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FL Studio is/was Delphi based but I got to believe that it’s been ported to c/c++ in light of the Mac version that’s now available. I know there is kylix but I can’t imagine that was the way it was ported. But maybe so. I actually maintain a Delphi app used for trucking and logistics that the company purchased the source code for. We have a vm sitting on our server farm that is hosting an image of a highly customized version of Delphi that’s our “build” server. We are going to port this to C# second half of the year. The dude made all sorts of UI snafus, like 4 way check boxes using multi color checks for security provisioning. To add insult to injury if you have any color blindness you cannot perform this task- red, violet, green and blue are the options. I don’t have any known color blindness and it’s hard for me to tell.
It’s probably because I know very little about how Hollywood works, and I’m definitely coloured by how much of HR departments we seem to be able to automate and digitise these years. But why do writers need agents? Why does anyone really need an agent in 2019?

I mean, I understand the value of lobbying and networking, I use it quite a bit in my own life, but is it really so hard for writers to connect to employers, that they need to pay someone to do it?
Good point about choices being lead by executives in distance. I once had a client CEO obsessed with slack because he had developed a Pavlovian association between Slack knocks (upon got commits) and product delivery. He wanted to hear more and more knocks and people started to commit more and more often with increasingly trivial deltas.
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I didn't say I started then, I said I decided I liked it enough to make it my career; others in my university saw it as a stepping stone to (upper) management. I feel the age that I decided that can be interesting for others thinking about career choices.
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There are more choices than the extremes. But if those are the only choices offered, the citizenry may simply prefer more pollution over reductions in productivity or convenience.

That's not an irrational choice, unless your prerogative is that there's no value in personal transportation, which is extreme. I see that a lot, and it's a first cousin of the "if it just saved one life" argument, which erroneously assumes there's no value in any other perspectives.

Nothing comes without cost. Even public transit has consequences, and at least in the USA, it's far less "clean" than commonly believed.
This is a cool idea and would be worthwhile but I’m sure there are significant (non software related) logistical issues that won’t be solved by FOSS. Handling driver-rider disputes and general safety concerns, for instance. Part of what makes Uber viable is they own a certain degree of liability in the customer experience, even if it comes at the expense of drivers.
Windows and Linux already have color pickers too.
When you walk in the wrong direction the final step off the cliff is the last one. Better to get off of the slope because choices get fuzzier the closer you get to the sun.
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I think it's because more than anywhere else showbiz is about connections. And an agent is your API to "connections".

I generally do share the same skepticism. Does it really have to work that way? Can't just have a talent database where you can query for certain characteristics and within seconds see profiles with photos and videos of example work?

I imagine a lot of agents are retained for, "I'm a nobody who has done 2 Colgate commercials. Go campaign for me among your connections and get me to the next rung of the ladder." I appreciate that we are talking writers, not actors. But the same concepts apply.
There is no problem. It is just like flying with a helicopter to the supermarket. You just need a supermarket with a large enough parking lot.
Maybe I'm not clear -- destroying any user's data without user's explicit authorization is unacceptable for any non-joke of a system.

If users' keys are linked to the session key then the system has to be designed in a way that the centralized session key store is protected like a pot of gold. That's a design constraint and dictates operational constraints.

> Matrix doesn't store messages locally long-term and all your devices have access to your history. In addition, there is no "log out" with Signal unless you unlink your device.

If one designs this kind of a system, one accepts the security constraints this system has. That's a basic competence or in this case a lack of it.
>"He has been detained simply for investigation purposes"

And then

>"Ecuadorian diplomats told their counterparts in the UK that they were worried that Assange’s associates would try to seek revenge with cyberattacks and information leaks if he was handed over.

Britain agreed to assist Ecuador in shoring up its cybersecurity, the newspaper reported."

If I'm reading the subtext here, correctly, Bini was arrested but not charged with anything, presumably as a measure to keep him from orchestrating "retaliation".

>"Ecuadorian officials believe Bini may be part of a blackmail ring assembled to pressure President Lenin Moreno and his government to allow Assange to remain in the embassy, according to the Times of London."

I don't see how they can claim blackmail, if the INA Papers were released before they ousted Assange. Isn't this the antithesis of how blackmail works...?

Edit: Ecuador is now saying hacking is the charge, it sounds like (admittedly, my Spanish isn't that great).

https://www.fiscalia.gob.ec/ciudadano-sueco-fue-procesado-po...
Added to this that WeChat could trivially add voice to text and squash anyone who happened to get any market share from that.
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At any scale bigger than 1 person, we see specialization of labor.

It only makes sense a ~0.5M dollar brand/person has a 'marketing/legal' department.

The weird part is that Hollywood has this ingrained in their culture. Could someone participate without spending the cost of an agent?
> You'd want to put them in kind of nondescript areas to avoid taking out the historic stuff as mentioned in the article and maybe pay out 50% above market to existing buildings in the way so they are not too pissed off but it could be doable.

And, presumably, they'd be as cheap as possible, leading to higher probability of hazards like at Grenfell Tower?
Soviet bloc housing; no thanks. That is the end result of government policy.
I was surprised to see him give up at having to bruteforce the password for root on ssh. That's how the community got into Mazdas, at least the 2015 I had anyway. The password was simple, jci, presumably because it was designed by Johnson Control Istruments.

You think a company is going to heavily lock down an embedded system they don't expect anyone to try to access, or are they going to make the password easy so that all the techs and engineers can remember it?
Chongqing is crazy overbuilt, which is weird since everything is so hilly there (think Seattle or San Francisco and then add even more hills). A lot of the speculation is along the lines that China is quickly urbanizing and farmers will eventually buy these apartments, but the farmers aren’t really rich enough to support the returns the speculators are looking for.

Chengdu is probably in a similar boat to Chongqing. Well, any tier 2 city actually.
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I think 2019 is when this attitude started to get more mainstream within tech. I’m not opposed to it but I hope people understand that following local laws means that companies may end up enforcing laws from other cultures.
In Saskatchewan there were supply shortages at the start, but that took care of itself by around new years. Quality- and price-wise... I've heard a lot of people complain about that, but it very much has not matched my experience. Yes, an 1/8oz costs more than it did when I was in high school 20 years ago, but the quality has been fantastic.

I mentally compare it to alcohol. A "couple beer" buzz costs me about $1.50, and I feel wonderful the next day. And at the rate I use it, the $50 bag (1/8oz) has lasted since about November and isn't empty yet.
If I could afford the most expensive clothes I can imagine I would buy hand-made custom everything.
I imagine when you're so well known and talented and famous that your brand sells itself.
Hehe, kinda funny when an application comes with more security vulnerabilities than it has lines of code for its own logic ;-)

EDIT: edited to make it less ambiguous
That sounds nice. But could they use this data legally in another way?
You can make spoofing harder. Most of these spoofing attacks target off-the-self drone GSP, and don't work against adversary who plan against them.

If you want to spoof more expensive gear, like those used in commercial shipping, you do it gradually. You start by transmitting the correct coordinates and then gradually start to increase the difference between correct and false coordinates. When done gradually, IMU can't detect GPS spoofing.

Unfortunately many otherwise good navigation systems are not doing even the bare minimum to detect spoofing. It's not the cost. Spoofing protection has not been priority.
"6 times the mass get ~6 times the gravity, if we're talking about a rocky planet of comparable density?"

There's no such thing, apparently, see the link I've already posted. According to the latest research, six times the Earth mass the planet is gaseous (Neptune-like). The limit over which the planet is Neptune-like is just two times Earth mass, which corresponds to just a little bigger radius than Earth's:

"a world that's 2.0 Earth masses and rocky will only be about 25% larger in radius than Earth; larger than that and you're probably Neptune-like, with a massive hydrogen/helium envelope."

https://www.universetoday.com/22070/surface-of-neptune/

"In short, there is simply no way one could stand on the “surface of Neptune”, let alone walk around on it."
Beijing isn’t as hot as Shanghai real estate wise, but I could never get my head around how an apartment that would sell for a million dollars would rent out for just 10k RMB/month. Why would anyone even bother buying with such lousy rent to sale ratios?

Anyways, I saved a lot on rent during my 9 years in China.
EXWM is good fun. At the moment I'm using it on most of my machines but i3, StumpWM and EXWM are pretty interchangeable for me.
Of course they do, as they should. Still too often there are annoying shits around waiting to dump the “it's ‘these data’, not ‘this’.”

Have I mentioned that using plural forms from a different language is arbitrary and stupid? All widely-used languages borrow words from others, but they bend the words to their grammar, not the other way around.
> I'm sure if they could have studied US operations without losing their funding they

Is that actually the case?
This is very classist. Everybody should have the opportunity of living in a big city, especially given that that's where the jobs are (and it's only going to get worse every year).
Plenty of Americans hate it too. Just not the ones that are likely to remain in this person's social environment.
I’m not sure what is so bad about this. Hudson Yards got money, investors got visas. Why is this a problem? It’s not like it’s taking investment from low income nrighborhoods: it’s not a zero sum game.
yes and it works everywhere, everytime.
The city where I work has slashed public transport prices, -40% for me, as part of a package to combat pollution exceeding EU regulations.
> we are at a point of diminishing return of improving hardware

We're already at the point where hardware is marginally increasing in efficiency year-over-year for most purposes. We've been there for like, 4-5 years now. Chips created on high-end processes are already expensive to the point there's no immediate cost-savings to be had from them, only power savings. Twice as dense, twice as expensive, marginal performance improvements. Years of development.

That's due to physical laws of nature, not because we suddenly started writing way, way better software and therefore hardware engineers decided to slack off for the past 8-5 years or whatever, after year-over-year doubling in the prior decades. Your lunch was never actually free, it's just that Bill down the hall has finally stopped paying for you every day, because he's starting to go broke and has to tighten his belt.

> that it is good that software is becoming more and more "bloated"

No it isn't, you only think that (and justify it with a speculative argument) because it lets you justify externalizing the costs of bloat onto someone else, ignoring any other concerns -- your users, your cloud provider, your hardware vendors, etc who all pay for the energy and time you wasted on their behalf.

> that's the only incentive to keep researching more efficient hardware.

No it isn't, this is just more baseless speculation to support your point.
I never said I hated the language but I do think almost every other alternative language I’ve used since doing full time PHP has been a better experience.
>However a replay attack that uses a valid signal received at some other locate re-broadcast at a second place is not affected by encryption.

That seems like a pretty obvious and absurd sort of vulnerability.
> is it really so hard for writers to connect to employers, that they need to pay someone to do it?

My experience is that, in many, if not all fields, people are experts at their particular skill only.

Writers are good only at writing, developers are good only at developing, and so on. Making connections and finding work is a different set of skills that many don't have.

Do they need to pay someone to do it? Well, in theory, they don't need to.

But that means learning a skill they probably don't like. Many developers are introverts who don't want to spend time talking to people. My guess is that writers too prefer to work on their own.
Just download more RAM!

On a serious note: I never understood why people tell me to buy better hardware to compensate for the shitty performance of their software. No, fix your software!
Things that aren't crimes are legal.
I think it was poorly implemented, having government controlled stores means less competition, less actors in the market leading to bad quality, short supply and high prices ... And a still thriving black market.
That’s not what’s going on at all. You think that if Hudson Yards wasn’t built, Harlem would somehow get all that money? That’s not how it works, it’s not a zero-sum game.
Would hybrid (specifically series) make sense for GA fixed-wing? I'm pretty excited about it for VTOL, especially since it gives you a lot of redundancy in the electrical part and thus allows far lower reliability in the main engine-generator.
It's generally safe to assume nothing is ever obvious. Better to write simple things out than to write nothing at all.
I honestly don't understand how people are still bickering over style guides in modern programming. Autoformatters exist in every major language. Git hooks exist. Company style guides exist. Pick one, and then it's never an issue what editor people are using, it's bizarre that this bikeshed still exists.
but better than using 5 different cars for 5 different supermarkets.
Nice breakdown of wasted resources.. It's frustrated me for a long time how people are carelessly bundling unused code, which is unfortunately common in JavaScript-land.

Including only the bundled/minified app is possible, leaving no node_modules folder at all - or, at least, just the native binaries needed.

As for bundling the whole Electron runtime on every app: technically it's possible to have a shared runtime - as this 3-year old issue shows, many people have attempted various approaches: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/673

However, sadly no one has stepped up to come up with a general solution. While there are disadvantages and some reasonable arguments for bundling the exact version of the runtime required by an app, it seems efficent use of resources isn't enough of a priority..
GPS is permanently jammed/spoofed around Kremlin. It is tough to drive there if you are not local.
It is really fun to learn new languages and you certainly should know a language in each of the major paradigms. But beyond that I think learning languages might have diminishing returns compared to tackling other "axes" of difference, e.g. learning new platforms, frameworks or environments.

The conceptual differences between a desktop GUI app, a command line app or a web app are much bigger than between say functionally similar web apps implemented in three different programming languages. A business app based on a relational database is fundamentally different from say a game, even if the language is the same.
Which is sleazy af. I really wish I could get behind tsla, but they persist with bold lies and consumer toxic behavior. Why cant this guy let the tech speak for itself?
Is nypost reliable here?

In the past I've found them to be pretty much a celeb gossip mag and the harder news they cover has similar skewed and sensationalized stories.

I hate to go down the path of questing every media source like happens these days, but nypost in particular seems a bit of generally speaking.

Not saying I know any different that this story or if they're right / wrong.
The lack of end-to-end reachability makes it harder to build decentralized applications, thus adding more fuel to centralization.
Privacy of companies or of individuals? I don't think privacy of companies is a right, so that argument isn't convincing to me. (Specifically, I believe companies have no particular inherent right to existence the way people do. Companies are creations of law to serve specific goals that benefit people; we should give them whatever privileges are necessary to accomplish that, and not what's not. Privacy of certain things like customer data and things like HR conversations seems pretty clearly helpful, but mostly because that's a proxy for privacy of individuals, not because violating it would violate the company's "privacy.")

There's an easy solution to reciprocity: abandon IP protection in the US, too. My entire claim is that that would lead to a better world. If we want to not do that, we should either defend that it would lead to a worse world, or admit that we're not making arguments based on what's best for society. That's why I found the argument about "but IP protection brought us Kinect and Move" unconvincing: it's not clear at all to me that the outcome was better than in the world where the US didn't recognize IP protection.
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> Or if the police want to effortlessly and invisibly track you, of course.

All we need now is integration of biometrics to start the vehicle, so they know exactly who the driver is. For our safety, of course.
Also QT provides a cross-platform color chooser widget.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcolordialog.html

KDE's KColorChooser is simply a wrapper around this and is less than 100 lines of code, mostly setting up the about box.

https://kde.org/applications/graphics/kcolorchooser/

This could have trivially been made into a cross-platform color chooser that uses significantly less resources.

On my Linux box Fucking Color Chooser spawns 4 fucking processes uses 128 MB of RAM and 4% CPU.

KColorChooser uses 15 MB in one process and near zero CPU.

Please stop making everything a web application.
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> You'd want to put them in kind of nondescript areas to avoid taking out the historic stuff as mentioned in the article

It’s amusing to suggest there is “historic stuff” in SF, as there is in China. I saw a “historic” building with a plaque in Palo Alto. It was constructed in the 1900s! Like, after my grandfather was born.

Historical preservation is stealing from the future. If I had my druthers, the opportunity cost of designating buildings or areas as historic would come directly out of the pockets of the preservationists.
The government is also here to take into account the work of scientists & urbanists and lead the people towards a better, healthier and sustainable future.
Swedish media has written about it and the guardian as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/12/julian-assange...

Swedish state television (swedish only)

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/ecuadors-ambassad-i-sveri...
Isn't it interesting how we opinions on the lives and decisions halfway across the world- Despite not living there and understanding the complexity of life.

I'm an Environmentalist, but whenever I hear about government imposed solutions, I imagine someone's life is terrible.

-Elderly folks have a significantly harder time getting necessities

-Emergency vehicles take longer due to traffic

I won't go on, because I won't pretend I understand life and culture in another country.

This reminds me of the question a Lawyer said they debated- Does the world need a Tyrant to stop Capitalism from destroying the earth, or is Freedom the way?
Jobs are one way of manufacturing things people need or want. They're not the only way, unless we're playing semantic games by defining "jobs" in one sentence as "people offering 8h/day of their labor in the free market" and in the next as "people doing things"—and even if we are, let's at least be honest about the difference between "people doing things that are actually inherently productive and efficient" and "people doing things that are inefficient because we want the excuse to pay them for it." Job growth because it enables manufacturing is one thing; job growth because it enables paying people is quite another. As we become more efficient and automated in manufacturing, we'll have to decide what to do when there simply aren't enough jobs to go around. There are ways to continue giving people money to buy the things they need or want—or perhaps enable them to get the things they need or want without money—without requiring them to have jobs, or making that money proportional to the market value of their work. And they seem quite ethical.

That's why I say that jobs aren't an inherent good. They're a means to an inherently-good end. That makes them conditionally good, so long as they continue to serve the end. Prioritizing the means over the end would be a mistake.

There is no comparable alternative to giving people the things they need or want. I can think of a few (e.g., drugging people, plugging them into the Matrix) and they're unethical.
About legality, anyone has legal knowledge about this kind of data sharing ?
Alas, at least one v6 block in mozilla's ASN has been unreachable for several months now from my ISP (compared ISP's looking glass and RIPE looking glass)... and there is no avenue to report this. Sending mails to the whois contacts remains unanswered and customer support is utterly incapable of even understanding what I am reporting.
> Phones for example have basically been unchanged for 5 years regarding performance, because while hardware has drastically improved the apps have become heavier in proportion for superficial new features.

I don't see it. The latest version of iOS is (apparently) such a big performance improvement that its performance got top billing as a "Feature" from Apple [1]. They brag about how it's ~50% faster at several common tasks.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12/features/
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I wonder what happens in places where private transport isn't restricted.
I think this is a fantasy for 99% of people. And even the 1% need someone to 'vet' the BS.