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March coincides with the first month of the Jewish calendar.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2164005/jewis...

It was also the first month of the Roman calendar until January and February were added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martius_(month)

Related: The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/

My hesitation with hybrids is that I keep all the associated maintenance costs of an ICE engine. Now I have two power trains and energy systems to maintain instead of just one.

Yep: bill.com

At the time, Utah was located in Mexican territory.

Being a pessimist is easy and lazy. You don’t have to lift a finger. Things can actually get better and do when people believe it and do even just a little bit.

An acquaintance of mine worked for Mozilla on a project to add tor to Firefox. Code was done, but Google, as it’s primary funder, squashed it.

So basically everyone affected will have their hours cut without a change in hourly wage. All these people are then going to have to find a second job to avoid losing 20% of their income. How is that not going to happen?

It’s still to early to see all the effects of the sanctions. That was something repeated several times.

I was curious to see how each state was doing and Google didn’t disappoint:

https://artbabridgereport.org/state/map

The Jetstream has been my favorite for years.

I see it more as idealism vs pragmatism. We need both. I think older people tend to be conservative because they've become jaded by idealists and/or politics in general. To many, conservatism is that government and politics screw everything up, so we need less of it.

Ideally with decentralized identity, you use a separate identifier with every relationship. Otherwise you have created the ultimate super cookie.

Remember that you are the product and not the customer for these companies.

Google’s customers are the advertisers who pay and (I’d argue) those who want to show up in search results. You have to either pay for ads or play their algorithm game to be relevant because of their monopoly position on search. It’s basically the same story for Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc.

This also explains the supply chain issues we are experiencing now because of the move to just-in-time manufacturing across the board.

> Scott Pelley: What is the legal theory behind going to the SEC? What laws are you alleging have been broken?

> John Tye: As a publicly-traded company, Facebook is required to not lie to its investors or even withhold material information. So, the SEC regularly brings enforcement actions, alleging that companies like Facebook and others are making material misstatements and omissions that affect investors adversely.

Just like with IP traffic, companies terminate calls through multiple providers. While bandwidth might be the primary termination provider for 911 for a company, the calls can be routed through others. That backup route, however, may not have locale information so the call might have to be taken initially at a national call center so the locale can be determined, after which it is properly forwarded to the local 911 center. Not ideal since it can add precious time to getting help, but at least the call can get through.

Some highlights since the last LTS (JDK 11):

  Language Features
  394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
  395: Records
  306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
  409: Sealed Classes
  361: Switch Expressions
  378: Text Blocks

  Language Features in Preview (behind a flag)
  406: Pattern Matching for switch
  412: Foreign Function & Memory API
  414: Vector API

  Tooling
  392: Packaging Tool (jpackage)

  JVM
  386: Alpine Linux Port
  391: macOS/AArch64 Port
  340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
  388: Windows/AArch64 Port

(Source: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/jeps-since-jdk-11)

I’m sorry for the world you live in. It’s not that way for everyone everywhere. I hope you can find your way to some place better.

> I personally think Snapchat shot themselves in the foot with bad product strategy.

Seems to have worked out poorly for them.

How is saying there is insufficient data to make a conclusion not grounded in science?

Reading the other comments about the lack of integrity in scientific research that they’ve witnessed, is it any wonder why people might be skeptical about important issues like climate change, vaccines, masks, etc? There’s great research being done and a larger part of the population is becoming more and more skeptical because lies are being published and touted. Science needs to clean its house.

I’ll never use Google Cloud as long as I’m using Gmail. I don’t want either one to trigger shutting down the other for “suspicious activity.”

By being slightly behind, you get to learn from those languages that live on the bleeding edge. The laggards get to benefit from all the corner cases found and mistakes committed.

Holy smokes—worked fast and smooth on my phone too! Well done!