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>When there is no such thing as the examples you described going on in Android, why do you expect iOS to be different?

Several reasons why this hasn't happened on Android. Let's see a few examples:

(1) iOS doesn't let other players have their own broswer engines. Google is one of those other players, and if the iOS App Store wasn't the only game in town, they'd have an alternative pronto. Android is theirs, so they don't need to do that.

(2) iOS has strict privacy/ad rules (getting stricter too). Facebook doesn't like them. Android let's them have it - so no need to make a move there.

(3) iOS also has the share cut that Epic doesn't like regarding the in-store subscriptions thing. In Android, where this is also an issue, Epic already has users sideload Forthnite from their own store.

(4) Serious Adobe apps are not available for Android (just Photoshop Express/Mix and such lite versions for consumers), but are for iOS. So not exactly the same incentive for Above to make a move there. But if it was an option to have their own store on iOS, given their pro app subscription program, I think they'd take it pronto.
> And if you're willing to invest in symbolic instead of alphabetic shorthand, you can get to ~200WPM, well outside of what a typical touch typist can do.

The fair comparison to that is probably stenotyping at 300WPM.
Why'd they go out and download another browser if they don't understand the concept of a browser? Only Android comes with the Google browser as default browser as far as I know.

I think whatever the setupper of the computer dictates whatever Internet is, and secondarily the OS vendor if the new user doesn't have a tech friend.

I don't think Chrome is somehow == Internet for these people specifically. (Personally I call the shortcut "Internet" so it's consistent across devices and they don't have to recognize Lightning on their phone and Firefox on their laptop.)

The Google homepage on the other hand...
>>> One could also think of big European cities before modern policing - 18th century London or Paris were awash with sin and prone to mob violence, because they were cities.

Is the solution in the article? Do we simply need to recognise that as all society is online we now need online police? Online Community support officers (UK police adjuncts (think teaching assistants).

I suspect there is an overlap with the "defund the police" movement and the notion that we need to take away a lot of policing functions that are not actually violence / crime related - eg mental health. Social work is .. a lot of work.

Edit: It's worth noting that there are ~24 million or more police officers whose job description simply did not exist before Sir Robert Peel. That's a bigger number than i imagined !

wow: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/list-of-countries-by-num...
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I can sympathize with feeling of needing this. But I can't help thinking, what if my daughter wanted to go to this with say a black friend, she wouldn't be allowed. It sort of feels like it will ultimately create division rather than heal it.

I'd prefer kids were taught that they can try anything they dam well please. They just need to try.

Btw this is all hypothetical, my daughter is two and we live in the UK.
Hasn't Valve been in the news a number of times now for ignoring bugs and strong arming people on HackerOne into not disclosing them?

At this point you should probably assume all of Valve's products are riddled with security bugs that are being sold to the highest bidder and act accordingly.
Sidelining standardised tests won’t make college admissions fairer
+1 on this, CTCI is worth its weight in gold
A lot of Lenovo laptops have one USB-C port which doubles as the power cable. I'm typing on a Thinkpad right now with that very configuration. My daughter's Chrmoebook is the same way. She bent the USB-C port on it and now it won't charge. I'm being really, really careful with my Thinkpad.
Only 2.5% of the UK adult population is unbanked and if it is anything like here in Sweden that means virtually all of the other 97.5% have IBAN.
I don't think you're giving enough weight to the network effect. People don't want to switch from what they already use.

Worst case scenario, some managers decide to include an app store inside their app, they ignore the reality of the chance of success and put a whole bunch of marketing in it to their higher ups. Then they get promoted or switch jobs then blame whoever gets stuck with it 3-6 months later when it fails.

After that we'll probably end up seeing real use cases side loaded app stores (like hobby game development, or open source tools that don't want to or can't pay the Apple tax).
This topic always trips me up, thanks for the guide
The US is stuck at the reaching a concensus step. The system blocks participants until they do which is not so bad unless the participants categorically refuse to collaborate. In which case you can have a government blocked for many yeas as happened in Belgium.

And it's definitely not at the step of listening to smaller interests with only two major opinions being represented.
> rational actors don't take freight ships hostage not kidnap tourists.

Israel has kidnapped tourists before. Vanunu is still trapped in Israel.

Where has Iran said that they intend to use nuclear weapons?
> and instead was developing everything in-house

This article says they used air-gapped Siemens industrial control systems:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/revealed-how-a-secret-du...
there is already one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26784201
The hope is you can program it to kill Teams if you accidentally open it.
And with that, I am out of the iOS and Apple ecosystem. Back to Android for me. Big brother is here. Will be rocking linux + a pinephone and/or android.
Did you report it to VAERS?
I've noticed this too. The trackpoint on my X220 is excellent, but something about about the later notebooks feels very wrong. For example, I'm using a T460, and the trackpoint is always drifting, and can't be calibrated to the right sensitivity.
I'm well aware of this, but Apple is also the company who cancelled their plans for E2E encryption on iCloud when the NSA complained. Plus, "really good" is only relative to the insanity of consumer tech, Apple's privacy claims are only worth the faith you have in them.
Of course it's straightforward, install a few packages and you're done. I just was complaining about the poor adoption of MIDI. A standard linux distribution ships with a web browser, an image viewer, a music player, a PDF reader, but not a MIDI player. MIDI is just not very widespread, unfortunately.
I don't think the fact that you might be still spreading covid when vaccinated is enough of a reason to continue lockdown. As long we are continually getting people vaccinated, we should be fine for returning to normal.
One big party of issue is people deliberately going out of way to harass those they want to leave. And it is not new tactic, or was going on for years.
> she did list a date.

Citation?

> I'm happy enough to say it's not clear cut quitting.

It's clear cut firing.

And the difference is that it colors Google's public statements on the matter with their blatant misrepresentation of the facts.
It's a completely unnecessary extra action the completely breaks your flow.
Of tangential note, you may be able to better make your point by assuming that User 2 doesn't use Apple products rather than Netflix.
Maybe join us Plasma users in the dark side. Honestly, it's pretty sweet and you can configure it to look and behave just the way you want it.
Colorful language aside, you're right.

Unity was perhaps the biggest blunder in all of Linux-dom in terms of getting this OS out there; Ubuntu was sitting on the perfect opportunity to pull the rug from under Microsoft at XPs end of life -- could have just done "Hey, you want a simple, ultra-stable, ultra-familiar experience now that XP is gone?" And keep something Gnome2-ish and be the Volvo of computers.

And instead went with "Let's see if we can out-sexy Apple!" No. You can't. Ugh.
I don't need to read this, I already know all about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I've been using NoScript with block-all by default (on a laptop - not mobile) for about two years now and I really appreciate how many sites I can visit and immediately close due to the sheer number of scripts that would be require enabling to actually render the page.

It's a nice way to screen for better browsing experience pages.
But boy, the crowd here loves to harp on it though.
Based on his response on Twitter I'd guess not https://twitter.com/dormando/status/1381706098290225152

But also agree with you that in that high concurrency usually not needed when using distributed caching. As I said in my tweet response (https://twitter.com/thinkingfish/status/1382039915597164544) IO dominates. And there's failure domain to consider. However, I've been asked a few times now about having the storage module used by itself or via message over shared memory in a local setting. That may very well present different requirements on cache scalability.
> It’s pretty obvious why this is flawed: a lot of people will end up being sold on scammy or privacy invading stores.

Why? The vast majority will continue to use the App Store. Apple could also manage this situation to both educate users and frame the situation in such a way so that only power users would leave the safety of the App Store to seek out sideloading or alternative stores.

The dichotomy of walled garden vs. the Wild West is a false one and a failure of imagination that ignores the possibility of a middle ground. If you believe Apple can truly build a good walled garden, you can also believe that Apple can lift restrictions and allow third party stores in a sensible, well-managed way without sacrificing product quality.

> It will be the fault of those who prevented Apple from offering a curated environment.

Actually, it would be the fault of the scammers and privacy-invaders in question.
Can you explain why this was removed, and why it was re-introduced on a platform other than OS X (given that biometric identifiers have become standard in Apple hardware)?
> The German regulator's FAQ explicitly called this out; they are not interested in determining the path that saves the most lives, they are simply following the process that checks all of the boxes that the regulations require.

A drug regulator should do its job, which is following established rules for approving and recommending new medicines. Not invent new rules, not push experimental drugs when new problems are being discovered on the go. Advocating for "greater-good" trade-offs and risks is a political effort, the regulator should be immune from political pressures.

I'm glad people there prefer to err on the side of going with established rules and caution.

If what you want is experimental drug being accessible to as many people as possible as soon as possible, you should advocate for the option to bypass the regulator and letting the people decide for themselves.

Do not advocate for corrupting the regulator.

> In the EU this regulatory pause of AZ has likely killed thousands of people.

I don't know how you came to that conclusion, but even if so, how many thousands of people would be eventually harmed or killed if the pause wasn't introduced? We don't know, because we are discovering properties and effects of the vaccines on the go. The data and estimates we have are based on short-term experience with the vaccines. They will change.

In treating people for illness it is a long established rule that "first, do no harm". And vaccine does not even help the patient with any illness - it is rather to help in case the patient would get one in the future. For many people, getting vaccinated has zero to negative benefit.

Nobody is entitled to get a fast-tracked rubber stamp to push vaccines on people. If you want to take experimental drugs, I support your right to do so, however I expect you let other people decide for themselves, including the regulators.
I had abandoned all the desktop environments for xmonad and then stumpwm. However, I’ve recently given KDE Plasma a chance, and it’s really grown on me: especially for my current setup (55” TV), it’s much more ergonomic than tiling WMs and it doesn’t have the annoyances I had with KDE4, Gnome 3 or Unity.
Does any know how they are getting this numbers when it took Apple to move to a different architecture to improve the battery life?
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NSA is one of those orgs that very hard to asses their intent.

On the one hand, they do things like this. And their hardening/setup guides or mitigation guides are generally well done.

On the other hand they have tried to knowingly commit faulty logic to RSA's RNG, have acted as an APT actor in the past, and used their toolsets to surveil their own people...

Which leads me to believe moves like this, especially with the press coverage, are more political than genuine and it was only disclosed because an adversary is aware of it.

Because if the ends justified the means, they have held on to 0 days as well for their own purposes in the past. And are generally tight lipped on their policies for disclosure.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/chinese-hacke...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/the-nsa-is-re...

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hackers-claim-auction-data-sto...
As I first saw noted on an Ars comment, it is unbelievable because their testing regimen has no reflection with real world testing, and I'm sure significantly different than Apple's, which I believe doesn't include 'standby' testing included in usage:

"Testing consisted of full battery discharge with a mixture of active use and modern standby. The active use portion consists of (1) a web browsing test accessing 8 popular websites over multiple open tabs, (2) a productivity test utilizing Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, and (3) a portion of time with the device in use with idle applications. All settings were default except screen brightness was set to 150nits with Auto-Brightness disabled. Wi-Fi was connected to a network. Battery life varies significantly with settings, usage and other factors."

[0]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-laptop-4/946627fb1...
I use Vivaldi as my daily browser.

Two main reasons:

- it is able to debug the web application I work on developing. (Trying to make it easier to debug under Firefox is on my todo list).
- it has mouse gestures, and they work everywhere (even on blank tabs).
I've found that HN often chats about something only tangentially related to the article. And I think it's actually part of the culture here. But I agree that when you are passionate about a given topic it is a bit of a letdown when the comments are not directly about the article.

Note that we've both commented on something different from the article in this case.
Yes, only for the papers
Even "wipe Israel off the map" is false Israeli propaganda. Here's an explanation https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-a...
I just bought myself a laptop so while I was on the market, I'm out now, though I'm glad they mentioned the Surface Duo at the end of the page as part of their push for seamless multi-device coordination for productivity.

I just hope its cousin the Surface Neo manages to see the light of day! Or maybe it will be the 2020s version of Microsoft Courier grrrr.
I pay attention to things in this area as I've been working a terminal which aims to do new and interesting things with text and also non-text datatypes. See "Shell integration" and below at https://extraterm.org/features.html

Integrating some new shell projects like murex and nushell with Extraterm is on my TODO list.
Thousand*, my fault for making it plural.
That's ok. My experience is much better and I don't know why there is a difference either.

I just don't get why people love to dunk so hard on something they don't use and do it in such a disrespectful way. What you said is totally fine, altough I could argue that you thinking I smoke is an insult, I mean it was one time, come on, I didn't even inhale.
Non-Apple TSMC 7nm and 40% faster at the same wattage (assuming GP is correct) compared to M1 seem like valid reasons for media exposure to me
I read this comment then watched the video and this comment misled me. He did not come around to accepting v3 after just procedural complaints, he said it’s fine for other people, who actually want its new conditions, but it’s not an update to v2 and should have been a separate license.
Who said anything about compassion/empathy?

There is a difference between saying I won't try and convivence me otherwise. Versus saying I can't I don't have the time.

OP is very clearly saying I won't, they have given no indication as to the fact they don't have time to learn.
>"The WD8003E used strictly shared memory to move data to and from the card. The entire 8K SRAM was mapped in the host’s address space, and additionally required 32 bytes of I/O port space and an IRQ. The EtherCard Plus list price was initially $399.

In contrast, the NE1000

did not map its onboard SRAM into the host’s address space

, but likewise

removed the DMA support,

and only supported PIO transfers that utilized the DP8390’s Remote DMA feature. That meant the NE1000 only required 32 bytes of I/O port space and an IRQ; no other resources were needed. The NE1000 was priced at $495 at introduction (3Com’s EtherLink 3C501 cost $595 at the time) but almost immediately dropped to $395 (just below the WD8003).

The comparison between the WD8003 and NE1000 is interesting. WD opted to use shared RAM which is faster but significantly more problematic to configure, and that was especially the case with the coming wave of 386 memory managers. Novell went in the opposite direction, choosing somewhat slower PIO but completely avoiding any configuration issues with shared memory.

Both Novell and WD decided to

drop DMA support,

probably because it avoided yet another source of configuration conflicts and because especially on PC/AT class systems, DMA was slower than either PIO or memory anyway.

It is important to keep in mind that the existing competition for the WD8003E and NE1000 weren’t fancy adapters like the 3Com 3C505 EtherLink Plus or the Exos 205T but, first and foremost, the cheapest Ethernet option available, the 3Com 3C501 EtherLink. And both the NE1000 and the WD8003E beat the 3C501 hands down, because they had a much bigger packet buffer (8K vs. 2K) and did not have the awful 3C501 limitation of having to switch between mutually exclusive transmit, receive, and host access modes.

In 1988, the NE2000 appeared. It was essentially a 16-bit version of the NE1000 with support for 16-bit AT bus (but still capable of working in 8-bit slots) and two SRAMs in an 8Kx16 configuration. This doubled the onboard memory capacity and enabled both the DP8390’s internal bus and the NE2000’s external ISA bus connection to use 16-bit transfers, significantly improving the speed at which the host could communicate with the adapter.

Western Digital released a similarly upgraded WD8013E (EtherCard Plus 16) with a 16-bit ISA interface and 16KB of onboard RAM.

On the part of Novell, the motivation was clearly not to make money on hardware but sell more software. In 1991, Novell let Anthem/Eagle take over the network card manufacturing and distribution; after all, the hardware business was something Novell wanted to get out of, not into. The main purpose of the NE1000 and NE2000 was to drive the prices of networking hardware down, and it did just that."
I wouldn't say the product is a dumpster fire, but core workflows are a mess. This is how you generate and save a password for a new site:

1) Extension button > Generate Password > Save & Copy
2) After creating account, extension button again > select entry > Edit
3) Click Save in opened modal
4) Click Convert to Login in opened modal
5) Click Edit in opened modal
6) Manually type in the username/email you used on the site
7) Click Save in opened modal
8) Close the modal

And this (generating and storing passwords for new accounts) is the main workflow of the product!
They are absolutely competitors, https://wordpress.com/ offers fully hosted websites https://wordpress.com/create-website/
"Real world" for me is working on lightweight container tech and it involves a couple VMs at a time. I also normally keep Spotify or Discord open, and I also have Nextcloud open since it doesn't natively support syncing to it. Combined, this workflow is a disaster for ARM. My $300 T460s actually manages to stay cooler on the same workload.
Deno uses ES6 modules, which are supported by modern browsers. There’s no node_modules. https://deno.land/manual/examples/import_export
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Yeah, I’m really glad the KDE world seems to have recovered from the KDE4 disaster. However, the Linux desktop ecosystem largely feels like it’s just sort of rotting: I really like KMail, for example, but it had a bunch of show-stopper bugs last time I used it.
FWIW I agree that paycheck to paycheck doesn’t mean poverty, but to say it’s only the people below the poverty line that can’t afford to take any risks with their source of income is also quite wrong.

Finances are quite tight overall - for the upper middle class that might mean living in an expensive area. For the middle class that might mean holding onto house and childcare payments. Those are choices sometimes, and others not.

What is also very common is to want a different job but not have the skillset people need, and no way to sacrifice the time it’d take to gain that skillset. Also age, if you wanted to be a programmer at 40 you could go to school for 4 years only to find there’s almost nobody willing to hire you at that age. This leads to people basically being stuck, unable to change their situation and certainly not able to have the runway to try to build out a business without an old fashioned bank loan.

Software engineers have a completely different set of problems than people who don’t work in tech.
I'm using a dozen extensions to make Gnome 3 behave like Gnome 2 as much as I can. No animations, no menu on top, no top bar, task bar at the bottom, no dock, no activities, one virtual desktop per project. That was impossible with Unity.
The article is a little light on details but this seems like a cool addition to 1Password.

The op cli is alright but having to re-unlock it every 30 minutes (plus I'm shell dumb so my session is nuked every new tab I open) means there's quite a lot of friction compared to the desktop version where I just double tap the side button on my Apple watch

I wonder if this could be a potential alternative in some roundabout way

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Somewhat unrelated rant

I like 1Password and after having tried a whirlwind of password managers, it's still the most seamless (plus having templates for things like cards, licenses and so on is useful)

I don't even mind paying the relatively small subscription fee.

That said, in the same sense that you generally know you've resigned months before you write the letter, I still remember there was a forum thread where one of the employees was seemingly user hostile.

On second thought, I don't even remember what it was about but I remember the feeling of slight frustration. Not in the entitled sense but the sense that there didn't feel like an attempt to understand the concern from the other side.

Very vague but does anyone perhaps know what this event was again? I want to say, something about supporting local vaults? I dunno, that isn't even something I was concerned about.
JavaScript itself has gone through about a 10-year transition period from a toy language for writing quick scripts to a full-on general-purpose programming language. It didn't even have a module system when Node launched.

So I strongly doubt the next 10 years will be anywhere near as tumultuous as the past 10. It's very possible that right now is just a much better time to be establishing a JS runtime.