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Most likely explanation: Bad engineers getting into high positions via connections, elbows or peter principle.
That's a very interesting perspective. I shall have to ponder on that for a while.
This is especially true for writing!

For coding, I have found it only works for me when I have some failing tests. And unfinished line of code with more than a trivial thing missing, might actually slow me down.
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No, you fall of a cliff in that very specific manner only when ACME fails you.
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Sorry to disappoint you but Facebook is here to stay. They are 20 years ahead of any wannabe competitor.
Valuation is fine, but as mentioned, that is short-term success. Enron was good at that. Myspace was good at that. RIM/blackberry and the nokia phones had that. And almost overnight, it's gone.

Apple is a fad that got propped up by phones. They're behind all other major computer vendors. They have a very small marketshare for phones. They have the biggest profit margin out of anyone, and it's because of literally a couple of products.

People who go for things with a huge profit margin (overpriced things) do so based on emotional response (a fad) as opposed to logical reasoning. This is why they buy a phone wrapped in glass - it's shiny. That makes them liking your product volatile. A company enjoying 15 minutes of fame on limited SKUs is not a successful company. It's a rich company, that won the lottery from people who like shiny things.

Yes, they do make things that "just work" better than the competition. They limit choice, put you behind a wall, give you no control - and there is that group of people who want that. The problem is, that group will overnight change to some new fad phone vendor that comes out, and apple will become uncool overnight. Same thing will happen to facebook, instagram, twitter, etc.

If you do take microsoft or google for example - they have a thousand eggs in a hundred baskets. This is stability. Heck, even amazon - cloud services and selling goods, book store, mechanical turk - they're in everything. Apple is selling a phone and a computer.
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You can always set up a «git fetch» cronjon on your dev laptop/rpi/vps/toaster. I had one on all repos in my ~/git directory to ensure I have up-to-date repos without manual intervention.
absolutely no fan of gab and I say good riddance.

the cancel culture sure is annoying though. by their logic:

we should not forget Blackberry. They should rename themselves to "berry-of-color"

Also has anyone looked at all these racist packages in Debian yet?

apt-cache search 'master|slave' |uniq|wc -l
332

... maybe time to flood submit@bugs.debian.org with petitions to end racist Linux once and for all?

... all this is getting really stupid.
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By garish-looking do you mean with the default white background and awful looking buttons?

I installed the Doom Emacs configuration and it looks really great and modern on macOS. I think you'd like it! Definitely worth a quick install to see what is possible - you can always go and make your own configuration based on that if you want

Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Doom Emacs themes: https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes (can be installed standalone but not sure if they disable the toolbars etc)
Or if one of them wants to cooperate with an external shareholder rather than the other. It's still two people who could have different opinions. Controlling another 25%+1 can be valuable.
> I think that most companies would not find it adequate for the compliance regulations to be implemented "client-side". Mine would certainly answer your question: "how would you do the following in Sublime" with: "not at all", or: "please don't".

Yep, exactly. The most natural solution to this problem is some kind of git hook on the git server. Nobody cares about the changes I make locally before I push them to a branch.
The code is not the problem; you and other collaborators have a copy of the code locally. It's the fact that I can't submit or update PRs anymore and collaborate with my colleagues that's annoying, and no backup can fix that.
Does it require an SSD?

I've seen it working on a couple of older, non-SSD machines. But "working" is perhaps a strong term.
Are you assuming I am writing tests on any of my projects ? o_0 haha.

I like it for writing a lot indeed, because It keeps a thread in the back of my head that just wants to refine the idea further and come back to the draft.
Ok we can always use HTTP instead. I personally hate how using HTTPS gets harder and harder every single year.
Social media platforms should only moderate illegal content, not things they (you) don't agree with.
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These petty BOM reduction exercises from Tim Cook's Apple to claw back single dollars on products that are $1000 are starting to get egregious.
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Is it bad that it requires much ram? I mean, as long as it's utilized well I don't really mind?
More modern Javascript implementations is something I had in mind since the beginning. I played a bit with J2V8 but the amount of work to migrate it from Rhino is a bit too much!

I didn't know about GraalJS I will have a look and reopen this issue https://github.com/victordiaz/phonk/issues/4
Thanks for pointing at it!
I remember when you could bypass the login prompt and open a web browsing session by going to HTML Help. If I recall correctly you could run executables from the resulting browser's address bar too.
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Simple youtube-dl GUI sitting in menu bar on macOS
We moved to github from Bitbucket because the latter was not up to scratch at all. Even with this issue I'm not planning to move back.
The positivity rate* increased by 50% in two weeks. That the jump is from 4 pixels to 6 pixels obscures the magnitude of the change.

*one week moving average
I think this article is kind of wild. I would expect someone arguing for the break up of Google would be arguing for it on the basis of a good understanding of the company and the dynamics that would result from the break up. Instead a huge part of the argument is simply that the author doesn't know what makes Google profitable and think it would be great to split them up so we find out.

Google Maps is a great example. The author has no idea if Maps is profitable. What happens if it isn't? You spin it off as its own company, it turns out Google is spending billions driving those camera cars around and has no revenue model (because you just split off Google's advertising business) and within a couple of years Maps can't afford to keep itself up to date, its an expensive unsustainable business (which is why no one else does it) and it either has to sell itself cheap and no one can buy it - because they all know what happened to Google and they don't want their business exploded by regulators. If Google Maps is a huge money spinner (seems unlikely but could happen) well great, you've just created a monopoly that no longer has any incentives for anything other than exploiting their position as a monopoly.
You could run into problems with little endians and big endians if you do a binary tranfer or, more likely, have a lossy float->string->float conversion.
Intel vs AMD in the past is a typical example on how money + exclusive deal could almost kill off a competitor.

Then Intel would enjoy a monopoly and instead of being stuck at Skylake for 4 years, we may have been stuck at Core 2 for 10 years.

Or maybe ARM, MIPS, Power or Itanium (!) would have had better opportunities to catch up with x86 and would be the dominant CPU.

Who knows, but AMD dying would have not benefited anyone who was stuck on x86.
This article look at vendor software from the perspective of business. e.g. The users don't really care about the software itself, they use it as a tool to (semi)automate solving the business problem.

This is a good article for people want to take freelance, or run software vendor firm, or to come up "startup idea".
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If you’re wondering if GitHub has been down more since the Microsoft acquisition, I actually just recently did some analysis on that using their status page data (the answer is yes):

https://nimbleindustries.io/2020/06/04/has-github-been-down-...
Disclaimer: I'm no politician or economist, but while I do believe the US has military superiority still, they won't be able to wage a large scale war at the moment; they simply cannot afford it. They would have to take out even more loans, and right now the US' money lenders are the UAE and China; given that they are both close to Russia, they may opt to not lend money to fund the US' wars. And even without the threat, they may opt to not lend the money because the US will never be able to pay it back.

I suspect WW3 is kept at bay not because of MAD anymore, but because of financial interests. If a country decides "fuck it, we'll forfeit this debt", we'll likely see more armed conflicts.

I don't see Russia opting for a conflict though, they too cannot afford it. Not unless they're backed by a well-to-do country like China.

I don't believe China would become a direct aggressor either, if they would, then their economy would quickly grind to a halt due to sanctions and import stops from the US and Europe. They'd probably a proxy like North Korea.
>There is definitely a problem with subsidising the destruction of US small-scale businesses while favouring Chinese businesses and subsidising death of American citizens via fentayl.

You can find extreme examples in anything.

But let me tell you, sometime back I was unemployed. I bought machining tools from china and setup a good business, I could have never been able to afford local manufactured tools without accuring debt.

I paid a lot of money in taxes as my business grew, I bought better quality machines which were locally available from local suppliers because local suppliers ensures a maintenance package.
Most Enterprise software is not FOSS - it's either written in house and owned by the corporation which wrote it, or it's SAP etc. You probably meant the stack that enterprise software is running on and not enterprise software itself?
Makes sense! Many consumers likely already have a USB-C charger, so splitting it up gives people flexibility.

I will be interested to see how they communicate this to prevent first time iPhone users being left without a charging cable/power brick.
dang: you are insufferable--and don't misconstrue what I mean by that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I should stress that it is not the side-projects themselves that got me the jobs but the knowledge I acquired while working on them.

I usually do side-projects on topics that interests me, and usually apply on jobs that also interests me, and I just hope for the two to converge: at some point the interviewer will ask a question about a technical topic I never worked on professionally, but on which I have intimate knowledge thanks to those side-projects.

And then I'll be able to give an interesting answer while my previous jobs and education would not have prepared me for that question.
How did it take that long after everything the US has done in the last 20 years. In what exactly is/was the US a world leader? Making money? It sure wasn't justice, Healthcare, infrastructure, human rights, poverty, homelessness etc. List goes on and on.
I use Mac and emacs keybinding all the time. C-a, C-e, C-k, C-y.. not sure what you mean.
It's more about being corrupt than fiddling a lot of people.

The one who fiddles the "best", is the one that you don't think about :)

Everyone knows what Putin is doing, so i would say he's not doing such a good job.
Seeing how everyone installed Chrome by being pushed the same way, there are probably a lot of people that sign up for this service... so they probably also make a good chunk there.

They don't appear to bug me much though... maybe ublock origin blocks those ads.
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You are missing the forest for the trees here - and I imagine that's by choice.

I'm not saying emacs shines as an audit trail - I am saying the processes by which you work can be incorporated within emacs very easily, in a way that is unmatched.

I can see why people tend to ignore questions around specificity of why they like emacs - the goalposts never stop moving.
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Superb article, high on info, low on confusion!

For my own home, I used to try to optimize the hell out of it (regularly switching channels, trying new routers etc.)

Now I "installed" a TP-Link Deco M9 system. I have 250 Mbps coming in, and at the worst part of my house, my iPhone will still get 100 Mbps from that. That is more than enough even for streaming 4K. So I have now arrived at the "why bother tinkering with a good enough system" stage of WiFi, which is a huge relief.
You certainly don't have to use git, though I'd at least get the template to start with. Git is just the sync method being used by default.
>Also email is an interoperable standard

If emails from no-name servers/domains are increasingly dropped/refused (considered spam), is email still interoperable?
Please, allow non-ws connection or fall back when it fails and stick to that alternative. When behind proxy/in VPN, I'm not able to use your website.
What if a friend install such an app? It's what happened.

What if a quiz app could not require so much knowledge about privacy by design? Facebook is responsible.
I suppose that if you’re upgrading to iPhone and already have one it is a waste to give you yet another charger. I wonder how much energy is used creating these cables that often go straight in a drawer because the previous cable is already conveniently plugged into the wall.
Which version of Microsoft Word runs best on Linux in 2020?
Didn't some ad server serving msn homepage managed to be exploited to serve malware to old IE versions.

So the hapless admin who needs to download a file off the web (with no other browsers installed, and no firewall) would open IE and boom, exploit!
Not as successful as it might have been. US troops had once been on russian soil[1] but were withdrawn. If they'd provided more assistance Wrangel might've had more luck in ukraine[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War#South_Russia...
My problem is not finishing something. Because the context around a project always evolves, you can't really say it's ever finished. I can (now) easily get to the phase where a project is ready to accept users (which is what I suppose is meant with "finished").

My biggest problem is finding the energy to market the thing/find users outside of the ones I built it for.

I've worked on a tool for product managers (I built it for myself first) that attracts about 5 to 10 users every month (it's free).

I released a tool for a lab manager friend of mine. I wanted it to attract more users than his (enthousiast) staff, but I can't be bothered marketing the thing (except a lame post on LinkedIn).

And so on... Now I'm building a niche appointment planner, hoping I can get other sites to do the user recruitment for me (through affiliate marketing).

So it's never been about getting the project in a state where it's ready to accept user feedback but more about finding the motivation to go and market it.
"Best on-sensor PDAF system currently on the market" is a non-scientific statement, but I'll certainly agree with you that it's great.

However, in less optimal situations (e.g. low light, low contrast, and contrast perpendicular to the detection direction), it's my personal experience that current non-cross-type PDAF solutions fail, requiring 90 degree rotation to focus, which wouldn't be needed for cross-type. That, or use of an alternate focus subject if one is available.

It's more of an issue on smaller, less light sensitive sensors. The super high-end sensors are more likely to find something to focus on even when things are suboptimal.

But, alas, I'm a hobby photographer, and the 4500 USD an A9II costs is a bit more than I'm willing to spend.
Sounds like a good time to run something like this https://github.com/clockfort/GitHub-Backup
Companies have been using Lisp to accelerate game development with a scripting language in AA game.

Making a game is a hard problem.

See Lisp on Playstation 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
Oops, wrong by factor 1000. Thanks!
It was only a very small picture, and I mixed up the µ spike with m.
I'd consider mirroring to another provider like gitlab.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/repositor...
https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/2020/06, This verifies your data as well, but if you look at the data from Jan '20 to July '19(massive issues in july), there have been more outages. Keep in mind that the stats don't include small outages that last upwards of 2 mins or are region specific. My team and I have been encountering a lot of two min or less kind(usually fixes on a refresh 10 seconds latter). It gets annoying after a while. Its weird given that github hasn't adjusted to quarantine effect.
The US is trying to grab it; they're actively threatening with sanctions to dozens companies that are building a new gas pipeline at the moment (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3...), and they're successful in that some companies have backed out. The pipeline is already mostly finished though. But basically the US is trying to stop it because it'll reduce the dependency of Europe on American resources.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
Git itself is not the issue - the problem is Review Comments, Pull requests and issues.
Okay, true, Atlassian cloud products are way worse, even when they work. I wouldn't consider them a serious SaaS player in the slightest.
Realistically what would happen if you break Google up as described:

Microsoft, Amazon, FB, Tencent, etc. swoop in to grab the market share.

Besides, subsidized services are a special case. Especially Maps and maybe YouTube. Yes, YouTube makes a lot of money. But imagine paying market rates for storage, egress/ingress. They would need to focus even more on monetizing absolutely every interaction on the platform.

For all its faults I value the fact that literally every user can create an account and start uploading (practically) unlimited amounts of video for free and have it be available to over 2.5b+ people. All other issues I would put below that very unlikely accomplishment.
More specifically, it draws a bogus conclusion from a true premise using an assumption that wouldn't be true anymore if their policies were enacted. The government can indeed print money and government debt is private savings - what it can't do is print resources. The USPS uses a whole bunch of sorting offices and equipment and vans and people's time which cannot just be magicked out of nowhere by the government. They all consume scarce resources that can't be used for anything else. The same is true of the USPS staff's healthcare and retirement - again, a whole bunch of resources. We're used to the fact that money represents a claim on real things at a rate that only slowly declines due to inflation because government fiscal policy is carefully managed to ensure that by not printing too much or too little money.
Permissive immigration requires prohibitive social policy.
That doesnt sound as a side project but as a main project.
Might be of interest then - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/esheep-64bit/9mx2v0tqt6rm?...

eSheep 64!

(I haven't tried it)
Yeah in theory it's a defensible move, because we're moving towards standardized charging ports. However, Apple is the only one that's being weird about it, introducing the Lightning connector instead of e.g. switching to micro-USB. USB-C was still a while out when Lightning was introduced.

But honestly they have no excuse to not adopt Micro-USB or USB-C.
Making casual users create their own root certificates sounds like an even worse problem. Now an attacker isn't restricted to impersonating your lightbulbs. They can impersonate any domain if they can get your private CA. Now imagine if an IoT vendor engages in questionable practices like creating the CA for you and the user only has to download an exe that automatically installs the root certificate. The benefit for the vendor would be that all devices you order from their website would be shipped with correctly signed https certificates. Later a hacker dumps the database with root CAs and uses it to impersonate your bank.
Russia's economy is the sum of 3 countries in Europe ( I think France, Belgium and Netherlands would do) and they
redirect an insane amount of their GDP % to military.

But even then their army is ancient and mostly predates the fall of Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_militar...
On desktop, yes. But on mobile you either have to accept the ads or use Newpipe.
The same trend can be seen with linux distributions. A lot is surely down to composited window management. There's also things that we didn't run as services back in Windows 98 days - network capabilities, bluetooth, low power states, file hashing for quick search, assistants and other ways of rapidly finding and launching programs, auto updates, telemetry, automatic mounting of connected devices.

EDIT: and in the case of Windows 10, adverts/trialware and their associated animations.
Are you saying that Git should implement those features?
I used a stripped down version of windows 2000, the installer was 50M and extracted on disk it used 200M. It was just perfect, I loved everything about it. When Ms abandoned support for windows 2000 is exactly when I went to use Linux full time.
"Decimal" is not floating point... On the contrary, it's fixed point, as you set fixed amount of precision both before and after the decimal point. More importantly, "decimal" does not suffer from the arithmetic issues you get when using IEEE 754 floating point.
I think it would be better to compare opinions now to already-surveyed opinions before the pandemic; it's easy to say that you lost trust during the pandemic even if you had low trust before it started.
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I think this adapter is also bundled with the Ultra. Upgrading to that might do the trick.
Again? This is like the fourth time GitHub went down. Last time this happened was almost a week ago. [0]

Seriously, just consider self-hosting [1] rather than 'centralizing everything' [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23604944

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572532

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
Not just flexibility, but a reasonable reduction in e-waste.
hah yes, and because the help viewer is a process that inherited the permission of the parent, if you ran the help viewer from an admin app (like novel netware!), you get full admin privileges to execute anything!