It's quite interesting, especially the support for Android and iOS later this year.
Looks like a 1-man project, with 152 contributors. I didn't know about Alexander Medvednikov, is there some link about his history and how he got that much traction for this language?
> You've probably heard about the 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle. Perhaps the title lead you to believe that this article was a misunderstanding. I admit that I went for an arresting title; perhaps a more proper name is the 80x24 rule.
You got me there.
The 24 lines convention is interesting. Made me realize that linting rules exist for function length:
javascript: https://eslint.org/docs/rules/max-lines-per-function
Can't find the equivalent for python though
procfs isn't a program but a pseudo-filesystem. Are you just meaning to say that the info stored in /proc and displayed by strace is very useful to you? Or am I missing something else?
I'm not sure how worth the study is, given the sample of 482 and the test duration of a week only.
> Volunteers with adequate sleep (>7 h) had WGS-LTL that was on average 356 bp longer than those with insufficient sleep (<5 h) (CI = 74.573–636.538, p = 0.016, adjusted for age, gender, ethnicity, and BMI)
I don't understand how many base pairs the WGS-inferred LTL is supposed to be, and what percentage of base pairs over a week this mean.
> Telomerecat was used to estimate WGS-LTL for this dataset
Anyways, albeit it's difficult for me to assess the validity of this research, it very well reinforce my confirmation bias that sleep is the best actionable improvement we can bring to our lives, whether it be for longevity, memory retention, sport performances, ... :)
> if you’re experienced, like to “look under the hood”, and prefer software that does the minimum necessary, OpenBSD is for you.
I've been using Linux as my primary system for 10 years now.
Isn't it a bit exaggerated to group all Linux distributions together with ubuntu?
I think of myself as minimalist (arch linux / i3 / tmux / zsh / vim), thus fitting the description, but I'm not convinced by the argument to make the switch. On the contrary, the article feels like I better be ready to donate a lot of money if I want the system to run as I want it to.
> It’s uncompromising. It’s not a people-pleaser or vendor-pleaser. Linux is in everything from Android phones to massive supercomputers, so has to include features for all of them. The OpenBSD developers say no to most things.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. Doesn't sound very community driven.
The security focus is probably the most interesting part here. I probably had the wrong assumption that most security-focused guys were on Kali linux.
I'll need a bit more nudging to make the jump over.
Nor does the article state what the intended target even is.
Typically, UNIX systems was for servers. And that is probably where security matters the most, too. Along with a conservative view on what hardware to support, it sounds an awful lot like a server operating system.
So does the article claim that it is good to run an operating system that targets servers on your desktop or laptop?
Historically, I don’t think that’s the case. It was developed (after its computer game concept) to support online documentation production. Most of its installations were timesharing systems (e.g. Vax) until the workstation era when it developed the workstation/server split. Considering the proliferation of graphical interfaces on Unix in the 80s, it’s definitely a desktop OS.
We use kali for pen testing, not as a daily driver. I work in infosec and use OpenBSD as a workstation, bootable kali on a thumb drive for when I need some bigger tools.
Does ZSH still contain a ftp client? If you like minimal you should check out OpenBSD's ksh (oksh on arch maybe?), it behaves exactly the same way bash does (for me) and things like dd if=/dev/mm<tab> actually work, which iirc still doesn't on zsh.. :}
> There are no “quick fixes” here. But on the other hand, it seems that things are kind of in a stalemate, where everyone accepts that the status quo sucks but no one dares to take the (drastic) action that’s needed.
> And the drastic actions that do get taken are meaningless and insignificant
It makes me think of the bike-shedding mental model, also called Parkinson's Law of triviality: People are reluctant to deeply discuss complicated matters.
Isn't Hackernews' code of conduct a successful example of a community relying on civility?
Maybe Stack Overflow could launch a civility campaign and update its reputation system to punish trolls.
I thought HN relied on moderators. How effective is any CoC w/o enforcement?
The essay points out that issues are specific to StackOverflow. ("A lot of these problems are not present on some other Stack Exchange sites. The Vi & Vim Stack Exchange is much better in my opinion") so it can't be a simple CoC or reputation system issue.
I haven't used pipx, but as far as I understand, pipx = pip + venv.
If your pip executable is in a virtualenv, the "globally installed" is locally installed.
pipx, poetry, pipenv and co are still nice wrappers to have, I suppose. It just feel less useful now that most of my projects are dockerized.
Exactly my thoughts. I haven't got a chance to dive into Neo4J yet, but this looks like a very exciting field that'll really improve visualization and data analysis.
I also believe this is the first kind of ACID NoSql database, which goes along Andy Pavlo's "All programs will execute using strongly consistent ACID transactions".
Definitely going to switch over from PostGreSQL at some point.
It's quite interesting, especially the support for Android and iOS later this year. Looks like a 1-man project, with 152 contributors. I didn't know about Alexander Medvednikov, is there some link about his history and how he got that much traction for this language?