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Yeah, this robot is an example of tech being utilized to extract value. The ML, CV, and robotic tech tickles my inner geek, but tech was not designed or deployed in a regenerative way. There are many things we can do to have more resilient, restorative, regenerative agriculture ... that often don't involve much high tech at all.

So what is a more worthwhile use of high tech? Being someone in tech and having greatly economically benefited from it, I've recently been reframing what I know about software tech, startups, innovation with a regenerative paradigm. I am still making my way through Carol Sanford's work on regenerative paradigms and figuring out a lot of this stuff out. So far:

(1)

Christopher Alexander had introduced the idea of creating pattern languages for people living, working, and playing within building architecture so that they can modify and design their own living spaces. What we ended up with are cookie-cutter housing in suburbia. His work greatly influenced OOP and Human-Computer-Interface design (see his 1996 OOPSLA Keynote) ... and what we ended up with is the Gang of Four, Apple products, growth hacks, and "user engagement".

What we don't have are individuals, families, and communities having computer tech that can customized by the users for what works in their local environment. Smalltalk was designed with that intent in mind, but our legacy from Smalltalk is the Gang of Four and OOP "design patterns".

(2)

There was a recent article posted here. It was a fictional interview, the premise being someone from a parallel world where software design was elevated on par with science and art, and not merely engineering. They start with a "design brief" rather than engineering requirements. I lost track of that article.

Just some evolving thoughts.
Yeah, people won't react well when the fact checker tells them that everything they read is fake news.
I've been hearing this for what feels like 10 years. Are the close to upstreaming now?
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One beautiful touch that I've noticed is how the packages open. The top is stuck to the package with some stickers. Once you remove the stickers, the package slowly drops from the lid, being ever so slightly smaller than the lid. That slow drop adds the perfect amount of elegance to the mundane act of opening a package. The user's first glance at their new phone is it slowly descending in a pure white box. Maybe it's cheesy but it just feels elegant. Compared to the usual squeaky Styrofoam or fussy cardboard flaps, it's really quite nice.
Hi there! What you could do is give a GPA just for your major courses (which are more likely to be later in your curriculum).
Never, they make way to much money and have an incredible amount of power over developers by keeping it disabled.

People just leave you out of group chats if you don't have an iPhone now because building a decent chat application for iOS is too fucking hard.
Only photos are trustworthy. You can even hire someone to have conversations with you. You can use a fake photo, too, but your date will leave immediately. The market for lemons isn't any sweeter from the seller's point of view.
The charges of the venue itself might be higher for the men but women usually spend a lot more time and money on makeup, care products, hair dressers, nails, clothing, etc.

Also note that when you go with a traditional "man is the provider" model, then being in an environment where men have demonstrated their provider ability is beneficial for both parties. For the women as the options are pre-filtered and for the men as there is less competition noise.

As for dating apps/online dating... if you look at user statistics you see a strong gender imbalance, so apparently men want to use them far more than women do. I've heard this situation expressed in terms of those apps being less appealing to women than they are to men. However, due to the imbalance, the premise of these apps is essentially broken for most male users.
Nice! I wonder when we will all start living inside campuses.

They definitely look nicer than most public cities.
I am glad it works for you. Maybe (hopefully?) I have just had an abnormal experience.
Pretty sure one main company owns ~80% of the dating app marketplace, though I could be wrong on the exact percentage.
Porn : Sex :: Social media : Community

A fraction of the risk for an even smaller fraction of the reward.
Supply and Demand.

The supply of great CEOs is very limited, but the demand is very high.

Therefore the price of CEOs are very high.
The older I get the more I come to realize that Dan Jenkins wisdom about aircraft, watercraft and similar financial shackles was spot on.

Having a good business relationship with Penske takes quite a bit of pressure off when you're shopping for a used box truck if you catch my drift.
As a former tech staff member at one European dating site, around year 2010 and originated in Germany, the numbers are much worse for paying customers. The numbers presented here are still overly optimistic. The company's owner at that time told me that they know of ONE couple that got married. They were in service for a few years already at the time. Their whole business model was investing about 100 thousand Euros monthly in ads and getting 300 thousand back.
It's at the bottom of the page: https://checklist.video/checklist/#references
I don't know why, but reading this fills me with a profound sense of sadness. I think a much more interesting piece would feature Apple's packaging contrasting a dense or interesting scene. At least that would be a statement - this really just looks like someone booted up a vector program and tested some shape tools out.
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Hm. Wondering how planned obsolescence (PO) can be fought.

The first step of solving a problem is defining it.

Maybe if there was a website where enough people self-reported device failures out of spite, wonder if that would help pinpoint PO cases. Incidentally it may solve the fake review issue.

An open source bug reporting tool but for IRL failures. BBB comes to mind.

Just a random and free idea.
FerrisETW: Basically a rip off KrabsEtw written in Rust
Assuming you're looking for one lifelong partner, which isn't true of everybody, is it normal to find somebody "compatible" that quickly? Without apps, I think it's common for people to go for years between serious relationships. I don't know why the timeline needs to be so compressed.

For me as a fairly awkward and introverted person, who didn't naturally generate a high volume of new social contacts, one of the things I liked about online dating was that I could make choices more like an extroverted person. I didn't have to think, holy shit, I actually met somebody I get along with, and she seems to like me, I can't afford to let this go or I'll probably be completely alone again for years until I meet the next person. Instead, I could think, this is okay, but is this person a really good match for me? Does she bring out the best in me? Are we going to have disagreements about big life things?

In other words, I could meet somebody I liked, enjoy spending time with them, and still decide not to marry them. And do that over and over again until I met somebody I was confident was a really good fit for me. Like regular people do!

Even when finally I met my wife, it didn't immediately mean the end of dating other people. She had just started dating after many years of focusing on her career. In fact, after having a big heart-to-heart over wine with a close friend one evening about how she needed to start dating again, her friend helped her install Tinder, and I was the second person she matched with. Obviously, after many years out of the dating pool, she was leery of falling for the first halfway decent guy she met, so she wanted to take her time and see what was out there and figure out what she waned. To avoid going insane while she was meeting other guys, I kept meeting new women. We didn't become exclusive until six months after we met.

I think, if I had a single friend who was starting online dating, if they were using a paid app, I would recommend a 6-month plan or 12-month plan, as a reminder that they can afford to be patient and shouldn't rush into things.
Apple and Amazon are far from the first storefronts.
This percentage scheme is there forever. Even L&T IDPL has to pay kickbacks; here, L&T pays to Chief ministers, etc.

However, if one wants to pull off 2000 crores ($300M USD) scam, it is done through banks. Here are two recent examples from the state of Andhra Pradesh:
1. Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, Ex MP 8000 Cr (1B USD)
2. Sujana Chowdary, MP, 5700 Cr (750M USD)

Add scams that are in the range < 100M USD.
Rhetorical tool? No it's a logical fallacy because you are misrepresenting the argument made by the OP in an attempt to attack it and you're confusing the deaths of family members with a little bit of lost revenue.

Here's a better analogy for you.

This post may as well be talking about how household electricity is the worst invention of the 19th century because of how inefficient long distance DC power transmission is.
A good number of them either don’t work or are irrelevant on Safari/iPadOS.

That’s not to say this is a bad article; it’s not. It’s just that there is more to CSS than “here are some rules and ways of using them you might not have thought of”. That’s the real reason front-end dev and design is as difficult as it is.
Yes, but you can’t join (“intersectionality”) your campaign against ad tech companies with a campaign against the police if you’re this busy being intellectually honest.
This is the typical advice by extroverts: “just go out and have fun . If I can do it why can’t you do it?”. Most lonely people know already what to do in theory but for whatever reason they can’t pull it off. That’s certainly the story of my life. I know what I should do but I can’t execute it correctly. I mess up small talk all the time and for some reason never get better. It seems some of my social circuits haven’t been wired correctly and are introducing errors.

Advice giving is a dangerous thing if you haven’t experienced the problem. I don’t have eating problems so for me it’s really easy not to eat that donut or the bucket of ice cream but I have learned and accepted that for some overweight people it’s an almost insurmountable problem. I can’t really relate but I have learned enough over the years to stay away from giving ignorant or condescending advice.
Here's the video if anybody wants to watch it (I couldn't find the original video on youtube): https://twitter.com/Nicole_H_Lee/status/1335170687670087680

Pretty heartwrenching. Even more heartwrenching when you find out that the governor of California got to keep his own personal family winery open.

https://plumpjackwinery.com/our-vineyard-team/
I thought I knew CSS pretty well, but

position: sticky

is a new one for me.
> But it's really good at one thing: compiling crates.

Unless you're using "compiling" as strictly compiling, and not "building", then I don't agree either.

It falls flat on its face if you want a build time choice between dependency versions, for example. And build.rs means that Cargo washes its hands from compiling parts of crates that are not written in Rust, so it's arguably not good at compiling (of anything but pure Rust).

The way Cargo is integrating several concerns also makes it hard to create better build systems for Rust, because they would have to pull in the same kitchen sink in order to support Cargo.toml. So that's being bad at letting others compile as a bonus.

EDIT: Actually, that wouldn't be a problem if Cargo the decent package manager didn't mandate Cargo the awful build system.
He accuses him of doing what his professor told him to do, a deflection of blame. Even the "explicit" accusations you mention reference that he was not acting alone.
I thought roku gets paid for those buttons to be on the remote.
"You like a particular animal? (Otters), there is a person in Japan dedicated to his otter and makes frequent high-quality videos about it."

Ah, so you've fallen down the Aty rabbit-hole as well eh? Stuff like that makes me wonder though: everyone has this assumption that their experience on the web, and Youtube especially, is highly specific to them and what they watch, ie the "Filter Bubbles" concept. And yet over the past couple years, on and offline, I keep hearing that other people are ending up on the same videos and channels I am. Aty is a good example: everyone seems to have seen a HUGE surge in cute animal videos being recommended over the past few months.

It seems highly likely that Youtube isn't as organic as it seems, and that those running it are deliberately tilting the recommendation algo in favor of certain kinds of videos at certain times. This has some pretty insidious implications, as it's a kind of influence so subtle as to be almost imperceptible.
Honestly, the only places that have grown were already somewhat of a tech hub. I don't think Denver, Portland, Nashville have grown in meaningful terms. Yeah, you see some growth just because the tech companies are worth trillions now, and there will be more crumbs everywhere. But tech hubs that have employees and campuses at scale are places like Seattle, Austin, and NYC. And these already had established tech players prior to the recent boom.
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If new devices are more likely to break than old ones doesn't that suggest that planned obsolescence has been introduced? Probably not because of a cartel but almost certainly due to plain old greed and a lack of moral integrity.
You jest but there are some real people like this. My spouse once worked at small (1-200 staff) but profitable SaaS/service firm in a niche market. Another firm bought it, the Founder/CEO and some other top execs cashed out. The new parent firm folded the software and book of business into its own operations, and brought in a new CEO for the subsidiary...who methodically ran it into the ground over the course of a year or two, basically wrecking it by stages so that staff could be laid off without violating employment laws.

Mystified by this apparent gross incompetence (my spouse had been an early hire and knew the firm's operations inside out; they still had a healthy client base in addition to the software portfolio), we looked into the background of the CEO and discovered the person had done the same thing at several other firms.
I guess one of the fundamental problems then is that these two mutually incompatible groups of people are mixed up in the platform?
> What is the implication on mental health and stress if one gets banned from Match group apps for life?

I can understand someone getting banned for spamming other users with unsolicited explicit pictures, but what can get you unintentionally banned from the Match group apps for life? Has it actually happened?
That's my goal, make it to CEO, automate my job and take a huge salary at 1000x the average scale to infinity. Then in 10,000 years make enough to resurrect me to enjoy it.
Right now every 10 minutes 300000$ are given miners to mine one block for avg 2000 transactions.

Wtf what a waste
Never. They make too much money off the App Store.
You're clearly an information warrior, but what if I think that you're the one spreading misleading information?

It's weird that you fully expect that you, or someone else who agrees with you, will be in control of this.
> b) while wearing a mask

Wtf? What possible benefit does this have? Securing your phone against people who stole it (and your watch) but aren't willing to put on a mask?
Yeah, if there's an alternative with functioning scrollbars people will probably use that instead.
It's always surprising how popular screwing with basic UI elements like that always becomes.
Related to today's frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941332
It's not the worst design, but it's pretty far from the best. I think a booklet-style package would suit the iPhone pretty well: one side has the iPhone, one side has the charger and booklet, and the sticker(s) are nestled inside.
I'm sure it's just a second language thing, but it's interesting that you use the plural of "men" but the singular "woman". Is that more grammatically appropriate in your first language?
I can think of a number of possible solutions (update the DRM-free copy the LoC has as you push patches out, for example).

I think more interesting is the broader principle of withholding legal protection unless the company proactively provides a solution. Trying to mandate behavior by companies seems difficult to achieve politically, and leaves the government with the responsibility of enforcement. The enforcement/compliance work then scales based on the amount of creative material released with DRM. It seems unlikely that a government agency will keep up.

On the other hand, it costs the government nothing to withhold legal protection. Making it the company's responsibility to provide a DRM-free copy (or eventual activation keys, etc., details will vary) to a trusted government entity in order to opt-in to legal protection of their copyright scales 1-to-1. It also aligns the incentives of both sides of the copyright problem. Companies have the full protection of law during the period in which the copyright exists and the public benefits from works entering the public domain automatically. As an added bonus, the government has a central place to invest resources in archival and preservation of the huge swaths of our culture that we're currently in danger of losing. I'm very grateful for the Internet Archive but it is a shame that they have to operate based on volunteer donations. It would be great to have a means to take a means for the companies who created the content to fund is archival (via nominal fees for artifact registration).
Market forces often push participants towards an equilibrium value, so it’s hard to say. I don’t know enough about economic theory to know if there’s a way to tell.

The 30% commission has a long history. There are precedents going back to the early days of games consoles. Both the iTunes music store and Steam opened in 2003 charging 30% or very close to it (iTunes tracks were 99c so it doesn’t work out exactly).

It’s hard to argue the 30% in either of those cases were a matter of abuse of market power. Steam was struggling to establish itself against the incumbent distribution channels. The iTunes rates were negotiated with the major labels who were notoriously hard deal makers and very wary of online sales channels. They held all the cards is their negotiations with Apple and yet they seemed to think 30% was fair. So at that point I don’t think it’s possible to make a credible case that the 30% rate was extortionate.

If 30% was abusive, we’d expect to see it act as a brake on adoption of the App Store by developers, but is there really any evidence for that? On Android have any of the smaller stores tried to differentiate on price at lower than 30% to attract developers, or has Google tried to woo iOS developers with lower rates? If 30% was abusively high we’d expect to see something like that happening.
I was very physically fit when I started online dating.

The reality is that there are a number of variables you really can't change, at least without surgery which I realize is done in places like South Korea.

You can't completely change your face structure, male pattern baldness, ethnicity, or height.
It's surprising he got caught on tape but all the rest is pretty well known isn't it? Hardliners vs Moderates, not being consulted on ever decision and chairs that squeek are pretty standard for any bureaucrat right?
This is the most contrived apology for incompetence that I have read. I am quite amazed.

It would be different if we had never before experienced a pandemic. It would be different if we did not have the examples of countries and cultures with effective implementation of testing at scale while we did nothing.

This defense of inaction is like leaving potholes alone because doing the obvious thing might cause harm somehow.
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Open Source models don't need to be trained on weeds. They need to be trained on whatever product is being grown. Everything else can be zapped regardless of what kind of weed it is.
I can't recommend the nvidia shield highly enough as an alternative to Roku
I am not sure what you think Trudeau could have done in any of those cases. David & Goliath makes for a nice story, but is ... fiction. And in the case of pharma, you don't just create pharma manufacturing overnight, it takes years.

During the aluminum & steel trade wars Canada did counter with a series of fairly aggressive targeted tariffs. Those were lifted when the US lifted the tariffs:

https://canoe.com/news/national/canadian-retaliatory-tariffs...

"The Canadian tariffs were carefully selected to both match the dollar value of the tariffs Canadian companies were paying to the U.S., as well as to target popular products in states of prominent Republican lawmakers or swing states where voters might voice their displeasure."

Same approach the EU took. Don't punish all Americans, target Republican districts.

(Not a Trudeau voter, BTW.)
> and that power should reside with the application developer.

I guess the question is, who is the developer in this case? The Youtube App is running on the Roku Platform accessing the Google Platform. Both Roku and Google are acting in both roles.

The Roku Voice Search is weird, it's surfaced via a button alongside local media controls which are contextual but Roku appears to want their Search to be analogous to Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant as a platform level tool. The volume, and mute keys are the only other buttons that behave at a platform level. The Roku Home button is contextual.

As a user of a STB, if I search (voice or otherwise) I expect it to be contextualized. If I'm in an App then the search should be localized, if I'm at the home screen then I expect it to be global.
I don't have a watch and I don't want someone else's code accessing my TouchID :)
It's way more complicated than that.

Tons of countries tax worldwide income.
Personally I don't think there are consequences, but I just feel way less confident and conspicuous when I don't have a drink in my hand. Like I don't belong somehow. I'm sure it's all in my head, but there it is.

I trick I learned long ago at house parties or BBQs is to drink one beer, then constantly re-fill it with water for the rest of the time. That way I have something to hold onto and a way to entertain myself where there is a lull in conversation or whatever.
Are there other benefits to having a robot continuously looking at crops? I'm thinking something like monitoring the development of the actual crop? Can information on moisture and fertilizer levels also be measured or inferred by the same drone? Or maybe signs of pests or disease?

Agtech is a fascinating business.
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So this is exactly the same move Coinbase did, pretty weird from Basecamp tbh https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...
It's possible that we'll see attempts to regulate these markets in a similar way to how binary options trading has become regulated in some markets.
I wonder if there would be a business case for a non-subscription paid dating service. A one time payment on sign up for a lifetime membership, or something. The idea being that the service has made its money from you already, and now the goal is to get you to stop logging in. In the happy case it's because you've found a partner, but there's always room for dark patterns I suppose.