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No source, it just seems like basic logic to me that people who don't spend a lot of time on your product are very prone to cancelling. The linked article seems to confirm that Stadia is not doing so great.

Busy people are a great market if you have a product that can save them time. Stadia is not that.
> If you can already make the process you're attacking run arbitrary syscalls instead of use glibc, then you've already won and no amount of protection will help

You're basically arguing that in a post-spectre world, native processes can fundamentally never be a security boundary again, right?

I'm wondering if this is necessarily true. For the concrete example at hand, Linux could offer some opt-in mechanism, e.g. an argument to exec(), that restricts syscalls to glibc only. A sandboxing mechanism could then require all executed processes to go through glibc and instantiate them only using that option.
I think the scale where it makes sense is at companies where paying $780/month to an existing provider is easier than all the paperwork and internal regulations around allowing people to provision on prem equipment or use an untrusted provider.

Consider the item from yesterday about AWS Outposts: https://ahl.medium.com/aws-outposts-2021-stories-for-folks-w... .. the markup is absolutely mind boggling, but there are companies who pay it.

AWS is the master of having a pricing model that feels nice to most indies and small/medium companies but that scales up extremely effectively to capture huge amounts of enterprise spend at the same time.
I've recently been getting more interested in the culture and history of streetwear so I started website interviewing streetwear startups to learn their stories.

I'm just doing it for the fun of talking to interesting people and a making content some people will enjoy.

A few people have already told me they liked the first interview so I'm happy with that!

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As a GUI framework, my first feedback is that there is no screenshots available anywhere to be found.
I was evaluating scaleway a couple of years ago. I had issues setting up firewall, some kernel errors were thrown when I tried to reconfigure iptables.

It seemed like such a basic thing that I completely lost trust in them then.
What's the state of VLC's support for HDR on Linux?
>>"How would one develop an experiment that would result in evidence we live in a multiverse? [..]"

I don't understand this criticism. It's my understanding, the double slit experiment shows interference between universes. What is the alternative? decoherence?, but how do you develop an experiment that result in evidence that decoherence is real?

From a experimental point of view, multiverse have the same evidence that the alternative. From an epistemological point of view, multiverse is a more simple theory. Ergo, until we have more data, we have to prefer the multiverse theory.
I didn't downvote but IMO it is because disagreement is often shown with votes instead of comments. Ability to downvote is a broken system, but saying that will also give downvotes, especially if you also point out a big site that have tried the up/downvote system already and shown have broken it really is.
Her shadow cuts off abruptly. Is this a green screen? Since there is already a dead comment about that, I'm guessing I'm wrong for some obvious reason, but I can't place it.
Ads 100% does not optimise for profit.

Source: I had a bunch of long conversations with FB Ads engineers about what they optimise for. I believe that it's a weighted sum over conversions, which seems like a better metric for an ads system (FB could increase profit in the short term by implementing price floors, but this wouldn't lead to more long term revenue, because advertisers would stop using the platform).
> instead of a copy, you get something new, and hopefully tasty!

The British versions of "Chinese" and "Indian" work incredibly well at this. There was also a big fusion food boom recently, a few years before the pandemic.
Google closing Stadia game studios, opening up tech to publishers
how did you get your initial users?
What's the alternative? Run Stadia on Windows?
Normally yes, it should be, but I don't think it's going to happen. People have been (1) miscalculating the costs of AWS, (2) realizing they are relatively high but deciding to stick to them for various reasons for a long time now. And because Amazon managed to capture many companies with their marketing, in many cases it's practically impossible to get out.
To quote the grandparent post:

> especially if going through the lowest level function that directly wrap the syscall.

I think the argument is that security bugs are unlikely to occur in those low-level wrappers.
Interesting. It’s like a quantum email service.
https://classical.page/ Follow your favourite classical music composer or classical works, and Classical Page will email you when the relevant music is going to be played in concert near you. This means you can get in quick with tickets and never miss out.

Launched in New York and London, more cities coming soon.

I've used it as a testbed for trying out Google Cloud technologies - it works with Cloud Functions, Big Query and Cloud Run.
Which is the reason you want to have more nukes than they have silos - to be able to hit all of them at once in a surprise attack (also called "first strike").
Is this a huge deal?

I have screens with different DPI attached to my linux machine running X/nvidia. A bit of futzing around with xrandr had it sorted.
So what's the main value of this? How people are using it? Is it used like a remote DEV machine that you use through remote desktop/SSH? Is it used to host software developed for Mac? Some use case where you need very high bandwidth for your app?

It looks cool but I'm having hard time to justify the reason for the existence of the service probably because I never used "Mac on the cloud" and I don't know what I am mission out. Can anyone enlighten me here?
Happy to hear that you like it!

I am indeed more focussed on the file format right now than on the command line tool. If the format turns out to be valuable and useful in itself, my plan would be to build a small UI app. As you said, I think the advantage of a well-specified plain-text file format is that tools can be built around independently – with the smallest common denominator always being the text editor of your choice.

By the way, for Mac users there is already a menu bar (systray) widget bundled in, which renders a brief overview of a file. (In a very simplistic fashion though; it’s more a proof of concept than anything else.)
What do you do at work, when you have nothing to do?
My work can be quite busy (system admin / devops) but sometimes I have nothing to do for like 3-4 hours. I tried to learn some new things in this time (Go, Lua or just some more about Linux) but many times it does not even feel good. I feel much better when I learn something for some purpose.

Also I cannot leave office in this time to go to gym or go for a walk because of COVID and also because it's not time efficient. Plus I can still get call anytime that there are urgent things to fix on a server XYZ.

So what do you do, when you have such free time, but you don't exactly want to spend it watching stupid stuff on YouTube?
Focus on the Good Parts
We (desktop devs) eventually gave up on it and are enjoying our Windows/macOS/Android/ChromeOS setups instead.
There's at least one or two steps of a stair, so the "top" part is lower than the front part, thus making the shadow get cut off.

You can see the shadow on the bag on the right side in the beginning.
I'm pushing a few commits every week on a spatial note app.

It's a big alpha WIP a this point and as you say "I don't care if this succeeds" as I know I need it anyway and already use it every day, as well as a bunch of friends. I'm a visual thinker and to me notes in apps like Evernote always end up looking like digital soup. Putting everything on a big 2D map helps me tremendously. So far it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/WkuLENm.png

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The 4 Key Ways We Fail As Engineering Managers
The failure rate of single machine setups is way overrated (also, you could have several machines of course).

We need decentralization, smaller providers like Hetzner and also in-house IT.
I thought so too, but someone pointed out that she is standing on a raised location with descending steps behind it, causing the shadow to be hidden from view.
Hi! Yes, fully remote work is possible, even after COVID.
Yes, people do often take delivery of stocks.

Though funny enough, stocks are already a virtual thing and exist in computers only. Whereas oil or onions are physical goods, and there are real consumer who absolutely need real physical onions.
Geez man, way to take things out of context. Let me fix your quote:

> Going through the libc is very unlikely to actually introduce vulnerabilities, especially if going through the lowest level function that directly wrap the syscall.

Sure, glibc has a bunch of bugs. But the lowest level of functions, that just wrap the syscalls, are very unlikely to have bugs. Here's the `read` implementation, for instance:

https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/21c3f4b5368686ade28d90d...

All it does is delegate to the low-level syscall, with some extra handling around to handle async calls (which can be removed when compiling glibc yourself, but you're probably not doing this).

Here's clone:

https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/21c3f4b5368686ade28d90d...

This one's written in asm, and you can't really simplify it all that much more.

All the functions that wrap the low-level syscalls are very hard to get wrong, really. Where the glibc bugs come from are the high-level functions, like pthread. But those can trivially be bypassed if necessary.
So funny to read "Wayland breaks everything", yet I run it everyday (on Ubuntu), it solved my screen tearing and other than that I only switch to X for my sons Minecraft.

For me it didn't "break everything" in fact, it fixed something for me. Moreover, it seems to be more secure (which is of course something you only notice by things not happening). So such a title does not really make me want to read what is probably an emotional rant.

Edit: I see the title just changed, anyway, I think most people realize it's not 1:1 with X, which is why Canonical makes X defaults and allows me to choose easily. At some point though it will be nice, I for one like the promises of PipeWire. Why is there so much emotion involved with such projects anyway?
It is? I’ve never heard of this or seen it anywhere, and I’ve lived here all my life. Possibly a regional thing?
There is a typo on your front page. "individual tasks a a specific time." should be "individual tasks at a specific time."

Also "easy humas readable dates" should be "easy human readable dates"
Same here on all points, including Youtube. I always envisioned some kind of critical graphics failure from the way people talk about it. Maybe my standards are too low.
Quick Google shows they have around 150k employees, how many products do they have?
There's been a few good responses, but for me, I saw a doctor when I was able to eliminate anything that would arguably be a distraction when I needed to finish my 95% finished essay 2 years ago. The subject was literally Byzantine in nature and all the hard parts were done, but If I recall, I just needed to do a tiny edit or summary to wrap it up. This was a final project worth around 30% of the grade. What might happen once you eliminate all ways to distract yourself, all anxieties etc.. is that you just get it done, because the value proposition is enough to stimulate you to do it. For me? I fell asleep, and idk how I did on it. What happens about a month into any new job? I gradually show up later and later. What happens 6 months into any job? I lose it.

I couldn't possibly read your comment as insensitive, because the opposite is on my mind every day. I fundamentally don't understand how people can consistently do most types of software engineering or any other kinds of boring office job, day in day out, because it's their job. It's so foreign, as to be a completely alien idea.
Google cancels (ok, winds down for now) new project they launched with a lot of fanfare. Anyone surprised?

This was predicted on launch day.
Steam does natively integrate with cloud gaming, they just don't want to run a service:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/cloudgaming
Whenever the topic of Go bypassing the libc was brought up before the concerns were usually dismissed by the Go devs, saying that it was technically impractical due to some of Go's requirements not matching the libc's semantics.

Does this mean that the Go developers managed to work around this problem or that it was just a flimsy post-hoc justification for chronic NIH syndrome?

TFA itself links to another blog post discussing "Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library"[1] but as far as I can tell it doesn't explain why it suddenly stopped being a problem on OpenBSD.

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoCLibr...
In the "Examples" section of README, you can find links to examples with screenshots.
The context in which "Chinese Virus" or "Kung Flu" (by the same person) was used is very telling for the message they're trying to send. The same person is also well known for other slurs. Additionally it was used at the time, to deflect blame for inaction.

I suspect that if a scientist had called it "The Chinese Virus" or "The Wuhan Virus" no one would have thought twice about it. They probably did too.
Thanks for the exhaustive answer!

Especially this part is enlightening:
In this light, you can think of a tamper-evident log as being a sort of "reliable transport" to connect these different types of clients together [...]

As it shows why my observation about possible tampering with clients isn't all that important.
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> We are all human, we all make mistakes, in fact I bet 90% of the projects Google works on fail (public and private).

The fact that well over 90% of the products Google launches fail for very understandable reasons (I would argue that the last successful product Google launched was Android, and they technically acquired that) is why Google's structure and management need to change.
I really hate the new dark pattern of prompting users to choose between the web site’s app and my mobile browser. Every visit to a cbs page. No way to set a preference, so a constant ad for an app I will never install.

Hopefully Apple will add a setting to prevent this into iOS.

What a bunch of a-holes to code something like this.

Shoes are neat as having slip on running shoes are a real convenience.
Wayland already provides a less buggy and more polished experience than X did for me. So I'd say job well done.
I was going to disagree here, but then I couldn't think of anything good and original content made by Google...
I am considering it.

From a quick calculation (micro-production, 1 man operation, 50 units batch):

- Materials: considering the best supported module (T-Beam V1.1 w/ NEO-M8N /w SX1262) with an OLED screen, an upgrade to a decent GPS antenna (ceramic, 28mm^2), 3D printed case and 2 Panasonic 18650.

Materials cost: 48€/piece.

- Assembly: pipelining would probably be bottlenecked by display soldering (outsourcing the 3D printing). Batching soldering could bring that down to ~1 min/piece. Flashing/testing can be fully automated and parallelized with soldering. Final assembly should be an additional 30s/piece. Start up ~10min considering testing machine boot and soldering iron warm up.

Assembly time: 85 min/batch --> <2 min/unit

Assembly cost (50€/hour): 71 €/batch -> 1.42 €/unit

Shipping (EU): 10€

Support cost: can't estimate well, let's say 1€/unit

Defective cost (10%): 13€/unit (2 procuct units, 3 shippings)

Cost per unit: 73€

Retail price (40% margin): 102€

It's viable but pretty expensive (a lot more than 50$). For sure more expensive than a goTenna Mesh and offering less support.

I won't make money from it but it could be a good learning opportunity.

edit: formatting
I haven't even seen that Top Gear episode but I'm sure it's the same one. This, the main highway in Naypyitaw, is very famous for its incredible width and underutilization. Trip Advisor rates it the #2 best place to visit in the capital city: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g2036450-d1213...

I've been there. It is awesome. Myanmar, I mean.
So what sort of virtualisation do they run on M1 macs? QEMU?
I assume for development and testing of your Mac app. E.g. if you are not primarily a Mac user and just want to port your Windows app.
This is not a rewrite. It's a new product that has overlapping functionality with X11.

Rewrites don't work when the following two statements are both true:

- the rewrite should achieve feature parity at a higher generaly quality

- the people who're doing the rewrite don't have most or all the knowledge that people working on the legacy system had (this could be written docs, automated tests, or just actual people hanging around)
Its extremely slow and does not support CUDA. I think the problem is nvidia blocks them somehow from changing the clock speed on the gpu so it gets stuck running in its slowest speed.
So if your income drops compared to last year, you're screwed two ways in the US as well?

For example, if you lost student renters due to Covid and remote learning.
Well, it's "not invented here"; building fun new decentralised things is more popular than actually using them to build communities and discovering the pain of community management.
this got me thinking. instead of buying a new mac every 2 years (about 600$+ a year + transition labor I guess), I would rather just use my current mac, and stream into a VM with the latest mac running on really good hardware and use that as a saas. is this a thing?
The multiverse is not some addon that can be removed easily; it's just another prediction of the theory.
Which won't save you against their SSBN… Granted, they have much less warheads in submarines than in silos, but that's still far enough to obliterate every city above 100.000 inhabitant in your country.
I think I'll wait until every screen sharing, video calling application I use will work with Wayland. Pasting selected text with middle button is also very important to me (huge time saver) and it seems not to work with Wayland yet.
I thought the multiverse as you describe it has been falsified, logically: if you could observe it then it’s part of our universe, therefore not a multiverse. If it cannot be observed, then it’s not a thing.

Perhaps that is just playing with the meaning of words or semantics to some, but it’s compelling enough for me.

The other description of quantum equations predicting many “worlds” I think is a different and more acceptable proposition. Like we’ve observed the shadow of an object, but can’t figure out how to observe the object directly.
Wayland came with Fedora that I used as a desktop for a year or so, it was really good and nothing broke that I am aware of.
Not only that, but also: what's the business model behind Stadia? Like how do they expect to ever make money off of it?

Right now they are still giving away the product for free if you just use 1080p, which the vast majority of their target audience will be perfectly happy with, if you care about 4K and 120hz you probably want to have optimal latency as well and just get a local box anyway. So where do they expect the money to make the service profitable will come from?

I've said the same thing so, so many times from even back when there was OnLive. Streaming games to paying customers is an interesting idea and some people will love it, but I just fail to see the business model. If you can pick up a cheap second hand console for less than 1 year of subscription service, who are the people who are going to keep paying for your service because they 'just want to play a game every now and then'? You have to build and maintain servers all around the world to make the service work, and you expect people who are not really into gaming enough to just buy a $400 console once every ~5 years, who just want to play every now and then, to be willing to spend enough on your service to cover the cost?

It boggles the mind how much money has been going into these kinds of services without any one of them ever seeming to have an obvious and solid long-term business plan...
VLC cannot play a majority of those because of DRM.
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The problem with wayland is simply underinvestment. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq This person is probably responsible for most of the commits and PR reviews. Everything happens at a snail's pace.
> Debatable and for a certain definition of "poverty". Inequality has only been increasing and if i am unable to afford stuff even though i make more today then i did a few years ago, that is not "alleviation of poverty". Even if we accept your argument we now have the problem of increased middle class population leading to rampant consumerism and pressure on both social and natural resources.

Taken globally, and looking at purchasing power. Things have been massively improving for the very poorest. Because developing countries are doing just that, developing.

Inequality and poverty are two distinct things. Poverty is having lack of access to things you need. Inequality is becoming a big issue, and poverty is far from being solved. There certainly are opportunities to solve both problems. But the depth of poverty for a lot of humans has lessened the last few years, and that is undeniably a good thing.
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