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901.
by asveikau 2y ago
So that's an argument that the government and the public should get a return on that investment, or profits should be constrained. Or an argument against exclusive rights being in private hands.
902.
by asveikau 2y ago
Doesn't the government also fund a lot of pharma R&D? Here's a 2019 article that came up in a Google search: Taxpayers funded this HIV research. The government patented it. Now a company profits https://www.latimes.
903.
by asveikau 2y ago
They seem unaware that a lot of SF based people go to the east bay. But it's not inevitable that families move to suburbs either. Commenter is partly perpetuating a 1960s era "white flight" kind of stereotype, where cities a
904.
by asveikau 2y ago
I think early in the history of Windows, the first 3 versions or so, Ballmer's official role at Microsoft was head of Windows. I may be misremembering stories I heard about that timeline, though.
905.
by asveikau 2y ago
I expose my home assistant entities to Home so that I get voice commands using their speakers. Stuff that you install in your house is generally expected to last a long time. Imagine centering your home around Google and having them uncerem
906.
by asveikau 2y ago
That's funny when you consider the rename to Alphabet. Edit: to clarify, since somebody downvoted me, I'm just saying it's funny that they refactored all their properties into multiple legal entities and now several years lat
907.
by asveikau 2y ago
I mean, a bunch of those are timing issues in speculative execution, you could make an argument that it's working as designed but people didn't anticipate the existence of timing exploits. I'd call that different from computa
908.
by asveikau 2y ago
Linux was managed with tarballs and patch emails until a little over 20 years ago when they started using bitkeeper, then Linus wrote git.
909.
by asveikau 2y ago
I sometimes get visual migraines and I can strangely relate to this. I don't have what is described in the article. But sometimes I have a tendency to "soldier on", push through and tune out the symptoms. One way it catches u
910.
by asveikau 2y ago
Basically any hope of solving a problem with a Meta property is to know employees who can escalate your issue. Sometimes your friend at Meta also needs to argue with the bug owner to not close it frivolously.
911.
by asveikau 2y ago
I could read that in the opposite direction: why were the SPDY people pushing their half-finished protocols into a bunch of upstream projects? Wasn't that irresponsible? Shouldn't they have pushed those same projects to remove sup
912.
by asveikau 2y ago
I don't volunteer at jails or prisons but I volunteer at a food pantry serving the poor, and on the topic of criminal justice I've given a fair amount of money to the innocence project. Don't assume that these are empty words
913.
by asveikau 2y ago
Keep your revenge fantasies to yourself. I hope you can see that you're being a hypocrite, wanting to counter alleged cruelty by treating people cruelly, which would make you no different from them.
914.
by asveikau 2y ago
I learned a bunch of these things largely on my own, but it probably helped that I was at MSFT for a few years.
915.
by asveikau 2y ago
When win32 was dominant they didn't need to document it, people had the motivation to figure it out. Successive waves of Microsoft people then tried to make it easier to use or replace it entirely, which, they never did so with the sam
916.
by asveikau 2y ago
I think C++ is especially good for a GUI. The two counter-examples I can think of with plain C: * GTK+, though honestly speaking I think quality has dipped over the decades where C++ equivalents have flourished. * Old school Win32 style. Co
917.
by asveikau 2y ago
Back in the day the euphemism was "trustworthy computing". That may be a good thing to Google to find those emails. I remember then too. Another name was "palladium"
918.
by asveikau 2y ago
> could mean in any one of the thousands of departments not even remotely related to Windows. That's true. I was a dev in Windows though. I wasn't privy to any memorable internal discussions about secure boot. Anyway, I'm
919.
by asveikau 2y ago
Making a non-microsoft product require manual key enrollment, while Microsoft products do not require such enrollment, sounds like abusing monopoly status to give new entrants a disadvantage. The 1990s antitrust people would have a field da
920.
by asveikau 2y ago
> it can prevent ... switching a trusted kernel for a malicious, modified copy. Or a free OS.
921.
by asveikau 2y ago
A lot of people who are very good at what they do have a hard time selling it. A lot of people who are good at selling it are not actually accomplishing much. So there is often a gap between perception of high performers and actual high per
922.
by asveikau 2y ago
The International Phonetic Alphabet is helpful, though it may add confusion to talk about this with people unfamiliar with IPA. What you describe as y is /j/ in IPA. What you describe as zh is /ʒ/. Spanish j is usually &
923.
by asveikau 2y ago
I read it as supporting my theory. It says that in French of the time as heard by English people at the time, the phonetic value of that u was ambiguously heard as f or v. My position is v and u were phonetically ambiguous or sometimes hear
924.
by asveikau 2y ago
Old Spanish lasted until about 1500 afaik. The contrast wasn't just spelling, the spelling differences are due to deeper phonetic changes.
925.
by asveikau 2y ago
I don't know. An /i/ near a vowel in Spanish tends to become /j/. I usually see the consonant y transcribed as [ʝ]. Wikipedia on Spanish phonology notes the difference in pronunciation between viuda and ayuda wh
926.
by asveikau 2y ago
One debugger feature I thought of while writing the comment was the ?? command in windbg. That takes an expression and evaluates it. Gdb also does this which I've used with the "print" command to print a C expression, includi
927.
by asveikau 2y ago
I'm talking about historical use of these letters in Latin. But if you've seen middle and early modern English text that hasn't been sanitized for modern readers, you will see a lot of stuff. You'll see W written as uu.
928.
by asveikau 2y ago
X in Mexico or Quixote used to be pronounced as "sh". I think X is still used for that sound in Portuguese or Basque or Catalan if I'm not mistaken. In the case of Mexico they were transcribing a word from indigenous people.
929.
by asveikau 2y ago
I think Old Spanish had i in some of those. Like rei. Or i meaning and.
930.
by asveikau 2y ago
No, it's because the letter J came about in the 4th century AD to cover the consonant version of I in Latin. J and I are thus equivalent. There is a similar history between U and V. The original latin alphabet just had V. U covers the

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