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> However there is ZERO legal basis on having someone not being taken care of while in custody.

Most of the health issues in question here arose when he was not in custody, but rather in self-imposed exile in the embassy. He could've walked out at any point and been treated, but that would've meant accepting the consequences for the laws he'd broken.
Is it safe to say that the construction crew who excavated the foundation had a very good Christmas that year?
The explicit goal of the ribbon design effort was to better manage the complexity. Rather than simplify the underlying products.

Such is the conceit of Microsoft.

I watched the "The Story of the Ribbon". Twice. Just to be sure I properly understood what happened. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX08/UX09

It's a great example of a series of rational decisions yielding a terrible end result.

Because they started with the wrong question.

IIRC, Jensen Harris said Office (or maybe just Word?) had something like 2,000 (or 20,000?) individual operations (commands plus modifiers). Their initial premise was to better organize and present that dizzying number. Create the perfect visual language taxonomy.

Instead of first trying to figure how to reduce that number.

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It's been a long, long time since I've used Microsoft products. I used to be quite the Word buff. But you'll get the gist of this example:

Embedding an image within a body of text is a common task. With Word, it just fucking sucks. There's an option for every little thing. Dozens of settings to tweak. And predicting where that image lands, especially with reflow, is more launch and pray than anything rational or deterministic.

But really, there's just 4, maybe 6. different ways any sane person would want that image to be anchored. Just show a preview of those options and let the user pick the result.

If someone needs something more fancy, they should opt to use a desktop publishing app, which is actually built for this kind of work.

But no.

Word has to be all things to all people. So consequently becomes nothing for anyone.

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TLDR: Microsoft hates their customers.
Yeah, but they didn't have VPNs back then ;)
Thanks a lot, Cameron. I'll watch this space [0] as you continue to add features and improve upon efficiency to pass on the cost savings to your customers :) All the best!

[0] I'd have opted for a newsletter, but I couldn't find any sign-ups forms for it.
I voted you up since I want examples but Hindi and Urdu and South Asian languages can be written in Arabic script, but they are not in fact Arabic. The former regardless of writing systems are linguistically way closer to English.
"have such a third-world approach to censorship on the Internet"

Let's not associate the third-world with authoritarian or fascist.

In addition, the term itself is outdated.
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> granted some items in the ribbon bar does also have labels

Nearly all ribbon buttons have labels. That's part of the point of ribbons (there's no room for labels on traditional toolbars). The only buttons that don't have labels are well-known ones, all of which I think are on the Home tab.

> Another benefit with the toolbar was customizability.

The ribbon (at least in Office) is far more customisable than traditional menubar+toolbars. Every part of the ribbon can be customised, and the Quick Access Toolbar exists so that the common buttons that you use can be accessible even when the ribbon is collapsed.

I don't know why you dis-like the ribbon, because none of your arguments make sense.
> A laughable narrative around how they were "Pakistan sponsored terrorists" is usually spun by the media/police nexus.

So who conducted the Pulwama terror attack? Have you seen the video of the terrorist and the filth that he utters against Hindus? It is obvious that Pakistan is involved in sponsoring terror. They are in the grey list in FATF for a reason and have two of the World's most dangerous terrorists: Masood Azhar (who has gone missing! how does a high profile UN designated terrorist go missing?) and Hafiz Saeed (who was roaming free till recently and was only thrown in jail because of FATF pressures). These two individuals, who are Chiefs of their organizations: Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-E-Toiba, respectively are the main conspirators in the 26/11 Mumbai Attack and the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001.

And shall we forget how Pakistan provided Osama Bin Laden a safe haven right next to its own Military HQ?

We are not stupid.

There have been a stream of terror attacks in Kashmir ever since the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the 1990s. But since India Abrogated Article 370 on August 5th, there has been actual peace after a long time.
I used to work in the supply-chain industry setting up the trucking end of cross-ocean shipments (mostly full truckloads of electric toothbrushes coming from China). I'm trying to think of ways to push back on this behavior but it's tough in such a low margin industry. The best approach is probably to threaten their revenue source --- I know that the transportation departments setting up these shipments (and therefore approving payment to the shipping company) don't even think/care about this(they are pressured to get all their loads covered by the end of the day by the toothbrush company)...so it's probably on the consumer (who pays for the electric toothbrush) to hold companies more accountable for the vendors they choose to work with.

If I had access to a list of companies who held their entire supply chain to a certain set of standards, I'd be willing to pay a little more for my toothbrush.
Reminds me of this beauty:
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He should bring an ouija board to the office.
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No, we won't; "token" is a function name, not a local variable name. If it was written "token", we'd have to substitute it back to "tok" every time we read it.
Being let go for "performance" reasons is not "for cause" in CA. For cause means something serious that violates the employment agreement, like criminal behavior or sexual harassment.

Companies generally don't fire people "for cause" absent cause because that's the best way to guarantee a lawsuit (because as you've pointed out, it has financial repercussions like cutting off the availability of unemployment, and reputational damage to the former employee).
Health care during incarceration is a problem most places in the world. As far as I can tell in the U.K. and Europe it is generally better. But what Mr. Assange is experiencing in the U.K. is pretty comparable to the U.S. If Americans are going to bother to fret over his situation you should probably have a similar or greater level of concern for what is going on in your own country which you actually have some hope changing. To have special concern for this one person is just trading on fame, you might as well be following tabloids.
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i see you removed your email from profile good move. I rarely sign up to respond to someone but I think you may have been blessed to find the very unique niche that just may fit exactly my skillset.

I get companies and ideas off the ground, once it gets corporate level, i lose interest. Makes me feel I'm not cut out for that corporate lifetsyle... SO I wonder like you what can work.

Latest business venture since trying this method - service provider company, we hire various experts. Then internally we create campaigns out of pocket and as the calls come in we direct them to various industry.

We should most definitely speak. I have several projects that fit our unqiue abilities.

For 38 years I said i'm never going to achieve because I cannot stay in the same position once it becomes routine.... This is a brilliant approach! how can we be in contact? mrtorah AT gmail email me when you have a chance id like to see what you have going, we have a bit of financing and targeting some higher ticket niches right now.
It is just in Kashmir which has no real industry to speak of.
It’s astonishing to read about this grandiose waste and look at all my friends who went into this industry only to be given sub-poverty line salaries and working hours to kill a horse.

Eventually I realized that publishing, like much of the rest of New York, is built on the principle of 1%er ideology, where the actual workers get hosed and say “Thank you,” while a select few kings (mostly queens now) with the right connections, family background, and bravado live very high on the hog.
Thank you. I was just trying to say that I am accepting of deep fakes that aren't in English. Maybe that would have been more clear.

If these exist, I think it is important to show them and track how they are being used. Hopefully it can help us avoid similar pitfalls in the future by learning how they are used.
Nobody said they were.
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Not every rule has a reason, some of it is just "because style guide" and if you try to look up the rationale there, you'll find none.

Classic example is Perl style %w(literal arrays) vs ['traditional', 'arrays'].

> Prefer `%w` to the literal array syntax when you need an array of
strings

Which was introduced[1] into the style guide nearly 9 years ago with practically no reasoning. Prefer `%w` because why exactly?

[1] https://github.com/rubocop-hq/ruby-style-guide/commit/b27eff...
A union also tends to mean that you get paid for the # of years you worked your job, not how good you are.

This is a good thing for the bottom 50% of workers, and a bad thing for the top 50% of workers.

Does this union do anything to address that? Is pay still fully merit based?
Does anyone know if it's possible to tee the data into multiple feeds? I'd like to feed to fr24 just for purposes of getting the better account, but also to this because the info is better. I could run two dongles i guess.
Interesting read! Sounds like however it turns out... they had it coming.

How common are setups like this, anyone know?
So the solution would be to not have democracy until the unwashed uneducated masses become otherwise so?

The East India company would've agreed with you :p
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I'm in a similar position as you. Our decision was to open source our underlying framework but none of our infrastructure code: https://github.com/simiotics/shnorky

Our customers pay us for peace of mind, which takes work (and automation) beyond the core functionality of the open source product.

Happy to discuss further.
What a fun article. Starts in the late 1800s and includes problems where computers go down because of snake shooting.
Not to knock on hobbyists doing cool projects, but to me "missile" means "at least supersonic if not hypersonic".

I guess the article is light on details there, but I get the impression that this is intended to be a way to send a very fast (and so hard to shoot down) missile at a target with the ability to fire multiple smaller missiles or simply to fire bullets at enemy aircraft from a vastly closer range where it's onboard sensor suite will be far more effective against enemy aircraft countermeasures.

Or simply to provide much more active countermeasures against AA sites shooting the missile down.

Something incredibly fast that uses a computer to rapidly analyze and respond to sensor data to respond with a variety of lethal options sounds terrifying and I don't especially want it to exist. But I can see the appeal of having a new missile that stands a much better chance of striking a target to make actual global adversaries think thrice.

The new cold war... yet we still have citizens without food security or health care... priorities I guess.
It's worth it. If there is an actual violation, the company didn't just steal money from you. They defrauded the state labor board and the taxpayers of the state. And that's the sort of thing that government lawyers are very interested pursuing.
"VPNs are banned" and "facial recognition is being used to identify protestors" are not opinions. Please go away.
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Think it's a reference to Fargo - a Coen brothers film and TV series
Interesting. When the media is objective, they are branded as pro-BJP, Sangi, Bhakts etc. It's not fair to expect all the media to spew hate against the ruling government
Why do unions have to have seniority rules? Certainly next-gen unions can pursue a different model.
> Isn't that a bit much like "in a well-run republic, the government serves the people" etc? That's certainly true in theory...

Surely one has to prefer theoretical upside over the certainty of servitude.

> I have no experience with US unions, but I am, thanks to a previous job, very well acquainted with most of the major unions in Germany on multiple levels. The further up you go, the more corruption you will find. They are run as cross-overs between political party and corporation, with large salaries for the executives, networks deciding over promotions and mostly based on political & personal affiliation, not on merit. They tend to say "we have to see eye-to-eye with management to negotiate", which roughly translates to "we have to be paid as well as upper management".

I have no first-hand experience with German unions, so I won't comment beyond observing that in either case, the issue comes down to a lack of a meritocratic reward structure. Unions are neutral on that front, it all comes down to the laws and culture. American unions were born out of capitalist greed run amok, so they tend to be pretty antagonistic and confrontational. I get the impressions that German unions are more of a cooperative with capital to ensure work stoppages are minimized.

> Don't get me wrong, I'd probably still recommend joining a union if you're starting out today, but I wouldn't give you any of that ideological crap. It'll get you more pay, and you'll have a lawyer for any issues with your job. Do it, don't tell anyone about it (illegal or not, if you apply for a job, they will look you up and if you're known for being active in a union, they will not hire you), and keep your head down, because they can also make your life hell if you get on their bad side or insult some local boss.

I didn't think my statement was particularly ideological, and I don't personally feel an ideological bent toward unions. I wouldn't personally join one because I don't need it, but a union would benefit most of the developers I know from a practical standpoint. Getting on the bad side of the union is no different than getting on the bad side of an executive - at least with a union you have 2 centers of gravity to pull on instead of one.
> But don't let that be a distraction; there are plenty of other enterprisey features in Epyc that are not present in TR, including registered memory support.

Then don't make your example be ECC specifically. It's the only thing you listed, I wasn't "distracted" by it. And I also even commented on the lack of registered memory support, so I don't know why you're repeating that back to me?
Interactivity was added to QuickTime movies. I think this feature was called “wired actions”. I have no idea how this relates to the HyperCard integration.

Apple didn't make an authoring tool for this feature, but another company did: “LiveStage” by Totally Hip.
Unfortunately, this is mostly about The Chaos at Details, some kind of vapid lifestyle magazine, happily defunct.
As far as I can determine, there isn't a single state in the Union that's considered the Midwest by everyone in the country.

As I mentioned, Kansas is in the West if you're in Michigan, which definitely considers itself Midwestern.

But if you're a Southerner, Michigan is in the North. The North doesn't even exist, outside of the former Confederacy, where it refers to states which were in the Union during the Civil War.

So "the North" is a pure exonym.
Can you file a bug? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp...
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I couldn't find any corroboration of this. What happened?
If you can grab the info in about:support for that machine and file a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp... that would be helpful!
I would rather pay employees a living wage as part of a sustainable business than deal with the hypergrowth VC bullshit that destroys entire market segments with nothing to show for it except ruined lives after the startups finally implode.
I don't think this is true. Some of the most educated and wealthy people support the BJP, fascist though the party may be. Look at the vote split in the recent Delhi election. All upper caste voters flocked to the BJP by margins of 20%+. Dalits and Muslims voted AAP. Upper castes are disproportionately wealthy and educated.

My theory for this is that such people (relatives of mine included, sadly) are just higher on Maslow's heirarchy of needs. At the bottom you need roti-kapda-makaan (food, clothing, shelter), followed by bijli-sadak-paani (electricity, roads, water) and higher up health and education. If you've had all of this all your life, you take them for granted. When Modi comes along and peddles a grand vision to Make India Great Again, like it was in Vedic times, that captures the imagination and inspires us. When the BJP tells us that all of our problems are because of Muslims and that we need to put them in their place to fix everything, we're only too willing to listen.
Have you considered editing your previous comment?
Those may be the stated reasons for a union, but for some reason, in tech, workers just want a union because they want to inject their political views into their company:

> But in 2018, a heated disagreement broke out between employees and management about whether to leave a project called “Always Punch Nazis” on the platform, according to reporting in Slate. When Breitbart said the project violated Kickstarter’s terms of service by inciting violence, management initially planned to remove the project, but then reversed its decision after protest from employees.

> Following the controversy, employees announced their intentions to unionize
No - it is not. For most Indians, encryption of messaging/communication is a recent phenomenon popularized by Whatsapp. Millions of people have already died as part of religious, naxal and territorial violence in the past decades. Encryption is not a magical solution to everything.
That’s certainly history, if you use a modern file format such as .xlsx, and, likely, also if you use the old format.

Microsoft likely changed several in memory structures when Excel went 64-bit, if not earlier.

One thing that Execl does is multi-threaded recalculation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/exc...)
Rooting for you! It's a good idea, and successfully popularizing it would provide a huge amount of value to the world.
Misleading Title. It is not about using VPN but about propagating rumors.
This is a law in India, as there were instances of riots caused by social media rumor.

Actual News ----------- The FIR has been registered while taking cognisance of the social media posts by miscreants by using different VPNs, which are propagating rumours with regard to the current security scenario in the Kashmir valley, secessionist ideology and glorifying terrorists, the police said.
The questions usually lack a starting point. It's one thing to be stuck I medieval time, but stone age is another thing entirely.
No one suppressed secession. There have been secession movements not just in Kashmir but in North East too. That doesn't give anyone the authority to conduct terror attacks on fellow citizens. When things go beyond a point of no return then force is needed. Since the day India Abrogated Article 370 there hasn't been one major terror attack in Kashmir. That is good enough for the rest of India that was sick and tired of hearing Civilians and Army men being targeted by terrorists in Kashmir ever since the Kashmiri Pandit exodus in the 1990s. If you want to learn a thing or two about India, you better read up on Exodus and Genocide Kashmiri Pandits and how they are now refugees in their own country. Then you have the rights to lecture Indians on what is democracy and what is tyranny. We have been the most accommodative over the years and our patience has been tested far beyond permissible limit. India already went through a terrible Partition in 1947 on Religious lines where Muslims did not want to live with Hindus. Did that solve the problem? Nope. We already had one Partition. Won't allow more. And we shouldn't even be justifying it. It is surprising to me that people here question the decisions of a Sovereign Nation on what it should and should not do. Would you be willing to have your Nation broken up into multiple pieces because some Tom, Dick or Harry doesn't like the way it is now? Don't be ridiculous!
> That's not a feature. You're basically pointing to a world where only established multinational corporations are going to be able to afford to do anything at all.

See the second sentence of the post you replied to.

> Oh great, it's the 2020 meme. First I've seen it, but I just know I'm gonna be reading this bs phrase everywhere now.

Look, I'm not a lefty, I'm a moderate independent, and I'm probably fiscally conservative, which is precisely why I hold this position (it's "personal responsibility" applied to macroeconomics). So put away any notions of partisanship you might have had. "environmental debt" is exactly what this is (by all indicators, anyway), and if you disagree feel free to substantiate.
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Plenty of services can deal with X hours of downtime when a single machine fails for values of X that are longer than it takes to restore to a new machine from backups.
Well, it's just Kashmir, which is as close to become a tech booming region as those remote tribes in the middle of the amazon rainforest.
Yes, you can feed several places. My raspbian is feeding adsbexchange as well as flightaware, fr24, radarbox, planefinder and open sky network.
>Avoiding unprotected contact with farm or wild animals.

Well, that's a nice way of saying it.
It's not false because we don't know what the reaction would be if this happened today. The reaction of people 160 years ago is not at all predictive of what would happen today. Especially if the issue was not a moral one as it was 160 years ago.
> (I really don't understand this comment, nor the tone that I perceive as quite aggressive, but I may just misunderstand it. So answering anyway)

I think it was a bit aggressive, though i sort of understand it: one of the most common (if not the most common) complains after a UX change in any semi-popular program is that the change was negative for some people's experience and i think everyone who has used computers for a while has experienced at least once what they perceived as unnecessary UX degradation of one of their favorite programs.

So whenever the topic of some program changing their UI (regardless of reasons) comes up, a kneejerk reaction that goes fully towards the negative side of possibilities is expected. The more time people invest in a program, the more painful it becomes when they feel that their investment becomes worthless.

(EDIT: FWIW personally i do not make any weird use of VLC, so as long as it keeps having the common minimal slider, play, pause, etc UI i doubt i'll have any problems with it :-P)
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Of course, but these factors would impact both MP3 and AAC in the same way, no?

So: Better quality on the same playback system. Is that a bad thing to want?

The article merely makes the (valid, in my opinion) point that often, the benefit of switching is not worth the effort.
Tell me Young Techie, how do you tell the difference between someone who is alleged to have spread rumours and someone speaking the truth?

And when you say you totally support it, do you support everything the BJP has done?