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How about pwsh -NoLogo -NoProfile ?

> Measure-Command { pwsh -NoProfile -NoLogo exit }

Days : 0
Hours : 0
Minutes : 0
Seconds : 0
Milliseconds : 254

BTW, Windows OS is often subject of Windows Defender and other AVs which are not present on Linux machines and their slowdown of the system is phenomenal.
Yeah; I'm definitely on the "Apple is overdoing it" train, in that their similar policy is unreasonable given there are no alternative options for developers on that platform.

But, Google/Play is different; developers who decide to distribute outside of Play don't receive any significant negative impact to their application outside of the marketing and operations that Play gives you, basically for free. There are other options, including no option ("go to my website and download the APK").

The pre-installation of Play on millions of Android devices is a weird sticky point. But, the most popular android devices on the planet (Samsung, Huawei) also ship with secondary (or, in some markets, primary) storefronts, and devs can distribute on those. Google set a norm with most customers, that all apps are on Play, but I also don't really see much tactile anticompetitive behavior from them in making it that way; its just the cultural norm, primarily due to convenience. I'd support government intervention to force device manufacturers to prompt users to install alternate storefronts on device setup, but its not the biggest of deals on Android.

Also; developers can monetize their "donations" via in-app purchases. I've seen tons of devs do this; either one-time or subscription, sometimes for little dumb non-functional stuff like extra theme colors, sometimes for nothing. I've paid for a few. Google will take their 15%. So, you're paying maybe an extra 10% on-top-of whatever you'd already have to be paying Stripe or whoever. Is the marketing, distribution, metrics, bandwidth, customer base, and even tangentially, developer tooling (Android Studio), worth that? The answer to that is different for every developer, but I think you'd have to be turning some huge revenue (some may say, some "Epic" revenue) for the absolute number underneath that percentage to start drawing scrutiny.
That trade was almost entirely seaborne, though high-value, low-bulk goods (spices, silks, possibly jewels) mighht travel by caravan.

China's Jing–Hang Grand Canal (京杭大運河) dates to the 5th century BCE, though it wasn't fully linked until the Sui dynasty (581--618 CE).

Italy's geography made sea travel far more tractable (a mountainous narrow peninsula), and Europe's numerous waterways allowed for inland travel without extensive canal construction, though Rome did construct numerous canals, mostly comparatively short at a few tens of km, for drinking water, drainage, irrigation, and transport.

A notable feature of canals over land travel is that water affords a "self-healing" surface, unlike mud or even stone. The capabilities of even minimal drayage are prodigious. A single horse or mule on the Erie Canal (US, 19th century) could haul a 40' (~12m) canal barge with some 80 tons of cargo, vs about 0.5--2 tons in a cart or wagon over land. All lifting was provided by the canal otself, via locks.
Should we require that Instagram, TikTok, OnlyFans have equal gender representation and close the influencer wage and attention gap? The fact that the outcome is not 50-50 is clear proof of prejudice against men. /s
I think this is a terrible choice and wish they would explain why the decision was made.

Was it something that amazon imposed(ostensibly)? If so, please share.
I got a hardware raid controller at home, many years ago. And I had a failure. I couldn't get to anything without buying an identical controller. Swore I'd never do again.
I don't see how all sites can comply nor do I think they should. However this really begs additional legislation to clarify the issue.

What we need to identify is essential goods and services and any retailer offering such needs to provide reasonable accommodation if the method of the offering makes it feasible. The issue with some handicaps is that within each there are levels of impact. So that needs to be considered.

With regards to the statement earlier where I think not all should be required I am just having mental block in understanding how would I communicate to a blind person a site like ebay where users put up goods and the vast majority rely on visual cues. Now the ordering and payment functions surely can be adopted but when you have user driven content what is a vendor to do?

So, back again to legislation so that the courts don't much it up so much it becomes a paradise for predatory lawyers.
Nah, play by the rules or stop suing their service. They funnel users to your app, for free. Just use their payment processing service for donations.

Donations make sense in open-source software, if you're making a game it's best to straight up charge for it or if you're starting to build your audience you can do in-app purchases for special things
Tradeoffs is that you can't use the device you supposedly own to run the apps you need. You can't use Signal or Telegram in countries like China. Some people are fine with that. I guess, some slaves do love their chains, they are so shiny!
Google provides a service, but they also require everyone to use their service. There is no realistic alternative if you want to reach the 70% of the market Google controls. Sure, F-Droid and sideloading and whatever exist, but realistically they are so crippled by unnecessary restrictions imposed on them by Google that they aren't serious options.

So now Google is in a position where they can place unreasonable rules on their service and no one can do anything about it. So, naturally, that's what they are doing. You can argue it's their right to put whatever restrictions they want on "their" service. But we can still argue that their restrictions are unfair.

This rule in this case seems unfair. The cost to Google to distribute this app is vanishingly small, probably on the order of cents. The benefit Google gains from exerting total control over the availability of apps on Android is quite large. It seems like Google is already getting the better end of the deal, and saying "you are not permitted to ask for donations to support your free art project unless you give us a 30% cut" just seems petty.

Can Google do it? Sure, they have the right. Is it fair? In my opinion, no. Being legal doesn't make it fair.
Are the speeds symmetrical? In other words upload is the same as download?
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You're misunderstanding my point. I've already said so in a sister comment, but we're fully on the same side about them being near-monopolies and them being very expensive on what they offer. No discussion there.

But two wrongs don't make a right. Yes, they take advantage of their position in pricing and yes, they have benefited a lot from offering their infrastructure for free. But that does not make it okay to use the infrastructure they provide for your personal gain just because they are "bad".

We also need to differentiate between Google and Apple here, as the case is totally different. Google simply has a large market share on Android; iOS, on the other hand, has (nearly) no option of alternate stores and the App Store is not free. That's why I mostly talk about Google here; with Apple, it's an entirely different story.
This is the same argument that was used to try and clamp down on anti discrimination legislation.

The idea being that since it was "economically irrational" to discriminate on the basis of skin color, the "free market" could therefore take care of it, therefore legislation was unnecessary.
Or how about systemd actually providing features not found in its predecessors at all and it does solve system init and service life cycle management?

Do you think that the majority of the debian team that voted democratically multiple times on the issue voted purely because... Red Hat? Come on, it is ridiculous. I hope you are not as blind when it comes to real-life politics, because denying reality to this degree is dangerous.
You can run WebOS in VirtualBox: https://www.webosose.org/docs/tools/sdk/emulator/virtualbox-...
Currently the situation with screen readers is a bit better:

* linux: orca, free and open source

* windows: nvda (free and open source), narrator (builtin, free)

* mac: voice over (builtin, free)
Oh 60 is fast around here too. I mostly meant that I've never seen a download start slow and progressively get faster. If anything it usually bursts at the begihning and then throttles back (comcast did that to me the most)
Apparently these apps have to integrate their billing systems with Google Play by September.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-...
I see report of 5-10w on ubiquiti gear.
I call this the problem of noise and loss of information. If someone has to write a specification and move on to another one, there will be a noise. Imagine customer -> product -> analyst / ux -> dev. etc. At each level, a little bit of information is lost. One possible solution is that the devs. are partly involved in all phases of the specification and design. This could reduce the problem of noise and loss.
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Pushing down the decision making is important for that reason. The “makers” know best most if not all of the time. The manager is there for support and for facilitating the learning. E.g. With decisions we make mistakes. As a manager it’s important to ensure that the team reviews past decisions and learns from them to improve the decision making process.
You can make a service then provide the android agent for free. But you can't use that app to then drive signups for your service without paying Google's fee.
tl;dr "If you're too big to do the small stuff, then you're too small to do the big stuff"
PSD is not my favourite file format
How much of that is dumped into the antenna? It’s LOS so it shouldn’t need too many watts for TX.
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Ideal solution is giving YOU, the User, decide, which apps to run. All you need to make the decision is the data which app consumes how much energy.

If I need a processor-intensive app to do some computations all the time, I should be allowed to run it, with full understanding that the device will need to recharge in 3 hours. It's my device, my battery, my use case.
I expect SpaceX to be prepped to launch multiple rockets per window.
Let's not forget upfront and arbitrary budget and time constraints from the customer side.

"We want the project to be delivered by X, and we have a budget of Y. Our specs are Z, but not really, so factor in A refactorings (A for arbitrary). Oh, and we don't have Q for Quality defined."

Especially prone in government and military contracts. Throw in some arbitrary public procurement rules so that Y is allegedly not disclosed, except to the select contractors that somehow know what the desired Y is and what the competition is bidding before bid close.

You get the F-35, which pragmatists say was never meant to fly, just to make the players rich in the process of failure.

Sauces:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-...
https://pando.com/2015/09/24/war-nerd-why-f-35-albanian-mush...
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Hi HN,
I love to have the control of my servers (data ownership...), but I spend too much time managing them.

What do you use / recommend to manage a small fleet of servers for side projects, self-hosting and small startups?
Deploy on a friday is still a no go for us.
Yes. This is actually an argument against -- what defines a "reasonable" accomodation includes what alternative solutions are available and the cost to implement. For instance, an alternative accommodation could be a member of store staff retrieving your items for you, instead of putting in a ramp, if the necessary ramp would violate sidewalk clearance.
If you are using automated testing then you need to make the site accessible to the test script. Which kind of makes it accessible to screen readers automatically.
Sweet man, would you be interested in teaming up a bit? I'm fairly busy the next couple of weeks but I can find a little time to do some hacking. I'm FreedomBen on Keybase, or if you want to email me freedomben <at> proton mail dot com I can give you a real email address. Totally fine if not though!
IMHO: Independent repair shops are collateral damage in Apple's fight against fraud and counterfeiters.

If I was King, I would legislate that Apple's regard for independents to improve from malign neglect to official support. Any part in any product can be bought for cost plus s/h with an iCloud account. And maybe a public FTP site with product specs, schematics, BOMs and whatever else.

That Rossmann, and others, have to salvage parts just to do repairs is ridiculous.

Edit strikeout per reply: ~~I'm fine with independent repairs voiding warranties.~~

For the Right to Repair movement, even though Apple is far from the worst (probably John Deere), I'm fine with the strategic choice of using them as the marque villain.

Source: Was tech at an Apple dealer when I was kid. Long time fan. Have repaired plenty of gear.

--

Separately: I've love for Apple to respond to the many design criticisms. Does anyone know if they continue to tweak outside of the model year product release cycles?

I'm ambivalent about Rossmann's criticisms about screws, glue, and so forth. There's always design and manufacturing tradeoffs. Glue and direct mount to improve reliability at the expense of repairability. If I cared, I'd get a corporate Dell laptop, which are terrifically repairable.
Honestly, there's barely a reason for Firefox to exist anywhere outside of the desktop after they eliminated extensions one more time for every other platform.

The "Firefox anywhere but desktop" package nowadays is "Here's a sub-par, slower, poorly-optimized browser without an ad-blocker; you'll be happy to know we have Pocket and Ads built-in! Why even bother with those icky websites? Just click our links! Addons? I mean, we have four. We no longer allow you to use the rest of the AMO addons."

Firefox on desktop is nice, except for their most recent design update (coming in a month or two, already on Nightly), which makes compact mode massive and normal mode gigantic. But you can get around that by simply going out of your way to write CSS to eliminate tabs entirely, and replace them with an extension.
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Dealing with succession is the main argument for democracy. And in many countries it was the reason (proto)democracy was adopted.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1573_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian....
I think it would be more like "You can't use Free App Engine and infra without giving Google a cut".

Now if you can't access the app at all, such as by browser or etc, then i think there's a better parallel to Chrome. But when you're using someone elses infra entirely it feels odd to say you have the right to use it for free.

The donations aren't the problem in my mind. Installing applications outside of the app store is the problem. Because locking app installs down and not supporting alternatives like PWAs is the real devil.

I still partially think we should just avoid Google phones period, but other comments suggest Microsoft already was forced to allow alternate browser installs, so there in i think that sets a precedent to require Google/etc to better support 3rd party app installs (out of store).
Somewhat off-topic, but I wonder what sort of networking would be best to build a wireless game controller, where latency is everything?
One of the worst problems of our political discourse (aside from the idea of a single political axis) is the idea that extremism results from distance from the center. There's nothing about this man's political perspective (that we know) suggesting he was in any way far-right. He is, if anything, a 'center-right' extremist.

Same kind of idea goes for proud boys, boogaloos, etc. I think they like the 'far-right' designation because it lets them liken these groups to fascism, which is about as accurate as likening AOC to Stalin.
It's also a surprise attack from a full speed charge. I bet that helps a lot.
What about fingertip mounted (rings, basically) small ultrasonic sensors? Each could be mostly independent (save for battery, I guess) and exploring the space would be as easy as slightly waving and tilting the hand. Tactile feedback would go straight to the fingertip. Quick to wear and remove.
> Not enough people really downloads apps anymore

"Sensor Tower, which notes that its data is still preliminary, reports that overall, consumers spent roughly $111 billion on mobile apps in 2020. That makes a 30.2% increase over 2019." [1]

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/05/app-store-earns-7...
It does seem to dance around the issue of how easy bridges are to build without major flaws compared to how hard similarly sized software applications are to build without major flaws. I would suggest that it is entirely possible the same reasons that we can't treat software projects like physical construction projects also applies to accessibility. I'm not saying that is the case, but that I haven't seen reason for it to not be the case and it should remain an option until shown otherwise.
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There are a whole ton of asterisks on that kind of statement. Most European unions are at most national (which geographically is more equivalent to a specific US State than pan-EU). Many of them are regional, which is even scoped more like a city.

Conditions for a laborer in Bulgaria, Romania, and the UK are on a completely different level. This is not that dissimilar.
Because you can hit a server which can see your IP.
What about messengers?
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Make friends with someone on fibre 2mi away with an old TV tower or at the top of a hill. Set up your own link.
This is why I have a separate machine for "gaming" and "work"

Some game companies (riot games) even install their anti-cheat software so that is loads in the ring 0 space. Even with their best efforts, cheaters will still prosper.

Might even go a step further and firewall my gaming machine off from the rest of my network.
> But two wrongs don't make a right. Yes, they take advantage of their position in pricing and yes, they have benefited a lot from offering their infrastructure for free. But that does not make it okay to use the infrastructure they provide for your personal gain just because they are "bad".

Theoretically, no. Pragmatically, yes.

Pretending Google is just like everybody else is like pretending racism doesn't exist. It's not helpful. Google doesn't play by the same rules as others and we shouldn't pretend that they do. At this point, anything that harms Google is probably good for the consumer.
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Maybe it's just that I've subconsciously absorbed the scientific method, but I find it unbelievable that Aristotle had a theory based on a trivially false model where colors are all formed by mixing black and white. In Ramon y Cajal's Advice for a Young Investigator, he claims that Bacon's scientific method was just descriptive of an inherent human process. That felt true to me at the time. Did we really just make guesses and call them truth until the 1600s?

On the other hand, white light does contain all of the visible spectrums. Maybe Aristotle had seen prismatic diffraction and considered it beyond his powers.
imho, the author should stop making apps for Google and iOS and start making them for the linux phones. "but so few people have a linux phone" you will argue.

Well, one of the reasons for that is that good hardworking app developers are still naively giving away their time to the large corps that make the rules. Want to live outside the rules? Support an echo system that has less of them. Until then, complaining is just a waste of your time and everyone else.

Google will only change when their pockets dictate it, no sooner.
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I thought the ADA didn't allow a cure to stop a lawsuit. once in violation there is an injured person who now has to be made whole regardless of other actions you take. Wasn't this one of the main reasons the ADA led to some lawyers to go fishing for violations?
No thanks; it's a closed source GPL-violating fork of Plasma Mobile with heavy (and sketchy) marketing.
Seems like the author was trying to draw a correlation between good practices and "laziness", which is a cute analogy that makes sense in many cases, but then they forgot and just started listing all good practices.
With typescript installed:

usr bin env ts-node

On phone but you get what I mean
Uh? Did you even remember IE? How are the two scenarios even remotely comparable? It was abandon-ware, after Netscape was crushed Ballmer couldn’t imagine anything useful for IE.
I was under the understanding that the plants and trees that became coal and oil didn't decompose because at the the time, nothing had evolved yet that could consume it. So it just collected on the ground with new stuff growing on top of it, forming this compressed mass of underground carbon fuel that we were able to exploit millions of years later. It could never happen today because all of that plant matter would rot before that could happen, because of the presence of bacteria that can break down plant matter.
I wish the government would make some guidelines on what accessibility means for websites. And what types of service need it.

Some of my past clients that have a marketing website for their physical store. But now they are getting emails from scummy lawyers trying to extort money from them for failing to be ADA compliant.

The changes are trivial for me but many people are forced to pay these lawyers to have someone "fix" the problem for them.
You’re free to add “donation” buttons on your app you publish on either the App Store or the Play Store but Apple and Google still get their 30% cut. You can’t (currently) get around it by linking to your website and asking for donations there.
> Imagine people going to Burning Man with lots of Starlinks or bringing their Starlink when they go on vacation.

I deeply hope people aren’t going to those to download OS updates and watch Netflix. Might have some crazies that feel the need to livestream the whole thing, but should be okay if only a handful at a time.
That's great but why is that relevant? can non technical people reach feature parity with what Ohayo is offering using your approach without wasting time (money) on learning how to cobble a site together?
"Top-down" has become an epithet that disgruntled engineers throw around, but the reality is that there are problems at all layers of an org, and they should be solved at the appropriate level.

Trying to solve every problem top-down manifests as micro-management that beats the morale and initiative out of strong ICs. But on the other hand, trying to address everything bottoms-up leads to local maxima, no standardization across tech or product, and warring factions within the company.

There is real art to this. Being able to grok the incentives and structures of a vertical slice through the org (C-level, VP, Director, Mgr, IC) as well as the tech (Brand, Product, Pages, Components, APIs, Middleware, Storage, Infra) is a rare and extremely valuable talent that allows solving problems that are impenetrable by any traditionally defined role.
The ESP-IDF environment is based off of FreeRTOS, not Linux. It's essentially a threading library, not so much an OS.
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Try checking for something a bit more recent than 2014. Media still attempted to muzzle the craziness of the left at that point.