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Ermmm... what?

The genuine irony is how Poland, my home country, within 24hrs went from telling the EU to go stuff itself to begging for help, and seemingly even without noticing the contradiction.

For the journalist, I feel very sorry (I don’t know much about him tbh but death penalty is excessive for any crime, even more so for one imagined by Lukashenko). This doesn’t preclude making a wider observation.

But surely, this is what my Russian masters told me to say on the major geopolitical forum that is HN. Da svidania.
How is this different from credit cards that have "rewards"? If you think of the independent software vendors as the corner store where you buy groceries and Apple as Visa or some payment processor...

Actually now that I think about it the difference is the walled garden. I think pretty much the only compromise I can accept is something like Apple and Google must be required to add something like F-Droid that is run at arms length from Apple and Google and accepts third party software repositories.

This way users can download and use any software they like from any repository anywhere. The benefit for Apple and Google is we won't shut them down and really they have inertia behind them so many if not most people will stick to the default stores, and Google can forbid OEMs from adding applications or repositories. A user must do so deliberately and manually.

The benefit for users is applications installed from F-Droid will be able to auto update.

The benefit for independent software vendors is they can publish their stuff outside of app store and play store and not have to adhere to any policy by the app store or play store and not have to pay any money to the default stores.

Anything less and we are basically at status quo.
> I don't mind paying for software I use, but 120/yr for a phone ssh app is too much.

This is because it's much easier to earn money on the long-tail dedicated fans than the masses. Especially when those masses are likely to hate advertising based models with a passion.
Sounds like they need to update the law somehow to prevent this. I can't quite figure out the starting logic for this though.
Germany and Italy recurrently ignore the Stability Pact rules, thereby threatening the fiscal and monetary stability of the region. But when you are Germany or Italy, no one will complain and no judge will chase you.
There are losses in every step, and power supply design is basically a big optimization problem to choose all the design parameters to minimize losses.

The main components with losses:

* The input capacitors are non-ideal and have some resistance. That resistance causes heat every time current flows in or out of them.

* The MOSFET switch has an 'on resistance' which means it wastes energy when current flows through it.

* The MOSFET takes a certain time to turn on or off. During that time it is partially on, which wastes a bunch of energy each switch.

* The transformer has resistance in the coils.

* The transformer has iron core hysteresis, which makes the steel of the transformer get warm as magnetic fields change in it.

* The diode on the output side has voltage drop across it.

* The capacitor on the output side has resistance.
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But to update the law (because this sanctioning mechanism is so deep in EU law), you would need agreement from all member states. You can see where this is going... The EU won't try it because Hungary and Poland would obviously vote against it. And the cycle continues.

The current EU plan is to hope that Hungary or Poland's governments get replaced with one that won't support the other, and then consider doing the sanctions.

The other EU plan is to pursue other punishments that don't require a full sanction and basically cause as much hurt as possible even if they can't do the ideal remedy.
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No, you don't understand. What annoys me is that Apple has created an additional incentive for companies to clutter my screen with useless apps that wouldn't have any reason to be apps if it wasn't for push notifications.

These "apps" should never be allowed in the app store. They should be websites that get to ask me exactly once whether I want to receive their notifications. Instead they keep pushing and nagging me to install their apps and Apple's policies are encouraging this behaviour.

In some cases, the notifications are useful, but there is no other reason for them to be apps installed on my device.
My wife is a non-native speaker of English. I understand what they're talking about but they're mixing up two separate things--language usage and accent.

She definitely has an accent but it rarely is an issue. (There are a few words that mess her up badly, though.)

Much more of an issue is language usage. She has learned the words she needs to communicate (but will often be tripped up by uncommon words) but fares poorly with the little words that glue the language together. A recent example, "I eat myself" instead of "I'll eat it myself". The important concepts are in what she said, but with the glue missing the meaning changes greatly. Another weak speaker would probably understand it fine as the important concepts are there and they would arrange them to fit (but occasionally misarrange), but a native speaker not used to it very well might have trouble.

There's also the issue of sentence complexity. Think of books for little kids, how everything is broken up into simple thoughts. If their language uses the same sentence structure as we do it wouldn't be a problem, but if it doesn't they won't be able to properly build a mental map of what the sentence is saying without bits hanging off until the end.

I used to say that if you told my wife that if you can get to it in one minute there is a million dollars in a box on the back right of the second shelf of the refrigerator that she would have no hope of getting it, but if you told her there is a million dollars in the refrigerator, on the second shelf, in the back right in a box she would go right to it.

Note how it's easier for us to process the first way of saying it, the second feels wrong. For her, however, the second is normal, the first leaves too many hanging bits and she wouldn't be able to follow it.
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I build a lot of "useless" stuff too. Where by useless I mean useful to me, but isn't ever going to have customers.

A. Educational value is a thing. Not everything needs to be a business with customers. Not every project needs to make money. Many of my projects teach me something about science, tech, or arts.

B. Fun is a thing. Building stuff is a way to enjoy life for me, similar to spending time on the beach.

A couple of my more "useless" projects:

https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/

https://dheera.net/projects/mnist-clock/

https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/

https://dheera.net/projects/shoji-lamps/
People of Belarus had enough arms in hands to start armed uprising. It was their deliberate choice to refrain from violence.
>In the United States I can write, or say, any number I choose to.

Images of sexually exploited toddlers are "just numbers" too, but it doesn't seem like the DOJ buys the free speech argument.
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They do help. Since HN finds it interesting I can write some on the most modern designs. I am currently designing a FOSS power supply. One of the goals is to go for high efficiency. The end product will use GaN and SiC elements. The different chemistries give different switching characteristics. (Interesting aside is that some topologies can run forward as line conditioning AND backwards as a motor inverter.)

There are also supply chain and security considerations, though. You can buy magic PSU chips but what if you can't?
You're right that increasingly often the EU is not making a clear enough stance about what it supposedly believes in, and this isn't about trying to act tough but to show some determination to exist around the ideals of its creation.

If this event doesn't lead to something significant, it would once more fail at points 2,3,5, and 6 of its core values[0]. As a EU citizen I'm hoping for the long-term success of the EU but not always very confident in it..

All the best to you, particularly courage and luck in the face of what you have to deal with locally..

[0] https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en
awesome! I started working on some visualizations in that vein for fun just in the last few weeks, and had very similar ideas about making a 'scriptable' version and letting others build what they want with it.

I've been running a node-ytdl-core server alongside it to stream audio from youtube videos, which is my primary issue right now: making something interesting for others seems like it needs to be able to play the audio they want, but most people don't have folders full of mp3's anymore, and both youtube/soundcloud/others and the modern cross-site web security model make it incredibly hard to do something as simple as decode the audio signal the browser is playing.

Regardless, your project looks super cool! Using online radio seems like a neat way to workaround the problem I've been having.
Yeah, you're basically scrambling things across an entire genome with no way to account for all of the random and unspecific changes that may occur.

One thing to consider though is that our bodies have evolved to eat all sorts of DNA - fragments and full genes - without directly incorporating it into our own genomes.

I'd personally be more concerned about plants expressing new allergenic proteins or that sort of thing, but it seems like there are already some decent methods in use to detect that.
> Rent would go up and there would be basically 0 actually free apps anymore.

I don't think there's nothing getting in the way of Apple charging a very high rent for Amazon's app and a very low one for a random vegan recipe app.
Hardly surprising since penalties are very easy to score if the player hits the ball properly and the keeper doesn't move before the kick (which would trigger a penalty repeat).

There's one rule to score a penalty 100% of times: keep the ball ground level and aim near one of the goal posts base. If the kicker doesn't screw up, then it's a goal, no matter how good and well trained is the keeper: there's just not enough time to go there, that's why the secret is keeping the ball low: you can fight gravity with a strong high or lateral jump, but you can't help gravity by adding more force to the gravity pulling you down.
Once this has become automatic, the player only has to keep cold and ignore the keeper, which naturally will do anything to distract him, therefore it's only a matter of making the thing automatic and don't think about it. Mental coaching, which recently has become a thing in football too, can help with this.
A Panenka is a specific type of penalty through the center. It's a sort of chip/scoop shot and it goes really slow. It makes the keeper look foolish if it comes off. But it's slow enough that even a keeper diving to one side has a chance to recover, as seen in the video you shared.

But there's also the option of taking a normal run-up and blasting it straight down the middle. No keeper is going to be able read that since there's nothing to disguise. And if they dive, it's going too fast for the keeper to recover and save.

The keeper is biased toward action. If they just stand in the center and don't dive they'll be blamed for not even trying. So a hard, fast penalty down the center has pretty good odds of succeeding.
True, there has been little political will in the US to deal with the homeless for many years. Fair weather states are taking the hit simply because it's easier to live outside when you don't have to deal with the extreme weather on a regular basis. I remember reading about a 3+ years homeless couple that moved from Alaska to California and had had a child while living on the streets. The kid had never lived in a house since they had him while they were homeless. It's easy to blame California's politics but it's a problem all over the US.

Also, there needs to be a way for people to make a living wage that lets a family afford a place to live in. There will always be a need for low skill jobs, for workers and employers, so society needs to make sure they pay a living wage. Working and not being able to afford a place to live is a large disincentive to work and get a home. It's easier to just live where you can pitch a tent.

The state is beginning to spend billions to get a handle on the situation but it's a hard problem since in many cases the root problem is deeper than not having a home, drugs and mental illness are a big root problem. Also, the financial problems due to COVID will make the problem worse.

Homelessness is a problem that needs to be dealt with at the national level. The idea that you can scape it by moving only delays the solution.
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It's poetic and philosophical, but it's good to steelman such idealizations of struggle. Was it worth it to achieve these feelings for McAfee?

I've been in a third-world jail for one night for a victimless crime, facing five years in prison, and my feelings were very different. More than anything was the feeling of the banality of time when you physically can't move more than handfuls of inches.
No they don't "have to". Every other platform gets by just fine without this rule. Windows Store, Play Store, Samsung Store, Steam, Origin, Epic Game Store, even Apple's own MacOS store.
It's got to - it's competing internally with Azure DevOps as well.
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> If we run short on the family types (as we may be doing), incentivize that lifestyle a bit. I hear Japan actually pays people (a little) to have kids.

It's not that unusual in the West either, it's just most often done by giving tax breaks to married couples. You probably won't be able to incentivize this kind of lifestyle any time soon, because people will scream discrimination if you tried to, just like they did about the marriage.
Fun story, I uploaded some recordings of the family dog playing a very rough-sounding game of tug-of-war with me. I got a bunch of great growls and snarls from it, and they are uploaded to Freesound.

She's since passed, I think those are my only audio recordings of her.
300,000 of Serbs forced out of Croatia in period from 1991 to 1995. Where were US bombs to prevent that particular ethnic cleansing?
Amazon must receive a ton of reports of stores doing shady things like this. I know I've sent some. They seemingly spend very little attention to these reports, because it's not like they have to care at all.
Thanks Maciej! :)
Same. I've got uBlock and the whole kit and kaboodle and my private window YouTube experience is nothing like my signed in one in any way. If I knew it was about my add-ons I would have rephrased it, but it's too late.

My point still stands. If someone went to YouTube having never seen it before and they created an account, what they are introduced to is half mainstream drivel and half animal videos, reactions, viral videos, etc. Unless you are already interested in intellectual content, I doubt that most people are ever exposed to content that's... more meaningful. I'm not saying average Joe and Jane should be watching Lex Fridman, but it they at least knew that these kinds of conversations were taking place on social media then their perspective of the world might be different.
The biggest reason to make useless stuff instead of useful stuff is to avoid harassment. If you have something useful on GitHub then entitled users will come out of the woodwork to request features, report "bugs" (read: the user is doing something wrong), or otherwise expect free work out of you.
Yeah, I think you articulated that better than a lot of us here. That, in a sense, your diagram becomes your psuedo-code, or even further, your actual implementation.

My initial defensive impulse to this topic was mostly to take a stand against frontend code that is becoming increasingly obtuse over the years.
> As a general rule, app stores simply don't allow third-party payment in apps that don't go through the store, for this exact reason. It's not just Apple with this policy.

This is not a "general rule". I can't think of any examples other than Apple's app store.
Hey! Jumping in, because I'm learning German: do you have other suggestions appart from MaiLab?
What makes you think "Penning Trap"? Neutron generator tubes have been used since forever in the oil well logging industry. They use an electric field to accelerate deuterium ions into a solid target containing deuterium or tritium.

As far as I know, fusors have never been commercially successful as neutron generators.

Also, why would one use neutrons for plant mutagenesis? Photons are far easier to make. An x-ray tube will produce a given (biologically effective) dose at a very small fraction of the cost of a neutron generator.
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I think the most likely scenario would be the plant expressing a new (or modified) allergenic protein, and it seems like there are some decent methods to look for those things already in use.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/251449018_Mitigatin...
Or please do. It would kill freenode dead and then there would be no debate about whether channels should stay on freenode or move to libera.
(Assuming you sent an email or tweeted at them) You have gotten in contact with them. They just didn’t respond. Either take that as your answer and live with it or stop paying them because your need to feel heard is greater than the value of their service, to you.
I saw the new Mac Mini on sale at Costco for $600 yesterday, I don’t see how Apple hardware can be called “expensive” anymore.
> Windows 10X was supposed to be Microsoft's answer to Chrome OS

Well there is Windows 10 S-Mode[0] which runs on low-spec hardware and only lets you run apps found in the Microsoft Store

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/s-mode
Sure, I'm comfortable with that.

However it's a disingenuous to claim that Marxist political philosophy doesn't imply extreme centralization in practice. You're substituting the Marxist political projects of today (and yesteryear) with a hypothetical as-of-yet-unobtainable Marxism of the future.

I'd be a Marxist if all its problems suddenly disappeared and we were left only with the upsides. Who wouldn't?
> Even then, it is only a problem if you have no good explanation.

"I have nothing to hide, why should I care?"
I've watched my fair share of Strange Parts [1].

The reason why you can get any device fixed is the availability of parts, yes. But also all of the highly specialized tools available combined with the skill of people in there.

Even if someone in the US could get the exact same parts, they wouldn't be as able to fix the devices due to the lack of devices and necessary skills. This is also the reason why most electronics are made there, it's a staggering concentration of skilled electronics workers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
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I don't mean to call for anything, just pointing out that sanctions mainly hurting the population may be the intended effect.
Apple should line item the 30% charge on the bill, not have it hidden.
Tsikhanuskaya has a competent skeletal crew that can be built into a government, that's just a technicality. And yes it absolutely can get recognized; historically governments were recognized with less. If democratic process is your only yardstick for recognition of world governments, I have bad news about a lot of places that are none the less recognized.

It is a matter of political will, which is the only thing that is practically lacking.
Siemens also sold relabeled R3000/R4000 Indigos (RW3xx/4xx), we had a number of these donated to our student Unix workgroup by a local company back in the 90s. These machines ran IRIX instead of SINIX, of course.
Huh? Mass production means that replacement is often cheaper than repair or one off crafting.
> Microsoft store on PC is not a closed platform like Xbox is, ergo it is not what I was claiming.

I mostly mentioned that to make the point about Xbox 12% cut. But you also mentioned Steam, so it doesn't look like you're solely talking about closed platforms.

> I just mean that if we’re penalising one platform it seems fair to penalise the others.

If that's your point then I'd agree. Though it matters less for game consoles, and by "penalize" I'd mostly just want them to stop the active suppression of alternate app stores. It looked more like you were defending the practice as non-exploitative.
Will definitely check this out; looks good.
Let them know they are free to make a pull request? I don't see this as a reason to specifically avoid useful stuff.
must be nice to be so fortunate, but this is just regular nazi greed
I think this is a really great point. PWAs are not a threat to native apps - they are a great in-between that adapts to different use cases.

Installation, push notifications, etc... are all optional and can be mixed and matched based on what users actually want.

An example would be individual forums are a great use case for PWAs.
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I thought this was common knowledge, but I looked for a citation and couldn’t find one.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/dupont-to-pick-up-wher... suggests that roundup-ready soy seeds are viable. So perhaps they rely solely on IP for protection.
I guess there is no international penal code. There are treaties but for many of them, there is no enforcement-no worldwide police to knock on your door.

So repercussions tend to range from nothing, through wagging fingers, slaps on the wrist, to sanctions, UN resolutions, UN-sanctioned wars, or if you really piss someone off, non-sanctioned wars.

I don’t think Belarus will be invaded, and I guess Russia would veto any particularly nasty move in the UN, so really this leaves stern words and some unilateral sanctions against the Lukshenko regime. Doesn’t seem like overwhelming penalty (though well-targeted and enforced sanctions can bite quite badly).
Well, you also keep it around the house...
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Your claim is false. The US did not do the same thing to "the Snowden jet."

No plane was diverted due to a fake bomb scare to force a landing.

The Bolivian President's plane landing was a PR stunt solely for his own self-aggrandizement to be seen as challenging the US, it was not forced to land by the US or by a US fighter jet.
I can’t run Xcode on my iPhone either even though that’s what I need to develop apps for my iPhone. Even more strangely I can’t run Xcode on the iPad Pro despite it literally running the same chip that runs Xcode on a cheaper device (the Mac Mini).
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>'intellectual property' is mostly post-modern nonsense.

Quite the opposite. You're either confused on the meaning of 'intellectual property' or 'post-modernism'.
Building useful stuff with a "user base" of one falls under that too. I'm my own customer.
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DNA is DNA, be it fragments or full genes, and regardless of the sequence, our bodies are pretty damn good at breaking down DNA we eat without directly incorporating it into our genomes.

Would be pretty interesting if that weren't the case though; quite literally "you are what you eat."