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Someone taken in by the ruse, on being told it was a ruse...

> “It may be a lie, but the fact I believed it speaks volumes about my enemies, and not me”

... that's pretty much the zeitgeist of our times. (By which I mean, people who are on Twitter and Facebook) facepalm
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> Why should we hold OSS developers to an even higher standard than what we tolerate from large companies?

The problem here is that i DON'T tolerate this from large companies either. I find the pixel tracking thing outrageous and disable images by default in my email client to avoid it.

I understand your argument, I just find it personally strongly disagreeable, and I'm willing to bet poster above did as well.
Unvaccinated are 5X more likely to catch delta, 11X more likely to die
People seem to be missing one part of the ruling that all of the wannabe HN lawyers were insisting on.

The judge specifically said that Apple wasn’t a monopolist because it controlled the iOS platform.
Lol and if it can also collect the requirements and write the user stories and acceptance criteria that would be grest
Current availability is not a guarantee of current delivery.

I (current) = V (voltage)/R (resistance)

Typical skin resistance can be as high as 100MΩ (mega ohms) but is often cited as 10MΩ. Even if we assume just 1MΩ (1000000 ohms) skin resistance, then at 2.3V as shown in the video the current would be 0.0000023 A or 2.3 μA (micro amperes).
That's a perfect example!

There is such a huge code case, because writing the code was easy to do.
I live north of Sacramento. This summer I found NOAA's GOES-17 satellite imagery to be the easiest and most accurate method in determining where wildfire smoke would move. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
The Oracle layer was also added to IBM DB2.

Which one? Good question. The mainframe, as/400, and Windows versions are all on separate source code last I heard.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/news/enterprisedb-and-ibmr-coll...
If only wine had the full source code to anything Windows available, as does Microsoft with anything Linux
Ok, but why the @#% doesn't Facebook make it easy to know which of my old friends are living in cities I visit? I swear that would be the one obviously useful thing about Facebook.
Would you prefer that a judge forces a company to support other hardware?
I interviewed with the self driving car team while it was still part of google X. I was told that every single employee on the team started out as a contractor, people would be converted to full time on a first come first serve basis, usually about a year and a half in. There was no path to jumping straight to FTE according to the hiring manager.
There are rather usable clients for Java and .Net that do not require that. Well, the .Net one silently converts async calls to sync, but Oracle wouldn't be Oracle without nasty surprises.
From:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/10/epic-games-to-appeal-decision...

> Epic Games has announced that it plans to appeal the judge’s decision from today’s Epic v. Apple case. Although today’s ruling says that Apple must relax rules around In-App Purchase and allow apps to link out to third-party payment systems, the judge ruled in Apple’s favor on all other counts.

> For instance, Apple was not shown to have a monopoly nor must be compelled to allow third-party app stores or alternative third-party payment systems inside the app itself, as Epic had hoped. In a statement, Apple described the decision as a “huge win for Apple”.
But you have to bring charges or sue in the state the company is headquartered in or in federal court. Facebook is headquartered in California. Texas can't legally compel Facebook to do anything. They can attempt to sue in California court but the case would have no merit because it's not in violation of California law. Now Texas could potentially sue Facebook in absentia in a Texas court but would have no way to enforce the judgement. Besides if it came down to that Facebook could just block traffic from Texas which would probably end this nonsense real quick.
Thank you for trying to clarify your thoughts. I understand that you think ethics exist inside human minds and not anywhere else.

I still don't see why Stalin, Pol Pot, and company don't get to decide that they value mass murder to achieve their personal goals, in absentia transcendence.

I find their choices appalling, but it seems they did not.

It's the meaning they chose to make in their life.

If that's their code of ethics, and those ethics exist solely inside our heads, then there's nothing to be said beyond "I hate that," as far as I can see.
Talking Drum
And audio?
I mean honestly, MSM: what are the odds an actual group of bona fide Texans takes the time to create a forum to help each other collect their $10,000 abortion bounties over the next few months?

Seriously, what are the goddamned odds? I'm completely illiterate when it comes to statistics.

Irregardless, I do know I'd bet anything the odds are infinitesimally low given the poor track record of the MSM.
To me, millions test sounded like a good thing. The main issue I had with the description of that workflow is that if the tests take 20-30 hours to run, someone in Oracle is not spending sufficient money on build hardware! They should have tens of thousands of servers, not hundreds, and they should be kitted out with the fastest processors and NVMe drives money can buy.

If you look at how companies like NVIDIA do things, they throw ungodly amounts of compute at development and simulations. Entire data centres worth!
Doesn’t seem to show anything on ios Firefox.
I agree.

Bots will trend towards resembling real users exactly.

All you can really do is make it expensive for a bot to spam requests. Everything else will be identical to humans one day, and in the meantime it's annoying to block legit Tor users or legit scraper bots.
This looks, AFAICT, like a wine-style compat layer: https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/reviving-palmos/

"The application “thinks” it is running on a PalmOS device, but instead it is running natively on Linux."
I don't think 7820HQ has more resistance to Meltdown than 7700HQ. In fact TSX-NI might make it worse. Yet they allow the former but not the latter.
Will the Chiefs win the Super Bowl? Vegas odds has the Chiefs winning 16 of 17
Sure, you can criticize other people's values.

They don't have to listen, though. Maybe their values even dictate that they shouldn't.

You're right that I'm not answering a lot of questions about my own perspective. I wasn't trying to explain my views.

I was trying to explain why many humans are not at all comforted by this "choose your own values" system.

In my case, it produces nihilistic horror, and this is one of the reasons.

I'm not saying a shared basis for ethics must exist.

I'm saying that if one doesn't, there's no basis for arguing that someone else's ethics are wrong.

All you can legitimately say is "I don't like that."

It comes down to "ethics" by mob rule and democracy.
Maybe those users would be better off with the more popular products offered by Apple's competitors.
> Most of the iMessage features, text, video, pictures and "reactions/tap backs" work over SMS

Other than 'text', none of those things use SMS:

Sending pictures and videos uses MMS, which is one of the most flakiest parts of the old feature-phone ecosystem because it's inextricably tied to the level of support from both the sender's carrier and the receiver's carrier for particular MMS message content - and how carriers love to charge insane $-per-byte for SMS/MMS content. While in the US exchanging video MMS between the 4 (or 3...) major carriers you likely won't experience any problems provided the video is under a few megabytes and using a well-supported codec like H.263/H.264, if you see what it's like for the rest of the world (Europe, India, etc) you'll understand why services like WhatsApp are so popular: because carrier SMS/MMS service is awful... if not obscenely expensive.

The "reactions" thing you mention, to my knowledge, is not supported by SMS either - it's either an Android-specific MMS extension or you're using RCS - and Apple has no incentive to support RCS, excepting any kind of laws requiring phone carriers and handsets to fully support RCS (I wish...) in order to be sold in a giving region.
You are ok with censorship?
If you're going to look for one such risk you might as well look for them all - if it's public space and you don't own it you should get off it regardless what isn't advertised on the internet today.
> take on

You don’t have to take them on. Pay a lawyer an hour or so to consult and see if they can write a strongly worded letter - it doesn’t actually have to be a lawsuit.
We heard you like misinformation, so we put some misinformation in your misinformation
Because we're accepting failure on that front. Instead, it's providing rate-limiting.

Hell, charge me one penny per refresh and a dime per tweet and login attempt. Then let the bots run freely if they're willing to pay that rate.
Was there anything in the ruling preventing Apple from just forbidding higher prices on the Apple payment option?
Webasm will help with this. If the browser's JIT is good enough, it'll be close to optimized C.

Then you just need to make sure your algorithm is also space-hard and resists parallelization so GPUs and ASICs can't get it.

Basically it's a password hash, like Argon2. I think libsodium already has an official WebAsm build, so there you go.

Web browsers also have "crypto.subtle" but it's not allowed on file:// (making testing on local difficult) and I don't know if it has password hashing.
> Which open-source search engines do you think are competitive?

I work on an open source search engine called Typesense: https://typesense.org/

I'm biased, but I'd like to think that when it comes to site/app search, Typesense is quite competitive to Elasticsearch. Of course, ES has tons of features and configuration options, which is a blessing and a curse in terms of complexity and learning curve, so I wouldn't want to claim feature parity. But in terms of getting a good out-of-the-box search solution that works well for most use-cases and is easy to deploy and scale, I'm hoping for Typesense to be that go to.

I recently put this comparison matrix together: https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-...
Wait, this isn’t a copyrighted Palm ROM running on an emulator!?
What do Germans fear the most?
Not a problem for me.
Or just prefix everything so that your string domain doesn't shrink? Then you don't have to worry what your users enter.
This is cool and I’m not knocking it. Just wanted to point out the irony that back in my day there was lots of fear that MS would embrace extend and extinguish Linux. How ironic would it be if this happened inadvertently because WSL got that good.
> I’ve never once seen a worthwhile article come out of Business Insider and yet yours is the first negative opinion I’ve ever seen expressed about it

What? Business Insider has always been known as a low-value clickbait website AFAIK. Maybe people don't talk about it much because it's assumed?
Self driving cars have been in development for ~30 years. We’re remarkably close to taxis driving themselves.
There are grid controls from the usual commercial vendors like Radzen and Telerik. I used them briefly during a free trial. It has a funny name, but MudBlazor [1] has been the MIT licensed library I have been using lately. I have been using their Table control, which may be what you are looking for in a data grid. [2] Check it out and see.

[1] https://mudblazor.com/

[2] https://mudblazor.com/components/table#api
Sounds like this post is recommending you keep a journal, certainly a good practice, as the post says writing is an invaluable tool for reflection. But I don't think the advice is as useful for creating writing that is of value to others.
Techno-utopian advocates a need to adapt society and institutions, and apparently suggests how, although you'll have to read the book for that. Should be good for a laugh. Or a cry, if he's taken seriously.

https://www.exponential-book.com/
English (and presumably other human languages as well) has a lot of opinion pent up in it. Say someone came to my house and then left with a table. Depending on the details, they could have stolen it, they could have bought it, they could be a friend who's borrowing it, it could be a gift to a friend. (There's a ton more possibilities to consider if you're creative.)

Formulas are great at the level of expressing that a table was moved, which is the important piece for some.

That it misses the human element of the feelings surrounding the event is a different kind of eloquence from flowery prose to entertain.
I believe that tweet was intended as comedy.
If it automatically scales based on current traffic, that might not matter.

You can have it turn itself off during a normal "1 request per minute" day on a small blog and then crank up to "A new CPU needs 2 seconds" during a DDOS.

Use token bucket or leaky bucket or whatever so a few normal users clicking around for 10 minutes won't trigger it, but after a while the server runs out of patience if they keep making requests faster.
The Oracle 19.3 installer must be used to install on RedHat/Oracle Linux 8, but nothing lower that 19.6 will run on this OS.

Two patch sets must be applied to the nonfunctional installer before it will work, which was quite hostile to learn and master.

At least with 11.2, a new install set was issued for RedHat 7.
You need to make calisthenics excercises progressively harder instead of endlessly increasing the volume, if you want to increase strength. The pinnacle are pushups on one arm, Bruce Lee demonstrated those on two fingers. The book Convict Conditioning contains progressions for several bodyweight excercises.
You can also get the METAR (observations updated hourly) from the Aviation Weather Center: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KORS&format=decod...
This wasn't a trivial technicality. They said users' phone numbers were being anonymized and they weren't.

How they handle private data, especially if they lie about what they're doing, does really matter. End-to-end encryption doesn't mean anything if they secretly keep the a key able to decrypt it, which is basically what they were getting fined for.
Really love that you have starter kits for both Gatsby and Nextjs. I was just looking at Nacelle the other day.

Some thoughts below after spending about an hour going through the docs and repo (from the position of an e-com CTO).

Metadata - this is a killer Shopify feature for anyone that's done serious integration, and is the secret sauce to a lot of UI customization. I only see it for orders and not products. Really appreciate the versatility of this across multiple types.

Payment Providers - needs top-level docs visibility, seems to be hidden under "Regions" right now. Same provider/account often used for multiple countries.

Swap - rename this to Exchange, because this is how employees will talk about it internally. Customer service training will be all that harder if it has language like "Swap", and "Exchange" is already an understood industry term. It will help communicate expectations with readers better. To a head of operations, it's just part of a larger RMA process and will be number-crunched accordingly.

Swap Difference - love that you have this out of the box. Many e-commerce companies use 3rd party returns/exchange services because Shopify has shit internal support and this "difference" comes up right away because retailers want to support any transaction that lets them keep customer money even if the exchange is for a less expensive product.

Claims - aka RMA. Technically this is still a Return, but a return can also trigger a replacement/exchange/repair. I also see "Claim Fulfillment", which seems redundant with the replacement Orders Fulfillment. Curious how all the data interplays to record this business process.

Return Reasons - nested support is important. For example, "Wrong Size" leads to "Too Small/Too Large" but I don't necessarily want to show the later upfront. This also aligns with how the business will want to report on them internally, and break them down for analysis.

Gift Cards - it's REALLY important that I can understand how these are used for accounting and bookkeeping. I need to know if a gift card was purchased and tied to cash, and not just created out of thin air. Accountants will do accruals to manage gift card revenues vs. liabilities, while marketing will create free gift cards to hand out at events or give to vendors, and customer service will create gift cards for customer gratuity or exchanges. It WILL get messy.

Discounts - another important accounting gotcha, because the tool will be abused by staff to get their job done. Some discounts will be actual discounts, and treated on the books as such. Other discounts will be marketing-driven and an accountant will manually group them up in Excel and charge them to correct accounts. Having a field similar to "product type" will go a long way to letting the team manage discount reporting (Discount Category).

Very impressed with everything so far, I will definitely be trying it out more and looking forward to your roadmap.
The last line of that article just killed me. The whole thing was a mind bender but that last line was a serious one!
I live less than 3 miles from an airport, but due to microclimates the weather is completely different. The NOAA does a reasonable job of forecasting my specific area, but most weather apps will take the current conditions from the airport, which can be off by over 10F in temperature alone.
How?

(Genuine question...)
If you click on a specific location, at the bottom you can expand the forecast. Instead of "Basic" select "Wind" which will let you see multiple model forecasts. Not exactly a probability but you can do some mental ensembling to see if models agree or not.

https://imgur.com/a/UezBGqZ
You can already sign up through Safari on iOS to those services. And besides signing up to that sort of subscription is a one time thing.
> Whatever creates the most pain for Linux / FOSS users.

Not necessarily to this level of malice.

Many (most?) Linux users, especially new ones, use also Windows, so all it needs for MS to convince them to use only Windows+WSL and not say a dual boot machine or two machines, is something that just integrates the two systems, so that most users will feel more comfortable running everything under Windows.

The killer product in my opinion would be something that allows accessing to Windows internals and GUI from a Linux program (imagine "/usr/bin/excel", a port of Excel that works only under Windows+WSL). Those functionalities would be offered by something that "pure" Linux distributions could not offer, including WINE, since we're talking about the full OS and not an API translation layer.
Once users and developers are accustomed to it (many devs already develop under WSL) we'll reach the point in which the two worlds will fork in favor of Windows: what is developed under Linux will also work under Windows+WSL but not the other way around. That would probably be the moment MS will introduce their own Linux distribution (advertised as the only one that can take full advantage of "most recent Linux developments") that under the hood could either be normal Windows+WSL, or a different one containing a "hidden" Windows blob allowing developers to run native Linux, hybrid Linux+Windows, and possibly native Windows apps, either free or a lot cheaper than Windows+WSL.

If this happens, most Linux users, especially desktop ones, would rather go back to Windows rather than for example stay with Ubuntu+WINE. Server, embedded and other smaller niches users will make an exception, but Linux is in serious risk of losing all other users.
any benefit would be enough, because those adverse effects are extremely rare in non-contraindicated people
> , find a nearby airport, get their ATIS (or AWOS or ASOS) phone number and you can call and get a real-time report.
Obviously it's current weather, not forecast, but it's often helpful.

The US Government makes both METARs (current report) and TAFs (area forecast) available online. You can also get PIREPs (pilot reports) if you are interested in the conditions in the air.
The remaining mystery is the whole point of the charade. How do the perps stand to profit? Is this an Oklahoma state-government management failure?
Summerlight's point was that if you take Apple's argument at face value (that iOS and the App Store are so tightly integrated as to be indivisible), then it boggles the mind that Apple could then turn around and sell you iOS (via an iPhone purchase) but not include the App Store in that same transaction.

Or, in a sentence: you can't claim something is indivisible, and then charge for its pieces separately and at separate times.

Your point is probably that developers and customers are two separate groups, and there's a history of making a thing free to customers (the App Store) while charging vendors (developers) for the privilege.
> Mind you telling me why?

The computer is a blank slate. Innocent. When it starts, there is nothing stored in its vast arrays of memory. No data, no code, nothing.

Bit by bit programmers carved meaning into that empty universe. This number is now a character. An array of these numbers is now text. An ordered list of these texts is now a program. Complexity increasing. We could do more and more with less and less. That new virtual world was revealing itself to us.

We were the gods of this virtual world.

With mere words we could conjure up incredible architectures out of nothing. We gave meaning to ordinary numbers. We invented structures. We developed systems. We erected infrastructure. Even language itself came from us. Limited only by our minds. The computer's capabilities shaped by our own understanding. Anything we thought possible, happened. Only the courage to try was necessary.

And now the computer is becoming so advanced and complex that our minds can no longer fully understand it. We can no longer fully control it. One day we will no longer be the gods we once were. The computer will understand things and reprogram itself.

A truly poignant end for us. Reduced to reliving our past glories in the comfort of old hardware and software.

> I also live in Brazil, if it matters.

It matters. I'm also brazilian and most other programmers I've met are exactly as you described. I actually quit professional programming because of that.
I'd love to use WSL2 but the longstanding issue with slow I/O between WSL <-> NTFS host is a dealbreaker. It basically means you have to keep all your data inside ext4 in Linux and that defeats the whole point - e.g. you can't keep your code, or files you download etc in Windows.

With WSL you can keep all data in NTFS, have near native speeds but you can't run a bunch of Linux cmdline tools.

I don't know if they can solve it, its basically sending data across the network, But this is the last barrier to a great Linux on Windows.
I get all that, but it's hard to imagine with the current naming scheme that you'll be doing much beyond the bare minimum support for WSL1. I have a hard time believing that new WSL1 features will land.

There's a giant chasm between "not deprecated" and "actively supporting".

For example, I'm guessing that running a docker container with WSL1 is something that will never happen.