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I think a lot of it is driven by dysfunction and legacy at Apple. Their whole mindset is they want to review every version of the app manually and every bit of code that executes must be signed. They don't allow a lot of obvious software engineering approaches as a consequence, like partially downloading the app and streaming the rest on demand even though it's an obvious thing to do for mobile apps.

Note how in this story the Android and iOS teams started a big rewrite at the same time, but the story consists exclusively of fuckups on the Apple size. Apple impose an arbitrary cellular download limit. Apple designed a language that can't handle more than 9 dynamic libraries before it hits scaling issues. Apple prevent you from using interpreters or other techniques to change the app after it's installed, unless you use a WebView in which case it's OK for mysterious reasons. Apple don't help even when major brands are weeks away from wrecking their business by hitting these limits. Apple Apple Apple. Meanwhile the Android guys are sitting pretty with Java and now a migration to Kotlin, which is (a) a much better language than Swift and (b) is dogfooded at large scale on the IntelliJ project so you know it scales (had no scaling problems with Kotlin and I've been using it for the last five years).
Wasn't that simply because there was less software available for ARM? And the first ARM chips were quite anemic in performance.

That's not the case anymore, but the stereotype will persist for a while.
The common man?

Some of the problem is youtube promoting a 'common man' Alex Jones 15bn times because he drives youtube's advertising revenue. And some of the problem is russia running active disinformation campaigns and organising competing protesters to fight in the streets.

If this happened in the 70's, you bet people would have had a problem with it.
I would like to know too :)
Oh, definitely "Jedi". ;)
Honest question: how do we know markets work better? Where would I start a quest to read peer-reviewed research of how markets are better than centralized planning in the 21st century, where have powerful computers that are capable of assimilating terabytes of information?
In Denmark, you pay a little extra for the bottle itself when you buy a soda, you get that money back when you return the bottle to the store for recycling.
This provides a nice enough incentive for people to generally not throw bottles, and it provides an nice extra income for kids and others who collect the bottles that do get tossed. I bought my first ethernet card with money spent collecting bottles at a concert (I hauled 4 large trash bags, worth about $100 in a single evening).

I don't get why this is not how everybody does it.
Correct, I'm dismissive because I don't think the article is saying anything particularly interesting or even correct. You're welcome to disagree, which is why we're arguing here in the comments section :)

As far as I tell (it's not my story after all), the author appears to be asserting that Inuktitut is somehow uniquely in tune with nature in general (dubious) and that we could change the way the Western world acts by absorbing some of those words (which sounds like linguistic determinism to me, not to mention even more dubious).

As for Turing completeness, my off the cuff analogy is that just like any Turing-complete programming language can implement any algorithm, any natural language can state any expressible human thought.
For me:

Google: No reddit entry, with "The_Donald" entry from Wikipedia

DDG: /r/donaldtrump, /r/donald_trump, /r/AskTrumpSupporters as first 3 results.
"censorship is connected to regimes who killed (and continue to kill) way more people then all the terror attacks combined. "

Every state and institution in the world 'censors.

The BBC, ABC news, Fox News, the government, every corporation, Facebook, Twitter, Google.

Every single one.

Stop talking about this absolutist stuff - it's not helping the argument.

You, as an individual, can stand outside your home and say quite a lot of things before the cops will arrest you, but that doesn't mean there are not rules in the commons.

There are basic rules for civility in every institution, if you don't like them, start your own institution where you can press 'free speech' essentially to the legal maximum.

If someone tried to stop you from criticizing a politician, that would be an unnaceptable restriction but that's not happening.

If someone tried to stop you from telling your friends privately that you think COVID is fabricated by the Nazis, well, it' be bad because you have that right.

But don't have any inherent right to go on to some massive platform to tell Americans that you have evidence the COVID vaccine is killing people - if the owners of said platform don't want to let you on.
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Right, better hope they help me out of the goodness of their heart instead.
In an earlier era, people's opinions were shaped by a small number of newspapers and newscasts. Some of these old media were so biased and agenda driven that they caused wars.

Not that much has changed, except that people now rely on centralized, AI-driven funnels of information and entertainment.

Democracy has always been fragile, barely functional, easily corrupted, warped by money. The best and only way to defend and nurture it is education. Teach people to think for themselves, critical reading,logic and analysis. This is the best inoculation against totalitarianism.
And there's the ban on burqa and niqab. In public places. You conveniently did not mention that.
What do you mean by "standardization?"

Do you mean device probing? There's a standard API implemented by Linux for the firmware to communicate this to the kernel, also PCI works on ARM just like x86. No one bothers with this because all of the popular ARM SoCs tend to come from organizations that are extremely hostile to their users though.

Do you mean user space ABI? GlibC on arm7 and aarch64 has had a pretty stable ABI for a while now, I can personally share binaries between all my arm machines that share an architecture (not that flinging binaries around is a good thing.)
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Propaganda is bad, but I very much prefer easily identifiable propaganda that the absolute circus show we have now, mainly because the former is easier to counter.
I'm pretty sure we'll see M1 copies/analogues soon enough (same design ideas, even if the processing cores are worse). That will spread around the world very fast. Kind of like AirPods.
Mozilla eventually beat IE only because Microsoft disbanded the IE team. The years of product stagnation due to the Mozilla/Firefox rewrite didn't matter in the end because AOL acted as a sugar daddy for a while and then IE was also not moving forward. The Spolski advice is for the more typical situation where your competitors are advancing.
Democracy also depends on elections not being rigged. There's plenty of credible evidence that things were off this election if you bothered to look into the claims. There's obviously also plenty of false stuff, but that doesn't mean that all of it is false.
Well, you chose the word. I understood you to mean people having a common identity as a European, in addition to their many other identities (dad, poet, Belgian, whatever). Which I would say is a common thing.

If you were referring to membership of the neo nazi organisation/web shop European Brotherhood, which is a thing that apparently exists, I don't think you need to worry about pan-European-nationalism becoming a mass phenomenon (as opposed to separatist nationalism, which is and has always been a mass phenomenon).
The problem isn't free speech in itself. The problem is the amplification of that speech by algorithms optimizing for "engagement" which practically speaking ends up being synonymous with "conflict". The medium lends itself to spreading bullshit and outrage, not quiet reflection, empathy and 'thinking for yourself'. Lies simply scale better than truth, outrage scales better than understanding and clickbait scales better than accurate headlines. As if that's not bad enough on its own, authoritarian states have realized the potential in this, and weaponized it, by using sock puppet accounts and targeted advertisement to further amplify division and conspiracy theories, as a concerted attack on the electorate of western democracies.
I need this! Does it still exist?
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Aren't bespoke motherboards going to be rather expensive for hobbyists?
I think anyone who ever had to set up a cypress-like pipeline in a CI environment by hand really appreciates cypress.
I may be in various ways.

But that isn’t a counter argument for stopping people being manipulated.

Is your point: you could be exposed to misinformation as well so we shouldn’t stop misinformation?

(If it is. That is absurd)
In my early teens, I was diagnosed with dyspraxia. I have issues with fine motor control, which mostly affects writing (it's often illegible, and writing for an extended period of time (40 minutes plus) is painful) or actions like cutting up food and depth perception/co-ordination which sometimes ends up with me walking into tables etc. The one accommodation I did accept for it was to type rather than handwrite my college exams (pride did not allow me to do so for my end of school exams).

In the software industry, it doesn't really affect me, apart from occasional embarrassment at a team dinner where an attempt to cut up food results in some going astray, and I consider myself lucky as most people with dyspraxia (I can't remember the exact number currently, but like 70%) also have to deal with dyslexia, something I do not have. I take notes on vim in my laptop rather than on paper like most of my colleagues so that I can definitely read them when I no longer remember them, and shrug off the occasional dropped item or overestimated doorway as clumsiness.

Consequently, most of the time, despite having an actual diagnosis, I answer "no" to this question most of the time. Like the author, the conversation of "but you don't seem disabled" is one I usually wish to avoid, and when you start saying dys- people automatically fill in dyslexia and ignore what you actually said.
Well initially i think these was to protect the record, and let you Id it quickly one purchased.

To be fair a lot of there were made before computers.

I don’t think people judge records by their covers..

Though some like Led Zeppelin 3 and pyshical grafitti had holes cut into their outer shells making them kinda art like. Then there is the Beatles “white album” and spinal taps “smell the globe” (black album) which I think metálica copied....
Maybe not “most” depending on how that is defined, but a lot of blues/jazz/R&B from those days can be found on YouTube if it isn’t on Spotify or Apple Music - there are many channels that upload recordings of old EPs/LPs. I listen mostly to 50s-70s jazz and YouTube has proven the most reliable.

That said, Apple Music has a decent catalog of jazz, including many smaller artists - it’s actually the bigger names (whose estates have meaningful control over their body of work) that are sometimes patchier. Apple Music is also very good for finding new artists, and they put good work into their jazz playlists (even if the choices are maybe a bit anodyne).

Spotify used to be horrible for jazz - apparently it’s gotten better, but I remember signing up for a free month and being extremely disappointed.
As a user, I don't need Windows on M1 directly, but I need Windows to work in a VM under OSX just as I'm running it now on pre-M1 Macbooks.
Perhaps it would be good for you to be aware of how crushingly privileged and tone-deaf this comment sounds. Arrogant even. Good for you that you get to travel the world with a laptop in your backpack, typing away lines of code for some inane web company for luxurious pay, all the while taking in the sights and culture of dozens of amazing places. That is a privileged lifestyle only a fraction of people can enjoy. Excuse me if the people whose lives are dramatically impacted by this economic squeezing don't give a damn that "you quite prefer short-term rentals".

You don't get to evade responsibility for the your actions and the consequences of your lifestyle, while advertising "worker rights" and "anti-poverty" in your bio.
Out of curiosity, I've just computed how much time do I would have to work to pay someone to clean my apartment and it turns out it's... 9 minutes. It's an amusing number, but ultimately not that relevant, as doing the cleaning yourself has many advantages that are hard to quantify (which is why I prefer to do it).
This kind of thing makes me really miss stuff like Project Wonderful.

Ads could have been something that wasn't abusive but it took some pathological behavior from Google and Facebook to bring us the hell we have now.
>That's how you end up with what you have now: people living in completely different realities because the things that spread the most are lies.

If we would put restrictions on social media and let the big media companies decide what is "consensus reality" like they are so vehemently arguing for, then everybody would also be living in a fake reality, the only difference is that it would be the same for everyone, which might obscure the fakeness for a while. I agree it's a difficult subject but I genuinely think the current situation is at least a little bit better.
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> a small number

That's not correct. There were staggering numbers of them. In 1900 there were 15 English language daily newspapers in New York City alone.

The problem with Facebook is monopolization. It's different when you have a ton of places that share information, and some of them are biased in one direction or another, versus when you have just one, and that one actively works to prevent other options from emerging.
> Bad is subjective

Counterpoint: http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/letmetouch.jpg
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-201058

When doing simple questionnaire based studies like this, it should be standard practice to ask a few purposefully ridiculous control questions. Ask them which brand wine they like. What's their favorite color, sports team and grocery store chain.
I don't think most people "care" it's from Facebook, as someone who bought the Oculus Quest 2 and thought about a long time before that to buy the valve index.

The same could have been said about the chromecast.

I think price matters a lot and Apple already loses a big audience because of that ( it's not their market, i know).

By reference, the IPad is still priced reasonable cheap.

Ps. The Oculus works well with minimal setup.
I don't think that Microsoft care that much about the one-digit percentage of their user base who will use M1 Mac. MS force is in the office (as in the place and as in the software package), and a) it's hard to fathom majority of companies all around the world ditching their PCs and buying Mac Minis and b) there is the Office package on the mac already, and Mac users are already paying for it.
> BBSRC paid me the princely sum of £1377 on 1 July 1998, and by the way, that was for that quarter

> £225 per month

Apparently, yes. We do expect parents to still be funding postgraduate students if they don’t want them to starve. £702 pounds per quarter seems kind of hard to live on. That’s like £8 a day to pay for everything except rent.

Actually, that seems kind of doable.
People complaining about this issue don't seem to understand how the Internet works. Facebook is not the Internet and restricting "hate speech" (a notoriously vague concept) will only result in people going elsewhere. There is no universe where the average person goes back to thinking CNN/NYT is the sole arbiter of news. Period. The only way to ensure such a scenario would make the Soviet Union blush.

These are technological realities. You can continue to lament them, or you can accept networked information as inevitable and start dealing with your new reality.
No, you're describing a semi-automatic weapon, which requires a separate trigger pull for each shot.

Fully automatic allows multiple shots with one pull of the trigger.
Sure, but is the internet to blame then? Everyone ends up in their own echo chamber, even us on HN right? And the media have been doing this for decades too... Maybe not to this level but I find it hard to believe democracy is that brittle, and I worry the narrative to remove sources of sharing info freely is actually anti-democratic (all news coming from 'authorised sources' at its most extreme).
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A very interesting story about democracy and its evolution is in Estonia's history.

Estonia in the early 20th century had one of the highest literacy rates in the world. When it first won independence around 1920, it formed a parliamentary democracy based on a constitution. A little while later, one party took over, and a new constitution was written that was much more authoritarian. The same leadership a little while later than that wrote another new constitution that was halfway between the first and second constitutions in terms of mix of democracy and authoritarianism.

Then the Soviets invaded, and democracy vanished until the early 1990s. At that time they regained independence and created their present government.

This is a huge oversimplification, but the four separate constitutions and the evolution of the Estonian system is fascinating.
Maybe people wouldn't so easily believe in alternative narratives if people in power didn't also lie all the time? No one believes in the media anymore for a reason. People don't believe in scientists anymore for a reason. People don't believe in most government officials anymore for a reason.

You can find many examples of continued and relentless lies from all these classes of people over the years and decades. Is it really a surprise that people will stop listening to them?
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I'm not an electrical engineer but I ran into the I^2R heat loss problem with a simple mosfet circuit. If I drive the mosfets at 48V (voltage is actually irrelevant) and 70A and the RDS of the mosfet is 0.002 Ohm then the mosfet will lose 9.8W of power to heat. For a small compact SMD mosfet that's a lot of heat and requires a heatsink. Once you scale up to 500A you are basically losing 500A x 500A x 0.002 Ohm = 250W of power just on a single mosfet. I'm not very experienced in this subject but I noticed that mosfets with lower voltage ratings tend to also have lower drain source resistance (RDS) which means doing this at 1000V can only get harder.
Study based on UK diet -> resulst cannot be translated anywhere else.
>>If you don’t can’t you go elsewhere? Why impose on people happy minding their own business?

That's the same argument, word for word, that people used to defend businesses not serving coloured folk - after all, can't they just go elsewhere? And we as society decided no, they shouldn't have to go anywhere - if you run a business, you have to serve everyone, end of story. I think it's time to do the same for Apple - if you want to run an app platform, you have to allow choice. And if your choice is to stay with App Store and only install apps curated by apple - that's perfectly valid. No one is taking that away from you.

Again, how exactly does that inconvenience you, personally? No one is forcing you to use these other stores, no one is imposing anything on you. They will just exist somewhere for people who want them. Again, I'm on Android but I don't feel like I'm losing anything by the mere existence of the Amazon App store - it's there if you want it, if you don't then that's cool.

And yes, I absolutely think you are overexaggerating the technical difficulty behind allowing people to do this - all Apple needs to do it allow apps to install other apps from packages. It's hardly a groundbreaking architectural change, come on.
Good point, thank you. We'll consider adding stats so others can follow progress.
I've worked in the mobile games space for several years now, currently at a mobile games startup. Some advice:

- You're biting off quite a bit of tech you've never used, it sounds like. If you want cross platform mobile + web support, Unity is probably your best bet in terms of ease-of-use vs. portability

- I'm not sure a graphic designer is going to be able to help you with the more game-specific aspects of game graphics, but I could be wrong. Animations that work well with your game engine of choice can be a big pain

- I would buy a book or a course on some kind on mobile game monetization and marketing. It was very different from what I was used to in the SaaS space. Paid user acquisition seemed like a strange concept. Running paid UA campaigns with different install price bids based on quality of player was also a strange concept. If you want the game to make money this stuff will come up.

- Try to use services as much as you can. You're a startup, after all, you want to spend your time building the things that make your product unique. Playfab is okay but lacks decent analytics features + crash reporting IIRC. Firebase is good for mobile apps stuff but the analytics aren't great and they name stuff horribly. Regardless, pick one and try to lean on it heavily - only build the stuff you absolutely have to. Lots of tools have free trials and free tiers, use them.

- If you've never worked in games before, I would look up normal game development process. A simple version is to prototype things aggressively, then throw the bad parts out, then repeat until you're ready to do what's called a Game Vertical Slice, which usually just means to build all the "essential" parts in a way that lets you use them together. You want to flex your core loop in GVS, so you'll need each relevant piece in a usable state. When you make your GVS build, play it a lot, share it with friends, maybe try to get some friends of friends or parents involved. You want honest feedback. Is it fun? Are there parts of it that aren't? Are there things in the core loop that don't make sense? Are there gaps in the core loop? The data you'll get out of GVS is going to very aggressively scope your actual launch + success.

I say look into game development processes because I think it's important to timebox your curiousity and perfectionism. If it were a side project, I would say kind of follow your curiosity and build things exactly as you want them. Because you're trying to actually launch something, I would follow a hard structure such that you know you need to move on when you're spinning your wheels.

I'll try to think of more to write back. If you have questions I'm happy to answer them. Games are great, and making them is also great.
> I haven't seen an $400 laptop you can upgrade the memory for. Perhaps they exist, but I've never seen one.

I hope you mean recently... like in the last 2-3 years. Because it's a recent trend and I personally hate it. Wasteful as hell.

But it used to be the norm, especially on cheaper laptops.
You will then be pleasantly surprised that the underlying Hypervisor.framework is used by Veertu in their Anka product. You can download and use it for free to virtualize macOS:

https://veertu.com/download-anka-develop/
It's actually a good cover. Extremely disturbing, and artsy at the same time.
You are VERY underestimating knowledge required to do this. Most people don't even know what is an ip address (and google wants to even remove url bar). How will they setup a server to control their devices?
>the Sony WH-1000XM3 is already a relatively good closed headphone

It is not. It is a great Bluetooth/NC headphone but certainly not a good closed one compared to other closed back phones specifically built for passive isolation. It is also targeted at consumers.

Have you actually tried the HD280PRO I specifically talked about? It is a professional headphone that is very popular with drummers for a reason.