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I think the USB naming is the result of not using marketers.

This seems closer to the truth to me.

Being better at naming things is part of the reason that Apple became so successful.

"What do you want for your birthday, little Timmy? Do you want Apple AirPods, or Sony WF1000XM4s?"
Sure, there are issues, but the question remains, how would you send money to someone in China? I'm seriously asking. I don't know a simpler way then crypto.
In the article, author reduces (1.)

From:
"One of the best ways to improve your writing is to learn how to cut out words that are not necessary"

To:
"To improve your writing, cut out unnecessary words."
I think they should use the Chrome/Firefox numbering system. Every time you put out an update that's big enough for users to be affected, increase the integer by one. It's the most intuitive system to humans.
AI doesn't really need to have AGI to upend society. Just enough to eliminate most white collar jobs. even just generating massive amounts of interesting content at a fraction of the cost of a person/team.

learn how to code reasonably well.

learn how to program a robot to do a factory job.
Other Networks: Taeyoon Choi on Infrastructure and Equity on the DWeb
It's going to be on the blockchain!
I'm late to the game but I'll throw in the opinion of a hobbyist doing VR development.

I gave Unreal 4 a solid shot: did the tutorials, watched videos, learned simple concepts and advanced concepts alike. After months of learning one weekend I thought "I'm not having fun anymore" because 70% of my time was troubleshooting build errors and vague bugs (I actually counted). I'm no stranger to build errors (I'm an engineer) and even for me it was a difficult task to fix them. I would go down rabbit holes for hours fixing vague errors. Further, just about every tutorial I came across for UE4 was outdated and didn't work.

I swapped to UE5 a few months before they released their first public version. It was an absolute beaut of a system to use in comparison: better UI, drastically fewer bugs, tutorials were accurate, and no build errors. Quite a bit Just Worked, A+.

Ultimately I went to Unity because at least for VR, there were better tools that were better supported by the package maintainers. Adding a new third party Thing to a project in UE5 was a guaranteed recipe for troubleshooting weird bugs. In Unity, everything worked flawlessly. And personally, I dig C# more than C++.

So, I did the same learning process with Unity: simple/advanced tutorials, plenty of time dedicated to picking up all the concepts over several months. I'd say Unity for a hobbyist is still the better route if you are planning on doing game dev part-time. It's just easier to use and breaks less.

This is the opinion of a hobbyist doing VR development part-time though, and I fully believe other comments from industry pros saying Unreal is the way to go. I can't comment on that but I will say Unity was best for me.

Both asset stores were pretty killer and I spent WAY too much money on assets and scripts. Prepare to have a checkbook handy if you get started with either ;)
AMD completely left the semiconductor manufacturing space and it took them like a decade to get their chip designs in a good place.
> Imagine making the same argument for 7 year old chimney sweeps in Victorian England

That's quite an extreme example you got there, but as a former child worker myself I feel qualified to push back. I did hard physical labor at a warehouse at the age of 13. [1] This was a key opportunity in my life. With the money I earned from this hard labor I bought my first computer that helped solidify my computer science career. I could then spend a lot more time [2] on computer contract work, which meant I moved up the class system significantly with my finances.

So whenever I hear of these think of the children arguments, I think back to my own origins and how these protections are also mechanisms for preserving class hierarchy and making sure that children of less well off parents don't make any progress during their earlier years. To force the children to accept the lifestyle and means of their parents as a reality of their own lives.

That said, normalizing full time working instead of school isn't great either. I personally only worked summers (3 months of school break where I'm from) and so working didn't impede my school education. Thus I think better child labor laws would allow working when it doesn't interrupt school work. Unfortunately the child labor laws that I encounter are always blanket statements based on age.

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[1] The local child working laws didn't allow this back then already. I was lucky enough to be matched with a warehouse manager who didn't care too much about child working laws.

[2] I had already started my computer contracting work before I ever got my first computer. I used public computers to do this work, e.g. a public free internet point at the local hospital. Not ideal and very limited usage time, but when there aren't other options it's great.
Thanks, very well explained. It's starting to make more sense now.
For using normal Linux applications, Chrome OS uses Linux Containers (LXD) running inside a VM.
If the architect is also the coder/support, then it's a moot point. But if there is a separate architect, or a pack of them, there's no point in waking them up at 3am. Any architectural change isn't going to be deployed within the hour.

Personally, I think the designers/architects should work on the code too. You have to dogfood your own design, so to speak.
where is the outcry

There were huge protests at the time, ala https://www.nbcnews.com/video/barcelona-protests-escalate-ov...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41229486

This happened very recently. I still vividly remember the stories on the radio. The artifacts are online & visible if you really cared to look. I'm not quite sure of the point of questions like this.
I see something very positive in this news - it looks like Apple and other companies have successfully blocked most if not all of Pegasus' 0-click exploits

The true scary portion of this world is not even being sent an SMS/clicking a dangerous link, for a while people were getting infected without ever clicking anything

To me the most interesting leak/investigation that can come out of NSO is what happens once a 0-day is patched, is there downtime? do customers need to wait for a software update? is there automatic rotation of exploits?
"refueling infrastructure (power grids), battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability are huge constraints which must be figured out".

Valid concerns. Especially the ability of the grid to handle all of the extra cars. Both in terms of producing enough electricity and being able to deliver it.
Another way out of this mess is to sell to a chinese buyer. They may censor anyone who is critical of china, but at least they ll treat left and right equally bad.
Even ignoring your omission of contact lenses, that doesn’t follow.

I have been wearing glasses since I was young and it has very little to do with how I feel about reading glasses. Bifocals are awful if you saccade regularly instead of moving your head, add that to astigmatism correction and it’s like you’re viewing the world through the portals of a bathysphere.

I will likely always be able to just take my glasses off and read. But when I wear contacts, reading glasses are my preferred option.
Everybody who wished independence voted. 90% of 40% is nothing when voting for serious matters.

In most places that wouldn't even be considered a valid referendum.
I strongly agree with you. I find it disturbing that, in approaching their work this way, critics put themselves above their subject (the texts and the authors). I don't think it's a coincidence that the people who engage in literature and history like this produce inferior work.
> Jones had offered to pay $120,000 to each of the 13 plaintiffs to settle the case.

...

> According to Sunday's court filings, InfoWars listed its estimated assets in the range of $0-$50,000

I read this as: Jones has enough personal funds to pay a large settlement, but keeps InfoWars intentionally small and easy to bankrupt. But I don't understand what the two have to do with one another. What does bankrupting InfoWars have to do with his personal crime? Is this a corporate veil thing? The article doesn't make this clear at all.
I kinda agree with this. Jones reminds me of the kind of guests Jerry Springer would bring on so we could all boo them.

I don’t hate the guy. I just think he’s a clown.
They are wealthy because they have high-quality policy-making and a less corrupt government than the other autonomous communities. Other parts of Spain could engage in reform efforts of their own and contribute just as much to the government budget. Why should this be an argument against Catalunya?
Tangentially related - how secure are password protected rars compressed with, say, 7Zip? Assuming that the password is long, secure, etc? In the back of my head, password-protected rars don't seem all that secure.
Yet another data point supporting the fact that the phone number people have for you should never be that of the sim card actually inside your phone.
I don't know him myself, and after a quick search he seems to be another blockchain developer involved in bunch of project, I have no idea about his ties to any "freedom fighting" organizations.

If what he is doing is illegal, does that mean there is a warrant out for his arrest? He seems to be doing talks, presentations and other things out in public, wouldn't he be arrested by now if he's doing something illegal?
Gonna have to disagree... waaaaaay too much setup, and a large advantage to people who are familiar with 1 specific technology.
It is very typical for software, to incorrectly calculate download speed.

But if speed limited not by hardware but by software means - firewall, p2p could download much faster, if you fortunate enough to download something popular.

And from my own experience near decade working in telecom domain, they rare limited by hardware, mostly they have much more hardware speed than offer you, because they usually limited on trans-ocean connections.
So they limit speed for clients by software, so trans-ocean connection divided by clients equally.
If not limit client connections, faster machines will got much faster download, I have seen 3 times difference on machines in one room, connected to one network switch, and without speed limits.

And these software limits are usually not constant, because network usage is highly changes during time of day, limits also change, accepting you to download faster when little load.

For example, my connection once had hardware limit 100mbit ethernet, and outside network of my provider, they guarantee 20mbit (I don't know current limits, for many reasons, most reason war).

When download with http/ftp/ssh-copy, I usually see something like 2-3mBytes/s at business day peak time, and 3-4mbytes at night, but when try hot popular movie (I choose with most number of downloads on tracker), I usually see 7-10mBytes/s - close to theoretical max of 100mbit ethernet if one way usage (when also upload, could be 100+100mbit=200mbit).
So two wrongs make a right in your mind?
None of that requires a blockchain.

Blockchain provides no advantage for any of those features over a centralized authority.
> that in Catalonia the referendum was completely ignored

Because it was one-sided and those not agreeing with it didn't accept its legitimacy, hence not showing up to vote

You don't just put a ballot box outside of the provisions of the state and call that a "referendum"
Thanks for your feedback. I’ll try to answer on faith and God’s character before work. Then, the more technical stuff I’ll answer and edit in after work with some references. Check Tuesday for that.

“Why would the creator of the universe be interested whether we believe a story about it or not?”

His revealed Word says He is a perfect being, needs nothing, and does what pleases Him. He created everything to express every attribute (Exodus) of who He is: power, intelligence (esp universe’ design), steadfast love, justice, forgiveness. He intends to love and provide for His cherished creation if they love Him and each other. So, He’s interested since it’s the entire purpose of our existence.

Made in His image, He gave authority over earth, free will to choose Him, and responsibility for our choices. We turned away from God, stayed selfish, hurt ourselves, and each other. The Word says our nature, esp wanting to be our own gods, is why it’s hard to seek or follow God.

He’s an everlasting, pure being seeking moral perfection. He’s a judge that must punish crime. He’ll punish it forever in what’s like a lake of fire. Ezekiel says He wishes none to perish but to turn from their evil ways. He’s a loving Father who wants His children redeemed. His character requires the solution to enact justice for humanity’s sin and give mercy to those who turn away from theirs. Our choices determine the rest.

He sends (becomes) Jesus Christ. Jesus lives a perfect life, merits the ability to ask for anything, offers His own life on the cross to serve our sentence for us (absorbs God’s wrath), is raised from the dead three days later, given all authority, and offers saving forgiveness and eternal life to all who surrender to Him. God who seeks a relationship with His beloved children reconciles us through faith in Christ. He does what we couldn’t with our own deeds since they’re stained with selfishness. God shows His goodness and grace by giving a gift to unworthy people who He keeps with Him forever in peace and joy. All tears wiped from all eyes.

On the faith part, He doesn’t expect you to believe nonsense or pick the one story that would work. Jesus gave us the Gospel with a command to share exactly that. Hebrews says His Word is “living and active.” Isaiah says He empowers it to have an effect on you that no other work has where you are deeply convicted that it’s true. He says be willing to seek Him, have a humble attitude, ask Him to tell you the truth, and read the Gospel. God does the work from there at His pace. Read the Gospel on my site in that way and you’ll find Him. The “Impact” section proves His Word did exactly what He said it would do.

The stuff on science, etc will appear here when I get time. Let no “apologist” fool you. The main way people believe is hearing His Gospel with a humble, God-seeking heart. Believing the Bible is so against our nature that His Word says even our faith is His work in us drawing us to Him. He supernaturally grants the ability to believe it which the Bible says we don’t naturally have. He just loves us that much.
The xSpeed naming was even worse. Full Speed isn't actually the maximum (full) speed (that's SuperSpeed#, for some number). High Speed snuck in there at some point. I'm surprised they never did Ludicrous Speed with plaid cables.

The USB4 xx Gbps is good. The thing people care about is "which one goes faster". Numbers make that easy, vague adjectives for ever faster speeds make that hard. And it looks to improve the "not all cables work for all applications" situation that USB 3 ended up with.
That's a very apt name, kudos to whoever came up with it.
> When visiting Barcelona, Spanish is often the 3rd language

Non separatist Catalan here and I can say this is complete BS. There is no doubt that there is more people in Catalunya that doesn't know Catalan than Spanish. I have been raised in a family that has been speaking Catalan for many generations and everybody now is almost bilingual with Spanish. And oh hell if I wish that English was the second language there.

Tired of this propaganda that only causes more pain and exalts nationalist feelings in both sides.
Yes, I know other countries have banks. How would you do it though? What are the steps and services involved?

With Ethereum it's (again, assuming you have an address, which is trivial):

1. Get their address (a single universal unique value, no "what's your routing #")

2. Send the Eth to that address
Amazing name for such an insidious malware.
7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution
AFAIK, Netcode for game objects is merely a rebranded version of a previously existing third party plugin called MLAPI that Unity acquired and hired its developer.

It is very close to what they already had before and was probably mostly to reduce the amount of complaints from, well everybody, regarding their non existent multiplayer, the deprecation of their previous multiplayer solution (however bad) before having any sort of replacement and the semi recent addition of the low-level networking solution that is mostly way too complicated and poorly documented for most average Unity developers.
So a company called Securitum did a security assessment limited to pentest according to the pdf.

More over "Tests have been carried out in September 2021 in accordance with generally accepted methodologies, including OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top Issues".

It's hard to believe that one can call apps being secured after pen testing especially when the two highlights are such low hang fruits that are OWASP top 10 and SANS top issues..

It doesn't really give any confidences into Proton, but then again, I am not an expert, and have seen such useless reports at different clients.
My guess would be they are staking UST (stable coin) on Anchor Protocol. The staked funds are lent to traders. Thats how they can promise such high returns since 20% a year is only 0.055% per day. Traders will typically trade positions with a risk to reward ration of 1:1.5 or higher. These fees are negligible at this point for a position that will take a few hours or days to close. This is how you can trade with leverage on exchanges. Risks are protocol exploit or depegging of the staked coin.
More than that, we have pre-authorized military action against the ICC to extract any US detaniees.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
I believe Alipay would be the easiest for that.
90% of 43% is 38%. Hardly overwhelming numbers.
Spam calls and texts have basically ruined the “phone” aspect of my iPhone. I now have my phone set to auto ignore anyone who is not in my contacts list. For SMS I enabled the filtered view so I only see messages from contacts.

The end result is that the spam is mostly hidden away, but it’s still there. Full of garbage.

I honestly wish I could deny-all by default. Hey email solved this problem for me for email and I want an equivalent type of service for phone and text, now.
Correct. RMS is an Ultimatist.

He expanded the Overton Window (wrt FOSS). He created the necessary space for us to even have these conversations.

I have no opinions on RMS the person; I've never met him. But I have great esteem for RMS the ideologue. And I too respect that he walks the talk.
I mean, this was all happening before too, we just had less visibility into it.

If you think that the governments of 'western democracies' weren't spying on their own citizens or going against their own laws - even in collaboration with private interests - before the advent of the Internet and spyware/malware, I've got bad news for you.
That's a whole long post and what approach was taken varied from place to place, google "uber greyball" to see how uber prevented enforcement attempts... but really it came down to mass civil disobedience by drivers and riders to not comply with local taxi laws that brought about political change.

For example, in some cities like Austin, TX when Lyft first came to town (at effectively the same time as Uber) their interface showed the fare as technically an optional donation and Lyft guaranteed the driver reimbursement.

Austin was one of the few places in the US that for a short period successfully stopped use of lyft and uber but the city was over ruled by the state.
I think uber has a rule in my country where the vehicle has to b seven years or newer.
SaaS is an absolute cancer. I know a lot of those fat six figure salaries are contingent on people paying $9.99/mo for a grocery shopping list app, but its getting out of hand. Sorry HN.
> Why should this be an argument against Catalunya?

I have no stake in either outcome of independence happening or not, but I can definitely understand that some people can see it as problematic if one part of a bigger thing wants to leave without considering the other parts.

I still think Catalunya should be able to decide themselves, just like the UK decided themselves if they wanna leave the EU. Forcing states to belong to other states is something I thought we left behind a long time ago.
Slightly off-topic (sorry!) but have you considered testing/porting to the BSDs, especially since you have a macOS port? I'm particularly interested in an OpenBSD port. I may try cloning the repo and building it myself; SDL2 and CMake are available on that platform.
Hehe, nope, just went on autopilot when listing different versions of the game. I meant Sim City 4 of course.
This stretches the meaning of the word blockchain past breaking point.
yes.

And then you copy paste the wrong account number or amount, and you're screwed as transactions are irreversible, and there's no central authority which can revert that.

Oh and money laundering
> The only thing that matters is to be first.

To quote a famous asshole: "Real artists ship."

Or another "Perfect is the enemy of Good Enough™"

Network effects are real and being first to (idea) market has its own benefits. Who would have thought, speed of development has its own merits.
Explain please. There seems to be an assumption hidden here which might not hold true upon further investigation.
I think this is skewed by a few highly visible players in the NFL. Tom Brady may be performing at a high level as a quarterback, but he definitely isn't as athletic as a 23 year old coming out of the draft. His performance is due to his understanding of the game, not some visits by Ponce De Leon.

The average age in the NBA and NFL is 26 years old. Sure there are outliers, but again, much of the success of these outliers isn't due to pure athleticism, but to understanding the game.

For every Brady, or Manning, there's a running back who lost a step and is no longer effective.
Were you expecting to be able? The tech specs say "One external display".
If you hadn't had that conversation it would not have mattered that she showed up in autocomplete. You would've thought nothing of it. It's only because you had the conversation that the name had any significance. Probably hundreds of times it autocompleted names of people from 4 years ago but since there was no corresponding conversation, you didn't take note and just looked past it.
The comment higher up specifically asked for anecdotes to strengthen your point. It's looking like you don't have any. As for sharing personal details, you kind of started down that path with "I've seen friends and family banned for the silliest of things".
Also: too much information.

The 'hubris of 20 something' is mostly just ignorance.

When you have the experience to have witnesses all sorts of outcomes, you think of things in different ways.

I find myself far more 'unsure' of things because of 'all the angles' - and 'trying to thin of the unseen one's.

It's like C++:

You start by writing code. And think it's good, but it's not.

Then idiomatic code, because you realize the mess of your earlier code.

And then start to see 'all the things that could go wrong' in the horror of the code you wrote before.

Then you spend the rest of your career worrying about every few lines of code, about all the things that could go wrong, with obvious diminishing marginal returns on that.

So if you're 20 and making a dating app, it doesn't mater that much, you can thrash and burn through code.

For many things, that doesn't work and many of those projects do not fit the pattern of 'high growth VC' so they have to get done another way, hopefully at companies with surplus budget and a bit of vision and people willing to still do stuff instead of collecting a paycheque.