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Indians (including diplomats and common people) have been very active proponents of whataboutism to justify their attempt to profit from Ukrainian suffering and their ignorance toward it.

Here is a statement by Indian diplomat Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tru06ruZvd4

In this is extremely arrogant remark he claims Europeans to not care about other nations out of Europe. Everyone who knows just a little history knows that it is completely false.

Even if we consider just India, European Union is provided humanitarian aid to India in tens of millions euros. In last COVID-19 crisis, it was Europe that shared the vaccine technology with India.

If there is humanitarian crisis in the world, it is mostly Europeans who rush to help first.
> Not that it wasn't usable previously, you'd just run into a few issues.

I don't like that definition of "usable".

Compose v2.0 compatibility became available only since last month which was very late.

If podman isn't for technical benefit, is this all about political decision for RH to govern container ecosystem on their own instead of dealing with docker?
Then pirate them.
Getting water from the sea up to the desert would be a huge challenge in California, and right on the coast isn’t very sunny for most of it.
The indian constitution provides reservations for Dalits and other social discriminated groups, many of the Dalits prefer these jobs rather than private sector, moving out of India to a western country is also a costly affair (via education or immigration programs), which many of the dalit families cannot afford. Many of the indians I know want to get out of the country, no wonder, upper caste indians, who has the economic means to move out make up the majority
Java IDEs still have the best tooling when it comes to debugging/observability, in my humble opinion so at least progress is not lost in every ecosystem.
The one on US1 was still there until recently iirc
Of course it's meaningful.
The racket community constantly emphasizes `the quality` of the Racketm but in reality they are not able to produce anything that would consume less than 0.5 Gb! Even Microsoft somehow manages to do that (with much more features than DrRacket ever had). Acording to Racket community, Racket should be better than a `typical Microsoft product`, but dont even come close.
Try “Lake”, I found it really absorbing and the greatest peril is driving a mail truck that can’t hit anything.
Not all books are written the same and I cant finish some fiction books either. But there’s some fiction that I read through very quickly
The US is geographically larger than Europe but way less diverse in terms of culture. And it matters a lot when talking about things such as food.
> Or can healthy people get one too ?

This is quite insensitive. I am a person with T1D. It doesn’t mean I’m unhealthy.
> If we think of women rights and children rights, they are worse in US than China, kids get shot in school over the right to own arms […]

Which seems to be why the US ranks so low in the 'Freedom Index': if you look at the "Safety and Security" metric is is ridiculously bad.
> You can't make anything with it

There are blockchains that exist to provide utility by enabling execution of decentralized applications. Not all blockchains are focused on just payments. You may think that decentralized applications don’t provide utility, but that would be a personal view, not an objective fact.
Very, very helpful.
I so fucking agree. That 5 songs only for each damn artist, that makes you browse through albums... What an outrage! I just gave up and don't use the app anymore. So frustrating.
But then you cannot prove anymore that you know where Waldo is, no?

Previously, the proof relied on the alignment between the picture and mask being constant, but this is no longer the case. Now wherever Waldo actually is, every mask fits since you can just freely move around the picture.
If Facebook had to add a backdoor, so would all the competitors. I don't think anyone was going to switch any time soon were they to add the functionality. Any service worth their salt would switch to "oppressive government mode", either disabling access or ignoring the law and fighting the block when it eventually occurs.

Facebook has been under pressure for many years to allow government agencies to decrypt messages. I believe that their "no" is also an ideological one, because I can't imagine any of the staff being willing to disable security for their customers for government oversight.
Loosely related, App Store is by far the worst of the top-1000 online stores.

It almost sounds like proper competition would do some good here.
i have used Apple Music for a short time on my mac

the amount of usability issues the app has are phenomenal

i was actually more surprised when it worked rather when it didn’t

not worth my $9.99
Also, when trying to reproduce an issue, adding logs can often be more helpful than using a debugger:

With the debugger, you can only see the application state at one specific point at the time.

With added print statements, you get a nice history of the application state.

If I already know where exactly something is going wrong: sure, I'll could a breakpoint there, if needed - often it's not.

If I don't know where exactly the problem is, I'll add print statements.
A print will quite often make the race issue disappear as well (due to it being synced in many cases). The JVM’s flight recorder may be a better option to fight such an issue.
> If you have the choice of burning gas at a power station (which is how a lot of electricity is generated now a days) and piping it directly into people's homes for the end goal of generating heat, piping wins every time.

That’s factually wrong.

> I will grant that a very good electric (ie, induction)

This sentence doesn’t make sense. Resistive and induction cooktops have nothing in common. One is not a good version of the other. It’s a completely different experience. The fact that you don’t seem aware of this seriously hinders your comment.
I am sorry but I don't agree, that statement presumes that the goal is to defeat the enemy in a conflict.

The goal is clearly to avoid having the conflict in the first place. To do that you must make clear to the opposing side where the line is and that they should not cross it.

The policy until now was not to appear weak, but to maintain an ambiguity, cynically allowing the US to partly deter an attack, preventing Taiwan from declaring indepence and maintaining the option of not getting involved without losing credibility.

By my armchair amateur analysis I think that while the policy worked great in the past, it looks like now it is starting to fail to deter and the option of not getting involved without losing credibility was always an illusion. The only thing it achieves now is the prevention of Taiwan declaring independence.

To me at least it looks it's time to make it clear that Taiwan will be defended, in order to deter war.
So the answer for me is, I am not sure. I have a Oculus 2 and often "log in" and check it out. I use it primarily for entertainment purposes (like visiting world cities etc.). But I haven not have not purchased anything in the meta verse. Is that considered hanging out in meta verse or is that just old-fashioned VR?

My point is it is not clear to me what is meta verse and if it is supposed to be different from VR. I would love to read what other write about their experiences.
They opposed to add support to private mirrors in the software, probably to retain their monopolistic position

https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/34319
> Is there a need to integrate with anything?

I do like a more open/api platform and wish Apple was, but Spotify probably won't be for long. Tracking my plays takes more work with everything to closed.

Apple misses some of the obscure stuff but I will always side with the higher payer to artists. I also like just being able to buy albums I like and support artists.
While I'm not a fan of WhatsApp or Meta, I don't think this has much relevance here. WhatsApp isn't that afraid of losing users due to privacy concerns. Their 'new privacy policy' debacle made them worry a bit, sure, but mostly they seem to be letting things go with the flow. Otherwise, they wouldn't be releasing 1.5 features a year.
> I spent the time to learn to use Linux effectively, and I still want to use something else.

It does take time to be effective. I like to emphasise that learning to be effective at Linux is not a sprint - it's a marathon.
What if the desire of the government (“listen in on all communication without weakening security”) has no solution?

Just because someone has a ridiculous idea, doesn’t always mean “experts should just propose a better alternative”. It may as well mean that the whole goal is flawed.
You might reasonably call me a Luddite, but an audiophile? Not in the sense you mean. I don't claim I can hear expensive speaker cables (I got mine at Home Depot btw). Great gear from the 90's and 00's is available cheap, and it's great. It has buttons. And I don't have to pay someone to continue accessing my music and I can listen to music in an album centric way.

Nor am I claiming I'm more correct (although I guess I'm pretty proud of having found a somewhat contrarian path to take the trade-offs I think matter most.) You want to listen to spotify on your phone and bt headphones - all of which is subject to decay, decay of money, battery, connectivity - meanwhile I'll listen to my library with wired components that run smoothly and no latency without drops or a monthly bill. You get all-in-one go anywhere convenience, I get old school tactile control. Neither of us is doing it wrong. But yeah, I like mine better which is why I do it that way (and I assume the same is true for you, unless you're a masochist, and if so I say great, keeping doing you.)
Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much less than a week.
The app performance of Apple Music on MacOS and iOS is an abomination. It's consistently twice as slow as Spotify, from loading playlists to loading search results and playing a song. I would be ashamed if I worked on the Apple Music team. How can a person with any self respect go to work every day and be okay with Apple Music in it's current state?
The one thing that sours the entire experience for me is that songs take like 5-15s to start playing when selecting one that isn't super popular.

This happens on my ipad, mac, android phone.

It feels like some server is spinning up a hard drive to stream it.

Apart from that, why the hell is the title and artist only shown in one line that starts scolling instead of showing multiple lines if it doesn't fit, at least in the album view and the player. It's such a pain listening to classical music when the composer and the performer and section are not visible without playing it and waiting for the line to scroll, like wtf.
You'll be hard pressed to buy comically bad earbud nowadays. In terms of fidelity and price, average earbuds beat an average 80s stereo so hard, it's not even funny.
Yes, they still have lese-majeste laws. And it's not like they never used them, people still go to jail over insulting the king. They reformed the laws in 2018 but it's still punishable by up to one year of jail

>A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a man to 30 days in jail for insulting the king on Facebook.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36799639?

Plus, The Netherlands has quite a few restrictions on free speech in general. But I guess it depends on how you define "thought crimes"
What were the headaches?
openGL for all it's faults is still miles more preferable then proprietary, only useable on Apple devices, Metal.
The dumbest Spotify UX is that it only lists 10 songs for an artist on the web player: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-See-all-S...
I've been using the same ZBook 15 since 2014. The touchpad didn't wear off. I'm using it only to move the pointer and scroll, no click (there are hardware buttons) and no gestures. Maybe that increases the lifespan of the touchpad or it's just a good one.
How are first party Apple apps so horrible on first party hardware? I don't use Music but I decided to check out Severance (great show) and the TV app was absolutely horrible to use in every way. The player would only stream some really low resolution on my monitor so I tried downloading the episodes and the whole app lagged so badly every time I would queue something up or delete it. It even completely stopped streaming on my monitor because for some reason it thought my HDMI cable didn't support the HDCPI thing and after I put the laptop to sleep and woke it up, it magically started working again. So many other UX problems that I just couldn't put up with and cancelled my subscription after watching the show

Like Xcode, so many of their first party apps on Mac are just badly made and awful to use
I'm not the author of this implementation, so I don't have sufficient understanding of the algorithm to explain why your reasoning is wrong, but the threading approach is widely known (used in e.g. Go) and is not exponential.

A good explanation of why and how it works can be found in a collection of posts by Russ Cox, at https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/.
This isn’t a good faith comment. You assume that there is actually a problem with the authorities not having perfect access to criminal communications. We’ve gone the entirety of human history with ridiculously simple methods of analysis for crime etc., and the world is doing just fine. There will always be some crime, stomping out .1% more crime at great expense to the public isn’t even something that everyone would agree is necessary.
We're a medium-sized company and it's not that big of a hassle (or maybe more precisely, it's a hassle of invisible size that is packaged up by someone else in exchange for a simple bag of money).

The bigger issue is the uncertainty (for both the candidate and the hiring team).
> What do Asia-based/China-based organizations say about "democracy" and "freedom" in the US and Europe? Would they agree with the assessment from their US/Europe-based equivalents?

Of course the score depends on the what is measured and the metrics.

But an interesting yet simple 'practical metric' is/could be: from which countries are people emigrating from, and to which are they immigrating to (or wish to immigrate to, if there were fewer restrictions).

Where do people see that they can 'have a future' for themselves and possibly for their children?
What do you mean come forward?

Netherlands government is payed $71 billion every year by the people to serve them. That's quite enough to pay the best security experts and software engineer in the world to increase digital security of the country, and still have plenty of money left to do everything else.
Why do you need to run docker on Windows or Mac?
This is how convenience store croissants are made in Switzerland (frozen dough baked in an oven at the convenience store). I thought it weird at first, but the end result was still tasty. Beats the factory bake approach used by places like Starbucks (well, they follow the convenience store model in Switzerland also otherwise they wouldn’t be able to sell any). I assume much of Europe uses a similar model.
Which makes it worse. Not only does a consumer need to figure out the specs for the BB shell on the frame, but also the specs for the crank spindle.

On the plus side, at least Shimano has, so far, mostly stuck with a single spindle. Where SRAM has produced GXP, BB30, and Dub at overlapping points in time and within the same group of components.

And whoever invented BB30 (Cannondale?) needs a kick in the shin. I’ve never been happy with a BB30 frame - they’re all destined to squeak and creak and pop at some point. Maybe a good standard for a race bike that gets torn down frequently, but just terrible for a consumer bike.
End of Service Notice: Alexa.com
I've borrowed hundreds of CD from the different public-city-libraries I've been the past 15 years. In France you're allowed to make private copy of books and CDs :)
Already done: https://farre.github.io/midas/
I'm willing to bet there won't be a pivot to web3 so I think we'll be OK.
I have 2014 year MacBook Pro and app is barely usable on it. Sometimes I just switch to browser version
Alternatively, the decreased risk may incentivize larger or more frequent investments and simultaneously draw in newer investors and make it easier for them to take the plunge.

It does allow the rich to get richer if the company does well, but it also facilitates startup funding and could very well be the difference between a startup getting the funding it needs to be successful or it getting denied due to risk factors.
> Whoever started calling it that is either very lucky or an evil genius

It’s aspirational at best. Web 2.0 wasn’t declared up front but rather was coined to describe a sweeping trend.
I would be glad even having printf when debugging glsl shaders.
The techniques he mentioned don't serve the higher principle.

Adding lights from a lighting engine over the top of sprites with baked shading, might make a pretty image but it is not pushing pixel art forwards. Scaling and rotating can produce poor quality sprites.

P.s. Ashford is the best.
Taking your money to the casino might make you richer.

Not doing so won't make you poorer.

It has always been so.
> With the debugger, you can only see the application state at one specific point at the time.

Really depends on the debugger. Some tools support “time travel” debugging, which essentially stores a structured log of memory state over time.
When I was doing a lot of sports (though nothing quite as high contact as grappling), I'd put a couple of strips of kinesiology tape over the sensor which helped a lot with keeping them on.
You need to put something non adhesive between the back of the sensor and the tape though, to avoid pulling it off when you change the tape.
Funny thing is, they say the "lite" version, which doesn't contain the games, only the frontend & metadata, is 52 _GB_!?!?! Maybe they meant MB? (No, I just checked the actual torrent, it _is_ GB...)
Try an asynchronous logger in that case.
Prove it, publish all your messages and tell us your bank details and your pin number and your passwords and your home address and name.
I know! CDs are such a great format, and as long as the ink doesn't corrode the aluminum layer, they can last a very long time. They are more compact than vinyl, they don't suffer from lots of vinyl's error modes but they still have things like liner notes. Plus they represent an album at a theoretical maximum of fidelity and reproducibility. What's not to like?
I bought fake sand paper on accident two years ago or so. Was completely useless, but did appear like sandpaper....
There’s no need for a technical solution to this problem, anymore than there is a technical need to solve the problem of two people being able to have a conversation privately behind closed doors. Law enforcement has a lot of options and users having to have their devices treat them like a potential criminal wouldn’t be worth a moderate improvement in solving cases, less the negligible improvement that it would actually yield.

If criminals were actually super advanced and air tight, you would not need to worry about backdooring chat apps. They just wouldn’t use them. But since criminals tend to be flawed humans, there is a lot of room to find other avenues. Just like in real life, where cases are routinely solved even though we can’t actually hear every private conversation that occurred behind closed doors.

I do understand that E2EE chat is more powerful than conversation behind closed doors, but so is government dragnets, 0day exploit kits, etc. Ironically, extracting digital communications off of devices has actually become a cornerstone of court cases, even when encrypted chat is used.
> China is fragmented still today.

Yeah but 92% of Chinese are Han.

Saying that a country of 1.5 billion people has inner conflicts is like saying that water is wet.

It doesn't mean anything actually other than they have a lot of history means a lot of conflicts. It happened everywhere.

Also if they can disagree, it means that there is some space for disagreement.

In Catalunya some believe they should be independent from Spain, in Italy some people in Sicily and other northern regions say they should be independent from Italy.

That doesn't make them any less culturally similar to the people around them.
But lets also add, that so many of them will gladly believe everything an ad financed company tells them, just to have a bit of convenience and just so that they do not have to go against any network effect. All that, while people tell them, that they are being spied on. All that, while there is one personal data scandal after the other.

Many people are severly uninformed or have closed themselves off to information, that could disturb their comfort with FB and the likes (ha, pun not intended, but it works!). Many people are computer illiterates, addicted to their "drug of choice" and kept in place via network effect of "all their friends and family being on FB/WA/whatever" and they too are part of the problem, increasing the network effect.

I've had discussion with people, where I told them, that FB had the biggest personal data scandal in history (financially, in terms of what they had to pay), and that there is a new thing happening every month or so. Still these people do not want their way of being addicted shaken and continue regardlessly, dragging others down with them. I am sometimes at a loss what I can tell them, how I can explain to them what is happening. Telling them, that FB is running on ads, which are tailored to them, by spying on their behavior and mining that data. Nope, message not understood.
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

— Commonly attributed to H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Nice. T1 here wishing you success!
The difference is who controls the software, and ultimately what their incentives are. Back then, you imagined the software serving you - details you hadn't thought of were to be be fleshed out in a way that made sense to you, to serve your interests.

Now it's like our old dreams in name only. It hits all the bullet points, but the functionality is all wrong because companies want to make users the dataset rather than operators in control. And while one of their incentives is user satisfaction, it's competing with engagement, revenue side channels, price discrimination, etc.
Same clusterfuck on Amazon Music. It's like they don't want you to find anything. It constantly adapts based on some algorithm and it is parallizing.
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Honest question. Can you clarify this?

I read the FAQ and even skimmed the MTProto 2.0 docs but from where I stand this Server-Client encryption sounds like encryption in transit but the server still has the ability to decrypt.

This, from a privacy against law enforcement perspective (which is what the article and comments are about), is more or less the same as no encryption.

Edit: s/transport/transit/, add "perspective" to the last paragraph.
A common thing I do is find the problematic code using the IntelliJ debugger, change the code, press Cmd+F9 to reload the function code, hit "drop frame" so the executing code goes back to the previous function in the stack (the caller function) so the edited function can execute again with the new code.

While at it, you can also change the value of any visible variable and evaluate any expression in the context of the currently executing scope.