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We simplify the big O notation in computer science. This is standard practice.

I think this change came from the UX team.

Relevant articles:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/simplicity-vs-choice/

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/short-term-memory-and-web-u...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/working-memory-external-mem...

Probably Bunny CDN with Edge Scripting.

Don't worry, professors do it too.

I had one such professor in accounting. Typos, numbers from wrong year, copy/paste mistakes, forgot to turn on precision as displayed, mismatching account numbers, etc.

The textbook (written by someone else) also had mistakes. At least not in every exercise, but enough to be annoying.

Exams were also graded based on an incorrect solution, so you always had to fight for a revised grade.

They do support if you spend enough money with them. At least with GCP. Access to in-house cloud architects level of support, even.

It seems like they're entirely different units?

TOPS means Tera Operations Per Second.

Petaflops means Peta Floating Point Operations Per Second.

... which, at least to my uneducated mind here, doesn't sound comparable.

He can't prevent WP Engine from getting access to Automattic services, so he acts out his revenge on the rest of the world instead?

Not a fan of Mullenweg either, but let's be realistic. For anyone who isn't completely detached from reality, dealing with lawsuits is draining, emotionally and mentally.

It's easy to point fingers and assume motives, but unless you're in the trenches, it's hard to truly know what's going on in someone's head. Given the circumstances, his decision to take a break isn't exactly out of the ordinary.

Most people would probably do the same if they were in his shoes.

Ah, the classics:

"Pedestrian involved in accident"

"Cyclist collides with car"

"Car brushes against cyclist"

"Vehicle loses control"

Amazing how responsibility shifts when a two-ton machine is involved.

Study finds that 65 % of employees bypass cybersecurity measures in companies with terrible cybersecurity practices? Shocking.

That's what's usually called a lie of omission.

Netflix won't take a hit here.

Most people pay Netflix to watch movies and tv shows, not sports. If I hadn't checked Hacker News today, I wouldn't even know they streamed sports, let alone that they had issues with it. Even now that I do, it doesn't affect how I see their core offering, which is their library of on-demand content.

Netflix's infrastructure is clearly built for static content, not live events, so it's no shock they aren't as polished in this area. Streaming anything live over the internet is a tough technical challenge compared to traditional cable.

I'm having a hard time understanding your comment. I'm not American, but can someone explain why it wouldn't make sense to lose confidence in elections when gerrymandering and the electoral college skew the results so much? Sure, votes are technically counted, but if the system is set up so that those votes don't really impact the outcome the way you'd expect, isn't that a pretty valid reason to feel disillusioned?

This is literally a totally different piece of software with a completely unrelated use case. Changing the name would make as much sense as renaming a hammer because someone invented a screwdriver.

Probably not, but in that case, the U.S. would fill that void instead. It's a wonderful symbiotic relationship where countries don't give a shit about other countries' pet companies. God forbid if the EU would actually be strict with the automotive industry of Germany. God forbid if the U.S. would actually be strict with their tech industry.

If you dig into the article, it's evident that AWS is just trying to appease the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. To claim there's no competition would be a monumental blunder, like a government declaring there's no need for a military during a war. They don't really believe that on-prem is serious competition, but they pretend to in order to avoid litigation.

AWS claiming that on-prem solutions are competition to UK regulators is like Apple insisting the App Store isn't a monopoly to EU regulators, Google asserting that Chrome isn't dominating the web to the DoJ, or Microsoft denying its omnipresence over the workplace. It's laughable. Seriously, did anyone here actually bother to read beyond the headline?

There is no legal meaning behind and no legal protection for the term open source. A proprietary software license can use the term open source in the license and define it as the source code is available. Legal systems don't care about what some random organization like the OSI thinks open source stands for.

All of these problems are Windows problems too. I don't get why Linux gets all the hate for it.

I had 2 Linux Dell laptops in a row that either had Wifi OR bluetooth, never both. I swapped the radio in the second one and things were okay for awhile.

I had a Windows laptop that came with broken wifi and bluetooth as well as a BIOS-enforced wifi card whitelist that prevented me from swapping out the wifi card.

Neither of these, nor the Asus laptop I later purchased supported sleep/hibernate when the lid closes.

Yes, so does my Windows laptop. It's why I always shut it down completely before going anywhere.

My current workstation that runs Ubuntu 22.04 and now 24.04 was going great until I got some update that swapped me back from Wayland to X11. Now things are weird and I've got to make time to fuck with it to figure out how to make this RTX 4080 work with Wayland.

An NVIDIA update gave people with my laptop model a blackscreen. NVIDIA only fixed this half a year or so later.

The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the operator of a search engine is not required to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of its search engine. So, it's a bit bold of you to say that Europe is trying to control the entire internet when they explicitly told Google they're allowed to limit the impact to Europe alone.

Also, the "right to be forgotten" suggests more rights of the data subject than the text of the article provides for. The title is often understood by data subjects to be an absolute right to have personal data deleted - however if the controller has a legal basis for the processing of personal data, the exercise of Article 17 GDPR has usually no effect.

It feels more like YouTube just doesn't prioritize an unpopular browser. Google only put resources into Firefox so they can say they're not a monopoly, but that strategy didn't really pan out. So, now, they're probably going to stop caring about Firefox altogether.

No, the EC asked ChatGPT to rewrite the Privacy Shield but give it another name, and the CJEU is expected to retroactively invalidate the law again. This will only change if the US provides essentially equivalent privacy protection laws, which they don't.

A price premium? Are you aware that Amazon sells these at a loss? Amazon wants to kill Alexa because they couldn't find a way to monetize it.

There never was a business here to begin with. Amazon wants to kill Alexa because they couldn't find a way to monetize it.

This has been my experience. Public channels is where questions go to die. Ask your coworkers directly.

Over 1/3 of WD-40 is made of a lubricant. My salad dressing is over 1/3 oil. Does that make it lubricant, or is it actually still salad dressing?

currently only supports TRON chain tokens/contracts

A cryptocurrency payment platform that doesn't even support Bitcoin. I don't think more needs to be said.

A custom modding framework that patches code at runtime to dodge legal issues of binary patching, or more accurately shift the legal issues from us to end consumers. Companies don't pursue end consumers for things like that, or so I heard. Either way, problem was that the modding framework and the app itself shared a couple of libraries. Our modding framework used features of newer versions of libraries, features that the app with outdated libraries didn't have. Sometimes, the class path order put older versions of libraries first, causing the modding framework to use a class, function, etc. that doesn't exist in that version of the library yet. This rarely was an issue since most libraries didn't change much from version to version, but the class path lottery did have a few uncommon combos that made the app crash until you restart your computer.

Kickbacks, that's why.

It's difficult for me to picture the US and China entering into a full-scale war, primarily because of the deep financial interdependencies between them. China holds a substantial amount of US debt and, in practice, tends to view this more as a long-term investment rather than expecting immediate repayment. A military conflict would not only jeopardize this financial relationship but also risk significant economic fallout. Essentially, China has the leverage to dramatically impact the US defense budget, making a major conflict between the two countries a less likely scenario given these economic realities.

If you think about it, the logical conclusion here is that insurance companies could end up with no customers at all. The ideal customer for them is someone with almost zero risk. But if their algorithms get advanced enough to accurately assess who’s a safe bet, anyone they do insure might as well take it as a sign that they don’t actually need insurance in the first place.

It's a self-defeating cycle. As the models improve, they'll start excluding anyone who might ever need to file a claim. The more they optimize, the less relevant they become. In the end, insurance might evolve into something entirely different or become obsolete altogether. It's the ultimate paradox of trying to reduce risk to zero: You end up with no business at all.