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> Undergraduates rarely needed to access the physical books

Huge libraries of books may possibly be obsolete at large universities, especially for undergrads. But when I went to school, I found immense value in my schools access to periodicals. I read them voraciously and learned how to quickly read (and later write) technical articles. It quickly became clear they were instrumental with staying up to date with the state of the art.

It’s a pity that most of these academic periodicals are out of reach for everyone outside academia, they are the closest we have to true source material.
Interestingly, the change that added it was also quite recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galactic_algorith...
This is why unfortunately the Mac is dead to me. I would love to support it, but when OpenGL was deprecated it was just game over for me. A company that forces me to learn a completely different language to access their basic APIs and keeps changing them is just too mush of a hassle. Every hour spent on maintaining a mac port is an hour not serving the 90% of users who aren't on Mac.

You can complain about OpenGL all you want, and praise Metal, but it doesn't matter how much better it is. i cant rewrite all my shaders, and do the API integration. The fact that the richest company cant hire 10 engineers to maintain compatibility, and are pushing all this work on to thousands if small independent developers is just rude.

With apples history, why spend time embracing, their new tech if you cant count on it sticking around. For developers who write small one-off apps for iOS its fine, but for people who make larger long term applications Apple is very developer hostile.
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FWIW i find Qt applications "off" on Windows too, at least when they try to look native, because there is always some little detail that they get wrong :-P.

(also often cross-platform toolkits tend to have weird layouts, like having multiple numeric input fields span an entire dialog box width instead of making a more compact arrangement)
No, we implement seat belts, have safety regulations in cars, enforce driving limits, and prohibit driving under the influence.
Can you explain why? (Not looking for any great detail, just a starting point.)
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Oh, that would be great! I've never heard of that before.

This is exactly what we need, removing the lock-in. I could buy something and then watch it on netflix or on amazon prime, doesn't matter! I would love it. Sad that it's going to be discontinued.
> deprecation of semi-official Mac OS ports without equivalents on brew

Apple doesn’t deprecate ports, since they don’t run it.
That page needs some love - this page has more recent and comprehensive data https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/
As if this were any different in other countries.[1]

In some European countries fax is still the only official way to transfer documents digitally.

I heard similar rules exist in old companies in the US, in particular financial & health care ones.

Yet, when I lived in Japan I don't think I ever sent a fax or encountered a situation where faxing was necessary myself. Yes our company sometimes needed to send faxes to a bank and we needed to use workarounds (online fax sending service), so I know it's still a thing. However, it's a thing like legacy software and COBOL is a thing. It's just there waiting to be replaced when possible. Most businesses/companies are not setting up processes that require incoming faxes.

I guess there is a niche for it in small businesses that are too old (dying) and don't care to modernize. And why not? I don't think it's so weird to use faxes where it makes sense. They are just one communication tool among many.

These articles and their fascination with Japan. Just like the suicides and the sexless, herbivore men crap that is constantly making the rounds.

No, Japan is not like every other place, but it's also not that unique. At least I wished these journalists would properly identify how phenomenon x in Japan is different from the same one happening in let's say ...Finland. But that wouldn't be exotic enough to interest readers. Somehow with Japan it always has to be explained with some exceptional quality/pattern (Japanese people do this and that, culture, shame, homogeneous society...).

[1] http://theconversation.com/why-do-people-still-use-fax-machi...
The version numbers are a bit off in that.
Seems like they call themselves "Turtlesoft" for a reason.
No, it argued on a mathematical basis for this.
I would assume that there will be a neighbor who offers a money service to the village. He will have a Libra account. No need to drive to the next big city. Your family can go to that person who they trust and he will hand out the money.

And if it is not Facebook, it will be WeChat. Then you first have to send your Libra coins to a suitable exchange that will wire it to that neighbor.

Actually, many African countries have mobile money, so you won't wire it to a WeChat exchange but to a mobile money exchange [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_MobileMoney
You could put a poster saying it's the policy and maybe limiting it to say $5. The number of wealthy willing to write a letter to get off say a $2 fine would be small but it might be good for kids worried about their pocket money etc.
So 1729 is the 42 of 4-digit numbers.
>Imagine being unable to buy food because an algorithm determined that “you violated our community standards” and there’s no way to contact them

Not to defend Facebook in any way but, isn't that already the case with a bank system automatically blocking your card for no valid reason and no way to call them over the weekend for example? (happened to me a few times)
Not sure if they're complaining about runtime compatibility on macos but does anyone know if I wrote a Cocoa app few years ago on Snow Leopard or whatever would it still run as-is on macos version of today?

If not, then I can sympathize with their complaint that keeping up with macos updates will be more effort than Windows. The one time carbon to Cocoa update will be worth doing if my Cocoa app is not broken by next 10 os updates requiring constant code updates.
> I need absolute quiet or white noise to concentrate.

This is a common complaint today, but maybe I’m weird, I just don’t need it. I can work with a jackhammer outside the window, or an office mate picking their toenails five feet away. When I was a kid, my Dad and I played “the artillery game”, where I would shout answers to simple math problems with music or the radio blasting. Sure I don’t like either of those things, but I can still get my stuff done. Demanding absolute stillness and silence is a bit complainy.
The problem with "Fail fast" as with many of these slogans is that people don't mean them. You can trust me, because my ethos is fail fast, so you know that this project must be good because I wouldn't be working on it if it weren't. It's a virtue signal. You could easily reframe "Fail Fast" as "Give up easily"- and no one thinks that's a really good thing. Similarly "Move fast and break things" could easily be restated as "Don't think about the consequences of your actions".

These are not actually good strategies, they're virtue signals that founders use to tell investors that we've got the "Silicon Valley" ethos that bought you Facebook/Google/etc.
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> But that's part of what lost them their lead after the '90s

I think that guy lives in a bubble, Microsoft is still by a huge margin the lead in desktop OS market share :-P.

And really the main reason is that they try their hardest to not break people's applications. If Windows suddenly couldn't run the applications people wanted, everyone would migrate to Linux (and some to Mac, but Linux is free so the majority would go for the free stuff).
>>It was never particularly drivable.

Neither are lots of other very dense cities in Europe, say in Italy, Germany, Spain etc. yet they drive and park in crazy ways.

Space is _but_ a factor. People react to policy incentives and available alternatives.

Make parking scarce and expensive, create convenient/affordable public transport or park & ride, and your city will be the better and more humane for it.
There are so many things wrong with this post that I cannot even begin to dismantle it.

Lets see. How about mentally ill children at the age of 3? How about kids who cant do "basic math and understand logical problems" (ignoring the fact that animals are pretty good at solving puzzles and they DO understand logical problems).

Or how about the fact that these animals have conscience: they have a view of themselves, they empathize with each other, they form social relationships. They care for their young, etc. The comparison does not fail.

My dog might only be at a level of a 1.5 year old, instead of a PROPER 3 YEAR OLD, but nevertheless, he has ego, he has behavioral patterns, he has feelings. You can tell by living with one.
We work extensively with XMPP, so I can speak with some authority on this topic.

It is true, the protocol was invented in 1999 for then-relevant conditions. There are good things - everything that is related to federation works remarkably well, and bad things - multi-device usage, reconnection, etc.

However, the very thing that is mostly panned here by Matrix proponents - modularity and extensibility - allows to uplift it for the modern world. Actually, we recently did just that, by developing a bunch of new protocols and implementing them on an XMPP server. I'll spare the verbose details, but in short, we redesigned reconnection process from a resumption of an XML stream to restoration of messenger state, and it works rather well. That set of protocol extensions greatly helps to improve the performance of our upcoming XMPP client.
> about 600 pages

Any 200 pages alternative?
> Also FWIW I think some live cash crushers can land in the 20-40bb/100 range with some consistency. The online cash player pool is known to be much tougher per capita.

Yeah, that's true. Especially in live games where there's a steady supply of players who are happy to show up just to gamble.
Bank of China is not a private company it's run by the Chinese government. Facebook is not the US government.
The paradigm programmers deal with today is demoralizing: it’s lousy to know your work will disintegrate in five or ten years.

For a while Mac OS 10 had support to run Mac OS 9—- via nicely integrated emulation. Then Apple removed it.

I’d just love it if the current OS supported all previous versions, via emulation.
Interesting to hear that there's an active rave scene in India.

The dealer sounds like an idiot to me, though, when she answers questions like:

"Are you worried about the risks involved?
I'm always worried. But I know how to get out of this real quick."

I bet her users say that, too.
PayPal has so many horror stories of locking thousands of dollars from its users for "violating terms of use" and no one seems to bat an eye. They are as big as ever.
From what I understand, QUIC allows for IP roaming, much like how mosh does.
They mention O(n log* n) being quasi linear time, I had to look up log * n because I never saw this before.
In other saner platforms (Win32 or even X11, if you ignore Gtk and Qt) you can pretty much assume that if something is deprecated it will still remain around even if it wont get updates as doing otherwise will break all the applications that rely on that tech that people bought and rely on. Especially when that deprecated something is still used by developers despite it being deprecated.

But apparently Apple doesn't care about their users and developers.

Saying "told you so" doesn't help much, the only thing that helps is keeping things working. Anything else doesn't matter.

Though if there is anything that can be "told you so"'d that would be bothering with Apple's platforms when Apple doesn't care about you.
Agree with your general point but I think Apple and Amazon are clear examples of big corps that have continued to innovate. My hypothesis is that companies with CEOs able to stay close to the end users and keep a product focus are able to counterbalance the main problem with big companies - that their decision makers are no longer close to their customers. I think they’re exceptions though.
I wish SQLite would move to github with issue tracking. Digging trough their issues to find if my particular issue is reported is not as pleasant as with github issues.

Specifically I’m now wondering if a case-insensitive replace() string function is already a feature request or perhaps even implemented in a recent version.
I coded in Objective-C back in the NeXT days, did various (small) Cocoa and iOS apps and still use Macs daily - but work at Microsoft now.

Despite my own personal plights with small desktop utilities I write now and then, I don't think Apple has broken Cocoa _that much_ or that it is untenable for a small company to ship cross-platform desktop apps these days (never mind Electron, I'm talking about toolkits like Qt, Xamarin, etc.). _Especially_ if their core functionality can be cleanly detached from the UI.

I poked around a bit to figure out the detail to which the software does estimations, and it does seem like there is a very complex UI:

https://www.turtlesoft.com/Images/Goldenseal%201024x768.jpg

...but I keep wondering how much of it could be abstracted away by a cross-platform toolkit, and what kind of separation there is between the estimation/modeling code and the UI itself.

We'll never know without a good overview of the internals, but my guess (based on looking at many internal corporate apps over the years, from the pre-web days) is that this evolved organically over time and built up technical debt by literally following UI abstractions rather that isolating their core code from it.
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There is extremely strong statistical evidence against him.

His cheating can be taken as matter of fact.
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I don't get the point

Cryptocurrency ecosystem is already out of the regulations and mostly a black market
It was quite big in the UK, mainly due to BBC involvement, I guess. As you say - shame it has failed.
Is it me, is it this one company selling a $500 device complaining that a larger company is adding it to their equipment, probably a lot cheaper?
What's the point when we can just download more RAM?
I made this for my company a while ago, but I thought I'd make a free version of the API. I'm thinking of a v2 though that should be a bit more developer friendly.
Yes, that's my own custom UI framework. Most of the platform dependent stuff is implemented in the smooth library.

In hindsight, it would have been easier to just use Qt, GTK or wxWidgets. But I learned a lot by doing this myself and wouldn't want to miss that experience.
>>that the automobile industries in each country play an important role.

This. Like the articles states, it's thanks to lots of local resident activists that Zurich got rid of the car-centric urban design. Same for Amsterdam - the protests there was triggered by a string of child deaths in car accidents.

There is _no_ city _inherently_ unsuitable to becoming less car-centric. Yes, some factors like density may facilitate it, but ultimately it requires civic responsibility to win over entrenched interests or just plain human psychological short-sightedness.
Have we read the same article? It explicitly discusses scenario about what would happen if second lane would be given to cars:

That would give us one more lane of travel in each direction. With the addition of turning lanes at the intersections, that would help a great deal: Now we have the room to move 700 to 800 cars per hour. (“Voila! The model shows that we are at Level of Service C or D,” reports the engineer. “Not great, but better than before”).

But they’re forgetting about the 3,500 people in trams (and the thousands more on foot and on bikes). How many of them would continue using the tram if it ran in mixed traffic, and consequently was much slower and less reliable? What if just 1,000 of them decided to switch to driving or to Lyft, now that the tram would be in much poorer shape? Remember: This is a rich city, after all—people have choices. Now we are back to square one.
I love the optimism in this. Just hope "intellectual property" and corrupt politicians will not fuck this up. Unfortunately the latter is very likely to happen here in Germany. Our pork industry for example is abhorrent.
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I had in mind something like several parallel hardware LZ codecs sitting at the border between the CPU caches and memory, along with some VM driver software. Given CPU writes would go to caches first (as managed by cache-coherency logic), they would remain fast to read, only at the point a flush is triggered would a codec have to write a compressed page to memory - which may be slower than uncompressed. I'd imagine there would need to be a bunch of experimental work to determine page size and other parameters, which may even be application-specific tunables.
Price wise, probably.
I'm really hoping we one day will get ALTER TABLE x DROP COLUMN y.
> It's usually not anywhere near that complicated.

Top pros play millions of hands and if you truly have a knack you remember... everything.
The federation does help here. Device manufacturers might provide built-in XMPP addresses for devices (fridge124529@samsung.kr, bulb981232545@phillips.nl, etc), and they can interact with each other and with home automation hub over a reliable standard protocol. And if you're not fine with the idea of having your lightbulb having a Phillips account you can configure everything to work with your home router.

And of course, you can get notifications from all these devices right in your chat.
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> Yes, it says that they didn't bother to waste resources doing unnecessary changes.

Keeping up with API changes from a decade ago doesn't qualify as unnecessary.

> There is no way to spin Apple breaking APIs and programs that people have worked on (for developers)

Here's the point. Apple isn't doing that. Apple don't visit customers with old macs to push breaking patches.

What happened is the developers made something that worked on old macs, didn't put in the effort to keep it up to date and are now complaining that Apple won't put in the efforts to support the old APIs on new systems anymore.

> and bought (for customers) in a positive way.

This is the developers fault I guess.
Once you have been on the other side of the coffee shops' router, you'll learn to bring your own hotspot/SIM card in the laptop. I once found a sniffer effectively pulling a man in the middle. I wiped the router's firmware.
Squint your eyes at a traffic jam on a European roundabout, and you will easily see the non-existent train in that stretched out line of cars.
No, just that they can show the TSA a Windows installation, and they will take it at face value. Just like the Gambling Comission is taking it at face vale that whatever they are "dumping" from the slot machine is what is actually running on it.
> The only difference is that third party apps can't install apps "silently" (you have to manually confirm each install/update through a system dialog).

That's a huge difference. Try downloading and maintaining apps installed with F-Droid on a device where it doesn't have system privileges. It's a massive pain in the butt.
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I'm worried that these new constructed foods will be lacking in components or structure in a way that our natural selection created digestive system is poorly optimized for, leading to mass malnourishment.
This demo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAuIgjrZWY
Faxes make somw sense, but audio cassette tapes remaining seems bizarre. The best explanation I can find is a combination of Sony's negotiation of a free license keeping prices low and older fans who find then easier to sing along to than a skipping CD.
In Atlanta we’ve had record highs each day in October. Yesterday it was 97. Tomorrow the high is 79 and next week 72. You still have a chance.
Every time I have to set up a Java runtime on Windows and click through Oracle's boast of it running on 3 (US) billion devices (which pops up on the installer) I think of how SQLite probably is at least a thousand billion in front :)

Great to see FILTER on aggregates, solves a small pain I have with my home automation stats :)
Yes.

> Who should decide a fair licensing cost?

the cost is the same - the studio decides it, and any streaming services gets to use the IP if they pay the studio.

> Commodity products don’t make money when they can’t differentiate

that's absolutely not true. They can just charge X% above operating costs (where X is usually 10%). It is true that they cannot make exorbitant amounts of high margin profit. But that's a good outcome.
> Given we still use banks, I'm sure "you violated our community standards" won't be the straw that broke the camel's back.

That depends entirely on how much trust there is.

Lots of people don’t trust their governments, but most do; ditto corporations. A government can be arbitrary and capricious in ways that corporations cannot, but most of us live in democracies and even those of us that don’t most live in countries that follow the rule of law.

I assume all large corporations care about rule of law, but I also assume they outspend governments on lawyers looking for legal loopholes, and corporations are not normally democracies. I don’t trust Facebook basically at all, I wouldn’t trust Google with money, the only reason I trust Apple with money is they’ve outsourced it to an actual bank, and I am only grudgingly willing to trust PayPal for occasional small transactions.

The banks themselves? Well, since the financial crisis I assume any given one will go under so I have several and distribute my money between them.

Of course, I’m unusually cautious.
Using the Gab fork is basically asking to be in as many instance blocklists as you can.
Bitcoins are valued 40 billion dollars right now, it's less that the net worth of Larry Page and less that the GDP of Myanmar, one of the poorest countries in the world.

If some folks risked their 401k on bitcoin it changes nothing.

If you own bitcoins in countries where inflation is double digit and you think they will save your family, think again: they would most probably get you killed or robbed.
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As far as I can see sending money with Libra would be quite similar to sending money with say Ethereum. Transfering ETH from one wallet to another is semi anonymous and cheap, like one US cent. However converting fiat to ETH or back at the other end costs in the tens of dollars and requires things like being videoed holding your passport for KYC and AML. It tends to take a few days to be approved. I think the KYC process costs companies like $40. So it's not a cheap or quick process if you include that stuff and fairly traceable compared to cash.

Facebook may have an advantage on KYC as it already knows it's clients through their facebook activity and so may be able to get the costs lower which could be a competitive advantage there.
> It explicitly discusses scenario about what would happen if second lane would be given to cars

Yes, it's just wrong in assuming a simple linear relationship.

Unless there's something very special about Swiss roads that mean they have only a quarter of the normal throughput, then the abysmal throughput the author observed will be down to it being an endless traffic jam which could be alleviated by another lane.