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> Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion.

I disagree: For example accepting or rejecting a golden cage is a deep decision about one's moral values - thus near to a religion.

> I'm just not sure if it's possible to reconcile thought-control in one sphere, and not in another.

On Slate Star Codex, there is an interesting article about this topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...

Society trains you right from the cradle to become a pathological liar.

> As an Aspie, (almost) every neurotypical person seems to be a patological liar, not able to make a small talk without committing a few lies.

Having a degree both in mathematics and computer science makes me have an often unerring eye for both potential hidden bugs in code and lies that people tell all the time. So, I can share your sentiment.

I often think: How can people become good at math and/or programming, where they have to learn to become very precise and truthful, if they are surrounded by (also "white") lies all the time. Yes, I particularly have all those politicians in mind who, on one hand, claim how important STEM skills are, and, on the other hand, lie all the time.

"This is the root of the issue. Jira was made with project managers and product managers in mind. Not dev teams. Project and product managers (collectively referred to as PMs going forward) are the primary buyers and owners of Jira. Not engineers.

Engineers love simplicity and efficiency. Jira is the polar opposite of that."

Why shouldn't project managers and product managers love efficiency, too? If the tools allows the engineers to do their work more efficiently, the development speeed of the team increases - this is what makes project managers and product managers look good.

Analysis by SemiAccurate on SuperFin: https://semiaccurate.com/2020/08/13/intel-talks-about-10nm-s...

Link is under Posts -> Info and links to https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/

> it becomes easy to be branded not a team player.

Which is not a bad thing in my opinion. :-)

As they say in Germany: "Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert, lebt es sich ganz ungeniert." (When the reputation is only ruined, one lives pretty unbothered).

Blender was originally a closed-source product by Not a Number Technologies (NaN). After NaN went bankrupt, the creditors agreed to let Blender become released as open source for 100,000 €.

RedShift1:

> API changes every minor release.

vetinari:

> the changes were pretty minor.

Was this pun intended? ;-)

Perhaps Nvidia's ASICs and/or firmware contains more legally dubious components. ;-)

> It's an idea around a rising tide lifts all boats where an extra $1k a month or baseline income could bridge gaps

Prices increase in this case - that is how markets work.

> Universal basic income could cover the gap.

UBI does not solve the problem outlined by jfrunyon that

> expenses are higher for poor people.

A very smart move by the political system to make activists hate some impalpable company moloch named "Disney" instead of the concretely named congressmen/congresswomen who voted for the law for copyright extension.

> It's perfectly possible to write a good Reddit web client; they chose not to

Good for whom? "Good for the user" does not mean "good for Reddit".

> Who said jobs can't be fulfilling?

Life experience. ;-)

> Highly creative people generally rank low on conscientiousness.

Are you sure about that? I would rather assume that highly creative people often rank low on "tolerating bullshit" instead of having a low conscientiousness.

If AirBnB is so certain in its "we are family" speeches: Why not give every current employee who has to be laid off because of the current situation an option to get back to AirBnB as soon as the economic situation of AirBnB improves again?

Archive.is: http://archive.is/MjNtl

> And ARMs fixed length instructions allow apple to just duplication their instruction decoder logic until they are decoding (currently) 7 instructions per cycle.

Only the A32 and A64 instruction sets of ARM have fixed 32-bit-length instructions. T32 instructions are either 16 or 32 bits long.

I am not sure whether it is a good idea to use an SMD component for one of the two connectors. Connectors are exposed to a lot of physical stress in particular when plugging in and out. Through-hole connectors are more robust with respect to this kind of stress.

Windows NT wasn't a rewrite of Windows 3.1, but an attempt of Microsoft to create a modern workstation OS that is in a completely different product category than DOS/Windows 3.1.

> Content editors should not be able to add arbitrary code to a bank's website unless it undergoes review from someone who understands web security.

Hardly anybody really understands web security.

> There are obviously places where it makes sense, but a $15/hr human is preeeetty cheap compared to the price, programming, and maintenance of a robot.

But such a robot is a good insurance against further increases of minimum wages.

> Somewhat paranoid there are zero days on libgen, etc.

Do you have an alternative to trusting them?

Because they simply cannot afford the software, they often do not have an alternative.

"I think it would be surprising if other car makers had a large suite of crash tests they ran that aren't being run by testing agencies, but it's theoretically possible that they do and just didn't include a passenger side small overlap test)."

The fact that Mercedes and BMW are in the category "poor without modifications; good with modifications" (i.e. with some modifications, the cars get from "bad" to "good") rather shows to me that these two car manufacturers do have such test facilities where they do such tests to be prepared for the situation when such test become included.

... and Paris.

Only if there really is love behind it. Otherwise, such a message is fraudulent.

> But if you're e.g. repairing existing equipment, then the customary and SI units are incompatible. Say, a 1/4 inch bolt head is too large for a 6 mm wrench, but too small for a 8 mm (which is typically the next step up from 6mm).

Where is the problem? Buy a 6.35mm wrench for your 6.35mm bolt head.