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Depends on what you used, i guess. I bought an iMac in late 2009 which i think came with Snow Leopard and i upgraded to new macOS versions whenever they came out up until El Capitan which was the last version to support it (i've heard that you can run Sierra with an unsupported patch too but didn't try it). I've also got (some bought, others free) a few applications from their developers' sites - that was before the Mac App Store.

After every single macOS upgrade some application would stop working. By the time i installed El Capitan, no application that i had installed since the Snow Leopard days worked.

Mac App Store didn't help either though. I've only bought a couple of applications from there, but one game - NOVA 3 - broke after an OS upgrade (do not remember which) and then was removed from the store instead of being updated. Of course this is partly the developers' fault, but on Windows this would never have been an issue as i have games and applications more than a decade older than NOVA 3 that still work on the latest Windows 10 with little to no fixes.

I also had a similar case with iOS - i got an iPod Touch some time ago, bought a bunch of things, several versions later nothing worked. Eventually the device itself stopped being supported and developers were both forced to not support it and did require later versions of iOS. Typical case of forced obsolescence since otherwise it was a fine device.

This experience alongside Apple's attitude towards (ignoring) backwards compatibility is what makes me stay away from their systems.
We have been using Windows which is full of trojans, viruses and malware of all sorts, as well as slowed down by the absolutely necessary antiviruses, who are in a way viruses themselves, and don't properly help anyway.

I'd much rather stick with a walled garden.
Trying Haskell if you happen to land a Haskell expert on your team sounds entirely reasonable. It's an old language by now and even used in the conservative FAANG companies. And if you're stuck on the JVM, so does checking out the competition to Java. Lots of people are happy with Clojure or Scala and don't look back.
I’m shocked at how cynical your perspective is that you don’t grant credit here.

Like if I said “the police didn’t save me from the hostage situation. Some hero saved me who happened to be working for the police. In an alternate universe we don’t where this guy isn’t employed by the police, we don’t know if he wouldn’t have saved me anyway”

Can’t you just say, thanks police, you saved me.
There's a difference between rude and illegal. I think the original commenter was speaking more about illegal behavior leading to accidents.

In my experience in cities where cycling is built into the architecture of the city, most do tend to follow the road rules. However, a pedestrian might still find it rude if a cyclist were to pass close enough to brush shoulders, or a driver might find it rude for a cyclist to lane split.

From my perspective that kind of "rudeness" is just part city life, though, it's not really something exclusive to cyclists.
Alright, but, of course, we're talking about more legacy apps, here. What if I've paid a licence for an obscure VST?
No but it does point out clues: word hay AND phone under the table or not showing. Left hand not visible.

I would not let any student of mine do any of those things in an exam.
I have 2 apps that I use on my android based eink reader. I mostly read fiction so those 2 our enough for me. Turn on wifi every 2-3 weeks to transfer the books from calibre to calibre companion.

1. Calibre Companion
2. Coolreader
Just a Little Weight Loss Can Put Diabetes into Remission
> There weren’t many 32 bit only Intel based Macs.

I don't understand, why Apple even created x86 osx ABI.

When they introduced the first x86 Macs, the writing was already on the wall; in the same way, that there are claims that Carbon was deprecated for years, x86 was in the door on its way out. You would not create a new Carbon-based app today, Apple introduced ABI in similar circumstances? Well, maintaining it then for decades to follow comes with the territory.

Yes, as an user, I do mind removing it. For example, Apple had broken Preview scanning on Samsung MFPs for the entire Mojave lifecycle ([1], [2]), there's no indication that they are going to fix it, and as a workaround, users are using Samsung Easy Document Creator, which talks directly to scanner, avoiding Apple scanner libs. Yes, it a 32-bit app.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8552818
[2] https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Samsung/Scanning-problems-with...
Does Speeding Make Sense?
Nreal has already eyeglass form factor: https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/nreal-light-mixed-realit...
I've often thought, much of the trebuchet energy goes into pushing at the pivot point in a non-tangential way. Creating waste heat instead of velocity.

Another design, is to wrap the rope once around a round pulley at the hub, run it to a tower and drop the weight straight down. Now all the force is applied tangentially, going into rotational energy.
Circle K is leading the way
It does now, and it has a much better UX than OpenVPN.
I remember reading an article, probably linked from here, about how SimCity teaches some controversial "lessons" in terms of city planning. Interesting to think about that sort of subconscious (and probably unintentional) indoctrination
There's a quote from the original NYT article that I found interesting.

> “It is important to recognize that this group reviewed the evidence and found the same risk from red and processed meat as have other experts,” she said in a statement. “So they’re not saying meat is less risky; they’re saying the risk that everyone agrees on is acceptable for individuals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/health/red-meat-heart-can...
And then there's O(n alpha(n)), where alpha(n) is an inverse the Ackermann function, and which grows even more slowly than log* n. The famous union-find algorithm has this complexity.
The Oldest Game
Surprise! Current food is deficient in many ways, and not what our digestion is optimized for.

The opportunity is, to create foods that better match what we need. Instead of eating the random cow we fixed on for our modern meat supply.
The only impression I get from this video is that it’s dangerous and in squalor because of the way inmates treat it and each other.

Which isn’t surprising. Ya know, they’re probably in prison for a reason.
If a tram station in front of someone else's house prevents a hundred cars from needing to drive past man, I'd consider that a net win for everyone.
And Motif, FLTK, and others (though personally i've mainly encountered these two in addition to Gtk and Qt) as well as bespoke toolkits. Also Gtk isn't just "Gtk" but Gtk2 and Gtk3 use separate themeing systems and Gtk4 seems to introduce something new. Similarly Qt isn't just "Qt" but Qt4 and Qt5 also use separate themeing systems.

If you only use a desktop-focused distribution like Mint or Ubuntu and stick to only using applications for the desktop environment you use, then yes you are only going to see Gtk or Qt apps. But there are way more toolkits than those two - check your distribution's repositories (and even Debian doesn't contain everything).
Well, you don't have to attack the bias of the author. You can agree with the author's findings that red meat consumption is correlated with the exact same percentage increase in cancer rates as previous studies have shown. He has not disputed that.

From there, you can say that his analysis is merely word-play.

"18% increase in likelihood for a 6% rate is only 1 more person per hundred on a population scale. Therefore it is only a 1% increase on the population level" is basically all he is saying.

It is fundamentally non-analysis imo: basic arithmetic meant to reframe reality in a way convenient for a desired headline.
I'm a long time Ubuntu PPAs user and they work like expected, for precise reasons (the parent makes a generic consideration about 3rd party repos, so I introduce the discussion with Ubuntu).

PPAs build in environments matching the chosen distributions, so as long as the builds are properly setup and the user chooses the correct one (which is automatic, with the standard tools), dependencies will work out as expected.

The last time I had a discussion about perceivedly broken PPAs with somebody on HN, it turns out that he was abusing this system, by not using the proper suite (distribution).

I'm not sure how this works for Debian (I think PPAs also allow Debian suites), but if there isn't such [widespread] support for 3rd party repositories, then this subject should get more consideration.

Regarding shared libraries, if they wouldn't exist, operating systems would would take an order of magnitude more in space. I'm not a big fan of an 80 GB Ubuntu; if the public accepts that, that's fine, but shared libraries have a specific purpose.
The userbase should be up and arms about it. But they aren't, because most iOS users have never even known an experience on their phone of being able to sideload their own apps. Instead you always get some hand waving about how "Apple knows best" and if you "don't like it, get an Android". It's tragic.
After laying out an "ontic vagueness" view, which holds that the world itself is fundamentally vague, rather than the vagueness resulting from an inadequacy of our means of describing the world, piece continues:

> The implications for video review should be obvious here as well. Because if vagueness is metaphysical, then some state of affairs under review might be fully indeterminate. There is no fact of the matter as to whether someone controlled the ball or not. And so looking frame by frame won’t help. There is nothing there for a referee to discover.

Well, if we have "ontic vagueness" and "there is no fact of the matter as to whether someone controlled the ball or not" then what is the status of the referee in facilitating adherence to rules relating to ball controlling?

Since an objective approach is ruled out, is the suggestion that a refereeing praxis based on rolling dice or tossing coins to determine decisions would be just as valid?

Or is it more the case that there is an existing praxis, where the referee applies their accumulated experience and learning to new situations and sincerely attempts to reach a decision which is most beneficial in terms of the nexus of social relations which surround playing the game and making referee's decisions, where "ontic vagueness" might more reasonably and advantageously be applied to the said praxis, accumulated experience, and social relations?

And given that, is there any remaining reason, on the "ontic vagueness" view, to resist the notion that the viewing of replays may be a legitimate or desirable part of a referee's praxis, or that of those who determine what resources are available in the cause of refereeing?
Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system
This is correct for EU & Latam
Negative press hurt Facebook only slightly and mostly in the west. In Asia and Africa Facebook is still the internet.
Who is this "no one"? HN commenters living within bubble? Of course "companies realize" - this idea is a game changer, it could make them partially obsolete or quite heavily decrease profits.
On the other side of equation there are over 2 billions [0] of users, users who WILL GLADLY USE this cryptocurrency if/when it becomes available.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
For those who say there is no conclusive evidence.

CERN considers 5 sigma as the level where they are confident of announcing a discovery of new scientific result. 7 sigma for Higgs Boson. Statistical evidence against Mike Postle's game is stronger than that. It also only happens during streamed games with RFID chips in a single casino.

Either world's best player is playing for peanuts (relatively speaking) in single venue using high variance style without variance or he is cheating.
Update iTerm2 Badge with hostname of the server you are connecting to with SSH
>Imagine being unable to buy food because an algorithm determined that “you violated our community standards” and there’s no way to contact them. One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead.

Imagine being unable to buy food because (an algorithm at) Visa or MasterCard decided that you violated their (community) standards. Oh wait, we don't have to imagine anything, because that's the world we already live in.

Not only do these corporations ban some individuals, some of them (Paypal, Square) seem to be taking aim at outright banning the sale of certain goods that are otherwise considered to be legal.
China and Taiwan Clash over Wikipedia Edits
Is this the reason that everything on iOS app store is transitioning to subscriptions where before an app cost $3 and now it costs $3 a month, because developers worked out that the cost of keeping up with Apples constant platform changes is too much?
Fantastic post, comments and further links!
What's odd with wx? It mostly wraps native APIs - on Linux it's just a C++ wrapper for GTK+.
I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but hey... let's have this little experiment:

Pigs when they are slaughtered die a horrible death [0]. Right before you have your pork chops, or even during, could you watch a video of a pig being killed and slaughtered (with sound on) and would you still have the same enjoyment - knowing where it came from?

You might not care about animals, so what about the people working in slaughterhouses. Could you work in an environment where you had to kill & slaughter animals all day, hearing their screams, smelling the blood etc. What do you think this environment does to ones psyche? Slaughterhouse workers experience PTSD.

Now you might not care about these workers. How about our biosphere? Several studies have shown the immense strain and damage large scale animal agriculture has on our biosphere [1]

Hey look, we all (or most) love our BBQs or pork chops or whatever. But when approaching this with a critical / logical mind - do we really think that all the damage our craving for culinary pleasures warrants the damage it creates on a human, environmental and animal level?

Ethan Brown provides some alternatives that are worth exploring: https://www.ideacity.ca/video/ethan-brown-beyond-meat/

[0] This if for the UK, but I imagine it's the same for anywhere else https://www.viva.org.uk/what-we-do/slaughter/slaughter-farme...

[1] http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-01-new-estimates-environmen... - The researcher himself of this study gave up meat & dairy completely after he completed this study/.

PS. If you raise or hunt your own then ignore the stuff above (which is mostly about factory farmed carrion)
It was not meant as a rebuttal of your overall point, which I agree with.

I'm adding to your point by saying that I don't consider "0% crime" as a desirable goal since crime is something defined by people and people are fallible, hence the definition is also fallible.

The problem is not in removing meaning from the word "crime". We all have an imprecise, handwavey meaning of the word in our minds when we use it. We usually mean something like "undesirable behaviour which benefits a single individual while harming others". The problem arises when you try to operationalize this loose notion into laws since this process frequently results in errors. Another way this can go sour is due to overreach by groups currently in power in an effort to stay in power, leading to loss of freedom (which is more applicable in this case).

In other words, some crime is actually people breaking the law because for good reason, like rebelling against an unjust, inefficient or overreaching law.

Therefore, it's better to strive for a low crime rate than a zero crime rate. This is also the conclusion you arrive at through the application of the Pareto principle.
Why? TV was about broadcasting a visual experience to many people in real time for the first time ever.

AR is about creating a purely individual visual experience. Much more the domain of art than business.

What will be world changing about it?
Just FYI, on Chrome a 'Subscribe to the mail list' pop-up appears, and cannot be dismissed by clicking the X. Hitting Escape works.
To paraphrase the SQLite site: "SQLite isn't competing with [PostgreSQL]; it's competing with fopen(3)."

The primary purpose is to replace custom (and fragile) single-file databases with something that is far more resilient and provides uniformity in implementation. The fact that it is a suprisingly good SQL database (to the point where folks are actively arguing that much more fully-fledged databases are better in some aspects) is incidental.
> One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead.

Unfortunately not. The problem is that only few people are affected by such problems. Privacy issues and unacceptable EULAs are similar, not enough people get actual problems with them, hence companies can get away with them.
The last days of the middle-class world citizen
I meant rare
"Its arcane rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule usually produce a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the next possible meeting."

so may extra words.

"Its procedure produce a majority and a minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the next meeting."

if that's not desired, use > than a majority.
Xerox was not able to monetize any of their innovations from the lab.

Waymo LLC is not profitable. R&D that loses money is very easy to accomplish.
GopherCon UK 2019: Gio Cross Platform GUI Programming
It's not great after the time limited benefits run out. You can survive on the 400 eur/mo if you're in good mental health & can consistently do good financial planning ahead, but that's often not the case.
It’s also important that whatever we invent, we gift them to developing countries so that that they orient their country’s development towards a sustainable path without having to go through the carbon hungry middle stage.
Nowadays‘ digital locker is “Movies Anywhere” and it mostly works across iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Disney/Marvel, and various other movie retailers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movies_Anywhere
> I have been inordinately spoilt by history. The cold war was already over when I was seven. I entered the job market during perhaps the biggest boom ever. The decline of cities went into reverse as I started going out in them. I grew up with the Channel Tunnel and easyJet. I am, just about, digital-native. But precisely because things have been so benign, I assume my lifestyle is somehow naturally occurring.

> It is not. It is the result of societal choices that could have gone the other way — and may yet. The tax treatment of capital (which feeds those frothy companies) is a choice. The legal status of gig workers is a choice. How much of air travel’s externalities to price-in is a choice. A small change in mores, and different choices will flow. Some of them will be impossible to fault on ethical or ecological grounds.
I remember in the days of the "sig11 FAQ" [1] some of the gcc maintainers felt the (apparently hardware-related) problems occurred when using gcc more frequently than could be explained just by "compiling is the most stressful thing you're doing with your computer".

So I wouldn't be surprised if there was a processor bug or two around that time that nobody got to the bottom of.

https://www.tldp.org/FAQ/sig11/html/index.html
I dunno why they just can't follow the music streaming model and put all of their content on the different streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal and let the market decide on the differing features.

I guess Hollywood and the movie/tv studios need to have their own Napster moment.
Thank you for this perspective. You changed my mind about this.
Your link gives 404.
It does make sense. There's a difference between say 50% of all crypto transactions being black market ones and 100% of them being so, and I don't think the 100 would be the same size as the 50 is now, in other words some of the legal trade would for sure move into the black market.
Not really, Coinbase is pretty big and perfectly legal.
If that doesn't kill it, they could further make any bitcoin transactions illegal.
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On my TV and Chromecast the audio is also not in sync with the video. The user experience in regards to currently watched TV shows is extremely weird and I have to search them all the time with my TV remote on a bad, full-sized on-screen keyboard.

Prime Video simply feels like a bad Chinese knockoff of Netflix.
Thanks so much!

Sorry for the annoyance!
So, what stops Facebook from trying to push Libra everywhere and then bowing out in the countries it doesn't take hold in? I doubt that many developing countries would be able to shut the door on them. It might even be a boon for those developing countries, because it could enable trade between them without some heavy fees in converting currency.
I just prefer congratulating the actual people that did this instead of the relatively arbitrary money supplier. You could say I'm equally shocked that credit is propagated as "Google" instead of the names of the researchers.
FB is going to find useless regulators and governments though. FB is a global company. What's the chance that every country in the world is on top of their game?
If nothing else Panspermia allows for more time assuming a similar chemical process but over a much longer time horizon than ancient Earth.
This still makes no sense to me. Picking a random number C adds no information, so I can't see how it can influence the accuracy of your decision. Just from a naive information theoretic point of view.

If it's possible to get some epsilon of advantage by choosing a C once, then... can you do it more? Can you combine or average more of them? Is 1 optimal? Why?

I fee like there's some shenanigans here regarding assumptions about the distribution of A, B and C but I can't really put my finger on it.
Perhaps Memory Resource Controller is the best term? From the memory cgroup documentation [0]:

> NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has generically been referred to as the memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware.

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.tx...
It is a redirect - I don't want to spoil the surprise by posting the destination URL. Safe for work.
"Think of the children" often covers a lazy powergrab.
Now is full transparency bad or the role of privacy itself that is not a online comment battle conversation but this is just lazy.
As CPU Materials Get Thinner,Side-Channel Attack Risks Grow
Such logic can make anybody say "wordplay" about any study which contains verbal interpretation of statistics, including the original metastudy.
>It's yet another example of tech's beautifully orchestrated high-minded ideals, that come crashing down when they meet real power and reality.

My worry is that this teaches tech companies even more that they should get into politics, because that is the only way to enact their vision.

I like the idea that money transfers shouldn't cost essentially anything and should be instant. I think it's a shame that we don't already have that, but I'm just worried that this will give too much power to companies like FB.
> Imagine being unable to buy food because an algorithm determined that “you violated our community standards” and there’s no way to contact them.

This seems very likely to happen.

> One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead.

This seems sadly very unlikely to follow. I doubt even a "juvenile starved to death"- or "kid stranded because bus ticket purchase was denied"-story would put a dent in this project.

Don't get me wrong, I think it should, I just don't think it very likely.

With 1 billion users, a serious bug/pattern that affects 0.1% of the users - harms a 100 000 people.

But their voices still drown in the crowd, as far as I can tell.