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> Except for niche usages like utilities and the creative industry, classical desktop apps are dead for both consumer and enterprise users.

I don't even understand what you mean by "niche usages like utilities". Utilities aren't "niche".

And I literally don't know anyone who uses a computer and does not use some form of "creative" / authoring apps. Some drawing apps, some music production or maybe just the occasional recording with Audacity, trying to make games, editing ebooks with Calibre, etc. That's what human beings use computers for (and we're here to do things for human beings before anything).
This website is overloaded with adds. It almost feels like a scam. Based on the fact that almost all other comments are not talking about it, I guess at least one of the following hypotheses is true (if not all of them):
- most people here use an efficient addblocker
- The website changed since its first appearance on the first page (maximize revenue?)
- some comments are sponsored
- on mobile it feels overwhelming but on desktops it's more bearable
> why do you fear market forces would favour their lies over your alleged "truth"?

Plato gives Socrates' answer in Gorgias. http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/gorgias.html
> the idea of receiving all my regular human interaction through a badly made Electron app from Microsoft for the rest of my life is just not a good idea in the long run.

I find the idea that all your regular human interaction comes from people you work with infinitely more dreadful.
Like they needed any more war crimes to add to the list.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2...

Let's hope this time the ICC gets to deal with the war criminals unlike in many previous occurrences.
Doesn't seem like it is, and the sibling xkcd is spot on. For rare surnames it's still possible to see trends, especially if you know the high-density areas.
I tried some random surnames for Germany, and while Klein ("Small") is pretty popular, the Latin variant Minor has some obvious hotspot:
https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=minor

Also, TIL: "Ficken" (=to f...k) seems to be a (rare) surname in the northern parts of Lower Saxony.
Maybe in theory, but not in common practice[1].

1. https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-community-condemns-can...
I wonder if an asymmetric scheme would work best, even though it may be unbalanced? For example, for any one popular video you watch, while you watch it, you also have to download and seed a small part of an unpopular video, even if you don't see it?

Maybe bandwidth and storage caps would work better. You seed X MB, even if you don't need the full X yourself.
There are good mornings and there are bad mornings, depends what's going on in everyone's lives.
3. and 4. What if the EU builds an army?
> And the infamous McDonalds "coffee might be hot" lawsuit

Except it's not supposed to be hot enough to cause third-degree burns. The entire event is horribly mischaracterized.

From https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts

> Mrs. Liebeck was not driving when her coffee spilled, nor was the car she was in moving. She was the passenger in a car that was stopped in the parking lot of the McDonald’s where she bought the coffee. She had the cup between her knees while removing the lid to add cream and sugar when the cup tipped over and spilled the entire contents on her lap.

> The coffee was not just “hot,” but dangerously hot. McDonald’s corporate policy was to serve it at a temperature that could cause serious burns in seconds. Mrs. Liebeck’s injuries were far from frivolous. She was wearing sweatpants that absorbed the coffee and kept it against her skin. She suffered third-degree burns (the most serious kind) and required skin grafts on her inner thighs and elsewhere.
The McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit was widely portrayed as being frivolous, but it was not [0].

tl;dr:

The victim was an older lady who was a passenger; she was not the driver. She received third-degree burns because the coffee was very close to boiling temperature. She required skin grafts and was permanently disfigured.

So then the question becomes: Why do most people think this lawsuit was frivolous? That's not by accident.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/watch-hot-coffee-a-powerf_b_8...
I gave up as soon as I realized that the form at the top was an ad and not part of the page. What a mess!
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I should have mentioned that they got the boot during the sales process - so they hadn't won the work yet.

It wasn't a criticism of the SAP product - just that they the sales team constantly got a a basic thing incorrect in a rather dogmatic way.
It is fool hardy to believe that the Russian forces are "not militarily capable" of doing to Ukraine what the US did in Iraq. Reduce cities to rubble, given the logistical advantage compared to what the US did in Iraq.

I guess their objectives are pretty straight forward and since they are ethnically same as the Ukrainians do not target civilians.

What worries me is the use of civilians as human shields, even reports of Indian students being locked up by the Ukrainian forces to be used as human shields.

Let us remember that the US was ' ' close to carpet bombing Cuba during the cuban missile crisis. If you share borders with a regional superpower, stop dreaming about getting in bed with their enemies, let alone military ties.
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Technically we also had Pepsi in Romania, I drank it once or twice before 1990, but we didn’t have the consumer society the West had that made it so you could buy Pepsi or Coca Cola from basically almost everywhere.
And Japan has offered their payment service a while back to the Russians as well. Think Russian has being preparing for this for a while.
FOIA request compels FDA to release vaccine safety data
How does 0.0001 BTC "suddenly double in value" to be 0.0002 BTC?

What you're actually saying it suddenly doubles in value when converted to another currency.

Just the same as if I owe someone $10, in the same currency, then it doesn't matter if the ratio of the dollar to the ruble doubles or triples at the same time. It's still $10 to both of the parties.
There's little incentive to start a business when the government or mafia-like oligarch can shut down or take your business or profits at their whim. Also capitalism and startups are a culture. People who don't grow up around others that think like that don't ever learn how to think in that way.
Nextjs is a great way to make multipage web apps in modern day. Imo it should simply be the default for most use cases
I find it weird cause I've actually seen exceptions to the perfect square rule, which you'd figure they'd enforce in the upload.

On Apple Music, Ween's album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness has album art that isn't a square, it's a slightly wide rectangle. When it's in a carousel with other albums it's not even vertically centered, it's bottom-aligned so it's a bit shorter than all the other albums. Though if you click into the album itself they put some magenta letterboxing on the top and bottom that's slightly darker than the pink on the album cover.
Thank you for the feedback. Landing pages need more work. We've recently worked on our pricing page so I'd really appreciate if you can provide more insights into what can be improved on the pricing page.
Too be fair I did the same thing 2 years ago and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Drank to much microservice koolaid and ended up with 12 services. Consolidated it down to 7 once initial micro high wore off
A re-reading of the remarks suggests to me that they aren't arguing exactly the opposite. I'd put forward, after all, that no-one wants to create footguns, but folks are recognising that footguns are inevitable anyway, so plan accordingly.

As for why they're inevitable, the context is that most enterprise software is off-the-shelf and serves many markets, so configuration becomes the point of weakness. Only bespoke software written for a very narrow sector, or tailored to serve a single business, can really hope to do better.

We might hope things were different, but they're not, and as long as software continues to be developed by the humans, it's likely to remain that way.

None of this is meant to absolve Stripe, however, since in this particular instance they rather appear to have contributed to the fuckup by omitting a key element of auditability, viz. the clear reporting of exceptions.
> The Russians being stupid enough to think things will get better for them

It isn’t about things being better or worse. After being cut off from the rest of the world, China’s financial system is the only other option. So, instead of looking for the best partner, it’s about working with any partner.

And this was predictable — who else could they turn to? But even though they have a new trading partner, the fall in the value of the ruble will extend to these new transactions. This all serves to reinforce the asymmetry in the relationship between China and Russia.

But again, the Russians don’t have many choices here.
> Besides primitives, everything is a class with fields and methods. The static keyword decides whether the field/method is per-class or per-instance, and you can create instances with the new keyword.

Are you a professional programmer or a teacher?

The perspective you are sharing with me tells me you're a professional programmer who already understands all of this and finds it obvious and easy. The quoted sentence would be absolute gibberish to students.

> Everything is a fleeb with blips and blops. The slorp rump decides whether the blip/blop is per-fleeb or per-glorm, and you can create glorms with the klob rump.

Simple right? How obvious! You say it as if it's all so easy, but it takes a long time to explain all of these concepts. Students are usually very confused about the difference between a field/variable and object and a class, a function versus a method versus a static method... these concepts are quite nuanced and the differences are subtle to students, yet you are breezing past them like they are nothing or obvious.

> Java is a really concise language.

Concise: giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words. Maybe not clearly, but a lot of information in a few words is accurate. And that's the problem. Kids need a little information followed by a lot of examples and explanation. Giving kids subtle nuanced concepts and expecting them to recognize the depth of those concepts without articulating it is a recipe for disaster.
Armenia invaded the said land for some time. You may be unaware but West (NATO) has been on Azerbaijan's side on the disputed land, at least officially on paper.
> They don't need to "take" Ukraine. They just want it as a buffer zone.

They want it tho, the argument is not that they need it. The argument is that they want it. And the "just want it as a buffer" is completely unsupported and hard to believe.

> Ukraine is not of vital interested to the West.

When they decide they want part of Poland and Estonia too, will you say those countries dont matter for the west too? Will their membership in NATO then matter?
> We are in dark times friends.

Indeed we are, but you're speaking riddle that tells nothing, but sure do looks wise and profound to the unsuspecting mind.
Are they gonna take Kanye's Yeezus or Jesus is King off of the service? Oh right, these rules only apply to small artists.
When topics are social taboos, it's easy to miss out on some basic knowledge. However, in this case it's also possible to miss out on physiological variations and assume somebody just isn't wiping their butt properly.
Give humanity a little more credit.
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> Would you crowdsource the plan for your open heart surgery?

I think you are over estimating the actual negotiators. Most (if not all) are politicians not hostage negotiators. And this is even a different game.
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Even though this isn't a shooting war for the EU, there are certain steps that might seem contradictory to the liberal principles that we normally claim to adhere to. Russia has been declared an enemy, even if that exact term might not have been used.

In a conflict enemy propaganda will be shut down, and enemy assets will be targeted. This means severe economic sanctions, blocking RT/Sputnik, and arming the Ukrainian armed forces to the teeth.

With luck, the Ukrainians will be able to end this without the situation getting out of hand. If not, this might escalate and get real ugly real fast.
I agree with this: the game appears simple but there are some surprisingly complex interactions, and even pro players consult the wiki/spreadsheet/external resources during their runs. For example, only last month did Jorbs discover something new about how Gold-Plated Cables and Emotion Chip and Loop operate (something about how GPC fires earlier or later than Loop, which affects when you want to take damage during the Heart fight with Beat of Death going); on the last stream, he also ran into War Paint making Snecko Eye worse because it upgraded Dualcast to 0-cost, which means that the Apotheosis he had in his deck was unable to lower the cost of a e.g. 3-cost Dualcast+ (normally, Apothesois lowers a Snecko-randomized energy cost to the correct value when it upgrades a deck mid-fight). Keep in mind that this is someone who has >8000 hours put into this game, and these discoveries are still causing him to update his priors.

Great game! Every decision matters!
I look forward to the please do not eat test kit warning.
Because https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/map-russian-empire-191...
Ask HN: How to Copyright a Vector Image?
i live in indonesia presently
can i copyright my artwork in US?
is there any startup company to help me copyright something?
i know theres one but for music
I figured you could be testing out edge domains for ML models and similar. All good
His "solutions" is to work in "pockets of the industry" that don't have "bloat". (Among one of them is use more cloud services. Which makes me wonder if he's seen some of the engineering disasters people are churning out. This makes me want to just summarily dismiss the whole piece.)

The real solution is to systematically address technical debt as part of your development process. Did that feature that someone swore up and down would be your money maker three years ago not pan out? Delete. Is that abstraction leaky and not that useful? Delete. Are there code paths that never get used and are more or less untested? Delete or assert they never happen.
You nailed it on the head.

Employer based insurance is at the core a monstrosity. I hope these founders make a dent in cost but ultimately i dont see how any ROI will translate to lower industry costs, especially since outcomes-based billing is just another more confusing way to ration care and squeeze independent doctors to work for larger systems that can do the accounting.

And squeeze the little guys, and everyone else ends up paying ASC or Hospital pricing.

The only real solution is to actively get rid of employer based insurance and to break down barriers to independence practice.

I dont see how this startup does either, unfortunately.
There's a whole host of reasons why you won't want to ever use P2P if you can avoid it, but there's one in particular I'd like to spotlight: privacy.

P2P is a privacy nightmare, by design. You are asking everyone who wants to watch your video to also host it, which means that everyone watching the video gets to know the IP address of everyone else who watches that video.

Back in the early days of casual online piracy, music companies were happy to be able to sue service operators like Napster and get them shut down. However, when P2P services evolved to distributed-everything, it made it a lot harder to do that[0] since the only thing the service operators did was provide software to connect to their particular swarm protocol.

So they just joined the swarm, downloaded their own music, and then sued anyone who sent it back to them.

Now, imagine all of the copyright claim and takedown fraud that happens on YouTube, except instead of censoring one creator's video, they start suing the people who watched the video. Yeah, no thanks. Centralized video services have many problems, but legal liability on individual users for using the service as intended is not one of them.

Bonus points: given recent GDPR rulings on data exports[1] I would almost surely argue that any P2P swarm violates GDPR, because it turns every viewer of the video into a GDPR data controller, and any US peer in the swarm would constitute a GDPR data export into a privacy-hostile country.

[0] Grokster was sued on an "inducement" theory of liability that SCOTUS pinched from patent law, but that relies on the conduct of how the service operators and software providers advertised themselves to users.

[1] It is illegal to use Google Fonts on an EU website because of the US CLOUD Act and the fact that any subresource provider gets your IP address when you visit a website they service.
The federal government is only one part of it. States, counties, and cities can also impose their own income taxes or sales tax. Or like Florida they can choose not to have an income tax.

I suppose that would be like asking the EU commission to provide tax software for all its member states.
Like an ultra powerful goosh.org UI, with AI command synthesis, image uploads, crawling, search, opening pages, etc.
Spinal Tap would have run into trouble with this.

"Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do! It wasn't a glove, believe me."
I know this is just an anecdote, but a good developer wouldn't ask the manager to approve every small refactoring or expect them to understand the importance of "one method in SuperFactory". They would have instead made a judgement call and taken the responsibility of doing the quick fix.
That one line was sarcastic.

But you are obviously dillusional if you think this isn't praise... https://www.clayandbuck.com/president-trump-with-cb-from-mar...

"Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy… I know him very well. Very, very well.

By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, “I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,” he used the word “independent,” “and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad."
What an incredibly wasteful way of cleaning your butt. Probably brought to us by the same people who advocate throwing away perfectly good things to support heavy industries because the new things make them feel like they're being environmental.

Use a bidet you ass wiping heathens! Far less wasteful even if you feel the need to pat your ass dry with a few squares of paper when you're done. After some practice you'll realize that the butt is pretty good at self drying and shedding water.

I just had to come back and edit this to note that smearing of the poop thing seems to ingrained in the US mindset and thinking your "clean". The US has potable water and electric nearly everywhere, yep people smear the poop. Whereas you can travel to some of the poorest counties and villages in the world with none of those things, and the people still understand you wash your ass after you shit you don't just smear it around a bunch.
The main difference I can see is that the Fed controls the dollar. It is the central account holder.

Miners are distributed and there is the well known problem of 51% of the mining pool being controlled by a single party, but they would have to control 100% of the mining pool to be the equivalent of the Fed.
Consult with an attorney who is knowledgeable about US copyright laws.
Brave browser ftw
Which part of "identity politics" was it when Biden got on national television to tell everyone he wanted to fund, not defund, the police?

Incoherent and politically illiterate rants like yours aren't really appropriate.
> The only way to stop a bully such as this is to hit them the hardest, most brutal way, earliest.

Only if we had the same attitude against European countries or the US. It really seems like a one-sided stance most of the time.

One of the few times that a European or US (allay) receives similar treatment as they dish out, they completely freak out, making outrageous demands or requests such as the one to ICANN.

> The barrel of options against Russia needs to be exhausted.

Strong disagree, we should just retaliate in any way just for the sake of it- that's just not effective.

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> - most people here use an efficient addblocker

Yup. I was like, "this is a very oldschool site, super-essential, bare styling..." I guess all that whitespace is covered in ads for you, lol.
I don't know that's necessarily the cause, but if you've ever seen an RFP for enterprise software it's obvious why bloat happens. There's hundreds of does it do X, does it do Y... questions. And in order to win the bid you have to answer yes. Even if it doesn't make a lick of sense.

Like I worked on a big server side Java application and when offline became a thing one of the questions was "Does it support offline usage?". Obviously, since it's a gigantic Java server side application, the answer should be no. And there's no reason that a customer should want to run it or any application like it offline. But the question is there and if you answer "no" then you don't get the sale. So they built some half assed terrible bit of offline functionality that no one in their right mind should ever use. Now they can answer "yes" to the dumb question and get more sales.
Russian-born entrepreneur offers $1M bounty for Putin's arrest
Are you or your billing address located in Canada?
IIRC McDonalds had also been ordered by one or more judges to lower the temperature because a lot of people were getting hurt. They simply refused.

Then the judge got this case and the rest is history (if mischaracterized by a remarkable PR campaign by McDonalds).
Gotta hand it to Microsoft and Nutella. I was pretty bullish on them from, say, 3 years after Balmer left to about 18 months ago, but it seems like every single thing they've done since they started working on Windows 11 has been a cringey shitshow. Even the way they express themselves, and their advertisements, have - rather incredibly - gotten worse. For just one example, I was watching the trailer for the MSFS cloud service a few days ago, and the entire ad is just bullshit - nobody plays games like that, nobody sits like that, nobody holds their controller/device like that. It's like Meta and Microsoft both have completely lost their minds and don't habitate the same universe as me - I'm no Luddite, and it isn't even dystopian or Orwellian to me, it's just cringeworthy. And the problem for MS is, it isn't 2007 or even 2013 when it was properly difficult to completely get rid of all things Microsoft. The only 'must have' really is just Office, and I can still buy that standalone on my Mac and be done with it.

Anyway, the fact is that many people won't care and will use their products. That's just how it goes. But it truly is fascinating to watch as a moderately tech savvy person - not sure I can remember anything like this where a tech company in a position where it has a lot of industry/programmer goodwill has inexplicably fucked over its developer-base so often in an 18-24 month period. I mean, does anybody remember how 2 years ago Edge was the shit, seriously - it was like the best iteration of a Chromium browser, and then it was like Microsoft purposely torpedoed it. Same thing with Windows, and the TPM requirement is just the start. All of it is just bizarre.