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I think traditional car manufacturers just don't advance the state of the art in screens and other in other in-car electronics at a pace fast enough. They are content with shitty 7 inch screens with faded colors, since their supplier told them this is the best that can be done. You need someone like tesla to force screen suppliers to catch up to the best screens, do the required testing and make the best screens capable of withstanding heat and shock. It's the same with the concept of an electric car and the concept of self driving.

I asked this in the other thread but I guess there's too many comments there: Is there a project for Firefox that is analogous to Chromium for Chrome? I need a Firefox build with all the Mozilla shit ripped out. I don't trust the org that decided their certificate expiration was more important than giving users the choice to run what they want.

I really wish Microsoft would release a modern, capable smartphone. Not based on Android. Revive the windows phone UI, couple it to good hardware. Maybe partner with Samsung. A surface phone, so to speak. I'd buy it instantly. I don't care about apps. I care about a good browser, good screen, maybe whatsapp, long battery life.

The desired mode of operation for a plane is to keep flying, without crashing. MCAS did not save anybody. By that logic steering wheels are also saving billions of people because without a steering your car would veer off the road.

I live here and hate the new name. It feels dumb to say it, whereas Bangalore sounds very modern. Kind of like Dilli vs Delhi.

My entire workstation is an Ubuntu VM hosted at my office. I just need a simple SSH client that works well on Win10. Nothing has been as good as the chrome extension Secure Shell. I've used conemu, putty, mobaxterm, and countless others. But I always come back to secure shell. I hope this one is good enough to replace that because I just want to get rid of chrome.

Just watch 5-6 Youtube videos on a decent phone (1080p or 1440p) and you're done.

My only issue is the binary log files. When you're writing out the logs to disk, just make sure it is in text! How hard can it be?? It creates unnecessary friction when dealing with logs from a crashed system.

> How do Windows users do it?

I got a BIOS update through Windows update once. Didn't have to do anything except deal with a random restart.

> But I had no idea that it also meant that code automatically became gratis for everyone.

I think it's common sense. If I sell you a software and provide you the source code with a GPL license, you are free to publish the code online for everyone to download free. So yes, open source invariably implies no cost to end user.

Agreed. Even in the author's use-case, just hashing the string itself would be much better.

You can install a system-wide adblocker if you have a Samsung phone.

If I'd been tasked with debugging that, I'd have given up halfway and gone on a vacation.

How are the two things different?

Oh, can you point me to a list of all the links google has censored in the EU?

Since Google has compiled with EU censorship why is this a big deal anymore? Or are we admitting to having double standards when it comes to China?

It has always seemed like an unending battle to me. The only way this ends is to make an AI antivirus that can decide whether a particular software is malicious or not.

> Once you've got a continuation object, calling it as say (cont 123) is like a C code longjmp(jbuf, 123)

> In Scheme of course any object can be "returned" in this way (and even values? for more than one object), not just a single int.

I think the author's last experience with C might be a bit dated.

Looks like Microsoft has been wasting time on stupid UI changes and not enough on multi-core performance.

> Its impossible to register a property in Karnataka, without a PAN card/number. So in short for high value transaction its already possible to have tax accountability. Same with jewelry. The question is that of enforcement. You don't need to demonetize anything for these things.

How do you explain the actual change that has occured in the real estate market then?

> What is going to be a bigger surprise to you is discovering a few years down the lane that a full scale parallel unregulated economy is in motion.

Of course. Nobody says that this will kill all illegal activity for all time in this country of 1.25 billion people. But there was a big positive effect due to demonetisation. Even if it dents the black economy for 5 years, that's good enough. We'll take more such actions when needed.

> Middle class these days is like people who make a good 30-40K a month. These people see a lot of high value notes.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/TvcFydQcN6KEFkvdW7BprM/Indi...

From the article: vast majority of middle class in india earns less than $4 per day. A ₹2000 note is 10 days wages. Yeah, I don't think those guys will ever save that much while still surviving.

> The rich don't exactly keep their money beneath their mattress these days.

Yup, they were forced to move it from there in 2016. Some moved it to bitcoin, as described in TFA.

> Before you implement all these pie in the sky electronic transaction ideas. Please ensure people get electricity.

Bullshit. Electrification and economic reforms can happen simultaneously in the world's seventh largest economy. For example, 2018 was the first year when all villages satisfied the criteria for being electrified. Long way from 24x7 electricity, but hey, it's a start.

> How are you disadvantaged?

Umm... what? Are you sure you're replying to the correct thread?

> All this does is demolish that <unorganized> sector - and thus harm the larger economy on which the organized sector depends.

Wrong, this converts a large part of the unorganized sector to organized. Contrary to your assertion, this has helped include the large unorganized sector in the growth story of the country. I believe this is why we're seeing record economic growth.

> but this isn't going to happen quickly.

OK, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to help speed it up.

Yup, RERA is a big boon for the consumer.

> You are disconnected from reality.

I can only talk from my experience. Me and my father searched for an apartment about 6 months before the demonetisation. And I'm searching one for me now. There is a clear difference.

I'm a developer in Bangalore. It was glorious. One thing to understand is that in India regular small time business owners are involved in a lot of tax evasion. They don't report their income fully and thus always have a huge stash of cash lying around. The biggest use for this is to buy real estate. Before demonetisation, if you want to buy a house or apartment it was usual to discuss the cash and registration amount. You would register the deal for ₹5 million and pay an extra 5 million in unaccounted cash.

This meant that people who honestly report their income (usually salaried) are at a huge disadvantage. I don't have 5 million lying around in cash. I'll have to pay everything from my bank account, which will get tracked eventually to the seller I purchase my house from. Now, all of this bullshit is gone. The housing market is much more reasonable, there is no talk of cash payment. I love it. Even initially, I didn't have to stand in ATM lines, because I always use my cc. Where they don't accept cc, they accept Paytm.

No. Racist means discrimination based on race.

It's almost always a norm that you never use recursion in production code. Always convert it to iteration. Bounded iteration.

> We do whiteboard problems, BUT we also emphasize beforehand that the interviewers in the room are there to work through the problem with them. This is meant as more of a conversation, we're less concerned about getting to the "right, fastest, or most optimized" answer. Not a hard problem, no mindgames, no syntax rules, and no complicated pre-known algorithm work other than an if and a loop. Let's just talk about some pseudocode.

If only all interviewers were like you.

Microsoft's software prowess may well turn out to be the deciding factor if it ever comes to a showdown between hololens and magicleap. I don't see a great big difference in hardware quality or tech. Software's going to be the differentiator, just like in the smartphone wars where iphone won everything in spite of the early hardware being lacklustre compared to competitors.

It's exactly how apple's devices are "magical" and displays are "retina".

> Failure/slowness of any given application would leave the existing application geometry in-situ within the 3D environment and avoid the most jarring extremes of user experience.

This is already true with even the oldest and most rudimentary AR/VR systems, eg, Gear VR. The interface and head tracking is 90fps all the time. If the app is slow, the viewport will not freeze. Just it will be stuck on one frame.