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Micron, Samsung, Hynix like most others. They aren't reselling ram, just using chips from the only companies that make them, but they pick certain bins and do their own QC and direct support etc.

It's early but imagine a world where your vision is enhanced with overlays and information about your surroundings. Where your task cna be visually aided. Where sight disabilities can be corrected.

This has been military, sci-fi and video game HUD territory for so long, but that can change.

Back in the 90s my High School only had Acorns for the students, although there was a lab of them with the PC cards wed play Scorched Earth on.

I had an Amiga at home and was so frustrated at not having access to x86 PCs.

In hindsight I realise how fortunate I was to learn programming and be exposed to these different very forward thinking OSes very early.

RISC OS began my experience of hacking software by being able to click into the application and edit stuff. Trying to bypass the security to do more on them also honed early development and explorative techniques too.

No mention of how the UK's inner city housing is generally not suited for people to be working out of?

If this change happens it will take many years and will need the government to support it in Internet infrastructure and working from home regulations.

At the moment complaints and concerns are under the radar as we all know its temporary. Millions of people do not live in an abode where they could work from home from for the foreseeable future.

We have a housing crisis and small homes, plus shockingly unreliable Internet across many parts of the country including all over large cities.

I'm all for not propping up retail and turning it into accommodation, reducing how many homes landlords can own, getting rid of the buy to airbnb culture that's come in, advancing work from home technologies, reduction of commute and much more. This is not a simple fix though. Business has seen it works for some of them when they denied it would or wouldn't even consider it; and are now wanking over the the thought of not paying for office space and utilities* with very little concern for employee wellbeing.

The reality is you have living conditions for millions not suited to more than one person using it as an office and often not even one person. Young people especially coming into their first jobs will be vastly at risk of having to work and sleep in the same room.

*so many stories out there of companies expecting employees to pay for utilities being used in business operations due to lack of commuting costs (long before this too).

Get BetterTouchTool is totally worth it if you want to customise the touchbar. Also a decent window placement tool, shortcut manager and a bunch of other things.

I never created my Facebook. My Gmail address is a common 6 character nickname and people use it as a throw away address all the time.

Sometimes they use it to sign up for things that don't verify email. Any major service I've ignored and go to try usually has my email registered.

I deleted Facebook 3 times before giving up. I believe people were trying to reset the password and Facebook recreated the account. I have left it since before GDPR came in, but I would put money on it being an attempt to re-enable the account.

> Zoom is one of the only actual profitable companies discussed, but the author tosses them into the list of disasters like WeWork. But let's unpack that: They IPOed at $36 a share, and they're down to $88, and the lesson here is "oh man, public markets hate startups"? ...like, really?

Two weeks after the article it is up to 105.51 pre-market for Monday 2nd March after a high of 120.54 Friday 28th Feb. Now while there resurgence has happened due to COVID-19 it's still there.

It is 100% Etsy forcing this change. Josh Silverman is there to increase revenue and this is how they are doing it.

There was no consideration for their sellers, a large number of which cannot do free shipping. Etsy want to be "Etsy" not a platform and service for sellers.

Sure some stores won't be affected but plenty had already tried free shipping and reported it did not work, Etsy didn't care. Anyone shipping heavy items or internationally can't do free shipping properly. I know UK stores who have been told to just offer a code and discount back some of the value to their UK customers so that these stores can sell with free shipping in the US. It doesn't make sense. This is a pure revenue driver, it does not benefit stores.

Etsy do not know how to run small businesses and they are forcing people who do to make bad decisions.

You could have offered free shipping anyway if you had wanted to.

The app stores are littered with these, so yes.

"Celebrities" have backed them, they come in life, fantasy, sci-fi, business, crime, sports and every other genre you can imagine.

What you quoted simplifies and thus obsfucates the situation in the UK.

Child pornogrpahy is obviously illegal, but nearly all of it is actively filtered via the IWF lists.

Legal forcing comes from court orders, of which there have been many of in regard to piracy and many other issues. Don't need court orders to regularly bring down child porn because there are already plenty of active attempts and stuff in place from IWF, ISPs, Police forces etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_K...

Yep. The London guilds still wield a fair bit of power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_company

The government embraced an agile transformation as a legacy enterprise software company would that wanted to remain relevant and compete in the private sector.

Because they have the right approach to software development and the services were so far behind and costing so much it couldn't really be objected to as a strategy.

The other big factor was that all 3 major political parties agreed at the time and it wasn't blocked. It was moved to focus on the needs of citizens owned by civil servants rather than the convenience of government and farmed out.

Try new things? Aware incubating as a startup is better? Maybe they had many of these. They own match, okcupid, plentyoffish and others, would have made sense to setup a bunch of app teams and let them play.

I have the same issue, except I have a 6 character nickname using 3 unique characters at gmail and people use it for all sorts. Games, flights, utility bills, shopping sites, phone contracts, dating sites and much more. From all over the world. I had someone else's dropbox too, and even after the continued warnings they would cancel it and had cancelled it there were messages to access it still, that it was still there with the ability to view data.

The strangest by far though is the huge amount of gmail accounts created with my email as the backup. I have to assume that wording on some localisations indicate you need one so they mash the keys and pop in my gmail.

So I have hundreds of security alerts for recovery and notifications it has been set.

Funny old world.

Cool, I'll continue to see us purchase quality, proven, monitors as we expand and require more hardware rather than start dropping large consumer TVs on peoples desks.

Our employees are sat 50cm from their 27" 1440p monitors, they sit at 1.2M/4ft desks and look at text for 5-6 hours a day. So in this context TVs are not suitable, and would be never considered for our office environment. Some are free to choose what they want and have 4K monitors, everything is Dell Ultrasharp for simplicity. There is a mix of portrait and landscape used. I'd suggest quality 4K over cheap 4K, but we don't provide that for all our employees as it is unnecessary, but I do deal with a lot of other businesses and it has been very uncommon for me to see 4K TVs in the workplace here in the UK.

I've had IPS monitors for 15 years and maybe it's in my head at this point compared to high end TVs and TN panels, but I wouldn't use anything else nor would I subject those I expect to drive revenue for me to do so. It's a key tool that is often an afterthought.

End of the day whatever works for you, but I have seen first hand people have huge TVs on a desk thinking they are getting some kind of gain and then they look up and down all day long or squint to see whats on it. A lot of people have to be forced to adhere to good ergonomics and healthy use of computers.

Hardware is cheap compared to what we pay for software, SaaS, pension and perks for our staff so it's something we are good on.

/ramble over

lol yes it is, I mean't 2000 - no idea why I wrote 10,000

The TV mounted on blocks and the Hackintosh suggest the author is willing to compromise and using a TV as a monitor confirms it. Don't get me wrong, I also run a Hackintosh and have had monitors stood on boxes, crates and books over the years, but when it comes to displays I really don't think you should compromise.

I have converted many professionals away from TVs because when you can actually have real quality monitors to compare them too it's usually a no-brainer to abandon the cheap TV. No trick, no incentive for me, just the better choice. It is also why every employee in our company has a pair of IPS displays.

I've looked at 4K TVs as options for a monitor multiple times, from the early Seiki TVs that hit at the start of the pricing change to what's been on offer for Black Friday, don't do it to yourself unless you are spending most of your time gaming/consuming content on the same system or just using it to monitor things.

If you are going to be sat in front of displays for 10,000 hours a year working/focusing (like many of us I am sure) then investing in something like a pair of Dell U3415W, LG UM95 or LG 31MU97Z-B will give you a much nicer experience. Totally appreciate that isn't a $300 solution, but as professionals we should invest in (or demand from your employer) good tools.

To those of you who are using 4K TVs, it is obviously hard to get in front of these monitors and see the difference, but if you can you should - you've already made the choice to go for something better than a cheap 22" 1080P monitor, there are a lot of options to create a great environment to do your best work.

The article is just pure marketing anyway for referrals, so make of that what you will.

Yeah, but there was a lot in the middle that more directly inspired the creators and all sorts of stuff around at the time.

Warhammer was much more tied to RPGs with it's first editio and there was all sortsd of overlaps from GW and D&D/Chainmail

Here is an interview with one of the creators that discusses the origins:

https://juegosydados.com/2016/08/26/interview-with-rick-prie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game)

I've worked in environments that turned toxic and what you posted is all too familiar. I learnt from it too and the signs that things are perhaps wrong are evident much quicker now. I also learnt a lot about how not to manage/lead from similar incidents.

No they aren't, this just looks like an itch that has been scratched. Outside of the ORM libraries there isn't much fanfare for this sort of thing though.

I spent a couple of hours looking for exactly this yesterday for a new Tornado based project and ended up using queries: https://github.com/gmr/queries which seems on the same level for my purposes of wanting to cleanly pass raw SQL and get python data structures in return. Queries also provides asynchronous API interaction with Tornado which will be nice for me.

Coincidently queries was inspired by Kenneth Reitz's work on requests.

I think it is often tempting to write something like this as it is quite a light thing and can reacquaint someone with SQL if they haven't used it for a while. I know I was tempted after pouring through ORMs.

Ahh, you misunderstood me. It was open source many years ago and that body of code doesn't seem to exist anywhere now.

Things have long moved on from that period, but a few of us are just curious to see if the code is still around from that time or if our product is one mavhc was talking about (unlikely).

Could you link to them please as I work at an MIS company that moved from open to closed source and wondering if our old codebase is still out there.

This project looks good, but it does remind me of the issues with management systems for public services. With the level of requests we deal with from school users that "need" features to satisfy management/governors/government it makes it very hard to do open source and be suitable.

I've had ECC on my workstations since 2006 when Intel forced it on DP systems due to FB-DIMMs. Being that I have had a good number of correctable memory errors over the past decade I don't feel I can go back to not having it, wouldn't make any sense when the cost is so low. It was also a case that I couldn't get non-ECC 8GB and 16GB DIMMs when I built some of my systems, so it just was a matter of fact that I had to use it.

Do people need it? Nah probably now for systems that can handle crashing, but you'd be nuts to not use it in servers or systems running long jobs - it's just a single insurance payment on your system that gives a remote chance of protection.

Sadly there are very few studies in to it that show how modern DIMMs still get errors that are correctable. Manufacturing processes are much better, but they haven't eliminated the need for it.

I do enjoy the "why would I need it, I've never had memory errors" attitude though when people likely have no idea why their application or OS crashed. And the accounts of people who eventually diagnose memory errors after weeks of random crashes which would have been reported immediately if they had ECC.