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I've never had a pair break, just had to replace the pads as they wore out after a couple of years. I don't think I've been _particularly_ careful with them, but I definitely don't toss them into my backpack or anything like that?

What did you upgrade to?
At the time of writing, Django's enumeration types are as of Django 3.0. The article says 3.1
Is your goal with this comment to encourage people to give Berio, Feldman, Riley, and Reich a try, or is to try to convince others how much better at listening to music you are than them?

For anyone else who likes Glass's piano work, you might like some pieces by Yann Tiersen or Erik Satie.
I think there's still pretty good worth in this protocol. DNS is one of the key areas where we voluntarily give away information on every single website we're connecting to to a third party. This protocol certainly helps that--as long as the proxy and recursive resolver do not collude, neither will be able to associate the websites you're looking up with your IP.

It does have its limitations; a MITM can still just as easily see which IP addresses you connect to and determine which websites are associated with those IPs. But ODoH isn't really meant to fix that. A VPN would be better suited to fix that particular privacy concern.
Owning Apple gear signals status among a significant portion of the population. Maybe not for you, me or the majority of HN's clientele. But even for those who don't buy into this definition, adhering to it can still bring tactically social advantages.

I have a very hard time believing you're not aware of this, and feigning ignorance in order to criticize the fact is just disingenuous.
>"Qt is great"

Absolutely when one looks at pure technical side. Their licensing however progressed to the point that feels like extortion to me.
They have robust anti-takeover provisions like most companies since Delaware turned so hostile to shareholders.
Relatively small differences in the rules can certainly affect one's position in line quite a bit. For example, an otherwise not at particular risk 60 year old is actually going to be pretty close to the end of the line in a lot of places (even though they may count as "elderly" elsewhere).
“AirPods Max come with a soft, slim Smart Case that puts AirPods Max in an ultralow power state that helps to preserve battery charge when not in use.”

Because apparently just “turning them off” is too normal I guess?
Truly though, has there been another company which has produced such consistently high-quality consumer products over a 30+ year timeframe? I think there's a very real to be made for Apple zealotry; there really isn't another company like them.
Reminds me of the Ready Player One story. The relationship between the treasure hider and treasure finder. It's about the journey and not the treasure itself.
Yes, it is still early and "it depends" which is exactly why I started the spreadsheet in the first place. Some games like CS:GO don't start using Big Sur 11.0.1 but are playable using the Big Sur public beta 11.1

The idea of the spreadsheet is to provide this context and it gets frequently updated with more reports and more context (and as game developers ship new versions and as Apple ships new versions of the OS).
>The result of this is a flexible, stretchable battery with an areal capacity of 50 milliamps per square centimeter, which the team says is 10 to 20 times greater than that of a typical lithium-ion battery. All up, the team says the device can provide five to 10 times more power than a typical lithium-ion battery of the same size.

Inaccurate title: the Zn/AgO battery has up to ten times the spatial power density of lithium-ion, which is useful but hardly new, being exceeded by most supercapacitors. It does not, however, have ten times the energy density, which is a much more difficult bar to reach.

It probably has a good energy density, as do all silver-zinc batteries, but there's no indication here that the energy density is dramatically higher than when these batteries were used on the Apollo missions in the '60s. They're just flexible now (which is nice).
Why would Apple care about hiding Gatekeeper traffic from internet providers?
Fair point. I'm personally not convinced that distinction is intrinsically meaningful rather than just legally and commercially convenient - especially in the case of libraries or programming languages. Qt is valueless as literature absent independent creative art that uses it to build a program - like screws in a piece of furniture. Charging people to use the component is fine by me, but making their own creative work contingent on third party approval that can be modified or revoked at any time seems unreasonable/immoral even if it's permitted by law.
> I'm not sure why Apple receives this kind of contempt

Because to many, Apple is not a trusted brand. I got generic Bluetooth headphones off Amazon that were much better than the airpods for a 1/3rd of the price. Beats are a status commodity with a terrible sound profile and overpriced (hence status).

I have little faith that these new cans are gonna be worth the pricetag.
I kind of wonder how much of this is intrinsic to human behavior and how much is based on media cues from our formative years. It seems really easy: play the right music, say things ominously, flash pictures. The people producing these videos aren’t experts on human psychology. They know how to manipulate with film. And maybe it’s because we spend our lives watching media, and we learn that certain cues make something reliable.
glibc is also LGPL, but basically everything uses that unless you're going for musl.
We should tell the kids mining cobalt in congo that Elon Musk's family wealth is in fact, not from an emerald mine and that Elon is a good guy after all!

I wonder why his family got out of South Africa as soon as the apartheid ended and hasn't got back since at least once tho.
The tricky part of this approach is that many companies treat all of their software as a trade secret. These types of companies would likely object on these grounds. For code that isn't part of a trade secret, it's not a bad idea.
Not true vegetarianism; just can't eat mammal-derived meat. Other animals are still fair game. (pun not intended, but I'll take it)
Audiophiles sneer at that stuff too.

This isn’t marketed at audiophiles though. This is marketed at middle management and execs who have been saving their restaurant money throughout COVID and want to conspicuously flout their success on Zoom calls.

These are not designed for music. They’re designed for Zoom.
> Seems reasonable? As long as you're getting benefit from Qt by distributing software using it you need to keep paying for it?

Development, distribution and usage are different things. I don't have much of a problem with selling a subscription for the development environment, but for distribution and usage you should only need a (perpetual) runtime license, which you usually buy in bulk. AFAIK that's how QNX does it, for instance.
That's also the range I had the price at in my head. $550 is far too much for headphones. It's not quite as insane as the ridiculous monitor stand or Mac Pro wheel pricing, but it's not far off. I don't really get what their market is here.
That’s funny there are signs in my neighborhood that say “PEDOPHILE ALERT” with a Gnews link.
For all the complaining about the pricing here, just set a reminder to yourself for 1 year later, when the pandemic has waned and some workplaces begin to return to normal. Then take a visual survey of how many people are wearing these in those hip open office development workspaces.

You'll see the pricing didn't matter at all. You'll probably be wearing a pair yourself when you do that visual survey.
Next oui – A modern web interface for OpenWrt implemented in vue.js
For version controlling this could be useful.
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People in homes are possibly primary vectors of spread, especially during the early days because they catch it so easily and are around others who catch it easily.

Also, the workers in the homes are put at significant risk due to this as well.
> You want apps, software etc. to be sold by subscription.

I want options. Don't tell me what I want.
But does that frying pan evolve new features or fixes while you have it and use it in your restaurant? Do you make requests to the manufacturer to make the handle bigger/smaller on the frying pan you own and use? Aren't there recurring costs in providing incremental updates to the software or support. Analogy sometimes seem perfect until you actually dissect them.
When I review code related to security, I first start with the dependency list. I don't keep looking if they depend on 50 external packages (wc -l go.mod).
> most Apple stuff is pretty good

Their computers and general design is top shelf as far as I'm concerned, but when it comes to audio I'll put my trust in companies who've been in that specific business for decades.

Apple Beats for example are a bit of a joke to anyone who knows anything about audio (and I don't mean people who spend $$$ on cables).
Okay, I wanted to say this before but felt it was too off topic:

Never, ever, buy any Samsung appliances.

I own a few rental properties. The failure rate on any and all Samsung appliances is insane.

Their dryers are the worst. The belt tensioner is a plastic pulley with no bearing at all - it just rides on a sleeve. I've had a few of these go.

The front loader washers use some sort of zinc mounting place that reacts with the stainless steel drum and causes a failure (usually right after the warranty is up).

Just don't do it.

With companies like Samsung, quality doesn't necessarily translate across divisions. Their phones may be okay, but those aren't the same people designing the appliances.
> Sorry for asking, but is this shadow-WWIII supposed to be a hot war?

Well, I try to avoid talking about politics with her, but last I heard the US is "soon" going to be assassinating the leadership of China and potentially it will be sparking a nuclear war.

> (and if covid-19 were a bioweapon, why would people be anti-mask anti-vax?)

Theres different groups of conspiracy theorists. In this case they are not anti-mask at all, although for vax I was recently warned we don't know if the vaccine is actually part of China's ploy to infect people so we should be cautious.
Economics is going through an intellectual revolution on public debt
Perhaps, one thing I've noticed spending time around professional investors is that the best long term ones I come into contact with spend most of their time exploring first hand knowledge, whether this is via conversations or reading the public documents a company publishes.

I think they very rarely rely on secondary sources, which is very similar to his approach in finding the treasure. A few examples:

- An investor who is considered one of the best technology public equity investors in history. He and his team focus on the quarterly conference calls and spend a very intensive amount of time focussing on what the executives say.

- An investor who gotten about 100x return on his mid-stage tech investments over the last 3 years. He spends his time in conversation with contacts who have first hand knowledge of the economy and growing businesses.

- An investor who was a former parter at Goldman Sachs, and retired early to invest in public equities. He spends all day looking at the balance sheets of companies.
See, the problem is that RDBMS's and SQL seem to be more complex than the problem you're applying them to, so it seems like there must be a more straightforward solution. However, as of 2020, every shallow attempt to replace them with something simpler has suffered from the "hidden" problems that you don't realize you have until you try to live without an actual database.
I see your point about how they (will) position it, but I’m still curious about their actual motives.
The price point is not insane as long as you find enough idiots to buy them at this price level.
Breadtube is one such rabbithole.
It's also not a capacity. As is usual with any news article on battery technology, terminology is completely muddled between energy density and power density.

The article actually uses the words "energy density", but then gets utterly confused about it.

Also, why measure power/energy per unit area? It's much more useful to measure per unit volume or per unit mass.
It’s not often illegal for public employees. Most of the time there are specific Whitleblower statues. She falls into the one for Florida.

Prong 1: Any violation or suspected violation of any federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation committed by an employee or agent of an agency or independent contractor which creates and present a substantial and specific danger to the public’s health, safety, or welfare; and/or

Prong 2: Any act or suspected act of gross mismanagement, malfeasance, misfeasance, gross waste of public funds, suspected or actual Medicaid fraud or abuse, or gross neglect of duty committed by an employee or agent of an agency or independent contractor.

https://www.floridalaborlawyer.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a...
~always. It's illegal to quote prices to consumers for most things ex VAT in the EU (you're allowed show the ex VAT price, but you must show the inc VAT price as the primary price).
Record Money Supply Growth Just Keeps Climbing Higher
I'm not suggesting pushing people away, I'm suggesting attempting to set up an equally attractive (or even more attractive?) rabbit hole that tends to expose people to actual others, rather than just parroting second-hand opinions about those others.

(sorry to repeat myself, but I'd thought YouTube was exactly such a place. The other day I got some yemeni beats, which was certainly nothing I'd have been likely to search out on my own. Obviously —as with TikTok— different tastes can lead to narrowing as well as broadening, however.)
It's ridiculous people are buying this shit.
Criticizing the work is one thing. Trying to bully people for finding beauty where you can't is kinda childish.
Interesting, thanks -- I hadn't thought about using it for games but I could see how it might be more interesting for interactive stuff. I'm not sure if there are any iOS games that support it yet but presumably it's possible? (Didn't find anything with a quick search.)
They would do it if they could, but they have to raise money without decreasing shareholder confidence. It seems like diluting by 1% every quarter is fine.
A good video which goes over this is The PewDiePieline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

This should set your YT recommendations on a path for more relevant content if your interest is sustained. There is a lot to unpack with respect to how radicalization happens on YouTube and elsewhere.
I mean, they do own Beats - they know exactly how to make headphones that are good enough quality and which sound nice for an average consumer. Now they can bundle that with some of their proprietary tech and that's how you can easily arrive at that price. No one will be comparing these with $500 Sennheisers because Sennheisers don't have all the features you'd buy these for.
That's an excellent example of those seemingly minor but annoying issues which seems to be hard to get right without a complete control of the software-protocol-hardware stack (like Apple has). Also, that's the reason many are more than happy to pay Apple the "premium".
As far as I understand, the delivery systems were a large part of the research necessary to make RNA-based drugs possible. What the RNA does inside the cell we know reasonably well (I'm simplifying a lot here ), but getting the RNA into the cells efficiently was the original problem to be solved.

So I don't think those are really standard components, there are a lot of ways to create different systems here with different properties.

As a more general comment on this concern about additives, this is typically targeted at vaccines with adjuvants. Adjuvants are designed to create a stronger immune response, the lipids here are not adjuvants and as far as I understand the mRNA vaccines don't contain any adjuvants. I don't agree with the general concerns about adjuvants (though of course each vaccine has to prove safety in the studies on their own), but they are an additive with an inherently higher risk than something more inert. The immune system is extremely complex and highly dangerous.
Congress Is Finally Backing a National AI Strategy
It seems like it, at least as a trial run if the audio features. You don’t need the gyroscope and accelerometer to do HRTF (e.g. like the PS5 does, for example). Indeed it actually doesn’t make much sense to me for a static screen like watching a movie on an iPad or TV. I don’t want the audio to shift every time I slightly move my head or body into a more comfortable position.

Those features do make sense for hypothetical AR glasses where you move around a space with objects emitting sounds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_functi...
I don't think any of those messages are nasty. It looks like a team of people who feel comfortable enough to vent to each other, while not taking themselves too seriously.
I’m guessing they want to hide it more from users. The recent bypassing of local firewalls shows this, for example.
A subscription model also flips ownership. You're only ever renting and the owner can take it back at any time (often at their discretion).
Could you please define what status advantages Apple gear offers?
Yes, old school web! A few of the others I like: https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/tcenters/ ; http://paulbourke.net/ ; https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ ; https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ ; https://www.wood-database.com/ ; http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm ; https://www.animatedknots.com/ . There are lots more out there but social media favors new content rather than timeless content.

I want to see more pages like that so, following “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”, I am writing informational pages.
One thing I'm especially fascinated about is that many gamers were sceptical about the 8GB and 16GB RAM and whether that will be enough for apps and specifically for gaming.

The early reports show that when it comes to RAM there is no noticeable difference for most games regarding whether you have a M1 Mac with 8GB or 16GB.

That in itself to me is remarkable and part of why I started the spreadsheet. To get to real-world performance for specific games/settings/specs and away to have something specific in addition to the (also interesting) theoretical discussions on what is enough RAM and whether you can game on an integrated GPU and so on.

I hope this sheet helps answer some of it and will help more of it going forward.
This is great. However, it gives the example of copying a variable by assigning another variable to it. This doesn't copy a variable's contents - it makes the new variable a pointer to the original variable.

As someone who doesn't use Javascript much... is there a way to force it to copy the current state of the original variable to the new variable, without it being a reference and without having to use something like lodash?
This is a very common pattern for a lot of third party packages.

And it is just an example to show that there are perfectly legitimate cases that are more readable when not alphabetically sorted.
2 reasons I can think of.

Firstly, Apple loves to act like they are always taking your privacy very seriously (of course that's not always true), so for the cost of a few engineers, they get a massive marketing point. "We take your privacy so seriously that we developed a new protocol to do so"

Secondly, Apple has an awful case of NIH syndrome. If they didn't develop it themselves, they would rather develop it from scratch themselves
Ah, ok. Good luck!
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That was one of Java's big original selling points: write once, run anywhere.

They dropped that kinda fast. With, like, version 1.1.
> Game consoles always had their own non-standard 3D-APIs, and this didn't hinder games being created or ported.

Game consoles offered developers benefits in return for that, though. Both technical, deeper hardware integration and finer control, and non-technical, a very large market & various financing offerings (for exclusives in particular)

Apple offers nothing here by contrast. Metal is a fine API on its own merits, but it's not offering the game developer anything but more work at the end of the day. And the market size is a joke for MacOS & games that would compete with consoles.

> But it's already starting at the hardware, embedded Intel GPUs don't cut it for gaming.

Macbooks have had above average GPUs for a long, long time. It hasn't helped with MacOS gaming so far, why would you expect it to now?
They must have some marketing strategy already prepared. Similar to that of Beats by Dre. Just make it popular trough popular culture (movies, music videoclips, interview with Hans Zimmer wearing these) and the kids will persuade their parents that they just need to have it. Thats how the bandwagon picks up speed.
Correct, I should have put more qualification on "most".
>There's an exponential curve of cost vs quality

No there isn't. The audiophile culture could be replaced with a form where you type how much money you have and it gives you the equipment that you are supposed to buy but this is not because of the costs but because the industry taught the market that it must be that way. Often, the difference of sound quality between high end and low end headphones comes from tiny bit of foam.

It's really about branding and market segmentation.
> Always trying to get the best for the smallest possible price starts to drain you.

So true. I've been doing this lately, and have realized how mentally draining it really is to conduct exhaustive research to maximize the value/price you get for a product. Not to mention the time spent easily runs into the hundreds of dollars worth.

For enthusiasts it can be a joy to research a product. For example audiophiles with headphones. But for average consumers like me, just going with the expensive but safe option is on average a really good heuristic.
Seems that Qt WebEngine and WebView aren't available until Qt 6.2 (end of September 2021). Bummer!

https://www.qt.io/blog/add-on-support-in-qt-6.0-and-beyond
I can imagine companies buying these for employees
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Having a more "front runner" distro for RHEL (RedHat Enterprise) is great for RedHat. Since bugs will probably be caught in CentOS and don't end up in RHEL. This front runner role was actually intended for Fedora however Fedora contains way too much experimental changes for anyone to seriously try to run it on servers.

I don't want to sound too "tin-foil headed" but I guess now that RedHat has hired the main CentOS dev(s?) this change comes from RedHat. I can't imagine the CentOS user base wants this direction for the CentOS project (or maybe thats just my lack of imagination...). People who use CentOS want a boring Linux distro like RHEL. They just don't want to pay for RHEL subscriptions.