I don't really believe this to be an issue - Valve directly contracts CodeWeavers, they developed Proton together, and they've been pretty clear from recent hiring bursts that it was specifically to work on Proton. I have to imagine the income from Valve is exponentially higher than the relative niche of CrossOver. They're basically a subdivision of Valve now.
The alternate explanation is that it's rather pointless to integrate it because all new Macs are ARM, and there are basically zero Windows games compiled for ARM.
Not likely considering Valve are working on an ARM version of proton in the open, have published test results for x86-64 windows games playing on proton-arm64ec-4, and there are credible leaks that the Steam Frame uses an ARM cpu.
If anything Valve is moving towards ARM and taking the library along with it.
I think part of this is just laptop vs desktop. Everyone I know has a macbook, not a soul I know has a mac desktop. Everyone has either a console or a separate "gaming" desktop.
You wish this timeline was Idiocracy. In that universe the president realized he didn't know best, freely admitted it, and recruited the smartest man alive. Even gave him credit for the problems they solved.
That would _never_ happen in this timelime. Imagine Trump thinking "Maybe I dont know anything about the weather, maybe I should ask an expert instead of suggesting nuking a hurricane."
Trump brainstorming about getting light or bleach in the body to kill Covid was a shimmer of him actually acting intelligently. He was just way back on the starting line, whereas most people cover that ground when they're children.
By what metric is he an extremely succesful businessman ?
Why would he have to listen to experts to become president ?
I personally think he's an expert salesman... But take away the wealth and time he was born in and he's neither president nor nearly as rich (he'd be comfortably off <> salesman.
The truth is not always, but definitely very often, in the middle. I think most people don't like that answer.
API pricing rates probably. If I take a look at my current usage since it came out, it'd be about $12000 CAD if paid at API rates. Ridiculously easy to rack up absurd bills via the API, and I'm mostly just using it for code review. Someone using it heavily could easily, easily get way over 70k.
Also the statement was "We". It's not a single user's billable usage and we have zero details as to how many people made up "We". So any analysis into the cost or value are meaningless.
He's wildly financially independent. He had early shares from red hat and geeknet, on top of millions from the linux foundation and corporate work. His net worth is in the tens of millions at least.
When Red Hat went public, they gave those who submitted a bug report or fixes a chance to buy pre-IPO shares. I got a chance despite just a minor bug report and bought some shares and despite some poor timing of selling, eventually made enough along with my work related stock to have enough financial cushion to leave my job to get my masters degree and a career change. And it worked out well because not long after the dot com tech bubble burst and many tech stocks plummeted or went out of business while I was focused on my education.
I've reported blatant phishing attacks targeting seniors dozens of times to cloudflare (and so far it's always been cloudflare) and never once have they replied with anything except "we could not determine this was phishi g". They absolutely facilitate phishing through inaction.
Not my experience at all. We've reported hundreds if not thousands of sites and with few exceptions they have taken them down swiftly. Definitely one of the best cloud operators when it comes to this.
As recently as August 8th, I reported a phishing site targeting seniors into installing a pre-configured Atera client (who _also_ failed to respond in a reasonable time) by pretending to be an event invite. It was blatant and obvious phishing. This was the response:
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Hello,
Cloudflare received your Phishing report regarding: ----
We are unable to process your report for the following reason(s):
We were unable to confirm phishing at the URL(s) provided.
Please be aware Cloudflare offers network service solutions including pass-through security services, a content distribution network (CDN) and registrar services. Due to the pass-through nature of our services, our IP addresses appear in WHOIS and DNS records for websites using Cloudflare. Cloudflare cannot remove material from the Internet that is hosted by others.
Please reply to this message, keeping the report identification number in the subject line intact, with the required information.
To respond to this issue, please reply to abusereply@cloudflare.com.
Thanks,
The Cloudflare Team.
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This is the typical response for me from Cloudflare - it took 2 more weeks before it was finally taken down. If I had to hazard a guess, your high volume of reports gets you into a very different support bucket than the occasional reporter.
My most recent experience was terrible for two reasons:
1. They didn't take down an obvious banking scam site that was hiding behind their service
2. They forwarded my "report phishing content" submission, including contact information, to the scammer, resulting in a roughly 100x increase in the amount of spam I receive and ensuring that I won't ever use their reporting function again
And on the flip side, the status page literally says:
> Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs.
I was trying to say that systemic issues (such as load capacity) seem to degrade the models in US working hours and has been noticed by a non-zero number of users (myself included).
Been awhile since I employed anyone in America (that whole "we're going to annex you" thing) but if I had to hazard a guess, it's the company's portion of their FICA taxes? The company withholds the employee portion to remit to the IRS, then matches it dollar to dollar. If the company is structured so that Andrew is self-employed, it'd be SECA instead and you can count that portion as a business expense.
Canadians who identify as religious are overwhelmingly Christian (53.5%)[1], with most of that being Catholic. The next most common religion is Islam at just 4% and Judaism is a paltry 0.9%. You're simply more likely to get anecdotes from the religion that is the vast majority.
In general, even the religious in Canada aren't very religious, so those who actively identify as it are likely to be _very_ religious. I have not a clue what religion any of our close friends are.
Canada becomes about 10% more agnostic/atheist every 10 years, which is a fun pattern[2].
> Perhaps the now-suspended Veterans Affairs caseworker who...
They were immediately fired, referred to the RCMP for investigation, and a systematic review launched that found 4 incidents[1] - all by the same employee. There have been no further incidents reported since this happened. Since 2022.
> That's followed by an anecdote in which a Vancouver patient in a suicidal crisis claims a hospital clinician said there were no beds available, but that MAID would be a "more peaceful" option than suicide.
This was in 2023. It was covered a bunch at the time until it was revealed that it was a standard question asking if she had ever considered MAID before[2], since she had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts.
The Atlantic reporter you're referencing is themselves anti-MAID due to her religious convictions and wishes to remove choice from individuals. It is not an unbiased source of information. The MAID system is _routinely_ criticized from the religious base here in Canada for the last 9 years, and yet not even a hint of systematic abuse of the system has ever been found.
I don't know anything about the author and I don't care --- the reported incidents either happened or they didn't. It sounds from this comment like they did.
