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Or they cold-call people at the company, hoping to get the goss. Staff knowing about the candidacy should not respond. Others would hopefully be suspicious - how can you trust staff who tell company problems to any old "candidate"?

Comment · 5 years ago

Are they also going to remove Python, Ruby, NodeJS, PHP, and every other programming language runtime? Why not?

Hopefully Graal gets more traction, so these Java (and Ruby, NodeJS, Python etc) apps can be compiled to native code, if just to bypass odd decisions like this.

Comment · 5 years ago

Libs provide something out of the box to do this, e.g. `ts-essentials` provides `Opaque`, so you just write `type DateString = Opaque<string, 'DateString'>`

Comment · 5 years ago

No good if you need to convert between time zones, IME.

Comment · 5 years ago

date-fns does not support time zones, so it's not really comparable.

(Although it looks like `js-joda` doesn't contain the time zone database, for that you also need `@js-joda/timezone`, and the IANA TZ DB as generated by `moment-timezone`. Oh boy!)

Comment · 5 years ago

Windows 8 really broke the UI, to support tablets, and the OS has never recovered. :(

Comment · 5 years ago

Doesn't Flutter fail point 1: all widgets are custom rendered (OpenGL) things? So integration with the host OS's capabilities may be lacking (e.g. accessibility features).

Comment · 5 years ago

What "prevailing socialist false narrative" are you talking about?

I don't see how print media, owned 62.4% by Fox News/Murdoch and 26.4% by Nine (chaired by Peter Costello, former treasurer for the conservative Liberal government), can be considered anything _but_ "prevailing".

Is there some other definition of "mainstream media" I'm not aware of?

Perhaps there is a false narrative, but it may not be the one you're thinking of.

Comment · 5 years ago

South Australia has been doing pretty well with a renewables-backed grid.

There was a smear campaign in 2016 regarding a state-wide blackout, caused by severe weather affecting the distribution & transmission infrastructure. [see #1] The incumbant political party used this as an opportunity to blame the renewable generators (and state government, from the "opposite side" of politics). [see #2]

The same severe weather event would have affected any power generator.

[1] https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/compliance-reportin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout...

Comment · 5 years ago

A forward-thinking government would be incentivising a diverse economy, subsidised by the windfall from the currently profitable industries.

Instead, the incumbant governments just subsidise the inumbant industries; or rather, the existing "winners". (E.g. subsidising Murdoch media, mining companies, all pulling in millions/billions in profit.)

Australia has one of the lowest rankings in terms of economic complexity [see #1]. Until the government can subsidise emerging markets, there's no reason for businesses to take risks - the low population can't support it.

Propping up existing industries will eventually be a failing strategy. When Australia's "luck" (exploitable resources) runs out, "what comes after will not be so comfortable". But there's still time to steer away from that discomfort. (Unlike the imminent ecology collapse...)

[1] https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/astralias-low-economic-co...

Comment · 5 years ago

I think this article misunderstands the list of supported processors. The Microsoft page is for hardware developers, e.g. laptop and desktop manufacturers. They shouldn't be using CPUs that aren't currently manufactured/supported anyway. I don't think it restricts anyone running Windows on their existing older hardware.

I'm still on an i7 4790K, and it's not listed as a supported CPU in the lists for Windows 10.