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Commuter bikes use non-standard parts to limit theft among other reasons. These bikes aren't end-user repairable using off the shelf parts.
Another response: your argument style reminds me a little bit of a straw man:

> A straw man (or strawman) is a form of argument
> and an informal fallacy based on giving the
> impression of refuting an opponent's argument,
> while actually refuting an argument that was not
> presented by that opponent. - Wikipedia

... with the twist: instead of engaging with anything I said, you mischaracterize it and large parts of the preceding discussion. Then you use that as a way to dismiss what I wrote as "off topic".

I'm going to have some fun looking up what others call that kind of rhetoric.
This article brought back a memory of a fellow high school student who had somehow obtained a windows NT PowerPC CD that we tried and failed to boot from in a PowerMac 6100.
American IP law was alway writtein in a one sided way to deny ownership rights to the general public, what about big media and game companies lobbying away the public domain?

So I won't feel anything for people like you and your pro drm arguments, none of this would be talked about pre-internet because the only way to give us software was to give us all the files.

The modern game industry is committing fraud and stealing software on a mass scale because of the criminally underhanded IP laws.

Steam/uplay/origin were forced into existence, no one wanted them and were imposed on the population because game consumers were 100's of miles away.

The internet is just one sized world computer and programmers and ceo's know they can now issue commands down the wire to impose their will on the computer illiterate.
Wow, it dropped to 9.1 MB. Thanks for the info!
Unclear if he has written any major software for long time.
> You tell them politely that you are focused on a task, and to wait until you are free.

If I’m coming to talk to you then I think it’s important enough to interrupt you.

You are in effect gimping local communication.
I'm so baffled by this because there are plenty of places where speech is suppressed and its fine. A highschool teacher can fail a student for shouting answers in an exam. A person can kick someone out of their house for saying horrible things. A cafe can ask someone to leave for saying slurs. A professor can ask a student to leave a lecture hall for talking...

The right to speech is curtailed all the time in private... We even teach it to our kids, such as raising one's hand, or waiting their turn.
IIRC Nat Friedman's words were something along the lines of "we'll keep developing it until there's enough people using it"
No, you are just wrong. People from around the world are not dumb! If they are worth $X they will demand $X. This mythical idea that they won’t research & understand their worth is so foolish.

If you’re smart enough to write complex software or do complex math, you’re smart enough to ask basic first-order questions about how you will be compensated according to the value you bring to the table.

This dismissive idea that globalizing advanced software jobs leads to vastly cheaper labor is silly. It boils down to literally just assuming foreign people are dumb, don’t value themselves and don’t do basic research.

I don’t know about you, but that sure doesn’t describe the huge cohort of software engineers that I know - from _anywhere_.
Bront might complain.
Repealing section 230 would make twitter liable for publishing trump’s libelous murder accusations and incitement to violence. They’d be forced to ban him.
We have bionators and other tools to correct jaws.. not sure why those wouldn’t work.
Don’t punish everyone for one person’s mistake (2010)
Team members?
And jitter and random features too
> Allowing the user to control the noise cancelling profile on a pair of wireless headphones with a phone app instead of further cluttering the headphones themselves is a good idea.

Bad idea. UI complexity should be proportional to the product use and customization complexity. If there are 3 basic levels for noise cancelling, then mechanical slider will suffice. If production quality is good it will last. I don't want to pull up my phone to perform such a mundane and simple task. Leave smart phone apps for more detailed and sophisticated configuration, which is probably not needed at all for such a device as noise cancelling headphones.
The default fonts on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android are the result of millions of dollars of R&D.

For quite some time, Apple was using Helvetica, a typeface that has objectively awful (edit: legibility) properties.

Meanwhile, some of the web fonts you see have had a very large amount of money spent on making them and world class font designers working on them.

So I don't think this argument carries much weight.

Custom fonts are far more likely to have issues with kerning, hinting, or subpixel rendering.

That depends entirely on the quality of the custom font.

As another example, for a long time on Windows you could get strange results with font stacks that used Helvetica/Arial/equivalents, because someone's random printer font would end up taking precedence over the system font you intended and result in your page looking atrocious. If you didn't know that one and used some widely recommended font stacks based on default system fonts, you would get awful results for a significant number of users.

That's what Github, Wordpress, Facebook, and Twitter do. They all have distinct brands without custom fonts.

They all have strong brands without any reference to visual design at all, other than arguably their highly recognisable logos.

However, the other 99.9999% of businesses you'll come across don't. If you're not already a world-famous unicorn brand, a well-designed and consistent look and feel does affect brand recognition and, in some cases, have very practical effects on usability.
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If tech companies instead shut down people clamoring for unions and worker rights then you'd see the left rushing to introduce measures like the one signed by Donald Trump right now. So this is really a bipartisan issue and not just a right wing one, we should all work together to regulate the power of big tech. They might be mostly well-intentioned today, but it is best we regulate them before they have a chance to turn bad.
It's really interesting to me that, in the end, we build interactive screens. Consider all the complexity it takes to build one of those for Android (or iOS), and what it takes to make a a screen for the browser. One requires a whole stack of big, complicated, brittle tools. The other can be achieved in a single html file.
I can relate to this pretty well. I spend a lot of time on IM group chats and people naturally come and go. I often don't even notice when someone leaves and when they come back a year later I remember the profile pic and remember that we were talking in the same group for years but I don't remember a single thing about them or anything we said. I usually only remember someone if they were particularly stand out or we spent extensive time in private messages.
To reduce incentives for thieves.
That's a great attitude to have. Thanks!
What I'm looking for is a way to hook up any converter which outputs via a standard digital audio protocol (SPIDF, AES/EBU, ADAT lightpipe, etc.).

Then we don't need a USB driver for each converter! We only need one USB driver, for the digital i/o interface. And we can polish the driver for that one interface until it's actually reliable, instead of relying on the sketchy one-off driver for this year's soon-to-be-obsolete USB audio interface.

ETA: Many such converters (most of them high-end) listed here: https://www.sweetwater.com/c796--AD_DA_Converters
Why does the US government exist? The only reason is to protect the rights of the citizens.

Once upon a time, the rights of citizens only protected them from the federal government's actions. States could (and did) infringe on these rights. Corporations were much less powerful at this time, so were not much of a concern.

We ended up fighting a war over this, and one result was the 14th amendment, which binds the states to also protect these important rights.

Now a days, corporations are powerful enough to infringe these rights. We've dealt with this in the past when "trust busting" was more of a thing. There is established precedent for not allowing monopolies to infringe on people's rights.

There's nothing special about the "private sector" that allows big corporations to infringe people's rights without due process.
Kotlin is Java++, you can easily hire Java developers and have them working on the code base within days.
ldd just prints the things it dynamically links, which is basically just libc and related system interface libraries.

You want to list then number of things it statically links. If you run cargo clean; cargo build, and check out target/debug/deps you should be able to get a list of all the statically linked rust libraries, which is a subset of all the statically linked libraries.

Also, as other people mentioned, this is including debug information and so on. Strip it if you care about size.

Rust is perfectly happy to make very small executables, you just have to ask it to.
Reactive programming, possibly in js
> dentists doing this to patients

I'm dying. "SNIFF IT! SNIIFFFFFFF IIIIIIITTTTTT!"
TBH, that sounds like assault.
Right, The WAPF and people who cant separate the man vs a foundation that was made over 50 years after he died, have probably done a huge amount of damage in this regard.
It's arguably a public accommodation, but public accommodations are still private spaces.
There is a large gap between the Twitter user base and the number of visitors in a mall. Are you saying that quantity doesn't matter, we should uphold the principle on its own? I think the more people use a platform, the more society needs to regulate it to its benefit.
I get that. But I'm also skeptical of any product / service which attempts to bolt on Roam-like features.

Note taking apps have been around for a long time, and now all of a sudden it's a hot new thing to add bio-directional links?

The developers talked about starting out not knowing what they would end up with but that they would know when they saw it. That process took them two years (?) of exploration and development to get to what they have now. That's worth tipping them at least a few months subscription for anyone looking for a note taking app with Roam features. Throw these guys a bone for getting us past the stagnation.

Also, anything Roam-like is still going to be half-assed. If they aren't furthering the thread, then they're just copying. If they're just copying, then they don't have the understanding of the problem that the Roam developers have. If I feel Roam brought value to the world, then I should follow those developers who delivered rather than the copy cats.

Granted, Roam didn't create the idea of of linking notes. They didn't create the idea of the bullet blocks. They did create the interface which made it all work on a screen though.
It was a Lifeform chair with some upgrades. It was over the top for sure. I've been happy with the X-Chair I bought for under a grand. The Leap chair came up a lot when I was doing research. People love them. I didn't find one locally where I could use it for a while before buying though, so it wasn't in actual consideration.
Faster still would be to skip the request for the CSS altogether by inlining it in the head. Therefore you'd just request the font immediately and directly. This makes the preconnect moot, and should be faster.

Faster still is to use already installed fonts, as others have noted. But don't use "system" fonts if that means UI fonts like San Francisco or Segue. Exploit the rich font options on the desktop: Georgia, Sitka Text (Windows 8.1+), Calibri, Hoef, etc. Bootstrap and Medium started a ridiculous fad of using system UI fonts for body text. There are actual body text fonts available people.
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I find it a bit ironic that WSL was born for supporting Android apps on Windows (Mobile)
Does the Argon One fan push air through the case? In the pictures it looks like it just circulates air inside the case over the CPU.
Why should they "probably be liable"?

Twitter isn't liable for illegal content posted by their users, as long as they take it down in time and make good faith efforts to keep it from being posted in the first place. If they weren't free from liability then a service like Twitter would need heavy human moderation and be extremely expensive to operate - perhaps it wouldn't exist at all.

That's the only reason this non-liability exists. It has nothing to do with moderation or censorship. Twitter, as any other web property, have the right to curate their platform and make it pleasant for their other users. It's their personal property.
"The wall" was an issue long before Trump, as is section 230 for social media. So what may seem like childish tantrums, are in reality diversion and deception tactics in order to drum up thirst for reviving underlying political issues. Since there is already a somewhat stifled political debate, the diversion works on all levels, every single time, to spread FUD, disruption, renewed outrage, discordance and confusion.
I would argue that Google has an obligation to be transparent, they do not have an obligation to be neutral. As you state, they are a private entity and can do whatever they want.

If news providers and other knowledge providers are allowed to curate what data they present then I don't think it's reasonable to demand that Google be held to a higher standard. Further, literally nothing is stopping you from creating your own knowledge aggregator if you feel that Google is doing a bad job of displaying pertinent data.
Do all levels of school also start late in the morning?
Thank you. Finally some hope. The problem is people think the current political landscape is somehow fundamentally different like history doesn't apply. Big picture view.
> This is literally what Twitter has been doing. Trump's order puts an end to it.

Debatable, on both points. There have been studies[1] that show that accounts are banned, but it's not necessarily because they are conservative accounts or conservative content. In a civil or criminal case, causation must be established. In this case, the president is making it very much more expensive for certain companies to defend themselves.

This EO is more likely to hurt YouTube than Twitter because it has the ability to get the Federal Government to no longer approve grants to Google subsidiaries and for government agencies to stop advertising with them.

> to be stripped of their 203 protections.

You mean The Communications Decency Act, Section 230?

> Twitter's policies and their selective enforcement of such run directly contrary to the underlying tenets of free speech.

That's interesting. Government law enforcers and prosecutors have the ability to use prosecutorial discretion. Are you saying that the government should be able to select who they prosecute, but that private organizations should not be allowed discretion to enforce their own contracts?

If ISPs (where content in a pipe is pretty close to comparable to Common Carrier standards) can't be held up to the standards of Net Neutrality, how can social media companies (where content is much more subjective to interpret as violations of their contract)?

> this will be a net win for the internet

That remains to be seen. I can see it being another tool where the executive branch gets to unilaterally change the definition of which internet companies get protections, not leveling the playing field.

> This will encourage decentralisation in so far as there is now a soft power cap on these big tech companies.

More likely there will be some obvious "unintended consequences" similar to what happened after Trump signed the FOSTA bill in 2018[2] (hint: multiple dating sites, including Craigslist sections, closed up shop). It will very likely increase the cost of being a user-generated content host to the point that only a very select few companies would do it and they will all require arbitration clauses in the ToS to avoid extremely expensive litigation of the CDA230 rules. I expect a handful of forums and lots of news comments sections to close due to this "free speech" Executive Order.

[1] https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/platform-bias.php

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/23/596460672...
>>Like it or not, a couple tech platforms are the de facto new town squares.

>I'd agree, but de facto is not de jure.

In 2018 there was a decision of a district court[1], subsequently reaffirmed by the Courts of Appeal, that the President's twitter account is a "designated public forum". This was widely reported due to it's "Trump cannot block other users" aspect, but might have interesting bearing here.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_First_Amendment_Institu...
> By defining truth they overstepped.

Do you reject the existence of an objective reality?
Little Snitch, the most critical piece of Mac software after the kernel.
I tried to use the Podman and Podman-compose stack for a large develop docker environment I run locally.

The individual containers build alright, but running the compose with Podman-Compose failed miserably with unhelpful output - just a bunch of Python stack traces. Running it with Docker-Compose just worked.

I think that Docker-Compose is just a lot more lenient with Yaml type errors - where things should and shouldn't be surrounded in quotes. Podman-Compose just needs to be a little more forgiving, and continuing to parse the compose files if the semantics can be assumed, even if the syntax is not perfect.
No, not really.

But normal people have been sufficiently scared, so that they "care" about privacy.

For example "Facebook bad" -- but everybody uses WhatsApp.

When you mention that its the same company, people don't care. The important thing is that they can tell their friends that they don't use Facebook, because "Facebook bad".
It's not working out so well.
I dabble from time to time with mixin rekids, and am presently trying to find an audio editor for simple cut n paste that Audacity. Must support MacOS.

What's is out there? My DuckFu is letting me down in this instance.

I'll give AudioMass a spin over the weekend, and like others have said if it could be a standalone Electron-based app that would probably work, and happy to throw a few antipodean dineros at it.
I agree, there’s no way to issue a warning about a bare `s.upper()` at compile time. I wonder if it would be possible at runtime?
Pretty sure I've flagged sufficiently misinformed comments about C a number of times. But I do have a lower threshold for flagging stories than comments.
Very cool idea but I was disappointed that Socratic Questioning wasn't included.

Here's an example of how that can be applied to tech decisions: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/would-socrates-use-docker-tod...
You forget that web browsers are very complex programs running on operating systems which in turn also are complex programs.

If you can boot an entire operating system with a single html file, THAT would be impressive.
I also feel like I am saving mountains of money from work from home. I have been getting takeaway from the local restaurants and pubs almost every night now and my spending is actually still down from before. If I did this for long enough I feel like I would save money on clothes as well since I can wear clothes that are too worn for public use but still perfectly fine for home use.
oh, I'm corrected, thanks.
Good read. I also believe sanitation companies will continue to be in demand in foreseeable future.
Wish I could upvote this 1000 times.
In my view, business ideas are formed out of life experience. They happen as a consequence of observing situations, working in specific industries, engaging in certain hobbies or entertainment.

I am confident that if I were required to make a dedicated effort to 'develop a startup idea' that was absent life experience, success would require more good fortune than if it were coming from a synthesis of experiences, observations and innovative thought.

YC already did an experiment, as Sam notes, that points to the need for some type of fertile idea space that gains nutrients from ones life experience. I've had a bunch of ideas, each more or less fleshed out, and some actually acted on. I stumbled on all of them because I was trying to solve a problem that I had personally experienced.
> I'm not sure how much more embarrassed I can get for my country.

Every election season, I’ve said, “These are some of the worst candidates I’ve ever seen. I’m not sure how much lower the bar can get.” And then it gets lower.
Nope. My great grandmother went to her grave at 102 with all her teeth and no cavities.

I’m 35 and in the same boat. Brush once a day or two. Get great reviews from my dentist every time. Just need to start flossing more for gum health.

Genetics are powerful sometimes.
This is great! I’d love to help contribute. Would you be interested in adding flac support?

Imagine the future interface with flac + svg + you’re already well-performant foundation with audio mass
sorry, i totally missed those. thank you!
OT.

I read this as PageMaker. The only computer class offered at my highschool was Desktop Publishing, taught in Pagemaker.
> Wait for it. That's really the next step here. [...] then the next step is to flat out start deleting tweets.

Wait for what? Twitter has been deleting tweets for years.
Unfortunately loading custom fonts slows down the experience

Unless someone has either gone totally overboard on the number of fonts or set their site up very badly, this is largely a non-issue in most markets today.

The total weight of all web fonts on any site/app I've worked on recently was typically less than the largest single image on the home page, and loading those fonts from a well-configured CDN rarely took more than a few tens of milliseconds and happened in parallel with everything else.

Of course you could get a FOUT if you are using an unreliable Internet connection and it drops out at just the wrong time. But then, you could equally well be missing important images or seeing a layout reflow when a stylesheet finally loads in that environment as well.
> it also keeps the original string alive, so if you slurp in megabytes, slice out a few bytes you keep around and "throw away" the original string, that one is still kept alive by the substringing you perform, and you basically have a hard to diagnose memory leak due to completely implicit behaviour.

You can get around that with a smarter garbage collector, though. On every mark-sweep pass (which you need for cycle detection even if you use refcounts for primary cleanup), add up the number of bytes of distinct string objects using the buffer. If it's less than the size of the buffer, you can save memory by transparently mutating each substring to use it's own buffer. If it's not, then you actually are saving memory by sharing storage, so you should probably keep doing that.
I agree with hollow.

But TDD is not design either, in my opinion.
Not going to copy my whole privacy statement in here :)
My comment was posted when the article linked here said, Trump was going to sign "something pertaining to social media" on Thursday. We had no details. The article could have been 1 paragraph. That was my point. I didn't have any of the context from today 5/28. No one had it.
It's prudent to note that raw, natural, unadulterated milk is very different from the processed stuff in stores, which has a dark history: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/19th-century-f...

See also the book "The Untold Story of Milk" by Ron Schmid.
I love the wtfpl, but I recommend the unlicense over it, esp for something semi-serious like this: https://unlicense.org/