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Wrong. Ireland's competition rules are harmonised with EU rules. Not by dictat either, it's a condition of signing the various European treaties that you will implement particular laws that conform to certain principles. In this particular case Ireland had broken her own laws on competition. Like with so much of the skullduggery that goes on in Ireland, it took an outside agency to blow the whistle.
FYI: you can go black&white on Windows 10 by pressing Win+Ctrl+c

Edit: does anybody know if there's a way to do the same on GNU/Linux ?
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It's not FUD, its not a myth, its real: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1677/88 of 15 June 1988 laying down quality standards for cucumbers [1]

Yes i know this regulation is no longer in place, thats not the point. The point is that the EU is a overblown bureaucracy that should not be in charge of regulating every silly little aspect of life across the various member states.

And yes, they are STILL passing laws like this. Recently they passend regulation that limits the power consumption over regular vacuum cleaners.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...
Democracies once upon a time, in theory atleast, were for the people, by the people, off the people.

Post advertising funded internet/24*7 news we just have a system for propping up attention cravers, by the attention merchenants, off everyone elses attention and resources.

After creating such an environment do you really believe any of the issues you point out become easier to solve?

Fuckerberg is going to go down as the guy who turned the info age into the age of reactions and noise. Nothing else.
Maybe someone that works at Cellebrite might be willing to throw you a bone?
Its not FUD, its not a myth, its not cheap propaganda, its real: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1677/88 of 15 June 1988 laying down quality standards for cucumbers [1]

Yes i know this regulation is no longer in place, thats not the point. The point is that the EU is a overblown bureaucracy that should not be in charge of regulating every silly little aspect of life across the various member states.

And yes, they are STILL passing laws like this. Recently they passend regulation that limits the power consumption over regular vacuum cleaners. Do you honestly believe that the average citizen wants highly paid bureaucrats in Brussels debating on how much power a vacuum cleaner should draw?

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...
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You still need to ask for consent.
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The irony is you are the extremist for thinking HN is full of extremists! :)

Also, library size !== mediocrity at all. No one builds an unreasonably large framework on purpose either.
> 'I have eaten many strange things, but have never eaten the heart of a king before', and, before anyone could hinder him, he had gobbled it up, and the precious relic was lost for ever." The heart in question is said to have been that of Louis XIV.

The heart of Louis XIV has also been said to have been used for the ochre colour[0] of a painting by Drölling, Intérieur d'une cuisine.

It is also on display at the Saint-Denis basilica[1] and doesn't really look like something that could be eaten at all, much less "gobbled up".

In reality though, it has more likely been destroyed altogether in 1793.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

[1]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fa/ac/a1/faaca139521085b6fe5f...
Depends which market you are in.

First for a ray tracer to be effective it must model billions of photons, so optimising how and where you fire them is key to making a _fast_ ray tracer. A non optimised, (therefore multi hour per single image render time) ray tracer is fairly easy to write (can be done in less than 5k lines of code)

As for what the point is, there are a number of things:
Raytracing means that you are effectively simulating the physical properties of something. This means that light interactions between objects come for free (well, kinda) When you put a lamp shade on a light bulb, it will cast shadows. Windows are transparent, etc, etc. In raster land, thats not a given.

This means that architects who are designing building in cad, and have been very specific with their material choices can get accurate representations of how the light will interact inside the building. Maxwell render bills it's self as a physically accurate renderer, but it is _slow_, very pretty, but slow. (yes, there are trade-offs, a real-time renderer is not going to be physically accurate, but it is way more accurate than a rasterer) So making small incremental changes might mean waiting for a number of hours for the render to finish.

In VFX, renders can take > 24 hours per layer, per frame (Each finished frame might have > 1000 assets, each with > 100 versions, each with a number of layers.) So any time saving there can save thousands.

Also, getting real time feedback makes production much more fluid and intuitive. At the moment, when acting with CGI characters or backgrounds, you have to use a standin: https://imgur.com/gallery/OVk4DYp

This means that the cameras have to be much more scripted, a lot of working out has to be done to make sure that CGI elements blend in properly. In the film gravity, they used realtime motion capture heavily, as most of the elements (in some case only the eyes of the actors are real) are CGI. The director is a visual person and wanted to look through a camera and see the space station. He would have sacrificed his left testicle to get the demo's level of realism in his view piece
My rule of thumb is that "why did we change this?" goes in a commit message, and "why is this like this?" goes in a comment. The latter is less often necessary than the former, but if the reader of the code would otherwise spend five minutes puzzling it out, or worse, would remove an apparently incorrect bit of code, it's worth the effort of the comment.
Cambridge Consultants designs a lot of their subscriber equipment - modems, handsets etc. Their internal project name for the Iridium work is Dysprosium for exactly this reason.
You sound like you don't own a passport and just repeat fearmongering you hear on the news

Please get a passport, visit Europe, and then have an informed opinion.

I can't speak personally for the eastern or southern states but here in central europe things are quite peachy.

The central/west/northern parts of Europe are the most stable in the world, I doubt that will change soon, regardless of what happens elsewhere.

Come on over and have a look! I invite you to coffee and cake, and a stroll in my garden

Greetings from Frankfurt
Tbf - I feel really sorry that this happened to him, but on the other hand, I am extremely glad that a once-locked device can never be unlocked by anyone without a purchase receipt. I'm sure it deters the theft of iPhones/iPads at least a bit if they know the device will become completely useless once locked out.
Hungary is basket case. Not sure what's going on there, but Italy won't be going anywhere.
Maybe not entirely on-topic, but I wonder. If the app update gets rejected does it mean that the currently approved version of the app is removed from the store, too?

I always had an impression that the current version stays up.
I also highly recommend Reeder for both iOS and macOS, it’s absolutely brilliant and it’s an actual native program not more of this JavaScript in a web frame bloat/slothware.
The word for the phenomenon he describes is "heresy." For example large numbers of fairly influential people in European history disagreed with official church doctrine, but had to keep quiet or risk persecution of various types.

E.g. Newton had qualms about the Trinity, but he could not talk openly about them, or he would have lost his fellowship at Oxford. (Ironically, he was a fellow Trinity College.)
I believe that comment is required by the licence terms of code cribbed from Stack Overflow, though.
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On the other hand, I guess Facebook really does not want to do that, because it would create an opening to attack Facebook. Right now, you can't compete with the network effects of Facebook's size, however if 10% or so of all Facebook users are up for grabs, and they are also correlated by region, then you could build a European Facebook competition and capture a strong enough base to effectively compete with Facebook. (Initially at least in Europe, however pretty quickly many people in the rest of the world would also have a 'European Facebook' account and then Facebook can't just rely on everybody is on Facebook anymore.)

I would actually be quite interested how that one plays out, I really don't have a good intuition of how that would look like.
I would also recommend Steve's Refactoring UI videos on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqiDtkXtOCNJdckODHk9YA/vid...
Cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2DyY_x...
> someone I forgot

That would be Upton Sinclair.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/
To me, this is a perfect reason to buy an Apple-branded device - if my device is stolen/lost I want to be able to lock it permanently and forever with absolutely no way to restore it again. Android phones can almost always be overriden and just factory reset even if the system locks out completely. To me, that's a huge downside, not a bonus.
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I agree that it is not very clear - which is why I wrote "are often considered" etc.
Also the Apple example was brought up to explain a nations' interest in low tax rates, not about whether they're legal or not.

Parent was the one making definitive claims about fraud and illegal actions.
anti-theft should never impact user experience in such negative way. there are different ways to let the user be in control of this anti-theft technology which are much more user friendly and less prone to these kind of situations.
> Can you provide a documented example of devaluing your currency

1. The european central bank (ECB) is buying goverment bonds from EU member states to keep them alive.

2. Since 2010 the ECB is printing more currency than ever, effectively devaluating the currency.

> regulating the form of cucumbers?

Here you go: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:319...

Do your research before accusing me.
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I was wondering: given that

- Perl6 is quite a different language from Perl5

- I am aware that there is an enormous amount of code written in Perl 5

Has anyone of you started transitioning to Perl6 ? If so, what's your experience/opinion ?
If you really want to resolve this favorably, you should probably remove this post and try to resolve this in a private conversation with Apple. They aren’t gonna like this kind of attention...
I find it surprising that Linux distributions still don't support iOS devices. Considering how many of these devices are out there.

What is the main reason? That it is hard to root them?
> For instance Microsoft was rapped over bundling Internet Explorer

...And Google uses all of their products to tell you it's better to use Chrome, frequently destroy businesses by offering their own services in cards at the top of searches, which represent billions in free advertising, force Google store with their android OEMs, etc.

If Microsoft has been condemned for leveraging their dominant position in a market to get advantage in another market, Google should have been condemned years ago, for the same reason.
I can't speak for Italy, but as one of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians who could easily get a job outside Hungary _because_ of Hungary joining the EU, I'm deeply thankful for the fact that EU is trying to control the damage that Orban Viktor is doing to the country.

As for the elections: Orban used lots of tools (cheating) to make sure that they win again. Migrants/illegal border crossers are not a problem here at this time here actually (they prefer Germany with a better economy).

Most of us Hungarians want to stay in the EU, but we have a dictator who would prefer to be outside if the money stops flowing from EU to them.
FWIW, Pascal, at least when it is reasonably well-written, is super easy to read, even if you have no or little prior experience with the language.
Also, they all speak the same language. That's huge.
That's a weirdly dismissive tone given that Pascal was a massively popular and commercial language before C++ really took dominance. Also worth remembering that lot of early Windows software was also written in Pascal.
All that law does is standardize various classes. It's a extremely common measure for facilitating trade, e.g.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/cucumber-grades-an...

https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trade/agr/standard/fresh...
> I went with it because if a project had binaries at all, there was likely a .deb tested with ubuntu.

Given that each release of Ubuntu starts as a fresh fork from Debian's testing branch, this is not a compelling case for Ubuntu over Debian.

> If there were drivers for linux, they were likely tested against ubuntu.

As above, and it doesn't really matter if you meant drivers for Linux (the kernel), or GNU/Linux (a distro).

I've never heard of any drivers that work on Debian but not on Ubuntu, or vice versa.

> Ease of installation is rarely talking about the install screen; it's talking about everything just working without having to dig around the internet, and installation is a good proxy for that.

When people talk about the ease of installation, they are almost definitely talking about the ease of installation.

"Just works" is a useful phrase to describe a range of (other) user experiences, but again it's not clear how Ubuntu has (and arguably had) any significant advantages over Debian.
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Missed the train? Maybe didn't fully participate in the dot-com boom or the startup-buzz, but that's not the full picture with regards to technology. The world wide web came from CERN. ARM which powers most popular mobile devices was founded in the UK (only bought by a Japanse company post-Brexit). German cars are everywhere. Nokia and Ericsson were at the forefront of the boom in mobile telecommunications. ITU is based in Geneva and GSM (the basis for all modern mobile telecomms) orginated in France (it took years for the USA to catch up).
Way way too complicated, needs a setup and configured postgres install, why use an RDBMS when it could have embedded sqlight and avoided all that sysadmin stuff
> when the EU inevitably tries to block UK companies and trade

FTFY

> when the EU uses border/customs rules for countries they don't have an agreement with
Thank you for your concern: i have a passport and i have visited every EU member state with the exception of Romania and Sweden.
Do the people you know actually engage with Facebook a lot, though?

I'm still on it and log in a few times a week but I engage far less. I recently used a Chrome extension to delete my old comments and I'm surprised at how much more I posted on it (and publicly, too). Although changing the newsfeed to be mostly memes and adverts was one cause of my disengagement, I think it's also just changing use. I haven't really noticed the recent changes Facebook touted because my friend network simply seems to engage with it less. Maybe a few people still insist on posting dozens of photographs of every trip they take, but I see so much less public discussion and so on.

What happens to a social network when the 'social' bit tails off?
> What is the main reason? That it is hard to root them?

Imho it's just not worth it. There are a lot of way cheaper phones/tablets that you can get in order to run GNU/Linux.

Why would anybody bother ?
Satellites are not painted white. Satellite bodies are are typically covered with reflective thermal blankets made of materials like Mylar or Kapton [1][2][3]. However, what makes satellites reflect enough sunlight to be visible in the sky is not the blankets but solar panels or antennas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanket

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoPET

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton
I have carried around laptops and smartphones for decades now. Not a single one was stolen. Even if one was stolen now, what's the average cost of 'Stuff being stolen' over the years?

I had Laptops with me since the 90s. For over 20 years. If my iPad Pro gets stolen now, that's $1000 over 20 years = $50/year. I don't mind.

I really would love if a Linux distribution would support the iPad so I know I can do with it whatever I like forever.
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I know, isn't the future great? To read a web page, just enter an url in chrome, once it has loaded go ahead and click "yes you may track me" then finally "reader mode" and the world is yours.
My experience has been that I get better ideas of benchmarks by profiling my real application code, porting the hotspots to the new language or framework within a mostly bare skeleton and testing it. It’s not perfect, but gives me a better idea as to whether moving will actually help!
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> Between people having assistance denied (example: Linus Sebastian 5 k$ Mac Pro),

Just a note, he wasn't 'denied assistance', Apple told them the computer was damaged beyond repair. Just like if you get your car into a serious crash it'll be written off, that's what Apple declared to his iMac Pro because he had physically damaged it so much.
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Your argument is only true in the trivial sense that sexually reproducing organisms are only viable in larger numbers than a single pair; but that's a distinction that doesn't demarcate anything interesting. Humans are like ants, you say, but your argument also leads to the same conclusion about tigers, bears and other solitary animals in that they need more than a breeding pair to be viable. It descends into tautology.

Yes, humans are somewhat like ants in that they are usually social. Humans are adaptable enough to survive in pairs, though lack of specialization means they won't necessarily live the most comfortable life, so it would be an unusual choice. But there's nothing elective about ants' socialism. So in the end I don't think your argument works.
The best part-time gig I had was working 4 hours a workday remotely. I'd start at 5 and finish by 9, which left the rest of the day to do anything I wanted. I got as much done as the other (mobile) developer who worked full-time.

I find 40 hours a week to be tolerable if I'm working remotely. Unfortunately I have a 2.5 hour commute for my current gig, and it's sucking up all my personal time.
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I am in favor of a united democratic European government and a united democratic world government in order to increase cooperation and to enable political innovation (e.g. a basic income, a job guarantee) and to decrease competition and wars and poverty worldwide.

But many politicians of the European elite and European national elites live in a fantasy world where privatization, austerity, competition, unconditional support of the USA and Israel, wars, bombs, islamic rebels, sanctions and brazen lies and propaganda against Russia (e.g. Skripal, panama papers, referendum in Crimea) and Syria (after Libya after Iraq after Yugoslavia after Iraq after ...) create peace, democracy, friendship and prosperity.

I was pleasantly surprised that aggressions against Iran were even a topic among politicians and in the mainstream media in Europe instead of just following the USA and Israel and Saudi Arabia into the next disastrous conflict. But this reluctance has more to do with business than with morality and wisdom.
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it's a condition of signing the various European treaties

These treaties by the way, are passed with popular consent. As a constitutional democracy Ireland requires a Referendum for any constitutional change, which is always necessary when signing up to anything that says we'll conform to some outside agency.
I use an iPad Pro because it had the best form factor + weight + performance combination I could find.
Find my iPhone is optional.
My kids iPad has been doing the same. It keeps saying we're locked out, and not accepting the (correct) password, and we have to reset the password constantly. No idea why it's happening. I've tried setting simpler passwords (I use KeePass and generate 32char complex passwords by default), but it doesn't help. I never thought of the fact that it could be someone brute forcing it and locking us out, I just shrugged it off as being "typical new-Apple". We're almost completely off Apple devices now because we have so so many problems with them in the last couple years, after being a happy Apple family since the Macintosh SE.
Same. I've never had a phone/laptop/tablet/etc stolen.

Yet, "The number of smartphones stolen dropped by 50% in London, 27% in San Francisco and 16% in New York in 2014, according to an announcement by officials in the three cities" since the introduction of these anti-theft measures
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/11/london-sm...
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> But... is it something "sellable" to a consumer?

If tomorrow ads were deemed illegal, and google charged for their suite of services, I believe they would be valuable.

Just look at the powerlessness of the EU in dealing with this company (and facebook) because they can't untangle it from their populace without anything short of a riot.
Pretty much everyone in Europe that operates in any kind of a pan-European business space speaks English. Kind of ironic these days really ...
> This idea that ad targeting is some kind of shady evil is a very recent one and, as far as I can tell, artificially created by the press as part of a proxy fight against Google and Facebook as disintermediators. It doesn't seem based on anything real.

Just to be clear, are you saying that the claim that google and facebook have vast amounts of information about you doesn't seem based on anything real?
Take a look at the youtube channel 2minutepapers [0], it covers various ML/DL papers and their results. The person creating the videos has a background in writing rendering software. He has various videos covering papers that use ML to improve rendering and graphics. Not long ago he created a own paper about teaching an AI the concept of metallic, translucent materials and more [1].

I really recommend checking his channel, videos are short and fun and easy to understand even without ML background. You can really sense his passion and excitement for this topic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzVhIV_t3s
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You have to check for the damn replicants, you know.
she made up a birthday and answers to the security questions. 8 years later, she does not know that information and there’s no way for us to guess it.

Well that sucks, but the vendor did provide an account recovery mechanism which they chose to circumvent.
The “Google banned our entire company” story was likely a fake
In the interests of correcting potentially misleading news, a couple of responses from Googlers on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17120223 and Reddit (same content as on HN: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banned_an_entire_company_gsuite_accounts/dzcw5vg/) suggest the original post was fake (as some had guessed).
The rightful owner of the software on device is Apple.

And they've coded the software this way, and are most likely to know about "45 (46, 48) years" effect so even if this behavior was unintentional - it's acceptable for them.