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> with our consumer decisions to trade 'freedom in computation' in smartphones

TBF, the first few iPhone releases were arguably better and more open than anything before them. Apple refused to bow to carriers and provided a standard development platform for the first time. Then the Appstore, again bypassing carriers, increased developer access to mobile platforms by 1000x or more.

Sadly, both consumers and developers then failed to push for even more open alternatives, to the point where Apple and Google managed to entrench themselves too deeply to address this problem through simple market mechanisms. It's time for authorities to step in, hopefully we're seeing that (slowly) happening.
This is actually the main use-case for this. At work we have machines in different environments, but they all can see the self-hosted gitlab (although not each other). This just makes it easier to get bits of config or scripts from one environment to another with not too much pain.
> My point was really lack of speed in both case

I already saw your point initially, I remember browsing some IPv6 specs with a timestamp of 1999. My point was that at a personal level, I had every reason to use IPv6 and it was only a matter of whether it's provided, thus I started using it immediately after it was made available. However, speaking of the Wayland migration, I have personal reasons for staying on X and not to run Wayland in the foreseeable future, which is why I said my migration to Wayland is probably going to be slower, not faster, than my migration to IPv6.
A Quick End to a Dangerous War
Isn't how human nature works? Exceptions, greed, gossip, deception? You can't leave that to a company to enforce with T&C.
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I don't really get it...assume there is a 1% chance that masks work, just wear the mask, what is the cost to you?

I am not sure that masks work, I live somewhere where it is mandatory in almost every situation, and our number of cases is now significantly higher than it was when no-one was wearing them...but just wear one. Is the number of vain adults really this large?
agreed to an extend, I simply feel that any idealistic / political advertiser needs to be in some sort of public ledger. The real blocker is transparency.
Looks like they made the classic Streisand effect mistake - attempts to clamp down on critical voices brought more attention to them. For a startup that ramped up and exited so quickly, they don't seem particularly smart.

Notwithstanding the marketing, I don't think the product itself is egregious. Their primary sell is teaching logic ("coding") to kids through 1:1 tutoring sessions. Many Indian upper/middle class households already send their kids to in-person tutors at a very young age, and looks like Whitehat Jr found a niche that could cater to that market during the pandemic.

1:1 tutoring can be highly effective, creating a 2-sigma improvement in student performance (http://web.mit.edu/5.95/readings/bloom-two-sigma.pdf). Of course, Whitehat Jr likely doesn't follow specific structured pedagogy to get this advantage, and maybe the target age group is too young to get any benefits.
> they should invite the Blender people over to fix the UI for them :-)

Is this sarcastic? I opened blender once and had a panic attack. Gimp felt usable since the beginning.
It uses TLS over Gitlab's REST API and registers all snippets as private -- I figured this would probably be enough for a first cut.
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> It's not like you can sustain a whole website on that.

I don't know, xkcd.com seems to be doing just that.
Maybe they sell these as expensive field upgrades to the Mac Pro clientele.
Cool trick! If you search for random phrases in the pages that aren't the front page, Google has indexed them as well even though they're hidden by default by the CSS. I'd be cautious for SEO reasons as it's non-standard though.
I wonder if NYU business school prof Scott Galloway @profgalloway is going to weigh in on this issue. NYU is by no means powerless.

We can guess that FB employs a full-time proactive crisis management public relations team. Why? To help guess what they can get away with. But they may have underestimated NYU as an opponent.
Do an image search for "measuring tablespoon". It's a dedicated piece of silverware, distinct from a regular tablespoon.
Rosetta cannot be used for virtualisation, only for macOS apps.
The Third Reich is going after its critics in the name of liberating humanity.
Alternatively you can just eyeball everything.
Article says 160bn. I disagree. If google would sell youtube now, no company will have 160bn at their disposal to buy it + all the money needed to integrate it and keep it running. Imagine the HUGE COST associated to disconnect it from other google products.

If youtube would be sold at an auction tomorrow, few companies will come (facebook, amazon etc.) and it will receive way under 100bn.
I'm an Indian abroad.

Do it.

Come here to Europe.

The baseline level of self-awareness in people here is off the scale when you compare it to the typical Indian. People actually queue, instead of creating a melee at every counter. You're never worrying about people cutting you in lines. Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross. No one honks! They nod and smile "bonjour!" as they cross you on the street. There is no pollution here. The food is great, the coffee is even better, the $5 wine at your local grocery store is some of the best in the world. The employees you'll work with have some basic dignity and shame. If they don't know something, they'll admit it. They won't grossly lie on their resumes. You'll never hear the words "do the needful" or "prepone" or, my most hated "kindly revert back"! There is a basic amount of honesty here. You don't spend all your time worrying if the guy you're doing business with is fleecing you. You will find information about businesses online.

This place is as close to paradise as it gets on planet Earth.

Life, and especially youth, passes by in an instance. I highly advocate keeping this fact in mind in the face of do-gooders who judge you for your choices. The million small and large quality of life improvements lead to exactly that. A vastly higher quality of life.
Anti-maskers in America fall into the group that believes in small government, so they see mandatory masks as a huge overreach of power and an attack on their freedom/metaphorical muzzle/etc.
Fine-Tuning Google Colab
why? I doubt those obsolete chipsets will be used by anyone else, or anyone will be particularly motivated to shell out a lot of money for access to schematics.
Reality was more that MS /benefited/ from the IBM-PC clone market rather than MS /caused/ the IBM-PC clone market.

IBM gets some credit, for making the IBM-PC with commodity components, which set the stage. But it was the clone makers (with Compaq being first, but certainly not last) that ultimately caused the standardization around the IBM-PC style systems. And the clone makers were driven by the fact that, at the time, the market (esp. businesses supplying their users) wanted to be compatible with the IBM-PC, while saving costs over buying an actual IBM-PC from IBM. MS benefited from the explosion in sales of IBM-PC clones by being the OS provider for the IBM-PC, so as a clone maker, to be fully compatible, you also needed MS's OS on your clone.

The standardization process occurred some years later once the market had clearly moved towards the IBM-PC architecture. And MS likely had some hand in guiding that process, given their monopoly at that time in the OS that every clone maker wanted to use. But by the time MS was powerful enough to begin any guiding (or "forcing") the market itself had already "standardized" because of the huge sales potential of being "IBM compatible".
Facebook doesn't have the greatest security track record. While it wouldn't be productive to argue that one group is inherently more trustworthy than the other it's worth pointing out (as others already have) that the code is available to the public.
> Sitting in a meeting with marketers, hearing only about back links, guest posts, outreach and so on. Basically everyone is trying to get a back link at any cost, to promote their product.

Quality backlinks are more important than hundreds of low quality ones.
Discussion from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11381625
Covid-19: Forecasting the death toll
It's kind of money a hostile state would have backed a tech company with to access all personal data.
I had the honor of being turned away from the Glen Cove park because I was not a resident of the "city" of Glen Cove. Apparently you need to be a resident to use the park(Morgan memorial park).
Anyway now I know where Battery Park tunnel (Hugh L Carey) gets its official name.
One of my favorite moments from the birth of UNIX is Ken Thompson's telling (in this interview with Brian Kernighan) of how he got hired to work at Bell Labs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o (starting at about 11 minutes in to the video)
The average user is not savvy enough to sign consistently, but can keep a private key secure? That's a big assumption.
I do think that users opting in is an insufficient response. A lot of users opt in for things they do not understand. (Terms and conditions of any site or app for example). For tech savvy users with the plug in, they will be smart enough to know what they are accepting, though that is not true for everyone.

I like the idea of open source code and that is helpful but there is got to be a better way. And I also believe that the research like this should be supported. All things aside, we can arrive at solutions without the need of an article like this which neither poses such questions, nor provides context.
https://gitlab.com/bradwood/glsnip
Well that's yet another rabbit hole that residents of hacker news have tossed me down. The article about pallets was very cool and rekindled my interest in building things out of the wood from closed pallets.
Dogs instincts are to help their packmates. They will do it all day long even with no rewards.
Which is a much nicer alternative to `alias_method_chain` and similar for monkey-patching or enhancing an existing method in a class as it makes more clear the existence and origin of the patch.
It would be interesting to take all the measures that refer to real objects (tablespoons, feet, stones, etc...) and to compare them to whatever "average" of actual objects we can devise.
The single port MacBook is my favorite computer to date! It’s not for everyone, including you obviously, but I’m not sure what reputation would have to do with that. Just different computers with different purposes.
What Is the Purpose of Load Testing?
Online classes are not a good learning environment for some people. Probably many people. For many people, a phone is not an ideal medium for online classes. Some subjects are not going to do well on a phone...or online.

It's hard for many people to get enthusiastic about online classes. And a lot of online classes are terrible.

This may not be the right time for you to pursue a degree.

Is there something else you would rather try?
It’s a killer feature until it stops working inexplicably, and the only solution is to wipe each device without restoring from a backup because Apple has no other solution to problems with iOS devices.

Source: Apple support to me when it stopped working
This argument is ridiculous.

In my language, PIXAR means literally "to pee". This leads to inevitably to a couple of jokes when you start talking about this company, and then it stops forever. I'd still be happy to work for this company regardless of its name.

There's thousands of languages in this world. Any word or acronym that you come bay will be likely "offensive" in several of them. It does not really matter. Most people in the world are not native english speakers and "Gimp" means nothing to them.
Factually correct comments do sometimes initially get downvoted but when a factually correct comment gets downvoted into the gray it generally attracts enough attention by virtue of being gray to get voted back into the black.

Comments that stay in the gray are not comments to be proud of. A very large community of intelligent people are saying they think you are wrong. That's generally a sign some introspection about one's comment is warranted.
Just searched Milan on https://it.indeed.com - Node.js 123, Django 26, Rails 11, ASP.Net 133, Laravel 67. As Node is a web technology comparing it with general purpose languages such as Java and C# is apples to oranges.
> Unless you actually need the GPIO there is no need to go

> SBC.

Or form factor, or weight, or power consumption, or cooling - or a multitude of other reasons.

I do agree though that an old desktop PC can be miles better in terms of performance per dollar, but you'll probably pay for it in electricity bills in the long run.
Anecdotally I have to disagree about Sendgrid. Have had no issues with them so far.
Apple’s first-gen M1 chips have upended our concept of laptop performance
I think it’s not uncommon for 4G to be faster than home broadband for people outside major areas.

If you use 4G not only do they get a faster connection in the first place but they also avoid contending with other family users also on the slower broadband.

Doesn’t seem bizarre or technically ignorant to me?
Let me clarify my statement: Most *employees work at companies that don't allow you to ...

Yes, I'm sure most startups are lax, but big corporations are not, and there's way more engineers in total working at big corps than at startups. When I said "companies" I didn't have startups in mind.
Great, another thing insomniacs can lie awake worried about!
You would think, but no: programmers can never make more than managers. Management makes sure of it.
One reference is not like the other.

Take your pick:

> "However, according to medical historians, the decline in deaths from influenza in San Francisco can be partly attributed to the mandatory mask-wearing policies."

From a social science piece published in May 2020, https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820....

The full quote is "Yet in cities like San Francisco, the decline in deaths from influenza was partly attributed to the mandatory mask-wearing policies." It contains no further attribution or references.

> "A study then in 1919 concluded that mandatory mask mandates did not make any difference on epidemic, while observing that a likely reason for their ineffectiveness was that masks were worn outdoors and not inside in gatherings when conditions for transmission would be greatest. It also noted that most masks were improperly constructed of inadequate materials."

Comes from an actual medical study by the California Board of Health, published in 1919. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31378008030317&vi...
How variables are implemented in CPython
Based on my tinkerboard s it does not really matter. Their software support is just plain bad, even in 3rd party distros.
As it happens, tabbing around a badly designed form often doesn't work correctly. Then there are UI with hundreds of focusable inputs where while tabbing might work correctly, is extremely cumbersome and slow to use.

This is not to suggest replacing a keyboard with a touchscreen, any more than suggest a keyboard is no longer required since a mouse or trackpad is available. It's just an additional form of input, and one I'd personally definitely miss.
People like Calibre. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just using it as a type example. Gnu-ish software is different in a recognizable way from Google, MSFT, etc. Different enough that both strengths and weaknesses are different.

With Calibre, most users won't feel like they have a grasp of what the software is and what you can do with it... compared to an Apple product. But, it's super powerful and the answer to a lot of "how do I X?" queries is use calibre. Without calibre, the operative answer would probably be "you can't."
I'm not sure if that is true. To me it makes more sense that mammals just lack the rational capability to act on that information. Like, dogs clearly understands that others are thinking and feeling beings.
That is my guess as well, but I haven't found any official word on this. It is ridiculous that I can buy a Dell with an LTE modem and not a MacBook Pro.
Here you go folks, a few screenshots https://pixfed.com/p/kelamir/236135097303175168
Proof That 1 = 2
If pravj is reading this

- It might be helpful to say who Paul Graham is

- All links in section C of the article are broken
Americans often have set of measuring spoons (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=measuring+spoons) that have 1 Tablespoon, 1 Teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon, 1/4 teaspoon (some have 1/8 teaspoon too). As you found, a Tablespoon is an "exact" measurement and most don't use their actual eating utensils for cooking - though I'm sure at one point they were used.

Often I've found with watching cooking shows (and some of my own experience) when hosts say something like "add a ___ of blah" and then proceed to just pour it out of the container without exact measurement the reason they are giving a measurement is to give a rough approximate of how much but the exact amount doesn't really matter, though it never hurts to go towards the smaller for things like seasoning.

In terms of baking recipes (bread, cakes, cookies, etc) the exact amount matters more (chemistry or live things) but you can still be off by a bit and things will still work.
Dunno, watch a herd of horse, cows, goats or sheep for a bit. Recreational sexual activity abounds. Llama can apparently talk anything female into spending time with them.

"animals don't have sex" is more a matter of "people don't publish about their study of animal sex" because it'd be seen as weird.
Good point, I had missed the impact of email as an authentication tool. I think the industry should move towards a decoupling of that from email (or worse, social networks). I think there's been some movement towards using phone numbers instead, but that presents its own kind of issues.
> I suspect a fair number of people who can do so will end up choosing jobs based on remote policies and how companies operate in practice.

I think so as well, and honestly I think this is the best outcome. Every company doesn't have to be everything for everyone.
Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with an unlikely friendship
Presumably logging into your personal account would be what’s against their policy. They should have set up an account for that computer to use. It’s also surprising that they didn’t ship it to you in a usable state.
I’ve used greylisting for the last five years or so. I stopped doing so completely and moved to Fastmail. Greylisting delays, while unnoticeable with the contacts I frequently communicate with, were very annoying with new and one-off contacts, especially all sorts of confirmation emails from bank etc, which would often expire before greylisting allowed them in. Sometimes, emails were sent through cloud mailing systems, so coming from a different host each time they’d hit greylisting again and again and again.
Good catch. It's the same chip.
This absolutely. Whenever someone brings up using an SBC as some kind of cheap, low-end computer that will get stuffed behind a screen and keyboard/mouse combo and nothing else, I always bring up how even a 10 year old laptop could probably outperform even a rpi4.

Always get called a stick in the mud, too. Maybe I am. But seriously, if you just want a cheap linux desktop, grab any laptop from ebay from the past decade. If you want, strip all the casing and peripherals off -- the mainboards are pretty small.

Heck, you can repurpose the i2c bus on the video outputs for whatever you want. Could even use a breakout board and drive a microcontroller, get additional GPIO pins[0].

Probably other nifty hacks out there. The last gen "ExpressCard" expansion slots are basically external PCIe busses, you can great those out and add PCIe cards to a laptop board.

[0] https://hackaday.com/2014/06/18/i2c-from-your-vga-port/

Edit: To be clear, I'm not pushing back on the idea of the raspberry pi. There are a ton of valid uses for them. I'm specifically pushing back against the idea that they're cheap, power efficient general purpose linux machines.

They are definitely low power, but not necessarily power efficient. And I think re-purposing the mountain of e-waste instead of buying a bunch more new SBCs may be better ecologically, but all the power to those who want to have fun with a cool little ARM board. No sarcasm.
I'm using the Quest2 with ImmersedVR -- I find that it's more than enough for me and I can work for a few hours before I feel like I need to take a VR break. The headset is light enough that I don't super notice the weight and I find the text quality is pretty good.
Hi! This is part 5 of my Python behind the scenes series. The topic of this post is Python variables, which is not as simple as it may seem at first. Here's some of the things we'll cover:

- what an assignment statement like a = b really means in Python
- what a variable is
- how CPython maps names to values
- what namespaces and scopes are and how to determine the scope of a name
- which opcodes the CPython compiler produces to work with variables, and how the CPython VM executes these opcodes

I'd like to hear your feedback. Thanks!
HBR occasionally has good pieces and does make me think. Mostly they are fluff pieces advanced by writers with vested interests.
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Ah the wonderful sound reminiscent of a ZX Spectrum loading.

What's the baud rate?
Xbox Series X/S vs. Playstation 5: Our launch-month verdict
Full Self Driving TESLA Demo.. [video]
> Apple is now (primarily) a software-service company

They like to tell everyone that, but it's still very much a lie. More than 50% of their revenues come straight from iPhone hardware sales. Services are barely under 18%, and that includes absolutely everything they can throw in there (icloud, appstore, etc). Everything else is hardware.

Apple is a hardware company that is desperately trying to ensure their future when, inevitably, they'll get a few iPhones wrong and consumers will move on. It's a bit like Persian Gulf countries investing in airlines and anything else to ensure they'll have a future when oil runs out.
One could also assume that there's a 1% chance that a mask is harmful (let's say due to oxygen deprivation). If that person believes that they are harmful, then why would take the 1% risk?

(For the record, this is not my opinion. Just pointing out that this reasoning isn't very convincing.)
I've been running a couple postfix mail servers on aws for about a decade for my ecommerce company, transactional messages only. It needs to be properly configured, which is non-trivial. Over the years it has been necessary to request IP unblocks from a few providers. Delivering mail to microsoft domains (hotmail, outlook, msn, live) has been problematic, so those messages only are now being delivered though SES. Incoming messages are forwarded to free gmail accounts. I spend 20 minutes a week blocking spam, we get very little now. We use about 15 rbl lists, but I also manually block client domains, sender domains, and do some header checks. Email is important to me and I enjoy doing it this way. It's super cheap, I can use several domains, and I have full control of the mail process.
> The other part is a near free-for-all permission from Uncle Sam to nuke nearly any bad content free from civil liability.

Although the law purports to grant this permission, it did not need to. The constitution's free speech protections are sufficient to grant companies the right to decline to publish whatever they choose to. Although the government can compel speech in certain specific circumstances -- think medical disclosures -- generally they cannot compel political speech. State laws cannot override the constitution in this regard.