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Early versions of the individual Microsoft Office products might have lacked some features compared to competitors. Their real innovation was building an integrated suite with consistent user experience. That was tremendously valuable to casual users.

Microsoft certainly did some shitty things in terms of unethical and monopolistic sales practices, but their competitors also made some amazingly stupid strategic errors. In particular WordPerfect was slow to port their product to Windows. And when they finally did, they kept it too similar to the legacy MS-DOS version which was poison for gaining new sales.
For the most part, none of that matters client side. The web client side is mainly just a passthrough to your backend that'll do the actual processing of those binary blobs other than for example code.
The setting was written in 1996 with Mahoutsukai no Yoru/Kara no Kyoukai.

Also the other half of the setting is all about vampires, and it's definitely kind of like White Wolf Vampire, but not close enough to look intentional.
This seems at first glance like a solid list. I never knew Garfunkel read this much.
We do require sattalites to have an end of life plan, that either safely deorbits, or moves to a graveyard orbit. The Outer Space Treaty is a bit vague on this point, but in practice space fairing nations do require that their own launches gave an EOL plan.

Most space junk is not a full device, but debris from one, which is much harder to clean up and impossible to completely prevent.

This is also why there is an occasional international incident when a country decides to test out its ability to destroy sattalite.
> Just immediately shutting down fast food isn't an exhaustive solution, because you suck jobs out of the local areas and it takes time for the supply chains to reoptimize around healthy food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%27s_School_Dinners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Oliver%27s_Food_Revoluti...
The Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church (the Eastern Orthodox Church is also Catholic, just not Roman-Catholic!) was more creative than pre-Christian Roman Empire's cross used for crucifiction! The witch-hunts and burning women alive was not less painful than crucifiction either. I mean, they are all terrible, but Christ did not turn all animals into humans, obviously - most brutal and creative killers even claimed they killed in the name of Christ!
This chef was just executed during an armed robbery in the Loop by the Chicago Board of Trade Building at 11pm.

https://cwbchicago.com/2022/09/man-charged-murder-robbery-ch...
Your cheques example is a completely different matter because you’re specifying a unit, without which it would be nonsensical in at least most English locales (all that I know of). That dividing “and” in {{N dollars} and {N cents}} is just a normal “and” like any other in English, roughly meaning “plus”. In Australian English, I would pronounce $1,234,567.89 as “one million, two hundred and thirty-four thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents”.

For more interesting currency matters, go back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd#Writing_conventions_and_pr..., where you had three items, and “£2/4/6” would typically be pronounced “two pound, four and six” (or sometimes “two pounds, four shillings and sixpence”). This shows more clearly that what it’s a perfectly normal “and” like any other in English. (Also that conventions can certainly allow elision in understood contexts. I’ve never heard of “one dollars and twenty-three” for “$1.23”, but it would be consistent with the sorts of shortenings that sometimes happen.)
There are no non-smart/"actual" TVs. Find a 55" OLED that doesn't have "smart" features.

I mean personally I don't care so long as I don't see ads, but the advice you're really giving is "don't buy a TV". Can't say I disagree though.
If the bullets don't kill you, McDonald's will ;)

In all seriousness I think unlike other local (ex) CEOs, he's committed to staying and seems to be trying to talk about it productively. The others seemed to hide behind crime rates to cover up their hiring issues and ran away.

Still, part of the problem is that they're going to have trouble recruiting because of the perception of crime / safety based on how its reported and he never seems to acknowledge it in any statistically meaningful way; I don't think the areas the HQ is in for example are as bad as some of the other neighborhoods further south or west.

Bit of a shame because it sort of reinforces the bad perception others have, when he could be combating it and trying to address the issues simultaneously.
I'm not familiar with the electric specs of the USB connection, but couldn't the reverse current flow through the _data lines_ through the splitter ? If the ground lines of the computer and splitter drift apart because they are no longer connected, wouldn't the data lines be subject to a large potential difference ?
It isn't so much data breaches but scandals, down times, lost business that are impactful it seems. Stock price maybe good but revenue and future deals might be affected.

Honestly, I don't get how some groups get domain admin on some bigcorp and don't manage to make tens of millions of dollars.
In a First Study of Pakistan’s Floods, Scientists See Climate Change at Work
> Where crime in Chicago is a real problem is in the south and west sides of the city, where white people don't live. Those areas are playing out a slow motion mechanistic tragedy set in motion a century ago when they were redlined, sliced in half by the Dan Ryan, evacuated by white people, and disinvested. A map of Chicago violent crime is, roughly, a map of redlining.

Let's grant these are the sole and entire reasons for crime. This historical analysis is entirely and fully correct.

What does it imply, going forward? What is the solution?
Yes I do! My legacy decks have a value between 5-10k and they see play almost every week. Just go to a tournament to see people playing with the real cards as proxy are not allowed. For Magic the high price is mainly driven by the need to have copies to be able to play.
So, where does it end?

Cybersecurity has been playing those silly games of "increasing security" and some 80% of recommendations were frankly BS

"longer passwords" yes. "password has to have symbols, numbers and be rotated every 3 mo" no

2FA yes, but not SMS, but not OTP because people get fished, blah blah blah

Not to forget the "put everything in a password manager" then you lose or forget your "extra safe random password" and are SOL

Meanwhile there are still incompetent people around that think asking for Mother's Maiden Name should be a security question

So where does it end?
http://www.science.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html is one idea (and read that page/book for a critique of the kind of typical ~200 year old textbook/course we still use today), but this could be a lot better with a bigger budget and more support.

Just look what you can do with high-production-value video animations: https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/essence-of-calculus
Because auth to the VPN should have required a device cert and/ or unphishable 2FA. Also because the SMS phish was one of the first details leaked. Obviously access to the VPN shouldn't also be a full system compromise. There are many things to criticize here, we can point all of them out.
Can't take the CEO seriously because he isn't directly affected? That makes no sense. If course the CEo is mostly worried about his employees and customers. Didn't seem like he his to worried about himself. But that's ok, ignore him because he is safe?
And that fact that things started agree ago is a bit of a red herring. Because apparently (according to you) things were getting better, but lately they've gotten worse. So why have they gotten worse, recently? And what do we do to fix it?
It’s fundamental to their subscription strategy. I would happily bet you $10,000 they don’t pull PS2 support in response to this.
one of these rolling through with the purpose of contaminating the scene would be interesting to see argued in courts....
It strongly implies that being tougher on crime --- and I'm no defunder --- isn't the solution, most especially because that's been repeatedly tried and there's a plausible argument that it made things worse.
I see, if all that is server side then it makes a lot more sense as I assume backend libraries will get created to handle this for various languages. Bookmarking it to check it out later when I have time to read it all, hopefully it isn't as daunting as it looks.
> metallurgists' actions, fundamentally, she was correct, although it is clearly unethical she faked tests results, her reasons for doing so are not entirely irrational.

She falsified tests and produced parts that were not up to the specs required by the customer. That is very much wrong, regardless of how justified the specs are.

If the navy is overly pessimistic, the discussion needs to happen with them. Second guessing and assuming that they won’t really need that anyway is what I’d expect from a cut-throat Chinese factory selling in AliExpress, not a supplier for a major western power’s navy.
Everyone who builds one of these never fixes the fundamental problem: they don't distinguish between "space" as a character, and the next element in the argv array.

Stop making me have to engage in bizarre escaping rituals and let me just toggle between "string mode" and "array mode".
Someone move the tape to let it in the crime scene. Cops just looked like they had more pressing things to deal with. Seems like a non-story to me.
I think that the circuit at the top center of the chip detects collisions. E.g. if the paddle is being drawn at the same screen position as the ball, then you know that the paddle has hit the ball. This way, you don't need to store the paddle position and you don't need to compare the paddle and ball positions, you just check if a paddle pixel and a ball pixel happen at the same time.

I haven't figured out how the ball position is stored. It seems like they'd need a register for the X and Y position, along with an incrementer/decrementer, but I couldn't find that. Maybe there's something tricky going on. Or maybe I haven't looked in the right place.
EU plans to introduce cybersecurity requirements for connected devices
Do you really know for sure though? That is what keeps me up at night. The irony is that one of the leaked screenshots is of an internal security auditing/monitoring tool.
walking and movement beyond what you’re used to will build muscle throughout your body, mainly lower half, to compensate for the increased activity.
I only realized it after reading this thread. Seems like a very confusing name chosen.
I have no FAANG experience but I’ll comment if that’s alright.

A few potential talking points:

BFF pattern allows you to separate concerns, have different team topologies and development methodologies, and technical standards and values for different parts of the system. Leadership may appreciate your arguments if you can put them context of enabling teams to advance independently and have different priorities which could otherwise be in conflict. An example could be efficiency gains from fronted / client oriented teams not having to switch language to work on BFF if using node. Another could be testing standards / code coverage for platform APIs may be higher than necessary for more experimental client related work.
> Seems like a non-story to me.

Kinda. It’s interesting to see we let robots where others can’t go, even in mundane tasks like delivery.
Or, and I'm just entirely spitballing here, we cut out all the middlemen and provide food at dispensaries for people at no cost? The US produces enough food to feed 10 billion people. Most of it is animal feed or gets landfilled.

1 in 5 children are food insecure on the wealthiest nation in the history of this planet. It's an absolute disgrace and the children getting permanent learning disabilities due to malnutrition don't have decades for the free market to humanely allocate resources (something it's entirely incapable of doing unforced).

McDonalds has employees qualifying for food stamps. On top of that we give them tax incentives for "creating jobs" as they spend all their R&D trying to maximize their food's "craveability" (addictiveness). More to the point we've made it illegal for food companies to not optimize for that because they've have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

It's not a money problem. Heck, we could solve global poverty with <5% of "first world" GDP. It's an incentives problem. There's no incentive to feed Americans healthy food. There's not even an incentive to feed Americans. Which is why you get headlines like: https://apnews.com/article/portland-storms-oregon-4eebd2cd2f...
Oh so they only took 70k worth of stuff ... Sounds about right /s

Also yes I didn't compound, if we compound it's even less lol
Shutting down old operational business without personal convo with owner/manager is something that blows my mind when I deal with modern services. They advertise "customer-oriented" approach, "amazing 24/7 support", put monkeys on 1st line of support whose only goal is to kick your inquiry out as fast as possible.

Not sure how long it will take to understand that good support is not the one that tells how you are "important" to them when you call, but the one that actually mediates the problem before it becomes so.
It also responds to the scroll wheel in some browsers, which sounds like a nifty feature except that we started receiving sporadic complaints and bug reports from users who insisted that forms were being submitted with slightly incorrect numeric values.

I spent an embarrassingly long time trying to track down some bizarre number parsing bug or obscure culture-specific behavior before realizing it was actually just users' cursors being over the number input while they tried to scroll, causing them to inadvertently change values just before submitting the form.
How are they handling real time subscriptions? Like, how do they figure out when a row is updated? Postgres has replication functionality, but how are they achieving same with SQLite?
Miners are turning back on shuttered fossil fuel burning power stations. Pumping carbon into the air for zero public benefit. of course they’d prefer cheaper power if they could get it - everybody does. But just because they prefer clean power in no way excuses the huge waste of carbon that powers most mining.
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To spell it out, ignoring transaction costs and taxes the following two are economically equivalent:

- You own some stock. The company pays dividends. You reinvest the dividends into buying more stock.

- You own some stock. The company buys back stock.

A different equivalence:

- You own some stock. The company pays dividends.

- You own some stock. The company buys back stock. You sell stock until your percentage share in the company is the same as before.
There’s a trend of storing MFAs in password managers like 1Password. If the password manager is compromised then what was the point in having MFA…
The comment I responded to was "Bezos is short, Zuckerberg is short, Gates is short"

If you had said they were unlikely to be the tallest person in the room, I would have wholeheartedly agreed. If you had said they were short by white male american standards I would have also agreed. If you had said they were short by standards of U.S. tech workers, I would have half-heartedly agreed (since there is good Asian representation in that demographic but men are overrepresented).
But I think his claim is not that it’s misperceptions but accurate perceptions.
Completions have in general been of interest, though the shell-specific completions I've looked at so far were all too dynamic.

I'd forgotten all about Fig since I saw your launch post here last year, so thanks for reminder. (I don't think I had quite started to work on parsing specific external commands, yet, so it wouldn't have clicked at the time. Was still focused on just identifying the likely presence of exec in the executables.)

Are you familiar with the parse code? Are you handling painful stuff like combined short flags with a trailing option? (If I ferreted out some of the more painful cases I've had to wrangle, I am curious if you'd have a gut sense of whether your approach handles it. Would you mind if I reach out? I am working on this for https://github.com/abathur/resholve)
> I can hear the difference between 16-bit audio and 24-bit audio. 16-bit isn't bad at all, but 24-bit is definitely superior.

Generally means they got the dithering wrong. (You might be hearing the dithering actually.)

How well can you hear quiet music while standing next to a running power drill? 16-bit can represent that accurately.

> But one thing I know for certain and beyond all possibility of doubt is that I only have two ears. All that is necessary for 3D sound is stereo speakers.

But it doesn't matter how many ears you have. The problem is that it always sounds like it's coming from the same direction, because it's premixed. Can't turn yourself around and have the front and back switch, or move your head around to get a better localization.

Even if you don't care about that, it won't sound perfect because the mixer doesn't know your HRTF or if you're on headphones vs IEMs vs speakers.
To add to this, everytime I eat at Burger King I'm amazed at how god damn /salty/ it is compared to McDonald's. The saltiness isn't immediately obvious, but any day I have a a BK burger for lunch I end up drinking several huge cups of water throughout the day because of all the salt.

Over consumption of salt is far more harmful to one's health than over consumption of fat in general, as far as I'm concerned.
Probably slightly less dumb than collecting bored money pictures. But only slightly.
The ones who are making real money you don't hear about because they're not gonna brag about their breach and cut off their access.
"For all three crimes the department says it groups together as carjacking arrests, that’s a clearance rate of just 3.1% for incidents that have occurred so far this year."

https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/chicago-police-sta...
> Daniel didn’t move to Thailand to work from the beach.

But you still would put a stock photo of a man with notebook in a beach chair into your article, wouldn't you?
Discord has a ton of useful features. It's a very powerful application.
Bitcoin doesn’t even have smart contracts. How is it relevant?
Ok, I’ll keep using the credit card and traditional banking system where I don’t need to enter an auction and pay $20 to make a transaction.
It's likely your idea of what Christianity should be, and that of the people in the middle ages, are wildly different.

Particularly with regard to punishment and value of human life.
Wheaties, breakfast of champions!
That's a pretty strong statement to make.

It would highly depend on the contract between Vizio and their suppliers no? In particular if the lawsuit finds that anything from the supplier (like e.g. the display driver) is part of the GPL violation the contract likely contain clauses that would force the supplier to provide source code. Otherwise Vizio has grounds to sue their supplier.

That's the beauty about going after the big customer facing companies, it offers the strongest leverage.
Doesn't pulseaudio solve that though ?
In the article they theorize that he might have been considered a plague spreader. A burial would be a much better way to contain further spread compared to many of the other alternatives (though one might wonder why they didn't just burn the body).
I find the culture (very generally speaking) to be an odd mix of intelligence, knowledgeability, humorlessness, and immaturity.
Basically "educate yourself", yes?
Aside from the features and implementation, WhatsApp is forbidden for some purposes in many countries with reason. Germany is such a country IIRC. For a subset of users an acceptable alternative is required, and some of those alternatives are markedly inferior e.g. Signal. If WhatsApp cannot be used for important things then it is not a realistic universal solution. (That isn't to say that iMessage is the solution, just that WhatsApp definitely is not.)

From a user perspective, just about everything about the UI/UX and integration with the rest of your environment in WhatsApp is inferior to iMessage. The integration aspect is understandable; it is easy for Apple to tightly integrate iMessage into the rest of their environment because they own it. Nonetheless, this integration is slick and a lot of subtle automagic happens as a result. I appreciate that bit.

The UI/UX gaps are less understandable, since that is a choice. WhatsApp is better than many other messaging apps but in my experience the UI/UX is noticeably inferior to iMessage in some ways. I think some of this just attempts to optimize engagement metrics or similar, because Facebook, sacrificing good design.

That aside, WhatsApp has distasteful behaviors that are just Facebook-isms that don't need to exist in a messaging app. I don't appreciate its aggressive attempts to scrape my life, for example. Every Facebook property has this characteristic.
The cars generally get recovered (they're used to commit further crimes, not so much chop-shopped), but the M.O. of a carjacker is to hand the car off quickly to an accomplice who didn't participate in the robbery, and from that person to someone else, which makes arresting the person who committed the actual armed robbery hard. I'm certainly not trying to tell you that Chicago reliably arrests carjackers.
Does the Merge change how Ethereum is regulated? (No.)
Could a solo dev, using your platform, basically roll their own Sofi competitor? Minus the investing bits?

Or something like credit karma has?

Do you need a large amount of money upfront?
unironically. yes. we should throw it into the ocean.

it’s more fair than the current situation and there seem to be no other plans to rectify the situation in the near future either.
I don’t think it ever truly ends, so long as there are secrets and people who want to uncover them. This is the classic arms race, and subsequently people who can’t keep up are just casualties…
I was recently on a call with someone who said their company was "totally zero-trust" because they disabled copy & paste on all workstations. I definitely believe in the concept, but it's definitely turning into a parroted term that's applied to anything.
I think prebaked lighting plays a huge role here - the maps in Valorant are statically lit, small confined spaces, and probably all the lighting and shadows is prebaked, save for the characters. Late 2000s hardware could already make games look amazing with this level of power, combined with good art direction.

All the games you mentioned in your post have dynamic levels, and must calculate all their lighting on the fly.
Smart cards have long been mostly phishing proof. WebAuthN is essentially a more convenient interface to the same technology.
They had a similar museum in Bangkok which has since shut down. One method of death was being put in a wicker ball and being kicked around by an elephant.
> “The transition is startling when the diamond becomes a symbol of potency rather than beauty. It becomes this gemstone like the ring in Lord of the Rings, one ring to rule them all.”

A Silmaril would be a better analogy.
No, start calling much more loudly for the use of government force to resolve the situation. State power in a democratic system is the best vehicle to counterbalance concentrated private power. This anarcho-libertarian drivel never leads to postivie outcomes.
I worry that this is simply cover for people who don't want to pay for policing and incarceration any more. Essentially abandoning the many innocent victims of crime in those troubled areas.
exactly. if you can’t determine a ‘true’ owner, even throwing the diamond into the ocean is a more fair solution than the british monarchy just keeping it while no inkling of plans to ever rectify the situation.