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Thanks. Amended my comment there, knew something about it felt off. Mostly just wanted to point out a cool and important tank :)

Taxation policy can be changed.

As a strategic matter, during wartime, the economic output of the entire country can be redirected to war efforts.

Relative economic output of different forces is a major determining factor in war outcomes.

The percentage of GDP during peace-time serves as an indicator of readiness for war.

It is worth noting that Sweden staved off the USSR during the cold war with this very cleverly designed tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSNNNMYmTKQ

This, after yesterday Microsoft's auth servers and other services went down. Are the citadels under attack?

Not exactly, but I do often find myself trying to imagine how I would react to being the person who discovered that thing.

Because you’re funded by investors who have been lied to about eventual automation.

Netflix delivered DVDs at a loss to build a brand and content licensing for their streaming service.

Good of them to do this thing to people’s credit cards, inside of a major economic crisis.

Google must be close to death! A business needs money to survive, don’tcha know.

The great firewall should work both ways, otherwise it encourages more selective censorship.

Soo what happens if someone reports this IMEI as stolen? Does it take down 15300 phones?

Look up Rajasthan architecture.

Have you tried the iOS 13 keyboard's built in swipe feature?

Are you aware of Swiftkey?

ASUSWRT is based on (and contributes to?) openWRT

Why does CC need to do this, but Office 365 and G Suite don't?

The Skype engineering team is an acquisition with relative autonomy, and is always making weird choices. Wouldn't take that too seriously.

Pretty happy with OneDrive for Mac these days. They've been investing in improving it, and it shows.

Go check out /r/office365, this is a fairly irrelevant question to this discussion.

I don't think the complaints are about office suite access, as that has a fallback in case of failed auth. It's more about IM/VOIP/email, OneDrive/SharePoint, Azure cloud, etc.

For some reason with the 1809 version of Windows, I've been able to run both Hyper-V and VMWare Workstation simultaneously. Never was able to do that before.

Anyway, I eventually switched for docker support, and used this powershell-based tool that converts VMWare workstation VMs to Hyper-V VMs - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=424...

Awaiting obligatory "go 2 considered harmful" YNews article.

Another Aussie here. Try 'very small business' for a laugh.

They're basically pushing people towards .net core (FLOSS) and VS Code (FLOSS), plus providing Visual Studio Community edition for free if you're making less than $2m/yr.

I wonder if the folks at medium ever expected this reaction from their product.

IE became abysmal because principled developers didn’t want to continue to work on it. It wasn’t always so.

So you disagree with the actual definition of a word? This is absolute nonsense. From a legal and a linguistic perspective, neutrality is well defined. Sometimes people just don’t want to hear your crap, and the particular flavour of crap is of no relevance. Sometimes people just do not wish to be disturbed. It’s not a power struggle, it’s basic human decency. It’s understanding that you don’t necessarily know what other people at work are going through, and it’s also none of your business.

Mortgage driven development - where the developer didn’t want to be there.

By definition, neutrality is not support of anything.

I wonder if I should collect a bunch of these...

Off the top of my head, I've observed:

- Resume Driven Development: wherein enterprise contractors and developers inject as many fad frameworks, architectures, and uncalled for features unnecessarily.

- Vendor Driven Development: wherein the application architecture is tie to a cloud solutions billing model as much as possible.

- Search Engine Driven Development: wherein the code is just a bunch of copy/pasted code that isn't really understood, and doesn't really work together coherently.

- Ignorance Driven Development: wherein a perfectly serviceable solution which is better in every way was not used, simply because the developer saw a problem and immediately went to code, without looking at how everyone else in the world solves the problem.

- Delusion Driven Development: wherein a completely useless application is beautifully crafted based on the obvious delusions of a manager or founder, which have successfully spread to the development team without any critical push-back or data to back the deluded assertions of the authority that has deemed the software necessary.

I'm pretty sure shutting down critical parts of acquired products is a major part of the problem.

And here are a hundred great examples of why you should: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMHUKij1yUE

In the shower. Realised I had committed an out by one error the previous night. Fixed it on my (waterproofish) phone.