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I'm referring to iMessage specifically causing tons of unnecessary problems when switching from an iPhone to an Android phone. This was over 5 years ago so I have no idea what's fixed or isn't now, but I do still occasionally have problems when an iPhone user tries to message me as part of a group.

These were all intermittent: Messages were lost or delayed for very long periods (going both ways), groups were completely broken, I couldn't tell who was messaging me because they were assigned some random source number (which I think also happened both ways), and images were compressed to illegibility.

Some people I seemingly just couldn't text with at all.

Here is just one small thread of thousands about it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6750172 [Not the best example, but I'm having trouble tracking down the posts I remember browsing back when I made the switch.]

It was a complete mess, experienced by many users, and it was entirely Apple's fault.
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good, I would like to travel soon. my back yard has gotten very boring.
Just because you can't hoard the entire market cap doesn't mean it is ridiculous or not a useful measure. If you have a very liquid currency or commodity then it is very useful.
I can make the same statement you made about stock price about commodities and coins, in that I have to pay at least shares_outstanding * current_price to acquire all of a commodity or a coin.

The metric works, it's just that people keep making false claims from it.
I personally think the future of debugging is tracing experience like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vtKRE9an_I
Eh. I have worked with US investigators quite a few times. They really try to work with you. If you don't have the information and you tell them you don't have the information - they pretty much drop it. FBI/local police are not interested in pulling servers and doing forensics. This isn't what their prosecutors want. Prosecutors want: "Hey, give me all data you have for IP address X." If you honestly can explain to them you don't have it -- they just drop it move on to easier cases IMHO.
Is it really that perverse?

The character shifts from economic drudgery to manual drudgery. The objectives of the game encourage time min-maxing. It's all pretty within expectations.
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No. In 2013, WhatsApp was already the de facto standard messenger in Europe. See https://web.archive.org/web/20140412064444/http://blog.whats...

Is this the typical american point of view where the US == the world?
AMP was specifically opt-in and only websites with enough man power and interest to implement it did, if you wanted it you had to program an entirely different page using Google's JS framework and restricted subset of HTML. FLoC is opt-out and requires zero intervention from web devs, if your website shows ads it's already part of FLoC, it can catch on if people do nothing about it.
Well true (small scale) randomness, combinatorial explosion and intractable complexity/chaos do exist, which should be plenty to keep things interesting even in the face of considerable behavioral determinism.

Better to replace free will with sense of agency.
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Eh? No it isn't? It's like saying 'I don't think we should take about "the US city", but rather "the US cities"'.
Code bases in reality still do what I'm describing, and they pass code reviews. Kubernetes is one example of the atrocities caused by the language.
That makes total sense, thanks for the feedback. Is there anything besides wide adoption that you think might help bridge the trust gap?
The study you linked did not measure CO2.
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Is there any way to create a unique hash from an image, that is reproducible with some statistic certainty by taking another picture and running it through some program? The NFT could be tied to a hash, that could be determined from the physical object's picture. The problem is finding what most differentiates cards that looks the same. Maybe centering?
So what? This code (and most drivers, modules, additional fucntionality, etc) will only be compiled in if necessary and will only actually be run if you use the feature.
You should talk to more women in your life about their experiences.

Every suggestion you're making here is premised on priors from your experience as a man that do not hold true for many or most women.

You say she should get out and call her dad or a friend. Yet your own reaction is one of questioning her experience and shaming her for "a long chain of bad decisions to end up drunk on your own wine, in a foreign country, in the apartment of a stranger you met on the internet." Do you imagine that a woman friend of yours reading your comment would trust that she should call you?
There is no reason at all for this to be server-hosted. I have of course done this for myself a very long time ago creating an effectively identical feature set using spreadsheets and even put them onto Microsoft's sharing pages (no idea what happened to them, it was such a long time ago).

I'm not saying this isn't a better solution than Excel. You work with what's available at the time. But there is nothing at all about the size of the data or complexity of the calculations that requires it to be centrally hosted. This is financial data and you're not a bank with reporting and privacy requirements being audited by state charter associations and federal law enforcement. No reason for people to trust you with this data. Make this an executable someone can put on their own machine. Don't require a network connection. Don't send telemetry.

Like Frost1x, though, maybe I'm just a minority and you don't need my business. Ultimately, do what the market will tolerate, I guess.
The building gets hard when the executives at Microsoft and Samsung and Intel or Alphabet get complacent with their rent seeking from Windows/Office licensing, or ad revenue, or whatever other reason they can’t stomach investing billions of dollars into R&D and in person retail customer service.

Microsoft really cracks me up, they went as far as opening up retail locations all over the country, they just needed to invest for another 10 years and come up with something that can compete with iOS, and they decided to call it quits after a few years. Presumably because the expenses during the decade that is required to build trust with the public would cause an unacceptable hit to their financials and hence the bosses’ pockets, even though it would have benefited Microsoft after 10 to 15 years.

And now they get to compete with Apple’s own processors for laptops and desktops, for which they are behind another 10 years. Because they choose not to invest in their own employees and R&D, because they already have that sweet Office licensing revenue so why bother.
I played with both this and Basilisk II when it hit HN about 9 months ago. Basilis kII is harder to setup, mostly driven by fears of hosting Mac roms leading to incomplete instructions and shady download sites. And Mini vMac (like Basilisk II but for older Macs) was also far easier to get up and running.

Macintosh.js is one download and ships with a handful of interesting productivity tools and games. Why Basilisk II cannot do the same (one is as legal as the other) is an open question.
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No, Chromium's ad detection code is open source. Chrome's is closed source. It may very well be the same code, but there is no (practical) way to verify that, other than trusting Google.

But as I already indicated, I have trust issues with Google.
Or let's say extremely over-valued paintings so they can count them in that $10Billion.
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First I clicked on this hoping it was some interesting thing to learn, and then I saw it quickly devolved into another Bezos rant.

Second what weird quibbling over standard language. I read this and feel like I'd prefer to have my time back. "I'm not endorsing an ideology" no instead you'll make it painfully obvious which one you don't.

"I’m just meeting the claims on their own terms in the pursuit of that which I truly value, which is quibbling about math."

And then proceeded to basically do nothing on the math, but argue about value creation or consumption.

I'm not stating if I agree or not, don't take this as that, I just feel the author was basically misrepresenting their goals in the post.
For a definition of creationism no creationist would be pleased with. E.g. there's nothing incompatible between a simulation and the big bang occurring. The universe would be created, but we'd be unable to know how big or small (in both time and space) portion of it was "designed" versus left to evolve by itself.

Another key difference is that most people who find the idea of the simulation argument interesting seems to approach it as either a philosophical curiosity that gives us avenues to explore or as something that needs some massive further steps to get to something testable, not as dogma. I find the subject very fascinating, because if we're in a simulation I'd expect bugs. And if there are bugs, there is the possibility of exploits. But there is also the possibility of all kinds of implementation artefacts. To me at least a whole lot of the appeal of the simulation hypothesis (unlike the nonsense linked to here) is that there's a whole lot of room for actual testable hypotheses here. I have no interest in taking anything on faith.

Also it's fun to speculate about. But I don't need to believe something to speculate about it.
I appreciate the response. But the mentality: other people know best, means you're always second to the party.
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I find it incredibly funny that you deceptively try to put words in people’s mouths by “asking questions”
Then are dumb enough to keep trying your failed “ask questions” trick.
Also your sense of humor is highly underdeveloped. Go watch some Curb your enthusiasm or something.
Induction stoves are fine! They're safe, efficient, cheaper to operate (in europe at least) and allow for precise control of their output!

Some time ago I tried to ask for advice related to my LCD TV. Then I found the "home theatre community" absolutely loathes my model. It's a fine TV that I got at a good discount, but apparently the only advice I'm allowed to get is "nobody should buy that model, so buy a new one".
> Then again, half my friends are Android users, so...

That's the reason. Same reason my friend group is all on WhatsApp. If we all had iPhones, we'd just use iMessage.
"Classic" 3-blade HAWTs (the same style as modern off-show wind turbines) are aerofoils, they're working on lift - like a sailing boat or glider - and are surprisingly narrowly angled to wind direction.

Darrieus VAWTs are operating by the same mechanism for a deal of each blades rotation.

Unless you're thinking of "American" style wind turbines that used to drive water pumps, which are like like water wheels and closer to Savonius VAWTs in operation.

I think people often mistakenly think of 3-blade HAWTs as working principally in the same way as a anemometer.
he was successful, but his invention ended reaping a very different type of harvest
> Vertical turbines far more efficient when in large-scale wind farms than they are individually

The article is saying that in large-scale wind farms, vertical turbines are more efficient than horizontal axis wind turbines (the "traditional form factor").

With horizontal axis turbines in large wind farms, there is always a loss of efficiency through the "wake effect" where some of the turbines are downwind from the others.

But the study seems to have found that this can actually increase the efficiency of vertical turbines. Which is very unexpected.
Someone has to make that version first. Each phone model needs a specific one, I am guessing because of the way that drivers are handled?
I can understand the sentiment here, but I don't think it's worth throwing community participation out entirely. I think the better way is to hedge your bets by being in several communities around a general idea. So niche subreddits are great for info, but generalist communities that are vaguely centred around a certain topic will last you longer. E.g. Facepunch, your local tech slack, etc.

You are definitely correct on not being bound to any one place. Anecdotally, I see some opinions on some slacks that I don't agree with but since I'm not bound to the place I don't mind too much. You can always bounce to one of the other groups for a time.
>Why would they be idle?

Sometimes they are idle not because of the lack of wind, but because of the lack of need for the electricity. When power demand is low, the wind turbines are the first things to be stopped. In fact, they use an electrical braking system to keep them from turning. The power companies say that it is much easier to stop/start wind turbines than lower/raise the output of gas/nuclear/coal power plants.
It's a British-ism, and not that uncommon.
Nuts, you're totally right. I really know better, not sure how I got that so wrong.
That’s the beauty of open source! Just fork your own Linux and then refuse any further patches or PRs. True freedom.
I did not make any claim about the rest of the world. And the fact that you try to dodge the substance of the argument and instead try to talk trash about other nations shows everything wrong in the western world, but especially Germany.
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Searches and time spent browsing are very different. Google likely doesn’t have visibility over how much time people spend on TikTok. Or perhaps Android collects that data.
What's another example?
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I just found out about Google Takeout through this thread.

I was able to schedule it to do backups every 2 months for 1 year, and upload the backups directly to my Dropbox account.

If it works as advertised, I'm pretty happy with that!
I am sure I was wrong :-)
I also just got this email and it actually fills me with confidence. Everyone makes mistakes and while I'm a lot better about using ENV vars and the like to pass secrets into code, it was wasn't that long ago that I was committing secrets to git because it was way easier. Thankfully this was a rather low-stakes mistake for me as my email and username are already linked (though I understand that is not the case for everyone). I'm also very happy with how Dan handled this. A user reached out to warn him about the breach, he investigated, found the issue, and communicated it to his users. A /very/ different situation from how Ubiquiti handled a much higher-stakes breach.
> This article reads like she did not say no as much as she did not say yes

Yeah, if I beat someone up and they didn’t explicitly agree or explicitly ask me not to pummel them, no one is going to hem and haw about whether or not it was battery or whether it wasn’t because of secret unexpressed consent.

But no, when the issue is battery-that-involves-sexual-penetration, *which legally had the same basic “without consent” factor (except that there tend to be more factors which explicitly negate or make the alleged victim legally incapable of consent), suddenly lots of people have a radically different view.
Strongly agree. The US is weird in two ways:

1. iOS being uncommonly popular (in other words: the US is weirdly rich compared to even most developed countries)

2. People texting a lot (maybe other countries’ carriers used to just make texting too expensive?)

Outside the US, people more commonly use messaging apps, and there is less peer pressure to be on iMessage as it is less likely for someone (in a certain social class…) to have a big majority of iOS-using peers. I had never even heard the term ‘green-texter’ until I went to the US
KeyDB uses a custom lock I wrote called the “fastlock”. At its core it’s a ticket lock with some tweaks to better tune it to KeyDB. When uncontested it’s a single atomic increment. When contested ownership changes extremely fast. If we spin too long the thread will sleep although we wait much longer than any other lock you’ll find.

When I first tried making KeyDB I used posix locks. Those were way too slow.
I don't think there is an explicit filter installed. Quick search reveals a companion that can pronounce names and Jesus is not recorded as something the character can say while Mohammed is allowed and voiced. Though this might not be censorship but just something that wasn't recorded. Fallout also evolved into an online game. I haven't played it but that might lead to character name restrictions.

> Codsworth is known to say the Sole Survivor's chosen name if it is an option, although it may be shortened, extended, or have a word omitted. A list of spoken names can be found here.

> Ironically you can be Mohammed but you can't be Jesus. I know I missed a bunch of the good ones, feel free to add some below.

[1] - https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Codsworth

[2] - https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/49688113...
How can Android do that ?
According to the Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang, the Korean government (or rather the dictator Park Chung Hee) is directly responsible for a lot of the success of the large Korean companies like Hyundai and Samsung.

It's been a while since I read the book (Bad Samaritans I think it's called), but I believe he offered them large government backed loans to move out of palm oil production and into more profitable areas like semiconductors.
For the proverbial repair shop, supplies cost 50€ and the repair costs 100€. 50€ is left to the repair shop.

In a country with 21% VAT, the supplier will be paid 60,50€, and the end client will have to pay 121€ for the repair.

The repair shop now owes 21 - 10,50 = 10,50€ in VAT to the tax authorities.

But the repair shop still has 50€!

Assuming we are in Belgium and all of the benefit is used to pay the salary, we will deduce 22% social security tax, then the repairer will have to pay his 50% income tax, so at the end the repairer receives around 20€ in net pay.

I am simplifying to the extreme in the hope that you get the idea.

You may be tempted to say that the end client paid 121€ from his salary, and 21€ is actually the tax. But this is the whole point! He will be more likely to pay 21€ VAT on the repair rather than 120€ VAT on a new iPhone. And repair shops there will be.
Is it really that much faster than a well-specced Intel 2019/2020? Just wondering.

Or is it the battery life, low heat, etc... the full experience.
I'm actually in NYC too. Definitely see tons of Androids here.

I've never seen or heard of people exchanging IG information - is that really a thing? Maybe I'm getting old.
I think this is efficiency in terms of much energy you can extract for a given area of sea or land. Wake effects mean that wind turbines cannot be placed in a particular zone downwind of another turbine. If wake effects are lower then you could potentially get a higher density of turbines in a given area. This is something that is already considered in terms of turbine height and placement. Sometimes they are placed at closer intervals along the perimeter of the zone and then lower densities within.

Of course lots of factors are considered with the final "efficiency" being about getting the highest return for an investment.
Publishers insisting on DRM for ebooks means that once I buy into one ecosystem (Amazon's Kindle is the biggest), then that's where I'll probably stay. The publishers are giving away an enormous amount of power by requiring DRM.
Can someone please ELI5 what is a mutex?
No, because the Linux kernel is designed explicitly as a monolithic kernel, so as long as there is anything anyone wants to do that is "OS-like", it expects to own that.
Have you tried 8gb vs 16gb?
In the above example you pay capital gains on the one (1) $20m initial painting that allows you to then donate N "equal value" paintings. So you can dilute the capital gains % indefinitely (1/N).
I would speculate that the Palo Alto (P.A. Semi) acquisition is what kicked off this round of the Apple semiconductor (r)evolution.
I live in RI. State funding of this was (in my and many people’s opinions) an awful decision. RI has a long history of making bad economic decisions that are or at least appear to be corrupt.

I can’t speak to the quality/promise of the game. But who would think that a baseball start would be effective running a tech company?

Useless fun fact: after the auction of their assets, there was a lot of left overs in their office space that was all going to be trashed. I had a connection to the contractor and they let us take whatever we wanted. It saved them labor and disposal costs. We took a bunch of fantastic whiteboards. And the cabinets in my office’s kitchen came from there too.
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I still want a windows client, or even a web version.
Not exactly. CSP is more what Golang adheres to (synchronous communication). The Actor Model predates CSP. And understanding it you'll still have problems...they're just different problems. You either won't be able to use a language with message passing as a concurrency primitive (i.e., almost all popular languages other than Go at this point), or you will, and now you'll have the time to spend on new types of problems (i.e., you can still create race conditions and deadlocks, and, in Erlang at least, now you get to start asking yourself what happens when things go wrong to a level you never would have with any other language).
this patch both cleanup existing complexity and add functionality needed for a significant use case.
does FLOC even follow EU laws? it's tracking without consent right? it's basically a cookie that you can never delete?
Beef production accounts for 9% of US corn production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_production_in_the_United_...

If we have a magic wand and that disappeared entirely tomorrow, that would simply be allocated to other areas. There’s a reason sodas in the US are sweetened with HFCS and our gasoline is cut with ethanol produced from corn - because of lobbying efforts to subsidize corn production, which has driven down costs, which in turn made it profitable to use corn in ways where it wouldn’t otherwise make sense. Europe uses ethanol derived from sugar beets, which is significantly more efficient in terms of CO2.

It’s significantly more complex than “if we reduce beef consumption, we’ll reduce corn consumption”.
My concern is not about what my flavor of kernel includes. It's about the size of the codebase, and whether the limited number of maintainers can keep up with the countless features being introduced.
Looks fantastic. I entered some close to real numbers and found the flow fairly easy. I specifically like the edge-case prompts ("you didn't enter mortgage/rent, are you sure?"). In that case I just entered an average monthly total expenses, but I like the checks. The graphs at the end are nice. Something like a toast for "congrats your goals are probably going to happen" might be good.
Usually, it's the fact that the device drivers are included in the image.

I do wish we had kept from the existing desktop OS ecosystem.

Apple's update schedule is a lot better in this regard for me (iPhone SE still gets iOS 14 FROM 2016)
I think many people have gotten out of the habit of installing software on their computers and prefer web-based solutions.
Artificial benchmarks show a 4% improvement in some cases, which is huge. There aren't many tests to demonstrate the improvements on common use cases but there are already reports of subjective improvements with games having less stutter: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...