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FWIW, I like playing VR/MR games because they are "sports" that don't require me to drive anywhere or organize anything with other people. To me it's about equal fun as downhill skiing or skating at the roller rink but a lot cheaper than either, and without needing to travel.
You know, most people go through their lives without attracting this kind of criticism. They might laugh or call you foolish, but to consistently tell you you’re actively making the world a worse place? That’s reserved for a special class of assholes. I’d take the feedback seriously.
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This was also the case for iOS 18.3.0 and 18.3.1.
so the more of this I read, the more it sounds like an impractical assessment
U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine
I think the UK had the none-mountainous version of strip mining - open pit mines. I think there aren't any in operation currently, and I'm unsure if they were for coal or just other commodities.
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After a couple weeks of tinkering, I’m excited to share this. Help me try it out and tell me what you think are some issues with it that i need to fix, also i would deeply appreciate a reddit post about it as i can't post on my reddit account because it's still new
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/two-takes-on-depress...

It may have nothing directly specific to gender dysphoria and merely a catalyst to an already difficult life choice.
Your whataboutery could have been literal but shame you turned it into howaboutery. Close.
Freedom of Movement applies to all EU members, it isn't restricted to the Schengen Zone.
> Oh man yeah tell me about it; I attempted this way back when and gave up lol. I was doing a bunch of research into arbitrary precision libraries and the benchmarks all contain "rendering a big 'ol floating point number" and that's why. Wild.

Yes, it is a stuff that people generally don't even realize its existence. To my knowledge only RapidJSON and simdjson seriously invested in optimizing this aspect---their authors do know this stuff and difficulty. Others tend to use a performant but not optimal library like double-conversion (which was the SOTA at the time of release!).
Ah, you know, now that I think of it, Apple Music has this pretty bad bug where after a couple of hours of playing music my playlist will stop playing and nothing I do will make the playlist usable again. This never happened in iTunes.
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I often compare Ayn Rand and Karl Marx in the following way: both of them were pretty good critics. They pointed out a lot of problems with the systems they were criticizing. I don't think either one of them had good solutions.

It's much easier to criticize than to build or fix.
> He's an artist, not an engineer.

He is by training an industrial designer.

But also, there is no clear boundary between being an artist and being an engineer. There are artist who show great mastery of engineering in their art work. Either because they studied engineering, or because they picked up enough relevant skills practically to achieve what they want to achieve.

I have a particular taste and not everyone will agree what is and isn’t art. But i consider for example David C. Roy‘s wooden kinetic sculptures both art and engineering. Similarly Jacob Tonski’s Balance from Within (a victorian sofa balancing on a single leg) incorporates both art and excelent engineering. Or Thea Ulrich’s aerial moon sculpture. Where the physical manufacturing of the sculpture is the engineering component, while the aerial dance performed on it is the art component. In each of these they could have said “hey I’m just an artist, you can’t possibly expect my thing to work” or “hey i’m an engineer, you can’t possibly expect my thing to have artistic value”. But they were not satisfied with either of those, and pushed themselves, their art and their craft until they got something wonderfull.

Where there is a will there is a way. And where the will is to make the object look shitty, you will get that result. Which is fine. But i have heard people draw the conclusion from his work that somehow this is the best anyone can do. And that is not fine with me.
It's usually worth checking.
I think there was a sweet spot in the late 2000s and early 2010s, more specifically, the Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard eras.

On the Windows side of things, this was when Microsoft got serious about security, with plagued earlier versions of Windows XP (worms were so rampant around 2005) until later service packs helped fix things. Windows 7 was solid and performant. While my favorite version of Windows is 2000, 7 was another high mark for Windows.

Much has been said about Snow Leopard, but it was the pinnacle of Mac OS X, the refinement of an already great OS, Leopard. I would gladly used Snow Leopard today if it weren’t for needing current web browsers and up-to-date security patches.

Even the Web was better back then. By 2008 many mainstays of modern Web life, such as social media and YouTube, were already in existence. Google was excellent. Internet Explorer’s dominance was successfully challenged, and there was an ecosystem of standards-compliant browsers (later IE versions, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera). Web developers were coding to standards instead of only writing for one browser. Yes, ads existed, and there was also malware, but ads were less intrusive, and malware can be avoidable with more careful browsing.

I miss 2009- and 2010-era computing, when Windows and Mac OS X were at their peaks, when the browser ecosystem was diverse, and when many commercial websites like Facebook were still pleasant to use.
> If anything, that's evidence that even when Trump had ample opportunity to privatize NOAA, he didn't.

If you read the article, you might notice that this is an ongoing lobbying operation that has been fighting congress since 2005.
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Courts can't just step in when Congress decides not to do its job.

Someone needs to sue to bring a matter before the courts. And in a lot of these cases, there just isn't a party who has standing to do so outside of the narrow scope of say, employment law.
The best way to predict Fuchsia’s future is to look at its hardware architecture support and which runtime is getting attention.

Having tea leaves instead of a public strategy and roadmap is what's causing the FUD in the first place. Google probably has good reasons for not making any promises but that hedging comes with a cost.
Yes that’s really funny.
Im not sure how you can write an article like this and never even mention it once.

Brexit was the most stupid thing a country ever did to itself, and the full effects are just starting to come to the surface now.
I dont think the UK will ever fully recover from it.
Famous quote, read many years ago:

testing can prove the presence of errors, but not their absence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=quote+testing+can+prove+the+...

- said by Steve McConnell (author of Code Complete), Edsger Dijkstra, etc. ...
Kind of the other way around in some ways e.g. at very short end of the yield curve you are basically just trading the market expectation of what the Fed will do, +- credit and liquidity and so on, whereas further out things are way more complicated and reflect various risk premia and higher order sensitivity to rates, and so on.
Better doesn't always win. Steam Deck has also still sold millions.
So much for “leader of the free world”. Sad day for America.
I don't think you need a conspiracy to explain the world heritage list. UNESCO itself has been actively trying to approve more non-european sites in recent decades, after it was pointed out that France alone had more sites than the entire continent of Africa.
Yev,

Ticket# 1115339. BTW, your support and your backups are good. The issue isn't support or backups. I think this aspect of your product is excellent.

However, if I may presume, from the user experience, I get the feeling that the user portal has not gotten as much attention as the rest of the offerings. I get how that can happen, yet, as a user, nobody wants to have what I call a "DMV experience".

I should be able to buy licenses and easily assign them to group members, take them back, reassign them, etc. As a practical matter, if I already paid for a license before forming a Group, why make a user delete it, then ask for a refund and buy the same license again.

Even worse, why ask the administrator of a group to let group members reinstall the application and login with the administrator's credentials to be able to grab an unused license? So, I have to give account admin credentials to a group member for they to have access to an unused license?

The reason I enabled "Business Groups" was what you say on your docs page:

https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/backblaze-gro...

"The Backblaze Groups feature lets you manage, pay for, and administrate several users. Groups allow several people to have individual accounts that all fall under one credit card and renew on the same date. If the Group is managed, the administrators also have access to manage user's accounts, create restores, and perform any action a user can typically perform on their account. Groups is a great feature for all sizes of business or families who want to be able to manage payment for multiple members."

I was also told during a chat session that all I had to do was enable Business Groups and I could then assign licenses as needed. I was told that enabling Groups was just a checkbox that enabled the administrative portion of things and I would be able to manage licenses just as well.

On this basis I formed a group and added people to it.

There are other issues.

For example, the login seems to have a 30 minute timeout (or whatever it is). If I want to monitor a backup I have to login again every single time I go to check on it.

On the Users & Computers page I cannot see the backup status of the computers in the group. I have to click on "Details" for each user one at a time. If I have 10 computers in that group, it would be painful.

Why does Preferences have a Delete Backup function? That's not a preference, that belongs in the Overview page within each backup information box. Or, better yet, a "Manage Backups" page with a simple table where you can clone, restore, rename, get details on, etc. for each backup, including perhaps seeing group assignments.

Etc.

This is why I say this probably did not get a lot of attention. I wonder how much usability testing was done on this? For example, I can't imagine a user who wants to delete a backup immediately thinking "Oh, yes, I need to go to Preferences".

Thanks.
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So what's actually better about Windows? Other than the fact some legacy software still runs on it...

Because for developing, say, financial apps in C++, Linux is much, much better IMO.
I’m not making a “bad faith argument.” I’m trying to fight the widespread misinformation that there are “checks and balances” within the executive branch. Where is Community Notes when you need it?
And yet, despite having all the levers to do so, Trump never privatized it.

Since you're conflating anecdotes with evidence, perhaps you should also consider the "evidence" that Trump has already decided not to do exactly what you're seemingly convinced he wants to do.

Nor has Congress.
Yeah I argue that's human nature. When you're in danger (or perceived danger) you will make drastic moves to survive. When you're in a good spot, you are less incensed to rush things. And generally, status quo in not-bad times is the majority.

So on a macro level a progressive or simply sympathetic minority has to fight a conservative majority in order to keep pushing for change.

The only solace here is that the you rarely need a majority to enact change. Apparently movements need a critical capacity of 3.5% in order to start this network effect of people joining in due to popularity bias.
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Probably yes, the Mitsubishi conglomerate is about 150 years old and it's spread across many industries, they where especially influential during the world wars (look up for 'zaibatsu'), so one can suppose that they are very indluential.
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> Where did all of this trust come from?

A concerted PR operation from OAI and Microsoft pushing the belief that LLMs can 'reason' and thus be trusted with things beyond formulaic high school and college papers.
Traitors are often surprisingly cheap, considering the risks. Robert Hanssen only got $1.4M for fifteen years of top-level spying.
I worked at Apple. I was literally driven out of town due to my constructive criticism of how terrible our software and processes were. There was zero focus on quality and maintainability. ( I worked at Google and Netflix).
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Roger that, heard. Had my blinders on.
You have to read the analysis below as well as look at the charts. From the articles I linked

> As a further way of characterising countries, we include a second measure based on the percentage of people saying that immigration ‘makes the country a worse place to live’ On this measure, the UK maintains a similar rank position as one of the more positive countries in the sample, and similar to Switzerland at 18%.

> These two measures can be thought of as capturing opinions on future migration flows and current population stocks. In most of these 13 countries, it appears that people are more negative towards the idea of continuing flows than about the immigrants already present. Finland, for example, is a country where 42% of the public would prefer few/no immigrants of another race coming to live there, whilst, at the same time, just 19% think immigrants make the country a worse place to live.

It is still much better than many other countries in Europe.

> This isn't a small minority and I can guarantee you the distribution of these attitudes isn't equal between leavers and remainers.

Ok sure. I probably shouldn't have said minority. Yeah of course the distribution isn't going to be equal. However people pretend it was all about racism when it clearly wasn't.
Ha. I have to use Linux (Arch) sometimes, and it's made me appreciate OpenBSD :)
Aside from a really weird 8051 project in the aughts I've only ever had single cycle multiplies.
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I think this is one of those processes that the free market can’t solve unless you have extremely strict regulation.
As bad as it sounds, I also think a government funded partially public entity should provide this form of verification.
If you remove the need to profit to be sustainable for a company like this you remove the need for growth. And if you do that, you also remove the need to find sketchy ways to exploit the data.
Not the OP, but one thing I've run into is that I've had three or four Windows installs (both Windows 11 and Windows 10) just fail to upgrade - one of them new upgrades just stopped showing up, I had to install an 'enablement package' and that fixed it but there was literally no warning or instructions of what to do, I just had to Google it when I noticed I wasn't getting updates.

The others just failed with random hexadecimal error codes, again I had to Google to try and work out what was going on.

With one of them I had to use the command line and diskpart etc. to expand the recovery partition because apparently the default size when I'd made that Windows 10 install was no longer big enough, and Windows Update couldn't work this out (the error code from the failure was nondescript, took ages to find out what was actually wrong) and couldn't fix it. Had to do it manually in Powershell.

Another one I think might have fixed by running sfc and dism recovery commands in the command line, again it would be nice if Windows could work this out itself!
Going by past results, Bitcoin's better.
I can walk and quibble about economics at the same time.
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...a single person driving a SUV or a massive pickup is not moving the needle of climate change. I think that's a bit ridiculous.

Do you see what I did? A large part of the driving population of the US decided they need a environmentally unfriendly car, many of them SUV and pickup, but a few sport cars too. That does make a significant difference.
For me the biggest gripe is that I cannot configure it as I want and that it assumes I'm computer-illiterate. On top of that a lot of the approaches chosen by Apple regarding e.g. the UI are simply counterintuitive to me.

I still prefer it to Windows but (at least for me) it is inferior to a properly setup Linux box with stuff like a titling WM. But if I would to recommend someone a computer just for browsing, email, etc. then a Mac would be my top choice.
Presumably their experience.
Author here, love this take.

I've chatted with a few medium-sized companies looking at Durable Objects for this reason. DB-per-tentant removes much of the need for another dedicated team to provision & maintain infrastructure for the services. It's almost like what microservices were trying to be but fell woefully short of achieving.

It's disappointing (but understandable) that "serverless" received a bad rap. It's never going to fully replace traditional infrastructure, but it does solve a lot of problems.
I think the reasons have probably changed over time, but my recollection is mostly to have a stable Windows-style driver API so that kernel and drivers can be maintained separately. Making such an API on top of Linux was prototyped, but was unsuccessful.

(Historically, that's one big reason that there's lots of Android phones that get a fork of whatever release was current some months before they shipped, and never get substantial updates.)
Ours died and I just bought a new 4 slice toaster to replace it.

I haven't seen a toaster oven big enough for my family, and we otherwise have an excellent oven with convection features.
They did say:

> One big challenge it addresses is Linux’s driver problem

Android devices have been plagued with vendors having out-of-tree device drivers that compile for linux 3.x, but not 4.x or 5.x, and so the phone is unable to update to a new major android version wit ha new linux kernel.

A micro-kernel with a clearly defined device driver API would mean that Google could update the kernel and android version, while continuing to let old device drivers work without update.

That's consistently been one of the motivating factors cited, and linux's monolithic design, where the internal driver API has never been anything close to stable, will not solve that problem.
Trump didn't have all the levers. NOAA cannot be defunded by an executive order.
> a good bottle of wine or a bad bottle of whiskey.

I don't enjoy either but I have friends who decided to specialise and so I'm confident that you can easily reverse this split if you have decided you care more about one or the other.
They are running on Google's Nest Hub devices[0], so I guess this counts as a release?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630245/google-fuchsia-o...
Also PDF Tools for Emacs, where PDF can match your theme.
I was surprised how much more subtle in many ways Lawrence of Arabia was compared to dune
More work than grabbing a single file but still easy enough to use: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html
Keep talking about how the 9th largest asset on earth by market cap has "already failed". It's very convincing.

Additionally, your definition of money is simply ludicrous. Your credit cards aren't money, then? What about that app on your phone called 'PayPal'? Is it just a collective delusion?
While I worked at Apple in 2021-22 their issues seemed about the same as nearly every other company producing consumer apps and devices; bloated slow garbage with very mediocre quality. Their engineering culture is terrible, especially as it relates to transfer of the “Apple ethos” to the next generation of devs. Apple is going to be indistinguishable from the rest of the pack within the next decade.

But most of all it seems like it was designed by people who don’t even know what it is for. That combined with the superficial “implement my Figma masterpiece in code” development approach that includes little to no user testing. Tog weeps. Don Norman weeps. Observe how much breaks when you do something as trivial as bump the default font size by one notch. I am sure it is pixel perfect at default size though.

Enter a birth date in a contact entry without a year. Watch as it jumps to the next day when you save because you are editing the date after 0000 of the next day in utc time. That bug has now been in MacOS/iOS for at least 17 years.

Sorry, got in to rant mode. I really want “less but better” from things in my life. We as consumers aren’t rewarding companies that take this approach apparently.
(If you spend a lot of time learning to fight against an insurgency, you also spend a lot of time learning how to wage one against a technologically superior force.)