Those GDPR pop-ups are probably illegal and will hopefully go away soon.
GDPR requires opt-in consent freely given. Making content only available if you agree is not allowed, you can't tie unnecessary data collection to provision of services. So forcing the user to click "I agree" before they can read your site is illegal.
In other words, only middle-of-the road, bland and inoffensive opinions allows. If your opinion isn't on the list of moderate positions, it's banned.
The situation is free speech working as intended. The Heritage Foundation uses their free speech to express their opinion. Others use their free speech to criticise the Heritage Foundation and Google. Google can now choose to take notice or not, to accept their criticism or not and to act or not.
It's not a "slightly different point of view", it's someone who is opposed to treating certain groups as human beings and who supports denying their basic rights.
If someone defining the ethics of your organization considered you and your relationship with your partner to be immoral and believes it should be illegal, it would be somewhat unreasonable to expect you to be fine with that.
No, he opposes special laws just for LGBTQ people.
He opposes laws that stop people making other laws which discriminate against LGBTQ people, e.g. banning same sex marriage. That's not "special laws for LGBTQ people", that's banning special laws for non-LGBTQ people.
Refactoring tools and code browsing is second to none. It really helps to keep code organized and encourage basic stuff like decent variable naming. Refactoring understands the language you are using and will even fix up comments for you.
It's got pretty decent change tracking and git integration too. For C#/.NET stuff they have a good package manager too.
The main down-side is that it's support for non-standard configurations is a bit weak. Some IDEs work well with your custom makefile based build system but VS is really designed around the configurations that Microsoft officially supports. For most people that's fine.
Kinda sad that the once great PHRACK has fallen to the level of conspiracy theory bullshit. There's some good stuff in there but go they really need to make one giant 76GB torrent with all the conspiracy stuff mixed in?
I doubt Microsoft is getting refunded the royalties from the faux-sales of those books. The publishers aren't going to claw back years of royalties from authors and repay them to Microsoft just because Microsoft decided it wants out of the eBook business.
Toilets aren't that easy to maintain... Unclogging is not fun and only the Japanese have managed to invent self-cleaning ones. They can struggle with hard water too.
I don't know why the west loves crappy crappers. They are so primitive compared to a luxury Toto bog. Where's the power lift lid, the remote control, the night time mood lighting, the deodorizer, and of course the arse-wash?
And for maintainability, the detergent tank and auto-cleaning cycle.
I know you are joking but honestly YouTube doesn't know the difference between cats and dogs. I too have partaken of feline videos but when YouTube recommends videos they are as often as not about dogs, and indeed the "kittens" category is mostly full of stuff about oversize canines.
That would be creating an echo chamber by repeatedly recommending similar videos. Breaking it is what they tried to so by recommending different stuff, which ended up being conspiracy bullshit.
For example one of the techniques they use is if one video links to another. Chances are it's either related or a response to the first video, but of course it's wide open to abuse.
This is just one example of a wider problem though. It goes way beyond just Mint.
Hobby software projects can be fun, but tend to go one of two ways. Everyone loses interest and it dies, or it gets really big and working on it becomes a chore. The only solution anyone has found is to go commercial, to pay people to work on the project.
Most Linux contributed code is written by people being paid to do so. Kicad was languishing until CERN started pumping in development effort. Ubuntu is a Canonical product. Compilers, Webkit, Firefox, Blender, LibreOffice... I could go on.
There are counter-examples but there is a definite trend. Maybe Mint should think about becoming a non-profit, and bringing the rewards in-house.
I found Mint a little bit frustrating because it's just too simple, too dumbed down. This was last year though so maybe it's improved.
As an example, say you want to make the mouse wheel faster. Scroll more lines at a time in Chromium. How do you do that on Mint? None of the three supplied desktops support that basic feature. In comparison Fedora ships with KDE as the default and does have a simple prefs setting for mouse wheel speed.
Maybe Mint suits people who like the developer's preferences and don't need to modify them.
Humans are very good at spotting things that are not really markings, such as spilt paint or ribbons blown into the road. White tape is fairly common in construction and often falls off vehicles.
A human can spot a long tyre print made from spilt paint and not follow it. A machine... It can, but it needs to be trained and tested.
What's most interesting here is that Tesla started out claiming Autopilot was amazing, and setting the drive attention detection system to be extremely lax. You could go for many minutes without your hands on the wheel. After a series of accidents, many of them involving similar situations, they reduced that to about 10 seconds.
They have also cancelled real Full Self Driving, and replaced it with fake Full Self Driving that is actually just some level 2 driver aids which require full attention to operate safely.
Worst of all they didn't even give these guys the bug bounty.
One of the reasons that independent shops have cheaper produce is that they have lower cosmetic standards. Chain supermarkets demand uniform look and size to their fresh produce and so a lot gets rejected. Other shops buy it, and as long as you don't mind mixed size potatoes or the odd bruise on our fruit they are significantly cheaper.
Presumably you are talking about replacing lead acid batteries every three years.
EV batteries are different. Warranty on most is around 8 years and 100k miles, some offering considerably more. So if it did die after three years you would get a free replacement.
People have been driving around EVs for getting on a decade now in places like Norway, Scotland and northern Japan and the batteries have proven durable. Even something like the original Nissan Leaf which has minimal thermal management for the battery turns out to be fine.
Modern EVs can both heat and cool the battery as required. For very cold climates they can pre-heat before you set off, ideally while plugged in so it doesn't cost you any range.
* Goods (including cars) normally carry a 25% VAT. BEVs are exempted. (Easily worth USD 10-20000) * Non BEV cars additionally carry taxes calculated from emissions and weight. Additional taxes for cars tend to range from the USD equivalent of USD 2000 to many tens of thousands for large performance cars. * There are a lot of toll roads in norway. Many car drivers can spend the equivalent of USD 3000 annually on tolls. BEVs are expempted from tolls. (This benefit will likely be reduced shortly, but a 50% saving has been assured) * Many cities have free parking for BEVs (Also likely to be a reduced benefit going forward)
So the bulk isn't actually a subsidy, it's them not collecting taxes. And the emissions taxes are directly to offset the externalized costs of running a fossil car, so actually just a part of the TCO that some countries allow you to pass on to other people.
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Those GDPR pop-ups are probably illegal and will hopefully go away soon.
GDPR requires opt-in consent freely given. Making content only available if you agree is not allowed, you can't tie unnecessary data collection to provision of services. So forcing the user to click "I agree" before they can read your site is illegal.
BTW you can block most GDPR notices with Fanboy's Annoyances List for all popular ad blockers: https://easylist.to/easylist/f...
Why do marketing and UI people think that forcing you to look at things is a good way to make you want those things?
Not just web sites. Some apps do it, some operating systems do it, many many games do it (the forced tutorial and radio buddy).
If they must do it at least offer a way to skip with one click.
They should make a UI for this, similar to the one for blocking pop-ups.
In Chrome you just go to Content Settings and untick "notifications", then all sites are blocked from even asking.
Just add a little icon to the URL bar when the site offers notifications. The user can then choose to click on it or not. Unobtrusive and minimal.
Chrome already does that for blocked pop-ups, in case you need to open them for a broken site.
In other words, only middle-of-the road, bland and inoffensive opinions allows. If your opinion isn't on the list of moderate positions, it's banned.
The situation is free speech working as intended. The Heritage Foundation uses their free speech to express their opinion. Others use their free speech to criticise the Heritage Foundation and Google. Google can now choose to take notice or not, to accept their criticism or not and to act or not.
This is an attack on free speech. If you can't criticise what other people are saying or doing, you don't have free speech.
Ironically it was you who first posted a ridiculous over-reaction.
I've noticed that conservatives do this a lot. Claim everyone else is overly offended, when in fact they are the ones posting angry rants.
Have you actually read the complaints people have? Do they sound anything like what you posted? Those are rhetorical questions.
It's not a "slightly different point of view", it's someone who is opposed to treating certain groups as human beings and who supports denying their basic rights.
If someone defining the ethics of your organization considered you and your relationship with your partner to be immoral and believes it should be illegal, it would be somewhat unreasonable to expect you to be fine with that.
No, he opposes special laws just for LGBTQ people.
He opposes laws that stop people making other laws which discriminate against LGBTQ people, e.g. banning same sex marriage. That's not "special laws for LGBTQ people", that's banning special laws for non-LGBTQ people.
VS excels in a couple of areas.
Refactoring tools and code browsing is second to none. It really helps to keep code organized and encourage basic stuff like decent variable naming. Refactoring understands the language you are using and will even fix up comments for you.
It's got pretty decent change tracking and git integration too. For C#/.NET stuff they have a good package manager too.
The main down-side is that it's support for non-standard configurations is a bit weak. Some IDEs work well with your custom makefile based build system but VS is really designed around the configurations that Microsoft officially supports. For most people that's fine.
Kinda sad that the once great PHRACK has fallen to the level of conspiracy theory bullshit. There's some good stuff in there but go they really need to make one giant 76GB torrent with all the conspiracy stuff mixed in?
Also security focused zine using RAR, LOL.
I doubt Microsoft is getting refunded the royalties from the faux-sales of those books. The publishers aren't going to claw back years of royalties from authors and repay them to Microsoft just because Microsoft decided it wants out of the eBook business.
You are confusing a defunct authoritarian regime with modern, peaceful communists.
We are not confusing the modern alt-right with Nazis, they are the same thing and actively committing terror attacks in the US right now.
rsilvergun is right, there is no equivalence at all.
If they could get a decent GCC toolchain working with Visual Studio Code it would be a pretty decent environment.
I do find it odd that Microsoft never standardized their own version of getopt though. The don't seem to be big on standardization.
Toilets aren't that easy to maintain... Unclogging is not fun and only the Japanese have managed to invent self-cleaning ones. They can struggle with hard water too.
I don't know why the west loves crappy crappers. They are so primitive compared to a luxury Toto bog. Where's the power lift lid, the remote control, the night time mood lighting, the deodorizer, and of course the arse-wash?
And for maintainability, the detergent tank and auto-cleaning cycle.
I know you are joking but honestly YouTube doesn't know the difference between cats and dogs. I too have partaken of feline videos but when YouTube recommends videos they are as often as not about dogs, and indeed the "kittens" category is mostly full of stuff about oversize canines.
Well, the anti-vax videos are literally toxic, they create toxic kids who others can't be near for fear of infection.
That would be creating an echo chamber by repeatedly recommending similar videos. Breaking it is what they tried to so by recommending different stuff, which ended up being conspiracy bullshit.
For example one of the techniques they use is if one video links to another. Chances are it's either related or a response to the first video, but of course it's wide open to abuse.
This is just one example of a wider problem though. It goes way beyond just Mint.
Hobby software projects can be fun, but tend to go one of two ways. Everyone loses interest and it dies, or it gets really big and working on it becomes a chore. The only solution anyone has found is to go commercial, to pay people to work on the project.
Most Linux contributed code is written by people being paid to do so. Kicad was languishing until CERN started pumping in development effort. Ubuntu is a Canonical product. Compilers, Webkit, Firefox, Blender, LibreOffice... I could go on.
There are counter-examples but there is a definite trend. Maybe Mint should think about becoming a non-profit, and bringing the rewards in-house.
I found Mint a little bit frustrating because it's just too simple, too dumbed down. This was last year though so maybe it's improved.
As an example, say you want to make the mouse wheel faster. Scroll more lines at a time in Chromium. How do you do that on Mint? None of the three supplied desktops support that basic feature. In comparison Fedora ships with KDE as the default and does have a simple prefs setting for mouse wheel speed.
Maybe Mint suits people who like the developer's preferences and don't need to modify them.
Humans are very good at spotting things that are not really markings, such as spilt paint or ribbons blown into the road. White tape is fairly common in construction and often falls off vehicles.
A human can spot a long tyre print made from spilt paint and not follow it. A machine... It can, but it needs to be trained and tested.
What's most interesting here is that Tesla started out claiming Autopilot was amazing, and setting the drive attention detection system to be extremely lax. You could go for many minutes without your hands on the wheel. After a series of accidents, many of them involving similar situations, they reduced that to about 10 seconds.
They have also cancelled real Full Self Driving, and replaced it with fake Full Self Driving that is actually just some level 2 driver aids which require full attention to operate safely.
Worst of all they didn't even give these guys the bug bounty.
One of the reasons that independent shops have cheaper produce is that they have lower cosmetic standards. Chain supermarkets demand uniform look and size to their fresh produce and so a lot gets rejected. Other shops buy it, and as long as you don't mind mixed size potatoes or the odd bruise on our fruit they are significantly cheaper.
Norway reached -32 last year: https://www.thelocal.no/201802...
If we look at somewhere like Troms we see that the AVERAGE minimum temperature is -8 in January: https://weather-and-climate.co...
In fact Oslo, in the south, is due to hit -7 on Wednesday, and it's April: https://www.worldweatheronline...
Check out Bjorn Nyland's videos on YouTube, he regularly travels through mountain regions in a variety of EVs.
Presumably you are talking about replacing lead acid batteries every three years.
EV batteries are different. Warranty on most is around 8 years and 100k miles, some offering considerably more. So if it did die after three years you would get a free replacement.
People have been driving around EVs for getting on a decade now in places like Norway, Scotland and northern Japan and the batteries have proven durable. Even something like the original Nissan Leaf which has minimal thermal management for the battery turns out to be fine.
Modern EVs can both heat and cool the battery as required. For very cold climates they can pre-heat before you set off, ideally while plugged in so it doesn't cost you any range.
* Goods (including cars) normally carry a 25% VAT. BEVs are exempted. (Easily worth USD 10-20000)
* Non BEV cars additionally carry taxes calculated from emissions and weight. Additional taxes for cars tend to range from the USD equivalent of USD 2000 to many tens of thousands for large performance cars.
* There are a lot of toll roads in norway. Many car drivers can spend the equivalent of USD 3000 annually on tolls. BEVs are expempted from tolls. (This benefit will likely be reduced shortly, but a 50% saving has been assured)
* Many cities have free parking for BEVs (Also likely to be a reduced benefit going forward)
So the bulk isn't actually a subsidy, it's them not collecting taxes. And the emissions taxes are directly to offset the externalized costs of running a fossil car, so actually just a part of the TCO that some countries allow you to pass on to other people.