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Seeing them hunched over their laptop screens makes me cringe for their backs. My setup isn't ideal (I didn't get the monitor brackets!) but it's a lot better than it could have been.
If you're B2C you can probably ignore that and just not support it, but if you're B2B where you're selling not to users it's very hard to get away from supporting IE11.
If your users never directly interact with you (for example you sell white-label software which gets resold) then you just can't control your end-user tech stack enough.
If you're selling to partners who sell to companies who push out logins to their customers or user base then even if <1% of users use IE 11, that becomes 5% of companies having a user with it, which becomes 30% of the partners who are asking for IE11 support.
It's one thing to turn down 1% of users it's quite another to annoy 30% of your income stream.
As long as bootstrap 4 is supported (and the legacy bootstrap 3 support suggests it will be) then this doesn't have to be a problem of course, just one more thing to be aware of.
From the write up at https://www.ryanpickren.com/webcam-hacking , the bug chain appears to allow script execution in "arbitrary" domain context, which at first glance seems much bigger than just webcam extraction. Sticking up someone's face is attention grabbing compared to what could be done with that kind of power.
Is it because of the first bug in the chain that only the media-permissions was affected by the context confusion?
For example being able to extract cookies or local storage from other contexts would be a much bigger deal (local storage is sometimes used to store XSRF protection keys or other credentials), so I assume that wasn't at all affected?
Did any other parts of safari use the same broken context awareness as the media permissions or do we know that it was it isolated to media permissions?
So yes, the poster was using flu in a diminutive sense. And yes, flu is deadly and a lot worse than a lot of people (who've probably never had flu) realise. But even given that, even recent novel flu strains haven't stressed and shut down the global economy like this pandemic has.
2. It's not an informed audience if misinformation is not challenged, it's a misinformed audience.
3. The flu is a bad parallel. The flu, while annually killing lots of people, does not overwhelm hospitals like a novel virus does. At best it makes people think this is like swine flu, while it has quickly shown to be nothing like swine flu.
Vendors get recurring money and aren't incentivized to make sweeping changes to have major releases to get more money for the same product; consumers can manage cash flow by only paying while they need it, there is a lower barrier to purchase, and vendors have more predictable income.
It's one of the few industries she didn't privatise.
I'm disappointed that it's taken weeks to get to a point of just considering forcing closed the pubs.
It's frustrating that everything so far is "advice" or "recommendations" and nothing is actually mandated yet.
At least shut the pubs, it takes the piss that spoons is still open.
Given that, it's maybe still cheaper to build their own serving / caching layer in front to save egress costs than to have constructed the whole storage solution themselves.
Screen too early and often can lead to too much preventative medicine and procedures, which ironically while preventing specific things aren't without their downsides and can cause an overall lower quality of life.
Sometimes it can feel like the NHS swings the other way and is hesitant to refer for diagnosis even when there is an issue, but in general they try to balance things for everyone. Also, what can be beneficial for an individual may not be beneficial for society as a whole.
That said, if something feels wrong, then please do keep on at your doctor to get a diagnosis. It can be feel like you have to borderline harass doctors to get referrals sometimes in the UK but if there is an issue then don't give up.
I know I was on deaths' door when the hospital finally diagnosed me properly. My GP was still telling me I just had intercostal muscle pain and to take painkillers and come back later even after the hospital had figured it out.
Also, I'd be wary of thinking (as others down thread have done, you are not guilty of this) that the general person thinks the assassination caused WW1. It's clear that many people are in fact taught that it merely triggered it. It is arrogant to assume it's not a well known fact, a case of "Well the masses are stupid and think X" without evidence that the masses do in fact think that.
Indeed I am not a specialized historian, it was part of my (and all my peer groups') general education (GCSE history).
Does being able to apply pythagoras make a "specialized mathematician", or knowing "Dos cerveza por favor?" make a linguist? No, it's part of a rounded education. Not everyone achieves even a basic standard (as my attempt at Spanish likely shows), but as long as the specialists do exist, then they can write the text books for the general education and correct the record.
We understand nuance from the past. For example we understand that the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't cause WW1, even if it directly led to it.
Why worry that future historians won't understand such nuance from the present?
From method extraction, to module, namespace, function renaming, to adding parameters to functions, it just takes care of it.
My suspicion is that Java does it as well (but I don't have experience with it), but every other language I've tried lags far behind it.
It's been really frustrating to be really getting into something then tripped up because it doesn't understand that when you're renaming Foo to Bar you also want foo.ext to become bar.ext. Or when you want to make foo(a,b,c) become foo(b,c) that it's the first parameter that needs removing (automatically) from all calls. Or even when transforming foo(a,b,c) to bar(b,c,d) that it can fix the calls with combined re-move and add parameter instructions.
Some languages are starting to catch up, but I've seen nothing that has come close to the productivity that C# has delivered specifically with respect to refactoring.
Can anyone recommend other language / IDE combinations that can deliver that kind of productivity?
(And I don't want to get into a discussion about whether that's misplaced productivity because it's better to write in a way that doesn't need re-writing and re-naming things all the time, because you might be right but it's one of those times that being right doesn't change the reality of the work environment.)
An extension like
> dict<k,v>.GetOrDefault(k key,v valueIfNotPresent)
Would be really helpful. It's easy enough to write your own extension to do this, but something built in would be the kind of nice to have method that has been creeping into .net.
It feels trapped between "We don't want exceptions" without going full "Result<T> or Maybe<T>" functional style that might be more typical of something like elixir.
But I didn't try Go for long and that itself was years ago, so perhaps modern Go has better paradigms.
It's the top comment for me, I'm not sure if people are upvoting because they got the joke or upvoting because they missed the joke.
That may have flown by for you but is much of the time I have been visiting HN.
It may be that "you find them interesting is enough", and it's your site so this is not a complaint, but it is not a transparent process because despite "thousands of comments" there is little documentation or explained policies.
We know there's an "anti flame war" trigger on the down side, but of more interest is what causes stories to jump hundreds of spots and that has never been well explained to my knowledge. (Or perhaps it has but I haven't been to read such an explanation).
Edit: Apparently HN doesn't support unicode?
I was trying to say:
U+1F637 or U+1F912 not good enough?
Thanks mate.