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Your QT losing users is still unsubstantiated.

Developers stop using Qt for good technical reasons in projects that don't require the unique features of Qt. Qt's strength is being multiplatform. It works in embedded and realtime operating systems. It's not even useful for scrape by contract workers who do better with free web framework/UI stuff. Your TV, car, Television, have Qt in them. Its in medical devices and industry automation.

Qt may lose market share for Adobe PhoneGap, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin but that's because those target restrictive subset of what Qt is good for. Again, it's for good technical reasons. Nothing to do with licenses or Qt being evil company.
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I always thought causality runs the other way - kids screw up their parents.... (certainly I didn't appreciate the horrors I inflicted on my parents until I was myself a parent).
> "cash isn’t affected by water, freezing, bending, pressure, moderate temperatures above whatever the 70C limit is on these ICs, static electricity, ionizing radiation and microwaves."

And if your physical banknotes do somehow get damaged e.g. by fire or by being chewed by a pet, there is a decent chance you'll still be able to get them exchanged, because there are government-backed institutions there to help you such as the Bank of England[0] or the US Dept of Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing[1].

In the absence of a Central Bank of Kong to perform this function, the Kong people could make their new physical currency more robust by putting their fancy chips and whatnot inside some discs made of a metal that was resistant to corrosion and oxidation and had a very high melting point. Perhaps also using a rare metal with high economic value, preferably with a standardized weight and purity, so it could also better act as a store of value and be more difficult to counterfeit. At that point you could also take out the fancy chips and whatnot in order to improve reliablility, usability etc.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/damaged-and-contam...

[1] https://bep.gov/submitaclaim.html
Netflix is a very special case. When your service comprises 10% of all Internet traffic, a lot of network management things that are normally irrelevant at the application level start to have shaping effects. A typical website won’t be affected at all by, like, Comcast’s peering policies.
Would be great to factor it out as a reusable lib.
A GitHub account that produces various cool web templates
Is LibGDX still a viable option for MacOS? I'm unclear about how well supported OpenGL is after Catalina.
I know about CLOS, multi-methods, the meta-object protocol. It's a nice, dynamic OOP system (though I'm not a fan of dynamic languages). The thing is, CLOS isn't Lisp-specific: it can easily be recreated in a language with a normal syntax, e. g. Smalltalk. So there's no reason, ultimately, to sacrifice readability and maintainability to the demons of Parenthethes and Pervathive Macroth like the Lithp acolytes would have us do. Lisp is just a bad tradeoff from the get-go: reading code is more important than writing, language simplicity is more important than extensibility, and macro-writing is secondary to regular code writing.
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> It skews young and/or Western

How does it skew Western when they were literally invented in Japan?
Becayse you're free to take the existing source code and adapt the software to work with your choice of OS and hardware. There is no requirement for free software to support every platform in existence out of the box.
I have a bachelors degree in biomedical engineering, complete waste of time and money. All it has really provided me is a piece of paper that says I am smart
Disclaimer: I am under the impression that the following is exploratory work and so this ought to be taken with a grain of salt until it is communicated through official channels.

Main idea: Essentially, compile only what has changed, re-use compiled forms of everything that hasn't.

Essentially, pre-compiled dependencies will be sourced and plugged in to a Rust project. This presents great security concerns, but also great opportunities to advance software development. A large system has a vast network of crate dependencies. Certain versions of these crates will be pre-compiled, each uniquely identifiable through a hash. Some of these crates will even be audited and potentially certified. Hundreds of black box, pre-compiled crates will each be sandboxed in a very secure fashion such that it does only as specified and no more. No sandboxed library can reach beyond its advertised behavior. Unchanged, locally-developed parts can also be compiled and used through this flow as well. WASM projects are facilitating much of this work.

I may be missing important parts from this explanation, so hopefully it is corrected by someone more knowledgeable.
And we gained nothing from it...

This is mainly driven by people around the age of 60 with a profound fear of death and almost no knowledge about implications of certain technologies.

It is not restricted to public safety, surveillance will also be employed against normal employees and workers, your health providers and any form of communication.

The police is trimmed to meet certain quotas and will try to get anything that might give them an advantage.

I want to get off this continent. Not that there are many alternatives left.

I still have to plan to laser any public camera I see. Luckily my region is still too boring to see mass deployment.

It is not important to not getting seen by cameras, it is important to spit on them wherever they surface.
The concept of strong IP is relatively new, and most people don't respect it much when it gets in their way. That's why https://thepiratebay.org/ and https://sci-hub.tw/ are so popular.

On the other hand, many countries have laws on the books that protect IP, including China. For example, foreign plaintiffs in patent lawsuits in China have a win rate of 84.35%, higher than the 79.84% win rate of domestic plaintiffs: https://patentlyo.com/patent/2018/02/things-infringement-lit...

The real problem with IP infringement in China is that Western companies frequently don't notice when it happens, because they don't have contacts in the Chinese market. That's why TFA recommends the affected publishers report the infringement of their IP to get the app taken down.
Halo: Reach's Remastered Graphics Are Almost Too Perfect to Be Good
Where it hasn’t been disabled by their employer.
UK's post-Brexit trade at risk as WTO's top court shuts down
> While this giveaway mostly worked, it's clear that there will be decreasing returns and massively increased effort required. Why? Starting in the last week or so, hordes of fake people were beginning to come in, far beyond the capacity of Keybase or SDF to filter.

Keybase still doesn't see the hordes of real people and their Eternal September effect on the platform as a problem. I'm not saying they have to see it as a problem - if they want to tell investors "We increased our userbase N-fold by attracting a bunch of people who are just here for the free money," that's their right. But for those of us who were previously on the platform for all the things Keybase used to advertise, it seems we're no longer the target market.
That's why the loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Awful state of affairs, but it is an effective thing to leverage.
> Regarding the « no difference whatsoever », you noted in a previous comment that you know a few seconds in advance what’s going to be said.

Yes, sometimes that will affect the drama of the scene since the pacing of information in the scene might be compromised. That's likely to happen with dubbing too, because the grammar doesn't match and a name has to be mentioned at the beginning of the sentence in one language instead of the end, as the director intended. Since Swedish and English are both Germanic languages it doesn't happen that often in the few movies that are dubbed to Swedish, but I've seen it get really weird in Swedish films dubbed to Spanish.

Either way, in my experience, if I see Clint Eastwood's line a moment before he says it, I can still feel the scorching sun and smell the gunpowder like I'm there in the old American west. That atmosphere disappears completely when I hear his line in German or French.
You forgot to add labour costs for assembly, shipping, taxes, profit margin, case and probably several other things. I think you just proved that it's pretty good value. Thanks, I might get one now.
So what? Maybe FOSS cannot get us a competitive modern desktop, but in many areas open source projects have virtually eliminated all proprietary competition. Linux is running everywhere these days and e.g. in databases it is among the open source options where the growth is. Does FOSS need to be able to solve all software problems in the world for you to count it as successful?
'cargo clippy' is another good option (also faster than full compilation).
I got my feet wet in programming in 2001 with help pairing, but there are better tutorials now. I then did my own thing for years on the side. Like build tools and sites I could use. I built a crappy site or tool for a few folks over time. Sometimes for free. Eventually, all this playing around got me to a spot where a recruiter saw me and sent me on interviews and I started becoming a real dev. You have a good opportunity to learn and practice enough to get your foot in the door at an accelerated pace. You can always pair with smarter, more experienced people when you are a "real" dev.
>She's really funny and talented and deserves a lot more than shitty robots.

Why? There's nothing wrong with moving onto other things and pursuing other interests, but she has this perplexing perspective (which you echoed in this statement) that somehow the 'shitty robots' content was something to look down on. It was good stuff, and if she wanted to continue, it would have been perfectly fine and something you could build a career around.
Completely agree. I'd change this whole line to something like:

"There is never only one way to do something. You can't know which is correct, so go for the simplest option that is easy to change later"
This was a nice story. But I think the author was expecting too much from Tindr. I wouldn't intend to meet my future wife there... The reason the conversations are shallow is because the intent is simple.
To me, this is the root of the difference between Free (libre) software as defined by the FSF and open source software as popularized by the OSI.

The primary case for open source is business and money - money is more efficiently spent on supporting open source, and all of the businesses that spend money on open source get to benefit from contributions from others. In this model an open source economy is desirable because that's how you prevent one greater fool from funding all of the open source software that everyone else uses without paying.

The primary case for Free (libre) software is the social utility/social value of the software. Their case is primarily moral and ethical first. They're not against making money on Free (libre) software, but that's not their end goal. Their end goals are political and focused on end users, not businesses.

I'm not trying to say one is inherently better than the other, just trying to highlight the differences.
The level of obnoxiousness is hard to get right. Here, two pilots land a small plane gear up, even though a loud warning horn is sounding throughout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McECUtM8fw
I don't think its unrealistic for an 18 year old to understand debt. Also, how are they being tricked into hundreds of thousands of dollars of ? State schools start around 15k/year and provide bachelors degrees. I've never understood these stories of people graduating (non-PhD/Lawyer)with so much debt
A spoiler: The people won't stop. No matter how hard you ban.
It takes <67 ms for light to travel half the circumferance of earth. From my location in Europe to Chicago it takes 26 ms.

Cables aren't laid out straight, but network infrastructure adds a majority of the cross continental latency.

But gaming from the moon would not at all be feasible using light. I wonder how we could solve this for future space communications.
But if you lose that carrier pigeon to zombie crows, you lose the SD cards. No factory to make new ones. The risk/reward ratio would be intolerable.
The fact that they performed the first powered flight is disputed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ader_Éole).

However, it is certain that they carried out the first non-negligible, directed, flight.
Japanese dubs of almost anything are usually pretty great. Voice acting is a large industry in Japan, and many voice actors are pretty much celebrities.
Universities are not just job training programs. They offer degrees that will enhance one's expertise in pretty much any sphere of human knowledge. If you want a job in accounting, don't get a degree in philosophy.
And died on a mission.
ESP8266 is cheaper than RISC-V and powerful enough. It's not open source but that doesn't seem to be a deal breaker for this project.

802.11ah has only 1km range which is not enough for this purpose.
LoRa is rated at more than 10km range at 292bit/s up to 50kbit/s. Also the chip used in this project costs only around $6.
Lasted ten years, tho
> I don't like text that looks differently for everyone depending on the platform they're on.

But we already have fonts that make the Latin alphabet look different on different platforms.

> if caterpillar becomes a butterfly because of some mundane idea, is it still going to be instantly recognizable as a bug?

Yes? Didn’t Hopper tape a moth ‘bug’ into her notebook?
Personally I mostly associate GPL with capitalism, due to almost all projects controlled by a single for profit company using GPL while community and hobbyist projects more often tend to use BSD/MIT/Apache.
Cool, we'll fix the reset between tool switching and keep their state, thanks for the feedback.
If the first floor apartment had ramp access then wheelchairs could get in. Elevators are another option but somewhat expensive.
On the contrary, it's a bit sad that she failed to see the real value she was offering - she didn't have to worry about the robot failing, but she most definitely had to worry about the VIDEO failing. An uninteresting video with a flawless robot is far less interesting than a video from Simone about a knife chopping robot that can't really chop, because it was still funny and insightful.

She started the genre but it's now bigger than her, with interesting characters like Michael Reeves. Apparently he's not bogged down by the same insecurities as her, which just sucks. I'd rather have dumb but interesting robots from both of them and not just one.
Officially surveillance is illegal too. But that probably doesn't mean much anyway.
UC violates civil rights by requiring SAT for admission, lawsuits say
While they were still used, my mother was a Comptometer operator. https://www.jaapsch.net/mechcalc/comptometer.htm

To use one required, for operations more complex than addition (e.g. division), an understanding of arithmetic algorithms - similar to those used in a CPU, except in decimal.
If the filesystem you are trying to open a log file on fails, only your logging thread needs to give up, not your whole program. If there is anything you can still accomplish, don't panic, carry on. Tesla let the logging exception prevent charging of the vehicle.
They should at least do like they do with trademarks.

If the copyrighted work is not exploited for a certain time, it goes to the public domain. It leaves the right for authors to do as they please with their work, as long as they actually do something, while legitimizing "abandonware" at the same time.
Time to eliminate government funded student loans. Most of the kids going to college now shouldn't even be there in the first place.

I was doing volunteer work a few years back, speaking to some kids from the local community. One said he was going to a 4 year college, probably paid for by the government given the circumstances. Said he wanted to study "coaching". And our tax dollars are paying for this...
Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 Max Crashes
Parking space minimums solve a non-problem. If people want parking they will build it. They shouldn't be forced to though as it adds expense and makes things more car dependent, reinforcing the need for parking. It is a vicious car dependent cycle.
Chinese law professor's social media denunciation of facial recognition
They pushed it back at the last minute because of the rework in registration opt-in. Their disclaimer om the whole process was basically that it was a gift and came with no guarantees.
Soon to be obsolete: a driver.
My first thought was "oh, this will contribute to already high anxiety levels", mostly because I remember how I reacted to MRR changes:

- MRR went up a bit: "Great, we're on track"

- MRR went down a bit: "THE END IS NEAR!!!!"

At some point, I understood that it was Loss Aversion Bias [1] at play. Once I reframed MRR movements as something fluctuating and neutral, it lost all anxiety-inducing powers.

So this might actually be fairly neat if the business owner has a reasonable approach to this metric.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
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It matters because

> FUSE for macOS (or, the kernel extension formerly known as osxfuse) is a project dating back to 2011. It in turn is based on even older projects, such as MacFUSE, the Linux FUSE module, and even some code open sourced by Apple.
> I will never ask end users for financial support. FUSE will always be free. However, what I'm asking for is for companies, that are selling FUSE-based products or rebrand FUSE and bundle it with their apps, to re-invest some of the profits in the continued development of FUSE on macOS, if they can afford it. I don't think that is unreasonable.

Sounds like he should have released it under GPL type of licensing.
I love Keybase for the ability to link together multiple identities together.

I use keybase with two profiles. One which is linked to my IRL identity. And one which is linked to my internet identity.

The Stellar offering seemed really odd to me - because it seemed so outside of its core functionality. Almost scammy.

Then I read an article on Ars Technica about a flood of scammers and that sort of connected the two dots. The Stellar offering seems to have flooded them with more “people” than they can handle.
There are two possible scenarios:

The developer always thought that contributing back code or financial support should be a requirement of use but failed to reflect this in the license chosen and now is correcting this.

The developer over time has changed their believe of what the requirements for use should or need to be. This change of thought may have been informed by the behavior of those using the code but is still a change of thought on the developers side.

In both scenarios the developer changing their license is not acting unethically nor were those previously using the code while meeting the terms it was previously available under.

What may be unethical is the developer trying to put blame for the license change on those that were using the code while meeting the requirements of the previous license because under the first scenario the developer is at fault and under the 2nd neither is at fault.
Yes I am aware of the alternatives. Still having used a ton of UI libraries (Unity/Unreal/Godot/C#/QtWidgets/Flutter and web development) I would still choose QML by a landslide. My project ScreenPlay [1] (Cross plattform animated wallpaper and desktop widgets) is written 100% in QML and C++. I use the build in Material Design on desktop which works really nice with fancy animations. At work I develop a cross platform Qt app for desktop and Android tablets. With QtCreator 4.11 they unified the apk creation for all arch and arm versions.

[1] https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay
Why even mention that?

Using Firefox makes a difference in many ways.

That said I wish Mozilla would allow other forms for income and just be honest about it (unlike Pocket which I think is a good idea destroyed by them being sneaky about it.)
As a manager and a hiring manager, the first time you do this, I'd explain to you that software is built and maintained by a team and not individuals, so you need to do a better job figuring out how to help that individual or create documentation so the team as a whole doesn't run into this issue again. The second time you'd do this, I'd explain to you that you're not meeting expectations as a team member and you've got exactly this window to fix things. By the third time you would have been managed out.

Don't do this kind of thing. It's extremely unprofessional.
I guess I assumed the logic was that you take a sha256 of, say 32501257be4512a04a184fed989fd5e46cd4d30f6ef7c8d20d07d90f82e83aaf and say give me all entries from the 4B that begin with 325 (or end with aaf) which would take your 4B and divide it by 16 3 times giving you about 1M?
Exactly. Also I am pretty sure that every few months will someone find more appropriate symbol for each tag.
Comptometer (2015)
Sebastian Deleuze who is one of the Kotlin people working on Spring just gave a presentation of the status of Kotlin support in Spring: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/spring-kotlin-boot-kofu/.

In short, if you are using Spring and are ignoring Kotlin, you are missing out a lot of good stuff. Or in other words, the same that happened to Java on Android is now happening to backend Java. You can still use it but why would you when things can be so much better with a simple upgrade to Kotlin (I've migrated tens of thousands of lines of code, it's easy). And yes Java 9-14 added a bunch of things that are definitely nice/useful but it doesn't come close to Kotlin in terms of expressiveness and language ergonomics.

Also, KotlinConf was on last week. There was a nice presentation about the state of kotlin-js, which is getting some nice updates in the next year including much better dead code elimination resulting in very compact minified code (< 100kb is now feasible for simple stuff), better integration of existing typescript type script defifinitions (i.e. support for most relevant npms out there), better build tooling in the form of an improved gradle plugin. Or put different, Kotlin might start doing to typescript/javascript what it already did to Java. IMHO it's a more capable language than typescript, which I consider to be pretty nice but it just lacks a bunch of things and comes with a some ugliness that relates to backwards compatibility with js.

In related news, Kotlin native is also happening. So, Kotlin is joining a list of full stack languages that used to be really short.
> developers realising that the work they do has value and that they’re not required to spend their lives giving it away for free.

As far as I understand he is still giving it away for free to users, but not allowing other companies to sell his work to for their profit only.
A mistake I seem to make fairly often. That or not adding new files in the first place.
> only the old and the poor

Also government employees, and those under the care of the VA.

> Purchasing Power Parity, which also should be accounted for.

Yes, I agree.

To illustrate with a simplified example:

Imagine nation A has median wage of $20k and nation B has median wage of $40k. Also imagine that their income distribution is the same. Then, if healthcare costs in nation B are twice as high, healthcare is equally as affordable.
Can you make a few examples?
Keybase Proof
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The EU just introduced the requirement of id cards having biometric information. Fingerprint and biometric image to be precise.

The likelihood of the EU being constructive here is infinitesimally small.