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Sorry?

By weight though, it's a lot less plastic being put out there. Is it worse than clothing? Maybe not, but I'd continue to be skeptical about it until some studies have been done.

This is nothing new. HTML has always been rendered from a sever.

That's what containers are for.

That's _sorta_ what Apple News is, but you can't add your own sources and it isn't an RSS reader. It's an app that can be deleted, and it only appears in the OS using the same APIs that other apps have access to (widgets). I also don't think they push tabloid content by default, they push the biggest news outlets (probably the ones that pay Apple the most).

I get that a company the size of Apple or Microsoft are going to want to have syndication deals. It should not be integrated so directly with the OS though, and should absolutely be removable (really, out of principle it shouldn't be installed by default).

Are they really different technologies? It has always been my impression that they are the same tech, but they have a slightly different syntax in some places (DESCRIBE) and different levels of capabilities (Postgres offers more).

If you know the core concepts of one, you are probably 80% good to go with the other.

It's not going to be as good. I don't think it is reasonable to expect open source solutions to be competitive in the near future.

They probably aren't ready for a lot of users yet, and the high price will keep only quality customers that might be more likely to stick around and give feedback.

I don't know what things will look like 50 years from now, but I think you're right about a lot of it.

The least creative work will disappear first: stock photos, for example. The "grunt work" of taking generic photos of attractive everyday people can be automated, but any steps after that still require manual art direction. Even in a world where you can automate the entire process from concept to post, there will still be ad campaigns that require a public figure or truly original work.

"Create a 30 second TV ad for a local car dealership in the style of every local car dealership add from the past 20 years" vs. "Coke's Wassup Commercial". These are very different budgets, most local car dealerships aren't looking for originality, they just want something cheap and effective.

What does this mean for people who make their living from making local TV ads? I'm not sure, but at least one of those people involved in setting the tone and direction on the local commercial could be "keyword engineering" to get good results. The rest are probably working in a very competitive market that only has jobs available for the most talented in the field.

Ok, but one broken clock is easier to manage than a dozen broken clocks that are also potentially malevolent. At least all cars are tuned for the same type of fuel, and it would theoretically be easier to migrate all infrastructure from one formula to another as we did with lead.

How would auto manufacturers manage their cars' fuel systems if every station could potentially have a different octane booster? How do all those cars switch over to an entirely different formula when a bunch of those octane boosters are found to have issues?

Personally, I think the industry needs an R&D consortium to look into better technologies that all shareholders can use. Federal input and regulation, but the companies are free to work together to find better solutions for the environment and our health.

Personally, I would love to build software that benefits people over shareholders. I’m great at what I do, and I want to put my talents to good use.

It’s just really hard to get behind an employer that pays their contractors more than their employees, and has such a strict raise policy. I’m not looking to make a ton of money, just a fair/average compensation and recognition for going the extra mile.

I don’t know what it takes to get a department to drop the GS scale (or at the very least match raises with inflation), but if it were to ever happen, I’m sure they would be flooded with talented and ambitious applications.

Or the fact that the annual raise hasn’t matched inflation for years. Each year, you’re not getting a raise, but loosing ($Inflation - $GS_Raise). You can be the hardest working member of your team, but your salary decreases at the same rate as everyone else.

Every talented person I know working in government with a GS scale has left their employer because they were not being compensated fairly.

That’s also how we ended up with leaded gasoline.

I think because that's still very similar to a dedicated server.

Gotta disagree with you here. Modern PHP is quite great, especially when paired with Laravel or Symphony. They had to introduce breaking changes to move the language forward, but I don't recall anything huge after 7.0 or so. There's a huge ecosystem of packages to do just about anything web-related, and the documentation and community resources are way better than anything I've seen with say, Java/Spring.

Laravel is a great way for a small team to get an application up and running quickly and really shouldn't be overlooked.

How far are we from Clippy being able to scaffold out migrations or table schema?

"Clippy, create a table called "users" with the fields: first name, last name, bio."

On a Mac, I got stuck in some sort of loop that prevented me from joining any calls, and even uninstalling the Teams app didn’t fix it. I had to use my iPhone for every Teams call, and sometimes the Teams web app.

Well, they can train the model on things we know _aren't_ alien signals.

Edit: From the article:

  > To train the AI system, Ma inserted simulated signals into actual data, allowing the autoencoder to learn what to look for. Then the researchers fed the AI more than 150 terabytes of data from 480 observing hours at the Green Bank Telescope.

The simulated signals were sounds that couldn't possibly be produced by any (known) natural astrophysical process. So, the model finds signals that have characteristics of artificially generated signals.

I use it for Node all the time. There are published docker images with Alpine as the base and just Node and any required packages installed. I've had to manually install a handful of libraries to support image processing, or anything else that NPM might not install itself.

For very specific uses. Linux is not a good options for general computers used by everyday people. That experience is still owned by large corporations.

I've worked at a company that did this. Not fun.

You basically have a bunch of employees who know their job is going to end...waiting for it to end. Mentally, you're checked out. You're not going to produce your best work for your company and it becomes a struggle to stay engaged. That's my experience, anyway.

The better approach for everyone is to _maybe_ give 1-2 weeks warning so everyone can wrap up what they're working on, then give fair severance packages when the day comes.

That's what I'm looking forward to, actually.

Good perspective.

Yea, if I were out of the job for a month or two, it will not effect me much in the future.

Agreed. I like smaller companies, but I'd like something that will last for more than two years...

Based on my IoT devices I already have, any device that supports Matter will probably use Wi-Fi to ping back home whenever they can.

Agreed. I do like how it shows the impact that each extension has on startup time, but memory is the real issue I care about.

Vue has been my favorite since Vue 2. It hits the right balance for me between the opinionated Angular and "you figure it out" React. It does what I want a JS framework to do: binds values and renders views with minimal setup (computed properties solve so many common problems).

Also, it has amazing ESLint rules that really help keep all your code aligned and following best practices.

Don't they reject apps that are "out of scope" for the device they run on? The Watch isn't made to run 3D games, even if that is possible. It's a "bad experience", even if it is a cool technical demo.

Could an independent body create a spec that cables can be certified against? Like Apple's MFi Program?

Seems like there is a market for cables that are easy to identify.

I think I agree. I'm glad my Kobo doesn't have a Twitter app.

Kobo's Pocket integration is nice, so I can read through articles I've saved on my computer/phone without distraction. There's also an Overdrive store so I can browser and borrow books from my local library without jumping through hoops.

Would it be nice to support alternatives to Overdrive and Pocket? Sure, but once you open the doors to any third-party apps, it's hard to keep the focus on books.