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Epic has to step up their game, in order for google to compete in web, they made browser that better than everyone else and they made phone os that actually good to compete in smartphone world.

Epic has to do something similar. Sure thats not easy but given they are billion dollar company, they should be able to do it.
Note how you can easily just go to another provider (Steam, GoG) to buy the same content. Something you are forever and ever forbidden from doing if Apples data collection and terms bother you.
A lot of the time i see people/youtubers mention that they like the benefits of the App store that would be gone if anything changes.

But why is this invalidated by allowing allowing the user to install software from other sources, allow a the user to install a browser that is not a skin on top of safari, allow non apple game streaming services on the platform, allow the use of images/text that mentions or shows competing software company logos/names, allow apps to show price differences in payment processing or allow established payment methods like PayPal to be used on the platform.

If would still allow the same user to only use apple pay or the apple version of their loved service of choice but also gives users that don't alternatives.
> Back in the day, it wasn't done due to elitism but rather necessity.

For sure. I should have mentioned the current trend, as vinyl-only labels are having something of a resurgence.
> The failure of Minitel lies mainly in the underlying networking model, and resulting capability to become a service provider.

Not sure it's that simple. While you couldn't easily host your own services on the telco mainframes, there was nothing stopping companies from offering services over the phone. We had a Minitel service where I grew up in Brazil and numerous BBSs supported the 1200/75 dial in speeds and had specific UIs (or, at least, "ASCII" art) for the terminals.

Supporting the cheap and easily available modems was a no-brainer for the BBS owners, even though they needed to do bit-banging to make the asymmetric speed work.

Think of the terminal as a primitive but ubiquitous browser and the phone system as a circuit switched network and the dial in services as websites and you have the 80's web.
I understand these companies are all different and obviously different in size. But I still get a good feeling of the pot calling the kettle black here.
That does not play a role in their decision. They are rotating to other subsidized crops as well. If their was a profitable 'other' crop, they would grow it. Commodities are tough

https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-un...
Because this is only checking the individual function, not the entire systems state. If I have a function that adds two ints I could test it with [TestCase([2, 2], 4)] and this would pass but if it also changed the value of an object there could be an issue a unit test (and indeed integration/e2e test) wouldn't catch.
Hate against linux for a gamedev is understable.
Apple is starting to use Rust for low-level programming
I absolutely love this newsletter
My comment was not accusation of incompetence, rather the lack of details provided. It's like receiving a ticket saying "This doesn't work. Fix it now"
Epic Games vs. Apple – the legal issues
A relatively new favorite that seems to fit the times:

"Fear leads to panic, panic leads to pain, pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate."

-- Idles, Danny Nedelko
You have a point here. I'll rephrase it. If we can bomb a whole city in Irak, we should be able to stop bombing cities also. Is a much easier task and would help also to fix the climate problem.

Has anybody calculated how many greenhouse effect gasses are released when moving and dropping a bomb?
There's something to be said for limitations. I learned to drive linux on a old p100 laptop and floppy disk installs. It had very limited resources (you had to aggresively nice oggvorbis to play .ogg files without skipping). The hard drive was failing and I had to put it in the freezer from time to time to bring it to life.

Anyway working with those limitations was very educational.

Fast forward to today, I've been playing the baritone sax for 18 months. I got a cheap vintage instrument. I traded it in this week for a modern Yamaha, and it's so much easier to play, and the quality of my playing has gone up orders of magnitude. But then again the initial struggle with the sub-optimal equipment was very educational.
You will need a TCP-like self-stabilising algorithm to rate-limit code changes.
Ideas that keep coming back to me:

A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.

It is what we read [and watch and listen to] when we don’t have to that determines what we’ll be when we can’t help it.

The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our life.

It is not enough to say you work hard, so does the devil work hard
Since this war is about making money from controlling access to the users, I don't feel like siding with either Apple or Epic on this. Letting the sheep decide by which wolf they will be eaten isn't that great of a choice.

From my own personal perspective, I would like to be able to permanently install an app that I developed myself, on my own Mac, on the iOS devices that I own without having to go through the app store or Apple's review process. But I'm not holding my breath that the outcome of this fight will deliver even that.
> We don’t have to live sprawled out far away from our workplaces,

So I am guessing you are suggesting we all live in dormitories just next to factories/offices, and have no more than 5 square meter per person because anything more than that is absolutely unnecessary to live.
Seems like nobody should really be treated that way though, so the fact he's being treated in accordance with others to me is more of an indictment of the system than his specific treatment. People seem to have lost sight of the fact that (a) people are innocent until proven guilty in general and (b) criminals are people too, and all people deserve humane treatment. After all, if you can't treat criminals humanely who are you to condemn them for treating others inhumanely? By all means, remove from society, reform, re-educate, etc, but no reason to treat criminals as anything other than your siblings, parents, etc who did something wrong and need some course correction.
"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable." Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yeah. I had a fully decked out one with 10MB of RAM, 80MB hard drive, an Apple //e card, a 5-1/4 inch drive and a LaserWriter LS.
This is first good analysis of Epic vs. Apple, worth reading what they are actually fighting about.
There's so much 'repeat trash' that could be repurposed if accumulated instead of disposed immediately.
Besides Fuchsia, that no one knows what it might be all about.

Project Treble kind of isolates Linux kernel from modern Android drivers, where standard Linux drivers are considered legacy, while Treble drivers follow a mikrokernel like approach using Android IPC to talk to the kernel.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal-types

Also note that Linux specific calls aren't part of the official APIs exposed to userspace,

https://source.android.com/compatibility/11/android-11-cdd#3...
This is the main reason why I had to move my parents from android to IOS. The free apks were ruining their experience and my work/support/life balance.
> As an individual negotiating compensation with a company, you are at a structural disadvantage

I may be worlds worst negotiator; I'm not very good at representing myself and I tend to nod and smile a lot. I think my salary has tended between 1.2 and 1.5 times the male full-time median over my career.

So sure, there is a structural disadvantage there. If I were a great negotiator maybe I could be working with 1.4 to 1.7x. But that structural advantage is all about fiddling at the margins, and a union won't change that. Neither unions or companies can resist the underlying market that sets the bounds on what is possible. I'm much more worried about that, and I don't think a union would help. If anything, it is likely to hinder. If times get tough, I want a low-paid job, not no job.

Conversationally, I don't want my peers telling me what to do, it is bad enough when the boss does. If people want to share salaries that sounds helpful.
>There is virtually no literature on this and I have looked hard for examples.

Considering how spies are mixed in, I don't doubt it
Because some corporations actually do make efforts towards improving society:
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
https://www.apple.com/environment/
> I’m really not sure what level of understanding people have of history these days.

People go by what they gathered from movies and what their older relatives talk about.
After spending time in the Arduino community; it becomes apparent very quickly that hardware and embedded people have a real issue with the Arduino platform.

Most of it is ego flexing, and coming from the field of software engineering; we are trained these days to recognize and squash this behavior, but it seems to be alive and well with those working in the embedded field.

Honestly, after years of working with all types of software on all types of platforms, the Arduino platform is pretty nice. It gets you up and running very quickly and anyone with basic programming knowledge can start creating electromechanical devices, while it also allows you to write more advanced software (with essentially C++).

All of that being said: there are a ton of garbage 3rd-party libraries released for the Arduino, with garbage code, no documentation, no tests, no support, and gnarly tutorials. So I see where some resentment comes from, but once again; it's unacceptable ego flexing.
Yeah, sulong looks pretty cool!
https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slides/TechTalk-Schatz-Sulon...
In the case of Epic games, they shovel money their way with a _biiig_ shovel, even for free games.

I don't know about PS/Xbox, but the situation is probably similar.
Because one side of this dispute benefits us as customers. It's that simple.
If the alternative is not publishing the game at all, or never on PC then it's still a benefit. Are any of their thirty party, exclusivity deals permanent?

If you want to play any Valve games without Steam then you're out of luck.

Having another store is a low barrier to entry.

Imagine there was only one store for groceries in your whole state. And when you go to court a chorus rebukes you for not selling your produce there instead of opening another nearby.
Putting junk details in the form works. There's no verification step on email.
Looking forward to 3rd party stores for Unreal plugins.
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
This is a case of the browser vendor trying to solve a problem for the user that the browser vendor itself created. In this case, cookies from Netscape. At some point the risk outweighs the benefit. That's why you have GDPR.
Well, my classification of it as 'old internet' is of course subjective. To me it feels like many newer websites appear more clinical, in both, positive and negative ways. I think it's way less common now to mix personal stuff like pet photos with more professional topics like coding. Poeple who post both usually do this on different platforms (social networks vs. personal blog).

From a technical point of view, the website makes heavier use of tooling that nowadays are used less, because there are alternaltives. One example are actual hyperlinks and different pages, whereas today there's some trend towards keeping more content on a single page and use buttons to navigate it.
Are these guys getting paid by UKIP or something?
"These monopolies need to be stopped," says man who wants to create his own monopoly.
Don't see why not, most European equipment is built to handle a range of 220-240V at least, whatever the marking says. At worst the screen might display slightly smaller than intended.
==Then fix the brain problem through self control==

Oftentimes, something is far easier to type than it is to do. If you have a reliable way of implementing self-control this simply, please share it.
As a user of npm I'd really like to see some effort to create a framework for trust in open(ish) repositories. Something that includes signing, reputation (beyond "popularity"), trust network (people that vouch for your packages), automated verification to check for obfuscation, etc.

I mention npm because it's always in the news, and because it's a much smaller and simpler problem that a whole App Store.

If we could fix something like npm the solution could perhaps be generalized or built on to open trustworthy repos for all kinds of content. At that point we would have a very strong working argument against privately-run monopolistic app stores. Until then I prefer Apple as a benevolent dictator to mad-max style libertarianism. I need to use Adobe software for professional reasons, but I'd rather not have to deal with an Adobe app store... or an EA app store... or an Ubisoft app store... or apps stores from a variety of shitty companies with bad practices.
>Public defenders

Those are normally Not the Superstars Defenders right? That's what we talk about here, if your rich you can afford the best Defender/Attorney-Team.

Your wrote that:

>A poor person that magically had the kind of lawyers Holmes uses would do just as well. Unequal access to legal resources is the root of the problem.
> You guys are acting like the existence of the App Store has jacked up the app prices by 200%

No, we got free to play with endless micro transactions instead. I would have preferred the price bump.
Exclusives do nothing for convenience, and if the game gets released a year or two later, it's no longer "next-gen" or whatever.
Well, there does exist a fixed pay scale for base salaries, but for senior academic grades in many occasions this simply defines the minimum salary, and the rest is negotiable (particularly if the academic has a good record of obtaining research grants).

Then again, there exist Business Schools, where due to the different funding model (most income comes from MBAs, as opposed to research grant overheads, and undergraduate tuition fees), full professors can easily make near-£200k in base salary.
'How hard can it be?'
Have you seen the bloodshed in the NASDAQ lately? It's wiped out quite a bit of wealth... although it was fairly overheated and tech was due for a major correction, but damn watching those gains come down was painful. :/
Why would it not? The UK recognises NK as a country and is not at war or in any serious dispute with it, so it makes sense.
I don’t think there’s that much of a difference, unless you want to legally classify a platform differently. Today no such legal classification exists.
I don't understand it. I can modify the content of a page easily, but there's no option to change the theme. For example, I tried changing the hero title text from blue to red, and there wasn't any way to do that. Calling the product 'themepage' implies you can change, well, the theme.
> Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country.

To be fair, this is pretty much the definition of 1st world problems.
Is installing another store really so burdensome? It costs nothing but a few minutes of time. GOG Galaxy can even help consolidate them.
Bueller?
Minitels were freely accessible in post offices, I recall searching for jobs on one in the local PO while on holiday there in the early 90s.
> Happiness = Reality - Expectation

So the real key to happiness is to set your expectations as low as possible!
Yes that's true. That's why most languages have infix operators and prefix function calls.
> In the late 70's, everyone's second language in Spain (except OFC the ones speaking Iberian latin dialects or Basque having Spanish itself as a second one) for example wasn't English, but French.

1- Spain is a neighbor to France, so it's hardly surprising that French is used a lot in the first place.

2- Spain represents less than 1% of the World population, so it's hardly a proof that French was used all over the world in the 70s.
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for a lot of recent releases you can't, because epic have bought exclusivity

they're complaining about monopolies, while attempting to create them
Who loves a good second wave?
Civil law has its own case law too, just in a different form. A fully-codified civil law where legislative and judiciary are one and the same might eliminate that kind of cruft, like the old Turkic two-power system. But that would not work in the current society.
17% of people in the US use their smartphone as their only portal to the internet [1]. Is your argument that as long as they can go use a computer at a library that their smartphone is a luxury item? Access to the internet (or someone to access it for you) is basically a prerequisite for existing in modern society and phones are how people choose to do it most of the time.

This like saying "hey, if you don't like buying from standard oil, just get a horse!" when 1) you might already have a car, 2) you can't afford a horse on top of that, and 3) society has restructured itself such that a horse is not even viable in your day-to-day life.

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/06/17/pew-smartphone-only...
A classic problem with english translations of War and Peace is what to do about the languages? The main characters start out the novel speaking french with each other and russian with the servants (similar to the role of english for elite households in 2020 india?).

The costume drama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2-fkZ-0Blw claims that in the seventeenth century, the aristocracy would've been familiar with enough with their tenants' dances (indeed, preferring them to french court customs) to perform them themselves, but no matter what the historical accuracy of that portrayal, Tolstoy's take on the nineteenth century situation was different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace#Language .

https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Война_и_мир_(Толстой)/Том_I/Ч...
Yes ,@knaq is correct. Organic production systems _do_ spray chemicals and oftentimes those chemicals are clearly more dangerous than the chemical applied to modified crops.

Its been mentioned in this thread but Roundup is actually safe compared a whole host of chemicals we were spraying in the <1970s. There is currently not a world where crop production doesn't use herbicides (but it is coming thanks to drones and autonomous robots that can manually remove weeds)
Competition in platforms forces platforms to extract less value.

Steam has been taking huge cuts from developers. Steam also killed discoverability.

Game devs almost gave up on PC because steam killed the platform. Check out GDC talks on the "indiepocalypse".

Yes, Steam has a lot of nice QoL features on their 20 year old platform that 2 year old platforms don't have. But new platforms force them to, you know, compete instead of extract value from the ecosystem.

The consumer benefit is in terms of games that wouldn't have existed otherwise because they're economically viable now.
Clean your room. ;)
The 5% -> 25% was literally the easiest part. The big expensive downsides to renewables really aren't a factor. Intermittency is minor when you can fall back on 75%, if there's only 50% to fall back on that's a problem.
I can listen to the exact same record my mom listened to 50 years ago, complete with her initials on the sleeve. I can’t do that with CD’s. Since she passed, this has taken on even more meaning.
Epic pays the developer for X units sold before selling anything. Basically guarantee the developer to make at least that much sold. The developer still stands to make extra buck if the game sells really well (when selling more then those X units Epic paid them beforehand)

This is great for smaller devs as you basically have 0 advertising budget and rely on worth of mouth for your game to be a success or not. So you can take guaranteed money and pay yourself (and your employees) or take the gamble and hope your game sells well.

Also Epic takes smaller cut then Valve does on Steam. (12% vs 30%)

Also these exclusives to Epic are timed. So after a couple months the developer is free to publish their game on Steam/GOG/Windows Store/whatever PC platform (Epic store exclusivity does not apply for consoles)
It's a famous example off the top of my head. The person I was replying to did not deserve anything more since they made such a ridiculous assertion to begin with.
Both links end up at the same place. It seems DW basically replaced a whole article with another one.
Yes! I love those jars.
> Fukushima killed 0 people

We could repeat this as many times as we want, but will be still a false statement.

If disinformation will continue to be the standard solution for managing all nuclear challenges, we are not ready for an adult discussion about it. Therefore nobody should be allowed to use this technology until we mature as species and we'll be able to focus in the real issues.
Looks like I'll put Quora in its own Firefox container then.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...
(Not the person your replying to, but) No, I don't wish the guy building it was associated with the CCP, but given what happens to US military hardware these days—it ends up in the hands of the police, who use it against US citizens—this isn't all that much better.
I'm reasonably sure that this is the paper in question if someone cares enough to actually want to read it:

"Discriminating Males and Unpredictable Females: Males Bias Sperm Allocation in Favor of Virgin Females", doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01928.x
Back in the 1980s when I was a l33t hax0r, I used to bounce around the world on X.25 networks, many of which I suspect were operated by Minitel. There was a chat system/early BBS/something called QSD in France, where a lot of hackers would congregate to chat and trade credentials for systems. I can't find much on the net about QSD now, except a few old Phrack articles. Does anyone know what the relationship between Minitel and QSD was?