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Desktop-flavored GUI's still king of the office, let's standardize it
The prediction that mobile would kill off the office desktop was pretty much wrong. Sure, there are ancillary mobile services, but the brunt of office work is done on desktops.

Desktop-like GUI's are still the pinnacle of productivity for typical office use. They also created an established standard that mobile-influenced UI's kicked in the gonads with screwy deviations.

Mice are simply superior to the average finger: right-clicking, roll-over pop-up text, precision, less need for borders around widgets, etc. And GUI's take better advantage of medium and large screens.

What's needed is a state-ful GUI markup standard so that Microsoft has real GUI competition. It would be kind of like dynamic XAML. JavaScript emulation of GUI's has proven problematic such that the standard should encourage directly supported GUI idioms.
How influential and trustworthy are the labour unions nowadays in India?
I've been experimenting with VS Code remote for the past few weeks, and I'm really enjoying it. I have a Linux desktop that I run headless in the closet and can connect to it from thin clients. I recently bought the base model new Macbook Air to replace my Linux laptop which I'm hoping will give me the best of both worlds: thin and light laptop with great battery life which I can connect to a powerful Linux server/desktop for development.

This way I don't have to spend so much money on expensive desktop replacement laptops.
"The whole purpose of the EU from day zero was to ensure lasting peace in Europe"

?

You do realize the EU as a body politic is very recent?

(Not sure how good your history is. ?)

1) Yes, major powers who have economically integrated tend not to fight, that's great. It's the same all over the world. The US doesn't fight Japan either.

2) Europe's true sovereign guarantor, the US and their Nuclear Umbrella, which is the other 1/2 of the equation.

'The EU' is long after the fact.

Moreover - it's besides the point - as I articulated, the EU has fundamental flaws with respect to democracy that can't be addressed with any reasonable argument it seems.

EU citizens have little to no influence over their body politic, because all the power is a few points indirection away from their reach.

Europeans were told after the election who their anointed leader would be, what her political platform was, and what her vision for the EU was.

Just consider why for a moment the EU doesn't require leaders to be publicly announced and vetted before elections? Wouldn't that be a highly rational, reasonable, and arguably necessary element for legitimate democracy?

What were EU leaders thinking when they definitely decided that this would not be required?

It's absurd.

Many citizens saw it was absurd, voted against the Constitutional Treaty, and it was passed anyhow.
You can consider the US as well, with the take down requests that you're not allowed to talk about due to "national security"
The owner of the brand is the company called Atari SA, previously Infogrames. The CEO is called Fred Chesnay and the company is listed on the French stock exchange. They have a portfolio of products around the brand and seem to be willing to explore many territories, including cryptocurrencies, hotels, as well as good old video games including mobile games and an AMD based pc/console hybrid for the living room coming out at the moment.

Given the wide range of ideas I'm sure they would be willing to do business if you have a good one.
What you describe is 100% real and is why `brew install coreutils findutils gnu-sed` has always been a prerequisite for any developer whose dev environment I've been tasked with supporting.
I understand that those laws have been updated: that EU law is initially being adopted with appropriate changes, i.e. it won't reference the EU any more and will reference the UK instead (and isn't defined around citizenship anyway)
Some websites probably do have settings around this, but that gets to a point someone else mentioned: you would have to basically design, build, test and maintain two UIs. Except now with the kicker that one of those layouts is only used by the 5% of your userbase that both knows that the option is available and chooses to take you up on it.
So that was never true until after the 14th amendment passed and only later on when it was interpreted by the Supreme Court.

The entire US constitution only applied to the US Federal Government, until the 14th amendment expanded it to state governments and all publicly chartered entities and all entities that accept direct material support from publicly chartered entities which is only noticeable when they interact with the people.

So that would have been over 100 years ago so you might think the point is moot. The reality is that the point is not resolved, never will be completely resolved, and has had less time to be resolved than people may notice.
Well, like other designed artifacts, a name should satisfy several criteria well. It shouldn't be too long to be usable, or too short to be readable. It should be pronounceable. It should capture its object's purpose fully and at an appropriate level of abstraction. It has to differentiate itself well from other names. Often a whole naming scheme must be worked out, depending on the nature and relationship of the precise things to be named. Changing any one name can create a need for many other names to also be changed, or for the named things to be rearranged or redesigned.
If it runs well on PC and current gen consoles, then they should have delayed the release on previous gen consoles.

I'm going to guess that they released on all platforms at once because of contractual obligations.
I've worked in payments, and it's tough.

You would need to be a merchant bank (ODFI) to control ACH payment access, and the US govt. doesn't normally grant banking charters any more, as all the YC batches have learned the hard way. So you'd have to buy an existing bank.

But Visa and Mastercard still wouldn't process cc payments.
> "The difference is that Apple is not a government."

That means they are not an organization that is accountable to the public. That means they are an organization that cares more about profit and market share, than about human/civil rights.
It's probably noise.
When you have a colleague who dyed her hair before she went to an on-site this stuff really ceases to be funny.
It's easier to put things online wrt technical barrier of entry and cost, but it's a lot harder for things to get seen.

Got a popular page on Facebook? pay for it to be seen. Got a great unique website? Pay to be seen via Adwords.

Website owners don't link so liberally as they once did because the link graph has been obliterated by "what people think will please Google" rather than linking to things they think other people might like to see.

When I used FB I lost count of the number of times I had to re-jig my setting for displaying content from "most popular" (according to them) versus most recent.

I still find that when I'm browsing Facebook. I see an article with XXXX number of comments and try to see what's newly been said, it's almost impossible- it's like I'm fighting against what new information is available vs their preferred method of displaying things due to the technical limitations of how they store information.
The government can just hold the locals in prison until the decrypted data is provided
Pure rust wouldn't be good for a cryptography library because it doesn't have features like constant-time functions that mitigate side channel attacks.
How influential and trustworthy are corporate and governments in China, US etc.
> "so what does it matter anymore"

The same reason it ever mattered how you refer to people, politeness and respect. If someone you consider "him" asks you to refer to them as "her" it's like someone asking you to call them by their full name "Rebecca" instead of "Becky" or "Jonathan" instead of "Jon". If you like and respect them, you do as they request because things which matter to them matter to you, and being polite to them is important to you. If you ignore what they ask, call them what you want, you communicate that you don't respect them and don't want to be polite, that you want to dominate and 'win' instead.

> "Pronouns can mean whatever you want them to mean"

Only one way. A specific person asking you to use a specific pronoun for themselves is wildly different from you unilaterally and universally saying that all women should feel included by the word "him" because "him" has no meaning anymore.
Multiple banks and credit card companies customer support lines now say "this call may be recorded and your voice may be used for identity verification".
Makes gaming the system harder. Once you're rich enough you could only take compensation every other (3rd/5th/etc) year and pay property tax only then. Unlike compensation once the property tax year's gone it's gone, there's no deferring situation (eg, vis a vis deferring comp where the big chunk in later years would still be taxed)

It's not an unusual situation in urban CA for an elderly person to have bought a house currently worth many millions back in the day for <$100k. Downsizing for them means still spending many hundreds of thousands of dollars, far beyond the tax basis of their current home. I think the current system encourages (or at least doesn't disincentivize) older folks with expensive homes to sell and downsize, meaning the tax basis for that same home will increase a whole bunch for the new buyer (since tax basis is recast as the purchase price when sold), ultimately driving more tax revenue.
Ampere Altra Performance Shows It Can Compete with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon
You could say the same thing about your local coffee shop. What's the problem?
> do bigger shops have engineers who spend all day on the phone asking "where's my stuff" or surfing Alibaba?

Yes, lots, and lots of them.

Can testify of working in an engineering team of 50 people, with close to half of engineering manpower spent on SCM.

> As a small manufacturer with less than 10 engineers total (though in industrial automation, not B2C electronics), how do "real" electronics manufacturers do supy chain management?

It actually becomes easier the bigger you get because you can simply buy more parts right away, in bigger batches, keep bigger inventories, and get higher part availability because suppliers themselves will be chasing after you with hopes of selling more parts.

But for everybody else, it's tough life, and 50%+ of engineering resource spend, no trick around it.

I think all of biggest ones like Foxconn, Flextronics, and Pigatron have their own proprietary IT systems for supply chain. Instead of running after suppliers, they force them themselve to enter their parts data into their system, and do test, and validation on their own too.
I can't imagine HR going into it any more than "there is possible bonus compensation" when hiring.
A Glimpse of the Last Light
Yes, for now, although it would surprise me if changes haven't already been negotiated with the UK government: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been on Facebook's staff since 2018.

Even without that, it doesn't make sense for Facebook companies to store the UK data in the EU/Ireland, where it would presumably then have to comply with both EU GDPR and UK GDPR.
What you're proposing amounts to "if you read this, you must give us money". That's way outside the scope of a license and is completely unenforceable.

It's also a great way to convince consultants to avoid your software entirely.
> What gives your parents more right to live there than anyone else?

I mean they own the home, so presumably that gives them a right to live there. They went there and bought a home for market value, even if it was a struggle to do so. They didn't complain about the existing residents or suggest that everything had to change to accommodate them. So I'm not quite sure what you're asking.
Relatable content!

Just get comfortable saying no without explaining yourself. The fact is that your calendar should not have public read-only permissions, which is the way you're behaving when you feel obligated to justify a declination of an invitation.

It's possible to say no for no reason at all without being rude or discouraging: "Thanks for the invite — can't tonight. Raincheck?". If you really like the person and want to develop more intimacy, you can be even more transparent, "I'd love to, but I'm over-socialized this week. Gonna chill tonight. Have fun!"

The fact is that we LOVE IT when others set and maintain healthy boundaries. It removes ambiguity from the relationship, which makes it easier to feel comfortable in. It also sets an example that the other can follow without fear of alienating you. There's also the side effect of giving people the impression that your presence is precious commodity, and should be valued—which it should be!

Being a well-connected introvert can be fun and easy ;P
For most law sure. But for GDPR the EU explicitly extended it's protection to all EU citizen regardless of residency, and non EU citizen with residency in the EU.

Now there's the practical question of how the EU enforces that protection against companies that have no presence in the EU, but those that do, the EU has made it quite clear they'll take enforcement action.
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Link to actual Research Article: https://elifesciences.org/articles/58906
100% the truth right here, to believe anything else requires a bit of gymnastics.
The market is getting much more unified every year - the difference between now and 2000 is immense. But it's just going to take much more time still. In many areas widely discussed EU-wide regulations don't add regulatory barriers, they harmonize existing national law, thus removing barriers between EU states (though potentially increasing barriers between EU and USA) - but this harmonization requires compromises and thus time.
Or a blueprint, or sheet music, or telegraph transcription, or stenography, or anything where language is a non-prosaic abstraction.
Yah. Maybe there's an unexpected way that things can fail resulting in 550's. But maybe at Google's scale you should have some kind of kill switch to stop answering SMTP or to not send permanent errors at all, so that you could flip a switch and prevent the worst consequences of this rather than let it go on for a couple of hours.
Did this university ban the use of Tor?
Yup that's the idea, the EU is a big market and GDPR is the cost of doing business there.

As a startup though, it's absolutely part of your calculus. If you are worried about GDPR compliance, you can choose to just not launch in the EU (actually that might not be enough, I believe you may need to actively refuse EU users) until after you've proven the concept. Although with California's CCPA, depending on the specifics of your situation, you may as well just carve out some time to deal with compliance.
It seems as though you're saying that because we can't get a perfect estimate for cost, the next best guess is $0.

There's obviously a lot of tolerance on these estimates, but even with extreme tolerances $0 seems a bit low.

> There is no way to come up with a formula for any of this that makes any sense

The first step would be having a serious discussion about every question you raised. They're all good questions, and with some amount of investigation, yield closer and closer answers.

This is a daunting task -- no doubt -- but I see no reason why you should be opposed to it, or assume it's impossible.
This would explain why I can listen to music or TV while coding, but not while reading a book.
This comment is based on an assumption that the regulation actually achieved beneficial privacy outcomes. It’s arguable been most successful in Access to Data area, and to some extend Data Erasure. But the Consent and Documentation provisions are a complete joke. Most EU data subjects have no idea who’s holding their data, or how/why they have access to it.

The only area it’s been truly successful in has been levying fines against foreign companies and restricting access to the EU market. It’s a very successful piece of tariff legislation. Because the compliance strategy from most organizations was either stop trading in the EU, or accept the fines as a cost of business. (edit: there's also a 3rd common compliance strategy, which is just to pretend that since you're not specifically targeting EU data subjects, that you don't have to comply. I believe this is part of the reason that HN ignores the GDPR for instance)
4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur
So I had the following thoughts a time ago. I wondered how feasible it would be to connect two Ataris through the Controller B port and implement some sort of dual-screen game.

Each port has something resembling 5 GPIO pins (direction UDLR and the button) and 2 analog pins that work like the IBM joystick adapter interface - reset the capacitor and wait until you get a 1 to measure the potentiometer resistance. No interrupt connection, so it's totally polled.

I wondered how effectively the 5 joystick pins could be used to implement a bit-banged RS-232 interface. The Commodore 64 KERNAL did that over the user port, speeds up to 2400 baud. From there maybe you can implement PPP but you are still talking about getting a minimal TCP/IP stack on there.

Now ... you probably can't drive the display at the same time.

And I'm sure the TCP/IP implementation would be super limited and only one TCP connection possible at once. Some caching reverse proxy would be needed. And maybe even then only fixed length responses with little or no headers. Could it be done in 4Kbytes of ROM?
They must have had some work done on figuring out which legislation needs updates like this?
That becomes a tautology. It's well possible that a toxic manipulative person enters a company, destroys a lot of value production and efficiency by pitting people against one another, taking credit for apparent wins and pushes losses to others and into the future and still makes it quite high in promotions. Perhaps at some point they get booted, but they can do a lot of damage, perhaps make skilled people leave rather than enter an uncertain fight when they have high job market value, leaving the more desperate to stay who don't dare to stir things up. Meanwhile others don't feel responsible for helping a cold megacorp so they just want to get out of this with the best CV and social standing and a good reference.

You must interpret "worth" in a tautological manner if you consider the toxic persons behavior valuable. It's an organizational pathology. Just because it happens doesn't mean it's good or teaches us we need to re-evaluate what we consider value.

Cancer can displace useful cells and kill the organism. It doesn't mean that "well in the end it was for the better anyway since cancer cells are more worthy since they ended up winning". That's twisted logic. Also note that megacorp won't die so easily and the effect of one such person may not show up visibly until after they've voluntarily left for a better job to another place to repeat the cycle.
A sign that Investors in this company are not looking to build long term fundamental business. They are there only to rip off immediate profit. Too bad.
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> Not fixed for over a year and they've locked the thread so I'm starting to wonder if they actually deleted the emails by mistake.

Did you try pulling them down using the API tester?: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/us...

Some of the internal formatting that Gmail uses has changed over the years, so more likely than not the API that parses the stored message for display in the Gmail UI is just throwing some kind of error.
Well the first option is physically impossible, no ‘truly free’ markets can ever exist anywhere, anytime. You can have markets that are almost ‘free’ but never actually ‘truly free’. There are a couple of reasons why though the most fundamental would be entropy generation.

There are always frictional losses for even the smallest of transactions, and if all participants have to accommodate for these losses ahead of time, or pay the penalty if not (eventually), then there is in effect path dependency to any possible market behaviour. Really, a global maxima solution of ‘truly free’ anything is unobtainable in the real world. (And even if it was achieved by happenstance, how could we tell it’s the global maxima?)

I imagine the actual trade off wouldn’t be the simple one dimensional spectrum either, since the problem space is obviously multi-dimensional, the ideal solution would almost certainly require multi-dimensional optimization.
Living in a country where a global total war and several occupations of the most evil totalitarian regimes in history is still within living memory, and having been under an isolationist totalitarian power, comments like these make me shudder.

Globalization has some problems. The benefits so far have massively outweighed them, especially if you take the long view. How about we try to fix those faults, instead of retreating and isolating?
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Yes, most likely! That is a common approach for 'soft bounces' in most list management systems (e.g. MailChimp).

The problem here is Gmail has been throwing out "NoSuchUser" errors which are an instant unsub in most systems because Gmail takes repeated delivery to non-existing addresses into account for deliverability purposes.

I'm extremely paranoid about email hygiene, tiny bounce rates and high delivery rates, so we aggressively unsubscribe troublesome addresses (often to the point of getting reader complaints about it) for many reasons beyond that, however.
You've basically reinvented the ultrasonic remote control:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#Television_remo...

My grandma's TV had one of these - you'd press a button and it would basically mechanically impact a tuning fork to make the needed frequency.
If you were in Texas when that data was collected from you, and you returned to the EU, I doubt that GDPR would apply to that data.

I believe that is still covered by GDPR, but I'll openly admit that I specifically chose the counterexample in order to stay within my factual memory of the law.
General-purpose computing is slipping from our grasp quickly enough as-is. Why would you accelerate this trend by buying on streaming services?
That varies based on location and regional dialect. Here in the northeast US, I remember using singular they/their since the 80's. It would be interesting to know when this become popular elsewhere.
Incorrect. With GDPR the EU extended their power to protect all EU citizens regardless of residency in, or out, of the EU.

Of course the EU will have trouble enforcing that protection against companies that don't operate in the EU. But the protection remains, even if it's practically unenforceable.
Well, I can't over state how reassuring this sounds. My perspective is warped by social media, and even though I stopped using them (to a certain extent) A brief foray into someone's feed is enough to leave me depressed for the day.
Combat absolutely sucks, and it's the one thing I loathe about the game. You have to empty two magazine clips in any given opponent to take him down. I've never seen a game with such weak weaponry. It feels unrealistic.
I remember some people tried to get BLM into German discussions, which made absolutely zero sense, as we have a complete different history and culture. Now I see this popping up. I really hope Europe can get some cultural distance between itself and the USA in the near future. The time is ripe.
> I can't stand pipefail

Can you elaborate on this? I'm finding it difficult to think up a case where I would want a script to continue executing if a command in the middle of a pipeline failed.