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> each updates has user facing features with QOL improvements

You must be joking. The meme about "stability intensifies" with Switch updates isn't just a joke. Most of their updates are minor bugfixes and "increasing stability" (fixing exploits). They're far more interested in fixing exploits than they ever were in improving the OS in any meaningful way for the user. It's been 3 years and the only major QOL change I see on that list is making the all software page not useless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
Why is Akira considered good? I watched it as an adult a few years ago and did not get the appeal. The story made little sense and appeared to have little, if any, depth. I wasn't really taken by the atmosphere or the 'feel' of it either. The graphics looked dated and not very inspiring.

Is it one of those movies that is noteworthy because it was the first to try certain things? Because it was very impressive for its time? Because people associate a sense of nostalgia with it? I would hardly recommend it today to someone looking for a good movie to watch. Some of my most favourite movies are old and some are anime, and I am a big fan of cyberpunk, so I don't think it's because of my aversion to the genre.
> New-Guid

Is shorter and easier.
No quite as bad as that, but we are a feature factory, expecting the next big contract to make it. Instead we keep on adding tons of features to an already large product with a tiny team.
> running is basically impossible for most people anywhere close to that situation

AFAIK there is no strict control on US state borders, citizens are allowed to move freely. In many cases running away is as easy as purchasing Greyhound bus ticket. It's great that you deeply care about prosecution of LGBT people in places like Middle East, but it's not really relevant to a discussion of anti discrimination laws in US.

> isn't worth much

You don't have to be big to be successful. This scenario means that you have very low barrier to enter this market and will have to spend close to nothing on advertising. But what's more important - this scenario is unrealistic. If you live in a country where it's possible to pass anti-discrimination laws - you don't need those laws, since majority of your country already finds discrimination unacceptable.
I suppose this article might be useful to Dwarf Fortress players; I'm not sure if it's minecart logic or fluid logic which is en vogue right now.
More than 600k UK workers lose their jobs amid lockdown
Adobe got Flash running on Android.

It was literally the official solution for DRM video on the platform.

It didn't have amazing performance, but it did just about play DRM video and Google didn't really get native Widevine support working for several years.

It's certainly a valid reading that Apple knew video providers couldn't stop using DRM (they were contractually required to), and therefore would have to distribute using the App Store rather than the browser to get a DRM solution that worked in the absence of Flash, and therefore Apple could attempt to extract 30% of their revenue.
My guesses:
a) Amazon.com/co.uk/etc traffic is too big even for CloudFront.
b) They don't want Amazon.com traffic to evict AWS customers' cached items out of CloudFront, the very reason customers buy CloudFront in the first place.
c) Legacy, they just didn't move from Akamai yet.
If the allegations are true, what's surprising to me is how comically incompetent the accused were at being ruthless.

I'm glad the victims weren't targeted by a more competent sociopath, or it might've been one step to being neutralized via financial ruin, death in the family, or being framed for some horrible crime.
The ability of Javascript to alter the "copy" contents is, like the ability to disable zoom, something that's nearly always used against the user and the usability and accessibility of the site. Such as appending disclaimers and copyright notices to strings.
Netgear 0-day vulnerability analysis and exploit
IIRC EFAX are affected while EFRX are not.

https://www.hwupgrade.it/immagini/wd-hdd-smr-25-04-2020.jpg
Why not just quit? You’re 100% a re-hirable asset under better management.
That’s precisely what the last clause you’re responding to says. You’re agreeing but couching it as a “but”.
Primarily because it was DRMed video and because hardware level DRM hadn't been developed yet.
Apparently not lol
Devs: The Universe is (not) deterministic. Is it a bootstrapping compiler?
Avro Arrow – The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country
"Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Pricing is based on the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity. "

From Wikipedia, first result when googling. Don't be lazy.
I'm not sure what the alternative is supposed to be. ePub is reflowable, fine, but it absolutely chokes on placing images. At least with PDF's, I get the book in a form that was designed by a human being to be read by a human being.
AstraZeneca to supply Europe with upto 400M doses of Oxford Uni's vaccine
I'm genuinely happy to be hearing that the PineBook is genuinely nice .. I'd switch to it from my MBPro in an instant, if I could. Maybe I will, soon.

My intention was not to slag off Pines' efforts. Its just, once you see a generation raised on iThings and pocketRobots, trying to get them interested in the hacky nature of Pine, as a platform, is an interesting task.

I think the point is that it has to excel over the iPhone/Android/laptop classes in some, significant, manner, or else it just gets sniffed at. This is an important thing to recognise in the quest for platform adoption.

That isn't to say that PineDevices are not productive, more useful. They clearly are, and the fact of their quality competitiveness is refreshing. The PineTime watch is actually quite a cute thing to wear. I love being able to write python code on it, but its also comfortable hardware.

But as a platform, it will need the right attitude regarding the open nature of things. This takes a responsibility not common in most adopters of technological tools these days - and with each generational release from the tethers of last years consumer toy, the task becomes harder... or lets just say, more interesting for some of the hackers who want to make great leaps in a new arena.

Someone will write the killer PineDevice app, which won't work anywhere else ..
GoDaddy: Expired CRLs
No, because the primary use case was where the video was encrypted and you would have to unencrypt it to pass to the hardware acceleration.

This broadly went away when graphics cards started integrating PlayReady in the chipset, though we did eventually power through it for software encrypted video like EME protected videos in Chrome for Windows.
There's an easy way to fix the Web RTC Leak issue network wide: Use a VPN on your Router so your network clients literally don't know their "real" ip and therefore can't leak it. Same thing works for TOR. In my experience OpenWRT and an Wireguard VPN Provider works best
That last sentence sums up the sad state of hiring in the industry well.
One unintended consequence of Covid19 related lockdown/work from home has been less commute and more hours to sleep.

This is the most regular/high quality sleep i've had in years and I'm only now seeing how badly my normal sleep habits have been effecting me. Experimenting with any non-monophasic sleep pattern sounds exhausting and I'm afraid could have serious health impacts...would love to see the science/literature evolve to a point of consensus though.
Just a datapoint: I (And lots of other people) could readily build and maintain a team of software engineers for $109-$134k salary in the Midwest that would be fully competent in achieving anything the irs needed.
Miyazaki was not involved in Grave of the Fireflies. It was written and directed by Isao Takahata.
Maybe don’t watch videos on tails for a while...
Shameful, honestly.
I made one for fun (and as a QA exercise for my GF): https://aloisdegouvello.gitlab.io/guid/ GUID as a service. What a time to be alive :)
Own the 2020s: Visualize the time you save by giving up a habit in 2020
I don't actually know the reason. I'll see if I can find out and whether it's appropriate to share. It's possible that it's a redundancy thing (have multiple providers so we stay up if one goes down), a performance thing, or it could be a features thing. I don't know.

I will note that what Akamai is trying to do: serve static content extremely quickly from locations close to all customers, is a bit different from what the typical AWS services and AWS region are trying to do. Akamai probably wants to cache identical content all over the world, in boxes that I would expect to be present within the network of many different ISPs (just like Netflix does to serve its video [1]).

In Oct 2019, CloudFront announced that they had 200 different points of presence (POPS) around the globe [2]. I don't know exactly how to compare Akamai to CloudFront, but Akamai claims to have POPs in over 130 countries and in 1,700 networks [3]. Akamai was founded only four years after Amazon and has been focused on content distribution since then. Just like a company can't snap their fingers and have Amazon's retail logistics presence, AWS can't snap its fingers and have CloudFront POPs in every country/network/ISP where Amazon Retail needs good performance. The answer may be that they're still catching up.

I'm completely I'm speculating though, and don't have any knowledge about this beyond the public research that I linked to.

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/200-amazon-cloudfront-point...

[3] https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/me...
"purely academic" is not an insult. I think it a statement of fact of where running Linux on iPhone is right now. Aluminium–air battery may change the world but right now they are also "purely academic", as Lithium-Ion once was.

Do you honestly believe the average consumer, or even the average enthusiastic is going to be running Linux on the latest iPhones anytime soon? Apple is dedicated to locking iOS, and probably MacOS, more every hardware iteration. And by running anytime soon I mean usable LTE, GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi.
In C++ and Rust, there's a single vtable per class (trait), not per object.

(This is basically why Rust doesn't support multi-trait types (e.g. &dyn Debug + Clone)
1) "very difficult to extricate costs of server farms that support the retail operation from server farms that host client services from overall operating costs."

Not only is not not hard to do, they are almost assuredly already doing it.

2) It matters a lot, and the article does not miss the point.

As for 1 - AWS Retail is a 'customer account', and they can track and measure the services used.

They have to do this because that's how 'management accounting' works. 'Accounting' is not just a 'GATT' thing, it's also for measuring how profitable units and businesses are. AWS services used by a product will be charged not only to AWS services but even internally to a product account at Amazon Retail.

As for 2 - it matters a lot because Amazon is dumping on Amazon retail, which may be an anti-competitive practice.

Not only does AWS show x% contribution to profit, but it's also probably much worse: Amazon Retail may be significantly in the red after 25 years of operation, subsidized by AWS.

Given Amazon's size and leverage in retail, it's definitely time to look at breaking them up in order to separate the two businesses.

In normal times, this would be 'good for America' for obvious reasons. But in a 'big global economic fight' - it might be better from a nationalist perspective to let it go on at AWS, G, Oracle, MS etc.

Has anyone noticed all the big, fat successful cloud players are only ever built by companies with zillions to spare? Implying that this is huge competitive advantage of America vis-a-vis other nations (and continents) who can't hope to compete without government intervention.

AWS/Amazon Retail is an anomalous cojoining of businesses, which is fine, but it probably needs to be looked at along with the overlapping of the other cloud providers and their main businesses.
This article about master keys, which also features the MasterCard [tm] logo, is written by the same journalist who called skeptics "detractors" in the git master affair.
If the CT-scan of your lungs looks like a cat, your problems are worse than Covid-19.
EU opens investigations into Apple's App Store rules
US states share significant amounts of culture, including attitudes towards minority groups, and moving between them doesn't make as much difference as you'd expect if they did not.

The majority of a country finding discrimination unacceptable isn't necessary to pass anti-discrimination laws - just that most people don't care whether someone gets discriminated against or not. If you don't care (or need the job to survive yourself), you'll do whatever your boss tells you to do, and you're hardly going to boycott a store for discriminating against someone else, which means a subset of the population has disproportionate impact.
Who really killed flash, was Steve Jobs with his decision that flash gets kicked out of the IPad.

Adobes evangelists really started running in circles after that.

And adobe itself made one stupid management decision after the other. And after they realised they will not get back on the ipads, they abondoned flash.

And this, after AIR ((flash for desktop) and Flex (UI Libary) were on its way to become established. Flex was really powerful. I would have loved to still use it, with a open-source flashplayer as its base. But adobe could not get themself waging to do that, so they just let it die.
Google's suite requests the use of a a plugin helper for anything serious.
Google open-sources its real-time Google Maps data
That's not the main pitch, that's the standard dynamic cloud/container hosting claim, this is their pitch:

"Software is eating the world. Unfortunately, most businesses still can't deliver software successfully, much less do so at the pace needed to stay competitive. For those who wish to keep up, let alone lead, software delivery & operation must be radically simplified."
Interestingly, when I search for Akira on Google, Google remarks that people also search for "Why is Akira so popular?", and links to this site:

https://filmschoolrejects.com/akira-influence-12cb6d84c0bc/
As I am disappointed by the callousness of these changes and how little they achieve. Words matter and terminology matters.

My main problem with these changes is that they seem to be done with the intention of virtue signaling by a bunch of white dudes.

Fail to consider:
- 90% of the world doesn't share the US experience or baggage with the terminology
- Changing standard terminology breaks communication standards, tutorials, and ubiquitous language we use to communicate in our profession.

Finally, this sets a precedent and can and will devolve wasting time, development efforts and making things worse without creating any meaningful positive change.

The other trend going on right now is dropping `master` from use on git repositories, when in reality `master` in that context has nothing to do with race.

Where do we stop? Should we start going after universities for using the term master's degree?

Do we need to boycott the World Chess Championship since chess is inherently racist; after all White moves first!!!

I'm all from inclusivity, for making people feel welcomed, and for us to build a better society; I just don't agree this is how we do it.
No, the problem is artificially adjusting admission criteria based on the race of the applicants to achieve "correct" race distribution on the campus.
Jio Platforms raises nearly $14b in 2 months
The PG dev community puts data correctness above all else. It is a good, strong opinion to have for database software but it does slow down feature development. The most requested feature for years was UPSERT but it wasn't implemented until 9.4 because they couldn't figure out how to do it without any gotchas until then.
I don't agree with the idea that one can "optimize" for the GRE without knowing anything relevant to the field the GRE is in.

I did not optimize for the GRE, I did not prep for it, I did not look at a study guide for it, I simply went and took the test cold. The questions were on material one would expect to cover in basic engineering and science courses.

I don't buy the notion that anyone who does well on the GRE is doing it with tricks and fake/useless knowledge and/or cheated.
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> This is absolutely false. It was not fine, much less "perfectly fine".

TBF, not much did. Android was pretty rough until v4.

When Flash was deprecated for Android the official advice from Google was to send an HLS stream instead, but those caused some variants of the Galaxy S3 (the biggest selling handset at the time) to hard lock and the user would have to pull the battery.

Let's not pretend that early instability was all Flash's fault.
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Vue3 TypeScript Starter App
A webpack configuration and example application for Vue3 with Typescript, Router, simple global state (no Vuex) and some neat build time features.
I hope this gets to whoever was in the room when Charlie Rose's show [1] switched thousands of hours of content over to Flash back when it probably seemed like a good idea - a window of perhaps a year or two as Real player faded out and video streaming over the top was finally a little stable if your link was over 2-300kbps.

I was pissed when they switched to Flash but whatever you think of the tech, or Charlie for that matter, it would be a crying shame to loose so much content. He interviewed everyone who was anyone during some eventful times. That site is part of the rough first draft of history.

[1] https://charlierose.com/
To be fair Crysis ran terribly on the latest hardware when it was released and is still used as a benchmark.
According the the article, they want to move from a local environment using assembler to Java, which apparently gives them a direction for network access, including web.
You are switching from a technical to a non-technical job.
your job role and responsibility will be fully changed. communication skills(Kindness, Politeness, Empathy) will play a key role here. But as you are from a technical background this is a plus point with you.
Downsides:

Mechanical wear, leaks, difficulty to put a pressure probe at various points in the circuit, slow speed, size, complicated 3d geometry, need for compressed air, audible noise, ...
US Air Force Gives Blockchain Firm $1.5M to Build Supply Chain Network
"Amazon's retail business is going to completely dwarf AWS in the long term"

It will in revenues but not in profits.

Right now, Wallmart, Exxon, GM etc. 'dwarf' most tech businesses in terms of revenues and the size of their businesses, but the profits are smaller, so tech companies have a higher valuation.
Next Target, chess!

An Inherently racist game were White fights against Black, and where the White privilege is clearly documented as White gets to move first.
"No. Flash was too resource intensive to work on any mobile devices"

No, flash in itself was quite efficient. But many flash games were just badly programmed.
(as the IDE made game making easy, even for very beginner programmers)
I mean, they are a pick and shovel play. They don't make drugs? Plus, sequencing is great but it's getting saturated. Plus, ideas like direct sequencing using nanopores and chemical modification of nucleic acid to make the nanopore signal stronger may disrupt.
Mining Pools Distribute $2.4M Transaction Fee After Flood of Refund Claims
The word "proves" in that maxim means "tests", in much the same way that bulletproof armour once meant that the actual armour in question had withstood a bullet (and you could see the dent) or that the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Source code of Germany’s official covid-19 contact tracing app
It is important to what we love to do, it gives you job satisfaction and would also help in boosting mental health. many people earn a lost of fame and money, but there are chances that they are actually not satisfied. Most of the people get depressed soon these days, so not only physical strength but mental health would also contribute to work. so make sure that you choose what you love to do instead of boring monotonous jobs. Interesting job would give you better salaries as we work with our hart and soul to work for it.
Usage information in response headers, me like :)
> If some other OS code occupied that position it was clobbered.

why bother with embrace, extend, extinguish if you can just skip to extinguish? :)
Maccy has served me very well. Open source too!

https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy
They don't make drugs, so more of a pick and shovel play. More like ARM, Segate, WD, Micron?
And for those who stayed on the 4.1.0 fuseset (or certain versions below that) there are warmboot exploits available. So those who are able to "normally" boot those firmwares do not need to use AutoRCM (or an RCM-"jig") to access RCM anymore.
>Is heightened clickbait and outrage porn Facebook's fault

That's not the same, and NO they are not 'socially responsible' you know how many times that happened at NYSE?

Look it's easy, don't work/play with money you cannot effort to loose, never think more than 10% profit is normal because your a genius, and never ever listen to others.
> ePub is reflowable, fine, but it absolutely chokes on placing images.

To be honest, ePub is based on HTML5 markup.

So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website.
> Pressing the brake pedal always applies the friction brakes only

Really? That seems odd, since even my Nissan Leaf increases regen with the initial application of the brake pedal.
Japan's all-male boards face rejection by foreign investors
That's weird. I'm on Linux but enabled privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config, which sets the user agent to a standard Windows one (same as Tor Browser iirc) and also brings over a bunch of other Tor Browser features. Only downside is it reduces timer precision which makes some games lag, so occasionally I have to turn it off for a bit.
So are you saying that the article is just written by "non-visonaries" who dont know what they are talking about? The old "If I had asked my customers for what they want, they would have said a faster horse"
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> The story made little sense and appeared to have little, if any, depth.

I felt similarly the first time I watched it, but I walked out feeling confused rather than feeling like the film lacks depth. IMO a large portion of the film is spent exploring the notion of power than one can't control. In fact, we can split the different characters of the film into those who are corrupted by this path (the scientist who clearly wants to see Akira's power blossom, the military lead who wants it controlled for public safety/the military, Tetsuo who is always trying to take on more responsibility and leadership then he can. Only character's like Kaneda, who don't submit themselves to their own desires for power, seem to faire well in the world around them .. but that's just my two cents.

> The graphics looked dated and not very inspiring.

I can't disagree with this more. This film came out in 1988, and nothing else even came close in terms of its visual effects for an animated film. I'm sure at the time people couldn't believe what they were watching, it must have seemed really alien.

I'm honestly surprised that you think it looks dated. Even today, animes I've seen (although granted that isn't many) don't achieve the same level of beauty in their animation of light. You can see examples throughout this link to jog your memory if it's been a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf0WjeE6eyM