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I actually only recently switched to Edge and have been enjoying it. Google is not totally innocent in this battle either. At least once a week if not more often when I am in my Gmail, on my Google Calendar, or on the Google search pages I get a little banner in the top right just like the Edge one seen in this article telling me I'd get a better experience if I switched to Chrome and have a similar download style button. And with how prevalent Google's webpages are the majority of the web users will see these adverts if they aren't using Chrome. So I'd argue that Google is not really much better than Microsoft in this regard.

I guess the difference is that Microsoft has an additional avenue to advertise since they control more of the software stack.

The things I have more of a problem with are the dark behaviours for things like changing my default browser. I noticed when I originally would install Google Chrome and it asks if I want to make it my default, the process to do so is more complicated. Chrome can only pop up Windows default application chooser settings dialogue and then you have to manually switch the default browser in there. Microsoft will give multiple messages you have to go through before it sets it as default. Whereas when I recently switched back to Edge they had the same banner asking if I wanted to make Edge default, except when I clicked "yes", that was all. Microsoft was able to directly make that change without having me go through the weird process of switching defaults.

When one company gives themselves artificial advantages over their competitors like this that is when things start to get weird for me. For now I am going to stick with Edge for a bit, but if they continue to do things like implementing "buy now pay later" schemes I'll probably go back to Chrome.
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correct - I think people are getting confused - not sure how, since the name is very descriptive
So when Jason Voorhees is hunting me down, the last camp councilor left, and I find the keys to the van... You think I shouldn't reduce that risk because of the public good?
Similar boat with aging parents. It is really tough with few solutions. In a very HCOL area and parents own a condo. So stairs are less the issue but there a ton other challenges that emerge. Simplest solution would be to do a joint-family system with the parents. That is not feasible because single story houses are pretty rare in our area and spacious housing is stupidly expensive in general (Toronto); moving my family with them just would not work. Back in the old country, houses were designed for this scenario .. 2 stories (old parents can live on first story and not have to deal with stairs; second story where the younger generation lives. Things like kitchen and dining were replicated on both stories. My spouse and I sometimes wonder why so many people who could choose to migrate to the west still stay in India, Pakistan, etc. It is a reminder that those societies do a few things better than the west.
I think it's wrong to describe this as saving people's lives. You have only reduced one particular kind of risk for a short period of time, while other similar risks continue to arise and affect the same people.
Can you specify some specific pieces of software-development software that you consider to be "utopian"?

I'm a software developer and have used the following pieces of software that were very non-utopian: gcc gdb sbcl vim emacs vscode atom tmux bash fish make cmake automake autotools m4 cpython pip mypy pyinstaller firefox gradle ant sbt chisel npm qmk (that is - everything I've touched). I also know that virtually everything related to webdev is just straight-up awful.

I've also used Blender and can testify from personal experience that it's bad.

What else is there?
> If you refuse to give blood or breath sample you automatically lose license.

Please, add nuance when making such an assertion. It completely depends on the state you're in and which factors the state considers when refusing. For example; In Florida it may result in the suspension of your license for one year, which can be appealed.
At the same time, they're in a position to consent to a transition, not sure there's a community of collective ownership here like with freenode
I'm wondering the same, particularly how it compares to Blender and Houdini.
The problem is with finding an argument as to why, as a matter of principle, we would expect simulations to be accompanied by such fixes.

If you buy into the bootstrapping premises (which I don't!) that simulations beget more simulations, and that this runs into limits of computing power, there are clear and consistent principles driving that runaway process.

However, so far as I can tell, it's not clear that there would be any principle leading us to conclude that there would be a standardization of simulations relating to image hashing or fiddling with the experience of time. Those types of fixes would fall into the category of idiosyncratic details that either would or wouldn't hold in particular one-off scenarios, and don't generalize into any transcendant probabilistic implication that such experiences are most likely. That kind of generalization is what would be necessary for it to be responsive to the argument about simulations.
Interesting question. Now, I’m curious myself. True that LCD panels need backlight and may not be true equivalent in black& white mode. However, we have many OLED panels now. Would OLED panels in black & white work for this case?
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I agree - don't talk a walk, it's an unnecessary hit on your productivity. But, depth jumps require you to get up, which again seems unnecessary to me if you can just taser the CNS directly to wake it up.
I hate this. If I know the password I should be able to log in to my account no matter what (unless if I have 2fa enabled). Sadly companies like Google and MS do not like this idea, they also often use the excuse that they can't verify you in order to mine your phone number.

"Edit: Account recovered. I used chromium to login (which I never do) and then back to Firefox"

How can google keep getting away with this? MS got into trouble with IE with much less.
You can pay for gmail too, and get phone/chat/email support via https://one.google.com/about/plans (basic plan is less than $2/month)

Doesn't this work for folks?
While I admire the work that goes into things like this I can't help to find the look of WinUI to feel like "yet another random Electron app". It's so in-between of everything that it doesn't really fit anywhere, except maybe one of the 2005 convertible laptops that can take a tablet UI and still make you use a keyboard and mouse...
> There is a whole market of enterprise products out there, and there is certainly a use case for a _work_ laptop which needs no multimedia support.

You think in 2021, when I'd argue the majority of folks that own a laptop are working remote, there's huge demand for a laptop that can't display a video feed from a zoom or WebEx meeting? That sounds extremely unlikely to me. I'd wager the demand for such a device would measure in the thousands and would never be cheap enough to sell more than a couple hundred.

You'd be far, far better off just making a Bluetooth keyboard case (like the old clamcase or brydge cases) for a boox and calling it good. You'd have an ssh terminal and basic office apps as supported by Android.
This is a bit out there, but I've been binge watching people talking about their NDEs lately on youtube, and some mention that our reality feels less real, almost cartoonish, after having experienced the beyond.
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Vaccine mandates enforced by heavy fines and/or prison are criminalizing being unvaccinated with the number of "boosters" the authorities deem necessary. Justified by group "crime" statistic differentials. We may argue that it is done in service of a good cause, but it is still criminalizing. Our weird reality.
Yeah. Essentially, YouTube is all but a natural monopoly given today's legal and technical environment. Unfortunately, it doesn't get the oversight that natural monopolies are supposed to have to prevent abuses like these.
It’s not just about that. You get time to process things in that 20 minutes.
My worthless thoughts:

Try to talk them into some changes, if they don't agree, make sure they're certain and leave them be.

It's their choice, and treating them like senile idiots like the other commenter said is just a major dick move.

Whatever you do, don't stick them in the hospital on their death bed if they tell you they want to die at home.

Imagine being 80-90, waiting to die and wishing it happens in your bed and your family sticks you on life support among strangers so you can "live" another week or month or goddamn year.

No one deserves that.
> it must be because you have exotic hardware

I never said that you had exotic hardware. Your hardware is just not designed to be used in this way by the vendor. Why does Linux community (for free) has to invent the workarounds for you to use this machine? Linux is free software. You can improve its source code yourself, or pay someone to do that (unlike with Windows).

And yes, your MacOS will certainly not work reliably on a Windows-certified laptop.
Isn't that just a necessary measure to stop bots?
Yeah, and a major function of the church is to help people deal with death.
Ah yes, the free market system known as copyright.
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My wife corrects me when I use the word "girl" for any female over 18. Can I show her this to let her know it's OK now?
> You are free not to buy.

Hardly. It's a mandate for the car manufacturers.
> But the way this came about is a far cry

Several, in fact! ;)
How could they be doing good work unless they can actually analyse the code running the CPUs? We're dealing with black boxes and wondering why we're missing things so often...
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Lots of people have that attititude (80%?) - and it is not connected to remote work.

They do just the absolute minimum.

In some ways it is debatable if they arent right. Also: if you are the one who cares in a team of those who dont (which is the usual situation), then you are in a world of pain. Snafu.
Did you find it easy to get GPT3 API access in some time yesterday?
There's a strong case to be made that YT:

- Failed due diligence.

- Made infringing performances of the work.

- Misrepresented the authorship and/or ownership (moral rights).

- Are liable for infringement.

- And owe the true copyright owners both the lost revenue and an infringement penalty.

This case could get quite interesting.
>Please expound on what system you would like to see implemented and why it would not have this problem.

While I agree simply saying "capitalism" and hand-waving at "brainwashing" are both not great conversation starters, your demands are equally unhelpful, no matter how nicely you phrase it.

One does not require a solution to a problem in order to identify a problem.
That’s exactly how I felt running it for years on desktop.
When he is at home he is only a harm to himself. At his age if that is the risk he wants to take... (though do make him wear an emergency call button in case he survives a fall)

I'm more worried about other things. How do you take his drivers license away? I know far too many old people who keep driving even while they are a real danger to others. If there is bus system in town get him a schedule and post it by the door, even get him a monthly pass. Or he might qualify for the local disabled transit (don't call it that in front of him) to get rides wherever.
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We'll fix it anyway since we're the ones who have to use the product and they couldn't care less. User scripts and open source projects cost companies nothing.
The first release of GNU Hurd was in 1990. So Oracle could use that release to build from in 2030. Do you think Stallman's copyright on the 1990 release of GNU Hurd is still giving him the fuel he needs to keep creating?

From https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...:

> The primary purpose of copyright is to induce and reward authors, through the provision of property rights, to create new works and to make those works available to the public to enjoy.

I think knowing copyright ends in 40 years would do more to incentivize new work than the current set of rules. If a copyright is held by a corporation, the duration should probably be half of that. Having copyright last beyond a creator's life makes no sense to me at all because nothing new is created by that person.
I already had access to it for a few months but didn't do anything with it (until yesterday).
But they just said they cleared cookies.

Also I travel a fair share (used to) and never faced any issues with any other services except gmail.

It's too stringent to assume the same machine/storage/ip are always used.
You’re missing nothing, you’re correct.
I think their exact words were "If you put your Dell laptop in standby, and then put in a bag, a) it might die b) that voids the warranty".
Make sure they have a will and whatever end of life medical forms are appropriate for their jurisdiction. This will greatly simplify handling legal matters unless there’s a single child to do it all. Remember that (in the us anyway) powers of attorneys end in death so do everything that is necessary “in time”. Even mundane things like collecting the contents of safety deposit boxes. Finally, if you’re not somebody interested in accounting, make sure you have somebody lined up who can wrap up an estate.

As others have said, work to balance your desire for their safety with their desire for independence and resisting change. Where they live, driving, all of these things might be a struggle. Perhaps start with changes while they’re accepting, things like grocery delivery, transport help, etc. and empathy, don’t forget the empathy.

Finally, remember that work will always be there. Family and friends, however, will not.
I think it only seems like it would be crazy because we've allowed companies to get away with not doing it.

Go back, pre-internet, and Bell Telephone surely had a sophisticated and expensive tech-support, customer-support department. They managed.

I think we've just come to begrudgingly accept that outsourcing, automating everything is okay. It's okay now to let the customer find your support phone number, navigate your phone tree, spend 30 minutes or more in a phone queue for, in the end, no real help.

Doesn't mean we have to excuse it.
Can't we make illegal to not be able to contact human support?

It would put a hard cap on growth as well, not sure if this is horrible. maybe instead of having one giant youtube or facebook we will have thousands, maybe millions, of small ones.

Or is this just the luddite in me talking?
I wouldn't say that this article is about the universal structure of stories, it's really about the universal purpose (or reason) common to stories in most (all?) cultures.

IMO, the universal structural aspect is about how to tell good stories (hero's journey and such), however this article is actually about how storytelling in all cultures brings us together as a group and the actual universal about stories described in the article is moralism (good vs bad).
That's funny. When I heard it mentioned the speculation was they might add a more obvious way. Good they "fixed that bug"
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So if I'm understanding this particular tussle correctly, carry flags are problematic for optimization because they create implicit mutable shared global state, which isn't necessarily reflected in the machine code.

Risc-v basically says "lets make the implicit, explicit" and you have to essentially use registers to store the carry information when operating on bigints. Which for the current impl means chaining more instructions.

Is that correct?

That sounds like what the FP crowd is always talking about - eschewing shared state so it's easier to reason about, optimize, parallelize, etc.
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It absolutely is, and will then drive differences in reference area, thus affecting the drag of the object.
Had a co-worker who senior-proofed his elderly parents' house. Put in a chair lift, grab bars, etc. One thing that really helped were smart cameras: He and his sister were able to monitor their parents from anywhere. He put one camera in the kitchen so he could see the pill container, one upstairs, etc. Then set up alerts for when certain things appeared to move like the oven, front door, chair lift, etc. They knew the cameras where there, but got used to it and ignored them (that may be an issue here, I don't know).

Both siblings were close enough to react to the alerts if they needed to, but the cameras allowed them to see if they needed to go in person, or just call or just wait until the next time they visited.

Good luck.
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This happens how often, exactly?
For my grandparents it came down a combination of persuasion (hard when cognitive condition declined) and just making decisions for them.

Finding housing that works better (an apartment on one level) is one approach - sell them on the benefits of independent living for longer.

But eventually it was finding a home with 24/7 nursing care they weren’t too opposed to.

It’s not easy and as the parent of a young child I realize how being the “parent” happens twice in life - one with your kids and once with your parents.
I am in a similar situation, but we live separately. Now I don't have stories of nonagenarians lifting weights, but as long as they keep moving in the house and take a gander outside every once a while, they will retain their muscle mass and remain independent. If that means crawling up the stairs every day, so be it.
Somewhat tangential: but I love the LiquidHaskell demos, mostly because they show what would be possible if our tools would just be a tiny bit smarter.

Example:

1. Goto here: http://goto.ucsd.edu:8090/index.html#?demo=Order.hs
2. Run Check, it should turn green
3. Break the code, e.g. turn around the >= sign in line 147
4. Run Check again, it will turn red and highlight line 147 and 148

What happened here?

We told the compiler that elements in an ordered list will be in increasing order (l.119). Now the compiler is able to check that constraint and by turning around the comparison we violated the it.

Ie by telling the compiler a tiny bit about our goals (have ordered lists) it is now able to check that our algorithm is correct.
Google denying me access to YouTube videos asking me to verify my age by giving them either my passport or my credit card should be illegal as well.

Then they expanded it to the app store - some apps, even ones that don't seem to need to be age restricted - now require I verify my age in the same way. I just give them the middle finger and manually install the APKs for those apps.

Unfortunately, no way to get around the YouTube restriction though.

Google having a complete monopoly on this stuff has got to end at some point. They have way too much power over what are now pretty mainstream services to the internet, especially since they cannot be completed with by most companies, even those with adequate funding and reach.
That’s my take as well: regulation and liability for errors are the most realistic way to fix this. Even if ISPs were required to offer symmetric bandwidth I don’t see anywhere near enough people even being interested in serving other people’s content to make P2P work, which makes me feel old for remembering how cool the BitTorrent launch seemed before I understood the social aspects of the problem.
>But honestly, GGP replying with a one word answer "Capitalism" and to paraphrase your reply >"The system has brainwashed you" does no one here any good. Please expound on what system you would like to see implemented and why it would not have this problem.

Do you not see the double standard in this very post of yours? You're chastising him with 'please recommend what system we should use then' and at the same time claiming the advantage to capitalism is that it's an imperfect system, yet still better then anything else we've come up with.

If you believe human beings have not thought of any better systems or ideas, then why would you ask him to produce one, other then you would just shut it down with that same argument? It just seems intellectually lazy. If you believe this then no one could ever sway you. At that point don't pretend to be interested in hearing alternatives, just say you've made up your mind.
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In text editing, I even set refresh in batched bursts of max 500ms (a few chars per display update), to be battery conservative. No problem.
Contact with a knowledgeable human is better than no contact is I think what people are arguing, yes.
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