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Some of the DRM failures are real: kindle DRM updates and some forms don't strip in calibre IIRC. But that aside, this is all pretty much what I do.

I feel uncomfortable about the legalities but I do not like the social contact being written in this way, against any consumer interest and without discussion.

Buying books is important. Authors deserve their pay. DRM is like book cancer.
Statistically, it depends.

In some cities it can be quite dangerous to ride around.
OnePlus has it
> My old house was 900sf, perfect for 1 to 2 people

That is 80m2. I grew up in a 75m2 apartment (810sf) with my parents and two brothers.

I guess that "cramped" is a matter of perspective. :)

> Not sure about other large cities, but mine (Portland, OR) has a pretty big homeless and crime issues as of lately.

It makes me sad to hear about that. We are in the XXI century and we have good ways of helping homeless people and reduce crime. I understand that you leave to a better place, but that does not solve the problem.

> confronted in our driveway by a homeless individual, who said that he was considering suicide.

I hope that you have find a good place for you and your family but do not forget the people that you left behind. Their lives are a tragedy that can be averted.
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Can't tell if MegaButts (parent comment) is being facetious, but to answer: No, it's very unlikely that Ruth would sell off Waymo. The company is at the forefront when compared on actual technical merit.

They've got the lowest manual-intervention-to-mile ratio. They have the largest dataset. The largest simulation capacity. The biggest company in backing $. Its technology has the most revenue to date: 500M ;)

Why would Waymo pack up shop and leave? Does Google expect that Nissan will just come in and clean up demand the leftover self driving market?

Why would a company at the forefront of technical achievement decide to exit a market that we know will dominate a huge amount of the world economy? One that may un-employ 3% of all Americans in the first few years.
What I've often wondered is why there aren't more homeless people in the suburbs.
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The downvoters don’t like to see it mentioned that Glen Greenwald is a liar. The evidence is clear though. In this specific case, he has produced fake evidence, by implicating in his “leak” the names of people who weren’t event involved in the Car Wash operator, not to mention faking timestamps to try to prove something that never happened.

The real coup attempt here is being done by the method of greenwalding [1].

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=greenwalding
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Also depends on the type of infrastructure available. I lived in the city until about 5 years ago and cycled everywhere. Out in the bush where I am now, with only narrow windy unshouldered roads (& many stoned drivers), I'd be dead in a week.
> Without them, there would be no Java, and thus no Eclipse, and thus no incentive to advance the IDEs to the point they are today.

I don't buy this argument. IDEs would just advance as they're tools written buy the people who use them - there's an inherent drive to increase their usefulness and automate the mundane and repetitive. Also for what It's worth I think before MS really got their shit together in the IDE space it was Borland that was at the forefront.
There's a similar problem with AV automatically unsubscribing all of your customers from their spam (and newsletters) the first time you start scanning emails for malicious links. It's a little less than completely solvable, in fact.
Last I heard, the Loon balloons were just floating in the wind, across the planet.

Do they now have a way to keep them over Puerto Rico? If so, how?
I loved ICQ too. However, I learned how to type fast with BBS chatting.
The cultural dynamic is intertwined with economic factors.

If you will have a 2-income family, you'll want to be where multiple jobs are within a commute. The 1-income family or single person can simply move as needed.

If you will have a large family, you'll prefer a location where a large house is affordable. If you won't have a family, that doesn't matter.

Cause and effect go both ways. People following a traditional lifestyle are pushed out of cities by economic factors, and people following other lifestyles are pushed into cities. Meanwhile, city dwellers are discouraged from living traditionally due to economic factors, just as non-city dwellers wanting two incomes have trouble finding that second job.
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> You knew the gear wasn't imagined and designed by a bunch of bean counters.

Hmmm.... Only later when they were marketing TV's?

Hated Sony for selling essentially the same TV with the same guts but leaving out one chip (for example) so that "Picture in Picture" required you spend an extra $500 on the high end model.

I always suspected it went something like this:

• Engineers describe the feature set they can deliver for a new TV.

• Bean counters determine it can be manufactured for $500.

• Marketing decide there will be three models: the F, the FX, and the FX+. Determine pricing will be: $800, $1200, $1800.

• Marketing aligns the FX+ model with the engineers feature set — cross off features to arrive at the FX — cross off even more to arrive at the F.

• Profit.

I shouldn't beat up on Sony though — all consumer electronics have been doing something like this since ... when ... the 1950's or so?
There were several articles written about it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/05/24/there-is-a-...

Afaik the jist of it is that once it is used it escapes the atmosphere and there is a finite amount of it.
I tried to get through this, but by the third typo, I tapped out. Maybe they should get a VC to fund an editor.
Having met a few at CSIRO, I'd tend to accept that they're real science-y scientists, meaning that they've never really had cause to be labelled as having strong political bias... But that's just my subjective word.

That said, all science is subject to bias according to its funding, particularly if not readily reproducible.
The CSIRO is an org that garners public and private funding.

From the narrative :

> This study was published in the US Geophysical Research Letters journal and was funded by CSIRO's Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, the Australian Research Council and Land & Water Australia.

So, self funded with a few other gov interests thrown in. Is this enough to invalidate findings? Only if not reproducible... But has anyone tried?
OP created a really neat app but I agree with all your dates. I got my first modem in 1985 and started running my own BBS in 1986. By 1992 I lost interest in the BBS world and moved onto the Internet.

By 1995 I had a permanently on ISDN 128 Kbps line. My ISP even gave me my own public Class C netblock with that line!
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I remember something about them using weather predictions, machine learning, and ballast to rise up to an air current that would blow them one way, then lower to a different current to blow it back to roughly the same spot.
I think it's important to note that slavery is domination of Nature if you consider humans as members of Nature.
Nice! You're pretty smart. But you think me being a jerk is somehow relevant to anything? Hmm. A-.
It seems like AMD has been doing something similar for a little while already: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_y...
In early 2000, QQ [1] had a product feature like this - realtime typing & chatting. It was mainly for two intimate people to use (两人世界). A few years ago, Tencent sunset this feature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ
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Oh, I didn't know Homebrew is scripted in Ruby. Thanks, that's the connection I was missing!
> Yeah, but most of that was waiting around for oxygen-releasing life to evolve.

No, it wasn't. Photosynthesis that released O2 evolved relatively quickly, and was more efficient than other forms of photosynthesis. Then it took another billion years for oxygen to accumulate in the atmosphere. Mind you, we had an entire planet with oceans teeming with photosynthetic life. That will be next to impossible to replicate on Mars.

There are two oxygen sinks on Earth that reacted with oxygen released from photosynthesis: the first was the ocean, the other was minerals on land. This is the reason that it took so long for atmospheric oxygen to accumulate. Mars will have a lot of oxidizable minerals and compounds that will react with oxygen before it can accumulate in its atmosphere. Even then, it will escape into space without a sufficient magnetosphere to trap an atmosphere.
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The tax codes in various nations needs to catch up. There’s no reason for Apple to pay any more tax than it needs to legally under the law. The same goes for Apple. I go out of my way to hold onto receipts and the like to be able to deduct all I can. I offer to do everything I can to fix even the smallest lightbulb going out at my small little rental so that I can deduct that. Apple is just doing all this on a much bigger scale.

There’s new efforts to simplify the code and make it easier to ensure that businesses like Apple and Amazon and others have some tax to pay with the EU internet giants tax of something like 3% on receipts made in the EU is just taxed. Period. That for example could be a viable hedge against things like moving revenue generation to other countries.
Not if you're doing standup every day and expected to report daily progress.
I haven't lived in those times but in British colonies, virtually all positions of power and money were reserved for the people from Britain. You could be Mr. Nobody in Worcester, go to India and suddenly turn in to upper class tax officer with bungalow and half dozen servants taking care of your property. On the other hand, a person of Indian origin could have spent large sums of family wealth to get educated in Oxford and have to settle for some lowly clerk when they come back regardless of how well they did. Many freedom movements were actually started by these England-educated Indian people who realized there was no place for meritocracy in British colonies when they came back.
What, exactly, is the point you're making? That the author should have been cooler in the mid-90's?
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I was most definitely not cool, but I did have a dual-cassette stereo with a "high-speed dubbing" function that was used regularly.

Thinking back on it, its all that music sharing that really opened my eyes (ears!) to music that was outside the mainstream and would have been otherwise essentially locked away from the opportunity to listen to it long enough to really get it. Complex music.

Who I am today thanks the creators of that subversive technology of yesterday.

In regards to the rats nest of failed tape. A friend of mine and I took a few tapes apart in order to reverse the spools to listen to them backwards. I think we were only able to get one back together well enough to actually work... I remember putting some together which played forwards again because double reversal = forwards...
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That the article is not historically accurate. It describes 1985.

It's like saying that all we had in 1995 was cable TV for watching Prince, Madonna, Tears for Fears and Van Halen videos. No; you were just too stoned to remember that that was actually in 1985. You're 50, not 39, like you think, haha.
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It's funny that when someone is said to be "speechless", they generally turn out to produce a lot of words.
How does this work, are the people able to really solve the game this fast or are they memorizing sequences? Is it possible to see the game before the click starts?
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The students are probably motivated by network-level blocking of common chat apps but not schoolwork necessities like Google docs.
Even some prisoners have cell phones.
Now go do same with INTEGRITY, QNX, L4 and plenty of others used in production on real time scenarios where Linux is found lacking.
The Walkman is a classic case of how an entrenched competitor with deep pockets couldn't really stand in the way of an innovative product. I point this out because, whenever you come across an idea for a startup, you'd inadvertently find one or more businesses already built around the idea, sometimes with ginormous funding or income. Remember how iPod beat Walkman, Firefox gazumped IE, Zoom sped past WebX, stripe pocketed payments: Find the key pain points and try to solve them. Don't turn a blind eye [0] no matter how difficult they might be to solve, you wouldn't know it until you try.

To quote mittermayr from a recent thread [1]:

> Don't throw away an idea because someone else has already made it. People completely underestimate the amount of money you can make as a runner-up, or even as a 5th or 10th-place service in some markets. Most of the products I'm involved with have made me quite substantial amounts over the years compared to the minimal time required to upkeep them. There's at least ten companies I can name at an instant that do almost exactly the same, yet I still make money doing the very same thing.

> Appreciate the invaluable advantage a market-proven idea brings and focus on whatever its target audience lacks or loves most about the most-popular offering. It doesn't mean you have to copy something (where's the fun in that), but consider this if you start working on something and then come across someone who's done the exact same thing with good success. Don't give up, use it.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19164873
need a car to do anything in the suburbs, really. hot take: this isn't a coincidence
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Fond memories of Sony and the Walkman era. I worked part time for Sony from the mid to late 1980s while I was a student, paying tuition bills. It was a dream job for a consumer electronics nerd and budding AV enthusiast, getting to demo and play with everything. Sony was still king of CRTs with XBR line of Trinitrons consistently on top. (Back breakers to move across a room, BTW.) Their ES family of audio amps and reference CD players were generally well respected. Meh for speakers.

But back to Walkmans ... it was really eye-opening how multiple times per year they would release new variations in size and materials and features or just colours, and people would line up or pre-pay to get their hands on them. People who already had Walkmans, often. The brand loyalty was mostly deserved IMO, because Sony was really doing some original R&D.

Personal faves ... compact models in the drop & waterproof Sports line, especially when issued in non-yellow. The solar model was weird, and not super effective, but damn Sony was trying.[1] The metal, and great-sounding Boodo Khan with supplied headphones was also pretty slick.[2] But from a materials and engineering POV there were some gorgeous delicate little metal-body units and at least one was actually the same size as a plastic cassette case itself.[3] (It would expand slightly when you inserted your media.)

Long after I left Sony I tried to keep the brand faith with MiniDiscs for years. But the MD's time has also come and gone...

[1] http://www.walkmancentral.com/products/wm-f107

[2] http://www.walkmancentral.com/products/dd-100

[3] http://www.walkmancentral.com/products/wm-10
>>I remember textbook examples of inheritance with shapes or animals

Man, I wonder how people went through this wondering, Who uses this? Can't they show us something real!

Eventually you just kind of tune out, because when you often meet the real world use cases, OO either descends to hierarchical verbosity from hell with layers and layers of generic abstract stuff when things should be more direct.
Note that the CRAPL license is not an open source license. It is extremely restrictive about what you can do with the code. It doesn't even give you permission to share the code with anyone else.

It's also poor for people distributing code under the license. It jokes about how the program was constructed without thought or design, but that's the very basis of the program's copyright protection. If you ever try to enforce the license, you might regret having to spend time arguing the implications of that joke in court.

Nobody should ever use CRAPL. Use the MIT or GPL licenses and set expectations for maintenance or support to zero in the README as you said.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9670497
I was not aware of this at all but I am not surprised. It definitely seems like a race to finish, without much focus on anything else.

To get from Sihanoukville to where we were staying we had to take a main road that was constantly used by trucks getting to and from construction sites. It was a dirt road that had been torn to pieces, including major major potholes, diversions into oncoming traffic to avoid these, huge traffic jams due to this, and at one point the powerlines had collapsed across the road, and had been left there, running live with cars literally driving over them all day long. Definitely a huge accident waiting to happen.

The local infrastructure is just not able to sustain this level of development. And the unfortunate thing was, the development companies were not giving back enough to actually fix up the roads and other chaos they caused, so the locals end up worse off.
I have a pretty stripped down Arch Linux install and most of the ram usage comes from Firefox.

The machine uses about 2-3gb of ram with a web browser and XFCE running.
plists are XML, not plain text.

Structured data need not be binary.

Also on Linux you have dconf, which is literally a centralized, binary configuration storage backend. I believe it is being replaced with a more decentralized mechanism to ease container use cases.
We didn’t “release” it, but I worked on a dual-control PAM module: https://github.com/cjdev/dual-control
But it is mostly classified as urban, officially at least, until you get quite away from SF or hit the hills.
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Lately I have seen many SO clones on google which show crawled SO content or translated copies. Maybe google does not care ir actively try to sink SO?
Now I feel old, remembering when they came into the scene.

Never got to own one though, just clones.
If you aren't trying to be Unix I would imagine you aren't thinking that. GNU probably doesn't subscribe to that notion.