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That's a problem with the UNICODE standardization process, and not a problem with the UTF-8 encoding though.
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Remember all those little two-letter abbreviations when 140 character SMS were dominating all remote communication, and those messages were still expansive? "Code" like that quickly establishes itself in narrow text communication and apparently the desire to make a quick buck by selling a "reference manual" isn't new either. My guess (from looking no further than the title I have to admit) is that this is a legitimate predecessor to stuff like this
https://www.amazon.com/Text-Message-Abbreviations-Reference-... or https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1467999466

In this case, the author(s) sure had a hand for wording!
> He couldn't prove anything, so gave it a B and strongly warned me not to "pull a stunt like this ever again".

You should have gotten your A+… This seems really arbitrary and unfair. The teacher could not prove anything, but gave you a worse grade based on what? His personal opinion of your abilities? Dick move.
do as you want with those trafficking, and keep them illegal.

If you keep them illegal then you lose control. If they are made available from your local chemist then you can legislate for quality and strength.

Keeping them illegal also has a massive unwanted side effect in terms of encouraging criminal gangs and violence. All that would go away if customers could just stroll down to their local Boots and buy a packet of spliffs.
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You're describing a Surface Book. Its a nice device, but I do believe Apple's hardware design can take it to the next level.
I presume the comment is about the article, which it quotes, so it doesn't matter how few such people exist.
hallucinogenics, for those that have a positive experience, are so foreign and outside the bounds of normal life, while making you feel like you have new insight into your own life, that people just want other people to have that experience. kind of like the first time you see the ocean or the grand canyon or a sequoia.
15% of the web, surely?
At the moment they would sell their hardware with very good CPUs. We already want those laptops, but since they don't run linux (some of us) won't buy them. I guess it depends on which group is larger.
Yes, so what? There is a programming tutorial app for the iPad. That is nice. But that isn't to be mistaken for a programming environment, where you can develop to your hearts desire.

Can I develop freely full screen applications with the Swift playground? Can I share the results with my friends?
Definitely. The notion that "everything is a buffer" is a powerful one. Take something as simple as the incremental search functionality. Interfaces in other programs often don't have searchable content, OTOH any buffer you use in Emacs can be searched, sorted, and processed just as you would in a text file.
Things aren't binary in real world. When you compare how ie Europe works, the differences are there and in similar vein as highlighted.

American society is brutal in many respects. It is truly winner-take-all and rest be damned, you should have tried harder. Be it medicine (you either can afford it or are screwed - unimaginable for any european country), education (public universities are almost/totally free everywhere), penal system etc.

I find it interesting how US top 1% succeeded to persuade the remaining 99% of the population that this is best system for them, when clearly it isn't. Not if you want the best place for your kid to grow up and be given fairest and best chances and have a good safe life. I guess Hollywood helped, but rather than contemplating some conspiracy it seems to me its more some sort of self-fulfilling myth.

We know class mobility is largely a myth, and US society is deeply divided into classes based on money. And as for violence - its there on more noticeable levels than across the pond.
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> Why is it like this? To accommodate the x% of people who seem to get confused in some manner when presented with "too many choices".

FWIW, this is done to accommodate SSO (single sign-on), which matters for any software that's going to be used in corporate or governmental environments. You have to submit your login first, because it's used to determine what authentication method and provider to select.

That said, I hate this flow too, and there must be a better way. It also doesn't excuse products that do not support SSO that still implement such split flow anyway.
now we just need to find all intellectual jobs and legislate them similarly.

at least i think there's too few female network engineers.
I wish Digital Ocean would do something about the amount of abuse from their network.
And the long-term support (ESR) version as well, if I remember correctly.
I wish I worked around people that used emacs so I could pick some of it up by watching them and asking small dumb questions. It seems so cool, but the decades of history make it daunting to get started on your own.
IMHO it's better to ignore "universal string processing" in the C standard completely instead of providing a half-assed and over-complicated solution like in most other languages. String processing isn't exactly a core-competency of C, and never will be, it's better to use a different language for such things.
The current CPU's already are VLIW in a fashion. Its just that they have a hardware jitter for it. That's what superscalar OoO CPU basically is, a piece of HW that generates VLIW instructions based on the normal instructions that come in. A superscalar execution port is basically just one subinstruction in VLIW. Explicit VLIW only helps you to save that piece of silicon from the chip. And it's not that much in the grand scheme of things. It used to be, but not anymore.

Static compile time VLIW means one cannot really make it wider anymore, or narrower. Dynamically doing it on runtime means a cheaper and smaller core can just be narrower. Remove an instruction slot for one integer ALU? Fine, no issues. Everything still works, albeit slower by that much. Make a beefier chip? Perfect, it got faster by the amount of instruction level parallelism that was available.

In addition a compiler cannot really see across function boundaries (except if it's statically determinable). A jitter can. Modern chips have reordering window of hundreds of instructions, M1 apparently goes up to over 600. That's quite a lot of stuff there that it can dynamically reorder across. A compiler might not have noticed that due to some weird dynamic call that was not visible during compilation time there is now an FPU instruction that could be inserted here, an OoO processor can.

Due to that explicit VLIW is basically dead outside of some highly specific applications, like DPS and whatnot.

In a similar fashion ridculously wide vector units were obsoleted by the approach pioneered by GPU's. Just add few things to allow masking based on branches and you get SIMT approach. Write as if it was scalar code and it'll run on HW that has vector lengths going from none at all up to whatever, NVidia has 32 wide vector units as an example.
Eventually a group will breakout of ASML to serve the Chinese market because, regardless of sanctions, that is where the growth and possibilities are.
And, of course, we have the excellent first-hand accounts of Alexander and Ann Shulgin in PiHKAL; which covers many psychedelic drugs and notes their effects at varying dosages. (It also covers synthesis.)

Widipedia article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL

Electronic copies of the book used to be widely available online, but I can't vouch for any links that have turned up in a quick search a few minutes ago. Hard copies are still available, and are probably more complete and/or safer.
Thank you very much for the links. Please share any other cool educational materials you know.
These types of posts are popular on HN and generally suggest that people are bad at realizing when a product wasn't designed for them. It's a bit like complaining that a drill should have a flat back so you can also use it as a hammer. Sure, it might be technically possible, but not only will it never be as good as just using a hammer for the job, it would make the drilling functionality worse.

If you're trying to use your iPad as a Mac, you will always be disappointed and rightfully so. These are distinctly different form factors with different primary inputs, and they should focus on what they excel at.

Adding keyboard and trackpad support to iPadOS wasn't to help us developers move to an iPad, it was to help people whose only computer is an iPad fill in some missing gaps in their workflow.

However, if you're planning to attach a keyboard to your iPad most of the time, just get a MacBook Air instead. On the flip side, if you're getting an iPad Pro, you should really be planning to buy the Pencil with it to take advantage of its strengths. Otherwise, you are probably looking for a consumption device (iPad Air or iPad no-adjective), but then you shouldn't be surprised that it doesn't help you create.
Tell that to Dave Trott, who is an influential British advertising copywriter. All of his writing comes in the form of one sentence paragraphs. There's whole books of it! https://davetrott.co.uk/
Yeah but you also have to understand the dependency management systems for every open source project on GitHub to get the right dependency, which is a sisyphean task. Google has the advantage there is only one way to build stuff.
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This is formalizing something which happened back in July https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53279783
I also recently discovered the Concepts app. It’s amazing and too bad it’s not more widely known.
A lot has improved over the past decade.
That makes things even easier then :-P
> the simplest possible version of Unix that is actually still functional with the code being readable

I would argue that Unix v6 (when you consider excellent book Lion's Commentary on UNIX 6th edition) takes that trophy.
Use another name. Most names are fine as long as they're relatively short, memorable and pronounceable.

That money could be put to better use.
I hope Apple don't end up going down the touch screen route with macOS. Windows has been much worse as a desktop OS since Windows 8, largely because of the shift to touch.
Doesn't this depend a lot on _what_ and _where_ you are reading?

I suspect people have completely different styles when reading e.g. a fiction book on a Kindle vs. a tutorial about deploying a Docker container. I wouldn't be surprised if generation/age played a factor too.
> The attachable tablet keyboards can't really be used comfortably on the go - commuting, sofa surfing etc.

WHAT?? I disagree completely.

The iPad’s fanless shell and the lightweight sealed keyboards make it PERFECT for random environments, especially restaurants and dining tables etc. where you don’t have to worry about dust or crumbs getting in anything and can just wet-wipe grease and crap off it.
> Adopt a landscape-first mindset. Rotate the Apple logo on the back and move the iPad’s front-facing camera on the side beneath the Apple Pencil charger to better reflect how most people actually use their iPad Pros.

Hell no! I've been using iPads since the first one, and I love them — if I wanted a laptop, I would use a laptop. An iPad is fantastic for reading documents or taking notes in vertical, that's a large part of its appeal. Don't try to reduce it to the common denominator.

I do agree the iPad should be less restrained: software has been holding this platform back for years now. It's an incredibly powerful computer that is only 6mm thick. Those of us who use it for things like audio production or 3d modeling realize how powerful it is, but it is being held back by Apple's obsessive control and neglect.
Notifications are missing due to PWAs support.

You can always plug the iPad and use the host web inspector, but I get your point. On device would be rather nice, even it needed to be an additional app for reasons.
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... yet. They’re building the hardware infrastructure to change that.

I mean, I get it, it’s fast. That’s good. But it’s so obvious people worry about the trend, not the exact current state.
Are people working in American startups from american descent? Im sure there are thousands of Indian, Pakistani or other country people employed right now, so do you think they would be loyal to US startups?
>and waiting for SCO to go bankrupt.

No mentioning that Microsoft was behind all that?
Firefox has too many abstraction layers. The other day I've managed to break the multi-account containers, because I pressed Enter (to confirm opening a site in a different container) faster than the confirmation page finished loading, which yielded a) an empty tab with no site, and b) a confirmation page with no URL in it, that did nothing.

Software should never break because flesh-and-bone human user is "too fast" for it.
Haha I like how you put it!

On the boring side, it’s probably not worth it. Generated photography is detectable. A trained eye could spot it; big social media have models trained to a lot it.

Scraping a real life dataset makes more sense to me. Moreover, there are tons of ready ones.

Instead, here are are some of the other uses invented by our customers https://generated.photos/use-cases
People don't read on the internet, they only skim. Short sentences are better for that.
I agree with you completely.

But who is advancing all those arguments you are refuting?

They are all straw men.
The title of the article is "Writing Well". It is not "Writing that Reduces Bounce Rates." These are not the same thing and marketing copy is not something every writer should seek to emulate.
Switch, like most Nintendo game consoles isn't about latest cry in technology, rather about the gaming experience.

Nintendo has survived this long by not focusing on console wars for AAA titles.
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> Do software developers really crave a touch-first instrument that is barely more portable than a MBP 13"?

I don't know about the need for touch-first, but I can certainly see where the blog post is coming from.

It's not so much about what the iPad can do, it's more about what it cannot do and that there's no technical reason for its limitations.

It's kind of pointless to have two separate device classes when there's no technical difference between them anymore. Before the release of the M1 laptop and Mac Mini it could have been argued that the more traditional machines were more powerful and expandable.

But there's literally no difference between the hardware of a Macbook, Mac Mini, and iPad Pro apart from peripherals (e.g. screen, keyboard, touchpad). Why would a developer even need two devices when the laptop runs the same hardware and is only missing things (modem, touch screen, sensors, cameras)?
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It would be the worst from both worlds. It didn't work for Microsoft and wouldn't for Apple.
That’s not a “wall of text.” The typography, layout and paragraphs are done in a fashion that makes them quite readable in digital format.

Note that the paragraphs are not indented, space-separated, and the text is left-justified.

The use of a serif font is somewhat unusual for a digital medium, but it’s a very crisp, “light” font, presented with maximum contrast, on a pure white background.

That is a concession to digital media.

Also, the writing is excellent, which helps a lot.
> Do they fake chronic pain to get high?

Not trying to undermine the other part, which is true and I wish more countries would move faster. But this may be part of the problem officially. Yes, people routinely seek regulated drugs from doctors by faking symptoms. Enough to create systems where you can register people receiving prescriptions so that other doctors know not to prescribe multiple overlapping doses.
Thats not just the sales pitch. I experienced it practically and i brought it up as an example.

I don't know where the sweat spot is, but i don't think it is at a 10 person company. I believe its more in the range of 500 or 1000 person company.
>$699! Per processor!

That's not much, it's in fact really cheap for a Unix.
True indeed, certainly not an ORM. But I would say the effect you can achieve with it is very close to what a proper ORM can do, much more so than the lower level frameworks java people are now recommending.
You've linked to peeked not peaked, which was the GP's point.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peak

For other readers, wikitionary does not make any such claim about 'peaked'. The only definition it contains is this:

"Having a peak or peaks"

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peaked
What's the use in free knowledge how to build a turbine (or God forbid, a nuclear reactor) when all labor, materials, energy and machinery involved in its construction cost money?

That's right, the only use is that investors can save a hefty bit on the knowledge part. That's nowhere near the external looks of ideals of FOSS (but pretty much in line with its internal gist).
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I'm dying for a cigarette.
Oh, ok, no problem.
Thanks for the recommendation. The point that more than anything, your writing should be valuable to the group of readers it is targeted at is fascinating.
> TFA links directly to the IPFS Desktop Client

I guess TFA is Teach for America? Doesn't really matter, but anything that is linking to IPFS Desktop could easily link to their own distribution of the client as it's all open source.

And while IPFS Desktop could start blocking content, so could torrent clients, not sure what's different really. They both are just clients for a protocol anyone can write new clients for and both have the risk of adding blocklists and having people abandon the client, so the same risks exists for both of them.
The author is "Director of Innovation Policy" at a US-based think-tank. His agenda (which I agree with, fwiw!) is to influence US government policy. He is trying to do this by encouraging the belief that American innovation has high returns on investment right now, as the "great stagation" may be coming to an end.

Because it's political rhetoric rather than scentific argument, some fudging of the facts is to be expected. The only people likely to be offended at having credit for the innovations stolen are outside the US, and they are not the audience.

It doesn't really detract from the force of the argument, since anything that can be said about American innovation could reasonably be said about European innovation, and "America" could be taken as short-hand for "developed nations at the technological frontier".
"Bad autocorrect" is a problem (notable examples include MacOS helpfully autoincorrecting names of prescription medicines in some clinics). "Not contrast enough" and "annoying background music" can be worked around. Bad performance can't.
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It’s not that the iPad isn’t suitable for work. It’s that if you decide to commit to it and use it for your work you’re now at the whim of Apple. They can wreck your workflow because they have a dispute with the developer. Combined with the push towards rented („subscription based“) software this makes for a very uncertain platform. Even if disputes are rare, as long as Apple holds this power I think it will only ever get worse over time.
New orgs are forming at big companies all the time. In my time at Microsoft, I’ve seen the tooling go from horrible monorepos with perforce to really nice git repos in azure devops. I also don’t think “failing” is the right term for these megacorps. Slow maybe, but even that varies per team.
At this point, the only thing standing in the way of me doing work on my iPad Pro is Apple.

Would I like to work for 8 hours a day on it? Of course not. But I work mostly from home now. It would be great if I could ditch my laptop and have a desktop Mac for the bulk of my work, with the iPad filling the gaps.

But as things stand, I can't run a web server, can't run PHP or Node, I can't even open dev tools in the browser without relying on a "real computer". Which is especially stupid considering that, even though my "real computer" is a 16" MacBook Pro that cost 3x what the iPad cost, the iPad is faster in many regards (and doesn't burn the skin off my lap either).
Just because you have to die anyway doesn't mean I get permission to serve you a shitty life.
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From my point of view and the whole Apple culture towards UNIX based platforms since its inception, expect "Macs will have iOS" to be the final outcome.

UNIX support was only a side-effect of NeXT's acquisition (BeOS wasn't a UNIX based OS), and a question of survival to get the geeks to rescue the company.

Besides A/UX, Apple was never serious about that market and now they are printing money, so if it doesn't need to be a proper UNIX clone, then any OS will do, including an evolution of iOS.
When you use the camera, do you use it in landscape or portrait? I find that anything I do in portrait I prefer doing on my phone, and everything I use the camera for on the ipad ends up in landscape, which makes the camera always at the wrong position.
> The observed universe is mostly gas, rock, nuclear reactors we call stars, and so on. Where are the proofs that it has a "purpose" or "meaning"?

Where are the visible proofs of love? Of mathematical formulas? Of radio waves? Where is the tangible visible obvious proof that the earth is not flat? Where is the tangible proof that your life has any future that makes any sense for you to get up in the morning and do any work?

"There is no meaning because I can't physically see an old guy in the sky" has to be one of the least developed arguments in this sphere...
Biggest difference between IPFS and Freenet is that IPFS only stores what you explicitly request on your local node, while Freenet distributes content automatically, so you'll start hosting content without any actions when you run a local node.

I'm not sure why IPFS is more popular than Freenet, but the difference mentioned above certainly makes me more likely to run a IPFS node than Freenet.
Ah, perhaps I misunderstood. You said "I still believe in short paragraphs," which I did not understand to mean "I believe in excellent typography".
Decriminalisation keeps many of the worst aspects of the war on drugs in place. Aspects that are damaging and immoral in that they cause far more harm than they prevent.

Even drugs like heroin should be fully legalised. Subject to prescription, maybe. But the harm from a clean, consistent heroin supply is vastly lower than the harm caused by the manufacture and smuggling alone, and decriminalisation of possession does not address that. Decriminalisation also does not address the cost issue which is a major problem with many drugs. A medical grade supply for a typical heroin user costs in the $10-$20 range (we know because e.g. the UK NHS buys heroin for hospital use; if you're given diamorphine for post-op pain, that's heroin).

But the biggest problem with the "drugs are evil" narrative is that it has damages serious discourse about which drugs are lower or higher risk.

LSD and psilocybin for example are certainly vastly lower risk than e.g. heroin and cocaine.

In fact, there's a famous case of a group of patients checking in after having snorted what they thought was cocaine, but which turned out to be LSD. Their blood levels suggest they would have ingested hundreds to thousands of normal recreational doses. They all walked out of there with no lasting harm.

In terms of other drugs, some drugs exists largely for time-limited circumvention of drug laws or because they're easier to create or smuggle, and would see their demands crash if less dangerous alternatives were legalised.
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