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This is an overly rosy view of Microsoft's moat (and acumen) IMHO.

For one, Microsoft completely missed out on the mobile revolution.

For another, look at Mixer. This was there attempt to clone Twitch. They threw a bunch of money at it and quickly gave up. To me this was insane. Streaming has shown to be great marketing for games and I never thought they'd give up so quickly and right before the new Xbox launch.

Imagine if Mixer streamers had early access to the new console and titles? And drops? Viewers absolutely love drops.

What if the Xbox Game Pass included a Mixer sub like Amazon Prime does with Twitch Prime?

To me this just showed they have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

I mean, look at how much money they've thrown at Bing.
Open Invention Network expands Linux patent protection
Ayaneo Next Advance Handheld Gaming PC
It's the will of the voters.
> Btw F-Npr they used to good but now it’s a New York Times like propaganda network.

Not familiar with NPR as a European, what do you mean by this
It's easier to take one dollar from a million people/companies than a million dollars from one person/company.
Viking 1 also did chemical analysis. Canonically inconclusively.
I don't think your examples are examples of solving a different problem.
For me it's the opposite, when walking around I'll have a sense where "north" or "home" is, and at some point it will switch (north becoming east for example) and I won't notice it.
Part of it must be the new relaxed measures that have been put in place at schools, and phasing out of contact tracing.

Aside from people who are sick themselves, kids are getting sick causing parents to use sick leave to care for them at home (and exposing themselves to illness in the process)

Complicate that by sick teachers and carers interrupting normal child care routines, also causing parents to miss work.
I wanted the photos outside the Time Machine bundle. It was (and is) a horrible process, but I quit photos.app, rsync them to a nas, then reopen iPhoto and post the result (success or fail) to Slack.

Getting to the photos was horrible, so made an alias of the folder that contains the files (which is in the library bundle).

It’s all on a VM so it sort of out the way.
What kind of tests? There are two types with very different characteristics, and it's good to specify which kind of test you're talking about.
> What’s your point? How do you want people to think about the unvaccinated?

Freedom fighters I think
Backups and version history are not the same thing. Especially when you're messing with the version history. I make copies when I'm using git-filter-repo, or BFG. But even rebase is a destructive action that would be nice to have a safety net for.

In the real world people have a ton of untracked files for their development environment, and uncommitted changes, but need an update from a coworkers branch that has a conflict with development, and a different conflict with your local changes. This can leave you in a weird state pretty quickly, and merge conflicts are a pain, especially if the conflicts are in a part of the code you're not very familiar with. Personally, I go full cowboy and work my way through it, but I am not surprised in the least when I hear that people make a backup so they can quickly restore.

One benefit of copying a directory instead of using git is that it will copy all of your untracked files, and uncommitted changes as is. Another benefit is that it works the same no matter what tooling you're using. I believe that some legacy code at my company is still on SVN and source safe. I also use open source projects that are developed with mercurial, bazaar, and fossil. If I were going to work on any of them, I would definitely be making backups the standard way instead of trusting my ability to use the tool properly.
That amount would be reported to the IRS if you used eBay (because the "Goods and Services" setting is used on that platform).

If you sold it outside of eBay and the buyers used "Goods and Services" it would also be reported.

Only if a buyer used "Friends & Family" it would not be reported.
> PC

Specifically Windows, it has to be pointed out these days.
Ok, let me rephrase, who is the person that has enough knowledge of the about the internals of the database (the names of tables and columns and how they relate to eachother) yet does not have sufficient SQL knowledge to construct basic queries nor willingness or knowledge to use a visual query builder?

Is this meant for SQL query construction via chatbot? A person interfacing entirely through voice?

Who wants to create basic SQL statements from English?
Interesting.

I assumed the research component was bigger since the project originated at MIT, and that it was one of the reasons they were pushing for a system that didn’t exist at the time instead of porting a known Linux distribution to it.
If you don’t want to sign up then you can see results after voting yourself.

If you sign up, then you can find all your polls along with results under My Polls even without voting yourself.
People like myself would act very differently to a cold than COVID. It changes also needs to isolate/quarantine, and helps us get a handle on asymptomatic cases who otherwise would go around continuing to infect others.
IMHO it's the same pattern of the time when Intel gave up on their memory business and entered the CPU business. Citing from memory: "If you were the new CEO what would you do to save the company?" - and he immediately knew the answer - "Then let's go back in the boardroom and do that."

Judging from that it seems like their fab business doesn't have any long term future, the outside world just doesn't know it yet. Now they put on a show until they are ready to fully convert to other fabs. After all, the current fabs are still cranking out chips that make them billions each month.
Disagree hard here. Better to increase prices less often but with a strong justification.

"Here's why we're raising our prices by 15%" - the alternative yearly increase will be death by a million papercuts: "You are constantly raising the rates!"
As if a pandemic can be fixed politically.
It's pretty much all there, it just needs to be packaged.

Also most people don't like carrying a compass and road atlas like I do so the turn by turn navigation needs to work (KDE marble will stick you on a slippy map and route for you but I don't think it does real time navigation right now.)
Not sure what you mean by "objectively", but I have a few simple criteria that I turn to before I decide to replace a device:

1. Can I easily upgrade it (new hard drive, more memory, change the battery, install another operating system)?

2. Is the cost of repairing/upgrading the device commensurate with the amount of use I'm going to get out of it post repair/upgrade?

3. Do I really need to keep it going or buy a replacement?
> You can sell your copy, no matter what you have done to it, at least by the First Sale Doctrine in the US, and similar elsewhere.

If you have a personal created copy of a copyrighted product which you do not have the rights to, you don't have a right to sell this copy right? (Specifically talking about the copy and not the modification)
> I don't think "repairing tractors out in the middle of nowhere" is a very easy one to get into.

Not as hard as you think (I've worked on cars, vans and even semi trucks). By the local Autozone (a chain of automotive parts store) there is a man who repairs cars on the street out of a an old, short school bus. He also does house calls. He has a generator, air compressor, welder, jacks, engine hoist, all the tools needed, and even some parts. Same setup would enable tractor repair with the addition of some heavier tools to handle the larger bolts and so on.

John Deere is electronically locking their equipment so no one but them can figure out whats wrong or reset/clear error codes to restore normal operation. It's just shenanigans.
GPS is fascinating, especially the development period.

Due to the complexity of the signal processing (relativity means that the clocks onboard run faster than on earth) there was much scepticism. The story I heard was that they only let them launch 1 Block 1 satellite to prove that could work, and then the first block of 10 satellites was used to validate the system before spending enough to get the full 24 satellites needed.
> It's already a race to the bottom. It has been for a while.

Is it? Undoubtedly there's exploitative crap on PC, but there are countless great titles -- indie and otherwise -- released every year that you can pay money to own. On my iPhone I can hardly even find games to pay a fair price once to own anymore; it's almost entirely exploitative crap.

I used to buy games all the time on my iPhone; were it not for Apple Arcade I'd've hardly played anything in years.
I had this problem running for office municipally. Virtually no student dorm was registered as an address, so they couldn't register to vote.
The US Digital Services was formed to prevent exactly that. The main lesson learned was "follow industry best practices instead of just paying a contractor who sounds like they could do it."

Strange thing is this was supposed to go live tomorrow (19th). Though maybe they were going by Guam where it is already 1/19.
the cheapskate consumer really doesn't have much power here, though. Not many people will develop primarily for xbox if all they can hope is to have gamepass level money. Thats why despite it, Xbox is still very much a 3rd in the console wars, and microsoft has to resort to buying popular IPs to have a chance.
> holy trinity of terrorism, piracy or child

you forgot to add the mandatory element of ignorance on a particular subject matter to make the mix truly explosive, but fair point.
I think SQL is generally great but I do agree with you. Access to lower level primitives from which one could construct their own query plan would be awesome. Query hints (not available in Postgres) would also probably get you a lot of the way there.
Now you seem to have switched the conversation of "Java projects tend to be overly complex" to "Java is great". Common talking point, and you have a lot of people who will agree with you, but pretty much unrelated to the topic.
Great, let's get those people off of it. Any company that doesn't pay their employees a living wage should have their taxes balloon to offset that safety net.
Thanks for the tip! I didn't know EXISTS can provide such benefits.

However, I've tried it out and it resulted in a 10x performance loss. Looking at the query plan, it actually got PostgreSQL to be too smart and undo most of the optimizations I've done in this blog post... It's still an order of magnitude faster than the original query though!
Prices follow offer and demand. If your customers can't afford your prices, maybe their business model isn't viable.

It’s nothing personal.
Nintendo and mobile are the only real options for party games. Xbox and Playstation are for AAA enthusiast games.
I perform hard physical fitness for a lot of reasons, but the primary reason is simply that I enjoy it. If I skip a workout I miss it and don't feel well.

Atomic Habits touches on this. People think that I have all this discipline to get up and workout, but the reality is that I enjoy getting up early and working out. I enjoy training JiuJitsu and more often than not getting my ass kicked. I can't really explain why, somewhere along the way I associated feeling good with hard physical work.
There are a few news stories out there indicating that because Omicron grows better in the throat that also swabbing the throat helps reduce false negatives. Though the official word would be to not do this since the tests were officially only developed tested with nasal swabbing.
Lists it as a business address. I currently live in an apartment complex that is owned by the University, but is pretty separate from campus and everything.
It’s 4 free tests that are hard to get right now. How is that useless?
God forbid, we help 10 truly needful people at the cost of 1 person taking advantage.
This is not a new danger. Americans had to deal with that by the end of the 19th century. The elites were able to run back the clock and remove or control any anti-trust structure that has been created to avoid their crazy accumulation of money and power.
> AT&T's threat assessment of T-Mobile was correct at the time.

I think that assessment was obvious to everyone at the time. The question is whether buying out competitors is good for the public.

Of course, the cash was a penalty for not being able to pull off the merger; if the cash was critical for T-Mobile to become the threat it has been, the outcome is ironic.
Too lazy to click the article, but...

Could a hypothetical individual just charge 599, and then charge again for more? That even sounds like a stupid question, but I've heard this 600 usd number in the headlines yesterday and this morning, so I wonder the semantics.
That only works if you think we're truly represented by our representatives.
>You could probably get an EG-25 USB modem and play around with it, but AFAIK no one is doing that, so you'd be largely on your own.

I think a lot of the devs actually do this.
What are you talking about? That article literally says they're focused on delivering games exclusively to platforms that support GamePass. The next Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will not be on Playstation.
Isn't that the main credibility problem facing journalism today though? It's these publications asking for credibility because "just look around, bro" or "look at these six examples, it's everywhere". You can't establish a pattern based off of emotions and expect to be respected as a serious news agency. You could argue that it's the reason that FOX News lost so much respect around ~2010 from FOX and Friends. It's the BLM activists asking you to "look at the racism happening everywhere" and the election truthers telling you that "you just know fraud is happening - nobody I know voted for Biden". I can't draw conclusions based on your feelings, no matter how strong they are.

It's telling that 13/52 and 13/90 have stuck around so well because those are real, factual numbers. Perhaps they're entirely misleading but, at the very least, newsreaders appear to be far more interested in those real numbers than "feelings-based" articles like the one above.

Part of the magic of FiveThirtyEight early on was their deep commitment to showing the statistical analysis behind every single article. You didn't have to just trust their reporters because they had the MiniTab or MATLab printout on every article that you could read for yourself. They fully describe their methodology behind their pollster ratings and election forecasts, even if you don't agree with them. 538 has since gotten away from their statistical analyses a bit and their viewership and credibility has suffered accordingly.
Yea all of our apartments/graduate complexes are listed under custom street addresses. USPS does deliver to individual buildings here, but only to the front desk.

The error code on the site says its listed as a business address. Pretty unfortunate
Correction: VOTERS are suffering because of their own voting choices.
Yes, the child care problem is huge. My kids' daycare is short-staffed due to staff being out sick, which means they have to combine the classrooms at times. Then when one child in a combined classroom tests positive for COVID, all of those kids--and all of the teachers--are sent home for the isolation period. This results in more short-staffing and more combined classrooms, which leads to even more opportunities for COVID exposure.

It's a cascading failure, and it doesn't stop there. The parents end up watching their own kids and have to call out of work themselves (or work remotely at greatly reduced capacity).
So imagine deciding to spend $10 on that game, then realizing it's on GamePass. You now can choose wither to spend that same $10 to have access to 150+ games (including that one that's on sale), or just that game.

Sure, that $10 gets you only 1 month, but will you buy a different $10 game next month? Will you play this game for more than a month?

Pretty soon the GamePass ROI becomes difficult to ignore. (This coming from someone that doesn't have GamePass but is very impressed by the business model and value proposition around it).
The purpose of antitrust law is to prevent monopolies, not to prevent industry consolidation. Consolidation is fine in the eyes of the law, but monopolistic behavior isn't.

No antitrust action will be taken because even after all these acquisitions, Microsoft still competes with Take-Two, EA, Nintendo, Square Enix, Sony, Tencent, etc., plus a vast number of smaller players (Paradox, Sega, the sixteen gazillion indie developers on Steam...).
Its always supposedly about the children
I think America might want to tackle health care, drug addiction, inequality, racism, sexism before worrying about anti-trust
Perhaps this will be the first time that those promoting mass censorship, internal passports, discrimination, putting people in camps (see Australia), etc., wind up on the right side of history. I'm betting not.
You can push content from Confluence into Jira, it's been around for years [1] but this functionality does need to improve. At the same time, Atlassian has also has created Jira Product Discovery which is currently in closed beta [2]

1 https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/use-jira-applications-a...

2 https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery/wa...
How much revenue is raised from income taxes on people making <$50k?

Napkin math, I'd guess avg $5k from 100m people. Are we really collecting half a trillion dollars a year from people earning subsistence wages?
Yeah, "calling out sick" allows for the possibility that people aren't really sick and there might be abuse of sick time happening for other reasons, like coordinated sick-out protests or just individuals being fed up.

In this case, the droves of people claiming sick time are most likely genuinely sick.
Yeah I agree it's a very nontrivial task but there is a difference between not doing it because it's hard or explicitly saying "fuck you, know your place"

>If you launch an owner-signed kernel, iOS app support turns itself off; and the Apple-signed versions of macOS actually have the same sideloading restrictions on iOS apps that iOS does.

Has there been an attempt to patch this out? if the supposed owner override is actually real then technically the only thing separating you from a non treacherous ios subsystem is a few conditional jumps right?
Would be nice if they shared how many tests they have :)
The purpose is to know when to self-isolate and maybe give close contacts a heads up that they might be positive too.
It wouldn't be so bad if the content wasn't an army of attention and money-seeking influencers. Those influencers will burn out once the truth about the creator funds finally wears them out.

Tiktok also encourages parroting information, and that leads to corruption of information. They really need to create more niches than the one channel they're runing to thrive.

But imagine a TikTok UI on something like Ted Talks, where you could scroll through a variety of speeches until you land on the one you want... Or even Netflix implementing that for movies, or YouTube for music videos. It would finally create a new way of finding new things quickly. There is great benefits to TikTok's method when done properly. The question is whether or not creators will be properly paid or not...

For news I'd probably rather scroll through well composed story intros to find what I want to hear more about than to watch an entire show these days to be honest. Once I find something I like then I can give it more attention. I used to wait through commercial breaks just to hear vital news, now it's much easier to just go to CNN and get pelted by pop-up ads on mobile... hah.
Is that legal? I'm not moralizing, I just didn't see anyone address it. Can't remember how long ago it was originally published (although if the scans are from the more recent version, that probably doesn't matter).
We should be kind, gentle and not "question […] medical choices". IMO when someone has died is an excellent time to hold one's tongue and offer condolance.

Even if the deceased person was one of those whose "medical choices" isn't just their own choice, it has real impact on us all by blocking access to hospitals. There are many good times to flame them, just after someone's died is not such a time.
The notion of closing a whole classroom due to a single positive case is ridiculous and counterproductive. We're all going to be exposed occasionally regardless of what protective measures we take. Fortunately CDC data clearly shows that on average COVID-19 is less dangerous to children than other common viruses like RSV.

And no, closing classrooms isn't necessary to protect teachers. They've been vaccinated for months now, and are free to wear PPE if they choose.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00443.asp
I think having a handful of corporations owning everything makes all of those issues worse
You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-GTcHZkfCs
hmmm I dunno... maybe China taking Taiwan and banning all export of electronics to US, leaving US with pants down
> Why is it never a "wage shortage"?

Because salaries are not transparent.
I would get a hardware synth. Much more engaging to program than looking at a screen.
I know people hate Behringer but the fact is, they are killing it with their clones of famous synthesizers. They sound pretty much like the originals and are inexpensive. Here are a few suggestions.

Model D - If you want that 70's Moog sounds https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BehringerD--behringe...

PRO-1 - For that 80's vibe. Think Talking Heads, Depeche Mode https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BehringerPro1--behri...

Neutron - An original design. Sounds fantastic very flexible to program.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NeutronMod--behringe...
Watch The Alpinist on Netflix if you haven't yet.
I think it's neither; this is just pure politics - it's meant to distract the attention of authoritarian backbench conservative MPs away from the manifest deficiencies of their leader.
I believe the objection people have is to ever being put in a situation where you have to explain yourself anyways, even if you're innocent. "Just be polite to policeman, calmly explain the situation and he won't hurt you."

The optimal strategy is to avoid interaction/scrutiny whenever possible because every interaction adds a non-zero chance that someone with a quota/chip on their shoulder/bad day is about to ruin you.
This is a meaningless distinction, though. Of course you can’t describe a human’s behavior purely in terms of genome. Essentially no one holds the position that this is possible. You can’t even describe a bacteria’s behavior purely in genomic terms. Behavior is inextricably linked to the environment. The environment for humans is incredibly complex so the interactions between environment and genome are even more complex. You cannot describe human behavior in terms of just environment either.

Maybe this is an interesting position for software, because modern CPUs are explicitly intended to be general purpose and as such are all theoretically equivalent. Even there the abstraction falls apart pretty regularly, though, as Intel gets destroyed by M1 battery life and attacks like rowhammer affect some hardware far more than others. It’s only post Harare as long as the hardware it’s good enough for the purpose.
UPS is effectively acting like a CDN here. Stocking up on COVID tests right at the edge (your local USPS distribution store) and shipping it off immediately when ordered. Hmmm interesting...