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The discoverability of voice commands is terrible.

I have no idea how to find out what I can do with Alexa, or which particular magic phrasing Alexa will understand.

My personal biggest issue, as means of illustration, is that I have no idea how to play the latest episode of something on the BBC app, rather than continuing from where I left off.

I'm sure there is a way, but none of my "natural language" attempts are recognised, and I can't find any way to find out what the true commands might be. Given that I mostly listen to news shows while doing something else (and hence rarely finish a particular episode) this makes the whole system near useless.

I may be missing something basic, or if you have any tips on the discoverability of Alexa commands, I'd be very grateful. But in my experience, the discoverability of voice commands is the worst I've ever come across; at least with CLI you have man pages, and with a GUI, even in the worst case of no documentation and obscure icons, there are buttons to explore through trial and error.
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This is an incredibly gripping read. Thank you!
For big companies, you need one whistleblower. You hire one employee over. They say "Oh gosh. We were doing the same thing." It's hard to keep that sort of thing secret.

Warrants are granted to law enforcement, not in civil suits between corporations. The word is subpoena, and if you knew even the basics of what you're talking about, you'd use correct terminology.

Legal discovery usually doesn't have a "very high burden of proof," because there are very reasonable ways to compartmentalize information. Legal discovery usually leads to a ton of transparency, at least to the legal teams on both sides (and a firewall, so that can't go over to the engineers).

MOST executives are diligent about responding to subpoenas. Judges have broad discretion for contempt-of-court, up to and including prison. If you're the CEO of BioCorp, and you can:

1) Respond promptly, completely, and accurately. Risk: You might wipe $200 million off of your books and cost each investor $2

OR

2) Stonewall the court or lie. Risk: You might get thrown in prison.

Which do you do? Most executives pick responding promptly. Not all, but most.

Most companies are super-careful not to infringe patents that they know about, because it's not fun. Unless it's a case of mutually-assured destruction. There are whole industries where everyone infringes, and no one sues anyone.
I think the left are blasé just now because:

a) Any irregularities are too small to effect the outcome

b) Most serious biases in the process are pro republican
Wait, I've got the ultimate programming dad joke (ok... Maybe this qualifies more as fake news, but still funny):

"Programmers just release a stable version of GNU's the Hurd!"

Now, let's see who votes for this joke. Ah ah ah ah
Yes, and go further back and those words in Latin all have f.

Eg. hongo from fungus. hacer from facere. hijo, hoja from filius, folia (/lj/ to /x/ being another change relative to Latin). Too many other examples to list.
Can you explain why Go and Postgres are listed as technology partners?
I really don't think that's it to be honest. I'm talking about the difference between an expert level speaker of a second language and a native speaker of that language.

Getting basic phonology right happens way before you get to that problem.

Do you know an example of someone who has learned a second language and sounds indistinguishable from a native speaker to a native speaker? I don't, but would be curious to hear about counterexamples. I suspect maybe people who speak professionally (e.g., actors as GP suggested) might be candidates, but I don't know any...
i think the only place i disagree with you is that in my mind we really have no idea about longer-term possible side effects of the vaccine. it's a totally novel, new kind of vaccine, right?

i agree the flu shot is probably coincidence, but at least until/if i get the flu w/o it, i'm going to be guided by my first-hand experience for now. if i get the flu again, i will do more research and reconsider.
> Something like H.264 which is used by practically everything shouldn’t cost money to just look at the standard.

While I generally agree, it sounds a bit like "if you're successful, you're not allowed to earn money". It's a piece of work, still, and the creators should be allowed to earn money with it.

I'd personally prefer if all standards are free, since especially with an obscure one you're SOL when it's locked behind a paywall; with H.264, you can probably find a way around. But its hard to combine that with intellectual property. Limiting the patent timeframe to five or ten years might be a good middle ground.
That article states that the risk starts to increase between 10-12 tears of age and between the ages 10 and 15 children are half as infectious as adults. I doesn't really dig into details about children under 10.
I don't think there are or it could just be that I don't understand the question.

Software engineering is an activity to produce an output, to fulfill a "job to be done". Focusing on things with the bigger impact, and these change and are specific.

I know what "general" actions I would do if I were to start a new project based on pain points we have suffered through many projects, and that saved us a bunch of time and morale down the road:

- Include monitoring for errors and system's health, and analytics for user behavior: I shouldn't dig through logs to see an exception (Sentry). I should look at one dashboard and have an idea on which systems are up or down, metrics, load, latency, etc. (Prometheus and Grafana). I should know how users are interacting with the product, where they are failing and succeeding (PostHog).

- Add communication channels to interact with users into the product (issue template, Slack, something, email): asking users about which ways the product failed to solve their problem.

- Use a plug-in architecture in order to easily add and, more importantly, remove functionality easily. It makes testing ideas easier: easily introduce a feature, and as easily kill it without rewriting the whole codebase.

- Make functionality accessible through APIs (one guideline we have is that everything should be accessible through an API call). Have an SDK for the main language first to simplify this.

- Document everything. An issue is closed if there has been a test written for the bug, or it's documented somewhere so anyone has access to it.

- Align everyone: through written communication accessible anytime by anyone. Communication should tie objectives to actions and penetrate several abstraction levels and be consumable by advisors, board members, non-technical people, technical people. Call it "fractal communication" that still makes sense from any abstration level you read it. This enables everyone on the team to chime in at the abstraction level they're comfortable with. You write an email that ties objectives on say, revenues, in a language that speaks to some, and then tie it back to specific activities, an issue in the issue tracker, and a line of code, so that everyone sees how things fit together and are intertwined. Everyone knows what to do and why they're doing what they're doing. They can come up with ideas or correct assumptions or mistakes.

- Have issue templates for incidents, features, improvements, and bugs: this reduces the "activation energy" to writing good issues. It beats having a blank screen and reduces variance in issue quality.

These are just a few points.
The problem is YouTube's algorithm -- recommendations. If we accept the algorithm, then there is no middle ground: either you ban this content from the platform entirely, or watch misinformation spread wildly.

But there could be a middle ground in which the platform changes how its algorithm works. I think neither YouTube nor its detractors are considering this as a serious possibility, for some reason.
Thousands of Photographs, and a Year Like No Other
I've been hearing about value types in Java Coming Soon(tm) for like what, 5 years now? I'll believe it when I finally see it.
I'm not doubting your story, I'm just curious how is that legally possible? I thought in the US you're innocent until proven guilty.
SDI is just so much better than HDMI though, single cable which you can make yourself, really cheaply, to be 36cm, or 3m97, or 28m14, or whatever.

What does HDMI offer than SDI doesn't?
Based on YaCy: Search Within Nepali Websites and Domain
based on yacy :
https://pin.com.np/nepali-search-engine-https-jkhoj-com-sear...

in the news : jkhoj.com trying to replace Google Search Engine in Nepal

http://ictbyte.com/nepal/jkhoj-com-nepali-search-engine-revi...
GraphBLAS: A linear algebraic approach for portable graph algorithms
I quit using Lynx (and other text mode browsers) when I started hitting a lot of sites that wouldn't render. This was largely after Flash. I seem to remember JavaScript being a problem. I started using Lynx in the 90's over dialup, telneting into a Unix machine.
AV1 is an open codec that I hope will be the industry standard soon. It already has the support of the ecosystem (apple, google, qualcomm, netflix, etc). Unfortunately, it just takes a while to build that momentum

So there is light at the end of the tunnel
If you look the reaction when Red Hat wanted to force the move from free CentOS clone to paid RHEL...
That incoming cash would help Linux get better.

Free though helps businesses start. Though economies of scale in tech are so huge now.
This happened to me with Linkedin advertising, where my budget of a couple hundred dollars got re-charged to my card up to a couple thousand dollars without notifications. They handled all the complaints not in email, but their web based interface, and memory holed their commitment to refunding me the money after multiple back and forths.

This isn't a mistake, the design is their business model. While we don't have a specific formal definition and name for it in the category of dark patterns, I'd like to name it "scumbag billing," where we got scumbagged.
Rasterization performance is still a huge function of a GPU, while RTX being a new feature and arguably a selling point against their competition, I don't see why they should put more emphasis on a gimmick that is far from being mainstream.
Probably some bizzare issue with the smc logic.
Washington and Silicon Valley Agree to Disagree on Taming Big Tech
Can your B2B startup make it in America?
I've poked around Discord a bit, and I just don't see the attraction. As another commentor said, maybe it's the audio channels. But I can't think of a reason I would ever personally want to tune in to audio rather than reading information, it's just faster to read than to listen to someone 'ummm' their way through a thought.

Of course, I still have a hard time using YouTube as a learning resource because of my preference for reading, so I'm probably an outlier here.
Hey, many thanks for this. Turns out some friends can also recommend them. They're twice as expensive as Aussie Broadband but the faster speeds and ability to move up and down tiers might make it work.
Yes, and every dose produced so far is ready to go into a patient immediately, they don't have a stockpile for the whole society, not remotely. Two days or whatever isn't going to matter that much. The timing of the first few thousand doses will change, the timing of the first ten million doses has to do with production and shipping, not approval.
> Do you think they just don't understand the constitution, or do they want it rewritten to allow this kind of law?

There is some talk about changing or repealing the first amendement. A good article about how this shift in values happened: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
https://www.osnews.com/story/24954/us-patent-expiration-for-...

> H.264 is a newer video codec. The standard first came out in 2003, but continues to evolve. An automatically generated patent expiration list is available at H.264 Patent List based on the MPEG-LA patent list. The last expiration is US 7826532 on 29 nov 2027 ( note that 7835443 is divisional, but the automated program missed that). US 7826532 was first filed in 05 sep 2003 and has an impressive 1546 day extension. It will be a while before H.264 is patent free.

The automatically generated list that this quote talks about also lists US 7835443, which expires in 2028...
The liability is on Google's side, mostly. There are hard limits in terms of the number of instances you can create without deliberately asking to spend more money, and these hard limits are set based on what Google is willing to write off for an overnight mistake.
‘It’s Hard to Prove’: Why Antitrust Suits Against Facebook Face Hurdles
Upfront: I'm pretty much a total noob regarding UX.

However, I got a similar reaction to this being called "flow cards". This to me looks just like yet another "standardized" set of (typical) web interface/page designs. Sounds like a big misnomer.

Regardless of that, I guess there will be plenty of (UX) front end engineers, who will see value in designing things in a uniform way and from what is essentially a limited set of "this is how it's done".

That said, with between 2 and 3 decades of at least observing (web) design, I am still convinced that any good design begins with an empty piece of paper and a pencil, and a good understanding of everything relevant to the design (e.g. problem domain, technical platform, target audience, etc, etc).

Whenever I see (yet) another company promoting their tools for "streamlining" web/interface design, the first thing that always strikes me is how much their tools appear to just push their particular ideas about what "good" (uniform) design is.

With the huge number of (varied) factor that may (or should) go into good interface design, I sincerely doubt that any of these tools can ever really help all that much in making better designs. They can help with collaboration and all being "on the same page", no doubt. But it still feels to me that they just train people in making designs in a particular (and often not the best) way, with maybe more negative side effects than the positive ones they provide. That is not to even mention how contemporary fashion also always is a factor, in any design.

Anyways, just my two cents. I'm open to criticism and disagreement on this.
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But this happens for games you pay full price for, so you get the worst of both worlds.
That 72K is probably not anywhere near how cheap it was for google to provide the service.
Although the author is unwilling to state his answer, it's rather heavily implied she pointed him to the tiger.

> How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror, and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!

contra

> But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady! How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman, with her flushing cheek and sparkling eye of triumph; [...].

It is also interesting to see the sprinkles of social Darwinism throughout out the story.

> Had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature, it is probable that lady would not have been there; but her intense and fervid soul would not allow her to be absent on an occasion in which she was so terribly interested.
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Bought compilers on disks (or tapes or CD-ROMs).
I thought it was going to be about installing too many plugins in Vim.
If you think about it nuclear does force the vast majority onto someone else so maybe it already is...
Next year wil be the year of Linux on the desktop.

(It's already largely conquered every other environment, from supercomputing clusters to SBC.)

And keeping this on topic:

"What’s an astronaut’s favorite part of a computer? The space bar."
I wasn't gonna post this until it was more Done, but if anyone is reading this they might enjoy my multiplayer EV clone in Godot: https://github.com/eamonnmr/mpevmvp

The server runs best on Linux, and you need to host a server (press host server in the main menu) before you can play. It's not very complete but most of the basics are there.
Yep. This is soooo sad. The mighty power of Google allows it to, once again, be the winner takes it all. And unfortunately, get into a position where results could be protected. So Google will probably leverage his commercial advantage for some years before enough details surface so that one can rebuild a solution that can be shared freely.

Note this protein folding thing was not solved by other mighty giants such as Johnson&Johnson, Pfizer, etc.

So basically, Google has even more power than before.

But to be honest, energy production knowledge (nuclear stuff) is not in the hands of governments but in the military-industrial complex... So it's history repeating...
Not necessarily all. It’s possible to use PHP to stream a file to the output. It’s how things like `download.php` on some websites work.
There's a simple metric you are missing: installed base.

There are 4 billion active smartphones, Tim Cook said iPhones are ~900 million

Let's make it a billion for simplicity.

1 - 3 out of 4 smartphones are not Apple's

2 - Apple makes up 50% of the US market for installed base, it's around 220 million devices, 22% of its global installed base, 5% of the global market. Android is the other 50%, 7% of Android global, 5% of the global market. So Apple is 3 times more reliant on US market than Android.

3 - Apple makes 41% of their revenues in USA

International sales accounted for 59 percent of the quarter's revenue.Oct 29, 2020

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-...

So more or less we can say that every iPhone sold in USA is worth 3 times an iPhone sold internationally, out of $100 of revenue 1 iPhone in USA is worth $41 one sold internationally is worth 59/4=~$14.5.

That's not in absolute numbers, there are other factors contributing to Apple revenues but it's a good proxy. An iPhone sold in USA generates more revenues overall, being it Apple Store, accessories, laptops, cloud services, music, ...

Android market is harder to analyse being more fragmented, but there are a few key points that can be extracted.

Only 7% of the global Android market is in USA.

Google doesn't make much money from Android, Apple is absolute king of profits here, they are able to extract much more.

Largest Android manufacturers are not in USA and that's a reason why in Asia people are switching to locally manufactured devices that can rival with iPhones in term of perceived usefulness at half the price.

Apple has a minimal penetration in emerging markets, like for example Africa.

We can conclude that what Apple does is still much more relevant in USA and USA is much more relevant for Apple than any other smartphone manufacturer.

Ask yourself this question: what would have happened to the market if the M1 was made by Microsoft or Dell/HP/Lenovo?

How many more companies would have considered it if it could run Windows out of the box.

That's how relevant Apple is in the global market, it's king of profits, it's king of market capitalisation, it makes very good high end devices but as far as the general population is concerned, the M1 won't change much outside of the US.
Just like parent stating "usable? yes", I too find it usable at best. Coming from a history of using Discord and Slack, where Discord was mostly "less formal Slack without all the utilities, but with voice chat", I find Teams to fall into an uncanny valley.

The focus on video conferences might be the most annoying part. Most of the time, I just want to see the shared screen at best. There's an option to stop incoming video, though this one isn't on by default. There also flat-out isn't a way to stop looking at your own face when sharing video.

Meetings with Teams links tend to inflate the history, dozens of chats that could've been one thing now cause dumb questions like "should we stay here or go into the other call?". This was already solved by apps like Teamspeak more than a decade ago. It feels immensely clunky, but the culture also doesn't provide an intuitive way to avoid this problem.

The last bit highlights my biggest problem. It's mostly culture. It feels as restrictive as your average enterprise program, yet it also feels chaotic in all the wrong ways. Many problems have already been solved and plenty of cultures, like global social gaming, have already experienced ways to handle this. Had I not had any experience with other apps, I likely wouldn't feel this way.

I also realize part of the problem is how Teams is configured, which I have no experience with. But then it once again boils down to "here you have this tool that can do a lot, but it's not intuitive and we don't give you a lot of guidelines" despite the fact most companies have zero experience with remote.
> . I’ve always wondered what that 2% could be - gun jams, the character slips on a banana peel, who knows?

Or just, the other person moving around in a hectic life or death situation? Trying to shoot someone in short range isn't 100% hit. The characters calmly standing there waiting to get shot is just a game representation.
I searched "sql server output".

I expect to find the official SQL Server docs in the first results, but it was not in the first page of results :(.
Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)
Evolution is one long learning game :)
So does it still work for qualcomm? If so, why wouldn't Nokia try the same?
First, that's a principle of the penal system, not the civil courts which would decide such matters. Second, this didn't involve any legal action at all, and was instead just as a threat, basically saying that if they went forward with the standard, they would sue companies that invested into the standard, but by that point the companies would be in a bad situation as they'd have invested tremendous resources into the codec.

The moment you make any kind of non trivial program (say 20k lines and above) you almost guaranteed violate some patent so they were probably even right with their claims.
Shame on you, and shame on Texas. You LOST the Civil war, and you FAILED to start another one. Trump and Texans are such Anti-American sore losers. No slaves for you!

Texas: DON'T MESS WITH AMERICA!

https://www.businessinsider.com/kinzinger-republican-lawmake...

Republican congressman rips Texas GOP for suggesting secession and says 'my guy Abraham Lincoln and the Union soldiers already told you no'

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Friday criticized the Texas GOP for floating the idea of secession after the Supreme Court rejected a bid to overturn the results of the presidential election.

In a statement, the Texas GOP chairman suggested that "law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution."

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said the statement should be immediately retracted and the people involved fired. "My guy Abraham Lincoln and the Union soldiers already told you no," he said.
Sounds about like my experience too. I used to use it about half of the time up until 2003 or so when I got tired of having to guess how much hassle it was going to be to deal with frames, etc.
I'm pretty sure that patent contests are the fanfare of Europe (not EU or anything, Europe). Since ISO and the now-disbanded MPEG group is based in Europe... (If I remembered correctly the contesting group were mainly European and Asian companies. I forgot if Nokia opposed this.)
I'm in the same boat. I learned to engineer software because I realized that just modding a dead engine that other people had to pay to use wasn't going to cut it, and if I wanted to make games I was gonna have to program them myself.