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> In that case, missing Safari features _are_ a detriment to users, because it prevents developers from building this new software.

> Perhaps they could have created a packaged native application for all major operating systems, but in reality that's a ton more work, and a huge impediment for users to convince collaborators to buy/install some native app so they can work on a drawing together.

> What other software are we missing out on because the barrier for interacting with USB/NFC/Bluetooth/Notifications/Background-Sync is too high.

These are quite a bit overstating the problem. The barrier to entry to develop a native app using safari is quite simple, and you can extend safari to do many things, including being spawned by golang and adding other FFI's for javascript functions. The barrier to entry is your willingness to learn and you only see these complaints coming from new developers. Taking a canvas API and implementing yet another collab drawing app is not innovating, it's using an API.

On the flip side, each new API brings more and more surface area for attacks. And if we keep stacking new APIs we don't have enough time to mature and secure up the existing ones. Notice the only example apps given are attempts to replace native apps with web apps.
One of the best ways is to teach them the basics of Logo.

to square
forward 100
right 90
forward 100
right 90
forward 100
right 90
forward 100
end

is a square.[1][2]

Then you can do:

forward 100
square
forward 100
square

etc...

Any child can get this. I did when I was 10 years old, with a bunch of other pre-teens.

Got it right away and absolutely loved drawing various geometrical patterns.

Of course, Logo is based on Lisp, so you can go pretty deep with it.

[1] - Draw it for them as you explain it, or just show it directly on the computer using Logo and turtle graphics.

[2] - Pardon if my program has any bugs.. I'm doing this from memory.. haven't touched Logo in decades...
If by "we" you mean everyone, no we can't.

Edit: assuming you know it's too late not to start, propose something other than magic wand obvious solutions.
The organisation is also in the way. Both in Ibm and for those teams using ibm. Very bureaucratic and like token ring over management kill. Good and have its niche. But murder by the liberal Ethernet.
> Like many kids back then me and my friends spent hours trying to move that truck to get a mew, but it was impossible, it was just a rumour that spread because back then no one knew for sure if it was possible or not.

I found the myth that holding "B" would increase the catch rate the be worse since it would take a lot more work to figure out if it made any difference or not. Sadly, no lie is immune from being spread, internet or no internet. Very easily disproved lies like "It wasn't raining" or "This vaccine will transform you into an animal" are spread online and sadly believed by far too many people who have no problems ignoring reality whenever it's convenient for them.

Hell, there are plenty of sites online right now which will tell you that Spirit Orbs are real.

We have less mystery in the world, but we often have to wade through piles of lies to find the truth and a lot of people don't have the tools to tell what they can trust. It fills people with even more confidence about the lies they hold as truth. At least in the past most people were a bit uncertain and could only say they heard something from someone who heard it from something else. Now when we hear a rumor we use google, find something that confirms our view, and them claim the truth is the result of "research".
It’s also not even accurate because there are multiple flavors of Apple “One”
The science does not meet the hype.

> Our review shows there are not enough data to draw conclusions about how biochar production and application affect whole-system GHG budgets. Wide-ranging estimates of a key variable, biochar stability in situ, likely result from diverse environmental conditions, feedstocks, and study designs. There are even fewer data about the extent to which biochar stimulates decomposition of soil organic matter or affects non-CO2 GHG emissions. Identifying conditions where biochar amendments yield favorable GHG budgets requires a systematic field research program. Finally, evaluating biochar's suitability as a climate mitigation strategy requires comparing its effects with alternative uses of biomass and considering GHG budgets over both long and short time scales.

From https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Full disclosure, I'm in my late forties, so there's a definite impact on my work flow there. I honestly think that a hybrid style is the best, but I don't need to be in more than once a week (if that - usually) to be completely honest. Most of my communications are done over Slack, in office or not =[ my team is small and we just aren't that chatty of a group except on certain subjects. We're excited about Dune, and I'm sure everyone not in our team is ecstatic that we haven't gone back to the office yet. When we have a work question, we put it in the Slack channel. Stands ups have moved to Slack as well, which are great because I can reference exactly what was said and not a summary email by a "Scrum Master" like I'm in some corporate fantasy sports league- no offense to scrum masters out there. I've met some cool ones. We email our progress and it's handled and update on JIRA. I dunno, there seem to be enough tools for me.

But, if you're starting out, it's a pain in the butt. When to ask questions and who to ask. Where to get guidance about what, and code reviews have to be done in person. They're super intimidating already (for me anyway). Meeting a core group of people your age at a company is important, as well. That's where you spend so much of your time and those social interactions can't be ignored. I keep in touch with people from jobs I worked at 20 years ago. They will help your network in life and career in the future, and that is all being stunted..... sorry. Got off track. But all important issues, depending on what stage of your life/career you're in.
I worked on a similar system at Plaid, but we used lightstep. The biggest challenge was on boarding engineers to the tool. It was also a bit of a workaround with respect to test flakiness, which we tackled separately. Still, I and many engineers (particularly new ones that were t familiar w the system architecture already) found it valuable!
It's working fine for me on FF90, even with a bunch of adblockers
Well religions increase population. Some religion like Mormonism (lds) are more explicit about the population increasing.
Sure, but the number of famous people in the world is a tiny fraction of the number of people of modest or minimal means.

For the number of rich people (1%-ers) who go to jail to be similar to the number of poor people who go to jail, every rich person in the US would have to go to jail, simply because there are, by definition, 99x as many non-1%-ers.
I use operating system memory paging as an analogy for this: you paged it back in.
Nobody who lives in Europe has ever identified themselves as "european". It's not a thing. Europe with its nation states is not comparable to U.S. and its states. Whereas a person living in Washington might identify as an american (as opposed to Washingtonian), a person living in France will typically identify as French (not as european). Your statement that Europe "no longer has any identity" makes no sense, because Europe has never had an identity.
This won't ever get first-party support because of the legal complications with the use of mobile devices while driving (that legally doesn't apply if it's permanently bolted to your car)
the closest i've found is the italian detective series Inspector Montalbano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Montalbano_(TV_serie...
I started rewatching it a couple months ago, but had to abandon it almost immediately. The alien race to historical nation stereotyping is so forced and gross :(
Doom worked for me in that I could select the menus, start a new game and move the character around. But it seems the “shoot” button is not working. From googling it seems “shoot” is mapped to the ctrl button which then I assume is not passed through the browser to the emulator :(
There are aftermarket stereos that support CarPlay. You most likely don't have to get a new car: https://www.crutchfield.com/car/carselector.aspx
For realism, you should add much more latency to every interaction.
> I also sometimes think about implementing a keyboard macro that does a BnB combo in Skullgirls :). Maybe one day lol, but that's cheating and I wouldn't do it online (also I'd get screwed on whiff or block).

I must be getting old because I have no idea what you are saying.
The amount of effort put into this rebuttal is why I try hard to avoid reading the comments here.
> If you've got five steps and five threads and a big pile of data, it can make a lot more sense to try to have each step running in its own thread and passing a processed chunk of data to the next step rather than having five threads trying to each take some chunk of data and process it through the five steps itself. Factories have done this since the 19th century, but most programming languages make it hard.

You can do that with an actor model by giving each actor thread affinity, but it's rarely what you want since it's normally a lot more efficient to move the code to the data than move the data to the code. In a factory the machines are heavier than the products they're working on so it makes sense to move the machines to the materials; for most code tasks it's much more like harvesting a field or something where it's much more efficient to move the code to the data.
Furries led the way in BBS communities; too. The first normal people on Mars will probably find, scrawled on a rock, "SexxxyWolf37 Wuz Here"
You'll have the same issue with pressure sensors, though?

Maybe a flow meter is a better choice for that. (Bonus, you can use that to cross-calibrate with the pressure/level sensor)
Why is this being downvoted? Genetic programming successfully recovered Kepler’s Laws
EKS has actually come a long way in the last couple of years. They now have 'eksctl' that helps a lot with provisioning/de-provisioning the node pools. They're also pretty up to date with supporting new versions of k8s (1.21.2 now, I think). I definitely know what you mean about the 'minimum viable product' and their overall views on k8s though, as our account rep definitely tried to steer us away from EKS when we ran into problems with CronJob. They also don't seem to have any particular relationship with k8s development, so we ended up not able to use CronJob for more than six months while our issue (with k8s repo) just sat waiting for someone to look at it.
Each beam covers a cell that is ~140sq mi at nadir, there are likely 48 downstream beams per sat (16 per antenna), per FCC filings.
Given the number of buttons afforded some mice, you could technically implement a microwiter keyboard in full upon just the mouse. I say technically possible, I personaly never played with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter in it's day or since, though read reports of good typing speeds.

But then, why stop there, just use two mice as such per hand and have the craziest developer desktop going.

Another article that has info upon one handed keyboards like the microwriter https://skippy.org.uk/home-made-keyboards-part-2-more-ideas/
Catholic morality represents a tiny fringe group in Finland. Catholicism has never been a part of "european identity", because Europe is not a culturally or religiously cohesive area. There are nations with many catholics and nations with only few catholics. You're trying to view Europe as a federation similar to U.S. and it's nothing like that.
Just don't try to activate it!
If you search youtube, theres an excellent video of a hiker going out to see the last remaining Lykov (Agafia i think). Its a beautiful area and a fascinating story.
Some studies are quite skeptical. For example,

https://asi.ucdavis.edu/news/new-study-biochar-helps-yields-...

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Some studies even show that biochar soil amendments accelerate the breakdown of humus and release net positive CO2 to the atmosphere:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcbb.12376
This is what I come here for, and let me add in a few more confounding factors I haven't been able to chase down.

Power transmission is neither free, trivial to implement, or perfectly efficient. The more power you are moving somewhere, the more dangerous and costly the "pipe" you use to get it there. If you look at residential situations, it isn't hard to find households with >3 cars. Is everyone plugged in at once? Who gets the fast charge? Can the house handle it? Can the neighborhood handle everyone doing it at once?

What happens to residential electric? Do we start doubling up on transformers? One to keep the Electrician's codes from having to change, and one to feed auto chargers? What does that mean for linemen/women/people? How does the increase in higher power transmission lines affect the biosphere?

What happens the first time a feed or arterial link goes down? You can ship gas, electricity, not so much, especially if swappable batteries are not a thing?

How about equipment? Cars aren't the only things that use gas, Gotta count in charge maintenance and battery attrition there too as well as consumption.

What happens when the almighty Centralized Generation(TM) goes down? How decentralized is our generation going to get? How do we ensure the grid can be maintained safely without linefolks also having to go house to house to isolate them from the upstream grid they need to work on?

Electricity, despite the near magical experience of the layperson, is frigging complicated, and it's successful deployment has been built on a lot of interconnected assumptions, standards, and what have you. If the transition is slow enough, I figure we can spread answering all of these questions over the span of a generation or so; but I'm really uncomfortable with the optimism of people going "we JUST need to go electric".

Hell, all of that has to be considered on top of increased need for power for climate control, the possibility of higher temps leading to actively having to mitigate water shortages or any of the other myriad of other knock on effects nobody has wracked their noodle enough to realize may be a problem yet
alienware machines are disasters, so it's not a loss that they are being cancelled. They are heat death traps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ulhFi5N2hc&t=950s
You are repeating your point without acknowledging my points.

Discussions cannot have meaningful progress like this.

As I said, in this existing system, one cannot measure the investment value of other parts of the economy. Therefore one cannot justly determine the profit sharing in such system.

If you insist on tax collection is enough to justify the profit ownership, then you are not acknowledging the fact that I totally agree, in the existing system, where there is simply no other alternatives.

But my point was that the system is the problem itself. I.e., this system cannot justly assess the profit ownership. The case in point is that the military and education are not treated as investment like other capital investment.
Educated Chinese generally speak some English, they are way more exposed to our system/culture than we are to theirs.
"Failed to load DLL". You have to click "Damn" to exit dialog box.

I wish today's apps made interactions little more fun like this.
Blast from the past! My parents had an AgendA around 1995. I remember making a "Choose Your Own Adventure" game for the organizer part and learning the chords.
> Now if only they paid more than 10% income tax I could have a road without potholes

Apple paid 14.4% in income taxes in fiscal 2020 and 16% in 2019.

Do your roads now lack potholes?

What if we increase that tax rate to 18% or 20%. Would the potholes go away? (nope)

The potholes have a lot more to do with vast government mismanagement of spending and a failure to raise gasoline taxes to fund infrastructure (at least in the US), than they do with a few billion dollars in tax revenue re Apple.

The federal + state + local government systems of the US have spent something like $70+ trillion over the past ten years. How much of that did they allocate to infrastructure?

They spent our trillions of dollars in infrastructure money occupying and blowing up Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. A couple of billion dollars from Apple is just about the least of our problems.
I think nc works out of the box in MacOS also.
The main reason people don't do this is that your fingers are on the keyboard most of the time, and there are already plenty of buttons if you learn how to hit Ctrl or Alt smoothly (e.g. remap Caps Lock to Ctrl) and how to create new shortcuts.
Especially because there's Google One (cloud storage) and Microsoft OneDrive (cloud storage).
It's interesting to think that David Silver and team must have known about this when they published their paper "Reward is Enough" in May. You have to wonder what else they know that we don't about the progress of AI.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437022...
I’ve been an iPhone user for the last 5 generations and recently swapped it for a Google Pixel for a 5 day trip just as an experiment. If you substract off all the things that just work “differently vs better”, there are still many things that I found shocking with Android:

* 3rd party app (Charles Schwab) was not usuable to execute an options transaction. App usability bug.

* QR codes would not scan, but would scan fine on my gf’s iPhone. Hard to imagine a Google Pixel camera can’t see these well?

* Battery drain was way worse than iPhone. Had lots of anxiety about this

These are not just differences. These are tablestakes things that should just work without any education between Android vs. iPhone.
Relatedly, I link to a lot of personal blogs in my newsletter Interesting Things. They tend to be good quality blogs (otherwise I wouldn't linking to them) so you'd probably find some good stuff there.

Newsletter: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things

Sample issue: https://bengtan.com/newsletter/sample

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255
It’s hard to do, cause most often it’s my dad and I have trouble staying calm because of that family dynamic. I could try asking though.
That was only 13 years ago.
Check out this video describing the “one electron universe”

https://youtu.be/9dqtW9MslFk
If you think it’s a good idea to pay nearly $3k/mo for 1bd rent, you probably should move to SF.
This is dependent on a host of things, such as OP using a VPN lol.

A lot of people are opting away from Google as a standard, to add to that, American websites are a real pain when it comes to harvesting personal information and as such when you see a horrific anti-user gdpr notification you just
... Leave. Same with constant captcha.

I'd like to see stats on websites using OneChoice or whatever its bs name is. For a site called hackernews there sure is a large lack of care regarding personal information.
What's an Electron Huge?
I like to think that if we tried installing Windows 10 entirely via floppy disks the floppy drive would fail somewhere around disk 5000.
Naw. If you used NT4 then you probably used Windows 2000 as well, which was newer but still sane. The actual newest but good (by that same metric) to make it to the shelves was Server 2003, but you had to enable certain desktop features and disable certain server features to get a good workstation configuration.
There is an excellent book by Elting Morison that includes a chapter on naval architecture, and the ways it was held back at the behest of naval commanders who wanted to preserve the culture of sailors that would be destroyed by the introduction of more powerful engines and faster hulls.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/men-machines-and-modern-times...
I love the system64.dll in the trash, it's a nice touch.
Is there geological record on how stable these forests have been over the last few thousand years? I can't help but wonder if we're watching the west coast of north america shift to a more desert like climate through the PNW/BC/Sierra regions.

Presumably if the burns are large enough, and the following wet season dry enough this process could occur over the course of only a few years.
Kitboga is a scam baiter (a guy who messes with phone scammers) on YouTube. He once set Windows RG to fullscreen in a VM and had a Windows tech support scammer connect to it and try to go through his scam script in the Windows RG flash app.

https://youtu.be/F0peLpovDB8
This is my problem. I did find a programmable keyboard at one point that actually stores config within the hardware, so you could store hotkeys and move between OS's, but most of these sorts of things require installations and some kind of platform-specific config. I gave up using my macro keyboard professionally after taking on a client that uses Macs, with which it isn't compatible. Agreed with your last point though. If your environment is stable it can definitely help.
KeyCastr – Open-source keystroke visualizer
So, DOS?
I don't think it is nostalgia, I'd say that Windows 2000 was the peak when it comes to usability, and XP, Vista and 7 made it prettier, taking advantage of improved graphics hardware. And then Windows 8 arrived and broke everything.

It is easy to find the culprit: tablets, and mobile devices in general, and to a lesser extent, web apps.

Mobile devices needed a new kind of UI, something suitable for small touch screens. People tried things, apparently they are still trying, because it is a mess.

But now, we have another problem. Desktop UIs and Mobile UIs are very different. And this, in itself, is a bad thing. Mobile and desktop computers do a lot of the same thing, you shouldn't have to learn how to do it twice. So they tried to unify, and in the process, lost decades of UI refinement.

The next issue is portability. We have web apps, Desktop UIs, Mobile UIs, different OSes, etc... Developers don't want to make a different UI for every system, and users want consistency. The least common denominator is the web browser, so designers use that, but the web is made for documents, it is terrible for apps, but clever devs make do.

So as you see, we now have a lot of hard problems to solve at the same time, and the desktop UI became part of it.
Yes, everyone went into remote work with a lot of momentum. It will very interesting to compare something like the iPhone 14/15 with previous deltas. But even more so, I think the new product lines and early stage products will take the biggest hit to their schedule.
>Somehow in sci-fi stories, that's supposedly "overcome" someday

It's always overcome in stories about humans, conducted at biological timescales.

There are many ways to construct a functional interstellar civilization that just aren't very interesting to read about, much like how nearly all people living today have lives that wouldn't make a good novel.

Nonsentient mesoscale replicators riding solar sails that take thousands of years of years to visit stars would be cheap, reliable, scalable, and fantastically boring as the subject of a fiction novel; given the lack of any human characters or human conflict.