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>Which is a far cry from what China is doing regarding Tiananmen.

Well, that's because talking about those things in the use and people wont care anyway (it's not like they'll rebel against the government). Whereas talking about those things in China could create mayhem and turn the country into a chaos of civil war and power struggles as I wrote above. So the US can afford to be magnanimous about it. In areas where it wants to keep stuff secret, people exposing them have the fate of Snowden, Manning, Assange and co.
I couldn't say; Github doesn't report to me who is including my code or implementing my specs.

The point is to make specs that people actually WANT to use, which requires advocacy (to get more eyeballs on it), and collaboration (to fix things I've missed).

I build these things to scratch an itch, but I want others to find them useful, as well.
There’s one major U.S. city where making $100k may not even cover basic bills
rebar3 itself supports reproducible builds, so applying patches like that and breaking it for anyone who uses it for local development is a problem.
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I meant this one

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.gamedevteam...
ASRock Rack X470D4U comes with onboard BMC and doesn't use integrated graphics.

Also you can limit the power that the iGPU uses if you absolutely want, but as long as it is mostly idle I see no reason to do that.
> but we can guarantee that everyone has a chance to chase what they want.

Except some people are starting within arm's length of the rabbit and some people are not only starting the next state over, they're chained to a concrete block. "everyone has a chance" is bollocks when those chances range from "virtually certain" to "virtually certainly zero".
>What most people forget is that in a war the other party shoots back

Yes, and these actions are the US finally shooting back after enduring years of industrial espionage, forced technology transfers, and market access restrictions.
I think for millions of people around the world who get poop on their hands daily, the smell does go away.
If you want similar projects that weren't influenced by Hippy culture to try and emulate a complex system that nobody really understands you should look into the stuff the Soviet Union did. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3 is much more interesting imho. Looking into the minimum number of species you need for sustainability and not being afraid of using technology to augment the system is the better way for reaching truly closed systems.
That everyone is corrupt when money is involved - even if 'national security' is waived around.
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My biggest realization about doing hard things is that I needed to let go of my intellectual entitlement. Just because something is (or seems) effortless to others, doesn't mean it will be the same for me.

Part of this entitlement stemmed from a (now eroded by bitter experience) belief that I'm somehow a faster learner than normal, that _I_ don't have to do the work.

For example, about seven years ago I wanted to learn Calc I-III on my own. I went down the usual, lazy, intellectually-entitled route of watching lectures and YouTube videos online without doing a single exercise.

A year later, guess what? I couldn't remember jack-shit. Moreover, I couldn't solve problems, which is basically the reason I was learning math anyway. Any bystander could have predicted this outcome, but I was blinded by my own entitlement.

Now, after being humbled (here and elsewhere, e.g. in learning to play music by ear), I realize that there's honor, even long-term efficiencies in following every step the great teachers of the past have laid out, in moving slowly albeit with rigor and confidence.

I resumed my math study with Geometry 101, the absolute basics, using a book of 5000 (short) exercises. It probably took me three times as long as Calc I-III lectures combined. But I realized something — I found more joy in doing the exercises, in doing things the _right_ way, than I ever had in watching lectures.
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I assume the author is familiar with Brodie's work if so many of us are.
Unfortunately by doing this they made another mess.

When they updated OpenJDK to 11 [1] they didn't realize that some things have been dropped from the core project, and others have moved; as a result (among other things) JavaFX is now broken in Ubuntu Bionic. [2]

I think this is something inexcusable for an LTS.

[1] https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/04/19/announcing-openjdk-11-pac...

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjfx/+bug/18250...
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When I reported a bug in a backend component of Power BI I was called by Microsoft to collect data about the problem and got updates from support until it was fixed over the next 3 weeks. That was very satisfying because I knew something was being done about it and it wasn't sitting in a bug tracker indefinitely.

The only thing I disliked was that support tried to call my office at 3 am and then was confused I wasn't there even though I had to enter my timezone in the support form.
No. If a server admin does not use that block list, they are excluded from the larger (original) Mastodon community. So every instance is effectively bullied into also using the block list if they want access to the largest fediverse. Otherwise others won’t federate with them.

This kind of nannying makes for an incredibly depressed and not-fun space. Twitter is a fun space precisely because of the possibility of altercations with those that disagree with you.

I think the world has spoken in this regard (based on user and usage volume). People prefer more speech as opposed to less speech. Echo chambers / hive minds are boring and oppressive.
It's not Google/Intel/Qualcomm's fault.
We use this strategy and as a Dev I can say the biggest drawback is tons of redundant code accumulating in the codebase that we're not allowed to remove until - someone - finally makes the decision that that feature flag is now on permanently and can be removed. (Actually it's whenever he remembers to tell the Dev team that's the case).
Negative feedback loops?
Most alternatives have already been listed by others, here are a few I can also add:

Chrome browser -> Iridium browser

Play Store -> F-Droid, standalone APKs

I particularly like installing APKs. It's like installing software with an .exe in Windows. Some software vendors even provide you with an APK, i.e. WhatsApp. Some APKs need to be retrieved from 3rd party sites, which is a security downside though.

Apparently there's an app, extension, that will allow you to extract an APK from Google's Play Store? Anyone know something?
If possible - stop coding for some time and volunteer in non-related field
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It's not MS's fault if US govt is not allowing them to push the updates to Huawei devices.
Can confirm that they have it right -- a) I was there a couple of months ago (and this would have been a tremendous resource to view just before doing the walk around), and b) they even have a picture of the contemporary circus maximus in the video.

St Peter's is about 3km north-west of this site.
This section, I think, is really important and has to come from the top:

"Interestingly the slide that seemed to resonate the most was an overview of what was not part of the strategy."

If someone can achieve that, defining what is out and get team buy in, that person is more qualified to be CEO than 80% of managers I met in my career so far.
Odd that this article cites Scott Alexander as if that is the name of a real psychiatrist,

> “What bothers me isn’t just that people said [the gene] mattered and it didn’t,” wrote the psychiatrist Scott Alexander in a widely shared blog post.

Scott Alexander is the pen name of a person running a blog who claims to be a psychiatrist, and AFAIK, his authenticity is not proven due to his anonymity.
> Yes, but understanding the product, customers, operational details, and knowing where to direct the system is probably more important than 'empathy and compassion'.

As interm CEO, her job is keep the lights on while the board conducts a search for a new CEO. That’s it. She’s not expected to come up with strategy, or really change anything except put the immediate fires out. It’s a caretaker position.

That said, it’s a bit disingenuous to read her comment as as saying that these business skills are not important. In fact, she doesn’t mention of these product and marketing skills at all. She’s talking about finance, which she primarily focused on as a VC and a board member. Given that C-suite jobs are primarily political, it’s completely fair to observe that soft skills are more important than reading a P & L sheet.
Spend time to master something. Genuine confidence comes from a sense of empowerment (not entitlement).
I had that thought for months. I'll give you my business Idea for free for the next big social network, since I'd rather work on my game development:

Chats based on hashtags.
Are you watching the newest Game of Thrones ? Just search for #gameofthrones and enter the chat to talk with others.
Chats go bad once too many people participate, so you split chats into channels of ~50. You can upvote messages and once they reach a threshold they will be broadcasted to all channels. Broadcasted messages can be saved in an archive and reread later by everyone.

Monitization can be done by allowing people to pay for broadcasts.

Everyone can start their own chatroom of course but names are unique.

Please, someone do it, I want this. Discord is to cumbersome because you need to find an interesting server first and you have to commit to much.
Discord is eating the (chat) world, in the same way that Facebook has eaten social blogging, and Google has eaten email.

I'm running a small site where people can play pen&paper-style roleplaying games together in small groups, featuring persistent channels and a wiki for each channel, in addition to the core dice rolling and chat functions (https://rolz.org for anyone who's curious). The site has survived the stunningly well-funded and abundantly feature-rich Roll20.net, because it's non-commercial and doesn't require user accounts. However, since Discord appeared on the scene, traffic has been declining massively and steadily.

Where we once had hundreds of groups online at a given time, it's now usually in the low 20s. At first, people kept asking for a Discord-bot version, and at least one user made one using the public API, and now Discord is pretty much the only game in town.

Meanwhile IRC is also pretty much dead, as many people have noticed in this thread. I still hang out in the #ludumdare IRC channel, but over the last two years that community has dwindled from hundreds of users during the Compo to maybe ten, and from dozens of users during the rest of the time to maybe 2 or 3 being online per day. While the LD Discord has replaced the IRC channel, it is also a lot less vibrant and social. It's now more a loose collection of mildly disinterested people who sometimes hang out in the same chat room, mostly unconcerned with each other. I wonder how symptomatic that is.
Fantastic set of posts, its good to see this system being rescued for future generations! The National Museum of Computing for which these gentlemen volunteer is a great place, when I visited it the passion of the volunteers there was really evident, and seeing the likes of the Colossus and WITCH in working order and being demonstrated really is amazing.
I've found (after many bad buys) a pair of cheap bluetooth headphones that 'just work' with my iphone. The problem is, there is no way for a customer to tell whether a bluetooth device is going to work well or not (or even not at all!)

Bluetooth can be good but there are just too many devices which are 'bluetooth compatible' in theory but have many odd incompatibilities. Perhaps it is the complexity of the spec that causes this to happen to bluetooth, rather than wifi...
I've noticed looking through the site they have a gofundme to fund the return trip of the machine back to the UK. https://ibms360.co.uk/?page_id=384 .
rebar3 itself supports reproducible builds via lock files. Applying patches like this instead of embracing the right way that the upstream designed for this exact purpose is just ignorance.

I would be totally cool with any incompatible patches that distro makes for its needs, as long as the binary is renamed. But they shipped a broken binary and called it rebar3. Not "rebar3-nix", but "rebar3". People try using this binary for development and it doesn't work, they go to the upstream and the upstream spends time investigating someone else's hacks.
The worst is the old games (even ones that I paid for) that have now added all the ads.
I've been working remotely and concur with the author's thoughts. Freedom can also be a curse in disguise. Cannot emphasize more on self-discipline and getting a separate room as the office in the home.

Also, socializing! I was pretty introvert as a person. Would hardly initiate conversations with strangers. Now I get cravings to just go outside and meet friends. I cope up with this by attending meetups and catching up with friends in the evenings.
From what I understand they also don't fit/stay in a lot of people's ears. A lot of in-ear headphones come with different sizes for this reason.
So they said and you believed.
You can call it whatever you want. But at the end of the day, this definitely fits the vast majority of people's definition of "self driving".

You press a button, and it stays in lane, at the right speed. Most people are happy with that feature set.

That is the MVP, that provides most of the benefits to most people, even if it isn't perfect.
I would set a limit 10% above the publicised limit of the trial account.

When a user reaches the publicised limit you send an email informing them that they have reached the limit and should upgrade.
The thing about Windows updates is that Microsoft will actually have to put effort into obtaining the knowledge about what kind of devices are requesting the updates, since the updates are utterly generic. Also companies can setup their own WSUS servers, which may again serve Huawei laptops. And what is MS to do about that?

In general, Microsoft's mechanism and architecture for OS updates are clearly superior to whatever Android has, since they can be applied blindly and generically across devices and units, with stupid proxies and mirrors in between.

More important than architecture though: Microsoft has fought the US government in the past when they have tried to enforce things Microsoft has disagreed with (like US governemnt blanket access to MS-owned EU datacenters).

I'm pretty sure they'll fight this one too. Their quite significant EU business depends on it.
The US has pretty much withdrawn from all international organizations (or is simply ignoring them, see WTO). The US is not abiding by any international order.

The US is economically terrorizing the world by aggressively pushing the dominance of the US dollar. It has (successfully, to date) prevented the Iranian Oil Bourse (in €, 2008).

It interferes in the sovereignty of nations: for example, it has enforced the Iran embargo (against the will of the EU, which has been powerless to prevent it).

The world trade order is tilted in favor of the US, as are IP rules (favoring the incumbent power, with a head start of several decades), making the rest of the world subservient to the US, and forcing us to finance the life style of a minority of the planet's population (to be correct: to finance the lifestyle of a very small minority of the US population, since lots of Americans are also struggling)

The US has built its industrial and technological supremacy by industrial espionage during the late 19th and early 20th century, from the leading powers of the time (Europe).

The US has engaged in price dumping of agricultural products for ages, by illegally subsidizing farmers.

The US has interfered militarily, politically and economically around the world, often with devastating consequences in terms of life and property, creating power vacuums which have caused catastrophic consequences.

This is going on as we speak. The list is very long too.

I for one support the Chinese in this conflict, if for nothing else, simply for the possibility of putting some restraint on the out-of-control Hegemon.

I understand that US citizens will be siding with the US president on this one, and you may even feel you are being fair here.

You are not, and the rest of the world is pretty much not in agreement with the US.
It said Asian because Samsung is in the same boat, albeit for different reasons (think platform lockout instead of govt pressure). That's why the keep developing Tizen.

I assume that Japanese manufacturers are under a similar threat.
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How do tangible property rights differ?
I was about to say - in Poland Huawei is absolutely huge, I see a lot of people using their devices and having far more prominent stands in electronic shops than Samsung for instance.
His point is that not a single end-user in the world is going to care about that when their $500+ Google-powered device stops working.

Ultimately, this may erode trust in US-based tech companies in general, which for the long game may play into Huawei's advantage if they manage to come up with a viable competing platform.
I didn't realise autonomous vehicles make the roads wider.
Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom will not supply software and components to Huawei
It's a hard way and I've been struggling with this, too. I had depressions and a burn out and felt like I wasn't worth anything.

Took me quite some time to realize that I'm really good at some things and that people value me for that. Those things are not always work-related, but we often define our value or our self esteem by success at work.

I'm sure you're really good at something, too and people value you for that. Find out what it is, and use that confidence to grow in other areas. Think like "I can make people laugh, so I can handle phone calls with customers". Yeah, that's oversimplified, but this worked for me.

To be honest: I'm still struggling, but every day I feel a bit better and more self-confident. It isn't much when viewed on a daily basis, but looking back it's drastically different (and better) than two years ago.
Just about any store around here that uses the coin system also hands out free "cart coins" if you ask the service desk.
That it makes perfect sense to stop supporting those devices. The effort costs money. So if they want to put their foot down and force 'change' (and everything else in the trade-wars/political agenda), you stop spending your money on them, but you continue milking the profit from their users.

This is partially correct as a responsible business stance, because in the end of the day, you support the users, who in the end of the day, are not at fault for Huawei's bad doings.

And with that said, I do agree that China is in need of major democratic reform that will never come, as the autocracy (I don't want to use a harsher word). I also recognize the maladities that China has caused and is continuing to cause.

This was not a pro-Chinese-gov message. This was a Google-loves-the-revenue-and-the-foothold message.
I have some experience in it: I was working day-and-night on my own projects at the beginning of my career - gave me a lot of money and experience, but now I know for sure that I could do it with just 20% of efforts - all my best things were written/built after some long rest periods (more than week of rest). All that experience I could learn just in a few weeks but I was too stupid to spend some of my time to read what other people do - I was reinventing all the wheels.

After that I was working in a company, 14-16 hours per day, 6 days per week. After 2 years of such work, at the end of the day I had to spend 5-15 seconds to remember names of my wife and son, my address.

So I decided to never work more than 8 hours per day, preferably less. And you know what? My earnings increased, my relationships with employers are much better now, my health is MUCH better. So I can say for sure - overworking is a waste of lifetime and gives nothing.
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I don't know that the world really needs more confident people.
Wechat (from Tencent) has figured it out at least 5-6 years ago. Group chat inside wechat is everywhere in China now. People use it at works, for study groups, or SIGs.
When wasn’t it? During the Avignon captivity it was at least as powerful as now. Between Italian unification and the Lateran Pact it had diplomats with the customary immunity, embassies and ability to make treaties. The Holy See has had rival claimants since 1,000 but the current pontiff derives in a direct line from that of 1,000 AD just as the current British government has a rock solid claim to continuity since the Glorious Revolution.
> no more layered abstraction for no purpose

I agree with this.

> i query by writing directly SQL code, instead of using ActiveRecord

I haven't used ActiveRecord, but I'm sure I'd hate it and prefer direct SQL - if I were forced to choose between the two.

So let me offer a third choice: an abstraction which serves an actual purpose, and is neither raw SQL nor ActiveRecord.

Pretend your domain is about farming fruit. A naive design might be:

FruitService -> FruitDatabase.

The DI way is to change that to:

FruitService -> Fruit <- FruitDatabase

You effectively divide-and-conquer the problem, so that you can think about your fruity business rules in the Service, and think about fruity storage in the Database.

When working in the Service, your might think about business thoughts like "We should throw away the 25% smallest green apples".

When working in the Database, you might think "Do I like the amount of SQL normalisation? Did I miss any indexes? How do I model an apple at the SQL table level?"

The purpose of this is to prevent you from thinking "Do I have an SQL column for colour?" when you're working on the business rules.
Nah, it is a mixture of Exchange and GSuite, it'll be up and running in no time =).
This has been mandated by a US government decree. The US president has declared a "National Emergency" which gives him this kind of power. They have placed Huawei and 70 linked partners on a trade blacklist saying Huawei is a danger to national security.

So it is now effectively an offense for US companies to trade with Huawei directly or indirectly.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3010403/us-commerce-...

I hope it leads to competition, but i doubt that will happen any time soon.