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> Sega Dreamcast with Windows CE

Afaik, there was never a Windows CE general purpose environment for the Dreamcast. Sega supported game developers using Sega's 100% propriatary OS or using Windows CE as embedded OS. Either way, the OS would ship on the disc, and isn't a lot more than a kernel and libraries.

Of course, BSDs and Linux were ported to the Dreamcast at some point, as with anything that can boot user provided code and has enough ram.

The dreamcast did have a web browser, and keyboard and mouse, but without significant local writable storage, would make a lousy general purpose computer.
Epic is famous for buying exclusive rights for games to make people play on their store. I hope they like eating their own food now.
Sinter is a 100% user-mode endpoint security agent for macOS 10.15 and above
I don't think they mean you never actually use the brakes.

That person is probably referring to the Tesla feature where when you don't use the gas pedal, the system is slightly recharging the batteries all the times (via magnets). You can turn this off if you don't like it. Then you get used to a driving style where you take your foot off the 'gas pedal' before you need to stop and the car slows down on it own (through regen braking), and so the 'UX' is you just selectively apply the gas pedal or not to go fast or slow down. If you need to stop suddenly you use the brake. It's an automatic thing after a while, you don't need to think about it. I sometimes have to get used to a 'regular gas car' that doesn't have this when I drive something else.
How "very hard to distribute APKs"? I don't think so. Blocking .apk on Gmail is similar thing for blocking .exe.
This seems like something Apple may regret if it leads to anti-trust action.
This is super exciting. Apple has been moving away from kernel extensions. This is basically a user space replacement for Google Santa
Kickstarter campaign to add Android Support to Slate -Rich text editor framework
Slate (https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate) is an open source framework for building customisable rich text editors. It's a joy to use and the codebase is one of the most approachable I have ever worked with.

A year or so ago there was a big push by Sunny Hirai to add Android support to Slate, however after putting in months of work Slate underwent a huge rewrite that more or less invalidated all the work put towards adding Android support.

As you can imagine adding android support to a framework for building rich text editors is a huge amount of tedious back-breaking work riddled with edge cases. Now that Slate has started to stabilise Sunny is raising funds on KickStarter to add Android support back in.

If you are using Slate or know a company making heavy use of it please consider pledging some money (Link below). There is only 15 days to go and it needs 20K more - that's only three low tier corporate sponsors! I'm not affiliated with Sunny in any way, I just really enjoy using Slate and I think Android support is crucial for the long-term viability of this project.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunnyhirai/add-android-support-for-the-slate-wysiwyg-editor
Lots of people have wanted to do just that for a long time. At least this proposal gives the universities a (perhaps temporary) way out.
This implies there is no serious work involved in developing the App Store or platform other than credit card fees.

That’s just clearly not true.
The generator has an axle that turns, sure, but it's much less than physical heating/ablative brakes.
Cloudkeeper – Housekeeping for Clouds
I agree that things used to be different, but, not usually better. apps used to be malware a lot more on desktops, no sites had great reliability records, and the OSes and devices were slow, heavy, and un optimized.

Sure, phones are not desktops of 2001, but for many people that is a good thing. In fact, despite several attempts by different companies to create open phones, most people Demonstrate that they would rather buy and use closed ones. If you want true open OS on your phone, you probably have a niche desire.

Personally, I would rather the App Store be more selective on whether apps really worked or not. More open certainly has appeal, but more low quality apps to wade through doesn’t appeal much.
From what I have heard and seen - there is a difference between moderating each message before it's posted - eg - classified ads person answers phone for local paper tells you that you can not advertise a tiger for sale or put 'foreman' wanted in ad - it must be gender inclusive.. is one type..

Then you have moderating where people can post about anything - but when you get a complaint you research and take it down.

There are other forms and types of moderation between these..
which is why I said "in this way could open"

if you are moderating each message before if goes out, you are not acting so much as a platform as more of a publisher.. you could claim you did not know that an ad you published was not legal.. say it was turtles for sale, or someone offering weed for sale with 'codewords'.. you could claim that you did not know the girl in the ad not in a sex tape, that you just published the info...

But from what I have seen, if you allow everything to publish and take down stuff when notified you have a difference situation in regard to section 230, and claims in general, as compared to having to defend that you ad person could of should of known before publishing..

Indeed - section 230 doesn't care so much about what is moderated out in some ways, but the fact you are moderating out 8 year old's dating profiles, but not 13 year olds could become an issue- and the fact that you moderated out the 8 year olds in the first place could cause holes in certain defenses.

So you would not be responsible for that isn't said - but the fact you allowed one defamatory thing to publish while hiding a defamatory post about someone else - what isn't said could be an issue to prove that you have liability for what is.

Hope I'm saying that right, again this is my understanding of some issues that I have been involved in, and studies other people's issues and listened to their counsel - but I am not a lawyer.. if you have one and you are doing this kind of moderating perhaps have them look into the backpage cases and see how they pierced the "we're a platform, not an editorial publisher' thing. for one example.
A lot of children of African immigrants are actually outperforming the US population as a whole in regards to education.
It's the pricing too. Apple's 30% fee on the payment processing for in app purchases is insane and clearly anti-competitive. Developers can use Stripe, Paypal, etc for literally 10x less.
> There are many people in this world who think they would pay a steep social penalty if they switched away from iPhones.

Yeah, but to suggest that you don't have the option to switch away from Apple just because you might have friends that don't like using anything except for iMessage is a real stretch. You don't have to be a part of shallow iMessage groups, any more than you have to be a part of Instagram. They're both frivolities.
Was ever Steve Jobs a virtuous dreamer? He was a good designer and visionary but virtuous does not come to mind when I think about him.
I’d love to see multiple legitimate cross platform stores, especially Steam.

But I don’t trust game developers to run those stores. They’re total cowboys and they’d probably be full of security holes and privacy issues.
Ah, I see the misunderstanding here.

Nobody will be driving in these tunnels. Only fully autonomous cars running approved software will be allowed in. Those sort of problems go from "impossible" to "almost trivial" when the exact movements of every vehicle in the tunnels is being monitored and controlled by a centralized system.
The idea is that when a system goes down, it’s everyone’s responsibility to fix it.

and

...everyone becomes accountable for outages, even if they don’t manage the infrastructure

While describing practical aspects of DevOps that way isn't inaccurate, it casts it in an entirely negative and non-methodological way—as if it's all about crisis management and availability. In my experience, DevOps means reducing the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality. As we continuously "automate all the things", it makes sense that the responsibility for software development and IT operations will gel and become more unified, shared, and cross-disciplinary.
Talkspace allegedly data-mined patients' private conversations with therapists
"Please enable Javascript to read the full article"

No. Go learn how HTML works.
sorry I thought this was a parody site.
I don't think that is the fundamental idea... I think it is more about recording the decision making process rather than making sure it is rational.

The point is that, in the future, you can look at the doc to know why a decision was made.

You can then use that info when you are faced with deciding to make changes; maybe the circumstances changed and you now want to make a different decision. Or, maybe there are reasons that were forgotten, and you really should keep the system as it is.

You might read the ADR and realize the reasons were arbitrary and there wasn't a particularly good reason to choose what they did... that is good info to have!

I feel like this is a way to avoid a Chesterton Fence situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Or make a lucky leveraged bet on the stock market.
Of course KIPP selects for motivated students. But it also selects for severely disadvantaged students. So while it's true that we can't assume KIPP's results can be generalized across the entire population, we know that additional school resources works in a subset.
That is amazing but I remember it being Bolivia! I did a google search-inside-the-book but "Bolivia" is not found. Neither is "tin".

But it does sound awfully close. Maybe the book I read is a knock-off of Danny Dunn.
You mean stations like this? https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago
When will xCloud appear on the Nintendo Switch? A lot better to play on the switch than a mobile phone without built-in controllers.
Neither. It’s a tragedy.
Could you have got the wrong idea about eye contact?

People don't generally make sustained eye contact for multi minute periods. Even 10 seconds is generally viewed as a long time: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.160086
Hmm, social networks are not mere frivolities. They are the very basis of humanity.
It's the number of letters between the start and end letters. Yeah, it's annoying.
Yeah but in the 21st century it's ridiculous to associate physical buildings with good education. There's no reason, today, why students can't consume lectures from several world class instructors at scale. Video lectures are not even inferior to the actual experience. Do you know how many lectures are skipped entirely by students in college? Do you know how many students are distracted by phones and laptops in lectures? This whole system needs to be retooled. The main thing students need from college is enforced accountability and pacing to keep them from dawdling. This can be done with proctors and tutors coupled with world class video lectures from top professors.
> "body-building hard"

'Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.' - Ronnie Coleman
The 30% is not for just for payment processing. I have seen this a lot in this thread.

It’s hard to be sure whether this is an honest mistake or not, given the generally well informed community.
I would say it takes inspiration from Arecibo over FAST but it's clearly neither. The surrounding topology is flat in comparison to either and there isn't much of a forest to speak of. It's clearly a level design that takes inspiration from reality.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gsveKZdntJc/maxresdefault.jpg
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> but there's no need for personal attacks

It wasn't a personal attack, unless "They worked at Apple and probably have a different perception" is a personal attack.

I don't harbor any ill will against you. Characterizing my words that way is disingenuous.

> This is a nuanced issue.

From my perspective, it's black and white. Apple is clearly taking advantage of market forces and is hurting small players.

> your arguments will bear way more weight if you do away with the histrionics.

The arguments that are heard are the ones that engender empathy. We've been at the point of logical discussion for years, and that hasn't gotten us anywhere. Now the outrage has come to a boil, and I won't censor myself or pretend this is a friendly game of sports.

Apple is a trillion dollar vampire. I'm letting my representatives know that.
Not a bot, I think the inhaler looks like a llama and that’s what I meant.
What new boat can you get for $60k that is not an entry level model? A 23’ Chris Craft starts over $100k these days. That is something that I would put as roughly on par with what they are marketing this electric boat to in terms of buyer profile.

$250k is still pricey, possibly double what a similar gas boat can be had for, but you’re not going to find something in that class under $100k from most makers today.
Epic still has payment processing costs, ones that were contained within Apple's 30% fee, and probably some other costs I'm not familiar with.

They may have rounded those costs up to the nearest $X.99 for clean numbers.
Small correction: not today, this article is from over a month ago.
Sounds like a microcosm of what's broken in software development.
Cool. Somehow never heard of this. Your username reminded me of my school days!
just because people crave for dopamine hits so we should allow all kind of things? maybe we should allow durgs/heroin as well ? you do understand there are different consequences when you addicted to different things right, dancing vs estacy ? not to mention the potential privacy / national security issue with this app
I am curious how this compares to http://dataframe.ai or the open source metaframe ( http://github.com/rsyi/metaframe ) tools I've looked at in the past?

It might be helpful to have more specific information about how it compares to other solutions aimed at a technical audience.
I think whether you use adrs or comments or git messages or readmes or whatever, the fundamental rule is simple:

In any case where you're making a non-default choice in software, it needs to be explained in an easily-discoverable place so a developer that's looking at the project and trying to understand the why of something can see it.

Too often I block PRs with confusing code and ask why it was done this way and the developer swings by my office or gets defensive and I have to say "no, I'm not attacking your code as being wrong, and I don't want a verbal explanation as to how it works. I want the decisions that led you to do it this way to be documented".

...

But actually usually the code is just wrong.
I wouldn't call it a waste of time but it did feel like it was targeted more towards very early-stage start-ups, and was probably helpful mostly to them.

If you have some kind of traction and experience, the video conferences felt pretty awkward because a lot of the founders were completely inexperienced and would try to be helpful by giving you "advice" they'd read in a blog somewhere or really obvious stuff.
> The argument goes, if I'm not mistaken, that by enforcing their payment gateway, they're assuring that users aren't handing over credit card info and other PPI in an insecure manner.

Doesn't Apple specifically have a deal with Amazon to ignore the 30% cut for them?
This sounds like it'll be good for sharper versions of the "magic mirror", a staple for maker projects.
It doesn't, but it can help in other ways.

It can force regulators to act.

It can put pressure on politicians to create new laws.
Are you denying that this is the jist of Yale's position?

I'm not sure what your point is or how it relates to mine.
A Story from world war two
What I’m saying is that there are lots of charities working toward a future I think is really good. I’d rather donate there.

I’m not mad at anyone, I just want my donations to do as much good as I think they can do.
Why are these ships allowed to go anywhere near reefs?
Just accept the counterargument.
I appreciated the author's approach. They did address many of the ancillary concerns while "staying with the question" about whether the dominant Linux distro way of handling libraries is indeed still the best way. Sometimes teaching or blogging on a topic helps a person clarify their own ideas over time.
I was with you until about 2009, but I’d be surprised if much of the modern web worked without Javascript anymore.
Of course I'm concerned. But if you think that you'll be able to manage this without some inconvenience then that is a pretty strong delusion.

Think about the alternative: no quarantine, unchecked spread, lots of people dead.

If there is one country that is doing this by the book it is NZ, and they should be commended for it.

That you try to spin that as a negative is quite a feat.

I've been quarantined myself for two weeks, it wasn't as bad as it could have been and we managed. If I had to go through it again then I would, especially now that I know better how to prepare.
One benefit of electric vehicles is you break far less because typically unless it’s very cold out the car will use the regenerative engine charging feature to slow the car. You might notice this on Tesla’s with metallic rims they are rarely dirty with break dust.
I am trying to understand this comment.
I do not claim to know everything about 230 - but have read several news stories about it, in relation to it- and have sat in an a seminar by a high dollar lawyer once..
Since I did not stay in a Holiday Inn express I can't claim that I know it all - haha
which is also why I put not a lawyer / doctor / yada yada - so people would research it more.

I believe this would be more of an issue for some kinds of sites and much less an issue for others. (I doubt tom's hardware has ever had anything defamatory or libelous in posts to worry about ) - other places that moderate may do so in ways that are over-zealous in protecting the publishers and therefore that would create a different issue, but that's a different discussion.

Anyhow if you are referring to an anti-censor group or some kind of misinformation army like the bots and confangled news stories around the net neutrality debate, I would like to learn more about this/them and see why / how etc.
thanks
It's fictional, the overall design of the cable towers is taken from Arecibo's, FAST's towers are distinctly different. It's clearly neither though as the surrounding topology is flat and mostly devoid of trees, both FAST and Arecibo are nestled in valleys dense in foliage. That sort of layout doesn't play well in video games.
So it's really just an exclusive club and not about education and knowledge building at all? Okay, you simply reenforce my point. It's a signalling mechanism for cargo cult employers who would rather simply hire from Yale than do the work of actually assessing people's capabilities. It needs to go the way of the dodo.
Historically yes. But plenty of things that are perfectly safe to consume taste terrible and plenty of stuff that will kill you won't even register. So this is not a reliable indicator.
It might cause some action in Europe, they are getting tired of dealing with brexit and are itching for something.

That something else could be bashing Apple and Google.
Russian GRU 85th GTsSS Deploys Previously Undisclosed Drovorub Malware [pdf]
> We don’t need the government to protect people from their own decisions.

Citation needed. Many parts of our government do just that (FDA, EPA). We need these because many decisions would otherwise be uninformed. If you don't know what is in your food, how can you make informed decisions? If you don't know what is in your drugs, or what the side effects are, how can you make informed decisions?
Example from 2020: Running Ubuntu with two displays each of which has a different scaling factor requires switching to Wayland, because on X11, any window that touches the edge of one of the displays will run unusably slowly. (I don’t know why.) A non-technical “typical desktop user” would never have figured this out.

This is on a fully supported Linux machine (XPS 13 9300 Developer Edition).
That will be the day! I would love this, but we don’t even have Netflix on the switch so it seems unlikely.
> But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this.

No obligation to help vs actively hindering are not really the same thing.
There’s no way Epic has gotten $175 million dollars of value from Apples services let alone $175 million a year. Every single one of the popular apps would be better off dealing with all that infrastructure on their own IMO.

Installer infrastructure used to be nearly free. I absolutely disagree that Apple or Google are providing significant value here. The app discovery ship has sailed and no one is going to find your small apps on those platforms. The review processes might benefit users, but is a detriment for developers who aren’t guaranteed the ability to distribute apps they’ve invested in.

Steve Ballmer wasn’t stupid for laughing at the App Store. He just wildly underestimated the stupidity of the average developer. No one would have taken the App Store deal in the 90s and Apple would have been laughed out of the industry. Now everyone throws caution to the wind and marries into a system where they have no voice and no leverage. It’s absolutely crazy.
Anyone who tries to justify epic buying exclusives is a fool IMO.

Tim isn't doing it for developers or publishers, he wants a piece of the steam pie.

If he was serious about being competition he would come out with a better platform and compete.

When MS came out the windows store, Tim said "they’re trying to force this thing on the industry and it’s woefully inadequate for the tasks they’re trying to serve it for"

https://www.pcgamer.com/tim-sweeney-microsoft-uwp-is-still-w...

Yet, the epic store, was... IS STILL woefully inadequate. They built a terrible store that has no functionality, no currency options, no linux support, nothing more than a front for a dozen games. Then turn around and buy exclusives under the disguise of "we're doing it for developers and publishers, we are the good guys, screw all you gamers out there who don't care!!!"

(I'm aware they have tried to fill some of these features, but they have ALONG way to go)

They could have come out with something better, and been competition, but they have nothing to compete with.

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Tim also said: "I believe Microsoft has every right to operate a PC app store, and to curate it how they choose."

Tim is now: "Oh Apple and Google shouldn't be allowed to run their own app store how they choose."
You're literally commenting on an article where Israel has sought and won peace with a neighbor. Whatever land was appropriated, was done so as a result of Arab aggression and Israel has repeatedly offered to give it back for peace. It has already done so repeatedly with other Arab neighbors. So yeah, you can definitely understand who is in the wrong here.
After 100 days clean and zero deaths, Vietnam just discovered a few cases from some Chinese who had snuck into the country illegally. Those have now grown into many more cases... and deaths.

NZ is seeing what has just happened in VN only days before and acting on it because they know what will happen if they don't.
The ethnicity with the highest fraction of PhDs is Nigerian.
Tim Cook and many of the Apple bloggers are using the console analogy to defend a closed walled garden App Store that takes an extremely high fee. Tim Cook brought it up in his congressional testimony even.