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That’s why I said “If you are forced”.

This is the best solution so far for those of us with a collection of wired headphones. Can be used while charging, cheap, works really well.

Being able to be used while charging is nice, since then you can at least charge at the same time you charge your phone.
I follow the laws of US.

No ties with terrorist organisations or embargoed countries.

That should clear the real bad ones.
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Cities all over the country getting scammed into replacing their proven discharge lamp streelights for LEDs on the basis of TCO analysis that is predicated on false reliability figures. I'm sure some consulting firm is laughing all the way to the bank. Oh well, more cheap LPS fixtures for me...

I was recently in LA and drove down to long beach, every other streetlight was dead.

Maybe by the time they figure out what a disaster this is and have to redo it all, they'll do a better job at cutting out the light pollution.
Did they not just kill Chromecast Audio to push Google Home?
> this whole narrative about online/digital privacy was seize on by traditional media to bash tech companies while driving traffic to their properties. It also gives some academics and "experts" an outlet to promote their books.

[...]

> regular people don't care about it

Who's buying the books and visiting traditional media properties then?
Hrm. How so? HomeKit does not allow third party devs to write apps to control HomeKit devices, AFAICT. So they never added the capability that Google is removing. People can still develop devices that are triggered by Nest and Google Home. They just can no longer write apps that themselves trigger or modify Nest devices.

Or are you saying it's prescient because Apple saw that such capabilities were not economically viable in the long run, and so it was prescient of them to never develop the functionality in the first place?
The FAQ seems to say that isn't the case... the google system does not provide any API to actually control the nest devices, or at least not directly, which is likely required for a lot of the functionality third parties provided.
SWEs don't get paid on a per-ride basis.
You know, a shared library system with special declaration specifiers to indicate shared symbols (think: Microsoft's__declspec(dllimport)) would be entirely acceptable. I could live with it. Sure, it's less convenient if you're compiling the same code both ways or converting.

That would address situations like this. Arrays that live in one object only wouldn't be exported and could be accessed using the faster instruction sequence within that object. Arrays exported for sharing would be referred through the global offset table using the slower machine sequence, without having to be copied.
C# is quickly becoming the "new C" in that it runs everywhere, and runs efficiently.

It's worth learning the language because you can use it in so many places. It's not a case of "learn a new language for platform xxx."
and any cloud services would be AGPL
Glassdoor is like reading reviews for Condoms.

You can only grasp what happened with a person in a certain moment and mood.

One of the companies I worked for in Glassdoor was the hell on earth for me was the best job.

So it is a case of "bad ex" .
Am I the only person who insists on buying phones with micro sd card slots? Still Google's phones are useless to me.

I have a legitimate reason. It only happened on one phone, but it validated my decision. If the phone fails to boot for whatever reason I can get most of my important data out. Photos and videos were all just fine on my trusty micro sd card, no spying cloud services required.
Is Waymo still the frontrunner on self-driving? Elon Musk recently said that Tesla is far ahead of the competition, and that it’s not even close.
Engineer? Huh. In Mechanical Engineering, they use stress-strain curves to determine if components can handle the load. ie, they test.

Software engineering is often a lie. Sorry, but it's not engineering.
Roadside drug testing device picks up false positives from poppy seeds and tea
Waymo and Cruise taxies have to operate in all conditions before they can roll out general purpose taxies. E.g. if you hail one and on the way home, there is construction and a cop directing traffic, you can’t take over and drive.

With a Tesla, they can deliver incremental value, without having to be able to handle every possible scenario.

Also aren’t Cruise and Waymo in same boat touting progress to raise money?
Hey this framework looks nice, but that carousel with the code example is really annoying, at least in my experience. Carousels are horrible, and to put a code snippet in one seems silly. This tiny point aside though, excellent work, and thank you.
Maybe - an alternative historical example is Kodak and the digital camera.

They could have it as a standard feature on their cars rather than a high trim level on one.
Look at Blazor. It's C# that compiles to Webassembly.

None of the JS nonsense required!
Reason Renewables Can't Power Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To
Mind you LED life span is usually rated to ~75% brightness instead of complete failure like other bulbs.
You can't avoid learning Kotlin & Java, that's the native language for Android platform. Even if you use Flutter, leaky abstraction mean you will probably have to dig down to the native layer as your apps get more complicated.
I think he's asking if LEDs themselves can be more tolerant, since the drivers built in to LED bulbs rarely even rise to the level of "halfway decent."
Not to mention all the weight put behind Progressive Web Apps, including being in the Google play store, and has most of the features as native android... https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/
I expect a "smart hub" to interoperate with a broad variety of devices. I expect existing banner features to not be revoked over petty turf wars. Google just made themselves irrelevant in yet another market.
Does any attorney want to speculate whether Google could be forced to accept returns on Nest devices now that they’re materially worse through intentional actions?
There are many wonderful devices from China that have hackable APIs that don't need to phone home to Google to work. They're also much cheaper and more OSS friendly.
If Lyft and (particularly) Uber can’t achieve profitability, they won’t just vanish. They’ll reorganize under Chapter 11 and shareholders will be mostly wiped out and creditors will become the new shareholders. Sure some people will lose money, but it’s not the disaster you’re making it out to be.
1M Species at Risk of Extinction (UN report)
Didn’t imagine India would be the leader in manure. Argentina, Brazil, US, AU, ok... Surprising.
The BTR3 supports aptX HD. This is the slightly larger model. It can also be used as a DAC when plugged into your computer.

The smaller one doesn’t support some codecs but it is really cheap, like 30USD.
Could be a long-term investment, one of those teens will rise up to be have political or business power and who knows what they can leverage on them. Then again it could be just a fun app. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/grindr-china-...
Lots of Python codebases are on board with that (and I assume codebases in other languages are as well). It's by convention rather than language-level support, but works perfectly well: don't bolt business logic onto your ORM classes' methods, handle those elsewhere in a separate layer whose conventions you define. Works great.
Is there another subscription out there like this one? It seems pretty novel to me.
If I'm reading this right, the Wemo plugs should still work? The part of the program that's ending is that Nest devices can no longer be controlled by third party apps. Devices that are controlled by Nest should still be controlled by Nest. At least, unless I have vastly misunderstood the FAQ?
Well, the author is talking about doing artwork with a ball mouse, so the use case is definitely different than just web browsing.

But they were actually that bad. Rollers were always gunked up. Had to get the tweezers out to get it really clean, but it was useless, it just got dirty again. You couldn't actually use a mechanical mouse on a desk in a pinch without a mouse pad (at least not my desk) whereas optical mice work on any non-reflective surface. I remember the first time I got an optical mouse I used it on my upper thigh for like a whole day just because I was so amazed it could do that!

Honestly, upgrading to optical mouse was a big deal to me. I upgraded in 2002.

Optical mice also have a surprising upside, the kids used to steal the balls out of the mice in the library or computer lab, so they had to be super glued shut. Meaning they worked about as well as a mouse without a ball.
When we ran out of real problems to solve so we started creating new ones.
Ecobee!
I once smoked mullein (verbascum thapsis) rolled like a cigarette. I was surprised how light and soothing the smoke was. It is said to act as an expectorant (helps you cough up gunk) and, topically, is soothing to skin.

I think that would be a good candidate for vaporization. Maybe you could get the expectorant effect without taking in carcinogenic smoke.
LEDs themselves are very intolerant of voltage (well really current fluctuations, semi-conductors are weird), but that isn't an issue because the driver deals with that and large swings will kill the driver or kill the driver and LED.

LED tolerance doesn't really play into the scenario here. It's all about the driver.
Does ‘sg’ in the domain stand for Singapore ?
No company is, and expecting any company to continue spending money on maintaining a service even if they've decided it isn't profitable is pollyannaish.

To that end, I'm not sure I see the value in framing this specifically as a Google thing. Google is maybe the most visible because of how many products it has, and how popular many of them are. But really, this sort of thing is a problem that's inherent to any IoT devices that rely on proprietary cloud services, in whole or in part.
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FWIW, I see you saying this, but there are running examples of fines scaling to income, e.g. personal income and speeding tickets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

I'm also not sure that "scaling with the offense" makes sense -- If company A and B can do the same thing, receive equal fines, but company B can continue to exist as if nothing happened, did the fine mean anything? Would your argument in this case be that the fine should be high enough to be damaging enough to both companies, approximately equal to the social value of discouraging that behavior?

Curious especially because you said if the laws changed, you'd be ambivalent. I think there's a structural problem here, I'm not sure any amount of fining particularly will solve the real problem.
EU impose a tax on us cars, thats one of the things trump is changing.
Right. And conversely, there are many examples of early mid-ocean ridges.
Congrats, new help desk options are always cool. I can see this being great for web-based businesses, which I suppose is the target from what I can see. For my needs, I unfortunately need help desk software for a corporate environment. That means I need asset management integrated into the help desk software.

We are currently setting up GLPI + OCS Inventory NG because we couldn't find any other options that had good asset management. That being said, GLPI is clunky. It's not my first choice, but I couldn't find many options out there that integrated asset management.

I feel like as more and more web-based businesses grow, traditional help desk requirements are being left behind (perhaps helped by some organizations going BYOD). Bit jealous of all the people who need help desk software but don't need integrated asset management.
I don't know any game theory so can't say much about the landscape, but I know people've modified PRISM to model games: http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/games/

Fair warning though: PRISM is... weird. You can analyze some crazy complex properties in it but you don't get basic affordances like "strings", "lists", or "functions that take parameters".
Original announcement: https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment

> The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history.

> The average abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900. More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reefforming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened. The picture is less clear for insect species, but available evidence supports a tentative estimate of 10% being threatened. At least 680 vertebrate species had been driven to extinction since the 16th century and more than 9% of all domesticated breeds of mammals used for food and agriculture had become extinct by 2016, with at least 1,000 more breeds still threatened.
Indeed, and that exactly puts all the onus of exploitability on the machine's environment. The tape might as well be written by regular expressions, if some of the outputs make the ‘interpreter’ do network requests and stuff.
How else do fine a company for a decade of knowingly bad behavior except looking at what they afford and setting it accordingly. This wasn't a whoopsie, it was a deliberate choice made consistently for years with the knowledge and budgeting that they might get fined for it.

Also this behavior is inextricable from their overall revenue.

Also also are we back to should as opposed to the FTC's legal authority? I think it should be enough to change the entire culture of Facebook because selling user data is their business model and so anything short of changing the entire culture of Facebook will just result in selling more and more user data as soon as no one is looking. I think it should be enough to prevent Facebook from not just repeating current behavior but to prevent them from coming up with functionally identical but legally distinct behavior. I think it should be enough that Facebook management starts playing whack-a-mole with unethical behavior before the government has to play it after a decade of damage.
Nest's income/expense is likely a rounding error on the Google balance sheet. Killing off the Nest developer ecosystem is a choice, not driven by any economics.

I have eight Nest thermostats across two homes, and a pile of Nest cameras. My "hobbyist" use of the APIs collects and aggregates some of the data together since the Nest UI (web or mobile) is lousy at best. Given that Google Home / Google Assistant do not work* with my G Suite account, I'm not at all confident about continuing to use Nest equipment after the grand changeover to Google Home Assistant Whatever in August.

* By "do not work" I mean: You log in to a Google Home device with a G Suite account and it (the device) cannot be shared with any other accounts, and it cannot access any of your data like your calendar. Oddly Alexa has no difficulties accessing my G Suite calendar.
I had a few batches that failed at a high rate. The most interesting one was a fixture with 3 candle-format LED bulbs that all failed at the same time! Clearly some power surge/power supply related event.
There are _many_ applications that exist as browser extensions, including critical communications applications.

I don't personally know of any obviously life critical application done this way, mostly because I try to stay as far away from that sort of insanity.

If you don't think it's at least a plausible thing that could eventually happen you haven't been paying attention.

I personally got stuck stranded because of signals stupid built in timebombing when I was relying on a device with no untrusted third party ability to shove silent software updates for communication.
this seems to just be the same region as the FFA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiform_face_area
Google has been using different trick for the same reason with their own employees: that famous 20% of working time that can be dedicated to personal projects. You might think they did that to increase employee satisfaction, but the real reason is that this way they own copyright to whatever their employees create in their spare time, and avoid Facebook-WhatsApp scenario (i.e. having to spent $14B on something you could have aquired for free).

Now I guess they apply the same principle to their GCP customers.
Its not like I'm on Amazon checking prices while the doctor is talking to me. And its not like doctors tell you how much something costs until after they give it to you. These things are mostly "do as the doctor says" and then look at the bill later.

In any case, a lot of the mouthguards are just bruxism / teeth grinding protection. I'll let you know that "pushing the jaw forward" is how my device works.

Other people have linked cheaper stuff from various places online which seem like they push the jaw forward. But most dental-guards I see at Target / CVS / etc. etc. are just bruxism protection, probably not designed for sleep apnea.

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Now that I know what I have and can do comparison shopping, the thing that has gotten good reviews seems to be "ZQuiet". Seems to be well reviewed by 3rd party websites, and not super-expensive. $80 or so. https://zquiet.com/

Another person upthread claims they got good results from something from Amazon, but I couldn't find much information about that company or website.
My understanding from an xoogler of how Google makes these large decisions to end services, is based on whether or not they can find a way to get the Google Ads product seamlessly integrated once the product is at a plateau in growth.

Is that backed up by anyone else?
Migrations (or evolutions, depending on the language you are using) are a joy when implemented properly. Alembic and Play Evolutions are two frameworks that I have dealt with specifically that are pretty great and hard to go back from.
The best way is to install Waterfox, because its compatible with all the legacy Addons of FF56, and you are not gonna see any big difference.
It sounds like they're either completely downplaying the idea that a company can temporarily forgo profitability for increased growth or they're ignorant of the fact that this is what they're doing.

People act like this is a modern travesty born out of the valley but it's moreso that the local restaurant you frequent isn't unique or intriguing to investors, so of course they don't have a backing allowing them the freedom of making a similar business decision.

If someone gave your restaurant a million dollar investment, do you make sure you're careful to keep your spending under your revenue intake? If so, then that investor just threw a million at you to literally keep it in the bank and to continue doing exactly what you were doing before then. In which case, why did you seek investment? Or do you perchance consider that you could use that investment to improve your business and future revenue?

It's not hard to determine why a company with a billion dollars in the bank might want to utilize that to accelerate growth. Amazon could have been profitable twenty years ago but then they would simply be an online bookstore.
I'm not sure I can relate to her stance. It's very possible I'm getting it wrong, but what I understand from what she is saying:

- It's not that games are addictive, it's that addicts are playing games

-If you aren't an addict then any negative consequences from playing games you experience are your own responsibility

- Parents need to balance their children's potential for overplaying games with a legitimate need to socialise online (and in games).

- Game companies can't reasonably opt out of offering "engaging" behaviour because if their competition offers it, they will lose money.

It's not really the narrative that I expect when I see someone discussing ethics ;-) It's not so much that I disagree with the points from a practical perspective, I just think that they have completely dodged all of the ethical implications of the behaviour of the game companies.

It's well known that strategies for engaging players can lead to negative consequences. Even if you can't make money unless you let players choose those negative consequences, it doesn't really absolve you of the ethical issue. As described by the person being interviewed, actual "addiction" talks about a compulsion for repeated self-harm. Even if the player is not an addict, it doesn't mean that they don't sometimes engage in self-harm. Giving them that option because there is no other profitable way to create the game, still results in self-harm by your player base.

One could write a lot about these kinds of issues, but I find it disturbing that someone apparently interested in discussing ethics in the gaming industry seems to be saying, "Yeah, there are problems, but they totally aren't my fault".
Where do you see that proposal? The article never mentioned anything about taxing more.
One reason I've turned off Hyper-V is that I've noticed my CPU either doesn't downclock like normal when Hyper-V is enabled, or the OS doesn't report it as doing so if it actually does. Anyone noticed this? Does Hyper-V affect battery etc. in ways like this?
Another advantage that i've come across and that has not been mentioned so far is, that an ORM can help you a LOT, when implementing role based access control (RBAC).

Mapping the objects and having all the metadata had huge advantages over pure SQL, if convention over configuration is used to control access to the given objects with a User/Role Entity - and object inheritance gives you the ability to add a "created_by", "modified_by" to each table for controlling even access to the row level...
Those Infineon chips are incredible for how inexpensive they are. I've worked with an XMC1400 at work (another one of their M0-based offerings) and it was insane how sophisticated the peripherals on those things are, despite being a dirt cheap part.

That said, their IDE sucks (well, every manufacturer-provided IDE sucks, but whatever). Life is way easier with a couple makefiles and Ozone.
California: Tell the Senate to Empower You to Protect Your Own Privacy
It really feels like Google is starting to be forced to actually make money on things or get rid of them. With Nest that means sell more of their products and ecosystem instead of supporting everybody else...given last quarter's numbers etc. it looks like they may need to begin to focus on that, especially if the ad revenues continue to go down.
Not that it's the best or only methodology to project planning in a given scenario, company, or industry, but I do think there's significant value in PMP training. I completed the PMP exam in 2012 after being encouraged by a coworker, and I see it as both useful and cheap enough to suggest it to most software/hardware developers.

Learning and applying "how to plan a project" has pretty universal career relevance. I suggest 30-40 hours of study time, and it's around ~$600 to buy the book, take the exam, etc.
that's a very large part
>(ii) integrate these Services with any applications for
any embedded devices such as cars, TVs, appliances, or speakers without Google's prior written permission.

Genuinely curious about the restriction regarding embedded devices.

If there's a mishap, it is the responsibility of the owning company, certainly not Google.

So what gives? Why would they do this?
And yet he is a billionaire, has lived an amazing life, beat the best republican lineup ever and clinton against all odds is now a president and doing things that other politicians have only talked about. He is going to be one of the most influential presidents ever.

what have you done recently?
Christ, no, don't escape user input in SQL. Just use parameterized queries.
That makes no sense. Self esteem(etc) is affected by instagram not porn lol
I think this only applies with ML products.
Whoa. Does this mean they're essentially forcing WSL users into Azure this way?