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Perhaps on the upload but download bandwidth can seemingly deal with a plane full of people streaming Netflix these days, so that's not an issue.

Oh yeah, I guarantee that's on all the emergency checklists. "Ask very nicely if all the passengers can turn off their bluetooth headsets".

Also, I'm pretty confident that Lufthansa's Airbus and Boeing planes are the same as everybody else's Airbus and Boeing planes. If there was an EMC issue that they were running into from Airtags, it would have been jumped on by the national aviation administrations so fast your head would spin. It would be major international news. It would not be an obscure rule with misleading and contradictory guidance coming from a single airline.

For someone who claims to have worked in big corporations and accuses others of not having worked in them, you sure are optimistic about the capabilities of the average user. Not every company is Google.

For starters, how do you register the Yubikey? On Okta, this is a multi-step process with at least one non-obvious step, and one easy way to screw it up.

> Eliminate capital gains tax.

That's a terrible idea. Capital gains is basically the only way to tax the uber and intergenerationally wealthy. If anything, capital gains tax should be at the same level as income tax, so that there's less economic incentive to game the system.

Your analogy fails because it's not the people doing work in science that are capturing the returns. It's a bunch of rent-seeking publishers whose entire business model is extortion.

This is more like if a VC funded you, but Google said they wouldn't render your page in Chrome unless people paid them for access, and also you aren't allowed to take payment.

I'm not sure GCP really comes up in discussions about "either major cloud". Distant third place, looking more like becoming fourth before they get to second.

I'm with you. Besides the crap shoot, generally the only reason I restart my macbook is because the particular combination of poor cooling, tabs leaking memory, video conferencing software somehow maxing out all cores and Spotlight's indexer apparently rebuilding from scratch have made my experience so awful I've just held the power button for 5s to kill everything and restart. (Side note: why doesn't Mac OS have a "just shutdown already" button like Windows?)

The last thing I want is for all that crap to load back up on restart all at once.

Disclaimer up front: I work for Snowflake but do not represent them here - I'm not in Product and have very little influence over direction.

What language and loading capabilities would you like to see us add?

I personally doubt we'll ever aim for postgres levels of extensibility, but Java has been in for a while and Python just went public preview - with great reviews from everyone I've spoken to.

Plenty of activity on the loading side too, although we don't really aim for visual ETL - you're pretty much correct that we're happy to let 1000 flowers bloom in that space.

I would assume you girlfriend and you have shared an IP address at some point, and the first thing she went looking for after your call was the thing she said she'd buy you.

So why not use one of the myriad launchers (such as Nexus) that make it much easier?

Ok so, again, my point here is that Open Source funding isn't a technical problem that can be solved by a technical solution (and that I think quadratic matching is stupid for funding solutions to high-impact problems).

But, I did look at that, and I'm not sure that I trust the numbers. I clicked around a little. The top earner for the week is https://gitcoin.co/0xngmi. 0xngmi is working a crypto project (fine), but seems to have only received one bounty and one 10 DAI tip ever. So how are they the top earner for the week?

The top earner for the quarter is an NFP Crypto lobby group. They've earned $855k... somehow? Over 13 tips and 13 bounties? What do you mean 13 bounties? Does this Lobby group also fix Django bugs on the weekend?

I'm not saying I don't think it's a good idea; although I'm wary of anything Crypto, this might be the closest I've seen to a reasonable use for it. I just don't know that I trust the numbers.

... Has it though? The problem here isn't that the tech doesn't exist to support open source. It's that companies don't care to. There's no budget because there's no clear business benefit. Using advertising adds some level of business benefit for the funder, but probably represents an untenable decline in user experience for the fundee.

Gitcoin seems to actually make the problem worse through quadratic matching, so if I have a specific thing I want to fund well because my business relies on it, Gitcoin is the worst possible way for me to do that because my cash will flow through to a bunch of stuff lots of other people care about (but idgaf).

> It would be so nice if you could just like, I don't know, bump two devices together and they use NFC to pair or something.

That's a thing on higher end kit. Has been for years. Obviously only works if both devices support it though - you won't pair your macbook for example.

Other than that, I find Bluetooth and wired set-ups both have their advantages and disadvantages: - Bluetooth gets difficult when there's interference, wired gets weird ground loops and interference. - Bluetooth can be tricky to connect, wired gear gets yanked out of my ear when it catches on my door handle, or an airplane seat armrest, or my dog. - I can walk around listening to something on my laptop with Bluetooth, but with wired I don't have to worry about battery life.

Bluetooth is an essential part of my life and has been for probably 6-8 years now, so I've worked out most of the tricks and kinks of the gear that I use.

Which were enormously popular in retrospect, once the alternative was on display. The LNP were destroyed in two subsequent state elections, primarily around lockdown and border policy. Literally wiped out in WA.

The alternative angle to "lockdowns that looked like China" is "public health measures that weren't corrupted by corporate interests". Both are highly arguable, and as usual the truth is in the middle.

That's the main advantage of the Australian system - it keeps us somewhere near the middle (or is at least more difficult to shift away).

I've set aside this afternoon to update my macbook because it refused to do the 12.4 update by itself. Then it refused when I asked it to restart manually. Then it looked like it worked and was restarting but actually it just kernel panicked or something I'm not sure. Then it wouldn't acknowledge an update existed. Then it wouldn't check for an update.

So now, I'm watching it download and prepare an update in real time in safe mode, while doing absolutely nothing else, because apparently a light breeze will knock this update process over. Preparing the update has so far taken 30 minutes. No doubt installation will take another 30 mins to an hour.

"Just buy a macbook" doesn't work anymore.

Yeah anyone who doesn't believe that Disney is doing personalisation should get in contact with me. I have a bridge to sell them in the Nullarbor.

In fact, they're actively building it and selling it to advertisers. Disney+ and similar platforms are the tools that media companies have every intention of using to drive the accuracy numbers much higher.

E: I should note that I work for Snowflake, we're marketing this capability pretty hard. I'm not directly involved though.

Season 3, Episode 3 of Utopia dealt with myGov perfectly. It's like the writers were actually in implementation meetings.

If you've never worked in or with government in Australia, I highly recommend checking it out. Then remember that the real thing is worse.

Right?! Imagine: "We're announcing Python 4. Python 3 was because we handled unicode in a way that turned out to make nearly 0 sense. Python 4 is because you lot can't put your f's in the right place."

Yeah, heaven forbid 17 year olds decide they want to take on a career in STEM later in High School. They must be real dummies. REAL engineers decide to be engineers as HS Freshmen and never waver from, struggle on, or doubt the One True Path.

Colleges should only admit those who pledge themselves to the Guild of Software Engineering at 13, so we can keep the noble profession of building CRUD apps in JavaScript free of riffraff.

Not really to be honest. If you've got an RFP to respond to right now then it's a little too late.

That said, I've never had an issue copy pasting the answers to similar questions. As long as you answer the question with the answer!

Entire (excellent) start-ups exist to fill the role of 'RFP library' so that you don't have the whole sales team rewriting the same answers 100 times a year. Loopio saved me hours in the last role I was in that had them - even if you do have to edit some of the responses from colleagues you're not sure passed 9th grade English.

Reformed salesperson here: bullshit.

Atlassian famously eschews the exact sales teams whose job it would be to manage direct customer comms in an outage like this one, and to be the lightning rod for the understandable customer frustration. In the past, I've been the guy that gets the angry text message from the customer and has to carefully paper over the gaps in communication from higher ups. It's not fun being the neck that gets choked.

The complete lack of meaningful communication for so long indicates to me that Atlassian doesn't have a meaningful feedback mechanism from the field back up to the executive suite - the exact feedback mechanism that Sales and Sales Engineering teams fill in most SaaS orgs. Customer Success should fill that role, but IME don't have the same incentives, pressure or influence as sales teams watching half their yearly comp go down the pipes.

People who aren't public figures get quoted in print all the time. The only way to not be quoted is to never say anything.

The TOS on quoting someone? You're saying that if I want to quote something someone says on Twitter in my book or in a newspaper, I have to follow their TOS and style it their way? No, I think not. Applying Twitter's styling to quotes is a nicety. It's nice for the blogger that it looks good on a blog and it's nice for Twitter that they get a link back and their branding guidelines get followed, but there's no way Twitter is going to be able to enforce their TOS on quoting something that someone else said just because it was said on their platform.

> Certainly I have some level of expectation that if I delete something, it may very well actually be gone, right?

Really? For me this is like saying that just because you stop actively publishing a book, people can never quote it again. That's clearly not true, right?

Edit: or because I didn't distribute recordings of a speech I made, newspapers can't quote me

I know that blog post is from 2009, but it has a typo in the title and a typo in the first sentence. I'm not sure it's great content marketing for a company whose primary business is writing.

I'm sure this was a long time ago, but this is one of those "consult a lawyer" moments to me. Going back and finishing CS was probably the more productive option, however.

I disagree. Twitter doesn't own that content. Someone posting the Twitter JS on their website to allow Twitter to format the tweet to Twitter's brand standards and allow a link to drive traffic back to Twitter is a favour that they're doing Twitter. They should respect that favour by not changing the contract unilaterally.

> Hi, the government is giving $5000 credits for people to add insulation, blah blah blah.

This is... occasionally a real thing. Drives me nuts that they choose to implement it this way though.

1. Yep. As you say - the guy is smart enough to know better.

2. I'm sure he is - this article comes off to me as a highly intelligent person ranting. I'm calling out that his appeal to precedent is, at best, weakly laid out in this article (and at worst it's dishonest). As I said, I agree with elements of the argument that he's making, but he's made the arguments poorly here.