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Opinion: SAP focused on the buyer, not the user. I see this in technical software sales all the time: vendors have an X, so they target the team that might X or currently use the inferior Y when they could be using X.

But in reality, those people are rarely if ever the buyer, as in, the person who has the budget and the authority to actually issue a PO. In the size of company that uses an ERP, that person is not going to be Raj in Accounting who likes your webified TrelloAsana travel and expense dashboard, or Sara in IT who enjoyed your demo of the JSON export to PowerBI. Its going to be a committee of Finance EVPs who give a final thumbs up to the CFO to write the check.

The other part to this story is that at this level, SAP (and peers) are using highly skilled partners as force multipliers to sell. I can honestly say after years in technology that I have never actually seen a SAP employee so to me. But I have seen a boatload of folks from Accenture and Deloitte and Tech Mahindra try to sell digital ERP transformation via a $$$$ contract that used SAP in the tech stack.

In short, SAP doesnt need to be the best. It just needs to win the CFO and make partners money.

This is one reason why SAP wins.
Could it be that humans were simply not meant to be so hyper specialised? And that modern societies demand for everyone to do one task on repeat for decades is making us miserable?

Should we really ignore the fact that almost everyone comes to wish they were doing something else, regardless of what they are currently doing?
Google Cloud is not the real Google. Culture-wise, you are closer to Oracle.
Yes. And the gas companies say what W.A. did "won't work" and to suggest it is applied becomes "sovereign risk". Ha! they'd continue to extract wealth from the eastern states, even with a fixed price supply to domestic consumers. Its bogus as shit.

Andrews is on the money proposing re-nationalising state power and ending the faux market economy in public utility.

But that said, Australia IS a single economy, where Africa isn't.
>Is libvterm still the best terminal emulator for Emacs? From VS Code/tmux I'm used to being able to summon multiple terminal instances with different tabs/ splits, and the experience in Emacs felt less good last time I tried to recreate this.

vterm is awesome, I recommend using multi-vterm if you want more than one
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What would you’d hugest instead? My org likes the flexibility it provides.
I'm currently in Tokyo on holidays. Everywhere I've visited (Hakone, Nikko, Kamakura, Fujiyoshida), everyone is wearing masks both inside and outside. The only times I take my mask off are when I'm eating, drinking or in my hotel room.

The only people I have seen that aren't wearing masks outside are foreigners. This is only a subset of people visiting. Most tourists also wear masks outside.
These bans also block the single player mode?! That is absolutely absurd. False bans for multiplayer aren't anything new (unfortunately), but also blocking the singleplayer mode, making the purchased product 100% unusable seems criminal.
> I can't describe the disappointment of rushing home from school to find the Looney Tunes slot on BBC 2 be replaced by a "cultural exchange" cartoon from Eastern Europe.

Interesting. The Simpsons had a bit about cartoons being replaced by weird Eastern European cartoons [1]. I didn't know that actually happened in real life.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI
> Every large (read stable) corporation has created it's own bureaucracy. The "scrappy start-ups" that become successful by becoming profitable in their own right (and are not merely bought up by the large corporations) eventually develop their own.

Yes, that was even heavily implied in my post you're critiquing!

This cycle of very bureaucratic orgs being outcompeted by lightly bureaucratic orgs, which then grow very bureaucratic, and are in turn outcompeted, results in a medium bureaucracy level on average in the long run.
> we couldn't buy pizza for research lab meetings

It’s probably not worth the time, but there are usually ways to use the rules to get your way with the business office.

“Team building”, or whatever category that falls under, might be a way to get pizza.

(Note that they seem to be treating the pizza as a reimbursed meal for travel or something like that — probably an incorrect categorization).

I have a friend who knows this kind of stuff inside and out. I will ask her and post back here. It might take a day or two.
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Not sure if russian custom of abusing power above weaker is same as Activision absolute incompetence to develop functional software.
People who understand and complain about these issues usually don't work for these products as these are not critical systems for a company to function.

They serve 2 main purposes.

- Have some process in place to get things done. Speed is not important.
- Provide livelihood for hundreds and thousands of average developer ecosystems/SIs. They work hard to keep them alive.
I asked it to produce "ascii drum tablature for a cool beat", or "what's the ascii guitar tab for the main riff in Metallica's Seek and Destroy", and in both cases it makes something that kind of looks like drum tablature or guitar tablature, but is basically nonsense.
Severe Minority opinion warning

I believe there are some technical root causes that must be addressed, as well as those political and other issues. Unfortunately, the non-technical problems highly discourage proper technical solutions to these issues. I'll enumerate them here anyway.

1 -It's practically impossible to secure the hardware. Even CPUs have embedded control systems that form "management" layers hidden from everyone. Nothing built on top of this traitorous layer can ever be safe. It's possible to build something completely open and reasonably secure, but the market discourages it.

2 - RAM is unacceptably bad, most systems lack ECC as well. If we had properly tested and validated RAM, RowHammer wouldn't work, ever.

3 - The Operating systems themselves are usually modeled on Unix/Linux in some fashion, where there is no capability based security[1]. We're using a security model that was fine for the relatively low threat environment of small network of computers all serving one employer. It's entirely unfit for purpose in 2022.

Note: If you assume I'm talking about "allow this app to access X", you really need to read the Wikipedia page.

So, with the current Tower of Babel that is the software world, everyone blaming everything but these root technical causes, because there are fortunes to be made selling what are effectively band-aids in the field of CyberSecurity.

I firmly believe it's possible to fix this, all the way up and down the stack, but I'm having doubts about my own ability to survive until that day happens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security
Gotta love the loose usage of “prove”

Some people dancing proves that TV was more adventurous then than today — shows like Naked Attraction, Documental and The Briefcase notwithstanding!
Your pans are good, they’re actually bad for the industry because they have no death and the industry wants to sell you something “better and improved” every year.
> And moderators of popular forums like r/ModernWarfareII refuse to allow posts that try to increase awareness of the issue, again, likely assuming we’re all a bunch of whining cheaters. I don’t think they’re aware of the disservice they’re doing to their community by actively suppressing these reports (or conspiratorially, they’re influenced by Activision itself).

I don't think this is very conspiratorially. It's very clear that the mods are coordinating with Activision on releases and information. I've had several posts taken down over the years because they don't tow-the-line.
Back in the day Reed told me that he added the leak detection to Purify v1 towards the end of the dev cycle and was very surprised that it wound up being one of their biggest selling points
Conductive
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"All slaves must be set free" was exactly as true in 1750 and it is in 2022. This isn't a historical or sociological analysis; it's moral. If you built a time machine and traveled back to 1750, you could not morally entertain the then-popular norm of slavery.
> Why is there even a market for potentially harmful cookware? Was it driven by marketing or am I mistaken, and my pans aren’t any good?

Eggs. There's a reason almost all professional chefs, despite knowing more than anyone about how to season metal-based pans, use nonstick pans for eggs. (And sometimes fish.)
Netflix was originally intended as a streaming company. The DVD rentals were a strategy to solve some non-technical problems with the business while the infrastructure for streaming caught up.
Like it or not, Samsung is the premium phone in the Android ecosystem. That is cheapens the experience with bloatware is a real blight on the ecosystem. Your options are either Pixel or Android One. Last I looked, few models are still utilizing the Android One program.

Recent, begrudging convert to iPhone, because Google refused to fix 911 calling.
Erm, I think that sentence was in jest.

Unless you're making a follow-up joke and I'm just missing that.
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CSGO does this very well to my understanding.
Anti-detect browsers go far beyond the capabilities of proxies and VPNs. Not only can the Anti-detect Browser disguise a real location and some system configurations, but it can also simulate a brand-new device and thus a user's digital identity. While some security systems can detect you through certain patterns of behavior, if you run a multi-account-based business, your business will be much simpler and safer with the Anti-detect Browser.

How does the Anti-detect Browser work? Take MuLogin, for example. MuLogin is one of the many anti-detect browsers that do a good job, and the packages are all very affordable.

On the main page, you can see the configuration information that MuLogin can imitate. Users can modify the settings according to their needs to carry out multi-account business, users need to integrate a third-party proxy server, MuLogin does not provide proxy services, and users need to buy a proxy on a third-party website. Once the IP is set, a new device is "created" to access the site from different locations. In this way, the site treats the user as another person. There is no suspicion that this is an account created from a simulated device, because MuLogin's fingerprints look identical to the real ones, but there is no connection between the two. 100% complete isolation.

Once set up, the user does not have to change these settings. As long as the account stays up, so does the browser data, and the anti-detect browser system generates device fingerprints optimized for the website by default: even for Amazon, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Tinder, and many other platforms.

MuLogin's browser creation environment is unlimited, so you can create an unlimited number of unique fingerprint environments. It also supports team collaboration and sharing profiles with each other.
Assault on California Power Station Raises Alarm on Potential for Terrorism

April Sniper Attack Knocked Out Substation, Raises Concern for Country's Power Grid

By Rebecca Smith - February 5, 2014 : https://archive.ph/qILZ5

And : https://archive.ph/HCNOz
AccessKit looks great, and I'm thrilled to see a working integration for it.

Egui is an awesome tool for building quick-and-dirty GUIs: we use it at work for our game's developer tools.
> Thinkpads are often up to 30% off on lenovos website, but it seems that they don't discount the configurable options any more, which rules out getting a good price for a 32GB config.

Just to clarify here, I got a 32GB model at 51% off (that "sale" is now at 49%).
Lightweight but relatively strong conductive ribbon
I don't think it's reasonable to group Cronus in with software based cheats.

Cronus certainly makes many things easier, but it does not give you magic. You still have to be decent at the game for a Cronus to be of any help.
I think youtube just has so much content that is nowhere else that it can't go 'out of fashion.' It's a massive public archive of creative and educational content which you can't just discover on another platform.

It'd take a very long time for something (like rumble/vimeo) to catch up or an amazingly large stuff-up at Youtube to drive people away.
I speculate that they're using a lighter, simpler model to save on CPU time, and only switch to the "full" model if you're not happy with the first answer.
> Don’t you need some kind of intentional “bad behavior” for involuntary manslaughter?

You have act with recklessness or criminal negligence (or, where a misdemeanor manslaughter rule exists, commit a misdemameanor that resulted in the death.) None of these, except some misdemeanors, require intentional wrongdoing.
This has been going on since the release of MW2019. I myself was banned after trying to launch and play the single player campaign on Linux through Wine/Proton. I was unable to even launch the game to play the campaign again on Windows after that, and I no longer use Windows at all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/nfeupc/modern...

I emailed Activision support back and forth more than a dozen times explaining the issue, finally resulting in them saying they were escalating to another team. I sent them another four emails over three months, asking if there was any update, before asking if there was even anybody left alive at the company that my emails were reaching, with no response.

I really enjoyed the MW2019 campaign, but I won't be buying another game from Activision.
Thank you for the cybersquirrel link, it made my day although I'd personally like to see the addition of lightning strikes, floods, and other non human vectors of destruction.

While I have nothing (for now) to directly add to transmission network down time, I can at least add another Western Australian bird story to yours . . .

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-08/zebra-finch-makes-nes...

The linked video rivals anything David Attenborough voiced.
Graphcloud: Graphcore IPUs in the Cloud
First Principles Thinking for Software Engineers
The problem with Graham Hancock is that he pretends to be scientific while disparaging the actual scientists. If he wants to write science fiction, great; is entertaining.

But pretending to pass fantasy as science in the way he does is not Ok because some people cannot tell the difference. Is the opposite of education, with the aggravation that he is making money out of it.
Someone else has already alluded to this, but do you think it's possible for any organization of appreciable size to not develop "dedicated bureaucrats"?
Oh man, if we're going here, I have to point out that a job in archaeology will likely put your career in ruins.
You do not need to look at fiction. Look at almost any taxpayer funded pension plan. It will have tiers of benefits, where the older employees have better benefits than younger employees.

The older employees also happen to be the union leaders.
It may seem that way to you now, but they were just expressing the pop culture of the time. The Moog dancers were not that different from the dance numbers of the musicals in the 50s, just updated to what was then modern sensibilities and dance on television was pretty common back then.
That's fascinating and an incredible example of long term planning. Do you have a source for this?

edit: A very cursory check of the Wikipedia page and https://www.vox.com/2017/9/13/16288364/streampunks-book-exce... suggest that it probably isn't true that Netflix was "originally intended as a streaming company" considering at it's founding online streaming was still far from feasible, but I'm open to evidence to the contrary.
Ask HN: Pocket size e-ink with stylus?
Google search didn't find me anything like that.

Is there a tiny e-ink note taking device with a stylus which you can fit in your jeans pockets? It would be very handy to have something like that with you, even better if it could fit in wallet.
Even if this were just static site hosting (it wasn't, but for the sake of argument let's assume it was), GitHub is in no way "the industry-standard" and lots of Open Source projects need something a bit more complete than a place you can put a few HTML files.
You can probably only do that once, though. There's really no reason to be caught with a quick timed bomb throw and walk away. Or just shooting it with a rifle from accross the street after reading some Wikipedia pages to learn where to shoot.
> Kathy Griffin? Banned. Random South African dude who was tweeting Nazi quotes, pictures, and adoration? Not banned.

Have you considered that the difference in follower size matters? Some random dude’s tweets have a much smaller blast radius and impact than someone like Kathy.

Also, her account isn’t banned anymore: https://mobile.twitter.com/kathygriffin
Seems like the tape would get burnt up before too much damage was done though.
> You can count on your two hands how many small to mid size SaaS/tech companies actually make money.

I think you’ll see this change slowly in the next 2-3 years.

I’ve been running a small/medium company for 7 years now, bootstrapped but with a small $1 million seed round in 2015.

During the 2020/2021 bubble, our seed investors were very angry at us for being profitable. (Angry isn’t an exaggeration)

After the bubble bursts, those same investors are now praising us for being so “cash efficient” and profitable.

Founders are heavily influenced by the recommendations of advisors around them. Now that the entire VC community is condoning/punishing high cash burn companies, you’ll start to see more conservative ways of operating a business become more common, since that’s now what VC, PE, etc all want to see right now (and for the foreseeable future, at least until interest rates go way down)
I follow Marc Randolph on Tiktok and he's spoken before that they knew things would eventually go online: https://www.tiktok.com/@marc_randolph/video/7079079298182909...
That is essentially what I believe is the only reasonable answer, which is that some people want to be informed but they do not want to inform others (i.e. share the link) if they think the source will embarrass them. The public value would come from their work to unearth and share an alternate source.

There are also people who do not want to be informed if the source is “bad,” but they’ll never admit it so shouldn’t be asked, and I don’t think OP or most people here are that entrenched.
Then we still end up here: someone who's naturally skilled gets some lucky kills, and the Computer Says No, so now he's out a game license. Appealing modern anticheat decisions is hard enough, but once it's less "the computer noticed your memory-editing" and more "the computer decided you need to be banned", it'll be impossible. TFA seems to suggest that future is Real Soon, if not now.

So go play games with dedicated servers, and local admins who can only locally ban anyone suspect. If players don't like it they can leave for another dedicated server.
Yeah; I'm pretty sure WW3 started in 2014.
Teaching ChatGPT about the birds and the bees
I did compare it to the XPS 13 - the XPS looked like a solid machine, but it felt a little cramped to me. I preferred the still-svelte-but-bigger 14" X1.

Another consideration was having a company that cares about Linux running flawlessly, and Red Hat gives their employees Thinkpads. That dogfooding means that if I'm having a problem, it's likely some Red Hat employee is having the same problem, so it ought to be fixed soon :)
And that literally a whole generation lived through it, and you could find plentiful interviewees to fill time with. I loved watching my grandfather's generation tell stories, because it felt like watching grandpa tell stories.
One pretty easy bit of subtext to infer from these discussions: American politics have polarized on education and SES, and the platforms where plugged-in knowledge workers, hipsters, and celebrities tend to hang out are naturally inflected with the politics of those cohorts of people, which really pisses off conservatives who want to hang out in those spaces.
GPT is writing it now, check Amazon again in a few minutes.
Agreed. I honestly think it will make everything about using anything that can be done on a computer currently more accessible.
White people react positively to racial justice messages from white allies
Thank you for asking this. I stated something to the same effect here too and think the same way as you.

From what I have seen, the answer is that academics are more or less like teachers’ pets that kept going all the way into tenure. Their whole professional being is directed at pleasing their peers at large or their superiors. They’ve been broken into a relatively harsh hierarchical way of relating to their profession. All of their intelligence has been well domesticated and easily controlled for a while now. And it’s not like they’re starving. They’re doing well, but not too well, and scarcely have any incentive to rock the boat while they’re family rely on them and become increasingly reliant on the academic career with their age making it harder and harder to fathom surviving in the real world.

Just think about the amount of time and energy they have to spend on grants to get permission to do their job through sales pitches and papers to promote themselves.

They’re like an influencer that has to re-apply for their job every three years, with the real risk of falling out of fashion every time all the while acquiring few real world skills, which looms hauntingly should the fate, that’s inevitable for most, of being cast out into it befall them.
Why not? The profession went from writing machine code by hand to auditing "auto-generated" machine code from assembly. And so on with every generation of programming languages. With every new higher-level language with new abstractions, we're often just adding another chain to the inputs to a machine code translator.

Edit: If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.
May be it's because a lot of code out there doesn't actually require logic but merely requires copying what is already on the internet? I mean, I don't need to tell you that.

A computer can sort an array of numbers faster than likely 99% of the population, it doesn't mean it's useful.
Twenty five seconds to amputate a leg with knives and handsaws. That is amazing.
The way I am reading that link, AWS + Azure both increased revenue from last year (33% to 34% and 20% to 21%)? The article says GCP currently increased from 10%->11%.

Which is not say anyone should stay content, but it looks like GCP still has a long road ahead.
Regulated power industry typically is allowed by regulators a fixed % rate of return on the capital. More infra increases the number. They are already running up the capital base with the "green investments", so please don't increase the infra with security theater suggestions.

If you are really concerned, bury a propane tank plumbed to a generator.