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>I don't have a problem with alternative app stores and generally favor openness in computing, however I see no reason that Apple should be restricted from running its platform how it wants to run it.

That's the crux of the entire case, Yes. Jury is literally out so I won't make any judgement on how right/wrong it is.

I'll just note that "monopoly" isn't a clear cut case here. IANAL, but I imagine it very much depends on "accessibility" as well as market share. e.g. it's easy to walk across the street from walmart and shop at Target if they one day change policy. If you don't like android's play store, you can use F-Droid, Amazon's app store, and a few others that aren't beholden to Google's rules.

There's zero other stores to try without voiding warranty on IOS if Apple one day decides to ban a certain kind of app; for all intents and purposes, that form of app is banned from IOS if it's banned from the App Store. And buying an android is more expensive than walking across the street.

>Game consoles have had exclusivity pretty much since their inception and no one seems too bothered about it.

I don't mind the consoles opening up stores either. However, consoles are much more ephemeral than a PC/mobile OS, so the incentive for 3rd parties to make a store every 5-7 years may make the openness moot. So I see very little changing even if they get caught up.

Sony did lose a lawsuit over removing the very niche option for a PS3 to install another OS, so it's not like there is zero precedence there.
Did something happen to Robert?
Yes, but he answered it just here in great detail and clarity for our benefit ..
The about page says 4m, but I could drag their example map over multiple blocks in my city without the emojis changing.
PCA is a cool technique mathematically, but in my many years of building models, I've never seen it result in a more accurate model. I could see it potentially being useful in situations where you're forced to use a linear/logistic model since you're going to have to do a lot of feature preprocessing, but tree ensembles, NNs, etc. are all able to tease out pretty complicated relationships among features on their own. Considering that PCA also complicates things from a model interpretability point of view, it feels to me like a method whose time has largely passed.
That isn't the part of your comment I was block-quoting.
Thank you for posting this because that's the dark pattern that I was trying to remember myself. This one has aggravated me beyond anything else on the entire internet. I hope for the return of newpipe soon.
> because spammers

And because cybercrime, which is now doing staggering damage, much of it initiated via SMTP.

SMTP was designed when the Internet's topology and population were vastly different, and we desperately need to replace it, e.g. with TMTP from the "mnm" open source project (my work):

https://mnmnotmail.org/
I moved to WindowMaker that I loved for its elegance and to icewm. This latter had none of the elegance of windowmaker but it used very low memory resources and had a decent windows-like look. I considered blackbox and tried to use it but it was too minimalist for me.

In any case I never looked back to fvwm.
Man, I would use Zendesk just because they have better UI, SF UI is very crowded.
> than anything you can come up with Linux OS on mobile

I don't understand how you can generalize this far. Using a full desktop OS on mobile with all desktop apps is undoubtedly better.
How much is 28800 a year after taxes?
Because stocks are owned by third parties, usually.
Even as the dedicated security contact whose job is it to test this shit, you will be looked at as a dickhead for pointing that we just spent 30k on something we can't use.
How can you bemoan what the internet has become and support Amazon in the comment?

Amazon is a lifeline for people who live in remote places, which is what I think he means by cabins in Canada.

Amazon is the new Sears Catalog, enabling people who live pretty much anywhere in North America to buy things quickly and safely that are not available to them any other way.

Pre-pandemic I spent a lot of time with people who live in places where a "supermarket run" happens every other month, when the person with the largest truck drives three hours to the nearest Costco to fill ten grocery lists for all the neighbors. Amazon handles the days in between.
It does, but it would be a crime to do so and the garbage men actually check sometimes.
Thoughts from tale 1:

- I would have guessed that the person who greeted me, showed me where to sit, and asked if I needed anything before leaving was a receptionist regardless of gender. That seems like an unfair strike/test.

- I'm always surprised by how stupid people are. Being nice to the receptionist isn't just good standard human behavior, but it's also obvious that a receptionist will have input on the hiring process.

Unspecific thoughts:

- I'm always bummed when writing about sexism is laden with sexism ("Tech bros" being thrown around like an insult a lot here -- maybe don't use a gender pronoun in your insults?).

- I'm always bummed that sexism exists at all, because I'm so naively un-maliciousness that I forget some people are the exact opposite. When I read stories like this, I have a hard time believing them because they're so out side the realm of how I would act/behave, but I definitely believe it all.
This was driving me crazy too, turns out that my adblocker was breaking the consent box. Clicking “Accept” didn’t do anything.
Understanding Rust as a C++ Developer
Thanks for your helpful answer! I have some experience with using vermicompost, though I do daydream about making my own stuff one day.

I've read that vermicultures have a bit of an issue with not neutralizing plant pathogens that you introduce with the worm feed, have you had similar problems with composting, or does the heat usually take care of this issue?
I wasn't aware that journalists prescribed medicine. Don't be disingenuous!
I'd also like to know where I can read further on discussions on this. My understanding is that it's the same for chickenpox - that lack of frequent natural exposure now requires artificial exposure with boosters to prevent shingles. Feels like vendor lock-in to me - often valuable but with some downsides that need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.
I have found that it's very, very easy for some people operating in bad faith to turn ANY opposing argument into a violation of "politeness" and "respect". A real example from an internal discussion I witnessed once:

A: We should use $FRAMEWORK for everything in $APP because it provides a better developer experience. Sure, long list views might be slower, but we hardly ever need to care about long lists.

B: Almost every screen in $APP is a long list! I don't think we should compromise performance on $FEATURE, $FEATURE, or $FEATURE for this -- benchmarks suggest they'd be four to five times slower.

A: [to B's manager, cc HR] By making such an obvious statement as "almost every screen in $APP is a long list" in a public Slack channel, B made me feel uncomfortable by implying I wasn't familiar with $APP, even though I've worked on it for several years. That is an unacceptably disrespectful way to hold a technical discussion.
They're very filling, high in fat, low in sugar, and they taste good. You're basically eating a relatively healthy block of fat, to me it's sort of like asking "why do people like bacon?" - for the obvious reasons, salt and fat.

By contrast, oranges aren't something I'd indulge in. They have much more sugar - ~10x what an avocado has. They're acidic. They're not particularly filling (low fat / protein content).
I have tried to provide an alternative take on ClubHouse, but it seems that people are hyper-polarized when it comes to the application. Which is strange as it has provided me with the most authentic experiences I've ever had on the internet.

This is a bit shameless, but here's an excerpt from my exegesis - https://areoform.wordpress.com/2021/04/18/on-clubhouse/,

> Which brings me to the role of ClubHouse as a generator of profound experiences. Some nights ago, an ex-TLA (Three Letter Agency) officer walked into the room, sparking a conversation about strategic elicitation (brought up by me) and empathy for difficult people (brought up by him). Our conversation was interrupted by an admittedly troubled person angry about the “plandemic,” spoiling for a fight. In text, we would have ignored him – he had been banned from most social media platforms. Or, given in and argued with him, but it was clear that he was deeply upset. And so we talked.

> He was a struggling musician. Who had lost his living when the pandemic hit and the symphonies shut down. The world was a harsh place for him. He was also one of the few people in the world who had mastered a very particular instrument brought into prominence by Beethoven. And so we begged him to play. To share his gift with us. He obliged by playing a beautifully complex piece of music that demonstrated his mastery over the instrument. We thanked him. Said our goodbyes, and went to sleep.

> A charged situation was transmuted into the magical.

Yes, it's flawed, but I'm glad that it exists.

There's a unique energy in the air, when it comes to ClubHouse. There's something magical about it. I'm worried that it too will get lost to entropy and the casual cruelty of crowds. (it's harder to be cruel when people know each other)
We in germany have that brown bin for organic waste, too: but at least in our area, we have to pay the same as for ordinary garbage.
The site has a CSS issue that prevents the "Retool" logo to be clicked on mobile. If someone from Retool reads this, it's related to ".site-header::after" having an absolute positionning AFAICT.
Agriculture at extreme scale is less efficient. It’s basically a mining operation with food as an output.

Where I live, we buy summer crops from local farms about 30 miles away. The farmers sell for half of retail, and make about double. They are fairly large operations with a diverse set of products and have a sustainable, smart approach to farming — most have been in business for hundreds of years and plan to remain.

The monocropping of the Midwest is creating a desert, period. We’ll be importing corn in my lifetime. Vegetable crops in the Colorado irrigation corridor are vulnerable to climate change.
One example for sure is the endless CAPTCHAs you receive on virtually any large website when you attempt to connect from TOR. Each time you solve one it takes forever just to complain about how you spending several minutes selecting every 'light' suddenly isn't good enough to prove your humanity. You're not "checking if I'm human" 60 times in a row, you're blocking me for not wanting to be tracked on your website.
Which ERP isn't?
Software jobs are low status.

We live in a bubble and respect good hackers but normies don't like nerds.

Hollywood portrays us between weirdo and pervert, while glorifying lawyers and doctors.
That's one option that always works, and people don't seem to get that. While it's scummy that you have to do it that way (that's obviously bollocks), this would also be the way to tell them to stop charging you if their customer support won't pick up, their email server rejects yours as spam, the web form is broken, that sort of shit (people elsewhere in the thread mention a million-and-one instances of this, not realizing that there is another way). Send them a letter and be done with it.
Will We Ever Be Able to Defeat Human Influenza?
Which adblocker?
It is still a nice tool for projecting things (at least to visualize) where you expect the data to be on a lower dimensional hyperplane. I do agree in most cases t-SNE or UMAP are better (esp if you don’t care about distances).
I think Stratocaster single-coils and Gibson humbuckers cover almost all of the sounds you can get out of an electric guitar. The bridge pickup on a Telecaster is overwound and a bit louder than the bridge on a Strat, but the difference is pretty subtle if the Strat is setup correctly. The only other really distinct sound is the P-90, but it's not nearly as common as the other two, and it's also a variation on single-coil tone.
Do you know where I can find these agreed upon standards for journalists?
Yes, you have to be careful of people's romanticism around farming. A single small farm may not cause much damage, but millions of small farms can easily.
Yes. It's regressed. This video [0] is an example of what happens, EXCEPT on mine the pause was considerably longer before the "unable to purchase" pop up came up.

[0]: https://youtu.be/lMMrU732w6Q?t=82 (and if you look at the comments, you can see that I'm not the only consumer frustrated by this issue)
Bringing up impoverished people every time someone asks what one should be eating doesn’t answer the question and it’s exhausting to watch
“Avocados are healthy and—“ “Umm, try living in a food desert with three jobs!”

Yes, it sucks for those people, but pointing out poverty doesn’t silence the conversation about nutrition for the rest of us who can afford some cheap vegetables.
The vaccine appeared to piss off the RSI in my right arm for about two weeks. I would have gotten the shot in my left arm if I knew that was going to happen.
How predictive coding is changing our understanding of the brain (2018)
Nobody cares about what you're saying though (with respect) in this area. It's all about the ecosystem or Anaconda distribution itself rather than just the core language. I agree that what you're saying is accurate, but it also happens to be irrelevant in this particular case.

Numerical methods and data science are mostly done by engineers, mathematicians, and other random stem folks. I've yet to meet someone who is even cognizant that Numpy is really calling out to some low level C, C++, or Fortran library. They just know that you call a library like any other and the code works.

If you're trying to say that any language with FFI capabilities can do that, you'd be right, but it also doesn't matter much. Python has somehow found a sweet spot where it's easy to learn and onboard people and there is support for a lot of stuff with relatively low hassle. It certainly isn't lisp, but somehow seems to be orders of magnitude more successful.

I've been searching for a tool/language/ecosystem to replace Python for ages, but nothing ends up becoming close. I spent a significant amount of time learning lisp, but a lot of what I saw (besides the power of macros and restarting) was just a less intuitive way of doing things I could easily do in Python, Ruby, or Perl. Lisp is secret alien technology if you're coming from C or C++, but coming from Python it seems closer to a wash.
Are you sure that tube amps don't sound better than solid state amps? This is such a common knowledge in the "guitar world" that I can't believe that it's not true. And I swear that I've heard the difference myself...

Edit to further elaborate I've heard that solid state amps are used in metal more commonly because they have a different tone then tube amps which would be more common in a bluesy type sound.
Question for legal-minded folks: at what point is a class action likely to succeed, if ever? Are they basically safe for as long as they keep incrementally shipping level 2 assistance features and calling them “FSD”? That seems to be the strategy for now.
This, 100%.
A roughly 70% solution is to mandate WCAG 2.1 AA conformance. After that the problems largely distill down to misleading and deceptive content. Deceptive content resulting in a financial harm not as a result of a technical defect is fraud.

How to prove fraud in court? Easy, make them liable for presenting accessibility conformance against the issue in question. The defendant only has to demonstrate a good faith effort to account for and correct the issue, but if they cannot do that, because fraud is intentional, take them to the cleaners.
Don't a lot of companies strive for high "psychological safety" these days for the very reason of encouraging open debate, ensuring that bold ideas are actually given an airing rather than held back?
Interestingly, I saw a video recently that argued that the majority of water consumption for animal products comes from green water (aka direct precipitation) and the majority of that water is released back to the ground in the form of urination, which makes it less taxing to aquifer systems than crops like avocados and almonds, which are extremely water intensive and primarily consume groundwater drawn from subterranean water systems by artificial irrigation systems.
Yes University courses are held in Englilsh, mainly because of Bologna Process. Some companies in non English speaking countries do conduct their business in English, but to the jump from that to some sort of dissolution of national borders and melting of national identities is no where to be seen. EU will never be a United States of Europe of any kind, no matter how much French and German politicians are wishing that.
Helicopter Cherry Drying
Chrome is bundled with Android (billions of devices) and when you install a lot of software on Windows like antivirus they bundle Chrome unless you opt-out.

Not the same but pretty close.
This mindset is closer to those who keep personal wikis in public - not simply broadcasting updates to an audience, but writing and working in public. It gets even better when conversations start to emerge with others who are also blogging this way. You can start to do longform group messaging that is open-ended - anyone can join in if they want.
I would love a Bartosz Ciechanowski interactive article on microprocessors. It may be outside his domain though, since the visualisations and demo's would be less 3D model design, and more, perhaps, mini simulations of data channels or state machines that you can play through. Registers that can have initial values set, and then you can step through each clock cycle. Add a new component each few paragraphs and see how it all builds up. I did all this at university, but would love a refreshers that is as well made as his other blog posts.
You're right for the wrong reasons. DRM doesn't have to involve encryption; but it does have to involve copyright.

A right-click blocker script or those domain locks on old Flash games is a form of DRM as long as it keeps you from copying something. Doesn't have to be elaborate, doesn't have to involve crypto. It just has to have the effect of stopping you from copying something that copyright law protects. Once you have that, then it's unlawful to remove the DRM unless it's for a lawful purpose; and it's unlawful to tell anyone how to remove it for any purpose.
JavaScript Party 173: Blasting off with Apollo
Isn't the material a little bit old? I remember reading about all this stuff in the University circa 1996.

Edit: originally said "outdated".
I would agree with you, excpet for these points.

1. They don't want consumers, or third party repairs, seeing Factory Repair Information. (They pick, and choose which appliance repair shops get the information, and it's tied to sales. Try finding a independant repair shop these days?)

2. They usually don't sell parts out side of warranty. When they do, they are marked up very high. (If enough models were sold, the part might have a genetic equivelant.)

3. It seems like they make repair just difficult enough, so people just buy new again? I have a family member who admits Bosh appliances are overpriced, and have short lives. She still buys the brand? I believe Bosh psychologists know why?

4. Right now I have two Bosh appliances on life support. I fool around with electronic repairs so I have them kinda working. If you get an E13 error on a Bush Washer, it's usually the drain pump. In order to open the door, you need to shopvac the water from the drain hose.

5. I've noticed the weak spot on Bosh appliances is the computer, and I get it. It's not the best enviornment for electronics. Make the computer boards similar to vechicle boards. It's pretty rare for a vechicle's computer to fail. Meaning they are built for a nasty environment.
> What reason would the USIC have for lying about this?

There's an entire industry revolving around blaming geopolitical enemies of wrongdoing without evidence, where the intelligence community plays a key part. This is done in order to control the narrative, steer the public perception and to keep a semblance of adherence to international law, in order to justify unilateral political, economic or military hostility. The reality is always more nuanced, and it's definitely a safe bet to not believe whatever empty accusations they come out with.

Controlling the narrative like they do, the cumulative effect of it is that they are able to convince the public of quite crazy assertions, which would be rightly treated as conspiracy theories had they come from some other source. These crazy assertions of course requires equally crazy political reactions. E.g. people genuinely believe that most US geopolitical enemies are literally rogue, bandit states, requiring draconic policing by the US. It's a children's view of the world, leading people to look the other way when it harms innocents.

The intelligence community has a looong history of doing this. It's a central part of the playbook which is readily admitted in more casual contexts.
So, it's just hard to get a fucking job. Probably being founder of a company doesn't really hurt, but maybe it does if you walk around with a t-shirt that says founder on it. Kind of tired of hearing about people who call themselves CEOs complaining about ppl not loving them enough for their success
I put the four dots on the corners of a square and the fifth in the center. This results in the same square in the PCA pane but rotated about 45 degrees. Then, if you take one of the dots on the square corner and move it ever so sligthly in and out, you see the PCA square wildly rotating. Pretty cool to demonstrate sensitivity to small changes in the inputs.
Maybe you want to set up a programmable search engine? https://support.google.com/programmable-search/answer/451388...

Haven't tried it myself; but remember using a predecessor to this maybe 15 years ago.

"You may want to augment your results with general Web Search results. This includes results from anywhere on the web, but places emphasis on your personalized results"
As a former employee (and not one acqui-hired) I don't know how you could say they're not a "software company", but I did say something similar during my time that I still stand by which is they're not really a "tech company" in the way Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon/Google/Apple are. They do have a few thousands of in-house devs working on "core" products, and lots of other devs from various large acquisitions (e.g. Heroku) mostly separated from that, there's a good deal of tech and some smart engineers, but I'd still call them a marketing or sales company instead. This distinction is mostly only relevant to programmers in that it describes and predicts an internal mindset for how problems are approached and how budgets are allocated. It's hard to describe without examples I don't really want to get in to, but as an illustration you could make an axis with one end being clearly a tech company like Facebook and the other being not a tech company like Walmart (despite Walmart having some impressive tech/smart engineers). Salesforce sits quite a bit further away from the tech end than people think.