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And yet the Bible has numerous stories where it seems people don't have free will, with God either "hardening their hearts" or laying out what they'll do in the near future. It's o…

I think it's more likely that over the next few years US power fades in the region and Taiwan strikes a bargain with China. The Taiwanese are extremely pragmatic when it comes to t…

I can't think of a single Linux user I know who doesn't use a multi-monitor setup. I have three monitors on my desktop and it works fine on Cinnamon and Plasma. Maybe the dozen I k…

I've been playing with io_uring for the last month or so, just for fun. I'm working on building an async runtime from scratch on top of it. I've been documenting (think of them mor…

I've been learning io_uring for fun and 0 profit by building a web-based game using only the Rust standard library. I create a simple WebSocket server and am now creating async fro…

It's not harder than any other job, but it's harder than many. Teaching, especially in middle and high school, is not as technically difficult as say many developer roles, but it i…

There's such a low probability of that happening, even if the US turns their back on Taiwan. It would likely result in Taiwan and Japan, at the least, rapidly building nuclear weap…

Students are not lacking access to information, they're lacking motivation.

He's just playing within the system given. People should stop subscribing to services like these and then people like him won't exist.

You can install it through the Software Manager. At least on Mint that's how it is. Click, install, and I believe it tells you to logout and back in.

I've always preferred Mint over Ubuntu itself. It runs better and seems to drain the battery on my laptop more slowly. Cinnamon is a nice and simple DE, though I usually use Plasma…

You act like no one is having kids at all. The birthrate being lower on a planet with 8 billion going on 11 billion is just fine.

Does climbing really expose you to your fear of death? You're strapped in, and possibly wearing a helmet if outside, while either top roped or clipped in metal anchors. I can see t…

It's rather disingenuous to say that assembling an Ikea shelf and using a framework to build are analogous. The latter is almost always vastly more complex for any product beyond t…

I've taught CS for about 15 years now. To get the majority of kids in a class actively involved is an art. It's less about the tools, though those can help, and more about who you …

The lack of empathy the HN community has really shines through in many of these replies: > There were no doubt quite a few nail makers pre-industrial revolution that took pride in …

There is no violation of policy when both sides of the strait have differing views on what "one China" means. China can warn all it wants. It has been threatening Taiwan for decade…

> In case you've been living under a rock for the last while: It might surprise you, but people who don't live in America probably don't follow, nor care about the politics going o…

Absolutely. There is one meetup that meets every other week on Sunday, but it'd be good to have something else going.

More likely it's due to China's zero covid policy.

Or a Taipei group?

Maybe someone should crack down on Amazon for allowing these sales to continue seemingly unabated.

And how many people went to prison over the crash of 2008?

- Why is bluetooth so consistently buggy? Unless you're using the exact bluetooth headphones made for that device, I find myself needing to connect/reconnect or debug so often. - W…