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I never said 50% of the population have the same cold at once. 50% catching it over a 6 month period is very reasonable.
I'm not the user to whom you directed the question, but I would answer your question this way:

Software developers fall along a spectrum between "caring intensely about quality" and "only caring that their ticket/assignment gets done, with very little regard to quality".

These are the kind of people he or she is talking about.

This can manifest in a lot of ways. Lack of effort in creating names, adding to the "messiness" of the codebase in various ways, not coordinating or communicating with team members to do things in a consistent way. In general, being content with "quick and easy" fixes that take less work but cost everyone in the long run.

People will notice where you sit on this spectrum.

I don't know what domain you'll be working in, what company, even what _kind_ of company. But if you soak in the need to have a high bar of quality, you will be able to find the resources that pertain to your language/tools/domain/etc in order to make high quality software. It just takes time.

I could rattle off topics to study from the top of my head, e.g.:

- SOLID principles of OOP

- Learn the benefit of immutable data

- Normal forms of relational databases

But the best thing is to get lots of experience. With different projects, different languages, different programming paradigms, OOP vs FP. Good books/articles/tutorials help the most when you're applying them to a real work context. If you constantly seek out wisdom about how to do things better as you do real work, you won't be the type of person your OP was referring to. :-)
> Who says they won't simply pivot and make Windows run on their own flavor of Linux or a defined distribution? Sounds crazy but...

I don't think it sounds crazy at all. I've had the same feeling since WSL was released. And that feeling has gotten stronger since they showed of the Duo.
That would be very-FSF of them.
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This is true. I probably should've clarified that nothing about etoile has reached the front page, which IS more of a desktop environment written in GNUStep:

http://etoileos.com/

But to be fair, the project looks like it's stagnated.
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And let's not forget WindowMaker's daddy, AfterStep.
> You can regenerate them from autoconf

Not that the autoconf input is readable itself, either, anyway...
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I think XBAND had some kind of email service that did let you email people on the Internet.
I don't have an economist.com account, but the byline suggests it's from 1843 Magazine, which doesn't require registration to read: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/trapped-in-iran
I code in one terminal app and look at documentation on the second. I watch videos in the full screen and browse twitter using the slide in option. I love the multitasking tbh
That seems to be the case.

Note that you'd have to user vt-d, in combination with vfio, not virtio. Vt-d allows for PCIe passthrough. VirtIO is a family of paravirtualized hardware like HDD controllers and network interfaces.

Besides the name-switchup, you're completely right.

https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-virtualizati...
You’re absolutely right. This leads into the four markets that I think the tablet can sell to:

1. For kids or secondary throw-around devices (like for travel).

2. Digital Art and pen-based content creation.

3. People who won’t otherwise use their phone (in my view, not many).

4. Point of sale, retail, mobile enterprise computing.

The key here is understanding that it’s not like everyone threw out their personal computers when the tablet and phone was invented. They just aren’t replaced as often as phones.

That’s where I don’t think tablets compete well against someone’s existing laptop. If Apple let the iPad run full macOS software without the App Store that still wouldn’t convince me to buy one, even if that would be a welcome change.

So, I guess that’s my overall point here: tablets have to compete with proper computers and I don’t think they’ve succeeded. The Surface Pro turns into a proper computer and it’s telling that most people use it as a laptop, not a keyboard-less tablet.
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> I have no idea what the graph has to do with the words, maybe there is some connection here but I haven't found it yet.

With the slide saying: "The lack of direct integration with operating companies and associated funding sources creates volatility and eventually subjects other coins or tokens to disintermediation and extinction."

(Or, translated "other tokens die because of $reasons")

I think the point of the graph is to just reinforce the mood. Be an emotional influence that makes you take the slide's message more seriously. Where the text talks about the reasons why other tokens fail, you see a line representing something going down in value fast. For some reason, just looking at it makes me feel sad, the "oh no my investments" kind sad. Which I believe was the whole goal.
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I also own a Pro and it's a fantastic device dragged down by the OS. Apple should have made iPadOS from day one instead of forcing an oversized phone OS into a bigger form factor. We'll see how that turns out in a couple of years.
Surprise. Would try it with my intel nuc Ubuntu tmr.
That's exactly it, similar to the Nigerian scammers reference (usually spam) in the article.

See:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
> it's not actually better than the full Linux experience or the full Windows experience.

But it is?

- Can I view my iMessage texts / make and receive calls using FaceTime on Windows/Linux? No? There you go, a feature I'd miss on day 1.

- Can I run the Affinity suite on either of those? Nope. For that matter, you still can't use Adobe products on Linux, can you?

- Can I develop for iOS/macOS? Nope.

- Is there a consistent UI for native applications on Linux yet? Nope. For that matter, is Gnome still the bare bones GUI of choice for the most widely used distros?

- Do either of those two platforms integrate nicely with the rest of my Apple devices? Nope.

- Is the X Window System still a thing? How about Wayland, is it ready yet for a retina grade multi monitor setup? Am I able to take screenshots now, for the love of all that's holy? Let me guess, probably not.

- Is Windows still the insane mess that contains Win95/2000/XP UI elements?

- Is Windows still the telemetry infested product it was a few years ago?

I could go on, and on, and on, frankly, but what would the point be? I have slightly different preferences than you have, and that's totally fine. I'm sure you get by well with Linux/Windows, just as I get by well with using macOS.

Of course Apple created macOS and Mac hardware to make money! I assume correctly that Microsoft didn't create Windows to lose money on it, did they?
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A major point of the article is that there's nothing unique about curl-to-shell which enables this exploit; it would be equally easy to perform it with a fully-signed and checksummed binary downloaded through a secure channel.
I'm sorry that my response to you below isn't 'impressive' enough for you. Must try harder!

Again, you seem to be polarising the engagement here into absolute terms - of course I wouldn't for a second agree with keeping "Kings Cross as a complete poohole just to keep a couple of clubs open", but the loss of those clubs and that culture surrounding it are to my mind indicative of a change in the city that inevitable as it is, is pervasive, permanent and in some ways saddening.

I can't be right or wrong in this opinion, just different to your perspective and that's ok - neither of us need 'win' here.
If your data comes from a probability distribution that doesn't have a mean then calculating the mean of your data is basically meaningless (no pun intended). In a Cauchy distribution, for example, the mean of a million datapoints is equally likely to be a thousand units off from the true center of the distribution as any individual datapoint is.

This is not scope creep. This is not an abstract academic concern. I've actually seen people run into this in practice--"I quadrupled the size my dataset, why is my sample mean still wildly inaccurate?"

If you're not aware of the properties of abstract probability distributions then your basic arithmetic on a list of numbers may well be completely useless.
The same thing works on an iPad or phones without Force Touch, you just need to start the gesture from the space bar. Long-press the space bar and now you can move the cursor anywhere by dragging.

Yes, hidden and undiscoverable gestures are a problem.
> I had a college friend who worked for one of the "major" enterprise analyst companies. My friend had a degree in French literature and needed a paying job. They could write well, so in exchange for a low salary plus benefits they wrote reports on laptops, CNC tools, servers, you name it. They never actually clapped eyes on an actual CNC mill until visiting me one day at work.

<rant> The last two sentences of this quotation illustrate the perniciousness of they as a singular pronoun for an individual. The first rule of writing (unless you're a egomaniac) is Serve Your Reader; when a reader encounters these last two sentences, it disserves her to force her to look backwards at context to figure out how many individuals the writer is talking about in those sentences. If you want to be inclusive, then just use she as your gender-neutral pronoun, as here.</rant>
Doesn't Google Analytics support this using user IDs?
2004 1.5GHz Centrino isn't exactly fun to use, but it's my OpenBSD playground. Need to update, but with 6.2 I could browse 1 concurrent website in a current browser.
In terms of agriculture, we could use basic research into perennial staple crops. [1] It’s a promising area, but still a ways off. The result, as mentioned in the article, is less soil disturbance and more long-term carbon sequestration.

From a policy perspective, Victory Gardens [2] were a successful strategy during WWII. It would be great to mobilize a similar effort to get people growing food in their own backyards again, and reduce the amount of monocrop farming and all the global transportation and chemical fertilizer production that goes along with it.

1: “The Carbon Farming Solution”

2: Victory Gardens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
None of those are anywhere near as destructive as thermonuclear weapons.
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I suspect they actually own some of their buildings and have for some time, starting from way back when property values and mortgages were lower. Or at least "own" in the usual sense of being the owner of the mortgage. Which would maybe? give them a few months more comfort zone in that they aren't paying that extra margin of current market rents to a landlord, at least in those cases where they own.
The one that's been driving me up the wall lately is that I can't use screen sharing unless the iPad and the Mac are on the same Apple ID.

It really kills the value of that feature in a setting where multiple people who each own their own set of devices want to be able to work together more easily. Like, say, homes, offices and schools.
Egad!
If you don’t actually read or verify the script this doesn’t matter. If you cant trust the server you probably shouldn’t run any code from it.
They're managed services the argument that spying can be introduced after the fact is sound.
Huawei was on the danger list for years before the Bloomberg article. This is unrelated.
Good call. Will update the text.

edit: updated, credited. Thank you!
Japanese logos tend to be quite "timeless", mostly because they're so minimalist (think Mitsubishi logo). Even towns and prefectures have very simple emblems instead of a complicated coat of arms.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Fukushima_...
For the life of me, I can't understand how neither IOS nor Android offers some type of "Simple UI" setting.

It should only consist of 4 Icons: Call, Email, Text, Web

It is a crazily under-served market.
Not only that, but I always end up with impossible-to-diagnose phantom errors if I start mixing and matching some installations from package manager and some installations from elsewhere (like curl | sh or ./configure, make, make install). I avoid using package managers as much as possible because they do too much hidden, undoable, inscrutable magic behind the scenes that breaks everything when it’s most inconvenient.
As a software engineer: a lot of what I do is understanding the context of what I'm doing. When I'm writing code, I'm trying to grok how the business users think about the business objects and business logic.

I get a story that says, "As a user, when I press the H key I want a horn to play." And I go into the planning meeting and ask, "Is this like a bike horn?" And they say yeah! And I ask, okay, so when I press the key, do you want the horn to sound on key down, or key up? And they say, "How about it starts playing on key down, and stops playing on key up?" And then I say, "do you want different volumes, for let's say when they are on their bike and just want to politely let someone know they are there, versus when they're about to get hit by a truck?" And they say, "yes, eventually, but being able to play the horn at different notes is a higher priority." And then I ask, "wait, why is that useful for a bike horn?" And then they explain that they're going to be playing the horn as part of an orchestra. And then by the end of the conversation I realize the horn I'm implementing is a French horn midi keyboard, not a bicycle horn traffic signal, and the requirements are completely different.

I don't really buy this idea that people are just writing single, isolated requirements out of context.
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You're always going to lose something when a city changes. I'm just baffled that your overriding reaction to the changes in Kings Cross is sadness.

I do actually think it's important to keep whining in check because it holds London back. The fact that people are even willing to pretend that they want the old Kings Cross back (lol) is indicative of how deeply ingrained the whining culture is.
> Interesting comment about the blue iMessage bubbles. I've definitely heard of it, and have seen the memes on the internet, but have never actually met anyone that cared about the _color_.

The color is used as a proxy to discuss the functionality. "Chatting blue" is more about the features that come with it than the actual bubble color, though the latter is easier to mention quickly.

Personally I've been surprised what an impact even just a now-typing indicator has on the conversation and find "green" conversations can feel a lot more disjointed.
part of the problem is, apple is refusing to make the basic window bar control needed to facilitate multi-tasking and exposing its funcionality, because that would create interface clutter and reduce perceived simplicity of the UI.

Instead they're inventing all sorts of hidden gesture based workarounds.

They're no longer targeting ipad for new users.
TCAS doesn't help with terrain it's designed to avoid collisions with other planes. GPWS or its equivalents does this.
Interesting decision. I interpretate this either UK does not believe US that China is spying or little spying doesn't really matter since the price is better and we can control it.
>it's obviously not incompetence

Have you seen the kindle software? Amazon's programmers are just comically incapable of writing the simplest things.
There was a spy TV show produced in Iran and pushed heavily on the state run TV networks there that they used to help justify detaining reporters, very clever propaganda:

https://apnews.com/c5348f244a6b484fa3678f39a12e3ceb

I remember seeing a clip of an Iranian leader saying every journalist is a spy and if they aren't they should be because they "don't get paid enough". Gives you insight into their thinking, or what happens when you give the hyper-paranoid intelligence agency people way too much power (which the west isn't immune too).
Just wait till we get consumer IoT CRISPR devices for telemetry-enhanced cloud gene therapy in the comfort of your living room.
What's elite about them? There's nothing elite about them, almost anyone can do their job.

It's more a matter of connections and luck if you're a CEO.
Why on earth should I need a separate device to organize the files on my device?
And some random shell script installer is going to better than a dedicated package manager at dealing with the differences between N many distributions and M many architectures?

Sure, some install scripts will be quite simple, but in that case, why do you need to have the install script in the first place? You'd only need it if the installation procedure was too complicated for an `INSTALL` or `README` document.
According to a Linus Tech Tips video[1] that I saw a a couple of days ago, you can use PCI nvme drives on the new Mac Pro, but it won't even boot unless one of the proprietary Apple SSDs is connected (because of the T2).

[1] https://youtu.be/mIB389tqzCI?t=180
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I've been working on a Hackintosh build since last 2 years, but since I don't need a video rig and/or compiling work horse, I reduced my self to a Intel NUC with Clearlinux OS. I'm getting familiar with Rawtherapee and Darktable workflow (instead of Capture One) since I'm a weekend photographer. Clearlinux has most of my needs, so I'm happy with it at the moment.
I think a comment is appropriate if the problem cannot be factored out. But in my experience such things can be factored out most of the time, hence the argument that most code should be boring and immediately obvious.
the idea is that as you get old you start to seek validation that its "okay to die" because you haven't otherwise made peace with that part of your transaction of life. Part of that bleeds out as apocalypse fantasy. Its okay that I'm going to die because this world is no longer worth living in and I sympathise with the poor wretches that have to face the future that I do not.

Its a coping mechanism for dealing with death and you'll see many people as they age fall into it.
All of the troubles explained in the post are caused by a bug in Chromium which identifies all the monitors as a single one.

If you are interested take a look at the bug in the Chromium issue tracker: https://webrtc-review.googlesource.com/c/src/+/165724
Yup. Kitchen makes a few hundred sheet pans of stuff according to a menu that's set well in advance (so that the ship can take on the proper supplies) and then because of the way things just happen to turn out certain dishes will get mostly eaten and others mostly trashed.

You simply can't optimize beyond a certain level because you need room to absorb changes in customer demand. You can't not serve soup on Thursday because the customers ate all your beef Wednesday and you have no stock.
There's also a wc in rust (of course) with more code (120 lines) but quite more efficient: https://medium.com/@martinmroz/beating-c-with-120-lines-of-r...
For example, one wouldn't know their bike helmet was a knockoff unless they had fallen and hit their head.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/16/647377213/fake-bike-helmets-c...
I wish my hardware would last that long. Two previous phones I bought have lasted less than 2 years.
I don't know about stupid, but perhaps woefully out of touch. In 2020, they're still trying to fight fights from the 1990s, using tactics that haven't really worked since the 1990s.
It's no longer true since iOS 13. Safari has a full-featured download manager now.
> If the oil companies have to use a more expensive alternative service

Microsoft is delighted to announce we are the digital transformation partner of #IPTC2020, the International Petroleum Technology conference, that kicks off tomorrow in Dahran until the 15th of January

https://twitter.com/Microsoft_Saudi/status/12162861906530508...

Oil companies don't need to worry, MS will be happy to provide equivalent services for similar rates.
If you are curl|sh'ing while blindly following some random online to tutorial, it is bad.

If you are curl|sh'ing and know why you're curl|sh'ing and know what you're curl|sh'ing and understand the implications of curl|sh'ing, then I don't see the problem.

Like most things, it's subjective.
Illustration is not graphic design though.

For graphic design (typography work, layout, UI, etc) mouse and keyboard are still the best input devices. Much faster and precise than tapping on a touch screen or using an Apple Pencil.
If you have an old router with USB 2.0 ports lying around it's fairly straightforward to install OpenWRT and Zerotier and make a VPN with a private cloud attached if you mount a HDD, and as long as your file transfer requirements aren't too intense. Have one running on my LAN and it works well for FTP, SMB shares for backup, and normal VPN stuff. Plus, it doesn't consume much power as it's MIPS chipset.
I think that's the biggest lost opportunity of the iPad. I read through Alan Kay's Early History of Smalltalk [1] essay recently, and the level of applications young teenagers were developing with the rudimentary hardware is truly astonishing. The iPad is not facilitating that type of thing for the most part, but it also arguably goes in the opposite direction, encouraging a highly siloed, app-centric view of computing where users have even less direct agency over data.

[1]: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
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What they could more easily do, and what seems to fit with their strategy lately, is open source further portions of Windows 10. (MIT rather than GPL though, obviously) They are already way down the path (winUI, NET5, PowerShell, terminal, etc). I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see more of the bundled apps like Paint and Notepad show up on GitHub one day, for example. If they could get explorer.exe over to the open-source side, that would be huge. And I don’t think MS has anything to lose by doing that. It seems they’d mainly want to would protect the stuff that powers/differentiates Azure.
What proof de we have against it.
>Theoretically, where the car merges doesn't have any bearing on this occurring or not. It shouldn't be any different at the beginning of the lane or the end.

It’s a scheduling problem where people that join the lane early are starved by the people joining late.

In cases where there is roughly an equal exchange of vehicles between two lanes it doesn’t matter much, and maybe that’s the norm where you are.

Where I am, congestion is more localized to chokepoints where too many people need to use an exit or on ramp. In this case if time matters it’s usually better to be aggressive and merge at the last minute rather than be passive and get in line early.

People may think you are a jerk. For people where it’s important not to be thought of badly, they get in line first. For people who don’t care (or occasionally for other reasons) they skip the line and merge late.
And here, I go the other way -- I keep to only using package managers as much as possible because at least they have some coherent plan for where installation data should go. Random install scripts can put data anywhere and can easily mess with global or system installed data. If I can't set the installation prefix myself, I don't use the code.

(I'm sure this issue has something to do with the popularity of containers)