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> You are indeed stuck on 8.1. Android devices all seem to have this problem because Google can't figure out how to let users control the OS, unlike what every other OS developer (even GNU/Linux) has done.

This has little to do with Google.

One major issue is carriers. Many demanded that they have control over the OS: "certifying" every new major version for every handset, and then installing their own apps. Google needed carriers to push Android, so they allowed these agreements to persist.

On the hardware support side, that's an issue with drivers. Google could and should set standards for drivers, which is a lesson Microsoft learned the hard way with Windows. Finally, Microsoft did set those standards for Vista, and they were rewarded with an explosion of hatred over bad drivers that they didn't write and didn't want to spend money supporting anymore.

At this point, it's mostly up to manufacturers to keep drivers updated. If they won't, then there are communities like LineageOS who try (and sometimes succeed quite well).
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I’m gonna go with this is a feature not a bug
Your tone is condescending and childish. If people want to preserve their anonymity to consume what is basically a public announcement, that's certainly reasonable.
> warning and leaving up

That will work for some time, but eventually there will be posts that will be so egregious that they'll be pressured to delete/hide them.
I found it confusing from the perspective of a beginner and had a feeling of discontentment as an intermediate. Though some topics were elaborately expounded but some were vague or confusing.
The good news is the it's already too late to fix climate change.

The positive feedback loops are all running, and they won't stop until either the earth exhausts all of it's captured greenhouse gases, or something big happens like the eruption of a super volcano or a large meteor strike.
Who in physics works in imperial? Research is solidly metric in the US.

The mars orbiter loss was due to a failure to perform the necessary checks etc to make sure the mission was on track. Continue reading the section about the failure report. The discrepancy had been noted by humans and had been brought up, but the concerns were ignored because they failed to fill out the correct paperwork, and NASA takes responsibility for the loss, and does not blame lockheed.
Crytek v. Cig, which the court ruled largely in favor of Cig, and even called out Crytek's behavior (which was an absolute circus). Crytek will prosecute given even the most questionable grounds.

The consequences of taint are a very real risk here.
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I like the interface! Nothing flashy, everything is straightforward and easy to find. The only change I’d make would be putting the maps on the same page as the boat control.
Regardless of whether people agree with that decision or not, it is not the same as what is being talked about in the article. The article talks about mob justice rapidly impacting peoples' lives even though everything they did would be seen as extremely reasonable.

In the case of Mozilla, he wasn't only accused of supporting gay marriage, he donated money to groups whose goals were to get people to vote against gay marriage. There weren't actions taken due to misunderstandings as far as I know.

Also I think strong opposition to him as a CEO came from the employees, not outside partners cutting ties to avoid being associated.
I would love to try trading as a hobby with a little side money, but I would abhor a hobby that reduces to effectively buying the trader-feel-good experience, where you're essentially sponsoring incumbents as a fanboy chipping in his pocket money.

What I would require from a trading platform:

1) decentralized and permissionless
2) provably fair trading

With 'provably fair trading' I mean the protocol should be such that I can prove you are not simply held captive by an intermediary, regardless in what shape or form. It should also be fair with respect to latency.

For example consider a trading market where token X can be exchanged for token Y and vice versa. Each holder of X demands her minimum of Y per X, and each holder of Y demands his minimum of X per Y. What if everyone salty hashed their demands, and pays the market contract (proportional to how much they will actually be allowed to trade) to register their salted hash. When the round has closed, people reveal their salt and plaintext, and the incompatible trading offers get their money back (minus a usage fee perhaps). The compatible ones can have their trades go through at the rate of 'total compatible X offered' to 'total compatible Y offered' (or some variation thereof, say rewarding those that helped close the gap). In this way there is no high frequency trading, and you could have a family of such markets operating at different timescales...
The punishment befits the situation. There's a profound difference between a normal worker supporting anti-gay-marriage causes with a donation and the CEO doing the same thing, since the CEO is near the top of the org chart and a large number of employees are under his org tree. The CEO's views reflect poorly on the organization and hiring practices to a more significant extent than any normal non-management worker
> And didn't have any or much experience with old school HTML

A good heuristic for how good a web developer is is getting them to list every HTML element they know, including the deprecated ones like <marquee>. You would be surprised just how little elements they know, and more importantly, the semantic value of the elements. For example, knowing when to use <span> instead of <div>
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80% of that area covered is not in Russia btw.
It falls more in the category of having a lot bugs which could've been caught if they used static code analysis, code review, etc...

I understand that you might think that messy could mean it's fine tuned for performance. In this case, I highly doubt it and think it's more reasonable to think it's messy because they had deadlines.

The messy part isn't about performance optimizations. It's more about things that got crammed in there and only works for a very specific subset of parameters. And even then you can't be sure it'll work...

I don't blame the programmers, it feels they had deadlines to uphold from managment.
Or at least demand that if natural gas wants to pitch itself as a lower greenhouse gas alternative to coal, it better fix up the leaks.
I'd be happy to do that.
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You'd better read the book first before making such statements.
One evening, I deleted my Reddit account when I realized I was angry responding to some insignificant comment.

I also realized that the hundred thousands points I had mean exactly nothing.

It was a relief beyond what I expected.

I created a new account for the only sake to ask questions on the tech subreds which are of interest. I do not read r/all and other similar trash subreds
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Is encyclopedic knowledge of something that can be searched online a good heuristic for skill? I thought the community agreed this was not a good thing when it came to fizz-buzz type software interviews.

IMO in frontend world there are two important things: knowing how to search, and knowing how to determine which search results are useful as opposed to some Medium/blogpost fluff piece that is varying degrees of misinformed.
Sounds like going to war and accepting civilian casualties. Surely we can do better than that.
If you like slow paced movies I would recommend checking out his (Tarkovsky) other works. Ingmar Bergman and Bela Tarr also come to mind. They are definitely slow and pretty far from being literal too.
The majority of US consumer grade ratchet/wrench sets have both US and metric sizes. There are enough metric nuts and bolts in random things that you really do need both.
Interesting question yourself. I am not a lawyer, but: I think this would hinge on the definitions of "compelled" and "witness" in the fifth amendment. I think the courts would rule that being "a witness against himself" would require synthesizing thoughts into a statement then made under oath. I think searching thoughts would be considered a search.

It would be interesting to see how the courts would handle the fact that many thoughts are fleeting and not indicative of belief or intent.
Set anti-mass spectrometers to 105%.
Instead of launching a shell, and then invoking getty from within that shell, can't you just skip the shell and launch getty directly on the pts?

IIRC when I had a real terminal hooked up to my first Linux machine, via a serial cable, whoever was using that terminal was presented with a login prompt, and not the shell. I think that used getty.
Tennent's Correspondence Principle and Returning from a Closure (2006)
> [A] sorting mechanism that elevates people who pay lip service to permissiveness, but don't fully participate - a preparatory performance of the fake counterculture.

Not where I expected to see that sentiment.

I do wonder where this is going.
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>Auditing big firms is hard and to be honest, there's little general audits can do to detect fraud

E&Y didn't verify cash balances at Wirecard for years, despite the fact there were whispers of fraud for years. Some fraud is hard; this kind is not "hard".

https://www.ft.com/content/a9deb987-df70-4a72-bd41-47ed8942e...
If I interpret it correctly

Sounds more like they are pretty sure where but aren't allowed to say.
> things that are not open source are rarely not well written

I think you got lost in your triple negative there
The entire mobile ecosystem is about spying, with any features these devices provide being secondary to their primary function of gathering information on their users.

Of the mobile platforms, Apple seems the least like this. They seem to actually care about user privacy to some extent, but that's also because they are the most expensive and therefore have revenue more closely tied to their users as actual customers. I still wouldn't let Apple totally off the hook though. They still gather telemetry, and apps on iOS spy as much as they can possibly get away with. Virtually any mobile app is loaded with as much spyware as can possibly be packaged with it and tuned to gather maximum data without being too annoying or visible to the user.

It would be really hard to change this as long as there is such a market for user data. It's too tempting to load apps (or the whole phone) with spyware and cash in. Add to this the fact that governments around the world are certainly in the game both financially and covertly. The only way to really have a privacy-first mobile device would be to lock it the hell down and not allow apps to do anything without explicit user interaction... especially location awareness or any kind of sensor or camera/microphone use. Even with a really locked down phone apps would still try to find clever ways to gather data, and there's a lot of exploitable surface area.

The only other way to fix it would be legislation. One way would be to legislate HIPAA-like protections for intimate user data such as passive audio recordings or location information. Leak a users' location info or sell it without their permission? That will be $10,000 per violation, where a violation is a single location data point for a single user. This would instantly convert user telemetry data hoards from assets to liabilities. Of course what would probably happen is all this stuff would just move off-shore and into shell companies that can't effectively be fined or sued. Legislation might not even work and might make the industry even shadier than it already is. There's too much incentive to spy.
A long time ago, when I was more of a news junky, I wrote some scripts to pull from various RSS feeds (BBC, Financial Times, Jane's, and one or two others), crack out the text of recent items, and format into a five-column, landscape-oriented PDF, with nice headlines, table of contents, etc. A cron job would see to running the pipeline every morning and emailing the result to me. When I got to work, I would print it out and read it on breaks throughout the day, crossing off items once I read them or decided they weren't relevant. With a red pen, I could also mark it up and make small notes on interesting items.

Curl, BeautifulSoup, and Latex. Great fun.
I think one of the questions is whether microfinance works as a bank, to make a profit, or works in lieu of donations, where loans are subsidized and act as a force multiplier on donor money.

If I had my druthers, I'd set up a VC firm in the developing world, which funded businesses on reasonable terms, knowing I'd lose money, but:

1) Generating a stream of occasional successful enterprises.

2) Even for failures, giving people an opportunity to go through the learning experience of launching a startup.
800 lines long. The movement component class in ue4 is about 10k lines. Why do game engines separate their code so much less than in other software?
> Who in physics works in imperial? Research is solidly metric in the US.

The Mars Climate Orbiter was a research vehicle, no? It wasn't expected to make money I'm sure.

> was due to a failure to perform the necessary checks etc

Which would have been unnecessary had they both used the same units.

> and NASA takes responsibility for the loss, and does not blame lockheed.

I did not mention blame, why did you bring that up? Point is, had they used the same units this failure mode would have been closed off.
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For context, back when I bought a Dell laptop running Vista but after Windows 7 had been announced, but not released, Dell guaranteed Windows 7 compatibility and made free upgrades available.

How long is the Windows beta available for major updates to give the ecosystem a chance to test for compatibility. Google just doesn’t know how to handle an ecosystem.
You mean Phishing Link?
> Surely we can do better than that

Seeing as going to war and accepting civilian casualties has only been acceptable for the entirety of human history up to and including the present, I’m not so sure.
Wirecard+Ernst&Young is a sequel to the Enron+ArthurAndersen documentary

> "60% of the total Andersen practices globally merged into Ernst & Young,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen
Tack. Do they have a live map like Finland does [1]?

[1]. https://www.stuk.fi/aiheet/sateily-ymparistossa/sateilytilan...
Gutwhale Postmortem
Literally anything Facebook does will have far reaching consequences. Edit: What I mean to say is that maybe we could choose a better title.
To that point on public markets: who on Earth is buying the equities of a Zynga or a SurveyMonkey? (no offense to any current or former employees)

I get that speculators exist, but I see more and more the public listing of IT startups as “siphoning” passive index funds as part of a necessary diversified portfolio strategy - this is how VCs are exiting. I haven’t done the research, but this is merely the extension of principally why VC exists: the statistical inference of putting X% (typically less than 3) into high risk investments from 10 and 11 figure funds.
2.5 billion, in which each individual only sees its own echo chamber. Implying it isn't smaller groups makes it sound as if everyone see's everyone else's posts, which is not the case.
You didn't address the point or at least your answer is parallel to your original comment. What would "the wealthy and powerful" do that I can't? What encryption will they have exclusive access to?

> the “elected ones” will keep using crypto because laws don’t typically apply to the wealthy and powerful.

Sectéra phones/modules never made it outside of mandated government use because encryption (and security in general) only works if it's there on both ends and people want to use it. So pretty much the only option is with software on top of your smartphone of choice (like POTUS and the hardened Blackberry with encryption software on top). Already both presidents and presidential candidates alike repeatedly bypassed security measures in the interest of comfort and usability. In fewer words people want their iPhones (Samsungs? whatever) and they don't want to only talk to people who also have "the special phone", rather just a piece of software.

So I can't really see how "the wealthy and powerful" would have exclusive access to that encryption and make any meaningful use of it. Good encryption options are like backdoor keys: once they're out there sooner or later everyone will have access to them.
Reported new record temperature of 100°F north of Arctic Circle
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PgBouncer on Kubernetes and how to achieve minimal latency
Thank you for the insight. I know you know Rust very well.

Do you have an explanation for why compile times would be an issue for Rust?
@bobthepanda

It is not a good heuristic if the person has two days to prepare in that it is very gameable.

It is important to be able to develop things _quickly_ in order to keep a job.
For that, knowing how to search is indeed useful. But there are certain things that it is worth keeping in L1 cache.
That's why it should do as little as possible.
It's not Bad Actors you need to worry about, it's the NSA (but i suppose, they are potentially bad actors depending on your threat model).
How does not one of their well paid engineers flag that this will obviously happen when implementing these features?
I'm an oldskool dev who shys away from 'the new shiny' because I've learned the basics of JS and you can get pretty far with the fundamentals, despite the allure of these rather expressive frameworks that get released every week now.

Frankly I get more joy out of writing bookmarklets, Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey scripts and customizing websites with various CSS 'userstyles'.

I also prefer SFTP and still enjoy uploading PHP scripts with SFTP and then building out some barebones CRUD app in my free time. Again, I shy away from the new shiny like GraphQL and things like Docker or Kubernetes etc.
> yet that civilization itself went extinct.

or left :)
Never has the compartmentalization of personality (online and off) been more relevant. I only wish it wasn't under such ridiculous circumstances.

It's a different feeling to require a different set of emotions, opinions, and accounts, just to feel ease within a group (civilians) who may or may not have their own agenda to ruin your life for personal gain, as opposed to a corrupt government bent on silencing dissidence.
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Not my experience with Mint Xfce, which I've used, along with Xubuntu, since V.12. Mint's focus on stability for the user has long been a primary consideration. EG the 'Timeshift' backup utility has been very helpful.

While I haven't used it, the Cinnamon desktop has been very attractive to Linux newcomers - recently a rapidly-growing group.
People who believe that are ignorant of how much it costs to provide payday loans, or micro finance. They should be focused on increasing competition and offering the poor better options instead of just banning them.
That also has far reaching consequences.
What sorts of static code analysis tools do people here use in their game projects? I know carmack is a big fan of them
If my intent was to be pedantic, I would have pointed out that we're not post-corona because it's still ongoing. My actual point, which I had hoped you would infer, was that people have short attentions spans. I see little reason to believe corona will have lasting profound social impact when previous pandemics in the modern era did not. Judging by road traffic, people are already beginning to return to their normal lives even though this pandemic still hasn't run it's course. I think in a few years it will be nearly forgotten, just like the other pandemics.
This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6m6fS8bxU about the "meshtastic" project is quite interesting. It allows communication via spread spectrum LORA, which seems pretty hard to intercept.

Ironically, to use it, you currently need to pair the device with a smart phone, but that's not essential.

Edit: https://www.meshtastic.org/
In LA?!

It depends on where you are and where the party is.

You in Silverlake but the party is in Simi Valley? Oh hell no.

You in Santa Monica but the party is in Bel Air? Oh hell yes.

The traffic is a nightmare in LA even on a Monday night. Taking Fountain won't work anymore after Waze got used up.

Like Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes to the beach, it's too crowded.
I took it to mean that excessive regulation reduces options, competition and costs.
Hard to beat such definition Moscow alone being twice the size adding Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne together :-)
The intentions are there, but if you only look for the good in people you will be taken advantage of and swallowed by grifters. Some who are driven by selfishness, some who are driven by lust for disruption and/or destruction.

The general trend in the west right now seems to be an overestimation of the good in all of us, and society is increasingly paying for it. I know that many are downtrodden for reasons outside of their control but that doesn't excuse the fact that a lot of poor people are poor because they are shitty, antisocial people, and no amount of mentoring or social programs will fix them.

That's where redlining comes from. That's why poor people pay higher interest for loans, if they can even get them. It's not just blind classism or "systematic racism" without a cause. Social groups are an emergent phenomenon, not a deliberate invention.
There are cheaper ways to replace a server than with a robot. For instance, with a counter. You could make an air-locked counter built like a fume hood for a small fraction of what a single serving robot would cost.
Doesn’t the parent mean “acquiring money” rather than money as a concept? It’s people’s relationship to money that is being criticised rather than money itself.

To rephrase what I believe the intent was “if people cared about improving society more than acquiring money”.
I don't think any CEO (bigoted or not) can retaliate against their employees for their sexual orientation - it's illegal. While it reflects poorly on him, it seems to be the norm in the U.S. to donate to lobbies.
I agree that form and content are not a zero sum game, and try to present with a combination of form and content.

But when I consume information, I prioritize looking for content over form.
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I don't know that most people would specifically call a legit payday loan a scam. Perhaps just a really bad practice that is legal.

I do however call into question the selling the term "microfinance" and its "mission to help" a scam against the people that backed it. Sure.
We accept the status quo of countless racist tragedies occurring day after day.

But if even one individual is falsely accused of racism, that's untenable?
Instead oft sideloading you could use Aurora Store [1], an open-source Play Store client.

[1] https://auroraoss.com
To me, this just shows why it's important to build communication channels that you own (e.g. podcast, mailing list, etc) if you want to have unimpeded access to your audience. Today it's a censorship thing, tomorrow it'll be somebody deciding to erect a toll booth between you and your followers. Social platforms should just be the cherry on top of your foundational communications strategy.