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> 6 years ago, with the release of Windows 10, it was all about "this is the last version of Windows!" and they went with the rolling release model. A little strange but they stuck with it for 6 years until suddenly this summer they announce Windows 11

Because in 2020, after many years at 10, macOS bumped its version up to 11. [1]

[1]: https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur/
With your restaurant example, you are describing an "exclusive dealing agreement". This usually takes monopolistic conditions to become illegal.

Personally I don't like what Amazon is doing. But I don't think it is illegal under current anti-trust laws. The laws really need to change, but I don't see that happening.
I mean, this is done well outside programming languages. See; for example, tropical hurricanes.
I'll second looking into layer 2 projects.

Most of the new blockchains constantly being spun up are little more than schemes to make the founders rich. Even if the stacks are technically cleaner and nicer to work with, it's really hard to imagine any new blockchain bringing anything significant enough to the table to overcome network effects of established leaders. Specifically be wary of coins like Solana, Cardano, and maybe even Ethereum, which Gary Gensler of the SEC has indicated are probably all unregistered securities and he looks to be gearing up to come after them.

I'm in the bitcoin only, simple, rock solid foundation with complexity built in higher layers camp, so I'll mention a couple of interesting things going on.

The taproot softfork was recently approved by the network and will go live on mainnet next month. Read up here, https://blog.keys.casa/what-is-taproot-bitcoin-upgrade/.

The lightning network is starting to get some real momentum after years of development. People are using it in unexpected ways, like building an e2e encrypted chat network (https://sphinx.chat/) that piggybacks on the network, or the LNURL-auth protocol (https://xn--57h.bigsun.xyz/lnurl-auth.html) that allows websites to provide persistent user accounts that are authenticated with a user's lightning wallet and require no other personal information. There's recently been some proposals (e.g. https://github.com/JohnLaw2/btc-iids/blob/main/iids14.pdf) to do some magic to stuff a truly massive amount of scaling within the limited bitcoin blocksize.

Protocol changes needed for trustless drivechains/sidechains seems to be gaining traction, https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0300.mediawi.... The Rootstock sidechain will potentially bring the ethereum virtual machine to bitcoin as a sidechain.

I know Ethereum also has some interesting layer 2 work, but I'm not as familiar with what's happening since I don't personally buy into the fat, complex base layer approach, the much more centralized nature of the network and development, nor the planned transition to proof of stake.
I'm somewhat amazed at this being news now. This has been blatantly obvious for years if you use Amazon even occasionally.
It’s about one of the specific stores in TFA.
Sure, but rising demand will also make all of their companies' revenue go up too.
160 TB of data per Race Day – How F1 went remote in less than a year
Are Members of Congress Exempt from the Federal Vaccine Mandate?
Woman Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes with Maintenance Issues to Fly
I disagree, Mom. Also, 90% of what makes Eve fun is the arbitrary chaos humans create amongst themselves. It’s all in good fun and quite interesting.

Things are certainly getting weird, the more I live, the more I realize I relate to the Joker.

How did EVE online even show up in this discussion? Oh, you brought it up, and turns out I used to play it. Do you see? I can’t leave this place because you guys are just too much fun.
I have a few questions on this:
- If the family of the prisoner consents, then would it be ok?
- If they are going to do it anyway.Wouldn't be better that they share the research with the world?

I understand that it has to do with human dignity and rights, etc. But I always assumed that here in the US you get your organs taken off(I'm aware of the mark on the DL) anyway, when you die in an accident, etc. Do the family of the deceased checks the body to make sure all the organs are there? Just asking, I don't know a lot about ethics related to medicine.
I've been shopping for an appliance at websites for brick & mortar stores... they're also a total mess with mixed-up pictures of various models etc and no way to know what you're really getting. Best to do that in person, I guess...
Personally, I think that the ethical aspects of harvesting organs from people sentenced to death are open to discussion.

If society finds it acceptable to put people to death for a number of serious crimes then it may also be felt acceptable to 'get some good out of it' by saving others' lives.

In any case, one aspect is that this may provide an incentive to sentence people to death because organs are needed...
This is already possible on Android, and yet in practice, all major apps are available on the Google Play Store.
> Otherwise what would be the point of having a government to begin with?

You tell me. It seems the reasons keep expanding.

Ostensibly governments were initially for defense of a nation. People even resisted the creation of the US federal government. Unfortunately even then there were financiers willing to lend against future taxation for the expense of qwelling dissent.

In these conversations consent of the governed, and the source of the 'relief' is never considered.
Here's a demo running directly on the 1541 disk drive. It generates video by hacking the serial cable that's usually used to connect to the computer, and audio from the drive motors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA
Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air
I live in a large tech city you’d know, a venture-backed place on lists you’d recognize, and at a career point where I’ve played these cheat-codes already. I stayed in the city for the same reasons you’d advocate for. The offices are 1/4 full, financial districts around it are a ghost town, and companies are shedding real estate. I can’t down vote comments that are direct replies to me. Yeesh.
Then don't install Fortnite on your iPhone.
Cloudflare is a threat to Internet Privacy
1. Cloudflare handles ~20% of all the traffic on the internet. And growing fast, on 2017 it was 10%.

2. It's impossible to use Cloudflare proxy without giving up encryption of data. They are a man-in-the-middle that have access to unencrypted information of all the traffic they proxy. (Yes, even with Full-Strict/Keyless SSL)

3. Of the remaining 80% of internet traffic, 43% comes from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, none of which seems to be using Cloudflare, which makes Cloudflare the ultimate tool to break encryption on distributed servers. Only 37% of the internet traffic is routed outside these major tech companies.

4. On July 2021, a random guy discovered a vulnerability on Cloudflare's cdnjs that allowed complete take over of the CDN, which is estimated to be used by 12.7% of the websites. NSA has a whole division dedicated to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities on systems. Even if Cloudflare is not willingly feeding unencrypted traffic to NSA, it is a single point of surveillance that, if compromised, breaks the whole encryption of a good portion of the internet.

5. Cloudflare follows a freemius pricing plan. On 2016 Cloudflare's CEO Matthew Prince said in an interview that only 4%~5% of the websites they protect are paying customers. The cost of maintaining Cloudflare infrastructure for the remaining 95% of customers that use it for free is unclear, as Cloudflare does not run ads on the sites it protects.

6. On the same interview, he mentions that the initial impetus for Cloudflare came after an acquisition by the Department of Homeland Security of his previous project, Project Honeypot, in 2008, which demonstrates that the government was at least aware of it since the beginning.
Only for those revisionist folks that have decided Haskell is the baseline for FP.
Oof. That 100 class limit is less practical than just asking the user for arbitrary text input and using CLIP as a zero-shot classifier. You would have gotten better responses if the limitations and motivations were explained on the page.
There is a lot of less critical IT work that can be sweatshopped in India and other Asian countries.
In fact considering the huge labour shortage and increasing population decline/aging of G20 countries I see it as inevitable.
>How is this different from the likes of Netflix et al, where content lives on a single platform?

I think this is an interesting comparison. Arguably, Netflix (and cable companies before this) have directly influenced what types of TV shows are developed and viewed. I could theoretically create an independent TV show and air it on my own website, but if it isn't picked up and put on Netflix I would have a (relatively) tougher time making money on it.

>Is Spotify really an ad platform? I pay for it and never hear ads anywhere, same for YouTube.

I'd say Spotify is less an ad company than YouTube. However, premium users are subject to ads on podcasts produced by Spotify [1]. This means that for podcasts Spotify owns, they essentially have the same constraints as other ad-supported platforms.

In Joe Rogan's case, this type of censorship hasn't happened. I suspect this is because Spotify hasn't become the ubiquitous distribution network for podcasts yet. It's hard to dictate what creators do when they have very clear, equally viable alternatives.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/sp...
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about 8.1 - I suppose it was mostly inertia. To this day - it's better than 10's pushed ads, telemetry, xbox(!?), and misguided control panel.

It's effectively 10 minus DirectX12
Ok, you’re right. Not all are legitimate and should be downvoted for not adding too much intellectual curiosity.
Though I'd think they would use a microcontroller with a 6502 CPU which integrates ROM/RAM/GPIO/peripherals into one. Here is a microcontroller with a 6502.

https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/103795/ETC/...
Estimates says a Pyramid took half a million man years to build. Assume modern wage of $50k a year, that would sum up wealth of a single pyramid to $25 billion if we translate those hours to modern wage hours.

So by that rough estimate wealth inequality between top and average seems about the same back then compared to now. Jeff Bezos might be worth more than half a million man years, but not 10 times more. Also the Pharaohs owned more than the Pyramids so the estimate underestimates their wealth.
The deal is things smell for a reason, and unless you like the smell, it is best to stay away.
Reddit adds a new way to post with launch of ‘Predictions’ feature
the presentation setup here is fantastic. it took me a second to realize how it works: the video and the logo on his shirt are both horizontally flipped. idk if this is a common thing or not but it makes for a very effective and natural presentation.
The hubris.

This is like failing restaurants who can't hire people putting up signs saying 'giving away stimulus checks every 2 weeks apply inside'.

They aren't cutting him a check, they are installing themselves as a middle man between him and his money. Apple did none of the work, but take almost half the money.

Remove the app store, it's all spam and ads anyways and search is damn near impossible.

I'd say they should be paying him since his apps bring in so many customers, and he has to do all the legwork.

If people stop making iOS apps, thr machine stops.
I operate this way as well and only work well under external pressure. Not sure if it's really as unhealthy as it sounds because it's made me happier over time. Alone I would regress into a caveman and live in my own filth.
No, but since everyone on Win11 will be on a new baseline they can force developers to either support both Win10 and Win11, and not one for all, on the lowest support level available.
Wagering that been getting some nasty butter if you think margarine somehow tastes better.
I dunno, I ended up buying some scam toilet paper on Amazon that was the tiniest roll of paper I've ever seen with fraudulent pictures thereof.
I see the expansion modules as a better solution to "dongle hell" that most users on new usb-c only machines are facing.

My last two machines (work and personal) have been usb-c only, and for the most part I love it (shared chargers, shared docks, shared displays, etc).

BUT! it can suck when I need to use my machine outside of the dock. In that case, I really want a standard usb-3 port or two, and an HDMI port (normally I'm presenting something, and basically every tv/projector under the sun has an hdmi port on it right now). I don't really want to have a giant chunk of plastic dangling off of my laptop that I have to remember, or that will get yanked on, or that I can accidentally leave behind.

This seems like a nice solution to the problem. Given the current reviews, it seems pretty likely that I'll end up picking one of these machines up as my next personal laptop.
tl:dr: The mandate applies to Executive Branch employees, of which members of Congress are not.
Simulated AI creatures demonstrate how mind and body evolve and succeed together
The controversial plan to bring jaguars back to the US
The difference between Walmart and Amazon, is that Amazon can study products it had no analog for. It could decide that it wants to enter a market, study sales patterns, force a supply chain change that let them spy on it, and launch their own products from that data.

The depth of data they have is much deeper. Walmart hasn't had 3rd party sellers for as long as Amazon, and that sort of historical sales data is priceless to retailers. They don't willingly share that.
> I'm talking about upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 10

I assume you meant Windows 10 to Windows 11? Because that's exactly what I described. The setup on the Windows 10 ISO (once you replaced the "install.wim" with the Window 11 file) will perform an in-place upgrade. All programs, data and settings are preserved.
How does that example absolve anyone of any wrongdoing?
Sources and References:

[1] 20% traffic in 2021 claim https://twitter.com/AxelrodG/status/1447938954758705155

[1] 10% traffic in 2017 claim https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2017/cloudflare-in...

[3] 43% of traffic https://www.sandvine.com/blog/netflix-vs.-google-vs.-amazon-...

[4] cdnjs vulnerability https://blog.ryotak.me/post/cdnjs-remote-code-execution-en/

[4] TAO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations

[5] Cloudflare CEO interview to BBC in 2016 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016
They allow free upgrade.
95 was pretty terrible, before osr2 - but I guess few have experienced that.
> it’s abundantly clear that the general public cannot manage technology

Remind me again how Apple has transcended beyond "the general public".
That doesn't work for people who need to be publicly accessible to some degree, like public health officials or school board members. But yes, I suppose most experts in the field could hide and never speak out instead of sharing their expertise.
For anybody who thinks that prisoners perhaps deserve to have their organs harvested (a comment to that effect popped up and then promptly disappeared here), there are at least two things worth considering:

1. As is clearly stated in the article, this includes political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, such as (but not at all limited to) Falun Gong.

2. Even if the state had the best of intentions (and it clearly doesn't), this creates a very perverse and dangerous set of incentives, wherein the state materially benefits from treating prisoners as less-than-human.
Aldi also relies on the "white-label" supplier approaching them to develop a product.

https://corporate.aldi.us/en/suppliers/become-a-supplier/

Working with want-to-be suppliers is a full-time job for a large division of their company (my brother does it).
Microsoft continues the trend of "oh, you thought this was your machine? Nah, it's our machine"
Yes I meant when comparing, per below, Sydney is 20-30 degrees celcius in "Winter". Not sure why that view defaults with the seasonal labels.

https://weatherspark.com/compare/s/0/23912~149466/Comparison...

This second link gives a better view

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/23912~149466/Comparison-o...
We hired remotely during the pandemic, but told candidates that they are expected to come into the office when announced. It was relatively easy to hire compared to before. Most of them are just leaving for another company now that return to office has been announced.

Management wonders why it's so hard to fill jobs now... hello, you had access to remote talent and now that you've axed that you only have access to local talent...
You're not wrong, but not everyone can have electric service put in near the toilet. I have a Tushy myself, which is a similar non-electric device.
Brad Ling on YouTube has confirmed they have theirs working!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2tulk2mIE
Some people create unreasonable doubt where Occam's razor states things quite clearly.
U.S. asks Tesla why it didn't recall Autopilot driving system
Why isn't anyone pointing out it's likely the median US engineer is far above the median EU engineer skill wise and talent wise?

Let's look at it this way, if the top 5% of EU engineers can make literal millions in a few years working in the US, at least some percentage of them will end up in the US.

Then let's consider that money influences what careers people pick. If very high IQ people who are ALSO ambitious see that they can choose between going the MD route, or finance, or SWE, or big law, and all of them are somewhat equally lucrative, some large % of those ambitious high IQ people are going to go into SWE.

In the EU if the only way to big bucks is finance or consulting, and SWE is a normal peasant like life stlye, aren't ambitious high IQ folks going to be more likely to choose finance or consulting instead of SWE?

Isn't it likely the median US programmer, because of incentives, is going to be higher than the median EU programmer? This isn't to say there aren't brilliant EU programmers or that the US on average is smarter than the EU, it's just a combination of brain drain and what smart people end up doing.
It's not that simple in the US. They currently have this thing where there's a legal limit on how much the federal government can borrow, and it takes an act of Congress to raise it. So there is also a political barrier to borrowing more money.
Haha, not surprised this was possible at all. But I am surprised someone spent the time in 2021 to make this.

Well done!
A Kinder, Gentler High School?
The comment is still there, enable "showdead" in the settings to see it.
> Science, as a process, does not depend on the ability of unpopular (or in this case, very popular) opinions to be broadcast to a sufficiently large number of laypeople on a particular channel.

It would be amusing how confident you are in your pronouncements of who deserves to have speech "for science", if it weren't so scary.

Speaking as a scientist, I want to hear all of it, and I don't need you to help out. The only thing in the realm of speech that can truly hurt me is the risk of misled by moral busybodies who think they know what is true and virtuous, and try to control what I hear "for my own good."
> and can't figure out how to do that without looking really bad while staying as Windows 10

Would that really look so bad? Even the Linux kernel dropped 80386 eventually.

Windows 10 feature updates occasionally phasing out hardware support after a few years wouldn't seem wrong at all in my eyes, they could easily explain it as a trade-off necessary for getting "10 forever". And Windows users were already used to not getting their feature update immediately on older hardware, an eventual escalation from late to never wouldn't have been surprising at all.
According to Trump himself, he was "being sarcastic" with those comments.

Maybe he thought a sarcastic reference to ingesting disinfectant would liven up his advanced knowledge of obscure experimental UV therapies?

I'm going with the alternate hypothesis that he was an layman with a very limited grasp of what he'd been told would kill the virus fumbling around trying to find reasons for the public to believe that a cure was imminent. That is sort of his job, and whilst I think most politicians would convey such messages less ineptly, to be honest I have less issue with Trump in this particular instance than the people who actually ingested bleach to own the libs, or continued to insist even after Trump himself had walked back the remarks by claiming they were [very inappropriate] sarcasm that Trump was passing on advanced medical knowledge and the only problem with those remarks was that the media and medical didn't appreciate them enough.
Downvotes work in mysterious ways
Doctor is a PERFECT example of when not to trust the experts.

Lobotomies won the Nobel prize in the early 1900's.

Literally the first thing people tell you to do with doctor's is get a 'second opinion'....why? Because with something as important as your DEATH...everyone knows... it's stupid to trust a single expert as the single source of truth.

An expert is merely a single data point in making your OWN DECISION.

It's called critical thinking. It's difficult, granted, but essential to living an independant self-sufficient life.

I could go on but you get the idea...hopefully, if the lobotomy expert didn't get to you first. ;)
Haha, I'm sorry if it seemed like I ever knew what I was talking about. I thought asking questions would make it clear that I don't.

Remain interested in the potential advantages of Ada compared to Rust for Linux kernel development, if you would care to point me in the right direction.
Container security best practices: Ultimate guide
Definitely my next laptop once I can justify a new laptop for my needs.
Agreed. @dang can we change the title? The words "billionaire" "sweatshop" or "empire" never appear in the article, let alone the title.

Reasonable people can disagree about this approach to building and running software companies. The article does a good job describing how a sort of a CA for the SMB market functions. It's an interesting and informative read, regardless of how you feel about it
Of course that's not okay. But if you're wearing a device marketed to you as a 'force field' because you're afraid of being pushed down the street and someone demonstrates that your force field isn't working by dancing really close to you, that's probably okay.