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Is this for all brands under the VW auto group? Will we see Porsche bail on the capacitive screens for instance?

If the goal is to make money, you will make money. If the goal is to make quality software, you will make quality software. Sometimes those two goals are in alignment, most of the time they are at odds.

Not sure why there's a mystique over the "dark web", they're all still just websites, and suffer the same types of vulnerabilities.

At that point does the language become archived?

There's PLENTY of jank in Dark Souls, don't kid yourself.

> Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as addicted as possible and to play as long as possible to an extent that made the old school 90s RPGs grinds look tame and mild.

You do realize the term "quarter muncher" isn't a modern one right? We had plenty of those types meth-level-addiction games back in the early days of gaming too.

You've reinvented Spotlight and tab-grouping by encroaching on the entire content space w/ nested layers of UI elements? If you're targeting the MacOS platform, you may want to reconsider this approach.

And for music producers! Logic Pro is probably the best bang for the buck you buy right now as far as DAWs go.

Vista also introduced several crucial security features that were sorely needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_n...

Isn't Apple walking-back that whole Touch Bar fiasco now?

That money's not going to launder itself, what's confusing?

Not to mention it requires a cold-fill method of production. For acidified foods this is mostly okay, but hot-fill is the preferred method for keeping the bad stuff at bay and reducing the need for preservatives.

I much prefer the flavor of the Sriraja Panich brand you find in the Asian markets. But the squeeze-bottle packaging/pour of the Huy Fong stuff is definitely more convenient than the glass ketchup bottle style package Sriraja Panich comes in over here. I've never seen it in a squeeze bottle package like that second article shows.

Less commercialized for sure, and certainly not being entirely consumed by predatory data gathering tactics. Also, I can recall in the early 2000's being enamored with the idea of cheap, unlimited, and ubiquitous high-speed wireless replacing all terrestrial infrastructure. Sadly, ISPs have colluded to ensure that never becomes a reality. I guess I'm just mad at commercialization overall?

Music producer Andrew Huang does a fantastic job demonstrating the harmonic series concepts in a video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_kugSemfY

I don't feel the WFH pros/cons align perfectly with engineer/managers either. I know many managers who are very comfortable with managing a geo-distributed remote team. Mine in particular is quite good at it.

> What was a matter of just getting six people in a war room for a week and getting that hard problem done

As a person who at a previous job was often pulled into said "war rooms", we almost never "got that hard problem done", but we did always make management feel good about not being able to fully solve hard problems. Mostly these "huddle-work" scenarios created more problems (long term) than they solved, because people weren't motivated to solve the problem, they were motivated to leave the war room. I do my best work when I'm not constantly distracted by others, but many managers simply can't understand this and instead hamstring their employees by having "war rooms" and white-boarding sessions and stand-ups and deep-dives and all the other nonsensical ways of preventing people from actually focusing and accomplishing a task. Good riddance to the on-location office and all the hot garbo that comes with it; the rest of us will be quietly humming away, getting tasks done and solving major problems without such managerial hindrances.

Fees for what should be a standard feature in a few years? That sets an anti-consumer precedent. Hard pass

There's also sometimes quite egregious tax laws in place for this very reason. Many companies aren't willing to hire overseas as a result.

The word "unprecedented" is doing some heavy lifting in this article.

I don't know your age, but the fact that they're putting grab bars and foldable stair steps to get into a truck bed should tell you all you need to know about their practicality and incurrence of unnecessary back strain.

When you have to have specialized machinery to load/unload a vehicle, that makes it wholly impractical for personal use. This is what purpose-built moving equipment is for, not personal mobility vehicles.

Why? A pickup truck isn't a touring vehicle.

Practical?! Have you ever tried loading heavy objects into a truck bed that's 4.5 feet off the ground? There's literally no utilitarian use for them at this point even in agricultural settings, much less the urban and suburban landscapes where they typically plague. What ever happened to the small truck? Much easier to load, much less of a road hazard/nuisance.

For me it's the increasingly large size of all trucks which have made them hugely inconvenient, and frankly dangerous, to circumnavigate. You know how you feel when you get boxed in by a couple tractor trailers on the freeway? That's how everyone else in reasonably sized vehicles feels driving around your truck. There are way more blind spots involving the modern truck compared to other cars which present a danger to everyone else on the road, I don't care what kind of whizz-bang "safety" cameras you have. And you also create blind spots for everyone else who can't see around your absurdly bloated truck in places like parking lots and passing lanes.

It's a safety and practicality issue which goes beyond the "you don't need that" mentality, there's legitimate reasons for people to NOT like them.

If the USG isn't able to provide protection against ransomware attacks, what other choice is there? This is going to be a hard sell - especially when the USG continues to pay ransoms themselves. Oh they may call it other nonsense like "humanitarian aid" to try and save face, but they're ransoms. I'm not in favor of kicking the victim when they're down.

> Do you believe that it's alright for the NSA to conduct surveillance on foreign threats?

Whether anyone believes it's okay to do or not is irrelevant, the NSA is charged to conduct foreign intelligence surveillance by US law, and does so accordingly.

So Wyden's issue is the DoD is buying access to these data sets from private industry? I'm not sure there has been a court ruling declaring this practice to be illegal, and it might very well be legal depending on the dataset's coverage and what it's intended use would be. The DoD's OGC are not stupid when it comes to these sorts of matters, and surely they've had to weigh in on this collection point already. I guess this is why Wyden is trying to pass legislation for this practice to be illegal unless explicitly directed by court order to do so? I'm betting the DoD has already anticipated this and filters out the domestic traffic they don't care about prior to ingest - I think they have to do so by law anyway. So Congress can pass a law saying a court order is needed first to buy these communications datasets, but the FISC will continue to be a rubber stamp for the IC, and not at all the friction barrier the legislators are hoping for. This strikes me as posturing and nothing more.

Every automaker is investing in many many different alternative drive train types. Volvo and Daimler are not putting all their money on black per se, just diversifying their R&D like everyone. Porsche and Toyota for instance are dumping money into synthetic fuel, but it doesn't mean they're anticipating any sort of synthetic fuel boom, they're just trying to be ready if it happens. This isn't news.

Can this ruling then be applied to others who meet the same criteria? Because there's a lot of them.

Alphabet treats their toys much like a child does. They play with them for a few months, then quickly lose interest and let them languish until mom comes along and tosses them out. Why anyone would want to work there outside of their core product line is beyond me.