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equality72521 said:

Just want to be able to snooze calendar reminders for a selectable time (10 mins, 1 hour etc) like before. My only gripe at the moment. 

dysamoria said:

Angmoh said:

I had the email search problem. First attempt to rebuild mailbox did not work. I also saw problems with spotlight, so I initiated a rebuild of Spotlight Index. No immediate fix, but I noticed that Mail was trying to download all email again, and that was exceptionally slow. Rebooted machine and then Mail was downloaded normally and search worked again, even though Spotlight was still Indexing.

Now Spotlight indexing completed (took about 12 hours) and everything seems ok. Big Sur with Spotlight improvements finally fixed Outlook search: for the first time in years I can find all my mail in Outlook (I have about 20GB in archives). This is consistent on 2 machines.

That’s a hell of a lot of email. I suspect that developers of most email products don’t ... uh ... test that kind of usage.

AniMill said:

Adobe After Effects is whacked. They’ve had a year to test, and day-one there’s numerous issues...so much that quite a few content creators are DOA.

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

By pure coincidence...

I mentioned the importance of standards board participation in the case of polar codes.

Wired has just put up a fascinating read on the subject :

https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

I really agree with this part of the story;

"The rise of Huawei is painstakingly rendered in a small library of self-aggrandizing literature that the company publishes, including several volumes of quotes from its founder. The theme of this opus is hard to miss, expressed in a variety of fighting analogies. In one such description, Tian Tao, the company's authorized Boswell, quotes Ren on how the company competed against the powerful international “elephants” that once dominated the field. “Of course, Huawei is no match for an elephant, so it has to adopt the qualities of wolves: a keen sense of smell, a strong competitive nature, a pack mentality, and a spirit of sacrifice.”

The hagiographies omit some key details about how the wolf got along. For one, they dramatically underplay the role of the Chinese government, which in the 1990s offered loans and other financial support, in addition to policies that favored Chinese telecom companies over foreign ones. (In a rare moment of candor on this issue, Ren himself admitted in an interview that Huawei would not exist if not for government support.) With the government behind them, Chinese companies like Huawei and its domestic rival ZTE came to dominate the national telecom equipment market. Huawei had become the elephant.

Another subject one does not encounter in the company's library is the alleged use of stolen intellectual property, a charge the company denies. “If you read the Western media about Huawei, you will find plenty of people who say that everything from Huawei was begged, borrowed, or stolen. And there is absolutely no truth in that,” says Brian Chamberlin, an executive adviser for Huawei's carrier group. But in one notorious 2003 case, Huawei admitted using router software copied from Cisco, though it insisted the use was very limited, and the sides negotiated a settlement that was “mutually beneficial.” More recently, in February, the US Department of Justice filed a suit against the company charging it with “grow[ing] the worldwide business of Huawei … through the deliberate and repeated misappropriation of intellectual property.” The indictment alleges Huawei has been engaging in these practices since at least 2000.

The Chinese government also provided support to help Huawei gain a foothold overseas, offering loans to customers that made Huawei's products more appealing. One of Huawei's biggest foreign competitors was Nortel, the dominant North American telecom company based in Canada. But Nortel's business was struggling just at a time when competition from Chinese products was intensifying. Then, in 2004, a Nortel security specialist named Brian Shields discovered that computers based in China, using passwords of Nortel executives, had been downloading hundreds of documents from the company. “There's nothing they couldn't have gotten at,” Shields says. Though no one ever publicly identified the hackers, and Ren denied any Huawei involvement, the episode added to the suspicion in the West that Huawei's success was not always achieved on the up and up."

Not exactly a self made company.

That's a bit sad but I'm sure most people will find the read interesting and informative all the same.