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I agree with most of what you're saying here - I think it is absolutely concerning that Google in particular has the ability to basically just throw you off the modern internet. There is absolutely a conversation to be had about that, and the position that YouTube should have in it. I'm just saying that you can't make an argument from historic precedent if there is none.

Personally I feel this article strays too far into:

1. Whining and moaning,

2. Other political areas,

3. Intellectually dishonest arguments

to stand as a valuable contribution to the discourse on this topic. In particular the 'The most vocal cheerleaders' paragraph is just an emotional dump on the author's personal political bogeymen.

So, maybe microfilms would have a record of the fact that the speech happened, but most aren't going to have the full text of the speech. Recordings of every broadcast would also be unlikely to be stored at most libraries that can be described as 'easily accessible' [1]. "I Have a Dream" is famously copyrighted; without MLK and his associates/estate managing the distribution, it would be very difficult to get access to it. I bet the libraries of the South didn't all have it available straight away, for sure.

> Sure, it's not comparable to the reach of today's instant broadcast via Internet, but it was the equivalent of the time.

But I guess that's partially my point, right? The instant broadcast/archive-by-default nature of YouTube is new and unique to our time; trying to refer back to historic figures as your precedent for having access to it seems a little hollow to me.

[1] I grew up in more sparsely populated areas (and, also, in Australia), and perhaps that changes my perspective on what is reasonable to expect for access to libraries pre-internet.

So many people use YouTube as their archive - particularly if they're naive about their relationship with YouTube. He may not have his own copies.

This doesn't necessarily imply total naivety - plenty of journalists would be used to it being the publisher's role to archive the work, not their own.

There are two points to make here:

1. If you're paying attention, you know this will happen at some point. Archive your own shit, because Google has made it more than clear there's no guarantee they'll do it for you forever.

2. This idea that you're being deplatformed or marginalised because years of your archives are no longer available in a free and easily accessible format from someone else is not supported by call outs to MLK, Malcolm X, etc. Even if you accept the idea that they had free and unfettered access to public broadcasting (ha!), there was absolutely no easy way to get access to the archives of that on demand! The speakers themselves, and their organisations, had to manage that.

People who think they're entitled to free unfettered video hosting on YouTube are dreaming. There's no historic precedent to indicate that it should be so, and YouTube has made it very clear that they can and will bounce you whenever they like. As of today, you are entitled to free speech, but no one has to give you their soapbox to stand on.

I think there's a valid conversation to be had about whether that's how it should be, but I don't think this article is that.

No, most users don't know. The frog was so well boiled it didn't even notice the water getting warm. The problem is that now things are what they are, changing them back is a behemoth effort without any motivation for those who could make it happen.

I like it when the US fucks with time zones. The more you fuck with time zones, the more likely US-based developers are to just say fuck it, we'll use a library. The more developers that use a library for time zones, the fewer pieces of software that I have to deal with that get this wrong for my part of the world.

(Did you know Australia has 11 possible time zones of which up to 9 are being used right now? It might even be 12. Most people don't, which is why most programmers fuck it up)

My favourite part of this tweet is the down-thread reply from the author:

"In fairness MSFT are really good in terms of web facing things, particularly security things." [1]

This, of course, aged like milk the very next month. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1427966653938143233

[2] https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2021/09/azurescape/

IIRC, it's because they got sued, and content ID was part of the settlement.

Snowflake employee here, speaking on my own behalf.

It's no harder to get out of Snowflake than it is to get out of any other SQL based RDBMS. If we were relying on the fact that we manage the files in S3 instead of the customer to keep our customers on board, we wouldn't have a business.

I will grant that there's non-ANSI features in Snowflake that our competition don't offer, but it would be weird to describe "have awesome features" as being lock-in.

Until this morning, Putin was saying that he wasn't going to invade. Perhaps trusting Putin at his exact word is not the best idea?

Personally I don't care what it sounds like, so long as it can work under load, and my Macbook Pro can't. It throttles when ambient temperature is over 25 degrees C, and

I haven't unplugged my Macbook Pro more than a couple times in the last 2 years.

In short, I'd take a two inch thick Clevo that sounds like a 747 and only lasts for 2 hours if it meant not having to worry about turning my HVAC on when I want to do a screenshare.

This isn't true. Facebook/Google may not be selling your data, but companies like them absolutely are. Data aggregators exist, and they're all about buying your data, creating data products from them and then selling them on to marketing organisations.

That's not what's being said here - you've missed the last line. The question is who stands to gain politically if this person is promoted? If the answer is no one, then it is in no ones interest to push the case for tenure. Frequently politics and 'being liked' are very different.

Personally I don't count "giving it away" as the product selling itself. GSuite - Google Docs, GMail for Business, Google Drive, etc. - has had enterprise sales teams for a long time.

Reformed salesperson here, you're 1 for 4, and Trello really should only get half a point because they've given up massive swathes of their addressable market to others (Wrike, Asana, Monday).

Word and Excel have the giant Microsoft sales team behind them. One of the largest technical enterprise sales forces in the world.

Gmail is similar. Google tried the "we'll build it, and they'll come" approach. It didn't work. Google has a long term channel based sales model, and a newer but rapidly growing direct enterprise sales team. They're constantly trying to get GApps in against the aforementioned behemoth MS team.

Just look at keyboard-gate to prove that, by design, Apple doesn't care about user productivity. I personally have a work issued 2019 16-inch MBP and it drives me insane.

Before this laptop, I'd never had to make sure my AC was turned on before I took Zoom meetings. With this thing, if the ambient temperature is over about 25 C, the CPU throttles to 1GHz and I get about 2 frames per second.

I have a personal Lenovo Yoga that has none of these issues, is 4 years old, and apart from the battery being degraded (my bad), has been amazing. Meanwhile, I can't wait until I hit IT's refresh window on the Mac, as I'm going to delight in destroying it myself.

Somewhere in my audio setup there is a ground loop. I don't know where, and I'm yet to be able to work out what is causing it. But that alone makes wireless appeal at my desk very much.

Ah yes, the famously well supported and not at all prone to weird bugs Wifi Ad-hoc mode.

A quick look through Reddit shows that no, they can't. https://www.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/kg3w4n/airpods_max...

I'll bite. What is that code example actually returning? I don't have a clue what fields I expect to get back from that.

> Pursuing such an approach is highly revealing because if the technology actually worked, that approach would not be necessary.

This is, sadly, untrue. Enterprise reps do this because on the whole, it doesn't matter if you have the best technology - if the other guy is successful at the CxO level, the customer will go their way.

I'll add to this: you don't necessarily have to get married for this to apply. In most (all?) Australian jurisdictions, living with someone for enough time is enough to establish you as defacto - which for almost all intents and purposes is just like being married.

Isn't aerospace engineering the field that gave us pitot tubes that froze up at high altitude?

> well-understood and rigorously accepted simplifying assumptions that were conservative (from the point of view of a factor of safety), and fully encapsulated all the understanding I needed to produce a part fit for use.

Isn't even this "reaching for abstractions"?

I would argue that software engineering has two factors that result in higher bug counts: the lack of consequence, and the youth of the field.

Lack of consequence shows up in errors in other fields, too. How many times has a civil engineer created an intersection that doesn't drain properly, or a curb that was slightly too high?

Youth of the field shows up in other engineering fields also. See: pitot tubes, above.

You know this is disingenuous, right? All of the things you described are water saving measures - the rationale for them is almost completely divorced from the climate change argument made by GP.

I mean there's definitely a conversation to be had about the effectiveness of domestic water saving measures in comparison to industrial ones, but I'm not sure it's entirely relevant here.

I don't work for Xero but I have worked with some of the data team and can honestly say that they've hired some of my favourite people in Melbourne to work there, and no one I don't like. High quality team that I hope I overlap with some day.

I don't think this is Concur - I'm pretty sure this is your accounting team. Frequently the software change coincides with an outsourcing effort, so they're not being paid to be helpful, they're being paid to apply the policy as written.

Looks like there's a LAN to WAN filter setting under Firewall maybe? Either that or if there's routing table settings you could use that.

Because it's not treason, it's (attempted) espionage. Don't worry, the US is plenty harsh on espionage.

Depends on the environment that you're in. In an enclosed space: yeah. In open air, unlikely, because the density difference means it rises (and disperses) quickly.