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It is trivial to reduce the environmental impact by changing the type of packaging materials and shipping multiple phones in one carton, while protecting each phone individually. Apple chooses not to do this since it doesn't fit their marketing strategy.

As for those missing chargers, they probably have multiple reasons for not including them. The environmental impact may even play a small role. Ultimately though, the main reasons are going to be business driven (e.g. reduced manufacturing costs and perhaps increased sales of chargers). If these people were truly interested in protecting the environment, they wouldn't be in the business of selling disposable consumer goods.
IBKR has two tiers. Their free "lite" tier (targeted at retail) receives payment for order flow. Their Pro tier (which charges a monthly fee) does not.
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Based on an educated guess and a bit of googling, I think she was a project manager. Also, English is obviously not her native language, and emotional turmoil (such as from an unhappy encounter with the legal system) sometimes interferes, in my personal experience, with second language skills.
Is there any reason why stock options can't be non dilutable? If new investors want to come in, they need to buy existing shares, the number of shares can be infinitely divisible to make it easy to always accommodate new investors.
I hadn't been following the proposals for and development of Ruby 3 very closely, so Ractors were a nice surprise when I finally did check in.
As a childhood fan of the Cleveland Browns, I'll mention the quarterback Frank Ryan, who had a Ph.D. in math from Rice. He was the QB during the Browns's last NFL championship.
Despite my daily driver being my i9 16" MacBook Pro, I've started falling for the Thinkpads. Had a couple E-series before but right as the pandemic started I grabbed a used i5 X270. Swapped in a 1080 IPS screen, an SSD, and eventually 16GB of RAM so I'm at about $500 for a machine that can do everything I _need_. Charges with IBM chargers or USB-C. Has enough ports. Can run macOS in VirtualBox and I've even built iOS apps on it. Handles light gaming. Matte screen. Cheap enough that I'm not paranoid about damaging it.

Yeah the used market prices crept up, probably due to families buying up laptops for online school students, but you can still catch bargains.

Unfortunately much past the X280/T480 generation and you stop being able to upgrade things yourself. It's like I see in the used Mac Mini market where there are a ton of otherwise useful machines from 2014 but they're crippled with 4GB of non-upgradable RAM.
The percentage is actually more relevant to what we're discussing here, because it represents the gain from the employee's known starting point when they were hired. If they were only offered a measly number of options on being hired, well they can just decide to bail - it's the percentage gain that is the unknown and variable part of the equation.

> Why would you expect options to pay big for a non-unicorn?

I think the idea is that there should be a good swath of successful startups between "failed" and "unicorn". Indeed, the whole name unicorn came about because they used to be incredibly rare. So the parent is really asking "If you were in a moderately successful startup, did you get anything out of your equity?"
That's exactly what they're saying, why else would they ask? It's the entire purpose of what they're doing. It's a very clear insinuation. Do you think he's asking because he thinks it doesn't play a part? Why even ask then?
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I’m glad moz://a was chosen. I can’t imagine any of the other options aging as well.
Technicaly unknown. Vaccine was developed, goverments bought and awaiting for cargos. Nobody is putting dispute like on aliexpress for cheap quality or fake one. Citizens will get their needle and if it will not work then the societies will collapse. At the moment roads are closed to leave the cities and to get in if you are from another region. So depression will grow, more companies closed, no work, no income, no real social life not fb or etc. only full control - when to go outside, when for groceries and there will be no point to listen for some oldies while you are drunk on youtube like "The World Is Mine".
It doesn't. It's basically still monopoly money. According to the org, they've had 3 or 4 rounds of financing, and each time they've taken on new funding they've distributed new shares to offset the dilution. This isn't policy they've committed to, just something they've opted to do.
Cooking rice for some large portion of the global population is like cooking pasta noodles, meaning for some people, the fuzzy logic and other advanced features are worth $300+ especially when they cook rice every single day.
Could you share what made them lose your respect before this?
Apple and Facebook are not competitors.

If anything apple is setting a precedent for it's actual competition that user privacy is something people are willing to pay a premium for.
Coll but how you collect the source of light point in each roads?

Are the application actively recording light intensity? Are they coming from open-data?
Yes, but given everything that's about to happen to those people, the technical difficulties with some fledgling operating system seem so distant now. Many people who posted in that thread are no longer even alive probably.
> I wish all the "big data" tooling was written in Ruby.

On a practical note, Ruby's heavy use of reflection, inheritance and method_missing style dispatch currently makes performance for big data tasks less than ideal. Python is less expressive but its "one true way" makes things like vectorization and type specialization easier for data tasks.

Sometimes you really just need a better Fortran.
Big corporations will give you more opportunity to “learn by doing” than a startup? Hard to take your comment seriously when you say something like that.
Yeah, I wonder which ones they are still manufacturing in the country. Could this mean the last guy who was assembling film F6 in a repair facility somewhere is finally retiring?
Thanks for making bash.

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How is this an Apple problem?
It really isn't... The grammar isn't formal. For instance:

person * me;

Is this a multiplication statement, or a pointer to a person typedef?
> I have a Samsung phone, using Samsung's store... I don't pay oligarchs.

Have you come across criticism of the chaebol system or Samsung as a company before? It’s pretty intense what has been going on and what Samsung has been convicted of doing. The wikis give a good overview.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
I can't find it now, but I remember reading about something with what seems a lot more boring than the articles I find about "metamaterial lenses". Maybe someone has a pointer for what it's actually called.

It was something reproducing a sort of "solar furnace" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace) at a micro scale, coordinated with electronics. Think creating a dynamic lens by redirecting light from many micro lenses (mirrors?).

The upside being dynamic focal lengths using extremely short lens (the whole thing being microscopic).

Am I day dreaming? I can swear I read something or saw a documentary somewhere.

Or is what I'm describing just another name for metamaterial lenses? Based on what I've read about metamaterials, right now, I don't think it is, but I can very easily be wrong.

Edit:

Ah, maybe microlenses? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlens

Does anyone know if they're applicable to camera lenses?
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I wonder if Apple is considering them as an acquisition target. At their current market cap, the dilution be a rounding error for AAPL shareholders.

Apple’s cross functional business org makes them really effective at transferring expertise across product lines. Just subsidizing the high end camera line might be worth it to transfer technology and expertise to iPhone cameras.

(Plus slapping an Apple logo on Nikon cameras would probably boost sales overnight)
No, I was saying that procurement will tell you to use Mongo under AGPL (the free alternative) and not to embed it in the app (if you can). What I meant is that procurement takes OSS-licensed code as a "given" and carefully considers what they get on top of the base product when they pay money (while developers often think that they are charging for the whole thing, but in "enterprise" context). And that is where the blue ocean ends. Independent of that, you are completely right that most serious companies view non-standard free/"free" licenses as commercial and simply consider those as non-OSS products just like they would otherwise.
If Apple wanted free apps on their platform they'd make their SDK available for Linux, where thousands of developers would die for a chance to give free stuff to such a big market like Apple's even if Apple gives them nothing in return.
They're not cutting prices, they're trying to save on costs, ie., they're spiraling.
"Enron was still considered a decent company."

This part wasn't true. I lived then, as I do now, in Houston. In 2000, I was a partner in a custom software/internet technology professional services company. (Back then, you could charge lots of money to help people build intranets; it was GREAT!)

Enron had bids out all over to do custom work for them, but it was also super common knowledge -- at least locally -- that if you wanted to get paid, you needed to insist on a fat retainer, because Enron absolutely would not pay on time, or maybe ever if they thought they could get away with stiffing you.
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This is hogwash, and a lie mostly propagated by blue check journo twitter. Remember, twitter is not representative of anything even close to consensus political opinion. It's mostly an echo chamber for elites patting themselves on the back for their "correct" opinions https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/04/twitt...
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If it was about the environment they wouldn't have included a charger either, yes. (They wouldn't sell disposable in-ear headphones either. No exchanging batteries) But if it wasn't about money, they would've added a coupon/code to buy a charger because the product is useless without one...

Just because the actual action can also be spun in q environmental friendly way doesn't mean the company actually did it for that.

They didn't want to include a charger and just used the environment as an excuse so they can argue all criticism away
You left out Canon, their main competitor for pro cameras.
Out of curiosity, how have black cab drivers tried to rip you off? There's no room for maneuver in the fixed fare structure [1], which is designed to incentivise taking more low distance fares.

If anything, the traditional trope was that they were "generous" - if you asked for a receipt, they would give you a wedge of empty receipts for you to fill in yourself for tax claims.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxi-fares?intcm...
A while back I used MacPorts to install the latest bash and changed my admin user to use it. Worked great. Then Big Sur came along and I had to upgrade MacPorts. This involved uninstalling installed packages, upgrading the base MacPorts, then reinstalling the packages.

Imagine my surprise -- because I didn't fully consider these actions -- when my terminal session started ignoring my commands partway through that process. It turns out that it is a Bad Idea to delete your shell binary when you're using it.

Fortunately, VS Code's terminal uses a different shell binary so I was able to complete the upgrade there.

Another day, another reminder to Be More Careful.
Is there a short summary of what this purports to provide that the Apple/Google APIs do not?
I really dislike this:

{b: 0, c: 1} => {b:}
p b #=> 0

It is so weird that a variable named `b` is initialized after an hash-key-like symbol is referenced (`b:`). It's something you've never seen in Ruby before and that I hope I'll never encounter along my career as Ruby on Rails developer.
Python Zen: Explicit is better than implicit

There's a python library gevent which experimented with a more implicit design. Or more, this is about green threads vs async/await

It can also be a bit confusing when you don't allow separating await from the call: how do you implement Promise.all?

For official rationale see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/#why-async-and-awai...
I belive zimbatm refers to the bash-specific ${var@Q} to expand to a form suitable as re-input into the shell. There are a few other bash-specific syntaxes like that (under "parameter transformation" in the manual page).
Debian was one of the first Linux distributions I tried and I had forgotten how terribly confusing dselect was to me at the time. Funny how apt-get has outlived it, even though it does not offer a "friendly" interactive interface.
Poor people around the world have been devastated by the majority position in public health policy.

A majority of people and the health establishment thought ventilators were a good idea; it turns out mortality dropped 30% during the time period that their use was stopped.

The people deciding things have very little gauge of the disastrous costs that they themselves do not have to suffer. Their social class precludes it by nature!

Are you an essential worker? Is that below you? The least advantaged are forced to risk their lives and are bearing the brunt of all these decisions.

The Pajama Class is waging class war, convinced they're right - when in fact they've blundered their way through this - shaming everyone who disagrees with them.

Make no mistake - the public policy decisions you're advocating favor the well-off.
To many people who value $$$ to get other important things in their life, shares are a meaningful factor in their expected value from devoting their life to a job.

So when you say you don't work at a startup for monetary reasons, and that you don't care about shares, which has an expected value of real money despite the uncertain outcome, it's natural to wonder if you don't care about compensation aka money.
Depends on what type of syntax you enjoy I think.
I hope that the web can get better if it is used creatively and positively. This will require those have it to give and share best practices to those who have not, if that makes sense.
Facebook is scared, and they should be.

For years it has been painfully clear that facebook has been a net negative for society.

Bring back the days of being able to trust your device and services you use without have to skim through TOS and hope they didn't throw a Facebook auth sdk in somewhere.
Your comment reads like Apple removed the ability of Facebook to monetize apps with advertising (which they didn't), and reads as if tracking users' every movement is the only way to advertise (which it isn't).

Furthermore, there are plenty of unjust/unethical systems in this world that - if dismantled - would cost the jobs of honest, hardworking people. That doesn't seem like a valid argument against the question of whether or not tracking people without their consent is itself unethical.

Edit: I want to bring up another point: You mention that using FB ads can allow developers to avoid the "Apple Tax." But not only does the Facebook Audience Network apply its own tax (via revenue share) to app developers, it also refuses to disclose that number! So if you monetize a free app with Facebook, you're paying an undisclosed Facebook tax. Given the Google tax for AdSense is 32%, it's likely that FB's secret tax is higher.
Which is it's own form of dog-whistle; "Use our country; our government will help make sure the workers don't protest"
> > The 11" Macbook Air solved the laptop form factor.

> That's weirdly-specific. Some people would prefer a larger screen size, for example.

> > Could there be some refinements to my 2015 MBA ?

> I upgraded from a 2015 (I think) MBA to a 2018 model (both 13" ones), and two actual improvements that I like are: larger trackpad size, and smaller overall dimensions (so there's a smaller bezel around the screen, for example).

I'll agree that 13" rather than 11"seems to be a sweet spot for size, and the air deserves credit for popularizing that size. 13" is as small as you need to fit in a backpack, and still stupidly light. I suspect the air and it's competitors (surface book, xps, spectre) are what killed off the sub 10" netbook/palmtop form factor.
Which is rather humorous, because if I buy a $1500 phone, I want and expect a big ass box with fancy ass packaging, and I expect a charger, and frankly I expect high-end earbuds.

Goddamn, this is why I really fucking hate Apple so much. Its why I fucking hate the fact that I picked up a base model Mac Mini. I can't argue its better for many use cases and that I switch between it and my 3900X workstation throughout the day for various workloads, but fucking Christ in Heaven it pisses me off that I have to, to begin with.

I fucking hate giving that shit company even a dollar.
What do you expect from a company that actually lobbies for slave labor? Hey, anything to keep that stock price up is a small price to pay, eh?

> Apple wants to water down key provisions of the bill, which would hold U.S. companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor, according to two congressional staffers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
Massive bailouts are fine apparently.

I'm sure the cyclical recessions that require repeated government intervention are because free market economy isn't free enough.

Any notions to the contrary can only be communist.
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Oh God yes! You get an obscure syntax error and it really isn't obvious what the problem is. It would be useful if syntax highlighting marked smart quotes (outside of strings) with a bright red background or something.
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The interesting thing about the German covid app is that it is actually pretty good considering the solution space available to its creators. It features a decentralized "privacy first" architecture and utilizes the platform APIs which _should_ be the best implementation for handling the actual contact tracing.

Since it is open source and uses a very common tech stack, it is easy to check and understand for as many people as possible that it is well-crafted and does not contain any obvious security vulnerabilities or backdoors. This makes it very trustworthy from an IT-persons point of view, and should in minimize the number of unsettled people who don't install the application on their handsets since they mistrust the government.

Well-known public instances like the CCC (German IT-Security NGO) did a review on the app and gave it a good testimonial - even on mass media like public television. The government and the involved third-parties like Deutsche Telekom and SAP did a lot to emphasize that there is no harm to be expected from the app and the worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work - which would be the exact same outcome as if you just didn't use it.

Still, Germans' are hard to convince, once they made up their mind about something. The public image of the government, as well as Deutsche Telekom and SAP is often disconnected from their actual performance. The same people often disregard these instances' and companies' ideas, products and services with the same persistence they welcome or defend equaly debatable innovations and decisions from actors they look favorably upon, like Apple.

It's sad to see that the good work of many smart people is so easily disregarded. The government and the involved companies actually listened to privacy and security experts and made a lot of right choices. That's something I'd like to see more of in the future. A little bit of appreciation could go a long way for shaping such decisions for the years to come.
Is it a lot of mental effort to keep in mind which commands are zsh compatible only and which are plain sh?
It never applies to me.

Isn't the problem that they game the recommendations too much? They obviously emphasize NF "Originals" and probably content they are getting on better deals. Regarding point 1, they very often plug watched titles again and again (I'd prefer them just being hidden), I think this is because of their rather crappy catalogue (probably also the reason they show you different posters for the same title). I've never gotten the impression they actually have 5888[0] titles.

[0] https://unogs.com/countrydetail (USA)
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A client that works really well with SFTP is lftp. It is in most linux distros and is available for mac in brew and in cygwin for windows. It has a mirror subsystem that works nearly like rsync and can support SFTP + chroot. Combine that with rsnapshot for diffs and you can fall back to earlier versions without using a lot of disk space. You can put that rsnapshot location outside of the SFTP chroot so that malicious access can't wreck your data, or just make the directory above your rsnapshots root-only access so regular users in a non chroot environment can't get there.
> “For later employees make sure the company offers “refresh” option grants to longer-tenured employees. Better yet, offer restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted Stock Units are a company’s promise to give you shares of the company’s stock. Unlike a stock option, which always has a strike (purchase) price higher than $0, an RSU is an option with a $0 purchase price. The lower the strike price, the less you have to pay to own a share of company stock. Like stock options, RSU’s vest.”

Aren’t RSUs taxed at the time of grant? Therefore in a refresh grant, the employee would get hit with a large tax bill on the fair market price of the equity, even with an 83(b) election. Most people
probably don’t have that kind of money to lay down up front on something that could still go bust. At least with options, you can always (unless you get fired) stay long enough to see the come through to IPO where options are then a sure thing. Am I missing something here on the quote above?
Pijul will treat that as a conflict indeed, in particular because it has no way to tell that Alice and Bob meant the same thing when adding that file. A README is a simple example, but what about a module split from a larger module during a refactoring? Even if the filenames added by Alice and Bob match, how can we know they're meant to be the same?
Great article! I'd heard about this maneuver only in theory before and never saw it written up.

Sounds like a bit of a moral hazard / principal agent problem for founders!
Nonsense about "fuzzy logic" aside, Zojirushi rice cookers are great. I currently own two, plus a third Tiger rice cooker that I use for making black garlic.

One of my Zojirushi rice cookers is also a mochi maker (BS-ED10-WA). Fresh mochi in the morning is fantastic. You have to be able to buy the special mochi rice - I once tried English pudding rice but it didn't work.
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