Once a year I select about 100 of my favourite pictures from my phone and have them printed and bound to a book. I suspect this is likely to be the only way my descendants will be able to see them.
I have been developing Android apps since Eclair, and I'm from a "developing" country. For me the deterioration of Android started after Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean for me is the best Android OS in history. So fast and fluid, it can run on the most low-end smartphones at that time. Developing for it was also very fun.
Then I remember KitKat OS came and it was all hell broke loose. Every OEM was just releasing different Android versions here and there every year. And Google did nothing. They just let every smartphone company do what they want
In my history of ~11 years of Android development, it's just hard to purchase a Google phone. I bought a Nexus tablet but I have to ask my sister in the US to ship it to me. The shipping fee is ridiculous high I remember. Then they introduced Pixel and Go editions but still I couldn't purchase officially from Google. I have to ask favor from someone in the US/EU to ship it to me.
I guess it's simply an honor to have, and if you (the country) are going to win anyway, why not?
Keep in mind it's not any "particular" individual, everyone take turns. So if you're "close", you have the priority. If you already have one? Well you can try to not push so hard.
And it's not like it happens all the time, just in a few cases. It's still largely merit-based especially for things like Olympics trial, you have to earn it no matter who you are.
It’s interesting that the latest rumour is Globalstar, previously they were rumoured to be going with OneWeb who I believe will have a better network when it’s complete.
OneWeb were due to finish their constellation this summer, but have had to redirect launches from Russia to SpaceX delaying the completion of it. I wander if that impacted the Apple deal, with Apple wanting to launch the product this year.
OneWeb were launching incredibly quickly last year, achieving one launch of 34-36 satellites per month. It’s unfortunate that it came to a halt in February due to Ukraine. They are currently on 428 of 648 for the complete constellation, I believe just below what’s needed for initial operation.
As someone who hates how ugly modern cars have become, I can also acknowledge the extraordinary leap in safety they've achieved since then. Many of the rules are designed around safety.
Although a counterpoint to this is the giant A pillars limit visibility so much as to be dangerous themselves.
"Starting to reveal"? The first time Netflix had to remove content from their catalogue because a competing streaming service was getting set up by the license holders, this was both the inevitable and immediately obvious conclusion.
There was a brief utopian moment in time where you could just watch what you wanted, when you wanted, the way you wanted, `from a single service, and then reality kicked back in. In the same way the internet was a weird and free place and then reality went "actually, no, we can make more money if we make it a terrible place and charge you a fee to temporarily make it slightly less terrible for you".
I gotta say, it's hard to know how much of a hurdle has been cleared here when this project seems to be absolutely nothing but hurdles to clear. Normally I would guess that getting this report approved would be a big deal in that construction could finally really get going, but then I read this:
> The Board’s certification of the San Francisco to San Jose Final EIR/EIS and approval of its project section will move the project section closer to being “shovel ready” when funding for final design, pre-construction and construction becomes available.
"Closer" to being "shovel ready" when "funding for final design... becomes available" is not a series of words that gives me confidence that meaningful progress has been made. However, I grant that I am no expert in the art of parsing press releases about big infrastructure projects.
Anybody out there with meaningful understanding of what this announcement might mean in practical terms?
FWIW this is what Audi's MMI does. (Or used to do? My car is old.)
The control panel has:
* 6-8 buttons for switching between different MMI modes, labeled
* 4 universal buttons, function contextual to the current screen
* 1 return button
* Turn/press controller
I can navigate 90% of the menus blindfolded. Despite my older MMI not being a marvel of UX, I can access functions 5 actions deep, while driving, from pure muscle memory.
> Sometimes also referred to as Kokotto-kiri (ココット切り) for smaller versions. I have no idea what that is in reference to.
This likely refers to “cocotte” [0], the French term for a kind of casserole that might be used for dishes for which that vegetable cut shape is typical — or maybe the shape of the cut is reminiscent of the shape of a cocotte.
> Hydroelectric dams typically cause even more damage when they fail, but I rarely see people worrying about whether using them for power will lead to war-time issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure
I believe the reason people worry less about hydroelectric dam failures is because, if they fail, they do not leave behind a contaminated area. Besides, it's just water; many people are used to floods caused by heavy rain, and the danger feels similar. In fact, hydroelectric dams can even help prevent (or contain) flooding, so it's the opposite of causing damage in that case. Of course, we're not talking about tailings dams, which do leave behind a trail of contamination when they fail.
(An interesting case is the failure of a tailings dam many years ago which flooded the Rio Doce with pollution, with that flood being mostly stopped by a hydroelectric dam downriver. The hydroelectric dam contained the damage instead of causing it.)
I wonder how the institutional knowledge on correlated disk failure got lost. This used to be common with HDDs, and one large enterprise I am aware of makes sure that boot drives in a datacenter (the only SSDs of this type) are always from a mix batches at a mix of vendors.
> It's also difficult (impossible) to curb demand for housing if housing is far and away the best investment you can possibly make, both in the short, medium, and long-term.
Rapid population decline. The coronavirus helped in this regard.
Best description I read about government needing revenue. Is really the government doesn't need money as much as it needs a way to devote some portion of the economy towards public goods.
Someones got to consume less. Everyone thinks it should be the other guy. Wealthy have power so they are always shifting the burden to the middle class and the poor.
The surprising inference from me, as an energy layman, is that solar output coincides with periods of peak demand. Obviously this is seasonally adjusted, but in an era when the Saudis have solar contracts being supplied for $10USD/MWh [0], the potential profits for a solar provider at periods of peak demand seem more than sufficient to encourage investment, especially with interest rates still at a historic low for big capital projects.
> Here’s the thing: I’m a stinker. Even at my jolliest, if someone figuratively shoulder-checks me, I’m probably going to make so many mountains out of this molehill that I will adjust the topography of the United States significantly.
I’m sorry, but this is your real problem, not Twitter banning you. This is called “pride” and is historically recognized as one of the largest “problem creators” as far as emotions go.
The author writes like this is some kind of noble trait, but is in reality very probably the source of many of the author’s negative experiences.
There is a clear path to getting unbanned from Twitter, but the author refuses to take it. Shame.
Haha, sorry, reminds me - my wife hates U2 with violent passion.
Eventually I asked her what caused such burning rage, and she said her car starts playing a specific U2 song every time she turns it on. For years!
Eventually I traced it to a promotional album U2 and apple and iTunes pushed to her devices without her knowledge.
Man can these things backfire!
But yeah we have a 2019 Honda and iPhones xr (not my choice; iPhone is work mandated) and there's just no telling what'll happen any given time when we start the car. Especially annoying since modern infotainment units make you wait 3 to 5 seconds to display crucial legal information before you can mute the darn thing. And let's not start if you have more than one Bluetooth headphone and more than one device at home :(
(Yes I'm now the grouch that misses 3.5mm on modern phones and uses my old Note 8 and wired Sennheiser to listen to music hassle free :D)
If you sign into a personal Google account on a new Chrome profile on a managed laptop, can they get access to your entire Google account (drive, emails, etc.) remotely? Can they use an auth token or something to automate the process of downloading all your data? If so, is this legal?
If I read it correctly it's more like a 1.8 bn hole.
They are counting 600m of their own token, which already had only 170m or whatever of market cap, which presumably now is absolutely worthless.
I don't mean worthless in a conceptual sense like all crypto, but this specific brand of made up money is based on the trust of a bankrupt lender. Nobody is buying that and counting it as 600m of asset is absurd.
It's like writing yourself a bunch of IOUs and claiming it gives you wealth.
"In the Plex" by Steven Levy goes into great detail on how YouTube could not survive its growth without the infrastructure and ad technologies Google brought to the platform.
To be fair, AND, OR and NOT are enough to compute any function, and you can make all the other operators out of a combination of those three. For example A XOR B is just (A OR B) AND (NOT (A AND B)). Knowing things beyond AND, OR or NOT is useful, but not strictly necessary. XOR has useful properties though: with random inputs you get TRUE 50% of the time, allowing you to chain it without trending to 0 or 1; also it's the opposite of bitwise equality.
The others aren't that interesting if you aren't dealing with hardware, and their function is obvious if you know the naming convention.
> Docker containers in the 172.16.0.0/12 ip range are definitely reachable from external hosts. All it requires is a custom route on the attacker's machine that directs traffic bound for 172.16.0.0/12 through the victim's machine.
> Notice that the common advice of binding the published port to 127.0.0.1 does not protect the container from external access.
SQLite's virtual table API (https://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html) makes it possible to access other data structures through the query engine. You don't need to know much if anything about how the database engine executes queries, you only need to implement the callbacks it needs to do its job. A few years ago I wrote an extension to let me search through serialized Protobufs which were stored as blobs in a regular database.
> I rarely feel that bitchers have a true understanding for the extreme difficulty of the organization-wide problem Jira is trying to solve.
I think the problem is that Jira is optimized for productivity theater and top-down management.
When an organization deploys Jira it is usually because upper management thinks that it needs a deluge of task tracking so that everyone can stay perfectly "aligned" all the time.
This creates an annoying amount of make-work on the part of Engineers and their immediate managers, slows down velocity and the vast majority of the time spent on inputting data into Jira never results in anything actionable.
Don't forget making and mending your own clothes, washing them by hand, beating rugs outdoors by hand, all the little chores that have been replaced by electrical tools or are cheaper to purchase than make yourself. Harvesting and chopping firewood, or managing coal.
If you visit an Amish community, they might talk about how people occasionally want to join them, only to realize just how much easier modern life is and not be able to take the constant work required to live without.
I've always thought the statistics for average television time for Americans seemed inflated, but even given that they might be, it is still pretty wild in perspective.
