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narism··on Elastic adds license checks to Logstash / Beats 7.13
It sounds like you will not be able use the elasticsearch output with previous versions of ES or forks like OpenSearch.

See also: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/25351 https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/breaki...

narism··on Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
Not a direct result, more like the banks don’t want/care about international customers (due to the laws), so they don’t bother publishing to different regions of the App Store.
narism··on The End of Retirement (2014)
That would be Lee Atwater talking about the Southern Strategy: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...
narism··on Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards
They have been going the other way recently: Titan V ($3000) -> Titan RTX ($2500) -> RTX 3090 ($1500). The 3090 beats the Titan RTX in double precision and is close to 2x in single precision.
narism··on Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
That sucks but what does it have to do with "consumers who haven't been wronged abuse them"? Especially in the context of "Apple support, that allows me to return in few clicks game I didn’t like, subscription that didn’t offer what it promised and other services I was dissatisfied with".

I guess my point is that App Store metrics (total revenue, subscription revenue, average revenue per user, etc) continues to grow and maintain their lead over Google Play so the chilling effect can't be too bad.

narism··on Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
Is there evidence of this chilling effect in action on the App Store? What’s the restock overhead for returning a digital game?
narism··on Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad
I think this has more just the consequences of international law (particularly the US being all up in your business via FATCA to the point of Japanese banks not wanting to even bother if you are a US citizen). It seems better than the Android situation where you either have to wait a _year_ between switching countries on your account or find the APK (y’know, for your _banking_ app) on some shady site.
narism··on What Happens to Stocks and Cryptocurrencies When the Fed Stops Raining Money?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
narism··on A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
> If there really is only one mic someone has sold their soul. The sound stage is perfect.

“Note: The secret of the 418-S is that it's two mics in one; a cardioid "mid" condenser capsule facing front, and a bidirectional capsule focused on either "side." It's a mid/side stereo mic that needs to be decoded in post, which allows you to control the stereo width of the image, even after the recording is made.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/04/02/705579879/t...

narism··on PEP 563, PEP 649 and the future of pydantic and FastAPI
Rip off?

They explicitly say it’s based on starlette (along with why you might want to use FastAPI instead): https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/alternatives/#starlette

narism··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
They could be paying Elastic for gold/plat/etc licenses on their self hosted instances or “self hosted, some cloud” could mean they run mostly self hosted with some Elastic cloud usage.
narism··on 34% of remote workers would quit rather than return to full-time office work
Gitlab has some good stuff about this in their handbook. You have to be really intentional about this kind of informal meeting that otherwise happens naturally in an in-person situation.

https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/informal...

narism··on Docker as an Integrated Development Environment (2019)
We do the same thing but I wouldn’t call it a nightmare /hassle. It’s exactly one helper script to start up the container with the right volumes and a few aliases to make commands (ansible / ansible-playbook / etc) work seamlessly. Some good tips here: https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/run-more-stuff-in-doc...
narism··on Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
Also plays a role in another of his books, Anathem.
narism··on Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims
Nothing quite so dramatic. The US political system is rife with bribery/bribery-adjacent (ex: lobbying) activity and they are saying both sides have been influenced by this. For examples, see the 1996 Clinton campaign finance investigations and donations to Jeb Bush’s Super PAC. There is likely a lot more out there that we don’t know about hidden through donations funneled through non-profits.
narism··on Linux touchpad like a Mac update: Firefox gesture support live in nightly
Get a split keyboard (ergodox/kinesis/etc) and put the trackpad in the middle?
narism··on AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green
Isn’t this just an example of Conway’s law? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
narism··on Indian government blocks access to forty-three mobile apps
What? The US basically wrote the Japanese constitution and Syngman Rhee was elected largely based on the backing of occupation forces.
narism··on To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups are divided
> created "family separation" under Obama

Source for this claim?

Here’s mine: https://www.factcheck.org/2018/06/did-the-obama-administrati...

narism··on I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
There are switches that use the kinetic energy of the button push to work. No batteries, no wires.

https://www.enocean.com/en/products/enocean_modules_24ghz/

narism··on 76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space
I think social status signaling still carries over in the age of remote:

CEO (high status) - well lit, high quality camera view of a spacious home with tasteful artwork.

Peon (low status) - dark, lit from above view from a webcam aimed up their nose and background replacement to keep people from seeing the closet they are working from.

narism··on Dear Search Guard Users
The code is still there even if the commit isn't: https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security-adv...
narism··on How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better
To the untrained eyes, it may appear that there is no where to throw trash away in Tokyo. This is because the Japanese have cleverly disguised the trash cans as vending machines (PET bottles/aluminum cans) and convenience stores (other garbage).
narism··on Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths
The Nvidia GPU fiasco shows that you can still have problems even if the component doesn't have anywhere to go.
narism··on Microsoft analyzes over a million PC failures, results shatter enthusiast myths
Windows will write out a minidump to disk when it kernel panics and report it to MS later when it's back online.
narism··on Hidden features of C#
In this case, the handle gets closed even if an exception is thrown.
narism··on Amazon Builds World’s Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
There are already a number of services that offer on-demand rendering so I assume studios that take on jobs too large for their current farm are already using them. Where I work we often use spare workstations (rendering is a fraction of our workforce) on off hours to process large jobs but have been looking at EC2 options for a while. If there were a service that provided a ready to go solution on EC2 for 3dsmax/Vray, I'd have to take a close look at it.
narism··on What it costs to live in Japan
From my experience in the Tokyo area, the cleaning/restoration fee is negotiable if: -you haven't put money down -The contract doesn't stipulate it directly -you're willing to play hardball

At our last place, we just cleaned the apartment ourselves after moving out. While moving out, we found some serious water damage underneath a bookcase that hadn't been moved for two years (probably due to the wood flooring having been installed directly on the concrete). He quoted us a price to fix it and we talked it over. My SO said we didn't really have to pay any of it, but it's usual to pay about half of what they quote. Of course, this could mean they just pre-inflate their prices by 2x.

narism··on Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
Chrome supports SSO with NTLM/Negotiate. On Windows it will even automatically turn on SSO for sites in your Local Intranet security zone, which is much smoother than the Firefox about:config, network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris method.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-aut...

narism··on Why Some Languages Sound Faster Than Others
Yeah, maybe not the best example because it's sort of a repetition of oku, meaning put it there (implied:so I can do something with it in the future). It just stuck in my head because I had heard it conversationally before I learned it in class and had a ding lightbulb moment.

Maybe a better example of ~teoite->~toite shortening is aketeoite (proper, 6 syllables), meaning open it (for some future purpose) -> aketoite (spoken/casual, 5 syllables)?

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