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I’m glad they again mentioned the RYF certification. It’s the single most important thing which gives me genuine hope about this phone.

As far as I know, no other phone is slated to have it.
I actually think this could be developed into something very useful. Rust is a lot cleaner than Swift, and proper Objective-C interop could make it a viable alternative for app development.

(I'd avoid trying to replicate ObjC's syntax, though, since it's the worst part of that language.)
That's not correct. Unix, the operating sytem family, is different from systems that are certified as UNIX (uppercase) 03-compliant. Macos is a UNIX 03-compliant operating system certified by The Open Group.
> I rarely buy anything, don’t see ads but their business is healthy

Where do you think the money comes from, then? Ultimately, your `fantastic' experience comes at the cost of innumerable singular sites of suffering from the children and addicts _who do_ buy them.
Why does Unreal Engine have its own marketplace? Is it still an open platform?
So, does it count if I push 5000fps on 320x200?
>That Intel 8700K definitely supports VA-API with H.264, HEVC and VP9, decoding and encoding

It does not support MPEG-4, or it's disabled by default. I don't know how widespread that format is, but I believe it was developed with streaming in mind.
Thanks for posting that. The example about a very strong Go AI opening with the black hole opening.

I am a double digit kyu player, but I enjoyed clicking through the most recent game with it: http://www.yss-aya.com/cgos/viewer.cgi?19x19/SGF/2020/08/21/...

The battle in the upper left was fascinating!
There was a time they thought bicycles were a far-fetched idea. Now they're something that gets stolen and you shrug and buy another one. And when you look at the penny farthing, you realize they took a half-baked idea and turned it into the many types of bicycles we have today that are far better for their intended purposes: BMX, tricycle, 3 speed commuters, 10-speed, 12 speed, 21 speed, etc... and their many variations.

I don't think personal rockets will be a thing, but the common cultural thought of it will result in something related, but improved by the injection of actual science, and a cost/benefit response.

Electric autopilot is the current closest contender for a "personal rocket" type transportation solution. I'm sure there are others, too.

I'm looking at the problem being solved, versus a single potential solution for it.
It's irrelevant whether Apple are technically a monopoly or not; Apple abuses their iOS market power to force vendors to use their payment system.
TIL processors can actually hit a stable 6.6 GHz if you just pump liquid nitrogen through them…
This is a blunder. Epic will do just fine without Apple, but Apple is alienating people like me who use their products and are predisposed to support them. Our eyes are opening to their true nature. Full disclosure: I worked for Apple for almost 20 years.
On one hand I really hope this breaks apart Apple and Google's duoploy in mobile, basically acting as the gatekeeper to all users around the world.

On the other hand, I don't feel good about the way Epic went about this. Makes it hard to support them because they were the ones who first started the war by deliberately breaking the terms of service. There's gotta be a better way.
> add a new presentation under "Send mail as ..." and set it as the default.

That's what I needed -- thanks! The dot still shows in my Gmail profile, and it's not possible to remove the "Send mail as..." address with the dot; which is odd. But yes I'm also able to log in without the dot.
Microsoft takes about the same cut regardless of the distribution method.
In the name of transparency, this did happen :)
Section 3 of 948.60 means that 948.60 does not apply to him because he is in possession of a long barrelled rifle. More information here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299046068089430018.html

A lot of people have come out and confidently said he was in possession of an illegal rifle. But I have a feeling none of them have actually read the statute.
Commented this in the other thread on this subject, but think it's still relevant here.

Apple is truly doing themselves a disservice here, if Epic wins this battle Apple will undoubtedly be painted as the bad guy, and other major companies will smell blood in the water when it comes taking down a competitor.

Case in point; Tinder, Microsoft, Facebook, Spotify have all openly backed Epic and started to call attention to features that are impacted by this 30% fee. Status quo isn't going to cut it, and it would be in Apple's best interest to make a small concession to look like they're not so evil.
There's a subtle distinction though: one is censoring based on the speech, and the other is censoring based on the speaker.

The cake example specifically is more subtle (legally), since there's an argument that the cake is custom. I think this gets very tricky legally, but on the broader point, it isn't hypocritical to say censorship based on concept is okay, but based on speaker is not.
I see, thanks, that's helpful.
No, I think what they mean is that for instance, Apple Music is on Android, but Apple takes payments through its own platform, not through Google Play, therefore denying Google their 30% cut on apple music payments. Many smaller companies are not able to negotiate the same thing.
Open and closed is relative, as nothing is completely open unless it’s open source. Epic game store isn’t completely open. He’s just defining his version open to suit his bottom line.
To move the project forward, at some point you have to make decisions based on incomplete information. Some of these decisions will be good, some will be ok, and some will be completely wrong. The problem is: You only know this after the fact, when parts of it or all of it is already implemented.

Because of this you should design for change and build a flexible architecture. My goto technique for this is to encapsulate everything regarding this decision into a module and put an interface around it. The interface stays the same, the implementation can adapt. How this interface looks like is not that important. You can build a library, it could be a REST API or some gRPC thing, whatever. So yes, the main idea is to create well defined contracts or interfaces (call them whatever you like), which will be be flexible enough to adapt to different implementations.
It's not even legal departments having a fight, it's Tim Sweeney tilting at windmills

I 100% believe that 3rd party app stores is a hill Apple is willing to die on. I would guess they're more likely to get rid of "apps" entirely than open up their ecosystem.
Agreed, but it sounds pretty petty to say you surely won't gift your kids money for apps. Why not let them do what they want with your gift? Probably would end up a good lesson when they realize how much of a waste the apps are when you have limited resources.
I'm actually happy Apple didn't make a small concession.

I can't quite have the resources to sue Apple by myself as a small user being prevented from using the device I have paid for the way I see fit. I'm very glad that EPIC is doing it on my behalf. I'm also kind of glad that Apple didn't simply cut a backroom deal with EPIC, but is instead going the full-monty on this.
I think this might hit on the key as to why demand for teaching is dropping even though AIs don't really replace good teaching:

> Lee seems to combine these two with the silent assumption that the professionals’ goal is to strive for the ‘highest possible level of go’, which is no longer possible because the ai cannot be beat; incidentally, Lee Sedol remarked something similar when he announced his retirement. To me, on the other hand, it seems like nothing has changed because I have always reached for the ‘highest possible personal level of go’, and this should be the same for most players who are not near the top of the world.

Perhaps it has less to do with being at "the top of the world" and more to do with the role of the game in the broader culture. If what attracts you is not just your personal drive to improve, but the sense of overall societal contribution, that will surely wane if training goes towards study of AI rather than active research in play. On the other hand in the US/Europe such a thing hardly exists at all even for professional players.

Maybe a comparison point: What happened to voice and instrument lessons once recorded music became commonplace? In the fairly recent past any social group that wanted to listen to decent music must have had a member who was at least a slightly-above-average musician; and once they didn't need that anymore, that skill may have significantly dropped in social standing. That doesn't mean no one takes lessons anymore, but it seems like the number would have greatly reduced. (On the other hand, the median interest level and drive among people taking lessons probably increased.)

(Does that mean the go world is going to have to find its equivalent of Kurt Cobain to get lessons started again?)
> Other devices might use VA-API (Intel), VDPAU (NVIDIA proprietary), or something from the OpenMAX standard (some AMD drivers).

Nothing prevents Firefox from consuming these things. The majority of time I’ve spent on that library was not on V4L2, it was containers parsing (they are incredibly complicated these days, as I found out in the process), bitstream and parameter sets parsing, also audio codecs shenanigans: https://github.com/Const-me/DtsDecoder

> M2M is far from easy to handle in a lot of circumstances

I know, and I never said it was trivially simple. But it’s not terribly complicated either.

I have implemented that alone, for fun, spending a month part time. My implementation plays all h264 video files on my hardrives (more than 1TB of them). Because of that, I would expect better from a company with 9-digit annual revenue. BTW I had no prior experience with Linux multimedia, albeit I did a lot of related things on Windows, mostly with Media Foundation.

> why you're going into a screed about "sunk cost fallacy"

I have no idea how Firefox is developed. However, I’ve been developing other software for living for couple decades now, worked with many codebases including very old ones, and I think I know a few things about software development in general. That was just my educated guess.
What in god's name is with all the bootlickers in this thread? I have no love for Apple or Epic. But if this lawsuit leads to better treatment of third-party developers on the platform and Apple not being able to arbitrarily control what apps consumers get to download, I don't see why Epic is being painted as the "bad guy" by so many people here. Apple has been behaving in crazy anti-competitive ways (just look at how they historically treated any developer that dared make an app that competed with their own) for years now. It's time for the hammer to fall.
I think its really important the narrative stays clear concerning this: Its never been about users having choice (because users do have choice): Its about Developers not having a choice.

Refusing to release an iOS app for your web application/game/etc is generally a death sentence, so much so that oftentimes you see new services release as "Get it on the iOS app store, Android coming soon."
Sometimes I wonder if the way to make changes in these sorts of industries (with a powerful rent seeker that prevents change... e.g. health insurance, tax prep, etc) is to bite the bullet and just agree to bribe them... say, "we are winding down private insurance... we will pay you guys what your profit has been each year, diminishing each year, for the next 10 years. You can take that money and try another industry."

It might seem expensive and wasteful, but it might be better than the status quo.
Making profit off human well-being, I consider this a flaw of the capitalism.

There should be an easier fix than introducing another private for profit entity in the health care system.
These are all opportunistic companies that don’t care about consumers which have the same or worse overall practices than Apple.
More like "Live video capability on the internet is now critical infrastructure" but even then, phones probably cover 90%+ of use cases
Do you think there's any chance of direct drive generating enough torque for a roughly human sized robotic arm with human like performance (say to lift a 20 kg load) ?

The last time I looked into this it didn't look like that much torque was available in a small form factor. I found it rather surprising because larger scale industrial robot arms appear to far exceed any biological arm in both strength and speed.
"Breeding ground for innovation and efficiency" also means breeding ground for various scams. The traditional banks have a good value proposition here, should they choose to take it: they can copy the innovations that work, bolt them on top of their product, and offer something that is both innovative and is secured by men with guns.
I have a couple of NESDR Smart dongles from NooElec [1], that have worked very well for me. I run them on a Raspberry Pi 3 and pipe audio output to my desktop or laptop with PulseAudio.

Aside from SDR# on Windows and gqrx on Linux, there's also GNU Radio [2] and a variety of lightweight applications that can run on, let's say, a Raspberry Pi Zero [3]. Oona Räisänen has a fascinating blog that touches on digital signal processing as well, applicable to SDRs as well.

Me? No ham license, but that may come someday.

[1] https://www.nooelec.com/store/

[2] https://www.gnuradio.org/

[3] https://osmocom.org/projects/rtl-sdr/wiki/Rtl-sdr

[4] https://www.windytan.com/
Or they can do what they're currently doing.
Trump crime family
When we bought our house last year, the packet came with a big, bright red page (as well as a verbal warning from our loan officer) to look out for these scams.
If that's true, how would one rank pumping supercritical liquid nitrogen at high rates through a heatsink? Super-grandmaster?

Seems like the heat flow would be substantially impeded by any boiling of the LN2.

Or, for that matter, simply using a chilled copper ingot as the heat sink? There must be some threshold at which the limiting problem is getting the heat out of the die, not getting the heat out of the chip's package.
Not if they're anti-competitive, like selectively using private APIs or forcing developers to use unrelated services (i.e. Apple payment processors).
I was under the impression that the fee was only annual if you wanted to continue developing. I didn't know the fee was also tied to whether or not your existing apps would be taken down. Clearly, this is confusing to other people as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5271418/will-my-app-stay...
The joke in engineering school was: "You may choose to design a specific weak link into your design; if you do not do so, one will be provided for you."
The problem with his argument is that his premise just isn't true. TikTok is still able to spy on the user, so we are not much safer in an Apple world.
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Just as important: they are companies, not people. We (or perhaps: some of us) fall for the idea to personify the companies or brands that we use(d) because that is what some of the products might mean to use while we use them. But it's still products and companies, and our interaction is often limited to legal, retail and marketing.
Weeeeell.....yes, except that Epic has Tencent behind their back, and while Apple is still bigger, Tencent isn't that far behind.
It was very obvious that the response from Apple was quite expected so I don't understand why there would be any blinking going on.
Oh I didn’t know. I guess supporting Epic means that kind of behavior will just continue if they win...
one of the few companies to file an s-1 recently with healthy numbers. cash flow positive. profits. and considering state of us health care, I would buy stock in this company
A lot of scientific/HPC code running on supercomputers is compiled with icc.
Where is the evidence that he illegally transported a gun over state lines? He was legally in possession of a rifle in WI. I'm not sure of the law in Illinois but we don't know if he was in possession of the weapon in Illinois or if someone transferred possession to him when he reached WI where it is legal for him to possess.
Perhaps because targeting Linux users isn’t worth the trouble? It would be trivial to implement malware on Linux (e.g. here’s Valve accidentally deleting people’s home directory https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671).

Windows, and increasingly Android, suffers from viruses because they’re valuable targets. If Apple made it possible to install apps from third-party stores or websites then they’d similarly suffer.
I'm surprised there's no effort by companies to negotiate collectively with Apple, as one entity. A single company means nothing to Apple, the company often risks a big chunk of their revenues, Apple risks basically nothing.

Surely there are things that such app developer organisation could do to make Apple change their terms? Quick idea: motivate users to switch to Android, by adding new features there first, exclusive deals, etc.
This openness ideology hardly extends to the under the table exclusivity deals Epic Store has with a number of titles?
> If you’ve ever done any business (sales/purchasing), you’ll soon see that trust is not really a problem. Trust is only a problem in single-transaction deals (two entities trade once and expect to never trade again), which is pretty rare. Even in that weird case, branding and reputation are actually quite good ways of providing trust.

It absolutely is a problem in business, but maybe not in the businesses you have experience in. For example - try selling gift cards online for payment. Your only real option is credit cards, which is ripe with fraud, and involves hefty fees (2-3%). Cash for the internet (which is one thing "blockchain" enables), solves both of these problems.
Huh? I don't play any Epic games... But just because they refuse to pay a 30% fee?

Apple is only the distributor here. If they would charge a reasonable processing fee (4-5% like credit card companies do) nobody would have had - presumably - a problem.

Unlike with most (all?) other platforms there is no way to install apps from any alternate sources.

30% is the modern version of way-laying. (IMHO at least)
Ads are worse. Micro-transactions are the only viable funding model that preserves some amount of user privacy.
(2014)

Article is about inflation-corrected market cap, by the way.
My Tuxedo allows setting max charge and other battery related settings via bios as well
Much/most of the cost in big open source businesses is not creating the product but marketing and sales. Engineering is smaller but not trivial either if you are operating at scale in a large market. The people who actually pay money for these things expect them to work and to meet enterprise requirements like SOC2.
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Isn't this provably not true?

When the government decides a business is too big to fail, it'll ensure that the company keeps running. Just look at 2008
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But that also applies to every single current game console and
almost all other modern devices with app support, ranging from
smartwatches to home automation.

That doesn't seem like a monopoly to me. Apple has huge
competition on the mobile market. Windows Phone 8 only had
Microsoft's own app store, was that a monopoly with its <5%
market share? I think not.
> I also think it's telling that even though Blockchain has been this hyped thing for 6+ years at this point, we haven't really seen it actually be used for anything outside of cryptocurrency, which in and of itself isn't used for much outside of speculation. On the other hand, machine learning is used in everything now and makes a lot of stuff better.

Did you know that the Neural Network has been around since 1958 [1]? Machine learning is not a technology that is just 6 years old. The latest AI trend is also not the first or second time that AI has been through a massive hype cycle.

The problem with the cryptocurrency space is that it's financial innovation. And just like financial innovation on Wall Street, this tends to draw out the slimiest people in society, because if you get someone to believe in your product they may well leverage their mortgage and throw their life savings at you. It's crushing to see people do this, especially because pretty much only the malicious projects get hyped up that much.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't any truly groundbreaking innovation out there. Cryptocurrency changes the fundamental scalability of society. A key bottleneck for human society is trust - at some point a system gets large and corrupt, and it becomes difficult to keep bad actors from imparting a large amount of negative influence. But cryptocurrency allows us to design systems that don't require any trust at all. They _cant'_ be corrupted, because a combination of incentives and cryptography keep everyone safe.

As this blog post shows, there are still a lot of rough edges out there, but the technology is innovating rapidly. I do think the hype is probably 5-10 years ahead of the technology, but in the grand scheme of technology (think of how long it too Arpanet to mature, or Neural Networks to mature) that is not much time at all!

[1]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2591759/artificial-neu...
They built the platform.

They maintain the platform.

They promote the platform.

What's arbitrary about that?
PAYING game developers for exclusivity is much different than CHARGING game developers 30% of their revenue.

Also, the PC is an open platform. Game developers don't have to use Epic's or anyone else' store to distribute games on PC. With iOS you have no choice.
Not all rules are legal. Apple can’t demand your firstborn as collateral. They have enough market share in the US to be under scrutiny.
Apple denied for years there was a slowdown of old devices under any circumstances. By not telling users, Apple encouraged users to buy new devices rather than new batteries, fraud in the moral sense (if maybe technically not in the legal sense).
Whereas coding webshops, advertisement algos or mobile games are so much more relevant.
I took a reversing course some years ago and during the first part we learned how to identify the compiler using common patterns. Long story short, the Intel compiler did a phenomenally amazing job optimizing. This was 10 years ago so things may be different now.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t think they are acting to the level of MSFT in the 90s. What MSFT did would be equivalent to Apple forcing everyone to use its apps and not allow any competing apps. Also recall that Jobs was pretty adamant about allowing third-party apps in the beginning. Now, do I think 30% is ridiculous in 2020? Yes. But it made sense a decade ago when having a half decent working app almost guaranteed you revenue.
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/Developers/id

Indie devs can publish on Xbox for a token fee (no % of revenue taken).
In the US, you're already covered if you're low income, through Medicaid and ACA subsidies, that's part of where the current taxes go. It's certainly debatable if the existing programs are optimally structured.