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I use a Vivoactive 3, and the battery definitely doesn't last days if I actually use it to track a specific exercise. I'm quite unimpressed with the battery life, but the watch is fairly feature-rich, otherwise.

If I just wear it without running anything, then yes, it can last days. But if all I want is to track heart rate, sleep, and such, I can get that with a much cheaper watch.

>The so called mystic Islam also known as Sufism, is a deviant sect, and is fundamentally a gateway to polytheism, as it borrows many practices from polytheistic religions.

This illustrates that you have a fundamentalist streak in you: you've described a form of Islam you don't like as being "deviant". You're gatekeeping Islam.

I wish Telegram secret conversations carried over to multiple devices. This is a thing I don't have to worry about with Signal or WhatsApp.

It's a similar wild west in the US, except people are basically brewing bathtub steroids from dubious Chinese powders.

Since you mentioned JIRA, it is basically there to support bloated Scrum teams. And one often hears No True Scotsman fallacies regarding Scrum. Salesforce has always seemed to me like something that, indeed, falls into this category of things that are never "done right". And likewise, I am sure there are Salesforce coaches, and maybe even some books that people try to sell.

>Why is so hard to understand that government limitations on free speech are fundamentally different from private ones?

Because memories of the Cold War are fading quickly? Now in 2020 people (on both the Left and Right, mind you) are, with a straight face, trying to argue that social media should be seen as a "public utility", and regulated accordingly. We're rapidly on track to losing what is left of a free Internet.

I'd say it shows that for most day-to-day work in the software industry, a certain percentage of the CS material we learn is simply unnecessary. No one has ever asked me to re-implement well-known algorithms that are found in well-established libraries. There are, of course, people who do this, and they do need such a background. But they are likely outliers.

Are the "BS work rules" that unions might introduce really that much worse than what gets imposed on the average software shop these days? Scrum ceremony, planning by committee, etc, at times is the kind of bureaucracy that brings productivity down.

The point may be that many (if they're truly senior, not someone with 3-5 years in the industry) will not have used these theories in 10+ years. The real-world application is questionable.

It's Canada, so HIPAA wouldn't apply. A Canadian equivalent, presumably, would have to apply.

Mainstream journalism is elitist, is the problem. They seem to see entities like Wikileaks as fake journalism, that circumvents their gatekeeping. Assange isn't a hero to them, so they won't come to his defence.

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"

It is precisely at this beginning point where most "Agile" teams fall flat on their faces. Instead, it is all about process, rather than said individuals/interactions. Scrum rituals are done because, well, everyone else does them, so that's considered "correct". Whether or not there is any value in the process is secondary.

This, most likely. And it isn't as if the whiskey industry is the only one benefiting from being able to ignore the pollution that they create. Though there is a move to change how this works, for the most part air pollution remains something for which we all pay the price, collectively, regardless of its origin.

>Yes, “national security” is used to justify all manner of protectionism in this country. We sure love our oligopolies.

That and outright monopolies created by the government itself.

I think a lot of those entities aren't griefers-by-design. Some of them really believe in what they're doing. This makes them scarier than the garden variety 4chan-er out for the "lulz".

I guess we can see that there is no planned obfuscation of eye "tech".

It isn't limited to tech, but tech has been pretty bad in this area for years. Especially where it concerns recruiters posting fake jobs just to harvest CVs.

People want security. That means different things to different people. Law enforcement is not necessarily the same thing as security. Law enforcement means just that, and the laws themselves may not be what many would consider just. The laws are likely to reflect the prejudices of those in power, which may lend itself to why we're seeing the clashes we're seeing in the US right now.

Those with the resources to do so have on-site security. This ranges from gated communities, to some condo/apartment buildings, and even shopping malls. Even this isn't necessarily free of problems, but it needs to be seen as something fundamentally different from law enforcement. So when we talk about "abolishing" the police, we have to ask what we really want in its stead.

Nor does the US (if we're talking about the strictest definition of "monopoly", which rarely occurs in the private sector), but there are probably degrees of difference in what will set off regulators in the EU versus the US.

Or Odin the flashing software for Samsung devices.

https://samsungodin.com/

Maybe, though to be fair Microsoft is far from being a newcomer to the gaming scene. Even before the Xbox, they were putting their name on games.

>This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They bought LinkedIn, which increasingly resembles a niche social media for professionals, all the way down to a news feed that is increasingly filled with motivational junk

Then there's Github, which used to advertise itself as "social coding".

Microsoft has done plenty already to get their foot in the door of social media.

In this case, Amazon does run its own app store. And as far as streaming platforms go, it sells its own devices (that use Amazon's app store).

>It's to add condescension.

That was my assumption. Things like "um" and "uh" tend to be silence-fillers, among other things (see below). It's weird to see them being typed-out, and I've noted an uptick in how often I see it being done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disfluency

>Um.

Nit: Not sure what this is supposed to mean. Is this an attempt to mimic how you speak aloud?

>Consider the Official YouTube app, with a paid YouTube Premium subscription.

That is definitely an option, but people who use things like youtube-dl or apps like NewPipe probably aren't in the target audience for YouTube Premium.

>Videos with still images (many songs) shouldn't be much data at all over the audio alone.

Part of the point is if you never intend to watch the content, but only want to listen to it, there's no point to having video.

I'm not sure that Apple would ban it. Do they really care if people bypass YouTube's intended restrictions? Obviously Google cares, so you won't be seeing NewPipe on the Play Store.

This remains a killer app for me on Android. I don't know if anything equivalent exists on iOS, to enable background playing and video downloads (and you can choose whether to download them as audio files).

If someone actually paid $275k for your home, then it definitely is worth $275k. But right now that value is just theoretical (maybe real for purposes of taxation, but that doesn't always reflect what a buyer will pay). The moment money changes hands, it becomes real.

Imagine calling Osama bin Laden merely a "critic of US foreign policy and engineer".

>The Hacker News comment section tends to be factual, rational, and logical.

To a fault, perhaps. Humour is frowned upon, while overly pedantic comments are upvoted. Far too many comments uphold the stereotypes about engineers. I wouldn't expect a standard conversation about children to be possible here, both for good and bad.