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Dropbox had to quit doing this 10 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478567#2478608

Apparently Dropbox notices they already have that file, and instead of you uploading it they just make it appear in your account.
Sure, it still is a thing.

They can't keep on releasing new versions if nobody is using it :) I use it and stay up-to-date via their subscriptions.

Is it good? Well.. the old VCL stuff is pretty good, very stable, can do pretty much all you want. But that's Windows only.

The multi device framework (FMX aka firemonkey) is getting better, but does sometimes still lack in how mature it is.
Normally however you can work around any issue you bump into.

So is it perfect? No, but I'm not aware of a tool that is perfect when you need cross platform development tools.

As far as cost goes (the main complaint I tend to see), it's not very cheap on initial purchase. But with the subscription you basically have a cost of about $500/year for the professional version.
Not insurmountable if you consider that they actively work on improving the language and support.
This is from the company (Apple) who "mitigated" a zero-day with a case-sensitive string match so it could still be exploited?

Like apple gives a shit about concealed code.
I don't disagree, with caveats.

This is absolutely something that investigative professionals should pursue. If laws need to change, or people need to be punished on their recommendation, go for it.

But this is not the time for more "Drastic" research, scraping together odd papers and presentation slides to build a narrative. It's not the time a newspaper (that is a family friend, ex-employer and significantly Party-biased) to rile people up enough to buy the book you're about to release.

We've all seen way too much of this social-media-science in the past 2 years. Anger and anecdotes aren't enough. He should present his case to the authorities and let them deal with it, rather than trying to do the same as the rest of his Party members and cash in.
"Oh my god the government is feeding us dead babies!" would probably be up there.
You are aware that we are not even able to simulate C. elegans with its ~1000 cells including "only" 302 neurons?
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We gave your food the option to eat a salad — to wash down all of the sugar (grains).
How is that any better than just buying a new cable?
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Maybe they can make a USB-C-1 that fits at the start and then USB-C-2 and USB-C-3 that are microscopically bigger to fit those old and wrinkly connectors?

Wouldn’t that be great?

(Semi-joking, I know some NES games (Konami?) had slightly thicker PCBs that would always work, but at the expense of decreasing the machine’s life overall on every other game). I guess ZIF is the way to go, but hard to fit into small form factors than something slide/brush contractors.)
Well for one, if Spotify ends up being the only way musicians get paid, the pool of new and interesting artists is going to end up way, way smaller. I actively try to help independent artists succeed by giving them money directly, even though it ends up being somewhat inconvenient to me. Even the biggest-name independent musicians talk about how laughably little money they make from Spotify streaming compared to actually selling albums and tracks.

For another, pure streaming means you're locked into the streaming service's player, having internet access, and having a device you can run a client on. Just having the audio files is vastly preferable to me.
Desktop : firefox

Mobile: moved from firefox to Vivaldi
How is the experience?
Have you ised to writein an airplane?
Whas happens when the novelty ears off?
The PHP equivalent would be the TALL stack (Tailwind, AlpineJS, Laravel and Livewire). Although Livewire just communicates over AJAX. The original Websockets version didn't make it.

I just found out that Livewire was inspired by LiveView.
Thanks, you're right.

That raises the interesting question of how large, hypersonic UAVs are expected to be used.

What kind of intelligence mission benefits from a fast flyby but cannot be performed by a satellite?

What kind of attack is fast but cannot be from a guided weapon?
micro usb should be more durable than mini usb: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/facebook-paid-billi...

it would be sad if they didn't try to improve on previous designs
Agree. given that USB-C has an insane bandwidth and can power even laptops, there is absolutely no need for different standards. Let's all agree on one and move on. Apple's stance is ridiculous and justifies only some more profit.
> If that happens, you touch down and anywhere from 20 to 35 minutes later a rock you kicked up comes right back at you from the other direction!

It is not simple as that, it is actually more interesting:)

On a spherical ideal body it is impossible for the rock to do this. That is because the only orbit that does not intersect the ground must be exactly parallel to the ground at the landing site. So not only it can't hit the landing pad, it can't even hit the rocket sticking way above the ground.

Now, there is couple of interesting reasons I can figure out why this is at all possible on Moon, but I am too lazy or in some cases incapable to estimate which ones are significant.

1. Moon rotates. If the landing happened anywhere but the poles, by the time the projectile completes orbit the surface has shifted (but just a tiny bit since Moon rotates so slowly). If the projectile was shot parallel to the ground in the right direction, it does not need to complete entire orbit to hit the landing pad or the rocket.

2. Moon has lumpy gravity. It is not an ideal spherical body and it is known to have huge gravitational anomalies. The anomaly is so large that satellites around Moon need regular boosts because otherwise their orbit would degrade.

3. Moon has atmosphere. It is as good as vacuum in most circumstances but it might possibly be significant for particles of dust traveling at thousands of meters per second. For those interested, the entire atmosphere of Moon is estimated to weigh around 10t. So don't count on using it Watney-style for anything practical.

4. Solar wind. Very small particles may be significantly shifted in their orbit due to interaction with energetic particles traveling in particular direction (like solar wind).

5. Particles skipping off of Lunar surface? I think it could maybe be possible for a particle being close to complete its orbit to hit something at really extremely small cross section that rather than vaporize it would just deflect it by couple arc seconds and hit the rocket.

Of course this is just thought experiment. Dust flooding other structures on the Moon, satellites, orbits around Moon and Earth is reason enough to try to find a solution.
> Android studio is reliable and just works.

How I wish this would be true.

There is a reason why so many rather use InteliJ with Android plugins, or even drop into VSCode with Gradle instead, only starting Studio for workflows that have to be done inside it.

There is hardly a "stable" release without regressions.
> The SR-71 was an espionage plane, not an armed one as far as I know.

That would be the YF-12, a prototype interceptor built off of the A-12, the A-12 being the base from which SR-71 was also derived.
> because Apple thinks different™.

This is a little unfair, when Apple has been more consistent in keeping the same ports and cables, and moved to generic USB-chargers long before it was standard for anyone else?

USB-C wasn't even finalised until 2014; I can't remember how common USB-C was on phones before that, but Apple was using lightning for _years_ before that.

What's the e-Waste consequence of changing and forcing everyone to buy new chargers, adapters, cables when they next buy a new device? Suddenly all the cables and chargers you've been using for ten years are useless.
For what it's worth the new "GeForce Now" cloud gaming platform beta will is based in Perth (using the hardware of the local Pentanet internet service provider).

If the beta is a success, I'm sure it will be hosted locally in most capital cities eventually.
That and the more fragile the device, the bigger the case you (should) have anyway.
On the contrary, the CFPB has rave reviews from what I have read:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/

I had a problem where my spouse’s employer’s Health Savings Account custodian (PNC bank in this case) was simply giving us the run around on charging a fee that was not on their fee schedule, which the employees of PNC even acknowledged was an error, but no one could get in touch with a person with enough power to fix the problem.

I submitted a request on the CFPB website asking them to look into it and within 48 hours I had a boss call me from
PNC bank to confirm that my error was resolved and provided me her email address and phone number if there were further issues.

Trump did neuter the CPFB though, but hopefully Biden will bring it back:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-01-11/column-cfp...
And Epic doesn’t like Apple. These are big companies and Epic is not under an existential treat by not having access to the AppStore.

Epic started this whole mess by breaking their original agreement. And the court explicitly affirmed Apple’s right to terminate Epic’s developer account. If Apple were “abusing” their position, that implies they have monopoly power in that market, which was not what the court determined (rightly or wrongly). Which is the crux of Epic’s real goals, which they lost.

You could argue that it’s not nice or that it’s a poor business choice (because people will still buy some VBucks through IAP), but it’s not abusive. Vindictive maybe, but not abusive.

And really the only people getting hurt are the players who played Fortnite (exclusively?) on their phones or iPads. Which ironically includes me…

I think this would be a much larger issue for smaller developers who are reliant on access to the iOS market. What would happen to a smaller developer that didn’t have more resources? I think that’s a more interesting question.

But right now, this is still a Goliath vs Goliath situation.
Otherwise, it really doesn't taste like meat.

There are a lot of spaces where that doesn't really matter. A Big Mac, once covered in cheese, bacon, sauce etc. doesn't really taste like meat. Those 'instant' microwave meals don't really taste like meat. Most of the meals I was served for lunch in school didn't really taste like meat. Every hospital meal I've ever eaten didn't really taste like meat. I assume prison meals are worse than all of the above. In all these, and similar, use cases real meat could be replaced with a halfway decent meat substitute without any culinary value being lost.
If it can carry armaments, who will tolerate it as an intelligence gathering plane? And how can one know what its mission is in real time?
Environmentalists often have a bias for small scale operation. They just really like the idea of everyone having their own bioreactor in their closet powered by their own rooftop solar panels. I think it may be simply an aesthetic preference that they then try to rationalize, facts be damned.
Pretty sure farmers know how to get their work done with or without optimal sunlight. And modern equipment is not lacking in supplemental lighting.
ICBMs are a large, blunt weapon. Their value is primarily in their deterrence. The concequences of actually using them are so unthinkable, that we don't really consider it unless it's a very-last-resort kind of situation.
Most of the time you want a precision, guided munition that can destroy a house or a truck or something small without causing too much collateral damage. Until now, that has meant an airbase or a carrier nearby to launch aircraft to carry these munitions.

However, with the XR-72, we can do away with those and just launch our precision strikes from the US mainland. It's cheaper, just as effective and hopefully will give emerging superpowers (like China) pause when planning their defence scenarios.
Another I know offhand is that "haku" is a reading of the kanji for "white" (白). What might not be apparent to most English-speakers is that "haku" is just two characters in Japanese (はく), which seems like it could mean practically anything in different contexts.

"Haku" is an unusual string in Anglophone culture, so it makes sense that people would mentally associate it strongly with the first (or most frequent, or most recent) meaning they encounter. For a native Japanese speaker, I imagine that it would be viewed as any common prefix or two-letter word would be in English — if not as even more generic, because Japanese seems to have so many more homophones than English (based on my very limited knowledge of the language).
ICBM go up and down in a predictable arc. Sometimes they have the capability to shift their path actively but not by much. Hypersonic controlled flight vehicles have the ability to be unpredictable and therefore offer more protection from countermeasures.
Or you could be like Stephen Wolfram and walk around with a laptop harness https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
Appealing a court decision still counts as "playing by the rules." Disagreeing about what the rules should be shouldn't count as a violation of the rules by itself.
Oh sweet, thanks for digging that up!
Except Pixel phones are not officially available worldwide.
Plastic shopping bags are regulated. The supermarket packaging madness is ripe for regulation.
Agreed. I’d love to see Apple break the core of Xcode out into a separate app with a pared down feature set (text editor, file explorer, debugger, console, etc) give it LSP support - and then make it extensible and blazing fast. Basically VSCode but mac native.

I really don’t want all the visual editors and previews. Interface builder, Core Data Model Editor, even Swift UI previews feel so half-baked that they’re effectively unusable anyway. Swift packages are a delight because they’re purely text based.

As coders, we’re working with text all day. It doesn’t make sense to context switch to dragging boxes around a canvas to wire things up.

I’d rather they invested the engineer time into the core editor and made it rock solid.

My hunch is that they spend so much time on them because they look great in demos, but when it comes to the end of the beta cycle and the tool is still broken, it leaves a bitter taste. Simplify it.
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That's a good point I hadn't thought of. My motive for "get out of the cloud" was more about losing access than risk of breach / leak / spying etc. So that doesn't require getting out, it just requires the local backup copy.
Actually any sufficiently imaginative and slightly evil tester could have also thought of that one too, which means Apple are either missing that skillset or rushed it out.
On the contrary, I think it is more about making an example out of Epic about the severe consequences of litigating against apple.
Weapons fired/utilized without attribution are what scares me the most.
Apple made not just a "promise", they made an offer, the judge then asked if Epic wanted it, Epic said no.

Now Epic is changing their mind now that the judge ruled they did breach the contract, what they were expecting?
First, thanks for raising that. Good-faith discussion matters.

The strongest interpretation I was able to come up with is "Meat has enough environmental impact that it is worth public interventions to raise the prices of meat in enough communities around the world that billions of people notice the increased cost and feel forced to give up meat"

Is there a more charitable interpretation that I am missing?

Does anything in my words indicate that I think carlmr desires the deaths of people? (I don't think he wants that. I hope we all know we're talking about unintended consequences here).
What is your specific complaint with details here?

As for resolution...ESRI shapefiles are vector files, they don't have a resolution.
New moon[1]

> Since the new moon is not in the same state at the same time globally, the beginning and ending dates of Ramadan depend on what lunar sightings are received in each respective location. As a result, Ramadan dates vary in different countries, but usually only by a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_(calendar_month)
To add to that, the public institutions in BG are in possession of a 0.5-0.3m/px orthophoto and a DEM with a similar resolution derived from it. This was acquired between 2016 and 2020 and entirely paid for with eurofunds.

You literally cannot get access to it, even if you want to pay let alone find it as an opendata dataset. Mind you, all military objects on it have been removed.
Most I see are unlockable, but then I’d check first anyway.

> And even if you have a phone where that isn't true, Google's SafetyNet will prevent you from using many crucial applications, like your bank's Android app, on that handset.

There is still MagiskHide, though it often requires a bunch of trial and error to get it working. In addition, there are still banks with apps that allow you to install them on rooted devices (N26 in Germany is such a bank).
Having family and friends deep in the industry, and a dad, grandfather, uncle and grandmother who worked at Lockheed and specifically the Skunk Works - this is not real. This stuff gets made up all the time.

The real stuff being done at the Skunk Works is not stuff you will ever ever hear about.
Well, there's always the big bang.
What you’re describing (at least the heat aspect) is referred to as “Sterilization in Place” and it is standard practice to design into bioreactors already. Contamination still happens. In general you’re right though, the concept of continuous automated sterilization will need to be reimagined, but like many of the topics addressed in this article, a lot of the low hanging fruit has been picked.

https://www.flottweg.com/wiki/separation-technology/steriliz...
Picard wasn't too bad actually, I think. Maybe a tad to gritty / realistic when compared to TNG. It did offer a plausible universe development so, incl. Picard sacrificing his career for principle.
Tonnes of release doesnt tell the whole story though. Domestic burners are closer to the ground and other humans. Coal power stations have stacks to shoot the emissions higher in the atmosphere.

In developed countries it just seems like a backward step when people can afford something better than fashion driven legacy technology.
Bc there's some treaty prohibiting space-based weapons smth smth... hence your satelite will not be able to carry missiles (or use them without admitting it carried them).

...and bc ICBMs are not weapons you'd want to EVER see used :)

You'd probably use this to hit a bad guy's house/hospital/school inside airspace protected by another superpower (hence drones and other stuff won't work) based on ground based humint whose information will likely be stale after a couple hours. It could mean way less victims than conventional warfare, so ugly as it is, it's better than destroyed cities and waves of refugees.

All in all cool to see superpowers doing dick measuring contests with these kinds of stuff, compared to other horrible stuff they could be competing at militarily...
delete your social media accounts now, twitter facebook et al are a cancer and are destroying humanity
First, yes I listen to various items from around the world. I think I even put a couple in the short list.

That being said, most of the stuff around the world is effectively propaganda. It’s good to see sentiment, but it’s generally paid for by government or for government.

Even Le Monde started by request of the government and is own largely by someone in another country. IMO it’s pretty partisan. Not saying it’s bad by any means, just that you have to weight it.
UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in many of the same ways as it is to city people.

Time-dependent natural processes don't reconfigure themselves when some administrative body decides to shuffle the names of various times of day. If my cows want breakfast at 6am and you shift the clocks forward, they'll start shouting for Food Man(tm) at 5am instead.
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As an Italian in Italy:

"Draconian" ... "terrifyingly popular"

should be changed to:

"Necessary" ... "reasonably accepted"
I loved playing Empire on the Amiga back then, but TBH, it was a far cry from Civilization.
> When it comes to free-range cattle, nothing could be more energy efficient for making meat.

It's also far less cruel than more sensitive people here imagine it to be.

Animals die in the end, true, but eventually everyone dies. They live a decent life, walk in the pastures, play with their kin, get treated if injured. This is better than life of animals in the wild by a huge margin. Some of them also get to have a long life; many cows that are used for milk usually are not slaughtered until they get old.

Factory farmed meat is fucking genocide and should be banned forever.
I thought the true top speed of the SR-71 is either highly classified or truly “unknown”.

How does the article justify saying the 72 will be roughly 2x the speed of the 71?
They observe the crescent moon just after sunset.

Although officially the month starts when an official sees the new moon, I wonder to what extent they predict in advance when the moon is likely to be visible and then, in order to avoid unnecessary disruption, they make sure that that is indeed when they see it.
Foiled! I’m in New Zealand at present and it was still yesterday even here when you posted. WST = UTC+13, NZST = UTC+12, and New Zealand doesn’t move to NZDT (UTC+13) until this Sunday at 2am—unless they choose to scrap daylight savings time with even less notice than Samoa.

Fun fact that I just learned: if you work across the DST start transition, you get an hour’s extra pay: https://www.govt.nz/browse/recreation-and-the-environment/da....
Oh, right, I totally forgot that Apple and Google are chinese companies, my bad.
Is it possible to set up an encrypted+authenticated boot that relies on a hardware token being present? In other words, only boot this OS if the Yubikey is inserted?
Looks like all other people on internet with broken lightning connector are blatant liars..
You might miss the Delphi's AOT compilation though.

There are ways to get it in Java, but other than Graal, they cost just as much.
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I have broken at least two female USB-A ports, with a cable pulled sideways tearing the inside tab off. Luckily, this always was on motherboards that had a spare one just next to it.

In later revisions (at least starting with micro USB, perhaps mini as well), the cable was explicitly designed to be the part prone to breakage, as it's easier to replace.
> What's Apple reasoning for not abandoning Lightning for USB-C on their phones?

Profit.

What was the reason for abandoning FireWire?
And this is a perfect example to show the complexity.

On Arch Linux:

- /usr/bin/zoom is a symlink to /opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher which does not link against Qt. Presumably this just sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and spawns /opt/zoom/zoom

- /opt/zoom/zoom is the main zoom binary and when run under 'ldd' actually tries to load /usr/lib/libQt* (Qt 5.15 on my system). Running this binary directly doesn't work (Error: "opt/zoom/zoom: symbol lookup error: /opt/zoom/imageformats/libqsvg.so: undefined symbol: _ZdlPvm, version Qt_5")
> should be treated as such

Ok

> How is FTE determining their "pollster rating"

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-death-of-polling-is...
This is why I suggested not listening to the corporate media. Independent podcasters are the most effective, albeit not perfect, at providing actual insights.