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Not to mention it takes years to build these fabs. Do they think the automotive industry will use the same chips forever?

Thanks!

So what are the benefits to using Tauri over Electron? Are app sizes smaller? Is the memory footprint smaller?

Document display and document editing are rather different tasks. The DOM was built for the display of static documents. Dynamism was slowly added over the years through JS, and eventually CSS (animations, transformations, etc). But the underlying purpose of the browser rendering engine has remained the same, which is to display static documents. It's not surprising that a client built from the ground up around the concept of displaying static documents doesn't do a good job of allowing users to edit documents in a WYSIWYG kind of way. That has never been its job!

Absolutely. I'd kill to be able to use Discord for work. It's just silly how much better it is than Teams, Zoom, WebEx, etc.

It was an Executive Order that compelled this, not contracts.

Serious question: Has anyone ever been jailed for publicly saying they've closed a short position but not actually closing it all?

Is it equally illegal to say on CNBC that you closed it out, but to email your investors and tell them you didn't?

Is the legal issue that you're misleading your investors or that you're manipulating the market? Both?

He was intentionally continuing to fan the flames of insurrection using specific lies about the status of the election, while at the same time pretending to ask them to peacefully disperse.

This seems pretty obvious?

That is the thing that has always stuck out to me. The books are a master class on language. And, interestingly, the intricate language added a certain texture to the story that I haven't often encountered elsewhere. It made the story almost... slippery? As though I could see the shape and outline of the story, but the real specifics were left for my mind to fill in.

A bit hard to explain, but not something I've experienced to the same degree outside of Wolfe.

Feels like the solution here is to pay income taxes instead of property taxes. ;)

Ballsy, I love it. Hopefully it can be used as evidence in any antitrust actions against Apple, in the US or abroad. It's clear that Apple's behavior negatively impacts consumer pricing.

Nonsense. The App Store is the Store. For god's sake, it's literally called a store. This couldn't be clearer.

You don't need to muddy the waters by making a ridiculous analogy that somehow equates a computer to a membership card (of all things!).

The computer is a computer. Full stop. There is a store on the computer. There should be other stores on the computer but they're not allowed because the people that make the computer are partaking in anti-competitive, anti-consumer shenanigans.

And customers aren't required to only shop at a single store. If the store doesn't have what I want, I should be able to go to another store.

If you can do anything to fix your sleep now, immediately, it should be done. Poor sleep is arguably the worst possible thing you can inflict on your body. It has direct links to virtually every major disease and ill health outcome, including cancer, alzheimer's disease, every major mental health disorder, heart disease, increased risk of physical injuries, decreased metabolism... The list continues.

You should absolutely get your diet under control and build a consistent exercise routine in the long run. But both of those things will be very hard to do without the proper dose of high quality sleep every night. Without proper sleep you'll be fighting your own body every step of the way. Every positive health outcome gets harder to achieve without sleep, not easier.

I don't think that's the case at all.

As far as I know, advertisers never receive personal information from Google. Google hordes the personal information and shows advertisements (provided by the advertisers) to their users, using their personal information.

It would be rather contrary to their interests if they were to send their user's data to other parties. They'd lose their commercial leverage and their ad network would become less valuable.

Lovely post, but I now realize that I am rather ignorant of the interplay between processes and the kernel with regards to memory allocation.

Any ideas on cool stuff to read to remedy this?

Hello fellow 30 year old!

I just climbed over that hump a little less than a month ago and have similar feelings. My tech/internet journey started where lots of others probably began, with games. I remember picking up the magazine Maximum PC and being awed at the stories and reviews of different computers, video cards and games. I couldn't have been more than 10 or 11 at the time and was just beginning to understand how computers functioned and could be built, piecemeal, so the magazine felt like a major discovery.

And at about the same time I learned that a game called Diablo 2 was in development by the company whose games I already adored, Blizzard. I learned that there were websites that speculated on and followed the game's development, so I started to visit those sites (namely diabloii.net) to satisfy my curiosity. That ultimately led me to the forums and to creating my first website, which I put together well before the game ever came out, devoted to a guild I wanted to create.

And then I started to follow Warcraft 3, which led me to more forums and IRC. IRC was the big one. It was like stepping into an entirely new universe. A universe of people from around the world that could talk in groups and communicate instantly about any topic. That was a real eye opener, which led me to just about everything else in nerddom. I co-created websites, setup servers, worked on a game mod, talked with programmers and artists, learned about linux, dabbled with scripting... The floodgates were open!

There's no question that the internet played a major formative role in my life and has had a huge impact on what I believe, who I've become and how I understand the world. But when I look at today's internet I see a very different place. Since 2016 I've been giving a lot of thought to how its popularity has changed the way that it operates. The promises of commercialization and politicization have brought many elements to bear that simply didn't exist to the same extent when I was growing up. The ongoing war for users and messaging seems to encourage cloistered spaces and inner-facing pairings (ie: exclusive instead of inclusive).

Then again, maybe I'm just joining the ranks of old dudes yelling at kids to get off their lawn and reminiscing about the good old days. I'd love to hear from the people that are growing up online today. I'd like to know what their experience has been like and if they've found their own fonts of wisdom and information that I have never seen.

How do we know the hardware will adequately support full self-driving if it doesn't actually exist yet?

That seems overly optimistic, if not an outright fabrication.

I find biology to be endlessly fascinating. I know this is terribly off-topic but, if you enjoy learning about this kind of information, I'd highly recommend 'The Gene: An Intimate History.' It's a lovely read that brings you from before Mendel up to the brink of modern genetics.

I'd like to hear any other book recommendations people may have related to this topic.

Neat! I'm a huge fan of Pixelmator. Great example of a high quality desktop application.

I really miss it when I have to edit images on Windows. I wonder if there is a similarly priced, beautiful piece of software for Microsoft's ecosystem?

Do you walk around with a sign on your forehead announcing to the world that you're a techie? I would suspect not.

On what grounds do you believe that to be the basis for people not speaking with you?

Wow, this is great! I think it's the clearest, tersest explanation of JS langauge fundamentals that I've seen.

Bill addresses this in the piece:

I’m making this investment on my own, not through the foundation. The first Alzheimer’s treatments might not come to fruition for another decade or more, and they will be very expensive at first. Once that day comes, our foundation might look at how we can expand access in poor countries.

It's intriguing they're able to draw that line, but it makes sense if they want to keep the Gates Foundation focused.

Absolutely! I go on every run without my phone. I've managed to cheat the Apple Watch into letting me sneak podcasts on to it through iTunes, but it's a hack and it doesn't sync back to my podcasts on my phone/computer.

Still, at least I'm able to go on runs with my music podcasts.

Edit: Changed iWatch to Apple Watch.

Hmm. I'm going to have to disagree about Stored Procedures providing security. You can do all sorts of bad things using stored procedures that may result in unintended code execution!

Perhaps the most naive example: https://pastebin.com/acQqhDvy

I think they're more useful for organization and abstraction than security. Then again, a well organized and smartly abstracted system can lead to better security!

But I think bind parameters are probably a better example of security.

Binding effectively separates the data from the logic. So you define two separate types of things, and then safely join those things together by binding them. It doesn't matter too much whether that happens in the application making a call to the database or in the database in a stored procedure. Obviously this same concept can be applied at many different points along the application stack. The analogous concept in the UI is templating. You define a template and then safely inject data into that template.

Is there any legal way to stop sales like that? If it were shown that Equifax were negligent in protecting the data on their systems, could a court demand that they remove all of the data to mitigate further harm?

To add to that, they already have an engineering office in Tempe.

I suspect both Phoenix and Tempe will be strong contenders.

Positives: - Affordable housing - Affordable corporate real estate - Construction boom in both cities - Local governments interested in wooing corporations

Downsides: - No deep CS university pipeline - No strong tech presence, complicating hiring - Will need to offer incentives to get people to move - Public transport is lacking

Oye, I've been putting off getting this book since it was co-written by Stephenson and I wasn't sure how that would pan out.

Guess I'll have to add to the collection!

Likely still covered by the aforementioned 'on the side of some pretty unpleasant folks.' ;)

Yeah, it's a great resource. I'd love to see more examples as well. Bonus points if the examples are runnable and extra-bonus points if there's a 'debugger' version that would let the user jump into a portion of the code to examine the state.

I find one of the first things I do when approaching non-trivial new features is to sketch out an example and then step through the example by adding a few strategically placed breakpoints. The breakpoints allow me to examine both the execution flow and the internal state of the various objects associated with the new feature.

Both Chrome and FF support the handy 'debugger' statement, which you can place directly in your code and which acts as a breakpoint when you run the code with devtools open.

Edit: Apparently the debugger statement is standardized! Neat. Didn't realize that. Thanks MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...