Im glad people find success with Linux. But in my decade of professional use and trying to use it at home, I’ve got to squint very hard to see it as remotely viable.
I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS. I’m there with my very limited time to do something. Not figure out compatibility or updates or why my monitors don’t come online in the same order and same resolution every time or the fear of closing the lid or plugging in a TV for a bit. This month’s issue is that a quarter of the time my wifi just doesn’t exist as a feature and I have to reboot.
I want to hook myself up into an alternate reality where I’m just frozen in time with OSX 10.6 =)
Get an AMD gpu. If you don’t need a strong GPU get an Intel CPU that has an integrated GPU.
Install fedora silverblue. Use your computer how nature intended. You can do everything from the GUI.
If you’re using your PC as your development machine then you’re probably already fucking around with it. Especially on windows (PATH variable is a very fun one there)
I got an AMD gpu recently, as I had just recently switched to Linux. Seems there is a bug in the AMDGPU driver as I will get a driver crash during roughly 1 out of 10 game starts for certain games. After trying everything I could think of I switched back to Windows and have not had any crashing for a week.
I had Nvidia card before that whilst it had other issues on linux, at least it didn't crash.
> I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS.
After one malware too many I confiscated my wife's Windows PC and gave here my old PC and installed Ubuntu on it (FWIW I don't use Ubuntu, I use Debian since the nineties).
It's been, what, 18 months? If my wife can use Ubuntu, I think nearly anyone can.
It's been literally fire and forget: zero issue.
Now it's desktop Linux, as in actually running on a desktop (with an Ethernet cable), with a dual-monitor setup (I prefer a single ultra-wide monitor but the wife prefers to have two monitors).
I got a call from an ex-girlfriend about a year ago. We had been broken up for at least 5 or 6 years. Hadn't spoken since then. She calls out of the blue to ask if I can come try to fix her computer; she had taken it to the local repair shop and they didn't know what to do with it. She remembered that I had done "a bunch of weird stuff" to it, so she though I might be able to help.
I opened it up, and sat before me was Ubuntu 12.04. It hadn't been updated since before we broke up. The only real issue was some weird stuff going on with the networking, so it wouldn't connect to WiFi. Got it fixed, and I assume she's still going strong with it.
That said, I absolutely wouldn't trust modern Ubuntu (at least back to 20.04, maybe farther) to remain so stable. Ubuntu is now nothing more than a Rube Goldberg machine.
I don't have any statistics on this, but I feel like I see far fewer plastic bags littering the streets these days. That alone is a win for me personally.
Give it time and you'll be seeing plenty of the reusable bags littering instead
In theory they are supposed to be reusable but in practice I think they are going to wind up being single-use for most people. Maybe we'll start using them as garbage bags as they accumulate around the house.
Yeah, my bag use hasn't changed at all, except instead of getting 3 to 6 lightweight plastic bags on each trip, I spend an extra quarter, and get 3-6 heavy plastic bags on each trip. Very much a net loss, as they have to use at least five times the material.
(When paper bags aren't available. I've always preferred paper.)
Product packaging probably generates 1-2 orders of magnitude more waste than the bags holding the product.
I live in an area that's banned plastic bags. Given enough experience, grabbing a reusable bag out of the car before going into the store became an unconscious programmed action.
Unless you empty your groceries in your car to leave the bags there, at some point bags need to make it from your house to your car, so that you have some to take into the store.
That's the part I struggle with.
Also, if you order groceries for delivery, they bring your order in reusable bags. Which you then keep.
My point is these re-usable bags have a tendency to accumulate over time. Maybe not at the same rate as plastic bags would otherwise, but once you have dozens of these bags at home it starts to be tempting to just use them as bin liners and toss them, just like we did with plastic bags
Which sort of defeats the whole purpose, right? The ideal is people would buy as many as they need and use them for years.
But that isn't going to happen any time soon imo. If ever.
It measures runtime, but not reliably, multiple runs of the same code can report very different runtimes. My impression is the focus is mostly on getting the time complexity right.
Suggestion (not for you specifically, just a general comment): never answer leetcode questions right away. Push back and ask the interviewer to describe the problem they're actually trying to solve. Probe their constraints - memory limitations, throughput. 99% of software isn't going to be the leetcode algorithm but the reasons for it being there. (Caveat: I haven't had to be in an leetcode driven interview for some years, and this probably doesn't work great with people that love algorithms more than getting something done.)
I don't currently have one, but I want to buy an efficient pickup truck or unibody pickup truck when I do buy one.
In the rare occasions that I do want a car, a truck is really helpful. I don't really see another solution other than cheap and convenient pickup truck rentals.
> I don't really see another solution other than cheap and convenient pickup truck rentals.
In my city, you can rent a truck for the day for about $50 (including a decent amount of miles). I know because I do this regularly. I'd be surprised if such an option isn't available in your city as well.
The cheap rentals in my city are at the airport and that makes it a pain to use them. They're not really cheap if I ascribe a sufficiently high value to my time. The ones close to me often have limited inventory and don't have a pickup truck right now.
Even at the airport, it looks like a pickup truck is $200 for the weekend. And honestly going to the airport is enough of a pain that I'm less likely to do things that require a truck as a result.
If I owned a pickup truck and kept it in a garage by my place then I would be far more likely to make last minute decisions to go camping or yard sale shopping or whatever.
Sure, U-Haul. It's $19.95/day and $1.39/mile. Last time I rented one the automated "don't have to talk to anyone" app I couldn't figure out, but it took less than 120 seconds to navigate the in person exchange to get the key.
You don't need a pickup truck to go camping (they're actually not terribly useful for that) or yard sale shopping. Like seriously it's https://van.life not truck life.
I use U-Haul. Pickup trucks are pretty popular, and they have some at every location around here. Many locations are cool with you leaving your car there for the day, too.
In my area, renting any vehicle at the airport is more expensive than the same vehicle at other locations.
> If I owned a pickup truck and kept it in a garage by my place then I would be far more likely to make last minute decisions to go camping or yard sale shopping or whatever.
You and every other SUV driver share this dream. We all know that last minute outdoorsy fantasy is not gonna happen. And are you buying the entire yard at the yard sale?
> In the rare occasions that I do want a car, a truck is really helpful. I don't really see another solution other than cheap and convenient pickup truck rentals.
As someone on HN, I would think you would be familiar with the saying "optimize for the common case". If most of the time you simply need personal transport, paying for the gas to operate a truck the occasional use seems sub-optimal.
I say this as someone who owns a VW Golf and who borrows or rents larger vehicles once or twice a year.
Consider the humble minivan. Seriously. I’m also in your shoes. I bike or walk most places I need to go, but I use the minivan when I need to get large things. The rear seats fold into the floor and the middle seats come out if I need the extra space. It’s about as long as a decent truck bed with those seats out, my cargo is covered (not to mention there’s more vertical space and I don’t need to tie anything down), and it gets great gas mileage by comparison. I don’t really give a shit if the interior gets messed up, and I’m sitting lower to the ground with great visibility.
They’re also easier to parallel park, as the wheels sit at the corners of the vehicle (the swing of a truck bed makes this trickier), and minivans these days have much more power than they used to. That’s to say nothing of the roof rack, which adds even more cargo opportunity. SUVs are a common alternative, but despite their size, they’re nowhere near as spacious as you hope. You might not be able to haul certain large appliances, but otherwise, minivans have all the benefits of a truck and then some, with few drawbacks.
I’ve owned two minivans and three trucks, and I’d go minivan any day.
For occasional use why not just buy a small car and rent (or buy) a trailer? Seems more versatile to me and probably an order of magnitude less expensive.
As someone who has had both, the truck is A LOT more convenient and versatile. Especially in cases where 4wd is an advantage such as collecting trash or firewood from a beach. Hauling a ton of sand off the beach using a trailer behind my heavy SUV was harder than doing the same with a ute.
I'm no expert, but that Utah bank sounds pretty risky to me.
At least treasuries and MBS are relatively liquid securities that can be quickly sold at prices that don't deviate much from their marks as long as you're marking to market.
Those loans to local businesses and home owners sound much, much scarier.
This is not the case at all. They provide their own proprietary non-conflated data for a bunch of different classes (markets, prices, research, news, etc) and it’s packaged with their yearly licence fee of ~30K USD per year.
They have a website you can read about what they offer in their software with the licence.
> Wal-Mart’s prices were matched and even undercut by the Aldi and Lidl food chains, which also were ordered to cease selling below cost or face fines of about $445,000 for each product sold in violation of the order.
They probably still would have lost, our supermarket system is very cut-throat ;)
