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WinRT looked great, finally .NET being like Delphi and a C++ stack that looked like C++ Builder, for those moments that .NET alone won't do it.

On one side .NET Native is left to stagnate in C# 7, and C++/CX got replaced with C++/WinRT, which to this day (4 years later) still doesn't offer any kind of IDL tooling on VS (lets forget for a second that IDL exists since OLE 1.0), and requires manually merging generated files.

Then to top that, we get MAUI on top of WinUI, but with the XAML format used by Xamarin.

Anyone following the now 2100+ issues on Github, community calls, change of roadmap of what WinUI 3.0, Reunion and XAML Islands were supposed to be originally, and where they are going after Windows 11 announcement, can only be dismayed.

They don't seem to either get the complaints, or most likely, are stuck in a position where they cannot publicly acknowledge them.

OS/2 was actually much better than this with CSet++, while SOM had metaclasses and implementation inheritance, with Smalltalk and C++ support.

Still, I can equally well rant about other platforms, it is all a matter of which flaws we are willing to put up with.
Study: Childhood obesity in U.S. accelerated during pandemic
This article is junk. They take the death rate within 7 days of vaccination in people aged 65+ from VAERS data and attribute all the reported deaths (20 per million vaccinations) to the vaccination. But the annual death rate for the 65-84 age group alone is over 5000/yr per 100K individuals, translating into about 100 expected deaths in any given week per 100K, regardless of vaccination. So if you vaccinated 1M people aged 65-84, you'd expect over 1000 to die within the week even if you injected them with saline solution.
First one kind of works, kind of doesn't. They still make recommendations based on your "likes" which is enough to fill at least my feed with semi-relevant content.
There are quite a few overlapping targets for VPNs:
- People that use Torrents
- People that travel (geo-restricted content, country level blocking of services/sites)
- Local firewalls that block things for no good reason.
- People that think a VPN keeps them safe from "bad guys".

I recently engaged in some infrastructure consulting work for a small startup(10 people). They're 100% distributed, no office, everything operates out of Google Drive, Docs, and Gmail.

One of the first questions they asked was if they need a VPN to keep their corporate communications and file transfers secure.
Don't forget the decade-long debacle of Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
Rarely aware, eh?
profitable? well, at least they have a theoretical path, unlike uber: further resource exploitation cuz we're really running out here, and we can't just let our art gather dust in vaults! Anyway, I haven't worked out the numbers yet, but I am curious to see how capitalism overcomes the laws of thermodynamics here. like, have you ever tried to get a package from chicago to vancouver? so yeah all we need a a giant fucking rocket, and Amazon's amazing supply-chain logistics and..dang, who knows, it might work. And Bezos' weak chin is incidental.
> there's is roughly a 0% chance that using a gun defensively in a hostile situation will result in successful self-defense

The evidence that I've seen does not support such a bold claim at all.
> This is another thing rarely talked about that's quite common - people really high up in the tech companies don't use the stuff.

This is true, kind of like how most drug dealers don't do drugs themselves.
It kind of already exists... Libvirt is basically a database under the covers. If anything I'm surprised the implementation isn't "AWS backend for libvirt" > "sql frontend for libvirt"

In a past life I was managing virtual machines in elixir and not too long after writing a libvirt adapter I realized that what I should be doing is frontending libvirt with ecto (elixirs database tool)
effort is good, but needs some work, no results here :

https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=rxjava+2+api+docs

https://www.google.com/search?q=rxjava+2+api+docs&oq=rxjava+...
> and it's popularity based e.g. lowest common denominator memes and predictable comments will hog 90% of communication unless the sub is heavily moderated.

I am reading a manga and there's a reddit sub for it. Until a year ago give or take we were like 30 or 40. The manga was slowly moving the storyline but it picked up again and now there are tens of thousands of people. When there were only 30-40 people there used to be a stupid puerile joke related to the manga. You could see it once a week, or maybe in a lot of posts but quickly drowned or irrelevant anyway since only person did it. It was not mentioned much.

Now with all those people ? That supid joke/meme is present in every post, every comments. Every new chapter release gets many comments with that dumb joke.

I also feel like comments are now shorter and story theories much simpler and... well, quality is reduced. As you said, predictable comments are ruining the fun.
I've needed it enough time that I won't ever forget "diskmgmt.msc" command, and AFAIK it works since Windows XP.

I'm not really sure what's so problematic with searching settings, but other platforms I use (macOS, iOS) are not really much better in this regard.
> A day after YouTube took down my video, I received an email. They banned me for life. This is not only to say I could no longer upload content. I could no longer even login.

We are, sadly, long since past the time that cloud providers, free content hosting, YouTube, etc, has to be considered hostile to anything outside the tech industry's consensus of what's allowed (as interpreted by their algorithms, which they like to pretend are fancy, but seem only barely smarter than keyword matching, except when they're rather dumber). Of course, due to Scale(TM), you can't actually have any humans in the loop. Unless, of course, you're well enough connected to get a bit of a rise on a tech news site, at which point a human will (usually) step in, mutter something about a mistake, fix the problem (the actual problem being the bad PR created), and go on their way.

If you're posting funny reaction videos to nonsense content, sure, use YouTube. For anything serious, this is no longer a good idea (well, if you're outside the tech industry consensus for whatever that is today).

But if you are even the slightest bit outside the mainstream, you probably shouldn't be using YouTube, or even the various cloud based hosting services. Your own server, in a local datacenter, perhaps fronted by CloudFront, is closer to the right answer anymore.

In the rush to free services, we've handed far, far too much power to a very small set of companies, who are now happy to use that power to turn the internet into only what they want to hear.
It makes me feel a bit less lonely to know that whenever I post something incorrect about programming languages, someone will be there to correct me.
I think you grossly overestimates the the technical knowledge of the general public .. but yea making a service iPhone only is just lazy ..
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on humanoid robots [audio]
My wife at this very moment. In a room that has a high quality 65" display one the wall.
> We didn't even have to register our time off in a payroll system or anything like that.

This tells me that it was entirely up to your manager to be ok with it or not, as it wasn't tracked anywhere else.

That's a double edged sword. If you have an awesome manager, it's great. But if you have a workaholic manager, you'll have a difficult time getting any time off ever.

It's much better overall to have a policy of N days per year (none of the "unlimited" lies) that accumulate clearly on your pacheck, that way there is never doubt or argument as to how many days you have earned and can take.
The US is not that bad compared to other New World countries. From your link we see Brazil at 27, Mexico at 29, Argentina at 5, Uruguay at 12, Greenland at 5, Panama at 9, and Costa Rica at 11. Canada is the biggest outlier, but the US still has less homicide than even relatively nice New World countries.

If you’re going to tout France’s low homicide rate of 1.2, I’d invite you to observe that Japan’s homicide rate is 0.26. Does this mean that France should adopt some aspects of Japanese law, for instance, by readopting the death penalty? Or does it simply mean that France and Japan are different countries?

In fact, I would posit that the arrow of causation can point the other way. If you live in a country with higher rates of homicide and violent crime, you will be more interested in defending yourself.

> Protests and revolutions in France have done more to guide government power than anything ever that happened in the US.

This seems like a bizarre and dubious oversimplification. France had an outright military coup in 1958 when the democratically elected government didn’t want to hold onto Algeria. While both democracy and Algerian independence worked out in the long run, the mere possibility of a military coup—something that French military officers will occasionally make threats to repeat—seems to be a major distinction that is not in France’s favor here.

Meanwhile, popular protests in the US led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ultimately even withdrawal from Vietnam. It’s not like the American public is politically powerless compared to that of any other democracy.
It is rather disappointing. I run my personal blog and email on .xyz because it's great for graphics puns. Hotmail and gmail will accept my messages, but corporate email servers often seem to blackhole me.
RIP. Like many others in here, the ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I still have fond memories of that time.
Have we always changed our social circles so completely as we do now?
We abandon our childhood friends to get education. Then we abandon our fellow students to get jobs. Then we switch jobs. And also, we socialize on a less personal plane with the people we work with. Maybe in a unnatural way as well.
And at the end of the day when you are done working I think it takes tremendous effort to go socialize and build up a new social circle yet again. So it's a game rigged in the favor of loneliness.
When I read such things I just think of the hunter gatherer society and how they would have lived compared to us and how we might have changed our social behavior. This complete change of social circles I can't imagine was that common.
Well, if I see a list of "good privacy-focused VPNs" on like TorrentFreak, then I'm pretty sure that they mean "these VPNs are good to route your torrent traffic through". But I do actually doubt that people watching a video on YouTube are going to get the "watch Japanese Netflix on ButtVPN" subtext when the advertising blurp is "ButtVPN protects your online banking against hackers". It's not like it's actually illegally to promote a VPN for bypassing geoblocking, so if that was the main driver of customers, they'd really use it a lot more often.
no worries! it's partially my fault for unclear writing.
The US government probably seems less corrupt than the EU because of its laid back approach to a lot of policies. However, that's exactly the type of corruption that a lot of people are talking about.

The country needs a lot of change to tackle big problems like climate change and increasing wealth inequality however the government is sitting back doing nothing because many representatives are lobbied by big interests to let the big interests continue doing what they're doing.
Amazon’s New ‘Factory Towns’ Will Lift the Working Class
Actually getting a fishing permit in Germany is quite an undertaking. The theoretical exam is based on a catalog of several hundred questions.
Does anybody know if there's a consolidated list of domains and their various blacklist/deliverability issues compiled someplace? I for one would love to know how broad this problem is across the various TLDs for network filtering/email/sms/messaging etc. Seems like it would be a pain to maintain even as a snapshot but I would definitely be interested.
The executive branch, particularly in the contemporary U.S., largely decides what policy outcome they would like first. Then they go digging for an existing statute or 3 letter agency they can use to implement it.

The legislative branch is at fault here for punting on their governing responsibilities. But it is true that via their oversight committees, they have constrained the actions of the executive, via new laws, based on classified intel.

Foreign adversaries have no interest in domestic surveillance. There are many other things they'd like to get their hands on via discovery, though.
Windows can definitely also do full disk encryption via BitLocker...
I wonder if there isn't a market for a COVID vaccine that the inevitable variants aren't resistant to.

If you kept it to a small group of customers, it would maintain it's value and be worth $$$$ to them potentially.
> Not even Proton VPN is OK - sleuths have figured out that it's just a white-labeled version of NordVPN.

Do you have links to this evidence/proof?
The truth is:

- some software requires constant maintenance. Subscriptions are the only way to make it possible.

- some software may cost damn lot to create so no feasible single payment exist to even cover the costs of creation (especially on the early stages of sw lifecycle [and/or] when marketing is poor, but the devs still need funds to proceed). Subscriptions are the only way to make the price bearable for the general public. Example: market of games for Android. Google has tought the public that many sw for Android is very cheap or even free - try to stay afloat on that premise without subscriptions.

- etc etc etc

I'm sorry that I have to tell you what to do (and nobody likes to hear such unasked advices) but you really should try to build your own product and make it successful. This is the only way to validate the viability of your "principle".
How does this work? Can an NDA prohibit you from talking about itself, or does it have to be structured in a cycle, with one NDA protecting "future NDA", and the next NDA protecting "the last NDA"?
My experiences with Germans in business is a very polished ethical public face, whether small or large businesses, and absolute chaos and gerry rigging (sic) behind the scenes.

I normally avoid national stereotypes but these have been my experiences. Wirecard makes the EU diesel regulatory whipsawing of VW and other european firms such as Jaguar small beer though- fraud on a huge scale arguably largely enabled by EY...
There is no accrued vacation ok... but he is supposed to get 'unlimited' vacation days, right? So if you take that word 'unlimited' at face value, that means he should be able to take some days off to take care of his wife.

Unlimited PTO is part of his compensation package for working at this company, so while he didn't 'accrue' vacation in the traditional sense, he's still entitled to his PTO.

So in the end, it doesn't matter whether he accrued them or not, his PTO is his to use. And he was denied that.

He even stated that his manager was the one who stated to him that he had at least 20 days off:

> When I joined, my manager told me exactly how many days I have: "federal holidays + 20 days", which is considered "quite generous for the US" (exact quotes)

So it's not even on him that he thinks he's earned 20 days.

What difference does it make if he 'earned' his PTO vs using his 'unlimited' PTO? I don't understand why this distinction is being made in the context of the article. If it's just to say that companies can deny PTO because it's not federally protected, well, that's an even bigger problem. Maybe it should right? Either way it makes the company look bad.
It is interesting to watch the video of the actual interview that they recreate in the movie. The movie Sinclair seems a bit upset while the real life one was smiling a lot and being very friendly.
Build a Personal Diary with Django and Python
Clockwork Finance: Automated Analysis of Economic Security in Smart Contracts
Afaik that's how video streaming works. You can text it in YouTube and look at buffer length for example.
Most things are badly done. Most social media companies are not doing moderation well. Fitting the general pattern of most things are garbage. But some things are not! Find them and treasure them.
The personal reveal on this is just how clueless I am about how many different definitions of religion there actually are.
Who would have thought that religion was broken down by skin colour?

That said, this information is meaningless unless you control for the physical distribution of the religions across areas and compare that with the actual vaccination rates. Does religion really matter or is it just the religions relationship with it's location?
> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

I find the historical and military ignorance of people who imply this even more adorable. Especially given the timing of the recent example, where the Taliban defeated a massive military force that was equipped with modern U.S. weaponry including tanks, helicopters, and armored vehicles.

Not to mention the countless other examples of uprisings using small arms successfully against superior military forces. Add in the fact that the U.S. citizenry is made up of tens of millions of military veterans and is more well armed than any civilian population in the history of the planet. It would not take long for a revolutionary force to take control of many military bases and armories within the U.S.

The idea that 50 or 100 million armed U.S. citizens couldn't defeat a few hundred thousand armed U.S. soldiers (most of whom would defect) is adorable in its child-like ignorance.
Your post it just fine. Shows enthusiasm, and provides argumentation why/what made you enthusiastic.
Up voted for balance.
the numbers shown compare video, streamed, versus video downloaded. this is specifically an improvement on video streaming. i don't see where this theory that variable refresh rate would make a difference would come from.

there may be variable refresh rate differences! i just don't think that's what this comparison is highlighting.
Why would anyone want to upgrade to Windows 11 on release day? Surely it’s better to wait a couple of years for the worst bugs to be shaken out. What new features are worth putting yourself through version .0 pain?

As far as I can tell, the only reason to upgrade to a new version of Windows is because the old version has stopped getting security updates.
> I will just wait for Windows 12, whenever it comes up, the UI war will be settled by then.

There is always hope ;-)
> The .99 pricing feels like an American phenomenon to me. Not that it's never used in other places, but it seems far more prevalent in the United States. For me it immediately makes the business seem a little bit slimy.
> I rarely see it in Europe, and I think I've never seen it in Scandinavia.

I have no idea what part of Scandinavia you're talking about, but in Sweden this type of pricing is used all the time.

Right now I just opened a random page of prepared food for one of the big-3 supermarkets and I can see Tortellini for 35,90kr; Gnocchi for 28,90kr; Tikka chicken for 56,90kr.

If I go to another random page for kitchen appliances (Elon) I can see a whole range of items for 2995kr (fridge) 5995kr (dishwasher) and so on - infinitely.

These are exactly equivalent to the .99 price manipulation psychology.

So tired of the self-righteous "in Scandinavia we don't do this" crowd.
>>The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market:

So you want to be free from the state of others having the right to engage in mutually voluntary economic interactions? Their right to free assocation, is a tyrannical infringement of your right to dictate how they live? You can't just leave other people and form your own socialist commune somewhere?
Heh. $DAYJOB lets us accrue vacation and then get cashed out annually for anything over 160 hours (so it is "use it or we will cash it out for you"). It pays out at your new rate as well (since annual raises are on the same schedule). It used to be tied to your work anniversary date, but it is now "just after New Year's" for everyone to make budgeting easier. I understand why companies hate it, but I also like the way I get treated as a human rather than a nameless cog in a multi-billion-a-quarter monstrosity. I, personally, prefer the "let's be human" than "$$$ at all costs" end of the spectrum. Others seem to disagree.

As for how it gets used, apparently it's very bimodal and "everyone" is either a "keeper" or "flirts with having none".
Just why... why would anyone uses / learn SQL to manage infrastructure. Also fyi people managing infra are usually not the one doing SQL.
I remember how I aspired to get a ZX81 and then my dad brought the Vic20 home (color! 5+8kb!) so I became a Commodore fanboy but hey, Sir Clive is my hero too.
> State and local governments can be moved away from, and this voting with your feet is an effective deterant to tyranny.

This is not an option for the people who would be most affected by policies where they would benefit by moving, the poor.
> We should have known better from the beginning as we previously founded Outreach.io, the leading sales engagement platform, making us no strangers to email deliverability. In the early days of Outreach, we had utilized some short .xyz domains to use for shortened links in emails sent on behalf of our customers.

Translation: We used .xyz for spamming, of course .xyz is associated with spam.
Google doesn't index most moderated forums either. They've always been walled gardens to avoid bad behaviors.

For what it is worth, Discord does have permalinks to old messages. You definitely aren't going to find a 10 year old link today in large part because Discord hasn't been around 10 years yet, but I've copy and pasted Discord permalinks before to get points across and I have friends that use it for answering FAQs (have notes full of Discord links to copy/paste to answer common questions).

For what it is worth, there are users that use search on Discord (including the sorts that copy/paste the permalinks to answer FAQs). Maybe "nobody" thinks to "search first" is a truism, but even then I've seen plenty of forums full of the exact same users that never think to search first when they enter a forum and go directly to asking a question previously answered many times before. (Even when they arrive in a forum from a google search on that very question, people like/prefer the immediacy/power/relationship of folks responding directly to them than a canned answer.)

I'm not saying Discord is particularly great at some of these use cases or even the right answer, but they are very comparable and it's definitely nothing like burning books to chat over a phone. (That's a really broken analogy for several reasons.)

(ETA: If there is something to criticize Discord here for, it's much more the centralizing force problem that old forums used to be distributed across every style of web host in the old web, but Discord is a single for-profit point of failure for so many eggs to be put in one basket.)
I always been baffle by that.

My last job switch, 6 month ago, I explicitly asked to apply that calculation on my shinny new yearly salary.
To go from 2 weeks off to say.. 5. ( I really means 6 … )

I got 2.5 and a lesson on budgeted HR cost and resource availability.
At least there was a response.

The funnier is : I had to care for a family member too.
I took 3 weeks already and they just routinely approved the unpay part of it.
That's weird, why would a website with a freely accessible article not allow text to be copied? Just wondering what the point is...
Maybe list the synonyms under the query, so its easier to try different formulations.
You can find these (leaked of course) easily by googling “Funktionsrahmen”. They are shared widely by tuners.