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FAANG etc have been kowtowing to oppressive regimes for well over a decade, did you not get the memo? Profit decides, not ethics.
Trade-in is such bad value. You could probably sell your 1 year old iphone for around 80% of its purchase price.
All the issues unpatched since Android 7 (which Wikipedia says is the latest version for Note 5). Your phone is about four major software releases behind from the current one.

If your question is what harm you have suffered or would suffer, that’s like asking what’s happen if you didn’t wear seat belts for just one week or a month and still drive at high speeds. One can also make up other analogies related to safety.
I actually don't think so, but I'm also not sure what use case would require you to do this. Generally, you're agnostic, and only in very specific circumstances would you require unwind. I'm not sure when a library would require abort.
> Imo the medium-long term solution here is so separate out connection from process / thread.

I thought process forking was a fundamental aspect of Posgres' architecture. Is it correct to read above as effectively rearchitecting Postgres?
> It was sanctioned

sanction
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give official permission or approval for (an action).
"the scheme was sanctioned by the court"

The article states that they have been arrested, so it was clearly NOT sanctioned.
I've often wondered if yc is duplicitous, old people tricking young people and playing the averages
I think it's just money. I'm not an expert, but my understanding is there's nothing fundamentally new or revolutionary about GPT-3. It's not a new AI paradigm, it's just taking existing techniques and turning them up to 11.

If you throw absolutely enormous amounts of training data and compute resources at a bigass neural network, you get surprisingly good results. Anyone else with a few tens of millions of dollars could do similarly.
What helped me was to reduce the carbohydrates intake after noon and to drink more water. That helped a bit with my sleeping habit.

But it has been really hot and that makes it that much more difficult to have a good night of sleep.
Sky is also an internet service provider. Not as far removed as TV really, and SkyDrive is hardly unrelated to internet service.
Can sleep tracking be bad for your performance?
The latest Android update is causing my Pixel2 some pretty significant QoL issues. I can no longer set certain apps or contacts to break through Do Not Disturb mode, and I can no longer reliably get to the top or bottom bars in full-screen apps.

I would rather take the risk of security, software and hardware issues than deal with this every day; I need to figure out how to downgrade.

Yes, it's important for users to update software. But it's also rather important for software to not break end user's products! I can completely understand why people avoid updates.
• linux <- an xNix (DEC PDP-7/PDP-11 OS)
• windows <- modernised VMS (DEC VAX OS, the 32-bit PDP-11)
• macos <- xNix
• freebsd <- xNix
• redox <- experimental, unfinished, no apps, xNix-like
• fuchsia <- xNix in Go
• ios <- basically macOS, an xNix
• android <- a weird Linux
• chromeos <- Linux

That's 2 so far. 2.5 if I'm being generous.

Do keep going, would you?
It's probably related to your brain. https://www.livescience.com/33525-foot-fetishes-toe-suck-fai... .
Makes sense to me that despite all the "hype" around feet for the last decade, I still find them the ugliest part of the female body.
One thing that is missing from an iPhone 6 or older is the Exposure Notifications API. I just upgraded my 5s, but apart not being able to use the NHS contact tracing app, it worked fine, albeit a little slowly in places.
It is well-written, but I wonder if meat vs non-meat is really the question that should be discussed.

Seems to me, the "rift" (if there is one) is more along the line if thinking and consciousness are "ordinary" physical processes that happen as part of biology - or if they are metaphysical events that take place on a wholly different spiritual plane than our world and are not accessible to physics at all.

If you belong to the former camp, I imagine AIs, non-carbon-based life and other things like this aren't hard to accept as a concept - and if you belong to the latter camp, then I imagine the idea that thinking, feeling and consciousness happens in our brain is already problematic, no need to look at other life forms.
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I just wanted to thank you for this comment. I've read 1984 several times, but I'm no literary scholar, and I've never seem to have been all that successful at 'reading between the lines.'

That being said, whenever I read an analysis like yours, it almost always does seem to make sense. You've given me a lot more insight into the book, so thank you.
I love how people say Apple fanboys like it’s an insult. Is there a legitimate, better option to apple? No because the smartphone market is dominated by google and apple. At least apple pretends to care about privacy. Yes, apple are obviously hypocrites. Still better than google. If there was another viable choice I would happily go with that.
Android makers and telegram could make huge PR/marketing campaign out of this.

I mean huge. Outdoor posters and slogans. TV shows.

I mean, this is truly Orwellian stuff, but in real world. Old uncharismatic dictator recruits huge soulless machine of most powerful corporation in the world to rule small poor country. I know this is not entirely true, but people will love this.
Not trying to troll or anything, legitimately curious if that's the experience Android users have to deal with.
Both xNix-like.

Harvey is Plan 9, which is Unix 2.0.

Redox is xNix redone in Rust, I think because they've never seen anything that isn't xNix.
Maybe Tim Cook uses that quote to signal virtue and gain popularity for his own and the company brand. Haven't Apple ads used MLK before?
"Taken together we therefore have determinism with the occasional, random quantum jump, and no combination of these two types of laws allows for anything resembling this intuitive idea that we can somehow choose which possible future becomes real." How do we know that the present moment is deterministic, the whole of the present is only the result of the whole of the past? Don't we have to know/understand everything to draw such a conclusion?
Same. first phone I've had that still feels new 3 years later
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Is it just me or is the CNCF ran by a bunch of marketers and product managers?

The entire 'ecosystem' is filled with worthless crap like this with stupid marketing like "incubating" and "graduation" to infer on it some level of acceptance.

Are there any foundations that don't operate like this? Are foundations good at all for anything?
Which is why meat is better than machine.
A lot of people rationalize eating meat by discrediting the intelligence and “soul” of the animals they eat. As a friendly vegetarian myself (I don’t ever try to convince anyone or inconvenience anyone - just avoid products myself), I sometimes get “attacked” along the lines of “oh, so you're vegetarian? But you know animals have no awareness/intelligence/sentience/soul/etc right?

Also, some languages use the same word for “meat” and “flesh”, maybe that’s the same in the alien language? After all, they don’t seem to have any fresh anywhere.
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The explanation is much more simpler and clear, some categories of videos are more popular then others, is "indecent" videos are boosted by the algorithm is because they are popular. Similar effect with thumbnails on youtube and clickbait on articles, there is no evil conspiracy except the holly Dollar.
Did you read the blog post? (I wrote it, BTW.)

That is more or less what I was arguing for, you see.
I typically got a new iPhone every two years up to the X. The increase in battery, cpu performance and camera quality was worth it.

The X is fast enough with great camera and still good battery life although I can tell the battery is starting to loose noticeable capacity, still fine for daily use.

Will probably upgrade to a 12 which will be a three year change. Apple has kept me happy with ongoing software updates, I can hand the X down and it will continue to be supported for a couple more years and be useful.

I can see the trend continuing though where I might go 4 or 5 years or more between phones as the tech gains become smaller and battery life extends. They become more like cars (which I typically keep 10 years).
It seems a surprise Apple and Telegram can't find a better compromise from a global perspective. Bear in mind they're being pushed around by a country of just 9.5m people.
I think that's exactly what latexr is pointing out.
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What amenable future?
I guess a thousand years from now?
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If we're going with the seatbelt analogy, the most recent update now requires me to use my car key to lock and unlock the seatbelt, and prevents me from using the radio when the seatbelt is engaged.

And given that the dangers aren't comparable, I would love to just opt out and continue using my old, possibly less safe, seatbelts.
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OK, I will give you that one. :-)

But they are at least related concepts, no?
Hey, I use Arch as a daily driver and on my personal server. I’m a former Ubuntu user as well. A few months in, I deleted my Windows partition. I’m not running a crazy custom config or anything; I use Gnome and don’t mess with it too much beyond that, though I did uninstall many Gnome packages I don’t use. I am exceedingly happy using it this way. Everything Just Works. I make a point of updating packages whenever I boot the machine (I really like informant [0], which helps prevent catastrophes by checking arch news for you) and haven’t had any issues. For reference, I’ve got a Ryzen CPU and an Nvidia card.

I also use it on my MacBook Pro, but I did have an issue with an update which broke my install. Reinstalling was a little hairier (some kernel flags needed) than on my desktop but now it’s quite stable.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/informant/
I moved from England to Sweden in 1997, and tried to setup an internet-design company there, in a time before it was a tech and startup hub. I wanted to have Future in my company name, and applied to the authority that decided this (PRV) with a string of alternatives: I remember FutureDeluxe and FutureLab as two favorites - and because at that time the process involved requesting some special papers, which one filled-in then returned and waited 5 or 6 weeks for an answer that came back in the post, in the meantime I would buy the .com domain for each of these series of names. So for a year after that I held maybe 6 or 7 domains with Future in the name, all of which I allowed to lapse and have since become websites for established companies.

The short story is that I’d get a form denial for each attempt to use Future, but without any specified reason. A few months later the national phone company launched a new service which they called The Department of the Future - and it suddenly became clear to me why all my names had been denied.

Still feel some bitterness that such an obvious and generic word could be trade-marked - especially as it was an English word and English wasn’t as widespread in Sweden back then as it is now.

Needless to say (for anyone familiar with Telia) Department of the Future was a business failure.
I can sue you for more or less anything. And, especially if I'm a big company, I can make you waste a lot of time and money (even if you're also a big company). That's why, as someone who has been involved in a number of product naming decisions, my experience is that lawyers are very conservative in terms of what names they let you use even if, on paper, it seems like you have a good argument that your somewhat overlapping name is completely unrelated.
Clearly the thrust of the story was that the beings don't interact with flesh and blood creatures and I treat instead with more ethereal things. The humor is based on our human notion of some arbitrary superiority over other beings on our planet and our expectation of being treated as equals by other species who may in fact view us as something more like talking slime mold.

Regarding the wikipedia/dictionary definition of meat including the idea of it being food for the ET characters, I believe you may be reading too much into the denotation and not the connotation held by the word (which you acknowledge, but not, I feel, with the weight the author intended).
It's the nature of the modern net based news cycle that disaster stories spread far and wide, while "things are pretty OK" stories never get read.

Anyway, here is the International Whaling Commission's detailed inventory of populations: https://iwc.int/status

By and large, whale populations are growing back as hunting has stopped.
isnt this switch in guidance mainly because the revenue from games/mtx is only going to grow and apple has almost exhausted the market of people that can afford iphones
And most servers nowadays are behind CDNs, so blocking an IP might block more than you actually wanted. And with eSNI being pushed, that might become even more difficult to effectively filter a specific service.
And then Apple gave up on strongly encrypting user backups so govs can just ask nicely for iPhone users data anywhere in the world:

https://www.androidcentral.com/apple-may-have-ditched-encryp...
What makes the repl.it version universal is that it works for multiple languages. It just uses Poetry[0] for Python under the hood.

[0]: https://python-poetry.org/
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I thought if you need to reason about the code you use Ada with Spark?
[Author here]

I have RISC OS running on a Pi, and it's not the first one I've had, either.

https://twitter.com/lproven/status/1310304554395860996

http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2015/12/day-8-zx-spectru...

I don't just make this stuff up, you know. :-)

I still have my A305, too, and an A5000 as well.
Every employer lends me a phone (an old iPhone), so I haven't had to buy one in almost 10 years, nor having to deal with a provider, and it makes me very happy.
Number and symbols serve a slightly different use. The general rule in English is that footnotes (ie they reference something at the foot of the same page) use symbols and that you only have to use different symbols for different footnotes if you have multiple footnotes on the same page. Numbers are used for references found at the end of the book/chapter/article and have to be unique for the whole book/chapter/articel.

Realistically I've never seen most of those symbols in any book I've ever read. If you're regularly using more than 2 footnotes a page, you're probably better of numbering them and moving the references to the end of the chapter or book.
Imagine Apple demanding telegram remove data providing personal information about the nazi officers running Auschwitz... these are government employees caught Assaulting citizens while masked and refusing to identify themselves. They lost all right to privacy when they decided to support the current attempted dictatorial takeover.
I'm not a native speaker so every time I hear of "meat" in this story, I think "flesh", as compared to what the other creatures are made of, circuits/machines/plasma or something like that. But today I learned that "meat" is indeed specifically the parts you eat, while "flesh" is just soft tissue, so "flesh" would maybe be more appropriate here.

> they have trouble with the concept that biological creatures can have some degree of intelligence? That's just nonsense

I'm not sure we (humans) were any better than that just very recent ago. Animals were believed to not feel pain at all before, and some people still feel fine with boiling lobsters alive. It's not super far off to imagine that other species sees humans the same way we've seen them before.
It's not amazing. The numbers have been pointing this way for nearly approaching 5 years (https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho... - peak iPhone unit sales was in 2015).

Everyone knew this was coming. It happened to TVs, it happened to desktops, it happened to laptops, and it's happening to phones.

Apple's biggest competitors are either playing a different game (the Chinese companies get to serve a completely different domestic market, and their international plays are at the very least part of a national soft power strategy), or already diversified (Samsung).
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> Up until around 1990 or so 55MPH was the maximum speed limit

The NMSL (National Maximum Speed Limit) was enacted in 1973, modified in 1987 to allow 65 mph speed limits on rural interstates, and repealed in 1995.

Many states in the southeast, midwest and west raised their posted speed limits very soon after the NMSL was repealed. States in the northeast took a bit longer to update their laws to remove their state maximum speed limit.
Agreed. I upgraded to the X from a 6S and that was a huge bump in performance and capabilities.

Now that X is starting to show its age I am considering switching to the 12. All the upgrades since the X so far have not been appealing and did not warrant spending that much to me.
Intuitively, I don’t doubt that, but certainly there are unhappy “successful” people right?

My tentative explanation for this is that many people luck themselves into “success” and then fight tooth and nail to keep it.
Then Android has nothing todo with droid because it's a different word and has nothing todo with Android right?

Or do you want to sue everyone that has Andr (Man) in his name?
Who the f--- Apple thinks they are to decide this for the people in Belarus??
Note that your "seatbelts" are no longer safe to use after two years. If you refuse to buy a new car then, it's your fault if someone gets hurt!
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I believe he/she means that the way you practice is the way you play.

If you put your best effort into the things that "do not matter" (e.g. hobby, open source work) then the discipline will show in the external displays of your work (products and services).
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-- George Santayana (The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress)
My main dev PC is running on Arch as well, and I have no intention to switch, but I'll disagree with many of the sibling comments: Arch breaks all the time.

One day, a Gnome update breaks all plugins, in one case making login in X impossible unless you manually deactivate stuff using the shell. The next time, a kernel update makes sound stop working after waking up from standby. It's mostly small regressions, and they usually get fixed a week later, but something temporarily stops working at least once every 2 months.

However, Arch also makes it much, much easier to run recent versions of, basically everything. You never have to fiddle around with 3rd-party package repos, you just install stuff and it works. It's how package managers are supposed to work, but not the experience I've ever had with Debian and Ubuntu. Of course, the fact that Pacman is fantastically fast compared to apt doesn't hurt either.

I love Arch. In aggregate, I think it prevents more headaches than it causes. But you have to be prepared for some unexpected problems and fiddling around.
I have a 6T pro, and besides massive burn-in, it's the best phone I've ever had.
Since they were released, I have owned exactly 3 iPhones. I'm a developer, not working in mobile, so my phone is for calls and that is about it. I've got computers all around me, there is no need to ever use my phone beyond calls and navigation apps. I see others put their identity into their phones, and I just shake my head. Just tools, people.
> gun-toting mouth-frothing associated

I'd like to plea, not specifically to you but more in general: if each of us can tone down the rhetoric, even a tiny bit, we might become able to relate to each other just slightly more and not to add more weight to the huge wedge of partisonship that divides everyone from their neighbor.
This rationalisation seems to go a long way. Like, how science about animal cognition and behaviour for a long time took utmost care not to compare any behaviour or thought processes of animals with those of humans - because after all, we can never know whether or not an animal experiences things the same way as a human does, so we must not jump to conclusions assuming that they do.

Oddly, jumping to the opposite conclusion - that they don't - is perfectly acceptable and is used to justify all kinds of horrible treatment.
I'm replying to the parent just above my comment who said overpopulation is the primary threat.
Certainly not that far ahead. Widespread green energy and space travel is probably 200-300 years away.

Even then, on a human timeline a thousand years is nothing. We still have buildings that are 3x as old.
I used mine for 5 years until it I dropped it and the screen broke (shattered, wouldn't respond to touch anymore). It was a great smartphone. I had the 64gb model.
I reject every apple update I can. Besides security they add a whole bunch more tracking shit post corona that I absolutely don’t want.
No, megadosing B12 isn’t a universally great idea.

For example, elevated B12 levels are associated with increased lung cancer risk in a dose-response fashion: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30499135/

The only time megadosing B12 is a good idea is if you have confirmed low levels via a blood test and need to quickly raise your levels to the normal range.

Don’t assume you can guess your B12 status by reading random articles on the Internet. Low B12 has become a favorite hypothesis among the alternate medicine crowd, so online information about B12 supplementation has become corrupted with pseudoscience.

I’ll admit that I fell for the idea that B12 deficiency was rampant due to modern diets. Then I got a blood test and discovered that my B12 levels were toward the upper end of the reference range already.

On the bright side, B12 absorption is very nonlinear. A megadose might only cause slightly more absorption than what you find in a regular multivitamin. Most of the megadose is simply not absorbed.
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In reading this I'm reminded of the ad-hoc networks mentioned in one of Cory Doctorow's stories "Eastern Standard Tribe"; cars driving in proximity each other sharing music and allow neighboring cars to stream/copy.

I'd love more community based networks like this but I worry about the maliciousness factor.

Link to (free) book on author site: https://craphound.com/category/est/