justadudeama's comments

Yes, there is `Vec` that allows arbitrary length arrays, and iterators implement those other functions

I think epic braking the rules makes their case much stronger. If they say "Apple's rules are unfair" they have a much stronger case if they can show damages caused by Apple's unfairness. My guess this is just another example of them showing the courts that Apple cost them $X in lost revenue because they could no longer make any money on macOS.

The update was live for a couple hours, and I am sure a lot of people purchased the cheaper (against the rules) option. They now have an exact number to tell the courts how much they are loosing to Apple, instead of a hypothetical situation where Apple could argue that customers love apple pay and would use apple pay over 3rd party payment systems.

Epic cannot do anything to release updates and fix bugs on the macOS platform. Epic wants to continue to support their application on macOS - but because of a completely unrelated issue regarding an iOS application they can't. Are you suggesting that they aren't a victim of Apple's anti-competitive and draconian tactics?

Not sure about the other ones, but Blender runs on ARM[0], and it seems like adobe is already working on it[1]

[0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=blender [1] https://www.neowin.net/news/adobe-is-working-to-bring-all-of...

Not saying this isn't important data, but at some point does 2FA make this an innefective method to spy on your citizens? If I have 2FA on my Amazon, if the CCP tried to get into it I would just get a notification with a code, and do nothing except maybe change my password. Additionally, there are probably all sorts of account logs saying "this is who logged in when from what IP address" that are associated with a lot of these accounts.

Direct access via the companies themselves is probably much more valuable today.

I think the fact that she is a western journalist who speaks out against the CCP makes a reasonable explanation that her account is more 'watched' then the average account.

Maybe I don't understand all the way, but I see this line of code in there:

`TraceLoggingUInt32(_rguiTimesApiUsed[GetConsoleAliases], "GetConsoleAliases"),`

Is that sending Microsoft all of my bash/zsh aliases? And what about `TraceLoggingUInt32(_rguiTimesApiUsed[GetConsoleTitle], "GetConsoleTitle"),`

If it works how most other Terminals I have used - that is going to send the name of the program I am running or host I am connected to to Microsoft. I think that is pretty invasive if you ask me.

> Changing to a BTreeMap instead of a HashMap in the LRU cache to optimize memory usage.

Can someone explain to me how BTreeMap is more memory efficient than a HashMap?

These are valid points, and it is important to figure out what changes in the model is causing such a dramatic change and scrutinize it more.

> The ability for science to change and adapt is what makes it so strong

To me this article is them _resisting_ change, looking for a reason NOT to accept it, because it goes against what they previously said. Maybe this is all to early, and in a year or so we will be seeing 4 or 4.5 degree predictions, but this article describes them trying to change their inputs to match previous answers, not getting new answers.

I am not a climate change denier by a long shot, but stories like these give a ding to the credibility of climate scientists.

> "So we can't throw them out yet."

This might be an elementary view of science, but I think there is a danger here that while everyone is making their models, if anyone is an outlier they go and tweak their model to match the patterns of others: 'Klaus Wyser’s group "switched off" some of the new cloud and aerosol settings in their model, he said, and that sent climate sensitivity back down to previous levels'. That seems to me a questionable reason to "switch off" part of the model - you should create the most accurate simulation possible and trust the output, not tweak the inputs to match literature data.

Fun and useful tool. I created a button that will show me the NASA photo of the day: https://getbitbar.com/plugins/Science/apod.1h.py

The other ones in the Science category are also quite interesting.

Two things:

1.

> off chance the suicide vest was real

Would you argue that what the police officer did was wrong here? Is lethal force not justified with the credible threat of violence? I would argue that someone threatening you with a Airsoft gun with the tip taken out so it appears to be a real gun is enough to justify deadly force in self defense, you don't have to verify that gun is real. In hindsight, it is clear that you could have arrested him without shooting him, but that was not at all clear in the situation, and having that firearm could have saved dozens if the vest was real.

2. > In this instance

And, for arguments sake, if this was a different situation where the vest was real, what would you say?

What would you call the police officer that came with a gun?

By giving up private firearm ownership you are putting the safety of yourself and your loved ones in the hands of the government. This article is an example of why it is dangerous to do that.

What are the examples of companies acquired by Netflix? They are big, but surely not bigger than Intel or Version or someone like that.

I totally agree with you. Those are _hard_ tools, and if on top of it you have the attitude of "I am just going to learn this for this class because the teacher told me too", you are definitely going to dislike it.

I think you are spot on with the intrinsic interest.

Very true.

I know a lot of people in school who have to use a generally well regarded technology, but hate it because they had to use it in a class. For example, they might see someone on github and go “oh is that github? I hate using git” when in reality they had to use it in a group project with 4 other people who have never used it, and had no understanding of branches, merging, etc.

I have seen the same thing with LaTeX, Python, and Vim.

And all the interns pushing to prod...

Like the calculator app.

AWS Lambda

Pretty sure this can count as lying to / misleading a boarder agent.