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> It's not and it does matter

I was mistaken - you're right that you can't keep app data. It still doesn't matter because they already have easier ways of running whatever code they want on phones with Google play.

> Not sure how what's unclear about "legal mandate". If the law says, Google complies.

I mean that I don't understand what your original statement was. Is it that governments can force google to hand over your signing keys? I agree that it is a concern, it just isn't the issue I was commenting on. I didn't mean to bring that into this - I just didn't understand your meaning.

> Google doesn't control every vendor

They don't need to. They already have system apps on every phone running Google play, which is the exact same list of devices that will be affected by this change. You're right that they don't control every (or even most) OS vendors for Android, but they don't need to.

> Are YouTube's forced midroll ads "reaching" as well? There's no fundamental difference, they monetized someone else's content.

I'm not debating whether midroll ads are right or wrong, I'm debating the technical merits of this incredibly roundabout method.

"Patching ads in" on an app-by-app basis is nonsense - why not just add it to some hooks in Google play services? Not to mention they'd have to make sure it doesn't break the apps themselves. Why waste the time and money? Hell, force app developers to insert code into their own apps by changing the policies on the store. I bet it's result in a lesser outcry than if they did it secretly. Signing keys as a conspiracy to show more ads is ridiculous when they have better vectors elsewhere.
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> there's genetic evidence covid-19 evolved in animals with intact immune systems, not in a lab

They had live animals in the lab.
Worldometers is including travelers who get infected outside of China, but who are diagnosed as having SARS-CoV-2 while undergoing the mandatory quarantine to enter China.

That's different from people who get infected in China. There have been long stretches of time with zero local cases in China.

Just to illustrate the difference, here's a typical daily report from China's main public health authority:[1]

> BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 21 imported COVID-19 cases but no new locally transmitted cases, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.

The "imported cases" are among travelers undergoing quarantine.

There have been a few outbreaks with local transmission, but so far, all of them have been successfully contained before they spread very far. Right now, for example, there's an outbreak in a town on the border with Myanmar. The town itself has been locked down and everyone in it (270k people) has undergone PCR testing, and will be tested a second time over the coming days. So far, about two dozen infected people have been identified. However, outside of this town, there are currently zero local cases in China.

1. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-06/28/c_1310031605.htm
And it's at L2 so not that easy to get to
I had the same situation - blocked ear, NHS doctor said they don’t usually do anything about it due to the risk of ear damage in the process.

The drops did nothing, but I ended up using one of the bulb syringes you can buy to blast it with water and it did the trick perfectly, lots of gross wax came out and I’ve had no issues since (previously they’d reoccur every now and then). Was really weird after I’d done it, everything sounded really “HD” for a while! (I remember I took advantage and went record shopping, lol)

This YouTube clip showed me how to use it properly: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sAHx0B7icmI

I’m no doctor so please don’t consider this medical advice and do check with yours before trying this!
Article says 1M tons, not 1 ton per volcano
Oops my bad, indeed.
Why don't manufacturers advertise that more clearly? I've never seen that information on the simple specs that most models list out.
There's much more traffic than the residents. A lot of people work but doesn't live in Gibraltar, a lot of tourists and loads of people crossing the border just to buy cheap cigarettes. There are usually queues outside every cigarette shop. It's complete chaos at the border and nothing like any rail crossing I've ever seen.
Since 2020, the roles have changed and it has been like that since then: [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23564759
Nowadays you can DIY this with some special syringes easily available. There are also other oils that are better than olive. (both can be found in pharmacies)

But yes it is an annoying problem.
>This sort of proves my point, no one knows which exactly research JWST will do upon deployment

The research isn't a secret, JWST is already booked solid for like 18 months after it launches. You can see how that time is allocated across various projects here: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...
Well, not for video, where you need e.g. 12MP minimum to do 4K.
> This is like getting mad at the guidebook for showing which plants are weeds when your neighbors complain that your unmaintained garden is full of weeds.

Wouldn't it be more like getting mad at a guidebook which falsely claims that every plant in your garden is a weed, forcing you to second-guess all of its assertions and therefore wasting a lot of your time?
Unfortunately, the article doesn't mention the motives of the artist. This isn't about politicians using their phones. It's about surveillance and license plate or facial recognition. With camera systems popping up in all public spaces at an astonishing speed, the artist wanted to make politicians feel what it is like to be constantly monitored as a suspect.
This is the SECOND time it came full circle.

Apple should have learned their lesson with the original Apple ][ RESET key.

The earliest model of the Apple ][ had a normal RESET key in the upper right corner of the keyboard, with only a slightly stiffer spring than every other key on the keyboard. When you pressed it, it went BEEP and dumped you in the monitor.

Later versions of the Apple ][+ increased the spring stiffness a bit, but not enough that it wasn't still way too easy to accidentally press.

And eventually Applesoft came along and it dumped you in BASIC instead of the monitor. But it also disconnected you from DOS and made it almost impossible to continue what you were doing.

There was a whole third party ecosystem of physical and electronic devices to make the RESET key harder to press.

One common one was a square plastic tube that fit over the button, that you had to stick your finger into to press. They came in various styles and colors and designs, and made great branded swag to hand out at trade shows.

Another popular electronic one was a little board that you wired up to make it necessary to press the control key at the same time as the RESET button.

The Apple //e finally adopted built-in control-key RESET protection. (Putting many little third party companies out of business -- not the first or the last time Apple did that!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23068829

The original Apple ][ had a reset key in the upper right corner of the keyboard that was WAAAAAY too easy to press.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/1b/53/e31b53767fad646fc635...

They eventually put a stronger spring under it so it was harder to press, but it was still terrible. There was actually a thriving after-market for $3.25 "RESET KEY PROTECTORS": square plastic tube shields that fit over the reset key so you had to stick your finger down inside of it to press reset.

https://apple2history.org/history/ah13/

RESET KEY PROTECTOR, which prevented accidental RESET on the earliest models of the Apple II, was available for only $3.25 from Special Systems Design. This was necessary because the RESET key, on the upper right of the keyboard, was easy to press because it had the same spring action as the other keys on the keyboard. Various methods (like this product) were used to stiffen that key, and make it harder to press.

https://imgur.com/a/jGpcT4Z

Special Systems Design ad for Apple ][ Reset Key Protector, from Apple Orchard v1n1 1980 Mar Apr, page 107.

https://archive.org/details/Apple-Orchard-v1n1-1980-Mar-Apr/...

Videx Enhancer ][ Reset Key Protection:

https://archive.org/details/Videx_Enhancer_II_Installation_a...
They're great until the first time you have more wax in your ear canal than you can just wipe off with a q-tip, at which point you're likely to push it farther in, where it will then take about the same time to work its way out as your fingernails take to grow. If it's a lot this can result in hearing loss or a painful impaction. Like a lot of things it can keep changing as you age until something that used to be simple/easy suddenly isn't.
More powerful. Java threads are objects with a standard API for managing them, and you can do things like await concurrent work without rolling your own command protocol using channel pairs and hoping some goroutine out there might still be answering. A JMX client can even show them in a GUI.

This makes the same concept radically cheaper by not involving the kernel, which is great because Java hasn't had green threads for a long time, and doing everything async in small worker pools worked but has admittedly been pretty painful.
Exactly. When we become aware of our instincts and know to take advantage of them, in addition to baseline human ability, it's even worse.
>This is a development that makes electrolysis practical in those regions.

It is neither a development[0] nor does it particularly make electrolysis practical in those regions[1] (or more so than it was yesterday). Unless there is something about keeping solar cells warm that is beneficial, I'm really not seeing it.[2]

>Hydrogen electrolysis is most efficient at elevated temperatures

negligibly until you get into the realm of solid oxide cells (100's of C) -20 to +40 is negligible, and moreover a moot point because of [1]

[0]>> The method works by using electrolytes with low freezing points, such as dilute sulfuric acid, to allow the use of water at lower temperatures.

A common electrolyte for making H2, at room temperature and otherwise. Not novel (or interesting).

[1]>> resulting in an interior working temperature of around 10°C.

Approximately 30-40 percent inefficiency in an electrolyzer manifests as heat -- all they did here is wrap their electrolyzer in a blanket. Any electrolyzer of appreciable (read: useful) power has trouble keeping cold, not warm. The square-cube law applies here, electrolyzer power (and heat generation) scales w.r.t. volume, heat loss with area. For intuitive purposes, a device capable of fueling a car (driving 24/7) would be outputting about as much heat as that car's engine.

[2]There might be, (chemistry is my meat and potatoes, more so than physics), but I've always seen the issue being more with keeping solar cells cool.
>It’s important to understand that “good” means good for business and “bad” means bad for business, .

The 'good' here is what people 'want', at least what they think they want and not what they 'need'. Overtime the users unconsciously or consciously(influencers) realize that the system overwhelmingly favors this behavior and resort to only broadcast content which people want irrespective of whether its factual or end-up hurting those who consume it in the long run or even if they themselves don't believe in that content.

You can verify this yourself, Subscribe to a Twitter topic of your expertise and check the home screen(mobile app) (or) if you're brave enough check the home page of LinkedIn and you'll see the algorithm's overwhelming bias towards conformity.
I could see that with a 2-5 year cliff but 12 months is not a long time in a job.
I heard about NixOS years ago and thought that an “immutable” Linux dist is an intriguing idea. Game changer if it actually works in practice. But I never properly experimented with it.

Are there any good learning resources for using NixOS in an “infrastructure as code” scenario, or should I just RTFM?
1990's Oberon does indeed lack some features, as pointed out in EthOS paper, however Active Oberon has all the required features, comparable to Modula-3.

And A2 is much more pleasant to use.

This is why it is my favourite version of Oberon linage.

Now it is mostly nostalgia, so it gets down to use Go, .NET Native, D, Nim, Swift, whatever, to reach similar goals.

As for C++ GCs, the approaches taken by Unreal C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX are quite alright.

However the whole language politics at Microsoft seem to have placed C++/CLI and C++/CX on the extinction path, and C++/WinRT is surely not a replacement for anyone that enjoys productivity over a renewed ATL experience.
There's something about martial arts that encourages mythologising. The Reddit post you link to also mentions the uncritical assertion that Angampora is 5000 years old.

Gillian Russell wrote a nice essay about the nature of received wisdom among many martial arts practitioners: Epistemic Viciousness in the Martial Arts.

https://fightsciencesresearchinstitute.wordpress.com/2008/10...
Chromiums governance isn't entirely Google.

Parts of the codebase are maintained by Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft and others. There have been times when Google engineers have had changes rejected by people from those companies.

You might be thinking of Android, which has a far less open governance...
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> It is not a restriction on private companies

I think this is an irrelevant argument. Why Congress was concerned by foreign interference then? Private companies should have had some social responsibility if they stepped into social area. Or, they should have banned all non-US residents as well. Why Trump only?

Actually, these details aren't interesting to me. A lot was already said about that, no point to say more. I would just like to note that in the global scope, through all my conscious life since 80s, America was great but what's going on nowadays worries me. This reminds me my home country which quickly went through real freedom back to totalitarianism. Maybe, in US things are just slower but the tendency looks the same.

That's a view from my couch, don't take it seriously.
I'm sorry that you had that experience. My NHS practice has a nurse that "syringes" ears, and its fairly straight forward to set up an appointment. They do ask that you apply oil to your ears in the days leading up to your appointment, but this is just so that the earwax comes out more easily.
has anyone else got the impression that default compression ruined the image quality on very recent devices ? i moved from iphone se2 to 12 pro and took pictures of trees and grass, and was wondering why all my pictures looked blurred.

Then i activated the uncompressed pro format and got much better results (with images weighting a ton more of course)

i still have to get back to the se2 and see if i have the same problems but it was the first time i was completely unimpressed by the camera when upgrading my phone.
> How the British and other colonizers go unpunished

I have to wonder how it's possible to decide whom to punish when the vast majority of those involved are dead, if any are left, and what you would punish them with?

Sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm cutting down the population of "colonizers", you did point at "the British" so it should be up to you to clarify the bounds.
Look at Android' Project Treble, that is what Google has done, just with Android IPC instead of io-uring.
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This is a great point; I forgot entirely about exemptions.

Do you happen to know of any existing regulation-with-exceptions that I can cite, to persuade others (and incidentally myself) that regulation isn't such a bad idea? Ideally something related to FAANG, but any software regulation with reasonable exemptions would be a fine example.

To be honest, I'm worried that politicians would muck things up during the legislative process, and that the right exemptions won't get applied. Or that we'll run into yet another law where you're required to pop up a banner saying "This site uses cookies, just like everyone else, lol." But if it's been done successfully, I'd like to know about it.
Oh really? Tell me how did outrage over Youtube ads fixed it so far? or, outrage against Facebook?
Quantifying VR cybersickness using electroencephalogram-EEG [pdf]
Search for high integrity computing, that is the industry term.
Among the music makers, programmers and designers that I know, the vast majority still use Macs despite the annoyance of the 2016-19 laptop fiasco etc. I know one or two who have switched to Windows because they needed high performance machines and weren’t willing to pay Mac Pro prices, and a couple who tried and ended up switching back because they found the Windows experience inferior.

I don’t think I know anyone IRL who is worried about the Mac becoming locked down - iOS sure, but you can still basically do what you want on a Mac for most people.

The reality is that for most people the Mac is a relatively hassle free experience. You don’t need to worry about whether it has certain components that will affect audio performance etc. - my understanding is you still need to be careful with chipset etc. on PCs.
It is also pretty awful though. I can't blame them for switching. Especially for something with WiFi and USB 3. If be very surprised if Eagle is good enough for that.
Samsung Internet is an outstanding browser on Android. Pinch to zoom on almost any site, build in QR scanner, but perhaps most importantly, the ability to use an ad block extension.
I don't think it's really weird but using it as an http rest client for testing apis with restclient.el

Postman frustrated me because it was taking up all the memory on my computer to do really simple calls. I remembered the "emacs rocks" episode on restclient and gave it a shot. Such a nice package. Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package.
La-la-la hands in the ears denial is conforting, but scientific consensus says otherwise: that the temperature rise we're facing is man caused.

For starters it should be obvious, that just because something happens ocassionally through cause X, doesn't mean all of its instances happen by cause X.

That is, the fact that the Earth has had (and will have) cycles of higher/lower temperatures doesn't mean that this particular stage is one of them, and not a man-made one.

You know, same way thousands of people day every day from natural causes, but a body found with two bullets on their head is not just a regular natural death.

Second, even if the climate heating was part of some "natural" cycle, it would still be a huge problem for humanity.

It would only be "business as usual" for Earth, which doesn't care if we live or die, have food or not, sustain our cities, etc. For us, it would be a huge disaster (and in many areas it already is). So it would still need us to think some way out of it -- whether man made or natural.

So, I'm not sure where your nonchalant vibe comes from, even if (against consensus, but having cherry picked some opposing voices, which are a dime a dozen in every field) you think there's no human-made climate change.

Earth was also mostly molten lava billions of years ago, but that doesn't mean we would be OK with it getting like that again.

Again, sure denial is comforting. One can go on dreaming. Heck, they can even eventually suffer the consequences themselves, without still acknowledging that there's an issue.
Why down vote without a reason ?
I had the same experience in the U.K., twice - once about 12 years ago, once two years ago.

Olive oil does absolutely nothing that I can tell. I’ve tried it, fastidiously, as my ears are really prone to filling with wax.

My experiences on continental Europe have been entirely different, however.

Ten years ago, about 18 months after being refused treatment in the U.K., I was working in France, and woke up one morning utterly deaf in one ear. Couldn’t unclog it, so went to the local rural clinic. I had to wait about 15 minutes, and they hosed my ears out with a rubber hand-bulb. Magic. €7.20, I think, which was the standard consultation cost at the time.

Most recently, I had an ear block again a few weeks ago, and I now live in rural Portugal. Again, took myself to the local clinic, hoping to make an appointment - and they were shocked that I hadn’t gone straight to their emergency department. I had no idea or expectation that they would have an A&E - this is a tiny clinic for a population of less than 2,000. Anyway, toddled around to the back, where there is indeed an A&E, and again, they did it there and then, no cost.

I’ve found doctors in the U.K. to generally be a pretty unhelpful bunch - I think it comes from them drowning in insane KPIs and spending most of their time pushing paper or trying to keep their practice from disintegrating. They don’t have time for patients. I ended up seriously unwell as my GP kept brushing me off — and a dear friend ended up dead, as she was repeatedly told by her GP that her colon cancer was IBS, until it metastasised and ate her alive.
This just sounds like a more informal form of the private academy system in East Asian countries, where parents pick and choose different classes, activities, and tutors from the different private academy offerings. There are basically academies for most subjects, from art to science to sports to performance arts to languages, so a child's education and specialization can be individually tailored.
Sometimes they work far worse than water, they can cause a very thin hard film to coat the eardrum which is almost impossible to get rid of, and which can get infected. Finally got a usb ear cam with a scraper to remove it, but it was weeks and it got bad enough they prescribed antibiotic for the ear infection but still refused to just remove wax block. They argued it was too infected so they couldnt see what was infected and what was earwax... idiots, its not like it matters. I scraped away the pus and the wax and the infection healed in a single day. Ever since I remove the earwax block with a cam scraper once a year or so and never had the kinds of ear problems I used to again.
There is more cool projects from Web Audio Conf

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMaHc1Rq2viM88OsluS2WWw/vid...

https://webaudioconf2021.com
4K is 3840*2160 = roughly 8.3 megapixels.
Should I exercise after my Covid shot? Singapore recommends waiting a week
> “pretty much all of the non-ferrous natural resources that we exploit come ultimately from ancient volcanoes.”

Is this literally true? As in our non-ferrous ore deposits were all sites of ancient volcanoes? Or is he talking about magma in general that may or may not have been released by an actual volcano?
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When it becomes normalized? It's already teriffyingly normalized.