With the signing key they could mint the same type of token you get once you pass all of the authentication steps.

ConvertFrom-Json converts json text into a PowerShell object with properties derived from the json.

Select-Object (in this instance) selects a property from the object.

An unrelated change in ConvertFrom-Json wouldn't change it's basic nature which is to convert json into something you can manipulate with other PowerShell cmdlets.

I think you missed the point. What about all the dependencies of your code that are only compiled for x86_64? The article isn't talking about native apps on the laptop, it's about apps that run on a server but that you are developing locally.

You can't run your x86 docker image on your ARM mac without emulation. You can't run your x86 Windows VM without emulation etc.

Of course there are solutions like using a remote server or a VM in the cloud, but if you're buying a decent machine then you would normally expect to be able to run these things locally.

Do you have any examples of this? The last time I tried an AWS ARM server, it was literally no modification other than changing the server type — Linux has run on ARM for many years and Apple is far from the first company to use the platform.

For example, back in 2017 Cloudflare was basically looking at this as a question of which hardware ran most cost-effectively rather than having engineering heroics first: https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/

Mono and .NET Core run terribly on ARM. I have several containerized C# apps that I need to run on x86_64 hosts, because on ARM they'll just crash randomly.

I want to say Oracle database clients as an example.

My company definitely had problems to get database drivers to work generally speaking and on both 32 bits and 64 bits. Have a look at postgres, oracle, cassandra, redis, sybase to name a few, I am not sure which one was worse, it wasn't me doing the work. But I've seen some of the C and C++ dependencies that needed to compile with the errors that happened and that was horrendous.

Fair enough — I've used Oracle's products enough to know that software distribution and packaging is not a priority there.

I've been using postgres, cassandra, redis and mysql/mariadb on aarch64. Only ran into issues with MySQL, which we rootcaused to some weird atomic locks not working as expected on the first generation of ARMv8(.0) a couple years back.

That’s a good moment to make your c/c++ code more robust, and cross-platform, like the languages they are

The problem wasn't in our code, it was in the database code that was either from open source or from a vendor.

If you want a sample. Try to install the cassandra client library in python. It will pull in and compile all sort of shit. That's supposed to be python and easily cross platform.

Yes, so time for them to clean up their mess ;)

Reading the comments here flow something like this: 1. complain that switching to ARM is a mess 2. no it's not a mess, it's easy 3. no, see it's a mess 4. fine, clean up the mess.

Yes, we should clean up the mess! It doesn't mean it's not a mess. And I think the mess is actually still understated.

I think it will come down to PRs accepted. So it's your mess in the end as it depends on the companies strategy.

AWS has put out some very impressive ARM instances running on the Graviton2 processors. The reviews I read show better performance per dollar. So maybe the solution is to further embrace ARM and run your code on ARM servers?

This will always be a problem, unless one emulates the x86_64 architecture, which is then again the other problem w/ Docker. I assume main libraries (i.e. dependencies) are already or will be ported, so theoretically recompilation should work for many, although not the most applications. Other applications will need to either change dependencies, or port dependencies to enable full performance.

Why not re-compile the dependencies so they run locally too? Am I missing some constraint?

Chip & signature sounds awful (and pointless!) Why would they not use PIN?

We now have contactless payments for under £30 in the UK, similar to Apple pay but you just place your card on the reader.

Unfortunately FB will then change the API to block the gateway.

It's not in their interest to allow open access to their messaging service. The current status quo means you have to be in their app or on the website to access your contacts and view their ads!

Absolutely, but it doesn't mean the arms race will never start. :)

I've been using an e-cig for about 3 months now and I've wanted a real cigarette maybe 3 times. The sheer volume of flavours and things to try is keeping me off the cigs. I've dropped my nicotine level down from medium to medium-low and I'm looking to drop again soon.

It's the closest thing to smoking without actually smoking and it's the only thing that's worked for me. I've tried cold turkey, patches and gum. None worked for more than a few weeks of constantly thinking about smoking.

It's so easy to switch from cigs to e-cigs too.