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All monopolies start out by offering decent services.

Amazon itself got popular by offering good prices and product selections. That doesn't mean modern concerns about how they treat their workers/drivers should be dismissed, it doesn't mean current concerns about how they screen for imposter sellers and group projects together aren't valid. It doesn't mean that their usage of 3rd-party seller data to push their own product development isn't anticompetitive.

Even still, I doubt you'd see as much hatred of amazon in this thread if it wasn't for their DRM, lack of Linux/OS support, and some of their more arduous publisher terms (not allowing publishers to sell without DRM, forcing exclusives, etc). I don't think that stuff has anything to do with growing the market. I don't think taking away user rights is an essential part of offering cheaper prices, and I especially don't think that having cheap prices somehow excuses their other anticompetitive behavior.

Should we stop criticizing Spotify's co-opting of the podcast movement just because they popularized music streaming and managed to get musicians to accept much worse terms for payouts? Should we stop criticizing Netflix's push for DRM standards on the web just because they started out with a great DVD rental service?
I used to use DDG and disliked the quality of results. I use Ecosia now, also doesn't track (they say), but uses microsoft results, which are better. Plus their revenue goes to planting trees. Does anyone have criticisms of Ecosia?
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I was refering more to the link I posted rather than software patents in Germany (actually I think software patents do have far reaching consequences).
Containers are substantially different to VMs, but in practice I see them as equivalent technologically and operationally for my home lab/self-hosting use cases (sans weaker security guarantees, but that I can live with).

They are a simplification in practice, because I can toss everything into a bunch of Pis that stay on 24/7 rather than worry about the power use (and the power bills) that would come with using a more fully-featured rack server/old PC that has enough RAM to deal with multiple VMs.
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160 million people dependent on the App Store for their livelihood. Such a tragic outcome.
This right here.

Every OTHER time something has come out like this, I waited -- at least 30 days, sometimes 60 or 90. Let other people risk productivity and annoyance!

This time, though, I updated both my iPad and my phone last night, on release day. Why?

Well, first, because hey, COVID era. My mobile phone isn't my business line (I have VOIP for that), and I'm obviously not traveling, so the risk was lower.

But the REAL driver was this: iOS14 allows you to "pin" text conversations to the top of the list so you can get back to them quickly. This sounds trivial, but holy hell it really isn't. And in quarantine, I'm texting with people a LOT more than I used to.
Seems silly
Why not just build a better (user-configurable) recommendations engine?
Another happy ECS user here. You get most of the benefits of Kubernetes, without a lot of its complexity and maintenance. Yes, it’s a proprietary service and all, but that’s not really an issue. The applications are already containerized and could be moved to any other vendor/tool with relatively low effort if you ever needed to.
> EU is doing fine

If it is, why isn't it cracking down more seriously on, say, GDPR violations already? Is giving companies multiple years to adjust still not enough? Or does a serious enforcement of its laws not fall under the umbrella of doing fine (nor sure if pun intended)?
Whoa. What iOS apps do this?
Additionally consider picking a few verticals and going deep with providing examples for it.

It will help people wrap their head around how powerful your software can be for their use case!
I was wondering how long it would be before someone would accuse me of being a disinformation agent.

You seem to have a real HN account. I tell you what, why don't you phone me and we can talk about this like adults? I'm actually fascinated to talk to someone who thinks that I'm not just some random guy on the internet posting my opinion.

And if we're still on the subject of the guidelines, making baseless accusations of this nature is certainly in violation of them.

To downvoters: if you're really concerned about shills or astroturfing, why don't you take me up on my offer? I mean, what are you actually objecting to here? Is it not ok for me to refute allegations that I'm a shill?
The comment you are replying to contains a link to a list which shows the different categories of restriction, including your example: Cityscape vs Exterior.
Semantic Scholar makes a nice alternative to Google Scholar.

https://www.semanticscholar.org

The DuckDuckGo bangs for Semantic Scholar are !s2, !semantic, and !smsc.
No. This is the Mozilla Foundation not Mozilla Corp.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Not a fan of her, but can you name 10 things ("lot of") that are "dumb shit" that she did?
Natural Language Processing. To me it epitomizes the Bezos saying on how it's always Day 1 of the Internet.

In just a few years we've moved from an Internet where nearly every website could be listed in a directory, where CONTENT was precious, to an Internet where content is being created on an exponential curve.

So now comes the next phase where you start looking at content in aggregate. All your sentiment analysis, summarization, text analytics, pattern spotting...the shift to thinking about text in bulk.

This is a new way of thinking about text. It was downright radical in the 1960s (see also the Federalist papers), and only in recent years a bunch of factors have come together to make this new view of text more common.
> Just because that you personally don't see value in something, doesn't mean that it is a fad

GP is the one who made blanket statement 'developers don't want a VM', not me.
I guess it also helps to be closer to the money than many other software systems. Business Intelligence systems seems like a quite lucrative endeavor for those that manage to position themselves at the right spot in the market.
> I bet you don't know why you need even half of documents in your last encounter with it.

I guess you loose that bet.
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Keeping it running means somebody does attend to it, if only for maintenance. There's no reason why it should die in that case. I'd argue that by definition, something doesn't die if you keep it running.

Unless you mean "it dies" in some other, more unusual sense?
In fairness, the "Switch User" button is a terrible interface on many levels. Apart from the complete lack of feedback on the actual situation (an active desktop session), it conveys a muddled mental model in which someone who has logged out and walked away from the computer is still considered to be "The User". A better interface would simply have the normal login prompt, along with some information about any active desktop sessions. The computer is no more "locked" than it is on first boot.
Yeah, this was a while back. The guy used to work for the South African military during apartheid and later worked on systems in Canada and Asia. I'm sure you're right that digital computers could do the job today, but back then the software and hardware wasn't close to being up to the task.
I've experienced and seen this too. I agree, the sensation is probably induced and probably also was used (in the past) as a way to air out grievances anyone might have over other, the type of grievance that would usually be considered too trivial for a local panchayat or law centric solutions.
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> Labor needs to organize very hard to take back control and that's difficult when everyone is scared they'll lose their job

It's fair to note that one party in the USA has worked very hard to break up unions. And it has worked. So it's not just labor vs. capital. It's labor vs. capital allied with the government.
HTTPS works, but they don't do a redirect.

https://thedailywtf.com/
It seems like it'd be much much easier to build above ground with adequate sound proofing or even just remoteness, neither of which are very expensive when contrasted with building underground.
Have you looked at Svelte?
I've started using it and its a breath of fresh air.
It feels like going back to the basics.

https://svelte.dev/
I present a LOT -- not with Zoom, EVER, because why trust them, but with other tools -- and I definitely have my OS's "do not disturb" on when I do that.

But I also have 2nd and sometimes 3rd devices rolling so I can keep an eye on email and IMs during those times. Doesn't everyone do that?
I agree, but the main reason that I'm using Qwant myself is that non-English results on DuckDuckGo are not good at all. Qwant results are pretty convincing today, much better than a few years ago when it looked like an opportunist product.

The only thing I'm really missing from Google is the integration with Maps, Google Search is so convenient for finding a good restaurant, shop or bar around you. There were alternatives in the past (like Yelp) but Google killed them all, at least in France.
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I have little to no interest in the app, but that website is in fact that good.
A granny flat or mother-in-law suite would be cheating. It's a separate apartment. Your parents are your neighbors not your room-mates anymore.

Education in other countries is far more strict and regimented than the US. Especially Asia.

I've always thought the main driver for leaving home is instinctive, basically teenage rebelliousness. If there's cultural "programming" going on, it is just as likely to be in the societies that overcome these drives and keep children subservient to their parents.
Nice. That’s interesting to know. 150 years is as close to permanent as I’d expect of most things that are expected to do something.
Same offer to you. Call me and lets talk about it, if you really think I am an agent of some kind. I find it worrying that trust is breaking down to this extent. Even if we disagree strongly, perhaps I can at least persuade you that my opinions are my own.
Runnaroo does have a date restriction similar to DDG, it's just in a different place.

See the arrow in the below:
https://imgur.com/sY4qi63

Always room for improvement with it though.
I think the problem is still Logitech doing this, not MS allowing it. Just because something is allowed it doesn't mean you have to do it.
What an odd sentiment...
Valuation of shares might be a problem. Normally you cannot just 'give'everybody like 5%, this gift is the taxable (and if your company is worth a cool billion who is foing to pay that)
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One of the most annoying and bad-taste shocking developments in OS X was when they changed the Messages app so that it still gives you notifications even if its not running, unless you deliberately enable Do Not Disturb.

It's really really glaring and galling how bad that choice is. It's Microsoftian.
It would be an interesting feature to add to the bootloader, just boot to beep (and maybe buzz, depending on how much battery is left).
Bungie did a similar thing with Destiny 2, as you now need to login with Steam, not Battle.net. It happens that more people have Steam accounts so it didn’t upset too many people, but how is this different? It seems like people are just finding reasons to get mad at Psyonix instead of pushing hard on the big issues, like dropping Linux support.
I'm considering trying LSD soon for its therapeutic potential and am concerned about anxiety as an input and output of tripping, as it were. Would you be open to sharing your experience with me? Sorry if that's out of line.
They weren't the original builders, with the realtor and seller first directly mentioned under point 1 and again later on. This does seem to be something folks miss, given the other comments under the article.

That said, it does look like the franchise the original person hired was both incompetent and fly-by-night, given the comments, and then the original person patched things up just enough to pass muster and got out while they could.
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By saying "break even" you are assuming that the ventilation system and the wiping down are equally effective -- so the question is which is cheaper?

That is not the case. It depends on their effectiveness. If wiping down reduces risk 4% but better ventilation reduces risk 70%, the calculation of "breaking even" is very different. We don't know these exact numbers for covid, but as best as we can tell the risk reduction of this kind of surface cleaning is pretty minimal.

It's hygiene theater.

Hiring someone to pray for health on the plane would be cheaper than actual effective measures too -- hey you could probably hire just one person nationally to pray for health on ALL planes, a bargain! 'at what point will actual effective measures "break even" with hiring someone to pray' is a ridiculous question.
thats fair
Lots of the smaller peripheral brands intentionally omit always-running background software. I think it's more about gaming performance than privacy, but I'll take it.
Is this for apps built on Xcode 11 and Xcode 12?
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These mid range cities are not as agreeable as you think. I live in one. Housing is very expensive W.R.T income now.

The reason many of these places have cheap housing is largely because of abandoned neighborhoods, vacant lots, condemned housing, ancient housing which requires A TON of work...the neighborhoods people want to live in are pretty expensive still.

Not to mention the old school mentality and opportunity cost. I left one of those old school firms. It was 8-5 everyday, no variation, no flex hours. No vacation in your first year. No comp time for travel. Expectation of working additional hours. Poor yearly raises, etc. Small job market = small network = less salary jumps.
I personally think that if you could change your perspective on things it would benefit you greatly, let me see if I can help you with that :)

Your biggest asset is the passion you put in your job, and you should do everything you can to reward it. Don't use money to value how good you are doing, but use the "Am I happy with what I do? Am I satisfied of my job"?

I am saying this because being unhappy with that you do is probably the reason that is is holding you back.

Personally, while I have enjoyed salaries like the one you mention, I have never let me stop me from leaving a company with a toxic culture OR because I was simply not satisfied with what I was doing.

I have subject myself and my family to a > 50% reduction on income (!) just to find myself satisfied again with my job.

If you can remove yourself from the money equation, you will find much more satisfaction in what you do.

I always say that people in our situation owe to themselves to maximise their happiness at work simply because we CAN. You can choose to join a more exciting startup. You can choose to explore a new career path.

Don't let money be what you use to define your success.
Yes, when you apply to YC, they said to be considered co-founder, one must have at least 10% of the company.
You can always pay for managed versions of these services if you want the piece of mind. NextCloud and email providers come to mind.

Other than that, Docker has simplified things a lot in the self-hosting space. It's not quite as plug-and-play as Lego bricks yet, but it's made experimentation and sustainable self-hosting much easier as long as you're running on a supported platform. It's much easier to version the environment, much easier to keep the application runtime configuration clean, and much easier to move service instances across machines if you're too small to invest time in orchestration like K8s.
Multiple subsects, on both sides.
This broadly reflects my experience too

The !g is so habitual that I find myself typing it on Google too now

DDG is also very slow
The author does give ChromeOS some credit for allowing Linux apps to run, so it sounds like he gets that bit.

But, he's focusing on what is typically available to consumers. And he's right that MacOS, Windows, and ChromeOS all are on some path to be more locked down.
I have this but never saw an ad. Where are the ads?
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I think the best thing about being a freelance is that I can have the luxury of not having an alarm and I wake up when I wake up. I put all my meeting with customers in the afternoon.

Since I stopped having an alarm in the morning, I'm much happier in my life, less tired, less stressed, and in the end I can do more work.
Unfortunately you simply do not comprehend the subject matter in the article. Please reread your link.

This is "personal satisfaction survey." Not a US satisfaction survey. Completely different things.

Your narrative games don't work on actual intellectuals. Sorry.
Things got back and forth between open and closed - freedom and convenience. There is no end state.

Once upon a time everyone thought IBM was invincible and then Intel and then Microsoft. Then what happened?

To understand the cycle read - The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (of Net Neutrality fame).
> That she is on the position is testament to the democratic dysfunction of the Union.

I know almost nothing about her but my impression of the actual decision making in the EU is that it's fairly distributed (by design) and there is not a single person which has the power to do anything on their own. Also there are lots of opportunities for various stakeholders to veto decisions.
They broke split screen on the switch.
https://mspoweruser.com/facebook-infinite-office-virtual-off...

Pixel density isn't as high as what you'll get on a real monitor, but having lots of them ought to help make up for it.

Carmack brought this up in his talk last night, apparently with the higher pixel count in the Quest 2 the quality is now limited by the fresnel lens optics, and they won't be able to just keep bumping the pixel count up to improve visuals. So it's not clear what the path is to higher quality VR is for them. People have made headsets with more exotic multi-element glass optical setups, but there are trade-offs for cost, weight, and likelihood of things breaking if you knock it off a table.
Does the UK participate in any drone programs?
Catalina is a dumpster fire compared to Mojave.

Waking up a Macbook Pro with two USB-C monitors plugged in, only one monitor comes on. I have to fiddle around by opening the laptop's lid or pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject and waking it up again from scratch for all the monitors to respond.

Leave Catalina running too long, its Watchdog process times out and it has a kernel panic. During the night every two or three days. After booting and reporting to Apple (again), it's time to rearrange all the windows and reopen all the documents I was working on, again.

Inadequate is the polite way of describing it.
I think you forgot ASP.net, Blazor, Xamarin.Forms and MAUI. UI development with .NET is just incredibly fragmented.

If Qt had a good bridge to C#, they could probably get a lot of marketshare on .NET while this confusion lasts.
They should have banned campfires and open grill cooking in known fire-prone areas, during fire-risk seasons.
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I don't have a work phone and don't install work software on my phone.
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I just checked out the new UI for creating and editing new blogger articles. It seems OK to me, but I understand the author’s complaints.

I have switched 3 or 4 times between using blogger and using a static site generator. This is easy to do because tools like Jekyll easily import blogger data dumps. Moving back from a static generated blog to blogger is a few copy and paste operations.

I like having everything in my domain, but using blogger is convenient. Right now, I am using blogger again, but periodically generate a static blog that I also link on my domain as a backup.
So we have the cheaper alternatives of Adobe Photoshop which are Affinity Photo and Gimp.

How hard is to build the equivalent of "Affinity Photo" to Autodesk Fusion 360? Maybe this is a good startup idea.
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Not sure about the UK, but didn't the US recently publically assassinate a high official of another state (an Iranian general)?
You are proving my point. Everyone knows best and thinks that they won't make the mistakes of the past when it comes to making bone dry basements that will work in perpetuity.

The people in the article did not set out to make their home even more damp and the original builders did not set out to make it damp. They thought they knew what they were doing.

With British town houses that have basements the original ground dug out for the foundations went into the road which is built up by a storey. The basement faces out into the garden, the sides join with neighbouring houses in the terrace. The front has a gap to the road that has a containing wall. Coal and stuff could be delivered to the basement area with a hatch in the road in some areas.

Despite this sophisticated no-digging approach to a basement and dry walls on all sides there is still a damp problem that has to be managed.

You can't just hold back water in earth with concrete, plastic or anything else 'waterproof' as it will rot away or prove to get damp in time. Even with clay that prevents oxygen getting to steel, steel will rust away too.

We wouldn't have these problems if we had stayed in the trees.
Is google able to track you if you use !g via ddg?
You're getting downvoted, but you're correct. While I think it's partly a failure in properly communicating all of the dangers with big tech to the public, I think the bigger reason is that people just don't give a shit. When trying to talk to non-techie co-workers/friends at happy hours, I've mostly gotten either blank stares or nervous laughter as they go back to staring at their iPhones (hell, I get those responses from other developers who should know better as well). As long as people have their Instagram feed, they're kept satisfactorily sedated.
Hehe. It's a good management team you have there then :) My current shop is as political as can be-- flush with money but still cutthroat as ever
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Ranting against things that require you to have something in order to play is a much better signal of your virtues these days.