering their own custom versions of SteamOS. At the moment this is ok because Valve has been acting as a "benevolent dictator" and they have essentially had a monopoly on SteamOS 3 devices until now. Once that monopoly breaks (and if Valve actually allows third parties to ship their own customizations) we'll have to see what kind of control will their partners want to assert over it.
I assume it's storing the images and assets in base64 format, so it might get quite big. I always wished there was a standard way to package a website in a single compressed file. Sort of like an epub / ODF kind of format that keeps the website layout. But this is the next best thing.
And if looking for Rust alternatives, there's dua.
Particularly user friendly when called in interactive mode with dua i, you can navigate the tree immediately as it populates and calculates space progressively.
That's horrible for muscle memory, every time I switch desk/keyboard I have to re-learn the position of the home/end/delete/PgUp/PgDn keys.
I got used to Ctrl-a / Ctrl-e and it became second nature, my hands don't have to fish for extra keys, to the point that it becomes annoying when a program does not support that. Some map Ctrl-a to "Select all" so, for input fields where the selection is one line, I'd rather Ctrl-a then left/right to go to the beginning/end than fish for home/end, wherever they are.
If it's easy to patch this out, I wonder if there will be manufacturers that will choose to do so for their official ROMs. It would be extra value for the brand, imho. A reason to choose, say, Samsung, over a Pixel phone, if Samsung were to patch this restriction out, for example. After all, they also have the Galaxy Store which is also offering apps that I doubt they'll want Google to regulate.