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> The most newsworthy one in the last year was core js - a JS poly fill library that most other big npm libraries are built on top of. The maintainer is some random guy from a remote part of Russia. About half a year ago, he was sentenced to a prison sentence . He was the sole maintainer of the project (I guess he refused to give other people write access).

Core-js most recent commit was 4 days ago, and the repo owner stopped both committing and being the sole committer about 7 months ago with no extended interruption in activity (and there've been several patch releases since), so it looks like whatever happened was dealt with quickly.
I couldn't find the referenced paper anywhere, so the entire thing is probably made up by the writer.

Specifically I could not find any recent publications by a Miguel Farias in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Oh come one, you're describing a single dependency which being encryption is generally recommended against rolling your own.

Don't try and tell me C++ projects in general have more dependencies than high level languages.
I would love to buy one for the sake of security (especially the physical kill switches) but will wait until it is a little more usable.
The magpies near me never swoop me, I've somehow made friends with them. They used to swoop my dog, until they saw me and my dog outside together, now they leave her alone. I love them though, they're friendly to other birds (but they have no tolerance for bullies), and they'll even chase off invasive species (Indian Myna birds). They are certainly the dons of my garden.
Complete BS. The Royal Collection is very public: you can view images of most of the significant pieces on the website: https://www.rct.uk/about/picture-library

Are there problems with how some of the stuff was acquired? Probably. I don't know. But the lazy assertion that their holdings are secret (the things in this exhibition or the collection more generally) is just completely off the wall.

It's fashionable to complain about colonial theft of artifacts. Fine. Please apply the same level of rigor to statements about this topic as you would to statements about technical subjects. Don't spread FUD or try to glamorize your ignorance by saying "no one knows."
Half of my family is from Flint, so I'm unfortunately familiar with the flight it, and many nearby towns.

One of the problem with them is that the town itself wasn't compelling enough for people to stay when the primary industry dried up. I think any from-scratch city will need to be very well designed and balanced with features that actually make people want to live there, not just need to because of jobs.

This is where walkable streets, great mass transit, parks, and room for the types of businesses that people actively love (the smaller cafes, shops, venues, etc.) matter most.

At least one major university is critical too, and those can be ramped up rather quickly. UC Merced is only 15 years old with a student population of over 8000.
I don't think the poles are the issue. They're a proxy. The issue is: what happens when you upgrade such infrastructure? The area become more desirable, there's more development, and more "outsiders" move in.
> Your password must be between 6 and 32 characters (inclusive) long.

Really?
I would go with sqlite, curl, zlib, or libpng.

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

https://ec.haxx.se/curl/curl-users
I read a Forbes article that made a ton of claims like that.

The article was a bunch of statements along the lines of "the renewable push is the reason PGE has neglected maintenance!", without even attempting to explain the connections for any of their claims.

Another claim was that Jerry Brown shut San Onofre Nuclear power station, SONGS, and they wrote that if Brown hadn't shut it then we would have avoided the latest brown outs.

No explanation as to how they believe he'd managed to sabotage Mitsubishi Heavy Industries causing the problems at SONGS that led to billions of dollars and many years of NRC licensing hurdles and required repairs had they decided to do keep it up and running. And not only that, Jerry brown apparently also caused natural gas to be super price efficient, making it impossible for SCE to justify repairing and returning SONGS to full power. Nope, not a peep about those things or how they felt Jerry Brown caused them.

Of course the agenda pusher writing for Forbes didn't explain how Jerry Brown did any of those things, they could just state that Jerry Brown closed it and most people would have to take it at face value. Why care about facts when you can push an agenda!
> “The paper is an important philosophical study,”

If that line would be in the beginning, I would not have bothered to read the article :/
PocketPC apps were written using MFC and a subset of C# - the same APIs used for Windows. They were very much capable of general purpose apps.
well there are pros and cons to that, in many places in the world you would risk losing the piece forever regardless what the locals claim.

plus while something may have come from a region and people of the world that no longer exist and the attachment is in name only. As in, there is no connection to the society that created the works to the one that rules the area now. There is always a case for those stolen within a few generations but going back beyond that is not always warranted. Plus when you get into some art and such who was the last rightful owner, you stole from someone who stole it from another and so on.

I would prefer a world where these antiquities are preserved but open to anyone to see.
Tolkien and Politics
That's not phrasing it differently, that's changing the whole meaning of the article and it's title.
Format support lags. For example, it does not currently support HEIF.
That’s a fair point. At some point far down the road of complexity, those could cross into the territory of ‘gaming’.

But Netflix can read the same rules the rest of us can, and know that they signed a contract that doesn’t allow App storefronts.
What other languages have you worked with? I enjoy Kotlin, but also think Swift (from my limited experience) and C# are wonderful.
There are many factors that are relevant to the question whether Apple has a dominant market position and these actions would/should be limited by antitrust laws, or if their competitive actions are within the bounds of fair play. These two factors are not.

The rights and legal limitations of Apple (regarding App Store) and Microsoft (regarding Xbox) are exactly the same no matter if iPhone or Xbox is considered "central to modern life" or not; and whether the hardware was sold at a loss. These aspects are simply not relevant for the antitrust case, they should not and would not change the decision.
For some reason a lot dev's cannot seem to comprehend that a lot of people(Including myself) are not capable/wish to maintain/keep up with security.

I rather use my brain cycles for something else. This is compounded for people who have no interest in tech but rather just want to use them to perform certain tasks.

Are some of practices unfair sometimes to a small subset of companies/developers. Definitely yes, But what are the other options that have this level of privacy or trust worthiness with a similar ease of use/setup. I don't know of any.

It's more or less choosing the lesser evil.
You didn't have to buy an iPhone.
wow, are we all that boring, or has agile killed fun in programming?
Yes, I intended it as a modest proposal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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The pump and payment processing at your local gas station runs on electricity too, btw.
Cool post history. Please find a healthier outlet for your ideology.
Thanks for the hint, I never knew it had tooltips with hidden messages :)
Selling virtual items is not especially common due to the exposure it creates to fraud and abuse.

How is that argument any different than the one Apple is making?
Android has that, but you can also side-load apps if you think you are knowledgeable enough to want to. That's the main contention with how Apple runs things, there is no proper escape hatch.
I think a lot of well-loved cities are planned, or had a planned renovation or major growth phase, they were just planned a while ago. Suburbs are obviously not the model to follow. DC, Manhattan, Paris, SF are more like it.
Is John Deere the curator of the "tractor" product, so they have every right to determine who can repair it?

Is Chamberlain the curator of the garage door opener product, so they can determine what remotes can be used?

You may prefer a world where DRM and the DMCA can be leveraged beyond preventing copying to constrain consumer choice, but I consider that a poorer and less innovative world.

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca/ar...
You keep repeating this, but at this point it’s hard to imagine that you really see no difference in either the technology or the experience between what Netflix does and what xCloud does.

Do you really not see that there is a difference between watching a movie, and controlling a remote video console which is playing a fully interactive video game?
"please don't" doesn't pay the bills. You want those people to avoid transferring the reigns for cash? Find some sustainable way to pay them. No amount of feel good platitudes will do that.
Is it a fork?
Asgard from Netflix[1] basically did what you are asking for. But it has been deprecated[2] and replaced with Spinnaker[3], which has a bit of a different focus.

But really, with couple dozen VMs, you don't have a cloud management problem. I would take a step back and figure out what the problem is, and where you want to be. Why are people creating VMs? What are the problems with them creating VMs? How do you mitigate those problems? If it is just tracking, then tags + education can help solve the issue. If it is security and standardization, an opinionated deployment system could help.

With a couple dozen VMs, I'd say you probably shouldn't be running any VMs you manage yourself, and you should be using fully manage solutions. Then focus on the tooling that makes those solutions efficient to use for your users, while meeting your security needs.

[1] https://netflixtechblog.com/asgard-web-based-cloud-managemen...

[2] https://github.com/Netflix/asgard

[3] https://spinnaker.io/
SCE is trying to shift people to time of use rates.

The problem is the time of use rates are terrible, and will be more expensive to anyone who normally stays within tier one rates of the old plan.

I'd end up paying about 30% more for power under any of their time of use rate plans even assuming I only use power in off peak times, despite owning a plug in hybrid. If you stay within their tier one rates on the old plan, the new time-of-use-plans just aren't priced acceptably.
There’s also m.xkcd.com if you tire of hovers.
I wonder what they would say about my factory style.

I tend to have a whole bunch of belts running from west to east, each belt carrying one type of item. When I want to add a new product, I put a splitter on each belt that carries and ingredient, with the second output branching down under all the belts carrying other products until it reaches a vertical line of assemblers. The output of those assemblers combines to a new belt that continues east.

The main factory ends up looking almost triangular [0], with vertical strips of assemblers dangling off the hypotenuse. One of the advantages of this approach is that scaling is simple, just add more assemblers and faster belts! Though it's possible to eventually reach a point where even the fastest belts can't carry enough products. In that case, you can just add another vertical strip of assemblers with separate inputs.

[0]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/741107040079970314/...
The illusion of choice has nothing to do with what is the default choice.
Antitrust laws start applying long before total market dominance, and one of their goals is to proactively ensure that total market dominance is never reached.

It certainly can be argued that they have a dominant position in a particular narrow market, and the court will look at these arguments and determine whether they do or not.
I keep a nice bottle of red just to celebrate the day I rip ImageMagick from the guts of the project I’m working on.
monopsony - there is a word you dont here often.
Probably not popular for a reason LOL
Single line anti-gaming algorithms could be open sourced to combat this.
How is the "morale" calculated? The "how it works" link on the "learn-more" page just points back to itself.
Who are you to tell Apple how to set their prices? Apple is an American company and we have free markets here. Price controls on luxury goods are completely against free market capitalism. If you don't like it, don't buy an iPhone. Good luck finding a better smart phone experience.
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Why bother? FOSS is a charitable gift to humanity. Appreciate the givers, and give what you can too. If you have money and not time/skill to give, then you can give your money to any charitable cause that needs it (FOSS, or any other cause). If you satisfy one need, then someone else can satisfy another. There's no need to distibute your gift in a complicated way.

Example: Bram Moolenaar (ViM) asks users to :help uganda, not to pay him. And I speculate that he wouldn't be offended if you donated to help someone else in need instead.
My counterpoint is that we are facing far bigger problems than how charming or "human" a place is to live. Density, economics, and environmental problems should come first, and I doubt a lack of planning would find any sort of optimum across those factors in a reasonable amount of time. Emphasis on the timescale. I can buy that things might converge to a happy maxima eventually, but can society afford the wait?
Personality, motivation to be with friend group, and availability of interesting/challenging courses.

The 12-yo had been explicitly told he "could miss two weeks and not fall behind", and the teacher tried to forbid working ahead in the math book. (The in-person math class is up a grade level plus "advanced").
Or they won't.
Speaking of homebrew, its author definitely fits the tiny block in this cartoon.
WriteNow was even less bloated than Nisus Writer. I was thrilled when they added style sheets and then stopped. Well, I think they stopped more from going out of business but it was the right balance between lightweight yet usefull for moderately complex documents.

Yup, word is a beast but if you have a large, complex, structured/technical document it's pretty hard to beat. Once I learned just how easy section references were I would never do a contract in anything else. You mean as I move sections around all my references automatically update when I update the table of contents? Yes please!
There’s a lot of different metrics to look at when determining if one should install a dependency or not.

One such metric I found to be missing for npm dependencies was the install size, which is why I created https://packagephobia.com

We need more tools to help make this decision because its easy to add a new dependency but its often hard to remove a dependency.
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almost nothing supports HEIF.

consider: most state-run web apps that need an image upload for personal ID images, or anything else. Ugh, this happens frequently for me and just frustrates me to no end.

EDIT: I suppose this is why you're saying ImageMagick is king right now.
Crime isn't supposed to pay the bills either. You have no right to give away a gift and the bulglarize anyone who accepts it. If you don't want to give your work away, put a protective license on it.
> they are double stacked in a sumptuous interior

Tangential and complimentary: if in London... The Wallace Collection [1] [2] is a fantastic off-the-mainstream collection of works focused around the time of the French Revolution. Convenient location for public transport (just off Oxford Street), low foot traffic, off the typical tourist trail radar, knowledgable staff.

[1] https://www.wallacecollection.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Collection
IMHO that would be a really good thing. We are not there yet, but that seems like a laudable goal to me.
The last startup I was at I hid brick breaker inside the reporting dashboard, that would pop up if you typed "want to play a game"
I do love diagrams, I love thinking about some problems in terms of diagrams, eg Feynman diagrams, some enumerative problems, knot theory etc. It can be kind of deep. I think they are good for when you can do some graphical manipulation to prove a statement, or help gain extra insight. Usually there is some monoidal category floating around.

Perhaps one area this could be useful is program simplification? It would be nice if I could take a more complicated thing like a Haskell program or function and then do some graphical manipulation to see how to rewrite it. Kind of reminds me of pointfree too. Sometimes that can lead to interesting insights, where you spot something more general or simpler. You are just focusing on the functions (==diagrams) rather than the strands leading in.
Publicly announcing your intention to commit fraud is ill-advised.
Does the copenhagen interpretation actually require the observer to be conscious rather than, say, a macroscopic measuring instrument?

Indeed the wiki article you link to says:

> Although the Copenhagen interpretation is often confused with the idea that consciousness causes collapse, it defines an "observer" merely as that which collapses the wave function.

Which seems like a very practical, albeit obviously incomplete, approach to take.
TypeScript, why is so important?
sqlite3 is now very heavily used in the Apple ecosystem - all of Core Data is built on it, and many of Apple’s own apps use it to store all kinds of data. It’s a godsend for tinkerers like me too - just point the SQLite CLI at one of the internal DBs (like the Photos database) and all sorts of cool stuff comes spilling out.

For on-disk document storage I think Apple mostly uses a mix of plain folders with magic extensions (“packages”) and ZIP files nowadays, although there are definitely a lot of exceptions. SQLite isn’t that great for binary blob storage (relatively speaking) so a folder structure is still more useful there, IMO.
For a modern Becket, look to Archbishop Oscar Romero, saint and martyr, who was assassinated by the state in his own cathedral in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero
Ugh - text selection is what drove me back to a MacBook Air from my iPad Pro. Now that they have tablet support I should really give it a try, but on the other hand I just can't be bothered. Multitasking/app switching is so much easier on macOS for me too.

Maybe of Apple finally figures out how they want multitasking to work on iPad OS and stops changing it, it would be worth giving it another solid try - but I'm not yet convinced it's worth it.
Upon reading the details, quite brilliant!
Everything can happen, but your scenario has a very low probability, incentives do work
As someone who's just now building imagemagick into a system I'm working on as a major dependency, what issues have you had with it?
Yeah or Epic could not be pricks and just put the game on the stores like every other app developer. That’s the mysterious third option you’re missing and that we lived with for literally years up until this point.

Apple has the capacity to protect me from stores like origin, steam, epic, and everyone else who wants to install crap on my device. Microsoft doesn’t, so I’m forced to install that shit to get access to games on PC.

Folks saying they had no problem on Android, they just had to install a forked OS and a custom store are proving the point.

Epic is misreading the situation and trying to take advantage of Congress’s poor understanding of technology. I hope they capitulate just like Hey, but if they don’t want to, their shareholders should be paying a pretty penny for the mistake.
What if instead of donating to the project proportional to use it donated developer time to projects most in need?
But by selling apps, and driving the prices of these apps low or zero, the sales of iphones goes up.

price of jelly goes to zero, sales of peanut butter go up.

prices of software goes to zero, sales of hardware goes up.

when microsoft created the PC market it took the opposite approach -- commoditize pc hardware, drive the price as low as possible -- and OS sales will go up. It worked too.;
Not quite relevant, but Nike owns Converse
At the same time other people will be more motivated not to include one-liner libraries to not further dilute donations.
Wish there could be a way or culture of raises like this that are a mere 1.7% equity didn’t count.
Considering Android is also mostly closed hardware, and that the Android store is exactly as "tightly controlled" as Apple's, thanks for proving my point. If now this was sarcasm, sorry.
The question the parents asked, "why the hell should Apple prevent..." and the answer could be, so they don't get raked over the coals by the press when something goes wrong. I don't actually know the correct answer. Tim Cook never told me.

Note, whether or not Apple should sell, or be forced to sell, parts is a different question and conversation.
I would suggest that both meditation and CBT have a similar objective, which is to see reality more clearly for what it is. CBT goes far enough to transform distorted thoughts into more realistic ones. This goes far enough to help you live a happy life in the "normal" sense. Meditation can be used to go all the way to the realization of the Ego/body limited self as an illusory concept. This normally results in a rush of a very clear sense of reality. Which lets all worries, problems, hopes, insecurities etc. collapse into what they really are. A constant play and variation of matter/form/energy/consciousness/god whatever you want to call it. That are just other forms of our "true" self matter/form/energy/consciousness/god, experiencing this variation and play. This gives a lot of room for joy or bliss if you will. From my own experience it takes some practice to keep remembering this reality more and more often.
Especially compared to Word in the same era. In fact that infamous screen shot where the toolbars take up 90% of the screen was Mac Word 5.

I should get the IIfx out and see if it still boots :p
> Impossible. There's a difference.

If I name you the companies that release WebGL games I would state impossible? Let's not get that low in this discussion.

> There are no phones on the market where the web is a comparable platform to native mobile apps.

Comparable based on what criteria? Oftentimes I wish companies stop bother me with their "bug fixes and performance improvements" every other day and provide a sleek Web experience instead. So far I just hear how you are saying that alternatives do exist, but they suck, hence Apple's ability to charge 30% on top of everything is a viable business model, because their platform doesn't suck that much. No issue here.

> Getting rid of the regulations that protect us from the current smartphone duopoly while keeping the regulations that caused the smartphone duopoly isn't free market Capitalism, it's Feudalism.

If you make this claim, then it's on you to prove that in the absence of regulations you won't be able to enter the market with your new competing platform. Apple with all its money is in no position to dictate the way you or anyone else establish a new ecosystem based on open standards and free licenses.