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Very few people care about having alternative app stores on iOS.

In fact, that would actually destroy iOS's advantage over Android, and I suspect that's the exact goal of people aligning with Epic.
Who else has an install base like Amazon in their Alexas and Rings? No TinyCorp could just decide to roll out a service like this. One of the few upsides of having giant companies is seeing the work of their equally big R&D departments
It's worth to look into how demo works. Thanks
American Nathan Rich knows something about Xinjiang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EovpQE6dZeE
This seems wholly non-Darwinian to me, what do you mean would be the evolutionary process here?
But can you use them as a sound effect in a youtube video, where you may earn some revenue through adverts some time in the future (or maybe not)?
Windows 10 is a resource hog and contains adware.

macOS ... Is special. Some of the most notable changes in the last few years have been to try to restrict what an app can do.
If it's attempting to leverage many Oracle features, there might be some other good solutions to the problem as well - people don't have to use RDBMS to solve everything.
Completely agree. I was very slow to update XP, until both enough of a gap appeared, and Windows 7 established itself as the next high-usability Microsoft operating system.

Even then my use of Windows was low. I now have no need for it at all. From what I've heard Windows 10 is not in the same class.
It really isn’t my area of expertise... all I see is that the investment firms that backed early offshore wind farms are now backing these Power to X technologies, as well as ‘energy islands’ which connect multiple offshore wind farms to multiple countries. Exciting times in renewables to be honest, it does feel like with enough renewable energy there is a path to a future without fossil fuels at all, we are just a long way from it right now.
>strangely, I wonder if arch linux might be the counterpoint to all this. You might just do continuous maintenance all the time instead of one-giant-upheaval-update every few years.

Evidently, one of the people mentioned in the calibre blogpost helping the python3 migration is an Arch Linux contributor :)
yes. most of the things I see about windows vs linux involve "well you can just turn all the spyware stuff off, all you have to do is dive into these 10 menus and flip these switches" "Its easy to disable the ads in the start menu" etc etc. Even if you can turn the stuff off, the fact that you have to feels a lot like the OS working against the user.
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Correction, over 4 years ago it was posted a few more times under the old pcottle.github.com URL. For some reason all those postings are not coming up in either HN's own search (at all) or Algolia's, unless you search by title in Algolia:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

So yeah, it did have some other popular postings, with one at 12 pts 6 years ago, 47 pts and 82 pts and 232 7 years ago, and 702 pts 8 years ago.
In early Windows XP days everybody said it was crap compared to Win2k. XP was the first one with product activation as well. And people called the Luna theme childish.

Then Vista came along and people said XP was the good one.
> where you may earn some revenue through adverts

This is commercial use and paid.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/
well, this explains a lot.

thank you very much for posting this. :)
What the author forgot to mention is quite the opposite trend happening in south africa of demonizing whites leading to this outcome.
Globally, it's mostly Foodpanda that was doing soo poorly they had to be sold to Delivery Hero, no?
Likely you're right, but let's see if anything can become plausibly demonstrable after obsessive scrutiny. Like many situations in life, it may depend on whether someone determined / resourceful enough wants to do this. There may be no one with sufficient motivation.

Also, it's not just (allegedly) all of XP source that's been leaked:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-windows-...

It's also Windows Server 2003, MS DOS 3.30, MS DOS 6.0, Windows 2000, Windows CE 3, Windows CE 4, Windows CE 5, Windows Embedded 7, Windows Embedded CE, Windows NT 3.5, and Windows NT 4!

That's a huge amount of stuff to analyse.
Maybe let grandma decide for herself
LOL. This will never happen, as long as its tied to a GOV its not going to widely accepted. The same farce happened with facebooks own crypto.

The Chinese GOV could probably "force" its people to adopt this, but its not going to be used outside china.
A whale 'speaking'. Perhaps whales are a kind of crow.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/23/talking-...
Some people said this would not constitute a good metric to determine the severity of COVID but I didn't understand why it wouldn't. Has someone an idea what a better metric would constitute? Assumption is that the data has some basis in reality of course.
The most annoying timezone issue I encountered is that the timezone offsets can change (typically only for future times). So you if you store local times as UTC, you might not get back the correct value when you convert back after a tzinfo update (especially dangerous if you use the OS provided timezone data, since that makes it more difficult to control when it's updated).

Always store the authoritative version of a time, which usually is UTC for points in time, but local time for calendar based things.

The duplicate/missing hour around DST switching can also be quite annoying.
That is a very good point as well, I'm now onboard with your perspective, I think it useful way to look at the current inequality trend. Let me try to rephrase your points (and correct me if I'm wrong):

1. The establishment of the state, in its most primitive form around 10k years ago, mark a significant evolution in humanity history and could be considered the starting point of the concentration of power and by extension economical resources, thus the birth
of the capitalist. (This was a good takeaway for me).

2. Given the long history of this economical structure and inequality; the concentration of resources in the hands of few, one could conclude:
a) the current trend toward equality is recent and modern attempts (I'm onboard with this as well now)
b) the reversal of the inequality will not be easy in the short-term, it is built-in with the state which is here to stay. (I agree with this statement as well)

However, what I'm thinking now, is why some modern societies/states (like in europe) seem to be way more economically balanced than others (say the US)? doesn't that weaken point 2.b? are they developing better economical systems? What do you think?
Yeah, I think Unity happened because of Gnome 3? Gnome 2 EOLed and Canonical didn’t like Gnome 3.
"This is about as clear a free market as one gets, that it became an antitrust issue shows how crazytown antitrust law has become."

It has nothing to do with platform prix fixing, it has to do with de-facto monopoly over a portion of US mobile devices, or rather, an oligarchy between Google and Apple.

The same issues existed with oil, electricity and telephone networks - there were claims of 'choice' but really there was not.
The amount of user data collected in Windows 10 for example. Next to no user benefits, just value extracted for Microsoft.

Automatic updates on reboot. For example when someone giving a presentation or class has to restart their computer for some reason (quite common in Windows still, or one just ran out of power). Boot up the computer, people waiting impatiently - and then have to wait for 5-30 minutes for the computer to finish updates before being able to use it. No way to cancel/post-pone, no time-estimates for when it will be done.
At least there is more than one kind of insect cricket sound effect, rather than LA field crickets all over the world. (-:
> encourage longer titles with lots of grinding/farming

This is a good point that worries me. Also is the anxiety that carries having too much choice, like when choosing what to see next on Netflix. Now if you pay 60USD for a game you are compelled to finish it. With thousands of games to choose from, and being able to instantaneously switch between them, then I guess it means videogames as we know them would be over. Probably split in seasons, becoming super addictive and shallow just to get you engaged.
That would surprise me. Governements all over the world already received access to the source code to perform audits.

Besides, probably the quality was still low enough that you didn't need this, there were plenty of bugs that would grant a big organisation access.
This pairing up with a library of free Prime games seems like it could draw in a big crowd of casual gamers.

Don't know if this is still the case, but I remember on Fire tablets getting third party apps for free that cost money on other platforms.
Yeah - probably considered off-topic - I just couldn't help sharing the anecdotal tidbit :) My xperience(!) has been the same - boots within seconds and basically gets out of the way. No advertisements/analytics (that I know of), great to quickly check a Word document that doesn't render well in LibreOffice etc. I don't use it often though - Linux has truly come a long way that such occasions are getting rarer as time goes.
> The sheer amount of data (drive files, gmail data, etc) Google has in its silos makes it almost impossible to copy anywhere else other than on Google's own servers or another giant's DCs

my first computer had a two Megabyte Harddisk - around twenty years later my Phone has a 256 Gigabyte MicroSD card

it's going to happen
Neat idea. IIRC Zoom does something similar to negotiate video sharing in conference room setups.
Then Windows 7 came along and nobody said Vista was the good one.
1. Standups are a place to make people aware of problems, not the only place.

2. You don’t discuss problems at a standup, you make your team aware (if you haven’t already) and organise a separate session with only the interested people.
https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1309313556328841216?s=19

"a pool of servers that route traffic to application backends crashed"
Scientists Develop New ‘Bandage’ That Can Heal Broken Bones
> Yes, that's a good thing. re: One store may allow some content while another may prohibit it.

Please don't half-quote selectively: "Developers will no longer all play by the same rules."

> This seems like a non-problem. Sandboxing is a local OS feature. re: How will iOS sandboxing be enforced for apps delivered via third-party stores?

For an app to be sandboxed it must be submitted to Apple and signed. Ergo: You would have to go through Apple anyway.

> The same thing that happens when the apple and google app stores do that. Reputation loss, or more likely: Nothing. re: what happens if a store starts writing malware?

There has been no cross-app malware on the iOS App Store.

> Why does it have to be? re: How will that privilege be regulated to prevent abuse?

If a third-party store and/or the apps served by it contain malware, but users aren't aware of it (e.g. cryptocurrency mining, data harvesting, and other silent exploitation of users' devices), it's good to have someone who is able to remotely shut those apps down.

> It shouldn't be. re: Controversial content like porn may still ultimately be bound by Apple's ruling...

...are you seriously saying porn and "adult" apps (like prostitution services and even more questionable material) should be allowed on Apple devices?

You're literally out to forcibly dismantle the entire value proposition of a company's products.

Are you going to force Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo to do the same for their consoles? Why only Apple? Just because they're too successful? They became this successful because of these restrictions. People want a curated platform.

> How so? Especially screen time restrictions is a non-issue for different stores. How is the rendering engine for a browser the restricting factor for content control? re: iOS Parental Control and Screen Time restrictions may be ineffective on other stores (and browsers too if third-party rendering engines were allowed).

They have to go through the official APIs to adhere to system-wide content restrictions set by a user, which requires reviewing and signing by Apple, otherwise they could just skip the official APIs and ignore any parental control settings etc.

> All other points are questions of convenience.

You haven't given any solutions to any of the questions, other than:

• Don't use it.

• It's not a problem.

The same answers apply to the status quo:

• Don't use Apple devices.

• A single App Store is not a problem for the majority of users:

All other points are questions of convenience.
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Yep instead of xlst we now have a dozen javascript or server side solutions. HTML5 was pragmatic but to a fault.
Apple can have their garden, nobody is complaining.

The issue is one of choice and consumers ability to go beyond the walled garden.

The issue of 'scams' is a canard: there are browsers on iPhones that allow users to be involved in any number of hustles.

"Now the same folks who trashed a lot of the rest of the web (do you answer your phone when an unkown number calls?) want into the walled apple garden."

This just doesn't make any sense, moreover, it has nothing to do with 30% margins.
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These used to be released on vinyl, there was once an incident in Ireland whereby a record player was hidden in a tree and BBC sound effects records were played at night to scare some of the sheep that were part of a "King of the Sheep" competition. It was a big scandal at the time.
And the next update may reset some of them.

The Edge update comes to mind that had reset the browser preference presumably to be able to push edge again.
I feel like you are hyper focused on the idea of general intelligence which is why you are not finding what you want. Most people studying intelligence don't buy into a general intelligence idea. It certainly isn't present in most people who perform transfer of knowledge tasks.
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Thanks for sharing this experimentation
statcounter reports it to be 3.11% in the period Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
On Windows, you can make a temp folder in appdata/local and use that - local is specifically for files that don't get backed up. Actual temp folders can get deleted at any time.
> There is probably some truth to the idea that many newcomers will go for the latest features. However, on the flip side, I’ve been wondering if there can’t be a competitive edge in designing a language that is minimalistic, stable and slow to evolve by design.

That's exactly how I see Go, and why I personally use it, even though it has clear limitations and can be frustrating at time. And the language get quite a lot of hate because of these choices and their consequences. Minimalistic often means that you have to implement your own solution for some common problems, and/or write a good amount of boilerplate. Stable means that you don't change things that much over time, even if trends are shifting and new patterns/paradigms are developed, so you're potentially losing people and/or powerful technics (you also avoid the ones that haven't been proven yet and will potentially be seen as harmful in the future).

On the other hand you have the real benefits of having something small that you can easily keep in your mind, a tool that won't impact your maintenance budget, you can learn it once and then can be good for years without feeling the need to catch up all the time with newest changes and ideas. That's quite relaxing IMHO.
It's like leaking the plans to the Death Star. Now they'll find a vulnerability.
i think the consensus is that windows 95, XP, 7 were the least troublesome versions. I still think 7 > 10
16,011 sound effects and not a single fart. There are 7 belches however (and 1 burp).
The JVMs are amazingly fast.

A majority of the dynamic compilation research goes into JVMs. (The remainder being apportioned mostly to the javascript vms and the clr, with mike pall waving his luajit hat in the distance.)

An overwhelming majority of GC research also goes into JVMs, thanks to Jikes RVM.
Author ends up spending $500 on the whole setup, claims it is a good investment if you want to learn Docker and Kubernetes. The free credits offered by GCP and AWS is enough to learn Docker and Kubernetes IMO.
Have you tried gog.com? They support the games they sell, and often patch them so they can work on newer versions of windows (or if old enough, provide a custom dosbox launcher).

They do sell Sid Meier's Railroads ($9.99), and if you check the support forum it may be obvious if they've fixed this problem.

Having to buy it twice isn't optimal, but you get bug fixes and a DRM free installer you can download and keep and manuals in PDF form which beats trying to keep old floppies or CDs in good condition. I've bought quite a few old games I had from them for just that reason.
Try Readera, much nicer Ui and good pdf support.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera&hl...
It depends on the variation being present in the population. In the absence of mutation all you can do is increase the average brain size (or whatever attribute you are selecting for) within the range that was already present. But of course if done over a sufficiently long time then mutations might allow a real increase.

Surely the same would apply to any animal. But who has the time, resources, and interest to do it? Considering that we have been breeding animals for several thousand years here are remarkably few animal types that have been subjected to long term artificial selection over the thousands of generations necessary. Dogs, cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, and a few more. None of them have been selected for general intelligence as far as I can see and anyway no farmer wants independently minded sheep.

I suspect that the biggest problem would be that it takes many human generations to do it not just many generations of the target animal.
I can't see why Microsoft would bother pursuing people for downloading or seeding this. The cat is out of the bag. And people will use this in ways MS don't want regardless of what they do. It is not like a movie where there is a loss of hypothetical revenue. Source code is not exactly an easy was to install a pirated OS!
So, what exactly does the "Search 1: search widget move" change accomplish?
It doesn't read to me that way.

>Buyers and sellers can't:

>In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay

I would count sending a "letter" along with your product to be a form of communication.

>Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay

This would prevent you from adding the insert to the package.

>Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay

An insert is effectively a mini catalog. So they pretty much explicitly banned inserts. If you aren't even allowed to sell them for a price then sellers clearly wouldn't be allowed to give them away for free.

Sending an insert along with a product breaks 3 policy points at once. Can you describe which part of the policy actually allows inserts? All I see is that Ebay wants to have complete control over communications between seller and buyer.
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This is part of a discussion I had with a Rocket Internet C-whatever a looooong long time ago for a "Head of SEO" role for one of their upcoming projects[1]:

RI: "... and you get a 500k per month budget for SEO. It will the the number one acquisition channel."

Me: "Cool, how man developers will be in my team."

RI: "... that will not be part of SEO."

Me: "Ok, how man Dev resources will I have access to in a sprint?"

RI: "Developers are part of Product and IT."

Me: "Whats the process to get dev resources?"

RI: "You will be Head of SEO."

Me: "....... So i will get 500k per month, but no dev resources."

RI: "The SEO budget is 500k."

SEO just does not work this way. Maybe they changed at one point, but looking at the huge blocks of shitty "SEO" text on the bottom of the pages of a lot of their web-properties I have my doubts.

[1]the phone call was really stupid, as they did not even say what the project was about, because "stealth-mode" but yeah "big budget, join us, come to Munich" ...
>And also, Microsoft claims to love open source so then I guess they'll love how open this source code is now that it's passed around on BitTorrent.

One can love open-source and still be against license violations. What a warped world view.
This is so cool. I was just searching for a cat meow sound for a personal project today and was so annoyed that most of the top sites returned on Google and DDG were super spammy, ad-riddled atrocities. This is amazing, they have so many cat meows!

I can't figure out if its possible to download the entire archive anywhere though..
For me the biggest issue was the reuse of datatype identifiers for different datatypes. Python 2 had a byte string <str> and a unicode string <unicode> types. Python 3 still has both types, but now the byte string type is called <bytes> and the unicode string type is called <str>.

The new names are without a doubt better. In a vacuum. But coming from Python 2 to Python 3 and dealing heavily with encodings because I use Python for massaging machine-generated reports, the fact that they reused the same datatype identifier for bytes in P2 as for unicode in P3 really put me off.

Now that I've made the change (OK, six years ago) I'm much happier with the way Python 3 handles bytes and unicode strings. I think it is a model that all languages could learn from. But it should have been called <string> or stayed <unicode> instead!
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Can't speak for Chinese systems, but I'm aware of "jump hosts" (used for remote access to industrial control systems) that are running windows server 2003 and are internet-exposed.
...the link...
While the "should all discourse be free vs. should it all be regulated" axis exists and people can be in different places on that scale (and almost all people are somewhere in between the extremes), there's also an orthogonal question, namely, who should be the party that makes and/or enforces the regulations.

Personally, I am very much in favour of regulating some forms of speech (regulating doesn't necessarily have to mean prohibiting btw), but I am very wary if big, quasi-monopolistic private companies are being tasked to do so, because their incentive structure now will lead them to over-restrict in order to avoid potential legal issues. If it's just a newspaper comment section, that's fine because there is enough competition, but for things like Twitter/FB/YouTube, I find it problematic, and this is why I find some of the more recent laws in the EU to be somewhat dangerous; we're basically asking unelected, unsupervised people from Facebook et al. to intransparently enforce laws.
As far as I know Python 2 wasn’t EOL at the time of the statement from the author of Calibre.

So it’s kind of harsh to judge that statement in that light isn’t it?
10 has tons of under-the-hood improvements that are great, honestly.

However, it also has a ton of advertisments everywhere, and those annoying auto-installing apps.
Watch a weaver bird weave its nest and you will no longer doubt the intelligence of birds.