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The most effective solution I found for pigeons (although I haven't built this so can't compare...) is feeding them at regular times. It doesn't even have to be a lot. They're smart enough to know I come out around 0830 to give them some seed, and then they fly away for the rest of the day because no more food is coming. Sometimes when new babies appear, it takes a couple of weeks for them to copy the pattern though.
I think your second paragraph there is the critical point that large companies (including the one I work at) miss or purposefully ignore: let the employee control when (and how many) days they are in. Cohesive teams will self organise something suitable for their productivity, non-cohesive teams won't get any better by frustrating x % of the members. But, fundamentally, large companies simply lack trust in their employees so do not want to allow this.
Also, they have a lot of real estate costs to justify. Nothing like physical tech debt for anchoring your company in the past.
Doesn't the data in that blog show Apple improving faster than MicroSoft? Going from taking longer than to fix bugs in 2019 to being faster than them now?
It's pretty impressive that everyone seems to have reduced their time to fix bugs. Linux is doing an amazing job there.
If you go up to the main site, you can get to the wiki which has descriptions. For example: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=type
Generally trying to debug optimised code is a nightmare anyway. Most debugging is performed on non-optimised builds, which wouldn’t be affected by the proposed optimisation.
Fascinating to see other possibilities that were out there. Were the capabilities in Hydra the inspiration for what Fuchsia OS has, or are they a long standing concept?
Just to make a vast generalisation with no hard evidence: I wouldn’t be surprised if it often came down to age. When I was younger, I had the desire, and more importantly the time, to keep everything I used as open source as I could afford.
Fast forward a decade (or maybe 2) and while I am still very pro open-all-the-things, I am happy to pay more for a controlled environment to run things I rely on but don’t care to spend time on maintaining and configuring.
The signup form refuses to allow you to register for a ticket unless you check the “allow us to send spam” check box. That really doesn’t inspire confidence in the quality of the conference.
Most of the services I use allow it without a phone number (as SMS isn’t very secure). A bigger service that I can think of off the top of my head is GitHub.
It’s quite difficult to tell if this is genuine or satire. I really hope it’s the latter though.
Apple's recent ones are fairly easy to search (think this goes back to WWDC 2014): https://developer.apple.com/videos/
It's neat that you can click on the transcripts to jump to the appropriate place in the videos.
The Guardian has it on it's UK Politics main page. That's not really buried.
A quick search using Google news in the UK shows that all the main broadsheets and many of the tabloids have Assange related stories over the past several days at least. I don’t think it’s fair to characterise the media as disinterested.
An iPad is certainly a thin client...
More seriously though, while I am (or have been) persuaded that the restricted environment of iOS generally does make sense for the majority of people, I’d love to see official “blank” iDevices or an open developer mode available for them. Perhaps something similar to being able to install Linux on PlayStation’s. They make very nice portable computing platforms for prototyping and development.
Marketing rarely relies on anything deeper that a sound bite. “MacOS core is Open Source” can play well in the media.
In case you’re looking for a cheaper copy (or that sells out) I think that’s just a hardback version of https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0500021740
It’s quite a good marketing line for the company.
It’s not as clear cut as this. I form and hold complex ideas communicating with colleagues when designing and implementing a broad range of software systems (we work on core libraries used across our company) - we bat things around a lot and get to pretty decent solutions rapidly. I’m fortunate to be amongst people who work like this. I’ve also worked in teams where members preferred to concentrate on problems individually. While I can work like that, I much prefer more communicative teams.
Apple have had that since iOS 11 with iCloud Keychain. It suggests passwords for websites on signup, and offers to save them if you log in. It even correctly offers the password you used on a website when logging in on the native app equivalent for the site.
iOS 13 adoption is much higher than 20%.
The difficulty with that reasoning is that you can say that you can abstract red, but you can't definitely state that I can abstract red any more than other animals may.
Interestingly, we're starting to find evidence for grammatical rules in other animal languages: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20615-first-evidence-...
QNX has been around for quite a while and used across many areas: https://blackberry.qnx.com/en
Edit: The Wikipedia entry has a little less fluff than the official homepage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
This piece has an intersting look at how he makes money: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/close_look/how-doe...
You only really need 1 person to physically pair, and then they can authenticate other people wanting to share it.
I'm not sure that follows. Higher CPU usage isn't undesirable because it slows things down (although it may), it prevents battery powered devices working efficiently. Plucking a figure from the air, if QUIC knocks 10% off the battery life of mobiles, that's a hard sell.
Do you mean the c style for loops? The were removed in favour of iterator style loops (for foo in bar { ... }). Or are there some others I haven't noticed?
There are actually a very small number of octopus "cities". For one, see: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/octopus-city-obser...
I highly recommend "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" for a fascinating look at octopus evolution and comparison to ourselves.
Surely language is how brains communicate? Terrorists were (and still are) quite capable of coordinated attacks without digital technologies.
I simply misunderstood what you were saying - it seemed quite a non-sequitur from the main point of the article.
I think it's a little premature to assume that the population of Japan is going to die out. One of the points mentioned is that few Japanese women have children out of wedlock - I imagine this will change as time moves on and fewer couples marry, similar to other countries.
However, I think the main challenge with posing the question "have there been other human cultures that die out due to a lack of desire to procreate" is that culture is quite an ephemeral thing - what would it mean to die out?
As an aside, is strawman a verb these days? Language is hard to keep up with.
Procreation isn't limited to marriage.