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>> Conclusion -- I’ll still continue to use Azure, but the proposition is becoming weaker

I do appreciate the detailed list of current failings, to add to my own systemic rejection of this system based on their management objectives

you are under an illusion, you are REQUIRED to use it in service of The Company
Building mixed use neighborhoods where you can walk to a corner store is illegal in most of the US.
On the other hand, past technologies like CORBA, DCOM, and RMI were all object-oriented, whereas gRPC is data-oriented.

CORBA (as was DCOM) provided an object model where the client would make method calls to object by identity. This provided "locality transparency" — an object looks identical in the client as in the server. The client object is just a "stub" in CORBA parlance (or "proxy" in DCOM, if I remember correctly), and method calls are transparently translated to RPC calls. The consequence of this is that a client can hold onto entire object graphs, and gets very tightly coupled with the server. For example, a single client can keep tons of objects "open" inside the server just by virtue of having references to them. Very careful tracking of object references would be needed. Both CORBA ans DCOM use explicit reference counting; if a client gets this wrong, it can cause memory leaks inside the server. Not great for scalability, and a big weakness in terms of security.

gRPC is more like DCE RPC or Sun RPC, while leveraging a bunch of the web stack which didn't exist back then. There's no denying that technology is cyclical in some ways, of course. But we're not exactly coming full circle. We bring back some things and integrate it into the new stuff. The tooling around gRPC is miles ahead of what we had back then, while being based more or less on the same principles.

Interestingly, there's a similar (but maybe more depressing) cyclical story with dynamic vs. static typing in programming language. Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. allowed more people to shift away from commercial tech stacks (especially the horrific Java app server stuff in the early 2000s) while building out super-productive web frameworks. JavaScript allowed us to write web apps that were capable of competing with desktop apps. But in the process we gave up static typing. Millions of person hours have been spent in blogs and discussion boards defending, and extolling the superiority of, dynamic typing — yet this was found (in my view) to be a fallacy, and something of a shared delusion among developers drunk on web frameworks like Rails.
Thanks! We plan to launch new artists every 3 months. If there is a huge demand, I think I would like to increase the rotation so that there are more frequent runs.
Yes, but the idea is that even if the original author dies, people can still keep using the last release of the application, but independently write new plugins to interpret new image formats that come out in the future.

Winamp has a similar property. If in 2030 FLAC is replaced by some fancy neural-network based lossless encoder, it can still read the files and play them without touching the core of the application, because all that's needed is a single plugin.
Nobody used micropayments when they were a hassle. Today there are already Lightning-based apps breaking down that barrier, live in production using mainnet BTC.

Spinx[0] and Zion[1] are chat apps that offer room hosts the option to set a fee for joining and/or sending messages to a channel, for the purpose of spam reduction. Another cool feature already live in the app is pay-per-minute streaming of podcasts and videos.

[0]: https://sphinx.chat/
[1]: https://www.getzion.com/
Emergency Vehicle Detection?! This was a stopped vehicle in the middle of the highway, maybe we could start by detecting those?
What's nebulous is that you're not making an argument.

Sure, we can say that affording Internet access (gear) is a form of privilege. What bearing does that have on what I said?
Ok. I don't think I claimed that nobody knew/most people didn't? I was just interested to learn it myself and thought there might be one or two others who'd be interested too. Sorry to trouble you.

If you're objecting to me associating it to being British-born post-Nazism.. well, I spent a lot more time in school learning about the war and war-adjacent topics than I did Hinduism. And I don't recall the svastika from what I did learn about Hinduism at all. (I'm aware of it through film and reading.)

If I saw it in the street or as a tattoo (which I never have, aside from that depicted in American film and television) I would assume Nazism, unless it had dots or perhaps if it wasn't at an angle (or in film, obviously not if it's Bollywood). And the connotation of that isn't 'well-being' to me; I don't doubt (now, knowing the common origin) that's why they chose it, I'm simply explaining how I'd failed to make the connection.

> my association for 'swastika' are just not anything to do with well-being at all

Or if this is being misinterpreted - to be absolutely clear, I mean the word, as rendered in the English alphabet. I have absolutely no problem with it being used as a positive symbol, a स्वस्तिका, all I meant was that I didn't realise there was any connection at all! I thought there was one with positive associations, and one with negative, and they just looked similar but that was that.
I've been having a batch of really obvious spam getting past Hotmail's filtering. After years of Hotmail being bad, Microsoft got really good at spam filtering there and I haven't really had issues with spam for close on a decade. It rarely hits my inbox.

This last month, maybe two, I've had extremely obvious spam hit my inbox repeatedly. Picking two cases from today, the subject is the same "FWD: FINAL CALL", from two different senders, "A P P L E" and "NET FLIX". The pattern is pretty much always the same, it's immediately obvious that it's spam. No idea why it's slipping past when they're still catching hundreds a day (I've had this hotmail account from the early days of the platform, used it a bunch all over the place)
This is the first serious challenge Facebook has faced since Google. Someone is willing to bet $100 million that people will prefer an uncensored version of Facebook.

A lot of people are angry with Facebook these days. Just had a discussion about this very topic and the majority decided they just couldn't quit their network of friends.

I think McCourt has to produce something better and I don't mean on the blockchain but a better more powerful user experience.
Another problem is that taxing negative externalities is often used for another things than eliminating given externality.

I will buy beef (or corn). It will emit CO2. Capturing given CO2 would cost $5. So the tax will be $5. But politician will not use these $5 for capturing the CO2 emissions.

He will buy votes instead. $1 for a symfonic orchestra. $1 for police department. $1 to subsidies to a company of a friend lobbyist. $1 for a new playground... Most often, negative externality taxes are just proxy for taxing people more without using money to fix the externality. So even if you believe the externality exists, but you are not supporting given politicians' program, it is a rational choice not to pay the tax.
The interface is arcane at times. For the most part, it is logically laid out and you can become proficient at it.

Except the godforsaken jobs interface. But that seems to be a hard problem, because even with Dwarf Therapist I would struggle with the hordes of migrants.
Seems fine to me if it's opt-in just like the idle-detection API.
> People think that moving the moon is easier than changing the current economic model

Of course it is. All it takes is for someone to fund designing and deploying a very reliable mass driver, and then prevent it from being shut down or destroyed for some reason or other. That's a walk in the park compared to what politicians call a Tuesday.

Getting a lot of people to positively agree on something, when it's in the immediate self-interest of each of them to disagree, has always been the hardest task for humanity.
How about a fake unlock (like a secondary password) that only partially unlocks an account or spoofs it with bogus intel.
Your point is well-made about the level of support you might get from a Google rep. The answer they should give is that Play store purchases cannot be transferred to protect the IP contracts with sellers, otherwise there could be a potential for an aftermarket on Google Play account assets. I know some people at Google understand that, but I doubt that's in their support playbooks.
The author acknowledges that in the last sentence.
Cool, now I want one that will suppress these so I can write in peace without the other person wondering why it’s taking me so long to write.
Yeah so I'm somewhat tickled that a nuclear industry technician commenting on a thread about checklists has two "finally..." points :)

Thanks too for the circle-slash system, I'm pinching that.
No, we won’t have a video call for that
> In 2015-2016 the site underwent a steady decline of activity leading some to declare the site dead. In 2017, a team led by Oliver Habryka took over the administration and development of the site, relaunching it on an entirely new codebase later that year.

> The new project, dubbed LessWrong 2.0, was the first time LessWrong had a full-time dedicated development team behind it instead of only volunteer hours. Site activity recovered from the 2015-2016 decline and has remained at steady levels since the launch.

- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S69ogAGXcc9EQjpcZ/a-brief-hi...
If a determined actor really want that password, they don't have to use wrenches or drugs, at least not on you. Something as simple as threatening something you hold dear along with providing a dvorak keyboard will probably be enough motivation. There are probably other ways, and I am sure there are folks out there creative enough to find them.

There is something from Sun Tzu's Art of War, along the lines that one can defend against attacks by drawing a line in a sand, or crack any fortress by threatening that which the defenders are obligated to come out to defend. Any determined actor will find some way, though yes, taken to the extreme, that way lies madness.
In what universe does switching to a Mac to use Logic make more financial sense than buying a license for Ableton Live?

For what it's worth: if anybody else is facing the same conundrum, choose an OS-agnostic DAW like Reaper, Renoise or Bitwig, then it doesn't matter what OS you're on.
Show HN: Go playground powered by WASM that runs in the browser
That wasn't the original claim, and anyway I'm skeptical. Certainly the US minimum wage is very high if we look at it naively (in most of the world $13.50/hr is a whole lot of money, especially considering the significantly improved worker protections). You'd need to account for purchasing power and cost of living, and I don't have the data handy.

But it hardly matters, we can campaign for a higher minimum wage without arguing that the US is a terrible place. And I'll go a bit further--not only is the wild hyperbole unnecessary, it's actively harmful to the campaign for a higher minimum wage because people associate the issue with liars.
<insert sport team here> / Apple / <handbag/jewelry/shoe brand>
There are firms that specialize in software to do exactly what you’re describing. But a lot of it is just cultural. For example, how do you make sure checklists are updated? You hire people whose sole job is to update checklists.

One example of a software firm in this space: https://www.fieldlogs.com/FieldLogsStatic/index.html
Researchers demonstrate first example of a bioresorbable electronic medicine
A wench is called a "honeypot" — totally different thing.
I ran into a similar issue when trying to switch to the Colemak keyboard layout from QWERTY.

I was able to get up to a decent-enough speed for normal english text in a few days, but trying to use emacs was murder:

It turns out all of its many (and critical) keyboard shortcuts are embedded in my brain as motions, not as their corresponding letters.

So trying to figure out what a shortcut should be in emacs was really difficult: I'd have to think about the motion in QWERTY, figure out the letters, then think about what the letters would be in Colemak, and then finally make the shortcut. Very difficult and slow, and really messed with my head.

So, I gave up, and I'm back on QWERTY, which, honestly, is good enough for me.

(I did consider the possibility that there probably exists some emacs minor mode to map just shortcuts (i.e., key prefixes start with meta or control or whatever) back from Colemak to QWERTY, but...life is too short, and I've already wasted far too much of it configuring emacs.)
You live in a different universe than I do. Fascinating.

In my world, spam was a true problem that was killing email. Truly killing it. You would have to create a new address every 6 months to stay ahead of the spam and have a functioning inbox. Very different world.

Gmail fixed that. And for me, there have been issues from time to time and in fact i am getting this very spam myself, but gmail permanently stopped the hordes for me in 2004.

Now, don’t get me started on their insane categorization choices.
The tech is definitely third tier. And if you ever need to actually talk to someone over there, it's a nightmare.
I've been getting the same one. I mark each as spam but that doesn't seem to do anything.
> Anecdotally, it seems the only way to get to a human is to have referrals or the perfect resume. Ironically, the internet has made people in my life more reliant on who they know IRL to get a job.

Third-party recruiters will also work, if you get the "headhunter" variety as opposed to the "I've got a 1099 job in Nowhere, Alabama and it pays $3.50 an hour. Interested?" type.

The headhunter recruiters also often have jobs from multiple cool places to work. It's super nice to have one point of contact for 2 or 3 different interview processes. Plus more line-skipping.

As an interviewer, you don't have time to vet the applicants. A recruiter who's going to get paid 20% of that person's salary does.
Thanks for the exercises - I'll give them a shot.

I'm also now doing the zombie typing thing, but not quite used to it yet. I wish I would have learned my lesson from my high school typing teacher, who would whack our arms with a ruler if we were resting our wrists on anything.

And, yeah, switching between multiple devices too: regular mouse, vertical mouse, track pad and trackball. That started with something I read along the lines of "the best ergonomic position is the next position".
Alternatively: Okay - the cops didn't find our hideout - let's burn a few days making this guy's life hell until he either cracks or unlocks his laptop. By the time we head out one thing will be broken - it's his choice whether it's his psyche or his encryption.
Oh, that makes sense as an interesting question. I think, similar to API enforcement types, it is a good idea to separate strings from "byte strings" if the "core" language/library uses strings (which Rust does as part of panic!, one can argue that panic! or assert! should not be part of the core though). It is a hard problem, as Python's transition to Python 3 showed.

str could have a part of "core" library.
We've officially authorized law enforcement to be a thousand squabbling gangs of thieves. This is not to say they weren't already. So un-making the fact will be much harder.

Without authorization, the cop would have stolen the money anyway. The law just makes victims more resigned to it -- if the money goes regardless, the cop might just as well get it. Maybe they'll even take less, that way?
Depends on the drug; sometimes there are chemical differences, sometimes there aren't. Presumably there are also differences with respect to quality control and regulations, at least in some countries. But in general if the drug has a single active ingredient then it should be pretty much interchangeable. In a couple of cases veterinarians have specifically advised me to buy certain antibiotics (for a sick dog) from the "people pharmacy" because it was actually cheaper than the veterinary version sold at feed stores.

In the case of ivermectin tablets, usually available in 3mg, 6mg and 12mg versions both for dogs and for humans, there is unlikely to be any difference, and where I live the price is pretty much the same too.
Nah they'd have to develop a whole system that can automatically detect a text's language. For example, to recognize what language to translate to/from without having to be manually selected.

We're out of luck until then.
"Zuckerberg, Sandberg, and other Facebook directors agreed to authorize a multi-billion settlement with the FTC as an express quid pro quo to protect Zuckerberg from being named in the FTC's complaint, made subject to personal liability, or even required to sit for a deposition," one of the suits alleged.

"... or even required to sit for a deposition."

Has he even sat a deposition since the Winklevoss case.

Years ago there was a shareholder suit against Facebook et al. that was going to trial (rare). Zuckerberg was scheduled to testify.

IIRC, Facebook settled on the eve of his scheduled appearance.

The plaintiffs counsel was quoted in the press as saying something along the lines of "Mark Zuckerberg may know computers, but I know ..." Clearly he was looking forward to it. :)

Surely there are more litigators out there who would love to have a go at Mark Zuckerberg.

Also, many years ago in the back and forth between Zuckerberg and Greenspan at Harvard, Zuckerberg made a remark that suggested he was frightened of federal court.

Testifying before Congress is not the same as testifying in federal court. Congress is a big step up from appearing before some Harvard administrator for disciplinary violations, but its not under oath and the consequences of lying are, lets be honest, non-consequential.

IMO, if a plaintiffs lawyer or prosecutor ever gets Zuckerberg into a federal courtroom to testify, he will halt and catch fire under questioning. Even with all the resources at his disposal, he is likely "uncoachable". He only knows how to lie, and as we have all seen he isnt very good at it.

"They amended the complaints last month after receiving internal files about the board's discussions on privacy, which a federal judge had ordered Facebook to provide."

There is value in discovery in litigation and regulatory proceedings against Facebook and Big Tech, regardless of the likely success of any of the indivdual cases, IMHO.

These companies rely on non-transparency to carry out their surveillance "business" without public backlash. Every lawsuit against them is a chance to learn more of what they do and potentially publish about it. Much of what we know has come from regulatory proceedings or lawsuits. The more we learn about what goes on behind the scenes, the stronger the future allegations that lawyers can make. Bit by bit, they unpeel the onion.

Wasnt it Zuckerberg and Google's CEO Schmidt who told the people they have nothing to fear about sharing what they know with Big Tech. When we ask Big Tech's staff to share what they know, they resist. Perhaps someone will remove the friction (as in "frictionless sharing").

Anyway, the question what price will Facebook be willing to pay this time to keep these shareholder suits from going to trial and Zuckerberg having to testify. That amount will not be public information. :)
> it began with an extra-legal demand

That's not what happened. The quote from FoxNews reporter was: "Then offers the man a way out: surrender his cash & no investigation"

This does not mean the officer was planning on pocketing the money personally. This likely still would have been considered a seizure under asset forfeiture.

I agree that it should be entirely legal to carry around hundreds of thousands in cash, but the reality is that it looks very suspicious for someone who's been previously convicted of a felony drug conviction carrying around hundreds of thousands in small bills.

Asset forfeiture is a mixed bag. You have to appear in court prove the money was not gained through illegal means. The fact that most asset forfeitures go uncontested is telling that a lot of them, IMO, are probably indeed drug money (this is obviously controversial).

It's important to remember that every state is different - as is the Fed gov't.

In any case, it is absolutely not "extra-legal". That's nonsense. Asset forfeiture is literally codified in almost every state.
That's good because my mailbox is filled with mail from other people. I signed up to gmail on day one using the x.lastname(at)gmail.com address format. Before dot meant "alias".

However I now get email from various people around the world with xlastname(at)gmail.com addresses. Apparently your email is not unique in the world, but only in your region, kind of (?!).

I get important emails (hotel bookings, insurance mails, trip reservations, orders, lawyer documents) from people which use xlastname(at)gmail.com in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. All with similar names to me, obviously the surname is the same, but first name is different, just the same initial.

I've confirmed (by contacting some of them) that they are not missing out on any important documents. For some reason Google's system is duplicating emails meant for other people into my mailbox.

Only mails using x.lastname reaches MY inbox. If I tell someone I know to send a mail to xlastname I wont receive it, making the statement here...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313

...false (for me).

I guess I'm God over all the non dotted versions of my email address. Thanks Google!

(However sometimes I wonder if other people see my emails as well)
How do you make 4%?
Especially for people without Twitter accounts
It's like Facebook stopped developing it's content moderation technology 6 years ago despite their website growing in complexity (and range of use) to this day.
Can't they outsource the moderation to an Amazon Turk-like system, if they aren't willing to employ sufficient moderators themselves?

A lot of groups and pages (like newspapers) that have to "self-moderate" due to hate / propaganda spam posts and comments would be willing to pay a monthly fee for a quota in a Turk-like system for moderation.
> Executives of a certain vintage learned a lot watching the carnage from US v Microsoft

Please elaborate.
If you really do go around complaining about people taking expensive water because they think it helps them with their health problems perhaps you should try minding your own business a bit more. I’m sure there’s plenty of things to improve in yourself before you start pointing out other peoples problems.
High Antibody Levels in Cord Blood from Pregnant Women Vaccinated Against COVID
Bitcoin blockchain size: 350 gb

12tb harddrive: $199.

Bitcoin blockchain is increasing at less than 100gb per year. The storage cost of 100gb is about $1.6

I'm sure people running nodes can spend more than 1.6 a year to store a bigger chain.
Right, but if I use none of their stack, it doesn't affect me.

There is a bifurcation of people who want to learn about the tech they use every day, and those that don't.

Those that don't can't be saved if they won't grab around for the life raft.

Rest of us still want to build PWAs.
UK Gas Price Crisis and More Food Problems on the Way
Google will automatically add meeting invites to your calendar even if you don't accept them. You have to disable multiple options in both Gmail and Google calendar to stop this from happening. It is default behavior.
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It's not whatavoutism, it's problems the ideology of 'choice' couldn't solve for 50 years.

I think you are preaching anarchy.
Most of Germans would disagree with you, they use a lot of cash and avoid cards, at least the older generations.

If you think someone is a criminal, prove it first; without that, shut up.
I work at a large company but I find Azure wants to talk to us too much.