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> That’s not a bad idea. You already have basic E&O, but that is kind of a “broad brush.”

I feel dumb, but could you tell me what "E&O" means?

> That could cost you customers. I know the corporation that I worked at, would never agree to it. They were quite tinfoil about IP. They owned a ginormous patent portfolio, and were quite secretive in their processes. They would insist on keeping the source completely proprietary.

Yeah, I thought that might be the case. I'm okay with that. The FOSS part is because I don't believe that customers should be in be dark about anything regarding my software. It would be like an architect not giving the plans to a building to the customer. Not professional, in my opinion.

Of course, to satisfy customers like the ones you mentioned, I could just give them the source. I guess this is one point where my personal preference overrides because I believe in FOSS.

To satisfy customers like that, however, maybe it would be enough if no one knows they are a customer of mine? No idea.

Anyway, I'm okay with losing customers like that; I don't think I would need many customers to pay the bills.

> I know that you are basically selling a personal guarantee, which is an idea I could stand behind, but that is still an individual attribute, as opposed to a standard industry one. It could be a potential personal selling point, and a competitive advantage.

> The real goad would be an industry-wide need for it. Basically, established precedent for suing developers (and distributors) of bad software.

> That’s a pretty classic Damoclean sword. Lots of claymores, buried, there.

I agree that it needs to be an industry-wide thing. I hate the fact that EULA's basically disclaim all liability.

(I'm okay with FOSS software disclaiming all liability because they don't know who is using their software, and it might just be a weekend project. Actually, my FOSS licenses disclaim liability too, so customers would actually be paying for me claiming that liability again.)

But here's my hope: I hope that by doing this, and gaining a competitive advantage with it, other companies would either start to ask for it, or demand it, from their vendors, or start to do it for their software to gain a competitive advantage.

In other words, I hope that I can get the ball started rolling towards becoming an industry standard. That's partly why I wrote my process down in such detail: so the industry could start to converge on standard processes like the engineering world.

(Don't get me started on Agile or any of the other current "industry standard practices." Their foci are in entirely the wrong place, in my opinion.)

Edit: Anyway, you're right: lots of claymores there. I need to carefully define the limits of my liability with a lawyer.
Depending on what you think about the AGI-ness of other mammals, this could be helpful to meditate upon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio

"In animals, it is thought that the larger the brain, the more brain weight will be available for more complex cognitive tasks. However, large animals need more neurons to represent their own bodies and control specific muscles;[clarification needed][citation needed] thus, relative rather than absolute brain size makes for a ranking of animals that better coincides with the observed complexity of animal behaviour. The relationship between brain-to-body mass ratio and complexity of behaviour is not perfect as other factors also influence intelligence, like the evolution of the recent cerebral cortex and different degrees of brain folding,[5] which increase the surface of the cortex, which is positively correlated in humans to intelligence."
The “Open App Markets Act” will destroy, not help, small developers
If you're building 1BRs, my guess is that you don't maximize your profits by selling them off as condos, because the demand to own is for 2BRs and larger. That, in turn, is probably because 1BRs are (very generally) for younger people in more temporary situations. I.e., those younger people are less likely to buy.
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Ironically I think the latest decade has brought conservatives up to speed on some topics.

Not from the US, but could you have imagined a US conservative arguing for free speech and against censorship in 2010? They were always big on the constitution, but very selectively for this topic and there was some kind of flip.
Honestly, do you expect Apple to change from their lock-in ways?
The non-euclidean idea I like, something a bit like a physical store but it reconfigures based on traditional search terms (perhaps supplied via voice). But that's incompatible with memorizing 3D spaces and also with knowing that you've seen everything. But both of those are probably more to do with scale than anything else. I'm not sure I could remember where I saw a good product within a 3D Amazon because it's going to be the size of a small city and constantly in flux. The multiplayer thing is a definite strength too.

>could also have been made 20 years ago when physical stores were hesitant about moving online

Indeed, but what we've learned since then is that consumer convenience is king (see: dark patterns in cookie prompts). Businesses were wary of the Internet transition but the force of convenience pushed them into it, I don't see a matching spike in convenience here.
I think it's better to play at Online casinos, it's calmer. It is really very interesting to watch and probably play in real casinos, but now the network is actively developing and any online industry is not only the future, but also the present, including gambling, and all this has entered our lives forever. Also, fewer and fewer people will go to real casinos, and they will play in online casinos https://jennycasino.com/top-rated-online-casinos/ , as it is much more convenient and comfortable, since you do not need to go anywhere, and the winnings are paid in convenient ways.
It could be, but really I think it's more than that. These jobs pay really well and they offer a career ladder. You will be able to buy a home, have children, take vacations. But you need to show up every day and work. A lot of people who would be qualified for these types of jobs don't want to do that. They'd rather pick and choose and float around at places for less money and less financial security.

This isn't like fast food restaurants having trouble hiring people at minimum wage because stimmy checks pay more than working. People come in and they want the job and they work a week or 2 and then disappear after they get paid and then come back when they need money again. That type of work ethic just isn't compatible with this kind of career so they end up at an Amazon warehouse, driving Ubers, and delivering food instead since that does support their lifestyle choice.
A brutal admission that modern software is broken and that stability, predictability, and correctness is just too much to ask for.
> I'm a one man shop though so I never branch for major/minor releases.

Honestly, for my one-man projects I use 0. to indicate "there is absolutely no backwards compatibility guarantees because I'm still fucking around" and 1. to indicate "this is in prod and I'm confident about it" (with attendant discipline on how semver major/minors are supposed to be used).
Ultimately the comment was somewhat correct though. Dropbox's core product is a feature. It misidentified the competition as tech-savvy users, but ultimately it turned out to be MS/Apple/Google. And consequently when those competitors added that feature, Dropbox's growth has stalled and they've been flailing around to find a USP since.

It was enough to get a decade of VC money and even start breaking even in 2020, but it's a far more tumultuous journey than their initial user uptake would have indicated.
Nearly 60% of real Hong Kongers held the opposite view. Only about 31% supported the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-security-poll-ex...
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And not only that, a lot of the improvements in these tools, services, and supply chains means you can design, prototype, and mass manufacture a product without buy-in from a major corp.

So many of the new products I buy are designed by small teams, or in some cases, one-man operations. It's funny how we went from a single craftsman making the whole product, to massive corporations making all the products, and now the internet, with the access it has given us to information and the global supply chain, has allowed us to go back to that world where we can leverage the talents of an individual and mass production at the same time.

I think the Framework laptop is a prime example of this. The fact that a small team like that can "produce" a product of such quality is mind blowing.

It seems to me that the general quality of items has been on a steady rate of improvement again, rather than the race-to-the-bottom that seemingly every industry experienced during the 90s and early 00s.
I get angry too. I also struggle with it. I have found that thinking of myself as an Observer as well as a Participant has helped. Two very different hats. For example, when you are "in the shit" you can easily get angry. But if you consider yourself (if even for a moment) as just "watching the shit", you can gain a sense of impartiality and calm. It may be enough to get off the anger train. The second thing I do is to convince myself that I need not get angry at people. It's the process that I should be angry about. Don't get mad at people...assume positive intent. If people are doing what looks like a Dumb Thing, then perhaps there is no process/rule that allows them to do Smart Thing. I get mad at dumb processes, or the lack of smart ones. This is a lot less personal. No one wants anyone mad at them...but getting mad at a process story is a lot more freindly. It goes without saying...don't get mad at the people responsible for processes. Just illustrate, in as neutral as possible a fashion, what you perceive the gap might be. Empathize. Enable. Entrust.
I know it's all in jest but this bothered me:

> Franz Kafka, who lived as an author in turn-of-the-20th-century Austria

Kafka lived his whole life in Prague, Czech Republic.

Yes, it was at the time within the borders of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but calling him Austrian is irksome.
I’ve always felt that if there was _any_ morally acceptable reason to harm and kill animals it is for the sake of (reasonable) medical research. In principle the ethics board is there to make sure this is true but in practice they rarely do anything about it. Perhaps the real way to solve that problem is hold the IrBs to a higher standard and make them do their job?
I had a coworker cherry pick my commits for a new feature and recommit them with their own name.

Which reminds me to ask, anyone looking to hire a 10x embedded engineer w/ 30yrs experience?
I cannot see it as anything other than social conditioning to take something that was previously not an issue and make it into one that now must be "solved". I think that hyper-focus on "racism" only divides people from one another.

I really don't understand the endgame but I feel like a small group of people who would make wonderful evangelicals have grown up into the secular role of "solvers" of "racial issues".
It's not clear. But the lawyers at these exchanges aren't going to take that risk and will strongly advise against receiving stolen property.
Our teams fully embrace ZeroVer versioning. Since we all agree ZeroVer versioning is superior, we have dropped the leading zero from our version numbers and know that is just implied to be there. We are all happy and rejoice!
No screenshot of what new fonts look like, I don't have Twitter so cannot see it on twitter.com. It wants me to sign up.
Sorry for the confusion. With 1Password 8, we re-built the entire app from the ground up. We didn't have a working SwiftUI solution that we could just pick up and use - we had to re-architect the entire frontend from the ground up. So when we made the decision to stop working on the SwiftUI app, it was far from being complete.
I did back in February, but I'm unlikely to be able to completely accurately recount that now.

One thing I do remember is Ryan explaining how just being willing to directly ask people for money has been surprisingly effective.

It's also worth putting Thunderbird's relationship to Mozilla in proper perspective: for all intents and purposes, Thunderbird is a completely independent project. Since 2017 (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-hom...), the Mozilla Foundation has primarily acted as Thunderbird's fiscal home, providing support for donations / bookkeeping / taxes / legal matters much in the same way that the Software Freedom Conservancy hosts Git, Homebrew, Inkscape and others, or how Software in the Public Interest hosts PostgreSQL, systemd, Xorg, FFmpeg, 0 A.D, and more.

If I understand last year's MZLA Technologies announcement correctly (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/), it sounds similar to the split between the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, where the former is a legal non-profit and the latter entity is for-profit and able to enter into commercial, revenue-generating agreements, but still wholly owned by the non-profit Foundation.

...But you should really listen to the podcast, I could be getting all of this wildly wrong.
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ZeroVer is obviously satire, but doesn't it just demonstrate that "Semantic Versioning" works great as a theory, but struggles to keep up with the nuances of the real world?

I have multiple sub components of our system that are effectively ZeroVer, not because I love zero ver at all, but because basically a simple linear integer would have worked, so I just let the patch field roll so that Debian/Apple/Elixir/whatever tooling stays happy.

For customer facing stuff, I've moved to calendar versioning (2021.08.12). It's easier and no or more less effective than arbitrary and debatable decisions to encodify some value when major/minor/patch changes.
That’s ambiguity.
> I think the huge potential is lenses may become cheaper, given they don't need layers of precisely curved glass anymore.

They'll still need precise optics to prevent distortion, chromatoc aberration and coma. And to maintain sharpness. The only advantage the curved sensor brings is that the lens doesn't need a final group to force the image onto a planar surface.
> Rather than oppose a measure to protect children because of the fear of a few false positives, why can't you accept the fact that the societal benefit outweighs the potential risk?

But Apple apologists has been telling me all day that I could stop the system from scanning if I just disable iCloud.

If a person can disable it that easily, then the system is effectively useless.
Don't be surprised when text editing AI becomes savvy enough to do this sort of thing and then that is advocated for.
With WhatsForm customer can submit the form data to the business WhatsApp number. Businesses can reply and do followups on the request message instantly.

We have done a soft launch a month back and 500+ businesses are already using this as part of their workflow.
Unfortunately irrationally difficult customers are a bit like death and taxes in that sense, but "We have a new version with some minor fixes that you can use" is generally an easier sell than "We have a new version with some major changes that will completely disrupt your workflow".
I use it for some stuff. The markdown shortcuts are great for formatting.
nmslib (https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib) supports sparse vectors for some of its spaces. It has fewer indexing methods than faiss, though.

https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib/blob/master/manual/spaces.m...
Why is it unspeakable that Jews/Asians are over-represented in academics?
It's an interesting article, in that the lede was one I didn't personally expect.

The common complaint lodged against AVs is that they'll never have the common sense that people do, and this will lead to inexcusable accidents in dense urban environments: the Uber/Arizona case being the poster child for this type of incident.

The article complains however, that the inverse might happen, and that this would in fact be more problematic: in order to avoid accidents, AVs will be too safe in a game of tug of war with urban pedestrians, bringing traffic to a frequent standstill.

To overcome this challenge, towns will face a lot of pressure from privileged AV-operators to enforce jaywalking ordinances and erect barriers to pedestrian traffic, which would degrade the urban walking experience people currently enjoy in downtown environs; hence "make our streets worse". I also liked the distinction between "street" and "road".

Overall, an interesting/nuanced take on the practical impact and application of AVs from somebody who's clearly spent some time ruminating on the subject.
As a general rule, the better the pan, the thicker it is and the longer it would take to heat up.
2021 is the year .mov finally breaks out
Are you responsible for making your employees happy? (2019)
Yeah, I would love to get a more secure or privacy friendly phone. I'm not sure I want to leave Android though since I made some apps on it. I guess I could make apps for the other phones' systems, but I don't know...
Look how tech is employed against lower wage workers. It is a good idea to be extremely vigilant about anything "reporting". I think people working in tech have a responsibility to not behave like 14-year old fangirls.
What about whistleblowers?
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Surely that’s exactly what happened.
I live in Chicago. I've bought plenty of drugs. Buying on the internet is much, much easier.
Super neat…

- How common are strokes generally?

Seems like a lot to wear this all the time — but also I’m not familiar with the risk factor.

- How much quicker is this at detecting a stroke versus someone simply observing it happening with a naked eye?

Like how much time does this save over simply seeing physical symptoms with your naked eye or feeling the symptoms for yourself? 1 second, 1 hour, 5 hours, days?
DB;DR (David Brooks, didn't read)
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except if the key to its encrypted-at-rest hard drive is not used to do encrypting/decrypting on same CPU as it’s hard drive (that being, done remotely)
"A few random Twitter users wrote some stuff" is one of my least favorite forms of modern journalism.
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> I don't want to live in a world were the idea of sitting at home to live in a virtual world instead of going out is considered "progress".

It's not either/or. I enjoy VR experiences. I enjoy sunshine, fresh air and travel.

For me VR is just an obvious upgrade to a flat screen for viewing spatial content and environments. I don't always need it but the fact that I can grab a headset from the shelf and view something properly rather than peering at it through a small rectangle seems to me to be a good thing.
Since the iPhone can do it, as OP wrote, not sure your point is relevant.
Is it being worked on? If its not being worked on its not going to happen. Find another tool. It's silly but it seems like its not a priority.
> And by the way, not sure what you mean by "required by law." Does that include when corporate lawyers say "if we leave this up, we are at risk of a judge fining us (or awarding someone suing us) a billion dollars."

I was thinking more along the lines of removing posts when ordered to by the government they are incorporated under or by one in whose country to they do business. And if someone finds child porn or something on their servers, point them at the user that posted it. Which might work if they didn't mess with user's posts unless they absolutely had to.

They are only in this current mess because they voluntarily curate, often aggressively.
I'd imagine it'd be hard for MSVC and gcc to fade away --- gcc has some notable architectural differences from llvm (such as having multiple, layered IRs) and on some optimizations gcc is stronger. While for MSVC they target Microsoft's own ABI. Unlike other technologies that already feature a monocultural landscape I guess it's fair to say there's no one, single, best way to design a compiler that accounts for the wide-ranging differences of backend architectures and frontend languages (in addition, when you compare the costs of developing a brand new compiler with say, developing a new CPU architecture, you'll find the price associated with the former is much more affordable, and might be reasonable under different circumstances).
This is what makes sense to me as well.

It is also much easier to reference when talking with
other devs, users, etc.

We all know the calendar and a date is much easier to remember.

Straight increases 5, 6, 7 ar also easier for user to reference.
The honest among of us, and perpetrators, have seen this coming.

It’s the paid shills and unpaid fools who do bidding of masters they are unaware of exist that you have to be on the look out for. HN has been under massive astroturfing/disinformation campaigns that the honest people here can’t separate reality from fiction. I don’t even want to think about how badly larger entities are dealing with it.
If Apple thinks this is a very good feature that will help CP victims, why wasn't it headlined in WWDC?
I really dislike the new font. Part of the problem is the spacing between characters.
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Capability has always been there. It is only worded now in a way which made it the most people understand.
Speculation about "doing something in hidden", is as valid as before.

In reality, we can be only be mad when they they are publicly making things worse in black box systems. Not about something, which is "policy change" away. Let's be mad when they actually change that policy.
I don't blame the browsers, really.

Look at the source code of Twitter or Facebook. It's intentionally obfuscated and mangled, probably in part to fuck with ad blockers.

I have a few user stylesheets (even a little custom Firefox extension to block one user's comments on a site I frequent), but the sites I'd really like to use them on largely don't make it possible to do so.

Look at a Facebook ad in your browser's web inspector, for example. The "Sponsored" tag is made up of 31 different randomly named span tags. https://imgur.com/a/AHZL8ko
It felt like when they went from the original Google Drive desktop client to Google File Stream + Backup and Sync, they really wanted to push people to File Stream so they could eventually discontinue backup and sync with extra lock in for users. But that didn't turn out the way they wanted, with most users opting for the relatively unbranded Backup and Sync, so we're moving back to the single program.

I wonder if this is a retreat from that strategy, or if the single program will be used as a way to nudge Backup and Sync users to adopt the File Stream flow.
There's an interesting conundrum: those who "made it" want to work from home while those who want to "learn the ropes" from those who "made it" want to work at the office. Someone is going to be unhappy with the outcome. My employer is taking a hybrid approach - you have to be onsite once every other week at a minimum or a maximum of twice a week. That allows them to reduce their overall facilities costs, ensure people are meeting face-to-face on a regular basis, and yet are mostly remote. It's been going well so far.
No, it's a difference between scanning the files that users store in their respective clouds on-server or on-device.

Scanning on-device (where a single false positive cannot be subpoenaed and misused to incriminate their customers) is simply more private.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for murder and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...