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In my experience they help a lot and that's why people (colleagues, family members, the mailman...) are so busy finding new ways to circumvent them.

Exactly. One React is bad enough, why do we need even more versions of it?

> It's probably no consolation that it doesn't seem to be as bad for most others.

I stopped using Coq after that course and moved to other interests, but I'm relatively happy to know that, if I ever need Coq again, the chances for it to be the same PITA I remember are pretty low.

I might not ever need it anymore, but it's a small consolation to know that I don't need to fear that possibility.

In my recollection (but I could have read it wrong the first time) it tied to the OS. It had those problem on Linux, but both Mac and Windows users were capable of running it without much hassle (although they did experience the occasional crash). Also, people running Arch had less problems than us running Debian. But I just wanted to pass the course and didn't spend much time debugging it, so it could have been another thing (just a couple of ideas from the top of my head: library versions, conflicts with other running programs, some compiler weirdness...)

As I said before, it was mostly because it used to crash a lot for weird reasons (I think it didn't really like something in my laptop's memory) and the only explanations I ever got were in French.

If they finally finished translating the documentation and the errors (or fixed whatever memory weirdness was affecting my version) it wouldn't be so bad. I'd still hate it from the countless sleepless night trying to get it start again before the weekly assignment's deadline, though.

It was about 4 or 5 years ago, when I was in grad school.

The main problem I had with it is that it kept crashing or failing for misterious reason and it just printed out some obscure French error message (which I was forced to pass through Google Translate, since nobody in the whole class could speak French). This only happened for the most obscure errors, while the more common and easy to spot ones (logical errors, typos...) were well documented in English.

Also a lot of useful parts of the manual (and the community posts around it) were written in French.

I don't think it's really inferior to other tools, but the bad documentation and tendency to crash (which I hope had been fixed by now, TBH) got on my nerves.

I've never hated a piece of software with the same burning passion I reserve for Coq, but I'm happy to see they are still around releasing new way to brutalize the mind of the unprepared.

> what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with?

Honestly, none. It's their business and they can handle it however they want.

What you can do (and this is exactly what Kolmisoppi was suggesting) is build your platform to work without relying on other people's business.

I'm happy that companies like Amazon don't want to get associated with people who organized a failed coup. That should be the bare minimum. But there is no law which forces you to be hosted on Amazon if you want to be on the Internet. You can self-host. You can buy/rent servers in another country, where what you are doing doesn't have direct consequences which might lead people to want to get away from you. Use the blockchain, use torrent, develop your own P2P protocol. Those people just got locked out from the easy way, something they should have expected to happen (and plan for) since day one.

They used sequential integer, which means it wasn't even security through obscurity. There wasn't any form of security. Not even a post it with "please don't hack me".

With a browser and enough time at hand even my grandfather could have dumped their whole DB.

To get verified you had to post a scan of your driving license or another document, which was then stored in Parler's database. After all that happened (and even before 6/1 it was clear that Parler was being closely watched by a lot of three letter agencies), it was clearly a honeypot.

I was moved, quite against my will, into the Mac field three years ago, by the company I was working for. It didn't start as my cup of tea, but I eventually got used to it. Hell, I even started enjoying using my MBP. It checked the right boxes in my list.

Since Catalina, it doesn't anymore. Or, at least it doesn't check as much boxes as it used to. And, frankly, it's not worth the cost anymore. I could justify the expense for an used 2015 MBP, which felt like a slick and comfortable machine. Can I justify the expense for another Mac, now that it feels distinctly uncomfortable?

Most news outlets used to have RSS feeds which, once upon a time before it was removed from a lot of big websites (such as news outlets), allowed lots of people to get a feed of what was published. It worked for a lot of years and, if kept up and published, it could probably have given Twitter a run for its money. You could share the feeds you followed or even build public feeds from that (there are stil a bunch of them, mostly named after planets, for very niche things), so you could have a network effect.

Twitter doesn't have a paid service for users (it has paid access to their API, just in case somebody on this site still had doubts about what really is their core business), I was just making a (probably poorly phrased) example.

Exactly. The NYPost (or basically any news outlet and their readers) became dependent on Twitter on their own choice (or on their own laziness), and one of the consequences of being dependent on an external platform for your traffic is that you are subject to their contract. If you don't like the rules, you find or build another platform (and put in the money and effort to make it work).

This is basically the NYPost crying because it wants free stuff with no strings attached.

GDPR doesn't care about storage. Even if you just acquired personal information without processing it, you still had to be GDPR compliant.

In fact, the solution suggested above (only using a truncated IP address) would still require you to acquire and process the IP address and thus be subject to GDPR.

It might work, but this is definitely not the life I want to live.

There are lots of things I value more than career (family, friends, my dog, my hobbies...) and I'm not going to sacrifice them to land a shiny hip job. In fact, 9-to-5 suits me well.

That's why they read your email, to protect you!

It's not completely a waste of time. Animal research is extremely expensive in terms of time, man hours and money[1]. Whatever shortcut you can take to detect ineffective treatments before reaching this stage is arguably going to cost you more time and money than raising a colony of rats for testing your hypothesis out.

[1]: I own 4 (once 5) pet rats. They are only a small colony and, while I love them, I don't keep them at lab standards (for example, I don't a vet sleeping on the couch 24/7 in case of emergencies), yet, in a bad month, I could end up with spending 1000+$ for their health. Now, imagine that for the health standard of lab rats/mice and the numbers required for research.

After working on a monorepo and then the split up repos for the same codebase, I cannot fathom why somebody would want to take small repos and merge them in a single repo. The mess and complexity just increase.

Northern Italian here, from the fringes of the first red zone. Basically the two areas which where hit hardest, Bergamo and Codogno, where hit along political lines.

Codogno has an "hospital" which is basically a glorified asylum (and is often considered one of the worst asylum in Italy). It was not equipped to deal with anything serious and basically it was considered and hospital only in order to avoid spending money on other infrastructures.

Bergamo, on the other hand, is one of the economical centers of the country and the regional government delayed action under the pressure of the industrial establishment, until national government stepped in.

Many citizens of Lombardy knew that our healthcare system (which is regional competence) was a disaster waiting to happen and still suspect our regional government is lying in order to cover their failures.

The mugs are not cheap. And then you have to pay for storage and shipping. Mugs are a costly business.

Oh, and don't forget all the nice paper for the notes.

They keep giving you the mug budget even after training?

This sounds like spy training from Burn Notice. Like, you have to get the source code of this program, from a guy who isn't at home right now and the whole budget of the operation is a just enough to buy a mug from our gift shop. Good luck Dave!

I'd like to see them try. To sell this kind of critical equipment to Italian hospitals you have to guarantee there will be no shortages even (especially) in critical conditions. They failed to uphold their part of the bargain with the country and at this moment both the government and the people are very short on patience. Probably, if they even try to sue the volunteers they are going to lose all their contracts with Italian hospitals in a matter of days.

> For somebody who is a high escape, high assassination or generally high risk

I don't know if it still in use, but Italy had at least a bunker court for mafia trials which could withstand even missile attacks. In case of high risk targets, I feel it would be better to ensure the safety of every person inside the court, instead of enclosing just one person inside a box which could still be opened, after spilling enough blood.

To me, it seems the glass box is used only for the psychological effect and justified with the security concerns.

I did, but it keeps reverting back to what it thinks it learned from my driving habits. Somehow, it doesn't seem to realize that I leave every morning from the same address and get back to it every evening.

Probably, getting rid of toxic management helped at least a little in increasing productivity.

Even if you keep track of location history, Google can get it wrong anyway (I know, because I gave up the idea of having my home address in Google Maps a year ago - it doesn't seem to learn that I've moved out, even after updating my address in Google Pay).

They still have nearly 10k employees and are a big, affluent company. None of their project should be a one-man project, but, even if it were, they should still be able to find enough engineers to work on it in case of emergencies.

If it can be done by a small startup with a total of 3 devs in the entire company (and I have seen it done), it can be done by a company the size of Citrix.

> sending footage off to a remote location (possibly diff country) to process the file for faces is a trivial side step

That's probably a break of the GDPR so it will still be against EU law and they are taking the GDPR pretty much seriously, so getting caught is going to be a real risk.

I'm sure there will be at least some attempts, but the legal framework to stop those exists.

I think it's a slip on the Spanish version, the Italian one[] states that without access to your GPS position it's not possible to configure the speakers. Plus, I was forced to use it a couple of months ago in Europe and I remember I had to allow location access to continue.

[] https://support.sonos.com/s/article/3092?language=it