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> copy and pasting random pieces of XML from the internet

Also, I don't see that this is a big deal when dealing with a declarative paradigm. In fact, cutting and pasting random bits of declarative code makes a lot of sense to me. You don't need to understand how it's doing what it's doing, only that it will.

I have yet to discover a situation where some custom thing I needed couldn't be handled with the Exec Plugin or a custom plugin, which are easy to write. The truth is that these uber-custom things are actually pretty rare if you stick to conventions.
In theory you can open source software by throwing code over the wall with total disregard for anyone else that may be looking at or using that code. Zero overhead, right?

In practice that doesn't actually work because some users will not respect the boundaries you lay out. No matter what you do or say, some significant subset of users will assert or assume the act of open sourcing code places a litany of obligations on the people releasing the code. Furthermore, some of these people will go to great lengths to try to get you to comply with these obligations. At which point you are either doing a lot of extra work you were not planning on doing to make these people happy or you are dealing with a lot of extra and unnecessary personal drama. Either way, it costs you time and energy that you have to account for.

The only way I have ever seen anyone explicitly avoid this overhead was when no one was using their code.
I don't really understand what the point of EVC is. From my understanding it's really two standards, one royalty-free that's slightly worse than HEVC/H.265, and one patent-encumbered/licensed that's slightly better than H.265.

The post here says "EVC is promising because it provides a quality that is comparable with or better than AV1, although less than VVC. EVC may have a chance if a licence will be published. However, this has not happened yet." I can only assume, from those numbers above, that "comparable with or better than AV1" applies only to the encumbered/enhanced variant.

It's hard to see why anyone would bother to implement the "base" standard vs. the already widely-deployed AVC/H.264, nor the "enhanced" one which seems to be roughly comparable to AV1 but with licensing costs attached (and as the post points out, no certainty at all about what that licensing would actually entail). Apart from those companies that hold the relevant patents, of course.
Yeah, I guess a better word is "statusbar" or "workspace bar". It just displays the currently selected workspaces, the current window's title, and dwmstatus. The point is that it doesn't try to manage buttons and icons for minimize/maximize/multiple-stacked window types etc, like a traditional window manager
That link is incorrect.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1070
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Statistically it’s not even close. Even in really dangerous cities like Chicago or New Orleans, they pale in comparison to how many people are dying in Syria or even in places like San Salvador — and even San Salvador isn’t that bad.
Hope they allow users to access documentation for past versions of nomad. Currently there is no easy way to find if particular configuration option mentioned in the documentation is available for not.
Lol... you got off easy! Many buyers will claim that you shipped them a brick and get a full refund leaving you with no item and no money!

I rarely sell on eBay but I demand that people have 100 feedback, no negatives, and more than 10 years on eBay. Probably costs me some money on the prices but I’ve never had a problem.
Yeah, (generally) we got lazy for sure.
Regulators explore how to hinder Google's dominance in latest antitrust probe
Am I reading it right ? The text says:
> But there is a big news: MPEG passed away on 2020/06/02T16:30 CEST.
Does that really mean MPEG is no more ? Or is it hyperbole about something that happened 2nd of june ?
This would be huge (and really sad).
what is this, reddit? come on
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> However, Eich is very sorry that Brave got caught — again — and something will be changed in some manner to stop this behaviour, or at least obscure it.

No surprise there.

> There is no good reason to use Brave. Use Chromium — the open-source core of Chrome — with the uBlock Origin ad blocker [...] or use Firefox with uBlock Origin — ‘cos it blocks more ads than the Chromium framework will let anything block.

Is this true? I assumed the functionality would be the same.
Nothing personal against you, but I think you're going off misleading information. It's not helpful to say "I'm afraid [blah] might happen" when [blah] is simply not happening in any real way, as much as plugging a kitchen appliance into an electrical socket might cause it to explode.

If you do a bit more research, you'll find the problem is basically gone, and you're talking about a very specific situation that required multiple manufacturer errors.
I definitely have encountered this. One was even a device intended for development via USB. For some strange reason, the USB-C cable shipped with the product only supported power, requiring the customer to buy another cable for data transfer.
definitely a need for a site like StockX to authenticate items before it reaches buyer
But how do you charge an iPad using an iPhone?
Not to forget the surveillance stingrays. They (and dragnet data fishing) become useless with rotating device identifiers.
Visa has an opt-out for some of the data sharing: https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do
I know many Americans won't (want to) see it that way, but yeah, that's precisely what we did. What you see in the US is not effective, it is however very old-testament. I guess it makes at least some feel better, fighting fire with fire.
Have constantly struggled over how to deal with this problem. The biggest need for enums has been function arguments which can be one of a few values.

In the end, the Literal class from the typing library seems like the simplest, least wordy solution. Pycharm and mypy capture any mistakes you make which seem more than sufficient for my use cases.
>Second, real Enums added as a language-feature along with type-hinting are almost 100% on-par with statically typed languages

This is conclusive proof that you're not actually aware of the capabilities of enums and sum types in "statically typed languages". Where's pattern matching? Exhaustivity checking? Sum types? GADTs?
eh, USB-C is a mess, but it's got a messy problem.

I've found it to be a solid improvement. I would still be delighted to swap my thicket of USB cables, and a bizarre assortment of sockets over the past fifteen years, for a world of USB-A and USB-C.
> Color coding? Yup. Colors. A human must be able to visually determine what specs a cable matches and doesn't match.

Shapes (of, e.g., logos) are much better than colors as a universal label for this, though colors as an additional market are fine. Colors alone are a problem because of common defects of color perception.
I've always wanted to do this, but it only really works if you have a typeset handwriting style. Regular handwriting has too many "ligatures".

For example consider just "vo" vs "io". The end of "v" ends horizontally near the top. "i" end at the bottom. So the line that starts "o" has to begin at different positions.

Most fonts solve this by starting a discontinuous "o" always at the bottom. But this looks ugly.

And that's jut two letter combinations...
Yes, and after sybperl, DBD::Sybase/DBI became all the rage in the late 90s. The IBM patent is obsceleted at this point, though I still try to see how many lines of code I need to do same thing with perl/sybperl/dbi on other platforms using other languages such scala/mysql.
Ironically, just before usb-c started taking over, all of my devices used the same cable for charging. Headphones, walkie talkies, portable batteries, headlight for my bike, Kindles, and my phones. All used the same cable. Was nice.

Now, our phones and switches user usb-c. Everything else is still the older cables.
This post is so "inside baseball" that it's difficult to discern what his point or goal is?
Only at the scale of the big tech companies do the machine costs start to seriously stack up against the labor costs. (Well, also smaller machine learning shops, but they are in trouble anyways.) And I don't think they fsce enough competitive pressure to be forced to take the massive foundational and educational investments they would need to pull this off.

It won't happen with this generation of the industry.
I think that'd be a bit challenging because Config Connector is highly opinionated, for example, Kubernetes Namespace corresponds to GCP project. Though it might be enabled to be used as part of a Composition when we support namespaced CRs to be used as composition member.
FAANG engineers are the highest paid 10% of software engineers in California.
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AFAIK the keyboard was also just very cheap and a pain to type on.
Nope! I routinely run Firefox and Chromium, both with uBO on default settings - and Google results on Chromium always have three ad-link results inserted at the top, lazy late-loading via JavaScript. Google know what they're doing there.
I presume it means you can require royalties from anyone who wishes to implement them. If you build a DVD player, you pay someone a royalty for those IPs, if you build a BluRay player, it's the same.

Having the "standard" means having the lion's share of the market, which means more money.
Just to clarify, are you talking about a usb-c to usb-a cable, or a usb-c to usb-c cable? I think the usb-c to usb-a cables are just temporary while we get to usb-c everything, and so are not implemented that well. With usb-c to usb-c cables, I've never had a problem with power or charging.
> before it's fixed

Given that it was intentional, what makes you think it'll be "fixed"?
No. Don't be ridiculous.

The Cartels import weapons by the container load, and not from the US. And that's not including the ones they steal or just appropriate from their own government.
They seem to have explicit deals with Binance and Coinbase - don't know about Ledger or Trezor.
Gang crime is only one small piece of why the police in the US are the way they are.

It's not hard to find stories about police brutality and police corruption in areas far from any gang activity (small towns in the midwest, for instance). You can also find stories about police departments in similarly small towns that have been able to obtain serious military-grade equipment that they definitely don't need.

And even separate from all that, you have things like civil asset forfeiture, where the police think it's totally reasonable and OK to just steal people's stuff, without the people being even suspected of any crime, and the law (in many places) allows it.

This is all part of a culture that tells cops they are above the law, they have the power, and everyone else just needs to bow down and accept that.

Then you combine that with the serious, organized efforts white supremacist groups have gone to over the years to essentially take control of the police force...

Yeah, the biggest "gang crime problem" here is the gang in blue.
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Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun
Maybe they should find a way to generate electricity from the bridge, it sees plenty of wind practically every single day for the same reason the SF bay is great for sailing.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9444372B2/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_Bladeless
Good point. Maybe brave should make affiliate-able links blink and/or respond to clicks in a wider area? (Just to be clear: this is satire. Please don't do this.)
One issue is that in almost every other country, handgun ownership is much more restricted. A police officer is much less likely to be surprised by someone pulling out a hunting rifle or shotgun. You can't just carry one of those around in your glove compartment or in a concealed holster.
Yeah, micro USB was okay for that for lower power devices. The major two flaws were that it couldn’t handle bigger stuff like laptops, and the cable end itself was prone to failure (I’ve had way fewer problems with USB-C cables failing).
If you go to a sufficiently high precision, neurons and their communication are discrete - the number of neurotransmitter molecules and ions transferred across any synapse is countable, so the number of states (even if we ignore noise and noise tolerance, which we shouldn't ignore) is finite.
Algotrading options. Some initial investment is needed in order to open margin account, but otherwise it's basically passive income.
yeah a 2d logo on the connector or a cable pattern is better, good call.
I'd assume that the engineers would have performed some form of stress tests for these installations that were actually meant to afford wind resistance and that the noise should have been noticed. Does anyone know how these conditions are tested in a simulated large structural engineering lab?
Same thing happened with me and getting a full spectrum light for a windowless office. I left the job not too long after due to an abusive manager. Certainly wasted political clout on the push for health.
USB-C is a great system. Power delivery is incredible and works really well.

Having different capabilities in host, device, and cable is, of course, completely natural. I wouldn't want all my cables to be thick and expensive thunderbolt cables.
....6 years of NixOS, and I kinda forgot remember that elsewhere unprivilaged users and admins can't manage packages the same way.
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I'm going to have to switch browser AGAIN? Dammit.

Is Opera safe or what shady shit have they done? I haven't used Opera since Opera back in 2006. God I miss the Presto engine and dragonfly.

Can I go back to them or they doing shady stuff?
I mean, it's even simpler than all this. Talking about the money is what complicates it. "I don't like what this company does, so I don't want to be part of it." Pretty simple.

Either "...I don't want to be part of it, despite how much they pay me" or "...I don't want to be part of it, but I know I'll be okay" are both complicating the issue.

Be a Zen master. Strive for directness, simplicity. Don't fight yourself.
I've been wanting to do this for a while. What trading platform do you use and do they have a good API?
> I might burn my phone if the voltage is higher than required

Very unlikely. The standard might be a mess but the device signals what voltage it needs and the charger delivers. You don't need to live in fear that plugging you phone charger into your laptop is going to destroy it.

Your Switch can be charged by any of your USB-C chargers. The only issue is docking, it is not related to USB-C charging.
The tooling infrastructure of code development itself needs to be optimized (not necessarily in speed terms) to provide coders with the information & tools necessary to write faster code. It seems like IDE's are currently optimized to facilitate rapid code development, but not development of rapid code.
It is spelled fiancée if that's a she.
The Firefox version has the ability to block third party scripts masked as first party ones through the use of CNAMEs. Chrome doesn't expose APIs to let extensions do it.
It means you can force people who actually develops products to pay you money for using your totally novel and not at all vague idea that you wrote down on a piece of paper 15 years ago that is so unimaginably revolutionary that nobody else could ever come up with something remotely similar.
I was always jealous of the stories about programmers in the 80s who wrote games in insanely small amounts of RAM. I kind of want that same kind of challenge needed to be overcome in my lifetime.
This looked initially like a cool idea, then I realized that to trade with someone you have to have a mutual credit line with them, or through someone who already has a credit line. How is this any different than the current model, where the bank/government/central money issuer is our mutual credit line and why wouldn't this model eventually end up with banker-type people managing the credit for everyone? You could go now to a bakery and ask for mutual credit, the problem is they would prefer the safest route, which is credit through the current monetary system. How is Offset protecting against the same thing happening? Am I missing something?
> They also created their own init system Upstart, only to replace it with systemd later. They have their own source control system, Bazaar... their management has some serious NIH problems.

Citing these as a case of NIH is inaccurate -- Upstart and Bazaar predate Systemd and Git, respectively.

It's fairer to say that Canonical's technology, for whatever reason, often doesn't seem to catch on with the broader FOSS community.
I have a Nintendo Switch (2nd gen). It can charge from its own charger, the Pixel 3a charger with Pixel 3a USB-C cable, and the 3x USB A wall-wart from IKEA with the IKEA USB-A to USB-C cable.

The Switch charger works fine with a DJI Ronin S and the Pixel 3a.

Don't have any experience with laptop USB-C yet as I'm holding on to my 2015 MBP until its last breath...

As for the Switch itself, the most annoying thing is that it requires an active HDMI adapter chip (there are a couple working ones on Amazon that use the same chipset as the official dock) instead of supporting HDMI/DP alternate mode.
So much this. I've tried multiple times to grok it and it just slid straight back out of my brain leaving me with the same puddle of syntax soup I started with. I've never encountered anything else even close to this bad.

Not to mention that build config is probably the absolute last place you want a weird unreadable language nobody knows, because it tends to be touched so rarely that nobody builds up any familiarity with it.
You need to install some filters then! I have all the top featured ones installed and haven't seen a single advertisement on Google (which I only use <20% of the time, DDG gets the rest).
Sure, it depends on what but if you rent a nice condo in the south starting from taguig and going down it is nice.

Bonifacio Global City is a great starting place, 25,000 pesos should get you a one bedroom.

Then On the highway south, Alabang, Las Pinas, and such easy enough.

I love Manila because of the ease of networking, making friends and then the raw nature, hiking once you're out of Manila itself into the northern provinces.

It's really a LCOL city, if you know how to handle yourself and minimize on electronics purchase - some big purchases I would suggest a flight to HK which was as inexpensive as $1000 round trip.

You can purchase a car in Manila/NCR area for about $3000 USD/150K pesos, they're low mileage for older examples and you should know how to work on a car for best value (I got an older CR-V that I'm not worried about the resale value at all vs a new car which can't go offroad at all.)

Most Filipinos don't know their own history or travel out of NCR (from NCR of coure) so I always enjoy trips where I can agument USA history to PH history, though it's always fun to learn something new - but it's great to see all the quotes of "those who don't know history end up repeating it" and general ignorance because... the country is ripe for opportunity but the overall level of ignorance is extreme and you can make parallels easily to USA and other parts of the world. It really reshaped my way of thinking.

So that's why I enjoy it. Easy of connectivity to locals, easy to do arbitrage of retail products once you hang the hang of things and low out of pocket and more emphasis on your conversational skills to get things done - so self reliance.
>>You are defending why phone numbers are useful, but are completely choosing to ignore the point I am making about the tradeoff of who you trust.

You're swiftly jumping to conclusions on a comment that only describes a point of view. Not my own perception of how the trust model should be established and the capabilities current messaging services provide.

>>... but, being able to join some large group chat with a ton of strangers to talk about some open source project or whatever you are doing without any of those people now knowing your phone number--an identifier which is tied to a large number of "real world" concerns and is ridiculously difficult to change--is actually extremely valuable.

As someone who suffered harassment by getting the p/n exposed at Whatsapp and being followed by the same person almost everywhere where's it serves as an id (Signal, Telegram) i wholly share your concerns. But it's a privacy matter that almost none of the current messaging platforms really offers bundled with solid UX and data transparency.

What am i trying to convey by how i comprehend Moxie's rhetoric is that Signal tries to be a Whatsapp alternative (given the latter really can access messages in a group conversation when a participant reports contact) by not harvesting the user data (cheers Telegram) and providing little bit more control over the conversation on both ends (self destructing messages). Signal has bigger focus on security right now however the use case is to be accessible to a wider audience. From that point of view Signal really stands out. And it helps me personally to, sort of, separate communication spaces.

>>Honestly, even if you aren't quite in those sets, the trade off still isn't an obvious win for Signal. As an example, let's say you are in a group of people talking about a protest.

Look, if you propose Signal needs to accommodate guerillas, rioters and protesters organize and act with impunity it's a privacy issue and Signal isn't serving this purpose.
And for specialized products, you want a range of testers from "this is my first day working with this" up through "I send you bug reports so often your helpdesk knows my name."
bit overblown. It's not all "links", they did the redirect for the autocomplete of "binance.us" and they are correcting it.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201
https://nypost.com/2013/12/01/book-excerpt-how-america-gave-...
I'm surprised people are surprised by this. Brave have said from the beginning that this is how their business model works. What I'm even more surprised about is that Brave has gotten any traction at all, as there is really no reason to use it instead of a normal browser with regular ad blockers.
Feels similar to the distinction between accurate and precise
Apt is great as long as what you want is available in the repo. Over the years I have had a few issues though.

Often apt's versions trail behind the newest versions. There are some good reasons for this, but it can get in the way sometimes.

I have had to ad a lot of PPAs to get some of the software I wanted. The Aurora channel PPA for Firefox stopped getting updates at one point (they discontinued it), and I didn't realize until a few versions later. I don't think any of these package managers have that problem figured out, but PPAs are commonly maintained by third party community/unofficial folks. I had the same problems with Arch's AUR.

I believe it's fixed now, but for a long time Steam required a lot of 32 bit libraries, which meant two versions of several dependencies were installed on my machine.

Additionally we were using an older version of Ruby at work which required OpenSSL1.0 for certain libraries, and a Ruby upgrade (from an old version to a less old version) broke my development environment.

Not that the others are perfect. Just for example the Spotify snap package from the software center doesn't even work. The Deb had problems on my machine which I couldn't resolve. I finally installed Flatpak to get a working version.