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Finally watched it with sound. Oh well, it's kind of funny, and probably was really funny back then. But think of the time: This video predates Android 1.0 by over one year. Touchscreens were certainly not mainstream back then. Even today people on HN assume that "touchscreen" means "replace everything with touch" (like in automotive - a trend I despise) instead of thinking how touch could augment existing interfaces. Especially the PixelSense tech is still amazing. Normal capacitive sensing is limited in the number of simultaneous touches (e.g. 20 for a 85" screen), but with PixelSense you get an image of the reflections seen by the screen. This not only allows for a huge amount of simultaneous touches, but the really awesome ability is to detect objects and do proper TUI: If you put a unique black/white label under your object (e.g. RPG figurine or disc) you can detect the object, it's location and orientation. So you can move around your character by moving the figure. Or to adjust some setting, just turn that dial.

IMHO this is a chicken&egg problem: There is little software that use these abilities, because with no-one having these screens there is no-one to sell it to. And OTOH why would you get an expensive screen when there are only a few techdemos that makes use of that feature.
For comparison: Sales of VR headsets in 2021 were 11M (vs. 19M PS5 or 240M iPhones). And we're still only seeing a moderate ecosystem of games, content and productivity stuff. Now imagine the situation if there was no pr0n and the Valve-fueled hype didn't happen: We'd be stuck with crappy DIY stuff or expensive special purpose solutions; and even if you could get your hands on a proper VR headset, in that scenario you're stuck with a few tech demos and wouldn't get a lot of utility out of it. I think that's the situation with touchscreens on the desktop, or even in the desk.
No, worst case is that “climate change” is used as an excuse to destroy democracy and rule of law “to save the world”, because radicalised people attack anybody who even sounds like they may have any doubt. It wouldn’t be the first time a true and just cause was abused for that end.
I think the real answer is that doomsday studies get clicks and the capitalist engine is at work, and being worked by scientists for attention.
> To create this reverse shell, the attacker must first convince a user to install a malicious stager that executes commands, and uploads command output via a GIF url to a Microsoft Teams web hook.

This to me makes the rest rather pointless, if you convince a user to install malicious software on their machine, you could not use teams at all, other than the traffic won't likely be caught.

> Microsoft did not consider the ability of external attackers to bypass security controls and send attachments to another tenant

This is a default allowed feature, but can be turned off in the admin console, not only that but you can turn on federation which does check the origin of the messages.
> I can't remember the phrasing

I remembered, just too late to edit: 'streamlined' is how he's put it. Close family/'heir line' only, such as seen on more recent balconies.
I wonder how long it'll be before population starts moving. Traditionally Southern Europe, Southern USA had the best climate, now they seem to be places to avoid.
Yes. I have been one of those. Where do you think the externals get the expertise needed that is particular to the business? We can be professional about it and try to point out the real exceses or answer generic questions, redress and inform on specific knowledge traps or consequences of answering choices placed in front of the customer, but in the end it is still a business that is running 'right-sized' being required to drop everything for a few years to assist an IT transitioning project?

Overloading the customer is one of the simplest ways to make sure ít is not your fault when things most often go south.
Well, originally it wasn't designed to just having two parties. There used to be more ... and there should be more. A two party system just doesn't work.
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> Certainly seems like tech hiring is about to slow down like crazy, at least from my friends' qualitative experiences in recent weeks.

I think that it already has slowed down pretty significantly.
I have worked at Fortune 500 companies that use the Google Suite products. Microsoft Office is not the only option in this space.
This is just the begining. Remember the CSAM Apple story ? Or more recent when Google found (child) images (intended for a doctor) on a phone and called the police.
I work in this industry(though thankfully very rarely directly with SAP) and I cannot fathon why it is popular either. As I explained in my other answer in this thread, everything they touch turns to garbage.

I think it's really a case of a self-fulfilling prophecy, of a sort. They are the biggest in the business, so people go with them, which makes them bigger, which attracts people.. and so on. It probably helps(SAP) that they also decades worth of man-hours implementing all sorts of insane business logic(like for accounting, as you mentioned, which is something you definitely don't want to get wrong) where other players are likely to be behind.
To me, the Big Ball of Mud might be the most useful architecture to understand, because that is the architecture that usually gets built. Either sooner or later.

Quick version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud

It's probably what your company has.

And would have been an honest answer to the potential investor -- they're not an actual investor until they invest.

Whether or not an honest answer to the potential investor would have been what your employer wanted from you is another matter.

Anyway, Wikipedia is a pretty good starting point for software architecture types.

Good luck.
I think these conversations and discussions would be much more interesting if we were talking about housing supply and demand in other states.

It seems to me that California is unique. It has some of the best weather and natural beauty in the world. Infinite demand to live there. It’s always going to have a housing shortage.
> with a digital currency, they can simply zap your money away.

Brazil did that in the 90s, digital currency wasn't needed.
Understanding amendments would be a very good use case. Often changes to the law are not new laws, but changes in other laws. Any time I've tried to actually parse the law, I've found getting a good picture of the current state of the law, and a snapshot of the law in the past is tricky.

To take this example I found off the NYS assembly website legalizing adultery (it was the first one I found, I swear)

https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A0010...

It's phrased as "Section 255.17 of the penal law is REPEALED", but if you try to find "the penal law", but if you look up a a copy of the penal code do you see 255.17 in it? If so, how can you find out what was actually repealed. If not, do you need to hunt through every possible amendment to figure out the state of the law is at the time of reading?
Every business software is at least as complex as the business process it models. That's the thing you training for.

Every detail of the business process is now explicit. Employees have to be forced to work according to actual process. You need quite a bunch training for that. Then employees will find shortcuts to make their own job a bit faster/easier, which will fuck up some cases. You need even more training for that and possibly some redesigns. And all you get from that is depression
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Opportunity, yes. Culturally I doubt it. In my city, as an example, Facebook only is dominated by businesses with no interest in technology, and it remains dominant in poor / economically depressed areas.

Facebook took off like email. In many respects, it's true value is network address book in my opinion. And focus should be on that, as opposed to building a social network.
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Don’t know if people are following news carefully, but things are getting worse all over the world at the same time. One third of Pakistan is under water while China is seeing unprecedented drought.
We are trying to foster content-rich conversations on this forum. If you have nothing much to contribute, better abstain.
I don’t know why, but the author’s writing style in Under a Green Sky irritated me so much I couldn’t get past the first few pages. Maybe it changes if I stick it out.
> Also with private criticism, any decision tends to gravitate toward the opinion of the highest paid person. If the debate happens in public, everyone has more of an equal chance to be heard.

Interesting, that's the opposite of what I've experienced. Also a problem with group dicussions is that it's too easy for participants to drift into group think and conformism. I thought these are general principles, but maybe they are predicated on the group.
No, they ask you to remove the silicon before giving them they airpods
Have similar feelings about docker. LXD containers through a bridged interface fit my mental model/use case.
Because SAP is what most other companies in the sector use and because there are few alternatives. And because everyone else is m uses it, it must be good. Right? Right?!

Also, because leading employees usually have no idea about the intricacies of the "old" system and think it's easily replaceable with a solution from the shelf.
> So when the fed reserve decides inflation is too high ...

Nothing stops them doing that with cash ie stopping extant currency being legal. Just happens that the US has never done that (to my knowledge). Other countries do it fairly regularly though.

I won't address your other points as they have nothing to do with digital currencies.
Having not been to Ireland but relating to this a lot in the US, my guess is it’s about biking not generally being safe. Kids can’t drive, but in the US at least we’ve built a ton of places where you basically have to drive to get around, so parents end up shuttling their kids around to wherever they want to go.
climate change it not a binary outcome, so stop interpreting and talking about it as such. Yea we probably won't be able to avoid some significant consequences but that doesn't mean that the only other outcome is a quickly deteriorating hellscape.
> Anybody else experiencing an attitude change?

I had serious anxiety a few years ago about this, and ended up in Acceptance. I'm not happy ending up here, but I figure I got about 30 years left. That's pretty good, I'll take it.
Naively, they could allow e-CNY to be exchanged for CNY but not the other way around, or am I missing something?
India's UPI system manages tens of billions of transactions without CBDCs. Pretty much proof that any potential benefits of CBDCs can already be achieved with existing systems.
I worked in public accounting with some major corporations as clients. Every single company I interacted with used SAP. It is the de facto software in its field and is deeply entrenched. Its UX is the most horribly wicked thing I’ve ever come across. We would conduct walkthroughs with process control owners that showed us what they would do in SAP to perform their job functions, and it would take multiple, intelligent people to capture all of the processes. The knowledge that the users at the client had built up was extensive and highly specialized. If something happened to that person, I don’t think you could quickly plug in a new person and have them take over. The initial learning curve felt far too high. I’m sure it gave those people a sense of job security.

I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid, however, the process for replacing SAP will be long and close to impossible. SAP feels like one of those businesses that’s too big to fail because it’s so entrenched in the corporate world. Somewhat jokingly, I think it would be easier to switch the US over to the metric system. Any challenger will have to be massive, accept losses for over a decade to gain market share, and have incredible support for their clients if they ever want to takeover in the Fortune 500 world. Challenges too great for a mere startup to accomplish.

It’s easier to just hire people to learn the SAP workflow and then hire external auditors to make sure the accounting policies are properly being followed.
Irrational rebellion is a puberty thing. Normal adolescents outgrow that phase by age 16. The loudest Oberlin "rebels" are in their mid-20s, some in their 30s and 40s.
I've put my first-get AirPods pros through the washing machine. I've been successfully using them for years now. Still work great. I concluded that their waterproof rating was, practically speaking, far above whatever they stated.
This isnt completely true. The biggest greenhouse gas CO2 is not a pollutant in any conventional sense. The gas is actually pumped into greenhouses to help plants grow faster, and helps plants grow in more arid environments, and reduces water consumption by plants.

So efforts to reduce CO2 might not bear environmental benefits beyond fighting global warming.
Explain to me like I am 5

Out of sight, out of mind. You don't see it but private transaction processors (Visa and Mastercard) consume up to 3% of the transaction amount. Over the course of a year, this amounts to $50 billion removed from the economy. The merchant pays this --- and passes the cost along to you in terms of higher prices.

The money transfer system that deposits your check is old and slow and involves human labor. Unless you pay additional fees (banks love fees), it takes at least 24 hours for the deposit to be made and the system only operates during "banker hours" --- 8-5 on weekdays; no weekends, holidays or nights.

A CDBC will be fully electronic/automated with instant results and operate 24/7/365 at insignificant cost. Basically, it will speed up and put billions of dollars back into the economy.

Despite all the doomsday misinformation, no one has suggested replacing cash or checks. And no, crypto is no substitute for what a CBDC will do.
Thanks, I guess I misremembered. So, QEII was quoting QEI in defence of her position on banning foreign honours.
So historically in the climate modeling world, +6-8 degrees was considered the "we're all screwed" tipping point; this has led to recent optimism where it now looks like we'll probably level out at +2-3.5 degrees, and only some of us are screwed.

The major tipping points that are estimated at 1.5 degrees are Greenland, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and coral reefs dying off.

The former two have an associated sea level rise of about 3.5-4.5 meters all together.

So I think this article isn't changing the "some of us are screwed" narrative substantially; it's more interesting because it pulls out all of the major forecast disasters and gives estimates of when (temperature wise) they'll happen.
Also an interesting read: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/15/346794301/la...
Frankly, that's as it should be. If your opinion diverges markedly from consensus reality, it's your responsibility to be extra polite and diplomatic about it, to prove that you aren't just a nutcase and you've actually thought carefully about it. Society has every right to suppress flat earthers.
You realise there's more to GHG than just electricity generation, right?

I mean it's a big, low hanging fruit because renewables are so cheap now, but even after getting that done we have transport and agriculture and land use chemical feedstocks and old leaking mines and wells and on and on. Plenty to do.
P2p is not a solution to this simply because the problem is not in being able to get a recurring payment. The problems start with fraud, chargebacks, refunds and range all the way to having to collect and pay differing sales taxes that stream in from different economic regions of the OECD. California and other sales taxes in the US. EUVAT for European subscribers. Even Japan has its own VAT scheme. On top of that, you have to maintain a billing system. Its a b*tch.

Anyone who tries to do those ends up spending a lot of their time in maintaining and sorting these out than doing their actual activity like art, music and so on. That's why services like Patreon are a godsend to, well, practically anyone. Anyone, because there are a lot of software developers (freeware, shareware, modders) who use Patreon to fund their software development.
What makes you think that's the worst case outcome of climate change?
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>> Increased use of screening programmes has contributed to this phenomenon to a certain extent, although a genuine increase in the incidence of early-onset forms of several cancer types also seems to have emerged.

How do they separate these two. Early testing is becoming more common so you expect to see more cancer simply due to looking for it.

Doc: Early screening has increased the 5-year survival rate for various cancers.

Patient: Of course it has, but will I live any longer?
I also have learned that people that worked long time with toxic people, or are the toxic ones that are more sensitive to this. One starts being afraid of openness.

It's hard - but a wonderful soft skill - to do this in semipublic envs and be gentle.

"enhancement: Extracting the lines below into a separate function. As far as I understood it's only calculating x, you can call 'x_calculation'. Fell free to use a better name than my suggestion".

shorter, for a team that you are already know for some time:

"enh: extract into a new function. It's calculating x, maybe it's 'x_calculation'. You can name it better than me."

During retros then, I usually recall everyone that I'm open to be criticized in good terms, and send me a message if I'm out of touch. Or even be open during the retro.
It is on purpose. The "we are fucked, nothing to be done" narrative is another weapon in the propaganda arsenal for fossil fuel producers. And it works on a lot of people.

Climate change is continuous. 1.6 degrees is worse than 1.5. 2.2 degrees is worse than 2.1. Every ton of CO2 reduced improves the situation. This is true regardless of the harm already caused.
From experience, the factor is more like 5-10. Depending on the complexity of the existing solution, and depending on the wealth of custom implementations, of course.
Intel would have called N4 a + node, since it's a tweak to TSMC's existing n5 node. They don't put a hard number on power savings, but they have said it's a 6% die shrink.

Apple also targeted performance per watt last year without a node change.

>In our extensive testing, we’re elated to see that it was actually mostly an efficiency focus this year, with the new performance cores showcasing adequate performance improvements, while at the same time reducing power consumption, as well as significantly improving energy efficiency.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...
"We don't have a plan to require people to come back... But we're going to proceed adaptively as we learn."

No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office. Paired with Amazon's continued commercial real estate investments (discussed in the article), that's a massive competitive disadvantage in the remote work space. As a remote worker who plans on buying a home and putting down roots in the small, middle-of-nowhere town I live in, no way in hell that I'd accept a job offer from a company that dangles RTO over my head like this.

Of course, Amazon is toxic enough to avoid anyway. But I hope other employers don't embrace this nonsense.
The Economist just did an article about China's e-CNY.
Not a straightforward answer to your question, but hopefully you'll extract some insight.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/09/05/t...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220909015725/https://www.econo...
All first five titles in the Touhou series can only run on PC98.
The sixth title is the first one to run on windows.

There was also a large amount of revamp of the settings, backgrounds and characters. The first 5 titles have settings so different their stories are rarely considered canon now.
What did they do in the 1970s? Care to share more about it for people like me who do not know what exactly happened?

All I could find was this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_France but this shows improvements beginning at 1990s and later.
when I saw this, first thing that came to mind is the awesome wiki redesign addon I'm loving so much and its the same guy making it!! what a legend :) thanks
The batteries in Tesla cars use neither metallic lithium nor lithium hydride.

There's a wide variety of storage options for renewable energy with varying cost and efficiency characteristics. The ultimate solution will likely be some combination of these, along with overprovisioning, dispatchable demand, and transmission.
People don't need it, but governments want it very badly. It would provide governments with greater visibility into and control over the money supply and flows. This would be both at the macro (arguably good) and micro (arguably bad) levels.

Just as here on HN we read from time to time about people being locked out of various online services (i.e. Google, Facebook etc.) for doing something a company doesn't like, a CBDC would allow governments the ability to effectively lock people/organizations out of their digital economy.[1] It would also allow for money that expires and can only be used for certain (government approved) purposes. (these both would have been desirable from the government's point of view for COVID stimulus payments, for example)

[1] This can already be done to a degree via the banking system, but a CBDC would provide for much more granular control.
I think key part is "for duration of project". Savings, if successful, then come for the lifetime of erp.

One thing I've seen frequently is treating erp implementation as IT project. I'm a technical team member doing erp implementations for last 25 years (not sap) but I'll freely admit erp implementation is not about me or technology. It's primarily a business transformation project. You need those erp business process experts to guide and customize, AND you need thorough willingness to change your internal processes to fit the industry best practices you're buying. "successful erp project" empathically does not mean "installed it and it runs". It means thorough and detailed understanding of requirements, mapping to new processes, customization where absolutely positively necessary, substantial and organized and embraced business transformation, extensive training, and thorough testing including user acceptance testing.

If you think is erp as something you just install and life will be the same but magically better, you're gonna fail hard. Missed requirements and edge cases, and or significant internal resistance to change, are frequent challenges.
That just creates the search with boolean operators for you... which Google then ignores. Attempts to search for an “exact string” are merely a suggestion to Google. They’d rather return 10 pages of definitely not what I wanted (i.e., wrong!) results than only return one or two hits even if those one or two hits are exactly what I’m searching for!
The problem isn't the people, it's that the power structures in our society are designed to concentrate power and to transmit themselves from one generation to the next, and they are not designed to make sound decisions. I think of it as a parasite that has latched onto our society. It feeds on our culture, our creativity and innovation. It seeks to conflate itself with our society and to tell us that, without it, there would be chaos and violence, that we need it to survive. But it's not true.

I understand the despair. But it is not too late and the problem is not "human nature". The problem is a status quo that can be abolished.