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I think there's a big difference between "everyone else is awful", "there's statistically enough awful individuals" and "every driver is trying to kill me". Only the last one of those is going to lead me to incorrectly blame a whole group.

I agree that a statistically significant subset of drivers cause problems (and a statistically significant subset of cyclists, too), but the vast majority of individual drivers (and cyclists) are safe and do not deserve to be grouped in with the the problem-causers.
I haven't really noticed an increase, but I've definitely noticed this happening at least over the past year or so. I get the feeling that many people up/down vote based on whether they agree with the comment, rather than whether it's substantive or not. I find myself wanting to do this when I see comments that offend my sensibilities, so I understand the desire. I wish people would stop doing it tho. I think it stifles discussion because most people eventually stop talking.
Anyone can provide an APK download from their website and bypass the Play Store. Unlike iOS, Android is not a walled garden. For most app developers, the ease of discovery, installation and payment provided by the Play Store is worth the 30% fee. Epic Games clearly think that Fortnite is in such high demand that it isn't worth paying the Play Store tax; Fortnite players will make the effort to find the app, install it manually and provide their credit card details for in-app purchases.

Android freely allows you to circumvent the Play Store via manual installation or a third-party app store, which is an advantage in terms of user choice but less secure than the iOS walled garden. Google decide what can go on the Play Store, but they don't control what users can install. I personally prefer the Android approach, but there are merits to both.
This is because iOS is not an Android competitor. iOS is not licensed to manufacturers, it is not even in the market. Android, on the other hand, is. Licensing to third parties is the key issue at hand. (Windows Mobile was arguably Android's last viable competitor, and it's dead.)
The book looks interesting. Will check it out.
Just a quick note: 'Dual Affiliation' is being used here differently than in most academic contexts, so the headline's a bit odd.

Normally, it means having a joint appointment in two academic departments (e.g. Linguistics and Cognitive Science at State U, or in the Department of Linguistics at State U, with an appointment at the Head-and-Neck surgery program at the local med school). This is a well-known and common practice, and although it can be tricky (particularly with even splits, where there's not one true home), it's not a 'harmful' thing.

As the author explains in the article per se, he's talking about an industry/academic split. This is much harder, for the reasons he's outlined, and as an academic, I too am skeptical. It could be a nice idea in moderation, and it'd be great to have more bridges between Academia and industry, particularly given the brutality of the Academic Job Market.

But I can easily see that a professional administrator somewhere deciding that it's cheaper to stock departments with 20% appointees than to actually hire career professors and educators. And as any adjunct-heavy institution will tell you, a department full of moonlighters is no place to make a life. Perhaps more damning, 20% of anybody's life isn't enough to support all but the weakest of teaching, even for a single course, so over-reliance on this will just further damage the instructional core of universities.

So, one or two in a department could be nice, but I don't think it's a great model for the future.
I don't really think you understood this idea.

Within the context of conference hosting, serving large glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice to that number of people WAS a difficult domain specific question.

He's less interested in the specifics of the answer to the question than he is in the thought process of the person answering it.

Did they immediately say yes without considering it? If so they're conning you. They haven't thought out the problem and acknowledged the difficulty, so they'll say yes to anything, even though they can't deliver.

Did they immediately say no, it's impossible? If so they're probably sub-par. They can't see a way to accomplish a difficult but achievable task.

The WHOLE point of the question is judging whether the other party actually understands the domain well enough to recognize when a task is difficult, and then follow up by acknowledging that and asking better questions (like: What's your budget for that? Because it will be hard).

The rest of your comment is spinning off into uselessness.
If the distributor was given an intent (open a google play account) to distribute through their platform then yea, you can say that google was expecting to rent some property but the tenants found a better place.
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Do you support JavaScript? I always got the impression that that’s one of the most resource-heavy parts of the modern web, but at the same time it’s hard to render many modern webpages (webapps?) without it..
The Google Play Store is outside the great firewall and therefore probably unusable in China. Phone makers aren't going to ship phones with unusable app stores, so they need to use alternatives. It's the same reason UC Browser and QQ Browser are so popular in China.
Hi Andrew, thanks for the comment!

Trust me, no one is more familiar with the issues of Awesomium (cumbersome licensing, slow update schedule, bloat, etc.) than myself and it was this reason that I decided to start over from the beginning.

Awesomium was similar in scope to CEF (and actually predates it by many months), it's goal was to wrap Chromium and make it accessible via a pixel buffer instead of a platform window.

Chromium in its initial stages was very tight and focused in its scope and only supported a subset of the current web platform we see today, I think the first Awesomium DLLs were something like 18MB or less.

Over the years Chromium grew larger and accumulated more complexity to a point where it was no longer a web renderer but something closer to an OS platform. Many of the features added were somewhat irrelevant for users looking to render HTML as a frontend but downstream developers like Awesomium and CEF had no choice but to integrate their updates as a whole since we were de-facto wrappers.

Ultralight is different. It's a hard fork of WebKit and has a considerable number of differences tuned specifically for embedders (such as the Platform API and virtual GPUDriver). We have much more control over the project and will continue making design decisions that benefit embedding as a first-class use-case.

Reasons to use Ultralight over EAWebKit are ease of use, pure GPU rendering and performance (EAWebKit, last I checked, depends on Cairo for all its rendering), and the backing of an actual commercial company that will support and maintain the product for years to come.
You can think of a share as a bet on the future potential value. So past value was previously reflected in the share price, but sometimes high profits mean that the growth is over because there's not useful R&D to be doing, whereas sometimes low profits mean that growth is ahead. Future performance is also highly uncertain and influenced by external factors: geopolitics, demand for the product, other competitors, outside innovation, taxation changes, people's relationship to the CEO, the marginal cost of that investment relative to other similar investments that serve as close substitutes, etc. All of that information is going to be part of the price of the stock, because all of that information influences the future of the company.

Plus then since the future is unknowable, it's tied up with investor's personal risk profiles, discount factors and some straight up sentimentality. If you have a crystal ball and can predict the future perfectly, stock prices would correlate with profits, but even if the market was perfect, current profits would be related to past stock prices, not current stock prices.

(Oh, and to make it more complicated and basically impossible to model with linear equations, if you own stock you can influence those future outcomes both directly via shareholder activism and indirectly via the effect you have on a company's cost of capital, so the whole system is dialectic.)
Yes, but only for my coworker's sake rather than my own. It took me a while to find the "disable video on meeting join" setting in Zoom so more than once I was shirtless and unshaven for the first few seconds of standup.
Courts only order treatment for defendants pre-conviction if they are determined to be mentally incapable of standing trial. This is a very basic standard that simply requires that the defendant understands what a judge is, what a jury is, what the charges are, etc. Are you actually suggesting that the ethical thing to do is to try and potentially convict people too mentally ill to understand what is going on?

Also, I'm not aware of any public school, at least in the US, that sends students to psychologists for treatment. Schools don't even employ clinical psychologists or psychiatrists, and they can't require that a student go to a psychologist to remain at a school.
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> No, Google got in trouble for mandating other companies/products to include Google products (gmail, chrome, etc) in their products (Samsung Galaxy 9, LG whatever phone, etc).

If you only look for one thing they got in trouble for. Other things include prioritizing their shopping results on their search engine. There are cases and rulings that don't have anything to do with "coerce another company" wrt monopoly laws. You can be in trouble for only putting your own products on your own products too, no other company has to be involved...just have to be large enough (by volume).
Makes me think of bash on balls, a web platform written in bash - https://github.com/jneen/balls
Whats this like for civilians that are not involved?

I hear about the crime in my country, but it seems unreal to me because in my area you'd never know there were dozens of murders last weekend.

Does this affect your life?
I don't really care about those crimes because I don't own valuable things. I could recover easily if someone stole my car, which is worth less than $1,000.

I do care about rape, assault, and murder. I don't ever want to be caught up in that. So I was very glad to learn that though my small town has an above average murder rate, it's between people who don't associate with me.
Ok? This case isn't everything.
No joke. The responses to you are hilarious as well.
For people to have trust in their vote being counted, the voting machine needs to be understandable by everyone, not just software engineers specializing in cryptography.

A counting room full of people counting paper ballots is a machine, and it's a transparent machine where everyone inside it and outside of it can understand how it works, and trust that it's working properly.

But the biggest argument against electronic voting is that you're not solving any problems, you're just adding problems and decreasing the trust in the elections massively. And for what? To get election results a few hours faster? That's ridiculous.
If they lose less than 30% of their installs, but are making 30% more on each IAP, they're rolling profit. Bear in mind, most users won't even buy stuff, so the question is... will they lose a lot of paying customers, and my guess for that is no.

Also, Tim Sweeney is an outspoken critic of the app store model, so it's unsurprising to see Epic go this way where they can.
Yep! In fact we expose JavaScriptCore API directly to users so your native code can call directly into the VM. Check the samples in the SDK.
It's really the result of a shift in mindset about education from primarily being about the benefit to society to one where the primary benefit is to the educated individual. I unfortunately can't find it anywhere, but I remember reading an interesting Rolling Stone article that traced the shift in thinking to Ronald Reagan, first during his governorship of California and eventually during his presidency. What happens when you start viewing education that way is that you start subjecting it to the laws of supply and demand. If you view an education as having hundreds of thousands of dollars of value for a graduate, you start to be able to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for the privilege of getting that education. When it was viewed primarily as a public service that people did to become better citizens, there was more emphasis on cost controls since the state was shouldering more of the burden cost.

Once that shift in mindset happened, or so posited the article, the increase in the cost of education that we've seen over the past 3 decades becomes an inevitable conclusion of schools closing the gap between what they charge and what people are willing to pay. And once education becomes this expensive, the move towards STEM and away from humanities also becomes inevitable so long as both degrees are roughly the same cost. If the humanities want to survive and thrive in today's educational environment, they need to figure out how to charge significantly less for that degree. If a humanities grad can emerge into the job market with $20k in debt compared to a STEM major that comes out with 10x that, you might see more people choosing the humanities route.
Personally, I hate exercising but I do about 90 minutes of high intensity cardio every day (with no end goal like grocery shopping; just for the sake of exercise). It's masochistic and I wish I were the type of person who actually enjoyed it.

For me, it just took having the self-control to commit to an exercise regime. Eventually it became easier because I track my exercise and having a break in it (even if I am traveling or on vacation) feels really bad.

I doubt it would work for everyone, but I think it was necessary for me because I live in a city and even if I walked everywhere (which I do), I would never get enough exercise to offset 8-hour days of sitting at a computer desk writing software.
I think in the end everyone gets pwned by Capitalism.

"Social Conservatives" often champion free markets while at the same time those free markets destroy social norms in order to open new markets and increase market utilization (LGBT industry, eschewing traditional gender roles in favor of a world where everyone works "like a man" and everyone can buy cosmetics "like a woman", etc...).

Socialists get bought off by cheap entertainment and a subsistence level of welfare, cutting their hopes of mobilizaing the working class off at the knees.

Social Justice Warrior types get support insofar as they promise to increase labor participation and drive down wages (this is how Diversity and Inclusion is financially justified), but in the end they will at best just succeed at integrating new people into the corporate structure without really making any grand changes to society at large.

List goes on. No one has been able to control capitalism with their ideology.
I hope this becomes a trend but there should be an easy way for non-savvy users to check keys & hashes to make sure they're not duped with tainted binaries.
It works on Chrome. Did they disable it for FF?
In fact, I am German. I had both English and French as foreign languages in school. I know that Germans aren't that good at English either but the French people are by far the most resistant I have met when it comes to learning English. Yes, they are also the most forgiving when it comes to trying to understand someone who is trying to speak their language but that does not change the first issue.

But hey, on the positive side of things I have a feeling that the younger generations depend less on their own language and have better English skills.
Cool. On the other hand, projects like these suggest to me that Macro systems like Rust's are a bit too powerful.

Not that I know how to make it just enough less powerful.
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I think you misunderstand me.

In other words, the claim is that Google is "losing" money by their choices which cause Fortnite to choose to not use them. But it's those same choices which make Google money.

So if Google were to, for example, take less of a cut - they might get Fortnite onto their system. But how much would they loose from all the other companies currently using Google at the current rate?
The Republicans are doing everything in their power to sabotage this project. They couldn't convince the people to vote against it, so now they're going to knock it all down like a child that doesn't want to share their toys. Nobody wins.
> Do the people downvoting this disagree that America has too much of a racism problem for a first world country, or what's going on here?

Unfortunately, that has been my experience. A lot of seemingly well-intentioned Americans refuse to accept their follies. They are completely unaware/unwilling to admit that the rest of the world is watching what's happening in America.

This is possibly due to the ingrained, "American exceptionalism" belief but I am willing to be proven wrong.

As a comparison, see this Brazilian admitting flaws in Brazil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17735229

But Americans admitting racism? Nope.
> I don't act differently when there are no lights, since I know that most cyclists ignore the lights anyway!

Then it sounds like cyclists ignoring the lights aren't putting you in any real danger, and that "cyclists choosing to stop running red lights" as you suggest would do you very little good.

> In any case, cyclists do collide with pedestrians in the absence of motor vehicles.

They do, occasionally. But notice how no-one in that article even mentions the possibility of introducing traffic lights, because they're so obviously not a solution to anything.
For such systems I consider the primary root file-system to be part of the 'bootloader'. Everything that I want to keep actually secure is inside of the encrypted PVs backing LVM volumes.

Yes, this presents a security risk in that someone could (offhand I think the term is 'evil maid'?) attack the root filesystem, but they could still have done that to the bootloader anyway.

Remote interaction is then required to bring the VMs on that system up.
The $1000 can be spend on multiple games.
Latin American countries are a shitshow. Cynically I cannot but wonder what might be if they got their shit 6ogeth4t
> It being a nightmare to maintain/operate would be an accidental difficulty, not a necessary one.

Who's saying it would be a necessary one? If you inherit an awful system that's time consuming to maintain and operate, you have a few options. You can simply maintain it and bill for that, or you can improve the system. Sometimes it's easy to improve the system, sometimes it's not. It all depends on the circumstances.

I'm sorry. What point were you trying to make?

> The guy I responded to implied that the fact that it is for the police department made it more difficult.

Do you think that's an unreasonable assumption?

Forget whether the systems are actually mission critical or not. The only thing that actually matters when it comes to billing a customer are the terms of the service agreement. I've worked on government contracts where my company was significantly fined if the system did not operate at some minimal operational threshold. The system was definitely not mission critical, but we built it like it was and billed them for it. (We also got a bonus for getting the job done early)

I don't care if he's only working on the parking ticket system. If it's clear from the service agreement that it's going to require a significant portion of his time/energy to service it, the last thing you want to do as a consultant is to underestimate the effort.

I have no idea if this guy is taking advantage of the Baltimore PD or not. Neither do you. What I do know is $176K for two years is not a lot for an organization the size of the Baltimore PD.

> My position is that that has no bearing on the difficulty of the task.

I agree. The terms of the service agreement combined with complexity/maintainability of the system determine how much effort is involved. Again, life/death doesn't dictate the price. The service agreement and expected level of effort do. However, knowing a project is for an organization like the Baltimore PD, it's not crazy to assume they might be more demanding than other customers. State and local governments can be a real pain the ass sometimes.

My position is you're pretending like you know this guy's business. You don't.
Brit here, no but the Communist Manifesto is on us.
How is this any more or less insane than every console maker getting a cut of every game distributed either physically or digitally? For you to sell a physical game disk, you still have to have a cryptographic signature issued by the console maker.
Personally, I'm excited for DNS-over-QUIC, which should be a best of both worlds.
I'm curious why there aren't more app store outside China, as evidently from China example, the app store business is sustainable, and Android outside China has a bigger market.
Not that this is an excuse, but one reason Google's support doesn't drive people away is that it's not like the competition is doing any better: Microsoft and Apple also both have infamously useless support forums. Seeing "technet.microsoft.com" in the search results for a Windows problem is practically a guarantee that "you won't find the answer here", and Apple's forums are just full of pages of people pleading for, and not getting, an official response.
Only Chrome, Play Store and Search app.
I'd say that the piracy does cost developers something. Not every pirated copy is a lost sale, but there are some number of people who are capable of buying software that instead choose to pirate it for any number of reasons and would buy it if piracy was not an option.

I wouldn't say it's a high percentage, but it's not insignificant.

I'd count that as a lost sale.

But I do agree that this is a different situation. This is just a high profile application that has decided to forgo something completely optional.
Comparing a Chicago neighborhood to a South American city seems a little disingenuous.

It might be more appropriate to compare the most violent neighborhood in Chicago to the most violent neighborhood in a similarly-sized Venezuelan city. Just as you would compare the safest neighborhoods in both cities.
I think you misunderstand me. As I said in another post:

> In other words, the claim is that Google is "losing" money by their choices which cause Fortnite to choose to not use them. But it's those same choices which make Google money.

> So if Google were to, for example, take less of a cut - they might get Fortnite onto their system. But how much would they loose from all the other companies currently using Google at the current rate?

I'm not sure what your point is, so I can only assume you're arguing what you thought I meant. My point was simple a question, hypothetically if Google were to chance it's pricing scheme to something that would fit Epic, would it be a net gain or a loss to them?

I'm unsure how anything in your post applies to my question.
Probably less discoverable there than on Fortnite's website to be honest.
... or, at least, someone who fits most people's mental model of the kind of person who maintains a Gab account.
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