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> On total whimsy, I tried Flutter. I downloaded it, and built "Hello World" for macOS. Not only did it take an eternity to compile (on my modern, SSD enabled, eleventy gigablip iMac), the result was 108MB. And that was just for the Mac version, I'd need 2 others for Linux and Windows. The compile time was glacial (I know, its got hot reloading to speed things up).

I'm curious how you got 108mb. Here's what I'm seeing:

$ flutter --version
Flutter 3.0.4 • channel stable •
https://github.com/flutter/flutter
Framework • revision 85684f9300 (7 days ago) • 2022-06-30 13:22:47 -0700
Engine • revision 6ba2af10bb
Tools • Dart 2.17.5 • DevTools 2.12.2
$ flutter create hello_world && cd hello_world
Creating project hello_world...
Running "flutter pub get" in hello_world... 1,764ms
Wrote 127 files.

All done!
In order to run your application, type:

$ cd hello_world
$ flutter run

Your application code is in hello_world/lib/main.dart.

$ flutter build macos

Building with sound null safety

Building macOS application...

$ du -ah build/macos/Build/Products/Release/hello_world.app | tail -1
44M build/macos/Build/Products/Release/hello_world.app

Note, the release build is significantly smaller than the debug build, which includes a full Dart VM for hot swapping application code:

$ flutter build macos --debug

Building with sound null safety

Building macOS application...

$ du -ah build/macos/Build/Products/Debug/hello_world.app | tail -1
98M build/macos/Build/Products/Debug/hello_world.app

Note, on the glacial compiles, here is what I'm seeing on my M1 mac laptop:

$ time flutter build macos

Building with sound null safety

Building macOS application...
flutter build macos 1.20s user 0.59s system 47% cpu 3.801 total

It's slower than building web pages in vim, but this is comparable with compiling desktop applications in Xcode.

Disclosure: I'm a Developer Relations Engineer for Flutter
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I see H1B business analyst which is an LCA category recruiters are classified in.
Charging "too high a price" is only possible in a monopoly position. Would you argue that any satellite provider has one, at the moment?

For high-bandwidth large-terminal, you have Inmarsat GX, Viasat and various other Ka and Ku band based providers; for safety of life you have Inmarsat and Iridium (except at the poles, where it's Iridium and HF); for land-based tracking, you have Globalstar and Iridium; for handheld telephony, you have Iridium, Inmarsat and Globalstar.

Notably, Starlink also does not look like it will be competing in any of these fields.
You are right, I was mixing up authoritarian communism and anarchist communism, thank you.
How do you verify that you are actually chatting with the entity that you want to be chatting with?
Careful, this comment might be deemed a “non-crime hate incident”.
The thing with laws is that it doesn't matter where they "start"; it matters where they end. Open-ended laws are ripe for abuse, scope creep and selective enforcement.
As a potential user, I'm typically really pleased with a fat jar download option! In an age where desktop apps are less common, we beggars can't be choosers anymore so 50 MB is perfectly acceptable.

I mostly use Qt these days though for desktop apps I build. It takes a minute to learn but once you get the basics down you're off to the races. And the cross platform story is awesome. I literally don't even test on windows or mac anymore until right before a release, because if it works on my linux dev machine, it's gonna work on windows/mac.
I hate it when a site has no margin and everything pushes up against the edge of the browser. It's hard to read and annoying as all get out so I think if you are going to remove the default of margin: 8px you should probably replace it with something sensible that prevents running up against the edge of the browser.
What If Central Banks Issued Digital Currency? (2021)
The information you present is completely consistent with what smoldesu said.
big difference also is that iridium was designed from the outset to address handheld size customer terminals like an original iridum 9505 phone, starlink is something that needs a considerably larger fixed phased array. rf laws of physics being what they are I don't see a ku/ka-band starlink handheld phone or anything similar to the iridium L/S-band hockey puck sized antennas any time soon.

the business model was clearly not the best, as witnessed by its spectacular bankruptcy, and the acquisition by the 2nd corporate incarnation of iridium.
Don't newer vehicles with pedestrian detection address the issue?
> I see that dangers of the CCP taking over high tech industries

Then you see more than our wise economists, whose theory predicts, by way of simplified models and comparative advantage, that our instincts are wrong and everything will work out okay.
That was before the wonders of ~ modern monetary theory ~ though. It’s already so loose I’m not sure what can the government do to combat what’s coming.
You're right, "state-run" is perhaps a clumsy term to use, and doesn't quite capture the dynamics between the BBC and the government.

"Official state media" is more correct
8-bit CP/M in a home-grown Z80 emulator.
Assuming we accept your pessimistic take on the limits on technology's ability to bring down the cost of creating off-world habitats for humans and transporting people between them and Earth:

You can still massively grow the Earth-based economy, without damaging its biosphere, by extracting the resources it needs from outside Earth.

This does not require moving people between planets, just energy and goods, which are much less costly to transport than people, and can become extremely affordable to transport as infrastructure is set up to facilitate it.
Inequity is inevitable. But that doesn't mean we should create tax policy to exacerbate it further. You really didn't say whether the carbon tax was effective in Sweden either. You just said they had lower emissions than the U.S. But that was probably true before the tax as well.
Great, we’ll written read.
Out of curiosity – why don't your parents use fixed 4G or 5G internet in that case?
because you can now overlay onto other RGB rasterized images

The SVG is just the spectral map. We're using its native possibilites to pull off some other crazy wild hare of an idea to do things that other image compositing programs do, but in a browser. I'm way way outside a box here, but that's where I prefer to play. This is one of those things where I'm taking an idea that someone developed with a specific idea, but I'm jerking the wheel hard left to suggest something zanny just because it might be interesting and cool. Following directions and creator's intent is boring ;-)
>In reality like almost every other Ubuntu user I've talked to in real life [...]

It doesn't matter if "most linux users" contribute or not. Only a minority report bugs, and an even smaller minority fix bugs.

There is an old saying that if you want something done right... well, let's not be cynical. Let's just be grateful that we have the opportunity to do things right!
Why being able to use dotenv with Next.js is so huge
Easy to be bullish but let’s not forget how much amazing technology has been created to support that “chat app”. Some of that tech was basically a paradigm shift. Some of that technology for sure is applied to projects solving energy storage or biotech.

To name a couple of contenders: react and cassandra. But there are dozens more.

This is the sad state of facebook. Their business is awful but the research coming out of there is top notch.
Is modern front end development more complex than back end development?
Not drag and drop but for a 100% python solution h2o wave is pretty cool. It has a focus on data-based dashboards but can be used to pretty easily create very good looking frontends for all sorts of applications. And you never have to leave python (whether that's a pro or a con is up for debate :))

https://wave.h2o.ai/docs/getting-started
The big deal is that when a boundary exists, DRY should be "ignored" (cannot word this decently).

For example, let's say there is an application where a user can purchase items and also give reviews for such purchased items, the user reviewing and the user buying have in common just the ID, while in the review boundary the relevant information is probably the user nickname, while in the purchase boundary the relevant information is the payment system, or the state of the checkout ("purchase" is probably not a single boundary).

In that case, data could be duplicated to ensure the boundaries are decoupled.

This is of course at the data level, but usually it translates to "there is a user model that has many orders and many reviews", because of DRY, no two user models could exist, there you have the boundary violation though.

Sorry, this is a bit of a ramble, it's a long discussion.
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I make my 3 year old participate in cleaning up her toys. I always volunteer to help her, and we do it together. We do it consistently enough so that it's a habit, and she rarely complains. She visited her cousins recently and said, "those boys are very messy. They should clean up their toys!"
How so? Starlink seems extremely competitive in bandwidth and terminal size with Ka and Ku band GEOs, while blowing them out of the water when it comes to latency.
They say any man can be seduced by either of these: sex, drugs or money. Seduce them first and then blackmail them, is a common scheme I guess.
It’s where employees can find it, not necessarily having it public (which probably is a bad idea).
Alan Joyce did say on business TV channels that cancellations of flights was a move to boost flight prices BTW [1].

Which is also a bit "richer" with what you outlined at the end. My personal opinion is that Qantas is also doing it tough operationally. Airlines have a lot of rules in regards to how long crew can operate with out a break. And they must follow them [2].

[1] Seen as a segment on The Gruen on the ABC (Australia).
[2] Used to work for a company that wrote solvers for crew rosters years ago.
It would be a different story if people at companies of our ballpark size had stories about how background check results were informative, or mitigated some risk. But nobody has those stories.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5329835/canadas-nuclear-waste-to-...
Microsoft to Ban Commercial Open Source from App Store
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That is a problem readily solved by serial testing. False positive rate is reduced exponentially by the number of tests.

>For a test to be useful, you need a hypothesis before you administer a test.

Hypothesis: some people get cancer
Large and serious budget offshore applications these days will of course have an Iridium terminal live and on the network, and also a geostationary based VSAT of some sort. Something such as Starlink is meant to take market share from the VSAT.

In some cases it might pay for itself in less than 1 month of service compared to the $/Mbps from the VSAT, using antenna hardware such as this and various vendors' choices of modems (and 3rd party VSAT ISPs that resell transponder kHz and operate teleports).

https://orbit-cs.com/maritime-satcom

Go price what it would cost for 1:1 dedicated monthly recurring billing to have 5 Mbps down x 1 Mbps up DIA service assigned to a medium sized maritime VSAT terminal that roams around the Gulf of Texas... Or even in a 5:1 or worse contended network.

What you'll see is the Iridium of course remains live and on the network and is used for critical voice calls and message and such, while the data network on the ship/offshore oil rig/whatever has a new better DIA path via starlink.
So we do not need serious policing in super markets. Ordinary people are no criminals. The random rare thief is not making any serious damage.
Seems cool for tweaking layout and styles on the fly, thanks for pointing this out.

I think many devs underestimate how important the JS world's Hot Module Replacement has become for frontend dev velocity. Live reload just makes visual work so much better.

Of course we all know the scourge that is Electron apps. Maybe now that native web view is becoming more available across desktop OS's we will see apps move to leaner frameworks. Tauri (which hit 1.0 yesterday) allows native system access, notifications, app tray, auto updates, polyglot backend via sidecars, and HTML/CSS/JS/TS frontend. Not native controls that many of us love, but much better than where we're at now.
It's not even an honest assessment of usability. Tablet support on Wayland is hit-and-miss, depending on your vendor. There are some open issues in Inkscape around it but they might not even be resolvable by the Inkscape devs because of the whose-bug-is-it dependencies involved.

But I run xorg for this reason.
> Also data is not charged in minutes, it's theoretically unlimited.

I'd argue it is inherently very limited – 2.4 kbit/s is really not a lot, even sustained over a whole month ;)
>>EDIT: what we should do is expand the EV tax credit

No we don't, that will increase inflation is basically a tax on poor people to pay for rich people to buy new vehicle

The EV Tax credit needs to do away completely, EV can either compete with ICE in the market or they cant, government should not be picking winners or losers.

>>Also, a Hummer EV is displacing other large vehicles.

Not until batter tech improves, I am interested in an EV truck, none of them have the towing range that makes them practical for a weekend trip to the dock with your boat, or a camping trip. One of the Youtube channels I watch just did a head to head with a ICE truck against the Ford Lightening, they did not get 80 miles with the truck before they ran out of charge pulling a normal sized trailer, that is with the Truck claiming a 150 or so mile range at the start of the trip. TERRIBLE towing miles.

Current batteries may be good for a car like the Model 3 and Model S, or the Mach E, but it is TERRIBLE for large SUV's or Trucks that are made for towing
UK Queen Proclamation for One Hundred Pound Gold Coin and Two Pound Silver Coin
Looks like cars are only banned from the center of the city there. I won't dispute that it looks quite nice though.
Only today it probably creates at least as much anti-America propaganda as it does pro-America propaganda
Have you thought about people who want to but can't? And the whole range of factors that might be in play as to why not?
Well here is the CIA hiring video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04

After watching it I assume China will be invading Taiwan in the next year.
That's not true. Plenty of trades, nurses and other medical professionals, etc. make a over $100k/yr. Here's a listing I was looking at the other day: Lineman with a 4-day workweek at ~$110k/yr in Newport, Oregon (populatioon 10k) - https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/cencoast/jobs/3582995...
Good News?
Yep, this is how trade wars are started.
Dolphin has been around since 2003. Don’t think it’s been the same devs, but there’s definitely more commitment here than just a college side project
My premise assumes that at least one adversary will develop these weapons whether we do or not.

Your premise assumes that everyone would agree not to do it, and also keep that agreement.

This is basic game theory. Your position is indefensible.

It's not about monsters, or morals. It's just math.
Talking of making larger and large EV's, but I've thought for a while that electric RVs would be great. Though I imagine that the Tesla one would(will?) be 500k minimum.

But you'd get a huge electric battery for boon-docking it, running AC, etc and you get a large surface for solar panels. You might even be able to have enough solar to be able drive for a day to a new local, and then park for a few days to recharge and then drive again. ;)

I bet they'd sell pretty well and still be better environmentally than the RV's that get 5mpg.
In this context, prod means all the things you'd expect, plus: internal admin app, blog, static marketing site, old Rails app no one has touched in 2 years that one customer still needs, bash scripts to diagnose host issues, etc. There's a reasonable scope for "PR reviews are good", and it does not extend across everything SOC2 covers.

That's because SOC2 is only concerned about vectors for exploiting code, and gives very few shits about how well the platform actually works. The policy had to cover the full scope, though.

This is the difference between a "policy" and a "practice". We've long been doing code reviews on critical code, even last year when there were only 7 people here. And we've long had a release process meant to minimize the risk of bugs harming users.
Yeah I'm sure the richest people in the world that still spend ridiculous amounts of their time trying to get EVEN MORE wealthy are going to stop everything and focus on ethics.
I got about half-way through the second paragraph when I figured out where things were going. What a disaster.

As it turned out it was caught while totally innocuous and nothing bad happened.

Great story.
It's about salience and paying attention - most people don't do it most of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Two_sy...

To most people, walking around is a type 1 task - they aren't really thinking about it, it just happens automatically. Having to pay attention to avoid things is a negative experience.

I'm with you, I actively pay attention when I'm walking around, but I suspect we're significant outliers in the general population.
I once broke a chat bot by creating a circular reference in the underlying database.

You were allowed to bind a request with a response using the verb is.

So for example Python is a scripting language would respond to people saying.

What is python. Would have the chatbot output

Python is a scripting Language

I then input the below command.

Is is is

This broke the bot and persisted the breakage to the point where the database had to be fixed.
https://archive.ph/3yT9W
There is a SciFi story 'Occam's Razor' (David Duncan) that puts forth the concept that Time comes in discrete quantum lumps, that are seen by us as a smooth progression of moments.
In the same way as a movie of smooth movement is actually a series of still photographs.

The idea being that in between each quantum of 'our' Time, there are an unlimited number of quantums of 'other' Times. Each of those 'other' Times is a complete Universe in itself.
You can't just snap your finger and say "we go 100% renewables now!".
Germany is probably one of the country that commits the strongest to transitioning to renewables right now, and we started that process in 2011 and expect to reach 100% renewables between 2035 and 2040 the earliest. In the meantime, you HAVE to use another source.

That is 30 years for which you have decide to etiher use fossil fuels or nuclear. So do you wan't to dump CO2 into the air for 30 years and further advance climate change, plus kill millions due to air pollution? Or do you want to accumulate nuclear waste for 30 years, but have way fewer deaths and you don't worsen climate change further?

It is not a nice choice, but it is a choice that has to be made. And Germany decided to choose fossil fuels instead of nuclear.
I've always liked the expression "How nice for you!" but I heard a better one on Quora:

This British lady was walking in a questionable part of NYC, and a guy came up and said, "I've got meth! I've got cocaine! I've got [list of other illegal substances]!"

She said with full British accent, "Who's a lucky boy, then?"
I've wondered for a while, why don't EV vehicles use transmissions? I understand they don't need them but wouldn't it make the motor even more efficient?

Any ICE vehicles goal would be to put the lowest gearing (over drive) you can, without eating all of it's "passing power", nor dropping the RPMs too low. The lower the gear, the lower the engine needs to spin to keep that speed. The catch being, you need lots of torque to spin that gear, which electric motors have plenty of.

It just seems like you can easily sacrifice your horsepower for some more efficient highway speeds.
I _always_ reboot with 'shutdown /f /r /t 0', the interactive shutdown/reboot stuff is worthless
CXL isn't replacing system ram, it's just allowing you to have slow (compared to ram) connection to a big chunk of ram that's wicked fast (compared to storage). So you could for instance buy 16 nodes with 256GB ram then buy a couple 8TB connect CXL units. Then as needs dictate you could add any fraction of the CXL connected ram to any of those systems.

Nobody is ditching CPU connected ram for CXL.
I mean if we really want to minimize and we’re positing a world where we can pass any legislation/regulation we want, we could just outright ban them.
> Is that really true though? No one cares about this for webapps, so why do they care about it on desktop apps?

Web apps are easier to learn and functionality is more discoverable often at the price of having less functionality.

Desktop apps are consistent, and have more functionality, but unlocking that functionality takes a lot of effort on the user's part.
Maybe I should be more specific:

>the onus is now on each individual desktop environment to provide it's own implementation of screensharing

wlroots-based DEs can simply use wlroots' screen-sharing implementation for example.

The wayland equivalent to the smaller DEs that relied on Xorg to reduce their complexity and maintenance is just smaller DEs using wlroots or similar.

The larger DEs like Gnome and KDE will have no problem bearing the onus of implementing wayland themselves. I've had it screen sharing working perfectly on gnome for the better part of a year already.
> Iridium (except at the poles, where it's Iridium and HF)

a note that part of the DoD iridium market where Iridium was previously the only ultra-high-latitude/polar coverage part is served by the DoD's own molniya orbit satellites which provide full polar coverage. the orbits of these are designed to be at apogee and long dwell time directly above high latitudes.

the DoD is still a big part of iridium's revenue stream in general of course.
Anomie and Impunity: The Unraveling of San Francisco
Only so many tears to go around. I’m not wasting them on someone who loses a $250,000/yr job.
It's fine for what it claims to be. It's an actual audit, in the accounting sense, not a detailed investigation of your security engineering practice. People are very hung up on this, and I get the urge to jump into SOC2 conversations to point out that SOC2 isn't a passing grade on security engineering. But your SOC2 auditors are up-front about what they're doing. There are management practices that can be verified by retrospective paperwork audits: from a random sample of the people you off-boarded in the last 12 months, did you reliably terminate access within N hours of severing their employment? SOC2 is fine for that. Do you have a security policy that puts employees on notice of their personal obligations with respect to data security, and did a random sample of your employees sign it? SOC2 FTW.

There's real value in being forced through this stuff, because these kinds of management processes are a real weak point at a lot of shops with otherwise strong security engineering. I'm glad that our policies and processes are clarified, and that there's an external process that keeps us honest and forces us to do the routine scheduled meetings, rather than keeping stuff in our heads. We started doing SOC2 prep work a year ago, and even before the audit, we were better than we were before we started.

But it is what it is. The thing that drives me nuts is when people suggest that good teams will maximize SOC2 so their security engineering can be informed by it. Yikes. No.
This is the view when your business model requires a pyramid scheme