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The same thing happened with matrices. We had matrices for 400 years, but the field of linear algebra and especially numerical linear algebra exploded only with advent of computers.

In olden days, the correct way to solve a linear system of equations was to use theory of minors. With advent of computers, you suddenly had a huge theory of gaussian elimination, or Krylov spaces and what not.


This is Stockholm syndrome. Sure, you can enforce zero privacy on work computers, it will just lead to shitty work culture and lowered productivity.

I don't see how people using a work computer exclusively for work would lead to a shitty work culture, let alone lowered productivity.

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> employee communications are already monitored everywhere

proof?

> Turns out people actually don't really care about privacy at work

lol, won't ask for proof, because it's trivially falsifiable


Ask your IT department what they're tracking and they'll tell you. And yet I assume you still continue to go to work or do not actively seek out non-surveiling companies. By "everybody," maybe iI should clarify that it’s "majority" instead.

What if "the IT department" is just this one guy who asks me to Cc him an invoice when I buy a laptop and that's the end of it?

(yes that's a real story from my career, and the company was 100+ employees at the time)


That's fine but realize you are not representative of the average tech worker or indeed any white collar worker such as those we are talking about in this post.

As an old hand that's managed many people, I can tell you this is true.

1. But they are not paying for your training which you are bringing to the company. 2. About ranting about company, it is difficult to organize. That's why unions existed, and that's why unions were allowed to meet in work hours.

How are they better than framework? Looks a worse product for much higher prices.

MNT is entirely open hardware and much more free-software-friendly, right? If you care about stuff like freedom and autonomy in computing, and you have the money to spend, the Reform seems like a far better product to me.

What part of framework is less open than MNT?

MNT publishes everything: source code, schematics, complete BOMs, mechanical design files. You could produce one of their laptops, or any part of it, yourself through normal PCB suppliers like JLC and 3d print a case.

Reproducing what they have aside, you can also modify any aspect of it by remixing their designs. The most common example of this has been custom keyboard layouts (ergo, split, etc).


Framework is perhaps well-documented, but it's not open. There are only pinouts, partial schematics and some MCAD stuff published for extension development but no ECAD designs.

Lots of components from third parties, starting with the processors they use (Intel/AMD vs ARM processors).

Framwork is usability and performance first, openness second. MNT is the other way around.


framework doesn't open source their firmware. despite major demand from their community [0]. they're the only ones among major manufacturers of linux-ready laptops (novacustom, starbook, system76) who haven't bothered to do it. i consider framework to be driven by marketing more than values or honesty

[0] https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...


I can rebuild my Pocket reform as I choose in full. I can't with the framework I have.

Do you not get memory errors without ECC RAM?


There are laptops with ECC RAM, but they are uncommon.

Otherwise, the effect of memory errors depends on the use case.

If the laptop or mini-PC is used as a router/firewall/Internet gateway, then memory errors are usually not important, because they would result in corrupted network packets that are likely to be detected at the endpoints of a network connection.

If the laptop or mini-PC is used as an e-mail server or a Web server, then a fraction of the memory errors may result in a stored file that becomes corrupted.

At the small amounts of memory typical for a laptop or mini-PC, unless the PC is many years old there should be no more than a few memory errors per year at most, and the majority of the errors might not result in file corruption, but sometimes they may cause weird behavior requiring a computer reboot.

Anecdotally, during the years I have seen on the Internet a non-negligible amount of big files, e.g. movies, which appear to have bit flips that are likely to have been caused by their hosting on servers without ECC memory. Fortunately, in movies a small number of bit flips will not cause severe quality degradation.

With more valuable data, one must use ECC memory to avoid such problems.


Two words: ECC RAM


Are you guys even serious on this? Ok, I’d reboot my personal server daily then.


At some point, EU needs to build an alternative to those corps and that will never happen as long as they keep holding on to their precious pearl clutching regional and linguistic issues. EU needed to be a single country like 10 years ago.


what do you mean by single country? All the cultures in these countries can not disappear in 10, hell even 100 years. And i would prefer that they would not.


You know single country doesn't mean single culture.


Or, they should not globo-homogenize themselves, wiping out their cultures in the process (are you even human? How can you so casually recommend the eradication of Europe's varied cultures?), but should instead ban a handful of American corps which would then create market space for small local competitors.


You know single country doesn't mean single culture, right? right?


This is also happening with `.tar.gz` file on chrome for yt-dlp. Doesn't happen for other `.tar.gz`


This is also happening on linux for me.


Don't make statements like this without more explanation. In what way is this happening to you specifically? What distribution and platform are you using? Did you explicitly install something to warn you about 'side-loading' executables?


You are wrong. There is at least one collaboration here that I can see. Download any other `.tar.gz`, Chrome says nothing. Do it with `yt-dlp`, chrome says it can harm your computer. Why?


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