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> In fact, many such “fillable” PDFs start off in a state with many of their form-fields disabled and voided, such that printing them out in that state would result in a form you can’t really write on!

I have never seen this. Do you have an example? Every use if fillable PDFs I have encountered is a use case where submitting a handwritten form is still an option.

> The only benefit a client gets is the ability to edit and save the form offline (but that can be done in a browser, too, with local storage); and furthermore, the ability to treat the resulting filled form as a file, moving it around before you submit it.

I have yet to see a web form that actually saves a readable, properly-formatted, self-contained, easy to access, fully-offline copy.

> But the cases where you need that are very niche, compared to the cases where you can just direct employees to your Intranet portal.

This is not a trivial need; most forms sent as fillable PDFs need to or should be retained for some period after submission. Also, I don't know what "employees" and "Intranet" has to do with anything.

You are also missing the use case where a form legally requires a live signature from one or more parties and need to be printed, even if just to scan and return. I recently had to do this for some insurance paperwork.
It's always amusing to know what's going on with "the latest" in classics, however, modern classicists are, to put it kindly, almost all completely full of shit, preferring to publish contrarian, obvious bullshit to the difficult task of examining the evidence and drawing new and interesting conclusions (I dunno; someone like Gregario Maranon's examination of the character of Tiberius seemed to add to the conversation).

For example; it's presently wildly popular to believe that the Germanic invasions were peaceful multiculturalism, rather than, you know, a civilization ending event. I assume because the twee nincompoops who populate modern Classics departments are made uncomfortable by the parallels with present day barbarian invasions of Europe. There is zero actual evidence for this; in fact, looking at the archaeological, numismatic and philological evidence; it's abundantly obvious [0] that Rome wasn't peacefully transformed by Teutonic multiculturalism, but was in fact, sacked by barbarians and ruined forever.

Similarly, while I'm no Nero expert, and I think it would be interesting if Nero was a misunderstood bunny rabbit and his witch of a mother a "hidden figure" who would have made a great Elizabeth, I strongly suspect the ancient and later writers and views on Nero and Aggripina will turn out to be more accurate than something out of modern nincompoop Classics departments, populated with the likes of Zuck's dumb younger sister[1]. I could be wrong! And Smithsonian could also be misrepresenting the thesis of the book, but Nero being a jerk seems more likely than not.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Ward-Perkins

[1] https://eidolon.pub/@donnazuckerberg -hilarious trash writer, taken seriously because there are less disapproving tweedy types around, and because her brother is a billionaire
It sounds like deflection, false equivalency and whataboutism. Discussions about the CCP frequently devolve into these tropes.
Well, seems heavy handed either way to give vscode such attention when vscode was only 4% of respondants. Seems reasonable that you wouldn't want a full fledged IDE in certain cases. For example, a small simple project, or if you're mainly a frontend dev who just needs to add a small API
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Does anyone feels looking at Google's products lately that there's something tremendously wrong with the organization. I'm not talking about just dropping features but just quality of implementation and missing things that people should get fed up and do something during development.

Like hangout > chat, let's drop the existing feature of read receipt that is even more important in the remote/work world in a product geared toward business.

Let's do an integration of task & files in chat in gmail but not what's suppose to be the primary app the standalone chat.

Let's take 3 release to decide yes there is some usefulness to wireless scanning and we can put it as an advance option.

It's not just dropping produces, it's actually degradation of function as if just to bump up the changelog size.
People have been critical of China for decades and deservedly so. The only thing that has changed is that the political landscape in the US has descended into madness.

The CCP has already committed disgusting atrocities during the cultural revolution in the 60’s but the world magically ignores that so I am pessimistic to say the least.
I honestly don't know what important data you might have been storing or how, but passwords are definitely one thing that is still synchronized between all your FF instances.
I use Hugo to generate a static html blog. I use to use wordpress, but this was a nice low maintenance change.

You can customize your own template.

My process to write a new post looks like this:

write a post in markdown
compile it to html with hugo
rsyn to my shared host.
This was the high profile one a few months ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078989/rocket-league-ma...
Likely limitations from the city for development on that property. I worked at a place (not in California) that was limited to X number of people in their campus due to parking requirements; the city forced the company to offload employees to another location when they went way over the limit.
I call it Promo-Driven Development. You have to launch things to get promoted at Google, but you're not going to get demoted for transferring to a better project afterward.
maybe we do something else bad now, but we no longer do the particular thing known as colonialism
His dad was retired PLA and a party member. His mom was a government official and also a party member.

In a way they did get to them but not in the way you imply.
In Indonesia the only SMS I get is spam. It's so annoying that I just disable notifications for SMS.
I think a lot of people are not against illegal immigration but against the subhuman treatment desperate people who have no other choice receive, it used to be more human. And the fact that the treatment is starting to be reminiscent of nazi concentration camps is a big reason to dissent.
I wish grandchildren of your grandparents today would be less willing to sacrifice their lives for anyone in the world by playing the worlds' government, lawmaker and policemen.

The world would be much safer and peaceful place.
I find it impossible to scrounge the smallest modicum of interest when this will inevitably, invariably be "sunset" within 12 months with no migration path or support.
I'm not sure if I count, but I suspect two things. Heat dissipation and controller complexity. NVMe controller might be more computationally heavy and so they might emit more heat*.

But assuming that NVMe and SATA SSD controllers emit the same energy, it makes more sense that NVMe would be hotter.

Think about it. If you throw a ball of high heat meat would it cool faster if it was connected to a large body of water (SSD with its chasis) or a small body of water (NVMe small piece of plastic that is the NVMe)?

Another thing to check if your NVMe either has proper thermal pads placement and/or if the air from the front coolers is reaching it.
>Judging the past on the standards of the present isn't a productive line of reasoning.

Well, the US still has Hawaii, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Native Americans confined in reservations, and so on. They're not giving those back anytime soon.

Those, plus, 3-4 invasions and tons of bombings of different places (sovereign countries) in the last 20 years alone. Plus a continuous such history throughtout the 20th century. Plus several proxy states, thousands of bases, and so on.

That's not some "distant" past...
This is a very narrow view. I've probably practiced software development longer than almost anyone on this thread - right at 40 years. I'm still a practicing software engineer, doing "enterprisey" software development in Java. Still interesting, lots of challenges, and yes, lots of complexity.

That said, I've done a lot of other things over my career, and one reason it's stayed interesting is the variety. If I wanted a change right now I'd probably look at small embedded systems work.

With all the AI, IOT, scientific, real time control, and robotics software being developed these days, I think there are a lot of interesting directions available!

I'll add a shameless plug for Julia, which I think could become a major general purpose programming language, and which makes for some enjoyable development!

(On the "best use of one's body", I have some sympathy there, but "balance in all things". Or just up your rates and work 32 hour weeks. heh)
If you're the Treasurer of Cupertino, this cannot be a fun thing to hear about.
Not sure about yours, but on my motherboard, it floats - other than the connector on one end and the screw on the other, there is no heat sink, and it just doesn't mass very much.
I was recently noticing just how ahead of its time Colonization was, not just for its gameplay. I mean, it's a game where the music is period music, where each Native American nation actually feels like its own unique culture where both cooperating or looting them can have far-reaching consequences and be a viable strategy for the Euro settlers, where you can crash the Euro economy and even screw with the economy of your neighbor colony's supply chain, where Privateers have secret national alliances appearing as unaligned ruffians...and so, so much more. It's a really incredibly deep game, and as much as I loved it when I played it, I didn't realize just how special it was because I was at an age where I didn't have anything worse to compare it to.
What is particularly Western about this? And compared to what? Do you just mean modern culture?
This statement smelled fishy to me as there are only 40M or so people in Iraq to begin with, so I Googled around a bit.

Despite politicians and talking heads claiming for years that either Desert Storm, UN sanctions, or both caused half a million child deaths, evidently most studies found that the child mortality rate in Iraq was unchanged throughout the 1990s.

https://psmag.com/news/the-iraq-sanctions-myth-56433

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Iraqi-death-toll-doe...

While this apparently fake statistic has mostly been used to criticize the US and UN, it seems Tony Blair used it to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, claiming the dead kids were Saddam's fault.

I guess this is why I don't read the papers much anymore.
>so if a reformed mob boss sees other mobsters extorting people, he cannot step in and stop them because he did the same thing in the past?

Reformed? LOL.

>i really don't understand this kind of ethical reasoning, just sounds like pious excuses to sit on our hands

It's the ethical imperative of:

- not being a hypocrite,

- being the change you want to see in the world, and putting your house in order first

- the old-mob-boss not getting to keep his illegal riches (not to mention his old ways) and claim to be reformed,

- and not using the plights of "poor X" as an excuse to attack their opressor, when you don't really care about poor X, you have opressed and are still opressing others all over the world, and you have no problems with other opressors of third parties if they are allies...

Without self-reflection and equal corrective moves on the finger-pointing side, the finger-pointing at China is merely used as a political weapon to justify aggression and pressure against them in the ongoing trade/influence war.

As for the finger pointers, those higher-up cultivate this for this exact purpose (as popular support for their hawkish plans), and the masses just point at the "enemy of the day" as they are conditioned...

As for the "pious excuses to sit on our hands" that's what happens anyway, nobody is actually doing anything. The one's that do are those who control armies and policy - and those have their own agendas, could not give less fucks for justice for Tibet.
I think you're being way too pedantic about Prof G's interpretation here. The larger point is Apple's obsession with customer wants/needs versus ALL of its competitors being very anti-privacy stances (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.).

In other words, the fact that they are all used in the same sentence (similar to Coke/Pepsi/7UP) and Apple has a very differentiated strategy to the rest of them for a horizontal component of all of its products, puts them in a stronger long term market value.
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"either deterministic or random" is a possibly dangerous dichotomy.

Some things are neither determined nor random, in the "arbitrary" sense of the term. A child that grows up in a musical household is more likely to become a musician. That's neither random nor determined.

In populations, or over repeated instances, these can resolve to near deterministic results. At the individual level, they are more random seeming.
Performance is not on the top 5 list of things that killed FirefoxOS...
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[Disclosure I work at Google Area 120 and would be partly responsible for this type of decision]

This is a really helpful comment and I like the nod to transparency. Thank you! Not sure we could get quite so concrete publicly (there are lots of unknowns and wouldn't want to make commitments we can't keep), but aligning goals between the business, team, and users/customers is a great idea and something we can improve on.
Only if you're from US, I guess :|
Dude have you been to hawaii? their culture is very much in tact and proud. Not only that but locals have special rights and privileges over mainlanders not the reverse.
I'm the author of Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) that uses PDF.js as its PDF backend.

This is a somewhat big update for PDF.js which is kind of cool in that they haven't really been updating it as aggressively as they usually do in the last year or so.

It's a bit frustrating to work with though. The entire concept of rendering a PDF via JS is fascinating but actually using the API has been a huge pain for us.

We've had to fork it internally and work on typescript bindings and other features to get it to work.

They seem to have a silly policy of only allow developers to use a subset of the API not the whole API itself so that it doesn't look like PDF.js (which I don't understand).

A lot of the functionality just isn't available otherwise.
That’s both awful and awesome.
Because Britain and Spain colonized Hawaii in the 1500s nobody can criticize China for using forced labor in the 2020s? That takes some serious mental gymnastics.
Consider that it took a pandemic to get many SV companies to consider this. Forget employees advocating for it or workplace research, some external event had to force their hand first.
what is the megabar?
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My Gosh! I still use eclipse with the vrapper which puts me at 7%. Guess I need to give Idea another try.
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Apparently, “Area 120” is the Google Unit for products that launch without any textual explanation of what they are or how to use them, just low-information-density YouTube walkthroughs.
Does anyone remember Fusion-IO?

It used to have the fastest SSD on the market. What happened to it?
Didn't he quit a while ago?
We had a Fairphone 2. We loved the repairability and ethos, but it was very unreliable, probably to the pogo pins.

The mic and camera repeatedly failed. Wiggling and cleaning the contacts worked occasionally. We also bought new mic and camera modules. Ironically the repairabiilty compromised the reliability.

The last time it broke we bought a refurbished iPhone.
Take a look at using the microbit

https://microbit.org/get-started/user-guide/python/

Having a hands on project is pretty cool for kids.
Yes, they are "free", in their old land, under the laws and federal government of the US...
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> From bragging about glass work to the damn chairs in the building. It was just so odd.

It's a symbolic embodiment of their products' build quality, attention to detail, design-lead ethos and green credentials.

It also provides a place for some people to work.
Thanks for chatting.
> The actual answer, as others have pointed out, is to buy a new drive. If the data has any value, it's worth it.

If you read the comments on the StackExchange question, the scenario that prompted it does make sense:

>> I'm migrating our company's database and this is 700GB file with profile data in JSON format, each line one profile. The process that imported the data stopped after running several days after 70% done. Now, to not repeat the full import, I want to cut the first 70% (300 million lines).

>> [One option would be] exporting the data from the old DB again, skipping the first 300 Mio entries and cp it again over to the new and import it there. It roughly takes a day. I just thought there must be a way to do it in place: the data are already there - just truncate the first part of it and continue.

So it's not as if this is the only copy of the data. It would just be nice if there was a way to cut some of it without recopying everything.
Usage has all sorts of impacts - for example, the road utilization for commuting needs is a big deal for local traffic.
Erm, the explore tab in Sheets is pretty awesome for small businesses and people unfamiliar with Excel-like formula.

Not sure when that was released, though!
>No charges brought under the US espionage act will ever see anything like a free trial. That is a part of how the espionage act works.

Given that no journalist has ever been convicted under the Espionage Act[0] in the US, it seems unlikely that Assange will be.

That's not a defense of the US or Assange/Wikileaks. Rather it's a statement of fact. While the US government is, and has been, leery of journalistic freedom for quite some time, the courts/juries have repeatedly smacked down attempts to prosecute journalists under the Espionage Act.

As such, it seems to me that Assange's future (whether or not in a US Federal prison) rests on the ability of US prosecutors to prove that Assange violated the CFAA[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917#Brandenb...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
A small fraction of people including tech people know you can charge for browser extensions as a one off. I’m still not sure if you can actually. I’ve never seen an integrated payment for an extension. At best something like a SaaS with focus on browser extension.

The amount of profit from this has to be so tiny for Google or any mid cap tech company since no one really knows about it.

I made a comment with some upvoteS here a week or two ago about my hopes that the new Safari could maybe usher in an era of browser extensions being seen more as apps than current status quo but without the ridiculous high priced recurring prices being added more and more.

IE paying $1+ one time, or $1-3/mo, or $10-25/year being a not uncommon situation would be great in my opinion. Both stamp out the rampant data mining extensions do, legitimize extensions more, and hopefully get some indie developers paid.
Not sure we can make that claim yet, it's only been a few months. We still have that residual in office-culture, things might be different when the majority of the office has turned over since remote work became a thing.
Ah, yes, this is true. One option is to use that as just one authentication factor, and revoke it if it is lost.

One could use it with a password, as is commonly done, but you could imagine combining it with a key stored on a server, making it a two-layer key system.

That way, extracting the key would likely be of no use to someone who stole it, provided you can revoke access quickly enough. So yeah, hardware security measures can be useful, but do not necessarily need to be 100% foolproof.
What's your point? Are you trying to argue that the East-Coast culture of New York is similarly to blame?
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I checked Samsung server SSD SM863a MZ-7KM960N 960 GB. They claim 6,160TBW. It's using SATA and much slower than M.2 SSD though.
Well, the Great Firewall recognizes VPN packets and can decide to drop them, so you might not even be able to complete a login with the VPN server...
They won’t stop anything.
> Sweden […] is basically done

False, confirmed cases have grown 4.4% since the start of September.

> Massachusetts is still mostly locked down and has 4x the death rate [of Sweden]

False, us/ma has 1.42‰ and se has 0.58‰. That's a ratio of only 2.45.

> "citations needed."

https://covid.observer/se/

https://covid.observer/us/ma/
FYI - may be useful - there is some contrast between the CPC releases of Rebelstar and Laser Squad and the Spectrum releases.
Microsoft aims to enable the future of work with new Teams features and devices
This one in particular feels dead already... "An experimental product from Area 120 at Google"... yeah bro, you won't be around in a year.
What does this proof of concept prove? It looks to me like Tables = Sheets + some workflow automation (Bots) + some schema ("tasks") + some style sheet. Is this a stretch relative to what someone committed might do over GSuite today?
Yes, but on the other hand, IDEs are slow. I don't mean to say VSCode is lightning fast, but it starts in less than a second. By that time, IntelliJ didn't even open it's loading window. And were talking about a top-of-the-line Ryzen 7 laptop with an NVMe SDD.

For longer sessions that's not a problem, but when you're on battery or quickly hopping into the project to look something up it makes a lot of difference. Also, opening up a foreign project is two clicks and one second, compared to project creation and then loading+indexing when using IntelliJ.

I love the IntelliJ line of IDEs. But VSCode outcompetes it in simplicity by far. Especially when we're talking about something like a simple Node project, where compilation+execution is far simpler than something with a full build pipeline with artefacts.
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That was funny 10 years ago, may be.
Crude oil, yes. Fuel, it didn't.
Localisation has such (a) cruel spelling(s).
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>even my work place shocked a lot of people with a declaration that anyone looking to continue remote work post pandemic will need VP approval for three days a week

Soemthing tells me that if your competitors start offering 3 days a week remote work and people start taking them up on that offer, your company will change their stance mighty quick.

>they themselves might be more redundant than they want to admit to.

I really expect there to be a look across all businesses at mid level management. C-suite will save themselves, but people downstream won't be able to.
In context, ML makes great sense as an acronym. The problem is a headline on a news aggregator hasn't much context.

For the curious, this is about a Machine Learning library, not a library for Standard ML, ML with Concurrency, CAML, OCAML, or F#.
> OK to just read the book like a novel, and walk away with just a vague memory of the highest level themes and maybe detailed recall or one or two specific points that resonated with you.

As someone who has deep experience of learning from novels and communicating what they have to offer, the alternate protocol you outline for learning from books applies also to novels.

Under the auspices of literature there is much enduring value that readers can glean by reading through once, rereading passages of interest, and synthesizing an interpretation or response.
Yes 100%. East coast - UK/Europe collaboration is much easier than West coast. Frequent meetings between Europe and SV mean someone is staying late or coming in early on a regular basis. In the worst case the transatlantic bandwidth can be 2 emails a day.