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> Your strawman user just needs email, a webbrowser, etc. That's all perfectly well served by a Chromebook.

Maybe it is in theory. In practice it turns out not to be; Microsoft Office or LibreOffice do exponentially more and faster than Google Docs, online image editing is really not on par with desktop editors either free or open source, conference calling is still mostly Skype or Zoom that have much better apps than websites, etc. Or maybe they need tighter integration than the web provides. My point is just that I have rarely come across users that really, truly could get by with a web browser, and only a web browser.

I don't know why you claim that my theoretical user is a "strawman." It's most of the people I know that use computers, and survey shows that it's indeed most of the people who use computers in general.

> Yeah, see, this is not-getting-it.

Your comment was extremely vague, and I specifically asked what you meant, so it's not surprising I got it wrong...

> It isn't about booting in to BASIC, it's about recognizing that the Computer is a tool to make the user's life better, and part of that role is making sense and guiding the user towards leveraging it better.

Of course I agree with this. Haiku has some phrases very, very similar to this in our FAQ, user guide, and interface guidelines (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/HIG/index.xml).

> There is an abrupt incongruity in the metaphor for how applications work. They appear to be files in some location (/system/Applications?) but are actually not. The user sees that /system/Applications/MyHaikuApp is a file and thinks "oh, I can just treat that as a file", but then discovers it isn't true. They were lied to. It's an illusion.

But they are files mounted in that location. You can treat them as a file: copy them to another location, get info about them, search them, etc.

You cannot modify them in that location; but are users really that unfamiliar with the concept of "read-only files / folders"? Can we really not trust them to understand that? We decided that we could, so that's what we did, instead of hiding all this behind more layers of abstractions. We aren't "lying" to them by showing them those files, it's just the same as if they plugged in a volume and chose to mount it read-only.

> No disagreement here, but consider your solution to me wanting to use hpkgs from a different partition.

Yes, and as stated many times above, your use-case is in the minority (i.e., the long tail) ... for now. When we get around to better enterprise support, then it will be less so (i.e. run packages off of network drives), but that is not a current priority at all. But as also already stated, we would be more than happy to accept a patch that added this.
Gnash is still being worked on iirc
Spawning annoying black holes in Fortnite to force a kid to exercise
They’re still breathing which means they move.
I used AIO for many computers, but every single system failed. It was the pump every time.

I switched to a Noctua passive cooler that I've used throughout motherboard generations (Noctua always releases a cheap kit to attach it to the latest socket type) and it has never been a problem. Thermals aren't a lot worse; I used it on 200W TDP 10 core SKUs, and on normal consumer chips. It has never let me down. AIO seems like a total waste to me; lots of moving parts to die on Saturday morning and make your computer unusable all weekend.
The difference is that the runtime lives in the browser, based on an open standard. Operating systems come with browsers. The success of WASM is that my mom doesn't need to know how to install Java (and maybe accidentally a Yahoo toolbar) to run an app to look at her DICOM images.
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They would likely work in a similar way, being susceptible to the same tactics.

Imho, the main problem is that there's no deterrent. Even if you get caught doing some very black hat stuff, worst thing that can happen is to get a manual penalty. Remove the outlawed stuff, wait a month or two, submit a reinclusion request and you're back in business. If it was a "once you're caught, you're out for good" thing, SEOs would tread much more carefully.
> As for the outstanding technical challenges, I am often baffled when people point to that as a reason for skepticism...it is the whole point of the endeavor, to solve those problems.

Right, but that's an absolutely massive issue. I could say that I am embarking on a project to enable me to flap my arms and fly, you might say that's not possible, but I say that's the whole point of the endeavor, to solve these problems!

The article outlines many very real problems that do not have answers. We can hand-wave and say "well, we'll solve them" but until we have any idea how, and the time it'll take to do them, "years" absolutely does mean decades, if not longer.

> self-driving is here

No, it isn't.
Comparing this to slavery is silly. This is more like when the entire country is enslaved, and you move to the country. The analogy breaks down because the fact that you may or may not have slaves doesn't change the supply and demand of the slaves.

When you said all information is filtered by the government, that shows your ignorance of how things work in China. The rest are not worth responding to.
I am not against CAs but even then, what tool do you use? Personal SSL certificates for signing? Except for s/mime I haven't seen this used anywhere
You mean this 1965 law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac... ?

While it was sold to the American people as not affecting demographics ("Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other politicians, including Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), asserted that the bill would not affect the U.S. demographic mix."), this turned out to be extremely false, as pretty much any demographic chart will show.
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I think maybe we're speaking past eachother.

When we say "break up" in the context of Google... what do we mean? Geographically? By "vertical" like Gmail & stuff, YouTube and search, advertising & making money, waymo and other loss making operations..?

I'm not sure what the solutions to all the issues are. But, apart from the issues around privacy (and I'm not sure the conventions we're aiming for are great on privacy anyway), we just can't "physically" own our data individually. That's not how data works. The data from lots of cars driving around can become a self driving car program. The data from you driving around cannot (never say never though). It's data's qualities at scale that are being discussed here.

Amazon knows what and how and how much who buys, at scale. If an allegation/indictment is made, it will/may allege that at Amazon scale, this is monopolistic.
Pretty spot on analysis. Unfortunately, if your body has been in a state of caloric deficit for a long period of time, as soon as you eat slightly above your basal metabolic rate, your body will start to store the excess as fat.
I feel like AirBnB has largely escaped the public uproar that Uber/Lyft have experienced, perhaps because workers rights are more tangible/relatable than the second order effects of crowding out housing stock for full-time Airbnbs despite the more serious socioeconomic consequences Airbnb can have on housing prices/available rental stock as well as safety and quality of life for anyone that has to live near one.
It needs slightly more than that: when it fails, it needs to be able to demonstrate that no human would’ve succeeded in its place.

This isn’t a moral or a technical issue, just public relations. If a system reduces road deaths from ~30,000 per year to 365 per year, but one of those deaths was it mistaking a grey skirt for an open road [1], there will still be calls for its use to be outlawed — basically what’s happening now with antivaxxers, and they’re hard enough to deal with when all the evidence is against them.

[1] just to give a concrete example
The tl;dr:

> Food-insecure and low-income families face unique challenges that impair their ability to consume a healthful diet and maintain an ideal body weight. Their lifestyles tend to be sedentary because of their built environments, and their food tends to be served in large portions. The relatively inexpensive, calorie-dense food at their immediate disposal often lacks the nutrients needed for optimal health. As a result, though they may follow a nutritious diet for short periods, these are punctuated by cycles of financial and personal stress that lead to food deprivation, overeating, limited access to health care, reduced opportunities for physical activity and greater exposure to unhealthy food environments.
If you can’t see the harm in a few companies owning the vast majority of hotel rooms (under many brands) then I don’t know how we can have a productive discussion about this.

Having personally made “status” in the various hotel cabal loyalty programs, and having used AirBnb/VRBO/HomeAway/etc... many many times as well. I say with confidence that the hotel chains have negative externalities that exceed those of the various short term rental sites. I’ll go so far as saying the hotel cabal is a net negative.
And the completely non-native snowflake mobile-first slow-as-hell UIs of today's web are better?
> Being from an American cultural background myself, I have an obvious set of intuitions about which of these are reasonable and which are ridiculous, but I find it hard to make a clear argument about why.

And being technically from European cultural background but having ingested plenty of American-made utopian visions of the world in my formative years, I find myself to have yet different obvious set of intuitions about this. Like e.g. I think copyright-related censorship is overused and borderline unethical, while speech threatening social stability might be a problem.

I say that only to reinforce your point that there's not one and not two, but many differing cultural conceptions about these things.
Lane detection isn't really the big problem here, though. It's whether there is an obstacle on the road in front of you.
> What about some bright young kid from Saharan Africa doesn't get a fair chance at a H1b Visa.

Why not? They can go the student, OPT route and a shot at H1B the same as anyone else. Plus they'll get a green card faster than any bright Indian or Chinese kid.

EDIT: Changed some wording and "engineer" to "bright kid"
I'd be happy to see any country challenge any other country's information restrictions in the international trade system, but I think your examples about the U.S. are partly mistaken.

> + religion(these days, US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game)

Religious sensitivities run high in the U.S., but criticizing or mocking (or advocating or practicing) a religion is a core territory of legally protected speech, and people very commonly criticize other people's religions and religious beliefs, including in mass media. There is no such ban.

> + national security

This is pretty complicated, but it appears that the courts will protect the publishers (not the leakers) of leaked classified information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...

> + ex-political party symbol(swastika, but they can't tell the difference between nazi symbol and Buddism symbol which is widely used in Japanese commercial products, especially manga/anime/game)

The U.S., differently from many European countries, does not prohibit the sale or display of swastikas, including when they are actually used to show sympathy for the Nazi Party.

> + child porno(their definition includes some commercial Japanese manga/anime/game which we believe not possibly be a child porn since it's a pure fiction and no real-life human being harmed).

There's still always a risk of obscenity prosecutions for comics in the U.S., and import restrictions on sexually explicit material are famously much more restrictive than domestic restrictions (which sounds like the very definition of a trade barrier). But there is a Supreme Court case specifically addressing attempts to ban sexual images that depict fictional children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit...

The Court did not accept categorically banning these images.
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The way to find such a place is to use the Steelcase authorized dealer finder, under the assumption that if a place sells Steelcase, they will probably also sell Herman Millers. I did exactly this after striking out at Office Max, and bought a Steelcase Leap with headrest two hours ago for $999.

Protip: ask for the right wheels; one is designed for carpets, one for wood floors
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They could. Do you know that's the case? China allows a lot of foreign investments and to think that the only reason is to further their censorship is silly.
It's a service offering issue for unlimited plans, and a customer experience issue for metered.

Tethering is problematic in many ways with devices that don't expect to be metered. A Windows PC or Mac will sop up data sitting idle at a prodigious rate.

For every informed consumer who understands that, there are 8 who are going to go crazy when they end up with a wacky bill.
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It's actually not a very useful quote because, as you say, taken literally it's an impossibly high bar. What is required to be useful is either

1.) Demonstrably better than human (whatever that means exactly) for a well-defined subset of roads and conditions such as interstate highways under some subset of weather or

2.) Demonstrably better than human for any roads and conditions that a typical adult human would typically be able to navigate door-to-door safely.

1. is a very useful driver assist system, and likely a big win for safety, but you still need a sober adult driver available to take over with reasonable notice. 2. is what you need for robo-taxis to be practical.
>The U.S. Congress, for one, should increase funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps — on which 50 million American families depend.

Yes, that is exactly what these people need.
It's always interesting how the NES cartridges had their own hardware that could expand the system's capability. Allowing for simple cartridges for simple games and more expensive cartridges for more advanced games.
You needed to make that heatmap translucent and overlay it on top of the rpi with a diagram pointing to each chip and what it does. That would have been a super cool graphic.
Sure, there have been the Eiffel towers and statues of liberty and such, but the pigs and hearts took it to a pop art level (I do see a resemblance to the spoon cherry though) They could easily and cheaply advertise a city and in a manner tourists love. They’re approachable and everywhere.
Note I'm only familiar with the US

> + religion(these days, US outright ban any casual religious reference because it offend some believers, resulting modifying some manga/anime/game)

Where has this happened? The censorship you're describing sounds like it violates the first amendment. I think people may decide to remove religious references because it offends people, but that's not the same as the government censoring it.

> + ex-political party symbol(swastika, but they can't tell the difference between nazi symbol and Buddism symbol which is widely used in Japanese commercial products, especially manga/anime/game)

Where has this happened? Again, considering we have straight up neo Nazis in the US who are allowed to display the actual swastika legally, I don't understand how this could happen.
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Chair re-invented by true IT&Health hackers (freaks) for themselves.
Got one, has tooo many features for me to use :) but I love it.
But it's a far cry from the initial promise. For instance, Uber can't replace their drivers with self-driving cars if they need to bring all their drivers back when it rains.
We had a Richard Scarry book that had animals dressed up as different professions. While reading the book my parents asked my sister what she wanted to be when she grew up. My sister immediately responded "a hippo", which was fine with my parents because the hippo was dressed as a doctor.

Now she is a data scientist, which probably didn't exist when that book was written.
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Well, it really depends on which suburbs it was.
Waze is much better about it, but they can't route. Try getting directions from a place like Hartford, Connecticut to Richmond, VA.
That's a stereotypical engineering solution and fails to account for how humans actually act in the real world. Humans will always break some rules. As a taxpayer I don't think huge infrastructure changes or lots of increased traffic enforcement are a good use of limited public resources.
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I'm not so sure. Flash was ubiquitous until the iPhone decided not to support it.
A lot of startup culture is about breaking the social contract for profit. "Value" is locked up in norms, but you can show up to a place, throw those norms away and make lots of money. Cutting down apple orchards to put in tract housing. Making employees contractors and gaming the system so they compete rather than cooperate. This pattern causes others to seek out norms that can bent for profit, so it has spread like a meme.

In Germany, one can openly drink any sort of alcohol one wants. But the social norms as such that jackassery by those consuming alcohol is greatly reduced. The people there are under a stronger social contract.
>business there and have my family tag along

So you think you should be able to violate the spirit of the law? Why shouldn't you pay that tax as a tourist?
This is a very good point, I'm glad someone said this, since it adds some much-needed nuance to my original comment. The corollary is that ethical standards are irrelevant if they're not applied, and to your specific point, if there's no structure or workflow that allows them to be applied early and often.
TBH carrying a second device, on which I have root, tcpdump, and iptables, is much better overall, as I can monitor/block all the app-based spyware that is endemic today on smartphones.
The best use of his money is spending $100 on a gym membership where he's only going to go once anyway (like almost everybody does)?
Because the proper comparison isn't X accidents vs Y accidents. It's X accidents and Z billion dollars spent vs Y accidents, where that Z billion dollars could have gone to other efforts. If the delta between X and Y is minor, Z is wasted.
This deeply misleading piece misrepresents the history of antitrust, pretends the Borkian price metric is the only valid measure of consumer harm, conflates antitrust with monopoly, and much more.
https://www.neseda.com/en/story/
How am I advocating for race to the bottom?
Agreed. And let’s not forgot that China used to have an open internet. It was not until the xinjiang riots around 2009 that google and others got blocked.
Yes, Unity3D's WebAssembly back end is a very widely used, non-trivial, practical, and successful example.
Here's the link to the one on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4671584999/in/album-...

The red spot on the bottom left is Palace of Versailles(specifically the cross-shaped Grand Canal in red and the surrounding gardens)
When I worked for a research department of the government years back, I was told that IBM contracts were banned in an officially unofficial manner from too many botched projects in the past.
Yep, that's pretty accurate. It also drives degree inflation in the job market: "Why would I hire a BS student when I can get an MS or even PhD for the same price?"
Browsers that offer to save your passwords are password managers. They've just been downright abhorrent at it for years. Improving that seems worth doing?
I've been using Wire on iOS, web, desktop (electron), and Android, and Keybase on Android and desktop (cli). Both are not great but Keybase is definitely the more buggy. Wire on Android, on the other hand, is also quite unusable due to its battery drainage. And both are pretty much unusable on desktop: Keybase is a CLI (not even a TUI) and Wire is Electron. I'd prefer a TUI over Electron but it's not even a TUI, so I guess Wire wins this round. Keybase also doesn't have a web client, which is why I have experience with the command line client. I think that says enough in and of itself.

What I'm trying to say is, definitely also try Wire as it's similar but slightly better. I also haven't figured out how to verify someone over Keybase, so it's basically unauthenticated or opportunistic encryption. By comparison, Wire is considered secure enough by my company after doing a pentest on it, which says quite something (most customer's stuff we would run from if we were thinking of using it), and we use it as our main communication platform within the company.
There is a way of which (to my knowledge) is not implemented in any technology.

Presuming you know how the maybe monad (or similar named monads) handles errors. A MaybeOutOfMemoryError works in a similar way in the sense that any attempt to use the value meaningfully will force you to handle the error.

data MaybeOutOfMemoryError a = OutOfMemoryError | Some a

ioFunction :: MaybeOutOfMemoryError a -> IO

ioFunction OutOfMemoryError = println "ERROR"
ioFunction Some _ = println "No ERROR"

exhaustive pattern matching with the error flag enabled makes it so that if you forget the OutOfMemoryError case an error will occur during compile time.

Any function that can potentially trigger a memory error should be forced to be typed like this. However in programming, ALL functions can potentially do this, and side effects outside of the scope of the function (total memory available) will trigger it meaning that the only way to do this effectively is to make ALL functions typed this way. Which is inconvenient to say the least.

That being said you can just type the main function as something that can only accept this monadic value forcing users to wrap this handling in a top level function:

myWrittenProgram :: MaybeOutOfMemoryError a
-- not defined in this example

-- main is forced to be typed this way just like how in haskell it is forced to be typed IO ()
main :: MaybeOutOfMemoryError a -> IO ()
main Some a = printLn a
main OutOfMemoryError = printLn "Error out of memory"

Obviously the above has some issues with the rest of haskell syntax and the way things are done, but I'm just showing you a way where it is possible to make sure that a memory runtime error does not happen (that is an unhandled runtime error).

That being said unless you know haskell or know what a maybe monad is, you wouldn't be able to fully comprehend what I said. Exception monads exist in haskell, but nothing is forcing the main function to be typed this way.