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> How would this explode in your face, exactly? What was the risk here?

The risk could be that a competitor could step into the market and use "legacy support" as a positive of their platform. Youtube is weird - especially at that time - since it didn't really have any movers and shakers in terms of either consumers or producers, but if they were selling software that corporations legitimately use (for instance - vimeo offers good streaming video embeds that do "things" to try and restrict the video to a limited audience) then a company using this service to host their streaming videos may be motivated to shift off of that service to a competitor that won't artificially limit the users that can actually use this third party plugin.

Again, it's a bit hard to say here with YouTube in particular, because it isn't a place where work happened at that point[1] so none of the consumers wielded significant power - honestly YouTube may have been fine just say "Welp, 18% of our user base is forcing us into supporting janky old browsers - guess we're losing 18% of our user base and saving a bunch on code maintenance."

[1] Now there are streamers that may legitimately threaten the company if they threaten to jump ship, it's economically weird but beside the point... just, back then there was nothing.
"WhatsApp (pre-FB)"

ooo, burn
Knowingly manufacturing a product that has such a high risk of causing cancer as do cigarettes is certainly unethical in my opinion. But today when that risk is known to consumers (as opposed to in the past when it was not) it is ultimately the responsibility of anyone that decide to start smoking today when doing so ends up giving them cancer.

I say this as someone who is a low volume consumer of another tobacco product (Swedish snus) that is also bad for my health and which also has a risk of giving me a form of cancer (oral cancer). I am betting on the fact that I keep my use of the product on the low end to save me. But I accept the fact that I am to blame if this ends up giving me cancer.
It's almost as if... bear with me here...
Some sort of collective action by employees of a monopolistic company can't be ignored... because - uh - they'll stop working en masse? Voluntarily in lieu of pay? Madness, it'll never catch on.
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I wonder if it is something to do with puppet. I've never used it (I wrote my own thingy before puppet existed), but I gather puppet comes with a whole pile of configuration thingies out of the box. For example, maybe you don't have to know how edit the sudoer's file to prevent password prompting because puppet has a puppet way of doing it that edits the config file for you. I could well imagine if you did things by editing puppet files for a few years you might forget the underlying config file syntax, or even what config file ends up being edited.

If that's true he'll pick it up soon enough. The muscle memory will start flowing again.

If he wants something to panic over try moving to k8s. If effectively includes a puppet like thingy done a completely different way, and worse it builds a very different computing model. Use that for 10 years, then try to re-adjust your thinking back to a single server model that you maintain by editing config files and you will be in for a rough ride.
I’ve often wondered this myself. Google has literally thousands of engineers working on search alone. I can’t even fathom what they’re all doing. And then what is everyone filling their time with?
Actually kinda looks like it is semi-open source.

https://github.com/anki/drive-sdk
https://github.com/jacopotagliabue/anki-drive-python-sdk
I believe it already is in China. So not too surprising if it does.

Sadly RL has been very good about not trying to milk it’s users. Crates suck but whatever. They give free keys with seasonal stuff. Hope it doesn’t change too much.
It's not a very heavy argument anyway. Circles are in swirls, tornadoes and even the Sun looks like a bright circle looking from the Earth.
Water waves draw circles when you throw a rock in it. Circles are everywhere.
Some people says "nature hates perfect shapes" but it's not true, nature creates perfect cubes in some minerals, some fish eggs are perfect spheres... And so on.
It should also apply to far-left.
You are so right about ageism. I am in my mid-forties and I am already feeling it. I have been rejected from positions because of my age. The feedback most of the time: I am not a good cultural fit.

I do not get lured by Pool table, office BBQs, bowling nights etc. I just want to write good software.
First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years.

I don't see how this works, most of the core Cyberpunk books were at least technologically well past even current level, let alone 2000ish. What is your thinking for 1990-2000 ?
I interpreted parent comment as "you're not in [Epic's] demographic, and probably didn't help [Epic] generate their F-You Money", as a reference to the money gathered from Fortnite.

Unless of course you are referring to the paid version of Fortnite, but I don't think that's clear from your comment.
On the flip side, Tesla fixed this specific issue (and apparently unfixed it again) with over the air updates. If this was another manufacturer the cars would need to be recalled and it would likely be years before a fix was rolled out to all vehicles and therefore lives would continue to be in danger. So it isn't like over the air updates are inherently bad. The reality of the situation is that there almost certainly needs to be some level of government oversight over this type of thing.
>Its cheaper just buy a OEM laptop and slap ubuntu on it.

So far, yes. Once they start shipping coreboot, the balance changes. They provide something that no other OEM (other than chromebooks and purism atm) do.
It his gateway to having the Government own all property and no private ownership of land.
what are you talking about? how does gopher or open source have any relation to the hours of operation that a business lists on their google maps page?
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Even a brand new, unlocked, $1000 Samsung Galaxy S10 comes riddled with adware and spyware, some of it unremovable:

"There are apps from Flipboard and Spotify as well as a unremovable version of Facebook. McAfee Anti-virus is baked into the operating system as "security," and the Samsung Gallery app wants to share my location with Foursquare. The storage management settings, which is just a simple file-cleanup app, is "Powered by Qihoo 360," a Chinese security company. A caller-ID feature built into the phone app is provided by a company called "Hiya."

Once you run through setup and connect to Wi-Fi, the phone spawns an undismissable "Secure Wi-Fi" notification, which, it turns out, is an ad for McAfee VPN subscription service. I tried blocking the notification—it's not blockable—but it turns out you can open the advertisement, carefully consider subscribing to McAfee VPN, say "No," and then it will go away. Cool."

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Dystopunk?
I didn’t claim I had listened to him much. I remember his “Skynet is coming” remarks at the national governors association, and prior to warning about AI he made some rather sad comments about how the stress was getting to be too much for him. Watch it on YouTube. It was clear that he was at a breaking point. Not to mention the Rogan interview.

I think Musk realized some time ago that Tesla was going to get close, but just shy of long term profitability. He’s looking for a way out that doesn’t involve him saying “uncle”.
That’s a pretty useless definition. In this context interoperability means being able to substitute one product for another because they have the same API. Sometimes this is the intent (e.g. SQL). Sometimes not.
> Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council appeared like the closest thing to fascism in the USA that I have ever witnessed.

Other than that either your witness to even recent, well-publicized events is quite spotty or your understanding of fascism is quite broken, I'm not sure what one is supposed to take from this statement.
I'm strongly considering the ThinkPad P1 as my next work machine -- any other issues you've experienced? I wouldn't have expected Lenovo to mess with the ThinkPad brand like that. My image of ThinkPad has always been no-nonsense, get-stuff-done, power-user-favored. Packing in a bunch of cruft doesn't seem to mesh with that image.
Here's a WaPo article from the controversial woman Google appointed to the board, Kay Cole James.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wanted-to-help-goo...

I may not agree with her politically, but its important to have different viewpoints in discourse as long as they're rooted in principles. I think its shameful that the AI Ethics Council was disbanded, if employees took issue with her it would have been nice to see them suggest an alternative.
"One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart"

Let me get some of those worms!
It seems like a (relatively) trivial addition to the Autopilot system would be to allow the drive to tell the car when it has made a mistake and if Autopilot(s) consistently make mistakes in the same area then Autopilot should give a specific warning, or force a disengagement, when it detects that it is approaching that area.

I can't imagine that this isn't already a thing or that someone at Tesla hasn't come up with this... am I missing something here?
> any reasonable driver could have easily prevented it,

Not really. The crash attenuator was missing because someone else crashed into it. That highway exit is ridiculous. As for faults, there is obviously fault on both sides. The driver should have been more alert and the "autonomous system" should have detected the obstacle and slowed down the vehicle before hitting the guard.
That's not true. The majority of google employees are in areas that directly impact the bottom line such search, ads, sales, technical infrastructure.
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> for one thing that actually happened because they did (and got away) with this: youtube engineers feel like they can leverage their site to dictate what they want in the browser space, by deliberately making it 5x slower on firefox and edge[0].

There's no evidence that that was deliberate. These two things are also pretty completely unrelated.
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Sounds like we're a long way off from real fascism then!
My tweet about this, for what it's worth:

On the same day Googlers protest retaliation by their own management, a Googler posts about how AMP, the astroturfed, Google-developed and mandated format is the cuddly "open" choice for those who want the "web" (i.e. Google) to win.

Give the web to Google? What could go wrong?

===

And for context, here's what the AMP dev rel says in TFA:

"The second reason is that many compare AMP to RSS, and the media positioned it as competitor to certain other big companies’ walled garden media formats. That narrative certainly didn’t help, and for what it’s worth, we, the AMP team, have never told the story that way..."

And here's the origin story from one of the AMP Project's cofounders and former technical lead, Malte Ubl [0]:

"We were worried about the web not existing anymore due to native apps and walled gardens killing it off. We wanted to make the web competitive. We saw a sense of urgency and thus we decided to build on the extensible web to build AMP instead of waiting for standard and browsers and websites to catch up. I stand behind this process. I'm a practical guy."

Honestly...

[0] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597#issuecomm...
What do you mean 'will cause' - it has already happened.

Almost all children learn English in Government primary school in Europe, and quite a lot study at private schools with the entire curriculum in that language. The legacy local language is basically treated as a secondary language, something to use for gossip and low-level transactions with local businesses (bars, supermarkets, plumbers).

Many Governments offer services in both languages: paying taxes, driver licensing, etc.

What is the point of becoming highly fluent in a legacy local language, even for someone born in that country - to write books and articles that no one (in a global context) will ever read? Fluency in English delivers so much more, has many more learning resources available, and is a much better investment of school time.
Sorry, this doesn't even look real:
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImage...

Not a single visible sign explains what they are protesting...
Yes. What is your point ?
Someone posted preliminary sit-in attendance numbers. Attendance ranges from 50-150 per office in the larger offices. Anecdotally, I've seen very little discussion and energy this time compared to the walkout. Back then, one couldn't walk 20 feet without hitting some kind of exhortation to join the walkout. This time, more people might find out about this sit-in through this HN story than through internal channels.

The low visibility and low attendance aren't the result of any kind of management repression. I think it's a real change in sentiment. Most people don't care about this affair. Among people who are paying attention, there's a fair amount of internal skepticism and outrage fatigue. The small core group of habitual protesters is as active as ever, but they've struggled to come up with concrete evidence that substantiates their "systemic retaliation" narrative, and it feels like they've lost the hearts and minds of the public. It's telling that the main mailing list that these people use to communicate has enacted strict moderation policies that effectively ban debate and disagreement.

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These articles take off because the general (non-Tesla-owning) public believes "autopilot" is full autonomy and Tesla is covering something up.

If this was branded as a "driving assistant", people wouldn't bat an eye when the driver failed to maintain control.
That's really fantastic news.
My Dad pays by check. He spends a couple of hours each month going through his bills... writing checks... licking stamps.. okay, maybe not licking stamps.

I pay through my bank's online interface. Less chance of mail getting lost. Faster payment.
Using mainly Stripe for Credit/debitcard because compared to its competitors at least here in Europe its cheap (1.4% + 0.25€).

And the DX was very smooth.
That's astounding

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In common UK parlance carbohydrates don't include sugars although chemically speaking they should. I think metabolically speaking there is a useful distinction to be made, in fact people are making it here. In dietary context schools have categorised potatoes, rice, pasta, even bread as sources of "carbohydrates" and sweets as sugar sources.
Disabling right-click is lame.
"If you're just getting started with blogging, make sure to set up Google Analytics"

No. Please don't add Google spy code to your site.

If these sorts of analytics are actually important to you, consider using an analytic package (or, better, write your own or parse the information out of your server logs) that is entirely hosted on your site and doesn't report to a third party.
According the the following, sucrose has a glycemic index of 65. Plantain has 55. Brown rice has 68. Does the glycemic index say anything about impact on blood glucose and insulin levels?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...
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$500,000 isn't going to get you much of a building. These folks just didn't want to fork out the real dough even though some of them had the means.
Living around silicon valley with all the tesla drivers here, you learn real fast it makes for some of the worst drivers out on the road. Regularly see them running red lights and just generally not paying attention. They crutch too hard on the auto-pilot and dick around on their smart phones, which is probably exactly what this guy was doing. It's bad for tesla drivers and it's bad for drivers around them. Hope Tesla loses this lawsuit just because of that.
At least donating a building gives value to the other attending students that far outweighs the cost of their child going
A good friend got one. Checks it constantly. He has slipped down the slope of constant surveillance. Cell phone buzzes while we are out..."let's see who is visiting the wife?" Let's listen in on how she's interacting with the kids as they play in the driveway.

It makes me uneasy and any suggestions I have made jokingly or seriously about it being weird are brushed off. I genuinely feel it straining our relationship as he turns into this other person every time he checks in on what's happening.
Steam took a 30% cut even when it was just a glorified CDN and payment processor. It's not charging for features, it's charging for its near-monopoly on digital PC game sales.

FWIW, I agree with Epic's stance on chat: Discord is good, use Discord. Steam chat is awful; I effectively never use it, and all of my friends use Discord servers. Epic could build their own chat platform, but for what purpose?

I do agree that there are some sorely-missing other features from the Epic Store, though. But I'm fine with them shipping an MVP to force Steam to offer more-competitive pricing sooner rather than later — which is what happened.

> depend on epic to provide a framework for it (sentiment seems to be "don't hold your breath")

Sentiment amongst whom? Angry gamers? Epic released their 2019 roadmap, it seems fairly reasonable; cloud saves apparently are coming in the next 1-3 months: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/epic-games-store-cloud-sav...
> Scale matters.

To who? Why should a city invite 10's of millions of people to watch competitors?

If you can generative the same profit with 20k more expensive tickets, why invite 20 million? Just so people can spend their money in your town? Money they could have spent on something else.

Seems like such a colossal waste of public funds.
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Meredith Whittaker and company could not find peace in their hearts with the appointment of (the president of the long standing, prominent conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation) Kay Cole James. So they made a big problem about it, and here we are. Tolerance, for my views but not yours.
Your comment is demonstrably nonsense. Windows 10 only suggests Edge if you make IE11 your default browser.

If you choose Firefox or Chrome it never suggests that you should switch to Edge.

Microsoft’s lawyers are not stupid.
But is their health abnormal after accounting for the usual RRs associated with their BMI, exercise, fiber and trans fat intake? They don't drink or smoke, I presume?

The difficulty with "non-mathematical" sciences is that they tend to treat math as a tool for validation rather than expression. This is partially a failure of communication on the part of mathematicians.
They support it to the extent it is required to support due to contractual obligations for chromebooks or other vendors who may have similar deals with Intel. I doubt if Intel actually sees coreboot as something worthwhile outside of a shim to load FSP. To that end, they have also create a BSD licensed project called slimboot (more like shimboot) which exemplifies that approach better.
There are other people on the road, it's not just the drivers that are impacted by this.

Calling it "Autopilot" is what's irresponsible.
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You carefully examined the picture and didn't notice the dates on the sign are from the walkout last November?
With drive following in their footsteps a catastrophe really could have ensued - drive was at that point (I believe? It was a long time ago) already being marketed as good for organizations - any organization stuck with IE6 for stupid corporate reasons may have decided the potential for the site to suddenly stop working was too risky and immediately started migrating to a competitor that offered long term support.

I think a difficulty seeing a catastrophic is because YouTube is not valuable to businesses[1] and when your income source is more distributed (no large contracts) there are less chances to really shoot yourself in the foot. You have to piss off all your customers in a way that - really - you should probably see coming.

[1] I don't mean to deride the service, but it didn't have any commercial tie ins at this point worth mentioning, stuff like professional streamers and hosted partnerships with IP holders came later, at this point they were interesting in pop-culture but not a tool for making money.
How recently did you buy the System76? It seems like most of the negative experiences were a few years ago; perhaps they have improved over time?

Also, thanks for the heads up about LAC Portland.
What a great way to polarize more people in this political environment if some of these parents are let off the hook.
Before anyone else has to go to the trouble of looking these up:
"Destined for War" is a book by Graham Allison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_T._Allison.
The others are books by Henry Kissinger (!).
I've enough friends working at Google to know that they have a pretty strong mandated daily dose of kool-aid, where you are elite and only valuable if you work at google and adopt the one true Googler world view.

Certain factions at Google demanded and ensured that anyone not in conformance at Google no longer work there. Then they are shocked and surprised when the same executives use the same mechanisms to hurt them, for the exact same reason - business reasons.

Google abandoned "Don't be evil" a long time ago. It's time for people to realize that making corporations all-powerful is a really bad thing, even when they seem to be doing your bidding.... for now.