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== MS acquires formerly preeminent corporation for 30% discount ==

MS announced today that it was acquiring Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI). This news comes on the heels of a year filled with government lawsuits, internal leaks, low morale and poor performance. Many analysts have commented that years of failing to invest in their IP and a string of poorly-received sequels have diluted customer and stockholder faith.

The past year has seen ATVI stock plummet after it was made public that the company was not being managed or governed in any meaningful way, down approx. 30% prior to today's announcement.
Ah gotcha. I'm not even sure it's meaningful to compare the "relative pointiness" of angles between different dimensions. It's like trying to compare whether the area of a circle is bigger or smaller than the volume of a sphere. And then what if I only have 70% of a circle, but 80% of the sphere?

You could make up some metric like "the unit sphere occupies a greater volume fraction of the unit cube compared to the area fraction of a unit circle in a unit square", and compare like that if you only have some fraction of each circle/sphere instead of the whole thing, but is there any value in making that comparison?
Those bills would never get through the senate, because they can't use the budget filibuster-busting process like Build Back Better does and thus would need 60 votes.
> Although I am not doubting you, I find it rather curious that you would describe tractors and/or other farm equipment as "fiendishly complex". I am not sure if there is a term or concept for this issue,

I've come across the term "confusopoly":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
Ok so maybe I exaggerated a bit (or it just feels like 40 seconds!), I just timed a couple of times, it's closer to 15-20 seconds, so not as bad.
I did not need a quora login to read that.

What could be the difference? Location?
There's another reply in this post about a scenario of selling a couch on Craigslist, as an example. The burden that comes with a simple transaction is undue.
Odds of having it pass through a whole household without a trace would be lower, of course, but you are right that some of them/us may have had asymptomatic infections earlier on.

About half have had symptomatic infections, all from different sources (not due to us getting together), in the past couple weeks. Everyone in the house, even little kids, are getting sick (fever, at least, every time), in every single case so far (unless, again, some of us have had it pass through and no-one in the house had symptoms).

If that 1/4 symptomatic rate holds for omicron (I'm doubting it, but maybe) then something like 3-4% of the country's contracting it per day. Even if not, then it's still somewhere around 1%/day, minimum.
And the story about why the GPS satellites carry a NUDET payload (NDS) is a fun one too.
We are at the mercy of Google. Mozilla is a non-entity at this point, getting a fat paycheck from GOOG and spending it on inane initiatives.
Mental gymnastics was probably not the best choice for the wording. What I really meant is defining free will as something that is in a certain sense trivial. If you want to call making choices according to your personal preferences free will, fine, but this is a triviality and we don't need to debate over this for centuries. And the next guy looks into the predictability of decisions and assigns free will to an entity if its future behavior can not be determined with certain resource constraints. Fine except that the term is now overloaded, you might have the first but not the second kind of free will and both properties are not well described by the term free will.
Proton was way ahead of its time. It was great. And I was saddened to see it fail.

Itsme is pretty terrible all around. Their idea of "security" is ... quaint. Sadly they're not the only ones who are forcing people onto the non-rooted Android/iOS-duopoly. But unlike eID, Itsme isn't required for anything yet. AFAIK anything that requires Itsme also works with eID ... for now.
I don't follow, at all. Can you explain?
Those are Google One prices.
As a developer, I will never work on two things: Life critical software (medical devices, etc) and a web browser.
Why Millions of Americans Are Quitting Their Jobs
It makes sense they’d acquire Activision now, especially after Intel and AMD are bootlicking them and implementing Pluton. Essentially any new or even existing titles will not be able to be pirated with Pluton enabled.
The people who are trying to destroy the post office are not the same people using it to deliver tests. Those folks are not in favor of using it to deliver tests. Hope this helps
When they bought Bethesda last year they announced that Elder Scrolls 6 would no longer be a multi platform title, it would be a Microsoft exclusive. I wouldn't be surprised if they would try to take something like the Call of Duty franchise and make it Xbox/Windows only.
Steve Blank: What's Plan B? – The Small, the Agile and the Many
It’s NPR so not surprising it has this bias of catering to well off people being inconvenienced. NPR is a neoliberal leaning media company that likes to dress up and play progressive for donation purposes.
Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghur genocide in China
heh i had a similar style problem, i think it was more 1000x than 200x, but its because certain query structures the optimizer couldn't figure out, had to try like 4 different re-writes of the sql till the optimizer could understand it.

I guess at this point I just see it as just part of my job to do this insane stuff, good to know that others see this as hard :)
I really apricated the honestly about the pros and cons of each.
Nassim Taleb compared Bitcoin to a disease, called it a speculative bubble
Downvoted why? That teenagers are not selling themselves on OnlyFans? No one should be selling "pics" of themselves for cash.

Hentai isn't traded on Discord? look around, because it's all there. Join a NSFW "lewd" discord and see for yourself.

Discord welcomes 13-year olds to join the platform. That someone that young can see that content is horrific.
I also think they are important for national security. If you ever needed to roll out a vaccine quickly - the USPS would be the first bit of infrastructure you would leverage.
I believe you are right, I think the only parents that are positive via LFTs are particularly symptomatic.
> Most projects' tests, even when they're poorly written, still run in 3 or 4 minutes. My own tests run on the order of single-digit seconds.

That is an absurd statement to make without context.

I work on a large project with a few thousand very well-written tests, which run in 24 minutes serially on a recent-era laptop, or under a minute in well-parallelized CI environment.
Read it without the flashing ads: https://archive.is/bj6ek
> is there another good more FOSSy phone I can turn to?

I have been using Sailfish OS from Jolla since 2014 as daily driver and only phone. It is usable as a daily driver but you can notice it doesn't have the billions of development time poured into it like Google and Apple do. It is not 100% open source, but it is real lInux with systemd, wayland, ssh as root, etcetera. I am using it now on a Sony Xperia XA2 that I bought second hand 2 years ago for 110 Euro, together with 50 Euro for Android App Support it works fine for my usecase. Before that I used the original Jolla 1 for 5 years. That device had support from Jolla from 2013 untill 2020, 7 years in total. Choosing a phone for Sailfish today, I probably would end up with a Sony Xperia 10 or Sony Xperia 10 II.
Some people do believe that, but most don’t in any actionable sense, otherwise they’d do something about it.

It’s easy to pretend we’re collectively helpless just because we individually are, but being individually helpless is by design.

You were never meant to have more of a say than your neighbor, even if practically you may have at one point.
> You can always go the insurance route and get 8 tests/months.
Huh? How?
Moving to a country where my healthcare is tied to my employment feels a lot like dystopia to me. Also while healthcare struggles on barely functioning in the USA at the moment, there’s no real guarantee that it won’t be the first thing to collapse in the next financial disaster due to world shatteringly impressive mismanagement by decades of private companies squeezing the very blood and sweat out of American workers by way of ever increasing healthcare costs. It’s like a slow burn undermining the entire US economy.

And I didn’t talk to much about Canadian healthcare because I know it’s more fair but I know it varies from province to province so it’s not really consistent.
I tested positive over the Christmas break via PCR with basically zero noticeable symptoms (I had a headache and a runny nose for half a day.) I only got tested out of a sense of due diligence for upcoming family visits.

I suspect that numbers in this wave are being VASTLY underreported not through any malfeasance, but by the fact that omicron has already run through a huge swath of the population more or less asymptomatically.
if there is a reason for the mass testing, because it doesn't really let you know anything except whether or not you have COVID

If you test positive, you're supposed to stay home and isolate so you don't spread COVID.

Tests aren't perfect, since as you said, there seems to be a significant false-negative rate with Omicron, and you can be contagious before you show symptoms, but the tests help prevent people from spreading confirmed cases, and can be helpful to pre-test before you spend time with someone who is at high risk for COVID.
Moderation is a method to manage the risk, if anything the existence of moderation indicates that platforms accept it to some extent.
Yes I would too. Over time I have come to appreciate at least being able to control order of operations, just forcing join order is many times enough of hint to keep things working properly.

Having used Linq a lot I would actually prefer more of that kind of chained statement approach that is more hands on without having to explicitly loop.
I started seriously playing around with synths a year ago, and for a while I convinced myself there was no reason to buy hardware with all the software that's available.

That didn't last!
I chose North Korea for the thought experiment because of it's belligerence, not because of it's quantity of nuclear weapons.

>The Cold War being over, are you seriously proposing they need this entire arsenal in order to defend themselves against the very serious and dangerous threats of checks notes Pakistan and North Korea?

Why did you choose to ignore the Chinese who are currently rapidly expanding their nuclear arsenal. The world is on the precipice of a new cold war between Beijing and Washington.

>If so, then how come the US still reserves the right to a pre-emptive nuclear strike? How come it has not adopted a "no first use" policy like China and India?

A "no first use" policy is worth less than the paper it would be printed on. No one serious actually believes in them.
I mean, the knowledge that Campbell's invested in agriculture research and went as far as breeding its own varieties of tomatoes is not really common knowledge. So in that sense it is a bit of a thing to have the Campbell's seeds, since they were never sold for other people to grow on their own.

Tomatoes are a very easy plant to grow, which explains the prevalence.
There's also Apple developing WebKit on iOS and macOS, but they are more "follower" than "innovator."
The assumption is that in a nuclear conflagration, expect GPS to become... unavailable.
Buying Blizzivision is not the same as competing, it's them swinging their money dick around to take stuff away from the competition.
Ah, thanks.

If I get you right, the braking slows the orbiting object down. But that slow-down causes it to move to a lower orbit, losing potential energy in exchange for increased orbital velocity. And the velocity you drop in high orbit, you gain with interest as you move to low orbit.

So braking makes you go faster.
Apple's Safari also uses a distinct rendering engine, Webkit. Chrome is based on Blink which was forked from Webkit and the two are quite different now, including in terms of supported features.
Hey man I don't make the rules. People expect leaders to come up with solutions. Obviously it doesn't always work that way but if you can't handle the criticism then don't apply for the job. Its not exactly a secret at this point that the economy is always the president's fault even when it isn't.
The fun thing is, they have corrected a bunch of that in newer versions of postgresql.

I'm surprised that the problem stemmed from an index where the 'AND NOT NULL' took forevery to scan, and they didn't include a partial index, or an index in a different order since they are sorted.
> white goods

White fabrics, usually of cotton or linen.Household merchandise, as bed sheets and curtains, formerly made from white fabrics, but now often colored.Large household appliances, as ovens and refrigerators, formerly finished with white enamel, but now often colored.

- American Heritage Dictionary
I highly suggest starting a blog / YouTube channel / TikTok. Call it something like "Programming from Madagascar" or "Learning to Code in Africa." It's a unique idea and building a following online is a fantastic way to network.
They're not so much unreliable as ... really not very sensitive, as I understand it. Viral load in covid sufferers follows a curve with a rapid ramp up and a slower ramp down, both PCR and lateral-flow devices require a certain minimum level in order to read positive. PCR is much more sensitive (because it's an amplification technology, so can "see" a lower level of viral load) than lateral-flow devices - which means you can be "safe" on an LFD and "unsafe" on a PCR for a small amount of time on the ramp up and a fairly large amount of time on the ramp down. The level at which you're at risk of passing it to other humans is I _believe_ somewhere between the two tests, so it sounds like you maybe got unlucky with an LFD or two, but the results you report are about what I'd expect :(

LFDs are decent for telling you if you're infectious _right now_ - they're much worse than PCRs for telling you if you have covid at all.

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer, do not take medical advice from me. My partner is a biochemist and I regularly chat with a couple of council covid-response officers, and the above is the explanation I've had from them when I've asked.
You said that political party preferences have shifted in 2021 because things have gone too far left. The things you point are are unrelated.

If you had said people are moving toward the R column because Biden hasn't met his campaign promise, that would be a valid argument. There was a shortage of N95 masks under the previous administration, there continues to be a shortage, and you ascribe that to some movement toward the left. That is a non sequitur.

As for the homeless problem in SF: again, has that issue changed since Biden took office? You have cultural myopia if you think a local SF issue is causing national polling trends to shift right. SF homelessness was an issue in 2020 when Biden was elected and people voted Dem to begin with.
What do you mean by "spiff" here? Google doesn't give me any clues, and the only Spiff I know of (as opposed to the word "spiffy", meaning well-dressed) is Calvin and Hobbes' Spaceman Spiff.
You don't need to wait till you're at your deathbed. You can do this assessment every 5-10 years. When you're past 40, you've lived quite a bit. You can look back and see what was worth it and what wasn't.

For me, stuff I regretted wasting time on while younger (e.g. too many video games) bring back much better memories than doing things I (mistakenly) thought had more value. Quitting gaming in my early 20's was, in retrospect, not a great idea.

But yeah, I agree with you somewhat. A lot of people who live to a fairly old age actually have said that if you live long enough, you'll realize that "nothing matters". So probably not best to put too much weight on their perspective.
Literally my only complaint is that they ask for first/last name rather than full name. But I wonder if that’s some kind of legal/regulatory requirement in this case.
I just reply by a Yo and get on with my life!! it's annoying but people are like that.... they would always start by a Hi, specially by juniors to your role
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Or, to put that another way: Postgres's query planner should be emitting an explicit bytecode that is then interpreted by a query-execution abstract machine. That same layer should also be exposed directly to clients over the network, allowing pre-planned query bytecode to be submitted directly in place of a textual query.

I've heart the rebuttal to this idea before, that even minor DB schema/configuration changes that should be "invisible" to the application (e.g. an index being created — or even refreshed — on the table) would result in the resulting bytecode being different; and so you'd never be able to ship such bytecode as a static artifact in your client.

But: who said anything about a static artifact? I'm more imagining a workflow like this:

1. user submits a query with leading command "PLAN" (e.g. "PLAN SELECT ...")

2. Postgres returns planned bytecode (as a regular single-column bytea rowset)

3. if desired, the user modifies the received bytecode arbitrarily (leaving alone anything the client doesn't understand — much like how optimization passes leave alone generated intrinsics in LLVM IR)

4. user later submits a low-level query-execution command over the binary wire protocol, supplying the (potentially modified) bytecode

5. if the bytecode's assumptions are still valid, the query executes. Otherwise, the query gives a "must re-plan" error. The client is expected to hold onto the original SQL and re-supply it in this case.

In other words, do it similarly to how Redis's EVAL + EVALSHA works; but instead of opaque handles (SHA hashes), the client receives a white-box internal representation.

Or: do it similarly to how compiling a shader on a game-console with unikernel games + unified RAM/VRAM works. The driver's shader compiler spits you back a buffer full of some GPU object code — which, running in kernel-mode, you're free to modify before running.
I did the calculations from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Lorentz_tra... and it comes to ~0.25 years if the person in the car is moving towards Andromeda at 30m/s.
γ is indeed very close to 1, so the humans' watches would still agree closely after 2.5 million years, but the humans would be a quarter of a light year apart at that point, so they need to disagree about something to get the same observed speed of light from Andromeda.
Omaha has had a relatively robust tech meetup scene for a while because of stuff like this and interesting open source projects come out of the region+. The tractors have as much SW in them as a car does these days, and it was locked down to repair except by the manufacturer.
Exactly, I meant modifying a physical copy (like a physical book from a shelf in a store), never actually copying anything in there.

I would be very interested to learn I was wrong about that.
However, on the flip side, they are not really allowed to shut down unprofitable service areas in the middle of nowhere and are required to pre-fund retiree benefits to a greater extent than other organizations.
You can’t replace the feel of turning a real page
Ask HN: How to secure Ubuntu VPS in 2022?
So obvious things spring to mind:
1. Uninstall what's not needed
2. Firewall
3. Strong root's and main user's passwords

What else?
That type of closed garden seems more like Apple, no?
That won't always work. Main reason for bigger queries is to get exact data you need, so you don't have to send unnecessary data over the wire which is slow.
We're averaging over 800,000 new cases every day. The previous high was just over 200,000 per day. So this is far and away the most cases we have ever seen, and it doesn't even count the mountain of at-home positives that never get reported.

So none of this should be surprising at all. But rates of new cases are already plummeting in the places with the biggest Omicron peaks (the Northeast), so the "labor shortage" is a very short term issue, just like the various other "shortages" the media harps over, which all end up amounting to nothing but a brief inconvenience.
afaik those are user IDs of Chinese(?) messengers. Devs or others there like to use those as usernames because the are (of course) mostly unique and also enable others to easily contact them.
More than likely, because switching to Linux also drops all the "paid pre-installed windows software" (companies paying Dell to pre-install their software) then this jump in price would give a hint as to how much Dell receives in payment for pre-installing all those windows extras.
Not defending direct democracy, but it's not clear that if 60% of eligible voters participate it entails A) the people endorse the voting system B) it expresses their will. You can waffle a little and say that if people hold their nose while voting they still are endorsing it and it expresses their will, but I don't think that's what I understand "the will of the people" to be. I prefer a punch the leg over a punch to the nose, but that doesn't mean I endorse being punched and that the leg punch expresses my will.
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You do understand, that this doesn't increase the accounting and paperwork required for the Etsy seller?

The requirement is for Etsy to provide the 1099 to report income that the Etsy seller already should have been reporting on their income tax return (hopefully along with corresponding expenses to offset that income).

In fact, the whole point of this requirement is to make it easier for small sellers to properly report their income to the I.R.S., because now they don't have to dig through a year's worth of receipts to figure out how much they made from what source.
> people thinking they should have a feature because other databases have it (which seems fair)

Literally NO ONE wants query hinting in Postgres to check some kind of feature box because other databases have it.

We know we want it because…other databases have it, and it's INCREDIBLY USEFUL.

> They straight up say that they're willing to consider the idea if somebody wants to say how to do it without the pitfalls of other systems.

Pitfalls my ass. We want exactly the functionality that is already present in other systems, pitfalls and all. That's just an excuse to do nothing, Apple-style, "because we know better than our own users" while trying to appear reasonable.

It's akin to not adopting SQL until you can do so "while avoiding the pitfalls of SQL." Just utter bullshit.
This is pretty common from what I've been told the home tests must be taken right in the right infection window and most of them have a false negative somewhere between 7-10% and some even worse against omnicron.
You can get them delivered to your door for free, next day delivery too
"The campaign is funded by the UK Government"

What is this nonsense? They are a majority government, they can pass any laws they want, why are they wasting my money on this insulting propaganda.
Two reasons, IMO.

1. Things such as influenza mostly spread when the person is symptomatic.
2. Something along the lines of 50% of covid infections are from pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic people. Self isolating when you have symptoms is certainly good, but it is by no means the entire picture.