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So, legally speaking, no website or app is _required_ by the Americans with Disabilites Act (ADA) to be made accessible. Title III of the ADA is the part that deals with public businesses and it doesn't mention digital services at all, but has been interpreted by various courts to include websites, there was a notable case against Dominos about this, wherein the judge ruled that Dominos did, in fact, have to make their online ordering tool fully accessible to people using screen readers, but this was the judge's understanding of the law and hasn't been challenged at a higher court. There's also section 508 of Title II of the ADA that does require government websites to be accessible, but it imposes no such requirements on private businesses. The DOJ apparently was considering a formal guidance on this a few years ago, but it never materialized.

Here's a quote from an article I'll link below, this article seems up to date with my knowledge of the matter and I think will help answer most of your questions. (Even if that answer is "lol, who knows"):

> ADA legislation as is applies to websites is currently a gray area. This often leaves the interpretation of the law up to the court where the lawsuit is filed, generally a state court. Suits have been filed in every state, though the majority of cases are in New York, Florida, California, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
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> Do all websites have to be ADA compliant? That depends. Courts generally reach one of the following conclusions:
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> Yes, a business website is considered a “public accommodation” and must be accessible.
> Yes, but only if the business also has a physical location that serves the public.
> No, the ADA does not specifically address websites and therefore does not apply.

https://www.accessiblemetrics.com/blog/do-all-websites-have-...

So, the answer is that there are several good reasons to make your site and/or app accessible: You should do it because it's the right thing to do, it improves your ranking in google (a site that can be screen read can be mechanically crawled easier and is viewed favorably by Google's search algorithm), and there may come a day in the near future where it is mandated.

Honestly, I'd recommend reading through the WCAG standards sometime. It's a very well thought out document that lays out pretty straight forward approaches to making your digital content more accessible to users with a wide variety of disabilities. When people think 'accessibility' they often are only thinking about blind or vision impaired users, but there's so much more to it than that, and a lot of what you do as you build an app or site affects accessibility, whether you know it or not.

Dyslexic people have issues with some fonts, for instance, I don't think it's unreasonable to build your site in a way that lets the user override the font using their browser's settings. Or for people with limited motor control, placing frequently used together controls nearer to each other can improve both your UX and your accessibility for people with motor impairments.

I realize this isn't the easy, straightforward answer you wanted, but this is the reality of the situation.
I am pretty sure the beeper can be easily disabled.
Whenever you aren't the target audience, you can't assume that what you've seen is a random sample. Presumably, you were the target audience for whoever was showing you those videos of people doing irresponsible things.

I use it sometimes and most of my feed is just funny commentary by people in similar life situations or who have similar viewpoints. I'm sure there are people doing irresponsible things, but I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not strictly for hooligans.
Building housing is starting to get really high. I don't know if its because the margin is so high that workers can be paid that much (I'd be skeptical), but the average price to build in the expensive cities is pretty high. Not as high as what it sells for, but definitely higher than a lot of people can afford.

Add that right now there's a timber shortage (insurance costs are spiking recently for that reason), and it's probably not helping.

The land value is the most actionable problem, but it doesn't solve everything.
Labeling in mismanagement is just an opinion not an objective fact. There are a lot of ways to interpret these exact facts.
> The first link was unsubstantive

The most well-known VPS provider (DO) is not profitable and a competitor (Linode) with the same price and a very similar product is profitable.

That in itself is interesting to me, particularly how DO managed to pull off that marketing.

> The second was flamebait on the biggest flamewar topic in months.

Sorry, I didn't see that it was already duplicated. If it was, I would have avoided submitting.
In a vacuum, sure. But these companies are competing with foreign governments using taxpayer monies to make a product.

Cheaper just to buy from the foreign government? sure. But if a product is considered core to survival it may be good to have domestic production. Whether it's food, weapons, computer chips, water supply, etc.
If you (or anyone) manages to find it, I’d appreciate a link, sounds like a good read
Just realized I should have edited that first sentence to say "No _private_ website or app"
It does let you to opt-out.
"The iPhone maker said last month it will lose $3 billion to $4 billion in sales in the current quarter ending in June because of the chip shortage,"

The IPhone maker has $3 to $4 billion in incentives to fund its own factory
Why would he have spent years raising capital for tesla, taking the risk of having the whole thing shut down by short-termism or nearly fold for lack of cash, when he could just cash in few bn in bitcoin?
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> It necessary but if the overhead is too large it can easily eat up the bandwidth and leave no room for the actual stuff.

This has always been the case - some sub-groups of the population didn't notice it because it wasn't their/our bandwidth being consumed. Pick any past century or decade, and I will name a group whose world was consumed by politics then.
Please puts us all onto the make and model of your car. Seems like such capabilities are a rare breed nowadays!
I am unconvinced that time is a real dimension, sure we can model movement/interactions of particles as a 4th dimension, but nothing in our understanding of physics requires it being a physical reality. IMO it's less space-time and more just space, it's just the rate of change slows with more mass.
I don't entirely agree on this being the primary dynamic at play. I think the number of valuable investigations by journalist isn't decreasing by numbers but important stories are being drowned out faster. Coupled with rose colored glasses of the past gives the impression of decline.
I've updated my iPad but haven't yet updated my iPhone and just poked around in: Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Share My Location > Find My $iDevice

My iPad has the "Find My network" setting (toggled on) but I was a bit surprised to see my iPhone has what seems to be the same setting (also toggled on) but it's called "Enable Offline Finding".

Find My Network is described as "Participating in the Find My Network lets you locate this iPad even if it's offline."

Enable Offline Finding is described as "Offline finding enables this device to be found when not connected to Wi-Fi or cellular."

Which makes me wonder if "Find My Network" is just a repacking and rebranding of something Apple has been doing for a long time. Regardless, I'd prefer to have opted-in. I suppose it's possible at some point I opted in while setting up a new device with "Find My" but I'm not sure. I certainly had no idea there was a way to find my iPhone even when it wasn't connected to wi-fi or cellular signal.

E- It seems this feature was added ~2 years ago and it did indeed use bluetooth and "crowdsourced" Apple devices[1]:

> Offline Finding uses a background process called "Search Party" to broadcast and receive Bluetooth beacon signals at regular intervals, and it can even do its work when the device is in a sleep state. And it does this with limited battery impact for all devices involved, so you should see little to no difference in power consumption.

And whether it was turned on by default seems to depend:

> By default, if you had Find My iPhone, iPad, or Mac turned on before updating to iOS 13, iPadOS 13, or macOS 10.15 Catalina, Offline Finding should already be on. However, if only one of the device's had the Find My service enabled but not another device, it may not have turned on automatically. To make sure it's on, check the following.

[1]https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/track-your-lost-iphone-ip...
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack#how-does-apples-f...
It would be great to hear experiences for those who've listed it with this option.

Also, does anybody know who's on the other end (who are the major buyers? institutional? bidding between institutional and other parties?)?

does redfin also have a buy offmarket option? zillow used to at least show "make me an offer" for off market homes who opted in.
I believe they're asking about the speed at which the actual teleportation happens? Not a hundred percent on this, but my understanding was that theory suggests it is instantaneous but we can't prove it (and the ultimate limit is still just the speed of light) for the reasons you mentioned.

Is that correct?
While Rust itself may not directly, tools like bindgen take in those headers and produce the needed glue. https://cxx.rs/ is another example of a tool that's used in these sorts of cases.

You do not have to write these things, nor keep track of changes, by hand.
I agree, there's going to be a massive oversupply of chips. If the US, EU, China, and also the current chip producers all increase output that's way too many chips.

I recently watched a youtube video predicting a semiconductor bust that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7QkIECEkVc, though I don't quite understand if the differing say <7nm versus mid range 14~28 nm chips will have differing oversupply in the future.
That's a perfectly fine opinion, but not one my family subscribes to. We're all on each others' Find My Friends, and have no problem knowing who is where. I even have non-blood-related friends on there, as do some of my other family members.

It's more useful to know when someone is X minutes away when you're being picked up or whatever, so it's certainly not "ugly" to anyone that watches my dog either.
> But economics works on incentives.

> The economics don't line up.

Suppose you're Google. You know what's cheaper than investing $100m in a new chip manufacturing company? Lobbying for the government to invest $100m in the chip manufacturing company.

This is why "the economics don't line up", and "the incentives don't align". No shareholder would want you to do the financially irresponsible thing of investing in a risky, capital-intensive venture when governments can do that for you.

As a result, companies have the incentive to invest in lobbying rather than actually fund the chip production themselves. Essentially the companies believe that chip production will result in $X/yr, but investing in it themselves would be $Y/yr, whereas they could just invest in lobbying for $Z/yr, where $Z << $Y.
Default is powerful. I think one of the most important reason that ATT freaked out ad vendors, is because its default setting is "disable tracking". I would imagine that if Apple prompt user with a pop up asking "do you want to participate?" many would choose no because why not. And then AirTag won't be as effective.

I did get a little pissed that the Find My Network isn't opt-out, even though I would likely choose yes.
Time to tape these things to packages on the doorstep to see where the thieves take them.
Is there a public list of banned domains?
This is worded confusingly. What this means is that you _won't_ contribute any bandwidth, but your (say) Echo is still otherwise an Echo.
Because they've moved to Miami?

Joking aside, I wonder if there is any other nation with as much tax variation between regions as the US? (Excluding special economic zones.)
If he'd made a platform to rival twitter, that would have been another platform.

It does seem interesting that people like Trump, despite their celebrity, have significantly greater reach nowadays via platforms, not via blogs like in the days of the early internet.
You can buy devices for this purpose already: https://tive.co/tive-solo-5g/
bitcoin works by distributing the entire history of all bitcoin transactions among a distributed pool of nodes. Anyone can look at any transaction at any time with only a small amount of effort.

there are services that will "mix" your coins with a bunch of other people's, but you can see all the coins that went into the service and the addresses they were all sent to so it's not foolproof.

I've heard that monero is a coin that can be used for laundering, but I've never looked into it so I can't say for sure
Do you have a phone, a computer or even a relatively new car?

I presume you do. You are already being tracked.
I've said it before: there's lots of low-hanging fruit in semiconductor manufacturing. Even ignoring the present shortage, it's been the case for a while that there are gains to be had for a competent tech giant with deep enough pockets to take on manufacturing themselves.

Too many outsiders tend to err on giving the benefit of the doubt, thinking that there's some sort of Chesterton's fence (you can see this in the comments here), but it's just not true. So much of what causes delays that I've seen firsthand comes down to unbelievably inefficient business processes plus the less-than-stellar pool of candidates that the industry overwhelmingly prefers to hire from.
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I’ve recently started asking people for their tiktok instead of their instagram or phone number, when wanting to keep in touch with someone after having a good interaction in person

I accidentally look at people like they’ve grown two heads when they ask to find me on facebook, in person. Some communities rely on Facebook for coordination and so periodically I might actually have a Facebook account, but still. Yuck!
It is so odd that companies with such immense engineering budgets and computational costs continue to use low resolution profiling techniques such as sampling instead of modern high resolution tracing based solutions. The gap in insight you can get between seeing some things and literally everything is similar to the gap between no profiler and a sampling profiler. You can actually trace the direct causes of slowness instead of just the symptoms. It is so massive that every time we move a system that was optimized using a sampling profiler to a tracing profiler we learn just how little we knew about how it worked and how stupid the program was behaving and routinely see 30%-50% speedups from those insights on even heavily optimized code.

The only real downsides to tracing over sampling is that the overhead is higher than low resolution sampling down to ~100 usecs per sample (single-digit to low double digit overhead) and that any performant solution basically requires instrumentation and thus results in small overhead if you want it to be runtime toggleable and requires tooling support to inject. However, given the immense benefits, it is baffling that companies continue to struggle with such minimal tooling and platforms that only have such tooling available.
That's easy to calculate. We don't know which mineral it was this time, but taking an estimate of 3.7 g/cm³ from his post,

Taking an estimate of 3.7 g/cm³ (but we don't know which mineral was in this case), and assuming something like 1.5 for bone density (which is at the higher side, but I'm allowing that these protective plates may be a lot denser than the skull bones themselves, no idea if it's correct though) that would be like 1200 lbs.
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Will extend, or already has extended?

The gas pipeline shut down is currently showing this to be an issue for refined fuel. The hurricane that squatted on top of Houston a couple of years ago also shows that to be true as well. We also saw that in toilet paper as well.
As noted elsewhere, broadcast hardware has much higher manufacturing and performance requirements, so it's not an apples-to-apples price comparison.

I'm sure there's a market for $600 (or $1000) TVs that don't have all the "price-lowering" (I'm skeptical) features of $300 TVs.

I mean, maybe the prices of ad-TVs are so low as a loss-leader to get a new advertising vector into your house? Yes, of course TVs already have ads, but they don't have this particular pipeline, one that benefits the manufacturer/brand more than normal OTA ads.

How much is a less-annoying TV worth to people? I'm guessing more than is usually estimated, and at any rate probably pretty close to price+ad revenue of a "consumer display."
He did invest in General Fusion.
I'm not saying it's justified, but I think the syntax is also a big impediment (just like for my daily driver, OCaml). Ada looks pretty verbose and annoying to write code in, at least if one wants to use it for side projects, small utilities, etc. rather than spaceship firmware; and that's probably how a lot of languages become popular, you need to tinker with them on small things.

OCaml has seen the alternative "Reason" syntax (JS-like) grow in popularity. Maybe a C-like (or better, rust-like) syntax for Ada would help the language's adoption. People already using Ada would complain that the current syntax is fine but they're not the target demographic :-)
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Things enabled by BTC/crypto: ransomewear, climate change, overnight speculation millionaires!

Also article is a bit dystopian and blaming capitalism (per usual these days).
I think if you could need to change it occasionally, you could easily be in situations where you change it frequently.

Shadow kitchens that make recipes for multiple different restaurants could have measurements in both.

To not have the button at all would make sense(compile time config), but if there are situations where you need to change it, those can come up as frequently as every time you use it
There are no expendable engines in the first stage. Engine swaps do happen if anomalies are found in testing or during the refurb process, but I don't have stats on how frequent that is. r/spacex might track engine history.
That's true, the way "technology" is set up now, with locked-down tablets and phones may be less conducive to tinkering. But then again, computers, in general, are much more affordable.

So if people are curious, it's much easier to get their hands on a computer, and there's less risk.

When I was growing up, a PC was a fairly consequential purchase for my family, and they couldn't afford to buy a new one very often. There was a lot of pressure to "not break it". Of course, looking things up a bit and getting help from my father and friends, I was able to figure out that "messing with drivers" would likely not break it physically. But I understand this could have been limiting for people not having someone to guide them.

There's also the fact that today much more people have access to "computing", so if the part of the population interested in tinkering is roughly the same in absolute terms, the ratio between those who tinker and those who don't is skewed in favor of those who don't.
Besides threatening families etc?
I think you've misread this chain, the poster above me wasn't talking about OpenSource, just hiring in general, and my initial comment was saying 132k isn't going to get you very far.

I was responding to that poster's general comment about hiring quality engineers.
ROI of investing the money vs Lobbying is ~ $100 to $1

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-23/google-am...
That may indeed be a factor, but it can happen even without active lobbying on the part of big business—all they need to do is sit back and let things flow. Be it in good faith or for cynical electioneering, lawmakers will introduce new regulatory requirements under the argument that they better protect the consumer or encourage a more competitive marketplace. However, the more complex these become, and the faster they change, the more it helps big business for they are the ones who can afford the legal teams and resources to keep track of them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm nowhere near an economic laissez-fair libertarian, and I believe that strong regulation is necessary in many markets and industries. However, I'm also very wary of well-meaning but overly complex rules which do little but add a huge barrier to competition against the big players.
At a glance this reminds me of something closer to Orleans Virtual Actors than Erlang or Akka.
This looks slick and useful, how do you feel it compares to newly (-ish) added Chrome tab search widget?

The readme in the repo does a good job of explaining the privacy implications, I was wondering if there is some to narrow either the requested permissions (can read and modify data on all pages) and the fact it talks to the network? Even if currently seemingly innocuous, the combination is a big risk that might be unnecessary for most (all?) of the functionality.
>> To all those saying that those companies can afford it themselves, remember that there are reasons they don't.

Automotive chips for example tend to be produced on older nodes, not fancy 14nm and below at TSMC. I'm not talking about SoC used in infotainment but all the micro controllers all over the car.

There is really zero incentive for a chip maker to expand capacity of old nodes since they are obsolete in some sense. It doesn't pay to upgrade to a new node without a product that demands something from the new node, and even then it's still an obsolete node. Think 130nm, 90nm, or even 45nm, the world could use more capacity at all of those but would you really want to invest heavily in any of those?

I suspect the end game for most of the industry is commodity priced chips at every "last node" where that term means the last node that doesn't require X, and X is a technology change like immersion lithography, multi-patterning, material change, or EUV. With that kind of environment nobody can afford to increase capacity much.

I'm not arguing for government funding here, just pointing to what I suspect is one of the problems.
yes, certainly doing the low-hanging things that reasonably protect the parties generally makes sense, but an excessive focus on this one issue seems a poor allocation of time and resources.
Please add 2015 to the title.
> Your first link pretty much says it all: barebones website 5 years out of date, no docs, no resources, no community links, no indication that this project is even alive.

A better starting point might be http://www.GetAdaNow.com/
With the CCp constantly threatening to invade Taiwan, there's a decent supply chain and security justification for this.
Setting aside the issues with that term, yes. I've been diagnosed with adhd, Asperger's, and half of every neurosis one ever heard of although I try not to take those labels as an identity.

But yeah, in many different phases in life I've been the "huge potential, needs to put in the hard work" person. It gets old