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My employer was on a fixed 3 year cycle when I started here (20+ years ago). Every multiple of 3 years, you got a new laptop. At the time, the old ones were given away to employees for personal use.

At some point, they went to a 4 year cycle. Employees can keep equipment as long as they want - 4 years is the minimum to request new hardware (without a reason and approval). The give away disappeared as well, not sure what happens to the old stuff today.

Back when I was on Windows/Dell, that 3-4 year replacement cycle for crucial. The systems just didn't hold up over time. Even more so for people who travelled. Now that I'm on a Mac, the hardware seems to hold up much better (aside from the occasional poor design like the keyboards of ~5 years ago).
Exactly. It posted millions of revenue from just two nights of U2. I've seen both shows there. It's a neat venue. Everyone agrees and would go back. The sky is the limit. This is a garbage headline.
Pixelfed is trying to be a federated version of Instagram, with the generally pro-user design that goes along with it that goes along with that.
> You don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex?

No, hence why I didn't say that.

> It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn

Lots of people are opposed to porn. The idea of porn addiction, OTOH, is very strongly associated with religiosity in general, and certain socially consevative Christian subcultures in particular.

Being opposed to a thing and thinking that association with it fits in an addiction model aren't the same thing.
Few facts concerning people are indisputable.

I don't think you can convince people to have children. They either want to or they do not want to. The people that are inclined to want children have a decision to make before they do. This is a long term project and involves the well being of others - not yourself. Most people take that seriously. They want a situation where they can be successful for 18 yrs or more. 18 years of steady income and medical care. 18 years of a place to live and 18 years of help from another individual that you depend on. If you do not have a large enough income failure of any one or more of those things is much more likely and hard to recover from.

I am not advocating a return to the 50s. Nor am advocating any lifestyle solution. It is my OPINION the article is in some ways wrong or incorrect about what the problem is.
As a hospital contractor, are you different than, say, the HVAC contractor that comes in to work on mechanical equipment?
Anyone else finding it ironic how difficult it is to interact with this article because it is so utterly plastered with ads? I attempted to follow the link to an article about Edge blocking Chrome, and was met with a full-screen interstitial ad instead of the article I clicked on. Sad times on the Internet.
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Pretty dull newsflash, this is the exact kind of weak, destructive relativism I was talking about in my post.

Apple's the worst, except for all the rest? I should lay off Apple because they're doing better than their competitors?

You're not opening any eyes by saying everyone is doing terribly, you're just responding to dissent with tired whataboutism and false claims of futility.

The market and regulators and device builders and customers could do better and should.

Apple wants to claim be leader in this space, they should do so with substance.
I thought the original lawsuit (in addition to the Berla/diagnostics tools extraction method) was also trying to claim that the system supported transmission of a data (which seems a thing in many new cars? crashes and what not?) even though it was in no one transmitting any of this information.
You didn't have an up to date system if you use Debian stable. They do not keep their packages up to date.

It just seems weird to blame Rust for a problem you had with your package manager, when every modern ecosystem I can think of eschews distro package managers because of these problems.
I live in US suburb and I also trust my neighbors. It's unlikely that my actual neighbors are stealing packages.

The problem is that there are people who drives through residential areas looking for packages to steal, cars to break into, etc. and that occurs quite frequently, as caught on our security camera.

It doesn't take many motorized perpetrators to lower the overall confidence in how secure it is to leave packages outside, given how much range the porch pirates can cover in a single afternoon.
I would indeed be curious about the risk as estimated by Japan and Illinois about their respective reactors before and after the Fukushima disaster, before forming an opinion on whether this is actually a problem. As you say, there's likely fundamental differences not obvious from the provided rhetoric...
Google scraps $15B deal with lead developer of Silicon Valley campus projects
What I find the most interesting is the battery booster idea, there seems to be a mini battery inside the main computer part (to allow hot swapping of the booster), and the booster attach magnetically on the opposite side of the garment to bring the main source of power wirelessly.
I would have loved this idea of battery hot swapping when smartphone used to have very poor battery, and it can makes product more durable because it is extremely simple to change the battery.
I have really tried using Rust for the web (because I truly enjoy Rust). The ergonomics just aren't there yet.

Leptos, as a popular recent example, suffers from one major issue (that most others suffer from too): the JSX stuff is opaque to Rust Analyzer. Code completion aside, you lose the ability to hover - massively crippling any hope of tracking down how to resolve a type mismatch.

Web Rust also has the impedance mismatch that Rust has for UI. There are several success stories - e.g. Cosmic Desktop, but I'm certain that there's more love than practicality involved.

I think part of the reason is that we are trying to shove in existing patterns - which originate from OOP languages - into Rust. In both semantic and ergonomic terms I have been bitten by trying to OOP in Rust when I was first learning it.

I think that there exists an (as yet unknown) solution to the UI problem. It's just going to look nothing like React (or Elm even).
Webb finds an 'extreme' glow coming from 90% of the universe's earliest galaxies
They also tend to have better dynamic range and noise performance.
What are the main things that USCIS looks at when deciding to approve an LPR application? Do they really require affidavits? How long are applications taking at the moment? And for advanced parole too?
Off topic: the ai generated language hallucinations are fascinating to me because they remind me so much of what language looks like when I try to read a book when I’m dreaming. Pure nonsense.
> the monetization strategies they’ve tried ... crabs

Like Bored Crabs NFTs or restaurant supplier or health insurance or...?
Is this done physically/electrically?

Echo devices, for example, were sold as having a "hardware mute switch" from day one. Sure enough, teardown after teardown[0] has confirmed the hardware mute switch actually physically disables the mic (cuts power to the ADC, mic lines, etc).

If this is implemented in software it's no different than a phone and worse than an Echo.

[0] - https://electronupdate.blogspot.com/2021/01/amazon-echo-flex...
Why, i ask myself often, would people choose to evangelise products for free on behalf of corporations that literarily dont acknowledge their existence? Is it the same mental process that makes people idolise celebrities? A lack of belonging? A need to be a part of something bigger?

Why not simply choose a worthy cause? Why not evangelise freedom, privacy, and security focused, community driven, projects, and be a part of a community that not only needs you but appreciates you?
Nietzsche looked with total disdain on academic philosophers. He calls them names like “dwarves” (as opposed to the true philosophers calling to each other across centuries), and “scholarly oxen”, calls the field the “harmless chatter of children and academics” and suggest that if modern man had any courage it would be banned outright. Thousands of papers are still published every year on philosophical subjects Nietzsche believed he proved moot or a mere confusion of ideas.

Very few modern academic philosophers are read better than Nietzsche in as in his lifetime. Few older ones were either: Nietzsche mentions the fate of Schoepenhaur and Spinoza. It’s a safe bet none alive now will be read in a hundred years.

You mention Sam Harris in another comment and say that he’s “not taken seriously as a philosopher” by academic philosophers. I know nothing about him other than that he’s some pop culture commentator and therefore probably not worth attention, but the idea that someone like Nietzsche or anyone serious would care about what “academic philosophers” think of someone is absolutely ludicrous, not only on its face but when you consider they do take people like John Rawls seriously.
if EU can stop this adblock i forgive them for GDRP or whatever its called
Yeah but pointer + nil also have issues: https://go.dev/doc/faq#nil_error

I've also seen APIs that allow returning both error and a value ("something went wrong, but here is a fallback or something") which are of course extremely confusing given the usual style.
Well, have you seen any community infighting about it?

There isn't any, because for wayland, as you said, nobody is providing any alternative, while that's false for systemd; there's no discussion about the capacity of the developers to work in a community, while that's still not clear at all about systemd; the change is being made for this piece of software alone, without interference of widely popular software pushing their dominance around and without redesigning the entire OS, none of what was true for systemd.

The situation is so dissimilar that I can't really understand how you one can honestly claim it's the same. It's either a completely naive observation made from somebody that didn't look at anything, or not honest.
With enough income sources it is. All while being a SWE. Passive income is the way to 7 figures annually.

You are right that 7 figures annually is different than just 7 figure net worth. However, if you have a 7 figure net worth, you could probably get to 7 figures annually relatively easily.
I found my TV (not purchased with gaming in mind) adds so much latency that even as a non-gamer I found it unusable.

A minor gripe; overall the Steam Deck blew me away with its capabilities, ease of use, and attention to detail.
Yeah, idk about that.

My OLED monitor that I got about 1.5 years ago has a lot of burn-in on it now and it really started showing it after only about 10 months of use.
lol. I don't think anyone has tested all of these to be able to make such a recommendation.

If you want one which also docks and is a serviceable PC, filter that list for stuff which can run Windows/Linux and also comes with a Ryzen 5/7. Bigger number is better CPU (you'll notice above the 7k Ryzen series, it gets an A on Switch emulation).

Take a look at the spread of prices and battery capacity and decide what candidates are important for you, and lastly check the reviews to see if any of them have quality/usability issues.
Musk's Tantrums So Bad, Staff Considered Calling for a Wellness Check
(Nango co-founder here) I'll update the repo readme and other mentions of being open source. Thank you for reporting this. We are not set on the license yet. We want to promote permissive usage, particularly for the auth-related features & contributed integration templates, but we are being mindful of the competitive environment.
> The usual AT&T syntax will drive you nuts, and the additional syntax for embedding assembly only adds to the misery.

It's trivial to enable Intel syntax in inline assembly even under GCC. And if you're using Rust instead of C or C++ then the inline assembly syntax is actually really great and very pleasant to use.
I also have heard the stories of “the church thought cats were evil”. It always seemed a little too weird and simple to believe it was a was a wide spread teaching.
Executing SQL queries from the browser in Cockroach Cloud
We released a browser SQL shell a few weeks ago in Cockroach Cloud. It has some nice to haves like autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and allows creating and querying cluster in < 20 seconds end to end. I worked on the frontend + some of the backend components, happy to answer any questions.
It's not that they've removed the bar exam and changed nothing else. From TFA:

>The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday approved an alternative licensing program that bar exam reformers hope will spur further innovation in other states. After law school, candidates will spend 675 hours working under the supervision of an experienced attorney and create a portfolio of legal work that bar officials will grade as an alternative to the traditional bar exam.

>In addition to completing 675 hours of paid legal work, participants in Oregon’s new program must submit at least eight examples of legal writing, take the lead in at least two initial client interviews or client counseling sessions, and head up two negotiations, among other requirements. The applicants' portfolios would then be graded by Oregon bar examiners, and those with qualifying scores would be sworn into the state bar.

Also relevant:

> Wisconsin allows graduates of the state's two law schools to become licensed without passing the bar in what is known as a diploma privilege, and New Hampshire allows a small cohort of law students who complete a specialized curriculum to bypass the bar.
> It's part of a broader cultural purge across media outlets that has seen the cancellation or destruction of works that appealed to marginalized people, including minorities, women, and queer folk.

You're not wrong, but all of those groups were--up until recently--causes championed by those same belligerents. This is what happens when you bite the hand that feeds.

It doesn't tend to work out for any marginalized group when their narrative shifts from "we're tired of being bullied" to "we want to be the bullies." That's Hamas logic, and the establishment will bite back. Take a page out of MLK's book and settle for mere equality.
As far as I can tell, there’s a “normal” OLED Deck, which is (or will shortly be) available in the full complement of countries (not including my current place of residence...), and the limited edition with a transparent case, which is NA only. So if you only want the electronics upgrade, you can probably get one.
Ok honest question, who was their actual target audience?

I know there are a lot of people that are performative radicals that might spout this kind of thing, but you get them in a room alone and they're not at all like that. I don't think I've met anyone who read Jezebel unironically
Cookie consent popups are not mandated by the GDPR (the EU privacy law), they’re just a stupid (and often infringing) reaction to it.

They're an entirely rational and predictable reaction to it. If you're trying to regulate bad actors, it should be utterly unsurprising when they game the easily gameable rules.

The GDPR disallows tracking without consent, but more in the spirit of “don’t track” than “get consent”.

Then it should actually ban tracking, without the loophole of "you can track as long as you get the user to click a button, also you can't offer them anything in exchange for doing so". That's just asking for all the dark patterns we've gotten.
Wow, I didn't know that eye transplants were so close to being a thing! That's amazing for blind people.

While it is still unknown whether he will regain sight, since the May 2023 procedure, the transplanted left eye has shown remarkable signs of health, including direct blood flow to the retina—the area at the back of the eye that receives light and sends images to the brain. Although many questions remain in a case with no precedence, this groundbreaking achievement opens new possibilities for future advancements in vision therapies and related medical fields.
Have you run a Geiger counter over yourself and your possessions?
Thank you. I will be reaching out if I decide to go for one. BUT I think the limitation actually applies only to the 1TB limited edition (with different colorway). So the 512GB OLED should be normally available as I've seen some people point out!
Yep. Valve takes that cut and serves up your game (and its patches) on demand FOREVER. No need to fight for shelf space, or bicker with store management on product positioning or any other shit. When a gamer wants your game, they get it, and if they're looking for something that might be like your game, they'll find yours, too.

I also remember reading an article from way back when that said that brick and mortar revenue cuts were at _least_ twice what Steam was taking. Perhaps this memory is totally wrong... with today's Google I'll certainly never be able to find the source of the memory.
I’m not the one arguing against something which would provably save thousands of lives annually. You’re welcome to show your homework that there are a comparable number of cases where the difference between life and death comes down to being able to exceed the speed limit in an urban area.
I'm building a library of design components build for SaaS applications
I suppose I'll be the turd in the punchbowl as is my frequent role though I'm not exactly happy about it either. We live in a collapsing country on a dying planet, and it's quickly becoming clear that we will not be turning either of those around. We have however succeeded in killing god, so we now know that we will not be going to some good place when we die. There is no meaning to any of this. I'm not surprised that population is in decline; I'm surprised that people still have children at all. But I do now understand why religion is so correlated with birthrate.
I always found it interesting that Iceland has no indigenous population (like the inuit), prior to Scandinavian and British immigration. Like, what if it's because it is regularly buried in lava or something.
Yes, just came to the same conclusion after reading more!
Cool find! I'm trying to post a content-focused side project in as many grassroots platforms as I can. My main site is already in Neocities, for example. I think I could work with this too!

That said, I wish they featured some random pages or categories from their homepage. I'd like to see what communities already exist around the topic of my project.
Please, give them more ideas. They're the only regulatory bloc that's willing to protect users from corporate overreach and oligopoly.
Did you have a working product and revenue? Curious, Ty.
It hardly matters that the cert is expired if you're not logging in. Contrary to popular belief, TLS is not beneficial for sites where you aren't sharing secret data.
If you're software is older than 20 years, then you had to deal with this same issue ~20 years ago.

ie. it's a non-issue... do the work and update or don't. That's your choice.

Wayland is only slightly newer than X.org - and it's been on the horizon for years and years already. If you haven't updated by now, then you made that choice.

The folks maintaining X.org know there are issues that cannot be overcome without a major re-write and protocol change. The change has to happen even if it was a X.org v2... and you would still be complaining.
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> most tasks we achieve via computers and phones do not strictly require a screen.

X (doubt). There are unfortunately only 5 senses that our brains can interact with the outside world, and visual ways are the most information dense and the easiest to utilize. The screen isn't going away anytime soon.

Projector to me are same as screen - they've been around for as long too.

Though I do look forward to direct computer-brain interface, like introducing a 6th sense.
I mean even if the setting isn't there it's easy to strip the metadata.
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Cloudflare website down, showing 'We're sorry' Google errors
Often make the decisions. I’m talking about mentoring. Which is what my first comment was specifically mentioning. Which was in response to the parent comment saying mentoring didn’t happen.
That might be nice, but this simply refers to the information capture window, how about the bigger problem being all your data being beamed to OAI servers ?
The WHO recognizes "porn addiction" so its not some conspiracy theory. Not that I trust the WHO.

Looks like porn is available for sale, possession, and production in almost all Christian majority nations, but not Islamic ones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region
>> Google pays the staffing agency, the staffing agency pays the "contractor" a salary (significantly less than what Google pays the staffing agency), and all is fine... legally, anyway.

The staffing agency vig is so high it is practically the same as an FTE.
IMO the moment you start questioning why you like/don't like somebody you're already on a precarious path.

The reason why you like someone is just because you like them; or the opposite. No need to complicate things. Learn to trust your gut and let your own inner self tell you if you feel like another person should be in your life or not. Things fall naturally into place this way.
While the different capabilities definitely account for this, there is a big price gap with the Portal only being $200
An acquisition of a failed startup where the purchasing company is "buying" the team of people rather than the product they built.
You've raised a question and assumed what the answer is.

Has society been affected by accessible porn? If so, to what degree? Of the ways it was affected, which were positive and which were negative? On the whole, is it harmful?

They're good questions but I doubt the answers are simple.