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Or, you know, taking into account the stupid things Musl does like not having TCP DNS fallback.

I’m only half joking. Features detection in Musl is a generally pain. I don’t blame developers for sometimes taking the path of least resistance and not trying to support it.

This reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015. The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero, the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics were quite interesting to witness. It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

For all the good things Musl does, its authors can often be downright ridiculous out of a dogmatism which is very unpleasant to deal with as a user. See also their stubborn refusal to give you an easy way to detect that the libc is Musl while compiling.

The main issue is not that the Republicans pretend they barely care about the environment and I’m not here to defend the awful bilan of the Republican party. The issue is that despite a lot of posturing amongst some of them the Democrats do exactly the same thing when they are in power. For all his worries, the US went from producing less and less oil to the world first producer while Obama was president, something he actually takes credit for.

> It will make humanity even more efficient and give us even more space to grow, but the biosphere will still be in trouble and all that clean energy will make people consume even more of earth's resources.

The global population will soon be contracting. The UN puts the bump somewhere at the end of the century but their hypothesis are completely crazy and most specialists think it will be sooner.

This isn’t a left vs right issue especially in an American context where the left is basically center right and has entirely abandoned its historical ideas in favour of other fights. The left has been entirely as bad as the right when it comes to the environment.

The only country which benefited from the Euro is Germany and they had the audacity to not only refuse the fiscal policies and transfers which might have made that fair but actually undermine the most affected countries like Greece even more. I personally lost all hope for the union after the debt crisis and considering the state of politics and denial of reality in the north of Europe, I really wish we would just leave too. I’m sad we lost the open border with the UK however, genuinely love the country but I’m not sure the rest of the EU is worth it.

Genuine question, what exactly is the security problem here?

It’s a set of basic techniques to find where a photo was taken. I have a hard time envisioning an actual new issue here.

Obviously, people shouldn’t post pictures of things they don’t want other people to see or know (like where you live if you don’t want people to know that) but that was already true before people could easily mine Openstreet map data.

> The U.S. population is still growing, which of course may be lag, but can also be caused by immigration.

Indeed which is why I specifically talked of fertility as immigration is a thing. Irrelevant on a global level obviously.

> I expect poorer countries to continue to be baby factories indefinitely.

Highly unlikely. Fertility is getting lower everywhere. In all likelihood Africa will go the same way as South Asia as women education and access to contraception rise and children mortality rates drop. It’s already started.

Or we could, you know, cap the amount of sugar in products by law or introduce a tax on added sugar. Just seems simpler. Plus it’s working in the EU.

You are 30 years late. The world at large didn’t wait for you. Fertility has been declining worldwide for decades and been subreplacement in the USA and Europe for quite sometimes. South East Asia and Africa are slowly getting there too. Population is only an issue because of demographic lag. It’s already sorted out. We just have to pass the bump.

China growth rivals Japan before stagflation and this despite not benefiting from major help from foreign countries. I am not too fond of their regime but I don’t understand the comment I read here.

If you compare China to its direct neighbour with a similar population, India, you clearly see that they were far more adept at developing their economy. There is a reason the article focus on the diaspora. That’s because the situation inside the country is not that rosy.

I think American have a very biased view of China due to the strong anti-Chinese propaganda going on in your media.

I think the parent comment was strictly limited to the USA which China views as an adversary and not a partner. Anyone who has travelled a bit in Africa, South East Asia or the Balkans in the past decade could tell that the influence of China is far larger than that of India and does rival the US in more and more places.

The Chinese diplomacy is very very good and hard working. Their diplomats are constantly travelling and that includes both major and small countries.

Yes, you are right. I was confused by what I read as they started offering a free preview in December 2015 and was convinced they released at the same time they did their serie A.

> Please man, use your brain at least a little bit.

Thank you for being condescending. If you expected being a bully might shield you from tearing apart your argument you will be very disappointed.

15 people is a lot closer to two than to Adobe which is the point of my comment you entirely fail to grasp.

Every companies taking out a large companies is an outlier by definition. It doesn’t mean they don’t exist and remains a clear counterexample to your extremely wrong original opinion.

This discussion is finished as far as I’m concerned by the way. You have clearly demonstrated you are not worth talking to. I will let you massage your fragile ego by yourself.

Well Figma started eating their lunch in 2015 having started with a 4 millions seed round and 15 employees for two years so it’s clearly is doable to take on Adobe with far less money that they themselves spend provided your offer is good.

That’s not comparable and you know it. Spotify offers to you is a software and a subscription to their music catalogue. The music is content. The different pieces of software in Office 365 are not. They all do widely different things. You could argue that word, excel and PowerPoint somehow go together if you squint hard enough (I don’t and don’t think they should be bundled either) but Teams does something entirely different and was only brought there for opportunistic reasons (as does Outlook actually).

> then I doubt many SaaS would be in business if every customer would just choose only the specific pieces that they need and not get everything as a bundle.

Maybe the issue is the SaaS business model then. But somehow I doubt it because Slack managed fine because Microsoft started unfairly undercutting them.

I think you are involuntarily given a great exemple against the point you are trying to make.

WhatsApp is the de facto default messenger even on iOS and despite having to go the AppStore to install it in most of Europe and South America.

The situation has a lot to do with Android not bundling a default messenger. So yes, competition authorities are very much right to be investigating bundling. It’s a real attack against free and fair competition.

Plus it’s not like you are not actually paying for Teams in your subscription. Actually you are even if you don’t use it which is silly. Products should be sold by themselves with a proper price tag.

> I doubt that most people get 100 uses from cheap cloth bags.

Cloth bags are impossible to destroy, light, easy to repair and easy to clean.

I would be surprised if anyone gets less than 100 uses out of them.

I also have reusable plastic bags but they are a lot more annoying to use and store.

I think you are missing the point here. The only even prime is 2. The only prime ending with a 5 is 5.

The last digit of a prime bigger than 5 can only be 1, 3, 7 and 9.

The track record in other industry is that it might make things more expensive at first then back to affordable once the engineering solutions have matured. There is a clear incentive for companies in making things cheaper after all. It means both more profits and access to new market segments. That’s the magic of legislation: it can be very effective as a tool to give a direction to research and development.

Controversial opinion but I still deeply believe that any building tools offering a “latest” option in its build configuration file and not as an option to update said file is doing something deeply wrong and just poorly designed. Everything pooled from outside should be using a checksum.

People want and need the ability to pin their environment. If you want to avoid silly surprises when going to production or through your CI system, you need everything to be identical: same versions, same configuration. Tooling should help you do that not introduce new way to shoot you in the foot.

> Someone have to pay for the ongoing support.

It’s a question of incentive. Right now, supporting software is costly for a long time because very little attention is given to making software maintenance cheap.

That’s why it’s reasonable to force company to offer long term support after sells. It means they will have to design software so that it remains viable with a minimum of changes for a long time. Things that don’t make sense today because of their costs like formally proving code and design suddenly become important and as there is an incentive to make it cheaper to be competitive we should see new investments in this field which is currently quite neglected.

Overall it’s a net gain for all of us. In exchange for marginally more expensive computers for a bit (or less profits if that’s how companies want to compete), we will end up with safer more robust software and longer lived appliances.

It would be a major step in the right direction. As someone trained as an engineer, I still think that the software industry tolerance for subpar under-engineered and tested solutions is shameful.

No, “de” in French has the same meaning as “of” and sounds exactly as weird here. That’s clearly not where this comes from. Also the translation of string with this meaning is “chaîne de caractères”.

I migrated a project from clearcase to git at my first company and for all the hate I have for clearcase even I agree there was little point in switching to something else before. We had a bit of svn on other part of the company but that was it.

VCS don’t change that fast. All the tools you list before the advent of DVCS actually have a lot in common. I think git will be there for some time.

Because you think the US managed to get above shooting each other? Ah, my sweet summer child. Enjoy your mostly empty continent surrounded by oceans and the quirk of history who briefly put you were you are. It’s unlikely to last long.

The American point of view is that people are American when it allows Americans to keep to their narrow minded patriotism and aren’t when it doesn’t suit it.

There definitely is. I don’t think it’s impossible at all. That’s what I meant by: “The potential is definitely there”. But mismanagement until it is too late is definitely a risk. The country should be able to solve that with some imports provided it wants to.

It’s not an either/or situation. Most of the Big Oil companies have significant investments in renewable power. It’s just that oil is insanely profitable, to a point which is hard to grasp so it dwarfs whatever else they do.

I expect the trend to continue and get worse. India is on the verge of having serious issue with its food supply. To keep its share of importation stable, given the current population growth, the country needs its production to grow by 20% (by weight) in the next 25 years. That’s basically a bit more than 1% a year. The potential is definitely there but as far as I know the growth has been slightly under target for the past few years. I fully expect imports to rise and exports to be banned more and more often for the foreseeable future. Famine is unlikely but definitely a risk.