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Yay... time to go check my Fidelity portfolio worth.

Seems like it's big on dividing money into "out in the open" or "with the government" and its movement between those two states?

Thank you for that explanation.

Do a lot of cardio exercise, every day; at least 30 minutes. Do it for a month (every day!) and then see how you feel. Often I believe our underlying physiology is the real driver of sentiments which we attribute to conceptual things. Being intelligent, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you can think your way out of anything. Sometimes thinking isn't the answer at all.

Just my 2c.

I agree. They worded that poorly, conflating mobile gaming and cloud gaming on mobile.

I made this point in another comment thread, but I think MS would make a competitor to Unreal/Unity instead. Think of all the game engine talent they now have. The IW engine for CoD, Halo’s slipspace, WoW. They could readily assemble a team to build an engine on par with Unreal.

Next headline: MS to acquire Epic Games? Tencent is in the way there.

Really, I could see them launching their own engine. Think of all the studios and talent they have now. They have the engines behind Halo, CoD, WoW, Overwatch. Could build an Unreal competitor.

I could see them launching an Android “SurfacePhone” just because (to have SOME stance in mobile). Or Windows-based since Windows already has an android subsystem (or emulator right?).

Wait… WHAT?! Wow. Incredible to follow up the Zenimax acquisition with this. Was just playing a game via cloud gaming yesterday and thinking about how smooth it was and how MS was set for the future with GamePass. Congratulations to the Xbox org and MS in general. Hope to move back out to Redmond soon… ;)

The democratization of information and discussion is invaluable really. Comes with downsides, which have to be addressed of course.

Seems like many bugs occur when programmers try to be clever unnecessarily. In this day and age, we don't really have to do tricks to save memory or time in application programs; it's just not worth it with modern silicon and compilers/runtimes. So many bugs could be avoided if people valued robust functionality with maybe a "boring" implementation over trivial applications of cleverness etc.

Beautiful and the essence of a liberal mind

I know. I'm mixed on this, but isn't it ultimate work-life separation?

Getting a little sci-fi here, but imagine not even knowing the names of your coworkers, project, manager, or even employer in the future; the system is so well-designed that you just have to do the little mission and there are communication channels minimally restricted to just the questions you'd have. Once such a system got up and running it would be the closest thing to a genuine "AI" or rather the more general case of an emergent intelligence; emergent since none of the actors are directly cooperating with the other actors, and hypothetically such a system could independently evolve and evolve with nobody at the steering wheel.

For an example of a compartmentalized operation, see CIA, NSA. I'm not saying these organizations are anything like what I described above. Just examples of highly compartmentalized work systems.

Anyways, just got me thinking ;)

Just to make a point, it's fine if something's audience is entirely composed of computer nerds or academics at first. After refinement it can gradually make its way into consumer world; e.g., the internet, the most successful distributed system.

God I hope it all dies. Deleted FB months ago. All feed "algorithms" are awful! Whether it's YT, Instagram; they give terrible recommendations/content. But, we all know what the algorithms are really optimizing for (it's what happens when you're the product in a service, not a true user).

Fair point. But again, that would be less of an issue if there were like 3 or 4 big search engines with different algorithms, all changing and adapting on their own schedules. Would be harder to game the system then.

Yeah… but why? You’re telling me what is the case currently but I’m wondering why the copper, fiber, and switches can’t be replaced by the 5G solution.

Why? There are undoubtedly wireless components to the infrastructure's network already. If everything could just beam to a single tower what's the issue?

So is this basically an alternative to lots of spread out WiFi routers? Like a university could get rid of all the routers in all the buildings and just have one or two of the "towers" Amazon would provide?

That's what everyone is missing. It's just to make a point... but people are taking it literally. He means "back to the basics"; e.g., plain text.

It's a good title because I laughed when I read it and it made me want to read the article.

Why would anyone build something like that in Perl? I could only see it being done “just because”. Wasn’t Perl specifically designed for the quickly code it once and not change it again case?

Love first principles stuff. Great job.

I know right. An immediate fix shouldn’t cost anything, right? Just don’t send social security numbers to the browser.

Exactly. Thank you nosy media. This anti-press stuff started with Trump. Terrifying how authoritarian the right has become.

Reporters, please continue “embarrassing” all states. The sane leaders and citizens will be thanking you.

I think the governor ought to resign. He’s taking something that is, ultimately, HIS fault and trying to pin it of course on “the media”. The SSN numbers were in the page; they were in the source code. “View source” is not decrypting a webpage. God, I know he just has no technical understanding but even then he should be smart enough to get the details and realize they weren’t “hacked”. This person clearly doesn’t understand what a free press is —- they could have legally ran the story without even alerting the state agency, but they did the right thing and this idiot governor is still trying to deflect blame.

“Hacked our system” — LOL. Nothing like our conservatives for a great laugh. What a moron.

Still, there's risk, right? If there were zero risk the bank would be unable to make any loans at all. It would just be like a safe.

Well, aren't you "loaning" the bank your money when you put it in an account? If everyone wanted to withdraw all the money from all their accounts at once the bank would be unable to pay; you get paid interest because you take on slight risk.

For the 2030 census race shouldn’t even be a question. You won’t get any actionable data.

"lisp..."

here we go again