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tiles··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
Weirdly, Mazars actually shrinks what I believed was the scope of Congressional power, where in the one instance the House actually attempted to exert equal balance, there now exists a four-part test for validity of presidential subpeonas. Congressional power is squeezed from all sides whenever exerted.
tiles··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
The Atlantic wrote about this in 2018, it seems like the framework of inter-agency cooporation won't be much of a change for most non-Natives: behttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/murphy-cas...
tiles··on Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation
You mean a Press Secretary? What we used to use before Twitter?
tiles··on The Day AppGet Died
Thanks for sharing. I actually wonder now if your experience happens fairly often, and Keivan's experience infrequently, though they're fairly similar circumstances. Integrating OSS or OSS concepts into a program vs a library have different implications but the engineering work required is the same. WinGet on paper, as a product, meets all of the requirements desired by the community. To appreciate the toll it takes on your competition in the OSS community is just alien compared to rules around corporate competition, where in the US there is effectively no scrutiny around imitation. It's a natural place for a team at Microsoft to land. I wish in your case that you didn't have to find out third-hand, but it does seem satisfying to think a bespoke game engine had that much reach!
tiles··on The Day AppGet Died
But there is the promise of your OSS engine being used again, future potential. Microsoft essentially cut this person off from being involved in the future of Windows packaging and only told him 24 hours in advance. I'd need that amount of time just to process.
tiles··on Tesla Q1 2020 Update
Once we reopen, we aren't going to regain capacity in hospital beds overnight. How are parts of the US going to avoid being to be on lockdown every two to eight weeks for the remainder of the summer? I feel if everyone understood that this cycle is inevitable, we could constructively benefit from people arguing the threat of reopening vs the threat of continued exposure. Instead, it's a game of chicken who wants to open up the economy later than June—just in time for cases to spike in July.
tiles··on Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
The abolition of slavery was worth it. But the failure of Reconstruction allowed the south to backside right where they were.
tiles··on Rust 1.43
On the bright side, I definitely write safer C code now after wrapping my head around Rust. I'd much rather have the compiler tracking lifetimes than my own imagination though.
tiles··on Farewell
This is such a strange response. Byuu's two posts later in the thread contain several corrections, particularly on their alleged cartridge hoarding behavior. It invalidates the claims of the original post while not denying any of the evidence was true. A well sourced Wikipedia article can still be biased. The presence of sources isn't mutually exclusive with bias.
tiles··on Farewell
"Held accountable" on the post seems to include moral depravity like "he posted anti-Trump tweets". I don't think that's really accurate here.
tiles··on Facebook is giving $1k to every employee
Means testing is a strategy but not really expected of a private corporation, e.g. you're just asking the company to do more work to accomplish less.
tiles··on Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'
That's what confuses me. How particularly is the UK so different from the rest of Europe or the globe even? I get that how the UK views itself may give support for this strategy, and it agrees with how I view UK society, but why only in this location is national identity the defining factor in pandemic response?
tiles··on Apple Weighs Letting Users Switch Default iPhone Apps to Rivals
It is possible to use Firefox on iOS and survive. My primary use of the Share menu is just to share links to Firefox, with the option to even open tabs in the background. Still, this is obviously the best they can do with the limited OS APIs, and it might make just as much sense for Apple to just make the Share UX the primary way you select your web browser (with Safari being the built-in option).
tiles··on Google backtracks on search results design
How did you remember the precise date? Impressed.
tiles··on Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
If you take into account that MBS murdered an employee of Bezos, explanation #2 sounds plausible.
tiles··on 'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?
Rather than public crucifixion, it looks like James Watson actually did quite well for himself?
tiles··on Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust
Two of the bullet points they list ask for help in doing this conversion:

* Replace some extern "C" includes with more idiomatic uses. Pretty straightforward find/replace-all usually does the trick. * Pick a utility, like cat or touch, and work on translating it into safer, more idiomatic rust. There are plenty of unsafes lying around that you can tackle!

tiles··on Pascal Compiler for the C64: Introducing Turbo Rascal SE
The impressive part is how you can write a game for one of these systems, and easily port it across a variety of 8-bit platforms. That's hardly true for C code and definitely not true for assembly!
tiles··on U.S. Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act
With the senate filibuster, most Congressional legislation is just appointments and removing rules anyway. New legislation feels impossible to enact.
tiles··on New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web
Are there similar efforts to follow in other cities? e.g Boston, SF
tiles··on UK’s ten warmest years all occurred since 2002
Get used to hearing this.
tiles··on Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads
An American president visiting the DPRK is not a little gesture, it is a big gesture.
tiles··on Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads
Sure, and it's objectively a diplomatic win for North Korea. But what diplomatic outcome is expected for the U.S. for visiting the DPRK for the first time?
tiles··on Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads
The visit was pretty widely covered on cable news, after all this was the first president to enter the DPRK. Why did no president before now want to visit the DPRK, and what public good did this administration secure in exchange for doing so?
tiles··on Judge Blocks Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads
Ruling by executive fiat isn't necessarily bad, but it's a hell of a trend. Should you be able to sidestep Congress to implement mandatory listing of drug pricing (especially when you also control one chamber of Congress)? Should you be able to sidestep a Supreme Court ruling by issuing an executive order? What legislative issue is the administration working around exactly?
tiles··on The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish
The copy writes itself: eat the rich.
tiles··on Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
> Settling on a single implementation fixes that issue.

When Microsoft was in a monopoly position, they ignored the standards and pushed ActiveX plugins. Chrome this year wanted to push other browsers to adopt obsolete U2F specifications because they used them in Google products. If there's a single implementation, and the gatekeepers are majority from one company, standards and interoperability become irrelevant.

tiles··on A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting
And isn't that available today with `<link rel="preload">`?
tiles··on Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Didn't they ship a Dart VM?
tiles··on Denver to vote on whether to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms'
OxyContin is an example of targeting vulnerable with highly addictive drugs that can kill you. Corporations are far more effective at this than a local mushroom dealer.
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