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Maybe you are not really taking full advantage of the powerful type system in typescript if you don’t see any lacks in go type system and if you think that using ‘any’ or the empty interface is perfectly normal?
Wow.

Thanks for sharing
I'm already a Matrix/Element user, and I honestly don't see the point in using a bridge for my personal IRC usage. I think it's cool for groups that want to maintain IRC after switching to Matrix, but it feels like it's a bit too much complexity to use Matrix as a UI for IRC.
That's impressive, and also re-contextualizes a lot of my feelings towards the journal. Have there been any plans to go more mainline in funding efforts. I know all open access Nature journals are "pay to publish". It's a slippery slope to being predatory, but without university's paying for subscriptions, the funding for a journal must come from somewhere and Nature seems to maintain quality in spite of their model (in this case donations).
In 2015 they were saying that the core of web search (and the large majority of Borg cores) was C++ but the rest of google3 was a 50:50 mix of C++ and Java with a smattering of Python. Nobody I knew was looking seriously at Go.
And I'd disagree. Numerous engineers of differing skill levels (what I deal with day to day), struggle significantly when map/filter are added into the mix. And we may say "get better engineers", but we don't have that ability. We have to write code that is maintainable for the engineers we have and can get (and the ones coming in the future).
Seems to be struggling with the load.

Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200827220714/https://www.alaba...
Small USPS PO boxes are ~$10/mo. Is the convenience of Substack's PO box worth $10/mo?
A 3rd platform will likely come from Huawei. They have the resources and the incentives.
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That's essentially what https://krypt.co/ is...I've used Yubikeys in the past, but have been on Krypton for maybe the past year or so. No problems with it at all, aside from GitHub recently (within the past couple of weeks) not recognizing the authorization despite it working just fine elsewhere. I haven't had a chance to dive deeper into why.
Google also has a monopoly on online advertising. Where else do you suggest advertising your product?
Page won't load for me but based on the title and URL it's about Alvin Kennard, who was released last year (see e.g. [1])

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/29/alvin-kenna...
You are confusing two seperate things.

The ESA thing, and the standards based thing, is a communication failure, where SpaceX failed to promptly reply to an email by accident.

The reflectivity based thing is something without standards more stringent than what SpaceX was already complying with, which they voluntarily chose to improve to be a good citizen, and in which they are going above and beyond the existing standards.
Or perhaps it throws errors far too often, because often I will ask for it to do something, it will do it, and then claim than an error occurred.
When my girlfriend got an iMac I spent a minute or two trying to find the power button. I think it’s a good example of form over function. You can’t even turn the damn thing on.
When I first went to China I read up on my wife’s home town online and found out about a native book store trying to preserve their culture so I though I’d check it out. When I visited it had been raided by the police ‘to prevent copyright violations’ and closed down. The shops everywhere were chock full of ripped off CDs and movies, but here this one time they decide to enforce that?

My wife is native Han but about a third of her relatives are officially minorities. None of them speak the minority language or read the script or have anything to do with minority culture. Minority script is used all over the place, but I talked to a university lecturer that’s a friend of the family, he told me most of the signs are gibberish, and told me how to spot ones that had been put up upside down. It’s a farce.
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I've noticed that public feedback of this sort doesn't cross cultural boundaries.

YC News and Reddit are perfect examples. You'll regularly see NetFlix, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon staff directly responding to customer complaints on these forums. In the past, Slashdot would similarly have people in the industry commenting.

These are all US-based and predominately English-speaking organisations responding on a US-based news site in English.

Sony is headquartered in Japan. Their TV division is in Japan. They speak Japanese. They don't frequent YC News or Reddit. They don't read English-language tweets or blogs.

Similarly, it's borderline impossible to provide constructive feedback to laptop companies, because most are either headquartered in Taiwan, or constrained by the capabilities of manufacturers in Taiwan.
rename: Crumble
It's made of rust, it's physics-y: crumble.

I think 'rapier' is not a good name, for (I hope) obvious reasons.
So Amazon, then.
It's worth looking up exactly how dangerous being a cop is. In Portland, Oregon, an officer hasn't died in the line of duty in 20 years, and the one 20 years ago was from a car crash when he lost control. Most jobs are more dangerous than being a cop here.
Link is hugged to death but I’m pretty sure this is the same story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/29/alvin-kennar...

For more context, it’s not as simple as just a life sentence for just a $50 robbery. It was a life sentence for a repeat offender following multiple strikes.
Personally I agree. But other people are happy with that interface, so IMO Siri could have been a game changer. It had the potential to eat a big part of the web and give Apple dominance over it.

Failing to take advantage of that early lead has been one of the biggest failures of the Cook era.
It is possible to reflect the light away from earth and the satellite, which is all the astronomers want and is blocking the light from reaching the main body of the satellite.

It is also possible to absorb the heat somewhere else if you do just absorb the light.
Many core modern C++ types don't permit customizing the allocator. E.g. std::function
This is so silly. It’s already launched! It’s the “Siri Suggested Website”. It’s already there in spotlight and Safari. Those links come from an Apple crawler! There’s no mystery.
Do you really want your toddler to be able to turn it on though?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203630/apple-amazon-prim...

"The requirement: those platforms must be able to integrate core Apple services, apps, and features — including AirPlay 2, universal search and Siri support, and single or zero sign-on, among others."
>and which sat on our bookshelf doing nothing.

I seriously doubt it was doing nothing. I has been listening the entire time you had it connected. You might not have utilized it, but it has utilized you.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200827220714/https://www.alaba...

Note the headline is completely different to the heavily editorialised link title here (he was sentenced under the three strikes law).

A New Job. A Christmas Party. His First-Ever Week of Paid Leave. Alvin Kennard, Once Sentenced to Die in Prison, Marks His First Year of Freedom.
It isn't a middle ground; it's a copyleft, like the GPL. Distribution of executables requires source code.

It's hard to imagine what a middle ground between GPL and MIT would look like, because the key difference (the requirement that modifications must be shared in source code form) is a yes-no proposition.

(One idea is a license which allows redistribution without source code for some limited time period, after which the source must be provided to the users.)
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And by icing you mean Yandex, right?
I think weighting it by lines of code is pretty misleading. You have to write a zillion lines to make "hello, world!" work in your new language inside their full-custom production environment. I prefer to think of language share in terms of resources committed.
This is the reason why Apple keeps up with Facebook's bullshit. Do you think they would keep my developer account around if I got caught using it to sideload spyware[1]?

Of course not. But Apple can't afford kicking out Facebook or Google. Not even Uber[2].

All of these background deals and exeptions are not unprecedented, really. If I went to Target and wanted them to distribute my craft beer, I'd get worse terms than Heineken has.

[1] - https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/29/facebook-sideloading-vp...

[2] - https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/23/15399438/apple-uber-app-s...
IIUC graph core chips are very different from Intel chips so idk if their manufacturing can be compared. Or is it that chip manufacturing does not depend on what chip is being manufactured?
1. This thread is about clickbait.

2. As mcv (karma 13432 points) points out in their comment about this, they can't read the paywalled article so have to base it on the headline.

This article in plainly stated English is a series of non sequitur's to tie Trump to Child Labor and the Anti-Suffrage movement. Starting at the headline. Negative .... Negative .... Negative .... (coded Trump)

This BS bores me so I'd like to at least talk about a fact, like what did the 19th Amendment do to child labor (probably a long term positive) and what did it do to Prohibitions (probably a long term negative)
Bevy is a a Rust game engine https://bevyengine.org/, although potentially it could be used with js when targeting WASM.
Next up: Fight the Lightning Complex fire in Firefighter Simulator.
> That seems like an entirely fair statement to make for somebody who is on the board of The Linux Foundation.

You have to follow the money.

Even the original article admits that she's on the board specifically from Microsoft. That means she's representing Microsoft's interests. Thus has to choose words carefully to not be discounted like a total shill from Microsoft.

To put it in other words: Microsoft pays her 200k+/year to represent their interests at Linux Foundation; Microsoft also pays Linux Foundation XXXk/year to have their representative at the Foundation. The title of the original The Register article is kind of sensational and incorrect, in that it portrays the speaker as having the allegiance to the Foundation, which doesn't appear to be the case on closer examination.
Might be, since you can swap out default apps in iOS 14.
Furthermore, C++ dependencies commonly instantiate types like std::vector with the default allocator internally, rather than exposing it to the host application.
> But there's no consumer-facing or technical difference between a games streaming platform and a video streaming platform

A games streaming platform is interactive whereas a video streaming platform isn't (unless you want to split hairs and call "picking something to watch" interactive.) That's both a consumer-facing and technical difference. Whether it's enough to treat them fundamentally differently, I have no idea (but I'm sure lawyers will have plenty.)
I hate the infinite canvas in Sketch. It sounds great when you're creating things, but you have no idea where anything is when you go back to read it later.
Depends where you are, I guess? I'd've thought NZ's little backwater roads would be useless still, but Apple Maps has been fine for me for a long time now. I still occasionally use Google (Apple doesn't integrate cycling information where I live), but it's very very rare these days.
Apple News links are the worst. They hide the source of the article and make me wait for a redirect before I can read the article. Why does Apple News share that apple.news link instead of a link to the underlying article? Just to track me? What are they hiding in that path string?
I'm going to trust the family over Wikipedia.
I wonder whether the same effect could be achieved with a better designed programming language, though. If the problem is ambiguity- there's nothing stopping a programming language from accepting ambiguous statements, which of course it would then interpret unambigously, according to context. It's just that this takes a lot of work and it's really not the done thing in terms of programming languages as far as I can tell- for reasons of eficiency of parsing also, I think.

Anyway I guess I'm turnning into the typical stuffy academic who can't even begin to think of real-world applications, hah. Thanks for pointing out the practical uses of the work described in the article.
We would use a multi-gateway round robin setup for volume over 50k per month. I'm more than willing to point you in the right direction.
Haha that's truly brazen. One hopes a court of law will have an opportunity to consider this maneuver...
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> Sandia executives have made it clear: they want to force critical race theory, race-segregated trainings, and white male reeducation camps on their employees—and all dissent will be severely punished.

Segregation as a solution to racism is the most ironic feature of our times.
I'm not a native speaker, and searching on urban dictionary I could not find anything. What's the problem with the name?
Functional in my mind more or less means means working with immutable values.
Alabama, Georgia, and Texas have laws restricting the sale and possession of sex toys.
Google already does this. It's an NP hard problem for sure.
> I think 'rapier' is not a good name, for (I hope) obvious reasons.

Fine I'll bite, why's it not a good name? I immediately thought of the type of sword and the thrusting action it implies - which feels apt in the context of physics engines... no?
Because lots of retail investors (average people like you and me) from Robinhood app are willing to buy stocks. Good marketing and branding around Elon Musk.

With 420B market cap Tesla is worth more than Walmart who had 14B profit last year (half of whole Tesla 2019 revenue) and 500B revenue (20x of Tesla revenue)
Python also actively hates functional programming and certain other language features that it "has", plus its standard library is extensive but also all over the place.
I don't know what the actual rates of lived saved by asbestos vs lives taken in. It's one of the classic risk evaluation problems: fires are big, scary and dramatic, people know who died in them, and so a tool that prevents it is welcome. On the other hand, asbestos being dangerous really only came into being after people noticed a pattern of increased early death in asbestos mining towns. We just don't process the risk of a statistically significant increase in early death, compared to the obvious risk of not using fire insulation.
With a knife, but still an embarrassement and a tradgedy IMO
Its not possible to keep the angle consistent without constant active station keeping, which would require an entire redesign.
Sadly there are still US states where some sex toys are illegal (this is me rolling my eyes). https://www.mic.com/articles/131616/14-outdated-sex-laws-tha... is a pretty funny summary. Did I say funny? I meant tragic.
It is a combinatorial explosion problem.

Internal code A has 5 states, piece B has 8 states.

Testing them individually requires 13 tests.

Testing them from out the outside, requires 5x8=40 tests.

Now, if you think of it that way, maybe you _do_ want to test the combinations because that might be source of bugs. And if you do it well, you don't actually need to write 40 tests, you have have some mechanism to loop through them.

But the basic argument is that the complexity of the 40 test-cases is actually _more_ than the 13 needed testing the internal parts as units.

FWIW, my own philosophy is to write as much pure-functional, side-effect free code that doesn't care about your business logic as possible, and have good coverage for those units. Then compose them into systems that do deal with the messy internal state and business-logic if statments that tend to clutter real systems, and ensure you have enough testing to cover all branching statements, but do so from an external to the system perspective.
If you look at the way the rest of the industry cargo-cults Google, Go almost looks like a false flag attack to increase Google's competitive advantage while the cargo-cults drown in boilerplate and an inability to abstract.
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> Check out what Patagonia has to say on hydro plants and the ecological impact in case you are interested.

This is Patagonia's brand strategy to sell products, rather than a political policy. So they have the luxury of pointing out problems and being light on the detail of solutions.

They get to focus on the negative ecological role of dams, and generally promoting reducing resource consumption. All energy production has a negative ecological impact to a greater or lesser degree, and it's rich for a company selling mainly things we don't need to talk about reducing consumption. The headlines are also different to the detail which calls for decommissioning the worst offenders rather than all dams. The difficult broader question of where energy comes from instead is ducked:

> ... solar, wind, tidal, wave, geothermal and biomass are helping us to transition to a clean energy future. [1]

The cynic in me feels like there is probably scope for future marketing campaigns about the ecological impact of these too. I had professional dealings with the company and advise taking it with a pinch of salt.

[1] https://www.patagonia.com/on/demandware.static/Sites-patagon...
Simple Windows Prank:

- select non-maxmised open window

- keyboard shortcut Alt+Space. Then M. to move.

- use arrow keys to move windows offscreen, say to the right. Don't touch the mouse!

- Hit Enter key to confirm position.

From now on. Anything but "full maximise from the taskbar" makes the window "disappear" without a trace. "Restore" from the taskbar doesn't help.

And assuming you even know exactly happened, you still have to guess which direction they took the window and how far...

How is it there is no "Position Reset to 0,0" option?
I believe you, thank you for engaging with my questions in a civil manner (I can't say the same for the way people initially downvoted my questions, but that isn't your fault of course - I hope it was clear that the "you guys" in my previous comment referred to them).
porn already works within a well-defined legal framework. There are model releases, people getting paid etc. So if a reputable porn company interacts with their models and their consumers, everything is well. However, there are still non-legal reasons that make it a special case - see the ancestor post about a bank wanting to dictate what a merchant can offer to their credit card customers, or the post about models being treated badly (not getting paid or having to do things that they didn't sign up for). In that case, there still seems to be a difference to non-porn modeling and acting in terms of standards and of recourse available. part of this is that there are more people paying for badly made porn than for badly made action movies
I don't think the index is the challenge. Anyone with enough machines and gigabits can index a big enough portion of "the web". The real difficult part is ranking and understanding web pages themselves.
Wo-ah! Livin' on a prayer!
I'm sure SpaceX would be happy to launch your ground-based telescope just above their constellation for a nominal fee.
>Nuclear power in France is heavily subsidized and it doesn’t make much economic sense ... the overall costs are too high.

How much would it cost per kilowatt hour without subsidies?
That actually makes sense (in a bizarre way) - fantasy vs. reality I guess...
> What if countries decide to extend the airspace to the aerospace

This is basically unthinkable.

Attempting to knock down all the satellites that ever fly above your country would mean knocking down every non-geostationary satellite that ever reaches your latitude (or any latitude farther from the equator than you).

Satellites are a key part of how we all know if anyone else is launching nuclear bombs or doing anything else so stupid. In the event that a country tried this I would expect that the foreign reaction would be very extreme. In the event that a country succeeded I would put the odds of nuclear war at above 50% and of conventional war at near 100%.

On the flipside you might almost get away with knocking down a few satellites with relatively minor reactions (at least compared to war, and if you had some good justification), as long as you don't try and knock them all out...
async/await colored functions is a disaster: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... And so many languages and ecosystems have fallen to this. Even C#, which is surprising since I expected them to know better. There was so much hype about async/await (nodejs was a big factor for this hype), that many languages adopted this without fully considering the long term maintenance nightmare it will create.

Because of this, I'm mostly interested in only Go and Java. Go obviously avoids the async/await trap with its core feature, goroutines. Java managed to resist this trap and has Project Loom coming which will give it the same feature as goroutines, but in a backwards compatible way.

Go is criticized for not having generics, but I appreciate the slower and more thoughtful way both languages add new features. Javascript, C#, etc. these languages seem to add whatever FOMO driven new hyped language feature is popular at the moment. Many complain about Go taking so long to add generics, just like many complained about lambdas in Java. But evolving a language should not be done quickly and recklessly.

My focus is still on Java, but I'm occasionally looking at Go to see what they're doing. It's interesting watching these two languages become more like each other (generics in Go and fibers in Java).
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The $50 amount isn't really germane to a robbery. Robbery is considered a person crime. It's a crime of threatening violence to a person. I don't know the particulars of this case and I'm not a lawyer, but the reason robbery carries heavy criminal penalties is that you're terrifying another person.

PRO TIP: If you're shoplifting, absolutely do not in any way threaten violence or suggest that you have a weapon on your way out of the store! It's a great way to turn a misdemeanor into a serious felony.
Been using it for a couple of hours now. I'm sold with the PDF excerpt feature. Reading books and papers is going to be fun!

Can you elaborate on the data residency aspects? It's mentioned that all data is stored on the iPad. Do I need to have an iCloud storage account eventually as I accumulate more notes?
I did run into one Go codebase that was closures all the way down. Due to limited abstractions, closures were created and passed around and returned everywhere through so many layers with arbitrary generic naming. It was the worst. At one point I wondered if it was a ploy to ensure employment but I don't think it was.
I found this old techno music video from circa 2007. The description claims "Future of mobile technology" and in the music video you can see actors interacting with what looks to be an Apple Watch (0:31), an iPad of sorts (0:56), synchronicity across devices (1:21), Google Maps (2:09), and advanced smartphone user interfaces (2:58).

The predictions are harrowing with their accuracy