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> There is no reason why Apple should have to support any of that.

No one's asking them to support it, but there's a large difference between not supporting and actively thwarting.

> How exactly? There was and is nothing to stop a competitor bringing out an alternate platform

The answer is in your own phrasing. You talk about platforms. Apple has so restricted their products that the only way to compete is to build a whole platform. You can't build an app store, there's nothing to run it on. You can't build hardware to compete with Apple, iOS won't run on it, you can't replace the OS because the hardware requires signed code. The only place to compete without bringing a whole platform is Android. If Android didn't exist, there would be zero question as to whether Apple is a monopoly based on their actions, and I don't think that the fact that there's one other provider necessarily absolves them of the responsibilities for their actions. The anticompetitive behavior underneath is the same regardless.

> The thing is what Apple, and Google did is very, very hard. It takes massive investment and very sophisticated technology.

Not nearly as hard as you make out. The market is so lucrative that it makes sense for investors to throw some billions at a capable competitor and eke out some percentage of the market, but they don't. They don't because everyone is so locked into their ecosystems that any competition is at a real disadvantage. That's why the behavior is anticompetitive. It prevents competitors from entering the market to provide choice. A duopoly is obviously not enough if there's no competition at all in some areas.

> It's just rational customers acting in their own interests to prefer one product over another.

Is it? What if a separate app store existed that guaranteed that if the app existed on multiple platforms, your purchase was good for all platforms? How many more people might feel free to switch platforms and try new things if they knew they could get most or even all their purchases moved with them?

I generally buy Samsung phones, ranging from top of the line to budget models over time. There's a Samsung app store. I've never once been inclined to use it when the Google play store exists and means if I get a non Samsung phone that my purchases are still good. If there was an app store that worked on iOS and Android, I'd likely us that instead. That would be one more barrier preventing me from getting an iPhone at some point if I thought it was worth the switch. The same goes the other direction.
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When I was first figuring out how to move my ears as a kid it was all one motion with moving my scalp. I just thought it felt neat, and I was doing it all the time. Then I did it while getting a haircut and the lady freaked out because my hair was just moving back and forth, she made me do it for all the employees.

I later figured out how to just move the ears, and would try to control them separately, but never got that working. I feel like I just dug up a 30 year old feature request.
Wasn’t this also the basic JD of “computers” of old? Manually computing lookup tables for artillery, planet movement, etc
Don't get bitter or passive aggressive; that will only hurt your career and mental health long term. Find a new team internally, sell them on what you did and move on. Or move to a new company.

If the product was failing when you arrived, you're already in a poorly managed group anyway. No point in sticking around.
Running something similar with UDM on HP Prodesk G2 which I bought for $50. Ubuntu server with HomeAssistant VM and Portainer. Uses about 7w, CPU temp 32C.

I was running Pi4 before but felt it was WAY overrated for this purpose, you can buy a used micro computers for $150 which come with SSD, 8GB RAM and are multiple times faster than Pi4.
> In March 2008, a team of 72 divers simultaneously ironing underwater set a new world's record for number of people ironing underwater at once

Apparently the clothes don't need to be dry either!
He mentions this in passing on the Mindscape podcast (with Sean Carroll). Essentially, he's read too many studies that have participants perform so called 'rational' tests whose outcomes are largely a function of the environment and not the 'given test' -- ie, the presence of a foul smell caused a statistical difference in the outcome of the test. Our capacity to reflect and internalize is, to him, another output of a vast and continual, unconscious, shaping all life undergoes.
One of the relentlessly positive leads, the one who keeps calling me out for being pessimistic, has been swinging from his own petard for the ~year for rushing out changes we can’t really reason about a priori and getting smacked with obscure-to-us corner cases and regressions that are customer visible. I don’t think he’s absorbed yet how much political capital he’s burned through. Both his own and the team’s. People are frustrated. But of course he wouldn’t notice, he’s an optimist and they don’t think about things like that.
It's going to be more difficult to actually use the guns though, as there's been an import ban on Russian ammo, which is a huge chunk of the ammo market that's already being squeezed. At this rate only the wealthy will be able to afford to arm themselves/revolt.

https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-united-states-imposes-addit...
I was particularly impressed when we upgraded the RAM someone flew up from London to personally deliver and install it.

It was a Sun 4/330 - big VME based thing.

Edit: I checked and the 4/330 had a maximum of 96MB of RAM so the upgrade was probably to add an additional 64MB.
A universal equation for the shape of an egg
Assuming it's only as effective as the original two-dose shot and prevents for the same duration, it seems like COVID will never go away. Assuming the current trend and a 9 month prevention, that pretty much aligns to what happened last year. So we'd need no new significant variants to develop or any outbreaks. Seems unlikely given that there are many countries with vaccination rates under 50%

Probably better to focus on the minimum number of vaccinations necessary to make hospitalization/death unlikely and move on from there. Preventing infection might be too high a bar to meet now.
I'm someone who has lived both in UK and now in the US.

UK has a huge issue with racism that people don't even want to acknowledge. The prejudice, micro aggressions, general nastiness from people is extremely off-putting in UK.

In the US nearly every city with over 1 mil in population is open to conversations about racial discrimination, and individuals generally do a good job and admit fault when some behavior is called out.

The opposite of this holds for UK. Pointing out racist behavior becomes denial. Everyone thinks that because they're not the US they're saints and have no racial issues.

This has been the experience of a bunch of my brown European friends as well. US is genuinely better when dealing with other people.
Link to kevinboone.me now redirects to suspended-website.com which then cycles through crap links.
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Someone once told me that early electronic music was good, because it was composed by non-electronic composers searching for a way to extend the art.

Science fiction feels very similar. If you read the earliest stuff (including subgenres like cyberpunk), you get authors who were looking to go beyond. Later, you get a mix of them and trend writers.

To me the thing that he does well is break down where understanding comes from: (1) pre-context, (2) "literary naturalism" (great phrase!), (3) context, & (4) post-context.

Sometimes, it's not critical that a reader understands 100% of a concept exactly where it's introduced, and by establishing less than that, tension can be created.

I guess it's treating your reader as another character in your writing, and understanding that just as your in-fiction characters have different levels of understanding at various times in the plot, so can your reader.

Personally, it feels very satisfying when a piece of understanding clicks into place later, and I hit 100% on (insert new concept here).
Effective tax rates on the top 1% were around 43%, falling around 32% in the mid 2000's. Last data point on this source was about 37%.

Meanwhile the growth of real income held by the top earners has dramatically risen since the 1980s vs. the other classes.

With these two facts in mind, one would assume that a modern day spectrum of income inequality on 1950s taxation policy would see an effective rate MUCH higher than what they experienced, which was still generally noticeably higher than what is experienced today. A couple percentage points makes a big difference.

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/a-guide...
We don't chisel bank balances on stone/clay tablets anymore, or guard it with spears. Securing and transferring money should be much cheaper than it used to be millennia ago.
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> Seniors at FAANG type companies simply dont do that much.

I initially mis-interpreted this sentence to be talking about quantity rather than roles, it seems like others here got the same impression. It’s important to recognize the part you quoted was talking about quantity and not role, and what you’re talking about is role and not quantity. It’s also important to recognize that engineers with a lot of experience are biased toward working at stable companies and not startups. From experience, I would agree with the article that the common expectation in startups very much is that you have to make do with junior developers when hiring, and if you get high quality senior engineers with a lot of experience, you’re pretty lucky.

While there’s some truth to startup roles sometimes being more broad (less focused) and big-company roles being more deep (more focused), might it be best to stick to personal experience rather than claim what a broad group of other people’s experiences is without really knowing?

As a founder with a partner in an initially 2-person company, I did only front-end while my partner did only back-end. Our dev roles were more focused than by previous big-company jobs, but we both had to do non-dev work too, of course.

As a sr/principal in a FAANG-type company, I’m doing more mentoring of juniors, more sales and support calls, and also more math & research, than I was doing with my startup. I’m also involved in product coding, algorithms, and design prototyping.

So, speaking personally, I can’t exactly confirm your view that startups are broad and big-company roles are narrow. For me, the difference is that with a startup there were some tasks that I just don’t have at a big company, like doing taxes. The other main difference is that my own company was mine, and big-company work is structured around the organization. It’s not so much a difference in the amount or the type of work, but a difference in the ownership and motivations and what success and failure looks like at any given time.
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Well certainly Phillip K. Dick wrote a lot of short stuff.

It's from an earlier era but a lot of his great stuff was very short stories.

And yet a Scanner Darkly really dragged for me...

Overall though I agree, a shocking amount of modern sci-fi seems to be full of needless details where the author tries to prove to you that they're really smart and so on. Project Hail Mary was REAL bad about that, despite having an overall great story.
He probably meant, for a certain demographics the inflation is higher since they they have a different consumption "basket" than the average citizen.

E.g. young people are more likely to rent than owning an appartement. But the general inflation reflects only the average spending on housing. So if 50% of the population owns a home, rising rents are only reflected half as strong for the general population.

However I could not find any reliable numbers how strong the contrast for each demographic group is...
Try to be ahead of that - figure out what project they will care about next and be the leader of that one. Sometimes you need to risk a couple years on an unknown project before it breaks out to get the attention. Just be careful, it is a risk: if it works you are aren't just on it, you are the leader of it, but if it fails you are the leader of a project they never cared about.

An even better way to figure out what project is going to be important, sabotage it on a way that you can pull an 80 hour week at the last minute to rescue it. (I strongly encourage leaders to NEVER reward someone on a project for pulling long hours at the last minute - an outsider who steps in fine, but someone who was on the project should have prevented it in the first place. I've never seen a leader pay attention to this)
Unable to get through Larry Niven's "Ringworld" due entirely to the long world-building narratives that were absent of plot or character.

Maybe it gets better half way into the book?
Half step and whole step is really standard in US. I spent my entire childhood studying instruments, but I don't think I saw the "semitone" nomenclature until I started studying music theory directly in high school.
New class of habitable exoplanets represent a big step in the search for life
The whole FAANG bunch is trouble, the only company I don't have an extremely negative association for is Netflix.
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Yeah, the article mentions that as the early way the man learned to do it, before being able to directly control the muscle.
yep, if you want to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZpDR0wCRFQ&list=PLf5mA1y1vD...
Maybe that’s part of the point of the ending.

The implication is that the interesting developments in that world never end, even if the book must.

Personally I find his endings enchanting.
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Travel agencies are having a moment amid Covid-19
Have you read Bruce Sterling?
Not sure, I assume not with the old mobi format, which is now deprecated by Amazon. Now they take a submitted file in standard epub format and they manage the conversion. If it works in the Previewer, you're good.
Funnily enough I use an extension called "Amazon Global Shipping Filter" for this, since my country doesn't have its own amazon site (I'm in Ireland and there is no amazon.ie I use amazon.co.uk, or amazon.de if I want to stick w/ EU shipping).
Ploomber: Maintainable and Collaborative Pipelines in Jupyter
However it'll very likely require first unlock which puts the phone in a very vulnerable state (storing unencrypted data, or at least the keys in memory).

It is way easier for law enforcement to get into phones after first unlock than it is from a powered down phone.
Serious question, as I'm in the market: are there any mac mini like systems that feature an AMD 5850U?

EDIT: not the same processor: https://simplynuc.com/cbm1r8rb/
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1. Not all accidents result in the release of radioactivity.

2. Which non-US agencies monitors radioactivity levels in the air and water in the middle of the pacific ocean, with the resolution necessary to detect a small naval accident, before it gets diluted, or lost in the background noise?

It's obvious that the Navy has not had a Chernobyl accident. It's less obvious that it has had no accidents.
Don't try the cool distros, try Ubuntu or Kubuntu LTS.
It's the kind of thing that was a really killer way of bringing a half dozen open technologies into one easy-to-use tool, and despite the general simplicity of it, there wasn't much reason for quite a while to try to build anything better. Not that it wouldn't have been pretty easy to do, but if you did, most people would have said "but why?"

And now Docker, Inc. has gone on to answer the "why" for us.