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>I was literally primary concerned opposing the original message I responded to

I know, and what I'm trying to point out is that it misses what I consider the larger point. Your point above is tantamount to a "they started it" defense. Both you and the person you are responding to can be simultaneously missing the bigger picture. I was deliberately responding to the child comment because it would address both the child and the parent. My point is that your comment (and the one you responded towards) is wrongly focused, which has very much to do with your point. The fact that you seem unwilling or unable to see that perspective, even just to refute it, makes this dialogue tiresome. It would be like somebody writing an article about how a politician's rhetoric is divisive and somebody constantly defends it by saying it's eloquent...you can be "not-wrong" and still miss the point.
Try to get an Australian passport. It helps I hear.
Don't overthink. If it tastes good to you, fantastic. Only after that, if you want it, should you spend time trying to figure out how to make it taste like it is "supposed" to taste.
The gist here is that English needs to be dumbed down and stripped of any cultural references in order to be intelligible to an international business audience. No surprises there.

To say that "native English speakers are the world's worst communicators" is quite a bold claim. Personally, I'd give that title to native French speakers.
> Would love to hear other views

Literally a court case.
My weird anecdote. English is a not native language for me (Russian is my native language) and I have issues listening to native English persons, but I have almost no issues listening to English with Russian accent. So, I guess, that depends on a receiving side.
I honestly have sympathy for the case he makes. I don't take issue with the way that Apple has restricted the ability to get apps on an iPhone. The problem is the 30% cut that they take in the app store. I think the system can largely stay the same, but they're clearly profiting from the cut they take. It's not simply recovering operating costs.

edit: I'm not saying that they're not allowed to profit. I just wanted to point out that the 30% isn't strictly necessary to run the app store.
I know but this study was on the news beginning 2021 so I'm just making a point it's old news, pandemic is progressing very fast.
And so Apple's attack on general computing continues. Just awful.
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Oh! This erratum is the point I’ve been trying to get across. It sounds like we agree on this?
> solo entrepreneurs or small teams acquiring a pre-built product or service business...

The Built to Sell podcast often features these types of stories from the sellers perspective > https://builttosell.com/
building a weapon that goes boom from hitting critical mass of uranium/other radioactive element is pretty straight forward. Getting enough uranium is one of the hard parts, but it's not the only hard part. getting a nuke somewhere without being stopped is pretty difficult too. sure you can put it in the back of a pickup and blow it up somewhere, but hiding the radiation of that bomb while you travel/assemble isn't easy. Building a rocket is difficult for nations.
Not to mention that most of those listicles are an extremely shallow cross-section of available products. Reddit is far more willing to suggest off-the-wall options like used 5 year old hardware that still performs better than the newest shiny, and uncovers far more slightly options that are slightly off the beaten, consumerist path.
Why even get mad at curl? If you hate curl and all you want is a simple http/1 client just spend a few minutes to write a Python script w/requests that takes verbs and payloads from the command line rather than make the curl author's day shitty.
Ampere were all in with N1, and it seemed that they'd stay with the Neoverse ecosystem for several generations. Everything coming out of them contact wise was very much Neoverse related, so for them to get up and say that they're ditching Neoverse after one generation is big news. Still SBSA compliant, but big news. Renee and Atiq brought over a lot of Intel SoC designers when they left.
On cross examination:

"Yet, Google and its Android platform allows additional app stores. Are Android users inherently smarter?"
I invented the first 0nm process. I am gonna mint an NFT and sell it for the value of $21m BTC... :D
The Google of the future is a conversation with a salesman.
You'd prefer a dictatorship to a democracy because self-government is too hard?
Smaller shops/indie devs can qualify for the Small Business Program, which reduces Apple's cut to 15%.
Curl has been a life safer for me when I had to interact with a legacy third party server. The Python request model was regularly hanging when making requests to this server, whereas I never observed these issues with curl. Curl appears to be better at dealing with such legacy edge cases as it has been around for more than two decades.
"douchey" is probably the closest I can immediately think of for American English
Was the word “inflammable”?
This is clickbait. Much of what is presented as evidence of how bad native English speakers are would apply to people of other languages if they were the natives and English speakers were the guests.

But with respect to the one word financial loss, it sounds like the receiver is ultimately to blame because they chose to act without confirming the meaning of the original message.

Sure, the writer could have considered the ambiguity and been more specific or explicit, but the receiver made a choice and ran with it.
Cool project … tried it in an early version and will play with it again.

Was just wondering. From the FAQ there are no links or indications on how to configure it in Vi mode.

Also the FAQ mentions the manual/tutorials for „here‘s how you configure it“.

maybe I missed sth. Being on a small screen (phone). Yet I was just interested in how the configure / change to vi worked and could not find that on the website.

Recommend to add links to the FAQ. Is there somewhere a quick how-to/setup for the vi mode and maybe a walkthough of cool features? (Found qutebrowser way more accessible and stayed with it so far)

Edit: typos
You don't need app for something like Parler app. It might be more convenient (and even that's questionable, Reddit app is terrible compared to website), but it's not necessary.
It seems like the correct response for these "reimplementation" types of criticism is to encourage the person to do so and share the results.

I have, for personal gratification, attempted (with varied success) to reimplement several utilities. The experiences were quite eye-opening, seeing how well designed the "standard" utilities are, and identifying new ways to improve my code.
You can learn how to be better understood as a native speaker without having to go abroad or even speak to a lot of people using English as a second language.
In the UK, live in a city like Birmingham, for instance, with a strong local accent and even, in some parts like the Black Country, a unique syntax, e.g. "How am ya?".
Now go live for a while in, for the sake of argument, Glasgow, with their own particular patois and accent.

Why does this article make me think the problem is perhaps mainly with those native English speakers who haven't been exposed much to their own language as it's spoken in the regions?
So, I’ve avoided running anti-malware for years, since I’m usually prompt on patching things, and I keep my eye on security news. I’m starting to change that opinion with the rash of supply chain attacks. If some random utility on my machine accepts a bad update, I’m hosed.

Anyone have a recommendation for the least-bad anti-malware on macOS?
I should mention that coding had been an early interest of mine. In middle school I put custom firmware on my PSP so that I could use a homebrewed version of YouTube to watch a series of "Learning C++ From Scratch" videos at night. Had somebody noticed that interest I could have been encouraged early on that that interest could actually be a profitable job and not just a hobby.
I got to use an Intel XScale in a product once. I never did see the point of it's choice.
It’s surprising seeing an Apple exec say this, after years of messaging around Mac’s security superiority.

Also, what does this mean!?

> …Mac users … are subject to a way less economically motivated attacker base.
And you probably got off lightly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pit0OkNp7s8
$20k annually is below poverty line. I'm sure Google would love to be able to get people to solve their moderation problem for so little money they can't actually afford to both eat and pay rent, but if we're making hypotheticals here, we should at last hypothesize 126,000 people who get to live like real human beings.
Yes, open source is doing quite well.

Nothing is perfect. There are things worth improving. But it's hard to look at all the amazing open source projects that exist and not be impressed.

Is there more to be done? Sure. But don't take for granted what we have. Nor should we throw away what we have because it's imperfect.

So no, I'm not saying that everything is perfect as it is. I do think the article is misguided in its focus, though. The way I'd frame it is something like this: What we have is great, but not perfect. So let's work to make it even better.
This begs the question of why all of these protocols should be in one library, instead of one each.

If a project is only going to ever use http, why would I need to bundle in all of the others?

Genuinely curious what the advantages are
They have successfully marketed that their model is safer than the alternative which MSFT never managed to do. With Android as a counterpoint, that’s not necessarily obviously untrue. The consistent focus maintained around user safety does appear to be their primary motivator with financial and strategic reasons being secondary. With MSFT it seemed the reverse.

It’s also possible they are entirely similar and Apple just has the benefit of a more mature SW development ecosystem and more experience navigating the legal and political systems learning from the missteps of others and themselves.

I don’t think this is a black and white thing though. In fact, the closedness insulates any underperforming engineering teams from competition because competitors are unable to get access to the same APIs and compete on providing alternate implementations of the same thing. That’s a challenge for Apple in terms of continuing to excel in the products they ship. I doubt it’s a big one they care about though.
Have you ever been to France and tried speaking French after a few years of study? Have you ever had to deal with someone there who speaks far better English than you, but refuses to because of snobbery?

This article is trash
Gorilla Glue! Jokes about using it as a hair product aside; this has saved me thousands of dollars. I recently used it to repair a wicker outdoor dining table that was fraying. I recently used it to fix the base of an expensive blender that has broken. Its about a $7 purchase at your local hardware store, but it will easily pay for itself.
Yes, I believe you're right about that, but I believe it's still the case that no one just distributes the plans. You have to learn engineering and nuclear physics then design your weapon yourself.
> I'm kind of surprised (again) by Daniel after 20 years of maintaining curl being so salty about "people not appreciating the achievement"

You're surprised by him being salty? I can't imagine what it's like to be on the receiving end of the water torture of people continually belittling the work you have done over 20 years and given to the community.
Presumably a much smaller user base than Windows.

ADDED: I read it as less economically interesting than other desktop platforms but, reading another comment, he may have been contrasting MacOS with iOS--which probably makes more sense.
Ooof, now the (still somewhat) open macOS is thrown under the bus by Apple just to make iOS look good.

FWIW, I never had malware problems, neither on Windows, macOS/OSX nor Linux. I caught a harmless virus on Windows in 1998 or so, but that was it. Of course I'm not a "casual user", but I also didn't take any preventive actions except installing a browser adblocker (which really should be common sense by now).
Not building enough shelters and allowing NIMBYism at local levels is public policy: https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-h...
there's other cryptocurrency out there that actually has such extravagant features as "reasonable ability to transact" built in without needing second layers.
Didn't read the article, but totally agree with the title. Having seen the level of complexity the business-side people (analysts, managers, product owners) have to deal with on a daily basis, I'll gladly work on our ridiculously overengineered k8s-based web app. It still seemed rather sane compared to the business side of bank.
I assume that means "Since the Mac has less market share, it doesn't have as much focus on hacking it since you will be attacking a smaller slice of the pie (verses something like Windows).
With one of the comments I immediately thought "this is HN". And I was right.

But on a second look I'm quite certain it wasn't the wording or the sentiment, but the beige background color that I hadn't consciously noticed before.
Snoonet was a desolate wasteland long before the PIA “merger.” Since then, Discord has largely eaten up subreddits for communication platform of choice.
So what was the word?? This is like those articles about photos that don't actually include the photo.
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It largely read like a hamfisted attempted at persuasion, I'm honestly not as scandalised as Ariadne seemed to be. This is par for the course in any political setting: help me and I'll help you.

The foul smell simply comes from the way that guy Shane communicates - the short sentences, the somewhat-juvenile form, it feels like you're talking with an excited and vaguely sinister teenage salesman. I think he misjudged the type of person he was talking to, Ariadne clearly is not the stereotypical IRC kid.
The subject does have a lot of complexity that doesn't fit in a comment box. My point stands in general, but it gets complex.
Can you tell your friend at Google that their website weights whooping 89 MB, most of which are huge animated GIF-s? This is insane! Doesn't Google know about HTML5 video yet? https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/11/gif-to-video/
Yeah! it completely takes the fun out of it. Usually it is a group of good singers that monopolize the stage or look down bored at the normal people who is there just to have fun.
I've been at places even when I distinctly feel a hint of physical aggression from one of those pros taking the microphone from me after my song. really bad vibe.
Thanks just got one! Been looking for a good ergo keyboard recently and this checks all the boxes.
Yeah, I'm a little surprised at all the negativity here considering the game-changing potential of this sort of research. The HN crowd has always been a pretty cynical bunch, but come on! A single model that can extract information from images, text, and webpages across multiple languages and generate answers in response to natural language questions written by a user? This feels like straight-up wizardry!
> The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own culture, says Chong

Isn’t this a description of native vs non-native speakers in many languages?
Google has been instrumental in destroying the Internet as it originally existed.

Remember when a bunch of people (and Googlers) threw a fit about Project Dragonfly, Google's "aborted" attempt at a censored search engine for China?

Now that it is widely known and accepted that Google routinely manipulates and censors search results in Western countries for political and anti-competitive ends, where is the outrage now? Where are the walkouts at Google campus?

If Google ever did "love the Internet as it originally existed", the people who lent that air to the company are long gone, replaced by new people who look at the Great Firewall of China with envy.
They're sure inherently more likely to be infested with malware.
I pointed out if you want to have a real conversation on value that you don’t start by offending 50 percent of the population. Somehow you took I support trump out of that …
Is that just crazy glue? Or it’s different?
>> but it was the person who sent the message originally's fault?

That's not what the article said at all. It seemed to place the blame on the word. I'm with you that one person should have sought clarification since they knew there were two meanings, but that's not actually the root cause. Another person may have only been aware of one of those meanings and made the "mistake" without ever thinking they needed clarification. The problem was the use of ambiguous language.

I find it really amusing to see someone thinking they blamed the sender. It seems like another example of how English speakers are so used to having to interpret words.
Many of the commonly used Ruby HTTP gems use libcurl under the hood.
Not since the days of XULRunner, which is ancient nowadays.
>What happens, for example, when you lose your crypto-key?

Same that happens when you lose anything else of value- it's lost unless you can get it back. I don't need a central authority to decide that I might be able to get my money back without my password, because then someone else can do the same (via social engineering or otherwise, like internal saboteur)

>What if a 51% attack happens, in which 51% of the processing power in a blockchain network come under attack by a group with immense computing power?

An incredibly unlikely event, given the vast size of the network. Though it is a valid concern.

>This is to say nothing of the environmental aspect of Bitcoin mining, which uses more energy than entire nations.

Agree on this point, FWIW, though PoS aims to fix it (which sadly is moving pretty slowly)

>Or the fact that groups like the Al-Qassam Brigades are using cryptocurrency to finance their operations and solicit donations.

What about the fact that banks assist billions in tax fraud (and pocketed millions in bailouts)? The crypto can be blocked at exchanges in the future making people more wary about the issue.

I hope I don't come across as a crypto shill as I own no crypto, but the author argues against crypto as a whole (instead of, say, crypto evangelists).
That's incorrect. Molecules collide when they are close enough. (There is a small probability of tunneling, but it's really small.)

Small perturbations in a crystal are call "defects" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_defect and they are quite stable, and don't move too much. The effect is very local.

The defects in DNA can have a huge effect if they are in an (un)lucky spot, and they are completely unrelated to material science.
> [...] after years of messaging around Mac’s security superiority.

Just because something may be superior does not mean it's (a) perfect or even (b) as good as it could be.
google.com/ncr or use a VPN
Heard this phrase growing up in Ireland also so I think you may be over generalising. A quick search shows Irish origins actually.
>It’s surprising seeing an Apple exec say this, after years of messaging around Mac’s security superiority.

Well, the situation is still not nearly as bad as Windows, though it's arguable how much of that is technical and how much is statistical.

>Also, what does this mean!?

iOS users vastly outnumber macOS users, and have a much larger market share of smartphones than Macs have of desktops.
I think you and parent came up with a possibly better example than the one in the article quoted by the grandparent comment, more so than it being a clarification of how single DNA mutations ripple out to be big problems.
What’s wrong with them making a profit? I don’t think that would be a powerful argument in this case on its own.
For comparison, A68 which broke up near South Georgia earlier this year was 5664 sq km. This one (A76) is 4320 sq km.
Sounds like you need some Terraform or CloudFormation to set up the cloud infrastructure such as MySQL RDS as well as the IAMs and associated positions. Definitely doable.
The simple math is wrong because it doesn't account for the future which might or might not have some other consideration that you don't even know of.
On the other hand, somewhere in the region of 10-15%[1] of the UK population is dyslexic (I'd expect that to be similar in any English-speaking country), so exclusively-written communication will be somewhere between "unpleasant" and "awful" for them.

That, and people will start judging on grammar, ability to spell, word choice, etc, etc. I think you'd just be trading one set of prejudices for another.

[1]: https://www.cache.org.uk/news-media/dyslexia-the-facts
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It's a neologism. Some people love it. (Actually, it seems like a lot of people do.) To others however, it strikes the ear as awkward sounding. I wouldn't say there's anything "wrong" about it. It's a matter of taste. It's a bit of a pet peeve for some of us.

I bought a book a couple of years ago: iOS and macOS Performance Tuning. I took note that the author had not used the word "performant" even once in the book's 400 pages. Maybe I'm a snob, but it made the author seem the more credible to me.
I've often jokingly said to people "curl or it didn't happen" suggesting they send me a single curl command I can run to re-produce it. However, every time someone's actually provided a curl command over a postman file, it's either showed it's not a bug or I've found the bug within minutes of running the command.

I'm a fan of postman for some things, it sure is easier to modify and re-run http requests over and over in some cases. But on the whole if you're trying to debug an issue, dropping down to curl solves so many problems and is pretty easy to share with anyone no matter their OS for the most part.
It's a difficult problem and the costs of the security model are passed mostly to devs in the form of their time getting through the review process and being careful to plan features that fit within the subset of allowable behavior.

Concrete example: I have a small Mac utility in the App Store. I've had to can an unreleased feature because of App Store restrictions; specifically, using IOKit to read some device information. It's a shame. I also dread submitting every update; I never know if the reviewer will 'get' what my program does or not, as well as have the necessary equipment on hand to test it.

Cost of doing business, I suppose. It was meant as a learning exercise and has made some money, so it's all good. I may consider selling it via Paddle in the future.
"they're clearly profiting"

This is the purpose of for profit corporations.
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I have,

I was working on replacing QtWebEngine(chromium) for Qutebrowser with Servo. It is very far from ready, most websites do not render correctly and JavaScript is very hit/miss with regards to updating the rendered view.

Simply put: Servo is not possible to use as a daily driver.
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