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>This is lazy explanation that's easy to agree with if you don't think very hard about it.

And that's a lazy ass response because you only talked about wages and ignored EVERYTHING else. Wages alone, fine I don't disagree terribly with what you said. But it's everything else that is the major issue!

The complete lack of basic benefits- which translate to "I don't give a shit about you as an employee, just do as much work as you can and I'll give you as little as I can, and no one can stop me because there's little to no regulations on what I have to give you".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

>European Union legislation mandates that all 27 member states must by law grant all employees a minimum of 4 weeks of paid vacation

How many people doing the jobs that pay under even say 40k get 4 weeks vacation? Get sick leave? Get maternity benefits? Get any descent healthcare? Those are the REAL problems.
Fixing the core issue should be done during regular day hours on a normal work schedule, so it does not justify a longer on-call shift. If something needs 2-3 days of deep dive, you should get proper time for rest (i.e. not on-call) between those days.
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> Why is Europe so afraid of competing in the open market?

Because they haven't been winning. It's not a coincidence that the revenue thresholds for this bill is conveniently higher than any Europe-based companies.
Potentially between Great Lakes cities (Milwaukee-Chicago-Detroit, though probably not Detroit as its a long detour through the Straight of Mackinac) or as fast riverboats.
Most tournaments are swiss format, so if you draw all your games you won't win the tournament because the person who wins the tournament will be the person who gets a few wins on top of their draws

In WC it's zero sum, so there's less pressure to find wins
EU-based *aaS companies are practically nonexistent relative to US-based ones, so there's basically nothing holding them back from passing bills like this one gerrymandered to (i) companies with a global market cap above €75B, (ii) with 45 million European users, (iii) and an included web browser or messaging app. If they had companies satisfying those criteria, they'd certainly see more pushback.

I personally like these changes, but the cynical forum shopping underlying the €75B threshold they picked is pretty nasty behavior, and I hope US lawmakers retaliate appropriately.
Need links or citations besides just a vague claim of “popular security researchers”.
There's a lot of ways to fight. "Whining" about YouTube in a way that stokes the outrage over current practices is also one.

Indeed, one might say it's the only fight that matters, as other options just lead to unabated extortion.
Ya, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol — https://ghgprotocol.org/ — is the universally accepted way for companies to measure their emissions. It's been around for about a decade.

That being said, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol reporting has been pretty inconsistent in the past. Companies cherry-pick and leave out important info, or define their 'reporting boundary' in inconsistent ways. One of our goals is to help 'debug' these inconsistencies.

Lucas Joppa from Microsoft laid this out quite well here: https://www.ted.com/talks/lucas_joppa_how_to_fix_the_bugs_in...
Wow, how have i never heard of htmlq!?! Thanks for sharing your alias as well as teaching me another cool tool (htmlq)!
To be clear, this was a 200-level EE class that was, at the time, also part of the CS curriculum. One of my favorite classes, at least in retrospect.

The professor was simultaneously the founder of a company that made FPGA boards for EE students. They also made a little microcontroller board that was basically Arduino before Arduino; we used that in another class where we made robots and programmed them in AVR assembly.
Surely there's a better way to criticize somebody's take on a topic?

iDevices aren't perfect but they cover 95% of what I need from them.

Can it be better, much better even? Absolutely, yes. But your comment is painting a doom picture that is just not there for many people.
If one is deep into the Bitcoin echo chamber, one could end up believing all sorts of things about bitcoin energy usage (in very extreme cases, they believe that bitcoin is a system of energy _storage_, though it's never made quite clear _how_). This level of confusion is fairly typical.
But in that case, you will not benefit of DoH3, it's limited to Cloudflare and Google servers right now.
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what kinds of things have you made talk to each other that weren't originally designed to talk to each other?
Ok I’ll reply with https://xkcd.com/2055/ then ;-) I wish something like what is described in this comic could be implemented as pairing method in a future version of Bluetooth. It sounds like it could help some of the problems.
And what exactly is your point here?
I’ve played around with ableton before- im wondering what are the high-level aspects of a DAW that take up that compute? Off the top of my head if you have like 10 channels of synths, what in there is super intensive? What does freezing tracks mean and why is it so expensive?
That is the role of governments. Europeans made the EU for this and similar purposes.
i keep and show all my 40,000+ photos as random screen saver, on a screen in kitchen (Otherwise they're some useless gigabytes). The randomizing is terrible (as longest random shuffle is about ~2000 items, above that.. not very random), but sometimes it digs interesting ones :) completely forgotten, places or people..
this. 1000x this.

I work in tech diligence, I talk to founders about how their project got the way it is when they are selling it, and what the potential ramifications of those constraints and the resulting decisions are for the acquirer. Most developers have little to no understanding of the constraints under which businesses are built and are quick to complain that code must have been made by idiots without thinking of all the drivers that might have created a situation where non-optimal code was a good (or the only possible!) decision.

Tech debt absolutely kills companies - I've seen bad tech debt torpedo potential acquisitions or result in very significant changes in valuation - but not as much as does running out of money.
I have one too. I think they are taking preorders and engaging their contract manufacturers when it makes sense. Took at least a month to actually get to me.
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A good point. This sounds like the kind of thing that could be incorporated into a mileage reading at the annual vehicle inspection (which I assume the USA has??). Vehicles which are for entirely private-road use don’t get inspected, so that’s ok. Or they are specially classified somehow.

Everyone else just accepts that what the system lacks in accounting for private road use, is made up for in simplicity and cheapness of administration.
Java's "statically link then scan" approach doesn't really work though. (Some sibling threads explain why.)

Even Linux distributions where rebuilding the world is easy (like Debian) insist on breaking dependencies out into shared libaries, since tracking ad hoc vendored dependencies is just too difficult.

For example, sometimes people play dynamic loading and renaming tricks to allow multiple versions of the same Java library to coexist. That can usually be detected by vulnerability scanners, but not always.
>My car for example has four tires each at a pressure of 32 PSI.

The air pressure of your car/bike tires doesn't matter - all tires could be flat. Try comparing (vehicle weight + your weight) / (vehicle contact surface area) where vehicle is either your car or your bike.
This is fine if people are diligent about writing good tests.

If you enforce coverage on a busy team with less experienced or less diligent engineers, you're going to get a lot of "tests" that just pass for coverage purposes and gives false confidence in your code and doesn't gain you anything.
Been in similar situations, it is not fun.

"You have a vulnerable version of netty"

"No, we don't, that's a false positive"

"No see, the tool says you need netty 4.x and that's version 1.x, you need to update"

"OK, but the tool is wrong, it's just picking up anything with 'netty' in the name, and that component is a wrapper around netty for some other thing, it only goes up to 1.8"

"You have to update it to 4.x, this is a vulnerability"

"Do you understand this isn't part of the thing you're concerned about"

"I am only concerned about shipping a product without vulnerabilities"

"Well this isn't one, because it's a false positive, here's the CVE, here's what it applies to, here's the link to this package on maven central, it's not part of netty, back off"

"But it's insecure, the tool says so"

We went round and round for about 3 hours until I told the guy (an infosec 'pro') to leave me alone until he'd figured out how to do his job... he came back to me the next morning for another 3 hour slack argument along the exact same lines at which point I told him to leave me alone permanently and communicate through management if he had anything to say. I'm not massively impressed with infosec as a profession after a few similar encounters.
Hmm. We really ARE created in his image - at least I am.
I have a modular synthesizer app for iOS [1]. Will this legislation force Apple to let me JIT? (That’s a key restriction that prevents competing browsers.) Would be great for performance.

[1] http://audulus.com
crypto miners of course ;)
I enjoyed the article and could relate to large parts.

Check out Substack. Probably the most straightforward way for writers to make money today and you still own the content.

Ghost.org is also interesting for creating a self hosted version.

I think it's also good to have what you love at the core of what you do, but there may be other parts of the system / funnel that mostly serve to let you work on the thing you love (TikTok's, courses etc).
They were able to salvage some gold from fire. I think they got about 1,000 dollars of raw metal out of 100,000 worth of Coins
You are free to not use any app that doesn't want to submit to a 30%/20% Apple tax.

No one is forcing you to play Epic games.

But Apple will probably cut down their rates significantly so most companies stick with the app store.

Especially if the US follows suit.
Sadly this is a bit naive in my opinion.

Hidden behind “privacy” marketing DOH looks to be a way to centralize DNS queries at the app level to protect ad revenue.

Now apps you download can essentially have their own DNS resolvers built into the app and you no longer have control over DNS data. Especially IOT devices and smart TV’s will just bypass all user settings and directly resolve dns with resolvers of their choosing.
You are defining commits to be different by the mere fact that their contents (and history) is different. With that definition, how could a commit ever be mutable? Only by an indirection were the VCS allows the referencee to change. And that is exactly what Git allows with branches.

When rewriting history, the fact that the “new” commits are new is a tautology if you define commits to be different when their contents is different. This only matters when you use the commit hash as your reference point, which is what I was pointing out in the parent comment.

The expectation of immutable commits would be that history never gets lost and cannot be changed (without rewriting history into a different repository), but it certainly can in Git.

The real point about Git’s content-derived addressing is that it enables the distributed aspect, because it makes the path a commit has taken between repositories not matter. But that is already better expressed in point 3.
This is a very nice example of a literate programming document. It would be amazing if we could adopt this nice ergonomic two-column display style in source files in text editors.

It would be nice if it were clearer how to download the plaintext.
Are you thinking of Timescape Cosmology [0]? I think it's a great explanation for dark energy that should be further explored. A summary is that due to the large difference in gravitational gradients between in-a-galaxy and between-galaxies, it appears that intergalactic space is expanding, but in reality it's just progressing at a faster rate of time due to general relativity, thus appearing to inflate from our perspective.

Typical cosmological models assume homogeneity, which IMO is a poor assumption with the lumpy universe we live in. I'm a fan of more exactly applying known models before inventing new terms!

[0] http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/universe/
They did a kickstarter two years ago just before the microchip shortage. They posted frequent blog updates about their process on how to continue manufacturing while adapting to the shortage and swapping out components when available. Shipping to all countries just started a couple months ago.
Software development is pretty much testament to the opposite, you can very much make a living being average or even below average.

The passion industries are the ones requiring high amounts of dedication. For good reasons.
The yellow warning box on [1] is referring specifically to one flag, not to XHR generally.
Sounds dire. What car is this, and where can I read about these cars that very commonly fail after 2k miles?
I've seen someone claim this on twitter too.

Who? And what are they claiming. It does seem like flipper zero enables mischief but a honeypot?
Egypt wasn’t a desert when it was founded. It became a desert later on as the climate changed and the region got hotter and drier.

Mesopotamia isn’t a desert either. It’s called the Fertile Crescent. It is surrounded by desert, but so is everywhere else if you travel far enough.
> you can only get it from a third-party store that you don't trust. (Something gross like Facebook starting an app store.)

As apposed to today where you can’t get it at all if apple and the app disagree about anything?

I know you are thinking of another large enough player you don’t trust as much forcing their store as the only avenue for an app, but it’s hard to imagine how that wouldn’t provide large incentives for a smaller party to make a competitor on the official store.
I think we should expect Apple and Google to fight this tooth and nail. I'm sure they've been following it and looking at ways to exploit any holes that are in it.

In short, I expect it to be years before we can do most of the things you list in your post. There will be lots of court cases before we, as consumers, see any real change.
I really hope there will be an open iPhone that people can buy and they keep their existing one for those of us who doesn’t want our phones to become cookie-pop up-ridden data collecting nightmares that is guaranteed to to happen.

Anyone want to bet against Spotify requiring you to install the Spotify App Store to use the client?
I an not actually sure that they are illegal - are they?

I can't think of which law stops a company sharing a video of your death - presymably they own the copyright
In reality none of that will happen.

The magical rockstar engineers of Apple will listen for their best in the world UX and handcraft artisanal UI that will respectfully explain users what causes the popup.
This doesn't work when the economy is already close to full employment, full consumption of available energy, and full capacity on critical parts like ICs which it's hard to expand the production of. Without any excess slack to increase production in order to fill that increase in consumption, it just has to come out of other people's consumption through inflation reducing the value of their wages.

It's also not at all obvious that this is better than someone just investing a bunch of money. After all, the way investments ultimately make money is by supplying people with what they want at low prices, which means that investment money floating around can lead to innovation which supplies people with more stuff using less resources, increasing the amount available for everyone can buy with their wages.
What are the "half-truths" in the public commentary of Preussenelektra?
I don't understand this need to make everything white or black, unless we want to pretend we live in a word as simple as a kids' novel. You can't just throw away milleniums of history and people because in the past 60 years we have become too lazy and addicted to modern convenience.

No, preindustrial ages weren't the hell they're made to be nor a golden age by any means. The same can be said of today. Stop playing defensive and think openly instead, there's lot we can improve by learning from the past.
>Cared so much that they knew pieces of company documentation by heart, and that nobody wanted to be the first person to leave the office, even on Friday.

Wow, this sounds like a terrible place to work combined with some misplaced priorities. Caring so much about the mission that they didn't want to be perceived as being a slacker or caring less than someone else.
Funny you mention that because for the last 3 weeks Google Search is nagging me to sign in on the iPhone Safari.
Then don't use this particular app? This already exists today: A lot of apps are android-only, or jailbreak-only. In the same sense, tomorrow we'll likely have amazon-store-only apps.

In practice I doubt many apps will use a third-party appstore. Apple has a lot of leeway in how they will implement the regulation - they can make it painful enough to use a third-party store that most popular apps will want to keep using the primary app store to get maximum reach. Just like how almost every android app is on the google play store - despite sideloading being a thing since forever.
Actually i think a website/service similar in concept to https://wttr.in would be amazing!
Why is rail any different? If one train goes down on a subway line, all of the trains after it are pretty much stuck too. A few lines can sometimes route around pain, but that's kind of rare.

In general, public transportation is just pretty inconvenient. (Now, I like walking so it's a bonus for me, but I can see how it's not for everyone.)
I would argue it's a problem for a technical user as well. It's just a problem.

Defenders have to win every time. Attackers only have to win once. That gives the attackers the advantage.

And it may not even directly be your fault. All you need is a flaw in any communications system that allows privilege escalation and code execution. Then you can be compromised by someone who just happens to be in the same room.

Now while this is true even now. It's even worse when every user can download and install whatever sketchware promises to mine dogecoins while the phone is idle for guaranteed returns of 100%. Because every other phone becomes a potential attack vector.
They appear to have been correct, for the last 5 years at least.
Just wasted 20 minutes trying to figure out how to order. It kept saying no shipping rates found for my address. Turns out they aren't allowing US orders at the moment but they don't actually say that on the website you just get a cryptic shipping rates message. Not the greatest experience.
I joined Prospect because my company tried to implement an unspoken on-call arrangement, whereby they would try to call me on my mobile 24/7 expecting an immediate response. I asked what the additional renumeration is for that, and they said there isn't any.

Now I'm a Prospect member, and my mobile is always on mute.
> Practically everyone I knew who had something to say about Cryptocurrency would have the same basic points— giving power back to the people, providing an alternative to the traditional (read: banks/finance industry) methods, hedge against inflation, hedge against government overreach, etc.

Personally, I've been pointing out that it's all at best pointless and wasteful and at worst a scam since around 2011 (I started watching around the time the Trendon Shavers Ponzi scheme got going).

This was definitely a minority position in places like this at the time. I suppose 11 years of failure to actually become useful have moved the needle of public opinion a bit.

> I don’t remember hardly anyone talking about this issue with nearly as much (seemingly blind) passion or negative attitude in, say, 2013-2020~

You may have been in a bubble. Even people who _liked_ bitcoin were concerned about this once ASIC mining got going in earnest (around 2014 I think?)
Who is the target market for this? People that can afford a private plane ride for short distances but also care about reducing their emissions? It seems like there isn't much of an overlap there.
I would say yes!

It's great for beginners as it has a huge and friendly community behind it and you can easily work your way up from beginner to more intermediate/advanced.
I don’t see the test format as thriving. It often seems the players don’t have the patience anymore to play it, losing games that they could have drawn if they had the perseverance needed to try so.

(For those who don’t know cricket: if your opponent is outscoring you heavily, there’s no way to win the game, but by playing defensively, there still is the possibility of “not losing” the game (called a draw. That’s different from a tie, where both teams score the same number of runs. Ties are extremely rare (about 1:1000 matches. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tied_Test), draws fairly common (about ⅓ of all test matches)). Part of the charm of test cricket is that trying harder to win a game also increases the risk of losing it, so teams have to make educated guesses as to whether to pursue that)
One quote that stood out from the start:

"The [Lancet] study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals."
> no one in a position of responsibility is going to build them

a bit of an exaggeration? today: "Sizewell C: New nuclear power station granted development consent by the government ... French energy company EDF, which will partly fund the project, has said the plant will generate electricity for at least 60 years and will employ 900 people."
And some even later than that, when they go to fix something and they realize they don't know how
I think you might want to read up on the law in question...
This. I am honestly bewildered when I see the tech press comparing true wireless earbuds to AirPods and not mentioning the enormous ergonomic differences.
Strange 'heartbeat' signal spotted coming from deep space
>And yet, Apple can still charge software companies whatever they want to allow software to run on the phones.

This is explicitly disallowed in the legislation. See page 131:

>The gatekeeper shall allow providers of services and providers of hardware, free of charge,
effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same
hardware and software features accessed or controlled via the operating system or virtual
assistant listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9) as are available to
services or hardware provided by the gatekeeper. Furthermore, the gatekeeper shall allow
business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support
of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the
purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features,
regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or
used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services