Taking the chance: As a hobbyist with a decent CNC with no intent of using it for commercial work:
Linux "support" was driving me from Fusion to Onshape.
CAM is driving me back to Fusion.
Please consider pushing the idea of having CAM for the hobbyist level in Onshape in your company, I know there's not much in revenue us hobbyists, but I'd gladly pay up to 20-50 per month for such a license. At least that's more money than 0 :).
The company I'm working for is only using HLS since quite some time, no directly written Verilog etc. anymore. I myself am a software developer in this company.
I know it's working perfectly fine for us and even the strongest advocate of using Verilog directly was converted by now to only using HLS.
I got it explained like this:
HLS has it's own class of problems and you definitively need some time to get used to how you need to write code that is actually synthesized in a way you intended it to be. However, once you got used to it, development using HLS is way faster than writing Verilog directly and our FPGA guys basically said that we would not be where we are if it weren't for HLS because of this.
So it seems that it's actually working quite fine in practice but obviously not without it's own problems.
Serious question:
The article says that there are roughly 10 million people living in Haiti.
It also says that the Red Cross collected roughly 500 million dollars in donations.
To me this sounds like it would have been a better idea to take whatever they wanted for themselves and give the remaining lets say 400 million in equal parts to the people of Haiti.
Even if only 50% of that money would have reached its destination, each of the Haiti people would now have 20 million dollars to built up new lives.
So why would these organizations try everything to buy land there and build houses and stuff - instead of just giving the money to the people who need it. Except for taking the money for themselves, obviously.
And I'm sorry but I cannot believe that one would actually need more than 300 million dollars to get an arbitrary amount of money to 10 million people.
Actually I would really like to use FF again. But each and every time I try it I'm impressed with the desktop version, install the Android version and instantly am driven away from FF.
Not only that FF on Android is awfully slow for me. But they also refuse to support either Android accessability services or the new auto completion services which makes them basically totally useless if you want to use a password manager on Android.
This one thing (and the performance, but that I could ignore) is what totally prevents me from using FF.
Depending on what password manager you use, you can try getting the Firefox extension for it. I use Bitwarden, and their extension just works. Although I agree with you that they should have support for it through the accessibility/auto-completion services. The ability to have uBlock in a mobile browser is too convenient to give up.
No, they're not designed specifically for US companies. They're specifically designed to target the major players in the market. In some cases these companies have a de-facto monopoly which makes them basically the only ones the laws are targeting - because they are the only relevant players.
The fact that these companies mostly are US companies is of less than zero relevance here.
You can't export de-facto monopolies to other countries and then complain that regulations in other countries are only hitting the monopoly you're exporting.
Well, as a german, where this happens often enough: If a law gets truck down by the Federal Constitutional Court ("Bundesverfassungsgericht") as being in violation of the constitution, this universally can be seen as a bad job performance for the lawmakers.
They know the law was in violation of the constitution, still they agreed upon it. It's their fucking job to make sure laws are not in violation of the constitution.
This clearly justifies a strike.
> At least, most of these examples are not threatening for US persons.
As a german, I'm so fucking fed up with this attitude.
"Leader of the free world" my ass.
Seriously, the US population needs to stop thinking only about what concerns the US population and acknowledge the fact that a lot of US law regarding the internet is actually also affecting the rest of the world. Stop treating non-US people as something which does not need to have at least the same level of protection.
Either fight for the right to have privacy regardless of where a person is coming from or don't fight at all.
Just standing there saying "ah, it's fine, it protects US persons." and then bragging about the US being a fine country and protecting the rest of the world is just... I don't have words for it.
I am from Germany. I have no say in the matter. That's the reason why I would like EFF come up with better examples to make people who have at least some influence (such as calling their representative) engaged. If its not their problem, they won't.
I think this legislation at odds at least with upcoming GDPR if not with existing regulations in some EU members. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
So I fought against the CLOUD Act as an American because I think it does lower privacy protections for many people around the world. With that said, all it does is make the German government meet German standards for obtaining criminal evidence, rather than the US standard. If you don't like the German standards, you should take it up with your government. That's why the law also requires the US government to evaluate the human rights standards of the other government before entering into a relationship under the law.
Trying to avoid whataboutism here, but I too am fed up with the attitude. However, I see it in several countries/regions (e.g. the US, the EU) that impose their rules on extra-regional persons and/or their companies. Some intentionally, some not. Either way, we should always strive for narrowly scoped legislation and disagree with it when it's not. The unfortunate part is many who lambaste rulings that are made outside their jurisdiction but affect them often praise legislation made inside their jurisdiction that affects others.
It's important for people to keep this in mind when they think something is best for others outside their jurisdiction. This is especially true when these countries/regions use their leverage and say they're doing something only for their citizens knowing it affects the global internet.
Please consider pushing the idea of having CAM for the hobbyist level in Onshape in your company, I know there's not much in revenue us hobbyists, but I'd gladly pay up to 20-50 per month for such a license. At least that's more money than 0 :).