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(Former Googler here. There's no individual executive.)

People who comment on Google's lack of human support ignore the fact that it's a virus that's engulfed the whole online world. Almost every large company has automated chatbots, voice response systems, FAQs, and every imaginable way to avoid paying human beings who know things. And let's not even talk about whether they're empowered to actually do things for you.

Google could certainly lead and maybe the rest of the world would have to follow. Maybe.
Thanks for filing the issue. Pushed the update after I got out of work ;)
Install Android in a VMWare box. Works like a charm. No fuss, no hassle. And you can customize your network isolation as you want.
Not sure why you are downvoted.

It's indeed true that many times you don't have a say over what software or even OS you have to use for your work. For a lot of us the software devs we do have the choice -- but even then we naturally converge to macOS or Linux due to less friction and more productivity.

And yep, entrenching is basically the name of the game for most orgs. They are deathly scared of change. Linux will not change that. It changes the game for the professionals, not the companies (and even that is not 100% true; they still use Linux servers for almost everything).
I've written a few posts of my own like this. My biggest win in terms of SM strategy has been to actually get back on to SM to build an audience, and to schedule posts. I use Hootsuite to schedule Instagram posts over a month in advance. It's transformative in terms of user experience. I totally forget I have an SM presence because it's on autopilot. And when I do post, I don't have the constant engagement hooks confronting me that Instagram has. Instead I'm using the hootsuite calendar to just schedule stuff, and then leave it alone.

I don't work for Hootsuite and I'm sure there are plenty of other options. Also, it's not free, so there's that. But it works for me.
Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens
I'm finding the case against extensive characterset support outside of specific rich-text contexts easier to make all the time.

My terminal should support only my local limited characterset. Rich rendering should require piping through a specific interpreter whose output is strictly limited to the present terminal (that is, stdout is not redirectable).
Looks promising and as something that took a lot of relevant expertise to put together, unlike similar claims that sometimes show up here. Looking forward to it.
I switched to Apple from Android (still 100% Linux on desktop/laptop though) a few years ago, and I've grown to like it more than any Android phone I've owned...But it still sucks.

It feels like everything is overflowing with mediocrity, and there's no hope of it ever changing. I often have an idea for improving something that I see as being extremely shitty and perfect for improving/innovating, but there is no possible way for me to turn it into a successful product/business because the monopolists wouldn't allow it.

For example, why is the app store experience that same boring crap it has always been? Why can't that be fun, with like user profiles, Amazon-style reviews, Steam-style community features, social media-style feeds so you can sub to a developer, TikTok-style feeds of promo videos to discover new apps/games, etc. There's so much to explore there, but it's never going to happen because Apple doesn't allow it, and Apple themselves isn't going to do it because they're a monopoly and they have no incentive to (same goes for Google).

What are the chances that our government will wake up and do something about this limp noodle we call a tech industry? Or that some startup will "disrupt" these monopolists with something better and resist the multi-billion-dollar acquisition offers (backed by anti-competitive threats).

This makes me want to grab my old thinkpad and disappear into the woods. I'll become a hermit, using only my own+libre software and only returning to civilization when I need to replace the battery pack.
> Financial independence is a consequence of individual choices. Most workers can achieve financial independence by the time they are elderly. A surprising number of workers can achieve financial independence early, but choose not to.

It's not /just/ a matter of individual choice though, is it? Somebody with poor earning potential living in a high cost-of-living area (say, a waiter in LA) is not going to be able to achieve financial independence in a lifetime of saved income, and simultaneously a trust fund child can be set for life despite being a complete waste of air. A person's prospects are much more environmental (dare I say, systemic?) than individual. Tell a fruit picker in Guatemala that they too can achieve FIRE status by picking themselves up by their bootstraps and eating less avocado toast, and they might respond with scepticism.

> When it comes to class, though, economics is not the whole picture. Class is more directly about social status, and social status is not wholly dictated by income.

The concept of working class, as contrasted with capitalist class, is defined in purely economic terms. Social class is basically a separate thing entirely, with "working class" as a social class being associated with blue-collar, salt-of-the-earth manual labourer types (at least here in the UK).
I think it's arguable if you even need skill - I believe Toady One has mostly taught himself good project design through having to deal with Toady One's code from three years prior. Changing a fixed 2D legacy game to 3D and completely rewriting fluid dynamics in a shipped title will do that to you.

I agree entirely about motivation though - he's stuck with that project for an immense amount of time. Urist Borushdumat[1] and Boatmurdered[2] are both from 2007 - George W Bush was president then and The Colbert Report had barely gotten started - your nephew in high school was still
in diapers. However - over the full run of nineteen years dwarf fortress has been in development[3] he has received pretty tremendous community support - well probably since 2005 or so - I don't know if anyone knew it existed in 2002.

1. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=15572.0

2. https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introducti...

3. Wait - wtf - it's older than Firefly! (that's the show that made Nathan Fillion famous before Castle or Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long-blog FYI) I can now use the line "I'm getting too old for this sh*"
Got multiple emails for a GSuite account. Was surprised to get the mails. Went in and updated the CVC code which for some reason had been cleared.
The convoluted cost formula is a process that shouldn't exist in the first place, so your comment only reinforced my internal rationale for why these types of lists are important.
Yep -- and more than that, I’d say that animation orchestration worked well because of the very elegant design that leaned on Objective-C’s strengths (like dynamic key-value observation to track animatable properties).

And using reference-counting rather than garbage collection helped to minimise jankiness even on low-memory systems.

I think Android in particular had a very hard time matching iOS here because Java just didn’t lend itself to that dynamic programming style, and because the GC was just inherently janky. (It’s a lot better now that hardware is vastly faster.)
I'm not seeing the connection with the President or insider trading.

Is there some specific knowledge that Pelosi allegedly traded on, that didn't belong to him?
Multiple devices... without sync

Multiple platforms... but iOS a night mare with E2EE

Gateways to other networks... Honestly I couldn't find working ones

Why would you want to make a phone number your user ame - this way you are sharing it with almost everyone...
Fun project!

Belkin has a dongle to turn Apple AirPlay 2 into 3.5mm or optical.

https://www.belkin.com/us/speakers-headphones/speakers/sound...
Considering every single person tends to have conflicts with Zuckerberg (see: bullying the Instagram people out of their company) I'm not convinced this is just "natural, turnover within companies that happens all the time"
DX is the experience of the people who build the product. If the users happen to be developers, it’s still UX.

I get why there is a debate: DX and UX can come into conflict if technology choices don’t serve user needs.

You can optimise your users’ experience by first understanding their needs and then exploring how technology can meet them.

Most of the time, there is no conflict but sometimes tech choices eg buying off-the-shelf software or using a package that isn’t accessible can fail to meet user needs.
I've found that the baseline filesize (65.5kb gzipped) for Lottie makes it somewhat unsuited for "website" animations, though perhaps more suitable for apps.

In the past, when I've vetoed Lottie on this basis, designers have achieved decent results using SVGator instead.
>>>> I absolutely loathe...

No, I don't think he's projecting a tone that isn't there...
Damn near impossible to use though if you can't design PCBs and have surgical hands for surface mount soldering ...

The WaveShare one comes with a Pi HAT (sadly with headers soldered on though so I've had to desolder and resolder other headers to them)

And if you get the voltages even slightly wrong you'll fry the display and maybe a few more ...
BlackBerry beats quarterly revenue expectations on cybersecurity boost
> Man is the ruler of this planet

Might !== right.
I was wondering that too. Are they implicitly suggesting something like ECT for COVID-19? Or some kind of disinfecting strategy?
> In which cases are the animals more efficient?

When they are grazing on non-arable land and the alternative is to produce no food at all here.

About proteins, from the article you linked (the Harvard one):

> For a relatively active adult, a daily protein intake to meet the RDA would supply as little as 10% of his or her total daily calories. In comparison, the average American consumes around 16% of his or her daily calories in the form of protein, from both plant and animal sources.

> Based on the totality of the research presented at the summit, Rodriguez estimates that taking in up to twice the RDA of protein "is a safe and good range to aim for." This equates roughly to 15% to 25% of total daily calories, although it could be above or below this range depending on your age, sex, and activity level.

I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that Americans are eating too much proteins, considering the article is not saying it, or even saying the opposite.
Love the idea and, from the screenshots, the execution looks great. I've been looking for something like this and I'm still undecided, with Joplin and StandardNotes leading the pack for my use case.

It looks like you've settled on an App Store-only distribution model and a subscription-only pricing model. I'm curious about how you made that decision - subscription-only would suggest you're revenue-sensitive and want to provide continued updates, but App Store-only distribution means giving up revenues and putting someone else in control of updates. As a result, from the outside looking in, it seems a little incongruous. Just wondering :) obviously don't feel obligated to answer, either way it looks like a great piece of software.
Settled is a strong claim, but as far as I’m aware (I have many connections amongst the medical and epidemiological communities), the general consensus is that ivermectin does not work. For instance, the FDA, WHO, the AMA, the American Pharmacists Association, and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists all say it should not be used outside of clinical trials because there is no good evidence for it, and even Merck, the manufacturer, specifically states it should not be used for COVID at all.

I’m not saying no discourse or testing should happen. I’m a scientist, I believe scientific freedom, and of course, that includes a lot of disagreements. But those disagreements happen in the scientific community, not in the general public. What’s happening in the general public is not at all connected to what’s happening in the research.

Instead, I’m interested in how these “treatments” with no strong evidence are getting weaponized by motivated agents (like the anti-vax crowd) to sow distrust both in scientific organizations (the CDC, and the FDA, Pfizer, Moderna, et al), and in the use of tools with proven effectiveness, like the vaccines themselves.
Prison Tech
Oh absolutely. I think Apple is making the correct move here.
If you are familiar with it TypeScript could be a good choice.

Language preferences are very personal but I personally like Golang. It's kind of like a "batteries included" language and deploying Go, which is copying a binary to a server is awesome!
> You've set up a nice little fallacy for yourself in the form of declaring people you don't care about as "edge cases."

I never said I don't care about anyone. This is a pretty simple trolley problem. One track has 1 million people tied up, one track has ten. I value the lives of everyone equally.

> I took issue with your claim that universal systems are a panacea that solve all relevant problems

I never said that. I said they were superior to our system, which is apparent in terms of costs and outcomes.
Or miniconda, full anaconda is kinda bloated soyware
In another life I worked in a warehouse, eventually I was promoted to Warehouse Manager, one of the first things I did was to try and get everyone a pay raise.

And there was a lady worked in the warehouse who was basically waiting till she could retire, and she'd worked there longer than I'd been alive and she was on an absolute pittance, we literally got guys in off the street (from an agency) and paid them twice what she was on.

She accepted it, and because not talking about salary's was encouraged no-one knew, I don't think even the directors knew how little she was on. But when I brought it up and encourage everyone to talk about pay, she realised, and I got her a raise.

Treat your workers like people and respect them. Look after them and they'll look after your business, I don't understand why so many businesses seem to struggle with understanding that.
That's a bit bad faith, making a language is never easy and takes a ton of resources.

Swift is the bandwagon at Apple due to how Chris Latner started the project and his clout and I think it would be politically untenable to make ObjectiveSwift going against that, especially now at Apple.

Nobody else but apple would make ObjectiveSwift too, because for better or worst ObjC & Swift are languages that are for the apple platform and nothing else. If you don't need to make something for apple, and you're going to do it without major tech company sponsorship, then you have freedom and you go make things like Rust, Nim or Elm instead.

With all of Swift's problems, I would never recommend it for a server side platform, and it's adoption shows that reality.

Because of all of the above, you'll only see hypothetical proposals, no implementations.
Sep 2012: lightning shipped on iPhones

Aug 2014: usb-c standard written, so no devices yet.

this ordering keeps being overlooked in comments.
Although I don't know whether lab grown meat will be cost-competitive with traditional meat in the near future, the article's thesis "Lab Grown meat will never be cost competitive with traditional meat" assumes a few key points that seem non-intuitive, and makes me wonder if the article is written in good faith:

> The cost of a lab-grown meat facility is comparable to a slaughterhouse.

The footprint and cost of a slaughterhouse does not include the footprint and cost of the places meat is actually grown. The article notes the lab is 'slightly cheaper' than a slaughterhouse - when you add in the space and facilities needed to raise cows I suspect the cost gap significantly increases.

> Lab grown meat would have to be produced in Class 8 clean rooms.

My understanding is that clean rooms have much higher standards than other food processing facilities. Cell cultures today are grown to be studied in tiny amounts so small amounts of contamination need to be strenuously avoided. If we're instead concerned with the volume of production, I'd expect any amount of dirtiness below the incredible filth of a slaughterhouse is likely a win.

> There will be no advancements in cell density of lab-grown meat.

The article assumes lab grow meat will continue to be grown as a single cells in culture. While this is the state of the art today, I'd expect many companies and labs are hard at work on denser strategies. As the article capitulates, cultivated meat could be economically viable "[when] companies can make cells grow beyond certain widely recognized biological limits. Higher cell density means more meat per batch, which in turn means the number of bioreactors can fall, and the size of the clean room can shrink."

All together, I think lab-grown meat is a lot less of a certain-failure than the article seems to suggest.
Thanks for the downvote, you Rails fan you. ;-) My comment is entirely factual.
I think to be honest a project like this is not just about practical advantages.

It's fun, and it's an amazing learning exercise.
Maybe it's a "privacy preserving" censorship mechanism.
> How do you think companies decide on budgets?

From what I've seen, by horse-trading, and fighting highly political, bitter, zero-sum turf wars that depend way too much on how charming department heads/directors are, and how well they relate to the CxO's and/or board. Its not uncommon for the CEO's pet-project to get a budget completely disconnected from the its value (current or future).

Companies - like anything collective that relies on human judgement - are terrible at digging deeper than first-order effects; which is why sales people tend to get paid much more than the engineers who developed the product: "I closed a $X million deal, so I get Y% of it". The engineers get paid a flat rate, because it's impossible to quantify how much value they added, and when. Baseline engineer salaries are broadly determined by how much other companies are paying, and more specifically by how good the individual engineers are able to negotiate.
Why not none? We certainly don't need it, so why are we obligated to eat some baseline level of meat?
Me too.

When the disease is something that requires frequent reapplication of antibiotics, it's important to confirm periodically that they're working (and that the problem isn't a different bacteria that's amoxicillin-resistant).
I'd say it just takes motivation. The skill comes through that.

Also, yr talking to a crew of whimsical fairy folk. Don't take the neg personally.
It raised the bar a lot, at least. The lag was nothing compared to what you got on the typical Java-enabled flip phone, or the original Android G1!
> given that it's not generally prescribed for COVID-19

This is disinformation, it turns out. Plenty of doctors are prescribing it. Anyone in the US can go online to one of a dozen telemedicine services and get a prescription for an appropriate dose of ivermectin within hours. This can then be filled at any pharmacy in most states which prohibit pharmacists from refusing to fill prescriptions because they heard on CNN it was for horses. But the media will never report this.
Slick, thank you!
If there are buyers of anything, even useless and harmful, someone will sell it to them. McKinsey, and others, are reading the market appetite of buyers and figuring out how to choose and package information in a way that is pleasing and meets the immediate usefulness measure of individuals in their markets. It's basically the same as the narcotics trade. And as both are hugely profitable, no amount of reasonable criticism will gain any traction with the participants.
Leetcode and get a job at a tier 1 tech company.

If you want it enough to put in the time, it is possible.
Oh yeah, I am aware. But I don't buy a Mac to tinker with it. The huge price mark-up is for the "it just works" part in the package.

Plus I am very scared when it comes to Mac security. I am pretty sure that to this day their mitigation strategy is "almost nobody is writing viruses for Mac anyway". :D I will not risk disabling SIP especially with programs like Chrome on my Mac.

The sad part is that they _can_ make it work better and be faster but they don't want to. That's why in a few years time my iMac Pro is simply going to be the most expensive day-to-day desktop machine in a 1km radius and I'll use a cheap Ryzen laptop (or expensive Threadripper workstation) for actual work.
That tracks latency, but not throughput. Sure, a programmer may get a given ticket out the door 2x faster, but they may create 3x as much technical debt that winds up being addressed as separate tickets. That's a useful skill if you need one particular feature urgently for a deadline, but less useful for steady-state development.

While I agree that there can be or at least seem to be that overall difference in productivity between people, utilizing a single metric to make that conclusion is simplifying a much more complex issue.

Or a senior dev may wind up only getting a few tickets done, but it's because they're dealing with meetings and planning to determine the correct course of action for a project that may take a month or more. Or they may be a useful 'repository of knowledge' for the rest of the team, and spend a lot of their time enabling multiple other people to be more effective than they would be otherwise.
Take it one step further, and just don't eat any animals. Easy peasy.
No one is going to write a detailed estimate to paint your house if you've made it public knowledge you're not interested in your house being painted.
Which is super annoying when you have an engine written in C++, perhaps that runs on multiple platforms, and want to run it with a GUI under macOS.
Very cool! For those looking for a commercial solution Echo Input (~$25) supports this as well – albeit with an Amazon-sized middleman.
https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools works pretty well once setup. Allegedly...
WeWork co-working spaces. There's a slight infrastructure situation, which you mentioned, but nothing a ton of money won't fix. What're you doing the next couple months? I have some money I'd like to invest. I hope you good with construction!
Decaying trust in medical institutions says otherwise.
It's not even only interviewers. I get at least one proactive job application per week at my small 2-people company. I'm not sure why these people do it, but most of them seem to have spent effort researching my company, so they mention relevant skills. But I'm not planning to hire anyone and I haven't had a job opening posted in years, so in a way it's just manually-written spam to me. In the beginning I still replied to the emails but a few of them started being argumentative or tried to call me, so now I just delete em without reply.
> There are ~30M cattle in the US at any given time

That number is the count of full grown cattle, 31M. When you include calves, it's 98M total in the US. It isn't easy to realize just how nauseating that truly is.

There's roughly 330M people in the US. One cow will feed 2300 people 3oz of beef, which is the most meat one may eat in a sitting and still be considered healthy (though I personally disagree, no amount of red meat is healthy IMO). 360M / 31M comes out to around 10 people per cow, which will feed them once a day 3oz for 230 days. So the US has enough beef to serve every man, woman and child a a 3oz steak serving once every 38 hours, all year long.

Of course, nothing close to this amount is actually consumed, and at least 23% of it is entirely wasted in production, 7.1M cattle annually are effectively turned into garbage before product can hit store shelves.
> Well worst case nothing changes and the prices are still listed in the same currencies they are today.

I would call this best case. There would need to be significant (likely unattainable) effort to change the standard. How many laws, signs, and code would need to be changed?