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Not unique to Microsoft here, there was an android police article where they identified like 10 inconsistent action bar implementations from Google apps then a follow up a year later doing the same for navigation drawers when they were the android UX elements Google were pushing most
News about Mac are frequently separate from criticism about Mac. Perhaps because they arrive earlier. You might want to look specifically for reviews, opinions, and summaries of critical reaction. Maybe watch reviews on Youtube to get a feel.

Personally I'm thinking of trying BS in a virtual machine to see if I'm ok with it or will stay away until apps that I want drop support for Mojave (likely Brew will begin to compile lots of stuff instead of just installing binaries). Though, seeing as Catalina already makes life harder for developers outside of the App Store, Mojave is probably gonna stay with me for a while.
That was viable when computers were a tiny part of the world, but not when our power to change things became to great to be ignored.

Even back in the day when you could convince a public payphone to work for free by whistling the right way, that kind of interference in a public communications channel was enough for the powers that be to get worried. Now? Now phones are effectively universal, and every government can afford to pay developers to insert obfuscated backdoors in open source code, while the richest could do the same with the hardware from the silicon wafer up to the finished product. And they do, because they want to keep their power.

Just as you go to war with the army you have rather than the army you want, if you seek to improve our security and freedom you have to use the political power structures that exist rather than the ones you want to exist.
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I used to run CommuniGate from Stalker on my private mail server.

It is more or less one binary and one data folder, available for all operating systems, providing a lot of functionality (SMTP, IMAP, ActiveSync, Webmail, Groupware, ...). Everything can be configured via one uniform Web UI. Multi domain, multi IP, and you could even cluster together multiple servers.

It's closed source, but offers a free license for up to 5 mailboxes.

Sadly this product died during the last 10 years and is now in an unusable state.
I have a 1440p screen. Why do I need to scroll to do anything in the new audio properties dialog? The old one fit more functionality on screen all at once on 768p laptops
I wish I worked at a place that thought that much about their efficiency, at least it kind of makes sense.

Instead it seems like no one thinks about the business, but about the social politics of the organisation.
Staying in the first company of my professional career for too long. I would have learnt more and earned more if I moved companies regularly early on.
Maybe they do now, at some airports. Radar is far, far more expensive than a dashcam set in the tower.
Climate activists? Really? While the causes of most climate activists are pretty valid and usually based on plenty of science, the comparison is absurd. Semmelweis was almost universally derided by all professional and public sectors for his findings. Most climate activism on the other hand is pretty much a default media-friendly, celebrity-friendly, widely socially and scientifically supported stance that has enormous popular appeal. I mean, you seriously think the two contexts are comparable? It's a disservice to what Semmelweis really had to deal with in his time.

Privacy advocates are a bit closer to the mark but though they have much less popular voice than climate activists, they're also widely listened to (even if few organizations do much to apply their advice).

I honestly have no idea what a paper lobbyist is.
I use it because it supports any bit of hardware thrown at it, with little fuss.

I tried to go all Linux many times, gave up, I just wanted something that works.
Now?

You can already get those metrics from the car's OBD2 port.

There are even dongles which have Bluetooth so you can see/record the metrics on your phone, so it shouldn't take much to get them on a dashcam.
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Impressive. Makes you wonder if at some point in the future there isn't a game engine any more but tons of training material and you play in a generated dream.
There's even a standard for mobile operators to control the setting in your modem and update/install apps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMA_Device_Management

I reverse engineered what this does in practice on pinephone modem (Quectel EG25G), for example, and there are pre-compiled binaries there for tmobile and vodafone that process their particular OMA DM flavors, download some configuration and code from internet and run it under root on the modem's SoC ARM CPU. (that's still isolated over USB from the main pinephone SoC, but obviously not good) It's also thankfully disabled by default, but if you google for oma dm android, you get reports of this protocol being used still.

Whatever it does on regular Android phone depends on how well it is implemented on android. Regular phones don't have two almost-isolated SoCs like pinephone, so oma dm client would probably run on the main SoC, and all depends on how secure that binary blob is or what it does/allows the operator to do.

Quectel software is a bit of a turd, so I woudln't take from this that operators can run random code they make the device download under root user, using this protocol. Most proprietary software like this is pretty shit, so I wouldn't feel warm and fuzzy safe on random Android device either.
The definition of reality in Wikipedia is exactly opposite, and specifically distinguishes reality from one's imagination.
Posted 3 times previously (see "past"), with some discussion.
I think everyone understands that, and the point is that the fact that they didn't do a better job in the interview is very telling. Yeah, sure we understand that the main part of the deal was the parts business, however when this kind of thing has happened in the past the new owners at least had a clue and talked about it.
> Entire generations are members of oppressed groups now?

Yes? I mean, the US civil rights movement originated how many generations ago? Do you actually believe these issues and all those factors vanished in thin air once the leaders of those civic movements were assassinated?

It's simply not possible to come up with any remotely rational argument about these deep social problems plaguing the US that involves any type of denialism.
Semmelweis did not go insane.

He was actually one of the fathers of evidence-based medicine by counting number of death in hospitals after child-birth.

He discovered that when women where treated by doctors MORE deaths occurred than when women where treated by nurses.
The reason for this might have been that the doctors also dissected corpses at university and brought germs from this when examining women.

That was the problem of the message: He postulated that his peers, the noble doctors were directly responsible for a high number of deaths. This was a message nobody wanted to hear.

Since he became more and more outspoken and angry that nobody believed him, they shut him up by luring him into an asylum where he died.

Later his methods were approved, since the young students had no bad conscience about having indirectly killed women in their career.
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Disregard this. I was wrong.
Ah, NIS
I think in a really stupid way, it’s correct.

As in: The US spend more on healthcare as a percentage of gdp.

But it pretends that capital efficiency between government spending is equal. As Australia shows: free hospitals for less per/capita(or gdp) spending than the US…
The point of the example is that the fundamental premise of TDD is flawed here.

You can’t reach a program that solves the general case by iteratively writing a failing test for a specific case, making the smallest change required to make that test pass, refactoring, and then moving on to the next test. The important step — what you called “fully implementing the add function” — is taken by implementing some other insight that is not driven by the tests. That step isn’t a refactoring either, because it very much does change the behaviour of the program.

To design and implement a good program, sometimes you just have to know what you’re doing. There is no substitute for understanding the problem you are trying to solve and how you intend to solve it. And if you have that understanding and you design and implement your program accordingly, what is the value of following the red-green-refactor process compared to simply writing any unit tests you find helpful for verifying your implementation?
On the scale of the Universe that's nothing.
I personally find the NET Bible translation to be good for reading as well as understanding: there are thousands of footnotes explaining why things were translated a certain way and what conclusions different sources have come to on it.
https://netbible.org/reader
Ye 'average' is more neutral. 'Mediocre' implies it is not OK to be average.
While experimenting with this I also discovered another unexpected quirk or the switcher. AltGr+Tab makes it "sticky".

Also, I realized that despite being initially liking the beautiful 3D animated Win+Tab switcher when it was introduced in Vista, I never use it anymore.
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Weird, I never saw it as a punishment. It's actually a lot faster to get where you need to go, in my experience. Not having to filter through both application and window makes it take slightly less thought and effort than flipping through just one application's windows. Plus switching between applications is a lot easier when there are only five listed instead of five + 20 windows.

I guess it's dependent on the number of applications and windows you have going at any given time.
For fuck sakes people this is ambient temperature, it does not require beta testing, it requires someone to get off their ass and look at over a century of temperature data that organisations like nasa have been collecting.

I see people here hate the idea of startups or engineers being responsible for any kind of reliable service even though lives depend on it, and as this "SV spirit" infiltrates more of our life even coffee machines don't work without an internet connection, a subscribtion and software update.

Completely prosperous
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> England introduced the freezing orders in 1981, and by 1998 a [English] judge had ruled that they had global reach.

> Since then, English [global] freezing orders, backed by international respect for England’s courts and London’s centrality as a financial hub, have become unparalleled in power and reach, experts say. The orders can be applied to an individual target with even a loose link to Britain, and courts have ruled they can also apply to connected companies, trusts and associates anywhere in the world.

The implication that countries are complying with this unilateral expansion of English jurisdiction because of "international respect" is laughable. The US even passed the SPEECH act [1] specifically to prevent libel tourism using English courts [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...
> creates a very low bar for third parties

The bar for third parties was always nonexistent. That was precisely the advantage of Windows which permitted the boom of development for it in the 90s–2000s.
In Canada our government ran a program like this for all indigenous people for over a century, the goal of which was to "take the Indian out of the child". The children would be taken, often forcefully, and maybe allowed home for a visit one a year maybe not. They were beaten if they spoke their own language or indulged in their own culture. Often abused, sometimes killed. The goal was total cultural annihilation, and the results is generations of entire peoples with PTSD.

Many of these "schools" were lovingly run by Christian churches in the name of the friendly government. The only "trouble" these kids had before most of them were forced to attend the schools was that their parents were messed up because they were also forced to attend the schools.
Realistically, how likely is one to get caught for such "leaky" transmissions, assuming one is not continuously broadcasting? It's not that I intend to do it -- I'm trying to get a bead on the extent to which this is playing with fire.

Your point about the HAM license is well-taken. That's probably a sensible next step.
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> It is mental hazard that induces existential dread

No, some of us simply conclude that anything beyond the usual exercise, eat healthy, etc has negative payoff.

In other words: devoting oneself to a lifelong quest for longevity can be expected to consume far more years of life than it will add. And those years consumed will be younger, healthier, more alert years than any to be gained.
But it’s not just a matter of “no done yet” is it? Adding an oracle removes any “benefits” of smart contracts and puts you right back where you were with just regular contracts (but this time done badly and with bugs by incompetent bullshitters)

The fact that you justify your product with a use case which does not work and can not work is very telling. But I’m sure as a strategy it’s working very well for you.
I traveled around the world and spent some time in Brazil. Look e.g. at Rio de Janeiro - a small "city" with a few luxurious somewhat safe neighborhoods like Ipanema and Gavea, then a bit more seedy Copacabana, then a Maputo-style Centro, and all this surrounded by slums that take about 20x the size of the core Rio, including the famous "Zona Morte" a foreign tourist sees first when arriving via the international airport. Friends were telling me stories they experienced in favelas, like grandma phoning to her grandchildren to skip the school because there "were a few rough days" with bullets flying around, or all inhabitants running away because two gangs decided to wage a mini war on some nice afternoon. You see 16 year olds with faces that look 50+ from the "tough love" they experience everyday, lack of opportunities, constant fear of not making it to another day, rampant cheating in everything because that's what everyone is doing, and that's just Brazil, one of the most developed ones. Now look at San Salvador or Guatemala, or some parts of Mexico that went completely bonkers. I am not sure what is "woke" or "racist" in this - most of our planet feels like a hellhole and there is a lot of work to do to improve it. Most people have terrible lives as they have to cope with these either directly or indirectly (even if your life is fine right now, you are still constrained by the hostile environment around), a small minority is cushioned from all that "fun" and pressure.
Ask HN: Why Poetry did not become a mainstream package manager for Python?
I have recently been introduced to Poetry. I am a pretty experienced Python dev with both back-end and ML in my project basket. However, I have been using pip/requirements.txt/setup.py so far for every single project I had done. But once I have tried Poetry, I do not think I will ever go back.

I was wondering why is it not more popular? What is holding it back? What do you think?
What do you mean by employment discrimination?
Despite etymology "mediocre" doesn't mean average (and has not for centuries), but rather just barely "not bad." It would be unusual to describe actually average - mean or median - quality as mediocre.
This was the idea behind Google+'s circles.
Sure, and hence the logical thing to do is to create the new GUI side-by-side with the old one. That doesn't explain the non-extensible GUIs being left behind, or why the new uplifts are so piecemeal, or why they randomly leave out critical features.
Marc Andreessen describes his experiences seeking funding for Netscape as a disaster, particularly among the telecom giants of the age who had a potential stake in related businesses. Nobody thought the web or a web browser were worth investing in. Who would ever use those?

The moral of these stories is that originality scares the shit of people. Good ideas are not immediately apparent.
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> I think the price has to do with the fact that E-Ink sells these screens for a lot of money.

and what is this price? what volume? I am curious what this is based on since you state that "fact" with a lot of confidence.
It has been about a year.
If I was a pilot I'd hate to be constantly surveilled by a camera, even if the footage is "never reviewed". In fact, it's got nothing to do with being a pilot.
Good faith is worse than... bad faith? Or worse than pure intuition?

Because people have had intuition for all time, and they've never stopped using it, including herbal cure remedies for cancer. The option to go without institutional care is already there for anyone without enough money, and it's being exercised all the time, all around the world.

Even when you choose institutions you must exercise intuition.
I don't really like this kind of inflammatory article. It usually starts from the premise "My UX preferences are universal and whatever tradeoffs the developers are trying to optimize are irrelevant because they should focus on X Y and Z instead", and expands from there.

I used to re-enable the menu bar in Firefox and Atom all the time, until I realized I never used 95% of it and the remaining 5% could be accessed from elsewhere, saving me some vertical space.

I don't like having a menu bar on top. I prefer the Windows-style UX with all the OS widgets and windows list tucked in a bottom bar. (I tolerate the top bar in Pop Shell because its great tile management means I don't need to use the mouse too much for navigating).

I do agree with the author's point about discoverability, though. There's a lot of room to improve there.
I have an overclocked cartridge. Completely different game, feel to it.
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This mesh chair at Costco seems good!: https://www.costco.com/bayside-furnishings-metrex-iv-mesh-of...

$120 — Bayside Furnishings Metrex IV Mesh Office Chair

I haven’t had it for long but so far so good. I’ve had Aerons at work and this seems to do most of the same job. The armrests aren’t good, but (I don’t tend to use armrests anyway. I might customize them a bit. Feels like they could be hacked somehow to have them sit lower.)
Loki isn't even the only "Loki" in Norse mythology - at one point there's a completely unrelated giant named Utgard-Loki, suggesting "Loki" might not even be a proper name so much as a title.
I notice that you use the expression "the usual means" twice in this discussion.

Models of financing science change all the time. Most of the breakthroughs before 1950 were not funded by means that we currently consider usual and current models of financing science are, to a degree, holdover from the Cold War. But note that the same does not apply to applied technology: the VC model that runs Silicon Valley is very successful compared to the usual grant structures.

It is the Online Age now and crowdfunding is an alternative that wasn't available before. There will inevitably be a lot of misses and outright frauds, but I prefer a world with alternatives that do not depend on bureaucracy as much.

Notably, the longevity researchers spent a lot of energy to get aging classified as disease. This is finally bearing some fruit, but I can't help thinking that the same energy could have been spent better in their areas of expertise, not in lobbying.

On the other hand, a crowdfunding campaign can be managed by interns.
Well it’s not ok, unless you say the magic words.

Repeat after me.

“Taiwan has always been an integral part of China”

“The Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia”

What you call Mexico, well that has always been an integral part of Texas.

Also, while we’re talking about feelings, we prefer the term “South Texas.”

Its a way of honoring our people’s long historical and cultural tie to the land.

Calling South Texas anything else will be seen by the appropriate authorities as a grave insult and an offense deserving of economic consequences.
It does not look like Bismarck actually said that.
Sure. I don't think that managers reason and comes to this conclusion in like a strategic plan, but rather "I need #1 Bob on the floor to grind my bonus" and this is what happens.

Surely it is just a theory that doesn't explain the whole concept.
Not to mention they pulled two complete arch changes.
I've heard it as the adage 'you are the average of the 5 closest people to you'.

> Parent have little influence on that.

Depends if the parents can afford to live where they want. For me growing up, friends were people who lived close enough to bicycle or walk. Given where I lived this meant some were jocks, some were rich, and some were poor.

We were closer to the poor side, but having rich (basically both parents were doctors or some other professional) friends taught me a lot. Namely, there is a path to not being poor. My parents for better or worse put me in that neighborhood.
It doesn't always work. I have two machines, one that has issues with a north bridge, which initially prevented shutdown and prohibits, suspend and hibernate. And another where the Bluetooth dies until reboot on an Intel wireless card. Another machine wouldn't upgrade due to a wireless card, that took about three days of troubleshooting. My Linux boxes glitch too. I rarely have stuff that just works.
Seems like a weak excuse.

I mean sure, you could do that, but it would be complicated, conspicuous, tiring for the user and you would still only get one-sided occasional transfer. It could exfiltrate data, albeit suspiciously, but it wouldn't work for ads .. which are the likely motivating factor.

Other motivating factor may be tracking, which google and vendors want to do, but I'm not sure what the stance would be on others tracking their users.
Cat IQ depends on the cat. We had an incredibly stupid cat who liked nice but was dumb as a rock, and would mostly sit in the kitchen staring at the far wall and looking a bit dreamy. She didn't really meow at all. Or do much of anything else.

We had a couple of high IQ cats who not only knew how to communicate they were also super-social, and made it very clear to us and to visitors what they did/didn't want.

Now we have a mid-IQ cat who is quite vocal and quite good at communicating, but we have to make more of an effort than with the previous two.
I’m totally with you on that one! I’m getting old though, I don’t expect those technologies to arrive soon enough for me to take advantage of them. Some sort of green burial is my likely future.
Not nearly as powerful, they just have URI handlers.

However, that's all your browser is using on android anyway. It's a little different on iOS as your URI needs a custom scheme while android apps fan e.g. register themselves to handle reddit.com/* if anyone asks but Reddit already sniffs your platform to pick which app store URI and to show a safari or chrome logo
In all likelihood, the first products of the longevity research will not "cure aging", but reset the internal clock of the body slightly back. For example, five years.

That would still be a major boost to health of said individual.

Most of such improvements will probably be invisible. If they manage to reduce skin age, too, they will wallow in money.
I doubt anyone in finance will be moving off excel anytime soon. Yeah it's on Mac, but why pay more for that.
Ah yes, and maintained almost seamless compatibility with the previous archs for a while.