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The reason I, and I assume many others, have less of a problem with that is that you can fairly easily still download and play fortnite without the Play Store. As far as I know that’s not an option on iOS outside of jailbreaking your phone.
We have a bunch of slack bots for common tasks like resetting passwords and setting up dev environments. I can send a message to the slackbot and spin up a copy of the app with a specific branch running, for example. We also have read only bots that notify when builds fail or something is broken
The demographics of the US population may differ from the demographics of the college-age US population, or the demographics of the population of high-achieving high schoolers who want to go to Yale, or the demographics or the population of those people plus international students.
But your kids want Fortnite as a product on their smartphone. They want a customer relationship with Epic Games.

Apple prevents that to a certain degree.

This is not a two-way relationship. It’s three-way. People expect businesses to have a store front in the App Store. If there is none, they don’t think it’s Apple‘s fault.
Sounds Awesome! How did you decide to move to Chattanooga? Where can I learn more?
My objection to this is that it assumes cohorts are equivalent.

Also, you have now incentivized zero sum competition within the cohort or finding a weaker cohort to beat.
I really liked the feature,
Once on my win7, I installed a cheap plug-n-play network card with realtech microcontroller.
Assuming,it will work outof box. It didn't.
Then I just used my mobile for usb tethering, quickly launch the automatic search from settings and thats all. It found the needed drivers automatically.
> Publishers and developers do not owe you anything

Right? I'm not a potential paying customer? They owe me everything.

I don't understand this publisher worship going on.
Why hasn't this happened on Android ? Or has it happened and I'm not aware?

I think as long as sideloading is made inconvenient enough, most consumers won't use it and therefore most developers won't provide it. But it should still be an option for the sake of consumers that want things that the walled garden can't support.
They can do something like Sign in with apple. If you are offering an alternative payment option, there should be an apple payment option too. If they are forced to do that Apple probably won't allow different pricing for it too.
Deepfake stuff is not a threat, it's a vaccine. There finally is a chance people will realize they can believe nothing and nobody, news lie and mislead and they absolutely have to triple-check everything before they take that in consideration.
Have you read any of the news surrounding the Epic Games Store? Like this: https://www.techradar.com/au/news/epic-games-store-would-dro...

"Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney has effectively thrown down the gauntlet to Valve, saying that if Steam matched the Epic Games Store in terms of dropping the cut it takes from developers to 12%, Epic would stop pursuing the policy of securing big-name exclusives."

The entire point of the EGS is to get the industry to lower their skimming. And you don't even have to invoke altruism: if Epic continues to take 12% of every transaction and grows the market ten-fold, that's still more than a 30% cut of the market today.

It is a sad testament to our time that it is inconceivable that a person just wants to better the situation for all involved.

I'm a game developer and the EGS is the best thing that's happened to us as developers AND to us as gamers. And our games aren't even on the EGS.
> so what do they target?

Traditionally, Moon, Venus, asteroids.

Also:

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Radiation_astronomy/Radars#A...

"the round trip light time to objects beyond Saturn is longer than the time the telescope can track it, preventing radar observations of more distant objects."

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

"The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star cluster M13. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than a real attempt to enter into a conversation with extraterrestrials."

"The message consisted of 1,679 binary digits, approximately 210 bytes, transmitted at a frequency of 2,380 MHz and modulated by shifting the frequency by 10 Hz, with a power of 450 kW. The "ones" and "zeros" were transmitted by frequency shifting at the rate of 10 bits per second. The total broadcast was less than three minutes."
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This headline seems sensationalist to me. Google simply enforced its Android/Play Store Terms of Service, which have restrictions on apps being able to sideload other apps on devices that also have the Play Store. This is because if one of those other apps is infected, users don't know whether it came through the sideloaded apps or Play Store (which is supposed to virus scan all apps). You can argue all day about whether Google should be allowed to charge 30% of revenue for providing the value of the Play Store and Android, but seems pretty straightforward that if you sign the ToS, then sign a conflicting deal with an OEM, Google saying that that won't work is not exactly "forc[ing]...to decimate a deal".
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>> which means the stations are very large and expensive caverns.

> You mean stations like this? https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago

Yes. This is a very large and a very expensive cavern.
So now we need private companies for regulation? That’s what the law is for. If there is not a good pro-privacy stance on a third party app store, make some damn rules to have privacy enforced like the GDPR or whatever. Don’t let Apple be the law.
Coerced-typed (weak) comparisons and easy accidental fallthrough are the problems commonly associated with switch statements.

The new match construct fixes both of these and is also an expression instead of a statement, allowing for more expressive code.
Why learning Rust is great As a second language
Nothing really. We can go on creating a great country for the Israeli Arabs, Jews, Druze and Christians. This conflict is slowly ending.
I bet each one of them has exclusive products not available on the other ones.

Having more than one to choose from is still an option.
Then apple will probably start charging for API requests between iphone and ios for apps that have implemented alternative payment options.
What is your business model, your website does not make it clear.

Do you plan on selling time on orbital computers?
That's racist nonsense and it has no place here.
It's not like car manufacturers go out of their way to update their new models with anti-conversion technology with each new release.

Unless the car is a piece of agricultural equipment, in which case, we can see exactly why walled ecosystems are bad.
A developer might voluntarily request that to make the payment infrastructure simpler by making the payment routing equal for everyone.
A third party App Store doesn’t change any of this. Apple can still collect its tax in their own store. Unless of course that everybody decides to ditch Apple’s App Store, because other App Stores are better. But then you need to ask what the value of the App Store was in the first place.
Take the money back and go to Android.
It's conservative virtue signalling.
How to Stick with Rust
Ah, sorry, I should have been paying better attention.
Somewhat related: this startup is supplying graphene based absorbent pads called Sorbene to help clean up some of the mess: https://www.sorbene.com/
> 1. One SMS every 90 days,

Wow that's bad.

Here in Norway we use a system called BankID that uses the SIM in your mobile and it does it every time I log in.
It's all fine and good until the orbital computer rehabilitates a disgraced ex-console jockey currently selling drugs in chiba city to retrieve the hardware crypto key required for a wintermute/neuromancer merger.
Yes, the fee has been there since the beginning, if you use their payment system.

I think the new and problematic policy is that they now

- forbid you to use other payment systems than their own

- forbid you to just add the 30% to your price on iOS compared to other platforms

- forbid you to mention to the user that they can pay on the company's website or through other channels

Also their own product's don't have to pay the fee. So Apple Music can charge 30% less than Spotify or Spotify can distribute significantly less of the revenue to the artists.
> Playstations, Xboxes and my car stereo are all general purpose computers.

My argument is that they are not. I know certain individuals have likened them to general-purpose computers due to the underlying processors getting more and more like desktops'. But the majority of users do not use them as general-purpose computers. So I actually used the term to differentiate smartphones from things like video game consoles.

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. (And as a developer, I also do not want to submit my apps to 10 different stores neither)

But at the very least, I hope Apple can (eventually) improvement their one-size-fits-all pricing model and payment methods. They need to provide devs with more flexible ways of rolling out app updates, and give price cuts to apps that barely use any Apple resources.
Mister Gotcha [1] is ever relevant.

[1] https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
You are not super rich, you cannot even buy a Tesla.

That aside, you are correct though.
And that's just if you were a real business. If you were just a little guy trying to build stuff for fun, you had to run a server at home or buy a shell somewhere that would let you run your services.
I run a dual boot system since half a year now (have been running windows for more than a decade).

And the one thing I absolutely loved about Linux is that it does what I say. On Windows 10 there are things that are impossible to get rid of. That new browser that automatically adds itself to the desktop icons? Or the Onedrive icon in the explorer which you can only remove through registry hacks (and which might come back at any time after a update).

Customising Windows is so amazingly hard and cumbersome, I was just blown away how easy and straightforward this was on Linux.

I once gave my mother a Ubuntu installation after I had been particularilly annoyed by a malware she managed to catch on her Windows 7 machine. She has no idea how to use computers, but she really loved Ubuntu and told me it feels much clearer. She used it for nearly 4 years till the hardware died. To my surprise she had significantly less questions about how to do $x than before.

My feeling is that the Linux desktop can be great for people with very simple needs or very advanced needs. It is that middle ground where it currently sucks I guess.
Yes, that's correct.
We'll revamp the website to make business model more clear.
> It uses three different syntaxes; dot notation, curlies/brackets and colon key value.

Is it an issue? using symbols makes it easier to understand syntax.

> There is no distinction between noun "users" and verb "find".

Weird criticism from SQL. It can be distinguish by call with parenthesis.

IMO SQL keyword is harder to recognize.
Back in the late 90s no one forced you to use Windows and Microsoft Office. You could just live without a PC.
Same thing Facebook has been doing since forever?
I bet those that will never get some critical performance optimizations on their clang compiler, or are hoping for a BSD desktop revolution will care.
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> profiting from that use and not sharing any of the profits.

Walmart profits when you buy their products. Yet you don't hear anyone demanding Walmart shares their profits with their customers.

Let's not mix up the user privacy debate with the 'are companies allowed to make profits and not share them with me' debate.
Android allows sideloading and this doesn't happen (too much) in Android. It's possible to support walled garden by default while giving the user advanced options to sideload, which are difficult but not too difficult to find.
I personally don't like Apple and will never buy an Apple product, but I fully agree. People who buy Apple products are perfectly fine with the way Apple restricts their platform. If you don't like this as a developer, then just leave and stop developing for iOS.

A single big company doing this just to cut down on some fees just reeks of greed.
Seems reasonable. If you want to live with your parents until 30 and at the same time is one of the highest paid engineers in the whole world.
Just what was the colour of the sky above Chiba, anyway? I used to think a stormy grey turmoil, and now people seem to think it was a uniform brilliant blue.
It seems like you are not thinking things through then. You would at least need to get some kind of certification that your car remains „street legal“. You cannot seriously expect to run any autonomous driving software that you want in your car?
It's well established that those different ethnic groups have different average IQs. But really even any small group difference in any relevant way would be more pronounced at the elite level. You should expect a gross disproportionality by default.
Apple’s low-carbon aluminum is a climate game changer
Can I have the MicroNOVA placed into orbit for me? I can't seem to do that from your site.
Maybe this jupyter book can be used as a blog?
Gold and diamonds are common enough on earth, we have as much as we need for industry. Articles often talk about rare-earth minerals but don't specify exactly what is desperately needed that can't be found or made on earth cheaper.
I like the 30% cut for the App Store. It provides them incentive to promote & sell apps, and make sure the App Store is a smooth experience for users, & a profitable one for developers. It’s certainly healthy, if on the high side. But I’d sure rather have a healthy app ecosystem than an unhealthy one.
The problem with them experimenting with lowering the rate is once its lowered, imagine the fuss which would ensue if they then raised it.
There already was this story of a $bn research satellite having to dodge a throwaway SoaceX satellite. Real issue is accountability and the difference in risk and cost - SpaceX should pay for the reduced lifetime of this satellite (as it costs fuel to change height).

https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/ESA_spacecraft_dodges_la...

With many more satellites on the way there will be more such stories.
And? None of it should be condoned. It's all bad. How is that any argument?
I'm personally interested in what old fast food and junk food used to taste like, for example the recipe to the original Coke drink: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-recipe. I wish I could go back and taste a 50's In-N-Out meal.
> I'm not associated with the rust team/mozilla in any way

Is there still a Rust team at Mozilla?
To be fair "free speech" has the same ambiguity and people don't seem to mind.
I think Gibson was trying to describe an overcast gray with a lot of reflected city light on its underside. Sort of like VHF/UHF analog TV snow. He literally wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter, despite the subject matter, in the late 70s and early 80s Gibson lived a quite low tech lifestyle.
Planetary Resources. They’ve now pivoted into an ethereum-based blockchain startup. No joke. (They were Washington State based, not Silicon Valley, however.)
You can choose a different royal family. If you don't like your current royal family then don't let your tongue be cut out voluntarily and then complain about it while still wanting to support the royal family that cut your tongue out.
It's App Store policy and payment handling within apps, not so much about being to install it. I don't like to see trillion new payment providers, I also don't like to see monopolies. It's a very long and big discussion.

But I do wonder, can and _would_ you do payments in a non store app with their own payment provider? E.g. the fortnite you have downloaded and installed outside of the play store?
This destroys democracy. Because you can't check everything yourself, or even a tiny amount of things, so you have no meaningful basis on which to tick that box on the ballot.
This is not about a monopoly

What it boils down to is that a computer (iOS device) can not run apps even when I own it. So technically I do not own the device, right? Never?
This article is mostly fluff. It doesn't get into any interesting technical details. The core bits are:

> Mr. Kokorich, 44, is one such entrepreneur. In 2017 he founded Momentus, a California-based company that seeks to revolutionize transport in space by developing in-space transfer vehicles that use water as a propellant. These would “complement low-cost gigantic rockets, like Starship from SpaceX and New Glenn from Blue Origin,” he says. Craft built by Momentus would enable the outer-space equivalent of the connecting flight. A satellite would reach orbit by “ride-sharing on a big rocket,” then transfer to a Momentus vehicle for the next leg farther out.

> The choice of water as a propellant, Mr. Kokorich says, would “not only enable extremely low-cost in-space vehicles—built in a ‘Mad Max’ steampunk style—but eventually allow the use of water mined from the moon and from asteroids.”

It would be nice if journalists did some actual investigating and reporting instead of just regurgitating non-technical PR.

I think there's some info at https://momentus.space/ but no interesting technical details.
care to bring in some statistics? In what part of the world? I havent't found numbers, and my anecdotal experience is opposite
regulation is what allows consumers the opportunity to make decisions for themselves.

otherwise, we'd all still be using internet explorer
The real value proposition of asteroid mining is the ability to source heavy things (metals, ice) from outside the gravity well, so that you don't have to lift them up. Manufacturing things is space is a pretty important thing in the tech skill-tree.
Customers do have the right to install whatever they want. Apple just doesn’t have to facilitate making it super easy for them to do that if they don’t think it contributes to the health of the platform & their business model.
I wonder if you normalise by the probability of starting a business the results will change. Meaning that if you are together with somebody - it is much easier to start something, but when you are alone - you have to have conviction. So many of these non-solo founders might have not started business by themselves. This creates lower barrier of entry, and might cause solo founded companies look better. The correct question to answer is: if you have already decided 100% than you want to make a company, is it better to do it yourself or with someone else?
I'm not sure what you're saying. I've (sadly) worked with and met many adtech professionals over the years and they are just not the kind of people who would go in for more privacy.
> IPhone sales are profitable as they are

The numbers don’t add up.

Apple sold 6 million of iPhone 1 in 2007-2008 season before app.store launch. Assuming the average price was $550 that generated $3.3B turnover.

According to rumors spread by Bloomberg and other sources, Apple spent $2.6B on R&D of iPhone 1 from the moment the initial research began. Not a good business at all, this means Apple paid most of manufacturing and marketing out of their pocket.

After the app.store, apple was able to sell 100 million of iPhone 4 over 2010-2011 season. That’s more than order of magnitude difference. That increase in volume is what allowed Apple recuperate initial R&D costs, earn good profits, and increase their spending on R&D of new products by more than an order of magnitude since 2007.

I’m not sure people would have bought 100 million of iPhones 4 if you could run same apps on equally performing hardware that’s twice cheaper.
When you buy an Apple device you are supporting Apple and their restrictive platform. Why on earth would you buy an Apple device if you disagree with that?
Say that to my car parked on the street right now!
> My criticism isn't the valid criticisms of PHP, it's that no matter how much progress the language makes people are quick to find reasons to be dismissive.

It's perfectly valid to be dismissive of PHP and you should recognize that. Main reason: there's a metric ton of PHP 5.X websites out there who are never going to be upgraded. That alone is a reason enough to distrust PHP.

If the community makes a concerted effort to introduce automated upgrades of legacy PHP codebases to the newer (supposedly better) versions then I personally would become a fan.

Everybody can tout the newest and greatest. Working with -- and improving -- the legacy stuff is what earns the respect of many, myself included.

(Disclaimer: not a JS dev. You seem to imply some kind of irony that JS devs mock PHP but this is not the case with me at least.)
Yes, and I know several of my friends and family who shop in different supermarkets for that reason. How many do you know that have both an iPhone and an Android phone?
Which is why when many advocate for pre-historic embedded development practices it just shows being out of touch how many cheap options are now 90's like hardware, with more capabilities than Amiga/Atari/PC/Mac had a their disposal on a stamp size CPU.
Satellite footage shows that the ship deviated significantly from its shipping lane, and this was observable from the AIS data for several days. The problem is nobody sends alerts from that data, even though there are several websites that scrape it. [0]

This isn't just "one of those things" that's probabilistically inevitable, this collision was directly predictable from the AIS data for a week.

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Could you make voxels by stacking them?
What was so bad about them?
Think you're old? I'm in my 50s and the only thing that will make me trust microshit is senility.
You seem confused on the definition of a monopoly.

In the real-world, it doesn't mean you actively break the knee caps of anyone who tries to do what you're doing.

It means you have singular control over the industry though, and that's exactly what Steam had, to the point no one has been able to compete with them.

EA wanted to have their own platform with Origin and Steam is so big and so immovable they were forced to come crawling back..

You're free to be upset that someone had the audacity to play hardball with them, but Steam's very existence is what reduces choice of game storefronts, not Epic, it's hilarious to pretend otherwise.

Epic games has stated repeatedly said the moment Steam goes to 88% cut for devs, they will stop exclusives. It was the reason they've given from the start. Thats about as far from anti-consumer as you get