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Cloud is just like any other tool. Apply cloud with competence & positive intentions, and you will likely succeed. Approach cloud with prejudice & disdain and you could only have an unhappy experience.

A lot has changed since AWS/EC2 was launched. Almost 2 decades have passed. It is time to refine our thinking if we are still stuck in the world of VMs and containers. I think the next big wave is "cloud native", but I have detected some problems. Between all of the partners, vendors & customers I work with, I'm operating with 5+ totally unique & mutually-exclusive definitions of what this term actually means.

The harsh reality that I've arrived at is that an aggressive application of first-party-only-actually-cloud-native-for-real will result in the loss of 80%+ of existing IT/dev staff in most big org charts. I've been on several consulting calls this month alone that indicate much of the ongoing on-prem+cloud hybrid clown shows are simply an ass-covering exercise. We showed a truly cloud native SaaS app ecosystem to a prospect and their developers flipped into a very defensive posture within seconds of realizing how few resources we used to eclipse their in-house efforts.

To be clear - I still don't think cloud is for everyone, but if you are going to do it half-assed, I won't bother considering the statistical relevance of your attempt.
I always see that image referenced and it's kind of BS. it assumes the buses are filled to the brim constantly but the cars only ever have 1 person it. It also doesn't take into account the transport to and from your door on both ends. It also doesn't consider the inefficiency in wait time.

The ideal transport would be a cocoon just big enough for you to fit in that picks you up at your door and gets you to your exact destination with minimal energy overhead. I'd argue a self driving car is much closer to that ideal and we can iterate our way much easier to it than public transit.
I still want that metric restricted to geographical area. The average across the entire country seems many times outright malicious to use.
The target audience also includes Angular developers. NestJS emulates several aspects, such as modules, that it doesn't necessarily need to mimic Angular's appearance.

I cannot pass judgment on whether this is good or bad, but I can easily see how this familiarity can be beneficial for the average programmer.
Loved my Lumia 800 and 925. I actually considered the limited ecosystem a feature because I didn't want to be more addicted to the phone. And the concept of glanceable icons and all the stuff intended to keep you from getting lost in apps—great to me, but unfortunately not great for the app business model. So it died.
I know it's well intentioned, but in 90% of cases it's just wrong and destructive. I'll correct the word I just typed because I anticipate it being potentially wrong. But somebody changing something from 3 words ago? What the hell?

I can't even turn it off because I use the swipe input.

It's so funny that it'll use new, wrongly guessed information to change previous context rather than using that context to correctly guess the new information.

That being said, I think they toned it down in one of the recent updates. I remember being infuriated much less by it than a year ago.
You are not the only skeptical person here.

I said "Yeah, but at what price?"
We have to be very cautious with "the actual data" from that time period.

The death counts from Canada's government officials from that era are very questionable, for example.

As early as June of 2020, the "public health" authority in Canada's most-populous city (and the 4th highest population in North America) revealed that the counting of deaths was being done using a methodology that sounds quite dubious:

"Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...

BC was using a dubious counting approach as of April 2022:

"Fewer than half of COVID-19 deaths reported since B.C. changed counting methods were caused by the disease"

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/fewer-than-half-of-covid-19-deaths-rep...

Alberta was also using a dubious death-counting approach, as described in this April 2021 article:

"According to Dr. Deena Hinshaw, any death that has been flagged where COVID-19 is a possible cause is included in the initial count, even if the official cause of death remains unknown."

https://globalnews.ca/news/7814731/alberta-determine-covid-1...

Quebec's counting of deaths as of May 2022 (and apparently before that) was also dubious:

"Quebec’s interim public health director, Dr. Luc Boileau, has acknowledged that the province has seen a “huge” number of deaths linked to COVID-19. Quebec’s high death toll, he said last Thursday, is explained by the fact the province counts a COVID-19 death as any death involving someone who has the disease.

He said a government study from January indicated that around 30 per cent of the official COVID-19 deaths in the province’s hospitals involved people who tested positive for COVID-19 but whose principle cause of death was not the disease. He said about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of official COVID-19 deaths in the province involve people who had the disease but who died of other causes."

https://globalnews.ca/news/8801205/quebec-still-reporting-do...

As you can see, "the actual data" from that time period are essentially garbage, which explains why they often don't correspond well to real-world observations.
It's a page about animations, so it's obviously going to be more media heavy than your average page. And the average random website is decently large anyway.

NYT is 11mb, wapo is 22, scrolling down once on reddit is like 40mb.

100 and something mb doesn't warrant pre-warning for a page specifically promising animations.
Yes, this is a difficult problem. When I do see the 1%ers changing lanes at 90mph without blinkers, or not using headlights; I long for stricter, automated enforcement. Points, then a suspended license.

But I also recognize that many people, having the suspended license, must now choose between never leaving home or driving with a suspended license.

I feel like better public transit, more than Self-driving cars (which will be expensive to actually own) is the answer here.

We need to lower the cost to an individual of losing driving privilege, so that we can lower the cost to society from bad drivers.
I think nothing of the sort. I'm currently watching them shut down an avenue of support people use and like, and I think it's because they failed to assess the inherent risks that have always existed with using the service in this manner.
New Outlook does have ads, and this move replaces Mail with Outlook therefore the default mail client will now have ads because it's Outlook. You can remove them with a 365 subscription. So while the article doesn't mention it, the statement is true.
Most cities in the US have plenty of density to support transit. However without good transit people won't ride and in turn this makes a death spiral where most less dense areas don't get transit at all, much less good. In very dense areas traffic is bad enough that people will put up with bad service, but in a less dense area they won't.
The Kinect is a bad example of this. It was fundamentally gimmicky and didn't seem to have somewhere to go.
> Are the accomplishments in public transportation because the Swiss have solved some fundamental issues that no one else possibility could, a truly amazing feat that the world should look to?

Loads of other countries also have great public transportation, especially when the current state of the USA is what’s being compared against. Possibly including the USA itself before cars got going.

> Or do certain things work better under certain conditions, and it's pretty much the exact same thing everything that probably doesn't scale?

The thing which public transport needs to be good at scaling is passengers per hour per land area.

In this regard, approximately all public transport — bus, light rail, heavy rail, tram, ferry, underground — scales better than cars.

This is why the Swiss built them, as all those steep hillsides and valleys already have houses in them, and tunnels (regardless of if they’re road or rail) are expensive.

Seriously, why does this trope of saying “oh America can’t possibly, it’s such a big country” even exist, when the USA also has a road network despite being big and those roads are themselves generally much wider than Europe’s roads? It’s not like public transport is some special magic category that’s different from all the civil infrastructure the USA already makes, the only difference seems to be that “public” is a dirty word.
There's no way it wasn't, I laughed when I saw it
OP is talking about cars at night without any lights on. DRLs would definitely make cars at night safer than car without any lights at all.

Not to mention, I said "at least" DRLs because DRLs are a watered down version of what the European studies show as safer, which is headlights on all the time. In the US, the brightness of DRLs is limited, so the studies are shit to begin with because they're not even using the right variables to find the safest solution.
One of the things I’ve appreciated a lot about macOS and iOS is that the stock Mail app is focused more on being a good generic email client than it is on trying to sell iCloud or be a profit center. It’s served me very well for the handful of IMAP addresses I use, with exception to Gmail (which has a dodgy IMAP implementation).

The Windows Mail client was on its way to becoming a close analogue to Mail.app but I guess those days are over.
> still only a dot with a good ground-based telescope.

That gives a pretty good feel for how far away it is!
I would have to be legally compelled as well. The city may trust their auditor with my private communications and access to my financial accounts, but I do not.
Seriously! This! This times a thousand! I get that technology is cool and we love seeing stuff like autonomous cars (and to be clear, where I live, I would say they should be the default because holy shit can people not drive here) but like, this is just not okay. Cruise's cars have a well documented history of disrupting traffic, and additionally, they have been found to:

- Not be forthcoming with authorities on releasing information/video

- Be misrepresenting the performance of their vehicles to the authorities

This is just not acceptable for a company to be doing. This is not how we disrupt industries. You cannot "fake it till you make it" with road safety when building vehicles that traverse roads safely is your business' entire raison d'etre! That's just unacceptable, full stop.

And, add to it, Cruise has been given a direct and clear path to resuming operations, which essentially boils down to doing the thing they should've been doing already. Like come on! How much more benevolent can we ask a regulator to be in this scenario? One could argue, frankly, that they're being too kid gloves about a company lying to an organization who's primary goal is ensuring safety about safety!
It's just what you're used to. I wouldn't be able to get through my day on a windows box, I'd be so frustrated.

A lot of the apps that I love don't exist on windows. Unix vs windows is like a very large and well stocked toolbox versus a set of nail clippers and a bent hairpin.
At this point in time, Apple should be paying microsoft for bringing new people to the Apple ecosystem.
Pinephone is the only GNU/Linux phone that cost $200. Calls work, but I'm not using them much. The battery lasts one day, but you can have a spare one. Whatsapp installation can be complicated, since they (intentionally) don't have a Linux app. But some people I saw did install it. Firefox is the desktop version btw. The camera is very basic and slow.
In my early 20s, I volunteered to be a figure drawing model. The class was run out of the domicile of an older fellow named Arthur, who lived off the coast of the Big Island in what would best be described as an art shack. It was more screens and windows than walls, but you can get away with that quite comfortably there.

The class itself a group of maybe 10-15 drop ins from the local commune, a mix of mostly straight women in their 20s and gay men in their 50s. It wasn’t really a formal class, more just the sort of thing that comes together when you’re surrounded by whimsical folk. It was fun being the center of so much attention and so many playful quips.

It was my first time, but the instructor Arthur said I was doing well and asked if I had any experience. Naked and near completely upside down, told him no, I was quite nubile. He asked if I meant a noobish. I doubled down and told him, no, I’m nubile, but excited to learn. He smiled at me, and gave me quite the flirtatious look. I had no idea until weeks later when I learned the distinction. Sadly, a few years later Arthur passed away quite suddenly. I’m always reminded of that experience every time I hear the word, and doubly so when it’s mistakenly used.
Blackberry went all the way with QNX and it didn't pan out either. There just wasn't room for a third player.
Indeed, browsers are open a lot. It's nice to consolidate your needs to just tabs in there. I use Slack and plenty of other things that way too.

I will say, however, a proper email client is nice for archival purposes.

(note: not the person you're replying to, just a random passerby)
nitter works again at the moment (until Elmo breaks it again)

Addon to redirect automatically: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/nitter-redirect/
Maybe "Why did you want to switch?" or "What do you think we can offer you that our competitor didn't?" or even "Is this position something you plan on staying a while at, or will you jump ship to the next best offer as soon as it arrives?".

Not "Hey, by the way, what are your current company's trade secrets?"
This exactly, and Angular also.

It is pointless for the author to argue about the best way to use TypeScript because the value proposition of NestJS is to use the same patterns as another framework you are already using.

If you're building a React app, for example, then NestJS doesn't make as much sense, it's just going to feel like it's getting in the way, hence this article.

This article really misses the mark and the author is just proving that they still don't understand what NestJS is for.
That's not exclusive to hacker news in the least, I've seen it happen at about the same rate throughout communities regardless of how technology-centric they are. It seems that the inability (or unwillingness) to put away the reality of the analogy and only take it as a bridge towards the point the person is trying to make, is universal.
The article suggests that the car's owner may be fraudulently inflating damages as well.
Acompli, the mobile mail app Microsoft bought and rebranded as Outlook, was like Newton and other email apps of its day - it used OAuth and cloud APIs to check messages on its servers and then created a combined inbox by sending push notifications to your phone as it received new emails on your behalf in the cloud.

It sort of sounds like maybe the same infrastructure was borrowed here to set up the iCloud account in the local Outlook app. Presumably the local app is now based on the prior Acompli infrastructure.

That said… it really doesn’t pass the sniff test, it feels like Microsoft wants your contacts the same way LinkedIn (also Microsoft) wants your contacts. Personally, I wish I hadn’t trusted Google, Meta and LinkedIn as much with my contacts as I did in the past. Live and learn, I suppose.
No, I did not ;make up shit'. I was going through a depression and got scammed. If you look on ripoff report and online there are hundreds of similar complaints. I formed a support group and the posts were designed to stop this because the scammers were losing money from ripping off vulnerable people.

Ripoff Report is an extortion racket, I just didn't know it at the time. I have referenced other US court decisions to that effect in other comments.

I did not want to turn this into a fight against an 'evil corporation' that was the actions of Google.
> a factory that wants to dump harmful chemical on water people use for drinking

Your example is describing an externality, a cost imposed on a unwilling third party. Facebook is a platform that individuals can choose to avoid or restrict their children from using if they deem it harmful. These situations are not comparable.

> no business has a right to exist independently from its standing in the system of laws and the health of its users - especially children.

I disagree. Businesses and websites ought to have a right to exist as long as they do not inflict harm on third parties and their users participate willingly. Individuals ought to be free to make decisions regarding their own health and that of their children. If we were to consider otherwise, can you fathom the sheer volume of things we'd need to prohibit?
> Why were they keen to provide better support to customers contacting them on Twitter than customers contacting them via email, phone or their own support site?

I don't agree with the framing that companies were intentionally providing better support via Twitter.

Social media is usually handled by a dedicated marketing team/person; Twitter used to be a completely open platform where people loudly complaining would get noticed. The result was an ecosystem where marketing teams were incentivized to help resolve people's issues and avoid negative PR.

Kneecapping this interaction hurts Twitter and its users, not the companies. Twitter no longer has a strong network effect and is no longer open/accessible, so there's little reason for companies to pay even if the use case made sense.
Note this is suspending operations indefinitely with no pathway back. No "take these steps and we'll consider re-instatement". Basically a death knell. Moreover, the city had requested the DMV do this to Waymo as well (the state DMV just declined).

So yea, this is the city working to regulate driving, like it regulates housing and small business i.e. to the death while favoring incumbents that are far worse.

Cruise operates fine in Austin and Phoenix. They could just move their operations to South San Francisco or further south and be better off.
The city simply does not deserve the presence of tech, and for tech companies their presence in the city seems counter-effective
I guess it tests the ability to successfully apply ChatGPT. Which is a fairly relevant skill now, I guess?
I'd agree with you if the whole purpose of AI wasn't that you don't need to learn anything new, instead you can talk to it like you talk to people.

If a person would understand what I mean but an AI doesn't, the AI is broken.
How many people actually use a desktop email app? I use Outlook for work (mostly because the web client is awful), but outside of that I always access my email in a browser.

Weird decision by Microsoft in my opinion. It seems like the only people that'd bother to setup Windows mail in the first place are power users, and that's the last people you want to piss off with annoying ads.
Your "especially a young one" is doing a lot of work.

I anecdotally know a number of people, both in and out of tech, who would prefer to be independent contractors or small-business owners - in fields that they know well, and stand better than even chances of ending up with higher total compensation - but have families. Their fear of losing healthcare benefits (temporarily, whilst they get their businesses off the ground; or longer-term, should their businesses fail) keeps them working for others.

The sibling post about "calculated risk" is correct. The conclusion these folks have made (not to strike out on their own, under current circumstances) is likely the correct one, but it's a continual drag on total economic potential. Worse, this is a cost which isn't captured by calculations of what's currently spent on health-care, nor can be off-set against what a more robust social safety net would "cost". It is, nevertheless, considerable.
And most new cars have an auto setting for headlights (and have for a while) that most people just leave on auto. (At least for their own cars. I never totally trust what's going on with a rental although I assume it's pretty standardized at this point.)
most abuses happen within the family or close by [1]. Scanning pictures will nothing or close to nothing to solve the issue. It's just a backdoor for further surveillance.

1. https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/
Especially for "prompt engineers" ;-)
My theory is that we’re just going to read about a never-ending (but possibly increasingly rare) series of edge cases. And in every one, it’ll be dismissed as “oh that was a really rare edge case” yet humans would have been able to make a better choice in the same circumstances.
I think it's kind of stockholm syndrome what's going on here. Windows users I still know are either so much accustomed to the UX that they see any alternative as bad, even MacOS, or they are clinging to a past which no longer exists.

Anyone, and I really mean this, who has the option tho choose between Windows, MacOS and Linux (KDE / Gnome / some custom thing) chooses one of the latter two. That's speaking of my (medium sized) org of >15k Emps worldwide.

Ads, Forced Edge, Bing, Ultra-Slow file system compared to any other OS, Shady "Driver"-Sites, could go on forever. I agree this comment sounds a bit flamey, if it wasn't just describing the reality. Even MS recommends switching to Linux by now as a replacement for the Win 8 -> Win 10 / 11 upgrade.
Maybe you have too many emails?
Right. Apple hasn't even made an announcement yet. This is just an announcement of a future announcement. Not an real world event.
I find that hard to believe. Chairman at Zara is a woman, CEO of gap was a woman for at least 2020 to 2022, CEO of H&M is a woman.

> 1. The popular brands are run by men who do not understand and/or agree with the issue.

What is there to understand? Bigger pockets fit more things. It is physics.

It is possible, but I doubt a man leading a clothing company is deciding against making more money by selling clothes with bigger pockets due to a philosophy of believing women’s clothes should not have pockets.

Given the option of earning more money or preventing women from having more or bigger pockets, surely every single leader in the clothing business is not going to forego more money.
Low IQ management who contribute negative value. It doesn’t have to be this way - I’ve worked with high IQ management - but it seems to be the norm in the industry now.
I had this exact same reaction less than a week ago and it prompted me to switch to Thunderbird. For years I've fallen into the "if not for gaming ..." camp of Windows users. But I'm getting closer and closer to just not caring about that any more and switching to Mac or Linux instead just to get away from Windows.
show me an american city where a bus stops every 100-200 feet every 3 mins. Heck show me where it'd even be possible in an american city. That sounds like the most inefficient bus ever.
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Income for the publishing company. A lot of musicians don't earn a dime from recording sales until the publishing company first gets a return on investment. Hence bands focusing on live performance revenue, selling CDs on the spot, and merchandise.
Not OP but Okta gets breached like thrice a year.
This is just further evidence that the GPRD is really just protectionist legislation for EU tech and media companies. The EU doesn’t really care about the privacy of its citizens
Hoping this doesn't impact forward progress on Chisel and CIRCT; afaik there are lots of folks at SiFive working on tools in this space too
On bleeding edge hardware: possibly. On anything that is a couple of years old Linux runs out of the box, usually is rock solid. It's a bit less flashy and in your face though, but I personally prefer that.
Engineers run it by QA before pushing it to prod.