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Code that uses older constructs is not always bad code. It almost never means the author is an idiot.
Code that is poorly readable or badly designed is bad code.

Theres not necessarily an advantage to rewriting older code with newer versions of the same because it works.

You're kind of implying that you dont write bad code. But from your reasoning all your code is bad because a newer way will replace your code.

So many opinions about code are wrong and I think you take something too seriously when it doesn't really matter. If someone uses var rather than let, that doesn't make them an idiot, it just means they're using an older construct. The difference is so unimportant that it rarely makes a difference to code understandability or readability.

Most developers go through your phase of thinking other people are idiots because they don't know something you do. But in the grand scheme of things, it makes no serious difference to code quality. That pedantic person just wastes everybody's time in a code review and spins their wheels when they could be learning to write more understandable code.
There’s a GameStop Book, Already
I'm still wondering if the saliva test meets the requirements? Anyone know?

I feel that forcing an uncomfortable nasal swab test is being used as a means of punishment, and not based on science. If it was just saliva I wouldn't feel that way.
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Namespacing and isolation also unlocks additional features, such as VM-style checkpointing and migration (via the CRIU featureset, which AIUI is now part of the mainline kernel). Moreover, the 'container' workflow provides a common interface that the various sorts of orchestration/deployment/management platforms can then rely on.
Yes the example is wrong, I was just trying to make a point while copy-pasting on the phone.

One thing Ada was designed for and C++ not, was to prevent crappy developers to mess up.

Anyone that has reviewed C++ code from offshoring Asian companies is well aware of what I mean.
I think it's still a little better. You probably get a bit of noise isolation that you wouldn't otherwise have.

At Apple, whenever I had to fly to California, they had similar glass offices like this, and I was always amazed at how well they actually isolated sound. People would chat in the office, and you'd only hear some muffled speech, which wasn't really enough to be distracting. I cannot speak for Stackexchange but presumably they use similar styles of glass office?
Yeah. It's infuriating. It's like we can't trust them not to fuck us over. The technology is good for us but at some point someone somewhere came along and corrupted it with all these "features" that exist solely to serve their business interests.
Well it's not a very convincing argument
I am a European and the idea that two superpowers would actually go to full-on war seems absurd. At least, I hope all sides agree that it is a terrible idea.

We haven't had full-on war between two sides that are "in the same league" since WW2. The cold war was tense, and there have been proxy wars, or wars between a super power and a tiny power.

When two sides are matched somewhat evenly, that's when the loss of life has been dramatic, as we've seen in both world wars.

I really hope I don't see a full on war between super powers in my or my children's lifetimes, because it would be brutal.

I mean, would we really see aircraft carriers and bombers in action? submarines? Will both sides blow up each other's satellites and create a Kessler syndrome? At which point do they start threatening with nukes?

No, I can imagine some power projection and rough play, but I don't think anyone is considering full-on war.
I've recently been thrust into using PowerShell at work too, and it's fine. I still wouldn't choose it, given the option. I get why people like the object orient nature of it, but I also don't think I get much value from it. 9 times out of 10, if I need a shell script, it's just stringing commands together. If I'm doing something complex enough to really benefit from "everything is and object" then why not just use a more capable language like python?

There is a trend of people making increasingly complex and expressive shell languages, but I don't really understand what problem they are trying to solve. Maybe what we really need is a less complex shell so people are less tempted to write complex logic with it.
My issue was with the original comment's ambiguous use of artificial, not really value. He was drawing a connection between crypto as "artificially scarce" and an "artificial bubble".

I agree that people can value movies and tv shows, which in some sense therefore actually has more inherent value than the dollar.
I'd rather stay away from focusing on the size of the org itself, and moreso on the "markets" that they create.

When a platform or market is created by an entity, and that platform reaches a certain scale, they must allow free competition within that market.

Here's an extreme example. Say somewhere down the line Facebook invents some metaverse or VR world. This becomes the primary form of interaction between people... 99% of interactions take place in this virtual world. It's clear the scale and extent to which this platform impacts people's lives is substantial. So Facebook logically would have to allow other sellers to enter this virtual world and compete to drive prices towards a free market equilibrium.

Past monopoly legislation has focused on competition outside the walls, product vs product. But nowadays the walled gardens are getting big enough to the point that these companies have large control over our lives.

Maybe that example just muddies things, but the important thing in my mind is to identify "private markets" and enforce that competition be allowed.
That a seat belt can be adjusted does not change the discussion, even a little bit, as to whether seat belt laws are paternal, or whether COVID vaccinations are of communal consideration.

> Each individual human being is unique and they will react very differently.

Even if society had an extraordinary scientific revolution where medicine was conducted on the basis of a special science just for your body, it would still not change the framing of whether vaccination is of communal concern.
Where is this study you keep mentioning that shows a private office will provide a 2-3x boost to productivity? We both know this doesn’t exist.

Do you really think your corporate overlords could get the same productivity from 1/3rd the payroll, but choose not to because they’d rather torture you with an open-plan office?

Who’s more likely to be wrong about this? You, or the majority of businesses in the world?

(Also, I didn’t manage that person I was talking about. Him and I were both managed by the same person, and she was one of the most compassionate and patient managers I’ve ever worked with).
Good! Hiring in 99.99% of companies is completely broken.

Let companies suffer for their bad decisions to save money at the cost of accuracy and ethics! Let such companies go bankrupt or fail in the market because of this. 100% support that outcome!
Thanks for the Youtube links, something to watch this weekend.

No I'm British - I wasn't aware that "massive respect" was American, and shall try and correct my error :)
Let's not forget that Oracle DB uses the system timezone as the datatype storage (not sure what other database do to be honest) so unless you were running your DB machine as UTC by default their timestamp storage would be ambiguous for DST shift and that's their default. Why wouldn't they store everything in UTC and use the system timezone for parse/formatting I have no clue.
Hence the strong need to suffix the variable name to denote what type the variable is.
One thing about PowerShell that annoys me is the verbosity and the use of capital letters in commands. While it is fine for scripts that you write once it feels suboptimal for daily use in a terminal, where I prefer the least strokes possible. Also the slow startup makes me often choose an alternative shell in Windows (CMD,bash).
Very impressive work! This seems promising and well thought-out. I plan on taking a deeper look at this especially regarding payments.
The win would be that you're actually able to sign up for more things in the iOS ecosystem that you previously weren't able to, like Netflix or Spotify.
Exactly this. Bill Burr spent many, many years as an opener for other people way less funny than him. Dave Chappelle was in several bit parts and pilots before Half Baked. Richard Pryor was a writer for several years before even starting stand up. George Carlin in his early career is not the Carlin you may have seen, in the ~mid-70s after about a decade he completely changed his look and act. It may take a long time to hone in on an act that works.
He is at Adobe now.
My father's one piece of advice, having spent a lot of time flying out to take photos of the landscape and penguin colonies and such was - "Whatever you do, never go downwind of a penguin colony". Cute little buggers stink!

I think the Falklands reached a milestone in mine clearance, wherein they believe most of them are dealt with now.

Still, 'most' implies an unnerving possibility of chance.

- ed: I realise, belatedly, that this circles back to the original conceit - staying out of the way of noxious winds :)
Have fun creating your racist medical apartheid state for the benefit of the mentally ill people where faceless bureaucrats arbitrarily make illogical, illegal, and verifiably ineffective rules you must follow so we can all BE SAFE, not only does it make total sense but it sounds like a blast!!! Yay!!! So righteous!!!
Why? A small developer could use something like Stripe or Paypal to collect payments, and enjoy fees significantly lower than 30%.

They wont even need to roll their own auth system, as they could use sign in with Apple.

What i dont understand is how this checkout process will look. As I understood it, devs would only be allowed to “steer” users to other payment options. Does this mean they cant include a non-Apple payment SDK in their app? So they’ll need to open a modal browser window to complete the checkout process?

If devs cant ship a payments SDK, they’ll be at a disadvantage with Apple Pay, because the checkout experience will always be slightly worse. Maybe most users won’t care?
> By 2022 the last vestiges of reality dissolve. The Onion becomes the newspaper of record, only to be supplanted by an “Onion” version of The Onion, which makes the original Onion look “totally lame.”

Soothsayer!
As a consumer I trust how Apple payments work and like the fact that everyone was using it on iOS. Now I will need to cut back on apps and do more due diligence to avoid scams and other issues.

Hard to see how this is a win for consumers in addition to developers.
Awesome work.

How does it differ from WooCommerce? Perhaps that might my other question. What is headless ecommerce platform? Thanks.
how much did fortnite lose?
I don't think you do. Stripe and PayPal are only payment processors. If Apple now has to allow other payment processors then they're either going to charge fees for hosting the files or they're going to charge fees for the other services that people are using (OTA updates, reviews, localization, etc.). All that stuff will still have to be in place so it'll just be an issue of whether or not these companies will have to stand up their own versions of this (or if they even can) and whether or not it'll be as seamless for the end user.
> Even though you have a high-deductible plan, you’re still involving your health insurance provider in the transaction

Depends. If you are planning to use that amount as part of your deductible, then insurance has a stake in it. If you don't ping your insurance at all, then insurance should have zero say over it at all.
I just want take the time to compliment this question. I find it difficult to articulate exactly what you've done here, but I wish I saw it more often.
10% sounds very aggressive to me still
I imagine that could have hurt their case if Epic was always going to sue anyways.
Arkansas was one of the last states to seceded the union. The very second sentence in the ordinance linked is "In addition to the well-founded causes of complaint set
forth by this convention in resolutions adopted". You are more than welcome to look up those "causes and complaints" and let me know whether they are slavery related or not.
Shouldn't it be "Oracle is the Devil"?
There are enough to keep 7 companies alive selling their compilers.
Postgres has Oracle layer, available as a commercial variant by EnterpriseDB. I don't think MariaDB implementation can compete, but EDB Postgres is solid. Basically a native implementation of Oracle in Postgres.
In 2007 I built a text highlighter service for the web. It was really as usable as it could be : you click a button and start highlighting text in the page. At the time social bookmarking was still relevant and my web highlighter was a better social bookmarking. But by examining usage patterns, I quickly realized it's a dead end : keeping things organized is work. Apart from nerds nobody would take the time and have the discipline to keep things organized outside the context of work. Once I realized that I knew del.icio.us which I was using every day is doomed. And I think that travel planning software is doomed for the same reason not because use frequency is low. Leisure is the wrong context for planning software.
it doesn't have to have non-zero benefit vs. variants, it just has to have non-zero benefit overall to outweigh the negligible cost in the net cost/benefit calculus
Brian gets all the love.
(Not a lawyer, or really an expert on anti-trust law)

I fully expect both sides to appeal. To much money is on the line to not try.

Even if Apple knew they would lose the appeal, I expect they still would, to try and get a stay on this ruling pending the outcome of the case.

I've always been very sympathetic to Epic's side of this case, still am, personally I don't expect Apple to win appeal [1], but I also wouldn't rank the odds of that happening as significantly lower that I thought the odds were of them winning the initial case.

Epic might be willing to settle without an appeal in exchange for the ability to continue developing unreal engine for iOS... but given that Apple is not likely to be willing to settle (see above) I doubt that will happen. Apple might choose to unban epic anyways, since the game engine only being available for android hurts them, but I doubt it.

[1] Though if a detail here or there changed in Apples favor that would not be surprising.
Why does it have to be penis swastikas? And furthermore, why has no one investigated the possibility of vagina swastikas? Aren't we being a bit sexist in the midst of all of this hyper-racist fascist ideology?
I have exactly that pattern in an internal system. Under load, the caller will give up after a fixed timeout and retry, so why waste time on an old request that where the caller has probably already hung up?
> The natural next step is to require bot labels for bots.

Great! This would convince me to use Twitter again.
Just someone who wants Oracle to be something else without understanding it's nature.

Vehemently disagree with the 'access denied' error message. Why would you want some one who does not have access to a table to know it exists.
Either make the column nullable, or apply local workarounds and folklore. E.g. I've seen "person" records with surname = '.' in certain databases, for people who don't have one.
You can still use Apple payments.
Columbo, CHIPS, MASH, all old shows that still appealed to me as a boy in the 90s.
I'm not sure I'd say it's most common but I'd nominate event ticketing as a common bad startup idea.
The biggest problems I've had with Oracle databases are getting CDC data out of it. There's conflicting technologies with their own tradeoffs - LogMiner vs. Flashback, neither of which cover all use cases well, licensing is ambiguous, and docs are conflated with information you don't need.
> so why bother writing types?

Types are the cheapest semantic documentation you can write, and your compiler/type checker can provide additional guarantees based on them.

Not only that, they're notes to future contributors/yourself about how a program works, so they/you don't have to reverse engineer code that was written a while ago in order to modify it with confidence.
The needs of the many, those at greater risk of death and disability as a consequence of COVID and the strained hospitals failing to keep up with the volume of patients, outweigh the minute risks a covid vaccine poses to any generic individual. Anyone still on the fence is willfully ignorant and has likely drank far too much of the antivax koolaid.
We don't need a corporate nanny state. Society has thrived without Apple putting its mittens on everything and everybody.
Yeah, god forbid if the public has access to source code of critical systems that the country relies upon to run critical infrastructure like oil pipelines.

We might loose any respect for people in charge whatsoever.
He (or she) isn't saying they're the same thing, they're just demonstrating that the "takes resources up" argument carries no weight whatsoever.
I learn best and most from books - of course, some are better than others, but my ideal book is one that has examples and exercises that are designed for learning.
Quantum Breakthrough: Entanglement of Three Spin Qubits Achieved in Silicon
Are you an immunologist by any chance?
A musician writes a song.

In the past, you had to go through a label which would give labels a ton of power and the ability to write one sided contracts.

Now, you can just upload to soundcloud, spotify, or apple music. Seems much more fair right? Yet it's not perfect. These platforms compensate pretty poorly. Spotify pays $0.004/stream, Apple Music somewhere around 0.005-$0.007/stream [0], Youtube even less at $0.002/stream. That means to truly earn a million dollars on these platforms, you need more than 200,000,000 views. Only very well known artists can even approach this many views.

Lots of musicians are begging for an opportunity to appear on playlists so their view counts are steadily growing. This reveals a flaw in the payment model. Some artists are played a lot, in the background, as part of larger collections of curated playlists. That means popular artists have a leg up.

Consider this: One subscriber listens ONLY to obscure artists. They spend 10 hours a week listening to their favorite unknown bands. These artists will only see a few pennies from this devoted follower who pays $11.99/mo to the streaming service.

Another subscriber doesn't care what they listen to, but they always have music playing in their building. They listen to 100 hours of pop playlists. Their total view count will be higher - much higher than the obscure artists. The artists this subscriber listens to might collectively get $1-2 for the month.

You might imagine that this incentivizes click-farms where desperate artists lacking self respect pay for inflated view-counts. It does. The streaming services may actually be in favor of these click-farms, because they profit off of every profile.

Music is no longer a viable career path to people who are not risking their livelihoods. That leaves only people with more money than sense filling the cultural gap.

[0]: https://soundcharts.com/blog/music-streaming-rates-payouts, https://freeyourmusic.com/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per...
Oracle has quirks, yes. Oracle the company is...yes. We all get it. Oracle RDBMS has been around for longer than most of us have been alive and has amazing backwards compatibility. It has features I wish PostgreSQL had and vice versa. Nothing is perfect.
You’ve raised some valid points here, but your argument has changed from being about the productivity of the general workforce, to being about the productivity of people with a particular type of disability. Ensuring disabled employees can participate properly is obviously very important, but this is a very different topic from the one we were initially talking about.
I've felt for a long time that we need a better Shell, but I think the next evolution is combining the Terminal and Shell together.

I've never thought that what was good about the command line was that a terminal and shell are different. That's just an accident of history. In fact, this feels like a huge area where it's inferior.

I don't actually know anyone who uses plain TTYs for their Shell. If you use a shell today it's 99% running inside of [iTerm2,terminal.app,Gnome Shell,uxrvt,alacritty,etc] on top of a window system. It feels obvious to me that instead of trying to emulate a hardware terminal from the 70s we should be building what is good about that interface into a GUI which makes managing processes, their outputs, and crafting the commands easier. Intelligent IDE-type auto complete, powerful history, collapsing large program outputs, smooth scrolling of the session, Tmux-style session management, built-in file browsing and previewing, dynamic/reactive prompts and status indicators.

Except for Warp this feels like something few, if anyone, ever really considered. I often wonder why.
The thing she leaked was in the verge article on August 30th. She leaked an internal tool's name, codename, and screenshots and videos of it. It has nothing to do with any of the emails about her workplace issues.
That looks like a neat project! Nice.

> But above all else, it's a $SHELL so it works find with all your existing CLI core utils. Which is more than can be said for the likes of Powershell.

Can you expand on what you mean by this? I've been using Powershell as my primary shell for 2-3 years and this statement surprises me. There's no "core util" I can invoke that behaves differently or surprisingly in Powershell so I probably don't understand what you mean.
There is nothing stopping apps doing so already, only difference is Apple get a 30% of IAP or not.

A lot of games and many apps do this already, download and perhaps few features are free, however advanced features/ removing ads / buying skins or mods in game requires you to pay . This is nothing new.
Sounds a bit like Sciter, then.
AWS researcher merges two quantum computers to help make crypto keys stronger
This is incorrect. The photos ended up on the phone because she synced her personal iCloud.
That nature article is still repeating arguments which conflate studies of Ct values of RNA with infectious virus and don't address the fact that vaccines reduce symptoms and that Ct values drop faster in vaccinated individuals.

The CDC article doesn't say anything other than "People who get vaccine breakthrough infections can be contagious" without any citation.

The actual study you cite only tests for viral RNA not infectious virus, they only cultured a single sample from a breakthrough infection to show that it could happen.

Other studies have found that viral RNA drops faster in vaccinated individuals, and that levels of culturable virus are lower at peak in vaccinated individuals indicating the presence of more viral debris than infectious virus:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262158v...

We also know that viral loads are correlated with transmissibility and symptoms, and that vaccines reduce severe symptoms. We know there's less infectious virus in breakthrough infections and that they're less severe. It is rational to expect a reduction in transmissibility.
I think it's worth stressing that both sides did something wrong. Apple's contract was also just ruled invalid, and they also aren't being forced to pay any penalties for that. They aren't being forced to compensate Netflix, Spotify, etc... for all the years those companies have been unable to link out to subscription signups on iOS, for example.

So consider instead that Epic and Apple were both penalized an identical amount rather than neither side being penalized at all.