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> all in one country, that is very close to another country, that doesn't want it to be its own country.

That's actually good news for Taiwan. TSMC is already very important for everyone. If it becomes the only player in high-end chip making, there is a good chance western countries won't let China invade Taiwan.
Facebook has a native browser app. I think that is a pretty damn big economic difference as otherwise they wouldn't bother with a native app. That would be bad for the apple Brand to give Android an exclusive like that.
For flavour, if travel is difficult[1], at least Youtubing is easy.

Here's a turkmen wedding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhSBOy8H_Y

and a pop clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udALVHSH9T4
(According to WP and the picture on https://yashlar.gov.tm/catalog/556 , this song is named after the "red rover" game.)

or landscapes + folkloric activities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy8LOpoMh10

Akhal-Tekes clean up fancy? https://live.staticflickr.com/5560/14529754743_26a80692e0_b....

[1] "Восток — дело тонкое"

(the obvious incentivisation is that oil companies need to hire country managers who are wealthy enough on their own account they can assume any necessary irregular payments and entertainment will be arranged by their personal lawyers, or in any case, well off the companies' own books?)

Incidentally, Berdimuhamedow's thesis was
"Clinical features and pathogenesis of major dental diseases in children of multiparous women", but I haven't bothered to look up his advisor.
I believe this is completely wrong, the values of many important currencies are not at all derived from some vague market value, but are very actively centrally fought for, and controlled by the respective governments, and their respective economic and military might, and reserves - no equivalent in the typical cryptocurrency world. The decision to devalue the currency to save the economy, the decision to change course and peg a currency to something else entirely, the centralized fight to contain hyperinflation with all resources of a government, these have nothing to do with "deriving values from the market".

In contrast, there is no central government with military and reserves that can decide to manufacture an extra $3 trillion same price BTC on a whim to temporarily address a virus, or to devalue BTC to save the local economy, most crypto "currencies" just don't seem to work that way.
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It's not debt because unlike (financial) debt, there is no way to not take it or to repay it.

Technical debt in software is unavoidable. Every variable and function and design decision can invariably be rebranded as technical debt soon enough.

The implication of "technical debt" is that there is a perfect state to reach with no debt, but there isn't. It also implies that debt could be avoided but it can't be, it's inherent to development.
I think the question quickly becomes why not an iPad. They're easy and pretty cheap to get hold of, have good screens, lots of people can easily write new software for them and they're also a tablet. Many people may already have one and so using hardware they already have is much cheaper than buying new special hardware.

Also, eink screens are nice to look at but so expensive for non-kindle sizes.
Stupid idea! Just use LaTEX and enjoy proper source control.
Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04174
If we choose a year as a checkpoint to start deprecating old web technology without sacrificing functionality, which one would be the reasonable pick?
Australia has strict KYC and AML laws that means many financial institutions and fintech businesses will request drivers licences and passports as a part of user registration. This may well be common all over the world but I’ve had to upload a photo of my drivers licence to one service or another twice in the last month.
For some reason I feel really saddened by that. The management at Lego are the custodians of a significant cultural artifact. Really seems like they've lost their way.
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It's annoying when you don't have the client and you want to jump into a meeting. or you don't want to install client for different reasons.

They obviously focus on pushing their client because they can offer more features and better user experience. It's easier to sell their product to you. Otherwise most web clients are limited in features which means it's harder to compete for them.
> Do you also consider "monsters" anachronistic?

No, but I'll enjoy reading your argument why you are asking that.
> Software is a tool. Tools that are used often require maintenance, which in itself is not a novel concept.

In that context, maintenance is fixing your screwdriver. Technical debt is having a fixed-head screwdriver instead of another with swappable heads: it might be ok for you if you mainly use that one, but if you're constantly needing to buy new screwdrivers and carry them, it's extra money and work.

And the same as technical debt, you might decide to buy first a fixed -head screwdriver because you're not certain about your future needs and it's just cheaper and easier, and then switch to a swappable head when you are certain you need it.
Thought about this question myself too..

I think a tie into jira or other platform could help here.
I am using Thinkpad E14 . I find it perfect for my usecase. It supports Linux 100℅ , built very well, has best keyboard, has flawless efi firmware.
Probably yes if you "insist" on staying not accessible.
Disclaimer: I work at 8x8 (not specifically on meetings, but related)

8x8 offers more than just meetings.

You can see the feature list here: https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing

Yes we bought Jitsi from Atlassian.

The Jitsi based meetings are integrated into our complete UC offering (yet we still deliver stand-alone meeting clients for customers who might want only meetings).
I tried finding some of the old news stories in the online media which gave me the impression before posting here, in fact I think I even commented on a couple of them, but the search engines control so much of what we know today I simply cant find those old articles.

Edit: I should add, circa 2004/2005 I used to be able to cut and paste conversational posts from online chat forums like pistonheads and others, paste the post into Google and it would give me a list of other websites where the exact same conversation was taking place albeit with different avatars. Fast forward to 2011 and all becomes clear. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
You cant do that now, Google has been updated.

The forum I used to post on, used techniques like using the image of a full stop (period) at the end of the sentence, which I spotted because broadband was slow so the placeholder for the image appeared before it got pulled down from a Canadian webserver. The 5 eyes are very real and they even have oversight of Tor contrary to popular belief.
Not only that, marketing is hard - even for marketers. Even so, if you commit (read: regular schedule) some time to it you'll likely be less overwhelmed / intimidated / discouraged.

Set a couple reasonable goals. Work towards those, and only those. There's no magic potion. No magic bullet. No magic nuttin'. That's marketing :)
Because you can't. They're reserved for c-diff infections and there isn't much risk data on use cases outside of that such that regular providers won't give it the OK.
This is why a lot of countries have a "fixed book price" system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price
Let me explain my case here. 2 months back I was having stomach pain around the abdomen, it comes and goes, especially its a bit high after taking food. Consulted doctor, and he gave medicines assuming its gastritis, without antibiotics. Lipid profile was normal, SGPT was a bit higher (55 U/L)A Urea Breath test showed that I am positive for H-Pylori.

A USG abdomen showed a gaseous proximal colon along with mild wall thickening of sigmoid and adjacent descending segment around left lilac fossa (Radiologist assumed either spastic colon/ sequela of colitis). The Doc started treatment with antibiotics Amoxidin(Amoxicillin) + Flagyl(Metronidazole) for 14 days along with Gordex and Gaviscon for gastritis. After 14 days, the pain has drastically reduced, but I started having constipation, minor fissure. Consulted doc again, and he gave Flagyl(Metronidazole) for 7 days along with lactulose. Stomach pain actually went away when I started taking lactulose also H-Pylori was not detected on the next test(using H-Pylori antigen stool test).

When I stopped the medicines again, the constipation and occasional stomach pain came back. I started taking lactulose 2 times a day after the 14 + 7 days antibiotic course, everything was smooth, but when I stopped lactulose, stomach pain came back. I have then started reading about the symptoms and somewhere I read about gut flora and how antibiotics damages gut flora, on reading much I started asking my doc about probiotics.

He recommended a probiotic which said Colon support containing 20 billion CFU. The mix of probiotics was Bifidobacteria blend(18 billion CFU) (Bifidobacteria lactis, Bifidobacteria infantis, Bifidobacteria longum, Bifidobacteria breve, Bifidobacteria bifidum)) along with Lactobacillus Blend(1.5 Billion CFU) (Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus helverticus) and Stephalococus Thermophilus (500 million CFU). Taking a probiotic capsule for 6 days has improved a lot, and I have a smooth stomach motion, and doesn't have the stomach pain or constipation anymore.

What I knew from Doc is, if we eat prebiotic (Food with good fiber), it is decomposed by good bacteria and they reproduce good. On the other hand, if you take high sugar, it usually helps the bad bacteria growth like H-Pylori or E Coli. I was taking this advice and taking a lot of salads in these days.
I would have though development would have taken up more of the pie.
Not sure if the Rosetta Stone was in that location when I visited last. But standing near some of the large Egyptian statues gives you a strange feeling of being vulnerable and safe at the same time. Probably the effect of being near a humanoid figure much larger than yourself.
And you represent all consumers?
Isn't this effectively what a TPM is?

But I think this only works to an extent as, if you want your DRM not be trivially circumventable, it will be a cross-cutting concern and not easily restricted to a module.

E.g., the most secure TPM is useless if the OS simply ignores any responses and shows the movie anyway.

What you could do is to close off the whole media path: The OS only sees the encrypted media, which it sends to some combined TPM/decoding hardware, which more or less sends it directly to the screen. I believe to some extent this is what is done in practice.

You could technically see the TPM/graphics card/screen assembly as a "module" and can keep the OS separate of it - but this risks your "module" becoming so essentiall that it'll be unclear what is the dog and what is the tail.
Digital technology industry failed a 25-yr challenge to achieve gender equality
It doesn't matter how much it costs to store water. It costs money to heat the water, and that's what you have to pay attention to. This is much harder to work around as you don't have much choice when you use a hot water. Hot waters don't just store cold water in the tank to be heated when electricity prices are low. Instead, it'll start heating after you shower, for example.

I am in an apartment: I have a small water heater - I easily run out of water taking a shower if I stick around too long. There are two people in the house, and if we both want to shower in one day, the hot water . That way, I have hot water to do dishes and someone can take a shower in evening. I'm happy the water heater for the washer is separate, but again, it heats when the temperature dips and doesn't keep the water cold until electricity is cheap.

Even if the hot water heater waited to heat until prices were low, you are going to have water that is not-as-hot if you are the second person taking a shower. This is simply because as the tank empties, cold water is added to the tank. All subsequent hot water will be cooler.

I'll add that some folks sweat at night and must take a shower in the morning (I do when hormones act up. Night sweats are no joke).

I'm in an apartment: I cannot update the hot water heater. It literally cannot be done for me and millions of others because we cannot replace such things. You'd have to mandate landlords do improvements, and even then, it'll be years before it is all upgraded.

I'd argue that the real answer is to go with tankless heaters in this case: It isn't that you'll be spending money when the electricity is cheap, but you'd use less overall for the actual heating of water.
great is subjective. some people who use linux dislike windows. OP maybe in this category (as they didn't mention windows in post).

Also, If i want to use Windows/Android in my Linux setup, i just run them in qemu. Works very better imo.
> There's maintenance unrelated to technical debt,

Agreed.

> and technical debt unrelated to maintenance

Disgareed, as you cheerfully indicate yourself in your next sentence.

Technical debt as a concept of "debt" is paid back through maintenance.

What else might it be paid back with?
The in-browser link is hidden till you click the button to launch the zoom client app. Then, the link appears.
You can in the UK
I have recently finished 'Lost in Math'.

And that was one of the points, apparently physicists switching to economists say math is simplistic and superflous.

Math is math, but it can be used as a window dressing for you opinions.

On the other hand if your field pretends to be science. Also creates and awards itself a Nobel prize and pretends its an actual thing. Well maybe its a sign of a con.
Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown
Speaking of Keybase, I'm looking for an alternative to their encrypted Git repositories.

Any suggestions?
I hoped Servo would fill that niche.

It's nearly impossible to write a new browser engine that is compatible with all the legacy mess on the wild web, but for packaged webapps a modern minimal engine is exactly what they need.
I can only wonder why one would use ads in an industry which is so specialized and has so few players. Wouldn't it be more efficient to just talk to these people?
There's a thread regarding this on github linked from gorhill's repo:

https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

Also Adguard for Safari is GPL v3.

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardForSafari
Was it his decision to open Japan up? I've seen some graphs and they've had more tourists in the past 10 years than they've had in many decades, combined, before.
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I mean they are doing something right if people are willingly buying their products while fully knowing they are deficient in features.
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There's not a single TV channel or even TV show that manages to achieve gender equal viewership when people are free to choose themselves according to their interests.

It's very hard to understand the belief that a free society would ever achieve equality of outcome when it comes to peoples career choices thus.
Google Meet does send each video participants video stream seperately. You can tell this by disconnecting internet and then clicking a (now frozen) participant - they become fullscreen but low-res.

That means the client must have had that data locally rather than needing to wait for the server to send it.
Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard
Yes, this annoys me so much still. THAT was my one killer use for it.

The effort of migrating an email address I've used for over a decade just to get this one feature back doesn't quite make sense, but I'm considering it...
I still use Sublime daily, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but i can see that VSCode is breathing down it's neck.

A couple of years ago i could have sworn that they had feature parity, but these days it seems like VSCode is getting "all the cool plugins", while Sublime has stagnated. The long development cycle probably doesn't help.

Sublime is still the king of speed. It launches in milliseconds, opens just about anything you can throw at it, and does so without making a fuzz.

VSCode on the other hand spends seconds starting up, more seconds after starting up loading plugins, even more seconds refreshing plugins until it is finally ready after 10-15 seconds. It may not be a big deal if you only open it in the morning, but if you have to open it multiple times a day it becomes a chore, so much that i have reverted to Notepad++ for most trivial tasks.

VSCode will also open pretty much anything you throw at it, but where Sublime will use very little memory opening a large log file, VSCode is in the GB memory consumption range long before finishing reading it.

Of course, the above is only "Windows" problems, as any Unix based operating system will have some form of Vi, which is my preferred editor.
GPL (and others) allow such a model as well. There is nothing in the GPL preventing me from selling for as much as I like. The buyer however has to receive the source code (upon request) and can share it for free (as in beer) if they like.
Tencent has famously strongarmed Apple into waving fees, and Apple Pay requirement for them under a threat that they will pull Wechat from the App Store
I'd be interested to see the track record since they implemented notarization. How often has it caught malware, both before and after the fact? I haven't seen any headlines about e.g. a popular application failing to launch one day because Apple found a miner in it some time after initial notarization.
Because in a Google meet with just one other person my computer fans spin up like crazy and the video quality is crap.

With Zoom I can be in a call with many people and I don't notice my CPU fans, and the video quality is better.
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And the browser extension runs a native .exe file behind the scenes...
Sure, and that's actually 100% normal in business -- it's called the "J-curve". Lots of businesses big and small start their lives, or even start some new project or expansion within an existing business, by borrowing money and then paying it back. The key thing is 1) borrowing money "strategically", and not just willy-nilly and 2) paying it back when you can afford to, rather than continually paying interest on it.

It totally makes sense to take on technical debt in order to get your MVP out the door quickly; or to be able to fix an urgent customer issue; or to be able to make a release. And in some cases, it may make sense to keep technical debt around indefinitely.

What doesn't make sense is to pile on technical debt for no real benefit, and then not take any time to pay it down. That's like always buying things on your credit card just because you can and only making the minimum payments.
have you heard of COVID-19?
The first step wouldn't be banning, it would be helping Zoom to be compliant, then if they were uncooperative, a fine.
After watching the video I wanted to build and play with this. Impressive project and the democratization of robotics is a great mission to be on.

BTW if I wanted to buy the body (I dont have a 3d printer) is there a way to do that (or could there be through some collective scheme?)
.docx is just an archive format. If I remember correctly the contents inside the .docx archive are plain text. Can’t we just use version control inside of there? We would have to of course figure out a way to have git unpack and pack the archive each time.
it would be interesting if they did this with stonehenge. i'd much rather be up close to a good copy than see the original from a platform with 300 people.. otherwise virtual tour suffices?
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You have to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise we'd be saying that HTTPS/TLS is not secure since the webpage is rendered to your monitor unencrypted.

I agree with the parent quote:

> I’ve found statements like these to not contribute very much towards solving any practical security problems.
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> It's controversial because it takes away power from countries actively abusing that power.

I'd say it's controversial because it breaks a wide arrange of setups and features that rely on DNS, giving power from local administrators over to Google, Cloudflare et al.

If the only thing it did was prevent governments from spying, there'd be a lot less fuss about it.
>That doesn’t change the fact that neither wind nor solar can produce electricity on demand.

It doesn't really matter. Each kWh of renewable energy reduces the number of kWh that have to be generated via fossil fuels thereby reducing emissions. A grid with 80% renewables is possible with very little energy storage.

>It doesn’t really matter whether a wind farm in the German North Sea can produce a lot of electricity cheaply during a windy day when that electricity is needed three days later in Munich.

Renewable power generation follows a normal distribution. Yes there are extreme outliers in each direction but the more extreme the lower the likelyhood of it happening. There are at most 10 days per year where renewables are below 30% of generated power. Running some gas plants during those 10 days doesn't matter. Especially if you are using power to gas.

>That’s because whenever solar and wind aren’t delivering any electricity we’re starting up coal and gas plants.

It's usually the opposite. When coal starts up and there is renewable energy available the renewable energy has to be curtailed but it gets paid anyway. Coal is the issue here. Gas is not a problem because it is more flexible. [0] The irony is that energy intensive industry doesn't have to pay the EEG surcharge which means consumers end up paying a 2-3 times higher EEG surcharge than they should. It's practically a heavy industry subsidy at this point, not a renewable subsidy. Consumers pay the electricity bill of arcfurnaces now.

Germany has high emissions because Germany turned off nuclear before phasing out coal and the coal lobby in Germany is huge.

>The intermittency and low energy density are inherent physical properties of solar and wind farms which is why 100% renewables is newer feasible (unless for countries like Norway who have the possibility to build lots of hydro plants).

I actually couldn't care less about 100% renewables. Even 80% renewables sounds like a dream today. However what you're saying is not the whole truth. 100% renewables are possible with today's technology and it will only get easier in the future. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/09/correcting-anti-renewab...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkA65vpeA5g (Video in German)
Clarification: some latest-generation devices contain hardware fuses. I was specifically thinking about the Switch.

However I think there is absolutely a general trend in the industry to see downgrades as a risk that must be protected against.
Liberty in an age of safety (or: our culture of extreme risk aversion)