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> Fair, but after win3.1 there wasn't a menu up in that corner anymore.

WTF are you on about?!? There still is!

Source: Just clicked on the top-left icons on a few programs in Windows 10. Not guideline-defying shit like Microsoft Office / Outlook / Edge / Teams, of course, but programs that follow the Windows developer guidelines display the standard menu just like they've always done: Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close (usually also displaying the shortcut key, [Alt-F4]). Notepad++ does, WinSCP does, 7-Zip does, PuTTY does, SAS client software does, Teradata client software does... Seems most built-in Windows utilities do, too: File Explorer does, Task Manager does, Command Prompt does, Notepad does, Paint does, Snipping Tool does...

[Edit:] And even in Word / Excel / Edge / Outlook / Teams, at least that menu appears up in the top-left corner when you press the age-old shortcut [Alt]-[Space], even though there is no icon for it. (That was what the W3.x icon was supposed to depict, BTW: The space bar, not a hyphen or minus sign.) [/Edit]

Seems you have to go out of your way to build a Windows app that doesn't have a system menu up in the top-left corner. (Start building a Windows application in most IDEs I've used, and unless you change the default settings it sure gets one automatically.) So why do you spout such drivel, when you obviously have no idea what you're talking about?
Europeans also don't pay for their own national defense, what a bargain.
I don’t post these as some kind of statement, but for people to check older discussions about a project or article.
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> Maybe other distros can work around those limitations.

I am afraid that you have this rather backwards. This is closer to Canonical playing catch-up.

The first such project came out from Lennart Poettering of systemd fame:

https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html

Which I wrote about here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/26/tightening_linux_boot...

And which started shipping in systemd 253, which I wrote about here:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/systemd_253/

SUSE has its own version as well.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/suse_alp_v001/

It may be that UKI is an attempt to leapfrog SUSE ALP.
That is a UK source. Yes it's on Perth Now, but the byline clearly says it was by a Daily Mail journalist and here it is from the Mail on Sunday: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-mail-on-sunday/20231015/2...
I'm fine with Google having a lackluster flights booking app.

I'm not fine with it showing up by default.

I'm seriously pissed off when stores (Google Play Store, App Store, Amazon, et al.) show ads when I search for a brand name. Ads show up first for popular item categories, and sometimes take all the space above the fold.

I was looking for HBO Max this weekend. Disney came up first. How is that permissable?

To sell your competitor's name is wholly uncompetitive. A shakedown of every business with an internet presence.

Just because Google was in the right place at the right time shouldn't give it license to continue this shitty behavior -- without innovating or delivering value -- for the rest of all time.
Does this page typically include arcane electrical engineering jargon? Perhaps it could be tied to the truetone toggle?
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I don’t have a reddit account nor a lemmy one but good luck, your project is much needed!
I completely agree, so often people claim about this pay gap between men and women, we see that there are complaints about football pay and stuff but really women models get paid more then men models, quite frankly that just makes sense, there are differences between us and simply some jobs are just better done by men and others by women, this is isn't inequal it's just the way it is. Ignore my name by the way
Can the EU sanction countries for not complying?
> The number of devs is well on its way to exceeding available work

Is this something you've read or that you made up?
I'm not even talking about offshoring, the difference in cost of living even within the US can be massive, especially if you take off the commute and associated expenses. Quality of life is subjective of course, but in many respects is inversely correlated with the availability of high-paying jobs.

> There are definitely highly talented individuals in low cost areas, but they quickly realise they can earn a Big Tech wage, and are willing to relocate

Then we're not talking about remote work.
I can see why companies don’t want this. I don’t blame them.

It would be great to scale down work as needed. Instead of just completely retiring at some point. Especially given how high tech salaries are, it would be awesome to just start working half time at 40 or whatever.

However, I personally find it very hard to limit my work hours that much. I feel like I would still end up working close to full time but just not get paid for it.
This was pretty much my take too. I'm not in the game industry, but it seems to me there are plenty of generalists. Only they don't work on these massive AAA titles, but on smaller titles in smaller teams, or even on their own, because that's where you really need generalists, and where they are appreciated. The large projects always sound so corporate, structured, and compartimentalised, that it doesn't sound like there's room for generalists.

I think it's simply a choice made by these big title publishers. If you want more generalists, give them more freedom, more leading roles.

Mind you, I don't work in the industry, so I could easily be wrong, but this is my impression as an outsider.
This is a scary scenario and certainly possible, but on the other hand you can find people saying this was about to happen in the 90s and it really didn't. Some jobs can be done the way you describe, some can't and it's hard to know which kind you have without wasting money. If your business is profitable and relies on software, you are much better off having a programmer on staff.

It keeps turning out that there is more to programming than meets the eye, that we are very important to the success of the business, and that we need to be closely connected to the business to be able to deliver great solutions.

It's important to think about these dark possibilities and resist them, but it's also important to realize these scenarios have a history of failing to materialize.
people refuse to learn the platform, because nobody promotes using the platform (facebook-react, vercel-next, etc)
If the colors are just someone guessing I would honestly not want to see it. I find those kind of wishful fantasies harmful

I think disclosure is high priority here. If you know it's been cleaned up, and colourized, then you can watch it as you would the original.

Because, what I think people are saying here is that older cameras already have made the equivalent of "someone guessing". The framerate is variable and jumps, the colour is off and variable, rhe film is degraded, and even the people in the films act quite unnatural, for they are very aware of being filmed.

I get what you mean about authenticity, but I think full disclosure takes care of that.
To use a different authentication flow you need to change your habits and a bit of discipline, because it's extra friction.
I love that Heinlein quote. To expand on it with a societal critique, it's not about working in a group; specialisation only works if you have an all-seeing all-powerful brain at the top that runs the entire show. A hive queen. Without a queen, the specialised insects die of starvation.

Some humans would find immense happiness trying to be the queen themselves. Others, to live like a cat. By themselves, with no one to tell them what to do. But our entire modern society is built upon and favours the busy, mindless drone. The education system shapes you like one, and isn't concerned to help you figure out your ideal place in the ecosystem.
A single departing employees opinion is not definitive, no. Considering both YouTube and Facebook use modified MySQL I’m skeptical there’s some inherent structural disadvantages.

Not to mention no technical reasoning is given at all, so yes take the article with a grain of salt.
Russia too?
Trying to delete all the social media apps on your phone may sound brutal, but it’s efficient.
That is an excellent approach. It's always better to have people believe and care instead of simply obey.
The EC members who currently are sponsoring this bill (Chat Control 2.0) are not elected, they are appointed.

They do not answer to anyone and they collude with lobby organizations to push an agenda.
This is the far from being a democratic process.
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If you wanted to argue in favour of such extreme epistemological solipsism, you should have just said so rather than specifically questioning the existence of Nazi snatch squads in Denmark, or their well-documented arrests of many Jews just a few days after Bohr fled.

If all you had questioned was the article's hyperbole around imminence then I could accept your argument. That you're questioning whether the snatch squads existed at all is just bizarre.
This kind of interview is awful.

I mean, I'm not even a fan of Molyneux. The only game from him I truly enjoyed was Dungeon Keeper. But this kind of interview feels like it just wants to drag the guy for some public humiliation. And it is not like putting the person being interviewed on the defensive will result in anything but self-defense when responding.

Beyond that videogames are just entertainment - if you play one and it is a disappointment, just go play some other one, there are plenty of games out there. It's not like the guy was a corrupt politician who stole hundreds of millions, or shit like that.
No. And add the new kyber exchanges also.
For anyone who is here in Italy and loves the genius of this fabulous writer:

https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/today-is-it...
Maybe it's not related but, talking about search engines, I have been using only DuckDuckGo and I am very happy with the results. I never have to switch back.
I wish we could go back to a world where 'crypto' means cryptography
Where exactly? Visible through your rose tinted glasses? There is no visual hint on the page (RSS has a well established logo) and my rss reader does not autodiscover it from the main page.
That just explains why do we know about that complexity.
Alternatives aren't less complex (and when you need some niche features W3 supports like printers and BT you're in deps hell -- at least you're operating without node.js), but data flows more linearly from server to client.
There was a similar tool developed by Oracle called mod_plsql, which served as an Apache web server module. As far as I remember, it allowed you to configure a mapping from a URL to a stored procedure. These stored procedures could receive HTTP request parameters and return HTML content.

I've always felt that this approach is the right way to build applications. Application servers seemed like an unnecessary layer to me, essentially serving as intermediaries that merely passed data from the database to the browser. In the past, they played a more critical role in generating HTML, but nowadays, application servers are primarily used for handling APIs. Consequently, they often lack meaningful tasks to justify their existence.

Having your code closely integrated with the data also has the benefit of improving performance.
I don't think influencing is the issue but being seen as defying them intentionally. The defence industry and big oil are seen as "unsantiory" but otherwise "allies" of the US government. A means to an end. (At least that's my Perception)

Google, Apple, Meta etc seem to be weirdly incompetent at playing the political publicity game.
RTT can be used without SEGGER tools, I've used it with cargo embed and deferred formatting, so the logging has minimal impact on the overall system.
Properly using UART with DMA is very close to the RTT experience though
My favorite Banks sci fi is The Algebraist which isn’t a Culture novel.

To give you a micro taste of the story, the villain, the Archimandrite Luceferous, keeps the head of his enemy preserved alive for years after having it taken off surgically after defeating him, hangs it from the ceiling in his office and uses it as a punching bag.
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Well, if you're on an airplane, you could do neither of those things and just watch a movie.

And if you're not out in public, you can use speech recognition more easily than learning ASL.
The communication overhead seems more than balanced by the extra redundancy you have when people do become unavailable (which they inevitably do) and people not burning out in quite as high a rate.

But hey, I'm a Dutchman working 80%, so I'm sure I'm biased.
That smiley face implies that you surely did not. Yes, I have kids.
The copyright violation is coming from inside the house.

Even undigitized materials aren't safe any more.
Been thinking about this. My naive way to do this using existing LLMs is to have a JSON the LLM can spit out when it wants to store and then then calling code shoves that in a “RAG” DB. It also has the ability to generate queries if it’s knowledge.
My all time favorite games can be described as "fairly simple gameplay idea, executed well".
> Interestingly, there have been some unintended downstream impact of this progressive law, such as lower women participation in senior level roles.

The word “unintended,” while probably accurate, is bothersome. The intention should be to maximize individual choice. Are we supposed to force women into senior positions to please our sensibilities?
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The article is full of hyperbole.

> it's still too early to tell if U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta will side with the Justice Department and try to handcuff one of the world's most dominant tech companies.

Till this point, only DOJ has been arguing their case, and Google will get a chance in a few days according to the schedule. DOJ's entire case rests on the theory of defaults from the arguments they have made. Covered extensively here[1]. Google refuted that with saying how edge and safari are default and yet people switch to chrome. Same with Bing and Google search. So they focused on how mobile makes it hard to switch defaults.

Another vector they went to was how Google Search ads is a market in itself. That would be another antitrust case about advertising dominance, but in here they seem like an add on. It is tough to prove Google is abusing it's monopoly and there is a customer harm. At this point it is hard to tell from the outside given only one side has presented it's case.

[1]: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/
> You're assuming malice.

No. I'm more assuming they were trying to win some mindshare by doing something progressive sounding, but they had no real intention of following through to make tangible changes.

As demonstrated by their lack of effort to actually figure out the details up front, rather than going on a marketing tour and trying to big note themselves.

Those aren't the ingredients of good, long term improvements for people.

So, rather than "malice" I'm thinking "stupidity or laziness".

Either way, no real desire on their part to actually change things for the better. Thankfully the Australian people didn't buy their bullshit.

That's my take anyway. :)

> They couldn't explain what it was going to be. They couldn't explain why it needed to exist. They couldn't explain why it needed to be in the constitution.

Yeah. I lump that into "didn't want to put in the effort to figure things out".

They seemed to be wedded to marketing (probably still are), and extremely light on putting in the effort required to actually figure things out.

Probably because putting in effort is harder, and might take longer than "before the next election". :(
At the time you posted this, the article didnt have the huge screencap of him from that video?
The advantage is ease of use, semihosting is rather slow and has a big impact on system behaviour, as it uses a breakpoint and r0 to transfer a datapoint. It is definitely slower than SWO or RTT, which transfers data over SWD.
You can find a detailed description here https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/arm-semihosting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AaHSVqRSi4

> Ralph B. Peck, 1912 - 2008

> Speaker: Gholamerza Mesri

> Special Session Commemorating the "Legacy of Ralph B. Peck" presented during the Seventh International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, April 29 -- May 4, 2013 in Wheeling (Chicago), Illinois. Conference organized by Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO.

From the same special session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0LVq0_ayI

> Ralph Peck's Circuitous Path to Professor of Foundation Engineering (1930-48)

> Speaker: J. David Rogers
While this was nice, I also especially like the sections where he realizes he was wrong to keep insisting on doing stuff himself, like when they finally get a dedicated artist and sound designer.
or they could pay an artist to draw them
What makes you say that the game is well made of many of its core systems are defective?
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Ask HN: Is this legal? Windows warning when launching the Firefox installer
Windows 10 warns when launching the Firefox installer, suggests using MS Edge instead:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/windows-10-warns-me-use-microsoft-verified-app
The proportion of books that make money 20 years after publication, after languishing in obscurity for that time, is a rounding error.

Like, how many such books can you actually name?

I think it’s a little different for music, where people sometimes sample fairly obscure old songs and turn them into hits. But then, a lot of those old songs shamelessly ripped off even older works…
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Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app
Windows 10 warns when launching the Firefox installer, suggests using MS Edge instead.
Slow news day at DW.com.
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1. there is a base load of meetings, admin, interviewing, chore, etc that is not reduced when total hours are reduced, and so what gets reduced is the high value work. you can't hire people to do this stuff as they can't make decisions for you, or interview for you, etc... this base load is part of your job

2. there is a base load of cost from each employee in the form of legal, pension/tax accounting, payroll, HR team, desk, office, equipment. whilst you could argue 4 people doing 40h weeks is equiv to 5 people doing 32h weeks you're also increasing the base cost by 20% across the company

3. hiring people is hard, now we've just made it that we have to hire 20% more people for the same effort, increasing the admin base load further too. (although the counter argument to this is that you're better positioned against low performers who have less impact, but then, maybe you end up carrying low performers longer as now they're less visible)

4. on-call... you probably can't reasonably construct an on-call schedule that works for all by mixing 40h and 32h people on the same team... so now you're starting to have the decision forced on the 40h people too, who now only earn 80% of what they earned and their circumstances may mean they do not want to.

5. RSUs / stock, you probably can't reduce the what someone already has, can't take it to 80% of what was in the contract, you probably only get to do this to new people joining (but see #4, you'd have to do the whole team at once and hire based on this, and probably can't mix it with the 40h people)

6. if you have offices, this forces you into a hybrid working situation as you can't seat everyone... you cannot even bring everyone in on any given day... unless you massively increase your office cost, or go fully remote (I'm in favour of full remote and it's what we do at where I work, but I know the World apparently does not agree)

there's lots of reasons, but the biggest may simply be: change is hard, better to start with this... but starting with this is also hard as the chances of you succeeding with few heads and less effort (time) is against you.
Defending cars is waging war on humanity. There, I can play that game, too.
Please note that the majority of workers in usa are on hourly wage.

So for the majority of workers, 80 percent jobs exist, but they are not desirable.

The people on hackernews do not represent the majority, but rather people who enjoy programming and want to make it a high paying career. Such luxury necessarily means it is highly competitive. Therefore I used the extreme analogy of professional athletes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-...
This reminds me of the glass record from Dr.Stone…

I guess this could be the CD-ROM of the future.
You should blame them.

Some people do flourish with five days a week, some don't. Which is why it is great to have this as an option. I work four days, 32 hours, and I need that extra day off. Work is mostly out of my head when I stop on Thursday until I start again on Monday. I have a child to raise, a house to maintain, hobbies to pursue, and a partner with the same needs and, crucially, a job as well (also at 32 hours a week).

My company wouldn't have it any other way either. There is no benefit in forcing everyone to work five days beyond a small availability benefit. Happy workers are good workers.
Well most jobs are actually on hourly wage already, so 80 percent jobs exist for the majority of workers.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncaplan/2021/03/12/americas-...