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A complete hardware and software interface redesign with testing and certification in under a year? By a new entrant in the hardware space with external partners? By Google? Sure, I believe that... - it's more likely that a number of prototypes were made. Guess which was picked? The one that competed most effectively with the nearest competition, of course.

This was no secret that Google retooled the entire Android form factor after the iPhone came out. This story has been told a million times.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...

Also, yes, the iPod was lame. It was worse than the nomad in many many technical respects. Now, what the iPod did have over the nomad was the only best-of-class thing Apple has ever sold - the perception of cool. It was smaller, it was silver and white... it had one button (well, later anyway...).

And this is why geeks (not an insult, I proudly consider myself a geek) who think like Woz will never bring a successful product to market. The Nomad was a big bulky portable device with a large 3.5 inch hard drive, a slower transfer mechanism than FireWire, less battery life, and a clunky method of transferring files.

By the time the iPod became popular in 2004, iPod + iTunes was a easy way to get music on a device that consumers enjoyed.

Actually, now that I think about it, Apple is not really a tech company; they're a fashion company that makes products who's primary purpose is as a technical fashion accessory.

You realize that Apple has the best ARM processor designers in the industry?

If all Apple has is “cool” tech then why is the rest of the industry failing? All of the computer manufacturers that were around 20 years ago are either dead or barely surviving, the phone manufacturers are not doing much better.

Like the old saying goes, “if they are so smart, why aren’t they rich”?
It did/does, but it is meh at best. And every MS attempt at pushing a Windows version that can only run UWP has bombed.
> but you can't pay someone to raise your kids.

Actually, you can. It's called a nanny. If you prefer a cheaper version, it's called au pair.
I guess the AV era is mostly gone

I'm not sure. I mean, I hope it never will be. At least I think there are actually a lot of people like me: once I heard (as a kid already) the huge difference between what even a moderately proper hi-fi system makes music sound like in comparision with e.g. some portable radio or (god forbid) laptop speakers or even highly rated headphones, I cannot imagine not wanting that. Though I admit for video I care way less. But that's just because I watch things mainly for the plot and not for the visual effects.
> the researcher should be ashamed

Nah, these people used blatant keywords in their public transactions. Even if you argue that they thought their transactions were private, these users chose to tag their payments with drug related keywords. If they really cared they would have encoded or obfuscated the payment descriptions.
Expert systems had industry funding in the 80s. And contrary to what some people here keep implying, they delivered results. Some of them are still used right now.
We live in a tech bubble. Most people don't use one time pass codes for anything.
I can't quite follow your thoughts there. You are wildly mixing together taxes, tariffs, production quotas, etc.

Of course iPhones are ridiculously overpriced, and Apple has huge margins. But that's absolutely fine. There is plenty of competition in the smartphone space and people willing to bite the Apple are welcome to do so.

PS, yes, the agriculture rules in the EU are sometimes crazy, but to a certain extent they do actually serve the purpose of guaranteeing local production capabilities, which is important.
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I'm not sure how popular that claim is, but I've heard it multiple times. Especially as part of the eco-protective initiatives.

I was able to find this example[1]:

"Even if you live hundreds of miles from the coast, the plastic you throw away could make its way into the sea. Once in the ocean, plastic decomposes very slowly, breaking down in to tiny pieces known as micro plastics that can be incredibly damaging to sea life. 80% of plastic in our oceans is from land sources – but what does that really mean? Where is it coming from?

There are three main ways the plastic we use every day ends up in the oceans."

"1. Throwing plastic in the bin when it could be recycled. Plastic you put in the bin ends up in landfill. When rubbish is being transported to landfill, plastic is often blown away because it’s so lightweight. From there, it can eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the sea this way."

"2. Littering
Litter dropped on the street doesn’t stay there. Rainwater and wind carries plastic waste into streams and rivers, and through drains. Drains lead to the ocean!"

"3. Products that go down the drain
Many of the products we use daily are flushed down toilets, including wet wipes, cotton buds and sanitary products."

At no point they mention the fact that some countries are just using ocean as a landfill and that causes 90% of the pollution of it.

[1]: https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/how-does-plastic-end-ocean
Those are all socially-agreed truths, as opposed to physically demonstrable truths.
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Almost all of these can be controlled with a reasonable number of mechanical controls. It just takes more effort to design them than to throw together a crappy touchscreen UI.
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Check out Miso [1] a frontend framework built in Haskell.

[1] - https://haskell-miso.org/
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No, no, null is not meaningful. That's the whole point. It is meaningful as neutral element of a ring, as center of a coordinate system or as limit of some function, sure, but only in comparison to other values and the other values are all that matters. Not having the other values, having literally nothing, the word ''having'' would be meaningless. There is always something.

There's something about nihilism. It's being a self defeating argument, but educating. Then there's constructivism in various senses.

There's something about finitism, too, computable numbers and what not. Infinity is rather ... monotonous.
Kids are separated into different classes based on ability, so there's a fast place class and a slower paced class at each grade level. My elementary school was tracked. My mom made damn sure that my brothers and me were placed in the fastest track, whether we belonged there or not.

Tracking has a lot of ominous implications due to bias, and has been abandoned to a considerable extent, but teachers still unavoidably treat different kids with different expectations. And "involved" parents can influence those expectations.
> We've got decades of research to demonstrate that's not true.

I'd be very surprised if any research supported such a blanket statement. Can you cite it?
I adore my Fujitsu. What OCR software are you using?
What about AlphaGo Zero? I'm honestly not sure why a system that plays board games is seen as some kind of giant leap in AI. Seems mostly a result of Google's marketing.
I am on GCP but I usually request/allocate more and once in production for a few weeks, I can turn some things down and others up. That is if your product/setup is new and you aren't sure how everything will interact once live (in terms of perf).

Otherwise, for Lambda there is on Github a repo with a script that will publish your code in every configuration possible, run stress tests, and only keep the most optimum (perf/cost).
> instead of spending their billions to fight climate change

Does Tesla count or are we still calling Elon a scammer and fraud because he's not producing electric cars fast enough?
If you're going to build a botnet, it'll probably mainly be a bunch of Russian and Chinese machines. They've got the most WinXP instances still running without hardly any updates.
Twitter is banning users who created their accounts while underage
The sensor size has nothing to do with the image quality.
Bigger sensors, at the same pixel count, have better quality only because their pixel are bigger.
If you have a 100 mpx full frame it will have worse quality of a 1/2.3” at 8 mpx if they have the same technology.
"Large fines" are relative, it's based on global turnover. Google's revenue is far higher than most other corporations.
Is not so much about me trusting the company but being sure nothing can be done outside the scope I trust it, even if by mistake. It is also, from my point a view, a failure from Google to provide a more granular access to its services.

Did you personally use the import tool (assuming you previously used Gmail)? I assume everything worked smoothly?
So far and iff Greece does pay back the remaining debt. It’s not entirely uncommon for a lender to make some money from interest before the other party defaults and the lender loses its investment. Could you explain why this is controversial? Should Germany have donated funds to make up for the mismanagement of the Greek government?
They lost Putin agent card in utility control room.
Do employers offer some sort of dynamic pay system where they can move money to staff with that same sort of urgency?
The big holdup with UWP, IMO, is that they strictly limit access to the file system. And if you want to give an UWP program access, up comes the age old win32 picker dialog.

If MS really wanted UWP to take off, they should have bundled a UWP file manager on par with explorer, and a matching picker.

As it is, UWP is just another .NET dumped on top of the same old win32/NT base.
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Yes, I know. But it isn’t like electric buses aren’t getting traction here in the states at all. Where public transportation is really a thing, this is happening.

China has public transportation everywhere of course, though you’ll see these buses in shanghai and Beijing but not yet in tier 3’s (at least last time I checked a couple of years ago, it will change eventually).
Should modern countries stop making improvements until the developing ones catch up? We still consume far more than those countries, meaning how we manage resources can cause large swings.
They actually do have a certificate, they're just not using it to serve the site for some reason.

If you go to https://www.verizonenterprise.com, it redirects to http://
So, Venmo is basically a bank, but as-a-startup and it makes all your wires public by default? And people actually use this?
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That doesn’t matter if they are looking for a pretext for a search warrant or an arrest.
Yeah, I'd wager a fair amount of money that whole Chicago bid is vapourware.
Volvo is Chinese though, so not sure if you're supporting the OP point or just weren't aware they'd been bought out by the Chinese.
My guess: perceived brand value ?
It's kinda fun to have backup plan upon backup plan. I've definitely gone down this rabbit hole with online account security; was considering buying a safe to store a backup yubikey & some paper passwords, but then I had to consider how I might store the safe combo if I forgot it, and so on - your contingency planning creates more surface area from which additional problems grow.
How do you know? Do you work in a pain clinic? Are you a doctor who has worked with these patients for decades, or a researcher in the field? Or are you just repeating talking points from the latest media hysteria and politically driven moral panic?
I mean it's obvious that the vast majority of people, parents and their children, are spending too much time in front of a computer, TV or phone screen. I'm 20 now, growing up I barely had any contact with my father besides maybe an hour around the dinner table a day. That's when we actually sat around a dinner table. For the vast majority of my early childhood and teens we never did.
If retailers sell their devices as loss leaders, it may tarnish their brand image.
Stores can, and do, sell things below the minimum advertised price, so it really can't be considered price fixing (or really, retail price maintenance).

Whether that should be legal or not is another matter though.
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Uganda doubles down on social media tax, VPN use rises
Please don't be alarmist. I leave my dogs in my car regularly. They are happy and not stressed. I love my dogs far more than you ever will.
As a recovering information addict, I'll simply say this:

Why and how I do something habitually is as important as what I'm doing, whether it's ingesting some substance or spending my days reading the internet.

If someone is chronically doing something to escape from or numb pain (physical or emotional), expect major issues to come from the practice.
I wonder how many members of Congress fall into this category...
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/automated-certificate-...
Here is what is happening locally where I live: https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/king-county-rolls-on-with...

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/with-some-all-electric-...

I happen to live near both of the routes (downtown Bellevue) that have already been electrified, so it already seems like a huge thing here, even though they are just getting started.

(Incidentally, the same thing was true in Beijing when I lived on their first battery electric route 7 years ago)
This is like taking a stand against seatbelts. No one can do you from doing so, but it makes very little sense to and seems like it has more to do with an insistence of being contrary than to make a point or actually change something.
The usual code-comments/self-documenting code/git commit descriptions, no? If a long-form explanation is justified, wikis are cheap.

I see no excuse for leaving the reader to guess at what on Earth you were thinking. Implementing a wacky solution is sometimes a necessary evil. Incomprehensibility isn't.
The alternative is to let the kids ride a bus or walk. Or park and get out instead of sitting in your car idling.
Maybe a long time ago. Politics have dramatically since changed Medicare, which is why nearly all seniors buy supplement plans today.
The West seems to do a decent job of managing plastic waste instead of just dumping into the oceans.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/the-jour...
Unfortunately PCI compliance requires rotating passwords last time I checked. : \
> Income taxes became high in California only after Proposition 13.

Do you know of any data? I looked quickly online but with no luck.

> New York on the other hand has been the largest US city since the colonial era.

How is that related to tax rates?
It's certainly not an emotional argument, because I actually feel kind of repulsed by the idea, but I'll try my best to outline the logic:

"They're more guilty for denying it" is equivalent to "they're less guilty for repenting", in the same sense that "I'm taller than you" is an equivalent statement to "you're shorter than me."

It hinges on the idea that, if you were omniscient and knew the actual truth of what happened, you would probably feel more lenient towards a defendant who confessed their crime, versus one who denies it (again, imagine you're omniscient and you know the truth, that they really are guilty.)

To tie the logic together, the key point is that court system thinks of itself as omniscient. There's no concept in the courts of "guilty but they maintain their innocence" as a separate state from "guilty". The courts aren't supposed to issue guilty verdicts if there's reasonable doubt. If you were found guilty, legally speaking you are guilty, so it follows that you must be lying if you say you're not.

I'm not defending the practice... well, I defend the notion of guilty pleas getting shorter sentences because it makes for a better overall system by placing incentives on not tying up the courts any more than they need to. But I don't think of it as "let's be harsher on those that deny their crimes" so much as "let's be more lenient on those who admit them". It just happens that those statements are isomorphic.
No a Greek-issued euro debt instrument would become a new currency decoupled from the euro with a floating exchange rate if Greece left the euro, for example. That’s what all the hooplah a few years back was about.
But with pushes to enact higher and higher and higher taxes specifically TARGETING higher earners... the problem is something that will become more pronounced as those higher taxes will drive more away.

Whether we are talking tens... or tens of hundreds... it's still nice to know about a minefield as you work to escape from it.
As a developer, I see Sprint ends as an artificial deadline that people end up strictly meeting to the bare minimum. I find technical debt accrues most quickly with smaller stories.

Agile coaches will blast you for estimating workload too high and blame you for technical debt and rushing. They will say we need to refactor as we go along. And that stories will need to be even smaller.

Quite frankly, bigger changes are easier to review as a whole and there’s less wasted time updating the test automation after each small change. Personally, I like to take a few days to review a change and I like to review a whole feature at once to see how it all fits together. It can be hard to see that until all the pieces are ready. Polishing it up before merging is also nice.

In the business world we are led by timelines and milestones and competitor products. We have fixed dates we need to get things out by. Ive not seen a business ever run on the agile principal of “take your time and release when ready and don’t commit to dates but commit to features blah blah”. And I’ve heard from a few coaches now that the whole organization needs to be agile for it to work because the business can’t be waterfall while engineering is agile.

Small agile rant aside..

I see technical debt as natural and acceues because we are given limited time to do something that keeps our paycheques coming. It’s normal for engineering to whine and for managers to push back. This conflict keeps both sides in check. Reality would stink if either side dominated the business. So don’t feel bad about telling your engineers “no”, but also give them enough independance to manage themselves as responsible professionals. Find that balance point.
I suspect that many of them are putting resources into both fighting it and escaping it. At least that's what I would do.
Nothing like the smell of software design truth bombs in the morning.

I'd add "this code I wrote is technical debt because I'd rather re-write it then create a proper test harness for all its bugs and edge cases".
Be born with genes for incredible self discipline and emotional stamina, and your kids are likely to be born with those genes as well. In fact, all the books I read said that you have to apply the techniques with total consistency and regularity, or the method doesn't work. That's something I'm utterly incapable of doing.
> My dad's always saying "There's no book on parenting."

This is both literally factually wrong and basically correct in its underlying message.

There are, of course, very many books on parenting and very many being published every day. What there isn't, though, is something correct, clear, authoritative, comprehensive, accessible, and easily filtered out by the layman from the noise of all the stuff published which meets none of those criteria.

Perhaps more on point, there's no general education on parenting.
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Seems like "Seems perfectly reasonable to me." is a prevalent phrase in this thread, wonder how much of that is coordinated.

It doesn't seem reasonable to me
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example.com is great for testing http. And it’s owned by IANA and not some rando. No ads either and easy to remember.
Does this show it's come to pass at all?

It's possible, but the only evidence we have is that insurance companies want to avoid the payout, not that poor practices impacted premiums at all. Given what I've seen from security audits of the past, particularly when influenced by non-security professionals (such as the accountants in this scenario, both the insurers and the insured), I have little faith that if insurance companies dictate the practices that we'll get actual useful security increases, but plenty of extra bureaucratic hoops that will result in the same "productivity vs security _risk_" dilemma we have now, except the CBA changes to "is the hit to our productivity worth this hoop compared to the cost our lawyers would involve to prove this hoop was unnecessary or unrelated times the likelihood that it comes up"
I think you will have to buy premium support https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ or spin up an instance around what usage you expect and then analyze your bottlenecks to swap it later on.
Depending on the season, many, many americans hang their wash out to dry. Certain things affect this; for instance much of the US is too rainy/cold/humid to effectively dry clothes outdoors in a reasonable amount of time all year round.

South Australia isn't Buffalo in February, nor is it Seattle in every month not ending in -gust.
Let he who is without sin initiate the first termination process with HR.
TensorFlow or Keras? Which one should I learn?
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I’m sure the startup scene would be much more vibrant in a world dominated by Microsoft which considered Linux a cancer and tried its hardest to have its use made illegal.
Don't shoot the messenger.

Your ire should be directed at Venmo.

As an American, your comment is embarrassing.
Read example.com it answers all your questions :-)
I just wanted to make a kind of empty comment to say that I agree with you. Most of the replies to your comment say you're distorting the picture, and that it's only about wealth inequalities. However, even wealthy people of color experience these injustices, they most often though just have enough money to pay their way free.
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> There aren't really robust ways to stop US firms selling to the EU over the internet especially for services, which are excluded from tariffs via GATT.

It’s rather easy to seize transfers made to foreign companies in violation of a local law. So while that foreign company then wouldn’t have to have a presence in the EU, it also couldn’t receive payments from EU companies or customers.

Much the same way the US will complain if you transfer funds out of the US to terrorists or drug lords or whoever is politically unfavourable today.
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Yep. That's like the only difference between it and PayPal.