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> What do you mean by "career limiting"?

Career limiting means you'll see less career advancements.

> speaking up like that should be considered a good thing.

Agreed. But in practice it's unfortunately not always seen that way.

> If it's not, why would you want to continue working there?

Because I weight several factors when deciding where to work and there are other benefits to working here.
Fundamentally, I think the “why” is still the fact that DevEx started with devs, and DevOps started as a collaboration with Ops people, who already were not speaking the same language of robustness that we do. Which is a little weird, and probably part of the friction between the groups.

They historically took on the reliability role, if nobody else did, but they were implementing reliability on top of a house of cards, which is a kind of hypocrisy that makes even mediocre devs bristle. Don’t lecture me on robust software, boyo. Your tools are made of string cheese and staples.
The current techniques pushes as many signals as possible to get a device fingerprint, which is then correlated with activity. It uses the pre-LLM machine learning methods to get such a picture.

Sources of these signals are often abuses of protocols used to enhance UX across devices. Examples include:

- Fonts installed (https://gist.github.com/szepeviktor/d28dfcfc889fe61763f3)

- Power saving telemetry (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...)

- Screen size - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen

- Deep Packet Inspection — not just IP addresses anymore - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection

These are all tools meant to help users, but they can be used for collecting signals for targeted ads.

I am sure there are more techniques that are just not publicly talked about.

I have been asked by extended family members about blocking transmissions from devices so they cannot be tracked. There really is an illusion that the device actively listens on the microphone in order to target ads. I told them that, some places don’t need to transmit microphone in order to collect signals for device fingerprinting, and that is scarier.
It is a straw man to pretend that political discussion looks like an Intelligence Squared debate when almost all the time it looks like a food fight about nonsense.

The idea the world will be worst off with less flame wars is simply wrong IMO.

I would already rate the discourse I have had with chatGPT4 as the best of my life.

I win if I learn something. It strikes me as highly perverse to view that the only way to win is to not play the game because you can't brow beat the bot into submission.

THAT is though what we mean by "political discussion". A bullshit pie throwing contest until one side quits. A twitter flame war. Yes, hopefully AI completely destroys that.
>Plan 9 in general seems very much like a system "by the designers, for its designers"

It definitely is that. That's a really great thing when the designers needs and assumptions match your own, but if they don't, you end up wondering what these bozos were thinking.

For what it's worth, Rob Pike was a big proponent of the mouse-driven design, and he has some very thoughtful essays/articles/emails about why he feels that way. I can't say I agree with him 100%, but it's clear that the decisions weren't arbitrary.
https://thedriven.io/2023/01/23/tesla-model-y-wins-2023-safe...

Using the euroncap ratings you used as an example, the model Y received the highest rating ever tested
> Why is buying 1 studio monopolistic?

Activision is not "1 studio". It is a major publisher of very large videogame IPs.

If the idea is to round up major publishers, "1 studio" at a time, to starve the competition of their suppliers... In what world would that not be monopolistic?
Any proof of that? Especially 'customer-hostile QoS'. I don't like the monopolies like the other guy, but QoS/CoS has very technical meaning and this is a technical forum.
paywall :-(
That sounds like it applies to cookies and local storage, not all tracking. It doesn't sound like it applies to IP-based or device fingerprint-based tracking.
AI reveals ancient symbols hidden in Peruvian desert
Apple Maps has this as well and I often get the alerts while driving.

What would be amazing is if the major apps opened the social aspects to share this data.
I'd also add with respect to the importance of the merger: this merger has signaled that Activision's board are looking for an exit. Activision's own long, weird, sloppy history is being the company a lot of other companies exited into. Activision owns an absurd amount of the cultural past of videogames because of its fast and loose mergers and acquisitions game.

In turn Activision have seemed to be dreadful archivists and gatekeepers of the massive amount of industry history that they own. There are Infocom and Sierra and Davidson and Knowledge Associates classics that are still locked in their vaults that can't be legally purchased today. (GOG has done a lot to change that, but there's always still more in the Activision vaults.) Among other things, they've "lost" entire 1990s/2000s franchises that all signs point to them having the legal rights but they have no clue what happened to them ("No One Lives Forever" is a favorite example of some, and the easiest example to mind, but isn't the only example).

There's an importance to them signaling their own interest in exiting here because of that history of exits that Activision already oversaw. Whoever buys Activision next may have an easy bar to clear on being better than Activision was at owning such a large part of the past of videogames. But we don't want to underestimate how much of a gatekeeper versus archivist dynamic is in play of whoever buys Activision or whichever way Activision exits. (If Activision were instead to exit via vultures in one way or another, who knows what will happen to the past of videogames if the raw pieces are all put up for the highest bidder and scattered to the winds. That may be a good thing, or it could mean that even the piecemeal access on GOG to Activision's back catalog is at risk. We wouldn't know until the dust clears and by then it may be too late.)
Good question; I hope they choose the path of standards early on, but it's not clear yet. I wonder if there's a genuine cost-cutting reason to not implement standards like ACPI. I believe SiFive was involved in the ACPI-on-RISC-V work, so that's probably a good sign. But honestly? I think we'll just have to wait and see.
That's a great idea for pricing logic, I'll put it live, I might even be able to create bundles, something like 10-image packs, and you just keep adding more and more if you need.
There is a reason that there is a difference. The bank vault situation is a case of illegal taking. The person in that case is likely someplace that they aren't legally allowed to be or are using force (or threat thereof) to extract the money. There is no chance that this was an accident. The employment case is a failure to pay money that is owed. That is sometimes just a contractual failure and can be the result of malice or incompetence. Many states have recognized that the failure to pay lawful wages is greater than a simple contractual failure and have added double or treble damages to the awards to penalize employers in this situation. Still, it is generally recognized that we don't want to be throwing people in jail for just failing to live up to a civil contract. Imagine if we started throwing people in jail for failing to pay rent.
People always only think about the downsides of AI deployment and completely neglect the upsides.

> Callers to Portugal's 112 emergency line sometimes wait five to six minutes to get a response.

Improving this would be great!

> If the trial periods goes well, the AI will come into wider use by 2025, a senior politician said.

If issues are much more frequent than with human responders, the system will obviously not be deployed.
I'm using it daily and I don't think I would be bothered too much if my conversations were leaked.

Depends on the use case I guess. I don't share private code with it for instance.
I don't get why this is a thing. Anybody who wants to avoid transaction fees can just start using physical cash.
Reminds me of a startup I worked for in the 1990s. The C code base was organized into "units" (modules). Each unit allocated/destroyed its own data structures, but used the "ref" unit to return a reference (really, a handle) instead of a pointer. Each module used a "deref" function to convert the handle to a typed pointer for internal use.

ref used many of the tricks described in the above post, including an incrementing counter to catch stale handles.

All pointers were converted to handles in debug and testing builds, but in release builds ref simply returned the pointer as a handle, to avoid the performance penalty. As machines grew faster, there was talk of never turning off ref.

Side win: There was a unit called "xref" (external ref) which converted pointers to stable handles in all builds (debug and release). It was the same code, but not compiled out. External refs were used as network handles in the server's bespoke RPC protocol.
> Why do you think that way?

Probably the same reason that you're such an ass (genes).
E.g. lines 7 and 9 it's "checkout" or "upsell". Probably the latter. Can't be the same as the longer redacted term on line 7 - though I suppose it might be an abbreviation for it and they're protecting their internal product/codename for some lawyerly reason?
Seeing aliens everywhere, not just one place, is worse, not better.
I think it was originally high value and made life easier.

However, we have adjusted. My parents talked about having fast food/restaurant food as a treat. It was too expensive to have more than once a month/birthdays. Heck, even school lunches were too expensive and they had to make food at home.

Today, we have more disposable income than my parents, so its easy to afford restaurant food AND get it delivered. The people buying this arent upper-middle class either, this is your general population that lives paycheck to paycheck. There are even people so confused about food prices that they make claims that fast food is cheaper than groceries.

Instead of using fast food as a tool, its become expected.
Private IPs should not be publicly routable. For one, you are no longer standards-compliant. If you want to depend on the IPv4 standard, you've already broken what you're trying to depend on.
im genuinely curious, why cant we just severely punish ANY form of scamming? if you are willfully scamming other people, why cant the law rightfully come down SUPER HARD on it?

scamming is not okay, no matter who does it for ANY reason, and NO MATTER TO WHOM
I've found gear patrol to be an enjoyable source of new product details (similar to Uncrate). Seems like a good acquirer to me! Better than losing such a great photography resource. I hope they're able to save more review sites in the future. Better than a wirecutter-only future.
Wait until you realize you need asynchronous I/O operations, and then you also need to manage caching on I/O operations, and you also need to distinguish appends from over-writes, and that you also need to care about who allocates memory for the buffer being written to / read from...

And then comes concurrency and exceptions... UNIX "design" anticipated none of the above. And it's not like these things were somehow unknown at the time. The "designers" thought they are making something remarkable by cutting corners and making a "simple" (but really a half-baked) OS.

It's such a shame that UNIX became the vector for the spread of the Internet and eventually infected virtually every computer system on Earth. It's even a greater disappointment that its "design" decisions are still revered as the holy Bible in academia and in the industry.
The lower bound of ~45k might be attributed to the German salary cutoff of the EU Blue Card (long term visa for skilled workers) at €45,552 [1]. When I was offered my first dev job (and first job in Germany), it was exactly this number.

[1] https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/visa-residence/types/e...
Actually, it's "don't design it in a manner that will be untestable."
Heat pumps make it more efficient to convert the fuel to electricity at a big, efficient power plant, and then to heat, than to burn the fuel itself for heat in an internal combustion engine (or at home for that matter)

It’s overall a net positive.
And the "tethered to the dollar" part is important.
They are basically liquidity/risk discounted dollars, as are many of these examples of "buying power".

No one is tethering their Rolex price to BTC.
No one is tethering their home purchase budget to BTC.

Why?
It's all tethered to your income, in dollars, and your savings presumably mostly in dollars as well.

Even "jug of water in the desert" is tethered more to dollars than BTC because what are you more likely to have in your pocket, and why?

Dollars are tethered to the government taxing us in dollars, so we get paid in dollars, and our government has nukes & aircraft carriers and such.
Everything then gets tethered to it because thats what we get paid & save in.

BTC is tethered to nothing, and there is no natural value you can back into such that you can justify any price level of it.

Other than its usefulness as "untraceable" (what people think, but not what is true.. it is more like "unblockable") cash, and for money laundering/drugs.. it is a trading instrument for punters.
Its going to be really disturbing if the falling real world conditions caused by these weird technocratic decisions leads to the government being replaced. Revolution always leads to a lot of suffering; not sure why the current crop of people in charge can't just do their job, the stakes are pretty damn high
Now that Amazon is mostly low quality drop-shipped garbage from fake brands like KULUZU and PORKTI, fast and cheap shipping are about the only thing they have going for them. If that's gone, what's left?
> Wouldn't that just mean you have to wait longer?

You would have to wait much longer with a standard enlarger, probably several days and that's without taking into account reciprocity failure. In practice, it just wouldn't work.

I haven't tried platinotype myself since platinium and paladium are so expensive, but I do print a lot of cyanotype which has a similarly low sensitivity and I built a UV enlarger for that, which works quite well with exposure times on the order of a few minutes for enlarging 35mm onto A5 paper.

It requires a 40W 365nm UV LED source though, cooling for the negative in order not to burn it, and a few other tricks to get it to work well.
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Skeptics and Microsoft will point to ten year agreements to keep Call of Duty on as many platforms as possible. Ten years is really not that much time. Ten years ago the PS4 and Xbox One launched. Ten years from now the PS7 might be coming out. Imagine the news that Call of Duty will not be coming to the newest Playstation. That's one series. All other new and existing IP could be locked down.
You're looking at part of the acquisition, not the full one.

MS isn't acquiring Activision alone, they are acquiring Activision-Blizzard.

Which includes Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King (Candy Crush), Major League Gaming, Activision Blizzard Studios, Infinity Ward and Treyarch among others.
Maybe. Brains was announced in 2021. Gillet quit in 2022.

I know the designs are open source and produced elsewhere, but it's not unreasonable to wonder if Brains was what finally pushed her over the edge.
Yea it's pretty awful. They also by default select a faster shipping method which costs $6.99 (most of the time per item, sometimes multiple shipping charges for the same order). Every checkout I have to go through:

1. no, I do not want a prime membership for $1.99 for 1 week

2. no, I want free shipping on these items
(careful check if the order is split up in multiple shipments)

3. no, I want free shipping on this item.

8 out of 10 orders my stuff arrives earlier than the paid shipping option offered during checkout.
>The Su-25s are ancient aircraft, first introduced in the 1980s

Journalists could at least check Wikipedia before publishing. If the Su-25 is 'ancient' then the F-16 is even more so (having entered production in the mid 1970s).
I would not mind that actually, because games developed my so-called independent developers are usually not that good.

Creating quality games requires a large amount of cash reserves to pay for a creative team, including programmers; independents usually do not have that luxury.

If Microsoft got to buy Blizzard it might actually cement Blizzard's future, securing the old titles and ensuring future ones. But, it might also get shut down because of lack of focus. I'd much rather have Blizzard remain independent to some degree, because then they may remain undisturbed.

Having said that, however, the arguments presented by regulators are pretty much ridiculous. They seem to only care about competition, and not about what is best for the future of Blizzard and gaming. Too much competition can ultimately degrade and obstruct the end users – I'd also hate to see that.
Knocks at the door are even scarier.

It's just the irresistibly impending and involuntary socialization that's scary.

I assume it's an evolutionary thing, like dogs being afraid of thunder.
You could also send it in an email or text message to a limited set of friends, and then one of them screenshots it and posts it to the wider internet. You could also be caught on a recording or video saying the thing to a limited set of friends, and have it go viral on the internet.

In any case, "going around town shouting" is not at all akin to twitter. It is more like having a public board where you write things signed with your name. Anyone can look at it, but it takes zero effort to not look at it, and for most people, no one looks at it except their friends who want to look at it.
Women are high-status in the dating market around age 20. Men at 20 often look like boys and are usually broke. If a woman wants a young man, then she goes for "a guy with potential" -- but as the marrying age increases -- potential is expected to have yielded success.
I just used it twice for a 12 hour trip couple weeks ago and had no ads.
I'm barely above a junior dev. The reality is those policies are pennies and would just be a payday for the company and offset the replacement cost.
Breakthrough in math theory might be a profoundly impactful climate investment
This is the "trick you into signing up" page that is inserted if you are not currently a prime member.

I've been clicking the "no-thanks" link for years -- as I've never signed up for, nor ever wanted to sign up for, amazon prime.

But, as I know it is going to show up, I'm not surprised by it in the least, and I know where to go to get past it without accidentally signing up for prime. Maybe the FCC complaint might finally make this nice dark pattern example finally go away.
And I didn't say "you're wrong, they're great people", I said that they most likely don't care about being bottom tier of people, and made a different point.

What's your point, am I not allowed to share my thoughts unless they directly challange the comment I'm replying to?
How does it compare to KnR?
I agree that Activision does have a bad reputation, but I'm not so sure that is what comes to most peoples mind when they look at series like Call of Duty. Remember, a console is a multi-year investment. Even if Call of Duty games (and their other series) are bad right now, people will still consider the next 5 years of games when making their decision.
One feature OpenAI really needs is the ability to force logout accounts across all devices. It doesn't have that currently, at least not with ChatGPT.

As of a month ago, sessions were still staying active even after a password change.

A little device/session management portal would be nice. Pretty standard these days.
They could easily reduce those response times through increased funding, training, and recruitment though... this is just a bandaid on a fundamentally dysfunctional pubic service in need of more state support
Many people who have switched from batteries-included, purpose-built blogging stacks like WordPress to e.g. static site generators (or similar roll-your-own setups) don't have a feed by virtue of the fact that the folks publishing those sites haven't gone out of their way to write the feed template. This is not unlike any other subject where participation comes down to opting in versus opting out.

That isn't to say any claims that feeds are almost a thing of the past holds any water. There are almost certainly more feeds now than at any point before. The second derivative is probably a flat line, though, which is what I imagine is behind the perception of deathliness. Feed consumption, on the other hand, is almost certainly down—but only if you exclude podcasts.
Isn't it still technically in beta? I've always assumed the OpenAI engineers can view any of my conversations (especially when I use the flagging feature to mark an answer wrong or provide feedback).
It’s as much as the sign up tbh where it automatically adds Prime to your basket and makes it hard to realise your signing up to a reoccurring payment.
Sure I am annoyed that in many cases they rip it 1:1 without improvement, and that they rip some products actively in production.

But in greater scheme of things it's some products authors already paid NRE few tens or hundreds times over vs musician having access to gear they couldn't dream of owning few years ago.

And I have absolutely no problems with cloning products already out of production.

> You may say, well, that’s capitalism, but no, dear reader, it’s shady and involves no new R&D work, no innovation, and since their business model is loss-leading everyone else out of business, it’s parasitic and will result in stifled innovation in music hardware.

Oh you sweet summer child if you only knew how often the designs are copied with slight change in that space... hell, whole guitar pedal market is incest over incest for last 60+ years

> They went so far as to buy the chip company CoolAudio to build clones of the Curtis CEM3340 oscillator chip featured in all these 80’s polysynths.

...so the chip is still produced and people can use it vs possibly going out of business. How is that bad ?
My situation is similar to yours (except I avoid even the free trials) with similar shipping times. I do have a primary warehouse for my metro area about 5 miles away in my town. I think items that are in that warehouse or on their way to getting replenished arrive as quickly as ever while everything else takes longer. I'm fine with that but I'm also looking to get even further away from using Amazon after some poor recent experiences.
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I imagine it's not yet saving-the-world effective yet. The lab environment likely costs more environmentally than a chicken farm would.
"Wrong" isn't a boolean. There is a vast spectrum of wrong, and Newtonian physics is so unwrong that you can go to the moon with it. Economics is so wrong it has never worked.
Yes, that's true. I think Firefox now tries to hide itself by sending a false user agent? Everything is a trade-off though... using a version of firefox that's closer to stock is probably helping a tiny bit. Or maybe it's not, since Firefox wants people to use plugins (and for some reason, doesn't warn of the dingerprinting danger).