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OS/2 needed to be free with enterprise support a paid feature. If IBM did that it would have had a shot.

Of course, no way IBM would have done that.
That leads to short term thinking and pumping of stocks, often done by firing R&D and maintenance people.
You'd think, but GDPR has done little to nothing to advance a privacy-focused constitutional amendment.

The USA's legal system is, plainly, only driven by the interests of the groups willing to pay the insanely high legal fees to do anything about it.

Over here, privacy is an afterthought, and I sincerely doubt anyone will discuss it this election: nobody profits financially from it.
But not W10? Of course not, because that's what everyone is using.
> I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"

By my exp, I'd wager it was a third party using Windows' baked-in nag system, via Chrome.

That is, you've got a bit of crapware in Chrome that is sending notifications and Chrome cheerfully forwards them to Windows. I see this on customer systems with some regularity.

Degrading a user's experience seems to be one place where MS and Google are happy to cooperate.
Kafka protocol deserializer/serializer library in Go
As an American, I'm more annoyed that our government isn't working to protect consumers than I am at Microsoft. Microsoft is acting predictably from a business perspective. This is just a repeat of the Internet Explorer debacle decades ago.
Virtually infinite noise. While I hate setting up Windows while I feel they are the owner of my physical device (e.g. cannot start the device if I don't know how to proceed with the hidden option of not having a Microsoft account), this is a practice that every vendor is having nowadays with some little differences. It is time to add real pressure to these vendors.

The pressure should take into account the power in the hands of these vendors: it is not the same if Google is using dark patterns than if they are used by a small site. Both are wrong but big tech has a completely different advantage.
Most movie files, including mp4s, have been handled by mpv on my main system for a long time. No issues.
I'd counter that if you get water inside an IP68, it's screwed. (My Xperia got some moisture under the screen during a long bike tour through the rain, and it never really came back out.)

Water seeping inside an IP55 because you drop it in the bath, sink, toilet, hurricane, etc? Turn the thing off right away, remove battery, get it in a box with desiccant, and it'll probably be fine in a day. If not? Still repairable.
because SoCs from 2018 (think SDM632) are easily able to run Android 13 and the production/marketing/buyer capacity so potent, the market and drawers at home are saturated. 4G will stay on the towers for another few years, so 30€ is the real low on the smartphone price spectrum - the device type is now ubiquitous.
I haven't had a single ad on any of my Apple stuff other than a free trial of apple news for 3 months which I declined and was never asked again. Where are you seeing that?
It’s interesting watching Russia struggle as it devolves into a lawless hellscape with daily drone attacks on its capital.

The Russian people who are against this nonsense were unfortunately reluctant to speak up due to fear of death, but when good people remain silent we see what happens time and time again.
The same ceo who ordered RTO earlier this year.
Roofers will absolutely love to exploit this kind of company.
First party malware.
Definitely they don't do it or if the goodness of their hearts, because despite "pssshh, Project Fear, don't be silly, even a Hard Brexit won't reintroduce roaming charges".... Many of them did or will soon reintroduce them.
100%. I'll add that dysfunctional agile can also insist it is discovery, when in fact they just won't hire people capable of design.
Ok, I get that. That's simply Apple not giving the option to set the preference in the first place. But I would argue that's a different thing than giving a user the option to set a default app and then ignoring it or reseting it automatically. When I change my browser or mail app on macOS or iOS it's stays like that.

> When I click on an address in FB Messenger, I get the “open in google maps or Apple Maps” prompt, but choosing Google Maps just takes me to the Google Maps App Store page, even though I have the app installed and updated.

Is it possible that this is only the case on FB Messenger? I think there are other Apps offering this option where it does work.
Things don't always go up and to the right. Life is not linear. If things aren't going your way professionally, you can always work on your personal life or physical body. You're only moving backwards if you stop moving.
What are you talking about? That is complete nonsense.

I've never seen any video open in anything other than my default video player IINA, it's almost like quicktime isn't installed, i've never seen it pop up.
I used to ask myself questions like this, then I actually worked at a large business with a real volume of customers and I started to understand why things are the way they are. Yes, you can find examples of bloat in any company - but you are probably talking about single digit percentages.
counterpoint from a euro, born around when linux came out.

using an iphone for 5y+ and have never recieved or sent an imessage.
well, it appears there is another one that i didn't know about which started a few years earlier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viertel_Zwei

but there is also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donau_City from the 90s (though it has only 20% residential use) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterlaa from the 70s

in general vienna has a long history of large public housing projects going back a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeindebau

it should be noted that until the 1990s the population of vienna has actually been slowly declining (from 2 million more than 100 years ago to 1.5-1.6 million) and most projects before then were more likely needed because a lot was damaged in the world wars. but in the last few decades vienna has seen unprecedented growth, now reaching almost 2 million inhabitants again. consequently in the last 20 years several new building projects have been initiated. the ones i linked are just a few examples. i keep finding out about more as i search.
... but windows is malware
M$ has been a play on “MS” for decades
> Neither is a mob level targeting mechanism a good or safe idea.

I think we agree on this. Which is why I'm in favor of giving no online quarter to KiwiFarms, a notorious site for organizing mobs.

KF supporters and users are free to say whatever they want in their own forums. The freedom of speech has never implied an obligation for people to listen. And freedom of the press does imply a freedom to refrain from serving as a conduit for someone else's message, as does freedom of association.

Nothing of what KF is doing or saying obligates anyone to provide them the tools to do or say it. They're as free as everyone else; they can print their own leaflets and stand on their own soapboxes. They don't have the right to obligate HE to facilitate them, directly or by proxy.
It's pretty old thing. I know I have used it before a few hundred times.

Anyway, do better. That comment isn't HN worthy.
I wonder if low quality scams (made by humans) are still going to be a thing given advances in AI.

I bet a human sounding bot can already make a phone call and scam most of our grandparents far better than the average human scammer. Add the ability to mimic the voice of a relative and you can get pretty high success rates, even with more tech-savvy victims I bet.
> if we hadn't turned everything into a fucking web-app

It's rich to hear this used as a defense of any corporation. Everything is a web app now because nobody got their act together to ship a true "write once, ship anywhere" platform. Microsoft smugly profited off this in the short term with Windows, and Apple used it as an excuse to double-down on their proprietary SDKs. It's obvious why everything is a webapp; what's the realistic alternative? Developing native apps for every platform on one device isn't even feasible nowadays. Then you'd need the developer subscriptions, a cross-platform app architecture and the willingness to write n number of UI mockups, where n is the number of target platforms you intend to hit. It's a veritable waste of time to do anything else.
It's harder to beat the workers into working harder remotely. Remote workers can also more easily work with law enforcement, quit, and start competing scams.
And RUP had iterations as well, and parallel disciplines. It had a lot of good to the overall idea. Are there modern variants? As a pattern library maybe, take just what you need.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230322153353/https://sceweb.uh...
Much too little, much too late. Nothing I own runs Windows any more. I now swear at computers much less often.
>Can you meet a friend without them trying to dig up information on that friend? Can you apply for a job without HR finding a thread of thousands of posts talking about you?

How would anyone on the internet know about this if you don't post about it?
Much closer communication lines between the two, thread level guarantees that would be hard to match otherwise. A barrel processor will 'hit' the threads far more frequently on tasks that would be hard to adapt to a GPU (so for instance, more branching).

Though CPU/GPU combinations are slowly moving in that direction anyway. Incidentally, if this sort of thing really interests you: when I was playing around with machine learning my trick to see how efficiently my code was using the GPU was really simple: first I ran a graphics benchmark that maxed out the GPU and measured power consumption. Then I did the same for just the CPU. Afterwards while running my own code I'd compare the ratio between my own code's power draw with the maximum obtained during the benchmarks, this gave a pretty good indication of whether or not I had made some large mistake and showed a nice and steady increase with every optimization step.
No, it was a Microsoft Rewards promotion. Something I don’t recall opting into.

https://promos.microsoftrewards.com/US/en/SS/88/rules

Edit: Chrome isn’t even installed, I use Firefox.
Voice Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Balance
There’s no solution here and it’s not Apple’s fault either. This is due to the way Facebook Messenger chooses to open Google Maps via URL to the App Store Page instead of checking if Google Maps is installed, then opening with a Google Maps URL scheme registered by the app.
As for neighbors, just don't get a rooster. Hens do make some noise but they're not bad at all.

As for foxes, you can use a mobile coop+run. Move it once per day to provide fresh grass and distribute the fertilizer byproduct.
Did you consider the idea that for some users it's quite acceptable? I'm perfectly fine with 85% or event 70% availability of Github features since I don't pay a single penny for it. If I had aimed for 100%, I'd probably host and manage tools on my own, without sharing resources and being dependent on someone else's services.
I'll obviously disagree my statements come from ignorance!

I think our views are nearly perfectly aligned, in fact. We're talking about a rhetorical difference with me saying "disprove" versus what you called "plausible proximity." But I don't think we disagree about anything.
Where did you get your medical degree?
It wasn't that long ago when Microsoft got sued (in the US) for not allowing people to uninstall and replace Internet Explorer.

Something has changed since then that has made US anti-trust much "lazier".
One could produce an even more colorful version, picturing all the Kremlin's fears, and plant that for pirating.

"Oh no, son, your Omon tag reads 'Homo' if you look at it in the mirror..."
> the original vision for the iPhone was web-apps not native ones

As I heard, that was just the cover story to hide the fact that the original iPhone was too slow to properly run Flash (or native apps).
Yeah, that is what I mean. I have my own Matrix server and also use Signal, but the majority of people that I communicate with either use SMS (usually unknowingly) because they are on Android, or use iMessage.
I’ve had a random person contact me out of the blue on Telegram and try to build a friendship that obviously ends in a pig butchering scam.

Fortunately, I have a rule to never make online friends. If I’ve not met someone in a personal or professional setting before, I assume they’re a robot unless proven otherwise.

Some pig butchers have also tried to contact my parents, but my parents are careful, and I immediately block any such number.

Pretty sad to see that these operations could easily be stopped, but the perpetrators live in extremely corrupt places/semi-failed states where they just pay bribes to the local authorities to leave them alone.
Speaking to folks I know who work at Farmers, it's a mix of both. There are non-California and non-Florida working employees who were also laid off. No idea on the exact spread but it's not negligible.
> A furious cinema chief has accused the fund and government of protecting Western copyright holders. He says that Russia needs pirated copies of Barbie in cinemas, sooner rather than later.

The grass is green, the water is wet, a capitalist wanting back his 100 per cent is totally okay to trample on human laws, other news at 11.
too slow for native apps.

Read that again to yourself, slowly.
I'm not sure it's just "weight on individual rights". Those ten guilty men reoffending are going to cause damage to other people (assuming it's not something like jaywalking). So for me as a person who just wants to live my life, not subject to being a victim of false arrest, and also not being a crime victim, there's a trade-off. The higher the rate of false positives, the more likely I am to be arrested, tried, jailed, and perhaps even executed for something that I didn't do. But the higher the rate of false negatives, the more likely I am to be robbed, beaten, or killed by someone who was let go rather than jailed.

The "send one innocent to jail" can and will be abused by people in power. The "free 10 guilty" can and will be abused by professional criminals.

You can't make it perfect with imperfect people to implement the system. The best you can do is set the trade-off to minimize the damage to society. Unfortunately, this means some people being damaged each direction - some innocent people jailed, and some people being harmed by guilty people who were let off.
Lawsuits are like nuclear war in this instance.

If someone starts the ball rolling, it's a long and expensive legal battle with tons of parties involved. Consider the Oracle v Google lawsuit which started in 2010 and was resolved in 2021.

With the number of companies involved in the kernel you are looking at a much longer and more expensive trial all around.

This has always been the weakness of both the GPL and the US civil justice system.
I don't know what you tried to install, but in my experience installing stuff on Windows is way more easy and error-free than on Linux systems.
They do. In the case of Farmers, see page 13.

https://www.zurich.com/-/media/project/zurich/dotcom/investo...

You can see executive compensation details in any 10-K. But people still like to use the nominal values of the shares to stoke emotions.
Exactly right. Most of the new engineers have nothing of the libertarian spirit of the 2600 era. It was engineers who implemented censorship at online platforms, most incredulous of which was PayPal charging customers $2,500 in damages for spreading "misinformation." I cancelled my PayPal account the moment I read the news.

For shame. But, things go in cycles. What was once great becomes a ruin, and then rises again. We are now in the heading steadily towards the ruin phase.
Or fire back if mounted on an autonomous drone
California also has a state backed earthquake insurance program.

Florida may turn into a swing state again. There's a lot of demographic changes occurring there.
Not sure how it works.
Re: FL & CA becoming uninsurable-- I have almost zero knowledge in that area.

I assume it's because of natural disasters such as Fires, Hurricanes, and sea level rise?
This article is a NIGHTMARE to read for someone with ADHD. It’s so bloated (SEO?)… But I’ll try this. Your summary was all I needed.
The sooner people move away from windows the better.

But I reckon most will tag along all the way into the cloud, and lose ownership of their own content.
> I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"

> Nope, not malware. Just Windows.

Yeah, I got one the other day promoting some game or game studio.

Honestly, there outta be a law. We don't need this kind of "innovation."
>Prisoners are no less deserving of rights and fair treatment than victims of trafficking

Everywhere in the world it's accepted that prisoners lose the rights to freedom of movement and association; that's what being a prisoner means. In that sense trafficking victims are absolutely more deserving of those rights than convicted criminals.
Have you guys thought about domain name randomization? Other temp email sites regularly rotate domains to circumvent websites blacklisting known temporary email sites. Or is Firefox relay for a different use case that doesn't care about domain blocking?
Situation is not better on the desktop, it's just ironically not as annoying because of the insane dominance of Windows.
> Business data can likewise be methodologically downloaded

Google doesn't allow to store the data permanently. Just because it's technically possible doesn't make it legal.

From the Google Places API terms "you must not pre-fetch, index, store, or cache any Content except under the limited conditions stated in the terms"

"You can display Places API results on a Google Map, or without a map. If you want to display Places API results on a map, then these results must be displayed on a Google Map. It is prohibited to use Places API data on a map that is not a Google map."
This is an unhelpful and tone-deaf response. I don't think anyone is "surprised" that companies act in their own self-interest. If they are surprised by anything, it's that the system that made mandatory the concept of insurance for a dignified, modern life (what we name in shorthand as "the economy") continues to allow for rug-pulling of this magnitude which obviously results in net-negative outcomes for society as a whole.
> UK food inflation is still higher than just about all EU countries even without the checks

Have you considered that UK food inflation is higher precisely because they're not in the single market?
I too can write python code the achieves the same end goal and is quicker than C code.

Doesn't mean it did the same amount if work or even uses the same algorithms and data structures but it did achieve the same end goal.

Unfortunately comparing two "languages" in the way it was done in this paper only seems to prove that for the subset of edgecases the author needed to handle his Ruby implementation could make tradeoffs that are quicker than the off the shelf C extention.

Had he then went on to actually rewrite the code that was a bottleneck in C making the same tradeoffs it might have been
I am just saddened employees inside don't comment/protest at the UI/UX/managers.

- Do most employees think and accept this is ethical for the longterm of the IT?

- Do they not think it is destroying the reputation?

- Do the employees not think if they later found a browser or other OS - such behavious is immoral from both economic and technological perspective?
Mostly, some of the available evidence in any domain will come from experimental error etc. Even the hard sciences gets messy at the edges.
The Nvidia toolkit you linked is for place & route, which is a much easier task than designing the actual architecture and microarchitecture. It's similar to laying out a PCB.

The Google research you linked is using AI to make better decisions about when to apply optimisations. For example when do you inline a function? Which register do you spill? Again this is a very simple (conceptually) low level task. Nothing like writing a compiler for example.

> What do you really mean by "really" in that sentence?

I mean successfully create complex new designs from scratch.
Except you can't just try the new OS, you also have to spend thousands of dollars on "compatible" hardware.
> In a back-and-forth with Andersen that sounded something like a rudimentary lesson in scientific hypotheses, Representative Jamie Raskin (D–MD) brought up an email in which the Scripps Research scientist said he and his colleagues wanted to “disprove any type of lab leak theory.” Republican members assert that this betrayed Andersen’s ill intent. “You meant pursuing the scientific process by which you have a hypothesis, which stands unless it’s disproven, is that right?” Raskin asked Andersen. “That is correct,” Andersen said. “I’m referring to the concept of what’s called falsification.”

If any scientist reads this, if someone privately says they want to "disprove any type of lab leak theory" then they aren't talking about a good faith experiment. That's not how scientists talk about questions they are trying to find the actual answers to. But on the other hand I wouldn't want some guys in suits and American flag lapel pins subpoenaing my DMs or all up in my FOIA requests every time I did a research on a politically adjacent research topic, and if they were then I'd certainly make the argument that these guys are making, that they are humble scientists doing the scientific method just like Bill Nye says on TV.
Link to documentary?
Sorry, is "pig butchering" a euphemism for something, or am I missing out on some new scamming trend?
In statically typed systems, this wouldn't even compile.

I'm pretty sure I'd see multiple cases where the function would return different types depending on a code path.
> I love Microsoft, but I hate whoever is controlling all these awful choices for their OS.

“If only the tsar knew!”
And I think this highlights the real problem. The issue isn't that MS is pulling some nonsense. It's that I can't really vote with my feet and stop using Windows.
I would imagine they do but are overruled as managers and directors look to meet KPIs
> I've written an experimental OS myself

What was it called? Do you have more details?
Unless it's internal/admin-only I can't see myself building on top of Google Maps APIs again. It's just too dang expensive. Maybe if some of the products I wrote were making money per-user (directly to me at least, I'm mainly B2B and so I could pass on the cost but the businesses don't care enough to pay it) I could justify it but just showing an interactive map of restaurant locations for a local food week ran up a couple hundred dollars. I spent a few hours and switched over to use ProtonMaps [0] and I've been very happy. I still use the Google API on the admin side to aid in looking up addresses but that usage is tiny compared to all the people viewing the data.

That's all for a personal project but I've seen Google Maps costs spiral out of control at 2 different companies I've worked at. I pushed for OSM/etc at one company but was essentially told "Nobody ever got fired for buying Google Maps" (we were just drawing polygons on a map) and I think I might be successful at pushing for ProtonMaps (OSM under the covers) at my current.

Google Maps lets you get your foot in the door "for free" but once you pass the free tier it's insane.

[0] https://protomaps.com/
Ah those innocent times