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> If the legislation had been written correctly then the current nightmare wouldn’t exist.

It was written correctly. Because it's a General Data Protection Regulation. It applies in equal
measure to websites, apps, paper records, SaaS, shops, government entities etc.

And it says: "do not get more data than is required for your business. If you want more data, the user must give consent, where opting out is the default, and must be as easy as opting in".

Now, what exactly is badly written in the law? You can start with quoting exactly where it requires existing cookie popups.

For example, GitHub found out they need exactly none: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/

> Should have been a browser level setting the sites are forced to comply with.

It's called the Do Not Track header, and at one point Safari removed it because the companies you think are blameless used it to track users
Because often it’s not the team that chooses, but tooling is instead standardized across the enterprise. And enterprises like to make the “safe” choice of choosing what’s most popular. And then there’s the whole aspect that you have to know some basic Git anyway to debug your way through the open source code you use (maybe not for JavaScript/NPM, I don’t know). Git also happens to currently be the most interoperable with other kinds of tooling, from CI to IDEs, so not using Git makes your life harder in ways unrelated to its inherent qualities. It’s a network effect in multiple dimensions.
Why do you want the music to sound like it is coming from your phone while you are on a bus? FWIW, my phone, when I am on a bus, is in some random location as I move it between hands, put it in my pocket or attempt to prop it on a ledge, and I'm probably often staring blankly out the window... am I somehow crazy? Why does the iPhone keep wanting me to think the audio is coming from my phone?
“Spatialize Stereo” is an option in iOS if you have airpods. (long press on volume meter, same place where you can switch between transparency and noise canceling)
Let's also deal with the facts here, from actual data on Boeing and Spirit.

You claim that diversity is accelerating the decline, in this case in the context of airline technology and management failures. Looking at their bios & photos, [0, 1,2] here's the breakdown:

Out of the 13 Boeing Board members, 8 are white men, 3 are white women, 1 is a black man and 1 an Indian, 1 a mixed woman.

On Boeing's 21 member executive council, 13 are white men, 5 are white women, and 3 black/mixed men.

Spirit Aerosystems has 10 Board members, of which 7 are white men, 1 black man and and 2 white women.

Spirit's 14 executives are 10 white men, 1 black man, and 3 white women.

You are saying that out of 58 people, the 38 white men got overwhelmend by the 13 white women and 6 black men and 2 others who completely and illegitimately dominated their choices and forced them to make such bad decisions that their fleets are again grounded and subject to inspection?

Because that is what is required for "diversity to accelerate" this decline — that those 38 white men are so weak that their superior judgement is overwhelmed by any minority of women or non-whites.

More likely, the dominant white men are just making inferior decisions all on their own, and the minority either goes along to get along or cannot outvote the commanding WM majority.

Either way, diversity is NOT the problem. The problem is that the old white guys (esp from the McConnel-Douglas cultrue) are forking it up and deed to be replaced.

Go peddle your racist ignorance elsewhere. (&re: your Twitter ref: you are obviously incapable of understanding an argument beyond mischaracterizing it — I'm not simply saying "here's an exception to your statistical generalization"; I'm describing and providing evidence for OTHER FACTORS that you ignore, and which actually dominate. Yese genes and opportunity play a part, but cultural push dominates top athletic prowess)

In general, you can spend your life using confirmation bias to confirm ytour racism. That does not make you any less ignorant. I makes you willfully ignorant

I sincerely hope your "doctor" moniker has nothing to do with practice of medicine. You would be a plague on your patients, and should quit. Wow, what an awful person you are.

[0] https://www.boeing.com/company/general-info/corporate-govern...

[1] https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/index.page

[2] https://investor.spiritaero.com/corporate-governance/OD/defa...
Plus, only a small fraction of Animal Crossing players, even lifelong series fans, will still be playing the game daily even one year later. In the real world, we need jobs done ~forever, regardless of how novel and fun they are.

Game design is fundamentally about feeding a steady flow of novelty to players. Too little and the game gets boring immediately, too much and the development team can't produce new content fast enough, or the game is too short. I can imagine someone arguing that we could rotate people through jobs as their interest fades, but we should be skeptical that we can maintain our standard of living when most jobs are being done by people whose professional experience includes novelty at the rate even a dull game offers.
Exactly. My company has official trainings for managers that explicitly states that ambition is one of the 3 main talent identifiers for the company.
Alleged Trello Data Breach Raises Concerns: 15M User Records on Sale
>Blocking a persons ability to contact emergency services

Looks like they still can call the “emergency” given the police was there after.
Thanks for clarifying this — I was wondering if this was something I should be doing with my laser printer, and wasn't looking forward to investigating!
I started out trying to please other people and became much happier when I stopped. Perhaps change is what makes us happiest?
The most popular browsers are all funded by advertising, which has entirely consumed the web.
And as the article stated: it can differ from vendor to vendor. I used to own an 8 year old Honda Civic and spare parts were difficult to obtain and expensive. Later I owned a 30+ year old Mercedes and parts were relatively cheap and easy to obtain and shipped locally next business day. With electronics it sucks a little that it seems for almost all brands everything is expensive and difficult. It does not really help that many electronics (such as the mentioned grass trimmers) are so extremely cheap to begin with.
Not sure yet, but probably nothing. I completely understand the expectations written in this thread to receive something in return, but I've given this thought and I'm not sure how to do this in a fair way in this situation. First, I was given dedicated time that quarter to work on cost savings and other people weren't, if I received a bonus is that fair to other people who didn't have the same opportunity? Not to mention the possibility of people abusing this process.

I would be happy to receive some extra cash, don't get me wrong, but I work for non-monetary benefits as well, and I have received some of those as part of this work. If I worked at a company with a different culture and I was being punished for doing the work, I would demand some bonus.
If you know the diameter of the sun you should be able to measure the distance by just measuring the size of the sun in the sky and using some simple geometry. I.e. if the sun takes up x degrees of space in the sky then tan(x) = (radius of sun / distance to sun).

But... how do you measure the diameter of the sun?
Rust is the latest open source project to face burnout
Is this Box86 running Linux running WINE? That seems convoluted, but it's probably the most straightforward right now. Impressive!
My kids have been in the cockpit post 9/11. But you have to do it before takeoff. They don't let anyone in there during flight, even the flight attendants (except the lead sometimes).

My kids just ask as we are boarding the plane if the cockpit door is still open.
Agree. tx bivectors squares to 1 giving hyperbolic rotations, while xy bivectors squares to -1 giving euclidean rotations.

saying time and space aren't different because spacetime exists sounds like saying electric fields and magnetic fields aren't different because EM field exists.

seems to miss the point of unification.
There does seem to be the worst-of-both-worlds scenario: EPA & regulatory agencies push for stringent regulations that make the appliances frustrating enough that people stop using them, but then those same agencies start begging people to use appliances cause hand-washing uses so much more water.
I use downvoting for comments that are incorrect, or are in violation of the guidelines. I'll also flag when appropriate, but sometimes flagging feels overly aggressive.
Perforce is amazingly scalable, but that comes with a price (literally and figuratively :))
We still can't handle petabyte repos like P4 does, but we'll get there. But we can handle very large and frequently changing binaries pretty well.
The problem is that the only way we have of knowing the Sun's diameter is to know its distance and then calculate its diameter from its apparent size.
> This sounds very powerful! And intuitively doesn't make any sense to me. So, say I have n choices, I do not know which choice is better. Does this result say that it's more efficient to randomly choose k and find the best among them (even for k=2), instead of randomly choosing a single choice? Could someone point me in the right direction?

Yes, let's consider the k=2 vs selecting a random item from a set of N items:

Selecting one item uniformly randomly from a set of N is identical to selecting two distinct items and then picking one of those two uniformly randomly.

So if you select items A and B, then pick the best item, you end up with an item of MAX(A,B) utility instead of MEAN(A,B) utility. MAX(A,B) >= MEAN(A,B) should hopefully be obvious.
Markup-to-Image Diffusion Models with Scheduled Sampling
No chance it comes close to the content of the internet.
I live in the US and drink orange juice about once a year so it's not worth even thinking about whether there might be a safety differential between brands, it'll work itself out. On the other hand diet, sleep, exercise, driving habits, exposure to infectious disease (mostly COVID right now), etc, all have significant impact on odds of getting sick, injured, or dying.
There are people who join some job, are more or less OK with the salary and conditions and then stop thinking about improving their situation

And I'm not saying about quitting 1 or 2 years later, but something like "In 5 years I'd want to 'work as X'/'earn Y'/'do Z'" and put years of effort into that goal.

Those are basics, I think.

Aggressively would be putting a lot of effort into going up, networking, abusing connections and more that I'm not even aware of.

I'm not saying that this is healthly, but if you arent happy with your current $$ or job, then...?
I ran into this same thing recently. My dryer needed new electronics, basically the same price as buying a new dryer. My wife had strong opinions about JUST buying a new dryer so guess who has a new washer AND dryer?
My personal experience with this was with a blender. The mount that held the motor went bad (turns out it was due to incredibly spindly supports that had broken. It probably saved a few cents in material costs but resulted in the whole thing failing years earlier than it probably should have), but luckily, the mounting bracket was available, and at an eminently reasonable price. Unfortunately, during this process, the mounting bracket holding the control board in place also broke (they did not use very high quality plastic), and unfortunately that piece was only sold as an assembly with the entire control board which was priced basically identically to the whole blender. It's currently sitting in a cupboard waiting for me to get the energy to get a 3d printed replacement, since I am having trouble throwing away what is otherwise a perfectly serviceable blender except for 1 small broken piece of plastic.

Unfortunately, this particular problem is not one that I think can be legislated away (or at least not without the legistlation causing more problems than it fixes). The only way it gets fixed is if consumers start to care and start basing their purchases at least partially on repairability (including price). And that kind of culture shift is hard.
Bill 96 forces CompTIA to stop offering certifications to Quebec residents
My scheduled exams have been cancelled / refunded last week without any action from my end or any explanation from CompTIA / PearsonVue.

After a first contact with PearsonVue advising me to "just reschedule" as it was most likely due to a "technical issue" , their website showed :

"We are sorry, CompTIA Testing policy prohibits exam delivery in your location. To take CompTIA Testing exams, you may need to travel outside of Quebec. To choose an alternate location, please restart the exam selection process."

further probing of support services produced the following response

"
We regret to inform you that we no longer offer testing in Quebec due to our inability to meet the Quebec French translation compliance requirements. These regulations mandate that the entire candidate experience, including exam content, website, and communications, be translated into French for Quebec residents.

Unfortunately, we
cannot accommodate this requirement. Therefore, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue registrations for candidates in Quebec.
"
> fewer and fewer successful European software growth companies.

It's funny how you slipped in "growth companies" in there.

How about... profitable companies? In the past 10-15 years most "successful" US companies have been fueled by unlimited investor money with zero expectations of profits. I mean, look at YC's "top startups list". They lose billions of dollars every year. But sure, they grow. Like cancer
Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russia-state hackers
I wouldn't have any issue if it were worded "radar", with quotes. That implies a likeness, but denotes a lack of precision.

And I think there are more avnerds on here than you would expect!
There teachers are crazy and so is the police being this overdramatic while the actual crooks are out there free doing their crimes while they busy arresting kids, crazy!
Oversized solar panel, oversized battery bank and capacitors, and the sundial problem is solved. If that operates continuously for 150 years, then whether it's "running continuously" despite having daily energy input is more of a hair-splitting linguistic distinction.

I think the main issue you may be having is you are applying excess amounts of creativity in finding new meanings for the words you read, and then assuming that what you've come up with must be what the author initially meant.

I wonder, if you put all that mental energy instead into attempting to understand the author's intent when you read, if the things you read might begin to make more sense.
Yeah but I don’t think it’s reasonable for replacement parts to cost nearly as much as a new device unless those parts do make up a substantial of the manufacture cost.

Making repair more expensive than buying new defeats the purpose of repair.
Peter Gabriel's 2023 album "i/o" has some quite inspired Atmos mixing going on. The track "The Court" is particularly nice. Make sure you pick the "In-Side Mix" version of the album.

Nice Atmos tracks by other artists imho:

- Jaguar by Victoria Monét

- get well soon by Ariana Grande

- Heroes (feat. Mindy Jones) by Moby, Album "Reprise"
On a similar/tangential note about running stuff on wine, does anyone know how to run Microsoft Office, or Netflix (or any similar DRM service like Prime videos) on Linux using wine?

I’m seriously considering switching to Linux on a new laptop as someone tired of windows eating resources randomly and I don’t want to install Windows 10 when I get my laptop. I’ve looked at hypervisors and have used hyper x but there still appears to be a performance hit even if the host is Linux (if I’m not mistaken).
Oh I absolutely agree that they should have had a citation for that. I'm just summarising the article. It was a common political tactic: blame the EU for unpopular policies, but don't give them credit for the popular ones. It's may be part of the reason why UK voters were so easily convinced to vote for Brexit. I've seen the same tactics here in Ireland.

I have no doubt that you could find some EU legislation from the '90s that could have been a tiny factor in this debacle, but it's fairly obvious that the biggest factor was panic that ICL would collapse if they didn't continue propping them up with fresh money, leaving many government IT systems out of support.
Given the whole discussion is about prevalence of shell interpreters vs javascript engines, the existence of devices that neither interpret shell nor javascript is entirely beside the point. There are a ton of fish in the ocean, but they don't matter when determining whether more land animals have 4 legs or lungs.
More precisely, Spatial Audio renders sound into your ears that simulates placement of sound sources in a real 3-D space. It can take a stereo mix and render it as if it were coming from speakers in your device. It can also take a surround or Dolby Atmos mix and render it as if you were in the center of the speaker array (surround) or the center of a room with multiple signal sources (Atmos). It can do this with head tracking that makes the simulation truly uncanny.

So the branding is a little confusing — Spatial Audio is a technology that sits between your ears and the encoded mix, as well as a marketing label to differentiate Atmos mixes from stereo mixes in the store.
Understanding how python's data structures work is actually really important and can make the difference between an algorithm completing in microseconds vs "basically never". Performance problems in python are going to come down to these crucial factors of when to use a set vs list vs dict or a dataframe or something else. The fact that it's interpreted is just not that significant compared to how data structures are set up and operated on. People are using python to explore and manipulate very large data - it's the most popular language for doing so.
The fact that you need to be able to "burn" a bank account is insane and shows how broken ACH is.
> It seems like browsers were conceived at a time when surveillance capitalism didn’t exist and they still behave like thar

It's worse than that - the world's most popular browser was created by a company which gets most of its competitive advantage and, arguably, revenue from surveillance capitalism. The incentive to make fingerprinting hard is not just 0, it's negative.
Ah, I guess this is the curse of ignorance: I saw the sentence but didn't register its significance as I'm not familiar with what's required in game development.
That's a misleading summary. Only true for a short term trial of a few, abnormal people in abnormal dietary circumstances
I found Dyson vacuum cleaners to be harder to get into than an iPhone. Awful plastic that you need to be very careful with.
I always thought it would be around 86 but now I have no idea.

I mean, both WW3 and AGI are breathing down our necks. We're gazing into an abyss where we all might have a few years left -- or forever. It's a crazy time to be alive.
There are scores of medications necessary for chronic conditions that we give to patients without intention of stopping that have not been around for a lifetime of testing for “long-term safety.” If your cardiologist prescribes you an SGLT2-i for heart failure because we have studies that show it has significant mortality benefit, you probably won't bat an eye before taking it---yet they have only been FDA approved since 2013. (As an aside, people also don't generally rag on heart/kidney/liver failure patients for poor lifestyle habits that may have contributed or continue to contribute to their disease, as they do for patients with obesity.) GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic have been on the market since 2005. Obesity is among the most prevalent, morbid diseases that itself accounts for 20% of US health expenditure; it will lead to diabetes, hypertension, OSA, heart failure, arthritis, depression, cirrhosis, even cancer and then some. Our scientific and clinical understanding of obesity is evolving beyond it being a self-imposed and self-treatable lifestyle choice, but as a complex neurohormonal disease; one that is chronic like hypertension, and that must be treated chronically (like hypertension) as well. As doctors, counseling patients to diet and exercise (even offering nutritionist referrals) is the equivalent of sitting idly by as patient after patient rotates through our clinic having tried diet/exercise for years all the while developing obesity-related comorbidities.
> At least Musk's core business isn't spyware.

Tesla, Starlink, Solar, etc are all spyware. I guess SpaceX isn't quite spyware but it most definitely is a state sponsored company.

Tesla has traded like it is google 2.0 for the past decade or so. I don't think investors are enamored with tesla cars necessarily.
Worth noting that it recalibrates the “origin” to be in front of you if you keep looking in the same direction for a while.
Deciding not to do “normal” things is fine. You don’t want to drink or smoke or watch TV? Good for you.

But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy some really great TV and ignore the reality dreck. You can have a beer with friends or enjoy a wine with a meal without being an alcoholic.

And you can go for a run without feeling the need to look down on people who don’t want to do ultras.
a lot of "spatial mixes" are outright bad.

And my guess is the apple vision pro team and corporate leadership are asking for it, because they're still trying to figure out why it exists.
I agree with those perspectives, they're questions we talk about and analyze:

- We do in fact operate multiple OSS repos. Despite their usage, most, as with most OSS in general, do not get significant code-based contributions. Our proprietary repos are even more complicated (e.g., distributed GPU code, webgl shaders, and "boring" enterprise bits), where we'd expect even less involvement. Instead, they see other values from the OSS community like easier bug reporting and, as you say, easier for folks to see if the tool is for them. Writeups like Supabases misses this nuance in practice, focusing just on the rarer lottery ticket scenario. (Which is natural to come from a marketing / devrel person that got hired after-the-fact: selection bias in action.)

- Our customers do pay for feature development even without the OSS

Most of all, as you say, maybe marketshare can grow! But in my original point, now that's counting on lightning to strike twice, once for OSS and then again for the company. That's a very big decision when many people's lives -- and their families -- are making bets here. We're actually reexamining the economics of this question now that much more is known and we have more stability. Much trickier than the blogpost makes out!
> The difference is that Dark Souls and Factorio can synthesize the mental feeling of work and success without anything being provided to others. ... A lot of our hobbies have become pornographic versions of work.

Or pornographic versions of skill or learning. The entire point of Guitar Hero was to provide a simulated feeling of competence and skill. You set the difficulty level, spend a small amount of time learning to mash some buttons just so, and all the sudden you're a guitar god, perfectly playing some famous rock song. It felt awesome.

I think it's super suspect to try to determine how people could behave in the real world based on how they behave in twisted-to-be-fun worlds of video games. So while I agree with the OP's criticism of the "hardcore capitalist bootstrap grindset ideologues," I don't think that observations from cozy games can be applied without literally making the real world a cozy game, which would require a lot of "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" shit.