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> For starters, the AppStore is not "good"

That is your opinion. There is no merit in this subjective standpoint from a legal perspective unless you're willing to share the metric by which you arrived at this judgement.

> the fast/cheap/good thing (while for starters not being some actual "law"), is meant to apply to engineering and not market dynamics

That's exactly the context in which I mention it. The iPhone, operating system and app store are _huge_ engineering projects.

> I guess we don't need free markets for price signals at all!

I don't know what point you're making with this. We're in a thread literally discussing removing a freedom from Apple.

>> I also wish there was an alternative to the AppStore to catch cases that didn't meet that strict bar

Setting aside the obvious difference, how is this different than outlawing murder, except for one day of the year or in one city? Attention will suddenly be directed towards the less stringent alternative. You're just opening up the gates for a race to the bottom, something we've already had enough of IMO (and FWIW, I agree with you here: "I wish the AppStore was MUCH pickier about the apps it let in").

Remember all the "malware cleaners" that install viruses on Windows machines? Yeah, we're gonna get that on iOS. "But we already have that/similar" Yeah, it's gonna get worse, not better.

Your entire second quote is invalidated as well by your suggestion for alternatives. Nobody that the app store is meant to protect is going to use the curated store because they will be tricked/coerced into using the alternatives where people with less scruples can exercise more control.
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But their parent wasn't (in fact, they mentioned x86 and AMD, which are integrated circuits).

Look at a random PC (or, until recently, a random laptop): it's made from a lot of individual components that can be swapped out or upgraded independently. Storage, RAM, CPU, GPU, cooling, motherboard, WiFi chip, Bluetooth chip, speakers, microphone, screen, all the peripherals - they're all designed to work together as a category, and to be easily replaceable. I can source each one from a different vendor, and they'll still work. Hell, in many cases, you can even fix individual components, with a hot air station and a steady hand. And if I upgrade a component, my old one can often get a second life inside another computer, possibly someone else's.

It's a good thing to have, and there's nothing stopping modern laptops, tablets and phones to have the same level of upgradeability and swapability. Nothing - except that the vendors don't want to[0]. These things run on the same set of hardware standards as larger computers, and on literally the same software stacks. I[1] should be entirely able to open up my phone, desolder its battery and memory, swap them out for newer and better ones, apply sealant, close the case and have the whole thing work. There's no technical obstacle here - the only problem are the business strategies of the vendors.

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[0] - I have another long rant for the usual "it's customers who chose integrated over repairable" argument, and I'll post it elsewhere in this thread. For now, I'll just say: it's not like anybody is asking customers to choose. These options are not being made available in the first place.

[1] - Or my friend who spent half his life tinkering with electronics. Or the repair shop down the street. A point commonly missed in discussions about Right to Repair (and Free Software) is that it isn't about expecting consumers to do hardware/software work themselves - it's about making it possible for local markets for software and hardware maintenance and repair to exist.
> Why is it not the same issue?

Because the design choices are pretty easily argued to have been made for reasons other than reducing user access, but have the side effect of reducing user access. Both size/weight constraints and case integrity drive you to the same sort of thing.

To be clear, I think it's fine to call out a company for planned obsolescence, and I think it's fine to call them out for emphasizing size, etc. over user serviceability. I just don't think it's useful to pretend they are the same thing.
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I worked on a (US) Naval shipyard for a spell.

The number of payday loan shops in the immediate surrounding area was astounding. I kept hearing word of "Don't Do Payday" financial help training for the Naval crew, who apparently were a prime target for the industry. Before working there, I had little idea such existed.

Think "worse than 'cash your cheque here'" places.

I don't know how many Naval folks I worked with took in to these places, but every time I passed one I frowned and shook my head.
Maybe if it comes with clauses for a substantial transfer of technology to EU partners. But I doubt Intel would agree to that.
From the article:

> Roku requested exceptions that would break the YouTube experience and limit our ability to update YouTube in order to fix issues or add new features. For example, by not supporting open-source video codecs, you wouldn’t be able to watch YouTube in 4K HDR or 8K even if you bought a Roku device that supports that resolution.
I do not believe google for one second. This makes no sense.
God I'd love to live on a boat and code remotely.

I watched the sv delos video and was like... how do I make this my life?

https://svdelos.com/
Not really, you just need something like AutoHotKey that can intercept and re-write key events. Since the OS is responsible for delivering key events, the application's cooperation is not required.

If you ask me, multiplatform abstraction layers are part of the problem with this industry, not the solution.
I was wondering when the last major open computing platform would get locked down with signed binaries.
Rough.

I'm just sitting here wanting to build a new desk and some shelves, like I guess winter is a better time for projects anyway. Although I haven't actually priced plywood in my area yet, maybe the nice stuff has gone up comparatively less.

(and maybe LA will finally learn how to make multistory buildings out of something besides wood?)
Isn't this kind of... stupid?

> So around 5% of all years since 1926 have seen average returns. In fact, there have been just as many yearly returns above 40% as returns in the 8% to 12% range.

Well yeah sure but 3 of the 5 years that saw those >40% returns were 3 consecutive years 100 years ago.

I think all we can take from this article is that there are a multitude of factors that drive the value of the stock market and if you don't think about any of them in any detail then you're going to spot lots of statistical patterns that don't mean anything.
As always, when Google uses the headline, "An update on X", it means, "We're turning off X."
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Locals were hating on "techies". I still remember signs on the street from people blaming everything on the tech boom. Careful what you wish for.
why roku doesn't want to allow av1 is beyond me
"to limit people from certain bit arrangements"

I don't understand how things can apparently have no restrictions just because it comes down to "digital bits".

Life and the physical objects within it are "just ~~bits~~ molecules", that we re-arrange in specific ways.

People spend time making things that we like and enjoy. Observing that as "certain bit arrangements" completely downplays the work and ideas that the author(s) put into it. Why does transferring that electronically instead of acoustically/visually/physically mean we throw ownership out the window?

No one is forcing people to pay for musicians' or film makers' "specially arranged bits". People just feel entitled to having things for free, completely ignoring the time, effort, production costs etc that went into producing said things because the end products now are -digital-.
While I am sure Tantacrul will do a great job, as seen by his interest in learning more about the history and existing user base of the software first, I do want to disagree in a more general way.

Personally I hate UI changes and I want Audacity to change as little as possible in that regard. It is not a tool that I use regularly so I want to be able to not use it for a year or two, get back to it and still find the same familiar interface.

That is not to say that there are not many sensible changes that could be and maybe should be made to Audacity. I am just saying that stability is far more valuable for me. I rather wish for more stability in software than better UI.
Barely anybody will care about your English if you'll write about something people want to know about, or if you're just sharing your passion. I publish bunch of technical writings ad hoc, just because I like to share about something I worked on with Pinephone (https://xnux.eu/) and other things, and nobody ever commented about the language.
Askren isn't that type of dude. Not to mention the massive illegality of betting against yourself in a sanctioned boxing match, it would be incredibly dishonest and against his normal personality.
It's also 100% accessible via HTML, but in the spirit of the "without internet" above I figured the PDF was easier for beginner than a curl command.
This is going to be the rationale given for the heavy-handed cryptocurrency regulation they're going to bring down on all the exchanges that US persons can access.

Pretty soon all you'll be able to legally access as a USian is "Bitcoin!(tm)"[1] (like what PayPal is doing), not the actual uncut blockchain bitcoin that you can send and receive at will.

[1]: https://www.epsilontheory.com/in-praise-of-bitcoin/
Honestly, I know of no such centralized and up-to-date repository when it comes to Linux knowledge.

However – have a look at https://www.freebsd.org/docs/ – that is one thing that really sets FreeBSD apart from Linux.
I was wondering where this could be useful.
Yes, I used something like that as well.

But, are you sure you can set "From" header to anything(even for email/domain that aren't verified with SES). So that on receiver side(gmail for example) it will show the original sender.

In my account(in production mode, not being sandbox), I couldn't. When I attempted to set "From" header(or "Return-Path") I got these error

554 Message rejected: Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check in region US-WEST-2: can-we-overwrite-this@my-domain.com, Test random <raindom@gmail.com>...

On their example doc, using SMTP credential, they also mention this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/exampl...
Actually the modeling I did assume that you invest the same amount every year - its rudimentary but does account for this.
Where's a good branded phone?

Linux is already running on the majority of smartphones, individual manufacturers and distros seem less important. Any Android user would switch to another Linux phone with the right features, price, etc.

iOS seems poised for a slow ride into irrelevance as developers start suing them and begin leaving (Basecamp, Spotify, Epic...), before long they'll be the dusty old devices in schools like 25 years ago. Apple (legacy Mac OS) and Microsoft (Windows Mobile) have both lost before because they lost the developers.

Microsoft has been very smart in their recent plays in this regard, regaining a huge amount of developer trust over the past 5 years or so.
What operating system do you have?
Maybe they can do like NFT stones. Or a merkle tree of stones. Maybe each person has to bring 3 new people into the stones society haha
I dodged that dubious point. :)

And, the same goes for points, all told. Does the 2d point (x,y) equal the 3d point (x,y,0)?

Basically, equality works best when you greatly limit the scope and don't try to get fancy.
"Despite the cacophony of complaints about "ruinous" budget deficits and "excessive" monetary growth, the headline-grabbing double-digit inflations of 1974 and 1979-80 were mainly of the special-factor variety. Only a minor fraction of each inflationary acceleration can be attributed
to changes in the baseline rate; the rest came from supply shocks from the food and energy sectors, from mortgage interest rates, and from the end of price controls—a whole host of special one-shot factors. It is precisely
this aspect of the recent inflation that this paper seeks to document. Since the paper focuses on the special factors to the exclusion of the baseline rate, it is worth pointing out at the outset that the two inflations are not really independent. Inflation from special factors can "get into"
the baseline rate if it causes an acceleration of wage growth. At this point policymakers face an agonizing choice—the so-called accommodation issue. To the extent that aggregate nominal demand is not expanded to
accommodate the higher wages and prices, unemployment and slack capacity will result. There will be a recession. On the other hand, to the extent that aggregate demand is expanded (say, by raising the growth rate
of money above previous targets), inflation from the special factor will get built into the baseline rate."

This is the difference between the responses to 2008 and 2020. The first was exactly the first example from the paper, and the second is the latter (expansion of demand capacity).

https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c11462/c11462.pdf
Yes, if you are ready to invest like 10-20 bln, I'm sure they'll offer you subsidies. Subsidies are not upfront payments from the govt. They are usually reduced taxes, etc. So if you are going to invest and do something that will raise a 10 bln tax bill, maybe they'll consider your offer as well.
PS. When it comes to a shell for interactive usage, have a look at Fish shell. It’s a joy to get started with IME.

https://fishshell.com/
I’ve got it hooked to another Mac right now, but haven’t done much typing on it yet. I’ve got some other weird is level things happening on that Mac, so a reinstall may be in order regardless

ETA: can't make the new mac do it at all. Guess a reinstall of the personal one is in the works this weekend.
It's entirely possible for more than one party to be acting in an unscrupulous/undesirable manner in this chain.
I find this is true even within software. There is a large complaint about not enough engineers. There are enough engineers - it’s just that you won’t pay enough for them for the given locale! If every startup started compensating like FAANG, they’d have no trouble finding talent.

Personally, I’ve had to go through this recently where I received 5 job offers. All well below what I’d consider “market” rate. They were all lower than past offers. Basically, companies are being very cheap with equity and/or salary. If you live in SF and are a senior engineer, giving equity that only matches FAANG when the company hits an absurd valuation that will likely never come is just not going to get people to come. Why bother? Whole point of startups is that you could earn more than faang if you get lucky enough. It shouldn’t be that you just match FAANG if you get lucky.
Taiwan fits all criteria under international law for a country. Plus CCP would kill hundreds of thousands or millions during a forceful invasion of Taiwan.

Laws always have loopholes. It's clear that the CCP would be doing something evil by attacking a peaceful island nation. They want control.
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they're already selling those streaming sticks at a loss. I imagine adding another hardware decoder chip (is there one for av1?) will increase their costs, without being able to pass it on to youtube, which sounds like part of the problem.
Curious why your primary key are GUID?
Also if the primary key of table C is made of 3 column (A GUID, B GUID, C GUID) the index in PostgreSQL will not be that big with compression enabled because all the common prefix will not be stored redundantly.

Also having a single compound index on table C covering column (A ForeingKey, B ForeingKey, C GUID) is much better than having multiple index on table C.
I assume this is for work? What kind of accelerator you use? Could you describe what for?
Yes it did. Computers became cheaper because more and more functionality can simply be combined on single chips. You can not replace parts of broken chips at home.

Look into Apple's M1.
Hmmm, well I'm willing to believe it then, yeah (although I definitely have a nested bundle setup in a project where --deep works fine... odd).

This is good to know though, and hopefully this exchange helps someone in the future too (actually, this would make for a good blog post - this kind of nuance is lost in most of the docs/existing posts).
In my experience, whether you use an abstract class or an interface class as your reference depends very much on the problem you are trying to solve - specifically, is there common code shared across all implementations?
If my employer were to offer permanent remote (in writing), I'd list my house and move out of the Bay Area that minute. It's literally the only thing keeping me in this expensive pit.

You've got to get it in writing though, as you say the policy could be changed on a whim and then you're stuck! Also, I wouldn't trust a recruiter who promised WFH unless they promised it in writing. Recruiters can say whatever nonsense they want in order to convince you to join, and then once you do, it's "oopsie! I was totally wrong about that whole WFH thing. Please report to your office building on Monday!"
Also how I started! I highly recommend Sailing Zatara and Gone with the Wynns as well.
It's mysterious but familiar enough to be easy to read and has a strong narrative. It has also become iconic. So it's reproduced more often than other 浮世絵 prints, and the public is more aware of it than of other art in the tradition.
It’s not just that... the state has trouble keeping power on. Taxes are high, homeless are everywhere. How are the taxes i pay helping my family?

As a person in tech, I can work remotely from anywhere. Why would I want to move back to SF.
OK, can you go into detail why equality between Point and ColoredPoint written using composition is simpler than equality between Point and ColoredPoint written using inheritance. Specifically, how does composition make equality transitive?
Which works by Weiss would you recommend first? Thanks!
You're both correct, I'm not sure why I made that mistake because I definitely know the difference.

I believe Amazon currently is restricted to SD/480p, at least, that's all I can get with Firefox right now.
My problem is I accumulate services over time, so I end up with services that are like a gym membership that’s used a few times then forgotten about. Then I notice on my credit card.

I’d say watch those credit card statements and your password manager for things you don’t need or, at least p, don’t need right now. It adds up to do such an inventory periodically.
Average new grad salary at FB in the Bay Area is well over $200k. Average new grad salary (e.g. Analyst) at Goldman in NYC is more like $130k. The "finance jobs" that pay new grads that well are typically software engineering roles at finance companies.
I kind of estimated. But, not really feel comfortable to share my calcs.

Google for what is the cost for an average US business is to simply replace an employee. You might be surprised.
The kinesis advantage (now Advantage2 LF) has been my mainstay keyboard over the last 20 years, both professionally and personally. I too adhered a trackpad, although mine is an Ergo Mini touchpad:
https://ergonomictouchpad.com/ergonomic_touchpad.php

I immediately bypassed the aesthetics side of MK and went straight to functionality; the kinesis has probably been the most reliable piece of hardware I've had over the years (with the exception of a key-repeating known issue that has been resolved with the advantage2)
>By The YouTube Team

I'm tired of seeing shit like this. It's not a "team," and it's not a "blog." It's a massive corporate monopoly that doesn't even allow itself to be contacted by its customers, and this is a press release.
I agree we need to do both.

Also, if you tried to explain it multiple times to them, maybe it isn't the education's systems fault? Like you said above, their brains are unable to grasp it. No amount of education reform is going to fix that.
Practically speaking for a company that's doing well in any way $70/month is basically nothing. Not every product needs to cater to every potential user and they seem to be catering to users who have some amount of money.
This is all so ridiculous and anti-consumer. There are working apps. Right now! The status quo should be that existing apps stick around.

As far as codecs, or anything of the sort, Roku has a device that they sell to customers. Google must write an app that works on that device.

I think it's time we have legislation that working apps cannot be removed from platforms over stupid corporate spats.
If that would happen, and it bothers you, just don't buy an Apple phone. Problem solved.
Thanks, I edited with your correction.
If it was anything less than a kidnapped police officer or child, I wouldn't expect them to do anything.
That is only likely to happen with housing (although not for the past 30 years in anywhere remotely desirable), and the tax breaks on moving your primary residence pretty much address that.
Yes, I don’t think we should spend $50m to save 11 lives because I’m sure we can save more lives allocating that money elsewhere
> Third: It's 23 million people who have built an advanced economy. Being able to siphon that wealth will be a massive boon for the CCP and other parts of China.

Ah yes, the filthy lucre of siphoning an economy with 4% of their own GDP.
I did too, but I think that's besides the point.
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Which is clearly bull crap. Youtube happily provides 4k video in H.* formats elsewhere.

What Google says is: use our VP9 codec, or else.
Who first shortened the word "application" when referring to software? Maybe someone in the '80s, or earlier?

Looks like it's attested by '92.
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I'll dive a bit this weekend into it. I was hesitant but apparently everybody is super productive and super happy with it so I have no choice.
> Why would I want to move back to SF.

Company may ask you to.
Is anyone on HN thinking of leaving San Francisco? If so where are you headed?
A point can never equal a colored point. You can extract the point from a colored one to compare it to a point. That is, you can compare a point to the point of a colored point. But to compare a point to a colored point is essentially false, by definition.