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Okay, let's go with your figure of 0.1% of the cost of the worker. My point is that if society were to switch to Open Source software that 0.1% is compounded because all the other goods and services that a business has to buy become cheaper. This then means that they can lower their prices while still making the same profit. Which in turn lowers the cost of inputs to other businesses in a virtuous cycle.

So using your analysis of the single worker, which I agree with, it actually makes a very big difference when applied to all workers.

To address your point about the training costs of moving from proprietary to Open Source, again this disappears if the move happens at scale. It disappears because every worker would have learnt Linux at their previous job (or at school / college etc.) and so in fact the cheapest thing becomes to use Linux.

What your argument demonstrates is the network effects of proprietary software, whereby if you're the first to use Open Source software it's a disadvantage, but if everyone used it, it would be an overall advantage to society.

The question then becomes, how do we get from here (often proprietary) to there (mostly Open Source)?
> Further, what if I'm a user, who wants to purchase the hardware (and even operating system), but does not want the added security. Mind you that Apple has their own CPU and OS which is unlike anything in the competition.

Tough luck my friend. I mean only because you want something unreasonable doesn't make it a right.

Example:

What if I want to buy the engine of a Ferrari but not pay the price for a Ferrari and just have it inside a Volkswagen?

The answer to that is also tough luck. You want a Ferrari engine, well it only comes in a bloody Ferrari so either buy the whole thing and then mod it yourself or tough luck. Same for Apple hardware. If you want just want one piece then you'll have to buy the whole thing and mod it yourself.

Nothing in this world gives you a right to have all your wishes fulfilled by others.
For some reason I can't reply to your comment below, so Iam answering here.

- From purely hardware perspective, microNOVA has a nonzero chance of being operational for at least few minutes in space environment.

- From rules & regulations point, launching it as a standalone cubesat is not possible. It is not compliant enough with cubesat specs (plastic frame, non-approved components, no radio licenses)
> My argument is that they are not.

Then I’d suggest you come up with a different term to use, because the phrase ‘general purpose computer’ has been in use since at least the 1940s as far as I know, and it’s definition is quite different from yours.

I think the meaning you’re trying to use is that a PlayStation only runs PlayStation games/apps, that only Sony gets to decide what PlayStation games/apps are released, and that the users know this when they buy one? Therefore customers know that they can’t run arbitrary software on it when they purchase one? Because that’s exactly true for the Apple App Store as well. Customers are well aware of the limitations of the system, and it is used by Apple as a differentiating factor in their marketing.

> Even though I still stand by my support for free-form app distribution, I understand that from a consumer perspective, Apple's current practices may not tip the scale between good and bad.

But such channels are already open to you as both a developer and a customer. Furthermore, those channels have a majority market share. Why is it necessary for all platforms to suit your preferences?

> But at the very least, I hope Apple can (eventually) improvement their one-size-fits-all pricing model and payment methods.

I would agree. It is something they have already been improving over time though. I’ve had plenty of run ins with App Store rules myself, and I hope they continue to improve. But I also really hope the App Store is something they keep putting effort into, because even with the cut, it’s an absurdly valuable sales channel. I personally quite grateful that Apple have collected such a large amount of high spending customers for me to market to.
> Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE.

> You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from.

> You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything.

> Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain.

> You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low.

Can confirm all of the above (except lifestyle inflation, I watch that carefully). At this point, it really does make more sense to grind for a few more years, go have a nice FIRE and then maybe work on something on your own just for fun. So, essentially, golden handcuffs all the way.
The "experience" of DevOps will be different for everyone because it's a novel term that someone invented to be trendy. Your experience is therefore entirely correct and so is this characterisation.
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Yes, sure, make your voice heard, fight against the abuses, that can only help.

But at the same time, do not pretend that there are not any alternatives. Yes, perhaps those alternatives are not as convenient, but choosing them over the "wrong" choice should be an equal part of the fight.

And "Live in a hut"? Please do not be overly maudlin. We are talking consumer electronics here - something that is still considered luxury - not fundamental philosophies of life or economic models of society.
The new GoG galaxy is wonderful (even though some times it loses my steam integration and I have to log in again), it will make your life so much easier, you can really manage everything from 1 place.

Playnite is another software offering something similar, and is also quite good.
The strongest use case is in-space data analytics on Earth Observation data (camera images, simply said).
Example: Bandcamp on Android let's me buy music via PayPal or credit card outside of the Google Play store.

Similarly Audible let's me do this as well.
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The question is if all computing platform should be forced to offer this possibility or not. I don‘t think it‘s clear cut and some kind of „vetted“ side loading seems like one possible solution. You would still need to expect to pay Apple for the vetting, though.
> It's like saying I bought a petrol car but I should have a legal right to fill it up with Diesel or make it work with electricity. It's illogical.

A much more apt analogy would be a Keurig machine that's only designed to take official k-cups, and your legal right to make it work with off-brand k-cups.
By a small part of that 30% cut, maybe 1% processing fees, a few % on infrastructure and staffing for moderation etc. The rest is profit built on a monopoly which should be regulated.

Perhaps Apple should give the court an accounting of what it costs to run.

The onerous terms forbid (among other things) pricing differently on the app store.
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if gold becomes common, it's value drops, as it has no inherent uses (other than as decoration, and minor electrical/industrial uses, for which there is plenty here on earth already). Ditto with platinum - 'cept may be more valuable than gold for use as catalysts in industry.

I would imagine that asteroids would hold value with rare-earths instead of currency metals.
It's partly a geopolitical thing. Chinese businesses control over 80% of the rare-earths market.

Then there's pollution and the constant talk about exploitation of child workers in mines. You won't get pollution on Earth if a robot mines the stuff in deep space, a rocket brings it to lunar orbit where a commodity is manufactured, and then brought back to Earth for consumption.
If a company informs in advance, a job of 12 hours a day paying less then minimum wages, should they be allowed to hire people against it?
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For laptops this generation (Intel Ice Lake vs AMD Renoir), there are now several reviews of the "same" laptop chassis with both versions:

Lenovo IdeaPad S540-13: https://next.lab501.ro/notebook/english-lenovo-ideapad-s540-...

Lenovo ThinkPad 14s: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14s-Review-Bu...

XMG Gaming Laptop comparison: https://www.techspot.com/review/2075-same-laptop-different-c...

TLDR: AMD significantly outperforms Intel in absolute performance and performance per watt; battery life is about equal - depends on implementation and how its measured (Intel is still a little better on idle, video playback, but much worse under load), temps usually limited by laptop's thermal solution, but under high TDP, favors AMD.

The Tiger Lake U chips should be pretty competitive with Renoir at 15W, especially as there are almost no AMD options paired with 16:10 or HiDPI displays - we'll have to see when they come out. Tiger Lake H isn't expected until Q1 2021 and will have to compete with Cezanne (Zen 3 core, which is expected to have some pretty big IPC gains).
I think the OLEDs shipping in Samsung's phones are already transparent to a degree. They are able to put light sensor, proximity sensor and finger print sensor behind the screen. The can see through the screen. It's only a matter of time before they are able to put a full camera behind the display.
My prediction is that Annotations will be a game changer for PHP-based frameworks. Finally people will get something like in JAXR in Java, just being able to write @@Path("/users") over their listUsers function to have it be called when someone accesses the URL "/users" on the host.

Having to setup routing the cumbersome way has been the bane of being productive in Laravel.
Your experience is very strange. Their cloud is very popular in gaming and other industries. You should be able to spin up hardware servers or compute vms within minutes.
Modding your car from petrol to Diesel also voids your warranty.
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I have not heard of any of these wealthy FAANG engineers ever starting a great startup. Are there any examples we should be aware of ?
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There's no way to tell if over-subscribed AFAIK. The VM is with UpCloud as I had credits there.

I haven't used strace before but I ran it and perf top and have put images at https://twitter.com/peterbowyer/status/1294181276061241344.

The __memset_avx2_erms is present even with 5 concurrent requests (but at 11% overhead then) and the core dump still happens.

Very odd.
All cloud providers offer LBs with backend instance health checks. Custom scaling rules too.
Perhaps SCiO's near infrared spectral analyzer could provide some info about fish? Possibly the species, maybe the freshness or adulteration. I think mine cost $400 many years ago, not sure if they are selling to consumers any more. They seem to be selling to farmers for testing corn and feed:

https://www.consumerphysics.com/

The development kit to develop your own IR profiles is listed on Amazon for $1300.

This list of research papers from the "9th International Symposium on RECENT ADVANCES IN FOOD ANALYSIS":

http://www.rafa2019.eu/pdf/Program%20RAFA%202019_FINAL_web.p...

suggests that an IR spectrometer can tell if water is added to tuna (search for "tuna", it's the second occurrence). If you also search on "fish" in that document you'll find a variety of methods being explored to find the presence of various things in fish (toxins, using PCR to test for DNA to detect fraud, histamine, arsenic, dioxin, microplastics, Bisphenol).

PCR tests for Covid-19 seem to cost around $100. Seems like spot checking of tuna using PCR to see if it is really tuna would be doable and would bring the market under control, eliminating fraud. Fishing interests would likely be aligned against that, though maybe not if it leveled the playing field.
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Those are all examples of companies creating their own store so they can sell their products directly wihout paying someone else. This would be equivalent to Epic requiring to you to use their store to play Fortnite. I think that is shitty behavior but as you said, has become standard.

What Epic is doing, and the main reason they are being critisized, is approaching smaller developers and bribing them to not sell on other stores even if, in many cases, they had already promised their customers to sell on their stores. That is a wholly different level of scumbaggery.
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It is not a single company, Google also kicked Fortnite, and it has been a thing in game consoles, car infotaiment systems, pre loaded apps on TV settop boxes and blue-ray players,....

The world is unfair, no one is expected to do charity for developers.

We are not a special snowflake job that isn't expected to give others the necessary payments to keep the whole chain working.
Property taxes on land are consumption taxes.
Thought doesn’t scale. A solid design/architecture can only come from a handful of minds. The hundreds/thousands of developers than can provide volume of features, not necessarily quality. This is why one person (or small team) can still be disruptive.
I am sorry if my post came across as defending Apple, I certainly did not mean to do that.

I was merely trying to point out that people tend to put too much emphasis in being safely vocal (online, where you're sitting safely in your own home) against bad behavior, and not enough emphasis in actually not rewarding said bad behavior. For many, the latter option is not even present in their mind anymore.
Apple must charge some fees so even with a 15% cut there is almost no difference in how much return you get from your app unless you have a high enough sales volume. Indies don't care about the cut because they don't get enough sales in the first place. Indies mostly focus on surviving, not about how to optimize their margin.
Not so fast. The hardware was mediated to be “safe” in various ways by the manufacturer and regulating bodies. It’s within accepted radiation levels, it’s highly unlikely to explode in your face or set your house on fire when you charge it. And this brings up the crucial thing: it’s because (a) unsafe devices would wreak havoc on society at scale and (b) you wouldn’t be able to/want to do this verification by yourself. You could choose to forego verification, as in “I choose this device safe or unsafe it’s my choice” but overall this is probably reckless as an effect on society, so it’s therefore regulated and your choice is disallowed. Software is in more of a gray area and you could more easily believe you can verify it. But if a piece of software threatened to wreck society, ultimately society will bring it under control. Facebook is incidentally a highly efficient propaganda targeting system that does threaten to enable bad players to wreck societies. I think the correct answer is case by case in a vast gray area between the extremes.
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The issue is that subpixel antialiasing is removed, which affects both retina displays and, more heavily, the non-retina display.

In 10.12, Apple reimplemented its PDF renderer. With that, the subpixel antialiasing was removed. This affects all apps that use it (Preview, Safari, Quicklook, etc.).

In 10.14, Apple turned of subpixel antialiasing in the rest of the operating system (dialogs, buttons, etc.). However, this can be re-enabled by running:

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO

In 10.15 and 11.0, subpixel antialiasing is completely gone, and can't be re-enabled.

And there isn't a way to use the 10.11's PDF renderer in 10.12 onwards. However, at least a little bit of luck (until 10.13, maybe 10.14): with above setting you find subpixel antialiasing in some a third party PDF apps that were compiled using the 10.11 frameworks, like PDFpen 9 or PDF Expert 2.4.15.
> anti-intellectual

What does this mean to you?
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30% of subscriptions/coin purchases is too much. Possibly warranted for actual app sales due to the review process, but after the app is sold 30% of every subsequent payment is a protection racket.
The problem with most metadata catalog is not technical, but the human: Catalog are documents for data, and developers hate writing documents.
If Ferrari and Volkswagen are only two companies in world and Ferrari disallows changing Radio and Car Seat without authorization from company. I would say screw them, law should prohibit this. If you don't like the law you are free to go sale somewhere else.
Technological leaps happen when something new or uncommon becomes widely available. How many cost prohibitive applications become possible when the cost of any available raw mineral drops by at least one order of magnitude?
Vancouver BC.

3/4 of the Engineers on my team have moved to the 'west end' neighborhood in the last couple years. And i'm now the 4th. Incredible nature w/ healthily-managed high population density & safety. And it's incredible being in close proximity with your team (e.g. hike/ski-meetings)
If you load a comment and it's been less than 2 minutes sometimes you can't reply.

I dig the actual reply, I actually considered whether it was radiation or just cooling of the components, but I didn't consider the regulations point.

Edit: I was planning on making something accessible over AWS Ground Station so I was wondering if it was possible to get the payload into orbit in the first place. Thanks for being reachable and replying.
So pointing out differences in intelligence is now racist?
I have to disagree with you there. How exactly is discussing a problem being "wilfully blind towards that"? You argue that they are supporting Apple despite this problem - but what is the alternative? Android? They have many other problems themselves, many of which overlap with those of Apple. Not use a phone? Not easily possible if you want to participate in society.

Even if you go the route of sacrificing your social life for these principles nothing will change - you are just a single lost sale amongst billions. Having people talk about the problems might actually spark change. What does pointing out this alleged "hypocrisy" achieve, besides making yourself feel smarter/superior?
Agreed. Do you remember Jobs talked about computers being the bicycle of the mind ... ?

Not so much when you're slapping 30%, kicking back, and resting your feet up on the table.
Products or services that are consumed in quantities by broad classes of individuals, generally are not a luxury goods.

A more specific definition [1]

FYI there are tons of mobiles in the iPhone price range.

Ferraris, yachts, bespoke suits, exclusive trips to Antartica, private engagements with former Presidents, a closet full of Gucci - luxury goods.

Due to the sophisticated nature of mobile tech, there are really no such thing as 'luxury goods' in that category, because he market size would be far too small to support the massive R&D effort. Which is why Bang & Olufsun don't make phones.

Of course Apple definitely takes cues from luxury good makers in their marketing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_goods#:~:text=In%20econ....
Wasn't the Beirut disaster linked to a situation about seafarers basically stuck on the ship and the boat had a leak in it and just all kinds of stuff going wrong? People on boats are treated horribly.
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I’m hoping to implement this in my organisation very soon. There are still a couple things I need to figure out:

1. How do I articulate the criteria for when a decision should have an ADR?

2. I always see ADRs in the context of recording what was decided, but I’d like them to be raised more like requests for comments (RFCs) for a week or two first, particularly in cases where there may be impacts on other systems, security or data protection implications. Are ADRs often used this way, or should I be looking at something else?

Any advice?
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Good point, but maybe that setting could just require reauthentication?
> Note that void can never be part of a union type, since it indicates "no return value at all".

The empty set is the identity element for set union! It seems very weird to exclude it.
> Thought experiment: if something is not worth writing down, is it worth discussing?

Writing things down in a way that can be consumed by others is usually significantly more work than discussing that same thing live (whether in text or verbally). As such, I would say that the answer is obviously yes.
Your point of view is so backwards. You dismiss an entire tool because legacy work exists? So because Windows 3.1 doesn't upgrade to Windows 10 I shouldn't bother? Because IE11 doesn't run ES5 we shouldn't work with it?

You are free to criticize the enormous amount of legacy codebases out there, but that is not the fault of PHPs core team and the community working to improve the language and ecosystem, and it doesn't make PHP a bad tool. Environment maintenance isn't the languages responsibility and PHP has been -very- careful with it's upgrade path. It's childs play to move between versions.

If anything you should be impressed at legacy PHPs robustness. How long will modern stacks last unatended? Barely a year in my experience before some CI or dependancy breaks and the whole tower crumbles. Try and run an NPM based build pipeline in two years and tell me how that automated upgrade path worked out.
I don't know if you are joking, but the text is not aimed at kindergarteners regardless of the title.
Seattle if you never want to deal with icey lanes/roads.
>I have less belief in rights for Corporations

There is no such thing as rights of corporations, only rights of people.

According to your logic nobody can turn my home into a homeless shelter, but if I and my friend together build a hotel, it's fine to expropriate it since we are corporation.

But we are still people and it's our rights, we're not a faceless entity.

> When an indie developer spends her days and nights producing a work of passion

Well, it's fine to fuck an indie dev's rights, if she works in a team. They are a corporation after all.
Its difficult to hide a house. It is relatively easy to value a house compared to some assets.

There are also more direct arguments for property taxes - in many places they are used to fund municipal services so its a pretty direct way of getting the people who benefit from those services to pay for them. There is also the social benefit of ususlly space is at a premium in cities, so property taxes discourage people from hoarding space they are not using.
Do companies such as instagram and websites with KYC requirements actually parse/save the data in the photo and look you up in a government database when you send your ID or does a random human just stare at your photo and make a judgement call like a bouncer? In either case, it's frightening that that is how it works.
10% is a normal'ish partner cut for providing a platform for others to transact on (ignoring money transfers services).

30% is laughable, long term.

Not even a "one more thing" cut to 29%, lol, ever!
I would be interested in finding this post - I haven't seen it and using your description I'm failing to find it with Google as well. Do you remember more? Thanks!
Is it that much worse than the effect that photoshop had? We have been able to fake pictures/images for a long time now. What changed is that people no longer blindly trust pictures. I assume something similar will happen with video.
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hence why they all vacation in Vancouver, BC, right? ;)