> The voting that followed was among ISO’s most contentious: several national bodies abruptly swelled with new members, many Microsoft partners, who then voted in favor. Sweden’s initial approval was voided after incentives linked to support came to light.
I suppose the difference is that Meta didn't just contribute to Torch, they created it. Meta seems to be quite good at open sourcing things in a way that provides real value to people.
The Github org you linked to mainly seems to have repos for the OpenAI API, which doesn't quite rise to the same level of React and PyTorch.
Unless VLC is one of the historic cases, F-Droid builds apps from source themselves [1]. They are more like a Linux Distro than an app store in that way. VLC hasn't had a new stable version tagged since 3.5.4 so that's what F-Droid ships[2].
Seems reasonable to me. Unless there is a good reason to believe that they have valuable information, ignoring condescending people seems worthwhile. How likely is someone to understand you and your problems when they are condescending? I also have a hard time imagining that this is something limited to Gen-Z.
Mozilla has now the chance to release a Gecko version of iOS Firefox to people living in the EU. That version currently doesn't exist and, depending on how valuable Mozilla thinks a port of Gecko to iOS would be, might never exist. But Apple would be unable to keep it off the App Store without drawing some serious ire from the EU, which is probably not a good thing for them.
I think it would be wise to reflect on whether the next logical step from "I think fines are not effective enough and decision markers should face jail setences" is "I think we should set people on fire as punishment and public entertainment". Do you genuinely believe that a person arguing for the first, would agree or would be close to agreeing with the second?
Its worth noting that this article is based entirely on an anonymous comment made below another article. They also link a Tweet alleging that "[..] other usually credible, usually careful folks positing same idea.", but no links are provided to that.
Albeit a long comment which seems to have correct insider jargon, plausible numbers and scenarios, etc. Agreed it's getting more credence than I would expect, but it wasn't a lazy offhand comment.
That's true, but where else would you expect to get such information?
No real whistleblower is going to publish their name, rank, and serial number etc. The corporate PR department sure isn't ever going to tell you such things. Investigative journalism and reporters who can be trusted to verify sources and preserve their anonymity is all but dead these days. The Government might publish something that isn't a total white-wash in 5 years. Or they might not. Who can tell?
jonnyc is a hardcore airline enthusiast (i think they might actually be ex-American Airlines) and is extremely active on flyertalk. i trust them when they said that several sources confirm this anon comment.
Came here to upvote this idea. Many of you probably relate to the under-informed or less experienced junior engineer who gets dramatic at times. Did this person see something they thought was a non-conformance but actually standard operating?
I’ve been that junior engineer more than once (and not always junior), and I’ve had to deal with it more than once. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is that there are at least four distinct significant mechanical issues; three have led to major emergencies on board.
The second element is that this particular junior engineer has seen enough to know not to share his name. Naivety goes both ways, and the rhetorical engineer tends to leave identifiable information if they don’t think getting caught is a problem. This one does. He’s asked internally, and the answer wasn’t reassuring. I’ve been on the receiving end of “What do you think we should do about this?” and hard trade-offs; if the manager knows what they are doing and they are not pushing bad stories, the junior engineer learns something.
The last element is that this is not new: very senior engineers complaining about penny-pushing MBAs ruining the company and “that won’t stop until someone gets hurt” are as old as the merger with McDonnel-Douglas.
Would I trust the technical details and the recommendation of that particular engineer? Lord No: I know nothing about airplanes. But I know what a dysfunctional operation sounds like, and that sounds like the bassoon—but there’s the strings, the brass, and the percussions playing the same tune.
Whether this whistle-blower is well-informed or not is an interesting question, but it is overshadowed by the fact that we even have to ask. The fact that the public still doesn't know what happened or is happening is unacceptable, to put it lightly. Boeing has been given a chance - now they should be raided top-to-bottom by 3rd party agents, whether that be federal or private, and be placed under existential threat until we are satisfied with the investigation and resulting consequences.
That is very true, with the caveat that FAA and NHTSA aren’t the fastest at putting out a report —by design, thankfully: I want that thing vetted. It’s been three weeks. That would be better if we knew much more in the next week or two. If not, we shouldn’t be too patient either.
Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Microsoft would do for backwards compatibility, but on the other hand it seems like a weird API to provide.
I found GetVersion[1] but that returns the version as two numbers.
You're imagining that all developers do things properly. I've seen Bash code that used a regex to get the first two digits from `python --version`. Hopefully they'll never release a Python 3.10!
I don't know if the rumor is true, but even if Windows itself doesn't provide an API that looks like that (I also looked around real quick and didn't find anything), it's not unreasonable that there could be libraries that provide the version that way.
The rumour is not true, despite reddit's insistence. Windows exposes it's version is a series of numbers, and even if it didn't, Windows 9 could have returned "Windows Nine", "Window v9" or loads of other things.
Direct quote from the article.