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Very true, there is a very good blog post by Joel Spolsky on that: a good support person will spot recurring technical and report that to devs. Some offshore "consultant" support or badly paid "call center person" does not give a crap about product quality; more, such support has no incentives to provide any meaningful feedback, as the more support incidents gets reported, the more money they earn.
Full disclosure I haven't used rxjs myself but from this [1] SO answer it seems pretty complex to limit concurrency of functions in a queue.

Qew on the other hand has a much simpler API: you instantiate a queue with the max concurrency and delay set right in the constructor and then all you need to do is push async functions onto it and forget about them.

The queue will take care of limiting concurrency and executing the next function when the first one has completed.

You can use the same queue for your entire application or instantiate different queues for different REST API endpoints for example; setting the max concurrency and required delay between requests for each API depending on their individual rate limits.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/26126750/3229534
> Friendlier then a panel heater

Depends on the cat, no?
> the China - Thailand Railway opens soon

Very interested! Do you have any reference that I keep an eye on?
I think the Chrome developers are trying to tell you you shouldn't be using your users devices as game servers...

How about when a tab is backgrounded, a server continues running the game and just streams an mp3 audio stream to the users device. Most devices can stream audio with the CPU actually turned off.
That's nice... as long as you only buy stuff from your country.
We’re in a pandemic, seriously, why not?
> secret numbered Swiss bank accounts

BTW, that's quite a myth. There were never bank accounts where the banks didn't know who the client was. But not everybody at the banks had access to the info what account belonged to which person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_bank_account

Of course if you as a foreign country could get info about your own citizens having bank accounts is a different question (and that has luckily changed in recent years).
From what I understood the main problem is that they need to backfill it within 10 years, whereas when similar changes were forced on companies having such pension plans, they got to adjust it over 40 years?
I think the UN should agree to a global minimum corporate tax rate and anyone that doesn't implement and act on it gets sanctioned.
DDG for "Defund the Police" from my normal browser at home in the UK with UK sites enabled

1) CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/06/us/what-is-defund-police-...

2) https://defundthepolice.org

3) Wikipedia

4) Daily Caller (sigh)

5) Guardian

CNN opens with

It's as straightforward as it sounds: Instead of funding a police department, a sizable chunk of a city's budget is invested in communities, especially marginalized ones where much of the policing occurs.

Wikipedia states

"Defund the police" is a slogan that supports divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, healthcare and other community resources. Activists who use the phrase may do so with varying intentions; some seek modest reductions, while others argue for full defunding as a step toward the abolition of contemporary police services.

> The misunderstanding we're talking about here is that people assume it means only cutting down police funds without investing it anywhere else.

You'd think conservatives would be all for that - smaller state, lower taxes
That's what direct debits (Avtalegiro in Norwegian) are for. Works fine here. I only use my credit cards for buying things in shops or one off things online. And my credit card gets paid by direct debit.
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Then home come the poor migrants from China, India, Mexico and even Africa who come to America end up doing so well?
This is pretty much Murphy's Law in action. Murky business dealings, poor governance and mismanagement is a norm in big parts of the world. Then from time to time things go wrong, and that is just statistics.
You would be surprised how often this error is made. Even in quality newspapers journalists tend to use kWh as a unit of power instead of energy. That probably happens because of the 'hour' part in kWh.

People have no problem understanding that km is distance, and km/h is speed.

With energy and power the units read less intuitively: energy is J (Joule) and power is really just J/s (Joules per second), but we call that W (Watt) and for purposes of energy consumption the unit is kWh, which is really just a fancy compact way of saying 3.6 MJ (Megajoules).

So we have journalists writing about new dams that produce x TWh and cats that produce 129.65 kWh. (Per what? Day? Month? Year? Lifespan of the dam?)
> Apples curation isn't (as they suggest) preventing malware, theft of information, etc - this if verifiably false given recent history with apps like tiktok stealing clipboard

There are many things that go wrong with the App Store, but you have to realise this is a ludicrous assertion. Pasting from clipboard is an entirely different class than rootkits, backdoors, trojans, and other malware that have a vanishingly small chance to go through the review process itself.

This is defence in depth. The sandbox helps, but it’s not magic. Without review, publishing an app with a sandbox bypass, or simply abusing entitlements, becomes trivial.
Currently, Amsterdam-Frankfurt-Vienna-Zagreb-Belgrade-Skopje-Thessaloniki-Athens. Or Köln-Munich instead of Frankfurt-Vienna. Also, south of Belgrade I think the schedule is a bit sketchy.
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You can have your cake and eat it.

Sandboxing-type security is damn good on mobile OSes.

We tend to associate desktop with the insecure but it's not because of the lack of an app store. It's because desktop OSes do not sandbox, ask user permission, etc. Modern mobile OSes do so it's really night and day.

This takes care of 90% of why mobile OSes are more secure than desktop ones - not app stores.

I'm sure that there are other security concerns. I have security concerns about my house. I wouldn't like a camera in my house going to the police because of it. Some people would. But neither party should be forced into one way or the other. Let's give them a choice.

Let's allow third party app stores.
I recently had reason to build both Chromium and Firefox from source and Firefox was considerably simpler, on Windows at least
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I don't believe that being "smart" inhibits confirmation bias, as it's an inherent human trait that our brains have evolved into.
I remember receiving a warning a few weeks ago which announced the upcoming changes and what I'd need to do to keep most of my stuff (one needed to unset the master password to migrate the saved passwords for example IIRC)
But how many such comments would you need to read per day to replace panel heaters would you say?
The oars used in competitive rowing switched from wood to carbon fibre in the early 1980s. The Dreissigacker brothers sold their first pair of carbon oars in 1977, and AFAIK 1984 was the last Olympics where wooden oars were used.

Even at the start, carbon oars were cheaper than wooden ones, possibly because of the shape of the material...
From what I've seen this service seems to have a lot of outages.
Many systems here have over-the-phone robots that understand button presses, but yeah, I think they support only decimal digits.
You are not accounting for behavior change. Before the online ordering era, most people never went non-grocery shopping more than once a month. And did all that shopping in one big trip.

Once you think decide that all highly environmentally-destructive actions are not even an option on the table, your behavior changes.
I see the comparison, but in this case what Apple offer is on of their main selling arguments, not something users are tricked into.
And its super annoying. I bail out when I'm asked to do that.
Good read, except the part where the author says there are no existing solutions for processing logs. There are quite a few robust scalable ones.

syslog-ng, logstash or fluentd on the host to collect and aggregate logs. (logstash/fluentd can parse text messages with regex and handle a hundred different things like s3/kafka/http but they are much more resource intensive).

kibana or graylog to centralize logs and search, the storage is elasticsearch.

A simple syslog-ng on the devices could probably do the job. Little known fact about syslog, it can reliably forward messages over TCP, logs are numbered, have retries and syslog-ng can do DNS load balancing.
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Fair enough, my information might be out of date.
An even better summary is that inclusionism and deletionism never existed as actual genuine philosophies. They began because a person early in the project who was a source of several odd ideas, and who was having arguments on the English Wikipedia's mailing list, invented "deletionism" from whole cloth, and someone else invented "inclusionism" as a joke to mock that. And then people who came along years later believed the pages on Meta to be authoritative without really researching what people actually did, or how those pages came about.

The earliest version of the "inclusionism" page even pointed out that this was just name-calling.

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inclusionism&ol...
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> A 3kg cat has a heat output of 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours

I don't get it, how is 14.8 watts equal to 129.65 kilowatt-hours?
I couldn't believe they would block about:config just like that. That mindset is completely unacceptable.

But it seems to be a bit more complicated. See https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i51k0q/mozilla_cou.... about:config is not blocked just because of configurability and the usual danger of breaking something, but because it is essentially broken. Still, it's the wrong decision. Users can just reinstall if the app breaks, and there is no blame on Mozilla in that if they showed a warning before, as they do on the desktop.
> History repeats itself

I would go with "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes". :)

> definitely MS will get it wrong again

Oh, definitely. And I agree -- Microsoft is doing some interesting stuff right now. VSCode has made a big splash, they bought GitHub, etc.
Jacques Cousteau, and really many prominent oceanographers / explorers (Ballard, who discovered the Titanic, comes to mind) have a background in espionage. Getting a large international joint effort off the ground coming from that field...can be difficult.

Recently Alexandra Cousteau, the grand-daughter of Jacques, had her name surface in regards to Epstein and whatever operation he was running.
Any chance you can dispel with the meaningless buzzwords ?

"Abstractions around processes and IPC" does not reduce the number of malware and privacy invasive apps. And who knows what "virtualization and capabilities" even means in the context of iOS.

It has been limiting and securing access to APIs/data that has been responsible for improving the privacy and security of iOS. For example warning about use of clipboard, per-use permission dialogs for contacts/photos/etc and randomising identifiers.
> Fraudulent transactions and charges to their prepaid airtime

I sure hope Yelp doesn't do that. In countries without sufficient traditional banking infrastructure, prepaid phone balances become a substitute to bank accounts. According to the Upstream Systems report you yourself linked, the malware wasn't just using the phone's data allowance, but actively attempting to subscribe to digital services which get billed to the user's prepaid balance. That's equivalent to signing up to services with the user's credit card.
There are plenty of payment processor platforms other than Apple, if the mobile market was opened, you could checkout if Stripe better suits your needs.
I'm not American so I can't know, but how much police presence is "right" in your opinion? Surely no police sounds like a bad thing, doesn't it?
I don’t like that program, but I am not sure I would call it contemptuous.
> If you have eight figure net worth or access to same from external sources it's not particularly difficult to start your own offshore bank.

An eight figure net worth is not even close when it comes to considering starting an own bank.

Furthermore, offshore today means just one thing: "red flag". Because of AML rules, the list of Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories [1], and FATCA/CRS reporting, the only people still going through the hassle of using offshore to hide something are people who really want to hide something -- hence the red flag.

Finally, banks don't exist by themselves. They need other banks to partner and transaction with. For example: say you are a bank in the British Virgin Islands. Now try to buy stock on the NYSE. For that, you need a bank with access, and no bank with access would partner with some shady outfit.

> And if you've been following the history of Wirecard

Wirecard is a scandal beyond comparison. It is unfathomable to me how this could have gone on so long.

To contrast that, working for a bank myself, I was involved in numerous audits by financial regulators, and you wouldn't believe the level of detail they went into. Any flaw or inconsistency -- no matter how trivial, at what org level, or even across levels or topics -- was brought up.

But perhaps that was just coincidence, and we had the luck of being audited by most the diligent of auditors.

> And even if you go with a traditional bank, KYC is mostly box ticking.

Absolutely not true, at least not with the banks I'm familiar with (and our peer group services mainly high-net-worth clients).

Every single client can be subject of an AML audit. Any irregularity in a record will be construed as an overall failure of AML policies in the institution. You don't just "tick the boxes" with high-risk clients. Background checks happen. Plausibility checks happen.

> And some of the biggest banks have been directly implicated in money laundering, AML laws and all.

Laws cannot prevent crime, they can only deter crime. Yes, big banks are occasionally still involved in money laundering, but compare this to 20 years ago. The incentives are diminishing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATF_blacklist
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My card has a PIN but the PIN is actually quite dangerous. If someone gets my PIN, then it fraudulent transactions become my problem. Whereas a stolen credit card number is a problem for the bank or the merchant.
Thanks for this. I'm about half-way through The Complete Flutter Development Course on Udemy at the moment. So will be on the lookout, afterwards, for example Flutter apps to pick apart and see how they work.
most of these FPGA's are north of $2000 USD...does anyone know if you can do something like this with an RTL SDR dongle?
> Access to private APIs for example is not preventable at runtime due to the way Objective-C works.

That's on Apple side to fix this, you can compare that to the browser which has a proper sandbox model without private APIs.
This is really quite a simple problem: the rent is too damn high.

Apple should drop or tier their pricing so that a $10 subscription is paying say 5% to them. Developers are happy. Anyone raking it in pays more, a progressive system that ensures small companies can innovate.

Is this bad for Apple? In the long-term, they get more innovation and a better user experience. Financially, they lose some income on a subset of existing transactions and gain income from transactions they wouldn't have processed, as apps switch to native dev, and the market sizes increase as incentives change.

At the most they could lose a few billion in revenue a year (very unlikely) and gain $0. That's the upper bound. But how many more subscriptions would go through the store if apps like Spotify had signup via the app? I'd guess hundreds of millions of dollars at least, could be much larger in the long-term.

Apple are losing the argument, even the best possible cut isn't worth the reputational damage and harm to the user experience, they should restructure the pricing so they save face and potentially benefit, or at least limit the damage.

The writing is on the wall at this stage, and they will act or be forced to act.
According to this chart [0] the installed capacity of fossil fuel plants is 4TW. Lets cut it down to 2TW because we don't know how much of that infrastructure is actually utilized. Let's say I'm sold on nuclear and want 2TW of installed nuclear plant capacity. Each power plant should be able to generate 700MW. This means we have to build 2857 new power plants. Half of them need to be done by 2050. The other half should be in construction by 2050 but are allowed to take 10-15 years to be built. Surely economies of scale should be able to reduce nuclear plant costs to around 2 billion USD per plant [1] but that would still cost 5714 billion USD.

Open questions:

Which nuclear technology is available today that can be deployed 1400 times today as soon as today without any massive safety flaws? Theoretical reactor designs may sound cool but nobody is going to wait for them.

Who is going to pay for the prototypes and first dozen plants? How are you going to convince the rest of the planet to install your nuclear plants?

Is this ambitious timeline even possible? Can you train enough people and build an extensively optimized nuclear supply chain that can scale thousands of reactors?

What happens once the "building" rush is over? Will the supply chain die again and be hard to start back up?

Can every country be trusted to operate their own nuclear plants? Will they openly report flaws and safety problems in the power plant and take those reports seriously by turning off defective or unsafe plants until they restored the safety of the plant? Fukushima was easily preventable but there was no accountability and no incentive to prevent an accident. Nobody in charge felt responsible to actually add adequate safety measures.

Can we mine enough fuel to power these plants? Will mining activity have to increase to meet the new demand? Can that mining be powered by nuclear energy? Is mining for nuclear fuel worse than coal?

Is waste disposal feasible today in every country? Can this cost be reduced through economies of scale or is it fixed per unit of waste?

None of these things are impossible but they require time, money and trust.

People who don't care about climate change are not going to give you money for nuclear or renewables.

Time isn't exactly on our side. We are at a point where we have figured out lots of alternatives to fossil fuels, it is just a matter of sticking with one choice and actually doing it. Hesitation will cost a lot of time so it's now or never.

We are also short on trust. The UK doesn't like the EU. Other continents are not unified at all and it is common for countries to be at war in the middle east and Africa. Why would they want a power plant that is a juicy target for terrorism?

Because of these concerns I'm not going to hope for a nuclear future but I'll let myself be surprised if things turn out better than I predict.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267358/world-installed-p...
[1] https://schlissel-technical.com/docs/reports_35.pdf (summary: coal plant went over budget and cost 2 billion usd)
Nah, getting their MVP up quickly let them validate. Now they know it's worth the effort to scale ;)
How does this differ from Loom?
> ...but most users are probably pretty satisfied with the update.

Am I only one to see Firefox reset the search engine to Google with this Android release?
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> The goal of completing a Ph.D. program is to become the most knowledgable person in the world about a specific topic. While this is a valuable goal for disciplines that reward specialization, it does not provide enough flexibility for autodidacts with a range of interests.

This is generally true, but it is not a rule written in stone. One word: interdisciplinary.

For example, I work in a field which lays in the middle between materials science and mechanical engineering. My day to day work is mostly programming, but I also need a strong background on experimental methods and fundamental physics (also, math and statistics, lots of that stuff people say they study but never need in their careers).

We need many people like this. We need mathematicians who can interpret experimental results. We need engineers who can question "fundamental" laws. We need scientists who are good programmers and are not afraid of complicated equations. In my department, jacks of all trades are a very valuable asset.

I am also of the opinion that people with a broad range of interests usually have more original ideas. People very focused in some field do very important work, and find very good jobs when they finish, but important advancement usually comes from thinking-out-of-the-box people.
They sometimes trying it in German but I bail out when I'm asked to jump through this extra hoops.
F-Droid doesn't respect my system language. It shows me Apps descriptions in a language of my current country instead. And I don't see any language setting.
You should use a credit card for online purchases when you can in The Netherlands. With IDEAL you don't get the ability to do chargebacks, and most webshops will charge the consumer the same amount of money for an IDEAL and a CC purchase.

Not using a CC is just leaving insurance money on the table for no reason. I've done chargebacks after getting fraudulent goods transferred over with relatively little hassle, and would probably never managed to reverse a bank transaction.
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It's not cheap if you are over 26. But if you want to travel a lot and not plan ahead it gives you peace of mind and most likely some moderate saving compared to buying tickets on the spot.