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Some of that is moderately disturbing but I think if there's anything we can learn from this episode it's that the company running the network barely matters provided they're not just kicking everyone for some reason.
Be aware, quaternions are not always the right solution. There's a reason Unity, Unreal, 3DSMax, Maya, Blender, etc all support Euler interpolation in animation. A simple example is an artist might want to show a clock hand spinning fast to show the progress of time. To do that they set a start angle of 0 and an end angle of say 20000. Sure, there may be ways to represent that with specialized quaternions but in general the 3D tools all seems to default to using Eulers.

This is an issue with the GLTF format. They chose quaternions to represent rotations in animation and as such can't easily represent what the artist's intent was.

You might claim you can sample the Euler animation and split it into multiple quaternion slerps but that brings up another issue which is you need support for discontinuous animations in order to handle other situations (another thing the GLTF format apparently didn't consider).
It's not "scary". It's my fucking network hardware, the power comes from my house, the data comes from my house.

I pay for all of this stuff. Amazon wants to resell it without asking me. NO.
> It’s almost always images, especially user generated ones.

After recently doing a lot of work on a system that takes user-originated images for the first time in a while, this has started to become my go-to check. I shouldn't have been surprised at how common it is, but I was and I hope from now on I'm thinking about optimization as soon as user-provided media comes up.

I also think the tooling-takeover on the front end has had a real effect; it automates away decisions at development time in situations where you usually have ideal connectivity. Then when you're doing QA and realize that the site's heavier/slower than will work for some user-device profiles, you face sunk costs for decisions you didn't even really make so much as implicitly invoke. Possibly getting better as tooling gets less naive and more sophisticated about shaking out unused code, but I worry there's also a Jevons paradox that can come into play (your tooling is good at automatically optimizing out stuff you don't use? You might automatically use more of other stuff!).
Because life isn't black or white. Someone can be a leader in the dissident movement and also part of other cultural groups. You will find people who join things are more likely to join other things.
Won't workers prefer a forward-thinking, agile workplace versus being stuck in high traffic and/or high cost areas?
Can't say I'm a fan of this. The new redesign looks dreadful; the weird floating tab button thing looks like a UI toolkit bug or maybe someone trying to fake tabs using buttons, rather than an intentional design choice. As other commenters have noted, there is also now no visual distinction between open tabs (tab separator is gone) - how is the user meant to tell that the non-open tabs are even intractable UI elements, let alone distinct from each other?

The menus and omnibar look the same to me though, for better or worse.

It seems like FF is getting worse with every release. Who thinks the changes (read: regressions) over the past few versions are a good idea? Who is the target audience of FF?
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Yes, I copied a part of the document into a top-level comment already and it contains a piece on that. One of the goals is "investigation of the potential ability to air drop a payload after reentry".
The whole world was trapped last year
Great plan, do they want to relive the China-NK relationship as Russia-Belarus? Ha
It's so weird that I have a mental conflation of Electric and (semi-)autonomous vehicles.

I assumed the effort to build a conversion would include the various controls brakes etc to be software controlled. But I guess not
If the evil version 3.1 is more restrictive than previous versions, then you are right to say people could just ignore it. However, if evil version 3.1 is more permissive, for an extreme example say they changed it to a verbatim copy of WTFPL, then there would be nothing stopping people from creating a proprietary fork of the project, the very thing copyleft was designed to prevent.
A dated to-do list in plaintext. I find that everything else just complicates things.
This only reinforces my image of the UK as a long since resigned totalitarian police state — that, along with the huge 1984-esque CCTV posters with giant eyes hanging watchfully over a dreary autumn midday in London.
There's one important difference: you can look over a station wagon as a motorcyclist, but you can't look over a minivan. Combine that with the antisocial dark tinted windows, and you've got a deathtrap on wheels.

Yes, I understand that people might wish to transport a fridge or sofa. No, you don't need a minivan to do that.
> Then they won't put their faith in it, they will game the system to the maximum possoble degree.

Hence the request to demonstrate basic proficiency?

You seem to be inventing reasons to criticize and argue with me about subjects that neither I nor the article I responded to brought up. I didn't claim that programming tests are "right", so this is like your 4th straw man in a row. You don't seem to be answering any questions about how to improve the situation. Aside from bias, you haven't yet demonstrated a problem with hiring from the company side or the candidate side that has data to back it up.

What would you do to improve your perceived imperfections in the interview and hiring process?

> I think what we are doing in this industry is idiotic, we do not ask surgeons to do a 30-minute surgery on a dog to test their skills in surgery on people, we do not ask structural engineers to make a bridge out of matchsticks to test their skill.

This comment makes it seem like you are ignorant of and not even remotely aware of what the qualifications and interviews are like in other fields, and how much worse and more difficult they are than software. Surgeons go through years of low paid residency, and accreditation, and they suffer a whole battery of knowledge based tests where they're not allowed to Google the answer. Same for structural engineering. The fields of surgery and structural engineering both have cultural bias problems, just like software.
Not that it's a bulk of the business - but this would give google a legup for location targeted ads - I got a google ad for an autozone or similar once when I was one block from it - I am sure other data was also used to trigger that, but blinding fbook to this would mean that kind of ad dollar would be better spent with G if F didn't have that location data.

I also think there was a big push by these folks to also try to determine when you visited places to show that ads worked.. by getting your location at place X on this day and they showed an ad with 24 hours before for example.

F and G are also into people's "purchase history" / (debit card transactions, loyalty card data) for the same reason aren't I think (?)

I doubt FB is selling location to repo men like other location brokers - but that could change.

Dunno if ICE and other letter agencies buy loca data from F and G.. but like the Verizon thing about people's info is the new oil - gotta remember oil is used to create many more things than just gas. Sprint made more than a few pennies being forced to give up data, and so do others.

Certainly makes marketing dollars well spent when you can prove effectiveness and vice versa.
Different reasons, but this is the same for residents of Australia. Shows you how quickly you can lose your liberties.
Western Governments have done the same thing to their own citizenry for over a year... Melbourne, Australia is now in its 4th lockdown, a city of 5 million people, based on 50 positive PCR test results over the past week.

Australian citizens generally cannot leave their country either, for over a year.

Given that Belarus had no COVID lockdowns or restrictions, people there have enjoyed comparatively more freedom over the past year compared to the average Western citizen.

The West also takes down airliners in attempts to apprehend journalists. If you have the wrong political opinions, you can lose your job, and be unpersoned by corporate groups with ties to the Government.

The West no longer has the moral high ground and we should be aware of the propaganda levels of the world we are now living in.

I'm not defending Russia or Belarus. They are mafia states. They are just less sophisticated operators without the global media on their side.
94.9% pure, organic, outrage, clickbait FUD.

This feels like an "you're either with us or you're against us, Amazon B A D"-article.

The central thesis is misleading and wrong because it's NOT "unlimited, direct sharing of your WiFi to whatever Amazon users happen to fall and scrape their knees outside your home because they can't skateboard," it's "likely low-rate connectivity for other Amazon users' devices over Bluetooth or (maybe) Zigbee gated through Echo devices acting as bridges that happen to use WiFi as a backhaul."

Tile does the same thing already with their mobile app over Bluetooth - everyone with the app and BT on participates as a missing tag locator; Amazon is adding Tile into the mix (900 MHz BLE for Tile Pro) for another way to find tags.

Is Amazon going to suddenly allow or support BitTorrent-to-eSATA light dimmers (or some sort of WiFi backdoor)? IDTS. Where's the problem (other than opt-in vs. opt-out)?

PS: I worked in a radio group of a GPS manufacturer at the time when radio modules were in their kindergarten years. 900 MHz of BLE is always going to work better than 2.4 GHz for low rate data because of physics. 900 MHz is awesome.
> I'm so tired of tech people saying "it has to suck because the law requires it", when they clearly haven't read it. [..] The AVMSD isn't new, it was codified in 2010. It has a website[1]

You know, if you were going to rant about people not reading things, you probably should have first validated your own assumptions. AVMSD was just updated ( https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/revision-a... ) which just recently went into effect. The updated law requires online video platforms to age gate content for children. How, exactly, do you propose they do that with an implementation that doesn't suck?
You're talking about a completely different thing here though than the article is about, and obviously we can only speculate.

Linus' opinion always was: "I give you source code, you give me your changes back, we're even."[1] That's his summary of GPLv2 and I think such an attitude is reasonable, and it might have certainly aided the Linux kernel development over time (almost sure of it).

He disliked the GPLv3 exactly because of that. Because in his opinion it's (paraphrased) "I give you the source code, and now I dictate to you how you are allowed to use it." (see same link).

Whether a BSD/MIT license hurts or helps a project is pure speculation. More permissive licenses might make code reuse more attractive, and be considered "more free" regarding code reuse. As to what code contributions you miss out on? Hard to judge. There definitely are companies building products utilizing FreeBSD / OpenBSD without committing all their changes back (or none to begin with).

Pick the right license for your project. You don't care and are happy if someone uses it? Use a permissive license (MIT/ISC). You want to develop the product, improve on it, and want the changes back? Use something like GPLv2. You deeply care about your code running on open devices? Use GPLv3.

There's no "one obvious right way" as far as I am concerned.

[1] https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840 (from there to 56:51 it's about open source licenses)
I saw the four-door (sub)compact hatchback ala Honda Fit to be in a similar niche to station wagon -- although smaller and without a third row of seats.

But there aren't hardly even any more of those in the US market anymore. Honda Fit is no longer produced for US market, along with many of it's peers.
Ironically while domestic companies pushed to classify their SUVs as trucks, Subaru sought to classify their Subaru Brat pickup truck as a car by putting seats in the bed to avoid the chicken tax imposed on imported trucks.
Can the majority of people control themselves though in the view of social normalisation of a poison like alcohol?

The very fact that you (as do most of us) consider it a "normal life" activity indicates a very skewed and unhealthy perspective has taken hold at a fundamental level.
Peertube is a federated platform... running your own instance or using an existing open instance that has some content restrictions would solve the mature content issue.

As far as 'views', in reality the vast majority of Youtube channels also get very few views. You can advertise/promote the Peertube instance just like you would promote a Youtube channel.

Another alternative is to just have Peertube mirror your YouTube channel and link to the instance in every video.

It really depends on the type of content you produce and how your content is 'discovered' but unless you are on the winning side of the Youtube algorithm, peertube isn't that worse.
Meanwhile, the VW Passat was the go-to station wagon in Europe. They did offer a sedan model, but no one bought it.
I made a whatsapp group where I am the sole participant. This makes it easy to work on my "todo-list" on all devices synchronized.
Not quite the size to fit into a wristwatch yet.
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Amazon is going to sell access to Sidewalk to e.g. TV manufacturers (and anybody else), making money off of your internet connection.

Before Sidewalk, if a device manufacturer wanted to be able to get sensor/environmental/etc data back to the mothership, it had to either pair to a phone with bluetooth, use wifi (needs creds), or include a 2g modem with a SIM (pretty expensive). A customer who doesn't see a need for that device to have that connection just won't pair / give wifi creds, and the 2g modems/SIMs are expensive enough to keep them out of most devices.

In a world where Sidewalk is a viable option, a lot more devices will be sending whatever information they like that they can sample about you out of your house. Sure, it makes sense to carefully read the privacy policy when you're buying a echo dot or ring whatever, but are you going to be so careful when you're buying a toaster?

This episode of black mirror sucks.
Single people can have plenty of commitments that don't include a spouse or pets. It is much harder to accomplish most tasks as an individual vs a team. The case you present seems to be closer to those who are codependent vs those who are committed
It frustrates me so much how many online comments support this and related developments in Russia and Belarus.
What percentage of the city is vaccinated?
That's more recent. And many companies don't.
What about dual-citizens?
Most governments barred non-citizens from entering, and none that I know of had restrictions on leaving. I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Granted - last year (and honestly, still most places that haven't seized large quantities of vaccines) that was for the good reason of preventing a pandemic.
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Great idea! However, using inspect element you can easily see what the card is before you flip it! Super easy to exploit
Do they? https://i.imgur.com/Oemlwfo.png
Not really. PE is mainly a vehicle for smart Wall Streeters to fleece credulous and incompetent pension fund managers.

But the latest boom in PE is a function of: higher than usual levels of credulity around private vs public performance (but PE funds have lower volatility???), and the wave of free money coming out of the Fed. In 2010, lots of PE funds got bailed out after making unbelievably bad bets with no economic rationale (the worst being Blackstone Real Estate, they should have gone bust, they now manage $250bn in RE).

Tech companies are hot right now because of Vista Equity's numbers. Tech companies appear nominally attractive in cash flow terms because so many tech companies pay staff non-cash. So you can acquire at an unreasonable multiple, load up with debt, and then leave employees holding your bags if it goes wrong...self-evidently though, no actual value is being created here beyond playing the capital cycle.

Most of the growth in PE is correlated to the growth in investors (both in the funds, and financing) who don't understand what they are doing. If you look at Europe, private equity activity has exploded higher with money-printing from the ECB and the growth in direct lending/leveraged loan markets (these have gone from 20bn to 150bn in five years or so...where it was in 2007, and lots of very unsophisticated private debt funds with poor incentives). Shadow banking all over again, no-one knows where the money is coming from, no-one knows where it is going.
What I find amusing is the average modern crossover has no more off-road, towing, etc... capability than a station wagon with similar size and features. They're just wagons with artificially high seating positions and more truck-like styling.

Efforts to market wagons to customers in the US over the past couple decades suggest that even when they're available, people don't buy them unless they're styled and marketed as crossovers.
I never understood the SUV craze.

Body positivity. Big is beautiful.
I think the FSF is starting to realize that Stallman is not forever, and FSF ethics aren't forever. Having the FSF have exclusive rights to change license terms with "or newer" terms and to hold copyrights to projects is a bad idea as the founders of the FSF are getting older.

I trust the FSF, but I have no idea who the FSF will be in another 20 years.
Did you know that there are Go problems that professional players can't solve, but that newbies solve trivially? Becoming a professional go player creates blind spots, basically any board that could never happen in a real game just don't make any sense to someone at that level.

And while, I don't equate merging 2 sorted arrays with being an unsolvable problem for an experienced dev, I have personally experienced similar increasing difficulty to toy problems as I gain increasing real world experience. Common things like timestamps and full names are not as simple as they seem, and so now, I'm less likely to just jump to an answer that would have seemed obvious to me 20 years ago. And it's not like I come up with the solution and discard it, it's more like the previously obvious solution is no longer the first things I think about.
Several awful things became immediately apparent:

1. the menus use their own font instead of the one specified by the OS (Windows 10). And of course, there is no way to disable this, or at least I could not find one.

2. The "current tab" highlight looks too much like an entry field. Please bring the tab metaphor back, or at least allow the user to keep the existing interface.

3. The padding on the browser tabs (and may be the address bar) have increased. Why?

In short, I don't want a "cleaner" interface. I want an interface with clear affordances.
Yes, don't try to treat yourself. But if they have sleep apnea the doctor will almost certainly prescribe one.
> no software made in 2021 should have a "Save" button: it should be done automatically […]

Just because I've opened a document that doesn't automatically imply that I want any changes to be saved without asking, though - it's not that uncommon that I open something for reference purposes only, so that any changes are either unintentional (accidentally hit a button or started typing with the wrong window focussed), a side-effect of copying data into something else (e.g. unhiding some layers in a graphics or CAD file so I can copy that data) or else just some experimental or otherwise temporary changes that I certainly don't want to keep, though.
Audi also make Avant variants of their cars. Even high end ones like the RS6 but I am not sure they are available in north America.
Another equivalent view point is that your commute was being compensated and that now employers will begin to pay less as the supply of people who are willing to work remote increase.
I have a good friend from Belarus. This isn’t what’s happening.

The current dictator has a lot of supporters, and I mean real supporters, not people “supporting” him at gun point.

It is similar I think to the situation in the US where poor people will sometimes vote against their financial interests to support an identity.