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I think you are wrong, or at least, I don't share your impression at all...

I was there when IE 6 was a thing, and no, nobody was complaining that IE was too static. That wasn't the main reason at all. One of the main problems is that it was too dynamic, but in a proprietary and unsafe way (ActiveX).

Read, for example, this article from 2002, when "Phoenix" (aka Firefox) was launched: https://www.geek.com/news/mozilla-launches-new-faster-browse...

IE was pushed down the throat of everybody, and the main consumer complaints was "it's bloated".

For developers instead, the craze of the day was to pass the Acid test: we are talking about CSS implementation. We are talking about open standards.

Open standards where the main concerns for developers: http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2005/04/web-standards-acid2-test...

Acid 2 and Acid 3 where a the main thing during the browsers wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars). And they were ALL about standards.
I was/am an emacs users since > 15y and for ~2 years i left Emacs for sublime text. Main reason, the performance and easy to setup without hacking my .emacsrc everyday.

Sure emacs is great and it has 10000x more features than anything else but ask yourself how much of them you really need and how convenient Emacs is at the end of the day ? I asked this myself and i came to the conclusion that i was better off a more recent editor. ST has a similar philosophy like vim and emacs and thats why i choose it.

Recently im trying VS Code but the performance is still somehow not fully convincing me.
I think you meant to include "... which runs only on macOS." Still a great editor, but wish it worked on more platforms.
However no data that originally certified it as airworthy has changed. All we have is two incidents, one of which we have no information about. For all we know it was a hijacking, or a drunk pilot.

Absurd ideas, however in my mind without any evidence it is equally likely. They have the CVR and I'm sure very shortly we'll know for sure.

If it turns out to be MCAS then we can ground the fleet, the extra day of delay doesn't seem like the highest risk factor.
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Sorry, who was being offended here? Who's shame is being protected? Maybe "his" partner did "cheat" on him. Visual Studio should not be used by people with unfaithful partners? I understand being culturally sensitive, but I fail to see who was being wronged here, and who benefits from the change.
Wise people don't tell others what is and isn't foolish. No idea what you're getting at anyway. Maybe cut back on the Rachel maddow and get some fresh air.
> and they left that many errors in.

How many of those errors are visible to end users in a way that actually matters? A 'suspicious' floating point conversion in a display aspect ratio check? A memory leak in a program that's almost entirely interactively driven? I don't see anything else terribly huge on the list either.

Software errors have an impact to the user and a cost to fix. These don't seem like errors where the ROI on the fix was likely to be positive, so maybe it's reasonable they were left in.

You should also consider the errors that Microsoft _removed_ from the calculator before passing too much judgement on their software development process. After all, this is the same company that replaced IEEE754 floating point in calculator with an arbitrary precision library. (At considerably more expense than any of the bug fixes indicaetd by the attached article)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=...
This mirrors my experience as well. The 30 minute shutdown was a particularly nasty thorn in my side. I really wanted to like them and spent over a year trying to use them.

To add to your list, their C1 instances do not support IPv6. And never will because something something routers incompatible. It’s a shame.
Weep for the culture of today, looking for the slightest thing to "trigger" them. Mentally weak humans.
> (what a stupid concept, who cares)

The reason I care is because it's not about supporting a piece of software, but about protecting the open web, and therefore civil rights.

> I'm making an argument that Mozilla has violated its users trust in the past and no one should reasonably expect they won't do so again.

And I'm making the argument that you can expect Mozilla to not violate its users' trust anywhere near the extent that Google does, and that you can expect its community to keep it in line to ensure that.
Spotify asking someone else to play fair, ha, that really made my day...

I mean, of all companies, Spotify. Their whole business model is built upon not playing fair with content creators.
Just curious: why writing "Chinese people" and not "Taiwanese people" ?
That's not a useful comment. Changing a hat color can be changed quickly because it's easy. Fixing "real" issues is a lot more difficult, requiring more time, people, development, qa, and so on.
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Instead of measuring "How many years does it take for me to crack this?" measure "How many actors would be able to crack this?" it turns out if you can crack 126, you can crack 128, so the pool of perpetrators to fear remains the same
Who ever would say they couldn’t. The 1911 overthrow of the old guard is one example.

Now, to be clear, Taiwanese don’t consider themselves Chinese in the CCP/PRC sense. It’s tantamount to calling Canadians Americans.
The app store rules disallow other rendering engines: 2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript

Before WKWebView, even the Safari-based UIWebView didn't JIT JavaScript. Chrome for iOS was released years before WKWebView was added, so a lack of JIT in their own JavaScript engine would not have made a difference.
Lyx can produce both latex and ebooks from the same source document. You don't have to worry about latex technicalities while writing, and you can version it with git.

(I'm not affiliated with www.Lyx.org. But I wrote my PhD and masters with it.)
Initial eyewitness reports are of fire, smoke and debris trailing the aircraft before it went down. I would caution against the use of the word "likely" here.
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Just do it. Your errors will be your best teacher.
Hah I had the opposite. All my ads were playing fine but not the actual videos.
There is a pretty good book by Karen Armstrong called "The Great Transformation" that looks at why all of this seemed to happen around the same time across different cultures and religions.
Software raid with LVM. For my primary storage pool I created a raid1 pair, encrypted with an NVME cache drive, then created an LVM PV nested on that, LVM within LVM to dish out volumes that all share those lower level benefits.
Thanks! I'm the same. Having something represented the right way visually can make a huge difference. The education sector is definitely one of my targets so it's great to get that feedback. I'm keen for people to create pages, upload data and to help to add more context to history. Hopefully the Mapipedia platform makes that easy for others to do.
It's ridiculous that something that's trivial to change is changed quickly, compared to more complex issues?
> VW has a massive battery order spread between Samsung, LG and CATL, but yeah, I agree Tesla will have a solid lead on battery production for a while.

Tesla have much bigger contracts with Panasonic, and already supplies cells from Samsung and LG for stationary storage and is inquiring CATL as the main supplier of the Shanghai factory.

Since Tesla is crushing them in EV volume and should continue to do so for years to come, I don't see how VW can compete in cost and even in tech.

>I wonder if Tesla/Panasonic will at some point start selling mass produced batteries to the traditional car manufacturers. Once EVs become mainstream, consumers will start expecting choice.

I doubt it, at least until Tesla is demand-constrained. By then, they'll keep all the batteries for their car and energy storage business and let the competition fight for the leftover.
There is a great benchmark somewhere on Github, it measures 5-ish metrics, like key->rendered latency, time to load 100MB file, and stuff like that.

Apparently, the Joe editor was the fastest, and Sublime has basically first or second place for most metrics.

Atom crashed for a few metrics :P

I don't know if I could find it for you... but it's out there somewhere, maybe someone here has it bookmarked.
I'm not so sure that the market really demands large cars.

If you go to a new car dealer looking for a small car you will find they have some excuse why the only small cars they have are used -- the factory that made them got washed out in a storm or something.

They'll tell you it is no problem because you can get $5000 or more off a huge vehicle.

E.g. it's clear to me that automakers are hell bent on selling big vehicles, not so clear that it is what consumers really want.
There's a software-level rule that forbids JIT engines by never allowing apps to mark pages as executable. According to this rule, you could run Chrome on iOS now. But there's also a policy level rule:

> 4.7 HTML5 Games, Bots, etc.

> Apps may contain or run code that is not embedded in the binary (e.g. HTML5-based games, bots, etc.), as long as [...] the software [...] only uses capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software); your app must use WebKit and JavaScript Core to run third party software and should not attempt to extend or expose native platform APIs to third party software

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
The advantage is not that huge if you compare to the author's previous setup, which was based on Ansible.
Unless you like to run a different OS per virtual machine, moving your websites to a new machine (or add a new machine to the bunch) is as easy as with Docker, and you can test your setup locally too (though you will need a VM running on your computer).

The biggest advantage of Docker in my opinion is that it makes it much easier to make conflicting software coexist on the same machine (for example two websites requiring two different versions of node.js or php). Also it is nice that you can build the image once and then deploy it many times. Ansible's equivalent is of rebuilding the image every time you want to deploy it.

Also I find it a bit easier to accomplish what I want with a Dockerfile than with an Ansible script and if you make some mistakes it is easier to rebuild an image than "cleanup" a VM instance.

So, Docker smooths many edges compared to Ansible, but I wouldn't consider that a _huge_ advantage, expecially in the context of a personal infrastructure.
If it were allowed, you could use V8 for other, non-browser apps.
I would consider pilots not being made sufficiently aware of the implications of a faulty AoA sensor a maintenance failure.

Clearly people have fucked up because planes have crashed. We're basically just arguing over whether the responsibility split goes 33/33/33 or 20/20/60 or something else.
>Making EVs does not help with global warming

Making EVs to replace ICEs helps with global warming a great deal.

>A better idea is to reduce private car use, and development of EVs just risks greenwashing it.

One does not prevent the other.
>Making EVs does not help with global warming

Making EVs to replace ICEs helps with global warming a great deal.

>A better idea is to reduce private car use

One does not prevent the other.
So there is no built in full fledged access control. Please stop comparing this project to Github because you did not even implement 1% of Github's feature set yet.
It is ridiculous. At Uber they hired so many “seniors” that at some point they made two levels of “senior” and arbitrarily moved some folks to the “real” senior level.

You can imagine how well this went over.
Shit that works is a niche market now?
Some cultures have arrived to solutions like arranged marriage which sort of promises to find a mate for most of the population. But that comes with its own set of issues like loss of freedom of choice(especially for women), human rights abuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arranged_marriage#Causes_and_p...).
Correction, black boxes will be sent to Europe:
https://twitter.com/airlivenet/status/1105808579758571525
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Pretty annoying as an Apple Watch user to find out only Apple Music is allowed to store music on the device itself.
It's likely that a given plane gets more incidents at the start of its life. It might not be statistically significant
My hand has 5 fingers, but 5 fingers don't make a hand.
I have put some effort into mobile, but I have to admit I've struggled to get it to work well. The larger screens and use of a mouse means it works much better on laptop/desktops. Can you give me any further details about the parts of the mobile display that didn't work very well? Can you give me more details about the mobile you were you using (I've not had a chance to do a lot of testing on mobile devices)? Cheers
> Video games, for example, have been trying to move to the cloud

Trying and failing for a decade or more, because people like low latency and being able to customise things.
Can iOS natively or iTunes stream music through those devices?
Emacs is great, and Sublime has many drawbacks, as well as some poorly implemented features (like, the macros are basically worthless except for a very select few operations)... But Sublime Text simply outclasses any other Text Editor in the Simplicity + speed vs complexity.

Sublime's project goto functionality is simply unbeatable, it is faster than any Vim plugin I've ever used, it starts up faster than Emacs, it requires _no_ configuration to be a great text editor, it's the text-editor embodiment of easy-to-learn, hard-to-master.

Emacs is really something you need to actively learn, while you can just pick up Sublime and use it effectively within the first minute of opening it.
online.net themselves (proper dedicated servers) are fine, and their network is reliable, fast and they have good uptime.

Scaleway's hardware and software is a huge problem, it's unreliable to the point of being unusable. I'd only use it for cheap hosting of build server workers. Their disks for example have no RAID, you're expected to mount multiple volumes and perform software raid yourself, except that there's no easy way to do that and also you often run into limits for how many disks you can attach to a VM!
> but internally there was strong confidence that a lack of pilot familiarity with the adjusted mechanics of MCAS contributed to the disaster

> training for the 737-8 and -9 was just short of non existent because in practice, these planes don’t fly differently.

These statements contradict.
It might be of little effect, but I specifically target series. A set of nine will beat out a pair for me. I'm hooked on Brandon Sanderson partly due to the interlinking between his different series.
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I briefly volunteered at the Berkeley Herbarium a few years ago. We would archive dried samples of various plant species that mostly amateur botanists would send to us. I say mostly because occasionally we would receive samples from professionals, but the vast majority were from amateurs.

What amazed me was that a few individuals had sent us tens of thousands of samples over the years, all meticulously prepared for us to archive. This level of dedication really amazed me and humbled me.
But that’s still 25% of the original security...

I get that it’s meaningless - 4x effectively 0 is still effectively 0 - but denying the math doesn’t really help anything.
> Southwest, the biggest US operator of 737 MAX aircraft, bought the "AOA Disagree" option on their aircraft, and recently added an AOA indicator. Many operators didn't get that option; Lion Air didn't have it. If you have that, you get a warning that the flight control system is seeing bogus AOA data. It is somewhat less of a safety issue if you have the backup systems.

This seems like an important factor. I wonder if that's the reasoning behind the FAA not grounding the planes and assuming most US airlines have this system in place.
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that's interesting, their other comment in this thread is also a bit wtf

> In order to increase fuel efficiency on the 737 MAX, the engine fan diameter was increased;

> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Knuth
This doesn't even make sense. Not caring about something doesn't mean it won't be an issue for you and the people around you.
also the Hangouts Android app is still going
I didn't downvote you, so I can't speak for those who did. But I replied because simply saying "20/850 is small" isn't sufficient to argue there isn't a difference between the two planes. Partly because the timescales for the two incident counts are different and so are the number of planes constructed. So normalizing the incident counts against those quantities is a first step at getting towards their significance. Though as @ggm and @ansy point out, the incident rates also vary as a function of time through the lifetime of that airplane model. So really that behavior needs to be examined as well.
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Webfaction has been my go-to choice for simple hosting for the last 10 years or so. Developer-friendly with SSH access by default, many apps you can install with one click. Much better control panel compared to CPanel etc. They recently added Let's encrypt. And the company and support were great too. There was lots to like.

Unfortunately Webfaction was bought by probably the polar opposite: Godaddy.

And now they're starting to transition things over to Godaddy. So I'm obviously concerned.

Are there any good alternatives to Webfaction?
> Apple blocked Spotify from working with Apple Watch

I'm not sure this is 100% true. From browsing the spotify support forums many moons ago, some guy had built a spotify playing app for the apple watch, but spotify squashed it. Given that some random dev could do this, it doesn't seem like apple prevented anything.
Hyperion, probably my favorite sci-fi, was deemed too long as a single book, so it was pretty much cut in half and sold as two books.
I've read it and I think it's way overblown. All I care about is solid support for standards and Chrome shines it that.

I picked them because I could test if you actually experienced it. Chrome at the moment is the best we have but it does come with strings attached. It has different problems indeed, surprise surprise, however I don't think that's that a big issue at all.
Sure, but this is just life isn’t it? A university decides to change the courses it offers, or the number of places offered within a course, just because things change. There also might be a new course offered this year which the student would not have had the opportunity to apply for last year.
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Tesla cells are designed to Tesla's proprietary specs.

This has just been confirmed:

>CATL has been discussing the required specifications for the batteries with Tesla officials, the people said, asking not to be named because the talks are private.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-11/tesla-is-...
That would also be my take on this situation.

The fact remains two brand new, state of the art aircraft have some how managed to fall out of the sky and the best the builder of the plane can offer is the plane is safest plane ever.

I don't see how that spin will not stick and I too suspect the public perception will grown to a point were this plane is also branded a lemon.
> Right, I'm (we're) obviously talking about 737MAX

I think @ams6110 is saying that it may not be fair to identify the 737MAX as a completely new plane, since the 737MAX can be identified as more of an evolution of the 737 rather than a new, from-scratch plane design.
What are the other terms we can use for this phenomenon besides siesta, catnap, power nap, food coma et al?
What does work have to do with any of this? Sure, the water acts on the floating vegetation in the direction of displacement, but without a measure of the weight of the islands, it's somewhat meaningless.
Clearly they mean 10^2 acres = 100 acres.

BIMDAS!
Yeah me too.

You know if WiFi was so awesome, wifi routers wouldn't have wires in them!
If a random guy can make the app then Spotify could certainly have made an Apple Watch app.

If anything it makes the case that if it were so simple for a single random dev that unless Apple itself were preventing it there is no reason the app wouldn't have been released.
If your bank is any good, it doesn't send you emails about your account activity or problems. Yet, it could, if everybody was signing their emails.
Opera is also closed source and has been bought by some Chinese consortium, so that may not be the best option if you want to get away from Google for privacy reasons.
I've had similar issues. Network outages, server power cycles taking forever etc. The only good thing Scaleway is for is hosting Tor exits, which they don't seem to mind.

To add to the network stack comment - they assign _single_ IPv6 address to your server. Not a /64 block, just a single /128 address. I have no idea what they were thinking.
I know people who got to uni with exceptionally high marks on their HSC and absolutely no problem solving skills to speak of. Doing well on an exam does not necessarily mean someone is more intelligent or capable, it means they were good at that exam.
Which raises the question: to what degree does a platform owner have a responsibility to support the businesses of others?

Rephrased, Spotify seems to think it has a /right/ to run its software on Apple platforms in an identical fashion to Apple's first-party software. Does that mean Apple has an obligation to provide an equivalent technical capacity for literally any software that runs on its devices? An app store? A payment provider? A cloud provider? A health data store? An update mechanism?
We still disagree about the cells not being far ahead of the game.

>Cells used in Model 3 are the highest energy density cells used in any electric vehicle. We have achieved this by significantly reducing cobalt content per battery pack while increasing nickel content and still maintaining superior thermal stability. The cobalt content of our Nickel-Cobalt-Aluminum cathode chemistry is already lower than next-generation cathodes that will be made by other cell producers with a Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt ratio of 8:1:1. As a result, even with its battery, the gross weight of Model 3 is on par with its gasoline-powered counterparts.

http://electrek.co/2018/05/02/tesla-tsla-releases-q1-results...
Isn’t that service Keybase?
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Counterargument: Apple's review process is more likely to let "some guy's" app slip through the cracks and make it in the App Store than the official app of one of its huge competitors with an install base of many, many, many millions of devices.
Hmm, after seeing this I think I should switch to apple music.
Since they founded in 2012, they could also have created a German Unternehmergesellschaft, which starts with 1€ capital too, and "grows" into a GmbH (25% of net income have to be added to the company investment, until the 25k€ threshold is reached, at which point the company can convert). Since those were introduced, Ltd. has become a lot less common for German founders.
> or me, having a voice interface for music and calls is enough justification for such a device, and I assume this is true for others as well.

I wouldn't assume anything like that.