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Your comment baffles me. The Metro experience did not behave like a tiling window manager in literally any way I can think of.

I switched to Windows 10 purely for the Surface Book hardware a few years ago. Before that, I was a contented Arch Linux + i3 user. (And my next laptop will probably be back to Arch Linux, with Sway instead of i3 because Wayland > X.)

The split made, and still makes, no sense at all to me as a tiling window manager fan. It maintained two separate worlds that you could not easily switch between, which is fairly antithetical to a tiling window manager. And functionality like, y’know, tiling, was non-existent. (And tiling does exist just a little bit on the other side, with window snapping.)

It was a window-management disaster, wholly unmitigated.
> You cannot have freedom of settlement, regulation of construction and poor people not getting the short end of the stick.

Sure, but that's just an obvious corollary of the more fundamental observation "you cannot have poor people not getting the short end of the stick". That's what we mean when we call them "poor".
> And this system is largely responsible for limiting ability of Hong Kong citizens to control political power in their city

Relative to what? Relative to what they had in place before? Or relative to some system you've dreamed up?
The quality at Daiso and such is lightyears above dollar stores in the US. It’s quite outstanding.

In the US often to make those products cheaper something is reduced, it could be the the size for example. Aluminum foil might be $1 at Dollar General for an 8ft roll and $3 at Target for a 30ft roll, so the Target one is generally cheaper on a per unit basis. The $1 version has the lower nominal price and illusion of being cheaper. These stores then are not as cheap as they may seem.

Brushing broad strokes with a wide brush, I also find the overall attention to detail and pride to be much better in Japan so the stores are cleaner, staff friendlier, etc. While the US counterparts are dirty, unorganized etc. The article makes it sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy. This reminds me of the broken window effect (which intuitively makes sense but may not actually be true).
It's hard to know what would have happened if Shepard Fairey hadn't gotten caught destroying documents, and we don't know the specifics of all of the settlement, but I think it's fair to say he lost that case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster
There are 3 major problems with this kind of sign-in from the user perspective they apparently omit: whenever you sign-up for a service B with an account at A (usually Google, probably applies to Apple, Facebook and the rest as well) 1. A will block your account at B at any time as soon as its (A's) algorithms realize they don't like you for some stupid reason they won't even tell you (which is icky but understandable given how many users they serve) 2. A tracks your usage of B (obviously). 3. The most overlooked - A discloses many additional details about you (like your contacts, your location, your birth date, your real name etc.) to B. Sign up to some shitty website once and they immediately have enough data on you to apply a wide range of social engineering / identity theft attacks with ease.

I actually can consciously accept the 2 in many specific cases but 1 and 3, each alone, are enough for me to avoid using this kind of sign-in.
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they would have reneged had they not promulgated a law. the basic law which Britain and China agreed to and produced before 1997 requires article 23 and says matters of defense and foreign affairs are the responsibilities of the central government. it's not hard to consider that matters of national security also responsibilities of the central government. Hong Kong failed to fulfill its duty under the agreement. this law added to annex 3 is not a substitute for Hong Kong's unenacted article 23. it is there because Hong Kong failed to enact its own legislation.

the notion that this is China breaking the basic law or the joint declaration is just fuel to stoke the fires of anti-china sentiment to distract from problems at home. this sort of emotive fake news is required in a democratic system as people need to be compelled to vote as well as not focus on undelivered results. what is occurring now in HK is only the inevitable consequence of the joint declaration and the basic law to which all parties agreed and about which no other country ever complained until now. isn't it a little hypocritical that countries want to protect their own national security then object when China wants to protect its? who's unhappy with a plan to catch a thief? only the thief. so who wants to make up such stories? only those who need to keep their people focused on the next two minutes of hate
yeah I agree to some extent. Current Indian govt. is quite fascist, but hopefully can be voted out (unlike the PRC in China). Not to say that they won't try their best to hold on to power and turn the secular state into a Hinduist one.
You forgot so soon that the EU did not start this process? UK was given opportunities, they did not want them.
> implying the EU is a world power

Ok thanks for your opinion lol
* KDE has gone through CVS, SVN, Git, Redmine, ReviewBoard, Phabricator and now GitLab for various source control needs over the years, all while still using Bugzilla for bug tracking. There is a lot more intertia to overcome.

* GitLab (and GitHub etc.) are organized around code repos but the hierarchy you use to organize your code isn't necessarily the best hierarchy to organize your bugs. There are a few different "plasma" repositories but end users aren't going to know which one the bug about their panel spazzing out on leap seconds goes in. So you consolidate everything into one Plasma project. But then your code and bugs aren't living together anymore, and using GitLab for the bugs buys you very little over just having good integration with Bugzilla.

* It's a lot easier to move bugs around between projects and they keep the same identifying number.
If they had not caved to calls for banning, they would have less problems. The ambitions to ban more subs won't subside anytime soon.

Of course this hands off approach would get you hate. That is price you have to pay. Worth it in my opinion.
I've seen my FAANG division manager use brilliant loners quite effectively by requiring them to be remote. They don't join meetings or really check in with anyone but every six months they pop up and say "I re-architected System X and now it can handle 10,000x as much traffic" or something like that.
How disingenuous to compare our hard won institutions like the free press to condiments at a fast food restaurant.
> If companies are so bad, we'd expect to see great happiness in places that have no corporations. In fact, its [the] opposite. I actually do work in rural India. When its just "mom and pop" stores in a village the people are pretty much destitute. When corporations are present, incomes go up, goods and services improve

This is actually a very nice point, thanks for mentioning it!
If no corporation can make billions, it would likely go untested.

There's nothing that drives altruistic development of things that improve peoples' lives. There's only greed-driven capitalism. As a result, many helpful things sit on the shelf.
Right. That’s why millions of people clamor every year to immigrate to Russia for a better life. Get a grip. The world is not black and white.
> One of the one hand, the development team getting to control the estimate helps to control the workload.

I think that's a kind of waterfall strawman. In every other discipline, you would ask engineers for an estimate. It's insanity to do otherwise.
The whole system seems to be designed in such a bad way and relies on a bunch of heuristics and insurance to make up for easy fraud.

Why is it that to pay for something you give the seller the keys to your account and they go in and withdraw the money they want instead of the seller sending you a request and you accepting to send the requested money..

Another plus side of your suggestion is it now becomes trivial to cancel any subscriptions since you can simply stop allowing the payment to go through rather than getting the seller to stop taking your money.
Note that federalism is much more vulnerable to local interests. So instead of having to watch out for “Big- whatever” bending the State to their will, “microlocal” governments can fall prey of laughably small interest groups (see the Covid outbreak in Lombardy: just a couple local businesses interfered enough to procrastinate lockdown until their products shipped. It cost thousands of deaths)
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While the app might not be able to harm your phone, your grandma or daughter might not be as tech savvy and grant permissions more freely. Also, even though sandboxed, if you can download and run u known code on the devices of billions of users, you have a very large phone-botnet at your disposal of you ever need it
> single vm that you can scale out much easier

I’m not sure how experience could lead you to this conclusion. This wouldn’t work for any of our production needs.
How Jordan Peterson isn’t even remotely on the right apart from him saying it? Any action leaning on the left for him has some evil Marxist influence for him. Also his theories on “Masculinity“ have nothing to do with classical left and right and are de-facto alt-right.
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I prefer to think of myself as Software Developer.

I want GTD, working product with real users. I like solving use cases with product owner, balancing technical debt, the patchwork of system administration, use of libraries and writing code.

I've thought about myself as programmer until entering freelance. It appeared the act of programming computer is not valued. No need for clever code, make it simple, iterate.
Posts that are critical of China's gov. will automatically get downvotes from a particular subset of people.
> That is an explanation that doesn't require coordination.

Yes, and it's a huge stretch. That's good for Yoga, but bad for explanations, and it works just as well for 9/11. The simplest, most plausible explanation: they coordinated. Further weight for that explanation? They've coordinated on similar issues before.
The vast majority of self help books are useless junk, the only person they help is the writer with their bank balance.
> At the same time, they are unwilling or unable to create an environment that is safe for the folks in the communities working or shopping there.

Making the dollar store a "safe space" for customers would mean having lots of armed guards around and bulletproof glass everywhere. Also every item behind the counter, like in a general store of old. You just know that the New Yorker would find ways to complain about that, too.
Depends where you are I guess. I have seen them everywhere in Germany.
I have seen many stories of legal and legitimate businesses for things like weed (legal in the stores location) and legal porn sites getting their merchant accounts shut down because the payment processors just don't want them to deal with it leaving cash as the only option.
I think you need to read this book : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
The bedrock of western ideals that the US was born from contains a lot of influences from Christianity, especially the part where the duty of a good Christian is to spread the faith and convert heathens around the world to the one true faith in order to save them from eternal damnation in hell. Although religiosity as a whole is going down in the western world, this savior complex still persists and echos of it can be seen in how many people in the West feel a need to, as you put it, do something to spread democracy and human rights on the other side of the world regardless of local history or customs because it's for their own good.
I feel like people here underestimate how much work can actually be done without having to write any code whatsoever.

There's the common cases with businesses being built on top of a pile of Excel spreadsheets. It is also easy to take for granted, but things like hosting your own website, or setting up an e-commerce service could be done without much code for a very long time now.

But the cool thing is that nowadays, it is possible to do more sophisticated things, like spinning up interactive web apps that are backed by self-hosted databases with authenticated APIs, all without writing a lot of code. Is this a good way to build things? Maybe. It wouldn't be the most maintainable stack, but the barrier to entry is pretty minimal, and that makes it worthwhile.
Also, with interchange fees at 0.3% and total card fees <1% for many shops, it's actually cheaper for sellers to accept cards than cash.
Their “ideals” are more land and more power for themselves. That is their publicly stated ambition. That is what is ridiculous.
It kind of reminds me of the genre of study material in Japan that personifies everything as a cartoon character.
Here is the periodic table as little figures https://resemom.jp/article/img/2017/03/16/37127/162618.html

and this book is it as Manga girls.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%85%83%E7%B4%A0%E5%91%A8%E6%9C%9...
I see my post going up and down, it's a true roller coaster, haha.
I wasn't deeply familiar with python's `with`, so I looked it up[0]

<close> differs from `with` in at least the sense that it doesn't have any equivalent to __enter__ and doesn't create its own block. It creates a local variable whose __close metamethod will be called when it goes out of scope. Since Lua has lexical scope at the block level rather than the function level, this works similarly to the way Python calls __exit__.

These snippets of Python and Lua are roughly equivalent. They both open a file, read one line, and close it, or do nothing if there was some error opening the file.

try:
with open("foo.txt") as f:
print(f.readline())
# f is now closed.
except:
pass

local f,err = io.open("foo.txt")
if not err then
local f <close> = f
print(f:read("*l"))
end
-- f is now closed.

C#'s `using`[1] seems much closer, except that it handles nulls by not trying to close them and lua's <close> does not include any such handling.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
Why is 2 so obvious? I imagine many implementations would do that, but basically once you exchange your SSO token for the site-specific token, you could stop making any requests to the SSO provider. The only part of your SSO provider's offering that inherently needs to track you is running detection if you're a bot.
Germany has seen a huge shift over the past months. Before that, paying by card for small ticket items such as in bakerys was frowned upon (or just not possible), now it's used by the majority in some areas.
Um....

There were hundred of other thoughts at the time and Confucianism hasn't risen. Confucianism was used as a tool to solidify the power within the Empire. The only thing you will do is kneel and obey.

And China aspires to long-term stability first is not about China in itself, but the long term control of power. Which for thousands of years has proved what should now be a famous line, Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.
I’ve read it. I think you need to learn any Chinese or Russian history.
unlikely given that the shining example of freedom of expression was the crazy chaos in Hong Kong over the last 12 months, which saw people who use their freedom of speech to voice their dissent being assaulted and set on fire. hard to find many sympathizers for this in the mainland.... but easy for many in China to see hongkongers simply as unhappy about an economic reality where in the last 30 years China has far exceeded the growth of Hong Kong.

instead of pouring their energy into useless Street protests the kids of Hong Kong should make some startup companies or move to Guangzhou and make their fortune in a place that's a little more affordable to live in with a lot more space....

still I bet it must feel so satisfying to be able to blame China for all their unhappiness. The only problem is these kids being used by forces they don't understand. their energy, momentum and potential has being directed towards this end. Even the end is a good thing, the creation of a more stable society, it's not what people realize. wouldn't it be in China's interest to create a chaotic situation in Hong Kong in order to increase the contrast between the successes of its own system and the failures of the Western model espoused Hong Kong, as well as to add momentum to calls to extend national laws to Hong Kong to make up for the long-overdue article 23?
This makes me sad. I loved Hong Kong the way it was and had held out some hope that it can. stay more or less that way for a while. I knew of course that Hong Kong had a huge uphill battle. But was still waiting for that miracle.
I’ve transitioned to working full time as a software engineer after running two startups, right before the lockdowns started (February).

While I’m extremely lucky, I’m also at a very uncertain period in my life - as I assume most of us are.

Working from home (not being able to go to a coffee shop or co-working space) makes it hard to transition in and out of work, so days just feel a bit of a blur.

I know there are people doing way worse, going for months without jobs, so I don’t mean to diminish their situation - but this whole period just feels like waiting.
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> if they contact them from their email for support they have no way to associate it with the mail registered in the system, so they can’t help them.

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't think of this scenario.

This looks like a pretty big problem, as I can imagine a situation where the user doesn't have access at all to the app and may not have kept the initial email with any identifying info.

Isn't there an easy way for the user to know which obfuscated address was used for which app?
I am from India, and I don't understand this. Why are people comparing TikTok to Facebook and Google?
Facebook and Google do horrible user tracking, but there is a big difference.

There is such a thing as real dissent in the country where Facebook and Google are headquartered. It actually matters to people who use these services.

Do you doubt it? A Twitter account like this cannot be run from inside of China:

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas

If you disagree, please comment with a Twitter profile (preferably written in English, but I can also use Google Translate if it is written in Chinese) and change my mind.

What about all the naysayers about a LOT of America's policies who still have a public platform? Here is an example:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/

By the way, just because I am linking to it doesn't mean I agree with everything on that website, which is sort of the whole point isn't it? I am still able to read and then think about dissenting voices.

Can someone show me the Chinese equivalent of that website?
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In this context I wouldn’t distinguish, “citizen” gets the point across really well.

If the situation really called for it, I think the best term would be something like first generation citizen.
The CCP band western propaganda platforms, which Facebook etc could be said to be. Fine, I think any set of ideologies need propaganda, like every company needs advertisement.

If you understand that, then surely you must see the symmetry in banning Tiktok etc?
As long as it's not a pay day loan everything is fine. If you need liquidity then credit cards are a perfectly sane option. What I never understood though is why you would use a credit card when you don't need to borrow money, which is how most people use them.
To get their shot. Also, they screw up their veins (see Requiem for a Dream).

I myself have fear of needles, so I'm biased in this sense. I would not use this drug, except with a Oxazepam. Which I prefer not to, as these too are addictive.
Back when Microsoft was doing those obscure job interview questsions like "how much does a 747 weigh", this was my solution, measure the deflection of the tires and the PSI to calculate weight. Apparently the answers they were looking for were more along the lines of "put the plane on an aircraft carrier in a lake and measure the water displacement" <shrug>
I've been allowed to continue working from home (at my parents' house) since lockdown and save 800€/month (half of my paycheck) :)
This article is not talking about the woes of Ma and Pa shops trying to install bullet proof glass. It's talking about exactly the opposite, with mayors of cities like Dayton asking large corporations - Dollar General and Family Dollar - to please go ahead and install bullet proof glass so that less employees and customers die on their premises (i.e. the call for more Security Guards).

The chains’ executives are candid about what is driving their growth: widening income inequality and the decline of many city neighborhoods and entire swaths of the country. Todd Vasos, the C.E.O. of Dollar General, told the Wall Street Journal in 2017, “The economy is continuing to create more of our core customer.”

The bottom line is Dollar General knows exactly what communities to target - already ailing ones:

This correlation is not a coincidence, according to a 2018 research brief by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which advocates for small businesses. The stores undercut traditional grocery stores by having few employees, often only three per store, and paying them little. “While dollar stores sometimes fill a need in cash-strapped communities, growing evidence suggests these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress,” the brief reported. “[Sometimes] they’re a cause of it."

But just because you didn't start the fire does not mean you have carte blanche in adding gasoline to the flames.
I don't know anyone personally that owns a "credit" card. Virtually nobody uses them here in France and I think in the rest of Europe, it's always debit card. Never had an issue with renting cars.
It may be better value for your particular use case. It depends entirely on the requirements, surely? If you need the faster SSD, hardware disk encryption, ability to run MacOS or some other feature that the Mac Pro has over the system you specified, that might have a different answer than if you need the maximum number of CUDA cores.
"I don't have a point so I'm going to pull the race card".

Most Hkers are against CCP not China, who does a great job in blending the nation-party-race elements together in disguise. Hkers don't feel superior, it's just that your self-consciousness are assuming others are looking down on you.. lol
>>It’s convenient to omit that the Irish were not considered “white” when they were being discriminated against.

That wasn't out of convenience, I honestly didn't know that. But yes, it makes sense that these definitions can become arbitrary when there is a need for that. That is the problem.
And as anyone who as played Unity games would attest to, the performance is terrible. There's a reason why UE is much more popular than Unity for triple-A games.

Take Escape From Tarkov, an FPS that tries to be a AAA game and uses Unity. The performance problems that game has is frankly staggering.