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>I’m barely 150 pounds and don’t like traumatic brain injuries. Preferably a more elegant sport that doesn’t require a bunch of awkward equipment. Maybe Ultimate or rock climbing– Wait, crap.

hit the gym and do some weight-lifting, solve two problems at once. Also just go out and hit the bars. (okay maybe not the greatest advice right now). Unlike the author my parents were solidly working class so I always was very aware of straddling two very different social circles, between academia and tech work and the people I grew up with. There's no reason to live in either bubble really and in a big city it's not that hard to have a healthy social circle, just requires leaving your comfort zone.
The argument is not about market domination, but about money power

Apple market is rich, it is the richest tech company, with the highest market valuation ever, one cannot avoid it

So it's gonna drive adoption no matter what

Like it did for Flash (right or wrong, they did it)

I was writing web applications during the 90s, they were called intranets back then, IE wasn't bad, it was simply unavoidable

And being unavoidable halted competition for more than a decade

On another side: having a platform that doesn't obey to common standards creates tech segregation

I remember seeing japanes phones 20 years ago, they were ahead of time,but unusable outside of Japan

Last but not least, having a flag that says "allow me to shoot myself in the foot of I want to" it's less hostile than "you don't know what you're doing let me handle it for you"
Just the fact that Nova is ~36MB and VSCode is ~3x that at ~95MB should at least point you in the right direction. Also note that Nova already includes features that are only available via separate plugins on VSCode.
Your argument can easily apply to locks, safes and general physical security. It will always be done. I've been hearing "DRM is will be useless soon" since the early 2000s. Many DRM companies are 10-30+ years old, with multiple international locations and many, many employees.

Look, I appreciate the hobby and skills it takes to crack DRM as a logic puzzle. I used to work security integration and I may have had my own similar hobbies. But at the end of the day, the argument of "DRM is useless" is people truly saying, "I don't want to pay for things". Who likes to work for free? I don't and I'm sure as shit you won't work for free either.

Do I like Rockstar? No. I think their games are shit from beginning to end. They're edgelord, teenage wish fulfillment trash.

Do I respect when someone spends their time and wishes to get paid for it so they can continue their craft with a roof over their head and food on the table for them and their families? Yes.

If you don't approve of mandatory crunch times, story lines or whatever anti-capitalist, anarchist, whatever manifesto you subscribe to... don't buy or play their stuff. Fun part about a capitalist system, the best way to hurt someone is to both ignore them and don't buy their stuff. Pirating their stuff, as a lot of folks like to mention, "Doesn't hurt the company". But it does give them reason to be more aggressive, issue lawsuits, get more press attention and generally be bigger assholes that spiral the system out of control. If they can make a profit, you bet your sweet ass they'll figure it out even if it's a long con.

So yea, wait for DRM to go bye-bye. Let's see, RDR2 was in dev for around 7 years. You go ahead and work, for someone else, for 7 years on something, about 40 hours a weeks (more if you want to include the "controversial working conditions") and don't get paid during that entire time. Not on something YOU want to do. Something that someone else wants done for them. Do that, then come back to me with a real argument for people not to get paid for their work. We're not a society that runs off hugs and kisses.
I take it you work for free all the time.
Or not being able to permanently disable the stupid handwriting input 'feature' when switching to landscape mode.

Pro tip, Apple: when a Google search for "disable $FEATURE_XYZ" returns over one million hits, it's time to walk it back, and possibly fire the product manager pour encourager les autres.
Maybe it's an a/b test? It works for me without signing in. You can also check their twitter page https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam
I wonder if they have a plan to move to iPad their codebase after it’s battle tested.

Seems reasonable, considering Panic’s last editor, Coda, has an iPad version.
Is this something an FPGA or something similar could do? Would be interesting to know of any home-brew attempts at this out there.
I wouldn't say it's a con. In the end capital has bargaining power over labor because labor works for capital. Labor needs to organize very hard to take back control and that's difficult when everyone is scared they'll lose their job. Capital is able to make unilateral decisions because it's usually controlled by single/very focused and competent entity.
Knowing Ben, following this advice would probably lead him to join a Quaker meeting house in his area. While that would probably lead to some interesting discussions about Agile[1][2], I think it would have the same problem.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_x1hUeIZ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
It's a big fucking problem, if you ask me. You pay $60 for a single-player game that you cannot play on your laptop on vacation because of crappy WiFi, or just because your ISP sucks? What-the-actual-fuck.
Mopeds stay on the road. I don't break laws that can result in me hitting a pedestrian.

In the United States it is illegal (almost everywhere) to ride between lanes of traffic at any speed. That is a law I break almost every time I am on a motorcycle. The only way to hit a pedestrian in that situation is if they are walking between lanes of traffic. I typically do it at stop signs and lights where I stop between two rows of cars so if one gets rear ended I am not the one that gets obliterated.

I will treat a traffic light as a stop sign if it does not detect my bike, which is common. I won't wait for a car to hopefully stop behind me without killing me. I do this at intersections I am familiar with. This is technically legal if you do it a certain way but I often don't wait that long to minimize my risk.

I'm not taking a motorized vehicle down a sidewalk at any speed. I will ride my bicycle on a sidewalk along busy streets if there is minimal pedestrian presence and no alternate route. When a conflict with a pedestrian presents itself I move back to the road if possible.

There are also legal things I do that are often perceived as illegal such as riding with my high beams on during the day or skipping ferry lines. If I get flashed by oncoming traffic they may be mad at me but at least I know they saw me.
We are using k8s as well for a project that we also provide on-prem install too. We decided to use kustomize for now vs doing helm for now. Curious, have someone had experience with both to compare. What are the benefits of using helm?
I read the article as a criticism of the strict aliasing rules in C. I think that you're attributing something to the author that they couldn't possibly believe.
My solution was to find an international/group home. Your roommates friends become your friends and suddenly you are in a diverse group.

Over the last year I stayed with 9 people in 1 house. 2 school teachers, 1 in CSR, 1 lecturer, 1 grad student, 3 in tech (and only 1 in big-tech: Me) and 1 in pharmacy.

To-be-fair, I was in Boston . But, my peers ended up in far more homogeneous peer groups when they just stayed with people they knew or other 1/2 random strangers.

Pick-up sports or Adult-sports-leagues have worked well for this purpose too. I play(ed) soccer, but Basketball or the like would also work.

Lastly, just date someone not-in-tech. Dating apps are great for this. If it turns into a relationship, your partner will make sure their friends become your friends. It is a story as old as time. Although dating-outside-tech can be tricky for some. Not every group is as open to brutally honest and logic-1st/ empathy-2nd style of communication in tech.
or play co-ed sports, and you can meet from recent immigrants to trust fund babies and everything in between.... and from all kinds of profession (at least in NYC).

A good team will organize the ocasional drinking/get together, parties, etc...

you don't have to go to church to meet different set of folks
Why doesn't Dropbox have a middle ground solution between free and $15/month for 5TB?!

I've been asking myself this question for a long time. Every other cloud storage provider has something like 100GB or 500GB for a nominal 3$ or 5$ per month.
Dropbox works really great, but it's painstakingly frustrating that they their barrier to entry is too high that makes non-business users almost give up.
Is this not just Coda reworked?
You've actually got a decent point, even if you haven't exactly grasped the nuances of what is going on. This is more of a public statement of intent that may turn into something, or may not. It's just the assembly making a statement. A conviction in the court of public opinion does not a conviction in a court of justice make, or an actual remediation of the regulatory process create. What it means for the parties involved is far from settled even though the entry in the history books is written. This'll make good fodder for campaigns, may shift the color of up and coming civil servants' careers, and will almost certainly pave the way for any type of criminal probes going on. Even with those, however, the criminal proceeding must be conducted against specific individuals, who will be exceedingly difficult to pin down beyond a reasonable doubt, or otherwise against the company itself likely on some other much lesser charge that will likely get negotiated down to something not terribly satisfying in the grand scheme of things. I mean, look at PG&E for an example of the outcome of a corporate actor being found guilty. Boeing (or at least it's civil aviation aspect) has much more to pull from in terms of slush expenditure to dedicate to softening the blow of this hiccup short of concerted political action or punitive lawmaking.

It's a sign. Encouraging to some, but empty, dust filled, and tasteless to many who expected much more of the system. I'm hoping these deaths will not be in vain and that this may kindle a political will to encourage greater corporate accountability and responsibility down the road; but beyond doing my small part I can't say as I entertain an excess of confidence of that happening. No offense meant, but it is also cold comfort indeed to be taking solace from, "we could be even more corrupt".

Then again, maybe, just maybe we'll manage to pull a rabbit out of this.

After all, it was an act of Congress, and if a bunch of people have done it, well...

Stands to reason yet another group of folks can do it.
Feature request: webcam support.
It depends on how far you are. With the current system at least 1 Satellite needs to be close enough to a ground station. So that means from your boat up to the sky, and from there to land.

It has also been suggested that at strategic locations you could have swimming ground stations in order to cover a pretty large area.

Eventually however it will cover everything as the satellites will communicate directly between each other with lasers.
DRM that takes 1 year to crack is about as good as you can want. What percent of total sales takes place in the first year. If your proposed hacker finds the solution to this one, does that mean they have the general solution? Or does that indicate that this style of DRM in general takes 1 year to crack and is generally valuable?
You're supposed to put down ranges such that you have a 90% confidence that the correct answer is in that range, and then can expect to get roughly 9 of them "correct" (that is, the actual correct answer is included in your range).

The point of the test -- as shown by the response graph after it -- is to show that when someone asks us for a 90%-confidence estimate, we don't really understand what that means, and end up giving 30%-confidence estimates. The point is that people need to understand what they do and don't know, and reflect their level of uncertainty with the width of the range.

If I have a trivial task that I've done a hundred times before, I might say that it'll take me 45-60 minutes to complete, and 90% of the time I'd be right. But if it's something I've never done before, and I don't understand the steps or complexity, I might say that it'll take me between 30 minutes and 8 hours.

This scales up, too. For a larger project that I understand well, I might say 6-8 weeks, while for something I don't understand, I might say 4-12 weeks.

Over time, I can determine if I make good-enough estimates by checking to see if 90% of the time the actual time to delivery fell within the stated range. It doesn't matter if it's at the beginning of the range, end of the range, or right in the middle. I just need to hit somewhere in the range, 90% of the time.

For example, for the Alexander the Great question, I don't have a clue. Your mention that he was a contemporary of Aristotle actually made me realize I believed he was much more modern-day than he is. So I might give a range of like 1000BC to 0AD, because I recall that Aristotle was definitely BC, but I don't really have much confidence as to when. Looks like the right answer is 356BC. So my estimate was correct, even though it had a wide range. Giving people (like your manager) a wider range also communicates your uncertainty, which is a useful piece of information for them to have. The issue is that I think many engineering managers simply won't accept a true 90% estimate if it's wider than they know what to do with from a planning perspective.
I'm also interested in what was impressive with them. STORY TIME! Tell us a story!
my site is down on all environments (us-east-1). oy vey
I wouldn't associate the mess that was motherboard firmware around launch with anything but AMD. The firmware didn't even boost the CPU right either.
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I actually think the parent comment is sort of correct. If everyone was good (perfect?) about making sure that new versions of a package would work with code written against any old version of that package, then there would not have been cabal hell in really any of its forms.

Of course, if this increased the number of forks, it would increase the times we need to convert between types provided by "different" libraries - which may or may not be a problem, but isn't "a Cabal problem".

How it would actually work out in practice would depend a lot on how it shaped behavior; it sounds like srtjstjsj believes it went well for go, and I don't know enough to weigh in there in either direction.
I never had the chance to play with a Commodore 64, but am happy to see how popular retro computing is becoming. The "8bit-guy" is working on a modern C64 called the Commander X16 that should be out in 2021 I think. I'll definitely be picking up one. I would get a ZX spectrum Next, but they're too expensive right now.
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I like that there is still an elgato stream deck above the keyboard because there isn't enough inputs to map.
I don't think that everyone that tries DMT will get there. The visuals can be distracting and are easy to focus on instead of using it as a tool for deep introspection. The "machine elves"/aliens may be something the subconscious uses to distract and some may see them as "the thing" and not look further, I don't really know. No doubt every trip is different, as is every person.
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Are you talking about parking fees? That's pretty different from literally making it a crime for non-residents to be there.
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It sirtainly is. And I came in this morning specifically to creating some Lambda roles to test. Fark.
I agree. Not everyone thinks or solves problems in the same ways, and math notation has historically favored only one type of cognition. More visual approaches using touch screens or spatial / tactile ones using AR would be cool to see.

There may also exist types of math that are impossible to represent or reason about with current notation.
Multiple plugins are available to add LSP support in vim, such as coc.nvim (uses node.js, more features) or vim-lsp (lighter, written in vimscript).

Neovim is also going to add native LSP support as well as tree-sitter in their 5.0 release, it's already available in nightly builds.

The most straightforward option is probably coc.nvim, which tries to give a similar experience to VS Code out of the box.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp
https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig
https://github.com/neovim/neovim
What even is editor overscroll?
Wait, how do you make a living from that? Like publishers need you to break their stuff out so they can resell it long after the developer is gone or something?
If this is true, it's too focused on engineering. This is project management in general, not just for technical jobs.

But I also think the author gives too much credit to management. There's no conspiracy to tighten deadlines to get free work, at least not in a vast majority of places. Hanlon's Razor comes in to play here: don't attribute it to malice if it can also be attributed to stupidity.
I regularly use what I call a "140% keyboard" which has a total of 140 keys. This is the regular 104-key layout with added keys in various places such as between the alphanumeric and F key section, filling the gaps between cursor keys and the block above it, etc. The keyboard has on-board macro programming and multi-layer logic.

I use it for things like having keys which jump directly to specific windows, keys which open various terminal types, and even macros for some common commands (Git operations for example).

I don't know that there's any good reason why this isn't more popular other than fashion, which means that an industry has not really built up around plus-sized keyboards like it has around smaller ones. My example was purchased used and was formerly used at a telephone operator's workstation, based on the key legends. There is a fairly robust used market for plus-sized keyboards originally used for specialty applications, mostly POS and dispatchers/radio operators, from companies like PrehKeyTec and Cherry (of the switches). Unfortunately they mostly cost $500+ new and still often demand over $100 used. The majority of these keyboards feature on-board macro programming, but are intended to be programmed in bulk by the vendor of some turnkey solution so the programming tools are a bit awkward (for me, use a GUI keymap editor, export a file, use a command line tool to flash the generated file to the keyboard - I think it actually just produces a full firmware image each time).

The only real disadvantage I would report is that the PrehKeyTecs are made with dome switches that feel decidedly mushy when they're old (and my used model is probably around a decade old). The Cherries use mechanical switches, of course, but tend to be more expensive and aren't made in as interesting of configurations IMO.
Off-topic: I hadn't heard of nitter.net before, it seems pretty cool.
apple never gives us the release day, so we are always biting nails

when fatal bugs, or issues are reported, there is little communication from apple... alot people/companies depend on what apple is doing here

hisotrically, they announce new stuff, then ios is released about 1 week later (conveyed at the annnouncement)

this time, it was one day.

alot of us had apps already in testing and preparation, but depending on what features you might have used, some bugs occur that have either no workaround of nasty workarounds, and we need the GM release to confirm certain things and how to proceed

i cant talk about the issues i have faced in my job, but this 1 day notice has not gone off well

-- as an aside --

personally, my feelings towards apple has soured very much, and anecdotally, many friends who work in industry who have to deal with apple (apps, app store, safari etc) have soured on them too

when people say "apple doesnt care about developers" i can understand thier feelings somewhat...
For some reason, I completely forgot about the pandemic when writing the second section...
"You must give up your ego!"

"Who said that?"
Why do people put the before on the right and the after on the left? Is it a mental disorder?
A lot of people make appearances on RT. Would you ask that if a website had most of their reporters have appearances at some point for the BBC? Would you ask for The Intercept to be classified as state sponsored media? How about the Daily Wire? How about Fox News, MSNBC, CNN?

You can't classify a media source as state sponsored simply because its editors agree with an alternative viewpoint. That is just ridiculous.
CBO did an analysis of household income, all federal taxes paid, and transfers and services. On a net basis, the top 40% pay for everything at all levels of government. The bottom 40% pay for only a portion of what it takes to keep themselves alive. The middle 20% splits between the two groups, but the portion that are net payers, pay very little.

> They receive a functioning society which is economically worth far more to themselves than lower income earners.

This is not obvious. Historically, the lower classes have very little rights and are subjected to oppressive behaviors from the kings and nobles and other well to do.
Agreed, which is why I think we should always cremate.
It's definitely anticonsumer.

I've no doubt that from a technical point of view, both DRM and the efforts to crack it are fascinating and interesting.

What I don't understand is this: consumers don't crack DRM; crackers and warez groups do. Once cracked, DRM is as good as nothing and it's low effort for an everyday gamer to get and play pirated games.

So this antipiracy "buffer" is only for crackers. For gamers it's just as if the game had a delayed release date.

For legit customers, the DRM is often intrusive and, because it's so complex and fiddly, often breaks in bizarre ways, giving rise to the paradoxical situation that the legit game is harder to use than the pirated game!

Only legitimate buyers lose.
We're not just Mac users.

Electron apps are bloated ick but I guess at least Electron is equally repulsive on all OSes.
This article, like so many others, seems to think enterprise B2B selling will somehow translate to startup SaaS businesses.

Ask yourself, what is your favourite paid service that you use nearly every day and then talk to your friends about? Maybe it's an awesome game, or a cool weather app, or an accounting package, or whatever... build a product/service that is so compelling that your users will sell it for you.

I'm in no way affiliated with Sabri Suby, but I recommend checking out his concepts... #1 start by giving your customers something for free and begin to build trust. Google this: "Sabri Suby Magic Lantern Technique".
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I'm also a programmer, but I have quite a few friends who are very different from me in a lot of ways. For instance, my main hobby brings me into contact with a lot of people who are 20+ years older than me.

I did not engineer this, nor do I have any particular interest in knowing a bunch of older, white men. It just happened that way, because my hobby is popular with this particular demographic. If the author is bothered by their lack of non-programmer friends, surely the easiest way to correct that would be to find a hobby that attracts a different sort of folk. That might not be a viable solution right now due to COVID restrictions, but we're not going to all be stuck in our homes forever.
It's required to have static type checking, which is essential. Also, way more time/memory efficient.
I call the counterargument "You can't live on pepper". As in even though pepper is way cheaper than it was 500 years ago, you'll starve if that is all you can afford.