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That's very generous to Apple. They have a history of success, but for better or worse we're in uncharted territory. I mean, if the transition takes 10+ years, wil Tim Cook even be at the helm as it happens ?

BTW I didn't mean my comment as a critique of Apple, I think they did get everything right on the logistics side given what has been hapenning for the last decade (they weren't immune, but they clearly navigated it extremely well). But I would be warry of being too optimistic on their diversification efforts or looking at it as a done deal.

Kinda reminds me of the effort to have the Mac Pro assembled in the US. A lot of people were looking at it im very simple terms, when it's a really difficult thing to do in any viable economical fashion.
I think feedback is overrated. If somebody can't read the myriad of indirect and nonverbal communication to understand whether they are pulling their weight and meeting expectations, there is little words can fix. Feedback only works if the addressed issue is isolated and not symptomatic of a broader poor judgment problem.
Thanks for digging this up. How cool!
Yes, that's true as well.

Unfortunately, there are certain industries like AAA games, TV and movies where ambitious people are generally exploited through under-resourcing. Crunch is relatively normal, and it does make good economic sense for the shareholders in terms of ROI.

Recently, many people have been leaving these industries because the health/ambition trade-off doesn't make sense for them anymore. It doesn't for me as well, and I'm leaving too.

A lot of good institutional knowledge is lost this way. It probably accounts for the recent decrease in quality and delays of big AAA games.
Absolutely true, but typing on a screen is a royal pain in many contexts. I like this design because it looks like a moderately rugged industrial computer that's not a clamshell and has a useful keyboard (I grew up with things like ZX Spectrums so this isn't the negative for me that it is for many others).

It is indeed quite limited, but I like terminal environments and (again) grew up with very constrained menu-driven software, so this is less of an toy than a very customizable tool; I'm not really interested in the game console emulation. One that can fit in a cargo pocket and is surprisingly affordable. The lack of a touchscreen or camera are pluses for me.
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British exceptionalism at it's finest!

Immigrants settle in all rich countries not just the UK.

Just because there is a queue of 100s at calais to get in, doesn't tell the whole story of millions of economic migrants travelling all over the world.
I mean that's just ridiculous. 'Unconstitutional' is incredibly vague & subjective (and incredibly political), to the degree that most developed countries don't allow judges to overturn laws based on this at all. (1) As an example of how subjective 'unconstitutional' is, consider that different levels of the judiciary disagree with each other about whether a law is constitutional or not all the time. It's very, very common for one appeals court to declare that a law is in accordance with the constitution or not, and then a higher level to disagree completely. If judges who've devoted their entire lives to the field can't agree and constantly overrule each other....

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
Try compiling ffmpeg with `--enable-librav1e` and use the `rav1e` encoder implementation. It's supposed to be the fastest software encoder, though of course it can still quite slow depending on the settings.

If you have a newish Intel CPU they're supposed to have good AV1 hardware encoding support. See SVT-AV1. (which ffmpeg also supports: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AV1#SVT-AV1 )
Theres a series of really good games called Commandos. I think the latest one (Commandos 3 destination berlin) only works in Windows XP, and doesnt work in "compatibility mode" in newer versions, nor in Wine.
toxic datadriven cultures will say "You must have data to do X" while the status quo never had to face that bar. It becomes impossible to prove something because you're never given the resources to even gather the data, let alone try an experiment to move it. So then it becomes "unless its obviously broken, we don't want to know the truth" .
No, even when I put together a PC, I was putting chips and boards together.

But as a boy holding that memory board, I was looking at the cores that held individual bits of memory. Instead of connecting things with ribbon cables or whatever, I was looking at tiny wire that would transmit individual bits of information.

Completely different level of abstraction.
I will try that because libaom was really slow.
The separate branches of government limit each other, but they can't impose punishments on the other. That's up to the electorate.
Please see The Thirty Million Line Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
Chrome does not have release notes. The blog post only mentions CVE fixes and points you to Git logs for the rest of the work. Only a tiny number of new Chrome features (out of the thousands of changes and bug fixes done in every release) get further marketing treatment, and they are obviously going to focus on those directly relevant for users over a new video codec. Just because they didn't call out the change anywhere doesn't mean they are being secretive about it, as the title wants to imply.
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor
The language agnostic approach works unless you're hiring for languages with a steep learning curve.
Eg: Ruby Engineers.

Hire a Ruby egnineer if you want an Ruby engineer.

I've found engineers being able to quickly pickup Python, Java and C.
I guess as long as abending of interviews is still legit, it's as viable to take walk-ins as to take electronic applications. Just be sure to act on any GTFO needs before the start date. The interview process is longer to accommodate those legal protections, but those don't start until hiring (or something that isn't the first conversations), right?

Long story short: I think we can lengthen the interview period to accommodate those legal time sinks without killing off the (now a bit of a novelty) meatspace first impression. Unless you're talking about blind selection, where the candidate's likeness (name, etc.) is redacted for DEI. In that case, I can see how witnessing the candidate's skin, gender, etc. could be problematic. TFA even explicitly included the types of things we try to leave unspoken these days: excellent health, 5'4"?!
Double space and drive space with 'transparent ' compression was cool. I wish there was something as ubiquitous for USB drives nowadays.
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR)
What 3 things have you tried and why didnt they work?
Plenty of people think it's bonkers and the informed frontend perspective is to not use CRA anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m14f0ZzMyY
Thank you, I appreciate the correction. Did this change at some point in the past? I seem to remember the Arch Linux package downloading a ton of Rust stuff at one point.
When i started at google a little over decade ago I had to work most nights first year or so just to get that occasional “exceeds”. Interviewing was a breeze compared to that
I think you'd be surprised how long some tests queue waiting for a runner - but I do agree with you that it's not the longest delay running tests, and it is relatively easy to fix with budget.

I would say our solution mostly breaks down to massive parallelization and in order to support this pre-built environments. The problem with massive parallelization with traditional hosted CI is that the first 5-6 minutes (maybe as many as 10 minutes) of your build is just creating your environment. So it is extremely inefficient to spend such a long time building for say 2 minutes of tests. Your total test time is 6 minutes setup + 2 minutes run time. Scaling that up by adding 100 machines is only going to bring the 2 minutes down, you are stuck with the 6 minutes build time.

By maintaining the environment between builds we can add more workers and get that test run time down to the 10 seconds range (with zero build time on most builds). Obviously we add complexity around knowing when to rebuild - but that is the price we pay for getting super fast tests.
I’ve been a regular user of the app to know whether there are extra scenes at the end of the movie, and I haven’t noticed a time when they didn’t have new content. There was a time when the app looked outdated but the content was still fresh. And they redid the app’s pricing once, maybe twice now. But yeah, they did a recent reboot of the app and its design etc.
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Yeah the old windows defrag visualization was cool. Probably inspired some people to dig deeper.

Coding in VB 1.0 was cool. I think I made a rapid color changing thing in it. Like a modern stuck pixel exerciser, but probably way too fast to work. Not sure.

Mac OS X in the early versions (until like .7 maybe?) had a feel and look that’s definitely been lost. Probably mostly for the better but not exclusively.

Definitely wish modern OSes would take some time to make user interfaces as fast to respond as possible and reliable enough to basically never lock up. Just give an error indicator if something’s locked up under the hood (aka background/off thread).

Definitely wish modern websites were more text based.
Sabotaged is a politically biased way of describing the events here. The reality is different as my sibling comment pointed out
Google Picasa. Its ability to find local images was magical.
Microsoft FY23 Q1 Earnings
ddrescue on the other hand is completely worthwhile
revenue outside USA will be taking a hit due to current forex trends
Sure. And "Please upgrade your version of Netflix|Hulu|Spotify|YouTube in order to connect."?

I'm sure that will be considered the app developer's fault, because -they- are expected to handle backwards compatibility, since Apple won't.
I'm curious how you come to this conclusion. Granted I never wrote much Java (and not in the last 10 years), but it was painfully verbose at the time. I've never had that reaction while writing golang (which over the last 3 years I've done a decent amount). Has Java gotten much more succinct?
· Revenue was $50.1 billion and increased 11% (up 16% in constant currency)

· Operating income was $21.5 billion and increased 6% (up 15% in constant currency)

· Net income was $17.6 billion and decreased 14% (down 8% in constant currency)

· Diluted earnings per share was $2.35 and decreased 13% (down 7% in constant currency)
Say what you will about Apple, at least they are calling for deadlines that are <15 years away. This is concrete, no pun intended.
Hypercard.

It started from a-drag-and-drop equivalent of today's PowerPoint and scaled all the way up to creating the game Myst, all with no bumps or steep sections on the learning curve. I used to teach it to middle schoolers and the things they could do with it were amazing; students were teaching themselves programming because it was a simple, obvious step forward.
I actually had a neighbor who worked for Citrix and this describes him to a T. He was such a clever waste of time. I miss you Skip.
>Because HEVC has hardware support, right now, so it's faster.

Most new hardware supports hardware decode for AV1 too. There were 1-2 generations prior to the current one that had HECV but not AV1, but that sample size will become irrelevant over time.

>People don't much.

Well, clearly people who make decisions do. If you ask an average person on the street if they care about HEVC or AV1, they don't. If you ask Netflix or Google, they do.
My guess is that the earliest Code Versioning systems were completely manual, "Duplicate your tape, mark it 1.2, store it in drawer". And these manual processes were brought to and duplicated on computers when code began to be stored on the computers themselves, instead of through cards and paper tape.

Certainly if you were a business, you had an extreme business interest in keeping your "known good" stack of cards in a place, and every revision in code required a new stack of cards.

"Hey, the machine just ate 10 cards from the payroll software, can we get duplicates made?"

"No, those were the originals, guess we're SOL no one gets paid" never happened.

Most likely "Ok, version 1.34 of the payroll software that was updated last week? Cards 1032 to 1042? Duplicate cards will be up to you within the hour"

or "We have to revert to the old payroll processing software, can you create a new fresh copy of 1.33, 1.34 has some bugs and we need to get tonights run in?"
I use this almost daily for putting together random image assets for other things Im building. Every penny the founder makes us well deserved, I can’t imagine the amount of value for users Photopea has created since inception.
I generally don't get into museums, but I found the Vasa Museum and the Viking Ship museum in Oslo to be incredibly interesting.
This is such a bad faith interpretation of the point that I question your actual motive and belief system that would cause you to make such an attack.
Collaboration may be attractive to management teams due to reasons apart from productivity. Management may even know and accept that productivity suffers.

A brilliant idea coming from an individual is less trustworthy than a mediocre idea coming out of a group effort. Management has little idea how to judge the quality of a new idea, and worse, the risks of adopting it. When the idea comes from a group, it is much "safer" because if it were dangerously risky, or likely to cost 10 times as much as proposed and fail anyway, or step on toes, someone in the group would have noticed and nixed it, supposedly.

In a collaborative situation, you'd not only need to come up with the idea, but then sell it to others with different outlooks, who favor their own idea instead, or their friends' idea, or with a desire to change your idea to appropriate partial credit for it.

That's not to say in a small group of like-minded people, collaboration can't be great. At its best, that becomes actual brain-storming and the idea can evolve organically into something better than any of the individual ideas. But that is not the usual big-corp cross-functional collaborative team.
In Switzerland, having an intermission is still standard. It's great.
It's about warranty.

If you can't warranty something, it's worth less than if you can.

And if you do warranty it, but don't back it up, that's fraud.

People are tired of false promise and baiting into hazard.
>The patent situation surrounding AV1 is complex. It claims to be a free format but multiple entities claim patents that cover it. A submarine patent lawsuit seems likely.

This can be said about anything. Sounds like FUD. There hasn't been a successful lawsuit yet, right ?
What we can’t point to yet is what comes next? Continued growth or are we nearing a peak? Hopefully cloud can turn on profit mode soon
This explains why any movie I've seen coming from India has always felt _long_.
Test scores are not irrelevant
Good advice, but worth noting the CM4 isn't included and there are a surprising number of CM4 variants now. They only advise one specific model number (104000 - the 4gb ram no onboard storage CM4), clarification on this would be good too.
These sorts of Twitter threads are hilarious, because they assume first of all that renewables fans are going to aghast, just aghast, when they realize that somehow there's extractive lining to produce the raw materials! Oh no! What ever will we do, guess it's time to go back to rubbing sticks together and massive degrowth!

Which, sure, there are a few naive folks like that; but the renewables space is filled with industrialists that did the hard technology work of actually creating an entirely new energy future. Come on, random Twitter dude... these folks know their supply chains and are smart enough to know that basically all reports everywhere for the past 10 years are predicting this massive shift from fossil fuel extraction to mineral extraction. Nobody is surprised.

As for the rest of your comment, none of the rest of the energy source has to be carbon based. And by saying that they are going to decarbonize their supply chain, Apple is creating a guaranteed customer for new business to actually deliver that supply. And for a new business, that guaranteed market is by far the most important factor for getting a new business off the ground. It means that no matter their costs, as long as they are better than the other decarbonized sources, they can win the bid. And that's where subsidies/tax credits are weaker, because they have to predict the delta between the earliest decarbonized product and the traditional alternatives. A guaranteed market gets around that.

For tough-to-decarbonize sectors such as concrete, having more purchasers of the zero-carbon early products, such as city governments or state governments, is a huge boom to entrepreneurs looking to pioneer a new space.

So Apple really is doing something significant, which will actually change the economy for the better, and probably more so than a tax credit scheme.
I kind of don't understand pure bundlers for the individual dev level; I feel that they are made for other ecosystem authors to package into a "meta-framework", such as NextJS (which used to use webpack). The devs at Vite said something similar, that although they provide a great developer experience with no/low configuration, they're really meant for other ecosystem authors.
Chrome does not have release notes.

They just can't be bothered to recap the changes?
Absolutely nothing. It can always be emulated, if you need it.
To note, the "made in xxxx" denomination can be pretty fuzzy. You can source pre-assembled/fully functional blocks from anywhere, put it in the final enclosing at the last destination, and stamp it as made there.

Countries can be more or less strict about what threshold needs to be passed to be accepted as made locally, but I'd expect Malaysia to not be against computers production getting attributed to them.
Commandos 3 and 2 remastered are on XBox Game Pass.
I really like GitLab as a company, just such a shame they insist on candidates having years of Rails experience, quite jarring coming from a company that is so welcoming in every other aspect. I've had multiple roles where I had to learn a new language/framework after starting and it has never ever been an issue.

It's quite geographically exclusionary too, given many countries have low Rails uptake as compared to the USA.
Avengers: Endgame seems to be just around 3 hours long. Wouldn't it be enough to simply go to the bathroom before sitting down to view it?
I don’t regularly browse Twitter, I follow links from places like HN.
The game Gruntz. Amazing puzzle game from the 90s, long forgotten. It was made by the studio that went on to make F.E.A.R., the hit horror FPS for which they are better known these days.
I'm able to encode using av1an (which I believe still uses ffmpeg as its backend) at 3440x1440@30Hz with 10bit color using a mid/high-range AMD 3800X processor.

I'm not sure what might be wrong on your end, but it sounds like ffmpeg's default configs might not be well-optimized yet if you can't encode in real time.
> That’s easy: it’s not our guy! It’s those other guys!

I mean, that has certainly been true for me, and many other people. I sent someone to Congress I liked. Congress then has a wide spectrum of people who end up doing whatever a small group decides (this term, whatever Manchin and Sinema want). It's pretty easy to like your guy but not the end results of the process or the body as a whole that produced it.
Parent is complaining about this will make you have to view your phone during the movie in order to see when it's happening, presumably because you'll disturb others who sit next to you because of the brightness of the phone.

So instead you suggest making it go off with a timer instead? That seems even worse!
AOL.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/529/129/f62...

Mac and Windows have been trying to become what AOL was quite a long time ago.
I have no problem with licensing, depending on the job.

Some stuff should definitely have a steady hand on the tiller, other jobs, not so much.

But the thought of licensing software engineers is daunting. The industry is so incredibly varied.

For example, almost none of the programming I do, involves higher math. I've pretty much forgotten all my calculus, while other jobs are almost nothing but math.

I could be writing crucial, lifesaving device control stuff, and the math person could be working on a game physics engine.

I am in awe of game programmers, but they also work on "nice to have" stuff. I know someone that writes software for medical devices. He is not a "math person," but he's also very dependable, and can be relied upon to Get The Job Done. He has many years of working on things like USB drivers, firmware, Bluetooth, and networking layers.

So, if the “licensing test” insisted on a good command of advanced math (because “everyone should know it” –the same argument given for LC), neither he, nor I, would make it, so the company would be deprived of some very good, dependable, disciplined, and talented engineers, fully capable of writing highly effective asynchronous device control code, and would, instead, prefer an inexperienced math programmer that would try to rewrite the project in haskell.
That applies for TV show. For movies though, the vast majority of new torrents are Blurays re-encoded to HEVC (x265 being the encoder used pretty much every time).
Tell us more about your prebuilt environments. Are they reused between customers?

How do you protect your customers' code and secret tokens?

What does the customer have to do to parallelize their tests? Separate them into individual (or groups of) small test (rspec etc) files? Or is there some automation magic?

Pricing is reasonable, but there's a big gap between $0 (5x) and $129/mo (60x).

I suspect you want to drive customers to the "Wow that's great" performance level, at the "Yeah that's reasonable" price, because this optimizes your revenue to costs, while making customers happier than they expected to be. (This is a good strategy!)

But might there be some space for "Yeah that's really good" performance at a "Wow that's affordable" tier? 20x for $49/mo?

Nice service BTW. The SaaS CI market is ossified and needs a good shakeup!
"Just quickly add this one more feature, you'll have time to refactor after the release"
There is nothing like an unexpected raise to make a person feel some serious company loyalty. I started a position at a new company a few years back, run by a friend and senior colleague of mine. He had been with me at the previous company and had observed while I fought and fought to get a raise to market rates in that position.

He called me a few months into the gig and told me that he felt I should be making more than my starting salary and that I was getting a fairly substantial raise effective immediately.

I can't describe how good that felt, after having had to struggle to demonstrate my value at the previous gig only to be met with bureaucracy at every turn. I'm still with that company and genuinely love working with them. I make a pretty nice salary, and though I'm sure I could easily get a 20% raise to jump ship, I'm finally in a place where I can say "nah, I'm happy where I am" and not feel like I'm giving something up.
Actual Amber Alerts are the ones that bother me. If I'm in my office or eating dinner, I don't want to know about a missing child last seen 20 miles away
That is pretty general, but more important seems untrue. All I ever heard Sundar say both internally and externally was about making Google “more helpful”. He said it so much and it was such a boring and bland statement that it really frustrated and nearly angered me. So yes, he lacks vision and specific product strategy here, but I think he is trying (badly) to move the narrative away from technology towards people