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the Reg has more background https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/17/microsoft_dapr_1/

Dapr is one of several Microsoft-sponsored open-source projects around Kubernetes. Dapr was first announced in October 2019 and has been developed on GitHub.

The purpose of Dapr is to provide services, accessed via HTTP or gRPC, that can be called from any application, and meet some common requirements that can otherwise be tricky to implement. Specifically, Dapr provides:

* Service-to-service invocation

* State management: save and retrieve key/value pairs from a variety of stores such as Redis, CosmosDB, SQL Server or PostgreSQL

* Publish and subscribe

* Resource binding: Send, receive, and respond to events

* Virtual actors: Use actor pattern for stateless and stateful objects

* Distributed tracing: Uses W3C Trace Context standard to feed events to tracing and monitoring systems

* Secrets management: Safe storage and retrieval of credentials
In the US, they would reopen your account without telling you and start charging you fees and/or interest on the amount they overpaid. I know this because it happened to me last year when American Express mistakenly refunded a credit to me twice when closing an account (one check and one bank transfer). I never even cashed the check but apparently that didn’t make a difference to them.
No I don't. I don't hire hours. I hire people. I don't even hire people who put in hours. I hire people who produce work. If the work they produce is ok, I'm fine. If the work they produce is poor, I have a problem. In the example I gave, leaving a critical operation pending a whole weekend is poor workmanship (schedules and work hours are totally irrelevant in that assertion).

There's a second level to this, which is the definition of an acceptable workload. That is company-cultural, and you'll have to take my word for it when I say it is acceptable. We have the position that in the long run it's best that people feel happy on the job, which requires workloads compatible with life outside the company.
Eink is innovative. That doesn't mean patents reward innovation.

As others have said, they're chasing a monopoly on these types of displays, aided by their use of patents. That's not something we should be encouraging. The point of patents was to give a limited window for the inventor of a thing to exclusively capitalise on the thing, in return for making the details of the thing public so that others could in turn expand and improve on the thing. This is not what's happening here.
>I'm also pretty sure most engineers don't want this, and what hey actually want is cowboy coding, playing like kindergarten kids in the sandbox with the latest shiny toys, while leaving work at 5 PM.

Nope. They want autonomy, mastery and purpose. They want to be able to apply what they know appropriately - not to be micromanaged or frustrated by instructions that make no sense. They want to be able to develop skills that make them valuable to their peers and their organisation - valuable enough to be secure and able to earn sufficient to protect their families. They want to know why they are doing the things that they are doing and to be able to believe that their efforts will contribute to something worthwhile.

If you can provide that all your engineers will both love you and jump into a bonfire for you.
Nothing to Hide. Nothing to Fear.
This happens with companies who are not big enough to take over other companies, so they try to latch on the loophole in capitalism by spawning different products often completely unrelated to original purpose of the company.
Such company will have a competitive advantage over someone starting from scratch with a similar product.
Question is should it be allowed? This ultimately leads to creation of those companies that are too big to fall, that have enough budgets to buy laws designed to keep competition at bay, do creative accounting and other measures that small company cannot afford to do.
Fortunately these "startups" within a company usually fail and are not as effective as take overs.
I think take overs should be illegal unless the technology your are buying is going to be incorporated into the original company line of products and does not spawn completely new business.
Lithuania was operating an RBMK (Chernobyl-type) reactor just 140 km away from that new Generation III+ design and the majority of Lithuanians opposed the closure of the plant in Ignalina.

And that reactor vessel was never used, it’s actually still lying on the compound of Atommash in Volgodonsk.

Furthermore, transformers have been failing at NPPs in the West as well.
I am continually boggled by what my iPhone corrects and doesn’t correct.
I will invest something in Bitcoin only when this "tether
/ bitfinex" thing will blow up.
In the Netherlands 10 years was the norm, now, judging from people I know, it's 20 years.
I guess I don't have as much low level experience as you do, but in my eyes IPv6 is literally just IPv4 with more bits. Due to the increased number of possible addresses, IPv6 is used with some different (better) concepts than IPv4. For example having (very likely) unique local networks (ULAs) is amazing when you happen to merge previously independent networks together or do some VPN stuff. You pretty much never have to calculate subnets because you'll likely never run out of addresses. And even if you somehow manage to do the impossible and fill up a /48 ULA (at which point you would have died from NATing billions of entire IPv4 address spaces with multiple layers to somehow make it all one network on IPv4), it takes just two seconds to generate a new one.

Also getting an entire public prefix assigned instead of just a single address is amazing too. On my public servers I let my ssh service listen on a randomly generated static IPv6 address from my prefix, which is not used for anything else. On that same machine I can have dozens of other public services on their own IP each (they can even all run on the same port because they're using different addresses), and when someone then decides to scan the IP of my website for interesting ports, they won't find anything.

To be honest, if someone doesn't understand IPv6, I doubt they really understand IPv4 either. Many issues with IPv6 today come from the fact that everyone and everything is so used to V4 concepts, that most products focus on IPv4 first and then half-ass IPv6 support (if they implement it at all).
They are louder, that's no issue for me though. I don't mind.

Are they are expensive? I paid less for mine than an equivalent apple keyboard, for example.

I like the aesthetic, personally.

The typing on them is, for me, both faster and more accurate. Well beyond that and of far more importance for someone who uses their hands to make money, I find the long travel and mechanical resistance is much, much more comfortable and less strain inducing.
My understanding is that a requirement is to be hosted in mainland China and to be resident (or to be a Chinese citizen) or, for a company, to have a registered business entity in mainland China.
I subscribed to NYT annual plan and cancelled it within 3 months. There was no refund for the remaining months. I tried to resubscribe after a month and had to pay 12 months fee again. Weird!
Tacky indeed - but the main issue it's that it takes precious space for information that you don't need to look again and again after each command.

Instead you can have a 1-letter command to print out a slew of useful info only when you want.
Your words;

>the absolute-plague-tier of disproportional scammers coming out of India

Dressing up your words cannot hide the insinuations.
Direnv has made it a lot easier to source Bash-styled environment variable in a fisd shell and has `use nix` built in for using the Nix package manager for projects and getting a shell environment with all of your local project dependencies.
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> How so? Android is still asking every single time you install a non market app, spooky enough that nether my mum nor my gf consider clicking proceed without asking someone if they should.

Android has only been asking once per source, not per app, for a while. Also, the messages aren't that scary. Folks haphazardly click OK in Windows without reading messages; you can be sure they do the same on a phone.
Some context:

- https://www.ft.com/content/a98322de-96f7-11e7-b83c-9588e51488a0

- https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-launched-nuclear-power-plant-despite-safety-issues-/30928660.html

- https://www.euronews.com/2020/05/21/belarus-nuclear-plant-minsk-set-to-fire-up-reactor-just-45km-from-vilnius

Basically, Belarus mostly ignored numerous safety recommendations by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other parties. There were several accidents during the construction of the power plant, including the one where workers dropped the 330 ton reactor vessel. All that raised many questions about the general quality standards in the Belarusian project.

Lithuania issued several diplomatic notes and protests, requesting to address the safety issues, but there was little cooperation from the other side.
I find mechanical keyboards much nicer to type on - the keys have enough force to actively push back into position, which gives a great pressed/not-pressed response. This definitely helps when typing quickly. The key travel distance should be about the same as a membrane keyboard - activation happens at the midpoint, not the terminal point, so if you're using the full travel distance you're typing too hard.
We don't really have so many optional choices here early on - in UK Engineering degrees are regulated by the Engineering Council and have to cover set material, or students who graduate from it are not able to register for Chartered Engineer status as quickly (adds an extra 5 years onto the process). For Physics, the courses are generally set to meet requirements set by the Institute of Physics. We do have credits, but it's generally not possible for you to take courses from a higher level - a 2nd year student can't generally take a 3rd year course for e.g. or vice versa.

In general, this means that the first two years of all physics/eng degrees in the UK cover almost identical material across all Universities. It's only after that you start to get any choice, and those choices usually relate somewhat to the expertise of the academics at that institution - I did my first degree in a University with very strong condensed matter theory group for e.g. so there were lots of courses on that.
> Just a little shortcut but REPLs like Python's take a while to spin up, so it's pretty convenient.

Really? Loading python takes basically 0 seconds for me... the slowest I could get running `time python3` and hitting ctrl-d (to exit) is like 0m0.104s.
In my country young people don't have loans (edit, they may have some nowadays indeed) and we pay for cars out of pocket. Effectively The only loans are mortgages. Young people are not even able to build any debt now because they can't afford a house anymore. So they have a big incentive to see the interest go up again. But I guess this housing crisis is also driven by the insanely low supply, so building a lot more would also help.
Allow me to try to explain his/her point.

There's been a bunch of comments making really strong claims. Here's some examples just from this post.

"They're famous for patent-trolling and disrupting anyone elses effort's to do anything with the tech".

When asked for proof of this, there was no reply.

"E Ink is part of a consortium that owns all the patents around the technology used in their ePaper displays."

When asked for proof of this, there was no reply.

"Because there's no real market, the only company "innovating" on the original technology is E-Ink. With a 20-year head start locking down iterative improvements, the technology may never get out of the tarpit. "

When asked to back up the claim, at least the response was better in that they accepted it was an assumption based on other comments rather than actually being based on facts.

" It is all just an assumption, and I don't have any evidence. Thank you for pointing that out, challenging me, and forcing me to take reconsider my opinion. "

So his/her point is that people are alleging a company is a patent troll, even perhaps part of a consortium seeking to control the market and when challenged, they are unable to defend their claims. So your question appears to be asking him for reasons to backup his questioning of other people making claims. Eg, you are acting as Dan in the following itemized list.

Alice: We are making a product at price X and volume Y with features Z

Bob: Alice is preventing anyone else from making similar products using your patents. Alice is part of a consortium that is evil. A is making enormous profits. A is a patent troll. A is an example of patents gone wild.

Charles: Uhm, Bob and buddies? Why are you saying that about Alice? I work in Alice's industry and see nothing like that. You guys shouldn't make such baseless comments as it brings down the quality of our technology forum and level of discussion.

Dan: Charles, you're making ad-hominem attacks and appealing to self-authority.

> Why hasn't E-Ink display tech gone mass-market?

Because their technology (ie: the physics they're reliant on) can't do what competing products like LCD, OLED are able to do. You can't magically make electrophoretic particles that stay in a stable position AND move fast. You can't magically fit millions of color pigments in a pixel when there is NO backlight. Until they can switch to a different technology or physics, they can't compete against LCD/OLED and will never reach high enough volumes to scale to a lower cost structure.
This was a response to a comment about a potential feature as described:

"Why does the recovery not just have a button called factory reset which unlinks your apple account, deletes the volume and then sets it all up like new."

So yes, it currently does not work like that. But such a feature would allow Macbooks to be easily stolen and reused by others.
I’m not throwing the fascist label because he is a right-winger. I’m throwing it because he supports a military which rules over a subset of the civilian population with the merciless boot. And that military rule is the Israeli rule over Palestinians in the occupied territories. That’s why I called him a fascist racist.
It can’t? I at one point messed up my firewall rules and didn’t notice that IPv4 wasn’t accessible for a few days. Nobody complained. I eventually noticed something was amiss and fixed it but really most places seems to be running dual stack. I am starting to run some IPV6 only services.
Journalists are pretty honest about what they do if you listen to them talk candidly about their profession. It's not really about reporting reality or facts it's more they see themselves are a class above the regular people who have a moral obligation to make sure we think and believe the right things we're supposed to for what they consider the greater good.

Not saying if that's the right thing to do or not but personally it's not something I'd ever pay for.
I had Ibd for 10 years, did a microbiota transplant and, literally, the day after it was gone.
I am not sure why this treatment is not being pushed for Ibd,bbut it was nothing short of miracolous.
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I had a similar experience, and it is what keeps me from signing up again, despite the fact that I really want to read that paper. Frankly, the experience motivated me to drop by subscriptions to other USA papers. I still subscribe to some overseas papers, which seem to respect their customers more.
The final accountability of someone dying if you screw up must weigh heavily on people designing aircraft. I think it would make me pretty diligent...
In the USA it’s pretty standard. The 30 year fixed rate mortgage is probably the most popular by far. And then you refinance it over time as rates fall.

Adjustable rate mortgages exist too but got a lot of people in trouble in 2008. I think a lot of them are only allowed to adjust by a certain percentage regardless of interest rates each year they’re eligible to.
> These benefits are orthogonal to the switches being mechanical.

Yeah you raise some good points, but as you mentioned here it doesn't really have anything to do with the types of switches. It's just that most of these non-standard keyboards happen to be mechanical.

In my comment I am mainly talking about the pros/cons of switching to mechanical switches.
Because a startup within a company will always be making more money for other people than you.

Only when you own a startup and that means outside a 'company' can you ensure your efforts profit you primarily.
Could they use it to try blow dust off the Opportunity rover's solar panels to see if it'll boot again?
Congrats on the launch. Good luck with the book :)

I'm not your audience, but I had some questions/suggestions:

* Is the cover supposed to be 3.5 times repeat of a narrow image? I'm on wide desktop screen.

* What's the book format, pdf/epub/etc?

* I'd suggest to put "Testing ReactJS" info at the end of book description, instead of mentioning it in author description.
Never had an issue with loosely fitting parts, spills or breaking rivets, and I had mine for 20 years, after it had been in an office for 10, and now it's gone on to a new delighted owner (I'm using a smaller board now).

Not seeing the longevity issues there really, and the springs have a lovely feel.

(The F77 from your link looks great, but that pricetag!)
This is really not a thing for your average civil servant, only for department leaders in highly visible agencies.
Dapr is a tool/library to implement some of those ideas, in particular factors 3, 4, 6, 8, and 9.
Just to give a counter point to this - I honestly think that the UK (where I live) would be better off if it didn't inherit services such as Twitter, Facebook, etc from the US. Certainly in my circles of friends and family all social media does is spread misinformation and rumours. Schools use Facebook for connecting with parents, which I think is pretty lazy of them and we should have a national system for this.

Obviously there are some services that are great for the UK which are American (AWS?), so if there were nation-only Internets then it would be good to pick and choose which services from other nations you could use in your own.

Just a thought experiment anyway...
Chernobyl was really different than Fukushima. The design was really poor, and dangerous, it would have been hell to decommission (still is). Yes the human factor was important in the incident, but with a better design, this wouldn't have been such a disaster.

Fukushima is a way better example of "what can go wrong will go wrong", and only a perfect team could've prevented the disaster [0].

EPRs are meltdown proof BTW. I still think its useless design, Fukushima meltdown showed us the risk of an unmitigated meltdown, and those risks were predicted in 1980s by french engineers during the second construction wave (that's why they have a third water circuit, and the secondary water circuit is in a loop).

[0]https://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-surviv...
To their credit it was pretty fast for me to cancel. All i said was “ I have a subscription from work and don’t need personal subscription anymore “ . They cancelled right away , no more questions asked .
The question is not asking what the Anglo-Saxons were, since they were a people. The question is asking which people they perceived themselves as, for which the correct interrogative pronoun is "who".

The question is well written, although it could also be phrased as "How did the Anglo-Saxons see themselves as a people?". That phrasing, however, lacks the poetry and idiomatic reference (see sibling comment) of the original.
While I worked for Adobe, one of the executives there (Mark Randall, serial entrepreneur that was "acquired" by the company, awesome guy) launched the "Red box" initiative that eventually become https://www.kickbox.org/. The red box was essentially a "toolbox" that he created on how to build a startup (set of training materials + $1000USD credit card that you could use however you wish), and the purpose was to get enough proof so that you get executive buy-in to continue your idea - if you achieved that, you got the "blue box" (whose content was a "secret" but was essentially custom-tailored support for your project). The entire process banks on the fact that you validate your ideas _without_ involving the Adobe brand, because if you slapped "Adobe" over it of course people and press would get interested. There were some legal caveats here and there (e.g. you couldn't outright lie and claim you were _not_ with Adobe), but I think it is to some extent the closest thing that you can get to "startup within a big company".

I personally got to the blue box - but then I gave up, when I realized that to get it to actually ship I had to sacrifice nights and weekends. Which would have been maybe fine - except that I knew that I didn't get to keep any upside. I had most of the risks of a startup, but very little of the payoff. Great learning process, but for me - it only managed to convince me that I shouldn't try within a corporation, if I want to try I need to actually do it by myself.
They obviously want people to buy a new one (and disposing of their current one) instead of doing a factory reset. If it is increasingly harder to do, this means that eventually factory reset will not be possible and you won't even be allowed to sell "your" mac when you want to switch or upgrade.
If you want to ask why money isn't 'distributed equally across all people', Bitcoin isn't your answer and nor is a currency actually designed with a deflationary or zero inflation mechanics. If you want to distribute money across all people, you design a system which actually gives everybody money, but funnily enough, Bitcoin was designed so Bitcoins were distributed to those rich enough to participate in mining activity instead...

Saving makes sense in a deflationary environment, its just that "saving" involves letting other people do productive things with the money with rather than starving them of funds in the hope they will be sufficiently desperate for cash in future to be willing to exchange more stuff for it. A deflationary environment sets a floor on how much the 1% control, not a ceiling, disincentivises them from creating jobs (lots of risk, no aggregate money returns to be earned) and makes it risk free for them to starve the economy of resources instead.

And in a world with no "crippling mortgages", you still need somewhere to live before you can save 500k. Which means instead of borrowing and repaying and ending up with a house, you spend roughly that portion of your income on rent instead...
If you work for someone with $80bn of shareholder capital at risk you can take 1/10000th of the risk at work than if you have $8M of shareholder capital at risk.

It's that simple.
However people in the USA talk about the left as a bloc and people in Europe don't talk about communist media or politicians (although there are a small number).

You would have a better analogy if you used "socialism" rather than "communism".
In the UK maybe, not most countries. There are some corporate databases that consumers eill mever hear about, but certainly nothing even close to US credit scores.
I just got a summer internship offer from these people. How is it there?
As far as I'm concerned, I don't need the company to "accept" my cancellation. I simply need to inform them, in writing, that I have cancelled, and to stop paying.

Life's too short to jump through these hoops with abusive corporations.
Exact same layout as my current keyboard (IBM KU-0225, probably a cheap clone)... as bad as some think this layout is, I think that all the ones that are very similar yet just a little bit different, are much worst.
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