Look at that, free market competition working in favor of the consumer yet again.

Reminds me of the good old days of roughly 15 years ago when all the cell providers managed to increase their price from $0.10 per SMS to $0.25 in lock step.

This is for everyone on twitter who already has a patreon and/or onlyfans.

Millions of dollars flows to those two companies by way of twitter, currently. Jack wants his cut.

Schools in my district already had already purchased one chromebook per student a couple years before the covid era -- although they used to stay in the classroom instead of going home with students. Computers are useful tools for students, and chromebooks have one big advantage in this market: they're dirt cheap (macbooks will never compete with chromebooks on price). Secondarily, the district uses Google Classroom heavily

So, yes, the pandemic has no doubt created a surge, but the wave was already in motion

my understanding is:

  * SSE is strictly speaking x86-family only
  * other platforms like ARM have their own SIMD instruction sets

There are wrapper libraries available which abstract away the architecture-specific semantics of the various vendors' SIMD instructions.

All this to say, presumably chrome requires SSE on x86-family platforms, or an equivalent SIMD instruction set on other architectures. No SIMD, no chrome 89.

Yes, healthcare.gov was a fiasco. USDS (United States Digital Service) was essentially spawned in the later years of the obama admin, from the team that unfucked healthcare.gov. And they've continued the mission of unfucking federal IT infrastructure for 6 years (and now 3 administrations) running now. They've delivered quite a bit in that time.

There is clear evidence of wildfire induced respiratory illness. What precisely causes that ailment? Only particulate matter and gasses, with no contribution at all from microbe exposure? It might be premature to reach for that conclusion.

Is this really AI?

Well, it depends on how you define "AI". It involves computer vision, which 25 years ago was very much under the umbrella of "Artificial Intelligence". It may involve some sort of trained "machine learning" model.

But "AI" is the technology of the gaps. A wise man once quipped "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." Yesterday's "AI" is no longer recognizable as AI once the software has been widely deployed and adopted. Then it's just software.

If you're going to legislate something, then legislate the use of memory safe programming languages and proof carrying code. Security problems would be mostly solved, and software would have fewer bugs overall to boot.

That'd drive up the cost of software development. People write buggy, insecure code because it's fast and cheap, and that's all the end user is willing to pay for.

They should decide what features to use by looking at the browser usage of their user community and making their own cost/benefit calculations.

I'm involved with a site that's 44% IE6-8. We've even got a vocal (albeit tiny) set of users running IE6 on Windows 2000 or older, which means they don't even have the full set of IE6 service packs (only XP and newer got anything more recent than IE6 SP1).

It's delightful.

I'd really like to see ICANN create a TLD limited to banking sites and online stores

Define "online store". The line between a "legitimate" online store and an illegitimate one is a thin one indeed. If the rules for certification are too strict, you hinder cottage industry (and their are thousands of tiny, one-man ecommerce sites out there). If the rules are too lax, scammers won't have any trouble registering domains.

And of course, many people still won't know the difference between http://legitimate.onlinestore/ and http://legitimate.onlinestore.mallicious.com/

And lastly, how do you know that the guy controlling the WiFi AP in the coffee shop you're sitting in hasn't hijacked all traffic to *.onlinestore? The only protection against that would be HTTPS. And if HTTPS works, then you don't need the special TLD in the first place.

'app' is very different from an 'application'... they are distinct terms, and one is not merely shorthand for the other.

The term "Killer App" predates the iPhone by decades. And it referred to what you call "applications". Spreadsheets were a "killer app". Historically, "app" has absolutely been used primarly as shorthand for "application".

However, Apple and Google are definitely trying to use App in a new and specific way in their recent advertising.

As to TFS:

Here, you'll find dozens of 'apps' to install and run directly from a handy icon on the browser's home screen. Except, these aren't 'apps' at all. They're websites

Never heard the term "web app[lication]"?

If you read the article, the big boys have no problem with this

Word on the street is Zynga spent months fighting it, and threatened to leave facebook entirely -- that's why they launched http://www.farmville.com/ Of course, both Zynga and Facebook would take a huge profit hit without each other, so the odds of a divorce were always slim.

In fact, here's some evidence that the fight was bitter indeed

Everyone has a problem with someone taking 30% of the revenue. Lord knows Zynga's other payment processors never charged that much.

Auto mechanics could find good use out of this technology as well. No need to drop the tools and/or get the console all greasy

All the mechanics I've seen just cover their keyboards in plastic. Cheap, simple and reliable. Trying to replace 50 cents worth of plastic with hundreds of dollars worth of electronics would be an uphill battle.

Minecraft is an entirely new category of game. There is no name for this new category.

Think of it as something of a combo of Elder Scrolls and Second Life.

As others have mentioned, in several ways, it's similar to Dwarf Fortress, and Horde.

Also, the MMO "A Tale In The Desert" is very similar, and in many ways, has far more depth.

It combines these aspects to create something unique, for sure. But it's more evolutionary than revolutionary.

It's the same thing that kept IE's stranglehold around for so long, especially when IE was on the Mac, so there wasn't even a cross platform argument.

IE on the mac was still in many ways a distinct platform. It used a completely different, mac-only rendering engine from the windows version, and had numerous other distinct features... and bugs.