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> Me thinks this just means that this tariff idea exists on the internet

Probably from some random genius on reddit.

Luckily the US has quite some momentum so it can be hoped the damage is limited before the next election so it can then be reverted.

So what do you use? Figma?

The “foreign agent” card.

True long-term thinking.

This is good right? In Europe the eurocheque was already on the decline in 1982 (!), almost not being used anymore in 1998 and finally phased out in 2002.

For a country with so much tech, being the proverbial mother to so much of the tech we use today, it honestly suprises me how old fashioned it is.

We almost have a European webshop payment system, a eID for online authentication against governments, etc.

> I don't get the impression they save any time - it's just different stuff. they're constantly doing things with permissions

Permissions in the cloud is whole other beast, especially in Azure. You can easily spend a week figuring out various managed identity issues.

As for time saving: I've noticed cloud engineers often build a huge contraption of Terraform, Ansible scripts then bots and processes around them. That is then where the focus and time goes too.

And with any software, it is never done. It can always be better.

Classic sysops is much faster in a state of "done, no need to touch it now".

On the other hand you have transient failures in the cloud (at least on Azure - this behavior is even documented) so does that count towards the 99.99999%?

You know that, I know that. But in a polarised two-party system critism or even “added context” can quickly be seen as partisan.

Probably in a attempt to not look partisan.

It might. I'd wage a TCP/IP stack is installed: https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-tcp-ip-32/tcpip-32-...

But the value in malware is not having a single system crash, but having a worm spread. I would assume these systems are directly connected to whatever system feeds them and not to anything else, to mitigate risk.

> The only thing Windows does better is ensuring that they maintain backwards compatibility in libc until they release a new version of Visual Studio

But they are installed side-by-side, major versions at least.

Parts of ASML machines are also made in the US. It is more of a globalised supply chain than you might think. And there are patents, etc.

Do regulators still have teeth in the US?

So MCP to an application is like how a WebDriver interface is to a Web browser?

Yes, at the cost of the desktop experience - it seems. And at the cost of customization.

I feel like at some point Microsoft deliberately decided not to want to maintain "old stuff" anymore. You see this with many other products as well. Desktop is bad, web is good.

Well, older versions of Outlook actually used MSHTML/Trident as a render engine: the engine of Internet Explorer.

They could, if they want, use WebView2 - embedding MS Edge.

It might even be a challenge to see if there are any personal consequences.

> This is the reason that it's very difficult to find a laptop with a battery size larger than 99Wh.

I remember when laptops used to have pluggable batteries. You could even take one extra with you, or buy one extended battery with more capacity.

Actually, knowledge how bad large corporations can work can work against you. I got myself Easyjet scammed after a delayed flight, after being tired from being a day late and having walked long distances. Not noticing a tiny typo on the Twitter account, then be redirected to a fairly generic (no Easyjet logo) but legitimately looking Helpdesk account and I though “Oh yeah, this would totally happen in the large corp I worked where some half baked 3rd party product is used for a Whatsapp helpdesk” in combination with me being tired cost me a few hunderd euros.

> Literally all it adds is the ability to more easily set the machine to run later, which I don't care about.

Funny, that is a single physical button on my Siemens dishwasher.

I've yet to see a LLM asking any critical question, in order to understand the problem better. Without this, it can never be a good programmer because good programmers ask questions.

Okay so you're saying this is, without nuance, nothing different.

I'm sure we could annex some from Microsoft. You know, for security reasons.

Also, data centers from big tech have a large environmental impact and cost a lot of energy, yet do not bring any jobs.

You don't like worker rights. You should have written that. That is not bureaucracy.

I'm not sure which of the Razors you're implying, but none apply here.

In Europe (NL) secrecy of your vote is generally valued in high regard. So you don't register as voter for a political party, and get the voting card sent home - which you then hand in at the voting station which can be open from 6:00 in the morning to 22:00 in the evening. At the voting station the id check is performed.

What about using data encryption in the cloud and the US spying laws? How is that even compatible?

I don't think we need to have any empathy for drug companies which acquire existing drugs and then bump the price multiple times.