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Speaking as if the jobs of the blue collar workers are going to come back, ever.

If China is an ocean instead it’s still gone, forever, either to other cheap country or robots.

It’s currently politically convenient to hate China, but quit blaming every woe on China.
It was tested. It's simply that between the time you pushed on your branch, and the time you merged, many other commits made it to the master branch, potentially breaking your branch.
From what I understand, the issue is dependence on an external source for those goods that we consume, and through that the implicit support for the Chinese Government & its current regime
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Electric lines caused fires a few weeks after the first outage. I feel like at this point PG&E is in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation (though it might have been brought on by past mismanagement).
Thanks - so what did you do in the end? Did you find a suitable project?
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You'll have significantly fewer problems with Intel graphics. The Linux drivers are all open-source and they're better integrated with the rest of the system. The only question is if Intel hardware is sufficient for your workload.

NVIDIA makes great hardware, but the interface to it is complex and poorly documented. It's bad enough that Linus once stated that "NVIDIA has been the single worst company we have ever dealt with."
I feel much more people are affected by not having enough quantity or quality of social interactions than people being affected by the really bad luck of career-ending dongle jokes mishaps. (I have no strong evidence of this; it's just my general feeling)

> Nearly everyone you meet is out to get you [...]
> We're all politicians navigating a zero-sum social world [...]

These are very pessimistic world views. The social world is definitely not zero-sum. Kindness and empathy are contagious, and so social "value" can definitely be created :)
Conversely, selfishness and bitterness can also spread, so value can also be destroyed.
You are, by your own proclamation, outside the target market.
Seems to be a lot faster to start up, particularly loading all the extensions, which will increase the chances of me using it more.
It would cost 1/4 of a trillion dollars. Or $15,000 per customer.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2019/10/11/...

> But less than we're spending on fire recovery and prevention.

You sure it's less?
I like WireGuard and wouldn't blink at a client proposing to use it to create a secure network fabric for their deployment environment, but it is not the norm for people to do stuff like this; in K8s land, this is what service meshes like Istio do, and more generally this is what people use overlay networks for. WireGuard could form the basis of an overlay network, if you added the same bells and whistles Nebula has. But I don't think Jason has in his plans to add those bells and whistles himself, because that's not really WireGuard's charter.
Maybe we are just thinking of different things when we talk about social skills? I think of things like being able to participate in small talk all day or participating in social events. I am very good at reading people and understand how they think and how they would react to different things I say, so in some way I got good social skills, but I'm pretty sure most people would say that I have bad social skills since I don't like social situations and therefore don't build connections.
The problem with stereotyping. How many millions of people have those four specific traits and don't commit a mass shooting?
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> Publishing on Play is basically mandatory to get users.

Being on Play is an enormous advantage, there's no question. Whether or not it's mandatory probably depends on what sort of app it is, though.

There are successful apps that aren't in the Play store. But being successful without being in the Play store requires a larger marketing effort.
The fundamental mistake this guy made was trusting Apple and developing for their platforms. Let us all take note and learn from his mistake.
Yes, there was. The Internet was most interesting from 1999-2005, there were plenty of good searchable websites from private individuals or universities.

Literally the only site that is better now than back then is YouTube with an ad-blocker.

Everything else has deteriorated: Google (search) is worse, Ebay is worse, Amazon is worse, banking sites are worse.

Heck, even Java stock tickers from 2000 were better than now.

The art of presenting information in a meaningful way has been lost entirely.
This was extremely hard to read... I cannot imagine what is happening to other people similarly detained or who got arrested for worse reasons...
The problem with this is practical use. I so rarely need to knot something securely or in a special way that it doesn't seem worth the time to learn. I can look things up if I find a use.

What practical uses do you use knots for?
I would say China is more like a modern day colonial America, with their own version of “manifest destiny” and treating the Uyghurs like how Native Americans were treated, by putting them into reservations and boarding schools [1] to and forcing them to assimilate.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_sch...
Note I said, "if". I was refering to the law and what would be the implications even if they maintain best-in-class industry practises.

This wasn't so much a statement about PG&E as it was about CA law.
The reason dumber ads pay so little is because the personalized ones exist. It’s hard to say what dumb ads would be worth if they were the only ads.
As an user I feel that GDPR changed nothing. Google, Facebook and whatever else tracks you to the bones did not change one bit (for me).

As a sys-admin, GDPR invented all sorts of jobs. Jobs well intended. But these jobs are filled by people that are neither lawyers nor IT people. Whenever I interact with them I feel like they just want to check some boxes that makes the org compliant and go home. They don't enforce or apply GDPR, they enforce those checkboxes.

* all of the above in my limited experience.
The GDPR is a failure anyway. US tech giants are still globbling up masses of data even if the individual hasn't consented.

For example, the "contacts" permission should be disabled on OS's in the EU as it's impossible to prove the user has constend to sharing that information, yet Google launches an API in chrome to access the users contacts which totally won't be abused.

Alternatively you can gobble up data and "accidentally leak" it through an open MongoDB or AWS instance, will anyone go to jail? Unlikely, nobody really cares.

I doubt Facebook is going to change its ways any time soon, they're simply too big to fail at this point
The last paragraph seems to suggest that this isn't actually the first time that people have been put into "suspended animation" via extreme cold, rather it is the first time it was done in an emergency setting.
If they lose this case, do you think it would it leave Facebook a liability for no longer being able to fulfill that contract? I.e. you can’t share my data, now where are my personalized ads that you promised?
I remember John Washam's original blog post that followed his preparations for taking a Google SW interview. At the time, I felt he way over-prepared and wasted time on things that weren't directly relevant to the actual interview.

Looking at his new study plan, it looks like he's learned from his original undertaking and created an exhaustive list of things to know for a FAANG interview. I do think he skipped over the behavioral interview preparations which can be extremely important for certain companies.
"Magnesium"

Wow, now that's interesting. I've noticed my tinnitus completely stops sometimes but not figured out why. I take Ginkgo Biloba and sometimes it seems to work, and others not at all.

I also take magnesium supplements on occasion, but usually only when I have leg cramps. I'm going take both right now to see if that makes a difference. And I'll also take just the magnesium when it returns to see how that affects it.

Thank you sharing this!
It's different to be sure, but there are a LOT of parallels. Pretty much every instance where you have a given entity providing a platform you'll run into these kinds of issues, because rules exist, are enforced, and inevitably in that subgroup you'll have people who believe they were enforced wrong.

And sometimes they're right, but it's such a vanishingly small number that you'd be forgiven for mistaking it as a rounding error.

> When you rule by fist and swathing generalizations in an app marketplace, developers (and their incomes) become casualties.

And what's the alternative?
Interesting. I didn't know that red/green color blindness could be partial. In the case I cited, the person was completely unable to distinguish red/green LEDs so I assumed his condition was complete, but perhaps it was just the specific wavelengths involved that were troublesome for him.
Is this a TV with some kind of Roku software built in? I thought Roku was a physical device that you could just unplug.

This is why I will only buy "dumb" TVs that can only display input from external sources.
FWIW, nothing about the SpaceX constellation is going to make the visible pinpricks of burning hydrogen go away. They orbit too close to the Earth to be visible at night in most of the sky.

How much astronomy relies upon sunrise / sunset observation windows?
Can this make taps, or just tuns?
Police can keep Ring doorbell videos indefinitely, adding to privacy concerns
Ah the joys of being subjected to a dictator's whim. Apple can do as it wants when it wants for any reason it wants to regarding that app you may have poured a year of your life into.

Our profitable SaaS web app has 1000s of paying users and those apps also run very well on mobile safari.

We made a decision a long time ago as a company never to invest in iOS because of Apple's dictator like policies. We may develop a simple tool on iOS but we will never put our flagship apps there.

Apple has made it clear from the beginning that they will not be fair in their dealings with devs and in fact the opposite, they are actively hostile against app devs in many cases such as this one without being accountable to them. It's Apple's way or the highway.

Not only do we have the privilege of paying Apple to develop on their platform (that devs make more valuable to consumers) but we also have the privilege of paying Apple a 30% cut on virtual goods.

I still don't understand why so many devs have given into this. But it probably has something to do with Apple's monopolistic power.
That’s misleading. I guess sizes still exist. They are just shortening the supply chain.

A true revolution in clothes would be paintable fabric. Where we can paint ourselves rather than wear them.

Also..custom sizes are not revolutionary or modern. Seamstresses existed and then became obsolete.
> I strongly support some government action to change the current state of affairs with regards to the App Store being the only way to get apps on iOS

A very slippery slope that will not end well for anyone, i.e. Apple, end users, and developers included. This is something I wouldn't advocate for personally and I'm not an Apple fanboi. I don't particularly care for the closed ecosystem but it does create security advantages and Apple is making efforts to protect users more so than greedy Corporate interests when it comes to data and privacy rights.

My $0.02

*edit: formatting of quoted text.
This is probably one of those times where if it had been successful we would have had a news story on it with an interview from the patient.
Estate planning

Having assets fully owned before a marriage basically exempts you from all socioeconomic gotchas in a divorce, even in “community property” states.

This misconception has occurred primarily because nobody owns anything and instead go into marriages with nothing or a 30-year mortgage. So they are subject to the full whims of the state.
I misread this.

Sizes will go out with Windows 10, years from now
That could of work for completely uninterrupted coding, but that's only a part of any project's lifecycle.

If nothing else, you'll end up using the mouse to navigate resources in web-browser or manipulate the product's UI...
Add Alpine Butterfly and that's a pretty solid list.
Your industry's success requires you to be effective. Doing work for more than eight hours a day leads to burnout, and not doing anything besides sitting in your room prevents you from being creative. The more diverse experiences, interests, and skills you have, the more creative you'll be.
Uber is priced the way it is because rich financiers are subsidizing rides. If Uber were running a profitable business, the rides would be as expensive or more so than taxis. Another problem with taxis is they don't show up when you call them, and you don't know what it will cost until the trip is over.

With Uber/Lyft, I never have to worry about being stuck outside in the cold, drunk, waiting 60 minutes for a $30 taxi.
I've been a Free Software advocate for 25 years and I just realized I'm not: there are some people whom I don't want using my software. Terrorist organizations top the list, but there may be some State actors I don't want using my software either. Is there any way to have my cake and eat it too? I don't see how - my understanding of the most common licenses is it's all-or-nothing.
I suppose that varies by person and by what qualifies as a drink, but if I had five pints of microbrew in two hours I'd be drunk, and done for the day.
This, plus Star Citizen in VR, might be enough for me to drop the $2500 to get an Index rig. So, not soon.
Matrix/Riot is super easy as well. I have a bash script to send messages with a http post.
yes. as far as smart TVs go, a Roku one is usually the best option because all the other platforms absolutely suck.

I agree with only buying "dumb" TVs
Just stop developing for Apple platforms, seriously. This is what happens when you encourage their walled garden.
Congrats on finding a way to circumvent the letter of the law.

Think they're about to have an harsh encounter with spirit of the law & European thinking about privacy & consent though.
I just think you're vastly overestimating the impact a still standing Soviet union would have on Hong Kong. My personal guess is that it would play out in about the same way.
The Cultural Revolution was bad, but it caused "only" 1-2M deaths. Probably a stronger comparison would be the earlier Great Leap Forward, with 20-50M deaths.

But, yes, both are far greater human rights violations than what is happening now in mainland China.
while they may have a point their arguments are not well articulated

> Europe’s strict privacy laws

actually it's EU's privacy regulation

> Facebook openly admitted that it has been collecting and processing data without users’ consent

They said that they ve been collecting WITH consent, at least with their definition of consent

> To prove that no one ordered advertising from Facebook, we conducted a neutral study by the Austrian Gallup Institute. The result is devastating for Facebook: Only 4% of users want advertising,

... And i bet only 4% want to pay taxes too. polls are not legal documents. Also, "wanted advertising" is very different from "accepted advertising as part of the terms"

> Facebook does not give users a full copy of all their data

I believe facebook does give all their personal data,but maybe they are looking for derived data that facebook has stored for them? that's not personal data and it can be particularly tricky if it has been combined with other people's data , for example to train a neural net

In any case, i don't think facebook cares too much anymore and will just pay another yearly fine for operating in the EU. Even if FB asks for consent in every second page, people will click yes.
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Indeed. Facebook is one of the scummiest tech companies in existence.
> "Beliefs formed on insufficient evidence seem tough to move," Rao wrote.

That there's a gem--would have and will save me much futile debating.
It does sound interesting

Thanks!
What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with cabs.

You look at the rate of drunk driving accidents before availability of Uber in Portland. You look at the rate of drunk driving accidents after. The second number is 62% less than the first.
Lots of people saying that Apple doesn't owe him any explanation, and that telling people why they're banned is just going to prompt "yes, but..." arguments in response. I've dealt with humans, so I'm sympathetic to that... and I've also been caught up by false-positives, so I can see how it can go horribly wrong.

I feel that what's being missed here is that Apple, per Rambo, explicitly said they'd get back in touch with him and tell him what's going on:

> Developer support then called me, and I gave my previous case number to a nice person on the other end of the phone, who explained that my case had been escalated to a supervisor, who then escalated it to their supervisor, and that I would hear back from them “soon”. This was in mid September. In early October, I called again and was told I would receive an e-mail explaining the situation, I haven’t.

Regardless of whether Apple should or should not, in the abstract, tell him what's happening... they've said they will, and they're messing up by not doing so.

(Though, yes, he's being quite disingenuous by not even alluding in the story to the way he almost-certainly has violated their developer agreement.)
> Disclaimer: by ‘’Lock’’ I mean soft-lock. They do technically allow you to continue without doing do on the payment, but the options are hidden and only available if you look for them. Dark-net patterns are absolutely at work here, and unless you factory reset your TV it’s a freaking brick for the majority of people. Your TV is what I will call ‘’BlueBricked’’

"Cryptolocking" is something I generally associate with malware that encrypts your hard drive and won't give you the decryption key unless you pay a ransom.

This is "there are dark patterns that make it difficult to get past the initial setup screen without signing up for an account", which is not the same at all.
at some point I went all in on having a fully functional setup that didn't need a mouse, I had a laptop with a broken track pad and it didn't bother me at all. Then my first kid was born and it was impossible to do things with one had while I held them with the other. Everything needed chords. the machine required two hands and no less to operate. It was only a week in before I ordered the part to fix the track pad. Now, all my machines can be operated with one or two hands (just like everyone else's)
Yeah, there are TVs with Roku built-in. It's the TV's "OS". I thought it was incredibly dumb too until every TV started having an OS, most of them awful, and all of them spying on you unless you stop them. Now, at least the OS is Roku so the performance is pretty good and it's not too weird or crashy. Faster boot-up (ugh) than a lot of others.
Is an increase in binge drinking necessarily bad? Americans dont drink much. Shows my historical roots.
Copying a copyrighted disk is clearly against the law in most countries that have copyright law.

But I'm not sure that changing the region code settings would be "piracy."
On the bright side, it’s a good time for society to seriously start taking steps to help decentralize power production through a combination of solar and home batteries from vendors like Tesla. It’s easier for consumers to account and plan for vs a real disaster like an overdue earthquake
Samsung just announced they are moving some production back to China. Mainly ODM work for their lower end devices due to the cost.
> Propose and _demonstrate_ a better one.

Let's start with the very simple "have more than one viable political party". The CCP would never tolerate that. The rest of your comment is casual dismissal of "cultural genocide" and whataboutism. Rather than try and distract with transparently propagandist techniques, you should really consider reforms that the CCP could undertake to adhere to the rule of law and respect human rights in China. That at least would be constructive.
Having freedom of speech does not imply that the speaker should be free from the consequences of that speech. Especially hurtful or otherwise irresponsible speech.

And spreading pre-release confidential information is different from criticizing the company.

Apple is also free to decide who it wants to welcome into its developer community, and it’s fair that they take the content of your speech into account in that decision.
I think it's a vocal minority that promotes those ideas and the rest follow because it's career suicide to go against it. I'm quite patriotic but not quite brave enough to go against the grain at this time.
> and would make it easy for people to download damaging apps which Apple would then get blamed for because they added an official channel for installing them.

Do Android users blame Google or the phone manufacturer when they download a damaging app?
IANAL, but I think that clause would become null and void.

User: "hey Facebook where's the personalised ads you promised me?"
Facebook: "that clause was found to be illegal, and we have notified you that it is unenforceable by either party."
> wish it would have been as visionary and as much of a leap as the original movie

Then it shouldn't have been a sequel in the fist place.
I haven't had a vacation from being on-call 24/7/365 for the past 15+ years. I've been woken up by texts from server monitoring systems more nights than I can count. My wife and I had to plan our honeymoon around internet availability. I'm tired. I have other businesses that don't require the constant vigilance of an SaaS where every minute of downtime is costing hundreds of customers money.
> Many forget

They never knew, if lying by omission is a crime, all media is guilty of it.
Yeah it'll be great to be able to enjoy a nice bottle of wine on those long road trips.
Again I feel like you mis-read my statement. I agree that falsifying inspection reports and not performing maintenance is wrong. I agree that not doing this places PG&E at fault. If you read my comments, I was not arguing against this.
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What was the reason(s) the lines weren't buried in the first place?
Imagine if we applied the same mentality to the law.
> I've never met a single person who's tried VR that doesn't like the tech bar it's rough edges

The fact that you've never met someone that tried VR that didn't like the tech shows your overwhelming bias. Most people I've met didn't enjoy it - many were literally too nauseous to use it. It's extremely well studied that a lot of people get sick from VR and yet you are claiming everyone that tried it loves it. One of my friends at Facebook left because he didn't think they'd ever get it so VR wasn't nauseous for too many people. Even Palmer Luckey, the poster boy for VR, moved on years ago (not to mention Iribe and Mitchell).
The problem is that "Dumb" TVs are quickly going extinct. They already tend to be more expensive than otherwise equivalent "Smart" TVs, which should give you an idea of how much value is actually added to the TV by these "Smart" features.

It's probably about time for someone to figure out the firmware update process and come with a DD-WRT style open source firmware that doesn't have all of this nonsense.
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