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When you download and install Microsoft Edge, information about your device, such as your release channel, basic hardware information, update identifiers, an identifier unique to your device, and a resettable identifier unique to your browser are sent to Microsoft during the installation process [1]

Note that you can't reset the device identifier.

Note that the use of tje word such is very well though. No word or comma in this document is loosely chosen.

IMO, for someone that uses a Google account and services but does not have a Microsoft account, it would minimize the profile that both companies have on you adding the benefit of Chromium sandbox security.

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...
there's people here running doom on a pregnancy test, and you're surprised people want to run a blog on React?
2021 is the year of teledildonics on the desktop.
Random anecdote: someone told me a bunch of years ago that LJ was looking for guest authors. So I submitted a couple of articles to them and they published them. This is when I found out that they were paying $400/article. Mind you, I sent them my stuff with absolutely no expectation of compensation. I was just happy to share what I knew and it was kinda cool to see my name in LJ. But hey if you promise money, I’ll take it. They struggled to pay me for like almost a year and eventually did by putting it on a company credit card, which was apparently the only way they could pay anyone because the other accounts were either frozen or off limits or some such. They folded shortly after this. So to every reader out there who was disappointed by them folding, I am sorry I contributed to that.

I am glad to see them try again, though I don’t know how this will work. This content is just a lot less relevant today than it was two decades ago.
You can only do that for MLB, NBA, etc, if you're not in a the local area of the team you want to watch. You get blacked out if you are.

The local sports rights for non-NFL teams are tied up in long, long deals in many markets, and separately for each team. It will take a while to unwind all that.
Totally the fallacy of the excluded middle. There are many ways to work the two goals together. And understanding it in these very limited dimensions is a complete mistake.

The very definition of what a "top student" is varies a great deal.
I bought my parents one of the Klein bottles. It is really fun to hold something so useless yet interesting. I also thoroughly enjoyed the service provided. I received a complete inspection report, and the bottle was carefully packed and diagrammed.
Anyone else really annoyed at the way this is written? Like the author thinks they're funny and cute adding nonsensical commentary on the side but really I just wanna read what happened.
Note that this feature doesn't work in open source builds of VSCode, it's an MS only thing.
> It's interesting that he doesn't mention JetBrains at all.

Think you nailed the most salient point, quite curious in the corporate battle of wits on Twitter, HN, and other venues. Since HN rules discourage meta discussions, I'm gonna stop here.
Your public high school had a swimming pool?
This https://us.macmillan.com/author/sujathagidla/ writer says even Communists are not immune to caste influences. This book is a hard read, but it is worth a read to understand some of the background: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537821
What neoliberalism? Actual neoliberalism worked pretty well. Reagonomics worked pretty well. The economics of today are not neoliberal, they're a charade where we pretend that we can have a market economy without market risk. Pushing through an actual neoliberal agenda in today's political climate would be unthinkable.
Veracrypt I believe
I'd be more interested in VSCode if Microsoft's strategy was to relentlessly implement the most popular plugins into VSCode natively such that the most commonly used and needed functions were built in and did not require plugins.

The problem with systems that are really just frameworks for other to build on is they become reluctant to build stuff that plugins exist for. The philosophy becomes to depend on the plugins rather than built out needed features. This entrenches the spaghetti pile of plugins.

Plugins are great and necessary - Jetbrains IDEs have plugins. The difference is a philosophical one - are plugins there to provide core functionality, or are they there to provide uncommon use cases? VSCode uses plugins for basics, JetBrains builds basics in - with JetBrains you can never install a plugin and happily work away. With VSCode, the very first task you must carry out is to start managing your inventory of plugins.
Except not doing ctrl-c ctrl-v easily. Or standard keybidings. I wonder if an offshoot with standard keys in a terminal based on vi would work (really simple and native, I used simple mode alas it almost were transparent but not quite. )
That's Vancouver with all its absurdly overpriced uninhabited condo towers that exist only to be money laundering and parking vehicles.
> A little bit like the class system in the United States (or France) eh :-)

Maybe in France, I don't know about that. But from what I've learned about the caste system, it's nothing like the class system in the US.

Sure, the US class system is (statistically speaking) heritable, but it doesn't follow you around for life, tied to your surname, determining who you can marry or what jobs you're allowed to get, or if you'll get beaten simply for walking into certain buildings or touching strangers.

US racism might be a more appropriate comparison.
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Correction - MLB.tv is usually $125/year, and it does not include any of your local team's games if you live in the area. If you like following out-of-region teams, it's a great deal. If you want to follow your local team, you have to pony up a similar amount for a separate package that lets you stream local games.
Both are risky. Listen to HN, but consult a psychologist.
Single-density is not the same as single-sided. There are single-sided double-density disks.
>I have converted to VSCode because it just works and I don't have to mess with PATH or whatever.

While I love VSCode and use it every day (mostly for markdown), I have definitely needed to play around with PATHs to get VSCode working nicely with my conda installs on both windows and mac (i.e. it never seems to actually point to the right python interpreter). No idea who is at fault here, but it seems to be a consistent problem for me.
I believe Europe had a guild system that operated in the same way, IIRC. I’d be curious about how those systems compared and evolved.
I wouldn't feel comfortable going back into an office setting until a vaccine is developed and available. It hardly seems worth it until that happens considering the amount of effort that would need to be put in with mask-wearing, social distancing, keeping the number of people in the office down to an acceptable level, testing, contact tracing, surface sanitization, shutting down if a case is discovered, etc. - all for what? So people can have face-to-face standups? If they're pressuring you now, without giving a very good reason, my feeling is they wouldn't be worrying about putting much effort into keeping people safe either.
What you're proposing is testocracy.

Which has a storied history, being the primary means of governance of China for millennia.

But to call it meritocracy, we must do two things: elide the correlation between tested excellence and academic performance, which correlation is strong but not perfect, and then conflate academic merit with meritoriousness generally, which I firmly reject.

Call it what it is: testocracy. A quick search shows that the word is not unknown. I'd accept a better one, so long as it doesn't involve pretending that grinding ones life away for a chance at the top is equal to merit.
Don't be too hard on yourself! I am Indian and from what I can tell the proverbial glass ceiling has been lifted for brown people like me in the US. And I think the same can be said for people of other ethnicities as well. So credit where credit is due. IMHO the US is a meritocratic workplace.
Your options are:

1. Move him out.

2. Move him out and fire him.

Allowing him to keep this up is not an option. You need to figure out if he can be professional during work hours and whether it's worth it for you and the company to keep him at the job.

Whatever you pick - try to be as decisive as you can. You sound like someone who is really trying to help and it's easy for someone like you to be taken advantage of.
That is a very strange question
> Low service state makes cities and towns who want to be high service pay their own way.

But they already do. The difference is they get "back" less proportionally. Not a bad thing btw, that's the nature of progressive taxation!
Or <gasp> reducing services to balance the budget. God forbid they only fill the potholes people complain about.

Edit: the pothole was supposed to be a metaphor for something the city does but could do a lot less of without people actually being badly affected.
The first comment says alot:
"welcome back, you have been missed. You can probably ditch the "share on Google+" widget..."
If I could get a place without an HOA I'd do it in a heartbeat. But finding a home is all about compromises. Our realtor when we met I gave him my requirements. so he showed me those homes I could afford without an HOA. And they were rough in some really rough places. My other option is to move to an unincorporated part of the city, >2hr commute.

I'm active on the board and didn't want to get into the fight over Airbnb. But once we saw how much we were paying in additional security, insurance claims, and police and fire calls enough was enough. We've had robberies, suicides, and overdoses. I've got a great flat, it's downtown, looks out onto the bay and South beach. I'd love to put it on Airbnb, from time to time. I also know the juice simply is not worth the squeeze. You only need to get 1 bad visitor who trashes your place or gets into a fight with the neighbors.

But I fight tooth and nail against new bylaws. We have a good board. Most of the resident owners are young professionals, we make it known we'd rather not have an HOA so the HOA tries not to be visible.
> By the same line of reasoning one should reject most code.

Yes, you should reject all unnecessary code. If that is "most", then your project might have some problems. ;)

> If/when the comment is obsolete, deleting it is easy.

The hard part is to know if and when the comment is obsolete. It's way too often I stumble upon comments that contradicts the code. Is the code wrong? Is the comment wrong? Often the history reveals that the comment was correct at some earlier time, but the person changing the code didn't think about changing the comment. I think that the mechanism behind this is that after the first read through of the code we tend to stop seeing the comments.
Oh thanks, this looks amazing!
It's hidden in a PDF in the digits of Pi.
He also has an great warehouse setup in his crawl space.

https://hackaday.com/2015/06/24/crawlspace-warehouse-include...

Really impressive guy.
> Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.

I like both editors (VSCode and Sublime) and just want to point out that Sublime Text 4 is in semi-public alpha. It is "semi-public" in the sense that the download link is given in the Discord channel, but anybody could join it.

For nine months or so, there has been a new release of ST4 every 2-3 weeks. Development is definitely ongoing (though I'm quite happy with ST3 as it is).
I agree with you. Many of the "libertarians" in this community would not.
Without a Federal effort, people will just move in order to avoid the local taxation required to sustain cities and states. For those in the California cities, the triple whammy of city budgets, CalPERs, and fire recovery will only be solved by huge tax increases.
I'm struggling to see how you got this comment from the article.

The article is pointing out that loss in revenue becomes a death-spiral that causes a loss of jobs and a further reduction in revenues. And that cities are largely powerless to stop it because some state government officials, well, they are assholes who welcome the ensuing chaos.

If anything, it's merely a warning of what people in much of America should expect in the coming years. If you live in a flyover city, it's probably going to look a lot like Flint in the coming decade.
same here, use it on the server and desktop, gave up on vscode one year ago, did not need my purchased jetbrains(webstorms etc) for 99% of the time.

vim rules for me, as a full IDE from the terminal.
I think that’s why the sentence immediately after the one including “we own and operate Slashdot and SourceForge” says “We didn't always own SourceForge, but we acquired it in 2016, and [immediately began improving](https://www.pcworld.com/article/3032490/new-sourceforge-owne...), and have since [come a long way](https://sourceforge.net/blog/brief-history-sourceforge-look-...) in restoring and growing one of the most important resources in open source.” (links reformatted)
John Cowan on R7RS (LispNYC, 2011) [video]
Rich people can buy bigger houses than poor people. Should we also outlaw big houses?
No way, it sucks when you've got a monolith full of unnecessary gadgetry. Right now VSCode is already getting pretty bloated w/ builtins
That is a very interesting and challenging problem that you have on your hands. It is sad that a candidate can hold it together during business hours but engages in anti-social behavior elsewhere that is indicative of mental or substance abuse issues.

Your best bet, as a small business with limited resources, is to sever ties with this individual and use all police and legal resources available to you.

The reason for this is arbitrary and stems from your liability as an employer to the safety of others, and to the office building's zoning laws.

I was honestly in this exact same position a decade ago and I was able to stay out of everyone's way by sleeping in my car in the back of another corporation's parking lot. Bringing this behavior into the office shouldn't be acceptable for legal reasons, not personal ones.
The audit itself leaves plenty of room for circumstance. For example:

"BOARS’s guidance provides recommended reasons for considering an applicant for admission by exception. These include the applicants having overcome personal challenges, having had limited or nontraditional educational opportunities, having special talents, or having academic achievements equivalent to the eligibility requirements."

The report takes no issue with such a system, just the one where people pay for their special exception.
I'm of two minds about it. I get the value it provides to people new to Emacs. But once you reach the point in which you'll want to dig in and adapt Emacs to yourself, you'll be facing not just learning elisp and Emacs, but also the complex framework Spacemacs built on top of that.

I've been using Emacs since early 2010s as well, so I'm biased - I had my own convoluted elisp modules before Spacemacs came around :).
> The economics of today are not neoliberal

Psst: Your Scottsman isn't wearing pants.
My guess is that it means Microsoft is the only one that gets direct access to use the model itself, everyone else is forced to go indirectly through the OpenAI api, with all of the limitations that entails.
Of course they are. Its literally their intelligence agencies job to destabilize countries whom they benefit from being destabilized. I guess we better hope it's a landslide one way or the other then.
Analytics at Netflix: Who we are and what we do
If you’re commenting to the media, it’s beyond a legal matter.
Foreign and domestic.
Well, hopefully we can at least get some cool games out of it. Canned NPC dialog is one of the biggest immersion breakers in open-world games / RPGs.

On the topic of societal impact of GPT-3 (and subsequent models) - structurally, how will people's use of the Internet change once it becomes common knowledge that nearly anything could have been written by a bot? On the one hand, I find the notion of competing trollbots screaming at each other into infinity to be rather amusing, but on the other hand I'm not keen to return to a world where I can only be sure I'm communicating with a person if I know them in real life.
Cliff Stoll is a pretty funny guy. He also wrote a fascinating book about tracking hackers back in the day.
We don't retain web logs and the way users interact with Shodan doesn't change the way Shodan crawls the Internet. I.e. using the website/ API doesn't change how we look at the Internet.
It's intriguing what data is considered to be the most title-worthy in cases like this. If anything, the claims made in the first paragraph seem to undersell the severity of this, since a single data point's order statistic says little about the overall trend. Far more damming is Figure 2b, which shows linear regressions and ranges for three time periods. Unlike the order statistics in the intro/title, this figure is quite irrefutable.
Apart from the naming issue, wouldn't "DOSBOX on Linux" be more useful?
I read about this fact elsewhere also. Could you expand on this a bit? My impression was that VSCode and its associated extensions are open source, so I'm curious how Microsoft could make certain parts exclusive to its own build of VSCode.
Lots of arguments can be and have been made in favor of racially discriminating policies. I believe the response must always be "no, that's morally wrong".

A good "Church of Satan" reaction to these policies in California would be a university that set the bar higher for Black applicants, with the justification that other policies have in fact over-corrected for past injustices, and now the injustice of that over-correction must be righted.

The thing to keep in mind is that the justification for some of the worst racism in history has been injustice or past injustices. We should learn from history and pre-commit as a society to react hyper-negatively to any policy that involves racial discrimination. Get it the hell out of the Overton window.
The Fed has changed policy, 2% is not a maximum anymore. With as much government debt as we have now, inflating it away is the only realistic way to get rid of it.
Reaganonmics has been a disaster for my generation.
"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose."

— Gore Vidal
A colleague of mine purchased one of the Klein bottle hats, and they received some selfies of Stoll wearing it in his garden right before shipment :-)
Related trick: GNU tools tend to come with Info pages - it's to man pages what a book is to a listicle. These Info pages can get you up to speed quickly, while giving you a deeper understanding of the tool at the same time.
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> Low service state makes cities and towns who want to be high service pay their own way.

In Texas, as in many states, municipalities are severely restricted in the types and amounts of taxes they can levy. And, especially in Texas (considering the fight over school funding), the propensity is to further restrict the types and amounts of taxes, not expand them. Most forms of business tax are flatly outlawed. And if a city tries to impose a fee of some sort, the legislature will quickly get around to cutting off that authority. Property tax limits are severely restricted, same for sales tax.

For example, transit districts in Texas may not exceed a 1% sales tax and that's only able to be levied in cities that have not used all of their 2% "local option" sales tax cap. Most cities in Texas, levy 1% of the sales tax cap for "general purposes" and then another 1% for "economic development," which should be read as basically giveaways of public money to induce private businesses to locate in those cities. Cities that can't or don't levy economic development taxes are seen as at a disadvantage to the cities with that pot of money.

So it's far more complex than "well, high-service cities should just tax more to pay for more."
Possibly, but I think the key lines are "the US does not limit surveillance of EU citizens" and "there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies", which suggests that it's fixable, although the medicine is unpleasant for US-based-whoopee-you-get-free-data-and-you-get-free-data companies; The EU is operating pretty consistently, I'd say. They work like a club with rules that allows anyone to enter provided they follow their rules, and making the club very attractive to join so that entrants willingly make the changes. The US is generally not inclined to take other countries' interests to heart and is not renowned for equitable relationship-building, but it defends its citizens' rights and its companies' rights, so the EU does the same and Facebook blubs, it's just standard business PR.
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VS Code is nice for green developers, however I always encourage finding a different editor. This helps encourage exploration, customization, and configuration. You will need to take the training wheels off sometime in your career.

Another reason to prefer other editors is they tend to stay out of your way. VS Code tries really hard to make you not even leave the window.

Anecdotally, a previous colleague once sold me on SublimeText. I had liked it and used the free version but VS Code was also free without pay. The colleague encouraged that it was better to buy a software sometimes (SublimeText license) than continue searching for a free solution for every tooling issue I had. It was the first time I was able to rework my reasoning as to why I should pay for software. The reasoning is simple: invest in yourself. This is more powerful than investing in an no-cost ecosystem to solve your problems.
“Caste is a huge problem. To substantiate this, let me tell you about the story of a person who didn’t seem to care about caste at all, but later decided to not marry someone over it.”

That is not a story which substantiates the claim that caste is a huge problem. I agree that someone who made a marriage decision based on caste isn’t someone I’d want to marry in the first place.

My comment about power imbalances can be read in two ways: there are no power imbalances in marriage or conditioned on there not being power imbalances in that particular decision. I meant the latter, but you seem to be attacking the former.
Pardon me for making assumptions but you seem to be not Indian, which makes me wonder how did you know that one of the persons on the interview panel had "very Brahmin last name"?
If you read the report, a lot of the student athletes aren't actually athletes, but have been designated as such to overcome poor scores in the admissions process.

In any case, it might be negatively impacting the school's athletic program because real athletes have spots taken by opportunists.