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Back in the day, I worked on this API in Firefox.

It's a very old API that was speced before promises were a thing. Once you ship an API, sites start using it, and if you change behavior, you break them. If your browser ships the behavior change first, and breaks a website, people just assume your browser is the one that's broken, and switch browser. So browsers don't like to change behavior, especially before other browsers have, or if other browsers won't.

At least in Firefox's case, it's hard to be confident that the decoders we use for H.264 (the most commonly used codec at the time) would support a given mime type.

Firefox uses the operating system's H.264 decoders, because we had a policy of not feeding the patent trolls. H.264 has a plethora of different levels, profiles and features [1]. The documentation for operating system's H.264 decoders often isn't very clear as to what profiles/levels/features they support. Sometimes the user has installed codec packs which affect what codecs are playable. Sometimes the user is on Windows K/N which ships without H.264 codecs. So the only way to give an accurate answer to the question, is to actually start up Windows Media Foundation, and run some video through them. This requires loading DLLs from disk, and obviously we don't want to be blocking on disk IO in the browser's JS event loop in order to accurately answer this question, and we might not have an example file for the specific combination of profile/level/features the script was asking about. In the end, we ended up doing a "test decode" on startup of the common profiles and caching the result in the user's profile. But again, if the user asks about an obscure profile or level combination we've not tried, we can't necessarily be confident that we'll actually be able to play this.

Saying "yes" optimistically and being wrong would be bad, as then the player would appear to be broken in your browser, leading users to switch browser. So the idea was script would try a few profile/level/feature combinations and pick the best to which the browser returned yes.

We probably could have done a more accurate job here if we had more time, but it's always a trade off between marginal benefits here, verses fixing something else.

[1] https://blog.pearce.org.nz/2013/11/what-does-h264avc1-codecs...
I agree with this.

I put a little custom app I wrote for my wife on the App Store, mainly as a learning experience. And I decided to charge a buck to keep the riff-raff away.

But that $1 makes me feel a real obligation to my users.. I've put in maybe 6 hours of work over ~5 years updating and supporting when a new OS update breaks something, all for an app that has generated about maybe a bit less than $100 of revenue.

I don't exactly mind. This is the learning experience I wanted. (I have other, more successful apps on the store, but as the programmer of a small team who didn't deal with the App Store beyond getting builds uploaded.)
I experienced the same.
I asked an acquaintance who runs a 1000+ dev company, why is it so difficult for devs to find part-time jobs. He replied that he had thought only admin staff could do that, he found the concept weird. Very much in line with "this is how it works" as the article mentioned.
Is there any proof German reluctance to Ukrainian defense was WW2 guilt, as opposed to Russian control over a key sector to their economy?
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I was thinking in particular about the Wine on Windows use case. Running ReactOS in a VM seems a more direct route than running Wine in a Linux VM (e.g. via WSL 2).

Edit: I also think it would have made a lot of sense for Valve to invest in getting ReactOS running on their Steam Deck hardware, so they could use that instead of Linux. They're clearly a Windows-first shop, and ReactOS is modeled on NT right down to the kernel. Having a Unix-like OS running underneath, when one really just wants to run Windows code, adds an extra translation layer and impedance mismatches that might even be user-visible.
I thought this was initially FUD, but this in particular sounds bad. TPMs really do enhance security since it massively increases the security for even weak passwords (which 90-95% of them are). However, any security feature should be zero cost such that if you don't use it/want it, it doesn't restrict what you can do.

Secure Boot at least can be disabled most of the time and that is one of the most locked down features.

Random tangent: I really wish we had a better way to customize code signing and verification. For very sensitive environments, you should be able to only trust certain certs/roots for particular binaries. I'd like to enforce that for some particular python script, it has been signed by one of *my* CI servers. Obviously this is possible, but I think you would need to roll your own code.
I managed to buy a PS5 for MSRP-ish. I bought the console for 599€ and it came with a "free" second DualSense controller. The PS5 itself is 529€ and a controller is 70€.
As others have noted, this is old and has aged very poorly...

Her newer post seems much more interesting and apt to age better.

https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-xhain-354-painting-tech-dyst...
Probably my favorite, that you're missing on this list (mostly likely cause his channel only recently "blew up"), is Brian Lagerstrom, formerly called Weeds & Sardines. Another recent fave is Middle Eats. I probably make his lentil fatteh recipe every couple of weeks.

I tend to avoid cooking "entertainment" a la Babish and Weissman. Weissman is frustrating cause it used to be a legit cooking channel, but at some point a few years ago he stopped trying to make recipes that you would actually want to eat and focused on food porn. Then he got super lazy where you can tell he doesn't even test his recipes before filming.
> So you actually ask to squeeze more money out of your own people?

No, we can use less gas and pay the same. People waste plenty of energy in lots of ways.
For molecular biology I recommend “the eighth day of creation”
Same here in USA.
They appear to be under a DOS attack.
I think people wildly underestimate the huge biases towards capital expenditures in accounting and tax structures that are in place from past efforts to support the economy, while it is only putting a drag on and distorting the economy now in several ways and for several reasons.

Crossing the remote work gate and getting off the fence will provide a massive advantage to companies. I think the only advantage that many co-located companies will have is higher pay due to the massive monopolization/concentration that has been going on where, e.g., Google can pay a staggering larger amount to persuade you to work in their offices the only they can afford in the Valley. We shall see if they have enough money and wherewithal to shift expectations.
Question is: who in their right mind wants to buy?
US person detected. Good luck negotiating any terms in Europe. Not happening.
Don't deal in absolutes.

For me personally, I find the war to be incredibly distracting, because my attention was almost constantly drawn to it. But throughout the past few days I learned a few thing:

The situation on the ground does not change that quickly, fresh reports are often wrong or fabricated. But most importantly: I've gotten myself to be constantly obsessed over a distant war which made me forget what I actually wanted to do over the past few days.

I'll continue to follow the news, but not every hour and minute, and I'm just thankful a place like this exist.
Ukraine’s Turkish-made drones face off against advanced Russian military
That changed because they have a major refactor starting from Windows 7. They have it up to the spec and not so much more ad-hoc behavior this time.

To me it seems like cutting the compatibility arm is worth the price of having to keep a shitty, inconsistent behavior.

Apple has nailed it so well (don't make it backward compatible) for the last decade afterall, since Apple realized one the internet is so much better and source code management (and repository, backup, disaster recovery) became more accessible so that the cost of port became much lower.
Not covered in the article is how casinos deal with biased wheels in the modern era. Are they replaced regularly? Are they engineered from more durable materials? Do they audit the wheels to look for biases?
Related. The Pelayo clan, from Spain, did the same years ago [1]

[1] https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/04/16/inenglish/13345...
in what direction does money flow as a result of this?

I'm kind of an idiot when it comes to finance, and to my uninformed eyes, this looks to me like a $25bln gain for Rosneft. Is that the case?
American roulette is 38 numbers, but pays 35 to one. Those extra three are the house edge, and they are the same in the digital version. Other digital games like slot machines generally have a much higher house edge. I think the other poster was mostly lamenting that casinos aren't fair.
Trompe-L'œil
There are a lot of things in this world that are not rooted in rational/pragmatic concerns. For example, in the automotive industry, a lot of the margin comes from upper-end variants of any given model, which are perhaps 10% more capable as the base model but cost disproportionally more and are a lot more desirable. Why do people go for that? Emotional reasons. Are the $2,000 vintage Nikes worth that much, especially if you end up actually wearing them? Depends on if you're deciding on a rational or emotional basis.

A lot of this translates to the work environment. Someone making $300k might feel exceptionally rewarded for their work, until they find out that their peer makes $320k. Suddenly that $300k no longer looks that desirable anymore. Call it an innate quest for justice, call it culture shock, call it whatever you want - if you cannot see why your individual arrangement might produce a net negative result for the rest of the company, then you're ignoring the reality.

You just have to implement certain rules and treat everyone the same. You're either a full-time company, or you're a part-time company. You're either an on-site company, or you're a remote company. If you allow hybrid, you have to allow it for everyone. And if one person gets to work 20 hours a week, then it needs to be a 0-friction process for everyone else to transition to the same arrangement if they so desire. From a staffing point of view, that last part is an absolute managerial nightmare ("sorry, the project will be pushed back by 12 months because all of our engineers decided to move to part-time, and we cannot hire new engineers, because the existing staff may also move back to full-time at any given point").

There is, however, a solution for you - just work for extremely well-funded early-stage startups, because their CEOs will be more than glad to rock the boat internally in exchange for your skills and experience that they would be otherwise struggling to find in a full-time hire. By the time that startup scales and their CEO starts thinking about culture and retention, you'll be off to the next boat that you can rock as hard you'd like.
IMVHO you see the issue from a too strict POV: why countries goes to war? Definitively not because of ideology, of course they use ideology to train their own soldiers, they use propaganda on both sides from equal reasons, but the real reasons behind a war are more practical: countries goes to war to conquer someone else resources they need or to protect their own.

Guerrilla warfare do work only on ground, not for an invasion, at least, in case of an invasion guerrilla must be "domestic, on the enemy ground", so if a country train it's citizen to guerrilla at maximum teach other countries citizens how to protect their own land. Unless that country do not need/want in the future invade/steal from someone else there is nothing harmful in that knowledge spread.

IRA itself formally and substantially act in Ireland against the British who invaded them first, their "Irish" descendants of the North later, they do not invaded UK, USA, or any other country, if they have made attacks outside Ireland they are just hyper-rare cases. ISIS... Well... IMVHO ISIS is a byproduct of USA intelligence, not joking, no "conspiracy theory", simply for their own interest USA went abroad they have established or make arrangement with local regimes and for a certain period of time that work. After those dictatorships get a bit more power to aspire to being independent. So the USA need a way to overthrow these governments, they can't act directly, USA population would never approve such actions, like most of the world population, so they need something else: they arm and train local criminals, some idealists, some desperate and angry people and push them to overthrow the dictatorship in charge. They do that, like the so called Arab springs, but in the end a new dictatorship is wanted and sometimes USA intelligence succeed sometimes fail, one of that failure is named ISIS witch wasn't even much a failure since it give enough to shift American's public opinion to accept a long row of wars. Even after they know they was already betrayed with the lie of Saddam's weapons, Afghanistan as the protector of osama bin laden etc. Even though: did you really ISIS harm USA government? People, yes. But government? More surveillance is accepted by the people because of terrorism, more power was given, more state-backed crimes accepted as legal etc. ISIS have make good things for USA gov. Similarly Bataclan and Nice attacks for French gov. against their people.

Long story short, I'm not convinced that a trained population can be a threat because some foreigners can also benefit from such training. About "bans and encouragements" some police actions, legal in the USA, in some other countries are not only illegal but might be a justification for a violent and armed reaction against officers because in those cases they are consider a threat to be counter in legitimate defense. So yes, no country bans certain physical fitness etc, but allow and forbid things for the clear intent of avoid forming a "ready and active" citizenship...
US’s Netflix to broadcast Putin propaganda
Are there any Sami still left? The genocide of the sami and their culture is truly tragic and sadly ignored.
Looks like Win32 is becoming the best GUI (and not only) API for Linux.
If you are not happy with Lisp parenthesis, why don't you try Elm or Elixir?
That raises numerous questions, and all of them indicate bad management.

Who is in charge of that team? Is there no bilingual, western trained person that can mange these problems?

Are they not understanding what needs to be done, or are they missing that many skills? Do they not recieve training? If training is not helping, why were these candidates selected in the first place? If these were the best candidates avaliable, why was that offshore office created to begin with?
Excellent - I use moscowtimes.ru for news from within russia. Not sure how reliable it is, but i've read an article which if google translate works fine, it would appear there is dissent among their forces. Also the russian ministry of defense has openly spoke, in russia, about russian losses: more than 3200 dead. That's half the losses Russian had in 8 years of the Second Chechen War. Looks like Ukraine is winning and thus Putin is resorting to nuclear fearmongering.
Kyiv’s mayor: ‘We are encircled’ but full of fight
I recommend the series of books by Morris Kline on mathematics and its connection with other spheres of activity. They're all good, but I especially liked _Mathematics in Western Culture_ and _Mathematics and the Physical World_. I know that math isn't science, but, since math underlies much of science and a lot of everything else, you gain a deeper understanding of the development of ideas in science by reading Kline's books.
Deterrence Theory
The first version using gzipped XML was 8.2.2
Sorry, riot isn’t the right word. Nobody was being hurt, and that’s very important.

However it’s not acceptable to shut down public roadways.
You don't need to play new games. My Steam library is full of cheaply-bought games and there are quite a few childhood games I'd love to revisit.

If you need a recommendation, I'd go for faster than light or slay the spire. If you have a lot of time, the X series recently released a free extension for X3:TC called farhams legacy, which you can pick up for dirt cheap. But there are many games that aged well.
Quantum - by Manjit Kumar, is a very accessible book covering the history of quantum mechanics.
If Putin isn’t afraid of NATO even defending an invasion of Ukraine, what makes you think he’s actually afraid of NATO attacking Russian soil?
If you have all that on hand why would you not have eggs, flour, and milk as well?
Ansible is a lot of python that's already been written, battle tested, and made available to use. Once you get beyond one box or need to deploy and tweak something more than once, getting an ansible config setup is much easier in the long run.
iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
There seems to be much more russian propaganda being spread today then the last few days.

I would agree it's coming from an official source, but with the sheer amount of disinformation going around right now I would assume no one is immune.
Just because someone with authority speaks doesnt make it true just like a child speaking dosent make info false.

so far today, there does seem to be lots of hysteria through-out media.
This is really fantastic. Nim is a beautiful language for getting very performance code easily.
Also, there's some really nice projects that use Nim out there - I believe nitter.com and teddit.com use Nim, which are much better than using the original websites if you're not super keen on huge scripts dependencies and everything you do being tracked.
Let’s see if you still feel that way when your next paycheck doesn’t arrive.
What data are you seeing that is showing crypto’s dying off?
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If Putin isn’t afraid of NATO even defending an invasion of Ukraine, what makes you think he’s actually afraid of NATO attacking Russian soil?

Btw the Russian troop “pullout” was a fabricated lie. It was a few tanks sent back needing mechanical repairs from heavy drills. So it appears we’ve already established you’re falling for Russian state propaganda talking points that turned out to be false.
"The whole lie about how American business uses scientific management principles where we measure metrics and make informed decisions is such a sad joke."

Anyone who's worked in corporate for a few years should be able to see millions wasted. An accurate parallel for what's happening is not 'efficient market', it's a fashion show - some random fad becomes popular amongst management, most companies adopt it, some get burned.

Then it either passes unevenfully or collapses the whole economy like it did 14 years ago.
Some few I liked a lot:

* Bill Bryson's A brief history of Everything

* Siddartha Mukherjee's The Gene: an intimate history and The Emperor of All Maladies (on Cancer)

* Carl Zimmer's Evolution, the triumph of an idea

* James Gleick's Information, A History, a Theory, a Flood

* Walter Isacson's Codebreaker about the creation of the CRISPR -CAS9 gene editing technology
I always ask my 32 bit integers before modifying them:

"What would you say...you do here?"
This is precisely why headscale is better than tailscale. Use headscale, it's great.
Yep - makes the base model F150 Lightning feel like a 'loss leader'
(1) In context, "wrecking Ukraine" referred to continued actions from a distance (in Crimea and elsewhere). Again, he was wrong.

I'm glad previous adminstrations didn't put stock in his ideology.
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>The other half is we have kind of deprecated public spaces as an idea

We used to use the coffee house/bar in my town as the public house, where news was spread and discussions took place. The demise of such places has been very unfortunate and our interaction is now much poorer in both quantity and quality. Facebook/Twitter/Reddit are poor replacements, although I do like my town's subreddit.

I really don't know how we are going to reestablish public places again but I hope it happens.
I would love to see something like the cafeterias in Mexico City where people go to have coffee, eat, talk, play games, and catch up with each other.
But people who don't necessarily need it and/or don't make money with it won't pay insane prices for (ab-)used mining GPUs. It won't be insanely cheap, but definitely a lot cheaper.
> Linux is the new standard for this stuff.

Linux is not a standard, because in opposite to, say, POSIX, it is not standardized, but is an everchanging implementation.
That's a 600Mhz G3 with 256MB of RAM. Probably 3X faster CPU and twice the RAM.

I was a user at the time. Had many iMac G3s.

But even on this machine, try navigating through nested menus, dragging windows around. Now boot from Mac OS 9 and do the same. It's night and day.
In my opinion the biggest differentiator in whether to work in Europe or USA is the number of children you have.

If you have zero children, USA is better than Europe. With one child, it becomes a toss-up. With two or more children, Europe becomes more and more favourable.

With every additional child in USA you add thousands of dollars per month of expenses. By contrast, every additional child in Europe usually adds only hundreds of dollars per month of expenses.

The extra income from USA gets swallowed up quickly once you have children.
I save recipes to Pinboard.in and use appropriate tags for them. E.g. vegetarian, beef, chicken, side-dish, soup, etc. Simple and useful.
Opinion: Ukraine will survive – but the West should be ashamed
This is fixed with headscale.
Possibly only detained and intimidated for a while to send a message and discourage other protesters; torture or death would transform each peaceful protester in an angry Russian family of 3 or more, and Putin is already slowly digging his grave by killing civilians in Ukraine.
Awesome! mg is my favorite EDITOR.
Nowhere, they just abandoned the stake and gave the shares back to Rosneft. BP already paid somebody $25bn for the stake years ago and they are writing down the value of that stake to zero.
And just like that Disney bought the IP rights to Randomocity and started planning the Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Phase 23.
Interestingly I forget my wallet and keys all the time (to the extent it is possible since most trips require driving where I am).

My phone and wedding ring are the only items that give me the "something is missing" spidey sense.
Very unlikely, there will always be enough demand for most modern node technology to be expensive. Be it CPUs or GPUs. Those won't drop massively in price, but we might be lucky to go back to 500-1000 range.
If people would like to support for this further, please spread this on other platforms.

I made a dedicated Twitter account to track the progress of this petition:
https://twitter.com/norussiancloud
I would think performance and forward compaibility are the two most likely reasons instead.

Eventually DOS will die down due to its limitations (like TSR, interrupts, lack of VM, inability of handling devices in safe manner) with ever increasing hardware power.

Porting over to OS/2 ensures it will have a much smoother way of keeping an edge over the competitors, if OS/2 ever did have a sequel. Thanks, Moore's Law!

Of course, OS/2 is ill-fated due to corporate thinking and the disagreement in both sides, but the ideas are rooted deep within Windows 95/98.
It may help, but "any GPU on ebay for nothing"?

Don't hold your breath...
As an European, whenever I see a bald eagle, I can't help but view it like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7JRvwfHFwo
That is crossing a line. In free societies we should be able to hear different sides.
The question is can someone do the same job as Tim without getting paid as much as him. The answer is yes, obviously. Everyone is replaceable.
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