Fractional scaling works well, but only when all your monitors are the same size. If you're a laptop user connecting to a differently sized screen it can be a challenge.
It's been a solid daily driver for me at work and home for the last 4 years. I would also be interested in knowing what you feel is completely broken. The window tiling system they came up with is really quite good.
Some time ago I had to switch distros because for some reason it wouldn't wake up from locking. It happened randomly. Even after several reinstalls the problem persisted. It was related to the nvidia drivers and I wasn't the only one with that issue.
Anyway, now that's not a problem anymore but many other things are not working as expected.
- Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces
- The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something
- When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.
These things make me want to throw the computer out of the window. I'll have to look for an alternative once I finish the things I'm working on.
> When I lock the screen it doesn't turn black as it's expected, it stays half awake. At night I have to unplug the external monitors to avoid having them on all night.
Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.
> Shortcuts to switch workspace don't work if you have horizontal workspaces
Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.
> - The Pop Shop waaay slower than it was to the point sometimes it becomes irresponsive when searching for something
Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.
> Click "suspend", not "lock" and/or set to suspend after a certain amount of inactivity.
That's stupid. Why would I use suspend if I want to lock the screen? Anyway, suspend is broken in linux so if I suspend there a high chance that I'll have to reboot to bring it back.
> Pop doesn't really support horizontal workspaces last I checked, you needed an extension and this naturally played hell with the rest of the DE. Maybe Cosmic will fix it? IIRC this is still a Gnome thing.
It's GNOME so horizontal workspaces are there. I'm using them but shortcuts are broken.
> Never had need for the pop shop, but I wouldn't call the ad hoc app store based on flathub being slow that big of a deal.
It's an important piece of software so it is a big deal.
I installed Pop on one of my machines recently. I can't get on with the tiling. Things I could do with a single key chord in the last tiling WM I tried I have to enter a special layout mode to do. This is enough to interrupt my flow. The key bindings didn't seem to be as configurable as I'd like either.
Love this comment because it translates so well to any mentally taxing endeavor. Writing a long-running program? Set a few assertions up front so that it fails immediately before wasting your time. Think about those "failure" condition assertions up front and save your time on practically any experiment. Even chess players do this by surrendering early when they know a game has reached a conclusion.
Whatever you do, focus on a deep specialization. Find something you really love then become a profound expert in it. Education is absolutely critical in a world where you are either telling machines what to do or being told what to do by a machine.
I agree with this one. Specialise, and then branch out if you like into a second or third specialisation. People who say "stay generalist" - I don't know what they mean. Maybe they mean "people/project management", but that is still a specialisation.
S3, S4, R6, and reference classes. To be fair they are situational and not one size fits all. The stricter ones are mainly used in biostats where significant metadata makes more sense in OO. S3 is nice and easy, primarily just a list with dispatches. Everything else is less so.
I can't think of a PDF but there are images like this. "Lenna". There are also really famous datasets that are used for examples in similar ways (iris).
Lenna is copyright-encumbered (despite its widespread use, Apple is a commercial operator and can't do that sort of thing) and it's not very inclusive to use a playboy centerfold image (even cropped) and it's taking some heat on the sexism front these days.
"In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".[2]
I’d be willing to bet that there have been significantly more viewings of that image this century as a result of the documentary. What a ridiculous way to try to end cultural awareness of a meme.
And I’m sorry but I just can’t fathom the controversy. The cropped version is the only one I’ve ever seen used in the context of a sample image. It is utterly unremarkable unless you’re aware of the image’s provenance, (which I bet most people didn’t). Even the uncropped version, which I have only ever saw because of the controversy, isn’t any more racy than many historically important paintings hanging in art galleries.
I’m not saying this is an appropriate canonical test image. But I am saying that it’s disingenuous to single it out as a problem. There is so much of mainstream culture that is orders of magnitude more degrading of women than this image.
I am certainly not equating the two, but I do see parallels in the hysterics around “Lenna” and hysterics around David of Michelangelo’s little noodle.
That’s not the point. It’s being singled out among the millions of instances where very slightly racy depictions of women have entered into mainstream culture. Except in this instance it never did break into mainstream culture; it was only ever a meme among a comically narrow set of programmers and researchers.
Bringing mainstream attention to it was an extreme example of the Streisand Effect.
You seem to have the idea that the intended outcome was to prevent people seeing the image (it's going to be online forever, no chance of that), while I believe it was for people to stop using it in the places I described, as a part of scientific papers, etc., and help bring about a wider discussion of such imagery.
Forsén was interviewed in a documentary that featured the image. The entire point of which was to bring more attention to the fact the image existed and how it had been/was being used. Claiming this is an example of the Streisand effect is nonsense.
I'd be interested to hear what other specific images you feel should be getting a similar amount of discussion.
The documentary is literally called "Losing Lena" and tried to advocate for the removal of a meme image from an academic context. And it did so by immensely amplifying its exposure in a mainstream context.
The supposedly "deeper" part of their argument is even more pathetic, maternalistic, infantilising nonsense. Are they seriously claiming that women are so fragile that they will forego pursuit of their intellectual passion because sometimes, some academic papers use the image of a women wearing a fancy hat and bare shoulders? What a low view of women these documentarians have. What a vile insult to half the population.
I can only imagine that the movie was made by freak puritanical zealots who would literally explode if they ever saw a television advertisement for shampoo. And these zealots seem to have zero concept of how technology works. The movie's tagline falsely claims that "There's a secret hidden in almost every website and every digital image you've ever seen." The fact that anyone took it seriously is itself a sick joke.
Careful, there is someone whose name I shall not mention who is suing people claiming he is Satoshi and has copyright over the Whitepaper. He even got it banned from Bitcoin.org in the UK
Alternative alternative hypothesis: someone got laid off and told to work out the rest of their shift, and used their frontdoor access to take a massive dump in the boses desk drawer.
The last AirBNB I stayed at, I received a bad review. Their negative review stated, passively aggressively, that I had only completed "some of the checkout list items". The list of chores was 3 pages long and was provided after booking. They also charged me a $250 cleaning fee. Never again.
It seems like most people have a "never again" Airbnb story at this point.
I once rented a condo in a city on the east coast, and the rules mentioned that the kitchen is available but to avoid cooking anything "crazy". No further details were provided. My partner and I boiled two lobsters and sauteed a few scallops, thinking that wasn't a "crazy" thing to cook in a rental by the Atlantic ocean.
A few weeks later (one day after the review window closed), we got a DM from the owner telling us that they found the lobster shells in the garbage, and that us boiling the two lobsters was in violation of the rules. Supposedly, the odor from our cooking triggered their incredibly acute seafood allergy to the point where they could no longer live in their own condo, and they filed a complaint with Airbnb seeking $500+ in damages. There was, of course, no mention of this seafood allergy anywhere in the listing or in the rules regarding cooking.
Airbnb threw away the claim, but in an attempt to mollify the host, they allowed them to write a negative review of me (after the review window had closed) and how I permanently ruined their condo. Thankfully I don't care very much about having a spotless reputation of Airbnb anymore, but it's crazy to me that Airbnb did anything to appease someone who basically tried to extort another one of their users through their platform.
If this was a real business instead of a magical internet business you could take the 3 pages of chores and tell them where to stick it. Why are they allowed to alter the deal once you arrive?
Its not really a magical internet thing in this case, this reads like what a landlord would do with your security deposit. What do you know, let slumlords become unregulated hoteliers and they will do shady slumlord crap in the hotel industry too.
the last place i stayed in via Airbnb requested not only to take out the kitchen garbage, but to also deliver it to the city dump.
The place itself was nice and worth the money, but after paying the $100 cleaning fee i declined to turn my car into a garbage truck. I have not used it since.
Good advice, but I don't have to do any of this when I stay at hotels. I really like the core idea of AirBNB, but between their crappy hosts and the damage they do to neighborhoods, I won't deal with them anymore.
Amazing, a $250 cleaning fee AND a list of chores 3 pages long? So basically you were prepping the AirBnB for the next guest and were graded as if it were their employee. Is staying in private home or apartment over a hotel really worth all this? I just always think my time and stress level is worth more than this and opt for the hotel.
