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>Basically a company that attempts to collect as many patents as possible to weaponize

You've more or less explained IBM. You cant come at IBM because their patent portfolio is so vast, they you're bound to be doing something that infringes on some patent they have.

When I working there you wouldn't get promoted from being an IC to a manager unless you had at least 10 patents to your name during your tenure there.
Wow. I don't know what I'd do in that situation. Now that I think of it, it actually might be logical to not allow people to pump their own gas. Safety and all that.
I absolutely do not believe in caring about flash space, all of the APKs from Google LLC are quite bloated. Google is likely targets users who are side-loading their apps, grabbing even more DRM power for themselves.
Careful of fires.
That is a world I want to live in.
Nobody guarantees you that chair.
I agree with that, otherwise we're all racists and the word is practically useless.
You would describe the way things are now as "working" and the way things were under Trump as not?
Does it though? The article explicitly shows cases where simple last-value performs better.
World wide, there's an attempted move to limit human rights. Honestly, I'm more encouraged that people are discussing fervently it.

> A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. - Martin Luther King

I just wish people could break out their "tribal" mentality about it. There's serious issues that need to be addressed.
Lobbying is a political act just like making a protest or making a news article. That is not monopoly power. But even if it were framed as monopoly power, the monopoly is from the government officials that sell their power.
I work at a startup so we have a small team. But for us it goes:

1. Develop some feature (me and the other engineer are full stack)

2. Send to other engineer for code review

3. Deploy to a staging site, with test data. Send to product girl to QA

If she finds a bug (or realizes her design doesn’t look as right in practice as she envisioned) she sends back with notes, we implement or fix them, and then start back at 1-2.

I think QA is different for every org but I believe there should be steps. At bigger orgs there should be QA for every feature developed (so each team should have a QA person) and then an integration QA of the current beta.
nVidia and Sony actually cited this patent I'd think you'd need to look further back. I'd guess Cray? This seems like something they would have patented very early on with the Cray1.
Just a quick diff between your list and mine, apologies if I missed them or if there is a reason to exclude these:

- https://github.com/nickc92/ViewSCAD
- Matt Keeter's stuff (listed here https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/, including https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony and https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/, though I see you have libfive)
- https://solvespace.com/index.pl
- https://mirmik.github.io/zencad/en/
- https://github.com/fogleman/sdf

This is from a list entitled "migrate away from OpenSCAD", but somehow I can never manage to do that...

Thanks for this site!
Yeah man, Lenore Skenazy and Peter Gray have done a good job picking up right where John Holt and John Taylor Gatto left off.
I agree, search history is a bit too specific to be encoded in laws. There are, however, a broad class of laws called "mandatory data retention" laws, which the EFF is against. https://www.eff.org/issues/mandatory-data-retention
this article was not that good. came across as vague and lacking of a point and filled with poor examples.
There was nothing special about the examples he gives or in any way predictive except for Nabokov. it was not uncommon in Carnegie's era to leave school early. Same for Walt Disney. it was common back then for kids to deliver newspapers, and what does that have to do with animation.
ByteBridge Data Labeling Platform Tutorial Video One Step Classification
182 Bodies Found Near Third Canadian Residential School
Does anyone have a video or photo of these 'daylight bombshells'? I can't find one and would love to see what that looks like
I live in a non-western low income country. Life is not "nasty, brutish and short". Honestly, it makes me pretty angry when I hear people from the west espouse this sentiment. Have you ever lived in a non-western country, to state that with such assurance?

Life here is beautiful, the sense of community is so much stronger than it is in the west and overall I'd say that people are less stressed. On the flip side, many things are harder for sure - wages are low and working hours are long, good healthcare is hard come by for many people.

Short of living in an active conflict zone, of which there are only a few in the world, thankfully, life is not "nasty, brutish, and short". Perhaps, in future, before making such statements about the lives of people from cultures other than your own, you could take a few moments to try and empathize with them instead?
Socom to Test Anti-Aging Pill Next Year
Twilio Updates Terms of Service
You shouldn't assume either. I'm more senior than you'd guess.

Your attitudes are just odd and uncharitable coming from someone who should know how hard it is to create things that people love.
At least they give you the signing certificate so you can verify the end user is using a Play Store build and not something potentially malicious. Testing release builds requires a round-trip through the Play Store, though, and apparently AOT-compiling is only triggered when the Play Store installs its blessed version of the app.
Ideally that'd be true, but many economists are prescriptive and help make policy. (I also don't mean to pick on economists especially; many other intellectual enclaves have contributed to current management philosophies and national policies.)
‘Our plasma electrolysers cut the cost of green hydrogen by a factor of three’
Users trust Google more than they do random app devs in many / most cases
I disagreed with most of it, and actually I think that the basic premise expresses a very nefarious and misguided opinion, but almost at the end, it gets to an interesting observation:

> Just as it seems that teenage smoking can't be reduced much without giving teenagers good substitute ways to show their independence and worldliness, the social costs of mistaken beliefs about politics and UFOs probably can't be reduced much without giving people good substitute ways to show their concern and independence. But it is hard to create substitutes for things before you understand in some detail the functions they now perform.

I think it is wrong to accept that beliefs are just fashion or identity facets with no other connection with reality or facts and that this should be fought.

That said, the article proposes an angle that can be used to limit the damage of the most insane beliefs. However, I think that fighting propaganda with propaganda is not sustainable nor democratic.

The core solution is not in designing warm bikinis but in convincing arctic fashionistas that it is ok to not wear a bikini on the ice-sheet.
In high school, I discovered a way to print to every printer in the entire district. Every computer would mount the NETLOGON network drive while the user signs in and run a jumble of BAT/VBS scripts to initialize settings for their school, including registering nearby printers and setting up the share drives. Windows Explorer couldn't open the NETLOGON share directly, but that was easy to bypass by opening the containing directory for shortcuts to applications stored on there. I combined the printer init scripts for all the schools, giving my machine access to around 1000 printers and all share drives. I found a lot of interesting things in there like spreadsheets containing substitute teacher and default user credentials. I was nearing graduation, so I wanted to print some prank to all of these printers simultaneously, but I unfortunately didn't follow through because I was afraid of the repercussions. I should have done it.
I'm not well versed enough in the Browser Wars to say one thing or another about except this:

I like the name.

It lends it self to saying "I use the Otter browser" which is not just a great pun but the pun on 'other' defines what Otter is, the "other" browser. The web needs independent browsers. We need to get rid of the idea that websites are designed to work on any one technology. They should work on any browser that supports the standards.
Has anyone ever taught a cat to properly dress a squirrel?

Think I'm going to have to move back to disposable utensils when feeding them....
Note that new apps don't provide the Play Store with the key, they just verify against the first certificate they receive.
Don't patents examiners receive bonuses based on the number of patent applications they process? And isn't accepting a patent basically checking a box, while rejecting one requires an argumented memoir and a lengthy back and forth discussion with the applicant and an appeal process? The patent system is skewed by design towards accepting patents too easily. I don't believe that patents are entirely harmful, but I think they actually hinder progress in 95% of the cases. The system works like this by design, and a lot of interests rely on it. It will be very hard to fix.
I haven't used anaconda, because frankly I assume adding any more python package management tooling will make an even bigger mess on my system, whether it's a good tool or not. But I have no experience with it, so I'm curious, what makes you so opposed to it that you call it a cancer?
People in the 1970s would have killed for smartphones (or any phone not physically tethered to a landline,) the advent of personal computers and the web making global information, communication, data and commerce available for practically nothing, and the convenience of Uber, or just e-commerce in general. Streaming media with access to an entire library of movies and television shows is qualitatively better than three analog tv channels and whatever happens to be showing at the movie theater at the time.

Maybe there's an argument to be made for a decline in quality of life since the 1970s, but it isn't going to be on the basis that technological advancements over the last fifty years have been a net negative for society.

A sense of wonder about the future? Interconnectedness? Community? The 70's were some of the most cynical and violent years in recent American history. The Cold War. Vietnam. Watergate. The oil crisis. Activist riots and radical underground groups bombing universities. The National Guard killing students at Kent state. Even the politics of the last four years seems quaint compared to the last few decades.
>School that our western society has created quite recently exists for the purpose of keeping children off the labor market.

There's a whole lot more reasons for our current schooling than this as a sole reason IMO.
No I mean I get that yes, the increase in heat is the most likely culprit, but what if it was a surge in COVID? This read like an article that should've waited and not just spread fear mongering for the sake of it simply cause they added that little unverified caveat. If they knew that was the case, then why are they reporting on speculation? It's as if Intel sent out a press release to say "yeah we've got our 7nm architecture chips ready to go!; NOTE: we just finished a batch and haven't tested them but we'll let you know if they do work!"
It's more boring that it used to be -- I used to read the news every morning to see what stupid thing the president tweeted.

Now that the current administration makes more planned policy decisions and announces them through normal media channels, the news is more boring. But I like boring when it comes to government policy decisions. I definitely read the news less often with this administration since there are rarely any surprising announcements and even when there are, I know that they've been vetted with others in the administration and aren't a snap decision based on his mood.

Being boring doesn't mean that the news is not important.
By what measure? (Not sure I disagree just curious)
Encourage skateboarding in adolescence & I'd bet you'd see even more independence.
AABs are built, and APKs extracted, with bundletool, part of the open-source Android SDK. There is nothing technical preventing Amazon or F-Droid from accepting AABs and providing APKs on-demand.
> At a smaller company there simply isn't that much work to do, nor is there much of a path for promotion (when your boss is the CTO...)

Ouch! That’s exactly right. Ultimately I bailed on small/medium companies because of the “boss is the CTO” promotion problem. There’s nothing to grow into at a smaller company. Also, most of them have no technical promotion track for Individual Contributors. You start at Junior Engineer, maybe get promoted to Senior Engineer, and that’s it. No more level ups unless you want to people-manage, which is a whole different skill set.

Contrast that with some place like Google, that has something like 7 or so distinct engineering levels with huge pay bumps and responsibility bumps between each of them! If you are a ladder climber by nature, the smaller company will infuriate you.
This is basically correct. An app can be loaded as one APK or as a set of multiple APKs - these are sometimes called "split APKs". For a while the Play Store has supported sending apps as a base APK plus a bunch of "config split" APKs. The base APK contains things like DEX code (Java bytecode).

The config split APKs are grouped by various device targeting dimensions (basically language, DPI, and architecture). As you can imagine, apps often have a different set of strings for each language, multiple versions of native libraries for different ARM / x86 ABIs, and assets for different DPIs.

When you create a bundle, Play will build split APKs for each possible value in each group (e.g. a low-dpi APK, a high-dpi APK, an English-language APK, a Korean-language APK, etc...).

When a device downloads the app, Play will send that device the base split APK and one config split APK from each group. So I will get the base DEX code, the arm64v8a native code APK, the XXHDPI APK, and the English strings APK. That means devices don't have to download or store potentially large amounts of app assets and native code that will never be used on that device.

EDIT: Older devices (IIRC L and below) don't support this. So Play will build standalone APKs for their configuration. I am not sure how many possible standalone APKs it will build.
I think we have a tendency to focus in on small things and ignore the big picture of the improving human condition (driven largely by China, on average, over the last few decades).
I don't follow where you're trying to go here, or how you intend this to contradict anything I said.

You're right that most people don't run 100k servers. In fact, most people don't run any servers at all, and don't use kubernetes. Some people do, and some of those people use approaches like this.

The comment I was responding to, by my reading, seems to express incredulity that anyone would do this, and seems to imply that this is a bad, counterproductive idea that nobody should ever implement. The most notable quote is "I feel like I landed in crazy-land". Do you read it differently from me?

My intent in my reply was to describe some of the use-cases where this is helpful. It's not only FAANG that run more than a small handful of clusters; there are plenty of smaller businesses that need to run large numbers of clusters.

I don't know anything about the company that wrote this article, but I found https://zitadel.ch/usecases on their website, and given that description, it sounds quite plausible that they run many small clusters in many clouds and datacenters. They probably don't need a ton of compute, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had latency needs for being close to their customers, or other specialized requirements that motivate dedicated clusters.

I also don't know anything about the insurance industry, so I'm curious to hear if I've guessed incorrectly, but it doesn't seem like the kind of business with especially high compute needs. I believe you when you say that your company has no use for this.

Can you believe me when I say that there are genuine problems these systems are trying to address? I keep hearing about companies who fund their employees building unnecessary pointless over-engineered production automation, but I have yet to ever encounter one in real life. Every SRE job I've had so far has been on a team that really wanted to invest time in improving infrastructure and automation, but couldn't get time away from the toil for it. If anyone can recommend a company that over-invests in infrastructure automation and architecture instead of under-invests, I'd dearly love to try it and see if it's as bad as I've heard.

Even without high compute needs or large numbers of clusters, there's still a lot of benefits you can get when you can move things to declarative configurations and away from global mutable state and human minds. I agree that this can go wrong, but that doesn't mean it's categorically worthless to try.

On the other hand, if you're just looking to gripe about it having gone wrong for you, could you share some war stories? I may be feeling idealistic from frustration with low investment in tools support and production automation lately, so maybe I could use some horror stories of it going badly to scare me straight. :)
Lots of people. You never noticed because you're never in that early :).
And there's such a thing as hong Kong style cheese baked rice.

I mean it's 2021. When I was growing up Kraft singles were common. Today I can go to a supermarket and pick up a block of Gouda.

Also, I think there's degrees of lactose intolerance? I don't really take full cream milk as is anymore because of that but cream and cheese and lattes are fine...
>Figure out what it is, and start looking harder there.

Some sort of conspiracy that involves both parties and so well disguised that nobody knows what it is?
This would only make sense if one and only one belief was supported by any set of evidence.
International agreements is one of the solutions which climate advocates are calling for. USA voters probably have more power then anyone in calling for such agreements and that they would be enforced.
> chromium

Are there any Google risks for being chromium-based? Honest question here.
About the last point, I am not familiar about the key distribution there...

Say Google wanted to create an eavesdropping Facebook Messenger, couldn't it hide the real one and replace it with an app of the same name, signed by an entity named "Facebook Inc [random invisible unicode character]" and essentially do the same thing?

I always assumed that the APK security model did not protect against a compromised Google Store?
The freakiest thing about Mars, IMO, is its rotation speed. 25 hour day. Roughly just one hour away from Earth's. Is that not remarkable?
observe–orient–decide–act
It seems that the cases moved from 30 million/year in the 1940s down to around 5000/year in the 1990s. This latest announcement is that they've had zero indigenous cases for the last three years.
But trust us to update your firmware over the internet anyway despite the fact that we've shipped backdoors before.
This is insane. What is the point of even having a developer signing key if people other than the developer have access to it? Why don't they just sign the APKs with Google's own keys from here on out?

Can't wait to hear Moxie's response on this. One of his (many) reasons for refusing to support FDroid was because it didn't allow developers to sign their own apps, and thus users had to trust that FDroid did not modify the app. Now FDroid has addressed that, but Google has not only removed that feature, but is demanding that developers allow Google to impersonate them.
That is to allow existing apps to update to AAB distribution. New apps do not get access to the signing key, only the certificate.
Lytton BC hit 49.6 degrees yesterday.

For perspective:

China's all time high temp record: 50.5 degrees.
Australia: 50.7

Canada broke its heat record 3 days in a row.

486 Sudden deaths in BC during this heat wave, 3x the normal # of sudden deaths.
No one cares about your signing key.

Google can create a key on their own servers if you want (you can't export this key so can't use it to sign apps for multiple stores) but u can keep your own keys secret
Newly discovered proteins protect against progression of diabetic kidney disease
I see exactly zero connection between preventing rootkits and demanding that I give them my email address.
The whole society seems designed top down to keep us fighting and arguing, live at the expense of others is the mantra. It seems it took a lot of engineering to get us this far from our natural state of caring. The Chinese seem to indoctrinate with a slightly different model where you are to believe society comes before the individual.

The sensible model seems rather obvious: One has to organize their own show before one is of [much] use to others. Until that time one should give the others the opportunity to help you with that and be grateful. Its not an embarrassment if you plan to do the same.
In this article they measure "boringness" by the amount of traffic news websites receive. It is a debatable metric but has the merit of being fairly objective.
Yup! The Saturn V cost $5k per kg to LEO. Best case, SpaceX has a ~2x savings over the tech we had in the 1960s. The Soyuz 2.1a is competitively priced and it's still launching, though we can't really compare since we only know the price and not the actual cost of the launch.

The tradeoffs SpaceX has made have some real cost savings. Problem is that it's not anywhere even remotely close to what they want you to believe it is.
That’s certainly a good description of how the patent registration process is designed to work. Unfortunately reality, as represented by the broad proliferation of exceedingly moronic patents, begs to differ.
I've won one in the past. It's no longer being awarded to the best of my knowledge. But the recipients did get copies of your book (it was my second copy!).
that was one of the stupidest things I have ever experienced. to think that a freaking suit could cause that level of outrage.
A conspiracy requires some common reason shared by both parties. I think there's some common-sense split reasons:

1. Left-side, Biden is pretty concerning - there's some serious mental issues showing regularly and undeniably, and while they try to display him as a moderate, his policies are far to the left of even those adopted by Obama. Avoiding coverage of this helps preserve the claim of moderation.

2. Right-side, very few elected officials are being reasonable representatives, and most aim for social media clout over action. Coverage of this would throw a serious wrench in the GOP engine, and lead to greater voter ire. Without Trump to uphold, there's no longer cover for these reps, so avoiding coverage maintains the claim that the representatives are properly representing.
It's a layer you need regardless, it's not unique to Kubernetes.
> The web needs independent browsers...[websites] should work on any browser

Unfortunately, independence ends with the choice between WebKit (QtWebKit) or Blink (QtWebEngine), albeit with a faithful Opera 12-like interface that's less resource hungry than Vivaldi. Otter is still in development and it shows in some rough spots and occasional crashes.