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You are missing the fact that Android team doesn't want to have anything to do with Dart, and started a Kotlin everywhere initiative, including iOS via Kotlin/Native.
> It's almost as if the theory that monopolies inevitably grow to take over the world has serious problems.

That's a straw man. No one is saying monopolies are immortal. An economy where monopoly usurps monopoly, one after the other in a continuous cycle is a problem, too.

If you want a real debate, make the case that the world wouldn't be better off if these tech giants were split up like Ma Bell was in the 1950's and forced to compete without the benefits of being able to buy out the first hint of competition. Make the case that we're better off having ONE giant social network, ONE giant online retailer. How often are promising young product or service companies bought out by giant companies just to be left to dry on the vine, no longer a threat to their new owners? Is this what a healthy economy looks like?
The same reason our cars are shittier, and our water faucets don't make most excellent whooshing sounds: insufficient German engineers and craftsmanship.

American engineering is always over engineering, but lazy over engineering without any Teutonic perfectionism. Except maybe the various moon shots. Oh, wait.
I know the argument that "YouTube is polarizing everyone" is a common one, but is there any evidence to back it up?
I've been complaining about Google Play Services ever since they started pushing it over Android's native APIs. It was one of the big early shots fired in the war to redefine "privacy" from "nobody collects data about you" to "Your Friend $Datacorp doesn't let anyone else get the data they collect about you."
I'm just speculating here, but I assume that online storage isn't faster, but it may be bigger, online, easier for IT to manage, and fast enough. It also seems likely that some employers are worried about engineers or creatives just walking out with commercially sensitive data.
Brilliant idea, but if ever implemented would require an absolutely transparent audit process by as many people as possible because of security implications...

That being said, it's a brilliant idea!

In fact, I'll do you one better -- publicly accessible CPU or CPU's inside of each memory chip, having access to that chip's RAM...

Great idea for speed/scalability -- but to have that the requirement for security is absolute
transparency/auditability/accountability/documentation in the engineering and manufacturing processes... No NSL's, no backdoors, everything documented, public and auditable by everyone, etc., etc.

Which is a tremendous responsibility...

Also, cooling might become a problem...
Competing with Apple
I was tempted to make a joke about the Porsche or Corvette being luxury vehicles but I've noticed we spend way too much time nitpicking after fine details. It deflects from the thesis to do so and I'm not a fan. I can understand GP's point just fine without getting into quibbles over that.

Instead I took umbrage with the idea that a $3000 laptop which is our primary tool is a luxury item. I think it's one of many signs that we're a bunch of cheapskates. Other industries have different perspectives on this.
The difference is subtle but it's there.

The "some" keyword indicates that the function returns a specific type, even if that type isn't known to the caller.

One place where this is meaningful is if you have to use the result of that function in a generic function. For instance if my functions are defined like this:

func createPlayButton() -> Button { ... }

func doSomething<T: Button>(_ button: T) { ... }

And I try to call this:

doSomething(createPlayButton())

I will get an error, because the protocol Button does not conform to itself. However If I use opaque types:

func createPlayButton() -> some Button { ... }

this works just fine because the compiler is able to determine the concrete type returned by `createPlayButton`
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I get dizzy from drinking two cups.
> which they made an open design explicitly because of anti-trust pressures.

AFAIK, they didn't not, in fact, make it an “open design” intentionally. They published clear specs to encourage peripheral development, which also helped clone makers, but the BIOS was proprietary and had to be reverse engineered by clone makers to be legal. IBM sued several clone makers for infringement (largely for copying rather than reverse engineering the BIOS) and forced them to shutter, which presumably would not have happened if the design was intentionally open.
You also might find the acronym MGIF (must get in front) to be interesting. I think it's mostly used by British cyclists.

If my memory serves, the responses range wildly. On one end you have completely reasonable and sincere sounding apologies that they accidentally passed me dangerously. Whether or not these were accidents, I don't know. On the other end you have the typical rants against cyclists. In the middle I might help convince bad drivers to treat cyclists nicer.

One time a driver I was speaking to seemed apologetic and some random pedestrian started screaming at me about how I shouldn't be telling drivers what to do. That guy was nuts.
Yeah, so... plenty of software engineers are making $500k a year. That is total compensation; you should expect half of that to come from non-salary things like stock options and bonuses.

Maybe some people are lying, but that seems about right to me for actual senior people (leading projects, maybe managing people).

My last year at Google, my W2 income was in the area of $300,000. I was a "level 5" with good performance reviews, and the scale goes up to 9. I sold all my stock the second it was issued ("autosale"), so the W2 income is pretty close to the amount of cash I got.

Programmers focused on the right task are worth their weight in gold. There are very few fields where an hour of time put in can save society as a whole thousands of hours. Software engineering is one of those, and we get to skim off a little bit of that value we created in the form of cash.
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To my extreme disappointment, "This video is unavailable."
My OS drive is for the OS and applications I don't care about. 128GB is plenty tbh.

I really can't imagine this world where "professionals" keep everything on a single drive and are primarily concerned with capacity of that single drive.

My gaming computer has three SSDs, including a 120GB for the OS, and a pair of magnetic drives.
I don't agree, I think this approach is completely legitimate. Because it is prominent politicians who are spreading this message, it is clear where it is coming from and what the motivations are. It isn't manipulation, like seeding articles with a subtext of some idea or another. It is just, here's the governments view of this issue. And then it seems like the idea is for people to think about that, and they will compare to the other idea.

So everyone, including government leaders, get to share their thoughts, people get to choose what is best. If what was described is actually what happens. In the past, the government ideas would be the only ideas shared.
So far I found out it's implemented via parameter attribute [1]

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> When I then ride on the road instead, I often have to contend with car drivers who seem seem to purposefully pass by very closely at high speeds

If you ride at the edge of the general purpose lane, then this is very likely to happen because drivers will believe their vehicle will fit between you and traffic in the adjacent lane. If you ride in the center (or between the center and left tire track) position in the lane, then practically all faster traffic will completely change lanes to pass you.
Again, simply being dominant in a market _is not_ being a monopoly.

Monopolies are definitively the exclusive control or possession of the supply of the market. Just as a Monopsony is exclusive control or possession of the demand in a market.
Microsoft has dominant market position but they do not control the entire supply of OS, hence they are the popular choice but not the exclusive choice.

Whether or not a monopoly is legal or illegal is non sequitur, since it doesn't apply in context here. There are plenty of legal, regional monopolies that benefit consumers from such regulation in utilities, but those are not tech markets.
> The payment must be submitted to Stripe by your customer via Stripe Checkout. This means that recurring charges are not eligible for Chargeback Protection

What's going on here? I thought Checkout specifically supported setting up subscriptions:

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/migration#client-s...

If recurring charges are not covered that's fine I guess but I don't get what it has to do with Checkout.
Ok, but this isn't any better, and when it's upvoted to the top of a thread—which indignation usually does—then it just sits there steaming and giving off nasty fumes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They got even cheaper than that. In 2003, the Power Mac base price was $1499. In 2019 dollars, that's only $2082.

By 2012, the entry level Mac tower was up to $2499. Since 2013, the cheapest Mac Pro (no PCI/E slots) has been $2999.

The 2019 model is literally more than twice as expensive as the 2013, which in turn was already the previous most-expensive entry-level Mac workstation ever.

PowerMac/MacPro prices have always seemed steep, but this is a new ballgame even for Apple.
QuickDraw and Quickdraw GX aren't UI frameworks (like PowerPlant, AppKit or UIKit), and they aren't a widget library (like HIToolbox). They're much more lower-level than that; drawing libraries on the level of Quartz, Cairo, Skia, or GDI.
>Facebook, Google Search and Chrome, the most discussed products in current antitrust discussions all have viable quality alternatives.

People need to stop thinking of Google and Facebook as if they offer consumer services. They don't. Their product is their ads, and their consumers are corporate marketing departments, and through this lens they are both thoroughly monopolists. Or at least "duopolists".

https://www.emarketer.com/content/global-ad-spending-update

See also: AMP, internet.org
Oh, yeah --- I'm not complaining about Z80 being obsolete. I'm complaining that it's too new! CP/M proper uses 8080 machine code, which Z80 code is almost (but not quite) backwards compatible with. So Z80 machines can run classic CP/M binaries but classic CP/M machines can't run Z80 code.

sdcc only generates Z80 code, not 8080, so my assembler can't be used on a Tandy Model 100, for example. I have another compiled lined up which will generate 8080 code, though. Less buggy, too.
Where did you get your numbers from? Endgame won’t beat Avatar at all without inflation worldwide. In the US it doesn’t beat Avatar with inflation adjusted. Then you have Titanic that just completely destroys Endgame after inflation in the US. Probably worldwide too. Though that’s harder to say and there wasn’t really China back then. Along with China being much smaller for Avatar too.
No, he's an "accused rapist" because two separate women accused him of various forms of rape under Sweden's domestic rape laws.

Quite ironically, Assange is being railroaded because he tried to avoid the rape charges, which led to his self-imposed Ecuadorian imprisonment, his current British imprisonment, and his future US and/or Swedish imprisonment. If he hadn't tried to flee, it's possible the Swedish charges would have been dropped after perfunctory investigation. The British would never have needed to jail him. The previous US administration would likely have filed minimal charges against him or sought a token punishment to serve as a deterrent to others.

Plenty of others have exposed government secrets. Many of them won Pulitizers for their efforts...
That is exactly what I said when I saw the code on the screen. Now if they released a development environment for Android also.... (wishful thinking)
I was indeed missing the point, specifically about people engaging in actions because of their employer. Thank you for being so clear!
Was U2F or FIDO2 or WebAuth announced for Safari? Chrome, Firefox and Opera have it, about time Safari added it too.
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Try PCalc. Not sure about time calculation support. If you email the developer, James Thomson, maybe he'll add it.

(I requested > 4 vertical lines a while back and he added it)
Or a one bedroom that is 45 minutes by public transit from the heart of DC all for less than $1200/month? Seems you're exaggerating your extremes.

Now, I haven't checked all 567 listings, personally, but I have to assume at least one of them isn't a listing for a room with "illegals or college kids", or any other group you find objectionable as roommates.

https://www.apartments.com/min-1-bedrooms-under-1200/?sk=dc6...
Owned a 13-sec motor swapped CRX that could do 110 in 3rd gear- so yes, I believe you. It was N/A and had a B18A. I’m guessing you had a B16 ;)
That's why utilities like electricity and gas are tightly regulated to protect consumers.
Obama revolving door: Apple's top lobbyist to State department. Catherine Ann Novelli spent 8 years as VP of world-wide government affairs at Apple, and then three as Under-Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment.[1]

Apple-NSA collaboration with PRISM. [2]

USDS & 18F involvement: [3][4]

Secret collaboration on tax burden reduction. (It's a longer word for 'lobbying'. If you think it's not secret, please share with me the minutes from those meetings. If you think it's not collaborative, why do these meetings always result in tax burden reductions for the lobbyists?) [5][6]

2 million dollars in direct campaign contributions, in 2018. It seems that to do business, you need to grease a few palms, eh? [7]

You cannot operate a multi-billion dollar company in the US, and not have close ties with the US government.

Not to mention the large number of congressmen, senators, and government advisers who, among their tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, have large financial stakes in Apple.

[1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-revolving-door-appl...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/apple-nsa/

[3] https://www.fedscoop.com/civic-leave-white-house-technology-...

[4] https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/20/one-year-in-and-looking-forwa...

[5] https://www.macobserver.com/news/in-2018-apple-spent-6-6-mil...

[6] https://www.fastcompany.com/40502636/big-techs-lobbying-splu...

[7] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000021754
Do these roadmaps include running at half a speed after a couple of months due to (arguably purposeful) design flaws ?
No, but it cleans your slate of the crime you committed because you've paid your dues. We don't charge people - or businesses - twice with the same crime.
https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

"28 core model has support for up to 2TB 2933MHz memory". 2TB RAM is crazy.
> The Dutch have that figured out.

The problem is that the vast majority of motorists do not have significant experience riding a bicycle, so they don't know where to look for cyclists and will end up colliding with them when they pop out from behind parked cars within 30 feet of the intersection (when traveling at 20 feet per second).
Visa and Mastercard have a pretty effective duopoly, too! Their fees and chargeback procedures are a drag on the entire economy. Getting banned by them effectively kills your ability to accept payments, and many legal but politically unpopular businesses find themselves in the crosshairs.
I'm thinking $10/GB for ram - that's $15k just to max out that one segment
I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was referring to the WaPo article about Amazon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/02/amazon-...
Maybe you're just not used to it?
You had options! The London stone for wool was 12.5 lbs, which would give you the same 8 stone to the hundredweight without redefining a hundredweight as 112 lbs.

Or if you wanted to go the other way -- there were plenty of other definitions of the stone in use at the time, after all -- you could have gone with 16 pounds, to maintain parity with the dram and the ounce. Y'all still likely would have screwed up the hundredweight, as 128lb, but you might have at least fixed things by making the ton 16 hundredweight/2048 lb, which would at least have been some lovely binary fractions.

But 14 pounds? That's just madness.
The original statement of Endgame beating Avatar is still incorrect. Which is what started this chain of comments in the first place. Along with Endgame not even beating Avatar worldwide without inflation (currency exchange rates aren’t going to be that drastic with a decade population and financial growth).
Looks like they ran out of time for all the features, but MOUSE SUPPORT!!!

https://twitter.com/reneritchie/status/1135643633690992640
If you go over 3 lanes per direction you have absolutely failed at designing a road.
Google and FB will likely copy this asap.
Historically, this kind of ideology has always ended up in murdering citizens en masse. Tread carefully. Or better: Study history.
They were even higher in the early 90's. In 1993 the Power Macintosh 8100 (one of the first ppc computers) started at $4200 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_8100
>Of course, it can't answer everybody's needs (no Windows, Linux, or Android support)

I don't understand how my fellow developers could ever tolerate Apple doing this.

This goes one way, and its been like this for decades.
One caveat with us-east-2 is that it appears to get new features after us-east-1 and us-west-2. You can view the service support by region here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio....
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Possibly, but... have you gone in to a bank and asked if you could test drive all web and mobile apps for some period of time to make sure everything was up to snuff?

FISERV is a dominant player in this space. Either this situation is a matter of configuration/settings, or a limitation of their software.

I have no idea that a different bank would have better systems, and it's a Really Big Deal to move business banking.
While sheets is nowhere near my idea of ergonomic, I've figured out this one every time I needed it. And, despite working for Google, I'm nowhere near a regular user.

Maybe your browser, or some extension, got in your way?
Is no one going to comment on why a desktop needs wheels?
It's funny this just came out when it did. I was just looking at getting an older Mac Pro 5,1 and upgrading all the components in it like a few friends have done.

For under $2K you can have a machine that competes with newer machines that cost twice that much. If you're a professional creative type, these machines are the real deal:

The Most Powerful Mac Is 6 Years Old and Not Sold By Apple - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkq8k/mac-pro-upgrade-co...

the Mac Pro 5.1 was designed to accommodate up to 12 cores: “Even though a single core isn’t fast, imagine having 12 of them for video editing and audio—those cores together are faster than my brand-new MacBook,” Mazzarolo said. The new iMac Pro can have up to 18 cores; new MacBook Pros max out at four cores.

The 5.1 can take a whopping 128 GB of RAM, which is equal to what a fully upgraded iMac Pro can take and double what Apple says the trash can Mac Pro maxes out at (it’s worth noting that the RAM used in newer Mac computers is usually faster)

The 5.1 can be modified to use modern SSDs, which Mazzarolo said are in some cases faster than the ones used in the new iMac Pro

The 5.1 can use almost any brand-new graphics card from most manufacturers, which is the main reason why a fully souped-up, old Mac Pro can outperform new computers. “With some rendering engines, the AMD cards that Apple uses [in new Mac Pros] don’t even work,” he said. “In general, even mid-level graphics cards we put in are as fast as those in the iMac Pro. We can put in better cards and we can put in two of those.”

On the Facebook group, Mazzarolo posted benchmarks of one of his custom-built rigs playing 5K, 6K and 8K RED RAW video clips against current-model Apple computers. A new, 15-inch MacBook pro and a recent “trash can” Mac Pro weren’t capable of playing the video at more than 8 frames-per-second. His custom-built model was able to get 24 fps in each case.
Might be true. Certainly it’s true that Apple represents a smaller user base then, say, Google or Facebook.

But Apple users represent a disproportionately large subset of the users that spend money.