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And real users can keep running that old software on real similarly-old computers. I don't think the number of still-functional old Macs is so small that they're going to be impossible to find any time soon.

I can understand being unhappy that Adobe doesn't offer an upgrade path from an obsolete version of CS to similar licensing terms for a modern version that runs on modern computers. But I think that complaint should be directed at Adobe, not Apple.
Thanks, I thought this was a good article.
It also has another name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience
I used to love these kinds of strategies as a kid. I often wished I'd been in an abacus class as an elementary school student.
A set of relatively uncontroversial statements about Westphalian nation-states ... and then a dig at the OSF. Why does this always come down to people having a go at George Soros?

Is it by any chance because he backed the Western side in Ukraine?
The fact that Apple stopped requiring dev licenses to sideload code onto iOS devices makes me think that their effort to ensure that "typical users" install signed apps on macOS, really is about security and experience.

I think its funny that most people here wouldent trust a website with no certificate, but for applications the idea seems to be considered abhorrent.
mms are also often not included in flatrates and riddled with security problems. noone i know uses them.
The 1bn is only the out-of-pocket cost for development and doesn't factor in for instance opportunity cost. If we include everything required to develop a vaccine, I'd imagine we're looking at something north of 2.5bn

There's so many ways to calculate the cost, that I think it's more important to be aware of the assumptions made for the estimate, than the number itself (which I also failed to do in my original answer)

I think people underestimate the cost of drug development, because the numbers are so big, that it doesn't seem realistic for companies to survive
I've redone my house with Xiaomi Aqara [1] switches. There are options for neutral / no neutral. I've had absolutely no problems with them. I did have to install a couple of deeper back boxes on a few switches. It's not as bad as you think, just a bit messy to deal with the brick dust.

Haven't had a single issue with them being unreliable over the past year or so I've had them.

1: https://xiaomi-mi.com/sockets-and-sensors/aqara-smart-light-...
There were few leaks suggesting Google might be working in their own ARM processor.
Qualcomm is only other company capable to competing Apple SoC. They tried with 8cx(7 watt) but was not very successfull. With Custom X1 cores they may be able to achieve good performance.
But they can say both of:

- From 1 to 10 there is 9

- From 1 to 10 there is 10

How far from 0 to INT_MIN - it depends.
Because those outlets never get Macs usually, and it isn't what they cover.

Note that a laptop chip also isn't a gaming product, for obvious reasons.
There's a huge green quote: "Apple has confirmed that Boot Camp support isn’t coming to Arm-based Macs."

And it comes right after the same sentence is uttered in the article... and is followed by "unless".

All in all, pretty weird form of journalism.
Yes Apple is about platform control and monetization, and they're pretty good at it. They want you to buy-in into their ecosystem and stay loyal; even developers of iOS and Mac OS apps have to open Apple dev accounts (and the process of rolling out an app on the App Store is ... byzantine). They keep off copycat and privacy-invading apps that way, and their customers love that aspect of their platform (I even use a cheap iPhone to get away from the mass surveillance devices called Android phones).

Apple's Silicon is a great success AFAICT, when Intel has just stagnated for years now. I love Apple innovations like that, and I think Apple Silicon is in principal orthogonal to the lock-in aspect so far, apart from the fact that there won't be alternative O/S on Apple Silicon due to lack of drivers; now of course, Apple could soon extend the ARM ISA in proprietary ways.

However, as much as Apple produces shiny consumer laptops (despite their naming, I don't consider MBPs as "professional" devices due to lack of options), I'm probably staying away from Mac OS, because professionally I need to run (mostly) F/OSS apps such as compilers, databases, middlewares, VMs/containers, and backend tool chains. I also believe their notarization thing will kill F/OSS on Mac OS which makes it useless for me. And Apple has to take the piss here, as F/OSS is what Mac OS (Mac OS X) is built on, and what made it even remotely acceptable in 2002/3. If you're a developer of non-Mac OS, non-iOS apps, expect Mac OS to stop being an option even more so than it is already.
I found this comparison between borg and restic, and it seems like most of these apply. (https://stickleback.dk/borg-or-restic/) seems like blogbackup and restic are very similar. Wish there were more docs though.
The problem isn't so much the language COBOL as the devices and OS it's running on. This isn't just a computer language issue, otherwise it would be relatively easy to just rewrite some systems bit by bit.
It always seems like some sort of deflection tactic. Shouting how bad apple is, while using a device practically owned by google.
As long as there is an escape hatch which macOS has. The key problem IMHO with iOS is not the AppStore but the lack of an escape hatch.

Running something from outside the AppStore should be an option. It could be a switch or toggle you could turn on with a warning.
This study says live virus has only been confirmed to be seen for at most 9 days. However, (presumably inactive) virus particles can be shed for months afterwards and can show up as PCR positive.

This meta analysis only includes studies of multi patients so there's pretty much a guarantee that there are individual case studies that differ from this.
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I don’t think this is a very good rant. Private companies have investors too, and board leadership varies from company to company.
The difference between the State and the Private Company is that citizens vote for the State, and Legislators (the "paternalizers") are directly installed by the voters.

The iPhone buyer does not get a say in the development staff or direction at Apple.

My government intends to be "Of the people, for the people, by the people". Imagine if Apple every single year had elections at every level of their company! Vote for your local support representatives. Vote for your local b+m store management. Vote for executive staff. Etc etc.

But until Apple does that, there is literally no fair comparison with paternalism in state and private industry.
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The PCR test amplifies RNA fragments. If after a certain amount of replication cycles the amount of detected RNA crosses a threshold, it is considered a positive.

A positive PCR test does not imply infectiousness. Many people who have a positive test are not just asymptomatic, they are not really infected to begin with.

A negative PCR test does not rule out disease. Some people who have a clinical diagnosis of COVID may produce a negative PCR result.
I would disagree, GNU/Linux has less of a malware problem than OSX and at the end of the day they all run browsers which have their own issues.

There's also a serious cost to the walled gardens. These things eliminate community maintained software which results in everything on your computer being controlled by a profit (often marketing) driven corporation. These always eventually die (taking your data with them) or abuse their special position of power.
RCS isn't "a standard", it is a dozen or so. Every carrier does it differently, so does Google, so does maybe Apple. The ecosystem will be fragmented along carrier lines and OSes. And the software is a Google (Android branded, but same difference) thing, so of course they can and will kill it at some point. I'm not posting FUD, I'm trying to point out that RCS is looking dead on arrival. Industry people even said so 5 years ago. All the signs are there. The horse they are riding is stillborn. https://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2015/05/rcs-is-still...
> has a very shady history of falsifying data

Source?
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In the Sumatra pdf reader you can edit the config so it inverts the colors.
It was the bullet that killed him, not the gun.
Blocking on Twitter is a necessary minimum to avoid the abuse and death threats. You can't have a discussion there because (unlike HN) there's no strong pressure to basic civility.
Only if the vaccine gives permanent immunity, which I haven't found any research suggesting that it will. In all likelihood, it will be necessary to give yearly booster shots, so the companies developing the vaccines will be able to sell vaccines every year

The quantity of vaccines needed will make even a $0.50 markup worth billions of dollars every year
Dunno about that job, but at mine, it's important somebody is there at the end of the day, I can't just leave early because I got there early
The article is light on the details (it's an article that digests the contents of another article - behind a paywall bypassable by having a Google referer), but it doesn't talk about how the hack works. Presumably the fake Zoom invite was a link to a non-Zoom website that promptly popped up a window to download an executable named ZoomUpgrade.exe . The victim clicked "download and run", and ta da, he installed a backdoor.

So, despite me not liking them, Apple would be safer because no one probably bothered to write the backdoor for Macs (maybe that's a market, since rich "hedge fund" folks would prefer bling computers?), and their nanny software would probably have said "No, you can't install this!".

Alternatively the hacker could've written a browser extension, I doubt those have adequate protection...
> The Spanish Flu hasn't "come back" yet

Yes it has, most recently in 2009. From Wikipedia:

“ Well known outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 2009 swine flu pandemic, as well as the Spanish flu.”
Why not just use a X230?
These comments stink. Maybe the name of the data structure stinks.

Anyway I was confused by the comment about starvation. I thought a friendless element should always be making progress toward the front batch even if there's regress in terms of how many items are in front of it. This is unlike a priority queue which can starve an element indefinitely by things coming in at the same rate they're processed.

Then I realized the error in my thinking: new elements can be added to the front batch while it is currently being processed. So the front batch can starve all later batches indefinitely.

You could prohibit adding to the current batch I suppose, without complicating the data structure too much.
Not really

It was 6 centuries ago, when it was first invented, it has a much broader meaning now.

Anyway Apple is State and Government in Apple ecosystem

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/#Intr

> The civil law does not allow the enforcement of certain kinds of contracts, e.g., for gambling debts. It requires minors to have blood transfusions even if their religious beliefs forbid it. Persons may be civilly committed if they are a danger to themselves.

Doctors do not tell their patients the truth about their medical condition. A physician may tell the wife of a man whose car went off a bridge into the water and drowned that he died instantly when in fact he died a rather ghastly death.

A husband may hide the sleeping pills from a depressed wife. A philosophy department may require a student to take logic courses.

A teacher may be less than honest about telling a student that he has little philosophical ability.

All of these rules, policies, and actions may be done for various reasons; may be justified by various considerations. When they are justified solely on the grounds that the person affected would be better off, or would be less harmed, as a result of the rule, policy, etc., and the person in question would prefer not to be treated this way, we have an instance of paternalism.

As the examples indicate the question of paternalism is one that arises in many different areas of our personal and public life
>The Ben Franklin quote that "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." seems particularly apt, here.

On the other hand, I'm a European, could not care less for Ben Franklin (or the Founding Fathers for that matter), and don't consider them some great sages of the centuries. Nor is their word gospel.

I say that because I see such supposed "deep" quotes all the time, as if a simplistic proverb-like statement settles a complex real world situation...

Not to mention that the quote is used out of context [1].

Safety is always temporary -- there are no long term guarantees in history. And we all give up all kinds of essential liberties for safety - that's part of living in a society. We pay taxes, we allow ourselves to be taken to prison if we break one of 1000000 laws, etc.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou....
Craig Federighi make a statement the other day that made it seem like Windows ARM Natively supporting the M1, without virtualisation, was very much in Microsofts court.
Edit: so like Secure Boot with only Windows key, Secure Boot with Microsoft-approved key (note that the key used for Windows and key for Linux signing is different) and Secure Boot disable.

Eh, I read reduced mode as basically how secure boot works on hardware with Microsoft-only keys in which MS signs a shim and it automatically blesses desendants (technically the OEM is not restricted to put other keys on the key database, but aside from business computers it seems that most machines have only Microsoft and OEM keys). Of course, Microsoft has a stronger incentive to sign these (or else they will be accused of antitrust violations), so Apple might not do that.
yes, and IIUC it's already a crowded market. I haven't been car shopping in a very long time so I'm not sure what's the current state of the art, but the Kelley Blue Book (edit: mentioned in a sibling comment) is probably the original and best-known one. First published in 1926, online since 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Blue_Book
Ikea Trådfri is pretty good and affordable.

The Gateway doesn't even need an internet connection, everything is done locally.
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I mean bypassing state-level mandatory background checks by travelling to a state where those are not required for private sales and just buy a firearm there with zero regulation and documentation.
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I am starting a site that charges customers for the use of an API, Web UI Components, and some other things. There is a monthly base price, and then there is monthly usage fees.

Is there a payment provider out there that:

* Is easy to setup
* doesn't require merchant accounts
* handles recurring billing AND usage billing
* only charges a fee on transactions, not an additional monthly fee?

Also, is there anything I should watch out for when evaluating the (hundreds?) of payment processors out there?

Some sites I've looked at so far (though, by no means do I prefer any of these): Stripe, FatMerchant, Chargebee.

I've been a user of Freshbooks for years with my software consulting business. Does anyone just use Freshbooks for SaaS billing?
That's exactly what a vaccine, any vaccine, does.

A vaccine is something that primes the immune system, so that when the real virus enters the body it is attacked and destroyed quickly. This means that the virus can never start multiplying in the body and shedding to other people.

I don't believe there is any modern vaccine that doesn't reduce or eliminate asymptomatic spreading of the disease.
I would far rather we report with just the tiniest bit of nuance. They did distinct variations for a reason. Nobody is reporting all the other approaches that were less favourable.
>For most non-Apple users this won't be a life-changing event.

Neither are occasional reliability issues with butterfly keyboards, but people seem to get more excited about that issue here than they do about the M1. As a tech nerd that doesn't make sense to me. But of course people are free to get excited or not about whatever they like.
MMS has groups but imessage and the new android messenger don't use MMS when everyone in the group has the same OS.

So when you switch OSes you get kicked out of the group.

For some reason there are a number of people on hackernews that are really struggling with this idea and I'm kind of surprised it's so difficult to understand. I thought the last guy I talked to was just particularly dense but maybe I'm failing to communicate it effectively? Maybe it's harder to understand than I thought it was? I'm not sure.
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Most people don't put much stock in "EV" certificates though, which to me would be the equivalent of the signed app, sort of, as it demonstrates that the person you are talking to is a specific known legal entity, sort of like demonstrating the app you are installing came from a specific known legal entity.

The "ordinary" certificates we use just are meant to prove the website you are talking to is the authorized owner of the domain you mean to be talking to... I'm not sure if there's really an analogy with installing apps, that kind of cert is I think maybe meant to protect against a kind of attack only relevant to network communications, not app installs.
I'm pretty neutral about it myself; on the one hand, you give up a bit of control and freedom over your hardware. But on the other, 99% of users have no need for, or cannot be trusted with that freedom.

I mean I've worked with Windows for multiple generations of the operating system, and once the internet became a thing it was just complete shit. I had a side job fixing computers for people, and it was always adware, viruses, etc messing things up.

That was caused by an insecure operating system on the one hand - which can and has been fixed by core operating system mechanics - but a big factor was both freedom and lack of expertise from users. They're easily tempted by e.g. "install this browser bar for dank discounts" without understanding the consequences. They may not even really register what's going on because so much is going on.

99% of users need to be protected from themselves. And developers need to work with that.

Apple has already proven how a closed ecosystem is ultimately beneficial for the consumer - how many security incidents has the iphone had, ever? I can't think of ANY to be honest, outside of the odd scummy app slipping through that is a bit too liberal with user's data. But they have never compromised a user's system. Mobile banking apps became a thing while I was an app developer, and that would never have flown on an unconstrained system. Pretty sure they had a lot more trouble with the Android version as well in that regard.

Tl;dr, 99% of users will never know any better and will not care, they just want to hit install and for things to Just Work.
Aren't you voting with your wallet when you voluntarily buy an Apple product?
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None of that affects the fact that if a loop runs 10 times, all programmers will say that it ran for 10 iterations.
the spec is over then years old already and not from google. so there is that.

google is just the one to drag their feet the fastest seeing its other attempts to enter the messaging market failed completely.
That’s actually in our Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. I don’t recall the constitution including it as well (although most Americans consider it a given because it was in the DOI). Originally Jefferson wrote, “the pursuit of land,” but that was changed at one of the conventions before it was ratified by representatives of the colonies at the time.
As long as there is a shortage of doses it shouldn't matter too much.
And dolphins are an exception. Don't they share a very similar brain structure to humans?
I'll say again that Google and Facebook are being dragged kicking and screaming into the role of judge and jury of what is or isn't acceptable speech.

They don't like it now, but they may well grow to love it.
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One crazy thing I read about, was of a bug from some 3rd party company’s application.

On some Windows update, the application no longer worked. But since Microsoft wanted to ensure a seamless transition during upgrades, they changed their OS code to perpetuate the bug from that application, to allow it to continue working.

Kudos to them for doing so.
That’s great, I intentionally disabled telematics in mine.
The mortgage is definitely part of the status anxiety I mentioned. People need a house because they’re surrounded by peers buying houses. Let go of all that and life opens up for you.

Backpacking through Europe is cheap. Backpacking through Southeast Asia even cheaper. Incredible food awaits and it’s very very cheap.
I think the move is great and actually something myself I have been asking them to do since day one of them supporting RCS.

However, I worry Google may still be able to read messages locally, or through other means, in effect cancelling out any privacy protection from this "end-to-end encryption".

For instance, I installed the beta app and noticed they suggest using Messages for Web to get the messages on the desktop, too. Signal and WhatsApp have native clients, so at least they maybe able to link between native apps in a secure way. But I think it's way too easy for Google to spy on users' Messages for Web, as it's a web service. How would we even know they aren't doing it while they still show us the "lock" icon.
Guess Corvids are operations researchers then. :)

Once they figure out what the reward system is, they often try to figure out how it can be gamed.
That said, they are moving in a direction; they've stopped trying to make IE work in favor of a rewrite, keeping IE around for older apps.

Honestly wouldn't be surprised - actually I AM surprised this isn't a thing yet - that they would run older Windows apps in a VM / emulator. Actually they may already do this but I'm just not aware of it.

One thing they have been doing is turn Windows into an evergreen operating system (together with Edge), so that few people will still be running older versions of their operating system.
Ditto. Walking in to the Pantheon, especially off season when there aren't as many tourists, is like traveling back in time. I can't help but think about all the things that may (or may not) have happened in that space, and my imagination immediately runs wild. Whenever I find myself in Rome I have to go there, it's like a calling almost.

I have much the same feelings when walking around Forum Romanum, my imagination runs wild there also. There's something about seeing those ruins that make my mind just rebuild them and I imagine their former glory so vividly it's almost like I can see it right in front of me.

Rome is a very nice place to visit off season, I very much enjoy it.
Looks pretty neat!
But what's the point of the thermal printer? Is this supposed to be used as a portable cash register?
> There are certain things in life that should follow trends, many of which are items that convey important meaning. Can you imagine if every city in America used a different stop sign? It would be disastrous.

I think you just offered an argument against, not for, following trends. Stop signs are universally recognized not just because the same design is used everywhere, but because the design is stable over time.