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> my current windows app STILL WORKS ON VISTA, i don't have to do ANYTHING to
"stay up to date" with Windows, cuz they support backward compatibility, and
don't force changes on developers.

> Meanwhile, our Windows version hasn't needed any work since 2000.

Microsoft's impressive backcompat is a blessing as much as it is a curse, and is also the cause of the [subjective opinion incoming] awful User Experience and complete lack of UI and UX consistency, and it remains the number one reason I don't wish to go back to Windows.
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Do you want your labor to be a commodity where you are told by government edict that you can only make 10% above poverty level?
>Not the metropolitan areas, though.

At some level, that's true. For example, if you take the US census definition of "urban," which some 80% of the US population lives in, there's been pretty much steady urbanization. But most people don't mean places like where I live--with about 3 houses scattered across 100 acres--when they talk about urban although it is according to the census.

On the other hand, the city of Boston--for example--whose political boundaries more or less correspond to good public transportation and the like (or mostly a bit bigger than that) was losing population into the 1990s.
Addressing `marcus_holmes`'s initial prompt in the sibling comment - Malthus simply had no clue what he was talking about.
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> but if you live in a 3rd world country, a macbook can cost as much as a car. it's just not viable.

Not to be glib, but if a person can't afford a used/low end Mac how can they afford an iPhone?
I guess we'll never learn from things like margarine and other lab invented foods. Beyond Meat is heavily dependent on seed oils which are terrible for us (expeller pressed canola oil is ingredient #2). Red Meat actually isn't unhealthy at the levels most people currently eat it. While it wouldn't surprise me if more people ate Beyond meat and its ilk in the future, it doesn't make it better for us and will likely just make us sicker.

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2752326/effect-lower-vers...
Malaysian government plans to promote startups by becoming a venture capitalist
I don't think any of this is desirable. For me, it's similar to digital voting, I have strong technical concerns with crypto currencies. The cryptography behind them or the implementations will be broken. People claim that it's different now than it used to be. Every cryptographic system of the past has been broken, but now we have the computing power to make them future proof. There are no mathematical proofs for this assertion and there is no reason to believe it when you take into account the history of cryptography. Moreover, for some reasons the security margins in public cryptography tend to be far too low. I'd be surprised if many existing crypto currencies are even "quantum proof" yet - but attacks with quantum computers will likely be feasible in 10 - 20 years, if they aren't already for some state actors.

All it takes is one weakness in a protocol or one mathematical breakthrough in cryptanalysis, and the whole economy of a country could become vulnerable to attack and break down.
I just though of an interesting twist on subcritical reactor. What about smelting a californium neutron source together with the fuel? We get a much cheaper RTG alternative with near no need for regulation.

Any nuclear scientists here?
That's simply not true, many offline apps are transitioning to subscriptions and maybe add some lame cloud sync as an excuse/afterthought.

Happened to me recently with an app which is the interactive version of a book. From one day to the other they switched from buying chapters/the book to some stupid subscription.

If they can't make a living they need to charge more and if they can't charge more they need to find a real job/business.
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> So if I'm in the United States, and want to send some of my paycheck back to my family in Sudan so they could buy stuff, how could I do that with Libra?

Well, you can't. Sudan blocks access to Facebook (I was just there). A VPN mostly worked, but it was painful. Sudan is also cut off from the international money markets because they are on the list of 5 "bad" countries according to the US. No foreign bank cards function at all.

Extremely nice and welcoming people. Friendliest I have ever met on the entire planet, hands down.
XMPP was too heavy even for its intended purpose - chat.

MQTT is the way to go for IoT.

MQTT at the edge, Kafka at the core.
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Think about it from Apple's point of view. If they make app installation easy from anywhere, you soon end up with tons of ads, popups etc. that direct you to a crappy app's site, which is either just very badly designed or straight up malware. And the average user will download them, just like they have been doing it on Windows (ever looked at non-technical people's computers? Remember toolbars?). Then people end up complaining about the manufacturer of the computer because they don't understand the difference. Windows used to be blamed for being slow after people installed all sorts of garbage on it. Similarly, in the minds of non-technical people, Apple would be blamed for making their iPhone experience clumsy and frustrating. Apple support will be called when they lose data or get their nudes stolen.

Apple wants everyday users to have a streamlined, simple, "just works" experience.

It is a common principle in many other facets of life. You can't just buy any prescription medicine for example, even though theoretically a well-prepared patient with access to the newest medical literature could figure out what he needs. But the vast majority most definitely cannot and relies on some kind of access-filter.
Essentially yes. Apple apps require constant maintenance between SW versions as proven by the quantity of compatibility updates on every new iOS version ever.

A particularly funny case was one otherwise rock-solid app which started SIGBUS'ing on iOS 13.
But in this case, the extra variable adds weird implications that are simply not true...

For instance, if half of the population became vegetarians, the rate of colorectal cancer would go down, and red meat would become even more "safe."
Third.

It's a truly hilarious show and the writing is phenomenal.

If you like clever wordplay it's great.
It's not states, it's logarithmic of states (# of dimensions of finite size) . Think about writing down a number. One atom per digit is a pretty natural heuristic for the optimal spatial cost of information. Yes you can get clever, but there's no point, were already at astronomical levels of imprecision.
What you find interesting (some stuff for kids and some shops in a purpose built suburban plaza / mall) is likely not going to be found interesting by someone who lives in an actual city.

I wouldn't consider what they said to be total hyperbole. It seems that way to you, because you're happy where you are, but that isn't for everyone.

Also, by suburban standards, yours sounds like an outlier on the good side, and I still wouldn't live there. Most people don't have a nice plaza and so on thoughtfully built for their mass housing.
Statesmen should not concern themselves with the "startup scene"
They were miserable, mountaineers however are used to misery and suffering it is part of the activity.

The hard part is that you become much slower, weaker and you judgement is impaired. Also different people have different ability to adopt. Except for Sherpa who have evolutionary adaptation, in normal population there are not that many people who can do it even if they trained their whole life.

No oxygen climbing if you can do it is in some way safer. You go faster, you do not depend on heavy canisters. You do not need to stock upper camps with oxygen. All of this minimizes objective danger(avalanche, serac falls etc) the shorter you are up the safer you are.
Virtualization? Why is it necessary to eternally keep shims and compatibility hacks in the host/main OS when nowadays we can just trivially run the old OS?
Watch a slow motion punch or other collision. At high speeds, the colliding surfaces will often deform faster than they're colliding and / or there is a slight rebound which separates them for a tiny, imperceptible amount of time, but you can see it on high speed camera.
> Should my computing experience be crippled because people are ignorant to security practices?

But it's not. You don't have to buy an iPhone. This isn't some bait and switch tactic. People who buy iPhones know the App Store is where they get software.
And 64-bit macs came out in 2003, 64 bit intel macs didn't come out unti 2006
Qt seems like a good solution to multi-platform requirements.
> 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.

Yeah, but they haven't. And almost certainly won't. And even if they did, in order to interact with each other they'll need to agree on a common language, which would be an enormous task.

But if that enormous challenge was solved, then yes, federation would be one of the ways you could let devices find each other, but there's others. For example, the home router you suggest could configure all your smart devices could also, say, act as a simple registry.

Saying "federation does help" oversells it greatly, I think. It's more like "federation could help, one day in the far future, if we solve a lot of difficult problems".
Smartphones have probably changed that a bit. What you say absolutely used to be a factor in my not taking buses. I still don't take them much but it is easier to figure out the routing and where you are these days.
HKMap maybe? Did you just forget the main topic? Or are you insinuating that protestors fighting their regime must also be expert at hacking electronic devices?
It would be a misnomer in common parlance to describe nuclear fuel as a battery (mass > energy conversion). The broader language to describe this is ‘energy storage.’ E.g. oil is stored solar energy over millions of years, batters are stored electrochemical energy, flywheels are stored mechanical energy, etc.
> Every hour spent on maintaining a mac port is an hour not serving the 90% of users who aren't on Mac

Oh come on spare us the ethics lesson. You know perfectly well that OpenGL is an archaic stone around the neck for many developers. To the point that many (all) industry players are trying their hand at superseding it (of course also for lock-in, but that’s not the only reason.)

During transitions things come and go, adoption sway and ideas change.

Deal with it, it’s a fact of life
Although I'm not a fan of OpenGL's removal, I think it's somewhat misunderstood. OpenGL is an outdated design for modern GPUs. Its featureset and architecture is too high level, leading to more buggy drivers and complicated legacy support. There's two things you can do basically - keep OpenGL around in perpituity, or move the complexity and responsibility of it all to libraries.

Apple has defined their single graphics API to be Metal, kind of but not quite like mainstream Linux where this has become Gallium3D (i.e. all open source drivers implement their OpenGL and Vulkan and sometimes even Direct3D support on top of Gallium3D). I fully expect OpenGL to be dropped from many future Linux drivers too. I'm actually looking forward to the day Linux drivers will go Vulkan only, as hopefully it allows things to get less buggy.

Even when OpenGL gets fully removed from macOS, you can still use OpenGL. You can use Vulkan too. You just need a library for it, like ANGLE or MoltenVK. If that would have been Apple's communication, there'd be a lot less fuzz about this.

By the way, OpenGL still works on macOS 10.15. Deprecated does not mean it's not working.
Debian includes a lot of applications using Motif (e.g. Xpdf, Nedit, DDD, etc). I think you underestimate how many such applications exist out there. If you silo yourself in the GNOME or KDE (or derivatives) world, yeah chances are you wont see them.

FLTK is used for many smaller applications. Again, chances are if you are into GNOME/KDE you wont see those, but some smaller environments and distributions use FLTK for their utilities.

Though yes, Xaw applications exist too (and they come preinstalled with most Xorg installations - Xedit, Xman, etc).

Also i forgot Tk applications - Tk is the default toolkit for both Tcl and Python and a lot of such applications exist (gitk would be a very common one).
I don't trust Facebook, but the Chinese government aren't exactly a shining paragon of virtue either.
It's gonna be 100times as fast as modern software, for one thing. And more debugged too.
> I'd say the market has spoken on the whole curated app store thing, and it largely doesn't give a hoot.

I would say the market even prefers the App Store model. Google/Android is working more towards the Apple model and not the other way around.
... only it doesn't work.

Those models work very well on a short-term timescale. We have major upheavals every few hundred years. At that point, the fiat money in the bank account disappears. Once eradicated, the worm doesn't come back.
A trillion dollars says you absolutely can behave like that.
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Hmmm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape_adapter
> ... and have no ability to generate messages the other can consume, because they're completely different devices, from different manufacturers, with different protocols? Even if the fridge wanted to tell the smart lightbulb to turn on when the door is open, they need a shared "lightbulb control protocol", no?

That is what a message broker [1] is for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_broker
The oil dividend has pays out ~$2,000 or less per year in one of the more expensive states to live (food, energy, etc). That's hardly worth calling UBI.

> Alaska's poverty rate is [...] 11.1%. In comparison, right before their oil UBI took place their poverty rate was 10%

That implies to me, at least, that their poverty level has gone _up_ not down.
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When it comes to theoretical CS, I use Shai Simonson his course on the theory of computation [1]. I passed my actual university course by not going to the lectures. Not even once! All the same material was covered in Shai his video lectures.

Shai Simonson is awesome (disclaimer: I'm a fan!), so if for whatever reason the above course doesn't work out for you, might I suggest his course? [1] ;-)

[1] http://www.aduni.org/courses/theory/index.php?view=cw

Note: quickly skimming the chapter outline, I think Shai's course covers up until chapter 15, maybe 16 out of 22.
You rewrite one screen at a time.
However, there is effectively a 0% chance that an app written using those technologies will stop working arbitrarily.
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I read that Everest climbers start with as many as 70 tents. Most are to hold supplies (and other tents) at progressively higher/smaller camps, eventually resulting in the last tent at the highest camp before the attempt on the peak.

So dozens of trips are taken to ferry tents/supplies up to the next camp. Which add risk for every hour on the mountain.
A bit of a rub with the examples. Baldness isn't a binary condition, it's a continuous set of outcomes, ie levels of baldness.

Same with the heap of sand. There's no definite number of grains, but it's reasonable to say a heap occurs once the sand cannot pile higher without getting wider.

Football catches are binary outcomes. There are no "mostly caught" (like mostly bald) cases. Either it was or it wasn't.

But like with the sand, it's hard to put a number on each of the variables. Time of control, amount of wiggle, number of steps etc.
> You're not in general paid in "visa". You either have a bank account and can withdraw cash, or you can get paid in cash.

But we've already seen that you can effectively be "banned" from the financial system in the United States. Just look at Alex Jones and what California is trying to do against the NRA.

Regardless of what you think of them, it is very obvious that they are canaries. It should be very obvious to everyone that there is a political movement trying to weaponize the financial system against their opposition under the guise of re-defining terrorism and hate speech.
IMO, this is also the best way to use Twitter on an iPad.
Your solution to government overreach of UBI is.. government mandated price controls? Fixing one problem with a bigger one. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's never worked anywhere.
Something else I appreciate about SQLite: it proves that under the ultimate free software distribution scheme -- public domain -- corporate users contribute improvements back to the project.
> Sending money across "borders" is hard only because governments made it so

On the contrary, it's much easier than it has ever been in human history to send money across borders, mostly due to government regulation of international finance.

For the absurdly wealthy, such regulation is a major pain of course. But the thing about the absurdly wealthy is... they can afford to deal with major pains.

For the rest of the human race, the real question to ask about these non-governmental currencies is: would you rather have your money be regulated by your local government and the governments of those you wish to trade with, or would you rather have your money be regulated by Facebook? I find this a very easy question to answer, personally.
AWS has different instance types. Some are running on Nitro, which is very close to bare metal, and they have so called "metal" instance types, which involves no virtualization between you and the hardware, as the name implies.

And it's quite possible to create new images for these instances for your needs.

You're right about the complexity and lock in. Using such services are often a trade off in dev complexity vs speed. If you're following a well defined process that doesn't change often that's going to peg the CPU of a 72-core machine for days, it might be worth it to eek out every speed improvement you can. If, on the other hand, you're constantly iterating and updating your code, and responding to handful of user requests that barely causes a blip on a single core VM, CPU speed is probably not your primary concern.

People are doing it, I'm one of them. It's a niche though, and most assuredly not for ever case.
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It's not real time (as far as I can tell) it is delayed 30 minutes...
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To be honest, I think the same people, who ignore how corrupt and criminal Facebook is and has been for a long time, will be the people, who don't give a damn about whether someone cannot buy food. They just don't want to see it and want to keep going on in their comfort zone and not care about the consequences for others. So I think I have to disagree here, that this would be the nail in the coffin for Libra. I kid you not, there are still people out there, who did not hear or read about all the data scandals Facebook had and who still think it is all well and good and Mr. Zuckerberg is an idol for these kind.
I'll take an ugly installer over a crashing installer any day of the week.
The startup scene is just a side-effect of all the correct economic, political and social conditions being in the same place. A healthy startup scene is good evidence that your country is strong enough to take risks, but imo not something you can likely just launch into having.
How do I trivially get a copy of Mac OS 10.5 Tiger?

This isn't FLOSS.
This website is full of people openly stating that they'll never switch away from their beloved Apple devices until competitors catch up with privacy protection, OS updates or what else. Somehow, one opinion going the opposite direction (for instance, Leader2light's) appears once in a while and quickly gets greyed to death. This bias is plainly disgusting to me.
The thing is that you have to look at this from the perspective of the expected largest difference between different cars, not one speedometer and actual speed.

If two cars both say they drive at 50 km/h, and one is actually 45 km/h and the other 55 km/h, that is quite a bit relative margin of error. And we only need two cars like that in the whole group to start causing problems.
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This is unreal. It feels like something out of the Marvel universe.
Terrifying stuff including torture with psychedelics, and attempts at “mind control”

>In addition to LSD, Cameron also experimented with various paralytic drugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced comas for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were often carried on patients who entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanent effects from his actions.
How many MacBook Pros do you get though. If anything, what the software developers might want is likely more expensive in Malaysia than Portugal. Likewise for India.
If you can't convert your bitcoin into fiat, then your only option is to use your btcs to purchase goods and services directly, which would further disincentivize businesses from accepting bitcoin as a form of payment. And if you can't send fiat to an exchange, you can't increase your holdings.
There are way too many red flags here(only playing superhumanly at the RFID games, in fact not playing elsewhere,etc).

There are some similarities to chess cheating here.

There were defenders to the infamous Borislav Ivanov too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borislav_Ivanov) even though all decent chess players could tell he was cheating.

In the Borislav's case the cheating method was not found although many suspect it was a vibrating smartphone in his shoes.

Of course there are differences between poker and chess cheating as well.

Pure poker computer without the extra information would not be that much of a help to a good player.

What is similar is that both of these players make superhuman moves consistently.

Less greedier cheaters would not be caught so easily.

Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igors_Rausis it was very suspicious (mostly because of his age) but until the smoking gun in the toilet it was still somewhat plausible that he was not cheating.
If that is the case, it doesn’t seem like a good value proposition for the user considering that’s a 4800% price increase assuming you use the app for 4 years. The improvements in iOS are nice, but not that nice...
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> Apps not being approved is quite common.

Citation? There are an estimated 2M+ apps on the App Store now. How many are sitting in a not approved purgatory? I've written a few iOS apps over the years and either been approved or told I was missing a proper sized screenshot and once fixed then immediately approved.

Approval is the default state, which is why it's news when an app is not approved.
Next suggestion will be to keep old computers around if you want "old" software.