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Some context:

> The German government has asked SAP and Deutsche Telekom to develop the Corona-Warn-App for Germany as open source software. Deutsche Telekom is providing the network and mobile technology and will operate and run the backend for the app in a safe, scalable and stable manner. SAP is responsible for the app development, its framework and the underlying platform. Therefore, development teams of SAP and Deutsche Telekom are contributing to this project. At the same time our commitment to open source means that we are enabling -in fact encouraging- all interested parties to contribute and become part of its developer community.

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android#contribut...
I want to agree with you and dismiss it. I'm curious why the audio seems to be generated, and loops several times.
We can work on fixing politics AND fix technology. We don’t have to choose between them.

What stopped the Stasi until politics was technology. And I think the encryption used helped to bring about the political change. If the Stasi had what Zoom is offering then perhaps the wall wouldn’t have fallen for 10,20,30 more years.
They likely implied that there was a Console Age that was coming to an end and their software would usher in the new age of computing.
The press release also said "Lenovo is moving to certify the full workstation portfolio for top Linux distributions from Ubuntu® and Red Hat® – every model, every configuration." so I guess the question is: Are only ThinkPad P series laptops considered workstations OR is the plan to bring it to other ThinkPads as well in the long run?
> One of the big advantages Windows had on the desktop is the absolutely fanatical commitment to backwards compatibility.

OS/360 would like a word...

;)
Normal as in not exclusively conservative or liberal. Normal as in neutral. Normal as in undecided. Normal as in constantly changing.

Should have said general people. I need to pay more poetic attention to words.
That's magical thinking. The gas will expand to fill the container. People will use it as much but download more.
Corrected, thank you, I apparently had that embedded in my brain from 15 years ago.
Is there any reason to believe that, if you pay, Zoom can't
listen to your conversations anyway?
GNU Parallel with awk is a SAPANS, effective combination for data analysis. No faddish rube-goldberg machines.

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

*SAPANS: as simple as possible, and no simpler

Do note that awk and GNU Parallel are tools that use/contain C-like syntax, which is abhorrent to some factions. GNU Parallel is written in Perl.
As a hobbyist photographer and professional phone owner, I have thoughts I'm not afraid to foist upon you unwilling audience:

1) Yes, phones are great for 100% of the average person, who just wants some snapshots to remember/post on Instagram/etc. Not only that, but most phones apply filters to the photo that makes it look more appealing (like in the article), which is what most people want. Photographers want fidelity, so they can apply their own edits in post, so a deciding factor is maximizing post-processing freedom.

Cameras are more for professional/artistic use these days.

2) Phones are never ever going to replace professional cameras. Hell, not even non-professional cameras are ever going to replace professional cameras. I have a Canon 5D as my main camera and a Sony RX-100 mkIII as a travel camera, and while the latter is fantastic, has great quality in a very small form factor, I end up frustrated 30% of the times I use it. The 5D is a professional camera, and much of what you pay for is for the ergonomics.

It's very cumbersome to have to go three menus down to change a setting in the smaller camera when I could have done it without taking my eye away from the viewfinder on the 5D, and it leads to missed shots. I haven't seen this point mentioned anywhere, and it's a big differentiator.

I could include here the fact that the camera is much more predictable: If you hear the "beep" that tells you it's focused, pressing the button gets me a photo in < 100ms. Phones have a will of their own, and it's pretty random when you'll actually have your photo. Cameras focus in a few milliseconds exactly on the subject, phones focus somewhere in the vicinity of where you asked, at some point soonish. This leads to a much better, more solid-feeling experience when using a camera.

3) Phones are great for taking wide-angle photos in ample light, but not great for everything else. They can clean low-light photos decently these days, but a large sensor is much more versatile in what you can do with it. The same goes for the lenses, 24mm is good for a lot of things, but sometimes you just need a different focal length.

4) Larger sensors have a lot more detail in the resulting photo. A camera lets you go from the before to the after here, and this isn't even a terrible shot: https://imgz.org/ius5Vhb9/

A phone wouldn't be able to retrieve much detail in that scene, and the result would look much worse. A camera can help you salvage many photos that would have been write-offs with a phone, e.g. when they're too dark/bright, or when you have tones too close to each other.

TL;DR: Phones are great, but cameras are great too.
The sad fact is that SOCs are getting better and better every day, but front-end developers manage to raise the requirement for a smooth browsing experience at a faster speed.
Windows uses delta/differential updates for monthly “quality” updates[1] because it uses less bandwidth than big-blob updates.

For diffed updates to work efficiently Windows first works out what hardware/software you have. Then it can either:

1. Send info about the system to an update server and let the server decide what updates it needs.

2. Download a big manifest of all available updates (as you describe) and calculate locally what updates it needs.

Either way, Windows then has to make a request for updates specific to the system, at which point you reveal info about your software and hardware that you were attempting to hide in (2) anyway.

For the semi-annual feature updates, the process is more like you describe where there's a compatibility check then a large download (~3-6GB) containing all new features, even if your system won't be able to make use of all of them.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/p...
And perhaps the best advice is no advice.
What do you think went wrong with fman.io? E.g. Total Commander is a one guy shop and he is doing fine for 20+ years now - so seems like people pay money for a good file manager. Does fman.io miss some features or is it wrong marketing?
Hey folks I run Snapfont, a Chrome extension to test fonts on any webpage. I've been running this extension since the last 6 months and I've had plenty of issues with the Chrome webstore.

If you're a extension developer I hope this post helps you figure out long update times with the Webstore.
Protect privacy of people while implementing Covid-19 track and trace solutions
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Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture
I do not live in the USA, and I do not want to politicize my question. I am clearly asking out of curiousity:

Would that be something related with the way that voting areas (whatever they are called in the USA)/Gerrymandering is causing?

Area-X on the map (that doesn't have any straight/simple lines in its perimeter!!!) has data hidden, while Area-Z seems to have "all the problems"?

Apart from real-estate fraud, I am trying to imagine what other areas of life may this impact.

(again I am NOT using -alphabetically- Dem-Rem notation)
Why is this news worthy? The regions have been available since late 2018
That, or send your search data somewhere else.
Any where I can read on forcing to use the iGPU on MBPs when plugged in at compile time to be used for the runtime of an application? I figure there are some speed ups/power savings i can get when running an emulator when i'm not too concerned about fps (and way more concerned about lag between from usb input).

[edit] nvm, I can use this: https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus
Swedish authorities relied on their citizen to behave, follow rules and use common sense in general, plus some administrative measures that can be implemented only by organizations. To me this is much better than to force people into lockdown no matter what.
This has shown (again) negative parts of the swedish mindset, but that is a different matter and possibly the current approach with COVID will help to improve (if not eliminate) those parts.
I find that the phone creates a version of the picture that it thinks is best, probably to look good on social media. Where as a DSLR has the functionality to make manual adjustments to create a photo to your own specs. Sometimes having a photos with high/low exposure, or grainy effects created authentically via DSLR are preferred.
Makes sense. Seems a bit like false advertising. Unlimited requests in this context doesn't really tell you how many design hours you are buying.
Actually, the government already has, and has always had, stasi-like tendencies, they just happen to mostly target people who are not given a platform to talk about it.

Police and other law enforcement are already using legal powers to infiltrate and monitor 'radical' political groups such as Black Lives Matter, just like they have in the past with civil liberties groups. In fact, as we discovered in the COINTELPRO leaks, they were going way beyond the legal limits, having been complicit in the assassination of Malcolm X, and having tried to blackmail MLK into committing suicide.

Of course, it could be that such things don't happen anymore. Or, seeing how the police in Minneapolis are actively targeting journalists, it is significantly more likely that we just don't know about it yet.

No large state has ever tolerated real dissent to any great extent. The state doesn't have to be as paranoid about dissent as China or the USSR (which almost require(d) enthusiastic support) for police powers to eb abused against the legitimate interests of citizens.
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I still hold that the scene where Grant and Sattler first see the Brachiosaur is one of the best acted (and I suppose directed) scenes ever. That subtle feeling of vindication when his theory is proven right against all the critics[1]... "they do move in herds"... and then the sheer wonder and child-like awe of Grant/Sam Neill when he just says, agape "...how'd you do this?" just spellbinds me each time.

I just couldn't imagine having that kind of emotional reponse as a viewer with today's CGI design by committee shitfest that seems to be the norm.

Also, don't forget that the first movie was based (fairly) closely on a riveting book written by a fantastic story teller - that sure helps with telling a good story.

[1] who you don't even know about - its just the way he says it makes you understand that he's been advancing that theory for a long time and facing a lot of criticism for it.
What’s that? An extra $50 in Delaware?
> though the technology worked relatively well, people did not respond well to being told to isolate by an app.

I would have thought that this depends a lot on the nature of said "message".

It needs to be a personal decision based on evidence you make available to the individual.

For example - if you were to send a message like - here is a photo of you on a bus, this person sitting next to you has tested positive, you sat next to them for 25 minutes - then sure, people will likely take action based on that.

The Government sending a message saying "you need to stay indoors for 2 weeks now because computer said so" is just not compatible with most people's world view, of course that's going to be completely ignored, it's arbitrary house arrest.

It also doesn't help that the UK Government are acting like circus clowns, people are going to say things like "Boris told me to stay indoors, but I needed to test my eyesight[1]".

[1] https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/25/people-warned-not-test-eyesig...
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so you don't know what CERN is? ok
Seems very relevant, I’m a fan of FDR and this is absolutely necessary to talk about.

the feds vs states thing seems like a distinction without meaning, tbh, the federal government certainly intended the states to deal with natives as they did, and there is absolutely no shortage of crimes done by the federal government itself (treaties broken, allies backstabbed, lands taken, literal genocide, fucking DAPL)
Have you ever missed your ex?
3D video games do graphics
No, but that doesn't mean content producers have other sources of income, specially when those consuming it aren't willing to pay them.
The supply is fixed in number of blocks, not time.
That's not a reasoned argument.

More energy... greater carbon footprint... faster climate change.
Windows carved out 2GB of address space for a very long time, there's a /3GB flag that you could set at boot time to reduce that carve-out to 1GB (freeing up another 1GB of address space for applications)
> I parameterized the wheel as a twenty sided polygon with a variable radius for each vertex, ri.

Could this way of representing the problem (radius) introduce bias to the solution? It could probably make many kind of shapes, but it may need to overcome some huge local maxima in order to drastically change it to something else by tweaking multiple of the radii.

When writing my thesis on spoke patterns for bicycle wheels, one of the representations outperformed the others, as it had symmetry baked in. That could have made it not find some esoteric solutions (which is why I had multiple representations).
Thanks for the information.

I know there are other things that consume more energy, but this is indicative of Jevons' paradox. When we have the choice between efficiency and productivity we choose the second. We could be replacing 4G technology with one with the same speed but less energy consumption, but that would never make economic sense.

In my opinion resource efficiency is not an irrelevant goal but a goal contrary to this society. We must always consume more because otherwise there is no growth. Without that there is no creation of jobs and profits.

The goals of the economy are opposite to those of ecology. The first is to produce as much as possible. It is no wonder that carbon emissions have only actually been reduced when there has been an economic decline.

Now we are going to revitalise the economy with the green new deal, but if it is really efficient it will not generate profits or jobs. So it will only make the situation worse. I think 5G is another desperate measure to maintain this infinite growth in a world of finite resources.
Lmao. We should all pitch in $20 and set up a shell company to buy 1 code signing certificate to share. It would definitely pass SmartScreen if a couple hundred apps were signing with it.
Rewriting has a concave payoff. It requires high levels of certainty to be valuable. The bigger the rewrite, the more likely you're less certain than you think.

Refactoring is the same as rewriting, just on a smaller scale, which increases certainty.

Joel's advice assumes you will overestimate your certainty.
One developer who frequented a forum I moderated started pitching a fit loudly upon the introduction of Windows XP because his software all relied on the ability to just fudge with other processes' memory at runtime in order to exchange information or do I/O (on files the other process had mapped). Windows XP breaking this profane behavior was, of course, an attack on his liberty and an attempt to break his software.

Nevermind the fact that if you really want to touch another process's memory there IS a way to do it...
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I never used Smalltalk directly, but it's (weirdly) related cousin, Objective-C. My first exposure to OO was reading the Byte Magazine edition about Smalltalk (the one with the Balloon on the cover) which led me to experiment with adding OO to plain C in the late 80's (I did not have access to C++ or Objective-C at that time).
What we all want to hear is that they blasted some poor animals with radiation their whole lives and nothing happened. And that they exposed people for a few years to no ill effects.

You know kinda like they do for new medicines.
I just read your first paragraph almost verbatim from A Tour of C++[1]! What a joyful coincidence. :)

http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html
I, for one, find Thinkpads gorgeous.
WebEx and Skype are the popular alternatives. And if you want to talk about poor software quality I think Zoom was created because WebEx is such poor software from a user's perspective.
And then, that senior dev will pick a newer, better CPU, on-device bus, network topology, or your setup simply has a different scale, and hard-learned heuristic “don’t use more than x foo’s for y” or “the network is the bottleneck; use huge machines” become obsolete, and your dev will get some new battle scars.

I guess that will happen in HFT all the time, as you don’t want that blazing-fast setup, you want something even faster.
I think it takes a very long time to grow a SaaS. Think multiple years. I started 4.5 years ago and it took nearly 4 years until I felt fully comfortable. Slow growth is to be expected. My growth curve, in fact, isn't a curve at all: it's pretty much a straight line if you plot paying customers. It looks better for MRR (monthly recurring revenue, your main metric), because I've been working on raising ARPU (average revenue per user).

The "long slow saas ramp of death" is real. Google it.

You can supposedly grow faster if you do marketing well. But from what you wrote I'd guess that you do not do marketing well. My adventures with marketing came down to the following conclusions:

* Spending money on ads is basically burning money and does not work for me. (tried Google Ads, LinkedIn, Facebook ultra-targeted ads, Quora). This became painfully obvious after I implemented my own conversion tracking, because I did not trust their metrics/analytics.

* You will find plenty of marketing experts all around you, but none of them will work for a commission, which speaks to how much trust they really place in their "skills".

* Since I am a solo founder, I eventually decided that I'm OK with my organic growth and I'd rather concentrate on making the product better. This helps in building bigger product value, improves customer retention, allows me to raise the ARPU, and in general works great. I just don't get the marketing-pumped stream of new customers. But I'm OK with that, especially at this point.

That said, I think I would expect more than 8 paying customers after a year. My ramp-up in the first year was slow (the product didn't have a lot of value back then), but it was quicker. I just checked, and I had 25 paying customers after one year from the first one.
> Although the Thinkpads are long not anymore IBM products, somehow I was still hoping for the closer connection between hardware and OS know how in the form of the IBM-Red Hat relationship would trickle through.

Red Hat isn't missing any "know how". They, like any other developer, are missing publicly available data sheets to make everything work out of the box. There's nothing IBM can do to change that since they no longer manufacture PCs.
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What do you think this facial-recognition AI is trained on? To me it's just amazingly pedestrian to consider "I saw a blog post" an actual political analysis of social media.
Increasing attention available should be good regardless of how it would be used, even the worst-case scenario would be where we are now, only we get more done
Also NZ is essentially corona-free, there isn't much pressure for app based tracing as long as those in contact with people coming in from anywhere else (i.e. air and sea port workers, customs officials and the likes) get rigorously tested.
Leave it to hacker news to reinvent the wheel without making it round.
AppGet or Chocolatey are already on the system and (I think) could unblock binaries from SmartScreen. AFAIK user level programs could run with zero prompts.
To get a legal hallucinogen to market, rodents need to take the first trip
The top version of the photo is really nice. It could easily have come from a good phone camera.

The bottom version... OK, my phone can't do that. If it did, I'd take it to the Apple store to see if they could fix it.
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I would like to see how that Windows binary compiled on Linux does WMI.
The issue isn't the product itself - the issue is that the company that produces is controlled by an outwardly hostile foreign nation that has a history of carrying out state sponsored cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the west.
Rivers help lock carbon from fires into oceans for thousands of years
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Ah, so their proprietary codec has come back to bite them in the ass.

(I realize codec is not the correct term.)
It took a while for me to get what you were saying. But it is true.

They don't trust themselves. They trust government. Which is the opposite in America.

Issue of blame is more of an afterthought, once there is no choice to make.

But when things become bad, an open society is sought by people who have something to provide. Those are educated, skilled, thoughtful, serving, and maybe sacrificial and volunteering kind of people. For a society to have more people like this, it needs historical and cultural precursors so to become more "democratic" or open.
That’s an SSL certificate. Anyone who pays for that is dumb. Anyone that tries to use it for code signing is dumber.
Yes, the P series are considered mobile workstations[1].

T series = business
X series = ultraportable

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/c/LAPTOPS#view-all
FDR got things done in spite of, not because of, his party. democrats have never been particularly good at passing progressive legislation without someone in the drivers seat.
I was currently shopping around for a new Laptop, and I really like the T series ones. Unfortunately, it seems they suffer from the throttling issue, which can be mitigated by a fix from the community [1]. I think Lenovo also released a fix for some models. All in all, it's a bit hard to know which models are impacted or not, and I don't want to end up buying one and having to resort to these kind of fixes to have it working correctly.
[1]: https://github.com/erpalma/throttled
What happens when the bad actors are the police?
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That's the problem. Try denormalizing your data. Use indexes more. If you can, pre fetch & cache your data.