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That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

If you see someone doing something wrong, call them out. Like this article does. Otherwise they will simply keep doing it.

If you have a problem with someone not getting called out, call them out. Otherwise you are simply protesting the act of calling out because you're afraid to do so yourself.
Even discounting that, you're still giving your biggest competitor money.
There is a difference between a reservist and a psy-ops reservists. But yes, in general, you'd think and hope that reservists of a nation are biased towards their nation at the very least. I'm sure this guy is heavily biased towards britain and against venezuela, etc.

Would you respond the same way if a chinese or a russian reservist was a senior member of twitter's team? I highly doubt you be defending him so vigorously.

> then i guess most corporations are "state-owned"

Not necessarily "state-owned" but without a doubt the important companies are at the very least "state-influenced".
It provides roughly thee same APIs, but the cultural context it sits in is different. The APIs are there for parity with AWS, not as the key value proposition.
Why not? How is this different from a warrant to search a home? Would you argue in that case that personal paper letters should be kept in a safe that's very difficult to open for law enforcement even if they have the warrant to do it?
You’re really bringing up EE&E in a thread comparing Microsoft & Amazon?!

LOL indeed.
What’s the relationship between Goldman Sachs and Microsoft?
Thanks Michael, I appreciate your post. So much of being an entrepreneur is a series of small uncertain steps that keep you moving in the right direction
>> you certainly need experienced/certified people to build something that's ready for serious production usage

As with everything else really...
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But yet the story mentions that aws Q3 revenues were more than double Azure estimates.

Does Microsoft count Office365 revenue as cloud/azure revenue?
It's still not very scalable on Apple hardware - the licence only allows you to run 2 virtualised instances per physical machine.
> sweeping all of the details too deeply under the carpet

Ever worked with numpy, scipy, pandas etc. in Python? It's ALL about what you call "sweeping the details under the carpet", or what is generally called abstraction. When abstraction is well "swept under the rug", eg. "you can use it without understanding it much" it's called non-leaky abstraction, and is the best kind of abstraction.

Sure, there's languages like Go that are all about NOT sweeping things under the rug. But that's a different niche.
Even someone who has done wrong has a rights and I would think that a year of Google data would compromise too much information not relevant to the case. In my opinion this clearly qualifies as "unreasonable searches".

Even if you have been naive enough to voluntarily share data with Google.
Check out https://timestripe.com/ — a similar thing, but fancier
Lidar worked well (and continues to do so) because it’s the most accurate proximity sensor today for cars. If you don’t want your car to hit anything, you need Lidar. Radar and vision-based stereo are useful too, but 10%+ distance error and overall false negatives make that combo pretty unsafe (especially off the freeway). Computational cost is a far smaller factor than safety in the value of a demo.

Cheap lidar (and probably radar) will earn a permanent place on ADAS of the future if only because it works much better than vision at night. You’ll see them together because they have complimentary failure modes and the denser lidar point cloud is worth a $100 add-on.

While many of the autonomy efforts are still struggling with basic detection, the major challenge facing the leaders is in forecasting future motion, especially complex motion. The new cheap sensors are a boon but not a game changer.
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My first full time paid developer job was to be a Developer on the Spooler/Spooler Plus components which were part of the HP Tandem NSK.

I had a really good mentor when working on this product and I learn the importance of modularity in design. I was just off my internship doing a D2K/Oracle implementation for an airline in-cabin inventory application, so working on Spooler was a breath of fresh air.

[1] https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na...
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They could at least encrypt it, storing the key in the user’s devices.
yeah with a primitive life style, shorter lifespans and a very very low population density.

Also GDP of 0

Dont try and compare.. its like comparing a apple and a 4 bedroom apartment.
Yup, this was an intentional design choice we made! Thanks~
You're making the assumption everyone has the luxury of picking their stack or throwing away and rewriting their whole product. That isn't the case for a lot of developers.
> SF is rarely character-led and it may be optimistic to expect depth or nuance from it.

I really don't think it's true anymore, see all Hugo award SF nominees and winners from the past few years. They are all character-led.
Ten years ago, previous place of employment, we had a guy leave the team.
The idea was to replace and recruit internally.
There was this young woman, junior consultant in a different team, early 20s, that had caught my attention due to her drive and general fearlessness.

Upon strongly suggesting hiring her my then manager replied: “but she’s a girl!”.

Granted, he was almost 60 at the time (different generation and times) but my jaw dropped...
This guy who I really appreciated as a manager could have such views? I had no idea up to that point.

I’ve never personally known this happen to a “boy” in our industry.
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I can't read it from the US either due to having an adblocker. And even if you allow ads the paywall appears after viewing one story per day.

Google the title. Others news sites have it.
Im sticking with openvpn as wiregaurd devs recommend it not be used in production, yet.
> Non tech centric people go with options which are cheap and just work -> MS products. You buy windows, you buy 365 you buy Azure , makes things cheaper.

This is quite far from the truth as while they do work they are not cheap. G-Suite is (or used to be when I last checked) significantly cheaper than office 365, but everybody wants excel so ....
Nell Zink is a brilliant, totally idiosyncratic writer. Her novel The Wallcreeper has a car crash and miscarriage in the first sentence. This piece is ostensibly about Robert Walser and Dostoevsky, but it's really an unfiltered monologue where she badmouths other Walser translators/critics, and mentions how the piece was rejected by another publication!
>I for one cannot help see the author in their books, and knowledge of their actions certainly influences how I interpret these books.

This is part of the reason why I avoid reading about authors. Like the practice of symphonies doing auditions blind in order to avoid bias, I don't want my personal opinions of an author's life to taint my evaluation of their work.
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I had this idea, probably more than 10 years ago now, to have an e-ink display on my wall which does nothing other than show me my calendar. Every couple of years I go hunting for a simple and affordable display that's at least 13 inches, but preferably larger. I don't even care if it's colour or not.

The closest I can find is those picture frames that people have. But to auto update them over the network, they always seem to require the use of some crappy online intermediary. And they're always way more expensive than they should be.
Looks cool! You should record some demos with https://asciinema.org/
It would be a tremendous hassle for little to no payoff as they probably don’t have the skill set to actually run a data center, and probably their size is actually not that large, they just run a lot of software I suppose (that’s usually the case in the public administration). It would be rampant malpractice to open your own data center for something like that.
The article mentions Harlan Ellison and his grabbing a Hugo Award host's breast and I thought to myself that surely that can't have been possible a mere fifteen years ago in front of all those people and yet https://youtu.be/Zxd1jFDXzsU that's a video.

I can't imagine someone doing that in front of me. I don't even know how I'd act. Probably just sit there wondering if they really did just do that.
I recently integrated PWAs at our company. We offer a WYSIWYG-style editor for landing pages and integrated service workers mostly for SEO ratings and caching form submissions while temporarily offline (eg. on the subway). To me the whole thing is yet another clusterfuck of webdevelopment. Patchy support, governed by our "well-meaning" overlords at google and just a lot of non standard javascript magic involved. Just the way that the Install Prompt is handled is a good example. After some quite intransparent heuristic there is a "beforeinstallprompt" event fired. But you have to store that in an object and trigger it via an onClick on a button, otherwise the event gets intercepted.[0] I really hope that the standard will mature because the idea sounds really nice when you think about so-so mobile reception etc. but right now it's a bit of a pain still.

0: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-b...
There are lies, dammed lies and then there are statistics. The -mab treatments are amazing if they work as they are so targeted the impact/side effect ratio is amazing (getting Dupilumab for dermatitis, it is a miracle drug for me). But everyone hearing the good news about the cancer stats has to ask themselves - the US life expectancy has inched down recently so do these numbers square up with this probably more accurately measured life expectancy number?
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Aren't there laws to prevent this?

Potentially yes but when have big tech ever played by the rules though. Its hard to name a single FAANG company that hasn't used terrible/outright illegal practises to get to the top.
28 megabits per second?! I sure don't...
The twist is a lot big companies(Global 2000) are the least cloud savvy, being dragged kicking and screaming out of their data centers.

They don't even know what they don't know, and when Azure shows up offering AD which they already use to manage their juggernaut of a domain it feels like home. They haven't even considered lock in yet.

The teams that end up managing Azure infrastructure come from a more IT/Networking background. Azure supported UDP load balancing before AWS, and has more intuitive and easier to build internal load balancers.

AWS tends to appeal to more cloud native companies that just want to build and tend to be younger. Azure appeals to the familiarity and ease of transition for the 20 year IT squad that is trying to stay relevant.
I agree completely! Does wonders for your own understanding, but, like you said, takes a lot of time!
They don’t need to look into your data to get valuable information.

Simple stuff that shows up on your bill, such as the amount of data transfer, the sizes of your databases and how they change, etc is enough.

I doubt there are laws that prevent them from doing deep dives into your data but that’s not really the concern. I don’t expect them to do that.

However, when it comes to trying to solve problems, create bespoke apps, as a retailer you will probably be far more comfortable sharing the information about your data with a Microsoft rep than an AWS rep helping you build that bespoke solution.
What a great lesson at such a young age.
But what an eight minutes!

Amusingly the other English electric product line was washing machines. I doubt these generated as much excitement!
rough edges on Windows

This could use some documentation imo. Like the essentials of what 'supported on Win10+' means (is it supported in powershell, or command prompt or bash running on msys or ... ?) and how to laucnh/install it. I only looked briefly, ran broot in cmd but the only thing I get out of broot is that it creates a file <AppData>\Roaming\dystroy\broot\data\launcher\bash\1 and a link (even when entering 'n' instead of 'Y' when it asks to install!!). So I figured it maybe needs to find a 'br' command and added a function 'br' in powershell and launched that, but it still says it's not installed.
Hey, thanks a lot for your words! I'm glad you appreciated the demos. There is actually a Github link at the very top. But it's good that you're asking the question. It means that I should maybe add a more visible link. I'll also put the demos in the repo in the near futur. https://github.com/Aminerman/vue-kinesis
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Any examples to backup up your opinion?
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Did Kubernetes make my p95s worse?
Even metadata will be useful information and most likely not covered under laws. For example, peak load, usage patterns, spends etc.
> The philosophy you are espousing is known in literary theory as "Death of the Author".

No, it's not. I'm not talking about literary criticism or text interpretation. I'm talking about reading books for fun.
I agree with your view. An algorithm is manipulating the image and similar if a person used photoshop for manipulating an image. The process being more automated than a person doesn’t matter because both situations are altering the pixels for an altered outcome.
Will Micron's x100 be the start of distributed, near-data computing?
What is wrong with all that? That they implement what the customer wants?
In my experience yes. between 2012 and 2015 i did an on prem to office 365 migration every couple of weeks on average working for an MSP.

The pitch is just so insanely easy when speaking to management/finance types. You can remove so much financial ambiguity which comes with maintaining servers or expanding a business.

Every Finance director i spoke with loves being able to model costs years in advance.
FWIW, hats off for the installer UI design.
You can also look into Likebook and Boox brands which has various Android 10/13 inch eink tablet.
Yeah, it also clears local storage if iOS is running out of space, which is common for a lot of these users.
I mean, they crush competitors. Not so much partners and clients.

These are all tool makers and basically competitors.

And frankly for the vast majority of them they actually bought the alternatives. For example, they bought Skype for messaging, they bought Great Plains, etc.
Have you considered running several vnc(or similar)servers on separate machine/machines and connecting to those?
> His female characters might as well have been written by an adolescent.

I'm not sure his male characters are that much better.

Luckily, I don't feel that his books stand or fall by the characters in them. They are just vehicles used to explore the consequences of the technologies that Asimov presupposes.
I did some strategy work for a global retailer a few years ago and this kept coming up, they even have a policy that SaaS tools they acquire "can't be hosted in AWS".

Their reasoning seemed a bit paranoid, but it wasn't that Amazon would secretly start mining their data there without telling them, it's that this retailer would invest 10's (even 100's) of millions of dollars in tools and infrastructure on AWS and then AWS would change their terms and conditions to allow them to look at/share data 'legally' and the retailer would be so in the hole in terms of investment/technology they couldn't leave/stop them without losing millions. They saw it as risk mitigation.

I think it's _incredibly_ unlikely this would ever happen, but if you combine that with "I don't want to give one of our biggest competitors a cent" it ends up with policies like this
Pears to apples absolutely. It is an interesting observation, but for most of cases, which I am aware of, big companies are using Office365 and, probably, Dynamics, which automatically makes them the Azure customer and ticks the "Migrate to cloud" box at IT presentations to the boards. AWS, on the other hand, is being used primarily for either proprietary AWS technology, or just simple EC2s, which are very slow to be moved over to the clouds by the big companies.
There's nothing polarizing or extreme about noticing oligarchy. It is a prominent feature of contemporary life.

[I was tempted to respond with something actually "polarizing extreme" and thus actually "ironic", but I've been warned...]
My source was estimating this with other YC folk, but here is what's publicly known.

~200 companies a batch and supposedly a 2-3% acceptance rate puts it at 6,600-10,000.

They stopped updating their statistics: https://twitter.com/sama/status/618247698378985472 and https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-portfolio-stats/

If it kept growing they would have proudly put that everywhere.

At the same time they introduced startup school which got 15,000 applicants, many of whom would have applied to Y Combinator but chose the startup school instead.

My bet is it peaked around ~8,500 and decreased when they introduced the startup school program.
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I don’t disagree with #1. But #2 is not really valid IMO. In terms of cloud AWS fills the role of nobody got fired for picking IBM as opposed to Azure.

Procurement decisions usually start with AWS.
I don't believe you. Come on. In what time was it considered normal to shake a woman's breast? Was your father like that? Your grandfather?
> If you entered the wrong birthday, update it now.

Can't you change it to your own birthday, set up parental supervision, then change it back?
Minimum wage here is $19.49/hour. What you're suggesting is:

* Pay $739 weekly
* Provide all food, plus cook for them
* Provide their own room in the accommodation
* Cover the costs of all their utilities (water, gas, electricity)
* Take them on all holidays, etc

I know your suggestion means well but it would mean Au Pairs cease to exist. It's lose-lose. The Au Pairs here aren't coming for a poor nation to earn money from back home, they're coming over for cultural exchange. For example, my sisters Au Pair was from a wealthy German family. Maybe it's different in other countries, the article talks about Columbian Au Pairs.
I find it hard to believe that such behavior was socially acceptable; I mean was there really no way at the time to complain about advances like this? I mean I was born in 1970 but that was never part of my experience.
An potential problem is that now half of your IT recruits go to reinventing this stuff instead of working on domain problems. There aren't that many it staff per 10k municipal employees.

(Of course this is assuming Azure specific hassles take much less staff time than running your own infra, not a given...)
I turned my old ebook into a weather and subway screen: https://fluffyelephant.com/2015/12/reuse-my-ebook-reader/

Any ebook that can be hacked to run "regular" android will do the job, since you will need to turn off the auto-sleep settings. I then used the stock browser to show a simple webpage with some small javascript. Benefit of using the stock browser was that sony had implemented partial refresh...so when the subway times update every 10 seconds it doesn't cause a full screen refresh.

Wifi needs to be rock solid, had quite a few problems with my old linksys....no problems since I switched to unifi.
I did the same thing but I also mapped Ctrl-\ to send the "prefix" (helpful for neated tmux sessions), so I just hit Ctrl-\ for beginning of line.

(Although this seems to have broken in recent tmux releases on Debian (3.x?) and I haven't looked into yet.)
Not only do I think this is cool and would use, but I also love the simple landing page.

Pictures illustrating exactly what it does, something many people/organizations cough oxide.computer cough don't do properly.
Does anyone know what version introduced the problem?
It's only confusing to a small minority of buyers.

Most people who buy these laptops know nothing about Zen2, Zen1, Zen+.
I know nothing about the incident nor about that particular person (except his most famous short story), but what I can see on this video is an awkward and misplaced move that sometime happen in nervous situations to some people. Like someone was trying to pat other person's shoulder and shake their hand (using his left) at the same time while speaking and failing both. If you ever had similar situation, you know what I mean.

Please, mind it, I don't say that's what happened, I just say it looks like it and may be interpreted this way. A person can hide his intentions using awkward behaviour, of course. Prior information and context tip the scale in the end.
Normal members of the family aren't shielded from doing involuntary work.
I think you're right in that all this complexity didn't come out of a vacuum but I also feel the complexity in front end web development and the development costs that come from it are a real issue and shouldn't be dismissed. Yes I've worked in jQuery spaghetti and experienced that, but just because it might have been worse doesn't mean the situation in front end web development is good or can't be improved.

Anyone who's had to maintain one of these projects long term without a massive team or inherited an older codebase understands that there are serious churn / depenency hell / code rot and complexity issues here and layering more and more abstractions on top to try and dig ourselves out of the hole we're in might not be working anymore.

anecdotally I got out of JS / frontend mid last year after many many years in it and felt at the time that I was burnt out and had lost my passion for development. Maybe it was just too long for me in one area.
What was that company that is no longer allowed to add google to their phones? Huh, sounds like they can use it as a selling point
Yeah not surprising, MS is pushing azure as hard as it can, to the point of given heavy office 365 discounts so on the short term it doesn't make business sense to move out of azure anymore.
Cannot help but notice the luxury the author has of repeatedly relocating without having to look for a new job. Good for him.
And live how? Anything you use these days leaves a trail. You could be carrying a basic feature phone with nothing but email, use duck duck go, and still get hit by this.
Haha. Here's another one: "At this scale, why not write your own OS, since you already have a lot of servers to maintain?"
I’d say it’s safe to say if MS has the market dominance Amazon does now, they would absolutely be doing the same things. They used to, and would again, despite their “underdog” current PR campaign.
Until you're not paying attention and you rip a chunk out of your copy. Ugh.
I've seen those, they look more like old segmented LED displays. E-ink technology can be a lot clearer than that. Sounds to me like they wanted digital signs, but didn't want to pay for it.

Can't blame them to be honest, they probably get damaged a lot and they're competing price-wise with small pieces of printed paper.
Java is also a place (yes I know coffe cups are much part of the imagery). Fish swims in the ocean. Pig is an animal. These do not really compare.

Your half right about the devils.

Beef however is per definition a cow killed to be eaten.
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Don't I know it! b^) Except, you know, in ping-pong and other odd situations... I really only meant to challenge the idea that lots of cameras are required. With enough processing power (and, I guess, PTZ) one camera is plenty.
I'm in the same case, it this the story ?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/jussie-smollett-chicag...