The Google app is often used as a web browser by the tech-illiterate.

It even has tabs.

This is how my grandparents use it.

Ha, I see.

Yeah, sarcasm over text forums is sometimes difficult to pick up on.

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To be clear, the right of free speech given in the first amendment is the right to express any opinion without fear of repercussions.

There is no inherent right that your opinions must be given a platform, or that any particular platform has the right to exist.

The first amendment is entirely orthogonal to the question of whether or not TikTok should be allowed to operate in the US.

The EU gave Google an option: pay or take down the content. The latter option was a bluff, and Google called them on it.

I don’t think this will hurt Google at all.

But it will certainly drive less traffic to these news sites if they are banned from Google. And that will hurt the news sites.

EU: You have to pay to show our news.

Google: Ok. We won’t show your news.

EU: Pikachu face

I mean, they don’t have to release the source code. A compiled version would be fine.

it’s unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

Older multiplayer games would let you self-host the server, long before the current trend.

Ubisoft doesn’t have to continue to host servers. They just have to release the server code. Zero cost to them.

It won’t

So, I’d argue that “frontend” and “backend” are the default modes of software engineering these days, and that embedded is a more niche field.

That said, if you’re doing encryption code, you’re doing far more advanced math than backend monitoring and alerting.

You often need to be pretty good at math. But not because you’re “doing math” to write the code.

In real world software systems, you need to handle monitoring and alerting. To properly do this, you need to understand stats, rolling averages, percentiles, probability distributions, and significance testing. At least at a basic level. Enough to know how to recognize these problems and where to look when you run into them.

For being a better coder, you need to understand mathematical logic, proofs, algebra/symbolic logic, etc in order to reason your way through tricky edge cases.

To do AI/ML, you need to know a shitton of calculus and diff eqs, plus numerical algorithms concepts like numerical stability. This is kinda a niche (but rapidly growing) engineering field.

The same thing about AI also applies to any other domain where the thing being computed is fundamentally a math or logic solution. This is somewhat common in backend engineering.

I’m not “doing math” with pen and paper at work, but I do use all of these mathematical skills all. the. time.

I am an SRE on a ML serving platform.

Big +1 for Sync.

I was paying for Sync back when it was a Reddit client, and I moved to Lemmy mostly because that is where Sync moved.

It’s an awesome app. Best app purchase I’ve ever made. (There is a free version too.)

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch banks?

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch brokers?

What could Twitter possibly offer to make me switch from Venmo and PayPal?

Which Americans are not in a similar position?

X Payments is doomed to fail. He missed the boat. The market is already saturated, and they’ve lost all brand loyalty.

And were they any good?

My car runs Android Automotive^1 on an Intel Atom and performance is trash. I would hate to have a phone on the same platform.

^1 As in, the car runs Android directly, not Android Auto running from a phone.

What are you going on about? Have you ever ridden in one of these?

They do have these buttons…

https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9172373?hl=en

I see. Yeah, obviously the world only has 3 spatial dimensions, so you can’t represent 4D data spatially.

My general point is that we have additional senses that we can use to represent additional dimensions. And that totally counts as “visualization”.

And it is not possible to “visualize 4D”

Sure it is.

• 3 spatial dimensions + time
• 3 spatial dimensions + 1 color dimension (grayscale)
• 2 spatial dimensions + 2 color dimensions
• etc

And that’s not even counting projection. All the time we interact with 3D data that’s projected to 2D (almost every photo you’ve ever looked at). There are similar ways to project 4D to 2D.

(Not defending the video or anything, just pointing out that visualizing higher dimensions is something we know about for ages.)

Yeah, I think so.

At first, Xockets sounded like a legit tech company to me. But a closer look at their website reveals that it’s actually run by a bunch of patent attorneys.

https://www.xockets.com/our-team/

Where I work, everything is on IPv6. Both the infrastructure for the software services that we run, and our own internal corporate network.

My ISP also provides publicly routable IPv6 prefixes over DHCP. Any layman in my city with this ISP will be on IPv6 by default.

I also use IPv6 for my LAN.

Like, it’s just kind of the default in my neck of the woods…

[S]hareholders said they learned that CrowdStrike’s assurances about its technology were materially false and misleading when a flawed software update disrupted airlines, banks, hospitals and emergency lines around the world.

I don’t see how they can make this argument.

Falcon is a kernel module. When kernel modules fuck up, you get kernel panics.

Sure, the layperson may not know enough about computers to recognize this, but it’s a basic enough fact about operating systems that an investor in a company like this should take the time to learn. It’s not like they hid that fact.

If you invested in a company without knowing how their product works, that’s on you.