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> from the inconsistent and weird horizontally-expanding OG-Xbox blades user interface

I'm going to have to pull you up on consistency here - I find the blade UI very consistent (with a few exceptions, such as Function Apps). I always know where the toolbar will be, where header info will be, where the details will be etc.

The same cannot be said for AWS, where I sometimes wonder if the UI for each service has been created by separate teams in complete isolation.

Aside from consistency, I really like Azure's blade UI, but I recognise that it seems to be quite polarising. Also, if it was a few years ago you used it, you'd have a different experience now (I recall when the blade UI was first introduced, it had a lot of performance issues and weird UI glitches; it's performant and stable now).

> thrown-over-the-wall API libraries

I somewhat agree here, and I've fallen victim to this myself on occasion.

> Powershell Core is not, however, a good experience on a Linux machine

As much as I like the Windows and Azure ecosystems, I'm not a fan of Powershell's verbose syntax at all. I much prefer bash for scripting tasks, which works in the "Git Bash" tool you get with Git for Windows, as well as WSL. WSL is pretty amazing actually, but WSL2 can't come quick enough!

> the comprehensively bad clusterfuck that is Azure

I've been using numerous Azure services pretty solidly for ~3-4 years now, and I haven't encountered issues like those you mentioned. Their support is excellent too, although I've only used it a few times.

I work with AWS and GCP from time to time too (depends on what clients want), but Azure would be my first choice every time.
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> The stories of the women involved seemed very credible, and unlikely to have been made up, considering they were supporters of him.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, disagrees: https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...

Specifically, this section:

"Surely, I thought, Assange must be a rapist! But what I found is that he has never been charged with a sexual offence. True, soon after the United States had encouraged allies to find reasons to prosecute Assange, Swedish prosecution informed the tabloid press that he was suspected of having raped two women. Strangely, however, the women themselves never claimed to have been raped, nor did they intend to report a criminal offence. Go figure. Moreover, the forensic examination of a condom submitted as evidence, supposedly worn and torn during intercourse with Assange, revealed no DNA whatsoever — neither his, nor hers, nor anybody else’s. Go figure again. One woman even texted that she only wanted Assange to take an HIV test, but that the police were “keen on getting their hands on him”. Go figure, once more."
It's a massive waste of money and resources to get an EKG without a clinical presentation. It's a massive resources to get a CBC and CMP without some positive predictive value. Why don't we throw every test at you? Because there's a significant chance you will be a false positive/negative. This is dangerous to look at this way.
Clearly we should start casting the laws into stainless steel plates.
The recent explosion in cases in South Korea, Italy and Iran would seem to suggest that in fact perhaps the officials in Wuhan did not fuck up handling the early part of the epidemic, at least much more so that the officials in these other countries.

There are some indications of officials playing down the threat and lying, but this was also reversed quickly by higher levels of the same authoritarian government. Did this lying have a significant impact, more so than presumably-less lying in South Korea and Italy, that resulted in the same order-of-magnitude in explosion of cases, even though the world media was already on high alert?

Don't be so overconfident at fitting world events and a few selected media stories into your prejudicial ideological convictions.
Is it scaling up now? I live in Kazakhstan, we have huge border with China and a lot of people going through Kazakhstan transiting to other countries. I don't really see any scaling. I don't even see proper reporting, apparently we have no ill people. It sounds stupid and unrealistic, so nobody believe that, but officials say so. I'm prepared to get this virus soon enough, it seems inevitable. I'm young, so probably I'll survive, but I can't say the same about my parents. It's a stupid situation, really.
No, ctypes does not. It can't handle macros, and it requires users to define the structures in Python themselves. It's miles away from what's in the blog post.
To your ear you mean? Yes, both dialects are non-rhotic. I mean the third orthographically.
This is my hack. I submitted it hoping that it will inspire a discussion about other cool hacks.
This is why pirating is alive and popular, because it makes people's lives convenient, while the real sellers do many things to make people's lives difficult. You as a buyer are expected to bend and give in to their way of usage and their restrictions.
That is pretty curious.

“police officer IK, who had formally questioned SW on 20 August 2010, modified and replaced the content of SW’s original statement in the police database, upon instruction of her superior officer MG and without consulting SW.”

https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublic... (The report itself)
It is a reference to one of the weirder bits of Jordan Peterson and his infamous self-help cult.
They're probably just user agent sniffing for non-Chrome browsers. I see this plenty when using Firefox or Safari. That said I wonder if all the State and DoJ investigations about anti-competitive behavior will force Google to stop promoting their own browser on their properties.
Because Craig Murray's position is always aligned with Kremlin's official position.
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The meta game is like the bike shed. Everyone has an opinion about it. It is abstracted, full of analogies and therefore easy to talk about. It is the only way the experts can talk to the novices about the topic at hand. Note that the novice can't really talk back because they won't know when the analogies end.

How do you distinguish one meta opinion about the other? By looking at the merits of the person behind the opinion, looking at other data that distinguishes the expert from the novice.

If you then use the meta as a vehicle to find out which fundamentals are important, you better skip the meta all together and see what fundamentals the expert has.
The problem is, from the very first paragraph, this website doesn't come across as anything close to impartial either. So I'd suggest you find some more sources before you criticize the judge.
Yup, pgloader was also the one example I could think off; I was wondering if you'd name it :) Amusingly I have not been able to get the non-docker version to work due to some bogus openssl problem.

Anyway, I completely agree that Common Lisp is capable, my point also isn't that it's impossible to do things like GUIs, or write something cool and successful with it – just that the eco-system is not general-purpose language quality. If you want to make something that's successful commercially or as a well-adopted open-source project you have to be much more careful what problems you tackle than with a genuinely general purpose language.

Blog posts that claim otherwise really rub me the wrong way; I think it's possible to present CL in a favorable light without distorting reality and no one is gonna thank you later for joining the rank of people who missed out career-wise for making non-viable technology choices.
So... ctypes requires writing glue code. The solution in the article doesn't.

"if needed" means "needed with any and all C APIs one would be interested in".
Back when Google Chrome came out I switched from Firefox to Google Chrome because the scrolling felt better and more responsive.

Microsoft Edge with Chromium engine has better scrolling in my opinion: it is relative to size of window. If I have smaller window it scrolls less. I switched to Microsoft Edge.

It's about the product for me, although I have turned all the knobs to prevent trackers etc.
You're right - depriving people of choice can cause bad doctors to stick around longer because patients are forced to go to them.

This is why we need something like single-payer - no one should be forced to go to a bad doctor because their private insurance decided to only have one or two options in-network locally.
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The sad thing is when Google websites refuse to work on Edge Chromium. Switch your user agent to match Chrome's, you're all set.
It really is a testament to how shitty main stream outlets actually are. To be fair, there are some exceptions, but not that many as it seems.

If they don't feel the need to defend press freedom, it is probably not worth reading their detached antics.
Sometimes I would almost advocate a little confusion because who is to say you've correctly identified the priority. Who's to say the bug is correctly triaged?
There's no way to parse headers without a compiler.
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Anyone interested to work with me to quickly develop an app that can show in real-time the locations where people got infected with Coronavirus ?
In this way, everyone can check if it is safe to visit a specific region or not.
So just like the article describes.
We had been making due with Lab Developed Tests (LDTs). They work fine but they're only allowed to be used at the lab that developed them and we're going to need tests that can be run at hospitals.

The CDC can legally issue emergency tests that can be distributed the way we need to. But for these to be used the FDA had to issue an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). And that couldn't happen until the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) declared this was an emergency. All of which happened.

But When the HHS declared an emergency the situation is legally considered to important for LDTs to be used, which would normally be fine. But the original CDC tests had a reagent that was incorrectly manufactured. That's being fixed but last I heard the working testing kits hadn't been distributed yet.

This is sort of a huge problem because testing for a particular viral RNA sequence isn't especially hard and it should be within the capability of even a large hospital to develop their own tests, though there is a chance they'd mess up the way the CDC did. Our whole bureaucratic structure in the US isn't set up to deal with a new disease emerging quickly and we really need to fix this.
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Quite famously, software design patterns take inspiration from the field of Architecture [0]. The industry would do well to learn from them in how they deal with legacy systems, as well?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern#Histor...
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If you are looking at the mortality rate of CORVID-19 by age group you should do the same for the common seasonal flu. The 2018-2019 flu had a mortality rate of 0.0018% in the US for ages 18-49[0]. CORVID-19 is then 0.2%/0.0018% = 111.11 times more deadly for people ages 18-49 than the last seasons flu.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html 1.8 deaths per 100000 is 0.0018%
Healthy check and balance Microsoft is performing. Strategically this has been a master move, not paying for the engineering costs while profiting from labor fruits. It is admirable for a company to admit the technology of the main competitor is superior and the only way forward is improving their output. Sets a great example for everybody.
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The rape case is rather odd to say the least, as posted above by a user you might want to read this article:
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...

Basically it comes down to the story not adding up, drummed up charges, testimony that was changed by the police. After the headline was made on August 20th (accusing him of rape) the person that 'accused' him (she hadn't (yet)) was questioned on the 21st and only after that did she accuse him of 'rape' (not actually rape, but stealthing).

According to her he had intentionally broken the condom during sex. However the broken condom that was submitted into evidence had no DNA of her, nor of Assange.

Neither woman accused him of anything before headlines were being made apparently.
I'm quite literally in the same position as you right now. As long as the CDC doesn't bump their warning up to a level 3, I'm going. The cost of the flight + no refund makes it difficult for some of my party to walk away from. I'm still fairly worried and my company is having me self quarantine for half a month when I get home.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, certainly thinks assange is being tortured.

https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...
I disagree. If a lot of people know about the bug, and actually take time to reach out and tell you, it must be more severe than you thought.
People these days are used to bugs. And bugs that arent as severe often go completely unreported; Its so common we shrug it be off. People tend to report bugs when they see no other option.
I'm not going to debate ethics or local legalities here, but I believe that pirating (where feasible) is perfectly fine as an alternative to preserving what these sellers impose restrictions on. Where it does get tricky is, in addition to pirating, whether to pay for the DRMd walled garden items and voting with one's wallet that what they're doing is fine, so that the artists/developers behind the content get something. I don't have a black and white answer to this. Sometimes it seems like supporting these evil corporations is evil.

This is very easy to do for music, books and movies/shows. It's a bit more difficult to do this on mobile platforms when it comes to apps and games (a lot more so on iOS where jailbreaks are sometimes few and far between).

The FSF's "Defective by Design" campaign is a bit helpful, but most of the world has moved on to being tied up with subscriptions and DRM everywhere, and doesn't seem to care as much to demand change.
I'm not saying you shouldnt be allowed to pay and pick your own tests or your loved ones tests. You have a good point, population statistics can't be extrapolated back down to an individual on a case by case basis. I had to deal with doctors recently, so I understand where this frustration comes from. I only mean to say that there could be some negative effects from people doing this in aggregate.
It was incredible to me how aggressively Microsoft came out supportive of the Chrome team and how loudly they discussed the wonderful amount of collaboration the two companies had been up to since starting work on the new Edge.

I've seen Googlers responding to Edge developers about how they'll get some mishandling of Edge fixed internally at Google. But really, this is just the same story as before:

The "oops" have begun: https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...
do you know an alternate graph source ? this site has had regular issues recently
Pen and paper stopped being used as early as the early 90s.

If standardized testing had nothing to do with medium then how is the parent comment measuring performance of the medium?

Letting kids figure it out on their own sounds like digital abstinence education.

Most people will agree spending years learning cursive italics ultimately ended up being useless.
Personally writing with pencil and paper as a child was painful due to hand cramps and no one could help teach me how to hold the pencil without causing these cramps. It turned me off of writing for much of my childhood. Plus we were poor so I'd use the pencils until they were a nub because I might not get more, and asking neighbors for pencils chronically was embarrassing.

Funny you say Chromebooks are a waste, but then want kids to do arts and sports at school. Those aren't free programs. Can't kids learn those motor skills outside of school? How do we judge performance gains of these extra-curricular activities? Also those sports should all be non-contact. Football and soccer have been shown to literally lead to brain damage.
Yeah well I'd pay for the medical care I need, regardless of insurance. Not everybody can do that, and I know it. Kid of a 'first-world' problem I guess.

But get used to a brave new world of stand in line/shotgun medicine where you get a diagnosis from the hip of a bored assembly-line 'doctor' who long ago forgot why they went to medical school.
There is certainly a difference beween the two, but to say that they are completely different things is going too far, as can be seen by some of the examples used to justify that claim - e.g.:

Something that is Critical severity doesn’t necessarily mean its a P0. That crashing bug in your bio screen? Face it, nobody really cares to read it and few will ever click the button, so its not something that should be a P0 ship-stopper.

In what way is that an issue of 'critical severity'? The quoted text contains an explanation of why it is not.

The real difference is that severity is a measure of the harm done, while priority is a plan for to responding to it. Clearly they are different, but clearly they will likely be correlated, at least when the severity is high.
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Why are you telling me this? I didn't say he wasn't. Genuinely, I think he's getting a raw deal. The balance of sources certainly indicates that. This isn't about whether or not his treatment is acceptable; this is about ensuring that we read sources carefully. Although it seems to be turning into the idea that to question a source is to take an opposing view, and even that to suggest a source be examined critically is to take an opposing view.
You can design a device that uses Amazon software for microphone audio "processing" AND have a hardware (or semiconductor based) switch at the microphone wire that you (or user) controls.
Because you want to reach >800M users and want everyone to have access to it?
Google has this concept. P0 S0 is the most urgent. P2 S2 is “standard”. P3/4 S3/4 is pretty much code for “this will never happen”. 99% of the time Pn = Sn. When it doesn’t it’s almost always off by 1. So practically I never saw the point in this distinction.
Hiring practices of elderly care facilities in Croatia aside, I very much doubt that EU hospitals are already short of facemasks at a time when there's less than 500 cases among a population of over 700 million.

That there are no facemasks available to the general public is a result of people plundering the stocks of private businesses.

European disease control agencies aren't even recommending that people wear masks. Until they do and they can't provide any I don't see any failures on their part.
The post is interesting.

I had a similar revelation when my wife, a self-professed history buff, said she won't read My Struggle, because she will be put on the list somewhere. I initially found it amusing, but then I understood that even though she apparently does not seem to care much about privacy, she instinctively understands how weird things have become today. She does not want to address it, but she adjusts her behavior to fit the mold.

Bilekas post is the same. It attempts to present a neutral position. It recognizes current state and assumes that this is just how things are.

Personally, I find it chilling that an individual today is willing to effectively say the following:

1. Assange may be innocent, but it does not matter as the real verdict was already rendered. This is just a formality.
2. His pre-punishment punishment is not as bad as it could have been somewhere else.
3. Assange knew what he was getting into, therefore he does not have basic human rights ( variation of: you don't kick the bear argument )
There is no dilemma. We agree that people can be manipulated to some degree. We also agree that - if they don't suffer from an illness - that manipulation only goes so far. Finally, we agree that we shouldn't force a lifestyle on anybody.

So now you can manipulate (or nudge) people either towards behavior which is considered as beneficial (regular exercise, healthy food, etc.), or you can manipulate them towards unhealthy habits (e.g., smoking).

It is a good idea to limit the ability of actors to nudge people towards unhealthy habits. That will help everybody except a few people who will earn less money. It is also a good idea to foster nudging good behaviors, even if there is no commercial value behind it.

The dilemma only starts to occur if we try to put all things into either the good or the bad box. Probably most ads are in the large grey area in between these extremes. However, ads fostering smoking addiction or obesity should be called out as bad for all of us. There is no downside of this call-out.
> a P0 (Blocker) bug is a ship-stopper which has to be fixed before the next release can happen. P1s (Critical) are important but not something we’d stop a release for, while P2s (Medium,Low) represent pretty much anything that will only be fixed when our development team has cleared all P0 and P1 bugs

> It’s important to note that a bug’s priority shouldn’t be confused with its severity, which exists as an entirely different dimension... ‘Severity’ to represent a (somewhat) objective assessment of a bug’s impact to the functionality of the system. From Critical representing major crashes or hangs, to Minor functional issues or purely Cosmetic blemishes. While a QA engineer will classify a bug’s Severity at creation time, it’s the PM who assigns the Priority at the time of triage based on their knowledge of the client’s business and product requirements

I don't see the benefit in having severity and priority as 2 distinct dimensions. Given a specific priority, what additional benefit do you get from having a severity label as well? Based on the author's description, I can't think of any.

If the goal is to better communicate what "type" of bug it is, using an enum classification (eg, cosmetic vs crash vs data-corruption) would be more appropriate than a numeric scale.
You’re being disingenuous. Your insinuation was that I was trashing the chronically homeless. If you re-read your comments you clearly say that my comments were alluding to the “bad” homeless which is totally false. You don’t need to insult people you disagree with especially on HN.

I need to engage your ideas because I do not feel they provide HN the larger picture on homelessness. Chronic homelessness is a mental health issue and not a primarily a housing issue
Their goal is to change the incentives around web browsing and privacy. It becomes much harder to do that if they help other browsers retain their marketshare.