james412

Their food is hardly amazing, but it is wonderfully consistent. Truly hope they survive and flourish once more, London simply would not be the same without them

You need to pay attention to the silent positioning of these companies to even guess at where they might go, so deals with things like archive.org may have some unseen substance to them that might only become obvious much later

Never forget Dejanews

It's a piece of software, it has a design that is either fit for purpose or not. When ego becomes entangled in that design process, it's a strong indicator of the kind of experience one might have trying to get fixes or enhancements merged, or even the kind of attitude you'd find when attempting to report a bug.

Autocomplete function, dropdown menu JS, 10kb max

Considering this page is viewed by millions, and doesn't even contain the logic to render search results

Google search is a huge dog

Somehow I thought physics was meant to be a little more precise than this

(FWIW, spoken as someone who spent many months wardialling by hand and poking around as the rest of the household slept during his school days)

Stealing a worker for up to 6 hours likely running on real Apple hardware because that's how OS X is licensed, man, there are no words. Free CI is difficult enough to supply as it is without freeloaders tying up a limited pool of workers because they're too lazy to run something locally

If he could talk lucidly about things like HTML I'd think that lent more credence to the possibility he didn't have a clue about hydrogen

edit: for the downvoters, if you haven't seen one of these "bear thesis" articles before, understand you must do at least as much homework as the bear claims to have done before accepting anything you read. Of course Nikola is a dodgy company, but it's also a social phenomenon. That's the value in it for the likes of GM, and also for the average investor -- including the professionals. At one stage YouTube was the largest video piracy company on the planet before a larger company swallowed them up and cut deals to legitimize what they'd done. Meanwhile, everyone knew the brand. You can consider what's happening here to be something roughly comparable

That's not /the/ reason why a MAC address is involved. It's because that's the address for a physical device at a lower layer in the stack. As others mention, IP is media-independent, it cannot depend on a lower tier addressing scheme without becoming fused to that medium

better article: https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/future-of-investing-t...

I can't even begin to wrap my head around the infrastructure you'd need to handle this much daily traffic, considering it'll almost definitely be stored longer term, never mind how you'd go about querying it in any sensible manner. It's something upwards of 100 million trades per day

Much like as an investor you'd think twice before purchasing an OTCBB share today, or perhaps 30 years ago pay more attention to the difference in listing requirements between Nasdaq and NYSE, I think that's what's intended here

It must be in the kernel. Else implementations of stuff with human-derived semantics should move out of the kernel, but moving SMB into userspace would of course be ridiculous

So it complicates any mapping of filenames to data structures in the kernel (all 3 of them?), big deal. Every popular desktop operating system supports it, and basically the only reason Linux does not is a mixture of FUD and fear that we may need to update the code at some point due to changes in human culture, the horror!

Meanwhile, typing "cd music" in a terminal need not print "Command not found" when there is clearly a folder named "Music", like the $3k worth of gear in front of me had the complexity of some 1950s b-movie scifi robot

This hasn't been true since the days of CP/M

The principal question is whether the tool is more important, or the end user. Why did I pay for this machine if it weren't intended to facilitate me? That's the bottom line with most of these kinds of technical "correctness" arguments

And as for whether userspace should catch up, thanks to OS X for the most part that already happened a long time ago for a ton of open source packages

In the case of growth companies, it's definitely not a talent thing, the American financial system has a well developed pipeline for growing ideas and providing endless access to capital. Europe simply doesn't have that. We don't even have consolidated pricing for our stock markets, even after many decades under the EU, something the US has had since 1976. It's a joke, and no surprise all eyes are on and money flows into the US for speculative investment

It's not like letting them gather logs on my computers updating would be terrible somehow, but if it's so easy to avoid donating more logs and more dependence on them, why not do it for the sake of preserving diversity?

Growing companies often exhibit a long term pattern that usually seems innocent at first manifestation:

- Offer something for free

- Become hugely popular at offering that free thing

- Alternatives slowly dwindle in popularity and/or begin to die off

- User 'choice' increasingly becomes concentrated in that single option

- Company introduces surprising policy change, but users can switch to an alternative if they don't like it

- Company introduces differentiating functionality setting its option apart from the alternatives.

- Users grow additional dependence on the new functionality, alternatives look increasingly obsolete

- Company becomes increasingly aggressive at introducing changes, as they now own the primary alternative

It's hard to imagine CloudFlare are somehow going to monopolize package management :) But nonetheless, free services like this generally signal the beginning of this pattern

At some point I'm sure e.g. DejaNews seemed like an innocent dependency, and that attempting to look far ahead into the future would not have revealed its eventual sale to Google and the loss of the only comprehensive archive of the early Internet community in existence.

Turns out it was Files not Photos

- Chrome: privacy related, not necessarily garbage, but if the OS were Chinese we'd effortlessly call Chrome's behaviours spyware. I use Firefox

- Photos: random single-touch dialogs offering to enable sync. This is upsell and another opt-in data grab. Also the source of the aforementioned ITS 4AM WAKE UP AND HAVE A DELETE MEME PARTY notification. I use f-spot but I'm not a huge fan of it

- Messages: can't remember. Probably another notification thrown up without warning. I use Pulse now

- Maps: where to even begin? The app has about one UI element left that actually relates to navigation and the rest is some disguised Google Shopping link. I use the paid version of OsmAnd where possible

- Gmail/Accounts: phone book data-grab. I use Outlook

- Gboard: still using this. Still very aware its forwarding my keystrokes to the mothership for "contextual prediction" or whatever you call it. If Gboard were published by TikTok rather than Google we'd have sent some folk to the electric chair over it already

- Play Services: mandatory back channel to the mothership with root access on your phone. Can wake it up, force install something that listens to you, or update itself to force you to click on WHO adverts^W^W^W^W participate in informational and beneficial COVID-19 contact tracing, so much more

Probably forgotten quite a bit. Mandatory Games app IIRC? That would have been disabled on the first day

Or perhaps you're one of the lucky few who haven't been woken at 4am to an urgent notification:

"YOUR PHONE HAS TOO MANY MEMES. WOULD YOU LIKE TO DELETE MEMES?"

Prohibitions on bloatware, my arse!