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Dropping a full-yield Tsar Bomba was probably a suicide mission.
Are there any “not failed” democracies in your estimation? If so, what are they doing right that the US is doing wrong? Or is the whole Democratic experiment a failure?
Well, he said Java for Android. The Android SDK is a capricious beast and the documentation is often outdated or sub-par.
I agree, easy, free access to rapid tests would be fantastic. They're pretty prone to false results, though, and are no substitute for vaccination.

As for giving exemptions for prior infection, there's no real reason to. Prior infection gives decent immunity, but a vaccination on top of it gives great immunity. It's a small net positive, but anything helps.
Someone gets called a nazi for being in support of vaccine mandates and your response is "well in a infinitely long conversation everyone will get called a nazi" this is the most hackernews comment I have ever read
>Because obesity will kill them. That's the message that's not being said in a COVID context.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in America, and obesity is the #1 risk factor for it. This message has been clear and emphasized since the 1970s. Despite messaging, obesity has gotten worse, not better. You are wrong and oversimplifying the problem if you think COVID can be solved by telling people to lose weight.
Security is profitable. Very profitable. It's likely one of the reasons a lot of companies avoid it....it's very expensive and most don't see it as adding to the bottom line because it's largely invisible, but taking from it, until something major happens.
I'm talking about AA, which are always 1.2-1.5V as far as I know. Like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Energizer®-Ultimate®-Cylindrical-Lith...

> A lithium cell would need a buck circuit to do 1.5v

Maybe? I have no idea how they are built.
Here in Quebec they were overwhelmed. Actually our hospitals were constantly at over 100% capacity, and were almost empty during most of the pandemic. Even at the peak of covid they weren't as full simply because most of the critical cases died in nursery homes or at home before reaching a hospital, thanks to the negligence of the government.
I agree, participating in this discussion today has been disheartening.
What?! How do they disallow people from benchmarking it? Do they just forbid people from benchmarking in legal terms? That sounds so fishy.
Already possible:

https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/06/epic-games-store-devs-can...
Fwiw, that “encryption” never used your own key or password. Facebook held the key, Google held the encrypted blob, and I doubt the extra warrant to get data from both companies was a huge hurdle.

Definitely was not E2EE before.
>Apple's IAP makes it incredibly simple to cancel service.

This doesn't require Apple's payment monopoly. IAP would just need to make an API call to some 3rd party API. Besides did everyone forget they can call their credit card issuer and suspend payment?
Reinfection rates are pretty low, partially due to immunity, partially due to behavior (if you've had it you probably know you have it again), and partially because of data drift (federated data sources don't cleanly connect despite reporting to CDC). Vaccination breakthrough rates at point of testing are something like 1/20 to 1/100 versus the canonical susceptible population, without stratifying for ages or patient outcomes or correcting for population biases.
Not financially (we wouldn't lower prices), but I would immediately start to hire 4 more developers if they went from 30% down to 5%.

Lowering prices increases the number of jobs available, and the only cost is that Apple loses some amount of it's astronomical profits.
Sure. People just tend to grab stuff from articles written by people with your depth of expertise, so I thought it was worth noting.
Big booms were compensation for inaccurate delivery systems. We don't need them *now*.

They still have a role for an EMP attack or even a thermal pulse attack. A gigaton range bomb in orbit will fry electronics to the horizon and light fires to the horizon.
My goodness... This has nothing to do with postures and just bad security models when programming.
How easy is it to migrate from Google’s Messages app to iMessage?
Granted, I'm speaking with no neuroscience or psychological background, but anecdotally I think I completely disagree.

I'm not saying that you should be the next Robert Penn Warren or James Joyce if you're writing about an endofunctor or something, but I genuinely do think that learning how to write fairly well has actually made me understand mathematics and computer science better, in addition to becoming better at explaining it. My thoughts can be all over the place, and even if I know every single "fact" about a subject, I feel like writing about it (and in particular trying to write well about it) helps me fully realize how these facts actually relate to each other, and building a bigger mental picture that I might not otherwise have.

To be clear, I don't think writing is the only way of doing this. I think, for example, getting good at data visualization or learning formal mathematics can also have similar effects in regards to most forms of engineering. I just think that getting good at writing about a subject is a one of many really useful tools for developing an understanding of a subject.
I have this too. I've had to unplug it entirely and plug it back in to make it work sometimes. Hilarious that "did you try restarting it?" now applies to air fryers.

FWIW most of the touch issues I have with mine are due to moisture. If my hands are wet at all or there's any moisture on the panel (sometimes happens with cooking) then I have to wipe it down with a dry paper towel.

One other fun thing I discovered - if you push the light button on and off again repeatedly it eventually stops letting you do it. I didn't count the number of times it took, maybe 20-30 times. I was clearly really bored waiting for my food to finish
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> The thing is no customer wants to use any company's half-assed bug-riddled purchase or subscription system.

I have been paying for things online for decades now and never once have I used Apple's payment system. I assure you, plenty of us will use payments not provided by the fruit company.
Nice — I like the idea of the "9" convention. It serves to catch the eye (9s are positively _harsh_ compared to other numbers) and show that it's meant more as a ballpark rather than a precisely chosen number for this specific field.
> "The reason it seems like there's no hysteria around cars is because we've already gone through that phase and implemented the best safeguards we could come up with..."

no, we've just collectively decided that we're willing to put up with the small risk. it's nowehere near all that we could come up with. we could be much more stringent (stricter licensing & testing, tougher and more diverse training, more danger-apparent roads, better segregating roads from streets, fewer in-car and out-of-car distractions, more rigorous enforcement, higher carbon/fuel taxes, congestion pricing, stricter pollution standards, dense mixed-use neighborhoods, greater transit investment, etc.) and further reduce that risk, but we've collectively decided that the imposition and cost are not worth it (though i personally disagree). cars are a visible and imminent threat every day, in much the same way that covid is perceived to be, as a new member of the constellation of endemic infectious diseases we now live with.

as for the rest, torturing analogies that way merely to coerce them into fitting a desired explication is cruel and unusual punishment imho. i can't partake in good conscience.
> Damn near every person I've ever met in my age group who has used a smartphone or computer has used it for every aspect of their personal lives to include the sexual parts of their lives...I'm not sure where you are finding these puritan self-censoring non-techies who treat their devices as open books, but I've certainly never met them.

Wow, you (and plenty of other people) seem awfully defensive at the idea that not every social group shares the same norms as the groups you belong to. I wasn't even making a normative claim (or at least not a very strong one) just a personal observation.

I agree that smartphones are intensely personal devices, and that people should have a reasonable expectation of privacy. But there's more to be concerned about than just what corporations or governments can do by following the rules. I would say the average person who doesn't take nudes might be just as concerned about an angry ex, or "hackers", or just accidentally bringing them up while they show someone pictures of their new house (or whatever) as they are about Apple or the USG.

They might not even have a specified threat model, they might just really nervous about the idea of those pictures being shared forever on the internet.
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>So we draw the line somewhere between 40k and the number of deaths from covid?

Why do we need to draw the line there? Why not at 10k or 1m? It seems like you are advocating we arbitrarily pick the number to not include the flu but to include covid without providing a good reason.
> My goodness... This has nothing to do with postures and just bad security models when programming.

Author here. Could you elaborate with some specifics?
Same here. All it takes is one person who projects their voice when talking to someone a few feet away for productivity to suffer for everyone in a 20ft radius when working in an open floor plan.

And if that person loves the sound of their voice? Good luck ever working long stretches without noise-cancelling headphones on.
Yeah for sure, breaks are really important.

sconv was especially disappointing because it looked so good on metrics during my training, but the cracks really started to show once it entered user testing. Conformer has been so much less stressful in comparison because most user complaints are about near misses (or completely ambiguous speech where the output is not _wrong_ per se if you listen to the audio) rather than catastrophic failure.

There's another interesting emergent behavior with my user base as I make improvements, which is that as I release improved models allowing users to speak faster without mistakes, some users will speak even faster until there are mistakes again.

Edit: Yep! There have been several improvements on editing, though that's more in the user script domain and my work has still been mostly on the backing tech. I'm planning on working on "first party" user scripts in the future where that stuff is more polished too.
Agreed. I think a fair plan would be

* lower IAP to 15% with an option to pay a higher dev license fee to lower it to maybe 7-10%.

* require that any IAP has an _option_ to use Apple’s IAP system within day 20% of the offsite price

* physical goods stay on the same system, but potentially offer some kind of carrot to implement Apple Pay
Successive territorial claims to the Marshall Islands were made by Spain (first landing, 1526, formal claim, 1874), Germany (1885), Japan (~1911), and the US (1944), the latter two during World Wars Sr. & Jr., respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands#History

Unlike many of its Pacific island posessions, the Marshalls were not aquired under the Guano Islands Act (which I'd suspected when seeing the above comment):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act
I learn by do.

I set up a project, and assume that it will require whatever it is I want to learn, then, I figure it out as I go.

This is what I plan to do with SwiftUI. I have taken a number of courses, and read a bunch of stuff, but these have only a transitory home in my noggin.

I won't really know it, until I have done a few projects with it.

The project that I'm currently working on, is based on "classic" UIKit. I was not confident enough in SwiftUI to do it. It's fairly ambitious, and the fact that I don't know that much about SwiftUI, was the reason I chose not to use it. I have had projects, in the past, where I banked on an unknown, or partly-known, technology, only to have it hit a block, further in.

I already know what I'll be doing for the first couple of SwiftUI projects, but it will be a while, before I get there.
We’re sorry that we have accidentally introduced a bug, which allowed us to mine data and peep into everything.
"every message is rebroadcasted by everyone" is not factual per the spec.
Seems simpler to just stick a pencil in the first hole and see if you are clear to the other side.
What it really comes down to is that with or without this info you most likely live your life mostly the same until a catastrophe strikes. When it does you’re either dead or need to make a new life. Now based on your saying, are you going to really off yourself voluntarily, or will you make the best of a bad situation? And if you are going to make the best of it, it would’ve been real nice to study about what supplies to have prepared and what you’re going to do now, rather than go blind, and without the internet resources to help you anymore.
https://twitter.com/gamequotesapp begs to differ!
There were more than just Oracle or DB2. Informix, SyBase, 4D and I’m pretty sure there was something with the word “fox” in its name too. Plus of course MySQL, though that was many taken seriously until relatively recently.
Were these bought with cash?
>Until the government mandates food quality standards

That's a great idea but if you believe that the government mandating workplace safety standards is massive overreach, then how could it possibly tell people what they can and cannot eat?
And make up some 70% of the economy with Democrat voting counties leading the way:https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-repu...

70:30 or more than 2x the GDP generated in blue counties should put the right on notice. Maybe there are wealthy folks in the blue counties that put their cash toward the GOP but it will not sustain them.
You'd be surprised at how many liberties contractors of various pay grades can take behind drywall
I lack a lot of cultural context here but, France has a long history. You can trace the current country to the first Frankish kingdoms in 496. And that's excluding the Roman period and the Gaul before it.

That's a lot of historical figures over centuries of existence. At some point, you can't celebrate them all.
Ask HN: What have you automated around the house?
This is correct, and is described in the article ("Kelvin versioning".) The concept is not original to the author.
Thanks for the tips! Very helpful details. Wow I also did maintain bike (used to be my everyday life in the past).

My mom tried "hot yoga" and quit immediately, i was laughing, lost interest back then, now Covid makes swimming pool less attractive to me so i'm interested in yoga, at least I used to like gymnastic kind of things (e.g. round off)

Good stuff!
>Making Apple products work well with other Apple products isn't lock-in.

Cool. iMessage works perfectly well with SMS, which is the only true open messaging standard, and therefore will work with anything else that interoperates with SMS. Job done.
> racism is almost never the first thing anyone mentions, even if they're talking about America

Sadly that's not the experience of Chinese expat and immigrants, especially those in the States. Many people can face criticism, but few enjoys being bombarded with the same criticism everyday.

In fact, American netizens probably has a similar experience and reaction. You just have to look at some sibling comments to see how they deflect and downplay racism, despite my clear intention of just using it to demonstrate a point, as opposed to seriously criticize US on this worldwide problem.
You responded to my assertion that vaccines used to give immunity with "no" so I thought you are arguing that, sorry for misunderstanding.
It is also not a Shopify alternative in that Shopify is a service and not just software.

Its like comparing "raw organic apples" to "Apple cider made with conventionally farmed apples"
> They're just the symptom of the disease that is future shock.

Yes, absolutely, and I hope you mean that in the capital-F "Future Shock", Alvin Toffler sense, because there is a lot he wrote that hasn't even been carried over and digested. Software is an endlessly disorienting sea of change, getting faster and thus worse as time progresses, and it's frankly madness at this point.

It seems absolutely no one is committed to providing a stable platform for any purpose whatsoever. Even Java, where I spent many years being ingrained with the absolute necessity of backwards compatibility with old (perhaps even dumb) classfile versions, has been making breaking changes as part of its ramp up to semi-annual major version releases. Node Long Term Support "typically guarantees that critical bugs will be fixed for a total of 30 months."[1] Pfft. It's a joke. You can't get your damn API design straight by version 12? I'll do my damnedest to avoid you forever, then. It's so unserious and frankly irresponsible to break so much stuff so often.

But change only begets more change. We're all on an endless treadmill, constantly adapting to the change for no reason. And people have to adapt to our changes, and so it goes.

[1] https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/
> pl/sql (I like it more than other flavors of sql, maybe because it was the first one I used a lot)

pl/sql is not a flavor of SQL, it is a name for the separate SQL-based “procedural” (imperative) language (hence the “pl”) supported by Oracle. The Oracle SQL dialect is usually referred to as “Oracle SQL” if there is a need to distinguish it.
That line of argument is probably not going to convince HR or a lot of 50% of the nation.

If you play a word association game, having people say the first word or words that come to mind when they see the word “kimono” what do you think the top few will be?

My guess is that for an average American, the top three would be Japan, geisha and clothing.

What do you think most Americans would say? And what are your top three?
Yeah radioactive decay from fallout is exponential. The hottest isotopes decay rapidly. It might be 5 years in the worst locations, but not everywhere.
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Right, but there is a distinction in Clojure between what you distribute and what you develop. You aren't shipping an image, you're shipping compiled source code.
For the hypothetical case that there will ever be Steam on iOS I'd rather pay through the Steam account I had already setup on the PC rather than through the Apple payment system. Same for 'cross-platform' subscriptions like Spotify.
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I just want to say I follow a lot of court case within the Tech Industry mostly Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel. And Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is the only Judge that seems to have clear, well reasoned verdict in all of her cases. Compared to many others cases where the Judge were clearly biases from the very beginning.

The other thing that really irritate the heck of me from Apple's PR, are their insistence of mentioning how App Store has provided jobs in each country. Creating X amount of Jobs. Below is the statement from Apple on this verdict

>Today the Court has affirmed what we've known all along: the App Store is not in violation of antitrust law. As the Court recognized 'success is not illegal.' Apple faces rigorous competition in every segment in which we do business, and we believe customers and developers choose us because our products and services are the best in the world. We remain committed to ensuring the App Store is a safe and trusted marketplace that supports a thriving developer community and more than 2.1 million U.S. jobs, and where rules apply equally to everyone.
1 - Took care of his teammates at a level that bordered comedy. If you said in passing "oh man there's never knives in the lunch room" and he heard you, the next day you'd see a new pack of knives there. Taught me to consider every minor opportunity for improvement that life throws at you.

2 - Casualness in the face of problems. If a junior came and told him that production was down, he would just laugh and say something like "ok man that's gonna be a fun story next Friday, let's take a look". That mentality of "everything is solvable, nothing is worth being angry at" was really contagious.

3 - If he didn't believe something was good, he wouldn't do it just to do what's expected. That includes canceling meetings we were invited to with a "nah this can be an email", making technical choices that were against common knowledge at the time if he felt it made sense, or being fully honest during daily meetings, sometimes saying things like "yesterday I didn't do anything productive whatsoever. I was not focused, but I expect to perform better today". Again very powerful as a formative experience for junior devs, as the honesty was a total antidote to impostor syndrome.

He was a great dev in technical terms as well, but I don't think his technical choices mattered even a fraction of the leadership aspect.
You can also launch 870 cruise missiles for the cost of one destroyer from a greater range with greater destruction.

Actually, this is wrong. That is the cost of the missiles, not the cost of the launch platform, nor the cost of the personnel, nor the cost of the logistics.
There's two sides to this actually.

I, as a customer, don't want to pay many companies directly. The prime example is any news publication. There are many I'd happily pay for except (like gym memberships it seems) it can be incredibly difficult to cancel. I won't reward that model so they get none of my money.
How do you know whats a hostile and whats a hostage? I think that was a movie trope too of dressing up hostages as hostiles and them getting shot by their rescuers.
To be clear, this is not an analogy. I was describing the process by which commercial banks create money out of thin air. And the same exact process can be used by exchanges to create bitcoins out of thin air. There's nothing special about bitcoin that prevents this money-creation process from working. It works with any asset. It works with commodity-backed money as well. And you don't know that this isn't happening right now, because not all Bitcoin exchanges are audited. It might very well be the case that bitcoins are being created out of thin air right now by some exchanges, thus inflating the global supply of bitcoins. You have no way of telling. Also you don't know whether this is illegal. These exchanges could be in a jurisdiction where it is legal, and it would still affect the global supply of bitcoins.
I remember automating the deployment of Oracle DB to OpenStack using Ansible.
Finished playbook took 45 minutes to run, and that's starting from a pre-configured snapshot!

Plus, Oracle charges per-cpu core used, so we had to license an entire portion of our datacenter...
I was addressing a specific statement that was unsupported

>The vaccines offer better protection against variants than having had COVID and recovering.

The cost/benefit overall is much more complicated than this simple statement.
Minecraft. q.e.d.
I used to recommend `CHECK` constraints as well, but was directed towards Postgres' very good intelligence around being able to relax a `VARCHAR(n)` -> `VARCHAR(>n)` as basically a no-op, so I simplified here somewhat just because VARCHARs are easier to use, and make much more succinct examples in write ups like this one.

The index rebuild is still a bit of an open question — I wouldn't be surprised if Postgres had some optimizations there as well to not need it in instances where it's not necessary, but I might be wrong on that one.
Can you share any insight in the cross-os implementation inconsistencies of those browser engines?
c is the conversion factor. It’s built into our +++- metric tensor.