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> Upon written notice to you, we may (or may appoint appoint a nationally recognized certified public accountant or independent auditor to) audit your use of the Services and Mapbox Software to ensure it is in compliance with these Terms. Any audit will be conducted during regular business hours, no more than once per 12-month period and upon at least 30 days’ prior written notice (except where we have reasonable belief that a violation of these Terms has occurred or is occurring), and will not unreasonably interfere with your business activities. You will provide us with reasonable access to the relevant records and facilities.

LOL no.
No, it's the other way around. Gamedevs make less, because there are so many people that want to work as gamedevs.
Glad you included French. I speak French much better with my Android phone than with my conventional keyboard. (It can even make decent guesses about gender based on context.) I'll give yours a try and see how well it does.
Watching Netflix on Oculus Quest while in a completely supine position on my bed was revelatory. Finally I could see and hear content from my bed comfortably without fear of dropping anything on my face. Watching a TV from bed has always been hard as either I need to prop my head up to see over my feet or else my glasses are pushed by whatever I'm lying on if I lie on my side.

Excited for when resolution improves. Maybe paired with a keyboard like this: https://www.cbkbd.com/product/eek-keyboard
In the past people spent more on music than they do today. Extracting more rent from consumers is definitely still an option on the table.

[0] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/
'standing down for the day'
Hopefully tomorrow
> Spotify should work put who you’re listening to and give them a direct slice of what you have paid, rather than putting everyone in a pot together and dividing by number of plays.

I'm not sure this is really fairer, or practical.

Listeners that listen to less music (well, fewer artists at least, but that feels like its often going to correlate) being more valuable feels like it creates weird patterns and incentives.

If you only listened to one song in a month, should that band get your full subscription cut? What if you listened to no songs, but didn't cancel?

In any case, I imagine there's an aggregate effect where the whole pool of spotify listeners habits ends up being something that approximates a normal distribution and paying per-user vs paying per-stream would end up basically the same. You listen to 40 niche artists one month, 10000 other people listen to 40 popular ones, the popular ones get 10000x the revenue... There are bands with thousands of monthly listeners, and then ones with tens of millions of monthly listeners. The few in the latter bucket are gonna dominate the payouts.
> The vast majority of musicians earn less than £200 a year from music streaming platforms

This is no surprise and also corresponds to what you can expect if you're a member of a copyright collecting society as a "normal" (i.e. not super famous) musician.

I have had this discussion again and again with my musician friends who still think they can live as musicians from copyrights. Just have a look at an annual report like e.g. https://www.suisa.ch/de/suisa/publikationen/geschaeftsberich.... I did a detailed analysis some years ago and found that the probability for a decent living from copyright income is < 0.1%; in comparison the probability of being seriously injured in a traffic accident in Switzerland is > 0.2%. The personnel expenses of the collecting society are roughly equal to the amount paid to the composers and musicians. For the given number of full-time positions, this results in an average annual salary of over 100,000 Swiss francs. A musician therefore earns considerably more when working as a clerk for the collecting society than when working as a musician. What an irony. It is not without reason that most of the musicians I know work as music teachers in permanent positions.
Yes, this article is garbage and the design is a head-scratcher. I guess possibly because it was something the designer was familiar with or they wanted some feature of the chip, eg. very low idle power.
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A quick 'n dirty userstyle for Refined GH users:

@-moz-document domain("github.com") {
.dashboard .js-all-activity-header + div {
background-color: inherit !important;
border: 1px solid var(--color-border-secondary) !important;
}
.dashboard-rollup-items .body {
border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border-secondary) !important;
}
}

Edit: issue for Refined GH: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/issues/3798
Good point. AWS has to purchase a rack of Mac Minis from Apple. But if you were a book publisher, for example, would you prefer to sell one copy of each book to every library, or sell one copy to each person who decides to read the book?

If this initiative is successful, AWS will find a way to create virtual macOS machines and will pressure Apple to make it legal. Apple is vulnerable and needs to be very careful about violating anti-trust laws.
That may be true for Google in general, and internal code in particular, but that's definitely not the case for Fuchsia. We use the tools and interfaces available to the public to work on the code base: code search to browse the code, gerrit for reviews and monorail for tracking bugs.
1) The article clearly makes a distinction between the types of warrants.

Serving warrants in general dangerous, point blank - and even 'white collar criminals' who don't answer the door are giving indication that something may be up.

It's 100% reasonable for the police to have their weapons upholstered at that point and well within reasonable SOP.

2) There's no evidence of corruption on behalf of the officials in Florida - this is the continued misrepresentation of some in the press, and easy echo-chamber populism.

There as an argument over how data should be represented; disagreeing with your employer is not 'whistleblowing'.

Again - Florida releases considerably more detailed information than they do in any province in Canada and somehow, everyone seems to think that we are doing 'such a great job in governance'.

The overall level of wilful ignorance on these nuanced incidents in shameful. Even so-called smart people believe what their emotional triggers and biases want them to believe.

I'm looking forward to hearing what the courts have to say about it.
I would reconsider trying again with a larger budget and try to do some targeted marketing. I wanted to buy it just from your description on the play store but I’m IPhone only unfortunately. If not maybe there is a marketplace for selling your game (the rights to it not copies) like there is for selling businesses. This completed project would likely be an easy buy for someone with more capital than products.

Either way congrats and finishing and shipping, that’s a serious battle in and of itself for a side project!
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Right. Lots of stuff works with non-Mac hardware. Lots of stuff doesn't work with Mac hardware. My laptop is from my job (MBP), and I have an iPhone to keep in sync with my wife. Hence my specific question.
Shouldn't wealthy musicians, mainy of whom claim to be socialist or at least progressive, redistribute their wealth to the poorer musicians?
Not to mention that you need an upfront investment to buy an instrument, followed by putting in the hours to learn it.

There's very little upfront investment in learning how to program. There's some investment in distributing a finished product, but it doesn't come even close to the investment of recording a single song.
Interesting, do you have any resources about how to best handle side effects with message queues (e.g. GCP PubSub)? Trying to find out if its worth the effort, or good practice to allow replay-ability (like from backup) of message and get back to the same state
You're not supposed to use OSM's free servers in production, and the options for running your own are assembly-required to such a degree that I can't even assess how far beyond my own skills they lie.
> 80% of professional musicians can't make a living

It might hurt people's feeling, but most of those are not professional musicians.

I don't think it is judgemental to say that to claim oneself as professional, one need to demonstrate that they could make a living out of it. Otherwise, it is no different than a hobbyist, albeit much more time is dumped on it.

In case of streaming, now more people can declare themselves as musicians, since the barrier of publishing has been significantly lowered comparing to physical CDs. But that doesn't mean profit would follow.

To produce hit music isn't easy, and luck is certainly a factor of it.
In a similar vein, I'd like to get my company to give money to OSS projects. I'd love to send a minimum of $20 a year to every project we use, and a far larger amount to 1) the ones we enjoy using and 2) the ones that save us the most effort.

But that would be writing a lot of checks and a pretty big total overall. What else can you do? A lottery system? Round Robin? 3 years is a long time. Ultimately I think you need a bigger pool, and I have only suspicions what that might look like.
I see. Thanks for the follow up.

Yeah, I'd happily pay for a privacy preserving mapping app as well. While building this, I felt the need for such a service, and as I pondered it, I felt overwhelmed by the effort to bring such a thing to market. It would also need a significant amount of notoriety to get people to contribute by updating business and city information. The other challenge is that Google Maps is just SO GOOD! I realize it's not great for privacy reasons, but it's simply so easy to use and useful. That's a high threshold of quality and functionality for a new entrant in the mapping space to achieve. That's not even taking into consideration that this new entrant would be charging for something that Google gives away for free, and has had years to perfect. We can see an example of this struggle with Apple Maps.

> send someone a link that gives them time-bounded access to a subset of location information (most commonly live information about current location).

You might be happy to know that that functionality is already present in the app. :-) Simply click the floating action button at the bottom right of the main screen of the app, and a timed sharing dialog will appear. Toggle the switch to turn it on, and your location will be broadcasted to a drop box that can only be accessed by the key encoded in a URL that you can copy or share to any app (Signal or otherwise). You can adjust the expiration time of the link based as well. It's particularly useful if you're running late to a meeting and you're stuck in traffic, and you want to let the person you're meeting know where you are in real time.
Wholeheartedly agree with recommendations for Kernighan and Bentley. I think there's one Kernighan book I don't own, and they are all gold (if old.)

I'd suggest anything and everything written by Gerald Weinberg, starting with what looks most appealing to you now.

'Making Software', edited by Wilson and Oram is chock-full of the latest research of its day (10 years ago.) It's dry, but it presents work of some top SE researchers. Following that group on twitter/Google scholar would bring you to the edge of what is studied in SE research.
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How many more minutes? The page you link to doesn't seem to have details.
I wonder if this has to do with different populations having wet vs dry earwax. Didn't realize that until relatively recently!

https://www.livescience.com/593-earwax-wet-dry.html#:~:text=....
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Sure, it's not a precise equivalent, but then Spotify pays more - and it's (again, arguably!) easier to end up on some Spotify playlists than it was/is to get played on the the radio in any significant promotional sense. But I get your point :-)
Sounds like this only works if people who listen to smaller bands/indie music listen to fewer songs on average. I'm not sure if this is true. People who find themselves exploring niche tastes are probably "enthusiasts" who do more listening and listen more broadly.
I really like John Lakos who has written a few books on large scale C++ projects. Very practical material. I don't know how well it translates to other languages but they have been very helpful for my C++ projects. His books are based on his extensive real-world experience in this domain, both for EDA software and Bloomberg.

*I have no association with him whatsoever.
UPS and FedEx don't really have warehouse space for things to sit. The facilities are all designed to unload, sort, and load parcels as efficiently as possible.

Oftentimes the lines run in alternating inbound / outbound directions. The same conveyor belt that carries packages from an inbound regional trailer to a local delivery vehicle at 4am, might run in reverse at 8pm to carry local business pickups to the outbound regional trailer at 8pm.

If the packages from one flow can't clear the lines, the system could grind to a halt.

I worked at UPS during an unprecedented winter storm in the Pacific Northwest during the holiday season, and the only way to store packages in the system was inside the limited number of spare trailers that could be parked at the facility.
> The fundamental problem isn't streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions.

I disagree. The fundamental issue isn't power law distributions either, it's the fact that £200 won't even pay for a new guitar.

It's not hard to imagine that the distribution of earnings in other fields is lopsided too, but even average-earning teachers, corporate lawyers and secretaries make a wage they can get by on. Music as a whole might just undervalued.

Music is also very unequal. I haven't heard of teachers earning less than £200 a year, nor of teachers earning as much as say, Taylor Swift. The parameters of these two earning distributions are widely different.

It's interesting, since Music is and has always been very valuable in every culture since time immemorial. Is it undervalued because the post-industral world just tends to undervalue creative work in general? Is it not really that undervalued, and we just get that impression because such as small part of the industry captures such an insane percentage of profits? Could be both to be honest.
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That's insane ^^
It does if you buy the CDs (or MP3s) directly from the artist!
Percentages are different than absolute numbers, though. It would be surprising if, for instance, 80% of lawyers earn less than 200 GBP a year.
Volume Snapshots are going to be a game-changer for stateful workloads. I'm glad to see this feature in the wild. Great job Kubernetes team!
Yep. I'd prefer enum-like syntactic sugar, something like:

public class Name {
private Name(String name){...}

flags {
MISSING, NOT_APPLICABLE, NOT_AVAILABLE_YET, FORBIDDEN
}
...
}

In particular, you shouldn't have to specify a constructor, since these are flag values that don't necessary have any state associated with them.
After I was laid off, I shipped my company-issued equipment back over a month ago. They still haven’t gotten any of it. They know it shipped because they have the tracking number.
This is why we must never allow single payer healthcare in the US.

The US Left is demonstrating that it has ABSOLUTELY no qualms about politicizing healthcare and regulating it in ways that blatantly discriminate based on race, sex, and origin - in the name of the Woke Religion.

Imagine the totalitarian results they could achieve if everyone's healthcare were controlled by a state monopoly with no competitors.
From your link:

> The rules only apply to companies selling computer products to Chinese banks

Your original comment didn't read like you were talking about auditing in the financial sector.
My understanding [please correct me, I'm not a doctor] is that it's recently come to light that there is very, very little evidence, if any, that salt is bad for you (aside from people with certain heart conditions), yet the whole medical profession loudly proclaims that salt is in general bad for you.

Regardless of whether future evidence may demonstrate that salt is bad for you, or that q-tips are bad for you, this sort of thing seems to be the medical field's version of the urban legend. Everybody believes X because they heard someone else -- maybe a professor at school -- stating it, but ultimately it has little scientific basis, and it takes years to root it out. I wonder how often this happens, and what can be done to counter it.
Mainly because I didn't translate it to Icelandic and I didn't want to get dinged by Google for putting an untranslated app in Iceland Play Store. Funny you should mention Iceland though because I recently saw a Tom Scott video[0] in which I learned tons of people speak English over there.

I updated the country availability so Iceland is included.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYlmFfsyLMo
Why is the ios app so large? It’s listed as 72.5 MB on the app store.
Well, considering my friend has said he sometimes will get to work extra early so he can unload and try to re-load and organize his load I'd say it's still fairly bad.
> Remember we already lie down for 8 hours a day while sleeping. It's restorative, not harmful.

Every morning when I wake up my back and hips are extremely tight and it takes me about 2 hours to loosen them up. However if I spend those two hours laying down waiting for my body to loosen on its own, I get up 2 hours later with the same problems.

I agree with you that sitting also causes the hips and back to get stiff and tight.
great episode as usual!
Then surely you understand what a pain it is.
I would not be surprised if Google account ToS has some point that complicates things for contributors or people forking the code.
I haven't read Google ToS lately so I can't say there is something like this but that document is huge and keeps changing all the time.

If I was a pseudonymous developer, I would probably not go through that.
I never look to harm other people, but according to this quiz I got quite "dark" results. So it doesn't seem like they are specifically considering harming others as the definition of dark traits.

I got most highest result in Narcissism or Entitled Self Importance.
This just means that I'm ambitious and it's important for me to succeed and others to see that I am successful. It doesn't mean I'm harming others. Most of my motivations in life are for people to consider me to be intelligent for instance, but I don't see how it specifically harms anyone. I don't want them to consider me intelligent on flawed premises.
User centric payments are a big debate in the industry just now. Deezer has been trialling this. As some people below have said it may or may not be the answer - the jury is out. Chances are it would have a smallish benefit to smaller musicians, very little impact on the revenues of globally recognised superstars, and almost no change for those in the middle.
Yeah, I tried to mention that near the end, but it can be hard to explain.

It is "t" applied to "e" - so it would be t(e) in javascript notation. This could be nonsensical, but because of lazy evaluation it never gets expanded/evaluated. (K doesn't use its second argument.)

The SKI stuff is defined as applying those replacement rules from the outside in, so:

K e (t e) ... -> e ...

you take that whole expression from the front (K and the next two expressions) and replace it with the expression that was in the first argument's location. But (t e) here is dropped without ever being expanded / evaluated.

Most languages fully evaluate arguments before passing them to functions, but a few rare languages like Haskell don't evaluate the arguments until they're needed. So for

K e (t e)

it will assign the whole tree (t e) wherever y occurs in the function definition, and just keep passing it along until something needs its value (if you use apply it to something like a function, use it in a case statement, or pass it to a primitive function like plus).

The miranda language (whose source was recently published) is also lazy, and works by compiling your code down to SKI combinators and then evaluating them. So this actually has been used in practice.
The older I get, the more I realize how many problems in the world are caused by the dark personality spectrum. Most men, police officers, priests, white people, catholics, politicians, or Germans are actually nice people who wouldn't harm anybody even if given the chance. A lot of the abuse that was done by these groups, be it towards women, ethnic minorities, children, or police brutality, was most likely done by somebody with strong dark personality traits. Not all crimes, but a surprisingly large amount. Exploring this condition, learning to recognize dark personality traits more reliably, knowing how to mitigate them, and maybe finding ways to help these suffering people is an important evolutionary step for us as a species. One way to see through their games and machinations is by looking at the facts.
Spittin' facts over here.
If only there were some way to let the phone's owner decide what apps were allowed to run in the background, we could all be happy.
Didn't help Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
After the 50k free map loads per month.
Yes, there's some rebates from federal government in those numbers.

For the record:

33 x 370W solar panels (Jinko) - 12 year warranty

Three-phase inverter (Sungrow), battery capable down the track

Installation (labour, mounting kits, wiring, etc)

Total is A$13,000 -- less the government incentives / subsidy ($36 / STC) of A$6,600 which are intercepted by the vendor in this case.

In Australia these subsidies are taking yet another hit at the end of this year, hence there's a bit of a spike in people paying for these systems, but scheduling installation in 2021.
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> Spotify should work put who you’re listening to and give them a direct slice of what you have paid, rather than putting everyone in a pot together and dividing by number of plays.

Representation based on number of plays

Problem is, suppose you listen to almost nothing but some indie band all month, and you happen to land on Lady Ga Ga just once or twice by accident somehow. Now since proportional representation by number of raw plays has been replaced by number of deduplicated plays tabulated to the artist, £5 goes to Gaga.

Squashing repetitions probably won't make much difference, because some people who like unpopular music listen to it repeatedly like crazy, just like people who like popular music. The big stars are not winning due to more plays; it's really due to just being more popular.

Suppose every Spotify subscriber streams music 24 hours a day. Then is it still unfair to go by plays?

By the way, no mater what, I suspect out of any £10 subscription, something like £9.95 goes to Spotify itself.
For more context, if I recall correctly, phh is the first person outside of Google to figure out this Generic System Image thing, and has been tinkering around Project Treble ever since.

(And I just learned about the GSI image for Pixel 1/2, thanks for that!)