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I've got a 2015 Shield and while you can't "Uninstall" all the pre-installed stuff, you can disable them through the global app settings.

I've basically disabled everything on my Shield, just leaving Netflix, Disney+, etc. activated and it's made it much more responsive and stable. I had the feeling some of my slowdowns were occurring as apps polled back home to see what content they should be displaying on the home screen, downloading thumbnails, etc. and sure enough, it's now zipping along like the old days.

Just to add to everybody else, I've had this box for nearly 6 years and it's as good as the day I bought it and has kept up with technology in an amazing way. 4K HDR with whatever surround format you throw at it is incredible. Especially as it acts as a Plex server in the background with no major power consumption. I seem to remember only paying £125 for it on an Amazon deal as well. One of my best tech purchases of all time.
I don't think Apple or Google have to open source every part of their software. They just have to make it possible for us to install alternative operating systems on their computing platforms. That would allow giving older devices new life by putting Linux on them, for example. A fully unlocked iPhone 6 with Linux on it could be very useful.
If they were able to leverage something existing like NewPipe though (which is tracking the upstream breaking changes regularly and near-realtime), I guess the bar to doing this would be much lower though.
"Modern advertising and branding is based on emotion and vague ideas. The same algorithms to target online ads have been used to influence politics (see cambridge analytica)."

You're right, advertising and branding is, as you say, based on harnessing one's emotions, however an integral part of that process is also involved in converting those initial 'vague ideas'/notions into a solid worldview and it's this newly-developed worldview that causes its recipient/owner to actually believe in or act upon the idea. In essence, this is the basis of all propaganda; and, as we all know, in its most extreme forms it's both pernicious and very dangerous.

Probably the best—and certainly the most infamous—explanation of how one's worldview can be changed by carefully planned propaganda comes from a 1928 speech titled Knowledge and Propaganda. Tragically, this succinct and simple to understand speech comes from one of the most notorious and despicable persons of the 20th Century, and we only have to look to history to see how devastatingly effective the contents of this short message turned out to be: https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54....

Naturally, the advertising industry would want to dissociate itself from this document as much as is absolutely possible but I'd bet many dollars to a brick that many in the advertising industry have read it secretly and understand its message extremely well. Why? Because it has form—when actually implemented its message turned out to be so overwhelmingly effective.

In a free market capitalist economy, advertising is seen and considered as being beneficial, and at one end of the spectrum, it probably is, but as we've seen recently, at the other end it can morph into dangerous propaganda—and, unfortunately, there is no clear demarcation point to separate the two. Given the fact that trillions of dollars are now tied up in advertising, and that serious things have been done in its name (Cambridge Analytica and those other recent assaults on democracy), I reckon it's now time that we stopped pretending that advertising and propaganda are separate entities when clearly they are not.

In my opinion, if we viewed them as both one and the same entity and then set rules accordingly, then we would have some hope of making progress.
Yes.

We already do that. Many of my coworkers at Target are on medicaid and SNAP and get child care assistance and they will be, perpetually (well not so much the child care part).

We just also make them work until they're 70+ anyway.
Depending upon what you mean by "sell", I can assure you that software sales are still happening. (Though it's probably better to describe it as selling a license for an indeterminate period. I also suspect the "indeterminate period" part will result in an increasing number of legal actions.)

Fundamentally, the repairs and sales are different things. A consumer knows whether they are making a purchase or renting when paying for a product. A consumer is much less likely to know what the extended support (i.e. out of warranty) options are, and they are subject to change as time goes on anyhow. This means that the market is less likely to accept a scenario where everything is rented and more likely to end up in a scenario where nothing is repairable.

That being said, I suspect the right to buy would become an issue if every vendor switched to rentals or subscriptions only.
Just FWIW it's a 15% cut nowadays. (Unless you are doing >$1million a year of sales, which anyone quibbling over a $100 annual fee isn't.)
This guy knows. Unlike in other high paying professions, from day 1 in consulting you're dealing with C-level people. You learn how they think, how they talk, how they make decisions.

Learning to consistently convince people in power is a pretty nice skill to have IMO.

I think we're good at it if you believe from posts here at HN all we do is providing useless PPTs, and still growing double digits % each year while charging $2M for a 12w project.
I’m curious but don’t know what laws you’re suggesting. Could you dig a bit deeper?
okay, it's a good option if you want/need work and you're a highschooler. I guess we could debate whether it is a good thing for a highschooler to have a job in the first place. that's going to depend on the situation. if you're working tons of hours to support your family instead of keeping up in school, that's going to hurt your long-term prospects. if you're working a couple shifts a week so you don't have to ask your parents for $20 to go to the movies with your friends, I'd say that's an important step towards independence. you learn a lot of stuff at a shitty job that you can't learn in school.
I doubt any business owners are thinking about moving to Portland.
This goes against someone else not wanting to be tracked. (via someone gluing an airtag under their car, hiding one in their coat or whatever)

I'll definitely look if a easy to use bluetooth scanner/tracker is on fdroid and build one if not.

I also wonder how easy it is to generate random ids / ddos iphones in an area... since by default they listen and forward tags on users data connection.

edit: it beeps after 3 days so its nice enough to prevent a need for countermeasures
The Everything Bubble
Like which other frameworks? You can code that example feature you pointed out quicker than in React if you want to. You have all the control you want in LiveView.

If you want a delete button per row, no code is needed and the phx-disable-with will work out of the box, if you want a global delete button on the top which deletes multiple rows front-end first before acknowledgement (with checkboxes + delete like in Gmail), 5 lines of JS maximum in a hook and you're set.
For the average consumer, mind blowing stereoscopic ultra high definition 3D porn with no lag or buffering. /s

On paper there are benefits, at this time there is no killer need for it.
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Oh, you're right. I thought OP was talking about the Notifications API [0], since I didn't know there were 2 different notification APIs. The Push API is still a working draft and "experimental technology", but it's implemented in all the major browsers except Safari [1].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
Why exempt real estate?
The existence of smartphones alone makes life much better than it was 20 years ago.
No, the full blame goes to the near slave farms exploiting these people.

Raise the prices if you have to and tell the consumers to shove it. Chipotle just did this, farms can do it.

If you can't survive without slave labor don't survive at all.
I'm excited. Not for a specific use-case, but because it removes constraints and that lets developers push the boundaries of what's possible.

As a European, I predict it'll be a catalyst for American companies to rethink data caps and data pricing, as you can blow through a data cap 10x as fast. That'll be massive and measurable progress.

Paraphrasing Liebig's law of the minimum[0]: progress is hindered by the most scarce resource. I'm sure that bandwidth will have been that resource for some ideas. These ideas will have been 'before their time' a few years ago, and are now viable.

Take spellcheckers[1], and electron-based apps: they've moved very quickly from "impossible" to "an everyday occurrence", I hope 5G enable this for another class of problem, and I hope it's unpredictable.

I don't have a 5G phone, I don't plan to get one any time soon, I'll have one in 10 years time, and I'm excited to see what comes of it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_law_of_the_minimum

[1]: https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
> Until iOS development made Mac's the default dev machine.

Bash, and a lack of a good command line story on Windows, made the Mac the "default dev machine" for certain cultures/industries.
XKCD saw it coming :) https://xkcd.com/2306/
This is definitely my experience as well. I'm constantly just watching the good stuff from the past, because the newer stuff is absolutely awful.
Give Firefox dev tools another chance. I use them exclusively wherever I can.
Namecheap customer here. Is there anything you lost moving to Cloudflare?
I'm polishing up a macOS app for the store.

How much time should I expect to budget for the initial signing/notarizing/submission process?
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I took apart my old smartphone at one point. It was old enough that the battery was attached with screws and connected to the board with a cable and a connector.

It's not bigger than existing phones. It doesn't weigh more, it's not thicker. The weight of a battery connector and a couple of screws is what, a couple of grams, if that?

"We needed to make it thinner" is just an excuse.
I mean you could go for an even nicer bike ride every day if you were WFH and can choose to cycle anywhere you fancy.

...just a thought :)
Don't manage your own metal if you can't have access to it for whatever reason. Run your application on a cloud platform.
Ok, so I made these things called OttoTags in 2017. Think of them as AirTags with QR code instead (I'm a solo dev)

From what I understand, when you find an airtag, you connect it to your device and it gives you the owners contact info. Anyone can get your phone number.

When you find an ottotag, you scan it and you contact the owner through ottomon. From here the GPS location is captured and communicated. All interactions are done through the service (ottomon.net). This layer act as a security layer where we filter out spam and possibly stalkers based on past behavior and other heuristics.

The two parties can communicate without revealing any information about themselves. So yeah, Apple could have made it much simpler, but they are my competitors now so let's keep this between us.

Edit: For more info -> https://www.ottomon.net/blog/privately-communicate-on-ottomo...
I really hope these Airtags can reduce theft. Living in SF I had so many bikes, bags and motorcycles stolen. I'd love to have an Airtag in these things and show the police where my stolen item was. I wonder what law enforcement's response is going to be with the airtags? Will having an Airtag's location be enough for a warrent? Will people become vigilantes and try to get their stuff back without law enforcement?
I just buy them online like anything else, in the same size I always wear. I had already stopped buying clothes in-person before the pandemic. I guess I am normally-shaped enough that I don't run into problems with things fitting this way, but certainly this is more problematic for some people.
Why is real estate always exempt from this stuff? Is there a good reason or is the special interest just large?
Answering your question directly, I would teach them. I don't think I would assign texts, really.

My question means to ask how someone can intellectually pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I guess starting with basics may be one way of doing that.
The market is working as expected. Consumers are choosing devices that are less reparable because they come with other benefits such as being smaller, lighter, and are waterproof. Reparable devices come with tradeoffs that most consumers do not want.
Minting has been throughout its long history associated with fraud. There's a reason people used to have to weigh the minted coins they received from transactions to make sure the minter was delivering the amount of gold or silver or other backing metal in the coin's alloy. Just another perspective on minting...
Political backlash.
Yeah, you have to request amazon to remove the throttling from your network.

It took few year for aws to document that they have this limitation on their network.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-p...
Oregon also has a state income tax, unlike Washington.
As a caveat to that, from the reviews it seems the sound is produced by vibrating the outer shell.

I wouldn’t be surprised if removing the outershell or altering it would stop it making much noise. We’re in a situation where there is intention to hide the device, so making some effort to make it silent should be taken into account.
Only if they're selling a computer. I've never wanted my phone to be a computer (although I don't mind if it is).
I think your statement implies that you and I do not agree at a very fundamental level.
Building open source comes with a bunch of technical benefits like my co-founder mentions, and I don't think the recent trend is a result of YC startups "running out of ideas". It's somewhat like food companies going organic - at first organic food was a special thing, but organic food is becoming increasingly common because every company is doing it. (or maybe it's just at my grocery store :) )

We decided to go open source quite naturally for the benefits that Alexander mentions, but we are also aware of the business benefits that OSS brings. Open source/open core is increasingly becoming a standard in the devtool world and as the other comment points out, there is a certain degree of natural selection at play. To gain traction as a devtool company and drive bottoms-up growth, building in public helps tremendously these days, because developers almost don't want to use closed source products. Although the rise of "open core" and commercial open source projects does come with a bit of tension with open source purist ideology, I think this trend is something we should welcome as an industry. But this trend definitely isn't just a result of running out of ideas like Disney's endless real life remakes :)
I have never hated any program more than I hated Ableton.

It's very good for doing 4/4 dance music - simply terrible for anything else.

For example, for well over ten years, when you stretched a MIDI track, it would stretch _just the notes_ and leave all the other MIDI information where it was.

Which means if you played a performance on any MIDI instrument that has any controllers at all, it's now broken.

I reported it to them and I was told that was how it was supposed to work. I asked them for some scenario where this wouldn't break your track, and instead they asked me why wanted to do this.

I explained that sometimes I'm a little slow or fast in a track and want to tweak it; but more, I compose by playing freely with the metronome turned off, and then editing the result to match bar lines.

They were like, "That's your problem, then, you must always have the metronome on when recording." I said, "But I don't want a metronome. Often I don't even know what tempo I am going to end up in." They said, "You're just trying to be difficult."

And I ran into this over and over again. For example, they hyped Max For Live for years, and when it finally came out, it didn't handle system exclusives AND it didn't handle more than one MIDI channel(!) Hundreds of people complained about this, but it still wasn't fixed over five years later.

Here's an article I wrote about ten years ago: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sh7fG1cVtjVb5Ml5nYXeew9c...
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They do not take 30% of OS X sales. OS X software can be sold through any channel.

They also don’t take 30% of iOS sales, but that’s an unrelated factual error.
You're technically right in the sense that some people do play video games for a living, but you're still wrong because GP talked about "everyone" playing video games for a living. just like you can't have everyone being actors/writers/musicians, you can't have everyone be esports players. There's only so much attention to go around, and the overwhelming majority is captured by a few at the top.
> i’ve never seen a “patterns for leet code” website, yet.

https://hackernoon.com/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-intervi...

> Further, how does a naive person know which pattern applies to a problem? Without that knowledge, how can I vet a learning resource and know I’m not wasting my time?

Problems in leetcode have tags under "related topics" and you can look at discussions to find out the pattern.

That said, sometimes its not simple pattern matching. Its an itution that you can develop if you keep solving leetcode problems.
>It's hard to imagine expenses adding up anywhere close to $58/day

Well thankfully we don't have to imagine, people have researched this: https://livingwage.mit.edu/. According to these data, the living wage across the US in 2019 was $16.54: https://livingwage.mit.edu/articles/61-new-living-wage-data-.... So it's not at all inconceivable that the federal minimum is a poverty wage, in fact it almost certainly is.
depends how you define a lot of money.

How much would this cost to receive 30k messages per month?
I know someone fairly well known in Web circles who got hired by Google. They were remote but there was clearly not a meeting of the minds. They apparently heard maybe move to SF someday but could stay remote as long as they wanted to. And Google apparently heard remote for (only) the immediate future. At some point I gather it became a matter of "This actually isn't optional" and they ended up leaving.
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. Removing the other workloads reduces the efficiency of the datacenter. The whole point of cloud computing, really.
> If anything characterizes the country, it's the fact that they've been great seafarers and traders...

> I'd agree however that exalting this past or viewing it with rose-tinted glasses is wrong, but saying that they are historically bad negotiators? How?

Gunboat diplomacy isn't what one would call good negotiation
I haven't been able to find cheeses. I was talking about vegan milks.
Opinion: This is an utterly awesome video in Physics -- which gives an overview in approximately 5 minute or so segments -- of some very diverse histories/fields/concepts in Physics...

But the gem, the real gem of this video (again, in my opinion), lies at start time 1:11:43:

https://youtu.be/f1x9lgX8GaE?t=4303

Why?

Well, that's the Schrödinger Equation...

But you see, it's not a textbook you'll-never-understand-it-unless-you-have-twin-PhD.'s-in-Mathematics-And-Physics equation type equation!

No!

It is "taken apart" (AKA "broken down" AKA "expanded upon" AKA "explained much better") -- by the side notes -- and these are in turn explained at a high level (and superbly at that!) -- by Neil Turok!

While this Physics lecture is excellent of and by itself -- this "gem" -- in the heart of it, is (again, in my opinion!) -- worth watching and re-watching -- many times over!

"This is the equation which summarizes all of the Physics we know" -Neil Turok

(To which I'll add, for future historians: "As of this date in history"... <g>

...since there's always something more to be discovered! <g>)
I do not understand the point of this paper. The correctness of the binary is the issue for a compiler, not for the run-time. It mainly discussed mitigations against legacy C code. E.g. new Rust code does not have these issues. Furthermore mitigating issues runtime has a performancy penalty and I do not want my code to be slower because some old C issues from back in the day.
This is often true, but many man pages have a pretty good examples section. Sometimes these are good enough, and are at least worth checking for.
> In 1300 years, global warming will render a good portion of the planet uninhabitable without artificial climate controls...

The way things are going, that is looking like less than 100 years. The increasing pollution and degradation of the biosphere, rising sea levels and more will drastically change civilization.

And even if those things don't take us out, the robot uprising / Singularity / whatever is highly likely to completely destroy civilization, and in the best-case scenario, replace it with something better.
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Why would anyone say that WFH has a bad/lower productivity? Engineers and managers are motivated to report high productivity (as long as it's inevitable) and since it's hard to measure it's easy to fake.

I noticed that some of my colleagues do almost nothing since their supervisors are not checking. I definitely work less and am less productive, too. At least that's my feeling.

Src: Located and working in bay area at FAANG company
@st_goliath does David Gatti know you posted? I would love to hear from the creator :)
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>Maybe a high schooler should be focusing on school.

How do you feel about college students working part time during their studies?
There's https://debug.fly.dev/.
They will have to soon. I think most ppl seem to hit that target pretty easily these days.
According to the blog post I mentioned, before WFH, Google apparently used to go out of its way to literally pamper engineers, with things like fancy cafeteria offerings, laundry services, massages, etc. I think it's important to keep in mind that when some people's complaints are on the level of "ugh, sushi again?", that their levels of entitlement may be a bit uncalibrated from the reality of how other companies treat employees.
Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New ‘Life-Is-Short’ Mindset
The first 250k in profits from capital gains are exempt.

It is estimated that this tax only affects the 7000 richest individuals in Washington.

Keep in mind we don't have any income taxes here.
Two options come to mind:

1) Find a single large client with a steady stream of work. Quit your job to contract with this client, use new freedom to solicit additional clients. Avoid becoming entirely dependent on this single client, though.

2) Establish enough savings that you can reasonably coast for 12 months while building up the business. Make acquiring new clients your #1 priority.

The biggest challenge with consulting is not doing the work. It's getting the clients. It's an entirely different skillset than engineering, which is why so many freelancers fail. You should start networking and building relationships with potential clients long before you quit your job.