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You can buy 6 boxes of sudafed per month (24 doses each). Isn’t that more than the recommended (and probably safe) daily limit? I dont doubt your intentions but I don’t think you actually need 6 boxes per month + a stash.
> If you are a competitor to Apple spending $10M to completely destroy the $2.7T Apple is literal pocket change; too small to even show up on your financials.

You're comparing two near completely unrelated numbers here. That's not what enterprise value means; it doesn't mean much of anything really.
Windows 5 phones were a tiny niche. I don’t know what kind of architecture they used. But the general multimedia phone was still based on modem chip plus companion chip.

After the iPhone announcement, everybody realized that this model was a thing of the past. iPhone like phones were the future.

The companion chip market died that day, and the whole industry switched to developing only SOC models.
I don't even think this is about DRY and possibly misunderstands the DRY principle. DRY is about having a single authoritative source of information ("Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system"). Repeating a portion of a key in a configuration file is not in violation, it would be if it were the value being repeated.
How many Gs would this be in terms of acceleration?

And does this induce the same sort of challenges that jet pilots have with high speed turns?
Every now and again I see someone on this site saying things along the lines of "it's a shame that programmers in general are so unwilling to pay for quality tools", and I feel myself tempted to agree.

Then something like this comes along and it becomes clear why it's so important that everything we rely on is, at the least, free from "I changed the deal" events.
I get that. I think it's really cool what they did and when musicians put in time and energy into making amazing tracks. I get enough satisfaction from my normal coding job though, I don't have time to dedicate my life to music like they have. So from that perspective I'm just happy that it's possible to get more music like that type. Just a cool thing that exists in the world now, but I still think working hard to realize an artistic vision is also cool, separately.
Yeah, Obsidian got my attention too, but InfoSec from multiple companies gave it the thumbs down when we applied for purchase. At the last joint I asked 'em why, but they then very correctly reminded me they don't need to tell me why. Well, #@*$ you too, boys.
I really hope one of the companies relying on Unity to make their billions sues them for this. They really need a reality check.
The more macOS seems to break user control of networking, the more I wonder what kind of "separate box" solutions are out there that can intermediate _outgoing_ traffic.
e.g. Something like LittleSnitch on a router, where it notifies the Mac when it detects a new outgoing connection.

Do things e.g. pfSense support that already? "Hold" an outgoing connection from the moment the SYN is observed, notify whatever client, and only allow if the user clicks?
My advice to University students: find something that engages you. Do that to nearly the exclusion of everything else. Become one of the most enthusiastic knowledgeable people in that field.

Being a generalist will get you some kind of job, sure. But being good at something in particular can get you further.
"Something like it", like Thunderbolt 3, or 4?

Maybe choices for graphics cards with Thunderbolt ports is limited, but from what I've seen most non-bargain-basement displays have Thunderbolt support these days.
Jsonnet or JSON5 are much better than TOML or YAML.

Both are much easier to read, and don't have the footguns of YAML or StrictYAML.

I would generally say JSON5 is more appropriate because it is simpler, but Jsonnet does have some neat features and its IDE support is much better.
My answer would be: when we distinguish something from something else. This is the root of all logic and cognition.
Well I've seen a great deal of people comparing two Excels by quickly alt-tabbing, and doing Sheet1!A1=Sheet2!A1 comparisons in a third sheet, and dragging the formula.

Yes, that's horrible. But millions of people can autonomously resort to this, and they would be incapable of doing anything with a SQLite file.

Same with version control: you just add _v17_20230909_final to the name. Yes, it's horrible. Yes, it's buggy. But yes, it also runs the world.
Not sure if that counts, but: AC unit that had no app to be controlled. Only remote via IR. I bought 360 IR blaster, placed it in range, had it learn IR codes, hooked it to HomeAssistant. Now AC is smart, can be controlled while I'm away from home, automated, fully local.
I wonder if it will work as a suppository.
Well, if you're on a 2D plain, it's pretty easy to tell. If the solid plain is stationary to your motion, then the air is fast. If the solid plain is moving, then it's a little tricker to figure out.
JIT doesn’t necessarily mean a window to jailbreak - you can still have efficient sandboxes.
How serious is China's economic slowdown?
wow fantastic read, as good if not better then the main story(because it's bloody Isaac Newton doing this!! )

I'm surprised there's not a movie out based on this story
Ehh. Your experience is similarly anecdotal. You ignore that there is a placebo effect, blood pressure is a surrogate marker for cardiac events, and drugs can have adverse effects.

It’s best to look at all cause mortality in your example. Many studies have looked at that endpoint if you are curious.
All this BS just reinforces the feeling I have that corporate executives have zero knowledge of the company they run.

How did unity leadership misjudge their market by so much?
I think writers already have a Union? Not sure if it’s the same one as the on set crew
2026 Semiquincentennial Circulating Coins: Thematic Concepts for Public Input
If only someone had warned us.
If I have to use a better format, I will use toml or cue.

The whole point of the parent is that JSON is the Pareto solution, which I agree with.

But it does grind my gear.
Here we have people still supporting a proxy war that should not have even happened in the first place over de-escalation and negotiation, and at the same time wasting billions of dollars on weapons rather than aid and still claim that 'Russia is losing'.

You have been tricked to support this nonsense and as well as this article to create another villain of the month. Predictable much.
I'm not telling you to do anything - are you hung up with how English uses second person possessive adjectives to communicate? I don't know if I have a solution to that.

"behaving foolishly" is a judgement call you made on someone else, for an act that doesn't really affect you directly. You yourself are allowing it to affect you - it seems to be overpowering you, maybe ask yourself why you allow it to. You do have a choice: just put it down. Keep carrying a load of heavy things, and you're not going to go anywhere very far. It is your choice. Have a good one.
I don’t think the article intends to raise an issue. It simply explains various ways that the rule is dealt with. That the lockup room exists is exactly for that purpose.
No, but they've seemed to have abandoned any standards what so ever, that is what people are disappointed about

It's just a big click race and the most exaggerated, bias confirming content brings in the money.

...so are we to blame, us dear readers, for the incentives of the journalist?
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI tools are now widely available
More cases of a particular party poisoning the well when they can't win any other way.

How many supposedly credible whistleblowers is the GOP up to now?
It's impossible to have a completely safe following distance. Some off-road hazard can inject itself onto the road without notice. All vehicles would be creeping along the freeway if they wanted perfect safety from such events.

So we can only trust in probability and do the best we can. Robot or human, same issue.
> No matter what time box you choose, someone is not going to be able to react to information for longer than the time box. It introduces complexity for dubious benefit, IMHO.

If releases like this were scheduled for 30 seconds into a 5 minute box, basically any trader that cares would be able to react inside the box. We could say 99.9% for the sake of argument.

I can't exactly state whether it's a good idea overall, but the idea that it might not catch literally everyone doesn't really matter. It's an extreme example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, when it comes to this single aspect.
I mean, if you try hard enough to find a terrible deal. Those are flagship prices in Android world.
Ukraine has had multiple elections since Euromaidan, and Zelensky was supposed to have been the pro-Russia candidate.
India wants to become a Chip-Making Superpower
Good reference for that: https://jameshfisher.com/2016/11/27/c-k-and-r/

This was also used to implement variadic functions like printf before varargs, see https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/20517
Something is off about this to me too. 6/7 people colluding in this way is highly abnormal-- even in the CIA, most people have some amount of integrity.

This smells to me more like one member of the team is salty about not getting an expected yearly bonus and is now claiming the rest of the team received one due to foul play.

When payroll is reviewed, I have no doubt there will be recent changes to pay for 6/7 of the team-- which will give this source enough credibility to not dismiss the rest of their allegations.

I'm not even commenting on whether the lab-leak theory itself is valid, but I do think this particular event is someone playing at shenanigans. When the only tool in your box is a shit-stirring stick...
If I were apple I would seriously consider hiring hitmen or at the very least PIs to surveil everyone who works at these companies
> It was deprecated by the newer AppX/MSIx/AppV format which uses sandboxes, binary chunks/streaming and no executable code to install stuff.

I can offer a little perspective on MSIX, having devoted months of my life to it in a past job.

MSIX is nearly unusable outside the Store. It will work in a tightly controlled environment, but when you try to deploy it to a wide variety of users you will run into 1) unhelpful errors that basically can't be diagnosed, 2) enterprise environments that cannot/will not allow MSIX installs. I get the impression that the MSIX team is uninterested in solving either of those issues.

It's not a coincidence that virtually no first-party teams use MSIX to install their product outside the Store. Office tried for a while and eventually gave up.

Despite all that, there are still a few people at MS who will tell you that MSIX is the future. I don't really understand it and I assume there's a weird political reason for this.
Reminds me of a simple app I made for Windows 95/98 to add every directory including System32 to the uninstallers' lists. No AV, neither Norton or McAfee, saw that timebomb comming. Good times.
Software groups dismiss price premium for generative AI
or the process they expect is to boot oustisde SIP.
Regardless, this...

> Most of the world (i.e. outside the 15% of the population that is Western) views it as a nuanced situation with guilt on both sides.

...is a statement that cannot be supported by any known facts. It is a falsehood (if not an outright lie) used to bolster a tenuous argument.
This is the problem of "electrionicification" of everything. Oh, sorry, you need to sign a new EULA to use your cyber-hammer is the first thing every company would try if they could get away with it.
Both political parties have endeavored to pack the courts with sympathetic judges. The conservatives got the Supreme Court majority by pure luck.

The Democrats would have done the exact same if given the opportunity and then you’d have the Right crying about how the court is “invalid”.

To change this, we should require some kind of supermajority to confirm judicial appointments at all levels.
The presumption here is that an addict, unable to get their "favorite" drug, will now just stop doing drugs entirely. This is not the case.

Drugs can also be stolen, from homes, and from pharmacies, and from ambulances.

There are way more vectors than people care to ponder. If you've ever had an addict in your life, you're forced to.
https://www.reuters.com/world/luxury-cruise-ship-remains-stu...
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If I had to guess it could possibly be to figure out how to squelch the blow-back with plausible alternate causation as the gain of function testing may have started in a US college, then shut down by President Obama, then that block may have been possibly side stepped by a few people that may have had some financial incentives and may have had access to alternate funding and may have moved it out of country to maybe avoid scrutiny and then it all blew up. Imagine being financially culpable for the world wide fallout? So I guess it makes sense that it could in theory be treated as a national security issue. That's just a guess though.
I always assumed that was the whole point. A placater. This probably isn’t even news to them.
I'm surprised to see no mention of topos theory in this page? The sense in which category theory is a generalisation of set theory is pretty weak imo until you bring in concepts like subobject classifiers. This isn't the only thing topoi generalise, but is a pretty significant one
Being open source doesn't mean immune to vulnerabilities. (and Purism's stuff will likely never be 100% open source due to regulatory complications with basebands)

Niche software often fares very poorly in terms of security because few people are trying to exploit it.
I personally tend to believe that the more complexity you introduce into systems like this, the more unintended consequences and more opportunities for shenanigans arise. I don’t think that five minute boxes moves the needle on societal good via the exchange. I am also not an expert.
No? Interest rates can simply exceed inflation.
I'm pretty floored by Unity's decision. Even after their partial walkback (saying devs will only be charged for the first game install, not EVERY game install) it's still a crazy way to monetize instead of profit sharing.

Unity appeals way more to hobbyist devs getting into game dev, and from what I've seen has significantly more resources and tutorials online than Unreal. Hopefully we see the same resources start to be published en-masse for Godot.
Saw this the other day, but the multiple types of null kind of turned me off - e.g. `null.int`, `null.float`, `null.null`. Is there a good justification for this? Seems like a kluge in any case.
The 15 Pro is slightly narrower and shorter than the 15, though a touch thicker and heavier. Same thing with the Pro Max vs the Plus - so I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here.
> they

> people

this is pretty content free. why dont you hold yourself to a higher standard of commenting?
You maybe interested in OSSU: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
Only 41 employees, though. Disney has another 18 in-house VFX employees, and their election is coming up. This doesn't cover subcontractors, who do most of the work. Those are all those companies, and thousands of people, you see in the end credits.
And there is no way for the callee to check the nr of passed args, unlike in Lua.
Oh wow, didn’t realize this
Enough to warrant another 1000 articles in the Economist, like for the past 15 years.
People will stop listening real soon.

You will keep the audience who already agree with you, and often bet on that agreement (for example, by fleeing the country). You will, however, lose the rest of your potential audience by repeating your opinion over and over again. Since they know your position, they do not share it, and they no longer need that information.

Especially as you cannot answer any hard questions about your position, and you could not answer even if you didn't. As a journalist, you cannot really suggest any solutions, since you are not a politician. You can only whine. That gets old pretty fast.
For me, it’s a matter of it’s none of their business. No one’s accused me of making meth, but here’s all my PII in a database “just in case”.

It’s literally harder for me to buy cold medicine than a gun. I hate everything about that situation.
> You could cut to the chase and point out what isn't open source.

That's easy: Defold (the project linked here).

> Also, if that source is available, you could point out which definition of open source you are going by.

That's easy, too: I'm using the same definition that the Defold developers are using.
Okay, since we’re being pedantic, I still think you’re wrong. Mb/s is equivalent to Mbps.

It would have been different if I wrote MB/s (all caps)

MB/s = megabytes per second

Mb/s = Mbps = megabits per second.

See also https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/Mbps

> Megabits per second (Mbps) are units of measurement for network bandwidth and throughput. They are used to show how fast a network or internet connection is. Each Mbps represents the capacity to transfer 1 million bits each second, or roughly one small photo per second. It may also be expressed as Mbit/s or Mb/s.
If this were true, you'd have hoped the whistleblower would not have been anonymous. There are whistleblower protections, aren't there?
It’s worth a try. I’d recommend buying a separate spray for your nose though.
I don't think MSIX is a good choice for most apps. With a decent-sized user base, you will have a lot of people who run into undiagnosable errors with MSIX or can't use it because they're in locked-down enterprise environments.

I think Affinity Photo's experience with MSIX is instructive; hundreds of negative results on their forum, eventually they had to back down and provide a non-MSIX installer (and at that point do ya really want to maintain 2 separate Windows installers?)

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/170529-ext...
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=msix&t...
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Typically, postdocs work like crazy to amass a publication record that will get them a shot at a tenure-track position. Is a "striking" postdoc going to quit doing research? That hurts future job prospects -- they might as well just leave academia.

In general, many more people want tenure-track academic positions than are available, and they let themselves be exploited while pursuing an unrealistic dream.
Meduza is based in Riga, Latvia.
That's significantly more powerful than workstations I used for a long time, where I ran Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, DOS, OS/2, and Windows.

Excluding really small machines that didn't do well with multitasking, I used a 486 DX2 50MHz with 8MiB of RAM (this was a Packard-Bell) to my day-to-day work until around 2002, this includes running browsers that supported JavaScript. It could even decode and play MP3s if that's the only thing it was dedicated to doing.

After that I upgraded to an HP Visualize C3000 (400MHz, 512MiB RAM) desktop running HP-UX and an HP Pavilion 6350 (475MHz, 128MiB RAM) laptop running Linux. Both of these supported a GUI much better than the 50MHz, and also could run more intensive JavaScript workloads.

I have a few screenshots [0] from the HP Pavilion, you can see it's running several browsers and decoding an MP3 at the same time.

[0] https://rkeene.org/personal/screenshot/Image_fvwm2-06Jul02-3...
My patience for these config languages ran out a while ago. JSON is readable enough for simpler configs. Instead of inventing a new DSL for advanced configs, a simple .js or .py file can generate the JSON dynamically in a way that any programmer should be able to follow, which is common in the JS world. Text protobufs are also a decent alternative if you want something more than JSON but not dynamic. Heck, even an Excel spreadsheet (as mentioned elsewhere in the comments) can make sense for non-technical users. All of these options are easier to understand than some config-specific language with unexpected behaviors.
We have valuable skills to offer, don't give up.

It's weird how I can give this advice but not take it myself.
The ea guy has been CEO of Unity for 10 years. And Unity is the one that bought/merged with that malware company
As an American, I see the politicians and those in the pocket of 'defense' contractors playing the role of corrupt villain.
Heh, hows that going for Snowden.
Am I right in assuming that this is like Protobuf but just for JSON objects?
I could actually go along with that so long as other ineffective things like homeopathic water get labeled the same way.
> devs will only be charged for the first game install, not EVERY game install)

I wonder how they will figure that out. It is not trivial. And if they don't disclose how they are doing it, it has a large potential for abuse.
Nonsense. The value proposition for consumers is that they don't have to wait in a massive queue.
>Does Starlink offer a plan for multi-tenant buildings? I'm thinking condo with 30 units. It seems like it should be more efficient to run one high bandwidth connection than multiple regular customers. Could we share cost among all tenants and get a really good deal?

I'm not quite sure what you're envisioning here? Starlink offers a business class service with a more powerful terminal, higher QoS, etc. One just gets that and then have it serve as the uplink to a LAN which you can subdivide in all the normal ways however one wants, that's what I've done with Starlink for multiple clients now including one that then feeds to a dozen or so different units over a half mile or so. There isn't any need to SpaceX to be involved in what happens after their terminal, it's no different than a fiber connection WISP or ADSL or cable. Everyone can agree to divide up paying for service and kit as they wish. Same as if it was going to a business that has 2 employees or 20 or 200 or 2000, SpaceX only cares (and should only need to care) about the bottom line of the monthly bill getting paid and any acceptable use/data TOS respected. They don't need any visibility into the network beyond their terminal. And Starlink can be part of a failover or more complex load balanced WAN too.
No, I am just saying that it's pure hypocrisy, and even more disgusting than it already was given the evidence.
How Should Power Companies Assess Forecasts?
that's ... (amazing|C for ya)

int foo() {
return 0;
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
return foo("alpha", "beta", 1);
}
$ gcc-13 -Wall -Werror -o foo foo.c
# oh, sads

$ clang -o foo ./foo.c
./foo.c:5:34: warning: too many arguments in call to 'foo'
return foo("alpha", "beta", 1);
~~~ ^
./foo.c:5:15: warning: passing arguments to 'foo' without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C and is not supported in C2x [-Wdeprecated-non-prototype]
return foo("alpha", "beta", 1);
^
2 warnings generated.
the new fees Unity introduced will be their downfall. I would never use Unity for game development again, even if they completely reverted their recent decisions.

I'm happy I always kept an eye on Godot and tinkered with it - switching to it fully makes perfect sense now.
You'd be surprised. In dense cities like NYC/Brooklyn fiber availability varies from block to block, I assume because adding new infra is so expensive. We recently moved about five blocks away and lost access to fiber :(
I live in the LA-metro area, 15min away from downtown LA This is a pretty dense urban area, and we can only get Spectrum, which goes down at least once a month for hours at a time, in the middle of the day

The only other alternative is getting a microwave antenna for $300/mo with a 4 year contract from a company called Geolinks

Had a similar issue when living in SF

Some buildings, and sometimes entire neighborhoods or small cities, only have one (crappy) vendor

I’m no fan of Starlink or Musk, but there’s definitely a market for them in well established, densely populated areas in rich countries