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> But is anticompetitive behavior in itself illegal?

Yes. See https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices

> If so, why is it only being investigated now, 10+ years later?

By it's nature and the nature of our system it's often hard to prove or hard to actually prosecute, as those that engage in it are often large and powerful.

We have laws regarding monopolies not because they're "monopolies", but because it's a specific subset of anticompetitive behavior that was seen that the legislative body wanted to make it easier to prosecute, and easier to prevent before it actually happens (which is why the government rejects some mergers as bad for consumers).

That we didn't prosecute this before likely has many causes. From the token appearance of competition between iOS and Android to an unwillingness of politicians to go after companies that are seen favorably in the public eye and/or that have lots of money and contribute a lot of funds to reelection campaigns. Until a sizable chunk of the public is behind them, few politicians have the desire to be the first to call for reform that would be a major impact to some of the largest companies in the world, for multiple obvious reasons ranging from funded competitors to worried stockholders to how many people that company employs and if it will affect that.

Edit: Also, there's not usually a rush to investigate small or medium size businesses, or markets that are so new that it's plausible that competitors haven't shown up yet. That's the other half of the "Android and iOS aren't really competing" point. Initially it looked like competitors were around, but it wasn't always obvious that certain things just weren't on the take as competition until it became impossible to ignore. That everyone charged 30% and then all of a sudden there was massive change just as legislation was being considered is a dead giveaway, but also not something those companies could afford to not try in appeasement.
This is a great series of tutorials to follow if you want to gain a better understanding of what goes into a basic Linux system. I think some of the commenters here are missing the point that it’s a learning exercise.

For production-grade custom Linux firmware, two of the most popular options are Buildroot and OpenEmbedded (Yocto). I’d recommend that anyone interested in this space get started with Buildroot. It’s really easy to make a basic image and customize it to your needs, plus you’ll learn a lot along the way. Yocto is much more powerful and customizable, but the learning curve is far more difficult. It’s great for more advanced situations where you need to support multiple boards or bring in 3rd-party layers.
I scanned the page for 'empathy' and there was not a single mention of it.

'Emotional generosity', the thing at the start of the article, doesn't count. I don't know where that language came from but it doesn't sound empathetic, it sounds transactional.

I don't really care for what else the author has to say, having understood that
I do actually use Postgres still, despite its limitations.

I dislike their ideological opposition to query hints, partially because I've been bitten enough by the optimiser deciding in production to change the query plan to something that kills performance. If anything, I'd rather be able to pin the entire query plan! Obviously a better optimiser is ideal, but query plan changes are a big risk to app stability that are hard to mitigate. AWS Aurora for PGSQL actually has a query plan management system which helps with this.

Anyway, the difference between PG and the others doesn't make up for the licensing costs. Even in the specific cases where MSSQL does far, far better, the licensing costs still eliminate most of the benefit.
What is happening in San Francisco ?
My favorite is where the people are encouraging and the sermon is under ten minutes.
Yeah virtual keyboards are something I just try to avoid having to use for the most part, Gnome's keyboard gets the job done when I absolutely have to type but if I have to write anything important I'll just switch back to laptop form. Which I guess is the big advantage of 2 in 1 laptops over a full on tablet or laptop
>That's a really cool graphic that looks to be Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams with telephones?

I noticed it's 3 separate svg files.

He has another post with similar line style drawings[1], no credits there either, so I assume the author did them?

[1] https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/brooks-wirth-go/
Research shows developers are becoming less interested in the Mac App Store
I assumed (generously) that they were talking about capacity factor. Most wind power plants have a capacity factor between 0.25 and 0.5, which has been increasing over time. We are now able to build taller towers with longer blades, and that makes a difference. From the PDF:

> The average 2020 capacity factor among projects built from 2014 to 2019 was 41.4%, compared to an average of 29.0% among projects built from 2004 to 2011, and 25.2%
among projects built from 1998 to 2001. This improvement among more-recently built projects has pushed the cumulative fleet-wide capacity factor higher over time, reaching 36% in 2020.
A lot of it is path dependency whereby various practices turn into processes, regulations and laws. On top of this narratives form that guide peoples thinking as to what the right financial decisions are, then people can start to believe these narratives over time without questioning them. Eventually companies can create certain processes or habits on the basis that those narratives need to be true: https://www.epsilontheory.com/what-do-we-need-to-be-true/
and this would be the core of the "hostile unions are suboptimal" argument you are trying to sidestep.
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> small propeller planes

General Aviation is a category that covers a circumstance of flying rather than of aircraft. I think if you've got the necessary time and money to buy your own personal jetliner, insure it, get all the paperwork signed off for it and for you to fly it as a hobby, that's still GA, although where somebody with that much time on their hands gets that kind of money escapes me.

Some mere millionaires own jets with decent performance, aircraft that in capable hands could fly well in most weather but they're still GA and too many of them still die in bad weather.
Modern day "controversial" generally means idiot who wants intellectual cover to be a bigot. Trump supporters pretending to be Galileo lol
Colloquial usage around here means something close to, "An inability to gracefully accept an external perception of ourselves, because that perception is at odds with our own understanding of ourselves."

This "fragility" must always be accompanied by an accusation - otherwise fragility would not manifest. Without an accusation to deny, no one can be fragile in this sense. The opposite of fragility is callousness - i.e. "Damn right, that's what I said. I meant it. I don't care who it hurt, as long as they get out of the way."

The word "fragility", in its current social context, would appear to be a word intended to belittle. It says, "You think you're a big person, but you are a small person. Because you have denied my truth, you are fragile. Because you have proclaimed your innocence, you are fragile."

To me, there is a glaring fallacy in calling people "fragile" this way - and that is the part when the people who engage in this behavior decide to forgo intelligent discourse and presume that they are correct without hearing the other side of the story. Sometimes people are different than each other, and you can't always win arguments just by calling them "fragile" when they disagree with you, because what we're really talking about sometimes when we say the word "fragile" in this context, is "an impassioned personal defense against accusations thrown at people who look like me, but who do not represent my values." It's not okay to do this. The only thing we do when we call people "fragile" in this way, is we internally invalidate their position, and then we burn the only bridge we ever had with them.
I like and support anyone trying to do a Linux laptop, but sorry System76 -- I hate, hate, hate your keyboard layout. Awful!

Take a look at the keyboard layout before you decide to purchase a system. Also, ask yourself if you shouldn't just be getting a Dell instead.
Yeah, that's a prerequisite. But, execution and marketing are at least as challenging.
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Software companies and LinkedIn. I would say conventions too, but those are kind of not happening with COVID rn
Joke articles (and let's face it, this is a joke sport) tend to attract joke edits.
"Woke" was turned into a pejorative specifically in some of the most historically vile empires because the idea of the masses absorbing, confronting, and exposing unpropagandized history was too much of a risk for the ruling class.

From what I've seen the most anti-woke places are the UK, US and Japan. Anyone that understands their uncomfortable histories understands why.
"What did you accomplish during your time with X research group?"

"Nothing since all our equipment broke, but we documented how it was all IT's fault. You shoulda seen the looks on their faces when we called them out on it to the dean!"
I think that most people who generally support cops and soldiers but who also contemplate violent resistance against the US government have already thought through this issue and their usual resolution is "I generally support cops and soldiers for now but if they cross certain lines then I am fine with fighting against them". I do not think that there is nearly as much cognitive dissonance or hypocrisy on this topic among those people as you might think there is.
I don't know about the quality of the pangolin or the HP but I can tell you that lenovos consumer level laptops are pretty trash quality wise.

The thinkpads (at least the X,T and P models) tend to be a different story but even that is changing in recent years
Because nearly everyone in Germany is in some sort of union.

Entirely different climate, sort of like life-long employment culture in Japan.
Considering the military is the worst pollution offender, I'm wary of how they'd handle nuclear waste.
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USPS has changed the shipping rates on August 29th. What really changed?
Huh, I just tested out tThe Simpsons and yeah, I got the key dead on.
7 and 10 benchmark roughly the same yet somehow 7 is capable of running from a HDD without shitting the bed, unlike 10.
I would prefer a keyboard with out the Top row of numbers. Those are pretty much useless.

So much so that I often use AHK to remap the top number row to be other functions.
Your third item implies massive multi-trillion dollar upgrades to the transmission system(s) which are historically sexy and politically unpopular. They need to happen but they won't.
Whiplash and concussion have near identical symptoms too. It's very very difficult to tell them apart.
I am not sure we can draw definitive conclusions from a bad experience in the 60s anyway, in the very early days of nuclear energy. Think of what aviation looked like 20 years after the flight of the Wright brothers. You would never board a plane today by that standard.
Your neighbor may have problems handling their trash, but they for sure have countless dangerous chemicals around their house, and yet they live safely. I'm not even talking about the obvious (household cleaning agents) - their fridge and AC unit likely have pretty nasty substances circulating inside.

The trick is, as always, to make a sealed system and scare people into not messing with it.
Just to add my anecdatum: I am on my third or fourth System76 laptop, the others are all still working just after a few years I need to upgrade. One is now the living room stereo and one is the gaming room stereo. The point I'm making is that they last for years, I think my oldest is a decade old and still works fine. So, just one person's experience but there it is.
Probably not, the death rate for former WWE wrestlers is absolutely astounding and they haven't been sued out of existence.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-pro-wrestlers-dying...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/comparing-the-wwfs-deat...

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33817959
The winners of remote work are those whose services are scalable, and those who excel at it. The content and conclusion was also not what I was expecting, but you can see that it's a completely valid title if you allow yourself to see it from a different perspective.
It set off the flamewar detector.

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Sorry, this doesn't pass the smell detector.

The main reason why nuclear isn't a thing except in communist countries (or countries with a big centralized state power), is that scaled nuclear require central planning. You really can't expect private operators to run nuclear, because the cost of the fuel is actually 0.01% of the operating cost, and the most efficient way of running a nuclear reactor is full power.
My grandmother used to make the best Peach Cobblers. She started learning how to bake from her grandmother when she was only seven years old. She continued the tradition with me by teaching me how to bake when I was seven years old. In the spring of 1998 I baked my first Peach Cobbler with my grandmother proudly watching. I entered it into the local baking content and I won 2nd place! That's when I knew and my grandmother knew that I was going to be a baking champion. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2001. Anyway here's her recipe ...
In Germany this type of experience would be paid 50k. So the license fee will hit be costly here.
Your optimism is unfortunately without basis.
Turbines are being built in slower wind-speed areas but are producing more power because they're bigger and taller.
"Therefore a “personal choice” can lead to public concerns, making this a public health issue, and actually same could be said for your argument about overeating."

When using n-order impacts to determine when personal choices become public concerns, it's just a matter of determining where one draws the line. This will undoubtedly lead to differences in opinion on where that line should lie.

For example, even two people who are in support of universal mandatory vaccination many differ on the level of force the government should use gain compliance.
The press kit made me lol, specially the image you picked for yourself.

Great job on the app!
I've heard that if you're using different-sized pens on the same print, it can be better to wrap them in tape to fit, to avoid alignment issues.
Really? I bought an Ideapad for my mom a few months ago and I was pretty impressed with the build quality. It was plastic (as all $450 laptops are) but felt relatively rugged, and the internals were surprisingly open too. I was rather happy with the thermals too, there wasn't much we could throw at it to make it sustain uncomfortable temps.
You need a Facebook account. It's okay to create a new account for work purposes only.
I can see the argument by analogy to GPL, but I don't think this is about software licensing in practice.

It's about control. Apple control how and which apps get to users, and use this control to impose terms, license or otherwise, that maximize their revenue and other goals.

Perhaps you are right that Apple could reengineer the business model to charge software licensing fees rather than payment service fees. They could also make the 30% a publishing fee. There are probably other options too. You can do a lot when you have the power that they have.

That said, practicalities matter. If you want to take a cut of a large number of apps' revenue... the place to do it is point-of-sale. Take your cut before app devs get theirs. If payments go to app developers via some other payment system, Apple now needs to chase down a revenue linked licensing fees from 2m apps... that's messy and impractical. They don't know how much they are owed, for one thing.
Completely agreed about variadic exceptions, but that's not a drawback of exceptions, it's a limitation of Java's supported syntax for generics. In catch clauses, Java already has exception sum types (`catch (FooException | BarException ex)`), and Java also has variadic method parameters, so why not have variadic type parameters, maybe something like `Foo<V extends Bar, T... extends Throwable>` that can be instantiated as `Foo<SomeBar, BazException | QuxException>`.
Don't they operate some of the largest fleet of nuclear powered vessels currently operating? Maybe share some of the issues they've had with those (obviously using very old tech). Sub / Aircraft carriers etc. The mission endurance on a carrier is amazing on the power plant side.

260,000 shaft horsepower for 20 years between refueling.

I'd be curious how much oil would need to be burned instead of this (bunker fuels tend to be HIGHLY polluting).
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People have been saying that since before HN was called HN.

If you care about comment quality, you should stop posting low-quality comments. Posting the way you've been doing obviously just degrades things further.
do ideapads actually have good linux support? Compared to a thinkpad it's cheap, those seem to start at 2 grand these days
I asked this, almost verbatim, in an interview recently. They appreciated the question and ended up hiring me.
I really enjoy Artemis, and it was my first bridge simulator, and it's no exaggeration to say that you basically invented an entire genre of video game.

We played Artemis in the NYC Board Game group, connecting multiple bridges together. At one point we had four bridges talking, with Communications officers on Mumble talking to each other across NYC, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

I have very strong positive feelings for it, and have purchased it at least twice. Thank you for not DRMing it.

You've certainly done an amazing job of capturing the feeling of Star Trek without impinging on copyright. That's not easy.

That said, besides the moral issues around Free/Open Source software- the reason I initially switched to EE was both practical and moral. I'm a Free Software guy, but also, Artemis under WINE is not very good, and EE has builds for every platform other than iOS.

I wonder if you might find a better model that would let you work on it without making it proprietary. For example, might Patreon give you that reliable income source? I'm genuinely asking.
You can run systemd in podman or LXD containers.

LXC was the first container implementation on Linux and uses full Linux systems similar to a VM.
It'd be nice, but the weak link will always be humans. In an idea world there's no issues, but when you start extending beyond engineered lifespan, changing regulation to allow looser safety tolerances, changing regulation on how tests are performed so that you can still pass them, etc then it becomes an accident waiting to happen. I'd like to have them just as much as everyone else, but history has shown that we can't be trusted to act responsibly.

> When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43455859

> The proposal comes as most of the nation’s nuclear power plants, which were designed and built in the 1960s or 1970s, are reaching the end of their original 40- to 50-year operating licenses. Many plant operators have sought licenses to extend the operating life of their plants past the original deadlines, even as experts have warned that aging plants come with heightened concerns about safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/climate/nrc-nuclear-inspe...

> The nuclear industry is also pushing the NRC to cut down on safety inspections and rely instead on plants to police themselves. The NRC “is listening” to this advice, the Associated Press reported last month. “Annie Caputo, a former nuclear-energy lobbyist now serving as one of four board members appointed or reappointed by President Donald Trump, told an industry meeting this week that she was ‘open to self-assessments’ by nuclear plant operators, who are proposing that self-reporting by operators take the place of some NRC inspections.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/153465/its-not-just-pork-tru...
One of the cooler pieces of plotter art I've seen was logging the memory state of every byte over time for the playing of a NES game for a few seconds. An NES only has 2048 bytes of memory, so you can plot sparklines for all of them on a poster pretty readably. https://www.michaelfogleman.com/plotter/#nes
that trick might work once or twice, until a hard policy comes into effect after the company gets burned.
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who are the neutral members? where does one find them, and how is their neutrality ensured?

Seems like a nontrivial task.
I had some issues with my g code files on my prusa printer - I think it expects some special start up sequence of g code. There is also an x y z offset which seemed useful, but it replaced my calibration so I needed to recalibrate after!
Entirely depends on the organization, I used to think this too but then I encountered some organizations (granted ones with entirely dysfunctional procurement processes) where switching technologies was easier and less risky to schedules than going down the procurement process. The risk of missing deadlines and blowing out schedules is the factor that tends to be on people's minds when procurement is brutally slow.
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Between this and some other stories from early nuclear age, it makes me feel as if that system was designed by software engineers.

If it's known that the control rod is supposed to be between 0 and X inches out, and going past Y inches (Y > X) will likely cause a fatal failure, one would expect someone to machine a piece of metal that makes in impossible to move the rod further out than Y inches.

I read those accounts of people manipulating nuclear reactors by hand, and can't stop but think: this is dumb, even for 1950s era technology.
If you’re indicating I load a Linux distro on a MacBook, I did ask about that at the Apple store back in 2012 when I got my first MacBook, and the look on the “geniuses” faces were priceless.

But otherwise no, I’m not interested because of my first point, namely that I want things to consistently work as expected.