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They should at least donate the vaccines to Ukraine and Moldova and other poorer countries through the Covax mechanism instead of letting them go to waste.

I'm due to get vaccinated with AZ in less that two weeks and I will deninitely do it regardless, if doesn't get
halted of course. Most EU countries decided to use it on recipients older than 55 and now they're halting it due to a baseless claim. It has worked fine and the UK has already vaccinated millions of people with it.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2...
Before if I was on a page and wanted to go to a site pinned on the homepage (i.e basically all the ones I use on mobile) I just had to click on the address bar which would display the homepage and I could click it, now it doesn't work, it shows nothing instead (why?) and god do I still hate it.

Also not exactly related the the new version but tab sending from desktop to mobile is basically not working these days.
Indeed they promised 120M doses in Q1 and so far delivered 12.3M, out of which about 70% has been administered. While delivering basically exactly as promised to the UK and having a stockpile of 30M doses waiting in a warehouse in the US because they paid a higher per dose price.
Or just get an electric car (plug-in hybrid if you're worried). It's already less than half the emissions of a conventional new car. And if you keep the car for a significant length of time, you'll have beat the emissions of even just keeping your existing crappy used conventional car.
Actually just moved from compact to touch (the other extreme) a couple of weeks back. I don't miss it but the appeal is obvious. I don't get why you'd just remove the option altogether.
This is super tasteful and clean. Well done.
They’re just guidelines until somebody decides to enforce them. My title has engineer in it and I’m not an engineer.
The author seems to me surperficial enough as to believe he could get away with purposefully being ambigous and hoping that he can be flattering in the CEO's eyes while damning him with faint praise in the eyes of everyone else.
High quality supersampling is about equally hard in 2D and 3D, since the result is 2D. It is also the most common solution in both 2D and 3D graphics, so your instinct is reasonably good.

But, font and path rendering, for example in web browsers and/or with PDF or SVG - these things can benefit in both efficiency and in quality from using analytic antialiasing methods. 2D vector rendering is a place where doing something harder has real payoffs.

Just a fun aside - not all supersampling algorithms are equally good. If you use the wrong filter, it's can be very surprising to discover that there are ways you can take a million samples per pixel or more and never succeed in getting rid of aliasing artifacts. (An example is if you just average the samples, aka use a Box Filter.) I have a 2D digital art project to render mathematical functions that can have arbitrarily high frequencies. I spent money making large format prints of them, so I care a lot about getting rid of aliasing problems. I've ended up with a Gaussian filter, which is a tad blurrier than experts tend to like, because everything else ends up giving me visible aliasing somewhere.
Seems more likely to be a GoT reference[1]

1: https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Master_of_Coin
Performance per watt is better but unfortunately the idle power consumption is fairly high.
yep...that's what scott adams stand is..
In Zen1, the "remote L3" caches had longer read/write times than DDR4.

Think of the MESI messages that must happen before you can talk to a remote L3 cache:

1. Core#0 tries to talk to L3 cache associated with Core#17.

2. Core#17 has to evict data from L1 and L2, ensuring that its L3 cache is in fact up to date. During this time, Core#0 is stalled (or working on its hyperthread instead).

3. Once done, then Core#17's L3 cache can send the data to Core#0's L3 cache.

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In contrast, step#2 doesn't happen with raw DDR4 (no core owns the data).

This fact doesn't change with the new "star" architecture of Zen2 or Zen3. The I/O die just makes it a bit more efficient. I'd still expect remote L3 communications to be as slow, or slower, than DDR4.
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Zuck wouldn’t. He’s a Mediocre engineer by his own admission. It’s a myth that he was an autistic genius. The engineering questions at fb aren’t trivial.
Do you still have to put something on your head — have your vision obscured? (He asks sarcastically.)

Because I think VR is a non-starter for the above reasons. The tech difference between 1990 and 2020 is amazing — but I don't think tech is what dooms VR as it stands.

Is it the claustrophobia? Is it the unsettling detachment from your "actual" reality?

I just don't think it's going to become mainstream anymore than skydiving has become mainstream.
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> I don't understand where this implication comes from.

From "blackouts are due to corruption -> corruption was just as bad in the past". Especially since blackouts were the only symptom of corruption mentioned. Yes, it's possible blackouts didn't manifest due to different reasons, despite equal corruption - that's why it's an implication.

> Is it worth "clearing up", given that blackouts are not a direct function of corruption?

A simple hypothetical "Yes blackouts are more common, but the old government was just as corrupt due to <list of reasons>" would have been much more informative, so yes I do think it's worth clearing up.

Are we supposed to compare governments without comparing the state of the country they ran (run)? Except, of course, apartheid - that doesn't get left out.
> Uploading files without auth layer - is asking for trouble IMHO.

If you make it super user-friendly and advertise it as the next Megaupload, sure. But if you keep a small audience of good-faith users it's not asking for problems.

If you can teach me to make my file upload as hacker-friendly as this service while implementing auth, i'd be glad. Here the entire point is you don't need further configuration/credentials for example to upload log/config from a server.
>Most of our customers, if they have on-premises systems—if they're lucky—can store two objects in the same data center, which gives them four 9s. If they're really good, they may have two data centers and actually know how to replicate over two data centers, and that gives them five 9s. But eleven 9's, in terms of durability, is just unparalleled

I have a tough time taking him seriously reading this - I'm not sure if he's being intentionally ignorant or intentionally misleading.

I don't know of a single enterprise customer that doesn't have their data replicated to two datacenters, and then backed up to some other medium (tape or disk-based backup appliance) for anything business critical.

Their goal is 5-9's of UPTIME - the expectation is 100% data durability. You would get fired if you architected a solution keeping two copies of data in one datacenter.

Object storage absolutely has a place and I'm happy amazon was able to push a quasi-standard for the industry. Object storage prior to S3 was a hodge-podge of proprietary plays (EMC Centera, Bytecast, etc) and sort-of standards that nobody really used (CDMI). I just wish they did a better job of fairly representing it vs. turning every opportunity into a sales pitch spreading FUD about the alternatives.
Just be clear - I am not suggesting JSON-RPC as there is no envelope and the name of the invoked procedure is in the HTTP request line.

For example:

POST /api/listPosts HTTP/1.1
{ userId: "banana", fromDate: 2342342342, toDate: 2343242 }

Reponse:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[ { id: 32432, title: "Happy banana", userId: "banana" }, ... ]

Or in case of an error:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
{ type: "class name of exception raised server side", message: "Out of bananas" }

The types can be specified with TypeScript needed.
How do you explain the lockdowns then?
The icing on this privacy cake was the Cookie Settings dialog that popped up from komando.com. Granted, the default settings were for Not Enabled, but still...

I suppose it's an accurate example, tho
It was actually the Child Separation policy enacted by Trumps government that was meant to deter immigration. You're the only one operating on bad faith here.
Prime was and is a genuine moat.
If you and your children have a negative carbon footprint, then having more kids is actually optimal.
For several years now it has seemed like every notable change in Firefox has been about removing a reason to use Firefox instead of Chrome. (There are certainly reasons for the opposite case, including but not limited to the fact that every single website is certainly tested to work in Chrome.)

Now, I've been using Firefox as my primary browser since before it was called Firefox, and I'm quite used to it and unlikely to switch to anything else, but boy are they (at the Mozilla Foundation) trying hard to make me.
what a waste of resources and man hours for a company worried about their bottom line.
Especially if you layer on additional functionality, like triggering a lambda function to resize an image when it hits the S3 bucket.
I didn't imply that at all. If the government already can't pay their bills then adding anything to the budget should be untenable until the deficit is covered.
It's obviously technically possible.
Inheritance tax is easy to avoid and property is a very small proportion of the ultra-rich's assets.
I’m wildly guessing here, but I assume that there are many tiers of load balancing to turn your initial request into the message that reaches the thing that gives back your file data. They also likely do have specialized hardware in various parts of the AWS infrastructure.

A service that can handle tens of millions of requests per second can probably outscale most DDoS attacks without further engineering.
That argument doesn't really apply very well to the linked bug.
That is what we have been asking us for more than two months. This almost looks like sabotage.
Oh, I was going by the Intel Programmer's Guide, not AT&T syntax.
That’s what you think. I disagree, obviously, which is why I haven’t sold any shares. Why don’t we come back to this in five years?

I am pretty sure I’ll still be rich, and you'll come up with more evasions to explain why you aren't.
RTFA:

“ Users will notice that the 16-core processor is more expensive ($3521) than the 24 core processor ($2900) here. This was the same in the previous generation, however in that case the 16-core had the higher TDP. For this launch, both the 16-core F and 24-core F have the same TDP, so the only reason I can think of for AMD to have a higher price on the 16-core processor is that it only has 2 cores per chiplet active, rather than three? Perhaps it is easier to bin a processor with an even number of cores active”
> The limits of what is legal or not have always moved (see homosexuality, drug and alcohol consumption, etc). So a 100% enforcement of the law is counter-intuitively undesirable.

This is perhaps one of the more simple and persuasive arguments against domestic surveillance and spying that I’ve heard.
Honestly I really like the mobile update, the interface feels more intuitive and modern. The only complaint for me is the "recommended" plugin restrictions.
While only 30% of the doses are actually being used.

EU has only themselves and their innate incompetence to blame.
> Edit 1: worth noting, there is a lower-down comment thread[0] with relevant links - Mozilla does not care if you like this feature.

They're just saying to please stop spamming the bug tracker with "me too" messages. There are Mozilla forums for giving product feedback which are likely read by product people and not engineers fixing bugs.
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One of the tenets for the S3 team is/was "indistinguishable from perfect." I guess they're living up to it.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/05/amazon_s3_reduc...
I don't think this issue is specific to Spain - judging by the rest of the comments and my own personal experience (Croatia) this problem seems endemic to much of southern Europe.

I suspect at least part of the issue is due to climate. I wonder if there is a similar trend in the US?
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I think my main hesitation here is the free-rider problem. Except for a couple super highly leveraged positions (ie, the Presidency), and individual representative could pretty easily do nothing to intentionally help the country. And even a super hard working rep can only move the needle so much.
It also improves affordability for those that don't make 10x the national average.
Group messages are also end-to-end encrypted.
While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your idea, couldn't you make the opposite case as well? Namely that since the AstraZeneca vaccine is mostly British, the government of that country has an interest in hiding/downplaying potentially harmful side-effects?

As far as I know by now a bunch of European countries have already suspended vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine. These include France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands - not really a politically homogeneous bunch.
I'm not sure I follow the methodology here. Apple isn't worth 2 trillion because of Wozniak, who hasn't been at the company in decades. It's worth that much because it's a technology company, and technology is profitable, and almost tautologically founders of technology companies are technologists.

However many if not all of these companies have gained most of their market value under the management of fairly ordinary business-type CEOs and management, who at best have some expertise in a technical field.
This is supposed to be what A/B testing with KPIs is for.

There are plenty of times when stated preference contradicts actual behavior (e.g. more search results per page resulting in less successful searches on Google) due to other countervailing factors (additional latency causing abandonment before the page finishes loading)
The anti-vax groups have been eating this up since before it was even related to the AZ vaccination. There were posts about medical professionals in the US who received the Pfizer vaccine having similar issues shortly after having that injection.
Hmmm, I have my toolbar on the bottom and don't have anything in the upper right at all. Dunno what that could be. The location of the toolbar (menu/address/etc) can be set top or bottom in preferences (Settings >> Customize >> Toolbar).

I have my toolbar set to auto hide to maximize screen space for reading and bottom works better for me because when you scroll to the top, the hidden toolbar reappears at the bottom before pulling further to refresh. It seems like hiding/unhiding the toolbar at the top would be super annoying because it would either jump over the top of the page or jerk the page up and down under my finger as it hides/unhides.

(FWIW: I'm on a Pixel running Android 11 so dunno if there could be an Android version level or manufacturer overlay issue causing your menu to split, or maybe it's an iOS feature)
It's complicated. There's no specific law in the US regarding key disclosure, but you can be punished for e.g. contempt of court, maybe spoliation. In theory, the Fifth Amendment should protect individuals from self-incrimination, but courts have ruled that forcing people to disclose keys is not that.

See In re Boucher for a case where Fifth Amendment protections were not upheld and US v. Doe for a case where they were.
This is a one-way road, though. The minute a bad actor finds out about your ungated image-hosting service, it's over, and you'll have a hell of a mess to clean up. If you're lucky it'll just be somebody trying to sell penis pills. If you're not, you'll have federal investigators knocking.
My favorite FOSS Android HN client is Materialistic-
https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

Available on f-droid-
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
I bet the QA team won't be sad. This looks like one of those features that requires a complete repass on a ton of UI.
Don't remove it. Please. I'm begging you ;_;
There are so many things wrong with just using market cap as a proxy for success. A better measure (if you want to use equity prices) would be change in share price during the tenure of the CEO relative to their industry peer group. I think that's also the basis for most CEO compensations. Market caps change based on discount rates, time in the economic cycle, financial structure of the company (debt vs equity), share buyback programs, equity offerings, etc, etc.
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Looks like this may be a bit more relevant than many of the snarky comments would suggest - the relevant German authority on this said that they have seen a unexpected increase in a specific type of blood clotting issue that usually is very rare: https://www.pei.de/DE/newsroom/hp-meldungen/2021/210315-voru...
I just enabled it! Looks good.
I'm not sure Scrum is a repackaging, but it frustrates me that more people aren't familiar with the Deming-Shewart cycle (PDCA) which leads neatly into the Toyota Production System and Lean.
I agree with you that there is support for oData v2 and v4. But they are not exactly mainstream out there. I like oData v4 and I try to use it when it is opossible.
DRC downvoted?

Here you go then: https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/drc-postpones-covid-19-vac...

Sigh
I agree that the OODA theory is in line with what any behaviour is. I think the real value of it is with its implementation : "Fail fast, fail often" and agile mentality is born from this original theory, and I think these tactics are invaluable for rapid progress.

I think this also makes OODA an effective strategy: being able to conceptualise the whole system/problem in a holistic manner, and being able to quickly ascertain what are the important variables/factors, and therefore what you need do to to achieve the greatest impact/effect in line with your goal. This is, in my view, the whole point of OODA, and this takes a shrewd intellect and a lot of practice to get good at!

This kind of goes beyond the basic OODA acronym, but consideration of approach through each of the OODA stages is where the value of this theory resides. Indeed I try to implement this approach in my work as a scientist each day!
I wouldn't use the word "promised" here. The contract , which is public, mentions "Best effort" deliveries only. The promised word is used to by EU officials who made a mess out of it and in articles for views.
https://twitter.com/Cox_A_R/status/1371485854846320640?s=20

> I don’t know anyone in pharmacovigilance who thinks what is happening now in EU states is rational based on known information.

> EMA had this right last week. We are seeing panic spread at EU state level.

https://twitter.com/isth/status/1370424157947752452

> The [International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis] recommends all eligible adults continue to receive the #COVID19 vaccine, despite recent decisions by some countries to at least temporarily suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to reports of thrombosis. Read the full statement here: https://isth.org/news/556057
In the US, contempt of court is a possible outcome.
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Disposable income. Demographic is different for people who pay to remove ads than people who don't. I pay to block ads on Hulu and Youtube and buy upcoming brands like Vuori, Away, Peloton, Allbirds etc.

Marketing works. How do you think your friends learned about product that are mentioned in reddit threads? Guarantee it wasn't organic. If the company was launched in the last 10 years, it was built on VC dollars used to spend tens to hundreds millions in marketing.
Yes. Once provided extensive documentation and debugging info they did refund portions of bills too.
Yeah no shortage of Legal Discovery startups. Plus plenty of use for a lawyer-with-tech-skills when it comes to things like intellectual property laws, or just having someone who knows how to use Legal Hold software effectively.
The problem is FF had once been that "1000% of all features you can imagine most of which are used by at most 1% or 2% percent of users" browser.

This was so because of the huge customizability of XUl and other parts.

But this became a maintenance nightmare the moment it was put in context with requirements like stability (there where many extensions which made FF unstable) and security (how extensions are sandboxed, how likely they can escape, what damage they can do without an sandbox escape), change (new internal engine, changed rendering pipeline etc.).

A Company of Googles size could probably have maintained it, but for FF it became increasingly more infeasible to go on like that.

So they switched to remove XUL and support mainly the parts most users use, sometimes adding new features but also removing them if they don't gain any traction in the user base.

I personally see little use for the compact density as it just removes some spacing which is mostly vertical. So (at least in my case) using compact spacing doesn't at all create more space for tabs or similar it just adds a view more pixel to the vertical axis of the websites view.

But then I'm only using 1080p and HiDPI screens. I guess it might matter if you are still on a 720p screen or alternatively have a high layout scaling (font size etc.) due to other reasons.
Software ceos correlate with software companies. Correlation does not equal causation.
Because it is not made in Germany. Pfizer is responsible for producing it and their plants are primarily in the US.
I can understand banning mining. The rest is just crazy though.

Honestly even banning mining if you are off the grid is kinda not right though. Especially if you were only using renewables.
I admit I don't know much about it, because I'm not one.

I'm a bit baffled on the fact that they can stamp things they aren't formally trained in. That's a surprise.

I had assumed they had some baseline level of training in different areas because a Software Engineer I know stamped an architecture drawing for a shed he was building. Granted a shed isn't a high risk building but still it's surprising he can do that if he's untrained.

Also does the ring really have nothing to do with it? My understanding is you earn the ring at the same time as the ability to call yourself a professional engineer. Maybe the ring itself isn't necessary but it's symbolically related for sure. Am I wrong?
chunk.io is a similar thing, but with auth.

https://chunk.io/
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You are quite correct, but by this stage the original definition of REST to include HATEOAS has pretty much been abandoned by most people.

Edit: Pretty much every REST API I see these days explains how to construct your URLs to do different things - rather than treating all URLs as opaque. Mind you having tried to create 'pure' HATEOAS REST API I think I prefer the contemporary approach!
Thanks for the feedback! The continue was actually a bug as it allowed multiple settimeout loops to speed up the process.

Hammered out a fix and added the step button over lunch break, pretty easy change & fix (just 10 lines!). thanks for suggestion.
Exactly. FB would never do this, and google would never do it for search. It's adverse selection.

Spotify is a good example. The ad supported version has uses: it's a funnel for paid users, a deterrent to competition, a data farm, etc. Making money is not one of those uses. I suspect that this is because the best advertisers audience subscribes.

Also, opt out ads also harms your upside. EG, fb make more in ad revenue than they could ever make in subs. You don't want to pursue an ad-based strategy that excludes the possibility of a win like that, even if it's a long shot.