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That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy"

This may be a huge ego trip or pure gatekeeping, but I never wrote anything that I expected people to run, look at the pretty pixels, and be done.

You cannot be truly impressed if you don't know the effort to put that art into a tiny file or abuse the hardware in ways never seen before. If you never fired a debugger or other development/reverse engineering tool, then you missed most it had to offer. And IMHO you never connected to the artist in any way.

> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows.

Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on docker for mac, which all the cool kids(tm) here are using). Even if you restrict container host-FS access to a source repo dir, mind rogue code changing your .git hook scripts in there or you might run code outside of the container when committing ;)

Another slightly relevant fun fact, USB is a bus. That means that any device can listen in on any other device. And USB access is given by default to some X-enabled docker (--tty something), and to most virtualbox machines (including the hidden one running the fake docker linux host on docker-for-mac), and more recently Google-Chrome. ;)

> addons can change things and break the browser.

Good. That's a feature. I install addons. It's not a site i visit with no consideration.

This is the same thinking of apple. People install random apps so let's restrict apps to the point the user cannot have a text editor on their phone! meh! This is all dumb!

Now it is impossible to have the choice to install an addon for tweaking hidden options. Everyone should live with the crap that is about:config and user.js (or only about:config, because they thought user.js too dangerous on mobile too!)

I trust an open source browser by random people, why not an open source addon that gives me the functionality i need?

I give it very low grades.

It suggests installing many closed source, Advertising-ridden apps from the play store.

And to one of those ad-ridden apps, it even suggest you use adb to give it supper powers of sorts.

You don't even have to go to open source. You can see this hostile behaviour from their top-paying clients!

Microsoft own previous gen Xbox emulator on the next gen xbox (i think it was original xbox emulated in the 360, but i might be wrong) was impacted by the team having to reverse-engineer the GPU because nvidia refused to let the emulator people to have access to the documentation provided to the original team.

> In compliance with the new ruling, GitHub is now relying on SCCs to establish necessary data protection for all

That means: "our last industry hack, Privacy Shield Framework, was shot down for the second time, making it dangerous for us. Now we use the even more dubious one, until it is shot down too"

more on SCCs gaps: https://www.bclplaw.com/en-US/insights/gdpr-the-most-frequen...

i did not but i do not pay youtube premium. Mostly because all that money will go to RIAA and other DMCA backers, not content creators. Specially not the ones everyone here watches.

Nobody uses youtube because they love it. Everyone uses youtube because google effectively killed all the competition by sliding billions of investor money to DMCA backers. And well, this one time it worked out nice for them, i guess. But it is not a business practice I will support. Fortunately, i'm technical enough to play their cat and mouse game to consume creators who are hostage to their monopoly on discovery.

> 2. What's with /* */ ? Doesn't js allow keyword arguments?

No.

This is the best economic answer to the question of why dollar doesn't had inflation like other currencies that increase supply. much better than the "the rich will only inflate art prices" that is currently on top of this one.

But also ignores the military power. Which plays a huge part on why the dollar is always so strong, regardless of how much is printed.

When Saddam decided to sell oil in euro, or Venezuela decided to accept gold, the US was ready to bring democracy and peace.

On a free market you can't shut down a bakery if they decide to buy flour from your competitor.

I get a feeling everyone in this thread did not buy the G1 because they liked the G1, but solely because they are google fans that buy anything google throw at them.

If you people really liked the keyboard, you would be praising the two last phones from blackberry.

physical keys, ctrl+a/c/v/z! it even have a gimmick that acts as a touchpad. and bloatware-less android (well, less than a pure-google anyway)

only downside of those phones is nobody managed to get root yet. But that is more an android issue. And some people might actually prefer a phone with no root entry points anyway.

I call those systems "auto-censorship".

They are as dumb and undesirable as incomplete regex email filters in web forms.

Every single one ever written will have this problem. And ironically, absolutely nobody reading a fart joke will ever be offended. But the millions of people who are denied service and not twitter famous enough to reach a dot-com employee are very much offended.

...Also, the single reason to add those auto-censorship features is to please advertisers, not to protect users/drivers from fart jokes.

Expect Advertisement on lyft very, very soon.

> patches are associative: pulling B and C together after A does the same as pulling just C after pulling A and B

that makes no sense to me. DARCS also claim this, but if you have the patches all changing the first line to a different value, obviously the last one will dictate the final value of the first line. Which is the same as git. in what world do you want to change orders of patches and not have the final state change?

This is how most factories operate.

Hire someone to design a plastic mold, pay for the work, never hear from that person again.

It is insane to expect anything more than a tax code, that is only retained for some few years in some dusty finance department file cabinet.

There is no source control, design history files, CD/CI, etc in a factory, i.e. 99% of small to medium business. Silicon valley and fintech are the exceptions, even today, let alone when that happened.

Also, it is a bunch of old timers recommending one another for work. The people on the floor and owners definitely know the person, but will not tell unless they have to.

I was hopping for any detail.

The ajax part was not that innovative. As with every product that succeed, the content was awesome. How did a startup with 2 people living "out of maxed out credit cards" in early 2000s even acquired mapping data in the first place?

Is this the new hollywood black list/red scare?

Tech behemoths, full of privileged people on top, use the false pretense of respecting pronouns or other minority demands, to actually oust people that care about such issues in the first place?

You are right. Reported this submission as spam.

It is a closed invite-only product.

They try to mislead saying that the only downside is learning a new language. Every good programmer loves to learn a new language. The actual, real downside is license/lock-in/ownership.

...Their website is hosted on Medium, not gitlab/hub. I rest my case.

> when I'm debugging

Ironically, attackers would have access to more valuable data (and more freedom of movement) on your personal/dev box than on a monitored production host.

So it is just a way to pick a (random) number that will be shared and compared between three parties?

lol. anyone have to read past the headline to know it's bad?!?!

everyone forgot the only purpose of amp? to give in to google so that you can get not-banished from their search results.

why would anyone apply a pernicious SEO technique to email?

what's next? an article on why rat poison on bread is a bad idea?

> Tesla emphasizes that “in both of these scenarios until truly driverless cars are validated and approved by regulators, drivers are responsible for and must remain ready to take manual control of their car at all times.”

So, tesla/elon are officially thankful for regulation prevent themselves from screwing up worse than they are already?

1. implement a real algo that depends on known behaviour of some players.

2. release public algo that implements that known behaviour your main algo expects

3. ???

4. Profit!

Consensus is the path, not the destination. Implemented it in a project such as:

Start using the tech. If it explodes it's on you; if other people pick it up it was good; If nobody picks up and you get tired of fixing it, abandon.

trying to make that catch since 2013 :D

That's a very forced comparison. If you took that seriously yourself, you had to weight having a driver's license against the thousands of people run over by cars each year, because by your logic consequences of a bad case are inherent to all the cases!

The social impact is about the cost of doing it properly or not. Not doing it in a way that causes fires, that is something else.

> made the choice to subcontract w/o proper controls

seems to have worked out very well for the army, and their contractors.

So well in fact, that a senator is on a campaign to pass legislation to specifically address the military case (leaving cases like the CBP which should be as obvious as from the get go, to be dealt individually too). The system is so broken in its lack of accountability that even well intentioned people are driven to insanity as the norm.

For people thinking like robots on this, and not seeing the social impacts, i suggest reading city of quartz. Or if you don't like to read books, watch Chinatown.

Both will show you how the Water & Power's corrupt officials used aqueducts being artificially shut down, and then magically repaired at their convenient timing, to control price of land for their personal riches.

Also, that cost is paid by city, yes, because this initial work is what enable news cities to eventually came into existence, offloading the first city superpopulation problems. It is not done out of altruism, like limited mind people like to boast when defending such short sighted measures.

Practical use for the brutalist html experiment (art?).

Print is weird.

For most print mediums, circulation is more important than sales. Because higher circulation generates more Advertising revenue, which is higher than sales.

But they can't give a newspaper/magazine away, because that would bump them to a lower category for which advertisers pay less.

The solution is to sell as cheap as your desired advertising demographic allows, and incurs lots and lots of "loss".

That is why even in the USA (land of the people-will-grab-anything-not-bolted-down) some newspapers still have that coin+trust box for newspapers.

Yes. Two other candidates were illegally prevented from participating. And there were more fake news campaigns in brazil, where whatsapp is the de facto communication medium, than USA during the election.

"Lula’s criminal conviction on corruption charges last year came under highly suspicious circumstances. All year long, polls showed him as the clear front-runner for the 2018 presidential race [...] Ever since, Lula has been held in a makeshift prison cell inside a Federal Police building in Curitiba [...] An electoral court then barred Lula’s candidacy for president. Barring Lula from running as a candidate paved the way for the election of the far-right extremist Jair Bolsonaro" https://theintercept.com/2019/05/22/lula-brazil-ex-president...