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I don’t find that argument at all compelling. I didn’t reread it all again now so am replying somewhat from memory, so won’t address all the points, just the main ones I remember: that it boils down to “but then I won’t know if it’s the middle of the high/the business is open in other country!”, except this is already true:

Countries have weird time zones like how China has a single time zone even though the country spans the area of three. Apparently Palestine and Israel have different time zones despite being the same physical location. It gets dark at different times depending on how close to the equator you are. If you want to know if it’s night or day somewhere, you already have to look it up, so nothing would change if time zones were abolished.

Similarly, businesses already have varied opening hours so again you have to look it up. Hell, without time zones it would be easier because if the website says “you can call us between 0900 and 1700“ you know that you can call them when your clock is between those times, no need to mentally time zone adjust.

My point is that the arguments against laid out in that post, by and large, are already the case so things don’t really get any harder, certainly not after we adjust to the idea, but without time zones we have a single consistent time, we just adjust our schedules based on our local day/night. Hell, if more people work from home and more companies hire foreign remote workers, a shift from local to global time would benefit everyone.
WebView support and PWA support largely both depend on the same set of functionality (disregarding Cordova/PhoneGap).

If Apple decides to arbitrarily disable some functionality in PWAs but not in-app WebViews then they're going to have a hard-time defending that, as all new web-standards specifications are built around privacy in-mind (as that seems to be Apple's overriding reason for not implementing some web-standard specification that benefits PWAs).
There are rare moments in big developments when individuals can significantly affect the outcomes - before the distributed consensus of the market takes over and forces us down some ugly path. In this case, as long as Musk is spearheading this development, perhaps we should get Nick Bostrom to write a pop-philosophy book specifically about merging the mind and the machine? Musk is pretty receptive to Bostrom's ideas.
This aspect of autonomous vehicles is very boring compared to the ethical dilemma.

Should self-driving cars perhaps have a morality setting, with a range from "Screw everyone else" to "Save as many lives as possible (prioritize younger), don't worry about me at all"? And should this in turn be connected to your insurance policy (the more selfish the setting, the more you pay)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem#Implications_f...
This is actually a brilliant idea.

If you change the pitch by the allocated chunk size (maybe in log scale) or use different sound for free(), someone could be actually detecting memory leaks just by listening to the app.
Fascinating. More examples of large organizations encountering unknown and non-reproducible phenomena.

Like everybody else, I have no idea what this is. I have, however, consumed scads of stories about military organizations encountering things they can't deal with. Some of these are quite prosaic for their situation, such as UN forces figuring out that the Chinese were entering the Koran War.

I _think_ I have enough of these examples to reach a tentative conclusion: for many organizations, the information that they've had incursions and are stumped is extremely important. If there's a known weakness, other competing powers might take advantage of it. What actually happened is besides the point. The mission is to control information, access to information, and the larger narrative.

You layer on half-remembered (and perhaps exaggerated) stories from fifty years ago and you get articles like this. My best guess is that this is very similar to what happened to the US Navy recently, only in this case the military has managed to confuse the issue enough that investigators will be debating details for decades to come.

Reality is not required to conform to our standards of scientific proof. If we can't observe or manipulate something, there's no way for us to scientifically reason about it. That's tough for a lot of folks to deal with.
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Want to use the neuraIM to talk with family and friends? I know you'd prefer a FLOSS nIRC client, but everyone you know is already on WhatsBrain.
Reminds me of cyberbrain sclerosis from Ghost In The Shell.
No, not surely. This is basic economics. The price isn't influenced by what it costs to produce. The price is set according to what users are willing to pay. What users are willing to pay is influenced by how much money they think it's worth, how much money they have and how costly other options are.

In case of Fortnite there is no competition (no one else can offer that game and there isn't really any similar option) so additional money comes purely from developer's pocket. Sure, they could have been charging more to make a point or because they think iOS users are willing to pay more in general but the users don't really care where 30% of the price goes to. It doesn't influence their buying decisions at all.
Black isn't the total absence of light in the first place. It's just a relative absence of light.

It works the same way for paintings, screens, oleds, etc. So when the author is talking about "black" they're using it in the same way that a normal person would talk about "black"--it's a very dark color.
Another Scot here (NE Scotland). While it never gets properly dark during summer, it comes with the caveat of feeling like it's permanently dark during winter. I always hated driving to work in the morning in the dark, then driving home in the evening in the dark. Winter here feels kind of depressing because it's dark so much.

Also, IMO, unless you've got proper black-out blinds, never getting dark during summer is a PITA!
Anyone who sees this and is interested in Ocaml but does JavaScript normally, check out Rescript (formerly Bucklescript/ReasonML).
It's not that life is short, it's that we waste to much of it - Seneca
> I think it could be argued that the Spruce Goose was an early experiment with a hybrid Ground Effect Vehicle.

Since the Spruce Goose was never intended or designed to take advantage of ground-effect[0], it really can't unless you go with the approach that more or less every large plane is "an experiment in GEV".

[0] quite the opposite, GE is less pronounced with high wings, which is why the Lun uses mid-wings and the Orlyonok uses low-wings
We have recent proof that educational institutions actually discriminate against white and asian pupils.

Your wording suggests animosity, so why would you believe you are less biased than anyone else?

Perhaps you are biased because you spend time on reddit, I wouldn't hold it against anyone, but original thought doesn't make an appearance in this discussion.
From what I can tell looking at friends and family, a lot of people are currently returning from vacation, and it's been on the news a couple times that those people are bringing back covid, presumably visiting bars and clubs depending on where they traveled, easing the spread.

That would explain why it's becoming less deadly. The old and vulnerable don't travel, so we have a disproportionate amount of young people getting infected which recover well. Let's see how many of those who return can't resist visiting their grandparents in the first two weeks after returning. Maybe we get a delayed deadly wave when it hits the retirement homes again.
> Wasn't it supposed to decrease electricity usage? If I remember correctly it was one of the arguments for DST.

It was, and did, but that was based on a time when lighting drove total electrical load. That's no longer the case due to increasing energy efficiency in lighting and the growth of other common electrical loads.
> by definition it will be very promotional in order to convey a vision

I think that this is where Musk's endeavors are different and why Tesla stock prices are constant source of disbelief.

He is able to successfully sell grand vision - and moreover - support it by showing results. Sure there is good old Toyota, it makes good reliable cars but it's just a car, there is no vision - I think that some people may want to buy Tesla or other Musk's company product just to indirectly support other projects.

> true scientists lose their jobs because of the lack of NIH or NSF grants for their quality research

Advertising and marketing is important. Doing things in the open does matter, live streaming double booster landing, pointing out that small steps here and there lead to big grand dream of landing on other planet does matter.
> They pick schools where children are told how to dress and what they can say.

I don't see how the schools are relevant, because parents tell children how to dress and what they can say too. Children have very limited legal rights. But we're not children, and I'm tired of Apple treating us like children.

As for homeowners associations and cities, it's important to note that the residents of those have a vote, whereas Apple users have no vote over how their devices work. (Only Apple shareholders have a vote.) Someone is going to respond "you vote with your wallet", but that's not the same. With Apple, your only choice is "love it or leave it". Whereas in a democratic organization with voting, you have the option to stay and still change how the system works.

Let Apple users vote! I'm all for that.
It's not like advocating for strategies that work and make the world a better place get you elected anyway. It's all about making feel good promises anyway. Maybe you can convince someone already elected in their last term to actually implement it.
But how many can create a hardware platform like an iphone?
I was thinking that it’s useful in games or other applications where you don’t want to malloc at arbitrary times (eg in games you might malloc once in startup or on level start and then reuse that memory instead). Many applications with real-time requirements often work similarly (eg high frequency trading), so this would be a fun check to make sure your application is well behaved.

I like the idea of changing pitch by size and also representing frees, but I’m not sure it would be useful to find memory leaks since there’s no real way of matching them up in any non trivial application.
What are you going to do with this much land? A single person doesn't need more than a few acres of land even if they are growing all their own food and have other stuff on the side. How many friends do you have?
The comparison to murder seems apt when we're looking at this in terms of intent rather than severity. The original response stated that we should forgive slack because "things like this happen", playing off the incident like an accident, when this was clearly not the case.
Most of the world already uses a standard time that is generally late relative to the solar time. See this map being colored mostly red, which means that the sun sets later than it "should" if we were just using solar time.

http://blog.poormansmath.net/the-time-it-takes-to-change-the...

By contrast, standard time in the "contiguous states" is much closer to solar time. Keeping DST would bring the US closer to the rest of the world.
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If I can buy groceries, flights, concert tickets, and random Amazon items without paying an in-app fee, why I can't I buy game content?

If I can buy in-app content in an iOS browser, why can't I buy it inside the app? (Because some app makers have decided they would rather make it unavailable inside an app than pay the Apple tax.)

This is fundamentally consumer-hostile behaviour.

Of course Apple will argue it has to vet apps and in-app content.

And then all a lawyer has to do is point to the various exploits and it's game over for that argument.
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On lithium's JSON parser, they describe:

"Only cases where the structure of the object is known at compile time are covered."

Numbers are impressive, but there are some big trade-offs that come with.
> All the comments saying "just buy an Android" ignore the simple fact that you buying an Android does not change the fact that a significant portion of the market is elsewhere.

All the comments saying “just allow side-loading apps/third-party stores and let people decide themselves” ignore the fact that by doing so then iOS will end up with the same virus/malware issues that you see on Windows and Android. Suddenly we’ll need to help friends and family factory reset their iPhone because their search engine got hijacked, or because they get spammed with sex notifications, etc.
Back in the day sysadmins would just hooks up the least-significant address line to a speaker. That way they could monitor the mainframe aurally while reading and drinking coffee instead of watching the bank of flashing lights.
The people taking a serious go at trying to understand how the brain works are the ones trying to simulate a nematode brain, the ones working on understanding animal behaviors, the ones studying how infants acquire knowledge etc. These are all prerequisites for any kind of useful understanding that would allow us to build a working model of the brain and start imagining how to interface it more directly with other systems.

Not doing the fundamental research and trying to pick up useful signals by arbitrarily choosing to focus on inter-neuron communication in a few areas of the exterior of the brain is unlikely to even advance our understanding one iota. We're learning much more about thought (not neuro-motor transmission, mind you!) from the people training slime molds to navigate mazes than we are learning from this.

I'm glad though that there are more people working on perhaps helping people who have lost control of their bodies to regain it. That is an absolutely worthy goal that the team from Neuralink do have a hope of achieving in our lifetimes, and where I absolutely believe they can push the state of the art.
The word "tax", when referring to Apple's fees, is a loaded and partial term. The fact that it's clear and understood and factored into the price makes it easy to complain about, but no casual customer to my knowledge has ever seriously asked what proportion of their peppermint tea and scones pays for a café's rent - overheads are overheads and margins are margins. Both companies are invoking consumers and value in their arguments and ripostes, but I only see one of them defending their customers' interests.

Many a company is upset that they have no leverage in a business deal and want to courts to hand it to them.
Lithium is the fastest web framework among the frameworks that nobody use

Seriously why is this reaching the front page, who really care about such benchmark ?
Apple seems to prevent a company from having a line of text in their app that says: oh, by the way, you can purchase this texture pack or that asset on our website. I think it's the key to the problem. It seems difficult for Apple to argue that it is not anti-competitive.
The article links to recent (post-stranding) photographs of the interior by an urban explorer: https://www.rferl.org/a/photographer-sneaks-inside-the-legen...

Apparently there was a security guard, but they were asleep!
"My point is, arbitrary assumptions based on race are totally meaningless in 2020."

Well, unfortunately race and gender are still important in 2020, and in the VC world there are still important negative discrimination against woman, against black people... and positive discrimination for White and Asian men... [1] [2] and that is a serious problem.

(This comes on the top of existing other problems linked eg. to poverty, that is touching disproportionately the people negatively discriminated by VC and investors)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesnonprofitcouncil/2018/02/...
[2] https://hbr.org/2017/05/we-recorded-vcs-conversations-and-an...
Without understanding all of the technical details, am I the only one who finds Netflix's quality on Android insufferable? Technically, I guess it's Full HD but the packing is so aggressive that any scenes with just a bit darker sections will instantly be blocky and pixellated. Is there any way around it? Honestly it's not worth paying for as it's almost unwatchable.
That depends exactly on what that sentence means. It is fairly unusual that you need to parse a JSON with unknown structure during any kind of speed-critical section.

My personal criticism is that C++ is usually (not always, though) the wrong language for implementing web-facing applications or APIs. There is a considerable advantage in terms of speed (when using the right framework) but there are so many things that can subtly go wrong in terms of safety and security that you need to be very, very careful when picking C++.

And I write this as a C++ developer.
It's hard for me to feel scared about the control a company has over a product I can choose not to buy. Of course I do think you should have every right to jailbreak/root your device and vendors should have every right to cease updating or warranty repairs in return.

Personally what I find scarier is courts and other govt institution deciding what products companies are allowed to make or sell me.
They aren't a monopoly. Being a monopoly, is the first test that the courts will implement.
What's the problem anyway? There isn't a legal one as far as I know?
2x faster than the Actix Rust framework.

Rust, C++ just said “hi” to you again, it’s on. Time to make Actix fast.
Your argument amounts to " My preference is better than yours"
The go-to Intel-crushing benchmark these days is Cinebench R20, which runs on Intel's Embree raytracer.
China anti-food waste campaign puts dinner table under government's watchful eye
> I find everyone talking about black markets etc. kind of ridiculous. Really?

Agreed. Fuck them
Is this a criteria that's important enough to warrant this much effort?

I can think of several metrics that would come first - even for sites with fairly high performance requirements.

How often is the web framework genuinely the bottleneck (at least in a way that's not easily fixable with caching or any other similar sledgehammer)?
Who still uses analog clocks though? If you don't care for modern tech, just wake up with the sun and you're on time anyway.

The idea of keeping track of this system in software sounds terrifying though. Getting rid of DST would simplify things, but this would ramp up the complexity a lot.
Most of the time the framework is not in the top 10 bottlenecks of your application.

Optimize your webapp before hunting for the fastest frameworks.
HKOSharp – Hong Kong Weather API
A handy .NET library for accessing Hong Kong Observatory’s API.
Yeah, but I'd imagine if someone offered you to have Steam on ps5, you'd jump in instantly. At least I would. I'd even pay more for the nice compact hardware if it is currently subsidized.
Looks neat. No license in repo, sadly.
The neurology of time is a topic hard to read about.
So I have a weird opinion - cars are cheap, and give us time.

If your time is worth little, public transportation will work. But if you want to get from home to work and back, the car will be quickest. And if you want to go to the grocery store on the way home, no public transportation helps with that.

There are a few modifications of that.

If you have to get to work and you're not in a rush and you have something to do along the way like listen to a podcast or read a book, then that might be slightly different, because you're living a bit. (although podcasts work in the car if you are not against driving + listening - some people are)

Public transportation works really well when the roads are full full full. Getting from one side of Mexico City to the other quickly during rush hour is possible with the metro, not possible in a car.
Over here (Netherlands), the right to electricity and gas was (and still is?) so strong that even squatters, once they properly established themselves, would get access to these services.

More specifically, they had to find their way into a year-plus abandoned property with no registered plan for the future (at the time of 'break-in'), make sure to have basic furniture (bed, table?), and then they'd be able to call whoever they needed to get gas and electric.

Leaving aside my opinions on squatting, I always felt it was a good thing that in our society, access to these fundamental things is so enshrined that it even applies to people breaking into a place and claiming it their own.
ReScript and ReasonML are separate projects, check out the ReScript FAQs for the relationship between OCaml/Reason/Bucklescript/ReScript.

https://forum.rescript-lang.org/t/rescript-frequently-asked-...
"IBM Z" is their zSeries, which is just the new name for their traditional mainframe platform. Hybrid might mean it has Linux partitions in addition to a z/OS (aka OS/390) partition.
The notable part is not that they had to pay it. It’s that they chose to pay it. It reveals the magnitude of shift to WFH.
It would be interesting to filter the ones that are used?
Those who work on these frameworks, and those interested in http framework benchmarking.

Some of the ideas developed in these frameworks percolate down to the PLs that use them and to the libraries they use, which benefits everyone. These frameworks also test new language features.
In that interpretation, the authors point is even less valid. In that case he just advocates substituting a dark color by a less dark one, wrecking contrast and thereby acccessability.
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It's Linux only apparently.

Is it the use of some Linux only kernel API that enables it to be slightly faster than the other frameworks?
>By the time this is all over and society resumes I will be pretty far past the cutoff point for fixing my social life and still managing to be relatively "normal"

It's like anything else you want. Put the work in; enjoy the process; and don't get frustrated when progress isn't linear. The more you get in your head, the harder the work will seem, the less you'll enjoy it, and the further what you want will seem.
What about bicycles? They're an excellent thing to promote in a lot of places, and can help a lot with reducing car use for short-medium trips. Also, truthfully I'm not sure PT has much of an impact on the pandemic - some of the worst hit countries have notoriously bad/non-existent PT, whereas others with world-class PT have very much controlled the disease.
Can you do an AMA? Why did you create lithium? How long have you been working on it? What do you do professionally? What are your plans for it?
HOAs are becoming ubiquitous. In my area, nearly every home built in the past 20 years is under a HOA, and of course there are older HOAs too. They're generally created by the home builder, not the home buyer.

When I was buying a house, I didn't want an HOA. I hate them. But the options were extremely limited, and it was a seller's market.

I think local governments like HOAs because they pay to maintain certain common areas, so the cities don't have to spend tax money on that. Also, local politicians are all on the take with... surprise, surprise... the home builders.
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