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> I think what I don't understand about the OP's point is that, why is that the shells problem?

I think to understand his point, substitute "universal text interface" with "shell".

What he really is describing is something very Emacs-like, but with a better config than you normally find in Emacs. He'd like most command line utilities to automatically have a magit-like interface through some universal spec/language (i.e. so that each utility doesn't have to create the interface independently).

Tar is one of those utilities that many people, including me, can never remember the options. I can relate to him on that one. If I had a magit like interface for tar, I'd be really happy.
I've got to attend some free Oracle classes at uni (taught by Oracle employees), they were horribly boring. I don't think they'd have any chance at selling to technical staff even if they tried.
Yes, it's definitely worth having a team where you can bond over light, harmless jokes that fly in all directions. It's also okay to be 'boring', of course.

I'm sure her old team is dismayed to see her lying about it now.
Thank you all for replying
NFT(s) are just money laundering
I think it’s highly laughable no one has come to this conclusion so far, and moreover, that there tries to be an explanation beyond this… there is not some value here or even any joke value, it’s just money laundering. In many cases, these transfers are the front for a drug transaction or arms. It’s confusing why this angle is not being covered when it’s full-stop the entirety of all reasons behind these transactions, which are in essence, merely used to hide the actual transaction being performed.
Eh, they sent the USSR a couple of drawings of circles, and Ethel Rosenberg apparently did some typing. They were, loosely, spies for a foreign power, but their impact was absolutely negligible and their execution was essentially a lynching.
We run a large number of Oracle database for customers. I mostly help manage the application running on top of the database, and we have a DBA team handling the databases.

It's amazing to see how calmly they handle managing Oracle, but their argumentation is also very Oracle-like: It's not a database problem, you're just using it wrong. Which would be a terrible answer, if they weren't right. I think most of us forget that for all the terribleness of Oracle, they actually do build a very stable and performant database, assuming you can afford it.
If it works reliably, it could make it trivial to implement things like "turn off the lights 10 minutes after everyone has left the room" and "turn on the lights when someone enters". Right now you can still do that with presence sensors, but they're annoying and require hardware for every corner of the room to work reliably.

With its band steering capabilities, I'm convinced WiFi can already make an approximation of your location. It can't deal with things like reflection and interference for positioning of course, but it's still pretty close to working already.

Of course, I mean this as something I'd like to turn on and integrate into Home Assistant, not as something that every ISP router should come with (which is what I fear will probably happen).
My understanding though is that nix tries to solve this globally (it manages your whole system, or your whole home directory, as opposed to docker, which has clearly demarcated separation between different images), and it doesn't reuse existing packaging (in particular the language, as in "apt install" etc.)

There's definitely advantages that way, but there's also drawbacks.
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The right of woman to make the decision about injecting a substance into their body is apparently negotiable.
I've successfully built apps with Python and Qt (PyQt6 and PySide6 are both working fine). The overall file size of the resulting folder is about 60-80 MB on Windows, mostly due to all the Qt DLLs/plugins you'll need to ship. By manually deleting non-necessary DLLs, you might save maybe up to 20 MB. Just considering the file size, this might not a huge gain compared to Electron, I suppose?

However, keep in mind that desktop apps have the major disadvantage of figuring out distribution (separately for each platform!!), which includes the following two steps: 1) packaging the application in some format (e.g. an MSI installer for Windows and a Disk Image Bundle for macOS), and 2) distributing that package (including auto-updates). I have written a number of articles about this topic, see https://www.augmentedmind.de/2021/05/30/distributing-windows... and https://www.augmentedmind.de/2021/06/13/distributing-macos-a... . You get rid of all that if you just built a PWA or other kind of web app.

In addition, if you use Python, you also need to choose a "freezing" solution, such as PyInstaller (more details at https://www.augmentedmind.de/2021/05/16/distribute-python-ap... ).
> If Apple now has to allow other payment processors then they're either going to charge fees for hosting the files or they're going to charge fees for the other services that people are using (OTA updates, reviews, localization, etc.)

Why? Apple has been arguing that iPhone, iOS, Safari and App stores are so tightly integrated in that they are in fact an essentially indivisible single business. With this logic, all the revenue comes from iPhone/iPad hardware can subsidize operation costs for App store right?
Regardless of where you personally draw the distinction, it's clear what the article means when they say it. That other guy acting like it's a mystery where the accusations of white supremacy are coming from is really reaching.
"Failsafe" too. Old, black and white. Spooky. :-)
But it could weaken your immune system, making you a better vector for all kinds of diseases.
Nukes have been civilization ending since the 1960s. You should see the plans made by American planners at the time. They joked about having to turn the nation of Albania into nothing. US has enough sensors to track when launches occur that a retaliatory strike would be launched almost immediately. Even if missiles somehow got through to the continent, we have many of them in discrete locations on submarines, waiting to launch. We are even using our navy more for missile defense since there are advantages to being mobile and ephemeral than having a fixed defensive battery that everyone can see on google earth satellite imagery.
The issue is more that they are conglomerates - they control the device, the discovery mechanism, the payment mechanism, and the identity mechanism. In each of those areas, they may or may not be a monopoly - but together their broad control creates an anti-competitive environment.

I wrote more about that here: https://www.tinker.fyi/6-break-up-tech-conglomerates/
Government sponsored marketing campaigns do not compare to mandates for vaccines in the workplace. Until the government mandates food quality standards and people start arguing about whether they can buy/sell Doritos or Pepsi in schools, workplaces, as part of foodstamps, etc as part of their freedoms, then it's a false equivalence.
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Should you ever find yourself in a situation where this information is useful, there's the seven-ten rule of fallout radiation decay:

A book by Cresson H. Kearny presents data showing that for the first few days after the explosion, the radiation dose rate is reduced by a factor of ten for every seven-fold increase in the number of hours since the explosion. He presents data showing that "it takes about seven times as long for the dose rate to decay from 1000 roentgens per hour (1000 R/hr) to 10 R/hr (48 hours) as to decay from 1000 R/hr to 100 R/hr (7 hours)."[41] This is a rule of thumb based on observed data, not a precise relation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#The_seven-ten_...

The 7x intervals are:

- 7^1 (7) hours: 1/10 initial radiation

- 7^2 (49) hours, about 2 days: 1/100

- 7^3 (343) hours, about 2 weeks: 1/1,000

- 7^4 (2401) hours, about 2 months: 1/10,000

- 7^5 (16,807) hours, about 2 years: 1/100,000

7^6 is about 15 years, 7^7 is about a century.

The empirical data is based on values to 7^4 (two months). See:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/336049/can-the-7...
No techniques, I just read. A lot.
Religions do seem to get a pass, though - I’ve never seen accusations of people being “Jewish nationalist” or “Christian nationalist” or “Muslim nationalist” for expressing wishes their kids will marry within the religious “nations”.

There is a difference here - one can convert and change their religion (not so for genetic origin…) but it’s too similar in my opinion and shouldn’t get the “acceptable” pass that it does.
I think they will find a way. The Mac App Store is far from a monopoly yet it still remains profitable as far as I know.

My grandma isn't going to use any alternative store, she probably doesn't even understand the concept of different app stores. I think Apple will be fine, at least until competitors somehow gain a MASSIVE usability advantage.
Probably. "Letter of the law" vs. "the spirit". Judges are not fans of people trying to be "technically in compliance".
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> Microsofts documentation is a mixed bag, but mostly rather good, if you know how to read it.

“if you know how to read it” is...not a ringing endorsement of documentation. But, its true that MS documentation is less likely to be wrong once you understand what it is trying to say than, say, Amazon's (though have glaring omissions or things concealed by opaque organization is quite common.)
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A lot of the good errors is gone when you switch from (Oracle) SQL Developer to DataGrip.

So many reasons to use DataGrip, but often enough (>once a month) I have to fire up SQL Developer to get line number errors.
> No, the licence fee is collected by the BBC, by law.

And the government punishes you if you don't pay.

I declined to make a distinction without a difference.
Exactly. And as a user too, I don't want Apple to have access to any of my financial transactions!
Yeah, that doesn't make sense.

LD50 for prompt exposure is 4-5 sieverts. 1 sievert of exposure translates to about a 1% lifetime cancer risk.

Now, if you're inhaling the ash that's another matter. At that point you're probably dead.
I was having problems building wine. So I used the arch pkgbuild and just didn't do the install phase. Made compiling pretty simple. And all the outputs are nicely defined in the aur repo locally.
The same reason that people crash their cars. Oftentimes with friends and family inside them.

Sometimes, it's because they did everything they could, within reason, to prevent it.

Sometimes it's because they were reckless, negligent, and should not have been behind the wheel.

We call the first an accident, and the second (if it kills someone) vehicular manslaughter. We litigate to determine which is which.

We also give people leeway in how negligent they want to be. A BAC between 0 and 0.08 is fine... Unless you hit someone - at which point, it will be used against you. A BAC above 0.08 is immediate grounds for arrest, regardless of whether you hurt anyone.

That is what personal responsibility on one end, and enforced social responsibility on the other end looks like. Right now, nobody can be held personally accountable for reckless behaviour with COVID. Either we lift that protection, or we double down on enforcing social responsibility.
Florida has been doing almost nothing since April 2020 and still has less deaths per capita than North eastern states with their extreme measures. So your argument that even 600k deaths was only achieved because of lockdown etc does not make any sense. You couldnt tell what state does or does not have strict covid restrictions if you looked at the outcomes.
Identity theft or bank robbery? https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E
Author of linked article speaking. (How it ended up here -- I have no idea, I'm rather surprised that it was of interest to more than the 3 people for whom it was written.)

This flame is doubly funny given how the article specifically concerns algorithms for possible decentralized cryptonets.

HTTPSism is deliberately broken on my WWW, to annoy unthinking servants of the PKI Reich.

For the thick: at the start, there is a PGP-signed copy of the text offered. And yes I in fact live and die by my PGP identity. And not Verisign et al's NSA-controlled PKI horror, no.
If the purpose is money laundering then short selling is not possible.
Oracle was the first DB I did major work with (12 yrs ago). I have fond memories of that time. I created an automated warehouse management system with it

Pros:

- pl/sql (I like it more than other flavors of sql, maybe because it was the first one I used a lot)

-pl sql developer. Not the java one (sql developer). I loved that you could see tabs in a list and in general it was smooth. I still keep a thin client in my spare drive and use it with delight from time to time

Cons:

-Installing and maintaining Oracle. But it wasn't terrible either

-Having to read Burleston posts. Not sure if this has improved

I know I am biased by my experience, I've heard many horror stories. I wouldn't choose Oracle today, but having to develop for it wouldn't scare me either
I think OP was talking about Revenue Cat: https://www.revenuecat.com
I’m very late to this reply, but, a private investor is not the same as being a public company.
This is great work.

But to be clear: a community effort by 20+ people, after 6 months of work, managed to make progress toward proving a theorem, including proving some of the trickiest technical parts. As I said before, this is like 2 orders of magnitude more effort than the original plain-language (slightly sloppy/underspecified) proof.

Scholze:

> I cannot read the proofs at all — they are analogous to referring to theorems only via their LaTeX labels, together with a specification of the variables to which it gets applied; plus the names of some random proof finding routines.
ahhhhhahaha good job
You mean this https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/apple-puts-third-party-scr... ?
I totally forgot about that conversation! Yeah I must be referring to sconv then. I was thinking of the new custom-trained model you were releasing to your paid beta patreon subscribers, and confused the two.

As a side rant, it turned out that simply stepping away from work for a few weeks around the holidays nearly fixed my RSI, which makes me so sad about the nature of my career whenever it crops back up.

Btw, any chance you've done any work on the `phones` or related tooling? I remember that (and editing in general) being a pain point.
I second this choice. It is the only toolkit that looks native in Windows.

And it is ridiculously fast compared to alternatives.
>isn't the competition here what we want?

In my opinion not in this specific case. As an iOS user I WANT a system where everything conforms to certain guidelines. I do NOT want to fiddle with some weird custom in-App payment dialog which does it's own thing again.

It'll be interesting to see how this court order will be "implemented", my guess is that not much will change for now.
>varchar(200) for shorter-length strings like names, addresses, email addresses, etc...The idea is to pick liberal numbers that are easily long enough

I'm not convinced 200 is liberal enough for some of that.

For email, a 64 character local part is RFC compliant, then 1 for the '@', and the domain can be 253 characters.

Probably similar edge cases for addresses.
More chilling quotes happened in real life:

"SIOP-62 included the virtual obliteration of the tiny country of Albania because within its borders sat huge Soviet air-defense radar, which had to be taken out with high assurance. Power smiled at Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and said with a mock straight face: "Well, Mr. Secretary, I hope you don't have any friends or relations in Albania, because we are just going to have to wipe it out.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_...
Very qualified yes.

First, contracts are step one: they enable additional tools that can do static formal proofs using those contracts. It is impossible to prove anything about code that has a buffer overlow. In theory we have can write those tools without contracts, but the runtime for anything more than helloworld is unacceptable so nobody has even written them, contracts are believed to help bring that under control.

second, I assume only the latest modern C++ is used. I expect tools to give up as soon as they see constructs that are hard to analyze. (new/delete is obvious - but they reserve the right to add more constraints)

Third, modern C++ if you stick to only that is a lot easier to write safe code than C++98. Things are getting better - or where they are not we can treat them like rust treats unsafe - sometimes you need to do tricky things that tools can work with: isolate them to only those areas, have your best write the code, test it hard, and pray they work.

Fourth, conductive to bug free development is relative. I won't claim C++ will be the most conductive to bug free code. Part of that is intentional: C++ aims to be useful in places where you are willing to make trade offs - if you are not willing to trade at least some productivity for runtime speed C++ is not the right language for you.

Note the last: I never claimed it will be better than Ada/Rust/whatever. I have no experience with either, but tend to believe those who claim they are more productive.

I maintain a lot of C++, which interoperates with other C++: adding another language is probably lower productivity than writing more C++ in the long run just because those interfaces between languages tend to be where things are the hardest. So I'm taking a different approach: getting involved with the C++ standard to attempt to make it more productive.
And note that when the particles are small they stay up longer--and a lot of the hottest stuff decays before it ever reaches the ground.
>All I see is me, the user, having to struggle through using their janky home-made payment processors as I pay and/or try to end my subscriptions.`

You could just not use the app if you don't like their payment processor.
Can you tell me the medical side effects that could pop up after 1 year, 5 years and 10 years? Thanks.
I use Delphi with its FireMonkey framework. It targets all major operating systems (Win/Lin/Mac/Droid/iOS) natively. From all the cross-platform frameworks that I've seen in 25+ years of working in the industry Delphi's switching target is the easiest - a simple combobox and kaboom!, you're good to deploy for that OS.

Their roadmap include, in some years I suspect, probably 5, to also target WASM at which point, if Embarcadero is smart enough to lower their ridiculous license pricing to under $300, will become the most powerful tool to write cross-platform applications.
It's in an ISM band, I can't remember the rules, I think encryption is allowed (like, WPA) but for thermometers and stuff why bother? 99% of 433mhz (and 800/900 mhz) stuff is unidirectional (sensor to sensee), so where's the harm in some 100mW transmitter?
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Doing some back of the envelope "what would it take to do micropayments with PayPal"

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees

A micropayment is 5% + $0.09. For a $0.99 purchase, this is about 15%.

I would expect other payment processors to be similar.

This also leads to the question of "how do you maintain the in app purchases?" Is it an account on a website that has 100% uptime? Does it work for solo games when there's no network connectivity?

This works for Epic (big company, lots of payment processing already). It doesn't work for SmallGamerInc that would find that they'd need to do a bunch of other stuff to get it working that incurs more costs than what Apple offers.
On point 1), sometimes an approach to this is helping others. That might mean answering stackoverflow questions, or helping someone on IRC or Slack.

Mentoring/helping others helps solidify your own understanding.
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Judge seemed to have reached into the narrowest possible ruling, a reasonable decision in a case which is likely to be appealed by both sides.

Apple learnt that the monopoly definition argument doesn't prevent rulings against anti-competitive practices, and Epic learnt that if it wants to attack App Store fees it needs to bring an objective criteria to the table and have it accepted.

The judge skirted the App Store issue, but I never felt that was important: IMHO, 99.999% of iPhone users would have used Apple's store even if alternate stores were available; The only alternative store with any chance of success would have been an OSS store - hardly what Epic wanted.
> "Pinball Construction Kit" was a commercial game that used their own floppy format.

Software (IME, mostly games, but then my experience with software at the time was game-heavy) that worked that way was quite common.
I thought Dr. Fauci just debunked this.
Just like he stated that a mask was not necessary then.
The underlying problem is the clarity of one's writing. For inexperienced writers it's highly likely that the longer their writing the more rambling and incoherent it is. Therefore it's a good rule of thumb for an inexperienced writer to write shorter.
Have you tried Free Pascal with Lazarus[1]? How does it stack up compared to Delphi?

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>> They can't always do what's best for the patient, only what the insurance company agrees with.

> Because that is what the patient can afford.

What is the point of paying for insurance, then? Nothing legitimizes for-profit insurance companies having any role or prerogative in health care, other than the status quo.
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In that case, depending on your hardware, you might be able to simply disable wireless transmission (on my CPAP machine, this is called "Airplane Mode").
I note pretty explicitly in there that you should pick your own numbers.

The idea I was trying to get across is that of order of magnitude tiers so that you don't end up with VARCHARs of a hundred random lengths.
>Are you willing to spend 27% more for everything to use Apple payment gateway? Do you love it that much?

Most in-App purchases are in the range of 1-5$. If I pay a couple of cents more to have a unified experience, yeah sure.

It'd be interesting to see how much users spend on in-App purchases. For me it's almost nothing, maybe 1 purchase a year? The big money is probably in the free2play market where players spend a lot to buy booster packs or "gold".
> not as useful in my opinion

As someone who spends less than 51% of my waking hours staring at a computer, I strongly disagree with this assertion. Vr has the potential to change the way I use my computer, but AR has the potential to change the way I perceive and interact with the rest of the world.
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I disagree. I think the minimal viable HUD is quite minimal, because most of the value is in the "Heads Up" rather than the "Display."

Consider a clip compilation of people walking into poles and tripping into fountains while looking down at their phone. What were they doing, and could your MVP AR glasses have supported it? If the answer is "yes," you have a product.
So we should push for sterilizing vaccines instead of these lossy ones that don't kill the virus.