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Right now I'm primarily using Game pass to play games on my Android phone, and at that it's doing a very good job. As a very surprising bonus, I saw flight simulator was included. This is downright aggressive of Microsoft. They're bundling a $60 game with a $15 a month service. Meaning even if you don't particularly like streaming games, you get your money's worth as long as every three months or so Microsoft adds another $60 game.

Of course since we all forget things, eventually you'll let Game pass keep recurring while sparsely using the service. This Gym like model is what every subscription service strives for.

I'm not complaining, if anything I might buy a new Xbox since I'm already entitled to tons of Gamepass games as well as Xbox live.

Edit: Might also just play everything on my PC. Good job Microsoft. Took them 3 generations , but they've finally merged the PC and console. Nothing on the Series X isn't coming to pick
Well, that was the problem. Atari had the MIDI (pro music) and DTP from the start.
The mono 640x400 monitor - ultra sharp was a great gig.

Amiga went the road of being console turned computer, and the expansions only created havok with support.
Even A500 Plus had issues.

Sadly - it also affects community - the IP rights for Amiga are mess, the recent issue with Terrible Fire extensions - for some reason a lot of bad blood in a very bold and interesting system made by Atari engineers.
I want to agree with you but I too am a bit out of touch (all the information is from friends). I don't like to defend the central gov but there is too much smoke and mirror to see through things. A lot of press reports genuine issues about China but also a mix of unverifiable information. I believe the local governance is actually improving. At central level it might be a very different story. However that said sometimes it is hard to judge. Did it really depart from Deng's approach? Was Deng's method deserving applause? My parents generation (the equivalent of boomers) suffered most throughout their youth and it is only getting better now. So for any long term impact, I'm not sure myself.
nothing will lead to better adoption, because, as others have pointed out, google has trashed its brand (at least among techies) because of structural issues like promotion-hopping and big game hunting (where, for example, a $50M business is just way beneath them).

further, we're never going to get sustainable businesses out of google because they don't have the patience relative to their search and advertising behemoths. these kinds of projects are designed to keep the more adventurous developers in the fold with golden handcuffs, to both reduce existential threats to google and as a held front in the developer wars against other tech companies. lastly, constraints spur ingenuity (business and technical), and google engineers are just too comfortable for that.

all that (and more) means that google is simply not in the business of creating new businesses, no matter the rhetoric. unless something drastic changes, there's no reason to invest in any new google development.
Belgium and Sweden are much less populated countries than US, Germany, France, and even Canada. I'm not sure their per capita numbers will translate directly. Sweden has been widely criticized for their response and I think they could also fall in the incompetent government group. I don't know enough about Belgium's response to judge it. Spain was the 3rd country really impacted by COVID-19. Their death rates dropped considerably after their huge initial spike. There was an over month long stretch in which they were in the single digits for deaths per day. I don't think it is fair to judge their response based on total deaths the same way we judge countries that were hit later.
PDF form support still doesn't work very well -- it cannot export filled fields correctly, nor will do they print correctly.
this sounds like the kind of attitude that makes it hard for any newcomer to settle in a different city or country. how many years does it take before my family is accepted as a local and not treated like an outsider? how long does it take to grow new roots?

the reality is for many that point is never reached. in some places, if you are not born there you are not accepted as a local.

i am not talking about digital nomands, but families with children who move because of a job or because of their kids school or other personal reasons. my family was forced to move 3 times in the past two years, and not because we didn't intend to stay, but because we couldn't.

a friend of mine tried to run a business in a german city and had to give up because the local old boys club would prevent him from getting customers.

this is the attitude that xenophobia is rooted in.

sure, someone staying only for a few days is a tourist, no matter how you turn it, but if someone staying for a few months is still treated like a tourist, then i'd consider that a problem.
>and every time they would call or send another letter I would tie up 1-2 hours of one or more phone reps time.

That's an extremely large personal investment, I'm sorry you ended up having to essentially value your own time like this.
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Struggle with things, and then attempt to build on them. You don’t need to publicly build, but the act of applying something on top of what you just consumed is how you get the most out of the consumption. In my experience, if something was easily consumed, it end up being a waste of time.
Hey, thanks for getting back to me - I realised this morning I should've just checked your profile, which I did!

I'm very impressed with what you're doing - particularly as I actually had a similar idea a couple of years back, rooted in a plan to perhaps move country (within EU) and so was wondering how I'd a) move my equipment and b) set up shop when there. That sort of spawned a lot of thought about modular container-based systems, and how I'd fit various sizes and types of CNC machines in them. Then I wondered about the use of on-site CNC services for large construction developments - I could imagine the benefit of having a few accurate machining shops in containers that can quickly turn around finished interior elements straight from site measurements, etc.

As we know though, an idea's worth precisely nowt if unrealised, so I'm super-glad to see that someone has!

Best of luck to you!
What rewardable ingroup opinion? What ingroup? Every single person with a head on their shoulders should be against white supremacism.

Your reply reads the same as every reply from a far right peron. Calling everything "virtue signalling" as if people can't care about each other.

I think OP's point was that the writing was never great, I'm not sure what Mcinness's relation to Vice would be now.
Future of Disease Prevention MicrosoftAI Project Premonition
I believe it's "Google One" - https://one.google.com/about/support
I actually like the pdf.js viewer enough that I use the chrome extension version on chromium. But I see it hasn't been updated in over a year now. Hopefully it will get updated!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
There are already extended stay hotels serving this market. I've used them myself several times for work that only lasted a couple months and they were fine.
Like, why? I wonder sometimes why large corporations bother with stuff like this. OK I understand Gmail was a fantastic unicorn for Google and so might this be - but given that why risk using it?

I have a wider question too; large organisations spend millions building internal tools like this (and for a plethora of other things technical and project related). None of which are market leading and all of which progress steadily to abondonware...

It feels like once a corporation has gotten to that point its just too large and lost its core focus. I've seen (recently) pivots from poor UI's and interfaces to integrating one great SAAS tool with another great SAAS tool - because both the SAAS figured out all that stuff ages ago for you... at 10% of the cost.
To be fair the old doc format was conceived in DOS era and memory efficiency was a primer back in the days.
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Although I agree with the sentiment that US has a lot of soft power influence, I would argue that most of it is just US capitalism shining at its best. I think the best example of this is WW2 related content like movies. In France public perception of who won them World War 2 changed from Soviet Union in 1940s to US in 2000s. [1]

One major difference in US soft power is, they don't censor media critical of them to an extent even close to what CCP does. Look at the commentary on the pointless Vietnam War originating from US in their media, try to find something similar on PRC's pointless war in Vietnam which they lost.

[1] https://www.les-crises.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sondage...
Dear god I am so confused what this does now.
>Assange stepped over the line of receiving leaked data into providing assistance for the person leaking that data break into more things

I can understand your point, but Assange never provided assistance that allowed Manning to break into more things. The assistance provided, if successful, would only let Manning access the data she already had access to, just not leave a log saying she was the one who accessed it.

To use a physical analogy, Manning already had access to a file cabinet and was committed to leaking every document inside, and Assange gave her a pair of gloves to hide her fingerprints. His actions in no way enabled her act, but was an attempt to prevent retaliation.
Could it be that they have one (if not the best) obesity rate in the world?

I’m suspicious that this isn’t just countries with order of magnitude healthier populations (although maybe they have malnourishment the US doesn’t have).
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No wonder you hear so much cheering from Skid Row whenever the stock market has a big day. "Things are looking good for GDP growth!" they shout, from their tents.
One related thing that I began to do a while ago is to always have a `<project>.org` file going along any of my projects, which is a free-form Org-Mode journal of all the things and ideas related to that project, including of course esoteric commands for certain things (which sometimes can be hard to find in my bash history). With Org-Mode it's easy to fluidly change the structure of this journal, which makes it a very powerful tool.
> have it appended to my history, somehow

isn't that what .aliases is for?
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> If you want to learn from a book, you have to play a more active role.

I have a mind-blowing insight for you. African tribes have figured this out. The way they teach history is by re-enacting events from myth and history. Those "silly" and noisy dances make a lot of sense.

As Confucius said,

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

Participation in a tribal ceremony has the potential to teach history best - with highest chance of remembering.
Fair enough. Clearly not a greenhorn.

From the context of your description, your earlier arguments certainly make more sense, more than they would in the situations I'm personally more familiar with.

My main conclusion here is that we are both referring to very different (work) environments.

For what it's worth, given the context you've described, I can well understand and support your arguments.

That said, I'm not so sure your context is representative of the industry as a whole. To be fair, I really don't know what would be. Only that we apparently have worked in very different environments with very different conditions and requirements.

Just to be clear: when I argued about warning for the risks of particular choices, I was never referring to internal company communications. Those are indeed worth little to nothing (if shit happens). I was referring to communication between separate legal entities. Withing B2B contract work, such communications do quickly become crucial (if shit happens), even from a legal perspective.

I hope you can see that while your arguments do hold well within the world you know, they might not be so applicable or useful in other (certainly existing) situations. The world certainly is more diverse than the context you've given.

Kind regards, and thank you for answering my question.
Scrolling is fine, it’s most other UI interactions like button presses (both browser UI and in-page).
Relatedly, it would be great to be able to edit site lists manually. Often sites redirect to a short URL briefly at login, which breaks when using containers. Seems to be most common for me with banks.
We can't trust these stats because the CDC said itself that 94% of the "covid19" deaths had co-morbidity factors. Keep in mind, not a pre-existing condition, a CO-MORBIDITY.

As people have been reporting - the hospitals have a huge monetary incentive to code a death as COVID19. If someone comes in and dies, the hospital can run a PCR test, get a false positive then get 10's of thousands for the COVID19 death from the government.

My best friend's dad is currently a Doctor and is fighting his hospital after he transferred two patients to a different hospital to try and save their life. One of the patient died, depriving his hospital of the death funds from the government, which the other hospital got.

Even the fact checkers are admitting that the [entire incentive structure is to count as many people with covid19 as possible](https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...), but then say "there's no evidence" that there is fraud. A laughable proposition. When there is a bag of money for doing corrupt thing X, corrupt thing X always get's done throughout history.

These deaths are therefore the result of mostly fraud and when the real numbers are considered (probably something closer to 15-25% of what's being reported) then this disease is something that lags behind many other diseases currently circulating in the population that the media just ignores.
There's a Xenonauts 2 that's in the works, though it has no fixed release date yet. I have it on my Steam wishlist.
Welcome to the new left, where the only wrongs that can be discussed are those committed by Europeans or Americans. Ironic, because if you're truly committed to the idea that all people are created equal, you have to acknowledge that that means we all have a similar capacity for evil and brutality, regardless of race or culture.
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I don't think I understand your objection. Can't a library trivially convert between the two representations if it wants to in its implementation of _jsx?

Having children as a property of the parent isn't an implementation detail of React -- it's just a mapping onto Javascript, where objects have properties, and there's no independent notion of children. The new transform makes things more like Javascript, which seems like a good thing.
The new output has bundle size improvements (per the announcement) but each call to the pragma function now instantiates a new Object. I'm curious if there are performance implications in very large React applications.
No need to be sorry - it happens all the time! Thanks for the kind words.
I agree with this. I read the top comments before the article and went in totally expecting someone just dismissing books as useless, by the end though, I got the same takeaway as you,

I think part of the problem is that the author of TFA sorta "buried the lede" and didn't really get to the point until very near the end. I suspect a lot of people got bored and quit reading before that point. Honestly, I did, and it wasn't until my second reading that I got what he was saying near the end, which is admittedly a somewhat different take.
I think this talk of "community" is a bunch of hogwash. People living in cities don't have communities, they barely know each other.

What they are really protesting is being unable to afford rising rent, which is caused by a lack of apartments, which is somewhat exacerbated by Airbnb, but zoning laws have a far bigger impact.

The same people who can't afford the rent anymore wouldn't want to live in (or next to) a highrise though, so the zoning laws still make sense.
I wrote a small python script, that I alias in my shell to "b" (for build). When I run it in a given directory, it prompts me for a command, if it doesn't have one already saved. Subsequent runs just run the saved command, but it can save a different command for each folder. I use it to clear and remake my build directory using cmake on my c++ projects, with the various compile options saved in as well. It's basically a persistent version of what you describe.

Here's the script, if you're interested. It's not super complex. https://github.com/wheybags/stuff/blob/master/build-dir-comm...
Up says they are .1% without the bonus.

"Interest rate Up to 1.60% p.a. (base 0.10% p.a. and bonus 1.50% p.a - details below)" from https://up.com.au/pricing/

.1% does indeed sound pretty awful.
'Meme' came about when Dawkins modified the word 'mimeme' to sound like 'gene'. AFAIK that was first done in that book.
If you have relatively modern code with reasonably good practices, sure. I ran it with the default rule set on a 15 year old C# codebase of about 150kloc and it found several quite serious vulnerabilities and a whole boatload of logic errors.
Are there any details of the operation Snowden witnessed? I don't think I'm familiar with that and would be interested in reading/watching it.
Sure, but what do you think would happen without Twitter? It'd be another social network like Twitter. Or it'd be split up and you'd have to manage Twitter-replacement A and B.
Fighting an adversary like the PLA in occupied areas like Tibet, Xinjiang, HK and maybe Taiwan someday plays to the strengths of the US armed forces. It would be an embarrassing disaster for the PRC that would very likely lead to a collapse of the party and force them into some type of hermit kingdom, like NK.

The US has been in near constant war for almost 100 years, having big parades with uniforms doesn't make up for that.
I'mma be an editor real quick: "Nueralink" in the 6th paragraph
Simple! Just like 2008. No knock on effects at all.
∀n∈Z: n>=3 => ∃S∈(R^2)^n: [~∃p1∈S ∃p2∈S ∃p3∈S ∃a∈R: p1!=p2 & p2 != p3 & p3 != p1 & p1 + a(p2-p1) = p3] & [~∃p1∈S ∃p2∈S ∃a∈Z ∃b∈Z: |p1-p2| = a/b] & [∀p1∈S ∀p2∈S ∀p3∈S ∃a∈Z ∃b∈Z p1!=p2 & p2 != p3 & p3 != p1 => Area(p1, p2, p3) = a / b]

So far it's pretty much mechanical∗. The big question is how you will formalize Area(p1, p2, p3). Heron's could possibly make the problem much harder than cross product.

∗Although I may have made some or many mistakes.
But the trade off here is indexing. Visual Studio code provides no indexing functionality by default (some LSPs provide basic caching but not much). This is the killer feature for me. I can load up Kubernetes in Goland, cook an egg on my laptop while it indexes (about a minute) and have lightning fast goto def and find reference for the rest of the day. VS Code will load quickly but every single goto def will take ages.
Lockdowns were a mass infringement of our civil liberties that was arguably much more significant than anything post 9-11.

Governors and mayors shut down churches and assemblies by fiat. People weren’t allowed to see their family. Couldn’t sell goods and services.

You may think that was necessary (and at least some of it was). But That doesn’t change what it was.
On top of that some tools (I used fdformat) shifted the sectors to speed up sequential reads, i.e. have the first sector of the next track rotate in under the r/w head right as the head arrives.

Edit: another unrelated practice was buying up cheap(er) single-density disks, which were distinguished by the lack of a marker hole opposite the r/o protection slider, and used only one side of the medium for data. By drilling it out, one could trick the drives into using both sides, which usually worked out just fine. Mentioned here [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-sided_disk
I have tested with a clean profile and didn’t notice a speed up.

This is not to say Firefox is slow, but that Chromium feels much snappier.
> It seems like a minority case and any decent job which may require relocation or unpredictable permanence offers moving assistance that handles breaking leases.

first of all, this is pretty uncommon outside of relatively high-paying professional gigs. the average person's idea of a "decent job" is probably quite different from mine or yours. also not all leases have a buy-out clause. you might be on the hook for the entire remaining term of the lease, which, on the margin, can change a new employer's willingness to pay. I actually just had this situation with my previous roommate. we had just signed a new one-year lease when he got an offer. they almost declined to pay out his share of 11 months' rent when they learned there was no buyout clause. this was a tech company hiring him as an SWE.

I don't know what share of short-term renters are doing it out of necessity, but I do have several friends that are in this position. I'll use one of them as an example. he dropped out of school with about a year's worth of credits left, so most white-collar positions are not on the table for him. he currently works in a restaurant, but he has a worsening health condition that makes this a short term option at best. he's trying to get into a trade that would be at least a little better for his health, but not having a lot of luck at the moment. basically he needs to be ready to get up and go at a moments notice to anywhere he can find better work.
Tree of 40 Fruits (Grafted)
Shell aliases are your friend.

just give them some memorable names, and add them to your .bashrc. Or, if they are very context sensitive (that's not great), there is a way to source a file every time you enter a directory, I just don't remember it.
He's a populariser of science though. No criticism intended by that. His books are still serious works, but the serious intent is to educate a general audience, not be an important document for a specialist audience. It's a story about his theory. And good popularisers of science, which I think he definitely is (or was?) are good storytellers. He takes a basic thesis then uses multiple lyrical examples to illustrate it. As a layman, I loved that book and read it several times, it made me feel like I had an understanding of genetics, and many of its ideas have informed how I think about things now (the additional, if somewhat vague, stuff he added re memetics in particular). But I'd also say that book is an epitome of pop science, and that feeling of understanding of genetics was just the basic concepts clicking. Which is also fine, that's a really good thing!

Edit: to go back to original article: memorising the stuff in detail isn't hugely useful -- it's a useful jumping off point to investigate in more detail, but the books basic ideas are easily understood, that's the point
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