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by bawolff | 2025-10-03 02:31:44+00:00
International law forbids the occupying power to give voting rights to occupied regions.

Its also a bit unclear what you mean by "unambiguously under Israeli control" since Palestinians in occupied palestinian territories aren't unambigiously under Israeli control, they had little control over the inside of Gaza until recently, and have some power in the west bank that is shared with the PA. Neither is "unambiguous control". The only group unambigiously under their control are the Palestinians inside Israel proper who as far as i understand do have full voting rights.

If you think military presence should equal voting rights, than i think that would imply that Iraq should be able to vote in US presedential elections.
by inetknght | 2025-10-03 02:32:05+00:00
> I've been a software engineer for quite a number of years now. ... I bought a mac and iphone a few months back ... and there was a lot of cursing involved.

I'm not sure what's worse: the inane keyboard compared to Linux or the ridiculously dumbed-down featureset that makes it effectively impossible for a power user to even try to transition into macOS.
by true_religion | 2025-10-03 02:32:20+00:00
The linked software only seems to type the 'correct' preknown letter anytime you press any key on your keyboard.

So the actual 'demo' part is actually live. The only thing that's fake is the typing, which could be replaced honestly with copy & paste without changing anything except how exciting it is to see the speaker pretend to type at 100wpm.
by k310 | 2025-10-03 02:32:39+00:00
I am a senior and a techie all my life.

I think that if it were simpler, I'd be less inclined to do more with it than it is actually useful for.

In particular.

Selecting anything is a struggle. No exceptions. And selecting more than one screenful is a horror.

Scrolling often clicks on something I didn't want to click. And just try grabbing that invisible scroll bar.

Any auto correct or suggest is ludicrous. I had to kill them all.

Swipe text refuses to type "and". I get Anna's or Ava ( that was a live demo) regularly.

Searching for an image is good for laughs, except for ocr'ed text.

Paste? HOLEY MOLEY. Any "action after a delay" infuriates me, especially when it's hit-or-miss. Give me a paste button!

These are "99%" things, not outlying operations.

Disclaimer: the ipad with keyboard case, trackpad, pencil, ARROW KEYS!!!, and BT mouse is better. Almost a laptop, but right/control click is NOT macos like.

Okay, enough rant. It's basically the clumsiness, compared to the precision of a desktop, that gets me.

Advantage? I can use it on the easy chair in the living room.

No $1800 computer chair. The desktop is harder on my anatomy.

Just to say that some "features" stink regardless of user age, though no doubt harder in seniors. I figure out one of the 140,000 obscure options/tricks via internet search, something that decades of experience helps me do, but especially in recent years, is next to useless for normal people.

And! When switching apps, more often than not, safari loses all my typing in a text area!!!

I lucked out this time.
by OGEnthusiast | 2025-10-03 02:33:02+00:00
I've always thought it's a bit unfortunate how having a smartphone (which almost always also means having an Apple or Google account to download third-party apps) is slowly becoming a near-necessity in today's society, rather than a nice-to-have. Even some places like national parks (in the USA) require you to download an app just to enter.
by yibg | 2025-10-03 02:33:22+00:00
> Are you stupid, blind or just evil?

Nothing like a good ad hominem to prove how right you are.

> Militants and terrorists being captured for specific acts of terrorism or from the battlefield

Yes, thats why they are kept without a trial indefinitely on "Administrative detention". 14 year old terrorists, how dare they throw rocks.

> also fed and get medical treatment

And raped, but hey at least they get fed and treated afterwards.
by majormajor | 2025-10-03 02:33:58+00:00
If they overnight were able to capture as much revenue per user as Meta (about 50 bucks a year) they'd bring in a bucket of cash immediately.

But selling that much ad inventory overnight - especially if they want new formats vs "here's a video randomly inserted in your conversation" sorta stuff - is far from easy.

Their compute costs could easily go down as technology advances. That helps.

But can they ramp up the advertising fast enough to bring in sufficient profit before cheaper down-market alternatives become common?

They lack the social-network lock-in effect of Meta, or the content of ESPN, and it remains to be seen if they will have the "but Google has better results than Bing" stickiness of Google.
by ajross | 2025-10-03 02:34:12+00:00
> Apple [...] has to obey the rule of law.

No, Apple has to obey the law.

The idea of "rule of law" is a shorthand for the set of norms and practices understood by everyone under a single regime, including both specific laws and authorities and more general principles. One of those, notably, is "the government shouldn't force private companies to censor their app stores".[1]

The rule of law is indeed being violated here, but in the other direction.

[1] Or "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech", if you swing that way.
by randcraw | 2025-10-03 02:34:41+00:00
That plan sounds viable until you consider how much noncompliant legacy hardware is out there that can't all be replaced but must be repaired, like cars, roofs, appliances, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, etc. If robots can't accommodate the huge fraction of old infrastructure already in place, they'll have limited value indeed -- basically just working on assembly lines in factories.
by magicalist | 2025-10-03 02:35:15+00:00
So you're suggesting that prior restraint on constitutionally protected speech is justified because Pam Bondi, mouthpiece for the president, asserts that publishing publicly observable information about federal officers is designed to put them at risk from waves hands, and not that the risk, if there actually was one, should be dealt with from whatever she's waving her hands about?

It's always funny when people are willing to toss the first amendment completely under the bus because of made-up risks but god help you if you suggest putting guardrails on the scope of the second amendment because of actual risks.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-03 02:35:23+00:00
In principle I like it, though it's a little bit too abstract. What's missing for me are some contours of the city first, let's say rivers, major highways, grabbed from whichever source, and overlaid, dimmed. Second: "I can haz metric units, plz?" ;-> Third: Truly global reach like https://globe.adsb.fi for instance would be great, OFC.

edit: Regarding units, switchable between nautical(knots), imperial(miles), metric, maybe?
by snickerbockers | 2025-10-03 02:35:29+00:00
I don't want to fall into the fallacy of implying that this is somehow justified because of something "the left" did a few years ago but I would like to highlight the hypocrisy of how many people were totally okay with this sort of executive censorship when Biden was in charge.

> "We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store — and Apple did so," Bondi said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

I don't think this is something that trump or biden should be allowed to do, but the classic argument that your constitutional right to free speech ends when the president "politely" asks a software company to censor you on his behalf and they acquiesce is equally [in]valid in both situations.
by giardini | 2025-10-03 02:35:42+00:00
Someday the cellphone will "come to us". The standard telephone did that and was a marvelous success for a century and a half. Cellphones will likely suck until manufacturers figure out what their customers really want/need.

Time spent learning, training and relearning your cellphone is time forever lost. I chose a different path and refused a cellphone for years. A year ago I got one. I use it for "away" situations only (when I'm out of pocket). Otherwise it sits in my office, just like my old AT&T phone did. If someone needs to get me, there's always e-mail.
by swat535 | 2025-10-03 02:37:02+00:00
> They've neutered Iran and become the de facto regional security power

How did they "neuter" Iran? Iran responded quickly and managed to heavily damage TelAviv and is now rushing to accelerate rebuilding their nuclear capabilities.

If anything, the previous operation was a disaster, it allowed to regime to entrench itself even further in IRAN and regime change that they were hoping for didn't happen.

I'm sure both Iran and Israel are gearing up for another round of heavy conflict later this year or early next year.

IRAN is still very much a threat to Israel.
by majormajor | 2025-10-03 02:37:05+00:00
No "here's how these other doctors are more efficient" in-the-OR practices would change that.

Let's say you're a hospital administrator who reads about how many more surgeries a doctor in India can do per day.

You say "hey, docs! you need to up your throughput! Take these surgical-workflow steps, like two patients prepped at once!"

Now the doctor has twice as much paperwork.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-03 02:37:34+00:00
Just one Google search away, also linked at the top of this page: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html

Literate programming + code execution in org mode files. You can run code for most languages (all if you're willing to add in the hooks for those not supported out of the box). Turns any org file into a notebook (in the Maple, Mathematica, Jupyter, etc. sense), and since org files are easily exported into other file formats, you can execute the babel blocks in the exporting process to have an up-to-date execution of your program/notebook.
by tsukuba_wanko | 2025-10-03 02:37:35+00:00
I’ve been working on ZenPocket, a minimalist mindfulness iOS app. https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/zenpocket/id6748869085

It has three main parts: – A simple Zazen (sitting meditation) timer – Zen readings – And the main feature: a chat with an AI Zen teacher, where you can ask anything from Buddhist teachings to handling personal problems.

I built this because I’ve always been drawn to the minimalistic style of Zen. ZenPocket doesn't have notification because I am tired of notification-driven apps myself and wanted something simple and clean. Meditation, I believe, can help solve a lot of stressful problems, and adding readings + an AI teacher helps keep my mind stable.
by arrty88 | 2025-10-03 02:38:05+00:00
Here is a practical example: When I simply want to switch wifi networks at home or work or the coffee shop, or I want to disconnect my car from bluetooth and go with just my AirPods (for a private call with the kids in the car), it takes more than 3-4 clicks to do the "right thing" from that slide down menu.

The UI reaction feels more delayed now. If i'm in the middle of a call and want to go private, or some how got connected to the slow network, and i want to switch to the other one.

I feel like I used to be able to do it with 2 or 3 simple clicks. Now i cant remember if i need to click once, or click and hold, and by then the animation changed and now I tapped again and its doing something i did not expect.

For me personally, I used to be a wiz at navigating this phone on older OS versions - and now i feel like a klutz and it doesn't do the thing I expected anymore.
by vitus | 2025-10-03 02:38:23+00:00
> google.com, youtube, chrome, android, gmail, google map etc

Of those, it's 50/50. The acquisitions were YT, Android, Maps. Search was obviously Google's original product, Chrome was an in-house effort to rejuvenate the web after IE had caused years of stagnation, and Gmail famously started as a 20% project.

There are of course criticisms that Google has not really created any major (say, billion-user) in-house products in the past 15 years.
by tstrimple | 2025-10-03 02:38:41+00:00
My experience both personally and via my children is it's little more than a few more worksheets during the week. There is very little actual teaching going on. Just segregation from peers and more busywork. I was personally distracted by new busywork for a while because it was at least different than what I was experiencing in class. But I didn't learn more because of it. The only real difference was in high school where you can take actual accredited college classes in place of class with the normies. Everything before that was just to distract us so we didn't interrupt "normal" classes with our boredom.

After witnessing my wife work as a para-professional with special needs kids on a volunteer basis, the biggest thing anyone could do to improve overall educational achievements is to get them the fuck out of "normal" classrooms. There is very little reason for a non-verbal fourth grader to be taking classes with fourth grade "peers". While their presence may engender some empathy in fellow students, it is often the biggest distraction in the classroom and schools don't have the desire or resources to actually address special needs children in a way to not be disruptive. And I'd extend this further. It would be far better for everyone in this country if the bottom of the bottom was left behind (from an education, not a safety net standpoint) and the average could advance in pace with the more advanced students. And I say this as a flaming leftist.

I have zero issues with additional funding being applied to help special needs children learn and adapt to the world as we have to experience it. But I have a major problem with the slowest of society dictating the educational attainment of the average (or above average) member of society. No Child Left Behind means we have to run at the pace of the biggest fucking moron in our class. It shouldn't just be exceptional children with engaged parents who are able to escape that.
by hijp | 2025-10-03 02:39:20+00:00
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by gus_massa | 2025-10-03 02:40:01+00:00
1/x = ln|x| + C if x > 0

ln|x| + pi*i + C or ln|x| - pi*i + C or is x < 0 (Protip: Choose C=-+pi*i)

In reals ln|x| is fine.

In complex, it's a mess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_logarithm
by zabzonk | 2025-10-03 02:40:07+00:00
I'm a retired 72. I've been programming in C, C++, Fortran, ASM etc. etc. for over 40 years, and used just about every OS/GUI going.

But, but, but I really cannot get along with mobile phones! Whenever I pick one up I swipe or press the wrong thing. Just answering a call usually goes horribly wrong! And I have literal nightmares about it. So I am pretty much stuck with my VOIP landline, but am worrying things like my bank will stop supporting the tech.

Luckily, I guess I've done my three-score-years-and-ten, so I don't probably need to retrain. But I can completely understand non-techie oldies having problems.
by AnonC | 2025-10-03 02:40:17+00:00
Two things stand out:

1. The setup process should have a heavily simplified mode right at the beginning. It may not be simple for Apple to decide what to exclude from the standard setup process, but there are several obviously time consuming, annoying and unnecessary steps in it. A lot of behaviors with side button double click, camera button swipe, etc., should be off by default.

2. There should be a very short test on finding out the accessibility needs of the user (to the extent possible, because some people may not know how to follow written or spoken instructions).

These are not just for the elderly, but also for many others who have accessibility needs, who lack knowledge about gadgets (or can’t be bothered keeping up with changes in interfaces and disappearing physical buttons), who just need something simple that serves a few actions (like phone calls, video calls, taking photos, viewing received photos and videos, etc.).
by scoopdewoop | 2025-10-03 02:40:56+00:00
That is a really naive epistemology. Science as an objective methodology that churns out truth doesn't exist. Its a human endeavor full of interests.

Religion is also a human endeavor full of interests, and can also ascertain certain truths. Often people who subscribe to scientism gloat that even in the farthest reaches of space, other aliens will arrive at the same equations. Similarly, I think at the farthest reaches of space aliens will have to reckon with wickedness, duty, hospitality, forgiveness, etc. It can even make numerical predictions like "there will always be the poor". So far so true.
by xatax | 2025-10-03 02:40:59+00:00
He was around 40 years old when he said it and he wasn't talking about smartphones - at least what we call smartphones today.

> "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone".

> I said that after a frustrating attempt to use a "feature-rich" telephone sometime around 1990. I'm sure the sentiment wasn't original, and probably not even the overall phrasing; someone must have thought of that before me.

https://www.stroustrup.com/quotes.html
by FridgeSeal | 2025-10-03 02:41:04+00:00
What progress in gaming would that be?

2 generations of cards that amount to “just more of a fire hazard” and “idk bro just tell them to use more DLSS slop” to paper over actual card performance deficiencies.

We have 3 generations of cards where 99% of games fall approximately into one of 2 categories:

- indie game that runs on a potato

- awfully optimised AAA-shitshow, which isn’t GPU bottlenecked most of the time anyway.

There is the rare exception (Cyberpunk 2077), but they’re few and far between.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 02:41:55+00:00
> They'd killed more than one at that point.

However Hamas has yet to capitulate/surrender, Israel basically has no choice but to finish Hamas off if they won't surrender, not doing so would significantly weaken their deterrence capabilities and allow Hamas to rebuild. There are potential consequences to ceasefire agreements where an enemies leadership retains power[0] historically.

> Like, Hezbollah got the message pretty clearly.

They eventually got the message after Israel essentially eliminated the entirety of their leadership chart multiple levels deep and crushed Hezbollah's will to fight, the ceasefire Hezbollah eventually agreed to was effectively a surrender agreement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
by kouteiheika | 2025-10-03 02:42:45+00:00
Yeah, RISC-V has the `Zicond` extension, but it's not a "proper" conditional move in the traditional sense. For the usual situations where the compiler would use a single conditional move on any other ISA it now needs multiple instructions to get around the fact that `Zicond` will set the destination register to zero if the conditional move isn't made. This totally sucks for performance if you don't have a "sufficiently advanced magic core" which can macro-fuse `Zicond` instruction sequences.

That said, RISC-V does have a proper conditional move instruction. And the funny part: it has multiple! `xtheadcondmov` and `xmipscmove` both implement "real" conditional moves. The catch is that those are vendor-specific extensions; compared to the official narrative that "it doesn't fit the design of RISC-V" apparently the actual hardware vendors see the value of adding real cmovs to their hardware. I wonder how many more vendor-specific extensions will it take before a common cross-vendor extension is standardized, if ever?

(And yes, I'm perfectly aware of why `Zicond` was designed the way it was. I don't really want to get into a discussion whether that's the right design or not long-term.)
by fsckboy | 2025-10-03 02:42:56+00:00
but that's how every polity operates, you can't influence it more than people already try to influence it.

you can ask the same of Hamas, is theirs the policy the populace wants?

Israel does have a robust free speech democracy and you can easily learn what many of the different factions think, and like elections anywhere, you don't know till afterward how it plays out, and voters are always disappointed by the way power is exercised.
by joules77 | 2025-10-03 02:43:14+00:00
Not just your dad but the vast majority don't use these features either.

The human brain has a natural upper limit in how many times it's beliefs can update per year. If the Total new features shipped by every company in the land, every year exceeds that limit, most of it is a gigantic waste.

Large, cash rich companies beyond a point attract opportunists. And soon they outnumber innovators.

After that happens we get run away Involution (change without purpose).

There is never ending amount of work going on, hyper specialization, elon/trump style self glorification/back patting, and all happening with very little purpose or meaning being produced.

The solution is well known. Orgs which have purpose are tuned into the Limits baked into the system.
by jerezzprime | 2025-10-03 02:43:26+00:00
Also, when you age your skin dries out and touch screens are less sensitive to your presses. So not only are these things exceptionally complex to use (eg many abstract concepts) the interface also does not really function well, making it a double whammy. I've had multiple cases watching my aging parents where I say press that or drag this, and it literally does not work, and makes them feel completely inept.

For the sake of our parents, we (as technology builders and buyers) need to be more comfortable saying the latest iPoop Galaxy S might be just not the right choice for a big segment of our society, and we need to make phones with buttons.
by copypaper | 2025-10-03 02:43:46+00:00
Congrats on the results, that's awesome! I like the simplicity of push ups; you can do them wherever and it's very hard to come up with an excuse to not do them. Have you considered throwing pull-ups into the mix?

Personally I found it very very easy to come up with excuses to not go to the gym. Too tired, too far, it'll be too busy at this time, I don't have enough time, etc. The closest gym to me is 15 minutes. That's 30 minutes round trip + ~$260/yr + having to wait for most machines. Going 5 days a week would be 130 hours/yr in just driving for me!

I finally cancelled my membership and built a home gym. Best decision I've ever made. It costed me around ~$1200 in total for 300lb of weights, a power rack, an olympic barbell, a diy bench, and a full calisthenics "park" [1]. I've been a lot more consistent as I have zero excuses to not workout! The only thing I miss is the gym environment though; it's harder to be motivated when nobody is watching. I've found having a goal/routine to help with that though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ESce1kqRc