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Just for some perspective, I can call up my Dell small business sales rep (who reached out to me after I bought just three or four machines over a period of some years) and give him an obscure part number. He says he needs a minute to look up the part, etc and asks if I’m taking this to a Dell-authorized technician; I say no. He takes advantage of how long it takes for the likely instantaneous result to pop up on the screen to ask if I’m interested in the specials he has going on for business laptops, I politely decline but express interest on behalf of future me. He gives me a quote for the part around 1.5x to 2x what the Chinese knockoff that won’t last a week (I know because I tried) costs, I agree and give him my credit card number which they refuse to keep on file, then he throws in free next business day shipping. I get the part, reference the service and repair manuals Dell makes freely available, and do the repair myself. Oh, and depending on the part in question, there’s a good chance that it is under a two year warranty even though I did the repair myself.

For Apple, I buy used parts in the hope that they come from a genuine device being parted out on eBay each for 50% of the cost of the original device because I know all the new parts are not just fake but bad fakes. I get a part that is past its expiration date, rather abused, but will work. I soak the MacBook in corrosive chemical baths to get the industrial super-strength glue (thank God it’s not epoxy?) to loosen up a little before I get out my exacto, needle nose pliers, a scraper, and a plastic pry tool. I pray nothing breaks while I try to get the part out. Something inevitably breaks (also, try to avoid piercing a battery while you pry it out; li-ion batteries do not like to be manhandled). The cost of a replacement part does not make economic sense. I either let the product sit disused on a shelf hoping to find the part cheaper at a later date, hock the device on eBay for pennies on the dollar for a parts shark to snap up then part out, or throw it in the trash because I’d rather not sell my eight hundred dollar phone for a hundred dollars and this at least gives me the satisfaction of cursing at Apple while I do it.

(Yes, the Apple story is an amalgam of many different adventures with different endings over a decade with many different devices, the majority of which were either ultimately written off or else repaired at prices that didn’t make much sense.)

Oh, in addition to sometimes doing my own repairs, I’m also the final arbiter when it comes to all IT purchases for a school. When I’m asked if we can/should get a fleet of Macs for the faculty and students, I insist we get Thinkpads or Latitudes instead.
Are they more contagious now? /s

Seriously though, imagine Apple actually wins this one. How long before Microsoft will pull something like this off?
There's no "demand" necessary. Just configuration.

Lots of interesting things on Robots meta tag:

https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t...
Isn’t it the impact of Apple’s strict rules on repairs? People get used to thinks that they can’t replace any part by themselves. Thus any accident happened, people automatically thinks it caused by Apple itself.
For car, it has been known we can replace anything. So most of the time when there is accident people don’t think it is related to manufacturer fault.
Anecdote: my son is 3.5 and has effectively not been around other children since we left NYC in February. Prior to leaving he was beginning to have a friend group. A group of parents have tried to keep them in touch with FaceTimes etc but to this day he still asks when he can see his friends in real life. We’ve also noticed social regression - especially being afraid of people leaving, not sleeping regularly and random bouts of anger. I’ve heard from other parents who’ve experienced the same. So much happens at this age - learning how to deal with anger, learning how to deal with other kids and their feelings etc. I tend to be a more hands off parent than my wife but even I worry. I hope for the best but I worry.
Fancy insulation, double pane glass, etc are great for the heating season. They reduce conductive heat transfer, which is (roughly) proportional to the indoor-outdoor temperature difference. Even on a 100F day, the indoor-outdoor difference with A/C set to 75F is only 25F, which is equivalent to heating to 70F on a mild 45F winter day.

Try looking for major sources of solar heating instead. Windows and especially skylights are big culprits. So are inadequately insulated roof / ceiling assemblies.

You can put solar film on windows, use indoor or outdoor shades, or replace glass with low SHGC (solar heat gain coefficient) glass to reduce heating.
Epic isn't suing because Fortnite was removed from the App Store...
Working Parents Are Hitting Their Coronavirus Breaking Point–and Paying for It
Turn on your FM radio, all that noise you hear in all the other channels are EM fields from exploding stars hitting you constantly.

While you read this, over 100 billion neutrinos went through your thumb.
I think now you can buy Apple Care if inside one year of purchase. https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/17/apple-expanding-60-day-applec...
"So potent was the rejuvenating treatment used on the mice that they either died after three or four days from cell malfunction or developed tumors that killed them later."

The key to making viable zombies is just around the corner, I can feel it...
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Obviously nothing native to the key, but various borrowed chords and what-not, such as: a V-I tritone substitution of Gb to F would include a Db; augmented 6th chords, such as German or Italian 6ths, built off of Db directly; a borrowed dominant leading to Dm (A7) would include a C#.

EDIT to add: Also altered dominant chords, such as building a diatonic C7 into a C7(b9) would include a Db. Getting further afield, if you borrowed a Bbm into the key of F, you might approach the Bbm with a dominant 7(#5) chord, yielding an F7(#5) with a C#.

Lots of fun possibilities! :-)
Not if the length increases to counteract it.
AFAIK it is still possible to run entirely unsigned apps on macOS.
> people seem oblivious to it and love them as a company

In the same way people love Apple.
How is this any different from PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox services? Not only do they get a cut of all of that revenue from those services and DLC, but the companies have to even pay for the right to make software for these devices. so are we going to start attacking Nintendo now? At some point I think a manufacturer should be allowed to manage this kind of stuff.
That makes me, as a non-UK resident, rather sad. BBC programming (at least what makes it to North America) is really very good.
I did something similar around 2009. You used to be able to sell RSS feeds on the Kindle, so I created a number of twitter bots that simply aggregated news from a variety of sources on a variety of topics and used Yahoo! Pipes to turn them into RSS feeds. Made about $10 - $12 a month for several years from that until they discontinued the service.
> He prefers Emacs over Vim

He's a monster.
Ercot had this problem last year WRT to over-reliance on wind generation capacity. At one dire point we had 90 minutes of $9/KWh rates and the utility was looking to roll blackouts. I paid $200 for 1 day of electricity and I pulled my breaker about halfway through the worst part. I know people who got hit with nearly 4 figures for a single day of usage.

I don't have problems with renewable energy in principle, but until we have practical storage capabilities or other alternatives, it seems like we need to keep most of the less desirable forms of generation capacity around. I do not think it is acceptable to roll blackouts until we have something like a tesla powerwall in every electricity consumers' premises. We should never compromise on grid quality in pursuit of environmental objectives. The 2nd order consequences of an unreliable grid could have even more grave environmental impact than driving the grid with a coal plant (i.e. every business & homeowner on earth starts buying carbon-intensive generators or lithium batteries due to grid stability problems).

Decommissioning nuclear capacity seems like a massive mistake in general, but I understand the geology is potentially subpar in this specific case. Is it technologically infeasible to produce earthquake-proof nuclear power plants? Or, at least plants that would be guaranteed fail-safe under any seismic condition?
I am so curious about these executives and where they are now. They are destroying the Apple I love. Which reminds me of how the the Boeing acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas resulted in MD bean counters taking over the company resulting in the 737 Max mess.
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I suggest taking a look at Epic's lawsuit, which was written by several antitrust experts.
Holy shit. You need to write more of this. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
React is the boring tech now.
all this because Epic didn't want to pay apple's app store cut and thought they could bully their way through blatant ToS violations. Move fast and ask forgiveness later, the Silicon Valley way!

It's pretty funny to look back and read the "whether or not apple backs down, Epic will have won a victory!" thinkpieces from last week.

Epic thought they could leverage their IPs into forcing Apple to play ball. Surely Apple wouldn't dare let Fortnite get deplatformed (as the game updates on without iOS). Surely Apple wouldn't dare let Unreal Engine get deplatformed as the OS updates onwards without it.

Turns out Apple does dare, and now third party developers are going to pay the price for Epic's arrogance. To be very clear: nothing is going to piss Apple off quicker than fucking with their cut of the revenue, this was eminently foreseeable and a blatant violation of ToS and there was no way Apple wasn't going to react. You should be mad at Epic here for trying to play silicon valley games with your products, not Apple.

The fact that Epic would then take cuts from third party developers in this app store is just the icing on this cake. They want to be the ones running the walled garden, nothing more.

Steam manages to get along with Apple just fine - they went ahead and made a revenue sharing agreement, and they haven't had a problem. Epic wanted to keep it all themselves, be the ones running the walled garden.

This is Epic trying to run the playbook that many of you have normalized, no different from Uber trying to bully their way out of background checks by threatening to pull out of Dallas, or threatening to pull out of California to bully their way out of paying for their employees' healthcare. Then cue the waterworks about those heartless regulators putting all those innocent employees at risk.

Only this time - it’s Epic who’s using your livelihoods as leverage for their power play. Very ironic!

All so that they can make $1 off a llama skin for bideo james instead of $0.92. Just like the Uber thing is so Uber doesn’t have to pay 20 bucks to run a background check. Playing games with people's lives so you can run a little fatter profit margin, that's the silicon valley way.
Getty and LACMA are not good. Los Angeles does however have good museums: the Battleship USS Iowa Museum, Fort MacArthur Museum, Mission San Fernando Rey de España, La Brea Tar Pits, and the California Science Center.

Chicago's Art Institute is not good. Chicago does however have a couple good museums: Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum of Natural History,

Boston's MFA is not good. Boston does however have Fort Warren and the USS Constitution.
Pretty much. A good example might be an online store. Let's say one of your internal services deals with notifying UPS, FedEx, or DHL to pick up and deliver a package from your warehouse and ship to a customer. You could use something like Kafka to store messages about delivers which your internal service will pickup and process and then notify the delivery companies API.

Something like Batch could be helpful in this situation. For example, let's say a dev makes a deploy that breaks only the FedEx delivery notification or the FedEx API breaks in a way your were not expecting. Once the issue is fixed on the dev side or FEDEX side you could use Batch to search for all FEDEX delivers that were handled improperly during the time frame of the issue. This way you are not randomly resending messages to all your delivery companies for an issue that was only related to one vendor.
observational studies like this would be hard to craft.

we'd have to be doing the studies, first. second, we'd have to know what we're looking for. if the effects were subtle, generational, or multiple and confounding, it would be hard to see even if we were looking. also, im sure the sample size is small. not a lot of people/animals spend years 10 feet from high-volts lines.

also, people are generally pretty change-averse. if there were proof that our current way of life was harmful, not a lot of people would be interested in discovering, spreading, or changing due to this news, least of all the companies with a profit motive. saving the turtles is fine if all you have to do is use a metal straw instead of plastic, but ask people to inconvenience themselves (less TV, less air-conditioning, less hot water, etc) and you've got a different response.
How does this compare to Plausible or Fathom feature wise?

Demo on mobile appears to be broken.
The number of Apple fans who don't understand what is happening (I'm talking only about the facts, not opinion) is mind-blowing.

"Fan" is short for "fanatic" in this context, and that is an apt description.
I suspect they worked for a different 3 letter agency and just were borrowing the letters D, O, and E.
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I remember when iOS started showing alert for non-genius battery for a while, some people hate it.
Because it's “right-click -> Open” not once but _twice_. It's exactly the reverse of intuitive. There's also going to the Settings app and allowing the app, but no signs given to the user about that.
Prove it!

Provide actual evidence that 1 million+ people are actually detained. Exactly how big of a government building do you need to house that many people. Surely, you can see this giant building from Google Maps. So prove it.

And also, there are thousands of people in Yemen that are getting killed now, by the Saudis, and using American weapons from Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing. But mysteriously, there isn’t a peep about this in western media.

Will the tech community also stand up for these poor Yemen people?
I always thought they should have done a hstore2 which was hierarchical and supported all of PostgreSQL datatypes which then could have supported json on top of that.

Json is so limiting without dates and binary types among others, I'm glad jsonb is there but it could have been so much more.

One day we will all agree on hierarchical data model that supports a good set of datatypes, one can hope at least.
The trouble is with the App Store that you can't charge more on the App Store than you do elsewhere to cover the costs of the App Store. This is perhaps the anti competitive part - if you could just pass on the App Store costs then the free market would reign.
To be fair, that disavowal came after his former behavior and views - which went not only accepted but defended by his peers and followers for years (including on HN following his "cancellation") finally became too much for people around him to bear. No other public figure with a history like his would be given even a shadow of a benefit of the doubt over nothing but a brief blog entry. If he were a politician or a celebrity HN would want to see him hanged with the rest of the degenerate elites.

I hope that he has changed his mind, but until there's some evidence that he's changed his behavior, there's no reason to assume he was doing anything but covering his ass (possibly at the behest of someone else) and trying to save his position and status. That's what would be assumed of anyone else, that's what should be assumed of him.
One way to deal with this is to have variable electric rates - cheaper rates when plenty of power is available, and more expensive when less. This incentivizes consumers to time shift their usage.

For example, evening A/C use can be time shifted to the day, by cooling the house more during the day, so less is needed in the evening. The thermal mass of a house has a lot of inertia (and can be increased by adding, say, a pile of rocks).

The idea of a fixed 24/7 electricity rate is hopelessly obsolete.
Absolutely. But it really feels like kicking the can down the road to try to deal with severe inequality just by decriminalizing theft. There has to be a better long-term solution.
You don't need to do it that way. Boot to macOS Recovery and use csrutil(1) to disable SIP.
Yes, when I wrote that the Stage 2 Emergency had not yet been announced.
Operators tend to baby these stations intentionally as their failure could spark massive outages across the grid

You certainly know more about this topic than I do, but according to the article, it wasn't the operators that decided to cut back on power, it was ordered by the Independent System Operator.

From what I read, Edison, PG&E and SDG&E just did what they were told, and for some reason the ISO told them to cut back earlier than was previously necessary. That's why the experts are "stumped."

If I'm missing something, please let me know.
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Because there is other issues like e-waste. With repair we expect less e-waste.
As you know Apple repair tends to replace the whole things instead of the broken part.
Those etrade ads were just as bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZdKI8e_avw
Free and open source software.
Steam started selling games on their marketplace around 2005 to 2007, before the Apple app store.

They supposedly have a tiered cut, something like 30% off first X million, 25% of next X amount, etc.
Dying to self versus death of self maybe?
This is economics. The price of a product in a competitive market tends to its marginal cost -- the cost to produce one additional unit. The marginal cost of an iPhone is $450 in parts and labor. The R&D costs are fixed costs, not marginal costs, they don't vary whether you sell 1 million iPhones or 10 million iPhones.

Most of iOS's costs are fixed. Even if you amortize the cost of it across the number of phones sold each cycle, it will be insignificant.

Apple employs ~12,000 engineers. If all 12k cost $1million per year, it would cost Apple $12 billion a year. Apple revenue in 2019 was $260 billion, or 4.6% of revenues. Apple gross profit was $104 billion. So if Apple had to somehow cut some rent-seeking streams and eat $12 billion, their profits would only be reduced 12%

Now we know these figures are way overboard. Employee costs aren't $1 million per year for every engineer. All 12k engineers are not working on iOS or the App Store, etc.
The work itself requires construction and any additional maintenance work may require construction (eg. digging a trench in the road / sidewalks). There's always some maintenance needed and I suspect vocal NIMBY people just don't want to tolerate any minor inconvenience, not simply any change.

Then again, maybe it's the same demand for power and independence that we are seeing with "Karens", masks, protests, Confederate statues, anti-intellectualism, conspiracy theories, etc. As individuals feel more powerless, they will almost certainly lash out at anything they can, including local utilities disrupting their life/convenience.
Stop caring about pretend internet points.
And in that situation you have the much less obvious solution but still not Terminal: go in System Preferences -> Security and you will see a new button appear to allow the specific app to open
As a kid, to defend against magpie attacks we used to paint eyes on the back of the upturned ice-cream bucket we used as a helmet.

Worked as far as I could tell.
Except that the proposition system in California, and other states, is direct democracy.

The end result is that many state and local issues are resolved through direct voter action.
Might want to check city council records for hidden subsidies, covered of course by taxes on people like you and me.
Thank you. Good point, we actually just had a few agencies/consultancies ask about self-hosted / enterprise options.

We are offering our current pricing to early adopters on HN. We'll likely increase prices once we do a general public launch.
Depends.

Does the sale require me to submit payment details to a not-already-trusted platform?

The change remotely triggered by Epic redirects users to a third-party (Epic) payment system, but what if it were, say, a malicious Epic insider? How much user payment info/cash could they grab before they were detected and disabled?
USAA if you can get it. I’d check out BBVA they’re onto some real cool stuff in the future of fin. For fintechs, I’d check out Revolut.
> start discovering rates between 1-2% elsewhere

There is only one retail broker that offers this. Everywhere else is more https://www.schwab.com/margin/rates
I would love to see PG&E shame residents by showing PG&E customers how much their bill increases (both individually and in aggregate) because they have to work around NIMBYs.
I feel like a tagline like "event sourcing made easy" would hook me more and get me interested in _attempting_ to decipher your marketing page to understand the USP.

Pretty cool idea though. Hope it pans out for you guys.
> I don't think they'd necessarily become OOP programmers if fp was the default, but i do think we would see a similar trend of fp becoming a distasteful term.

Inevitable! You only have to see how the abuse of GOTO has traumatized memories with very dogmatic contrary reactions. While used well there is no harm.

> because that's basically all there was for many companies building many things under burnout schedules with no one with more than 5 years of experience working on them.

Not only. There are people who will never learn even after 15 years of career. It doesn't interest them or they don't have strong enough fundamentals and will never catch up.
I really like this. I could see myself using this in the future for some personal projects or for prototyping.

What I would really love though is something a little more similar to Dropbox, with tight integration to the user's filesystem, and keeping the spreadsheet as the source of the data.
>two years of exposure to cell phone RFR increased cancer in male rats

If this is the study I'm thinking of, it's suspect for 3 reasons.

1. First off, the study didn't test against 5G. It used 2G and 3G emissions. Even if you believe the study, it doesn't make sense to use it as a reason to stick with 3G instead of 5G.

2. The study tested male rats, female rats, male mice, and female mice. Only male rats were allegedly impacted by radio signals. If 3G is so universally dangerous to living tissue, why did it only impact one of the species tested? And only the males of that species? Sidenote- the mice were actually exposed to more energy than the rats

3. Even though the male rats exposed to 2G and 3G were more likely to get cancer, they also lived longer than unexposed rats. Male rats exposed to 3G lived nearly 10% longer than ones that weren't. If this life extending capability also applies to 5G signals, we should be accelerating 5G deployment.
I wonder if Epic could compile UE to WebGL in such a way that games would be playable via web in Safari, not requiring a native app to be installed.

Are the limitations of WebGL too intractable for now?
This behavior is now the norm in my experience, including browser extensions, mobile apps, and websites. I experience breakage through no action of my own, triggered remotely by the developer. While I agree that it's very much like malware, I'm simply pointing out that this is the rule, rather than the exception, with commercial software today.
they already do this. nobody is going to understand or care or though. they’ll do it when they’re hot.