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You have a lot of gripes.

> It was called Java and ironically people hated it because it was sluggish and didn't use native widgets.

First, Java is in use on plenty of systems. It has all but disappeared as a serious client side system - but not because of performance. Java failed more because it failed to meet market expectations, especially in ease of use. Other solutions were more agile in creating better platforms on the client side.

> Now we have webapps which reinvent the GUI on almost every site

This is not an impediment to adoption. This is clearly seen on such successful historical software like winamp which intentionally abandoned fitting the mold. X has not historically had much consistency at all for GUI. Xlib, Motive, GTK, Qt/KDE, at any given time there has been many options to pick from.

You do lose system-consistency, and that can be a negative. However, you gain platform consistency in your application appearing the same on pretty much every device. It's not a total negative.

> and have built in 100ms+ latencies. Go figure.

Webapps do not need to hit the backend for every little thing. That latency requirement really depends on how much data is appropriate to send to the client and the development philosophy of the developer. For personally owned data it can certainly live on the client and have a replication stream to the cloud system and have no built-in network latency. This is not a hard requirement for a webapp.

> No ability to use it at all in an area with shitty network, no consistency, no integration, no respect for OS themes, no ability to continue using old versions if something is wrong with the new one...

Webapps (PWAs, electron, cordova, and websites for that matter) can all work offline if they are designed that way. Just like native software can be built to require the mothership to do anything and behave just like a traditional website. This issue is more mindset than fundamental to the technology.

You hit the OS integration side pretty hard. The software solves a problem, its success depends on that. All this integration is simply a list of "nice to haves". The market has shown time and time again that spending too much on your hobby features rather than what the customer's actually want is not a long term winning devopment strategy.

Look at it from the user side. If some slightly slower, loud looking software solves my problem 200% better than my current native solution - I'm switching.
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I love Jetbrains' products. I wish I could talk management into buying them. It's hard to compete with free.
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But the point is that the money they create is 100% fungible with central bank banknotes! It is passed onto the economy as cash. It does not come with a tag saying "created by Santander" or whatever.

> Making loans changes banks' reserve requirements, so they're not zero-cost.

Okay! So give me similar requirements! Asset/liability ratios, reserve requirements, cash flow requirements, the works, to determine given my finances how much liabilities I can create.
I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but it's unclear what community protection that provides. Vaccinated people can still get infected and spread the virus. They may be contagious for a shorter period on average but the magnitude is still unknown.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1

Since the Delta variant is so contagious there will be no significant herd immunity effect to protect the unvaccinated. The virus is now endemic and can't be eradicated so all of us can expect to be exposed multiple times throughout our lives.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
SPJ had a great deal of latitude at MSR Cambridge, he could probably work on almost whatever he wanted. The problem is MSFT is rife with bureaucracy and it is a constant fight to get anything done. MSFT in general and MSR Cambridge specifically has lost a lot of their best people over the last 10 years. AFAIK it is expected to get worse under Christopher Bishop. With the recent win in Excel Lambda it is as probably a good time as any to get out.
They're also selling "Blockchain Classic Cars". I was too horrified to figure out what that actually means (like an NFT of a random picture of a mustang?)
Note that this is from memory but, for example, the author of the linked blog
posts makes an outrageous distinction between the free people of "Sparta", which
he calls "Spartiates" and all "Spartans" which includes the helots. This is were
your expression "3% of the population (spartiates)" comes from.

That is an outrageous distinction that is not found in any ancient or modern
source. It appears to be something that the author completely made up in order
to support his revisionist interpretation of the history of ancient Sparta.

First, there is no way to make a distinction between "Spartan" and "Spartiate"
in the Greek language. In Greek, ancient and modern, a person who lives in, or
is from, a place called "Sparta" is a "Σπαρτιάτης", i.e. "Spartiate".
"Σπαρτιάτης" is most commonly latinised as "Spartan", sometimes as "Spartiate",
but there is no semantic difference between the two.

Second, there is no modern source I'm aware of, other than the linked series of
blog posts, and certainly no ancient source that refers to the helots as
"Spartans", "Spartiates", "Lacedaemons", or anything else but "helots", or
simply the slaves of the Spartans. This is because ancient authors only ever
refer to helots when they want to point out how cruel were the Spartans (which
obviously must exclude the helots themselves from the group of "Spartans") and
don't really care about them, or their fate, otherwise. So the idea that the
population of "Sparta" was mostly made up of slaves is a figment of the author's
imagination.

It is true that the slaves of the Spartans were (many) more than the Spartans,
but this is also true of most other Greek city-states, where manual labor was
performed by slaves and many citizens owned more than one slave. In fact, other
Greeks did not treat their own slaves with any less cruelty than the Spartans.
For example, the main source of richess of classical Athens was the silver mined
from the mines of Lavrion where thousands of slaves, including children, were
made to work in conditions that we would, today, rightly find revolting.

From memory again, there were other errors, all of which were the result of the
author trying to play up historical themes for clicks, but I would have to
re-read the series of posts to remember. In any case my recommendation is to
turn to primary sources if one is interested in the history of Sparta. Read
Thucydides, read Plutarch, read Xenophon, read Plato, read Aristotle, read
Herodotus even, but keep in mind that everyone who wrote about Sparta had a
political affiliation, either to Sparta, or to the enemies of Sparta, and in any
case ancient historians were not always 100% accurate.
I agree, I think. The observed “collapse” is not completely explained by decoherence (and even less satisfactory by many worlds).
What is amazing to me is that most people think they do not have such freedom.
I have an extreme dislike for "personalized" anything. I want to read things that I disagree with or are disgusted by sometimes. I don't want to be in an algorithmic echo chamber.

It also usually means ads.
It's not comparable. Smallpox has a radically higher mortality rate, more contagious, worse side effects, and applies to both the young and old.

"The risk of death after contracting the disease was about 30%, with higher rates among babies. Often those who survived had extensive scarring of their skin, and some were left blind."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
Art films don't have this problem, and that's where I've had my media exposure to death.

If you want to know about how hard life can get after the death of someone, I cannot recommend Blue by Kieslowsky enough.
Copies of art usually have not that much value because the value is in possessing the original.
When banks "create money" there is a matching liability already in place -- the claim that some depositor has on that money. The bank isn't "richer" by having made that loan.

An imperfect analogy is if you buy a car for 20,000€ using a credit card. You haven't paid any real money, but now you have a liability that the credit card company will eventually claim.
The chance of false positives and false negatives is too high for this to be reliable in an environment with immunocompromised patients.
> They don't have an actual printing press that prints bitcoins. Instead they create a transaction that credits a BTC address but debits no addresses, thus creating new bitcoins out of thin air. On the bitcoin blockchain the number of bitcoins that can be created in this way is limited, but off-chain there is no such limit.

Crediting a Bitcoin address is an on-chain event, so I'm not sure what you mean. If the address was not credited on chain, my Bitcoin node will not reflect the new balance, so the credit simply did not happen from the perspective of any honest node on the network.
In a pinch, that could be compensated with a resistor, a few ohms would suffice… :)
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I visited this museum in 2016. It was incredible to see this on Chinese soil.

Hong Kong had a mere 20 years of being truly Hong Kong, free of the UK and generally free of China. Now it is just more China.
It is. At least in mine (on Linux)
Strongly agree. Local newspapers contain “common myths” that underpin society: a local shared understanding of the world, where the technical veracity of that understanding is secondary to its promulgation. That is being lost by hyperpersonalisation at the cost of community bonding. If you think that’s a good thing, consider whether you trust (or even know) your neighbours.

The tragedy of the commons is that nobody cares about the maintenance of the common good: I posit that the common good ought to include shared myths. Historically, this meant shared worldview and religion. Today, we are challenged to find other bases for trust in one another.
More likely every forecast would be either extreme heatwave or bitter cold snap headed your way. Similarly useless but a higher probability that you to click to find out more..
Not something a large company like Microsoft would try but I would much rather have a curated list of quality articles that give me multiple, intelligent view points on a topic.

Articles that have had a lot of time & effort put into them.

Articles where the author didn't spend 90% of the time on the headline & lede.

Articles whose goal is to educate not just get views.

What I don't want is some random list of click bait articles meant to sell ads. This seems to be what most of these services end up as.
Everyone can have the exact same monkey down to each bit, it’s just that you have a note on a blockchain that says you bought the monkey and no one else did.

It’s like if we had matter replicators from the Star Trek universe and anyone could print a van goh copy down to the same molecular structure and hang it on their wall, but you bought an impractical-to-forge piece of paper that says yours is the original.
TIL, thanks. Guess cui bono isn't a reliable method of deduction.
I backed the Kickstarter for bluSensor last year, and have been happy with the device so far. The app needs a little work, but makes it easy to check current and historical air quality.

It has 4 sensors: temp, humidity, CO2 and VoC. Helped me discover a problem with my attached garage leaking fumes into the house.

https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/blusensor/created
> Personalized news feeds destroy that commonality.

The web and partisan cable news channels have long since done away with that commonality. It's dead, buried, and cold in the ground. That's why it feels like one side of the political spectrum is living in the world of Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and so on, while the other side is living in the world of CNN, MSNBC, Huffington, Vox, and so on.

There are some very good attempts [0] to make media bias more visible, but people who have already decided that Fox and Newsmax are centrist and OANN is right-leaning are not going to evaluate things fairly anymore.

[0]: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
> As a standalone website (available on Microsoft Edge and Chrome) – MicrosoftStart.com

No way...this is absolutely insane. If you are on a Mac, go to MicrosoftStart.com on Safari. (Safari on iOS is an equally laughable result)

They gave MSN a fresh coat of paint and broke it for half their potential audience. Truly an astounding feat of engineering. I'm crying thinking of the engineers and PMs who probably got promoted after this announcement.
Cogent take.

Waiting for the crypto crowd to come in screaming about inflation or the like.
You criticize Electron and then proceed to make pretty much the same mistake by using ... JVM. I don't think this is going to fly as a better alternative to JavaScript. It's just one evil exchanged for another.

And I'll be extremely surprised if you manage to do smooth animations at 144Hz in Clojure without killing battery life.
AWS honestly always scared me because of the black box aspect, but I use my single VPS for a bunch of sites with different functions and like having understanding of what's going on there. But any $10-$20/month VPS would be able to host that kind of thing without too much issue.

Another option might be Dropbox. Not sure how quickly their free hosting will crap out if it hits reddit front-page level traffic, but it should be good enough to share here or with your friends or whatever.
> but that is something I need to do sometimes.

Me too! I haven't used crypto for that yet. But for small value transfers <$100, me and my friends have sometimes exchanged Amazon Gift Cards with each other.
Sure, go ahead. Instructions here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/prudential-regulation/new-ba...
In case the author is here: for me, the font size was at a level where I found it was most comfortable to read after zooming out all the way to 50%. And I have neither great eyesight (I should go for new glasses... soon...) nor a retina screen with zoom or anything. Probably looks great on phones, but on desktop for me the font was set uncomfortably large.
The trash company where i live specifically tells its customers that soiled pizza boxes can't be recycled. It's even on a sticker on the supplied recycling bin.
Gasification, using it as a fuel makes more sense. Reducing it down to basic carbon constituents. At least in this forum it’s productive and photosynthesis can turn it into organic mater.
> California policy making looks to me more like a reactive game of whack-a-mole, trying to put out whatever is the fire du jour with hacks and bandaids and hoping the new rules don't cause any collateral damage.

I was thinking exactly this while reading this article. I was really hoping to read that this was a much more generic law that strengthens worker protections, that also just happens to help with the problems in Amazon warehouses. But, nope, just feels like "injustice whack-a-mole". That's not a good way to develop policy at all.
in 2015 sure, when the alternatives were Sublime Text and Atom. Now Jupyter + VSCode ( in ssh mode is a killer feature ) will crush anything JetBrains can put up. DataGrip is pretty nice but lack of extensibility give it a limited lifespan.
> None if these are aggregated by a central party, stored forever and mined.

I imagine you're just against Amazon's Ring doorbells as well then? Or are they not storing the data, analyzing it, and monetizing it?

> Several weeks ago it was reported that over 400 law enforcement agencies had partnered with Amazon’s Ring Camera. Ring distributes a free app called the Neighbors App that Ring owners use to store video images in the cloud. Amazon has now bonded its Neighbor’s app with police agencies to effectively turn private homeowners into snitches for the police.

https://www.technocracy.news/amazon-co-opting-homeowners-rin...

It seems Amazon is monetizing it just fine, and what do "partners" do with the data once they've obtained it? Do they not store it, analyze it and do stuff with their "discoveries" as well?
You don't have to be a chartered bank to have this power.

If your neighbor lent you a hundred bucks and you loan ninety bucks of it to a different neighbor, you've done the same sort of thing. Of course, if you do it at a small scale, you're at high risk of having empty pockets if that neighbor wants their hundred back at an unexpected time. But do it to a thousand neighbors on either side of the exchange, and you can probably get away with re-lending most of it for a long time.

They aren't granted special money-making abilities; more the reverse:
they are under regulations to prevent this power - which is, in happy times, very good for the economy - from being abused. We can argue about if those regulations are strong enough or not, but I think the "money is bullshit cause banks print it out of thin air" arguments are intentionally misleading from opponents of a system that otherwise isn't actually terribly complicated.
I'm talking more about the behavior of websites or applications.

For example, I'm on macOS. I want the OS GUI to be in English and to use the US keyboard layout, because I'm used to that and buttons/labels aren't a big deal anyway.

However, most of my communication with my coworkers (for example, MS Teams) happens in Italian, so I'd prefer those programs to display their UI in Italian (so that everyone using the program would be on the same page) and to have Italian spellcheck.

When I open Safari to look at docs, Wikipedia or search results, I want those in English. But e-commerce sites like Amazon need to be in Italian. Except if I'm shopping for technical books or manuals: I need those in English.

For some of those needs there's a workaround, some I found completely impossible to solve (I can't seem to get the spellchecker to switch reliably, my solution is simply to disable it: I make zero grammar mistakes in Italian and most people are willing to put up with my broken English).

Generally speaking, I find that most UIs are downright hostile to "mixed" needs like mine, and I end up defaulting to the US/English locale everywhere because it's the least broken (except for units of measurement. Come on guys, inches? Farhenheit?)

The concept of locale itself is broken and wrong: I want it.IT or en.US contextually, neither is the correct one, why should I be asked to definitively pick either? In many cases, localization is downright harmful. Excel comes to mind, but even several ETL tools "helpfully" "translate" decimal points to commas by default!

Websites could greatly benefit from this, e.g. social media, where you're likely to be part of both a local community that speaks your native language, and a global community that speaks English.
the base is open hardware, but it still can have non free additions
Some knives intended for cooking have features deliberately intended to make them less suitable for stabbing people. Do you oppose this practice, or the legality of this practice?
I'm using 3D graphics APIs, OpenGL on Linux currently, but Vulkan will be an option later. I'm converting everything to triangles on the CPU and send to OpenGL.

Note that the animation app actually needs to show 3D graphics for a 2D+time visualization which is part of the innovation in my research.
> specifically China related content

But from which angle? Pro- or anti-?

I don't think it's likely that most/any HN commenters are paid trolls, there are lots of Chinese and Americans in this industry that will naturally have different perspectives.
One of the best mitigations against rubber-hose and similar attacks is a hardware key. If you leave it at home, you can't be compelled to decrypt unless an attacker also breaks into your home and searches the place.

In a pinch, you might be able to conveniently "lose" your hardware key, or smash it if you hear the front door break open. Doing so effectively erases your data without actually erasing it, since it's unreadable without the key.
No but it is one used in commerce ....

Customer: Venti? is that twenty in Italian?

SB Barista: yes

C: twenty what?

SBB: fluid ounces

C: can't be that, they use metric in Italy, must be litres or millilitres

SBB: litres

(at least that's what they usually answer when I try it)
Did you mean to comment on a different thread, maybe the 'Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps' one?
What point are you trying to make? And why do you think a link to a single study without explanation would prove any point whatsoever?
Tablets are important, so native apps for tablets makes sense if you think this is the main device people will use. ProCreate, Autodesk Sketchbook, etc. live on the tablet and native makes sense for that experience.

But then do not target desktop. You should target tablets and the pen-based interface on them.
The VISIONARY and his eyed-dears
As a fellow non bank expert, I feel like the problem with the article is more fundamental than that.

Suppose JP does indeed buys stuff with and only with its reserves. Now JP starts new initiative under the slogan 'Buy the US', with the intention of buying all the building in the US, one after the other.

The first building the one next to JP, and JP pays it from its reserves. According to the article, no change in JP sheets results from the deal. So JP goes on with its buying spree, and now JP owns every building in Manhattan, then NYC, NY, then comes Vermont and so fourth.

Well, there is a problem with that initiative. At some point JP have no more reserves, the accounting are not conforming to banking standards and requirement and it is no longer a bank. Therefore, I will argue, something must change in JP sheets with every building or coffee machine it purchases, and the article is missing it.
I had a Newton and a very similar experience. I loved the Newt and used it for a year and a half (I bought it used) but ended up migrating to Palm for compatibility. The Newt just got too hard to use once I no longer had a Mac with a serial port. I upgraded to a Palm (a Visor IIRC) that had a USB cradle.

I had the same issue with note taking on the Palm vs the MP2000. I never internalized Grafitti so writing notes for me was painfully slow. On the Newt I could take notes at normal writing speed.

The danger (for those who never experienced old PDAs) is they had to sync with a wired connection before Bluetooth. The internal state of the device could have content that didn't exist on your computer. All kinds of problems on the device could make it lose its internal state erasing notes, contacts, or whatever other data between the last sync and then.
In unix you have ulimits. In windows ?
I love Oscar Wilde to bits and regard him as one of the wittiest writers to live, but he was more of a satirist than political commentator, and at any rate, that quote is utter bollocks.
It could be that they are in higher risk demographics too. Only 7% were under 35, with the majority of the 300 or so being over 50. That greatly changes the risk/benefit equation. Although I think your generalization is probably accurate to some degree.
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From a British perspective, this is pretty clearly a faux-Scots interpretation for that earthy feel the author must have thought was warranted. Appropriated with all the confidence only the English can muster. I may be way off base, but those are first impressions.

> aither clear yersel' of this or stop yer living.

A few stereotypical Scots markers there. And "mony" and "mon" are Northern features from Derby to Scotland in various pockets. Dying out altogether now, of course, becoming the homogenised transatlantic factory line English we're all so excited to speak nowadays. Can I get a tea with milk to go? Cheers!
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The essence of democracy is balancing minority rights against majority wishes.
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