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Considering their new desktop app didn't have even the most basic error handling for connection failures (during downtime people had bricked apps that displayed a white screen with a HTTP error), I have absolutely zero faith in Slack's engineering capabilities.

That's not an indictment of the engineers, but it's an indictment of the executives and managers responsible for the lazy stagnation they're currently in. The quality engineering is gone.

Headcount is way up, engineering budgets are way up, but feature velocity is non-existent. Meanwhile Teams is moving at lightspeed in comparison. While Teams might not be there yet, at least they're trying. Slack is doing nothing.
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> other alternatives- such as feature phones

Suggesting that feature phones are an alternative in this situation (mobile gaming) is completely absurd. iOS and Android devices are the only option right now for quite a wide range of things.

> then why would they remain as privacy-oriented?

You aren't seriously suggesting that Apple only promotes privacy because of their walled garden?! (Even if that were the case, the fact that a wall proves useful to the owner doesn't imply that it's legally permissible or morally desirable.)
What you're doing makes zero sense.

A physical is EXPENSIVE, so why pay for it? Doctors visits aren't cheap either.

Also makes no sense to pay cash for RX drugs in almost all cases
It comes with an app. We need to reverse engineer it and check it's security... It's not like we can trust the FDA to do that.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1527297235
We do it every year anyway. We can just decide to 'not' do it.
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But there are many alternatives - Facetime, Google Meet, Skype, etc;
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I'm not holding my breath for the implementation of this decision. After the public poll, politicians quickly claimed to want to implement this right away. Just to descend into the usual inability to decide upon anything (who wants which time zone, how do we align neighbouring timezones, do we want a timezone-difference between France and Germany (that geographically should be there, etc) that is characteristic for the EU.

My prediction is that the abolition will be delayed for another 7 or 8 years, after which they will just decide to drop the matter since "it's already a decade old".
So if I understand correctly, using this device you can e.g. hook up a HDMI 2.1 device directly to a HDMI 2.1 TV, then pass the audio through an eARC port to the device, which then outputs a normal HDMI signal with full audio support (including Dolby Atmos) you can plug into a HDMI 2.0 receiver that has no eARC or HDMI 2.1 support?

If that’s how it works that would be awesome as I bought an expensive 11.2 receiver not long ago, but when the new consoles are out I want to have VRR and ALLM, which means HDMI 2.1, which means it has to go straight into the TV, which means I would lose Dolby Atmos (assuming PS5 will support it of course, but that seems pretty likely)
I see. Thanks for the clarification.

So when you are verifying an incoming JWT, don't you need to check what the allowed counter is for that session? If yes, then doesn't that require a database / cache lookup for each verification? And if it does, then how are you able to get super fast session verification?
I don't think you know exactly what's going on. Pharmacies can lose money on some prescriptions even before factoring in expenses like rent, labels, bottles, insurance, employees, etc..
If by “Element Access” you mean getting pointers to DOM elements, try querySelector [1] or querySelectorAll [2]:

var element = document.querySelector(...)

var elements = document.querySelectorAll(...)

[1]: https://devdocs.io/dom/document/queryselector

[2]: https://devdocs.io/dom/document/queryselectorall
I would be interested to see a map of public infrastructure investment over time (such as public transport; amenities for sports, leisure, and recreation; convenience shops; zoning for increasing housing density) overlaid with the rise and fall of COVID-19. My gut feeling is that the density the environment, and the proximity to these facilities, is inversely proportional to the growth rate and total number of infections.
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WOW, nice thanks for the info!
> The employer's plan seems cheaper because of that subsidy.

And it is cheaper, because that part of it is tax-free.
As the article mentions, it seems more likely that the decreasing death rate is due to higher rates of young people being infected vs older people. Also due to increased testing catching the less severe cases.

Back in April here in the U.K even healthcare workers weren’t getting tested. Now you can get a test posted to your house for free if you show even the mildest symptoms, so much more of these mild cases are getting counted.

Also, anecdotally, older people are still taking precautions to minimise contact with others whereas younger people are basically going about life as normal. Hence, the virus is spreading around younger people much more than older people. For example, the U.K had a huge number of deaths in care homes earlier in the pandemic but I believe most care homes are still locked down to some extent while at the same time the pubs are open and kids are heading back to school next week.
Is crunchyroll even higher quality than Apple TV? It seems like every episode is 1.3GB at 1080p.
Likewise. Erkanoplan is a generic russian term for ground-effect vehicles, but the article talks specifically about the sole completed Lun-class (MD-160).

The USSR had an other Lun planned ("Spasatel", which was intended as a mobile field hospital but was not completed due to the fall of the USSR), as well as a bunch of other models in prototyping, development or active use (Orlyonok having been pretty much the only somewhat successful one, but also much more flexible than Lun: Orlyonok can fly way above ground-effect altitude).
In the end, in a normal world, the judge should decide what is good for the people and doesn't kill the company. A giant fine for monopolistic behaviour should be the only sensible outcome. But this is the US so the general "fuck the little guy" policy should apply. Epic games will be forced to pay apple 30% + extras for lost revenue. The account will not be restored and the customer shall be ordered to cheer the victory of their favorite brand.
Heh. Exactly why do you feel these people are bots? Might it be that you live in an area where it is unacceptable to express opinions like that? There are real humans like that, some nervously hiding in your neighborhood or workplace.

I happen to live in a different area, where those opinions are held by 100% of the people I know. I have never seen a pro-Biden sign. I know lots of real humans who are very angry that they always get flagged as being bots. No, they aren't bots.

I wonder if you will dismiss me as a bot. :-) Denial of the existence of Trump supporters is a really strange phenomena. What drives it? Of course these people exist! Denial is how people thought Hillary would win. If anything, Trump has more support in 2020 than he did in 2016. Among republicans, the doubt and mistrust is gone.

Note that you can't even see much of the Trump/anti-Obama/anti-Biden content. Both https://kamalaharris.info and https://joebiden.info have been blocked on Instagram, even in private messages. The sender sees it as sent, but the receiver never gets it. Those aren't malware or scams or anything like that. Those are well-researched opposition sites that even have references, put together by a really dedicated Trump fan.

So the true extent of Trump support is just hidden. You can't see it. You may find yourself having a really big surprise on election night.
For a company to pay almost a hundred million dollars to not rent office space in downtown SF, that's the abnormal part, compared to 2010-2019.
Interesting. Is the clan by itself the bonding force or are there other aspects (religion or something else) which define the clan boundaries?
That’s a pessimistic view of cyberpunk. “Maneki Neko” by Sterling is a short story about positive impacts of tech, should it not be considered cyberpunk? It certainly was included in the genre when it appeared.

I think you’re actually restricting the category more than I did.
Will there be a “lost generation” for the tech world because of coronavirus?
Not all apps will want to have a good level of session security (as of today). But there are enough that do.

We have a self hosted version that uses your own db to store tokens. So you don't need to give us any "user data".
Well we were 15% unemployed not too long ago...
MSFT had a monopoly outside of their own product. This is my point. Windows had essentially 100% market share, whereas iOS has somewhere around 25% market share.
Awesome!! Your site looks really clean! Will reach out!
See my above comment:

> MSFT had a monopoly outside of their own product. This is my point. Windows had essentially 100% market share, whereas iOS has somewhere around 25% market share.
> Then there's food banks, and SNAP. Both of which should be expanded.

Expanded for what? The goal needs to be to get people off of welfare, not more people on it. Too many people are taking advantage of the system and are lifers that are perfectly capable of working. Many do under the table or cheat in other ways to collect it. Tons of people that have never worked a single day in this country and have come from foreign countries are on it. They are only taking advantage of our country.

No one on government benefits should have children until they can AFFORD to have children. The burden shouldn't be on taxpayers because they are irresponsible and are providing a horrible life for their child.
Come on, don't repeat urban myths. There were some cases where panicked people welded their neighbors' doors at the height of the epidemic in China (because they were so scared about transmission and getting sick themselves), but that's like saying America's response to anything was eating Tide pods. It just wasn't
> AFAIK you can sign apps for free to load on your devices, but the signatures are valid only for a week, so you have to reload the apps at least every week.

Guess where the key required for signing the binary comes from? That's right, it comes from your apple developer account, automatically downloaded and provisioned by xcode when you hit the build button. Without a developer account you won't have any valid key to sign the build, even for debug build. Afaik the only way to skip this is to jailbreak your device so it can run unsigned binary.
I don't see the problem if rate of accidents and incidents are way lower, and they will be.

If rate of accidents and incidents gets to 10 times less, the price of insurance will drop 10 times.
Claims go to manufacturers? Manufacturers will insure, and you will pay that price, that will be smaller than current insurance.

We know the rate of accidents could drop enormously because we have seen what has happened with airplanes.

I modeled mathematically accident causes for a big insurer in Spain. They have a database of accidents and most accidents are preventable.

10x less accidents is very conservative and easy to get in a small period of time(10 years).

Something as simple as "knowing the road conditions", like "this place is dangerous after the bridge in winter because there is shadow and water and ice is created", or "here there are construction's trucks that leave sand at the curve, dangerous for motorbikes", "here children go out the school that is near and cross the road instead of taking the bridge".

When a car can download all this information and take decisions based on that, I expect the rate of accidents to drop dramatically.
When running a security bounty, what makes me afraid is the compounding factor of finding the same kind of issue several times in different places, thereby multiplying the cost by 20. Of course $1750 is cheap, but I’d happily donate more if there is there were no risk of paying repeat bounties, given a week between them to fix each category of security failure I learn about.

By the way, the security bounty should be mandatory to display to customers. It’s like saying “We don’t value the sum of all your data of all customers to more than $1750”.
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>Epic are obviously going to lose, and lose hard, or set a precedent that's going to screw every payment provider in America and open a flood gate for fraudulent payments.

Users have always been (and still are) subject to all kind of fraudulent. It is about the freedom to do whatever you want with your computing device. The idea that Apple has an absolute control of what goes in into their mobile devices, and that they can claim whatever policies they see fit scares me.

Neither apple nor anyone should have this control.
Part of this is Electron's environment and arguably fault.

Electron used to default to insecure. You were basically running a web browser except with full access your entire machine file system/camera/mic/network etc. If you are an inexperienced developer it wasn't obvious that live linking to any 3rd party code could be an issue. Electron kind of fixed that. They warn you now and default to more secure. How many devs are capable of keeping it secure is up for debate.

As a related issue, it used to be (maybe still is) that by default, links you click in Electron open in Electron. So you make any app that accepts user data and links and suddenly people are browsing the entire net in an un-secured browser.

And worse, they break stuff. I made an electron app and explicitly made it so all links open in the user's browser. I updated to a new version and then to my horror found whatever I had done to make sure links opened in an external browser stopped opening links in an external browser.

Native apps can have exploits but most native apps aren't designed to be an environment for running arbitrary code. They're only an app for working on data.

Note, I love Electron, I've used it for several projects and it's great. But I'm also afraid of it and wish OSes were themselves more sandboxed so I didn't have to worry about it.
> No, they are saying that laws around drug pricing should be designed so that prices would be the similar to what GoodRX achieves, with no opportunity for profit left.

So a pharmacy should make zero profit? This makes absolutely no sense. This will only create more fraud and we have a massive amount of it already.

We should be going after insurance companies and drug companies. Not shutting down pharmacies and wholesalers.
You need to know your history in order to understand this. Very briefly: Development on Windows NT began in 1989, three years before UTF-8 was even invented; and there was a difference of opinion between the ISO people and the Unicode Consortium over Unicode being 16-bit or 32-bit, with Joseph D. Becker famously publishing a paper in 1988 declaring that 16 bits were sufficient for Unicode ("with a safety factor of about four").
Feel free to email me. My Gmail address is "parodieslost". Although I'm not affiliated with Execute Program, I have done the JavaScript Arrays course (including Element Access), and I'd be interested in your problem.
Back in undergrad there were 1 credit hour online classes that you could bust out entirely in probably 2 hours total of focused work. Small price to pay imo.
^^^this. Apple appear to be determined to prove that they are monopolists who will use their monopoly power to screw over devs. While apple probably could have got away with suspending just epics developing account and definitely could have got away with just suspending fortnite, attempting to cripple all devs who use unreal to create their games and other products was an idiotic idea, and a textbook example of abusive monopolistic practices. Also epic, because of fortnites success, are absolutely swimming in money and have other revenu streams on desktop and console that that they can survive and prosper on. They're also tapping into an increasing resentment amongst devs, but also political actors about the amount of power apple et al wield.
Yep, but I value other qualities more (unbreakable, pretty water resistant, long battery life, many ports, easy to swap hds/memory, cheap).
Wordpress powers about a third of the web and Automattic has a significantly higher valuation than Medium. Maybe Medium's cooler, but it's not more successful.
> Let's imagine all the facts were the same, but the police sent a picture of Nancy Pelosi instead. And when the poor schmuck showed up with a condom in his pocket, Nancy herself beckoned him in. Are you still going to convict him based on text proclaiming that she's 13?

The girl who posted the ad stated repeatedly she was 13 years old. The convicted sex offender was fully aware he was meeting a 13 year old girl with the express goal of having sex with her. It makes no difference if the girl had posted pictures of herself or the pope. She stated she was 13 years old, the convicted sex offender knew he was 13 years old, he was fully aware he was meeting a 13 year old girl for sex, and he was caught by the police while knocking at the door of a 13 year old girl to try to have sex with her.

And your best argument against all those facts is that you feel that pics people send online in dating sites are the source of truth, and all the facts all in the open, including the sex offender's own admission he was meeting a 13 years old girl to have sex with said 13 years old girl, should matter nothing?
I know that the article and your comments are related to "large" and "high" end software, but I see the same things happening on much smaller/simpler software and I cannot but attribute the issues to "wrong" attitude of the developers, that often are (I mean this in a good way) too smart/forward looking/obsessed by scalability/etc. for their own good (actually for the good of the software).

It seems to me like simplicity (and Occam's Razor) are approaches somehow lost or considered defects intead of values.

Personal example, I have a rather simple DOS (yes DOS) program that alway worked (and still works) just fine, it is Clipper/Dbase based, it does what it is supposed to do, with a single terminal, since 1990 or so.

Since it has financial and tax related connections (invoicing) it cannot (shouldn't) fail.

The business has not basically changed since the '70's, all the programs I could find to replace it now are either:

1) "jokes" not even worth mentioning

2) "worse" semi-legacy (think of MS-Access) crappy programs with terrible UI and layers over layers of "added because a customer asked for it" unneeded "features"

3) complex multifunctional multiuser multiwindow web-enabled real-time dashboard cloud connected <insert here any other buzz-word> based on SQL Server montruosities that actually do the 5 or 6 needed things (and 127 other unneeded ones) through a (slightly) different workflow (which is slower) and with data input masks that take longer to fill (compared to the good ol'DOS one)

I know that the #3 programs can scale with multiple terminals, multiple offices, unlimited number of customers, concurrent access and what not.

Still I don't need anything like that, it is - again since the 70's - a 5,000-10,000 customers per year, 20,000 to 40,000 transactions, 3,000 to 5,000 invoices, it won't become 100,000 or 1,000,000 transactions, ever.

Now I have to replace the good ol' Clipper little thingy, due to some changes in tax laws, and I will need to slow down (slightly) the operations, this is progress.
Ok, so you keep using only the AppStore and we gain the ability to side-load. There's no loss for you and a gain for those who are not happy with the current situation.

It doesn't have to be an either/or.
What do you mean by the qualifier 'when working on the brain'?

Typically avoiding GA is a laudable goal -- it's expensive (even in countries with public health cover), there's a lot more risk, and it would usually involve an overnight stay in a hospital (which might just come under the cost and added risk categories).

In the case of this process, it would also involve a human (anaesthesiologist), so on top of risk and cost, you then have resource constraint issues compared to avoiding GA and letting a robot do application of LA and the operation.

Open brain surgery often involves keeping the patient conscious as a good way of verifying nothing wrong and/or something right is happening during the operation -- this is probably less of an issue with this kind of repetitive, relatively low-risk, procedure.
Yes it's possible. I 'tried' (didn't intend to) it just a few months ago, albeit in third gear, same rpm, diesel.
There are many legitimate uses for localStorage, e.g. see the API key field at https://beanstack.io (disclosure: a site I helped build): it will remember the value for you if you enter a value and hit submit. If you then, upon clicking submit, had to click through a browser pop-up asking if you want to let the website store data in your browser, that would feel like we're indeed tracking you when really what we're doing is trying to make your life easier without doing tracking. We could have used a cookie, but why should we if we can use localStorage which is privately yours and not sent to the server with every request?

Adding a warning upon localStorage would be like adding a warning upon setting cookies. The banners that websites add for setting non-essential cookies are annoying enough already without having to click past browser permission screens for essential cookies as well.

Also note that privacy laws or "cookie laws" don't ever mention the word cookie. If you are being tracked using localStorage, canvas fingerprinting, ETags, etc., they have to disclose the tracking. Not the method, I think, but what data they are collecting, for what purpose, with which retention period, and what their legal basis is (e.g. "we collect your address on the basis of fulfilling the contract to ship your package" or "we track you on the basis of consent"). LocalStorage is not something to be more or less afraid of than cookies, etags, etc.; the browser doesn't ask for those either, and I personally think that's better.
Retail is not the place to compare markup. The lowest markup I saw recommended was 10%. Average was 20-30% and big box was at least 40%. There is no guaranteed win for consumers at all as prices are set what the market will bear.
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Aka "first murder is on the house, the second one you pay for".
This immediately came to my mind as well. Whenever the computer was growling, it was better to not mess with it and wait it out.
That is the argument that slaves cannot assert their freedom, they can only become recalcitrant slaves because they at one moment in time accepted their slavery.
You could still live in your walled garden if Epic wins. You would just get an additional option of using another garden if you prefer. This is unlike your examples where choices made (strip joints, what goes into the yard etc.) influence surroundings and life quality of others.
> The more I think about it the more absurd this is. It's as if some random brand of Mayo is suing Wallmart for not stocking their brand on their shelves.

Yes it is, but they would have a point.
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> here in the EU we have voted

No we didn't.

It was a crappy Internet poll (brigaded like all Internet polls), with extremely closed and loaded questions on top of that.

Cherry on the cake, the EU server crashed when I tried to validate my answers and comment, so they never got my opinion... Not like they cared anyway, since they had put the answer they wanted to get, in the question.