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I think the argument is not that it's the 10 vs 20 hour listeners, but rather the 10-40 hour listeners (workday) vs the 700 hour listeners (radio playing in the corner of a breakroom somewhere).

The 700 hour listener has no audience and no human curation, and yet it's got 10x the influence on who gets paid by Spotify.

The article I linked also makes a really good point about this model motivating artists to encourage listeners/fans to listen to whole albums rather than single songs— right now if you're playing Spotify for revenue, the only thing that matters is landing your songs on popular playlists where they will get hundreds of thousands of passive plays. The incentives there are not really aligned to what anyone wants long term out of music.
Can somebody provide a direct answer to the question of why Apple’s App Store policies are bad? The argument that always comes up is that it is anti-competitive, but how does that not encroach on every business owner’s right to decide who they want to do business with, how they want to run their businesses, and how they design their platforms?

Also, one of the examples that always comes up in these discussions is how Internet Explorer came to be dominant in the 90s and 00s stifling innovation in the web, but if you look at how it was dethroned, it wasn’t dethroned because of government regulation; IE was dethroned because more innovative products entered the market, i.e. Firefox and Chrome, and this all happened under the framework of free market capitalism. What, then, is the argument for regulating Apple, and what exactly is the expected outcome?
No, the Autobahn just doesn't typically get that cold and has highest priority access to snow plows.
If you don't have humans to worry about, I would think UVC light would always be the more effective solution.
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nicely done. a much needed reminder.. Getting back the the fundamentals of thinking hard about the problem is more important than riding the wave of shiny new things in the ML world.
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yeah, plus they have sort of earned a reputation for being a bit of an intense place to work, quick to fire people who fall behind. Idk if that kind of stress is worth it.
Thank you for your help. It has never been passcode-protected, and it does sound similar to the issue you experienced. I'll try getting in touch with Apple to see if they can help.

I've quite a bit of experience with consumer tech, but I did not anticipate this kind of issue happening. I don't think it's right that the iPad can just lock itself and require Apple's intervention to make usable and access the data stored.

I will definitely never consider any Apple device as a gift to anyone ever again. I chose Apple for the same reason another commenter suggested, to reduce problems with support calls. But this eclipses all the times put together I would've had to help her with another device.
Why bother? They have their own container management infrastructure.
Spotify should charge by the minute so you turn it off when you're not actually listening.
It's not difficult to write better solutions than the people who works for the WICS companies write. No offense to those working there - but work conditions like what are usually described there are not helpful for writing good solutions.
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However, you are directing your disdain (about pfSense) toward us. To what end? What is it you want to achieve?
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Fanless performance is a microchip innovation not a bold laptop design.
The cameras have nothing to do with face ID, and its not just that 3rd parts cameras arent compatable, but even oem cameras arent without access to apple's systems called ast2 and gsx
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This looks really cool. Congrats on the launch!

I've always wondered how blockchain companies consider branding around their tech vs their outcomes. Like there are a ton of great outcomes here for using blockchain tech, but I find "crpyto" products intimidating to use, even as a techy.
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It’s about making bans for fraud and abuse more expensive to repeatedly evade. The expected value of a few extra spam messages is lower than the cost of a new number.
> Because renewables are forced into use when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, they basically make the reliable sources more expensive.

That problem with renewables can easily be fixed with storage, which can be batteries, generating green hydrogen trough electrolysis or a number of many other ways.

While on summer days where a lot of sun shines nuclear reactors have their very own problem: They produce too much heat and need to be throttled/shut down [0] [1] or else they would start heating up their cooling medium too much, which are usually nearby waterbodies/river systems.

With global warming being a thing, we can expect this problem to occur much more frequently, and even more so if we decided to build even more reactors.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-nucle...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
Sounds a lot like this here https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383
The linked image says "coarse location" for Chrome/Analytics.

So this is not your GPS data but most likely IP based city/metro.

Also it says "may" everywhere. AFAIK DDG may be doing all of those things too.

From a technical POV this looks such a huge FUD that it's sad.
Do you plan to move to Optimism when that launches this month? From what I understand, little to no changes are needed on your the codebase. You should be able to just use their compiler and deploy.
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Black males seem to disproportionately die at the hands of police. But BLM is about much more than just death. Death is just a catalyst that makes people notice.

Lots of Black people deal with disrespect and abuse from police on a regular basis. A lot of the seemingly flippant behavior from Black people towards police that we sometimes see during recorded interactions is well earned by years of subtle, and not so subtle harassment by some police officers.

Look up some of Amber Ruffin's videos on her interactions with police growing up in NYC. It's pretty eye opening and all of my Black friends have echoed similar stories.

Another example that comes to mind is the story of the Black women and children that were made to get out of their car and lay handcuffed, face down on the asphalt in the arizona sun while the cops slowly discovered that the car they were driving was not actually stolen and that they had read the plate wrong. Supposedly, the cops tried to handcuff the little 7 year old girl but even fully tightened her wrists were too small.

I have been unable to find a comparable story of an innocent white family of women and children made to lay handcuffed face down like that. I suspect very strongly those same cops would not have treated a white family like that.

Excess deaths at the hands of cops is just a serious symptom of a much larger underlying problem of disrespect and abuse.
This is a bit misleading. The Sacramento regulation appears to be about zoning to dissuade commercial repair operations on residential grounds.

This is bad, but is not really "anti repair" any more than not being allowed to operate a bar/food service business out of your own home.
Var and switch were the biggest from Java 11, along with modules and the new GCs?
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We have some happy customers from outside of the US. They usually use Xero and integrate that to Pry. We do have customers using Quickbooks online in Canada.

If you have a bank that is not supported by Plaid, it's not going to work. We will build more API integrations.
If you used a credit card, make a warranty claim that the hardware was changed after delivery.
Incredible that performance analysis for benefiting consumers is being linked to advertising and behavioral analysis for making profits.
That migration was way before the acquisition. The Mirantis deprecation is about Swarm Mode.
Please... 90% of users don't even know what web browser they are using. I can't count the number of times I've gone to someone's house to fix their computer, and they don't know what Internet Explorer or Chrome is. They just know what icon to click to get to the internet.
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came to say Arduino; I cut my teeth on Basic Stamps in school but today they still cost over $150 just to get all the hardware you need to started. And forget about leaving just the brains in a home monitoring gadget or clock project, they cost over $50 each!

Arduino MCUs can literally be removed from the developer board and function stand-alone with a few cents of external hardware, and the chip itself can be replaced with a blank for a few dollars.
Another point is now once your train the entire work force in a specific vehicle, you can trust most everyone employed knows how to use the one vehicle you use. Easy to rotate and repair vehicles when they're all the same.
Thank you. This just happened, so I have not been to an Apple Store yet. There isn't one near me, and it is not easy to get to the far removed ones. It may be weeks or months before I can visit one.
at the detriment of human rights and the environment.

A lot of investors and pension funds are starting to add more criteria to their investments than just a profit.
Likely cause is a dev extension? Seems to have been fixed.

https://github.com/apollographql/invariant-packages/pull/91
If it really is just a matter of the effort one puts into education, then answer this. If everyone studied with the same exact amount of effort, would we have a world without waitresses, warehouse workers, low wage jobs?

Obviously not. This society relies entirely on the fact that a good portion of the population can be blackmailed into doing the bad jobs, while the other small portion enjoys the fruits.

If nobody could be forced to take shitty jobs, how would most of the current industries exist?
Wouldn't the spirit of librem here suggest the solution would just be to make and distribute an open VPN app on iOS and tell your librem one subscribers to install it and have an easy and secure method of downloading a file with your endpoints? Then there is no argument to be made that it's tied to a subscription because anyone could use it for their own or yours or anyone else's that supports it.

PIA (and others I'm sure)offers a zip of .ovpn files for their endpoints that Linux users can import to use with openVPN without using their app.

Obviously, this is a proposed solution to having the app on iOS, no dealing with Apple's access monopoly.
Look, when I was a poor college student my car was worth less than $2k, I still put winter tires on. Safety is a top priority and I'd absolutely needed to get to class in the snow.
Thunderbold is generally not available on AMD systems.

Several reasons.

a) Intel wants licensing cash for allowing you to use it

b) It does not actually add that much to USB. You want to attach monitors? Non-Thunderbolt USB can do that. You want to attach storage? Non-Thunderbolt USB can do that. Networking? Charge your device? USB can do all that.

The remaining selling point of Thunderbolt is that you can attach an external graphics card over it. There are external USB graphics solutions, too, but they can't really compete if you plan to do high perf 3d graphics over it.

However this selling point is also the Achilles heel of Thunderbold. It exposes PCIe to devices outside the device, allowing direct memory access over it. This can be partially mitigated if the OS and all drivers cooperate and are really well written (for example not expose a memory page that contains other stuff as well).

But bottom line? I actually view this as an AMD advantage.
It's a bit like Firewire was. a) it cost licensing money and b) it introduced a similar security issue while c) not actually delivering that much of an advantage over USB unless you are part of a certain niche.
> dramatically affect your neighbours in ways that would substantially restrict how they can use their property.

Well yes, if you practice the tuba at 3am, raise alligators in your backyard, and beekeeping in your front yard, then yes.

But painting your house? Building a shed? Parking a car in the driveway? Building a fence? Adding architectural ornaments? Install solar panels? None of this stuff affects neighbours.
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Good call. Thanks for the feedback!
Are you thinking of git subtree?

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-subtree
IMO spending $10 a month on CDs is a different market, since you own an asset in perpetuity. Spotify would have to guarantee a perpetual license that expands your library access the more you pay in. Instead, Spotify rents access to a single large library (which is good enough for most but very different).
That's why I thought. Why would you say that is? He's obviously educated and speaks with "facts" that have "references", but it just feels like the left does not like his facts/does not agree with the same conclusion his references reach.

I'm not big into politics but I don't really understand how two different parties can both use "science and data" to reach totally separate conclusions. Which one is lying/wrong?

As a programmer, it just doesn't compute. Input and output and all that.
This is really interesting, thank you.
Do you have any opinion on microk8s versus k3s?
I wonder how big or small that $10K compared to the game's monthly income. Guess I'd be OK to share the 70% of that with the modder if it'd be up to me (no wonder why I don't get rich huh?).

* 70% was the amount of loading time the modder helped to cut.
Interesting question. The US recorded music market peaked year 2000, at $13.4B. (https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/the-r...)

With 282 million citizens at the time, that means every US citizen spent $3.95/month on CDs. Adjusted for inflation it's $7.56.
> If having solar panels on your car roof means you can avoid charging much in summer

You seem to be aware that this is not the case but also not so much... can’t tell what your comment is trying to support.
That's not what "personally witnessed" means.
They do kick you off after a while if you're a free account, but the marginal cost of the bandwidth for them is basically nothing. Anyway, it's 2021— who would accept a pay-per-time-listened Spotify in an age where Netflix, Hulu, Prime, and Disney+ are all all-you-can-eat for a similar price?
What's the business model again? How are they making money?

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
There's relatively few countries in the world that are as large and sparse as the US. Sprawling metropolis's are rare. In the rural areas, houses are miles apart.
Consider the UK is right now [0], as we speak, passing a bill that forces an ISP to hand over browsing data, without a warrant, to non-law enforcement agencies (a list of which is in the source below). Agencies like the DWP (who handle unemployment, and have been subject to much criticism on how they make decisions and handle clients) will have warrantless access to browsing data for specific people.

A little far fetched, but if you're employed by one of those agencies, your boss (or bosses boss etc) can access _your_ data, find out how often you're googling basic information and use that information against you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26430266
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They are not really effortless, especially when distributions like doom or spacemacs are used. Sure, today it's easier than 10 years ago, but compared to the modern solutions it still pretty backward.

In VS Code you can search for ne plugins from inside the application (which emacs also allows), while also showing all information including pictures and animations about the plugin in-app (which emacs does not allow). VS Code also shows which bindings, functions and settings the plugin adds (in emacs only indirect possible, with effort).

And best part: it just works. With emacs there are always a gazzilion problems coming with plugins. Be it some conflict or just additional work neccessary to make it work. Thouhg this is mostly a solvable problem with emacs, it just does not get solved. The Emacs communities solultion for this is the usage of distributions, which come with other problems and have only support for the more popular plugins.
A lot of those articles and posts are what I think of 'exploratory' someone doesn't want / need a thing,t hey present their way of doing things and we can all learn something from them... even if we don't do things like they do.

God knows how much "don't need JavaScript" gets posted...
I'm working on a system hand off nodejs workloads over a serial port to another machine running some host software.

My intent is to easily write Internet-connected software for old machines where a host machine is doing all of the heavy lifting. I have been messing with 68k Macintosh systems first. The code is very much a work in progress that I am actively chipping away at, and not in a usable state just yet. I write a lot of nodejs professionally but haven't used C since college so its been a fun project.

nodejs software for the "modern" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js

C software (targeted at a 68k mac) for the "slow" machine: https://github.com/CamHenlin/retro68-coprocessorjs-test
Same here. I don't get the complaints. I use it regularly on macOS, iOS, Linux and used to run it on Windows every day...
Untangle NG Firewall, perhaps. [1]

1. https://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/NG_Firewall_Installation
So, you wrongly used dispatchable?

From your link "Although theoretically dispatchable, coal and nuclear thermal plants are designed to run as base load power plants".

Dispatchable means the power is available when it is needed. Not when it is available i.e. when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining.

Modern nuclear reactors incorporate grey rods which allow them to be used in a limited load following capacity.
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Good read, I saved crypto.{c,h} for later use. Nice and tidy crypto code.
Common knowledge to whom?

Remember, this article talks about Signal which is a widely available app beyond just the USA. Where I come from we have not learned anything about Radio Free or what it has to do with the CIA. I have never heard of it. Same for Moonies. I have no clue what it is and I'm convinced most people in Europe who are of my age have no clue. We all know what Signal is though. So if someone is suggesting conspiracy theories they better provide some references otherwise it reads to me like a sci-fi story.

> Heck, even Wikipedia would do for the basic ties

I mean yes... Wikipedia will do the basics on literally any topic in the world :)
I would say give them 50k and free access to Rockstar games for life.
> It turns out, solving the problem of being an assistant device approaches the "AI complete" boundary, and the set of data interconnections needed approaches "arbitrary."

Wait, why do you say that? There's nothing inherent to the way that assistants work that mean that they need full access to everything in my life.

Human beings are "AI complete", but when I go to the library and ask them to help me find a book, they don't demand that I show them my phone contacts first. Data access and intelligence are separate concepts.

And Google's voice assistant could figure out what phone number I mean when I say "call mom" without doing anything involving AI at all, because I actually explicitly put that information into my address book in machine-readable, labeled fields. The assistant doesn't need to have an advanced AI to solve that problem, and it certainly doesn't need to look at my search history.
>The prompting for purchase and trials is VERY explicit. So for example, NY Times has a banner (not on ios) saying signup for $1/week. Great, you do it. Then you find out that in a month it switches to something like $15/month- I mean, the scams and tricks are endless off app store.

I really wish government or credit card companies would impose rules on merchants that prohibit this kind of behaviour. It's very easy to get bitten by subscription scams, even from companies that appear legitimate.

The lack of regulation on this matter just leaves Apple with justification to act as a payment gatekeeper.
My context was dried, fresh cubensis of varied strains, and some years of enjoying them. Yes I'm talking insane doeses for some people, but that wasn't "high" doses for me; and i've never had "visuals" or many of the other effects that other get from psilocybin.

I think my biggest single does was about the equivalent of 4oz dried; great trip but the hangover was way too long.
I don't have the numbers handy, but household size has shrunk dramatically over the last 100 years. I would guess that today's 1.9M people represent 50-100% more househoulds than 1914's 2M.
Not too long ago there was a whole period dubbed "the nuclear age" where big governments all over the planet put major resources and focus into nuclear. Sure, a lot of that was based on its potential to weaponize, but funding and research into that has very strong synergies into the civilian sector.

In that context, nuclear has very much seen way more focus and support than probably any other modern form of energy generation.

So, why didn't that pan out and we apparently need another round of "big government focus"?
>Yeah, because it doesn’t exist.

I probably remembered it wrong and conflated the Rosenbaum with being about Woz and Jobs.

>That was not why Woz (and Jobs) were interested in them, which is my point.

Woz and Jobs decided to learn about blue boxes because they read "Secrets of the Little Blue Box" [0], an article which covers people selling blue boxes to mafia bookies [1]. My understanding is that Woz thought that Blue Boxes were neat and that Jobs wanted to turn it into a business so they began mass producing them. They were looking for a market, they knew based on the article that got them excited about Blue Boxes in the first that Blue Boxes can be used to evade wiretaps and that also based on that article they knew organized crime was willing to pay for them. At the very least they must have talked about it as some point, perhaps just to say we are never selling these to the mob".

If you ever get a chance to ask Woz about this, I'd love to hear his answer, who did they try to sell blue boxes to and if they didn't try to sell blue boxes to bookies what was their thinking at the time about why not?

"And with Wozniak, of course, the story goes that he discovered the blue box via reading Ron Rosenbaum’s article, Secrets of the Little Blue Box" [0]

"We [not Woz or Jobs] had this order for a thousand beeper boxes from a syndicate front man in Las Vegas. They use them to place bets coast to coast, keep lines open for hours, all of which can get expensive if you have to pay. The deal was a thousand blue boxes for $300 apiece. Before then we retailed them for $1,500 apiece" - [1]

[0] Concerning Steve Wozniak’s Blue Boxes, https://512pixels.net/2018/03/woz-blue-box/

[1] Secrets of the Little Blue Box by Ron Rosenbaum, http://www.lospadres.info/thorg/lbb.html