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> That is not a ban on Trident browsers. It just prevents Microsoft from creating or funding new Trident-based browsers to add to the list

I do not see how to parse the rule in the way you suggest. First, in legalese you normally use "and" here, even if you technically mean "and/or". Second, Microsoft is already forbidden from featuring other browsers that they fund by clause 10, so unless the point of this clause was to block Trident browsers, it would be redundant. Third, if we parse this in the way you suggest, we reach the conclusion that Microsoft is allowed to feature a browser they fund as long as it is not Trident-based, which is obviously nonsensical.

IANAL, but the only way to parse this that makes any sense is that it prevents Trident browsers AND it prevents browsers funded (partially AND not partially) by Microsoft.

> In fact, the browser selection was based on market share, and the ordering was alphabetical, and this was documented in the agreement and in the news.

Actually no, the ordering was random, and this was _again_ published in mainstream media and IIRC again featured here in HN, because there was a complain that the actual distribution used was not uniform at all https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/22/microsoft-ballot-screen/ .

Technically legal to do that since the agreement didn't specify the uniformity of the random distribution, but obviously dark-ish and flying against the spirit of the law. Microsoft eventually fixed it.

And if the selection was purely "for the top 12 browsers by market share to be included in the screen", then Seamonkey or even Netscape would have been included on top of browsers like "Slepneir" https://sleipnir.en.lo4d.com/windows (which happens to be Gecko). It's definitely not as simple as you're suggesting and other rules had more priority, plus whatever "metrics" they used behind the scenes since they added and removed browsers a volonté. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu#Revisions

> Which means [the auctions] never happened. If it had, there would have been news about Microsoft doing it instead of Google.

Fair enough.

However we have plenty of evidence that they have done whatever they wanted.

In fact I have now learnt that they decided to literally not show this screen to Windows 7 users for over a year with no apparent reason https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329 .
Firefox for iOS has NO about:config feature and a paltry amount of settings under Settings submenu.
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i completely agree, i was just wondering about his reaction to the whole thing. To be honest, they really need to find a way to deal with it properly, not just putting a band aid on the issue
Exactly that. Also in my expereince as a Data Science consultant was that by far the best approach was to just rebuild what they attempted in excel in python. Also now that I think of it Excel is the original low code solution haha
I wouldn't go nearly that far. Wine allows for running of most games, and the rest are usually always online multiplayer games. Even with the ones that work usually have hitches and quirks to figure out. Linux can't even do general windows apps that well, the only reason gaming is at the point it is is because most if not everyone who'd run linux wants to play games. Making Linux out like this miracle system is blind support
You're right. But the story is presented as a personal failure without critically examining if the environment had a part in this.
So the Boozos just need to make sure the Fed behaves to their liking.
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I'm not a doctor but what you describe may be symptoms of OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder). You can get treatment from a therapist (cognitive behavioral therapy can help with OCD). You can also take meds that may work but the side effects make that option less attractive.
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None of what you enumerate is game-breaking, at least in a chunk of the programming area. You seem to be referring to an area where people pay pennies + have almost zero programming experience so they want to launch a project with clicks.

Sure. In that area PHP still more or less dominates. But I thought we were discussing the actual programming?

> I thought you were asking a question.

That's exactly why I said what you quoted me on: to reassert that I am looking for a good answer on "what does PHP do better" and I am not in fact seeking to change hearts per se.
A lot of hobbies have purists, elitists, and hyper-competitive people in them who focus on gatekeeping. But I think for most communities this is something people learn when trying to get into it themselves.

For gaming, it seems to me this to me this is more part of the public perception than for other hobbies. Or perhaps I'm just too far removed from an outside view of it.
Love this story- thanks for sharing it.
Mass availability will take too long for this to be the aim.

Regardless, there's a lot of uses for a FPGA in this power and complexity bin.

This will be competing with e.g. iCE40 and GW1N-1.
True, its a pareto distribution as much as any creative endeavor.
> Into actual css files or just <style> tags?

Either, it depends on the library. It's becoming more popular to extract into regular css files as opposed to style tags. This is usually referred to as 'zero runtime css-in-js' as it doesn't depend on any JS for styles to load but you still get the composability and benefits of writing it in js.

> you scope down to such a granular level that the style literally applies to that one element.

It applies to that component (and any instance of that component), css-in-js also supports all standard css composition so it's very easy to do something like target all spans tags inside FancyButtons, you don't only have to target components.

At the end of the day it's a superset of css, all normal css is valid so no css has been ditched. This has come about because css requires you to manually keep styles and components in sync and css-in-js couples them together in a way that removes that management while also making it impossible to accidentally cause conflicts e.g. multiple components defining their own Container will never touch each others css unless you explitly import that definition and use it.

I have nothing against regular css and I'm a big fan of SCSS and CSS modules but css-in-js has a lot of advantages.
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Isn't regular code, low code?

Like isn't a turing complete language proven to be the highest level one can go to be able to do anything required with code?

Everything past that reduces the amount of code but also reduces the number of things the code can do and at some point in the code reduction, it's just a declarative language?

Its all shades of gray between imperative/functionsl and declarative.
Yes and No.

To someone who doesn't live in the US, the value of USD mostly depends on trust in the US government and economy.

To someone who does, the value of USD mostly depends on whether or not the IRS will be asking for their due next April, whether or not their landlord/bank will be expecting a rent/mortgage payment next month, and whether or not the grocery is stocked with toilet paper.

It is true that if any of those three things don't happen, you have far more serious problems than 'what currency you use'.
The thing that I think it's missing in this discussion is that while a single digit figure increase seems "small" and inconsequential, like 1 percentual point, it's in fact bad enough.

And since it's the dollar it ripples across the world.

So it's not 15 percent, but the actual figure of 6.2% is bad... really, really bad.
>And, what rate can you clock them at?

High occupation projects on iCE40 LP1K (closest thing) easily clock 70-100MHz in my experience.
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Go to the media, you're not doing anything @'ing Uber or filing a police report.

If Uber PR has to deal with a growing news story being put in front of potential customers, they'll do something about it.
>This is a false etymology created by "snobs" who considered "yland" to be a corruption of the Latin, rather than a word with Proto-Germanic roots.

Do you have a reference for the top-down-because-of-snob-ness rather than more organic cross-polination/interference of similar words? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/island#Etymology gives it as being due to interference from the French-derived 'isle' (rather than from Latin, i.e. 'insula'), as does https://www.etymonline.com/word/island.
God, that's such a typical new-Microsoft dark pattern; hiding the toggle for an annoyance in some weird location, hoping the user doesn't find it. It's everywhere in Windows 10.
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I wouldn't worry to much. More and more people are starting to realize that the Nodejs ecosystem was a huge mistake. The complexity and security issues frameworks like that introduces is just mindboggling - specially compared to what you gain by using them.

You can safely skip over all that hype and just go for the next big thing instead. Elixir with Phoenix LiveView! You're welcome :D
Rust is great, but if one is looking for a job in systems programming, C and C++ is what gets one hired, regardless of their flaws.

Recent example, while Android has adopted Rust for replacing their bluetooth stack, the newly introduced Android Games Development SDK focus on C and C++.

Or Microsoft, despite all their security speech, Azure Sphere OS and RTOS only support C on the official SDK, and the new WinUI components are all based on C++.

And naturally anyone wanting to contribute to the Rust compilers, most likely will need to brush up their C++ skills if they intend to mess with GCC or LLVM internals.
Is it? A lot of people identify themselves strongly with their hobbies or vocations. Whether it be in sports, tech, or other entertainment such as movies or music. There's a huge lot of people who largely describe themselves as football fans, movie buffs and music aficionados.

On the other hand I wouldn't say it's something I myself "center" my identiy around. If you ask me who I am my first response is usually that I'm a father of two. But if you ask me what I do, well.. I develop games for a living and I play games for fun. That covers a big part of how I spend my time.
They have to transfer the plastic between the two molds though? Any differences at all would cause problems. It's not like they can use release pins like the coloured runners?
> the process of trying to take advantage of my company's resources like paying for short-term counseling, etc. was incredibly frustrating.

If you can afford it at all, it can make a lot of sense to do this privately, to avoid a lot of this.
this is always what I think too. There is a large meat industry and the leather can't simply be trashed.
Note that I did not mention assets, I mentioned debt. Who is in debt? The poor. Who owns that debt as creditors? The rich.
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Can you provide any guides on this? How will the server run the JS on their page automatically?
> PHP has a lot of incredibly compelling alternatives

There's no alternative to dropping a file on a LAMP server that goes with almost 0 maintenance for price that goes to almost 0 with 0 downtime whenever you make a change.

PHP is my tool of choice whenever I need to create an simple endpoint but don't want to deal with the hassle of running and monitor a full blown application. At best, the alternative to that is AWS Lambda but that's a wall garden in itself

> then you could choose to pick up ..... better to have a new kind of tool in your belt than a second hammer.

Different tools for different job
I appreciate the honesty of the post.

For myself, I don’t think having “swagger” is particularly constructive. Ego is a mind-killer. It is selling smoke.

I’m quite good at what I do. In some things, I am very good; but at many, many other things, I still have a lot to learn, and in other areas, it’s best I stay out of the kitchen, entirely.

In the areas in which I excel, I often exude great confidence, which is sometimes mistaken for arrogance.

The key difference, though, is that I’m quite aware that I have yet to reach the summit. False confidence is a lie, but so is false humility. I’m good at what I do. I want people to feel assured. Confidence is a trait that helps to add to a team environment. Arrogance is corrosive. It damages a team.

Regardless of how good I get, I’ve learned that kindness, respect, and empathy never go out of style. I can always listen to others, and treat them well. And, even more important; I always have something to learn.

If I am working for others; either as an employee, or under contract, they are the boss. They may make rash, uninformed decisions, give terrible orders, and treat me (or worse, my work) like crap. I have to tuck in my bib, pick up a spoon, and engage in coprophagy. It sucks, but that’s life. I had to deal with it for a long, long time, and am grateful that I am finally free of it.

I was a manager for a long time. I was a very good one, but I hated that job. I did a lot of open-source work during that time, as it kept me sane. Being humble was not a problem. I wasn’t that high on the food chain, and my bib was quite stained.

During a long career, filled with bad decisions and mistakes, I have learned that there’s really no substitute for the kind of self-confidence (and humility) that is wrought by experience.

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
On the contrary, it sounds like you are learning the basics which will allow you to understand the framework of the month. Keep your current job until there is nothing more to learn there.
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Sure but you're mostly mad that you missed out and so am I.
Somehow reminded me of "Getting in the room, and stay there".

https://staffeng.com/guides/getting-in-the-room

Funny, because someone with a similar role from my workplace just recently left for roughly the same reason (at least peacefully). Basically when the gatekeeper(s) of The Room made it clear that you are not welcome, there is little you could do other than walking.
Not sure if it was the boss or the political players whispering in the CEO's ears and wanting to take him down.
I believe it comes from TL;DR(aw). Also explains the ; logo. TL;DR stands for "too long; didn't read".
> why you are always seeing articles insisting, idiotically, that RCTs prove depression medications are no better than placebo

You mean Kirsch & Kirsch 1997? Like, that particular study found a really, really small effect in the data submitted to the FDA (so the data chosen by the pharma companies). Even this went away when they used placebos with side effects.

More recent work has suggested that they work for severe depression, which is great but the trouble is that the vast majority of people with a diagnosis of depression don't have MDD (major depressive disorder).

I do agree that mental health is in it's leeches phase right now, and I am deeply concerned for people who end up having to engage with this system.
If you have substantial savings, you are not poor. "The poor" generally is in debt. As are states. And that debt in turn forms part of the assets held by the rich.
I do not want people to know I use X when they have me as a contact.

I also do not want my account to be tied to my phone number at all, because my phone number is tied to a contract.
> but also vast current, unmet needs.

Citation needed. Yes, people have needs. But vast unmet needs?
> I feel I'm a sucker for these devices. I love all of them =)

I would very much love a PinePhone, but I'm married to the Samsung Note stylus. Is there any really good active stylus, that works as well as the Note? I don't need any particular app, just using a stylus on the screen for general use (clicking, swiping, keyboard, long-press) would be great.

The rubber stylii are decent for clicking, but horrible for swiping.
This is a perfect experiment to do in class, letting them sit in the classroom to be revisited at the beginning or end of classes (maybe weekly?).

It doesn't sound as suitable for a take home project
So let Pfizer submit requests for redaction. They have the resources to run a trial with ~65,000 people in it, they can throw some lawyers at that problem and get it fixed pronto.

Say: you have two weeks to submit any requests. After that, everything gets released. It's your trade secrets after all.
It mostly depends on the state.

The fundamental problem there is that plenty of people have won lawsuits against hospitals/doctors when their loved one mentioned suicide in some way, was not involuntarily committed and then proceeded to kill themself. The amounts involved in those lawsuits tend to be high. In contrast, very few people have won lawsuits against hospitals/doctors who involuntarily committed them when they probably shouldn't have been, and even if they do, the monetary harm that they can recoup is probably pretty small.

This results in very perverse incentives for the institution. In your case either the people involved in your care had a very high personal risk tolerance, or it happened in a state where there is less precedent on handing over megabucks to the families of people who commit suicide.
I'm sorry, but I can't connect the dots in that story.

1) He did great (like, there's actual metrics mentioned)

2) Others wanted a different direction (even though he did great?) and didn't tell him

3) They excluded him from meetings

4) They fired him

5) He blamed not "re-centering" himself

In the notes, he mentions that one of his later decisions (splitting engineering) was a bad choice. So isn't that the core of it, then?

The way he describes it, it sounds like the problem was him not being himself but it sounds like it's a simple management error that the others were too socially awkward to point out to him, instead firing him outright.
I would imagine that FitGirl repacks is the site in question.
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Swedish brought in a big corpus of words from French though (native English, passable Swedish, school French), due to diplomatic relations in the 1700s. So, e.g.

Army: Danish hær, Norwegian hær, Swedish armé, French armée

Ice-cream: Danish is, Norwegian is, Swedish glass, French glace

Arm-chair: Danish lænestol, Norwegian lenestol, Swedish fåtölj, French fauteuil

Window: Danish vindue, Norwegian vindu, Swedish fönster, French fenêtre

(of course, a bunch of French also made its way into Danish and Norwegian as well. And the pronunciation is not always obvious either with French loanwords. I shocked my partner once while waiting at Postnord by saying out loud “Säger man kön (hard k) eller kön (soft k)?”)
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I like PHP, it pays the bills.

I also like other languages, some because they are a pleasure to use, or give me an opportunity to learn something new... but mostly because they pay the bills.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that, these are just the tools of the software engineer, nothing more. We use the tools that are appropriate for the job, no reason to make it into something deeper than that.
The way CEO responded to his letter doesn't make it like he was an egomaniac.

Sounded more like COO & his clique felt threatened by him and he got out maneuvered politically.
I agree with the other commenters that the guy was treated badly here. Impulsive hire, no feedback, poor communication, dumped unceremoniously. He sounds like a great employee who will do better elsewhere.

I do think Swagger/Mojo is important in a work context though, as it is in other areas such as sports.

Some people seem to make 1 or 2 good decisions, make a good impression, then their charisma and confidence propels them to leadership positions in a virtuous signal despite them being nothing special. They will then get to ride off the backs of others success if the project is going well.

I’ve had a few jobs and projects myself where I seem to go from success to responsibility and respect undeservedly so, then others where I just can’t seem to get the virtuous circle spinning. It’s totally down to X factors like perception, confidence and personal fit rather than ability and decision making.

As a manager I’ve even seen his the cards can be stacked in the early hours or weeks of a new gig. If someone comes in, is switched on, personable and makes some good decisions, it is incredibly difficult to stop that virtuous circle even if it isn’t deserved.
I'm thinking in the long long term of hundreds of years. Seems to me when we start exploring space moving around heavy chunks of metal won't be so useful anymore and we'll need to use a Blockchain to verify value transfer.
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English is a beautiful slow motion car crash of multiple languages & influences and the result is a great language but I do pity anyone trying to learn it. When I was having difficulty learning the rules & oddities of another language, it really helped me to look back at English and remember that there are so many oddities, inconsistencies and variances, that most other European languages are easy to master in comparison.
What do you suggest replacing it with?
From the article:

> PinePhone 1.2 pmOS CE (convergence package) with 32GB SanDisk eMMC:
before 55MB/s, after 125MB/s

> PinePhone 1.0 Braveheart edition with 16GB Kimtigo eMMC:
before: 80MB/s, after 110MB/s
Gatekeeping depression, really?

Your source does not support your claim ("if that stuff helps them they do not have depression"). In fact, it contradicts your claim since it says "Lifestyle changes can also help you feel better if you’re experiencing depression."
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I've seen this in different organisations: an accountant writes an MS Access app and when he cannot handle it anymore, he hands it over to IT (which is always so slow to provide solutions because they keep worrying about security, interoperability, consistency, and such).

One such app had in all its tables a column called "useless". It turns out it was the primary key. The author didn't know what it was for and didn't figure out from its name that it was important. There were also foreign keys referring to the description columns, not the primary key column (which was useless, after all).

In one instance, I saw an IT manager being asked for support for an app he had never heard of. It was another attack of the coding accountant! I call it code and run.
good, I'd say. I'm not waiting half an hour in a queue in front of a hipster ice cream parlor. when I go into nature I have a good chance of actually finding some peace b/c I do not go where Instagrammers take their selfies. I'm not torturing my soul on TikTok. I use choose technologies conservatively instead of by hype cycle. List goes on.
I missed the "without revealing who they voted for" bit. My bad.
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