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That's not how I recall it.

> The first version of Compiz was released as free software by Novell (SUSE) in January 2006

> Build 5048 (built on April 1, 2005) was the official WinHEC 2005 preview build, ... The Aero visual style made its first appearance in this build

Sure, technically Compiz was released before since the official Vista release date was Nov 2006, but work on Compiz started AFTER Aero was shown.

By your definition Subways aren't sandwiches.

One cell type (prokaryote, tiny) is not like the other (eukaryote, huge)

In the past it was acceptable to lose thousands of soldiers in a battle. So nobody cared if some guerilla ambushed and killed a squadron.

Today if you lose 10 soldiers in a day the President is on TV.

> why are the particle counts about an order-of-magnitude higher for Voyager 2 then they were for Voyager 1 in interstellar space

Better detector? Those are detected particle counts

Why is it that when the right wants to reduce taxes, which is a popular move, they are called "populists", but when the left wants to increase social spending, which is also a popular move, they are not?

Wikipedia definition:

> Populism is a range of political approaches that deliberately appeal to "the people," often juxtaposing this group against a so-called "elite."

Kind of fits the definition, this article itself says it wants to go after the elite: big tech companies and rich people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

Downvoters: hit a nerve, eh?

Many are switching from the Sublime Text they paid for to the free VS Code.

Not an expert, but if it were cheaper, some other company would appear which would buy from the US exporter and sell back to the US importer, avoiding oil going outside the country.

The oil markets are some of the biggest and most efficient in the world, so there must be a reason for this.

Just try to enable Do Not Track in Chrome. See the scary long warning you need to accept. It makes you think you are going to get hacked or something if you accept it. You also need to click the "Confirm" button, which typically is reserved for serious stuff that has real effects.

> Enabling "Do Not Track" means that a request will be included with your browsing traffic. Any effect depends on whether a website responds to the request, and how the request is interpreted. For example, some websites may respond to this request by showing you ads that aren't based on other websites you've visited. Many websites will still collect and use your browsing data - for example to improve security, to provide content, services, ads and recommendations on their websites, and to generate reporting statistics.

No other privacy setting has such a scary warning.

Yeah, because we all know that your average user default position is "sure, track me however you want". Just like their default is "sure, scam me however you want", because they didn't explicitly check a "Do Not Scam Me" checkbox.

You are 0.0001% representative of the population. You will be tracked by metadata absence. There are a couple articles about terrorists/spies tracked through data patterns generated when the closed their usual phone and switched to a burner one.

Even if you pay cash, your transactions can still be tracked, because your face will be on the cash register camera.

Public transport has cameras inside too.

It's just a matter of time until the computing power and software to analyze all this video will be everywhere.

> everybody should have a right to wear a mask everywhere without getting discriminated.

It's a losing game. They will track you with your mask on from the moment you leave your house, your phone, your credit card, your gait, your car... It's like a super cookie, if you don't delete all the 10 places it was stored, a single missed one will be enough to regenerate it.

Total citizen surveillance is coming, everyone's location history will be in a database and kept for years, just like phone call metadata.

> If consent is not given then that can not bar you from service.

But they probably can increase the price to cover "administrative costs/..."

In airplanes the pilot is never watching a movie on the phone while the autopilot is engaged.

Do you think it's a coincidence that some of the most used and loved desktop applications lately are written in JS/HTML? import_pkt_ws_btc_deribit_v2.py Could it be that it's extremely hard to do these kind of applications in traditional GUI frameworks?

What is better? Having GCC/Clang/MSVC or having a single C/C++ compiler people/companies contribute to?

This work is unethical. Those people never approved for their privacy to be violated in such a flagrant way.

Would you approve researchers from 100 years in the future using facial recognition to identify and shame meat-eating bastards from today, such as you or your friends, such that for example your work and legacy to be de-platformed?

> I paid for sublime so i will use it -- and multiple cursors everywhere is a boon for quick and dirty data munging

These days pretty much every serious editor has multiple cursors, including Visual Studio Code.

This article is great in explaining why modern javascript development is so complicated, with so many tools (webpack, babel, ...), and why it all makes sense:

https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-...

DO they also inspect the hundreds of npm packages an extension might use?

WPF is dead. Microsoft is rewriting some of it's apps which used to be native in Electron - OneDrive, Visual Studio Installer,...

We would also stop having any new software. Do you really want all software to cost $1 million per line like NASA software?

Do you want the high school kid in his bedroom to go to prison because he wrote a "site" and his friends data got leaked?

Does anybody buy a phone/car/... based on manufacturer ads? In a sense this is a self-selecting scam. If you don't check 3rd party reviews, then well, you get "advertised"