Nullinker

Yes, all data stored in data centers administered by US companies like Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft should be considered available to the US Government and US competitors. There are known examples of the US government doing industrial espionage for US businesses in the past.

This is an extremely uncomfortable truth that European businesses really don't want to acknowledge and just keep pretending it's not true, not a big deal, and even if it was there is nothing they can do about it.

Instead they focus on complying with endless security check lists with unlikely scenarios while ignoring the elephant in the room.

I would actually argue that once the masses are aware about certain technology existing and being in widespread use it becomes much easier to convince someone that a particular instance that the data is not trustworthy, so the ability to detect it through technological means becomes less important.

In the stage before widespread use people are much more easily tricked because they are unaware that others have certain capabilities which they never experienced first hand.

I gave up on trying to read it on the desktop. I have Firefox with JavaScript enabled but after expanding every paragraph by clicking on it, it automatically collapses when I try to scroll using the cursor keys and completely disoriented me while the content I was trying to read dissapears from my view and the page stutters and different collapse paragraphs light up.

I guess I'll never know the details of the greatest user interface disasters in history but at least got to experience a smaller one myself.

I also have ethical standards for employers. I do feel like it has limited my career in some ways and that I did not accumulate as much wealth as I could have had if I had different standards. I do have the peace of mind that I can tell myself that I tried to make things better, of course there is more I could have done but I have accepted that there are limits to what to expect of yourself and others.

I did struggle finding work that would actively make the world better, and have limited my ambitions in that regards. I now settle for not actively making things worse.

I now work on software for accountants to automate and streamline workflows for them and their customers so everybody can spend less time on doing accounting and filing their taxes and just do whatever they are trying to do.

One benefit is that avoiding exploitative businesses also seems to have a good correlation of avoiding toxic work environments.

I am still often disappointed that many people seem to totally absolve any responsibility by deferring ethical decision making to whatever organization they are involved in. It's a chilling realization after interacting with someone to realize that their ethical compass just does not seem there, and they are completely unaware or OK with that.

I remember so many history classes in school where we would learn about how average people became involved in horrible things, and the few people that would stand up against it and face hardships because of it. Maybe the lesson was not that you should strive to be one of those people that stands up for what is right, but that it just the way it is that most people don't would rather keep their heads down.

My city removed all plastic recycling bins several years ago in favor of using trash sorting robots after collecting mixed waste.

The robots could pick sort 70% effectively while the population of humans after years of training was stuck at 50%. I imagine the efficiency of the robots may even have increased a bit since then.

Like Tomovo above already said; your workflow would benefit from using an intermediate format that is faster to encode. You can then automate the conversion to the output format to occur unattended at a more convenient time.

The use of intermediate formats is a well proven technique in video editing where encoding real time to AVC/HEVC at high quality is not possible. Codecs like ProRes are used that are much easier to encode to at the expense of storage space.

My wife wanted to close her US bank account:

Customer: I don't live in the US anymore, how can I close my bank account?

1 week later...

Bank: Sorry for the delay, we were unable to answer your question in time but assume that you have found the answer already and closed the ticket.

Customer: Repeats the question.

Bank: To close an account you need to come in person to one of our branches that are only in a few states in the USA.

She still has the back account.

Communication goes both ways. It is a very reasonable assumption that a life story is about your whole life, not just your education and professional career.

The recruiters should explain what they mean if they are redefining terms, especially since people regularly interpret it differently.

I once had an interviewer tell me that he loved working there so much that he was happy to go to work every single day. Even when I explicitly asked him if there never was a single day where felt less happy he denied ever feeling anything other than pure joy for work.

At that point I concluded that he was either lying or unable to relate to people who are not happy all the time since he was supposed to be the supervisor it was one of the reasons to decline the job.

But we should also not underestimate the ability of the enemy to train dolphins.

It would be hard to send an strike team of just dolphins but I imagine a strike team of both humans and dolphins trained to fend of the defending dolphins and protect the divers would stand a chance.

The hardware required for an acceptable VR experience seems to be finally within our grasp.

I have been dreaming closing the human computer interface for decades. The possibilities for productivity and creativity are endless. Imagine sculpting a 3D model with you hands. Or being able to make music, not with virtual instruments but by manipulating waveforms of various audio streams with your with fingertips and feeling the sound while you sculpt it.

Yet I have not seen even a tech demo for such things in VR, all innovation seems aimed consuming content, because that is where the easy money is.

But I am still typing on a digital keyboard that cannot even sense how hard I am pressing the keys. What Apple did with the iPad pro and pencil for digital illustration is one example of what can be done. I hope Apple will once again innovate for creative professionals.

The article contains a video of Steve Jobs talking about VR. I feel like Steve could push for something revolutionary for creative professionals, while Time Cook might give us something slightly better than that we had before.

Because it is one of the primary functions of the government to prevent excesses in the free market so that generated wealth is spread out over many people in society as opposed to a only a few. Because people consider that unfair it often leads to destabilizing society causing even more suffering.

Last year I invested in upgrading my home office after working from home for several months messing with USB-C dongles without enough ports, don't always work and interfere with the WiFi signal.

I expected to go back to the office after getting vaccinated. But that much took longer than expected, and now again we're stuck in a lockdown waiting for booster vaccines to become available.

Keyboard: Keychron K1 mechanical keyboard. Slim enough so that no additional wrist support is needed but still feels great to type on.

Screen: Dell 27" U2720Q 4K screen. Good quality screen, charges the laptop with one cable and connects keyboard mouse etc. with built in USB hub. But the best feature is the optional soundbar with built in microphones and noise cancelling like a teleconference unit you find in a meeting room. It allows me to talk to people without having to plug things in my ears all the time which was a giant bother before.

Yet another project that promotes the idea of injecting JavaScript from another domain into your website.

I am so tired of this terrible practice being promoted by all these fancy front-end projects.

At least we can now block this stuff with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers. I just don't want to have to explain keep explaining to junior developers and designers over and over why loading JS from another domain terrible for security and privacy and does not improve performance.

Very nice and comprehensive resource. I don't consider myself impatient but appreciate the high information density and the ability to quickly skip past the parts that I already know and actually learned a few new things.