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> -Output accessibility (eg for blind users)

This is something that's in our roadmap. Makeswift components are just React components and as only developers of those components at the moment we plan to follow accessibility best practices.

>-Clean and efficient output html (every square space site I visit is slow as shit)

Again, because the components are just React components, it's a matter of keeping markup clean in the components themselves. This is something that I think we could do a better job at right now. But we will definitely improve and there's a clear path for it.

-No cdn resources. Allows you to pack your own fonts and assets.

We're currently focused on delivering a great out-of-the-box experience so we take care of that for all of our customers. In the future we plan to open up an API that will allow developers so extend Makeswift however they see fit, including writing their own components, panels, and integration with assets, etc. This would allow you to pick your own custom fonts and assets.

That being said, today we do support custom snippets that you can add to your pages as well as an Embed component. With these you can bring your own "anything".
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Microsoft lost their case and was ordered broken up. They were saved in the DC Circuit who rejected the remedy, and then by the incoming Bush administration who had the DoJ back off the case and settle.

It's very easy to imagine that (as with many things from that era) had a few hundred votes in Florida gone differently Microsoft's windows empire would now be just a memory. It was very close.

It was certainly not the wrist slap you're imagining.
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Having a button which people can use to forward a message (or forward it) - with a cryptographic guarantee of who it came from - to the authorities would be useful. E2EE preserved, and in fact utilised.
Sure, the rust language is "simple" if you abstain from using 80% of the features of rust, but then it would be impossible to write non-trivial programs. Zig, on the other hand, gets rid of this 80% as well, AND still lets you write non-trivial programs.
Justice Department sues monopolist Google for violating antitrust laws
Doesn't seem to be about resolution — it works fine on my 5120 x 2880 monitor (macOS Catalina). I'd guess it's probably to do with hardware acceleration not being used, or something like that.
Tesla has sold fewer than a million cars since 2012. That’s a rounding error, and unless they scale up, they will remain a rounding error. Of course that has nothing to do with their overvalued market cap.
The best evidence that we never landed on the moon is the fact that we aren't currently there. If we truly had the ability to put people up there, we'd have built a cellular network decades ago. But now we've "forgotten" how to do it. The moon race was great piece of propaganda and Hollywood theatrics, I'll give them that.
And so the legendary indestructibility of Nokia's phones shall be put to the test once more.

The very first or two digits of any phone number on Earth are the country calling codes. We should add extra digits for a planetary calling code.
Likewise and I have to add that mornings I am usually not very productive anyway, regardless of the environment. I've been working from home for the past few Covid months and the bulk of my work is done in the afternoon. That's not very convenient for me as I'd like to enjoy my time off after 5, but I usually end up past that to take advantage of the momentum built.
Internationalization is definitely a big one. It's a hard thing to do right for a website builder designed for non-technical people, though.

That being said, I'm proud to currently have customers that have built sites in over 5 different languages, that I know of.
In a manner of speaking, yes. Netscape begot Mozilla, which in turn begot Firefox.
I use Google Slides _a ton_ and having a web based alternative is definitely interesting. Since I'm not a Mac user I've definitely yearned for Keynote-like animations etc. so this could be really useful.

That said, something here doesn't seem to add up to me. Pitch is launching now, two years after being founded by seven founders, raised 50M(!) in funding and has 89 employees?

I can't figure out why
1. they didn't launch sooner
2. why they need so many people
3. why it's a freemium model
4. How they _already_ raised $50M.

It looks like a cool product and I might sign up to play around but something doesn't add up.
The ideal line length for text layout is based on the physiology of the human eye… At normal reading distance the arc of the visual field is only a few inches – about the width of a well-designed column of text, or about 12 words per line. Research shows that reading slows and retention rates fall as line length begins to exceed the ideal width, because the reader then needs to use the muscles of the eye and neck to track from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line. If the eye must traverse great distances on the page, the reader is easily lost and must hunt for the beginning of the next line. Quantitative studies show that moderate line lengths significantly increase the legibility of text.

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How do we know that AI is truly transformative tech? The null hypothesis is that most businesses could achieve equivalent ROI by using older, simpler data analysis techniques like linear regression.
I'm not the author of Lodash.

You should take a look at the API, you'll quickly notice that it's not a for loop library: https://lodash.com/docs/#cloneDeep

Some of these functions have been added to JavaScript and are no longer compelling, but many of these still fill voids in the language. Sure, you could write each of these yourself, but Lodash has more eyeballs (better docs, fewer bugs, better performance, etc).
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I think Mark Shannon is a Python core dev now. But I agree with your other reasons.
Mozilla recently got rid of the devtools team: https://twitter.com/flaviocopes/status/1293510322528100352
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The SAAS I work for started out as the owner building pages on whatever dreamweaver was popular 15 years ago, and that templating engine still haunts us today. Our development cycle is painfully slow because of all of the copy-pasting that happened in the code base before a team with modern sensibilities got their hands on it. I have nightmares about nested tables for layout and inline CSS.
Doesn't Apache Flink already solve these problems?
E.g. stateful, fault tolerant, scalable stream processing.
Shame for anyone who wanted a real shot at this case.

The Trump admin is pushing an un-finished rush-job against Google because it's 14 days before the election and the administration is desperate for any hail mary to turn the polls around.

Based on this alone, a political rush-job, you have to imagine Google will crush this. And there won't really be an opportunity to try again.

Hard to not see this as a generational chance for Google to take total advantage of the political cluster-F in America and dominate the next decade or two.
Not as cringeworthy as Bill Gates' book in the 90s opting to entirely use that term, abbreviating it to "the Highway," and outright refusing to say "Internet."
But that’s exactly how the survey works. They ask people if they are available to work and if they are actively seeking work, regardless of age.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed
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You didn't define what a monopoly is either, so I kind of assumed you knew the definition...

Monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of trade in a commodity or service.

Of relevance too is a duopoly: a situation in which two suppliers dominate the market for a commodity or service. A complete and single monopoly isn't required for the market to start being inefficient and appear manipulated.
Mark Shannon definitely is a core developer, though I agree that it's odd to ask "why isn't this more known?" about a two hours old repo.
Font-weight and italic is also in the list ;)
The Bell monopoly was only enabled by goverment to begin with.
Neither Nvidia nor ARM make fabs.
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I waiting to see somebody actually provoking any of the 5 eyes governments into exerting this power, and seeing how it works.
Please note, there’s a 64-page complaint attached.
This had to happen, the other case of monopolizing the Digital Ad industry would also hurt them.
Dev Tools

Even my most ardent anti-Google coworkers reluctantly switch back to Chrome when it comes time to debug.
You can disable it with SyncDisabled and BrowserSignin Chrome policies. On Windows, you just have to set the registry values. I believe there is a config file you edit for Linux and Mac OS. It’s all documented in the Chrome docs. You don’t need to pay for any Chrome enterprise nonsense.

I’m not saying this remedies this morally or, for most people, practically. But it is a practical solution for you and me and any machines we deploy.
I read years ago that the starvation wasn’t necessarily distribution, but rather corruption that prevented the distribution. Is that incorrect?
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That's very interesting. Personally, I much prefer the Firefox development tools. Mind if I ask what you like about the Chrome ones, compared to Firefox'?
> Is it just coincidence that I've only heard of this approach for zig and Jonathan Blow's language

It's also a feature in elixir (Mix). Interestingly elixir also has a comptime concept, so I think having comptime makes having a build library more sensible.
Why wouldn't they be? They are in practice a state industry of South Korea. Or are you saying you're glad they weathered the 2001 crisis?
> Object.prototype.toString is not as useful as Ruby, Python

I don't know that returning that info would be good or secure in JS

> Oh, DOM UTF-16 string broken by UCS-2 JavaScript function. I understand it is not easy to fix, Ruby fixed in 1.9, Python in 3.0, new languages (Rust, Elixir) come with UTF-8. Microsoft Windows has code pages, UCS-2, UTF-16.

The best and most compatible answer is moving JS to UTF-32. JS engines already save space by encoding strings internally as latin1 instead of UCS when possible (even around 90% of text from Chinese sites is still latin1). IMO they should have made backtick strings UTF-32, but that doesn't exactly transpile well.

> No, every Ruby object contains variables and has a link to a class which defines instance methods, we call it singleton_class

https://mccraigmccraig.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ruby-eige...

https://i.stack.imgur.com/FPPdI.png

or adding all the things with a few instances, .constructor, etc

https://i.stack.imgur.com/HvzDP.png

I'll let you decide which implementation is easier to work through, but I have a definite opinion that Ruby's system is more complex (and Python layers their OOP on top of what is basically a hidden prototypal system).

> I've red through ES5 to be sure there are no hidden traps left.

You'll love newer ES versions then. The upcoming private fields are an even bigger mess.

JS needs a "use stricter" mode which really slices away the bad parts. Even better, just add a `version="es20xx"` requirement to use newer features and have browsers ignore what they don't know, so you could even compile and link to multiple compilation levels of the same script and have the browser choose.

In truth, JS would be in the best place of any top-20 language if Eich had just been allowed to make a scheme variant as he had planned.
I wonder how bad the roaming charges will be for the astronauts if they accidentally use their earthly iPhone SIM with the Moon network.
I still use Chrome by default on mobile, but when Chrome has performance issues, I switch to Firefox and it works fine. I've been considering a switch to Firefox on mobile (I already switched on my main workstation).

Try it with a long page, something thousands of lines long. Mobile Chrome on Android chokes badly, stops responding for seconds or minutes, and page search is hideously slow. Firefox handles it fine. It's really obvious on long lists or tables, e.g. this page:

https://reitaisai.com/arts7/?p=165
This is a common misconception but is not correct.

Anti-competitive behavior can be illegal all by itself. Price fixing is one obvious example but there are plenty of others.
> (in safe-mode only, of course)

Then it seems to me that Rust still has an advantage, in that it offers full protection of UAF with zero runtime overhead.
Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

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A regression appeared where members were accessible outside of their scopes even without the `pub` modifier. This took months to fix and the person bringing it up initially was yelled at about not understanding programming languages in the discord channel.

Another one I personally brought up was that the standard library's utf-8 module had a decoder that panics on invalid input sequences, certainly setting consumers up for DOS attacks with malformed utf-8 inputs. EDIT: DOS vulnerability is still there (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/unicode.z..., PR to fix that was closed https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/4929). I never responded to the PR because it was at that moment I decided to abandon Zig altogether.

The response to the latter was pretty much "the standard library isn't meant to be used right now", to which I really don't have a response. There was a very, very long and heated argument in the discord channel about it where instead of addressing the concerns about DOS and security I was instead insulted for apparently trying to taint an otherwise perfect language.

The community is vile and the few examples I've seen of the maintainer disregarding safety and security in this way don't give me any amount of confidence in the project overall.

EDIT: Worth mentioning, the syntax and semantics surrounding Zig are not new ideas. I'm sure another project will pop up at some point to compete; many discussions I've seen in the language design channels on IRC and a few discord servers have many people arriving at similar conclusions Zig has made, without knowing Zig even exists. I think we're slowly converging on a language that looks a lot like Zig, but I don't think Zig will be its ultimate incarnation.
I recommend, generally, people do their own research, it's not a difficult or obscure truth to locate. Here's one article though: https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close...

But basically, a massive number of Google employees were installed in high-level positions of the Obama administration, and a lot of Obama administration folks got great jobs at Google. Obama installed a professor who wrote studies about how Google shouldn't face antitrust scrutiny (who was paid by Google to do so) as the FTC Commissioner (Joshua Wright, who is now a lawyer at Google's preferred law firm... he went from Google shill to government official and now back to Google work), and an FTC case against Google where staffers recommended litigation inexplicably got shoved under the rug.

Then you'd see things like a former Googler in Obama's administration announce an initiative to budget billions of taxpayer dollars to buy computers for schoolchildren... unshockingly, these were intended to be Chromebooks, which get kids started early as Google account holders. (I believe Congress ended up rejecting this particular budgetary line item, or reducing it significantly.)
How do you know he was counted as retired? BLS shares their survey and how they determine if someone is unemployed - they basically ask if they are available to work and actively seeking work. I didn’t see any cutoff for age.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed
I've probably seen worst than this but this one comes to mind.

A sysadmin had (I can only assume accidentally) removed the SUID bit from the crontab binary causing an application we used that invoked the binary to not work. To even allow this to work we had a custom SELinux module that we suspected had the issue.

I ended up comparing systrace output between a working instance and the broken instance (in prod) to track it down.
I'd say a VC-funded presentation startup is a fair bit more likely to shut down than one of Google's core products is.
I'd trust the article more if I were confident that it wasn't an attempt to sell another ship that may or may not have more holes than the current one.
Nice work!

In addition to dahart’s suggestions, I’d be curious to see some of your profiling that you did. Like, what’s the breakdown of the timing now? Are you PCIe limited, or have you overlapped the I/O with enough compute that it’s only XX% overhead?

How much memory do you need for all the geometry and BVHs? (Particularly post compression). I’m curious if this just barely fits on an A100 or similar.

Again, nice work!
Well...they already treat Google and Youtube as special, because logging into them also logs you into the browser as well. It wouldn't surprise me if that special-ness had unintended consequences and that's the bug.

It /also/ wouldn't surprise me if it's exactly the way you describe.
Say your production environment runs on python 3.7. New developer on the team opens a pr and you see dataclasses, a class attribute type hint, maybe a walrus operator and some required keyword-only args. They say they've tested the code in their local virtual environment and it runs. Which of these features break the build and which are the new best practices?

Sure ci will catch most of these but maintaining 100% code coverage is a significant burden and very rare in practice.
The "generating code from them" brings the bad vibe of useless UML tools with it, but I put it in there anyway, because that's how it is going to be.

There is room for "experimental" programming of course, where you experiment with stuff and you are glad that you get it somehow working in the first place. But should stuff that peoples lives depend on depend on experimental software like that? No. And as software more and more becomes part of our lives, I don't see much software for which that attribute does not hold.

Same goes for hardware.
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12-year-old girl cracks Netflix password just to watch the series named The Umbrella Academy. She hacks through the parental code.
> we already had a vote on proportional representation

No, because AV is not a proportional system

> in reality it has drawbacks

There are lots of proportional systems, so it does not make senser to say "it has drawbacks".

> all these systems are similar

That's not true either.
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Long story short... 20 years at small software company, associates degree in computer science, responsibilities are now more aligned with a CTO type position. Would like to become more knowledgeable about sysadmin, networking and security areas which I'm already working with on a regular basis.

It seems like the options are to just learn all of it independently and get certifications; or go back to school, pay a lot more, and have a degree at the end (edit: leaning towards an IT degree instead of finishing CS). Company will cover some costs each year but degree would largely be out of pocket. I don't want lack of Bachelor's degree to affect me in the future if I want to move on to another company but it is a much bigger commitment. Will it affect me in the future at this point in my career? Do certifications offset anything there? Thoughts or recommendations?
I switched back to Firefox about 2 years ago when their Quantum efforts finally started coming to fruition. I haven't looked back since.
Check out "The War on Cars", it's a fantastic podcast: https://thewaroncars.org/
I was going to make a silly joke about roaming charges being astronomical, but with the round trip time being approximately 2.7 seconds I think you'd actually have just enough time to request vectors and do a location update... maybe you will be able to bring your own SIM and device.
I don't have an answer for you, but I have a very similar experience. some days I wake up and it's "go time", sifting through source files and crushing multiple bugs in eight hours, often forgetting to eat lunch! other days I'll try over and over to start working, but every time I look at a line of code, I feel an immense pressure to alt-tab to the browser or get out of my chair and pace around my apartment. if nothing else, it's good to know other people are like this.

I've tried to examine correlations between my focus at work and my sleep schedule, diet, social life, etc. and I don't really see anything. sometimes my best weeks of work will coincide with eating bad takeout and staying up til 2am playing factorio every night. sometimes I go to bed at 10pm, eat three healthy meals a day, and accomplish absolutely nothing at work.
I'm guessing I just don't understand the Microsoft/ IE antitrust case because everytime I read about it makes no sense what was done that was illegal.
It is easy to say "they just hired to fill a quota" when the only person who seems to do any actual work is the person hiring to fill their quota.
If you want to claim that something exists you need a definition of what that thing is, which everyone seems to be missing.

Your argument kind of boils down to, "why would there be competition in the marketplace?" which flies in the face of most fundamental ideas of economics. While you might be correct, you kind of need to be more correct than 200 years of economic thought.
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Or you know a good course in cognitive behavioral therapy. I often think YC should have an in house therapist or two.
So what was the point of antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft if current browser/s were able to adapt and evolve.
I'm not sure "technically runs a bus, which may or may not be practical to use" is the most useful metric here.

While I certainly agree there are substantial bright spots in parts of Canada for transit investment, there's also big and worsening issues.

Rural inter-city transit has been getting drastically worse out in much of country.

VIA Rail has mostly been in a long-term downward spiral of cuts/"service suspensions" outside the main Ontario/Quebec corridor.

Inter-city buses aren't much better. Recent years have had Greyhound giving up and quitting Western Canada, and Saskatchewan shutting down their inter-city bus company. The result being limited patchwork of services not coming anywhere close to the kind of service that used to be provided.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/29/canada-greyhou...

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-one-y...
I am doing the same. I have developer plugins installed on Chrome and productivity plugins installed on Firefox (Tree Style Tabs, Grammarly).
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Imagine accidentally calling an astronaut. Or doing FaceTime/Zoom with them on the moon. It would be interesting.
I guess my question remains: why? It doesn’t appear to offer anything over a signed IOU – if you don’t deliver the goods when I ask for something real, it doesn’t matter how many bits I have saying you will – and if I need more assurance I’m going to need to find a third party to broker the transaction in any case.
Good point, I thought USA was the only country in the world that had household income instead of individual.