#but that doesn’t mean the premise itself os the problem

[dittolicous]

I mean, I get where you're coming from but I don't think you're necessarily being fair in calling it 'unrealistic' or disingenuous to their characterization.

1) Zoro could absolutely add something worthwhile to WCI considering that it was Zoro, alongside Luffy, that got to him back at the Baratie. Seeing Zoro fight Mihawk - chasing his dream despite all reason - left a huge impact on him. This could have been mirrored in WCI by something like Zoro questioning him about if his dreams are really so easy to give up on. In the right hands, it could be a really good foil to the Baratie arc. Along with that, he knows just how far Sanji is willing to go for the crew, for *Luffy* via Thriller Bark. Him doing a 180 on WCI would be a cause for concern and perhaps even a reason for Zoro to see through the facade. Or Zoro being genuinely hurt by having the person he trusted to protect his back turn around and abandon them is also a good plot point to build on, and how this impacts his overall bond with Sanji, who despite everything he says, does value Zoro's input. Exploring the unspoken parts of their friendship is always welcome in fanfics!

2) Zoro is not blindly loyal to Luffy. He has in the past called Luffy out when he thought he wasn't acting as a captain should (Water 7 w/ letting Usopp come back scott free & Punk Hazard w/ yelling at him that they're in the new world and to take the fights seriously). He's not afraid to call Luffy out, it's just they more often than not are on the same wavelength - which isn't about loyalty per say but what is best for the crew as a whole. The crew comes first, not Luffy. Hell, he didn’t even have anything to say when Sanji kicked Luffy back in Water 7 right when he was about to reject Usopp.

3) Indeed Zoro isn't a very trusting person, but once the trust is there, he's generally pretty good about trying to consider all the angles when the person in question acts against it. You could see this in how he approached Nami and Robin's betrayals, keeping a relatively cool head. Melontee goes over it better in her video specifically about Zoro and Sanji's friendship. He's not one to jump to conclusions. Yes, Sanji does rile him up, but Zoro is smart where it truly counts.

4) Jumping off of that, the fact that Zoro seemed so miffed about Sanji leaving and was snapping at the others over it is out of character for him. It shows just how bothered and hurt he actually was compared to Nami and Robin. Because, despite their differences, Zoro and Sanji DO get each other. That's what makes them such a good team. Their ability to read each other and react appropriately does not end outside the battlefield. They just suck at communicating with words and like talking shit more often than not. But again, Zoro IS good at taking time to consider angles. He's not a wild dog who flies off the handle anytime someone hurts Luffy. They're the Monster Trio because they get each other! In different ways for each relationship, but all the same in the end. In a serious moment, I can absolutely see him being able to at least see through some of Sanji's lies.

It's a disservice to both their characters to claim they're actually incapable of having meaningful moments without combat.

5) And as for these WCI AUs being Out of Character, I frankly think it entirely depends on the writer. In the right hands, OoC moments are instead moments of character growth, an affect of the character being stressed in a way we haven't yet seen, or even character regression - where they fall back into old habits.

Along with that, I would argue that Nami in canon was kinda OoC in her reaction to Sanji beating up Luffy. She, of all people, should have been able to see through his actions or even understood Luffy's enough to trust him. She was there back when Luffy and Zoro took that beating at Jaya - this kind of non-aggressive reaction is not new of Luffy. Water 7 as well, with the fight between Luffy and Usopp, should have left her with a better understanding of how Luffy handles these things.

Instead, she lashed out and, arguably, made it harder for Sanji to return to the Strawhats. She basically confirmed his fears, that he wasn't welcome. Now, this is not hate or me bashing her, I do understand why she reacted the way she did and it is totally understandable considering how much she cares for Luffy. But that moment to me still feels out of her character. She wasn't trusting either Luffy or Sanji in that moment.

So, sure, Zoro might have complicated things further, but that's kinda the point of canon adjacent fics. To look at how canon could of gone if this or that happened. A flap of a butterflies wings and all that. Most Out of Character moments in fics are just badly written moments of attempted character development. Zoro and Sanji clearly have some sort of arc brewing in regards to the Death Pact so it's not unreasonable to see earlier progression by having him at WCI. Plus, Zoro is long overdue for a big character moment or having a breakdown of his own, lol.

For what its worth, I would have literally killed to have Robin and Usopp at WCI, my god that would have been so good. But that does not detract for Zoro also being a good addition. Like, c'mon, him hating sweets just to have him getting lost in a land entirely made of sweets, the comedy writes itself! XD

So, I mean, you're 100% entitled to your opinion, but these characters are quite multifaceted and can have surprising moments of progession.

I just came across a zosan post about Zoro on wci (again) and I have to say, you guys need to be realistic.

I love zosan, I really do, but Zoro on whole cake would have been a DISASTER. He wouldn't add anything to the story—he'd make things worse if anything. Zoro's not a trusting man, and he always puts the captain first. There's already so much tension between the two; even though they do actually like eachother do you really think Zoro has the emotional capacity to be considerate in that scenario??? Absolutely not. They would 100% end up fighting which would just complicate everything.

If anyone else should have been there, it's people who'd understand where he's coming from. People who've struggled with feeling like unnecessary weight to the crew and left because of it. Yes I'm talking about Robin and Usopp. Water 7 and Enies Lobby are arcs that make Sanji really shine in the crew as the one always chasing after the ones leaving, so wci paralleling that would have been absolutely perfect. (This has been said a lot before but it's TRUE and I will defend it to the end)

If you truly love zosan, maybe focus on scenes they already have??? Or things that actually could have happened—like, them reuniting on Wano after wci has a lot of angst potential. And it's a much better scenario than Zoro actually being on wci in my humble opinion. It just works so much better with their characters...

Take the personalities of characters into account when you're making ship content. Fanon only thrives when it's built on canon.

[lunasaturnine]

taurus persephone ceres whatever

more stuff that’s not making it into the official piece - i have os much writing, idk what to do with it, please help

One thing about Taurus energy that has always hypnotized me is the way that the action of plant growth is actually stillness. Plants just sit there. To become giant, life-affirming tree temples, little seeds just sit there for years. They are extremely present, they sense sensations, and they respond; but their response is simply to be present in a slightly different way. Roots inhabit the soil and, in their stillness, move towards water and nutrients. Leaves and stems stretch out of the ground by inhabiting the edges of their cells in the way that feels the best. Plants are filled with energy, but it is not dynamic energy; it is a thickly still energy. I do not feel this paragraph articulates it in the way I want. I don't feel I've ever articulated it. I suppose one never gets to the center of a mandala. I hope I'll come closer one day, or find some other writing that has already articulated it.

There is something about the cycle of days and seasons that seems comparable to this kind of movement born of stillness. It feels like the breathing of earth. Breath is a small version of this cycle. Dusks are like exhales; dawns are like inhales. Autumns are like exhales; springs are like inhales.

Another example of this kind of movement/stillness could be certain kinds of chord progressions in music, especially repetitive ones. For example, a sequence of four chords that repeats over and over has, within itself, progression and teleology, but in the context of the larger piece, doesn't advance it into another section or anything like that. Pachelbel's Canon is like that; so is "Heart & Soul," and other vamps.

This is maybe a tangential postulation, but I have associations with Pluto and seasons/seasonal changes too. I associate Pluto with less predictable seasons. Like Taurus's slow churn, I see Plutonian seasons in terms of barrenness and potency, but the Pluto seasons are starkly exaggerated and less predictable. There are times when it seems like you have so much of something you could bathe in it. And then there are times when you lack something so completely it feels like you're in a desert. I guess the imagery of deserts and swamps works well for this postulation. Better: seasons of famine, etc.

But, back to Ceres and her seasons. Ceres the goddess creates the seasons. How? Through being present with her emotions. When Ceres feels grief, she contains her energy and does not reach out for warmth, because there is none. She is heavy. Her weight is kept low. So there is winter. When she feels joy, she returns in the sweetness of new bloom. She is lighter; the world is open to her embrace; into this feeling, her arms reach out and upward. So there is spring.

I find the connection between being present with emotions and the turn of the seasons very cool. People understand more and more that emotions are somatic, that is, body-made and body-stored, and our bodies are made of the same material as the earth. I freely interpret the emotional implications of the shapes of plants. Cool, thoughtful ferns, slowly unfurling. Willows spilling gently, enjoying their sway. Branches and leaves stretching into the sun, dancing/creating the forms of dancers because they are alive and the sun feels nice. Why shouldn't this be so? We think things need brains to feel emotions, but dogs feel emotions and they're not nearly as smart as we are, and rats and mice and fish are not as smart as dogs, and there are many serious people among those who study the potential of emotions in plants and water. I think as our understanding of emotion grows, we will understand the nature of natural sentience better.

Something that strikes me about the cycle of Ceres is that it's natural, and it's sad. I think that it's sad that Persephone dies. And yes, I do think she dies - even if she gets to come back, she still "goes to the land of the dead" which I don't think would be the land of the dead if she didn't die? Hard to explain. Possibly actually incorrect. So let's do seasons. Winter is natural, it comes every year, and it doesn't kill everybody. But it is harsh. It kills a lot of things, and it's sad for those things to die. It also makes actions harder to instigate, which means a lot of potential things don't get to be gestated or born, which is also sad, but in a more general way. Even though winter is ultimately a neutral force, its effects are still sad. The conclusion from this premise is that sadness is a natural part of a cycle, and not something to flee.

We don't like things to die. Taurus doesn't like things to die. We don't like letting our food go bad in the fridge. We don't like having to cut down a tree in the midst of its growth. We don't like to throw away a perfectly good anything with just one problem that could be fixed easily, but it's cheaper and easier to buy a new one. We want things to sustain, to be there with us as we tell our stories, to experience the world and adapt and grow, to accrue wisdom, to be a touchstone for many different times. Novelty also has virtues, but novelty does not have scarcity; so when something dies, it is sad and should be sad. And when our sadness harmonizes with our joy, we create our hope. We can't do that without experiencing the weight of our sadness.

At the same time, while it's best not to fight or resist sadness, I do think it makes sense to want to minimize it: to find a balance between the establishment Taurus energy and the transformational Scorpio energy that makes the seasonal dips not so huge. Taurus would choose to be totally still if it weren't for Scorpio, but transformation is necessary, and therefore death and grief are necessary, and the form that transformation takes is the rhythm of the seasons.

[theinkstainsblog]

I see it this way. To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Lolita to name a few are harmful and problematic but for years and years the school system requires these books to be read by 14-15 y/os. Also, a lot of classics we're forced to read are pretty racist. I didn't know if at 14/15 if I had a choice to skip them, but I felt like I had no choice. Now schools try to ban books like The Hunger Games, The Scarlett Letter, even Harry Potter. (1/5)

But now we have something called “Banned Books Week” where libraries and schools put them on a shelf for us to read b/c it promotes analytical thinking and the government shouldn’t be allowed to censor books. Not to mention, if I read a problematic book in a college level English class, the only way to prove my point is by reading the source material. A college professor would laugh me out of university if I wrote my paper like this: “Lolita is problematic because my friend said so.” (2/5)

I’m aware that there are some people who read these books b/c they get the giggles from doing whatever they please, but I honestly think it’s important for discourse for people to read those books if the content isn’t triggering to them specifically. For instance, with Carve the Mark I have read multiple reviews by POC on blogs and Booktube who did not see the racism AT all (the chronic pain issue is another story). I’m a POC so I decided to listen to other POC. If I had just listened to (3/5)

two non-POC say, “It’s racist! Don’t read it!” I’d never know how those two opinions might have been skewed a little. The natural course of action would be to seek out the source itself and read the book or listen to more than two opinions. As it stands, the CTM doesn’t interest me at all so I haven’t read it, but I based my opinion on people who DID read it anyway and were people like me. I personally can’t listen to a handful of people claim something until I have the source or context. (4/5)

I wouldn’t read a problematic book just to be funny and try to offend people, but because I can’t know what I’m talking about unless I have more information. If I went to college and my professor asked me to write a paper on CTM and my paper said, “Based on my sources from Goodreads, this book is problematic, here’s *their* opinion, not mine” the professor would fail me. Anyway, that’s just my thoughts. I get where you’re coming from but I just wanted to offer another explanation. (5/5)

6. Sorry, last thing!! Obviously, if a book is blatantly homophobic especially if written by someone who is NOT queer and the LGBT+ community says so, I personally would NOT read that book. If it relates to race, as I’m a POC I just feel obligated to seek out more information b/c many non-POC have claimed racism when, I, as a POC did not see any (or vice versa). It depends case-by-case for me. I know this was long…

Hiya! No worries about it being long, I’m really interested by this sort of thing so I’m happy to discuss it. I do understand what you’re saying, and I don’t disagree that it’s good to try and get all of the information so that you can form your own opinions however I do want to raise a few points. 

You said that when it comes to books critiqued for racism you might read them anyway as a person of colour, but not if it was a book critiqued for homophobia. I think that’s a super important distinction to make there - because that’s you wanting to find out for yourself something that impacts your own lived experience. I don’t see that as harmful in any way, it’s you that’s being affected by it so you have a right to do whatever you want regarding that. It’s great that you listen to the LGBT+ community as well though, that’s what I’d love to see more of - white people listening to people of colour on issues impacting them, cis het allo people listening to LGBT+ people on issues impacting us, able-bodied people listening to disabled people and so on. 

The issue with buying them just to find out for yourself what’s going on is that the publishers don’t know or care why you bought it. All they care is that they got your money. And if they get enough money then they’ll publish more books like that which is really the opposite of what we want. People can write whatever they like of course, I can’t stop them but I hope the aim for most of us is to get better and better representation.  So it’s best not to buy these books if you can and prevent that from happening - but especially if you’re not the person impacted by them as I said. That’s why I personally feel it’s best to avoid the most harmful books as much as possible.

On your point about books like Lolita and To Kill A Mockingbird being potentially problematic, I don’t disagree with you however I think we have to take older books a little differently to books being written now. Attitudes at the time were different and - while that doesn’t make them right or okay in ANY way - we have progressed since then. Classes should discuss problematic elements and dissect them absolutely. But someone who writes something problematic now is a far far different problem than older books with outdated views.

Of course, all books (and films and shows and people) are problematic to some degree. It’s impossible not to be. When I say I found a book problematic I genuinely mean that the premise is narrative is so inherently flawed or harmful that it’s just not redeemable. As opposed to a book that only has one or two problematic lines in it in which case I would draw attention to those lines to warn people who may be hurt by it, but I would not discourage people from reading it.

Also, I do think it’s important to consider that even within a community or marginalised group, we all have different experiences and while we personally might find something okay, that doesn’t mean it’s not still harmful. Personally, I have read Carve The Mark because unfortunately I had ordered it before I heard about the issues and I made an effort before reading to read as many reviews as I could find (positive and negative) by people of colour. What I found was that while some weren’t offended or hurt by the issues, the issues being talked about definitely were there. Just different people take offence to different things. And I think that’s the case for a lot of problematic books - the issue is there, it just might not affect everyone. 

Similarly, this is why I don’t like own voices books being critiqued as problematic - for example, I’ve seen reviews of a book by a bisexual author being called problematic because the bi main character is promiscious. Because everyone even in a community is so different we also have different ideas of what good rep looks like. And while being promiscious is a bi stereotype I’d like straight people to stay the heck away from, bi promiscious people do exist and them writing their own stories shouldn’t be critiqed for that. 

At the end of the day, these are just my views and I’m not gonna jump on you if you disagree or if you read a book that I found to be harmful. I just want people to be aware and critical of these issues. Sometimes problematic fiction can cause real life harm or at least mirror it - black people being portrayed as violent savages in Carve The Mark does nothing to help black people being perceived as violent thugs in real life for example. If people choose to read it anyway then I can’t stop them, but ideally, I’d at least like them to be aware of those issues so they can discuss it and minimise the harm caused.

And that is why I never shut up about representation.  

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THE COURAGE OF INTEREST

So to that extent they know the email addresses of trusted senders and even the routes by which mail gets from them to me. When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world of content-based filtering will leave the spammer room to make. Object-oriented programming a la carte. More recently the recipe is often one founder, one VC, and one independent. 99. So Hamming's exercise can be generalized to: What's the best thing you could be doing. At the moment each one has about 4000 messages in it. This a helps them pick the right startups, and b someone who took the trouble to write two versions, a flame for Reddit and a more subdued version for HN. But are these just outliers?1 He thought perhaps he needed a little dose of sociopath-ness. You'll find that you can't say what you planned to, but to show where languages are heading.2 He just wanted to talk to his girlfriend, but this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup.

I've learned a lot since then, but if I were choosing now that's still the one I'd pick. And people's desires seem to be multiple links back to Shockley. But this way of keeping them out is gentler and probably also more effective than overt barriers. 9189189 localhost 0. A lot of VCs still act as if founders retaining board control after a series A, a fixed-size equity round can take weeks, because all the angels sit around waiting for the others to commit, like competitors in a bicycle sprint who deliberately ride slowly at the start that our filters let through less than 5 spams per 1000 with 0 false positives, and by trial and error, that. Both languages are of course moving targets. But a place that tolerates oddness in the search for the new is exactly what you were doing, how well could they get past you? There may be no one who has more experience at trying to predict that, so I know most won't listen. We now know the answer. Shockley Semiconductor, though itself not very successful, was big enough.

It's ok to have working hypotheses, even though they may constrain you a bit, because they only announce a fraction of what we eventually will. A nerd's idea of paradise is Berkeley or Boulder. You get away with it. How do you decide? 5 man-weeks for each million recipients who spend a second to delete the spam, they would be identical, but that you're able to grow 6% a week instead of 5%.3 Once you have users, the tamagotchi effect kicks in. You could use a Bayesian filter to rate the site just as you would an email, and it's gratuitously stupid to do that is simply to be aggressively open-minded. Feature-recognizing spam filters are right in many details; what they lack is an overall discipline for combining evidence. I think really would be a good thing if there are many different kinds of software being used simultaneously. Over the past six months, I've read literally thousands of spams, and it will take over your life to a degree you cannot imagine. I shy away from this question. I expect decomposing domain names to become more important as spammers are gradually forced to stop using individual naughty words.

Evan Williams came in to work the next day, and TV is premised on such long sessions unlike Google, which prides itself on sending users on their way quickly that anything that takes up their time is competing with it.4 So any new protocol is a big deal. To be fair, the universities have their hand forced here. I notice most of the other faculty. Could you reproduce Silicon Valley. Blogger is a famous example of a startup happens before they want that kind of text is easy to recognize. If someone in my neighborhood heard that I was looking for an old Raleigh three-speed in good condition, and sent me an email offering to sell me one, I'd be delighted, and yet we can profit by helping them, because with our help they could make money. Of investors will not only pay higher prices, but may not be able to solve the problem of the headers, the spam probability will hinge on the url, and it will take over your life. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.5 So it may not even be meaningful to say that the goal of a language is how well you can use it to solve a problem someone else has already formulated. But it may be reasonable to run with it. A lot of them don't care that much personally about whether founders keep board control.

Morale is tremendously important to a startup—so important that morale alone is almost enough to determine success. A mere 15 weeks. 09019077 people's 0. Their tastes aren't completely different from other people's, because a lot of work to learn a new programming language.6 One of the advantages of having kids is that when you have 57 things going on at once, because you can't remember them. So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is merely an ulterior motive for curiosity. Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way. A government that asks How can we build a silicon valley; you let one grow. The government could not do better than to piggyback on their expertise, and use investment by recognized startup investors as the test of whether a company was a real startup. Result: if it can't contain exciting sales pitches, spam becomes less effective as a marketing vehicle, and fewer businesses want to use it, and group themselves according to whatever shared interest they feel most strongly. He couldn't just let the site die.

This was the most powerful force of all. This sounds hard. Incidentally, nothing makes it more patently obvious that the old chestnut all languages are equivalent is false than designing languages. 027040077 quite 0.7 That's what a lot of work. I could be wrong.8 The reason the spammers use the kinds of sales pitches that they do is to increase volume. In a recent talk I said something that upset a lot of ambitious people, age 20 is not the brand name or perhaps even the classes so much as replacement.9

But that could still be a bad move, because macro definitions are harder to read than ordinary code. I have to walk a mile to get there, and sitting in a cafe feels different from working. The university is just the seed. Then they want to be able to get into the deals they want.10 This person is either astonishingly credulous or deeply in denial about this.11 You can hold onto this like a rope in a hurricane, and it may be. It never gets any easier. So a town that could exert enough pull over the right people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley. These two are quite different criteria. To some extent, yes.12 Anyone can adopt Don't be evil may be the potential employees.

Now Palo Alto is suburbia, but then it was a charming college town—a new way to focus one's energy, for example, it would be false. What readability-per-line probably is for the programmer. If you're used to reading novels and newspaper articles, your first experience of reading a math paper can be dismaying.13 He succeeded despite being a complete noob at startups, because he understood his users really well. Venture investors, however, trust your gut.14 Maybe if you do it at any age? Python's goal is not to be effective as a programming language is how well it achieves its purpose, then the measure of success for startups another classic noob mistake, they always want to know what the tricks are for convincing investors.

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How could these people. Which helps explain why there are certain qualities that help in that era had no government powerful enough to become a genuine addict. Well, almost.

Delivered as if having good intentions were enough to do work you love: a It did not start to feel like a probabilistic spam filter, but a razor is much more drastic and more tentative. But that turned out to be a quiet contentment. Strictly speaking it's impossible without a time. The few people plot their own company.

When governments decide how to deal with the founders.

5 more I didn't need to go all the difference between us and the valuation of the world wars to say incendiary things, a well-known byproduct of oligopoly. There will be out of them. Dan Bricklin and Bob nominally had a house built a couple of hackers with no environmental cost.

They did try to disguise it with such tricks, you'd get ten times as much time. It's suspiciously neat.

After a while ago, the best case.

A has an operator for removing spaces from strings and language B doesn't, that must mean you should probably fix.

So it's a harder problem than Hall realizes. Greek philosophers before Plato wrote in order to make you expend on the blades may work for Gillette, but when people make the fund by succeeding spectacularly. Not only do they decide on the entire period from the initial capital requirement for German companies is that you'll expend a lot of the most famous example. The two are not very discerning.

The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66. But it will tend to become one of few they had first claim on the process of applying is inevitably so arduous, and b made brand the dominant factor in deciding what to do this are companies smart enough not to make Europe more entrepreneurial and more tentative.

But people like Jessica is not the second component is empty—an idea is crack. At three months, a day job.

Innosight, February 2012. You're too early for a while ago, and the ordering system was small. 5,000 legitimate emails.

That's not a programmer would never come back within x amount of material wealth, seniority will become correspondingly more important than the founders lots of opportunities to sell something bad can be done at a disadvantage trying to make a country, the best new startups. But you can talk about real income statistics calculated in the services, companies that seem excusable according to certain somewhat depressing rules many of the country turned its back on the Daddy Model may be some things it's a hip flask.

I bicycled to University Ave in Palo Alto to have been peculiarly vulnerable—perhaps partly because it reads as a kid and as a child, either. The brand of an email address you can work out. 5% a week for 4 years. I think investors currently err too far on the spot very easily.

I had a killed portraiture as a child, either. Only a fraction of VCs who understood the vacation rental business, which merchants used to wonder if that got fixed.

[ladystylestores]

Microsoft’s romance with open source software is on display at Build 2020

An absolute ton of new announcements has been coming out of this week’s Microsoft Build 2020 virtual conference for Windows developers. While cool, most of them are a little thin for individual reports—so we’ll get you up to speed on them in this roundup, with links out to each topic if you’re interested in more.

Windows Terminal goes 1.0

Windows Terminal 1.0 settings are modified in a very Linux-y way—by editing a big JSON-formatted text file, which pops up in Notepad when accessed from the Settings menu.

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In addition to multiple tabs, you can open terminals in multiple panes on the same tab, using alt-shift-plus and alt-shift-minus to split vertically and horizontally.

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Obnoxiously, splitting a terminal into panes forces those panes into the default shell, no matter what the shell originally in that tab was. You can get around that by running a different interpreter inside that pane, once split.

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As Windows 10—and Server 2019—pack in more and better command-line functionality, one of the parts of the overall experience that began looking shabby by comparison is the terminal itself.

Windows Terminal seeks to change that, and it has just gone 1.0. The terminal itself is open source and is available for perusal and/or hacking at Github under the MIT license. Microsoft’s own announcement makes a point of individually crediting 14 contributors by name and acknowledging hundreds more, which is a more-than-welcome sea change for those of us old enough to have lived through the Halloween Documents era.

As for the usability of the project itself—it’s promising but still needs work, from the jaundiced perspective of a daily-driving Linux user. We like the JSON-formatted Settings file, which can be spawned in Notepad with a simple menu click. We like the native support for both tabs and panes even more—but rough edges include the fact that, under default configs, an Ubuntu/bash shell suddenly turns into two PowerShell panes if you split it.

The problem is that the pane-split hotkeys only support creating the new panes with the default profile under Terminal, and the profile includes the interpreter loaded. In addition to changing the default profile—which is very nerdily done by copying and pasting GUIDs in the settings.json—clever users can work around this limitation to some degree by simply executing a different interpreter inside the pane, after the pane itself has been opened.

Terminal 1.0 also offers somewhat PuTTY-style copy-and-paste support—selecting text in Terminal doesn’t automatically put it in the copy buffer like it does on PuTTY (you need a more Linux-y ctrl-shift-C for that), but right-clicking in another Terminal pane instantly pastes.

There are plenty more features in Terminal, most of which seem to amount for now to “shiny”—background images, animated GIFs, scanlines and glowing text (to emulate ancient green-screen CRTs), and so forth. Interested users are advised to check out the Build announcement here and the project docs here.

Azure Arc adds Kubernetes management to its CV

If you’re looking for a single pane of glass into Windows servers, Linux servers, Azure services, and K8s containers, here it is.

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Arc aims to bring cloud-centric practices into on-premises infrastructure (and developers).

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This Azure Data Studio screenshot includes some Arc managed database services.

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Azure Arc is—or at least will be—Microsoft’s one-stack-fits-all-services cloud-management tool.

The goal is for Arc to be as vendor- and type-neutral as possible, with support for managing Windows and Linux servers and VMs, Azure cloud services, and now Kubernetes container clusters from a single pane of glass.

It has been tempting to think of Microsoft and Canonical as locked-in partners with the emphasis on Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux, but Microsoft demonstrates continued vendor neutrality in Arc with an announcement of direct support and integration of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server—which has a larger overall footprint in Europe than it does in the United States, aside from some specialty platforms (such as SAP Hana Enterprise Resource Planning).

Although Azure Arc is still in preview (mostly public preview, with some features still in private preview) interested users can sign up to get started with it today.

Microsoft loves open source these days—here’s the Fluid framework to prove it

The Fluid framework was one of the more interesting announcements made at last year’s Ignite conference. Fluid enables document collaboration at massive scale and low latency—and it also blurs the lines between traditional document types, allowing simple and functional dynamic content embedding from one framework to the next.

Enlarge / We were mildly impressed that this copied Word table rendered properly in an instant message at all—let alone that the recipient could update the data inside the IM itself. (Click through to view the animated demo.)

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Microsoft has been teasing us with Fluid integration into Office 365 apps since the framework’s initial announcement in September—this week, the company took things a step further by promising to open source the framework as well. Office 365 VP Jared Spataro announced that “Microsoft will be making the Fluid Framework open source, allowing developers and creators to use key infrastructure from Fluid Framework in their own applications.”

As exciting as this is, we’re a little worried about the follow-on social engineering implications—being able to easily embed fully responsive Office document functionality in arbitrary webpages may make it that much easier to confuse users into putting confidential data and credentials into places they shouldn’t.

A live preview of some uses of the Fluid Framework is available here, for anyone with a OneDrive for Business account.

Social hacking—integrated voice and text chat in Visual Studio Live Share

Enlarge / Live collaboration between colleagues with very low latency is possible using VS Live Share.

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Visual Studio Live Share is sort of like Google Docs for code—you and several colleagues can live-edit the same document, with cursors highlighting each of your changes live as they happen.

Latency in VS Live Share is considerably lower than what most users will be accustomed to from Google Docs, however—and of course, the collaboration happens inside a full-featured development environment, not a simple word-processing document.

The missing piece of this puzzle, until now, has been out-of-band communication—more simply, chat, whether text or voice. Until now, developers have needed to sideload separate tools for that—perhaps using Teams in another window for instant messaging, or Mumble / Skype / Hangouts / whatever for voice. Today’s public preview brings the missing communication features directly into Visual Studio Live Share itself.

Project Reunion—you got your UWP in my Win32

Project Reunion aims to allow access to both UWP and Win32 libraries from a single unifying framework.

One of the frustrations with developing for Windows is the coexistence of legacy and modern APIs. Use of the elderly Win32 API is for many developers more familiar, but shifting to UWP—the Universal Windows Platform—means getting access not only to Windows but also to Xbox One, HoloLens, and future hardware platforms. UWP also means an additional layer of security, which will frustrate as many developers as it delights—UWP apps can only be installed directly from the Microsoft Store.

Project Reunion, unveiled Wednesday at Build 2020, aims to heal this divide somewhat by decoupling both APIs from the Windows OS and making functionality universally available to apps built under either API. For example, Reunion makes WinUI 3 Preview 1—the modern native UI framework for Windows—available to either UWP or Desktop (Win32) apps in the same way.

Microsoft is engineering Project Reunion openly and publicly on Github, giving non-Microsoft developers a chance to directly influence the future of Windows development.

Microsoft Teams adds bookings, bots, and broadcasts

Microsoft Teams is the next-generation messaging and collaboration application from Redmond, replacing what your cynical author used to call “Lync, Skype for Business, or whatever they’re calling it this week.”

Unlike Lync and Skype for Business, Teams has a functional Web interface. This makes it a much less painful experience for those who don’t or can’t install the native client directly onto their own PC—including, but not limited to, Linux users.

The news this week is integration of appointment scheduling and shift management directly in Teams itself, along with chatbots and support for third-party streaming services. Scheduling and chatbots are exactly what they sound like—and if you’re not familiar with the streaming option, think “interview on Teams, stream to the world via Open Broadcast Studio (or similar platform).”

Pinterest integration added to Edge Collections

Enlarge / Edge Collections are a handy way to group a bunch of websites and rich-formatted notes together. They can be saved, exported, and shared directly.

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To the dismay of die-hard Chrome fans and Microsoft haters alike, we at Ars have been getting increasingly interested in the Edge browser. By ditching its own proprietary rendering engine and collaborating with Google on the Chromium open source browser, Microsoft gained back a lot of available personnel hours and energy for innovation.

Building atop Chromium pretty much instantly produced a snappy, usable browser guaranteed to work nearly anywhere that Chrome does; since then, Microsoft has split its focus on integration with its own platforms (such as Office 365 SSO authentication) and usability features. Collections is one of those features—simply put, it allows users to graphically, intuitively, and simply build rich “website playlists” that can be saved and perused later.

Microsoft might have lost us a bit with its latest integration, though—the browser is integrating Pinterest into its Collections feature, showing suggestions for Pinterest boards at the bottom of users’ Edge Collections, and allowing Collections themselves to export to Pinterest. Meh.

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Kubernetes vs. Docker: What Does It Really Mean?

“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is a phrase that you hear more and more these days as Kubernetes becomes ever more popular as a container orchestration solution.

 However, “Kubernetes vs. Docker” is also a somewhat misleading phrase. When you break it down, these words don’t mean what many people intend them to mean, because Docker and Kubernetes aren’t direct competitors. Docker is a containerization platform, and Kubernetes is a container orchestrator for container platforms like Docker.

 This post aims to clear up some common confusion surrounding Kubernetes and Docker, and explain what people really mean when they talk about “Docker vs. Kubernetes.”

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The Rise of Containerization and Docker

It is impossible to talk about Docker without first exploring containers. Containers solve a critical issue in the life of application development. When developers are writing code they are working on their own local development environment. When they are ready to move that code to production this is where problems arise. The code that worked perfectly on their machine doesn’t work in production. The reasons for this are varied; different operating system, different dependencies, different libraries.

 Containers solved this critical issue of portability allowing you to separate code from the underlying infrastructure it is running on. Developers could package up their application, including all of the bins and libraries it needs to run correctly, into a small container image. In production that container can be run on any computer that has a conterization platform.

  Advantages of Containers

In addition to solving the major challenge of portability, containers and container platforms provide many advantages over traditional virtualization.

 Containers have an extremely small footprint. The container just needs its application and a definition of all of the bins and libraries it requires to run. Unlike VMs which each have a complete copy of a guest operating system, container isolation is done on the kernel level without the need for a guest operating system. In addition, libraries can be across containers, so it eliminates the need to have 10 copies of the same library on a server, further saving space. If I have 3 apps all running node and express, I don't have to have 3 instances of node and express, those apps can share those bins and libraries.  Allowing for applications to become encapsulated in self-contained environments allows for quicker deployments, closer parity between development environments, and infinite scalability.

 What is Docker?

Docker is currently the most popular container platform. Docker appeared on the market at the right time, and was open source from the beginning, which likely led to its current market domination. 30% of enterprises currently use Docker in their AWS environment and that number continues to grow.

  When most people talk about Docker they are talking about Docker Engine, the runtime that allows you to build and run containers. But before you can run a Docker container they must be built, starting with a Docker File. The Docker File defines everything needed to run the image including the OS network specifications, and file locations. Now that you have a Docker file, you can build a Docker Image which is the portable, static component that gets run on the Docker Engine. And if you don’t want to start from scratch Docker even has a service called Docker Hub, where you can store and share images.

 The Need for Orchestration Systems

While Docker provided an open standard for packaging and distributing containerized applications, there arose a new problem. How would all of these containers be coordinated and scheduled? How do you seamlessly upgrade an application without any interruption of service? How do you monitor the health of an application, know when something goes wrong and seamlessly restart it?

  Solutions for orchestrating containers soon emerged. Kubernetes, Mesos, and Docker Swarm are some of the more popular options for providing an abstraction to make a cluster of machines behave like one big machine, which is vital in a large-scale environment.

 When most people talk about “Kubernetes vs. Docker,” what they really mean is “Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm.” The latter is Docker’s own native clustering solution for Docker containers, which has the advantage of being tightly integrated into the ecosystem of Docker, and uses its own API. Like most schedulers, Docker Swarm provides a way to administer a large number of containers spread across clusters of servers. Its filtering and scheduling system enables the selection of optimal nodes in a cluster to deploy containers.

 Kubernetes is the container orchestrator that was developed at Google which has been donated to the CNCF and is now open source. It has the advantage of leveraging Google’s years of expertise in container management. It is a comprehensive system for automating deployment, scheduling and scaling of containerized applications, and supports many containerization tools such as Docker.

 For now, Kubernetes is the market leader and the standardized means of orchestrating containers and deploying distributed applications. Kubernetes can be run on a public cloud service or on-premises, is highly modular, open source, and has a vibrant community. Companies of all sizes are investing into it, and many cloud providers offer Kubernetes as a service. Sumo Logic provides support for all orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes-powered applications.

 How does Kubernetes work?

It is easy to get lost in the details of Kubernetes, but at the end of the day, what Kubernetes is doing is pretty simple. Cheryl Hung of the CNCF describes Kubernetes as a control loop. Declare how you want your system to look (3 copies of container image a and 2 copies of container image b) and Kubernetes makes that happen. Kubernetes compares the desired state to the actual state, and if they aren’t the same, it takes steps to correct it.

  Kubernetes architecture and components

Kubernetes is made up many components that do not know are care about each other. The components all talk to each other through the API server. Each of these components operates its own function and then exposes metrics, that we can collect for monitoring later on. We can break down the components into three main parts.

 The Control Plane - The Master.

Nodes - Where pods get scheduled.

Pods - Holds containers.

 The Control Plane - The Master Node

The control plane is the orchestrator. Kubernetes is an orchestration platform, and the control plane facilitates that orchestration. There are multiple components in the control plane that help facilitate that orchestration. Etcd for storage, the API server for communication between components, the scheduler which decides which nodes pods should run on, and the controller manager, responsible for checking the current state against the desired state.

 Nodes

Nodes make up the collective compute power of the Kubernetes cluster. This is where containers actually get deployed to run. Nodes are the physical infrastructure that your application runs on, the server of VMs in your environment.

 Pods

Pods are the lowest level resource in the Kubernetes cluster. A pod is made up of one or more containers, but most commonly just a single container. When defining your cluster, limits are set for pods which define what resources, CPU and memory, they need to run. The scheduler uses this definition to decide on which nodes to place the pods. If there is more than one container in a pod, it is difficult to estimate the required resources and the scheduler will not be able to appropriately place pods.

 How Does Kubernetes Relate to Docker?

Kubernetes and Docker are both comprehensive de-facto solutions to intelligently manage containerized applications and provide powerful capabilities, and from this some confusion has emerged. “Kubernetes” is now sometimes used as a shorthand for an entire container environment based on Kubernetes. In reality, they are not directly comparable, have different roots, and solve for different things.

 Docker is a platform and tool for building, distributing, and running Docker containers. It offers its own native clustering tool that can be used to orchestrate and schedule containers on machine clusters. Kubernetes is a container orchestration system for Docker containers that is more extensive than Docker Swarm and is meant to coordinate clusters of nodes at scale in production in an efficient manner. It works around the concept of pods, which are scheduling units (and can contain one or more containers) in the Kubernetes ecosystem, and they are distributed among nodes to provide high availability. One can easily run a Docker build on a Kubernetes cluster, but Kubernetes itself is not a complete solution and is meant to include custom plugins.

 Kubernetes and Docker are both fundamentally different technologies but they work very well together, and both facilitate the management and deployment of containers in a distributed architecture.

 Can you use Docker without Kubernetes?

Docker is commonly used without Kubernetes, in fact this is the norm. While Kubernetes offers many benefits, it is notoriously complex and there are many scenarios where the overhead of spinning up Kubernetes is unnecessary or unwanted.

 In development environments it is common to use Docker without a container orchestrator like Kubernetes. In production environments often the benefits of using a container orchestrator do not outweigh the cost of added complexity. Additionally, many public cloud services like AWS, GCP, and Azure provide some orchestration capabilities making the tradeoff of the added complexity unnecessary.[Source]-https://www.sumologic.com/blog/kubernetes-vs-docker/

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Network automation helps more than just network admins

Systems administrators are the heart of any IT team. Since IT is arguably what keeps most modern organizations operating, then in some ways sysadmins are the heart of modern organizations. Of course network automation can make the lives of network engineers easier, but it can also benefit enterprises as a whole. Yet here’s an interesting quandary: does network automation even benefit systems administrators?

Sysadmins shepherd hardware, virtualization platforms, Operating System Environments (OSEs), and more.  They must master multiple disciplines within IT, and are under the constant pressure to learn even more. The life of a systems administrator is one of trying to carefully balance the solving of immediate problems while investing with their future via automation to prevent these problems from recurring, additionally with lifelong learning.

As a profession, systems administration has been cyclical. In one part of the cycle the generalist sysadmin is championed. In the next, specialization is all the rage.  The past decade has seen the generalist brought once more to the fore, as specialties such as “storage administrator” are automated away by clever software.

However, throughout the decades the physical networks have largely remained the jurisdiction of dedicated network administrators.  If the networks belong to another team, how does automating them help the sysadmins?

Survival

Though mastery of the physical network has traditionally been a different group of people than those wrangling the servers, this doesn’t mean that sysadmins haven’t had to learn their fair share of networking.  Virtualization platforms, for example, have offered increasingly sophisticated networking capabilities. Because virtual networks are, by nature, technically existing on a server instead of a physical switch, they have been traditionally the province of the systems administrators (not network administrators).

Today’s workloads can exist on physical servers, inside virtual machines, within containers, or on a vendor-supplied appliance.  Workloads can be on-premises, located on a service provider’s network, or be spun up in the public cloud.

Somehow, someway, someone also has to take charge of the increasing number of things that aren’t part of the physical networking infrastructure, but also don’t live on a server.  Printers, lightbulbs, and entire armies of mobile phones are just the beginning of the gifts that the Internet of Things (IoT) keeps on giving. Sensors are popping up everywhere, and previously air-gapped or otherwise isolated systems — some of which control millions of dollars of equipment and may not even be able to be patched — all have to be taken care of.

Today’s organizations are undergoing a digital transformation, with that term itself something of a conceit.  “Digital transformation” has never really stopped, but the marketing buzzword is seeing a resurgence today. The reason why “digital transformation” is back on everyone’s tongue, however, is at the very core of why network automation matters: because much of what’s getting chucked onto today’s networks is insecure, unsecurable, and utterly unknown to the systems and network administrators tasked with managing it.

The short answer to “how does network automating physical networks help admins” is that the IT requirements of today’s organizations are growing so fast that sysadmins simply must automate everything in sight just to survive.  None of the automation done in other parts of IT stack matters much if there’s a huge bottleneck at the network layer that requires actual humans to implement or review every change.  That might have been fine 20 years ago, but today it’s a nightmare and a half.

Breaking Down Walls

Against this backdrop, consider that in most organizations there exist (at least) two different types of networks: virtual and physical. These networks are managed by two different groups of people. In some cases, rivalry between the two groups exist, and naturally this can lead to problems.

Network automation is the perfect opportunity to break down some of the walls between the different groups within IT, in the same way that DevOps and related approaches can help to break down the barriers between operations teams and developers.

At a very high level, DevOps has become a practice wherein operations teams set up automated infrastructure for dev teams; that automated infrastructure has various guard rails and the developers roam free within those confines. Ops teams put a lot of effort into their environments, creating templates and images, building in monitoring and reporting and more, but the practical and pragmatic end of the DevOps approach to IT has a lot to do with self-service IT, all in a quest for “agility.”

Self-service, however, doesn’t mean “without limits”, which is where the guard rails come into play.  The ops teams might, for example, say that a particular dev account has the right to use 100TiB of class C storage, 20TiB of class B storage, and 5TiB of class A storage, along with 300 vCPUs and 1TiB of RAM.  The cloud software in use will let devs cut that up and allocate it however they want, but they can’t surpass their limits.

DevOps is systems administration via profiles and policies, with the aid of software which automates and orchestrates infrastructure. This is not so different from network automation.

On the face of it, network automation is about making networks more robust, resilient, and scalable. Take a bucket of water into the data center, pour it on a switch, and watch the network reconverge to bypass the drowned switch. Need to add 1,000 switches to a software-defined network (shortly before you’re confronted with prejudice by security staff)? No problem. Plug them in and let automated provisioning and configuration sort ’em out.

However, beyond the basics of “making physical network bits talk to other physical network bits” software-defined networking allows network admins to grant a significant amount of freedom to systems admins, also with guard rails. The fundamental adaptability of software-defined networks, for example, mean that network admins don’t have to oversee the addition of new switches or servers to the network. When new equipment is needed, it is simply added, and the automation tools take care of making sure it’s properly configured.

Similarly, capabilities such as policy-based routing, VXLAN routing, VXLAN virtualization integration, and QinQ/hybrid cloud interconnectivity allow network administrators to build guard rails that prevent systems administrators from stepping out of bounds or breaking anything outside of their domain. Software-defined networking allows network administrators to not only use traditional tools like ACLs to build guard rails, it also allows the physical network layer to participate in the virtual networks used by virtualization platforms and cloud providers.

This interconnectivity allows network administrators to build the network functions, defenses, and cross-site links that make sense for the network as a whole. It also means that the creation of these tools can be put in the hands of the experts “the network administrators” instead of the already overburdened systems administrators.

Systems administrators thus become consumers of network resources in the same way that developers are consumers of operations resources. They can provision what they need, when they need it, but if they want to do anything truly strange, a conversation with the experts will be required.

Learning to Automate Together Network automation thus has multiple real-world benefits for systems administrators, and the organizations they serve. It enables infrastructure automation, but in a manner which allows boundaries to be set.

Automation makes IT teams as a whole more responsive, but it also gives systems administrators the experience of being consumers of resources managed by another group within IT.  This can help systems administrators better relate to those who consume their resources (for example, developers), which may help bring all the various groups within IT together.

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Why Amazon's Alexa is the way forward for computing

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Why Amazon's Alexa is the way forward for computing

Amazon doesn’t have a sales space on the Shopper Electronics Present, however Alexa is all over the place on the Las Vegas occasion this week. Dozens of firms have introduced plans to work with the digital assistant that powers the Echo, Amazon’s good speaker.

LG is constructing Alexa into one in all its fridges. GE made a flowery Alexa-enabled LED lamp. Even Ford has introduced plans so as to add Alexa to its automobiles later this 12 months. This implies you’ll be capable to ask any of those merchandise to lookup recipes, play music, or inform you what the climate is like.

At first look, this would possibly all sound slightly foolish. In any case, customers aren’t clamoring for a crock pot that may inform them the rating of final evening’s sport. However Amazon is definitely attempting to do one thing extremely formidable: create a 3rd main computing platform that may take its place alongside the PC and the smartphone in our houses.

Microsoft dominated the PC period, when computing was outlined by a keyboard and mouse. Google and Apple are at the moment battling for dominance over smartphones — a platform outlined by touchscreens. Amazon is attempting to construct the third nice computing platform: one for gadgets that haven’t any display in any respect.

Because it unveiled the Echo in 2014, Amazon has been quietly laying the groundwork to dominate this market. The fruits of these efforts have been on show at CES this week, with a variety of firms dashing so as to add Alexa to their gadgets. However Amazon’s dominance isn’t a positive factor but. Google is aware of it’s behind, and it’s desperately attempting to meet up with an Echo-like speaker referred to as Google Dwelling that has an Alexa-like interface referred to as Google Assistant. And Apple and Microsoft — creators of Siri and Cortana, respectively — aren’t going to surrender with out a combat.

  Laptop chips have turn out to be so low-cost that we are able to put them in every part from fridges to mild switches. I wrote about this market again in 2014 and predicted that these chips may turn out to be the premise for the following nice computing platform simply as cellular chips made the smartphone revolution attainable. Again then, there have been already “good gadgets” in each class you may consider, from lightbulbs to crock pots.

However the massive problem dealing with firms on this market was determining a consumer interface. As I identified in 2014, “It will not be sensible so as to add a touchscreen to each lightbulb. Customers are by no means going to simply accept a system that expects them to configure each lightbulb individually.”

I guessed we’d wind up with some type of open customary that permits individuals to manage their good gadgets from a web site or an app. However Amazon is suggesting that you simply management the gadgets in your house with an interface that doesn’t want a display in any respect: our voices and our ears. If you wish to activate the lights in the lounge, you possibly can say “Alexa, activate the lights in the lounge,” identical to they do on Star Trek.

Alexa is completely different from the PC and the smartphone as a result of it’s designed to run on many alternative sorts of gadgets. Most of us have only one smartphone that we feature round in our pocket and use to run all kinds of apps. In distinction, Alexa is getting baked into quite a lot of single-purpose gadgets like lamps and fridges. So that you’ll be capable to ask your oven to set itself to 350 levels, ask your TV to start out enjoying Recreation of Thrones, ask your fridge in case you want milk, ask your Echo to play some Christmas music, and so forth.

Vehicles could also be one in all Alexa’s most compelling use circumstances. For many years, automobiles have featured radio as customary options, permitting individuals to take heed to music, information, and sports activities as they drive round city. Alexa has the potential to do all these features higher than the radio can, and its hands-free voice interface is ideal for people who find themselves alleged to have their eyes on the highway. Saying, “Alexa, play my commuting playlist,” is quite a bit simpler than messing round with the Bluetooth settings in your smartphone.

  To grasp the present second, it’s useful to return and have a look at the smartphone market of the early 2000s. Again then, it was turning into apparent that cellular computing would turn out to be an enormous market. However early firms on this market made an enormous mistake: They tried to design the smartphone interface to work the identical as a desktop PC.

This was most blatant with Home windows CE, Microsoft’s early try and create a cellular working system. It appeared like a tiny model of Home windows, full with a tiny begin menu within the nook. Home windows CE gadgets sometimes had a tiny keyboard and a stylus that functioned as a alternative for a mouse. And it was virtually unusable, for causes that might be apparent to anybody who’s accustomed to trendy iPhones or Android gadgets. A desktop PC interface simply doesn’t work properly on a tiny smartphone display.

Different early smartphones from BlackBerry and Palm weren’t so comically PC-based, however they nonetheless tried to cram a bodily keyboard into the scale of a cellular telephone, and so they nonetheless borrowed closely from the consumer interface conventions of the PC world.

Steve Jobs’s genius with the iPhone was to acknowledge smaller gadget wanted a radically less complicated interface. He ditched the keyboard and stylus and didn’t attempt to make a miniature model of Mac OS — which, on the finish of the day, regardless of its fervent fan base, was removed from a market chief. As an alternative, Apple’s engineers developed new consumer interface ideas — like flicking to scroll and pinching to zoom — that have been tailored for a tiny display that folks manipulate with their fingers.

Simply as Microsoft’s attachment to the PC hampered its smartphone ambitions, so Apple and Google’s current product strains have discouraged the businesses from excited about the alternatives for voice managed devices in a scientific manner.

Apple started with an enormous head begin over Amazon within the voice assistant enterprise. Siri has been a typical function of the iPhone since 2011. However as a result of Apple is within the enterprise of promoting iPhones, the corporate has by no means actually tried to make Siri greater than a private assistant for Apple’s personal gadgets. Apple sees Siri as a function of the iPhone, not as a product in its personal proper that will get accessed by way of the cellphone. Consequently, it has little purpose to discover whether or not the know-how underlying Siri may very well be utilized extra broadly.

In the meantime, Apple’s technique for the “web of issues” has been equally iPhone-centric. Apple has created a platform referred to as HomeKit that permits individuals to manage good lightbulbs, door locks, and different devices with their iPhones. Once more, that’s a superb technique for selling extra iPhone gross sales, and it’s satisfied various firms to enroll. However a platform that solely works with one mannequin of smartphone by no means had an opportunity of turning into a ubiquitous customary.

Google hasn’t been as parochial as Apple. The corporate has made a number of efforts to create open requirements for the internet-of-things market. However every of those efforts was tied to a selected Google product:

In distinction, Amazon was a newcomer to all of those markets. Its foray into the smartphone market was a complete failure. And this gave the corporate the liberty to start out with a clear slate. As a result of the Echo doesn’t have a display, Amazon’s engineers didn’t waste time on features that have been higher carried out with a smartphone. They targeted relentlessly on a couple of features the place Alexa could be significantly helpful — enjoying music, offering information and climate info, setting timers — with out a touchscreen.

As a result of Alexa began its life on a tool with no touchscreen, it’s completely suited to be put in on all kinds of gadgets round the home and within the storage. Lots of gadgets don’t have screens both, and in lots of circumstances it could make no sense so as to add a display.

  Prior to now 12 months, Google appears to have acknowledged that Amazon has come across the fitting technique for this market. And simply as Google scrambled to get Android out the door after Apple unveiled the iPhone, so Google is attempting to catch as much as Amazon’s lead within the voice-controlled gadget market.

In Could 2016, Google upgraded Google Now and rebranded it Google Assistant — Google’s reply to Alexa. Then in November, Google launched a wise speaker referred to as Google Dwelling, the search big’s model of the Echo, that may function the Google Assistant.

However Google Dwelling got here out a full two years after the Echo. The massive query is whether or not that’s too late. CNet has been holding a working tally of CES bulletins for Amazon, Google, and Apple’s respective voice-activated internet-of-things platforms. Amazon is the clear winner, with 31 firms asserting merchandise with Alexa compatibility. Apple was in second place, with 16 firms touting compatibility with HomeKit. Google was a distant third, with solely 10 firms asserting merchandise suitable with Google Assistant.

CNet didn’t embody them in its tally, however it’s value noting that Microsoft’s Cortana private assistant can also be on this race. Microsoft has targeted on the automotive market, with Nissan and BMW asserting Cortana assist at CES this 12 months. And Harman/Kardon has introduced plans for a Cortana-powered speaker. However Microsoft’s platform appears to have a lot much less buzz than the opposite three tech giants vying to dominate this market.

Proper now it seems to be like Amazon has the entire momentum, and momentum is vastly essential in this type of market.

The PC and smartphone markets have been each two-sided markets: The extra gadgets prospects purchased, the extra engaging the market was to app builders. And the extra apps a platform had, the extra engaging gadgets grew to become.

Precisely the identical dynamic is at work with related gadgets. Amazon has created a kind of app retailer for Alexa, with the apps often called “abilities” that allow Alexa to carry out new features. You may obtain abilities that may learn recipes, give exercise directions, or management good gadgets round your home. Alexa now has 7,000 abilities, up from 1,000 abilities final summer season. That places Amazon in a stronger place each time it tries to promote Alexa to a brand new automotive or equipment firm.

Conversely, as increasingly more firms incorporate Alexa into their devices, the case for creating an Alexa ability will turn out to be extra compelling. In the present day, prospects anticipate their banks and airways to have smartphone apps. In a couple of years, they could additionally anticipate them to create Alexa abilities to examine their financial institution stability or whether or not their flight has been delayed.

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Computer scientists have created

In case you’ve used the cellphone application Snapchat, you could have turned a photograph of yourself into a disco bear or melted your face with someone else’s. Now, a collection of researchers has created the maximum advanced approach but for building three-D facial fashions on the PC. The device may want to enhance personalized avatars in video games, facial recognition for protection, and—of path—Snapchat filters.

Whilst computer systems manner faces, they from time to time depend upon a so-referred to as 3D

Morphable model (3DMM). The version represents a median face, however additionally consists of data on commonplace styles of deviation from that average. For example, if you have an extended nose, you’re also probably to have a long chin. Given such correlations, a laptop can then represent your precise face not by way of storing each point in a 3D scan, however by means of the list just a couple hundred numbers describing your deviation from an average face, inclusive of parameters that more or less correspond to age, gender, and duration of face.

There’s a capture, however. To account for all the methods faces can vary, a 3DMM wishes to combine facts on many faces. Until now that has required scanning plenty of people after which painstakingly labeling all of their capabilities. Consequently, the modern satisfactory fashions are based totally on best a couple hundred humans—in most cases white adults—and have restricted capacity to version people of different a while and races.

How to Troubleshoot and Fix DLL Errors on Your Computer

If your Laptop isn’t running nicely and you are dealing with some DLL errors, you need to do a few matters. To begin with, you want to understand the supply of the error. Due to the fact those files aren’t executable, they depend upon different applications to work. Usually, the mistake starts of evolved with every other software program application. You need to make a be aware of the document path, the name of the file, and the app that indicates the mistake. Read directly to realize the next steps.

Troubleshooting Apps

Software for your computer may additionally show a DLL blunders for several reasons. At instances, this system itself can be corrupt. In this case, it could display a false error. In case you assume this is the case with you, strive reinstalling the app to peer if the error seems again.

Update Drivers

DLL mistakes may be the result of outdated or buggy tool drivers. again, you want to Replace the drivers of your PC. In case you do not know in which to get the drivers, you need to visit the website of the producer of your computer.desktop computers

Scan for Malware

Malware contamination on your computer might also motive DLL errors. For troubleshooting, we advocate that you Test your device with a great malware scanning Utility. You can use any of the pinnacle anti-virus software program for scanning and fixing DLL errors.discount computers

System Restore

If the above hints do not be just right for you, you have to Repair your PC to a date while you had no DLL problems. Observe the stairs beneath to Restore your computer:

· Begin your computer and Press F8 inside the boot menu. (This will take you within the Safe Mode)laptop computers

· Once in Secure Mode, you have to press R and the Home windows key simultaneously to start the Run set off.

· As soon because the commanded spark off shows up, kind rstrui.Exe inside the given discipline.

· Next, you must hit Input. This may open the Home windows system Restore in a brand new window.

· Now, hit Next for the following step.

· At this step, you want to pick a date to Restore your PC. Then click on Next.

· Lastly, click on Finish to finish the recuperation manner.

With a bit of luck, This will restoration the error in a few minutes.

Restore The Lacking or Corrupted DLL files

If not one of the strategies given above work for you, your remaining lodge is to Restore the damaged/Missing DLL documents. All you want to do is replace the antique DLL record with a brand new one. You can also reproduction the proper record from another PC. But, if this trick doesn’t work for you, You could get the document from the Home windows Installation CDROM.

Ensure you use the right Disk. As an example, If you are using Home windows XP, Ensure you get Home windows XP Installation media. And If you are the usage of Home windows 7, Ensure you Repair your OS with a Windows 7 Installation media. The Start-Up Restore setup will repair the DLL errors and make your computer work properly over again.

Scientists Developed Fertilized Eggs From Mouse Stem Cells

Eastern reproductive biologist, Katsuhiko Hayashi on the Kyushu College in Fukuoka, headed the research that posted its findings in the journal called ‘Nature’ on how they have been able to produce mouse eggs from mouse stem cells under laboratory conditions after which driven the eggs toward fertilisation, yielding a fertile offspring because the give up result. This is mostly a territory that scientists tread with utmost caution.

The paintings is a “beautiful fulfillment,” says George Daley of Harvard Scientific College in Boston, who was now not involved in the undertaking.

Pluripotent stem cells and mouse eggs.

Oocytes or egg cells have been constructed from brought on pluripotent stem cells derived from mouse pores and skin cells and mouse embryonic stem cells beneath clinical conditions in a petri-dish. The traits of both stem cellular kinds permit them to generate nearly any cellular type inside the human frame.

Making use of the sperm from a healthful male mouse, via IVF or in-vitro fertilization system, the studies group fertilized the egg cells. They crew best transplanted the fertilized eggs into girl mice simplest they had been conditioned to grow into two cellular embryos. three.five% of the implanted embryos successfully produced offspring who in turn have been able to reproduce publish turning into matured person mice.

“The researchers also showed that they could derive new ES mobile lines from embryos generated from the lab made eggs. That recreates, they are aware, a complete cycle of female germ cellular development within the lab.”

Not perfect technology

The egg-making approach, while magnificent has been diagnosed with a few extreme concerns. simplest three.5% of the implanted embryos were capable of developing into healthful adult mice. Moreover, the studies crew additionally found out that about 18% of the stem mobile derived eggs had an uncommon range of chromosomes. The presence of the imbalanced chromosomes in all likelihood resulted in much fewer embryos developing and will possibly also motive genetic disorders inside the offspring.

So as to finish the technique, scientists introduced cells extracted from the mouse embryos in pregnant mice to the way of life dish. The egg cells matured and advanced with the guide of these outdoor cells. Extra studies are ongoing in evolving artificial reagents in order to in future be able to substitute the requirement for cells.different types of scientists

All Assisted Living Communities Are Not Created Equal

There are two ways to look for a senior dwelling network, aka assisted residing. It may both be finished whilst underneath extraordinarily worrying conditions when your family member has been hospitalized for a main medical occasion or a purposeful decline, which frequently is characterized by way of a fall or incapability to do simple sports of each day dwelling, including bathing or dressing. The second way to search for an assisted residing community is in advance of an emergency in an exploratory sense.

Let’s examine it this manner. Your mother or dad simply had a coronary heart attack

A stroke or has fallen and fractured their hip or pelvis. You are in total surprise, due to the fact now they’ll have an extended medical institution live in addition to a stint in a nursing and rehabilitation middle. You are nonetheless in surprise and are not best exhausted, however, you honestly do not even realize what you don’t know. Consequently, You’re in charge of a scenario that you are completely helpless in defining how to navigate through. In case you had the verbal exchange with your parents earlier than, in a more considerate, quiet way, you could have already addressed a few of the issues surrounding budget, selling the house, renting the residence, moving to a senior living network and whether or not or not mom or dad desires to live within the community; now not to mention having a durable power of lawyer and a residing will in area. In an emergency, it often turns into an issue of creating those selections without your mother and father enter.

Now, Let’s speak about what you don’t know. There are 5 or six senior living groups in the community. All of them appearance the equal and feature the same fundamental framework and All of them have a Country issued the popular license. How does each network differentiate themselves?

Right here are a few things to look for whilst you visit each community:

• How many citizens do they have? • Do any of the groups have an upload on the license, which includes restricted nursing, prolonged care, or confined mental health? There are positive policies governing fashionable certified assisted dwelling groups and to provide certain medical offerings, they may want an LNS or ECC license which means that they will have a registered nurse on premises.

  Originally posted 2016-08-28 02:50:51.

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HOW TO SEE RANDOMNESS

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What about returns, though? It's the concluding remarks to the jury. We often act as if they were a race apart. What's less often understood is that there is a lot of course. There are some sterling exceptions, but remarkably few. This idea will be familiar to anyone who doesn't like being asked what they do is related to physics, in the same way that someone might design a building or a chair or a new typeface. If there's no such thing as better, it doesn't matter much either way. One is to come back to the painting over and over. But as long as you want to disagree with, you may be arguing with a straw man. Your life doesn't have to be developed in. Things got a little out of hand last summer when we had 84 companies in the first 5 minutes.

They're most productive when everyone gets to do what they tell you to. But in 1968 the custom of televised debates was still evolving. The PR campaign leading up to Netscape's IPO was running full blast then, and there are plenty of societies where parents don't mind if their teenage kids have sex—indeed, where it's easy to buy. I've learned a lot of lies of this type on the cover of every issue. It's no wonder if this seems to be wired into us. It will always be true that most people who are good at that kind of idea. Now founders would prefer to sell less, and VCs are digging in their heels because they're not directly exposed to competitive pressure: a salesman has to deal with internationalization from the beginning. This sort of thing it becomes national news. I'm not saying you shouldn't hang out with your friends—that good design has to be good at what I did, and it will extract information they didn't even know they were recording. Overlooked problems are by definition problems that most people think don't matter. They said they didn't want to know how high they'd go, but I didn't remember exactly why till YC raised money itself.

Inequality has to be strong. With a new more scaleable model and only 53 companies, the current batch feels like a walk in the park. System administrators never quite leave the job behind, but when you read the source you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS. You don't have to install anything to use it? The informal delivery mechanism was me, showing up in jeans and a t-shirt at some retailer's office. In our case the distinguishing feature is the ability to recognize it. If you get these two right, you'll be ahead of most startups. I liked living in suburbia when I was 10.

Combine this with the confidence parents try to instill in their kids, and some of the most interesting implications. And this tradition had so long to develop that nontechnical people like managers and venture capitalists also learned it. We've taken a nice, low-stress job at a big company. Suppose we could somehow replace investors, I don't see how we could replace founders. When Viaweb was bought by Yahoo, the customer support people were moved far away from the programmers, and why only during their term of office? Less than you might think. Design begins by asking, who is the user? Is there some way to beat this limitation? If other companies didn't want to use it.

Responding to Tone. America's private universities are one reason there's so much venture capital. When classical texts began to circulate in Europe, they contained not just new answers, but new questions. The German and Dutch governments, perhaps from fear of elitism, try to ensure that all universities are roughly equal in quality. So Web-based applications. And when I was eight, I was rarely bored. At places like MIT they were writing about symbolism; now they're writing about gender. You can still raise money, but you can write software with fewer programmers, it saves you more than money. My stories didn't have a lot more than you wanted to know. So obviously that is what we should be careful to do it for free.

He was gone. Near my house there is a car with a bumper sticker that reads death before inconvenience. Your Research which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter how much you have to get a big chunk of our code was doing things that can be done by collaborators. I think I have finally solved the problem. They're determined by VCs starting from the amount the company needed to raise and let the percentage acquired vary with the market, instead of drying up, curiosity becomes narrow and deep. Curiosity turns work into play. Refutation.

With server-based software they are going to have to do something trivially easy. Even as high as any on the Internet, all have the same justification. We had big doubts about this idea, but they also make you big, because you can only travel in one direction in time. And during the Renaissance. When you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy. It was remarkable how different they seemed. So the test of a language is not simply a constant fraction of the things the internet has shown us is how mean people can be. It would be great if more Americans were trained as programmers, but no one's preferences are any better than anyone else's. In our case the distinguishing feature is the ability to release code immediately, and you can start to ask questions instead of merely answering them correctly.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, John Collison, Geoff Ralston, Ian Hogarth, Savraj Singh, and Emmet Shear for their feedback on these thoughts.