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There is a fair bit wrong with this advice.

CA is a joint and several liability state. Joint and several liability is the legal doctrine that each defendant in a personal injury claim may be held responsible for ALL the victim's economic damages. Importantly this can occur if you are fractionally at fault.

You've parked 10 feet off the side of the freeway, 16 feet away from any lane. Someone is going 80 miles an hour, passing cars, then (likely) falls asleep and veers sharply off the road, then along the side of the road and hits your parked truck.

Even though you are fractionally at fault you are on the hook for everything.

From actually seeing cases first hand

1) If you have money

2) you have a connection to an accident however small, particularly a fatal one, and very particularly with any kind of sympathetic angle (wife and children bereaved and at risk of being homeless etc

then you will be named in the lawsuit. And at least in CA - even if the husband was 90% at fault (to a normal person the one who did things wrong). YOU could pay out everything

For front-end dev - some older developers are really tired of the constant churn. This can be a good thing if you can / already are off the endless new frontend bandwagon. But since a lot of junior folks are into the "latest and greatest" it can be very hard internally (and cement a perhaps resistance to change stereotype).

I'm a bit tired of folks saying older devs are not resistant to change. Reality - with experience some stuff just seems faddy at times over the course of longer career arcs. So yes, older devs can be bit resistant to jumping onto the latest bandwagon.

Where is the source for this.

We do have Biden putting tariffs on Canadian lumber to help keep prices high, but that's the only thing I'm aware of.

I hope this new all EV vehicle has a kick ass screen / tech stack system.

So many of their older ones are slow / janky etc. Carplay is a godsend on their other vehicles.

I'm assuming buttery smooth ipad like experience with great touch screen - can anyone confirm this? Burned too many times to trust the marketing vids.

Is WPF/XAML the right way now to do quick get going windows app development?

My question - what happened to microsoft in this space?

The get up and go speed of the super old windows forms approach was fantastic.

Now I'm supposed to use - XAML? UWP? WPF? Do these have great windows form designer still?

I'm talking speed between download and go with an GUI, a button, a text box (maybe data bound) etc.

This will age me, but for all the decades of "improvements" this tooling has, every time I've tried to do the little widget apps thing I used to be able to do trivially I end up wondering in the woods.

That's not all that IPv6 changed. There is a reason even places like google cloud have not implemented ipv6 (and these are huge scale players). They changed so many things around the protocol that you need new firewall experts, new configuration experts etc etc

Do you admin a medium or larger network? Despite the strength of your comment it also illustrates some ignorance.

"No way", "weird persistent idea".

This despite many reasonable people suggesting it.

Deploying IPv6 at scale is deploying a totally different protocal. What is irritating is that it's not just a larger set of bits, everything changed making adoption and tooling MUCH much harder.

"All the tools would need to be thrown out"

Totally and absolutely false. Because an extended Ipv4 would have the same underlying concepts you could modify the tools and continue to use them.

From address assignment (3 ways now) to the dynamic address privacy extensons (don't actually play well with IPSEC configs) to doing renumberings on prefix changes (100% nightmare) to all the training / learning new things (costs money in bigger orgs) they seem to have purposely made this change extremely hard.

Good news, I'm on board more or less with the migration at this point, and if I am a good marker of average reasonable interested in new things but not wasting tons of time then this is a good sign.

But boy they could have made this whole thing easier

You can get pretty far with docker and things like ECS / Fargate etc too.

100% false.

If a business allows a nonprofit to use excess capacity, the capacity is still a business expense.

Google and AWS have huge amounts of unused computer capacity at low traffic periods. They can still expense those items even if they allow charitable use when not needed for business use.

Worst case if no unused capacity a business can call the expense a marketing expense and can ask the nonprofit to acknowledge their support of the activity. This is not uncommon.

Given how poorly executed softbanks strategy has been I'm not surprised.

The strategy itself was maybe something that could work or was at least an interesting idea - but the way they've actually deployed funding has been wild.

I wonder how much more self dealing will show up in all of this.

I know not popular, but set your email and other retention periods to a relatively short time frame - even a year or two drops tons of sensitive data off. Flag important or file elsewhere for stuff you want to keep.

And the ICANN fees we pay covered none of this (when funding this sort of thing would be an obvious benefit vs what ICANN does spend money on).

Just what we need is to get politicians involved in this.

One benefit thought would be they could more easily block access to sites they don't want folks visiting by just denying a CA cert (which would then generate warnings / blocking in many browsers).

And in doing so creates multiple ways to do the same thing which is SUPER SUPER annoying.

There has been a recent effort to add all these new operators that don't actually let you do anything you couldn't but now you can confuse everyone by doing it in other ways.

It only has to do it cheaply now because there is NO COST to putting CO2 into the air.

Why are people surprised that if something is free (pumping CO2 into air) demand for it is high?

You are telling me that doing a charge of let's say $10 - $100/ton of CO2 wouldn't have a DRAMATIC impact on emissions? Is $10 - $100/ton too little for a supposed climate emergency?

There is so much funding and lawmaking and finger pointing and shaming - but still - dumping CO2 into the atmosphere if free and dumping remains high and people pretend to be surprised.

On energy: CA curtails (turns off) solar (and wind) power because there is not enough demand. In 2019 CA had 921,000 MWhs of curtailment.

Let's start by charging something for CO2 emissions.

You do realize this toolkit is designed to deeply embed Alexa and other Amazon products into the device. So people WANT amazon to have a microphone and maybe a speaker and I'm sure lots of other metrics feeding back into an Amazon datacenter.

"Can" amazon, if they wanted, abuse this? It seems likely all the technical items are in place that they could. I don't see why they would, you are voluntarily putting everything they want into the device for them.

Because the title makes it sound like swift is soaring ever higher above other languages, though both swift and go are certainly growing quickly in adoption - someone could probably find metrics.

No kidding - it's the sign too that you are kickbait junk usually!

And for many not being dictated too about what is acceptable might be another feature.

I wish the folks saying things were not acceptable would work on options that had the benefits they wanted.

Steve jobs didn't say - locked down phones with no access to the web in unacceptable, he built a better phone (and was rewarded very well).

He didn't say the way digital music is sold is stupid - he built a better music buying experience that let you authorize multiple devices to play your music etc.

This is 100% common -

  the cost to network is often both in forward and reverse side, though most card providers zero out benefits to users so I'm convinced have higher than appropriate margins here (not stripe)

Actually - it's mostly because of cost / benefit shifting.

A card can attract USERS by increasing the rewards it offers -> and charging MERCHANTS for the reward.

So visa infinite cards might charge a much higher swipe fee to a merchant, and then make available cash back + first party car insurance + lots of bennies to the holders of these "elite" cards.

They justify this to merchants by claiming that these "elite" users spend big bucks.

The reality - if users of cards were charged the actual swipe fee their card incurred -> they would push for SUPER low fees or switch to debit cards.

Many lucrative business depend on the person picking the service not being the one paying for it or the kickback going to someone other than one paying.

Some systems require a big software suite or make it very hard to download basic drivers, so you end up with a "fancy" bunch of software - yes it let's you do a few more things, but not a ton. You can have stuff where you pay by the page now - with full telematics back to the printer owner. The one issue - you stop paying and the printer stops working. It's pretty cool - but the overhead (everything has to be working including internet, credit card not changed etc) means its more brittle.

Does AWS have a comparable offering? I haven't seen anything on EPYC - congrats to GCP for moving quickly. I'm mostly AWS based currently.

So we are 100% clear, contactless cards generally have very weak security relative to apple pay.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2015/07/which-reveals-contactle...

There is a reason they are not being promoted in major markets.

The same is even more true for laptops.

Have you priced out old laptops? An old sony or asus laptop has basically zero value. An old mac has value.

I don't use mac's but my wife does. At the office we go through laptops in bulk (every 2 years basically). He used her laptop very successfully for something like 6-7 years (and apple had software that supported it). The only thing she needed to do was get a new battery for $130. That was walk in service.

By contrast, ordering replacement batteries for laptops off amazon (asus / dell etc) - the things are TOTAL GARBAGE. Whatever lock down apple is doing in their supply chain is paying off in long term reliability.

Interesting to see the downvotes though - I'll have to browse HN for them because it seems the comments that don't fit the going narrative get trashed.

And yet no one can name the phone (or laptop) that holds value better than apple - despite claims that apple is the worst. Does that strike you as a bit weird? ALL other brands should be better if apple is really the worst.

It's basically a set of lies being pumped out about apple's reliability, durability, longevitiy - and as people go out and buy crap phones from HTC etc that fill up landfills, use child labor, are manufactured with much less regard for the environment they pat themselves on the back.

Apple supports out of warranty repairs, on a walk in/drop off basis in many cases, on items MUCH MUCH longer than almost all other manufacturers.

Is this a joke re apple?

They make some of the highest value preserving phones out there - period.

Long after your supposed "standouts" in repairability heads to the landfill, apple's phones will be repaired and re-used and passed along to another user. Seriously - look at the prices for used apple products or if you go to sell an old phone - its incredible.

The latest software is available to phones 6 or even 7 years old.

I'm seriously curious - can you list phone from Samsung / HTC or whoever you consider to be a standout in not locking folks out from 7 years ago and the software platform that is available for it? The security updates being produced for it?

I'm seriously very curious - I keep being told apple is terrible but no one will actually NAME a phone that lasts longer (I say this as my parents use their apple products for 5-7 years easily with a battery replacement when I come out to visit) - I could probably switch them to an HTC or other product as long as they could actually get maintained software and repairs for the 5+ years they keep their devices. Apple - they can just walk into to get things fixed.

Please - cash your big checks built on the back of misery and then complain to the company about their violent attacks on your "physical security".

You don't need to change your job - but if you are getting paid very well to do a job, then posting long internet postings about how terrible it is to work at an "important organization" risks getting you some eye-rolls.

Please - quit your overpaid tech job and actually work to change the status quo. No one is saying you have to accept the status quo.

But your lectures while driving past the homeless in a $100K tesla on your way to swank vacations are tiresome - particularly as you build that money off the status quo you are so eager to say is terrible.

I think you are allowed to defend yourself with force against physical attacks - perhaps that's why they are making the connection. Be interesting to see someone use that as an argument in court but I'd hate to work with someone who used physical force based on this definition of physical security.