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Apple constantly deprecates and removes APIs and features. Some significant examples that require rewriting and retesting a lot of code: Objective-C garbage collection, QTKit, WebView.

Dealing with all that in many cases takes more resources than introducing new features, but, just like you, people expect free compatibility updates.
Hi! Co-author here. There are a couple of things that makes auditus better than other open/closed source tools available. First, almost all of them are text to speech; thus you have to sort the task of converting ebook to text on your own. Secondly (assuming you have converted your ebook to text), the speech processing tool is not plug and play which creates a barrier to the fact that how many people actually end up using them. Thirdly, there are not many entities that offer this many voice choices based on accent, gender and texture(more accents coming soon). So, yes you can convert your "text" to speech using any of the many open source tools out there, but the end product will generally seem like a rushed, low-quality , not-so-natural robot narrating your favourite content.
We might have a cure to most diseases available to all or only a few would be able to afford good healthcare & rest will have shorter lifespans.

Economic inequality would increase manifolds. There will be less poverty but a whole lot of people struggling for basic healthcare & jobs.

Automation, Robots & AI will be an integral part of society.

Virtual worlds might be as important as real ones. Virtual real estate might be worth more than physical real estate.

People will be dumber as no real problems or creative jobs to work on.

E-sports might be more popular than actual sport.

Some cities might be lost due to sea leval rise.
Aurora Cannabis Is Dumping Its Pot, Which May Be a Sign It’s All Over
Look up skin cancer rate maps. It’s no joke in Australia. People die and often.

And then you have most populated regions in Asia with 40 degree summers with air so humid that taking a deep breath makes you cough. People still ride bikes, but there are days where it’s deadly to do so for long distance commuting. That’s not including typhoon periods where you’re liable to be whacked with debris and die (because work isn’t canceled for any reason).
Noni! Well stop messing around with silly phrases and let those poor hamsters be.
It's not a zero sum game.

Improving bicycling also improves public transit and walkability usually because bicycles take up so much less room than cars so buses have more space, and it's extremely rare for a bicycle to injure a pedestrian, but it happens hundreds of times a day just in the US alone with cars.

Also bicycle infrastructure is way cheaper to build and maintain than car infrastructure. And even when bicycle infrastructure is totally busted for awhile, people find a way around, where as with cars if there is any blockage it becomes an incredibly high priority emergency.
I agree, but arguably switching to multi-member districts entails replacing FPTP. (Another way of looking at it is that closed party-list PR, single non-transferable vote and/or multiple non-transferable vote are generalisations of FPTP to multi-member districts. The non-transferable vote systems have a lot of disadvantages.)
Both reinstalling every X months (as well as NixOS) seem like an awfully unproductive use of time.

It's ok if that's your hobby. But it just isn't necessary. I've been running the same install of MacOS (with updates) for eight years and it's working fine.
So Mozilla thinks that laws proposed to voters are so immoral that we should purge people over them.

“He had it coming to him”, they’ll say, justifying the purge, for defending that a child need two parents of different sex because kids are enriched by both viewpoints, which is as perfectly valid as an opinion as saying that speech should be censored aggressively when not agreeing with other viewpoints. Both are opinionated opinions. Only one is not democratic. And that’s a trend across a specific sprout of unicorns and SV companies.

The Silicon Valley TV show even realized it and made an episode about the hero outing a “gay Christian”, until the episode turns into understanding that the problem isn’t that he outed a gay, but a Christian, which is something that apparently the Silicon Valley (and the HQ of Mozilla in Australia for that matters), aren’t tolerant with.

I’m for democracy. Mozilla isn’t supporting equal democracy... for Christians. In my opinion it is more complex than that, Mozilla probably have little opinions about this problem but buckles under specific powerful group pressures and agrees to implement their purge, without due process and fair trial. Instead it’s replaced with “He had it coming”, which reminds me of the darkest ages of the last century. Due process for every accusation is an essential pillar of democracy, and Mozilla hasn’t amended it manners to support this principle.
Yes, that's what I've learned on the way but back as a bought my Thinkpad I didn't think about stuff like this as I also initially ran Windows
Challenges of adopting service mesh in enterprise organizations
The work you need to do to get into Yale has a positive impact even if you don’t go to Yale.
> I'm able to focus better. I never get unprompted system popups on my screen except during boot.

i3 helped me so much with focus. I can also move around and manage my entire workspace with my keyboard which feels more concise.

It's not really a time efficiency gain so to speak, more like a mental headroom gain that lets me be more productive. I'm not flicking between windows and spaces with alt-tab to try and find what I'm looking for. I'm just going right to what I want with a keyboard shortcut. It feels a lot more like working at a purpose built workstation rather than a consumer OS that I've stuffed software development tools into.
It makes very little sense for a resource constrained company to rewrite stuff that just works in Swift especially when it has a lot of low-level code. What they do sometimes is adding a Swift-friendly API layer around the Objective-C(++) code. Newer libraries that are not too low-level oriented might get written in Swift nowadays.
I am a founder at Lamno.com and looking for a co-founder. If you are technical and like teaching and open-source please reach out to anindha@lamno.com. Lamno has raised a pre-seed round and is in an accelerator program in Sydney.
But what does that even mean? Seriously. An interrupt fires, on a particular clock tick. At that point there are, let's say, 130 instructions in flight. In the case of a loop like this one there may be seven instructions being retired per clock-cycle.

So, you end up with patterns. I linked to some detailed reverse engineering of which instructions are likely to end up being the victim. One common pattern is that the instruction after an expensive one will have the samples assigned to it, but there's more to it than that - I recommend reading it.

TL;DR - I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that you're not saying anything specific enough for write/wrong to apply. "accurate, to exact instruction" has not been meaningful for sampling profilers for more than 2.5 decades.
The fact that we have to have humans look at our software before we can go to market in 2019 is absurd. I had high hopes for the future as a teen growing up with Napster, Bittorrent, IRC, Trillian/Pidgin, and an explosive WWW. Look at what a pinheaded mess everything has become.

Greed destroyed the open and experimental Internet.
Not looking for a co-founder, but open to collaborating with other like-minded people here in SF. I'm the maintainer of Aether, an open-source peer-to-peer network in Go that is inspired by Reddit, but also has elections, moderator transparency, and so on. (https://getaether.net)

Also the founder of Aether Pro, an async, low-noise, high-focus discussion tool for product teams. (https://getaether.net/pro)

As to what I can help with, I'm the product designer/frontend/backend of the two products above: I can offer my wildly unqualified opinion from gradients to gradient descent, building peer-to-peer networks and how to break NATs with weirdly shaped TCP packets — as well as a few other things. (Email in profile)
> costal town for the few remaining rich people who have replaced the need for the lower classes by automation

In this scenario there will be no industry left to speak of to support the automation. The remaining people, regardless of their initial wealth, will not be rich.
Certainly not within 50 years, but this is based on projected wet-bulb temperatures around the equator. The limit for human survivability is the equivalent of 35C at 100% humidity.

"A sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it. Thus 35 °C (95 °F) is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to adequately cool itself. A study by NOAA from 2013 concluded that heat stress will reduce labor capacity considerably under current emissions scenarios.

A 2010 study concluded that under a worst-case scenario for global warming with temperatures 12 °C (22 °F) higher than 2007, the wet-bulb temperature limit for humans could be exceeded around much of the world in future centuries. A 2015 study concluded that parts of the globe could become uninhabitable. An example of the threshold at which the human body is no longer able to cool itself and begins to overheat is a humidity level of 50% and a high heat of 46 °C (115 °F), as this would indicate a wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C (95 °F)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
On the good news front, one of the current trends in elderly care is an increased reliance on tech to help elderly individuals maintain their independence. They are increasingly using alarms, text messaging notifications and similar to help them take their medication without a person supervising that in person and to notify a relative if they fall and fail to get back up and similar.

Technology is helping to address the issue in a way which reduces the need younger labor to care for an aging population while simultaneously improving quality of life for the elderly. Win/Win.
I was puzzled by the article authors statement on this. My main daily machine is Windows 10. It's been running the same 'copy' of Windows 10 since late 2016, and has gone through all the major updates since then, and has had many applications installed and removed on it since then. Office has gone from v2010 thru v2013 to Office 365 (effectively v2019), and I'm always playing with new software. The machine still runs perfectly fine, with no strange problems, errors or slowdowns.

To rebuild it to the state it currently is, would take me several days of installing and configuring, for very little benefit. Imho, there is no reason to reinstall your OS every few months.
iOS 13 was pretty buggy but the amount of improvements all across the system has been significant. I can live with it. But installing Catalina on my daily driver: no thanks. Xcode will force me to upgrade eventually I guess.
Been in Sydney for a bit. When it’s 40+ the most I can do outside is 5 minutes walking in the shade. It’s not fun. I wouldn’t cycle unless it was electric assisted.
Apropos of the theme, when "meritocracy" was coined it was a warning; something damaging to society that was to be avoided. At some point, the term was hijacked and pushed as a force for good (I suspect, but cannot prove, mostly by those who were benefitting from it) and now we seem to be coming back around the circle.

Meritocracies are insidious. We can see it in some societies; "this is a meritocracy" therefore rich powerful people deserve their wealth and power and the poor and powerless have only themselves to blame and deserve no help. A positive feedback cycle through the generations that leads to a stratified society of nobility and peasantry.
Steam with proton did work for some games but not with i3 only with the default Ubuntu window manager, I'm not familiar enough with this stuff to really tell where the problems are but I'll try Lutris, thanks!
Yes. This is already pushed heavily on mobile (Google photos ask you to upload everything so you can delete local copies and save space). It's pretty much the case for games (steam and other launchers will happily download games - larger ones already allow you to play while the rest is still being installed). Multiple platforms started offering streaming where you don't even have to install most of the game.
Linux gaming? Seriously?

Apple created THE smartphone. Every phone is an iPhone - Apple proved it and everyone else copied it. And Apple springboarded off their first-mover advantage into a platform that users really like, and keep coming back to.
Earth, a few decades ago, before the dominion of cars?

Earth, today, in Denmark / Netherlands.

Kneejerk reactions like yours, without looking into the issue at all, are the main hurdle.
Iron: From Mythical to Mundane
Yes, definitely should have avoided them in the first place
> that it should go to bikes and not public transport + walkability.

The article specifically talks about switching our mindset away from a strictly bike lane oriented world view to one that emphasizes diversity in micromobility solutions. That's why it wants the reader to "Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes". Public transport and especially walkability do not contrast with this viewpoint.
Cool app, I always wanted something like this.

Now I want to backtest this strategy: How long after something becomes a google trend does it become irrelevant? My intuition says that by the time something is trending, it's far too late to get in.
Andy Pavlo's video lectures are very good. Watched both introductory and advanced lectures a year or so ago. Recommended. Previous videos may be found from the channel.
He is giving the course from the bathtub in his hotel
Copenhagen has much milder summers than both of the cities I've lived long-term (Sydney and Pittsburgh, PA) and considerably milder winters than Pittsburgh (and is far flatter).

The thought of hopping on a bike in the Pittsburgh winter, with hilly, iced-over roads sounds at best something for the young and extremely able, or possibly the suicidal.
I’ve thought about this a lot having lived in Chicago and now London and seen two very different types of infrastructure.

Chicago arguably has a true “cycle superhighway” with its 23 miles of continuous bike lane on the lakefront I was able to commute 10 miles to work very fast and with little exposure to cars.

London is a work in progress, with lots of infrastructure slotted in.

What I’ve come away with being a pretty committed bike commuter is that a good bike network should incorporate routes that are disassociated with the road network where possible. Like the lake path in Chicago, these routes are much safer, accessible to new cyclists, And fast (with few intersections). Also see Chicago’s elevated bike path the 606 for another example.

London could develop something similar along the river Thames (it does exist in parts, but it needs to be continuous, wider, and better developed), and improve routes along its canals. London could also develop and allow more routes through its parks. This in particular is low hanging fruit as routes through many parks are limited and have just been added to roads that cut through parks in many cases (another issue worth debating is whether roads should be cutting through parks to begin with).
After years of waiting, it's hard to believe it's finally fixed. Will try this out immediately.
The "Regressions Get Fixed. Old Bugs Get Ignored." thought does not help your strategy.

After 6 months into the new version of iOS and MacOS, there is a lot less attention to fix problem in the previous version of the OS. It is even worse when it comes to firmware problems on older hardware.

If you have a 2+ year old Apple device you need to hope that all the security bugs on your hardware are also in the latest software or hardware, otherwise it may just never be fixed.
Yes full refund price comes out of your pocket. So 10$ app you get 7$ - then if refunded you are refunding 10$ which makes your account -3$ (owing 3$). which I suspect why developers don't publish apps to less advantaged markets - because of refund rates.
For as long as the product is actively maintained. It's reasonable to have a free 2.x.1 release for (say) Catalina compatibility, offered simultaneously with a 3.0 release that includes new features.
It's a powerful image, but the angle and zoom of the first picture differs a lot from the other two.
Everyone was there under their free will. Why did they join some hyper growth startup run by a guy rubbing crystals on himself while doing tequila shots? Because they wanted to make boat loads of money for minimal work. And it almost worked but it didn't so tough luck.

I'm not saying this isn't bad, it obviously is bad or even terrible for many people involved. But they choose to be there and that's their right as adults in America. If you want to change that fact than make that case but then many people including myself start to take serious issues with those viewpoints. It seems to me that this is the current that underlines most of these complaints. No law was broken but I don't like it so it shouldn't have been allowed.

If you want to make an argument there was fraud then make it. I'm sure people will. And I support them in trying. I don't have any evidence either way yet. But all of this moralizing achieves nothing.

If you want a specific law to be changed than say what it is.

Otherwise your left shaking your fist at the air. It's counter productive to real change.
> I can’t even name single such change for iOS.

I can give you one. A few years back an important interface was arbitrarily renamed in the CoreBluetooth stack. I would look it up, but I’m on mobile and laying in bed. Ask tomorrow and I’ll find it.

anyway, I was overseeing a half-dozen BT apps for a hardware company at the time. Was a real pain to go through all those projects and #ifdef the interface name for the iOS version. Very odd change since I’ve never seen Apple do anything like that before either.
Melbourne, Australia has heatwaves exceeding that, and shivers through thoroughly miserable wet winters, and yet we have a large, thriving, and ever-growing corps of recreational, competitive, and commuting cyclists, and that's despite the increasing hostility and declining levels of competence exhibited by local drivers.

The suggestion that cycling is a fair-weather activity is hogwash.
I like the text underlining options. But I wish the default CSS styling for <a> tags used text-decoration-skip-ink: none; .
Floats on modern PCs are 32bit (you can look that up if you want). Doubles (double precision floats) are 64bit and are seperated from 32bit. There is also half precision float (16bit) since quite a few generations.

There is no conversion happening on the compiler level unless you choose to run with soft-floats for reasons unknown.

You don't need specialized GPU hardware for 32bit floats either; that is the default. You need specialized hardware if you want 64bit floats however (CAD Designers love those). Half precision is also available on all GPUs that people will likely care about.
Indeed, there is much evidence that even when the weather is shit, getting some exercise is really much better for you than sitting in a static seat, parked in traffic.
Too bad that a decent chunk of the US debt is owed internally...
Maybe 1st Armored will go and collect what's rightfully theirs from 101 Airborne?
Music(Songs) at-least in English language would be largely, completely machine generated.

Reasoning: songs leading the charts are mostly written by same lyricists, music is largely dependent on auto tunes, repetitive sections, machine learning algorithms for audio processing is growing at a fast rate.
Never knew my employer was my legal guardian :-)
It’s a regional statement, not disconnected.

The reality is that many people in North American live far from their workplaces and some of us live in areas of extreme cold. This is where 15m of exposed skin can result in frostbite. We bundle up, but by cycling we’ve turned the commute into an unnecessarily dangerous adventure.

The same applies to cities further south: a non trivial amount of days are extremely hot and you’re risking heat strokes.

Edit: don’t get me wrong. Bike infrastructure is awesome and I wish there were less cars on the roads, etc. We just have very different variables to play with so we need to come up with different distributions of mass transit vs personal transportation. Comfort is important!
.. and thus, Americans still spend hours of their day parked in traffic.
Honestly... I don't mind new versions to cost extra for compatibility with new MacOS. It's a stupid environment. If you choose it, you've got money to spend on app refresh every other year. You can always stay on previous major version of the OS for a long time as well.

Windows 10 will likely support your apps for at least a decade. There's choice.

(I'm using Mac for work. I'm likely migrating to another system instead of Catalina)
Painting this as "greed" is really quite ridiculous. Apple's 30% cut is completely orthogonal to their human review. The human review is to try and protect users and keep the app store a safe and trustworthy place to buy software. As with all human curation, there are problems, but on the whole it does keep the app store a remarkably safe place to acquire software.

> I had high hopes for the future as a teen growing up with Napster, Bittorrent

In light of the above, this is pretty funny, because Napster and Bittorrent were great way to get viruses.
I've noticed from videos of recent bridge failures (FIU and the Taiwain Arch Bridge collapse a few weeks ago) how fast the failures occur. Contrast with, say, the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure in the 1940s.

I suspect current designs are far nearer critical tolerances. Even under the ridiculous dynamics of the Tacoma Narrows incident, ultimate failure took hours.
Some NNs use 16bit floats instead of the normal 32bit floats, because yeah, it's good enough to cover what you need from low quality images for example (you get around 12bit color space, which can be enough for a lot of things)
I have seen no signs of samples hitting the most expensive instruction in ETW trace. Across other cases I have looked at the samples tend to cluster after expensive instructions, not on them.

I guess it's possible that all of the cases I looked at were distorted by macro fusion but I don't think so.
Not very often and not for very long. Source: lived here 38 years.
My very first Mac was the PowerBook G4, and I waited over a month to buy it even though there was a game I wanted to play because they hadn’t hit the 0.2 release of the OS.

It amazes and frustrates me to see people get all shocked about when I already knew this about Apple even before I was a customer. Fifteen years ago.

Nothing. Has. Changed.

Nothing.

At some point you need to blame yourself for being taken in again. It’s “fool me twice”, not “fool me eight times”
The underlining issue is that the working class mongrels utterly love their cars.

Let them drive I say - they spend more money, they die in car crashes...