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My previous experience with the PlayStore might have been different than yours.

In the context of this guideline and other user focused non-tracking/permissions related things, the PlayStore is “already at bottom”.
C# had also adopted lambdas and generics post first release, but made all the right decisions for transition so type system isn't a mess.
Ive experienced a similar abundence paralysis, theres too much option and that is exhausting. As soon as you go minimalist the creativity and the desire do come back. You can then sprinkle some extras here and there but with caution
In most cases it seems US municipalities paid firms in China to take their recycling, not the other way around.

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycli...
This is about tracking via gps. Exactly the same rules as Google play.
Bet they were out and sent someone with a truck to Home Depot.
NYT hit a new low today, by publishing this bit of Chinese propaganda about Hong Kong: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhqQfJyXgAEHKtr?format=jpg&name=...
Shells and coral also don't decompose and turn into limestone after enough time. Plastic is more toxic, but I can't imagine it being much worse than oil shale when it's compressed. Maybe humanity's legacy in a million years will be a bunch of plastic rocks.
I too find ADHD to be a super power. We've been forced to adapt to our inability to pay attention to uninteresting things. But a lot of the day-to-day life doesn't really help you in the long run.

Props on vo.codes; I'm [refactoring my website](http://blog.con.rs/2020/09/11/mash-rehash.html), one piece of which is a "say" command currently powered by online dictionary. Seems a super simple fit to power it using your tool instead :)
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People often think it's labour, but it's much more than that. Low cost of everything. Transportation, production machinery, raw materials. And short lead times.

Try buying something like a coil winder, an induction heater, a spot welder, or a heat sealer. Even in the US, you're much more likely to find Chinese equipment more competitive and more readily available. Especially for an SME.
Yeah, this is all interesting in relation to a collectively shared idea of the future.

Growing up in the 70s, video phones were like flying cars and jet packs. Things right around the corner but never to arrive over the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Could be seen on The Jetsons, represent progress, a progress we saw clearly on TV, a recent invention itself.

And now, unlike flying cars and jetpacks, video phones have arrived. Not with a bang but with a whimper - no one actually looks forward to a video call, I'd guess.

And flying cars and jetpacks? They're not impossible, just absurdly dangerous and less likely because of this.

And video phones are similarly not actually desirable, just less extreme. Between 70s and the 2000s, I think most people figured out that video phones didn't exist 'cause unlike TV, they would be weird and awkward and unpleasant.

The big thing is that, very roughly, ~1850~1950 saw an incredible transformation of the infrastructure of daily life. The gas/electric stove, the gas/electric light bulb, the train and the automobile and beyond saw an incredible transformation of the physical environment in which people lived. After this period, technology has continued but the modernized items are improvements rather than fundamental innovations (with the exception of the Internet, which didn't change physical space).

It seems like the "science fiction world" of Robert Heinlein and others was very much a linear extrapolation of this earlier period of changing physical infrastructure - from sea ports to star port. Now, it's more obvious that if the physical structure of daily life changes, it's going to be following a different curve and transforming different things. The Internet, for example, was a vast change but it augmented, not supplanted, earlier tech.

Here, I think the main thing that hasn't caught up are certain kinds of imagination. The proponents of "Fermi's paradox" still imagines every intelligent species will "reach for the stars" despite the lack of evidence of any having done so.

But still it's interesting to consider.
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The way this was stated in one discrete thought leads me to a problem with human nature i dwell on: how much of what our society and culture is, and what authority is, is just a effort to disguise our frailty and fallibility?
It is tremendously hard to be reliable and competitive across multiple disciplines and for the majority of tasks involved in basic human life. There is too big a trade off between available time and location and doing any task well. We are primarily hunting-gathering the easiest ways to meet our needs.
How can you blame people for not recusing themselves from participating or misrepresenting themselves as competent when our culture values that and expresses it so dramatically at the highest levels of public performance,from IPOs to high office and everywhere else. Storytelling in the tradition of the heroic myth is mostly about becoming qualified to assume a social role, as an upward stuggle.

It seems built into human character to bite off far more than we can chew, as in free real estate, and then leverage the social value of holding something others are willing to compete for. I think it amounts to a social survival instinct, and i lament how there's very little chance of discouraging people from doing it because of the potential payoff. If anything i think it's a failure of institutions for being built to exploit that competition rather than guard against its excesses.
Did you actually do the legwork to connect the actions of the janitor to company policy and the economics of recycling in the area?

Like, I would guess the janitor was just being lazy, and their actions provide little to no information about either the actual policy at the company or economics of recycling where it was located.

The substantial amount of recycled fiber in many products suggests that it isn't particularly uneconomic.
Big enough players are too hard to push back against as an individual. Group purchasing power is required.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24287042
I have a 144hz monitor and I can still notice the extra wayland latency; not so much in regular desktop programs, but in fast-twitch shooters like quake. And this is compared to X11 with a compositing WM. So I'm not sure if that's it.

I'm hardly a Wayland expert though, I was just commenting regarding my own anecdotal experience.
WhatsApp never scaled to even 50 people. Facebook acquired them before that point.
"Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast"[1]

Especially when the lifecycle cost of the corner case debugging is folded in.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/lehijujitsu/slow-is-smooth-smo...
Yep. Ditched a web cam because some China-made app wanted my location.
Have shairplay installed on my Linux desktop to accomplish something similar in the iOS playground.
The unfortunate reality is that mankind as we know it, probably developed to the level it did, in part due to the consumption of meat.

Meat is absolutely PACKED with bioavailable nutrients in a way that most plant products simply aren't.

Add to that, the growing evidence that much of the plant material we're eating may have inflammatory side effects of consumption.

The point I am making is that a solution isn't a solution if it means getting rid of one of the most dense forms of nutrition we have.
It's strange when one has this power, and managers do fear it. They learn to set expectations and modes of engagement with senior ICs.

What's really fun is when you can make a bunch of managers super nervous by mentioning "You know, we should re-org this." and this can trigger all sorts of shit.
or, worse, if the senior IC doesn't show up, then no one takes it seriously.
It doesn't appear that's true, unfortunately - there's no takedown or article :/ As he notes, it was essentially the Streisand effect.
I don't think that's what the article is saying. They're paying people to take trash because they no longer can sell it to China.
I really enjoy using this product for creating architecture diagrams! I would never use it to creat budgets though. I hope it expands to other clouds and frameworks and then I would pay for it over lucidchart.
But sincerely, thanks for commenting. If I'm walking around self righteously asserting incorrect stuff I much appreciate people pointing it out
I think the point of the post is that whatever the reason, every other package manager that has started out without namespaces has eventually implemented them.

The reasons may be unclear, but it seems likely that eventually the crates.io team will receive the same reasons that the other package managers got and implement namespaces.
The dev may need to. If you are implementing an interface method and the signature does not include the exception, it must be wrapped in the implementation. You’d like this not to be the case, but it’s better than trying to rewrite major dependencies. I hope they can find a more specific RuntimeException subclass to throw, but that’s a relatively minor quibble.

I’d like to suggest a different POV for your comment on code review. Every method can throw exceptions, that’s life with the JVM. You don’t declare IllegalArgumentException, ArrayOutOfBoundsException, NoSuchElementException, etc. Yet your code needs to deal with it and usually does nothing because it means the element doesn’t make it into a collection, the rest of the object doesn’t get constructed, etc. Avoiding raw RTE, and instead using an RTE subclass that conveys the information you care about works fine. Code review avoids raw RTE, and all places that might care about IO exception causes etc. can process the caused-by of the wrappers.

In what kind of code has this technique been an actual problem? I agree standards and techniques need to be rigorously applied.
> Option/Maybe is enforced by the compiler on most languages that have it.

It's enforced by exactly zero languages.

It's up to the developer to decide that their function should return an Option/Maybe instead of the naked value.

By definition, any library construct is NOT enforced by the compiler, because... well, it's a library construct and not a language construct.
You aren't going to get detailed instructions on how to set these services up here. I would suggest reading the documentation at the parents link, to start.
>> We want you to be confident...

Who is this “we”?
This one is a tough problem. On one side, I am in support of Silicon Valley pay being distributed across the entire US instead of being concentrated all in one place.

On the other hand, I don't like economies in small localities being disrupted because one person ends up getting a pay SO MUCH higher than majority of his neighbors for from revenue that is not sourced from the employee's home town.

Maybe the market should let it play out as it does. But at the end of the day, the tech bosses are the real winners when employees' pay get cut. And that is a net negative for all.
...and I would go from spending one or two hundred a month on IAPs, and spend zero instead. There is no way I’m giving an app my payment info.
The thing no one talks about, because Apple has kept full control of its platform, it can/has easily changed directions and drop entire sections of its API with minimal issues. They even do this on their CPUs.

Imagine all these other 3rd party App-Stores, they need to flag and request updates from their developers. All this causing a sh*tstorm on the iOS device and the customer will expect Apple to fix it at the Genius Bar. Proof of this already happening is the Microsoft Stores. People bringing in their OEM laptops for repair and workers providing them with phone numbers to call Sony, Toshiba, Lenovo, etc.
Maybe you simply lost one feature from the past: youth (and the endless amounts of time that comes with it).
> In nature, prey animals will sometimes jump when they spot a predator[1]. One of the explanations is that this is the animal communicating to the predator that it is a healthy prey animal that would be hard to catch and therefore the predator should choose to chase someone else.

I think this analogy perfectly explains my hostility to security by obscurity. When I see a system that uses standard ports and demonstrates best practices, I think "oh well, they probably know what they are doing." When I see a system using strange ports and / or has extra extraneous crypto, I think "well, maybe this guy is an idiot" and take a deeper look.
That’s just not true though. Rubygems does not, and neither does CPAN, I believe. It doesn't look like PyPi does.
Yeah, you don't need 100% enforcement to enact behavior change. You just need occasional, disproportionate punishment.
Are namespaces somehow more relevant to police than package names?

I don’t see how namespaces would be different?
This exists. I use it daily & it is awesome. Its called spotifyd:
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
If any company wants your payment details, they can still have them by promising services outside the app.
> It's enforced by exactly zero languages.

It's enforced in exactly the same way a nullability constraint is; if you don't use Maybe[T] instead of T , you can't use None (presuming T itself isn't Maybe[U]), just as if you don't use a nullable type you can't use null.
You're comparing two cities that got hit by COVID-19 in totally different time periods. No other place in the US had a spike like NYC
Even still, AIs are not able to "figure out" exploration heavy games, like montezuma's revenge [1]

I suspect games that will give ai the most trouble: games with super sparse signals or ambiguous directions (others mention RPGs, and that tracks)

Games that are hard to simulate will be hard from a training perspective (I think both starcraft and dota2 needed patches to give the AIs reasonable tools to understand the game)

At one point, before go was solved, it seemed like maybe adding significant depth or randomness to a game might make it "hard", but now I'm more convinced that difficulty simulating & exploring tends to be a bigger factor

[1] https://openai.com/blog/learning-montezumas-revenge-from-a-s...
It gets it but hard to make a general ai that understands it and the other atari games
Every package manager that came before cargo/crates.io is not enough evidence for their assertion?
I wonder if it could work with modern AptX low-latency headsets.
He brought the blog back. It sounds like Substack made him an offer before he talked to his employer.[1] And he said the plan to leave his job was a mutual decision. What makes you sure shutting down the blog for good wasn't an option?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/i10p4m/surv...
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From an enterprise background, I’ve seen it go wrong so many times. It’s worth it to script even 1 table change or 1 column schema definition. It’s kind of a “trust me” thing, but seriously, you get used to it. Your future “you”s will thank you.
One wonders if the amount of life satisfaction is negatively correlated with the amount of personal pronoun on offer.

Unless it starts to get awkward, actively cutting back on the "I" and "me" in writing, thought, and conversation seems to put the focus back on the topic.

The degree to which this observation applies to TFA is a matter of opinion, and piling on the author is not the intent.
If any are still around I would love to know where they are. I hope there are a couple hiding out in attics or basements somewhere...
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1 is correct, sorta. Comments on an RFC are absolutely fine. That is their purpose. Random forum threads aren't the wrong place for that, like, you can discuss ideas for RFCs on forum threads, but you can't expect the team to always weigh in on threads. Their only responsibility is to the RFC process itself. If you're trying to get a proposal accepted, it's the wrong place. If you're trying to work on a proposal and get early feedback from other people, even if they aren't team members, then it's the right place.

> that still leaves the question of why they haven't made such a RFC yet.

Yes. I speculated a bit in my last paragraph.
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Supposedly it could be cost effective when China was paying for plastic. Not that the additional recycling necessarily decreased overall costs, just that single-binning could still be profitable at the collection rates people were used to, and people obviously preferred it. Now that China won't take plastic even if you pay them, I'm sure the financials look different.
Does anybody know, Is it possible to get high-quality two-way audio (e.g. Zoom, Skype) over Bluetooth on Linux?
We’re at our farm in Northwest Oregon and it’s been a surreal few days with fires in nearly every direction — but luckily not on top of us. There has been untold devastation not very farm from here. The air quality has been oppressively bad — no sun for days, and two days of the strange orange glow.

Communications during the firestorms has been lacking, especially compared with our experience in the Bay Area. I’ve had to rely on random twitter accounts, and local newspapers from outside our county to cobble together info on whether the fires were approaching us or not on a given night. Part of that is the nature of the event — lots of fires, and rapidly changing conditions, and overstretched resources. But a lesson from this is that rural Oregon sorely needs a strategy for clear comms during these firestorms. Local stories are bubbling up about people not getting evacuation orders, or getting contradictory information.

Another part of this is infrastructure — no fiber or even DSL in a lot of these locations. Cell towers were up and down. Satellite internet was flaky. Grateful for our landline.

The smoke hasn’t cleared yet, and massive fires are still going, but the weather is looking more favorable. Today was cooler and more humid and rain is expected by Monday evening.

But when the smoke does clear, I’m afraid this will indeed be a great tragedy.

Stay safe everyone.
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Bear in mind that it's a Russian site and they have a huge problem with producing or buying radiation-hardened chips. So it's kinda 'sour grapes' attitude.
I think it all depends on how you use Goodreads. I used to use it to track how many books I read a year, participating in their challenges and stuff. I set one for 2020, but have since disregarded it thanks to browsing /r/bookscirclejerk, which convinced me deeper, wider reading was better than trying to do 52 books a year.

Since then, I've mainly just categorized books I've read on goodreads, which is nice if I want to see what I've read over the past few years and go back to some of them. Especially when my memory is quite bad. Often I'll rank them, though on a personal scale where 3 is 'enjoyed'. I might stop doing that soon, and just switch to an analog version my grandmother does -- write the book and authors in a notebook and keep for years. I've already starte doing this somewhat: I use an index card as a bookmark and write the book and completion date for whichever books I use it with.
> I thought people in SV are paid what they're paid because they're uniquely qualified and productive, making their employers extremely profitable, or salable.

Yes. And on top of a salary like that they get some additional pay if they happen to live where it's unusually expensive.

If the employee moves elsewhere and only nominally works at the same office, the employer of course doesn't want to pay extra (and they are right because they can find a replacement by sourcing cheaper offers from the same or similar time zone across both Americas).
"Store apps would need the privilege to write binaries on your iPhone. How will that privilege be regulated to prevent abuse? e.g. what happens if a store starts writing malware?"
Thats the thing. Epic doesn't want Apple to have access/approval to anything. They want OS level access! It's in the court filings. So at that point Parental Control, agreements made with carriers, everything is out the door aka it's like buying an Android phone from some unknown company on AliExpress.

You get all these people screaming about how unjust Apple is! Everyone has been doing this for decades in different markets.
Positive reinforcement loop until your heart explodes? Be careful.
Yeah I remember this transition from paper to plastic bags. It was the whole "save the trees" movement. Save the trees... and destroy the ocean instead.
A restored machine in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M4SnhIhgOc
Other prior art is DDE on HURD, FreeBSD drivers on Haiku, and NetBSD rump kernels.
> Craig Federighi has gone on the record stating that they fully support people hacking the Mac, OSX etc

Source?
Utku, try to enroll in a PhD program. You are wasting your time with this BS nonsense.
I'd definitely recommend How to Read a Book if you want to go into deeper reading. I haven't implemented it fully, though I'd really like to (need to buy a copy of How to Read a Book to be able to do that, so I can keep referencing it), but it's definitely made me do some short summaries of fluff books, which solidifies the concepts I needed to get out of them. It was useful for that, and I'd love to apply it in more depth.
She said her starting balance was $80K.

Paying $1000 per month would have paid off the entire balance before the claimed ten year period. The numbers don’t work at all.

I think it’s more likely that she’s exaggerating for effect in order to go viral. She’s attempting to raise $30K to publish a zine, according to the interview.

The author of the linked article is also trying to profit from the story by selling a subscription sub stack with these stories.

These misinformation campaigns feel like a new version of Fox News or scary e-mail forwards from grandma, except these are targeted at younger generations.

The worst part is that exaggeration isn’t even necessary. They could simply highlight the rising costs of education using normal, honest examples without burning their credibility in attempts to go viral.
You can use GNU HURD. I did so something like 20 years ago for kicks, then went back to Linux.

The reason stuff doesn't take off is that it never takes off. Implementing an OS is actually not hard. You can get pretty far as a 1-person project provided you have the time. Real world use and other people adopting your stuff is harder.
I am under the impression that this is essentially what Substack offered him if he started writing on their platform?
From all the history I have read of civilisation, it's been grain that has been the foundation of human society as we know it, meat couldn't get us anywhere.

Meat eating among the poor in European societies and derived societies is a new phenomenon at least in the idea that every meal has meat in it.

Take a look outside of Europe or even within less wealthy areas of Europe and their diets are magnitudes lower in their meat consumption.

I've read the opposite re: inflammatory side effects of meat that we are discovering. WHO a few years ago put eating sulfite infested meat as being carcinogenic.
So, install AltStore?
And you would have to do this on a web browser, which provides the separation from the App Store and giving the parent, who is purchasing $20 worth of vbucks for their kid, "Pause" because they usually get the "Apple" Payment prompt instead of the enter your credit card. This alone is worth it.
The app could show message like location related functionality requires additional permissions, and guide the user how to enable that.