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The much more likely outcome is people buying broken iPhones in bulk, putting cheap screens in them, and selling them as originals.

The number of people who (A, bought an iPhone as a high-end device. B, broke it. C, in a way that can be repaired, D, are capable and motivated to do the repair themselves, E, are unwilling to pay for a repair from Apple or have AppleCare, F, are willing to go from high-end device to cheap-discount parts, G, are apopleptic when they can't and didn't know about this in advance) is approximately nobody.

People who are happy with discount cheaper parts probably aren't buying Apple in the first place. People who are careful about repairs to extend the life of their property are likely more careful than average to avoid breaks in the first place. People who care about repairs likely know about Apple's repair policies before choosing to buy an iPhone. And people who splurged money on an iPhone for whatever reason are unlikely to be happy with cheaper parts, or they would have got a cheaper phone in the first place.

It's not literally nobody, but is it really enough people and a common enough situation to base national or international policy on, when crime and fraud and scams are very common? Isn't it really a very unlikely situation which tickles the geek dream of getting a broken iPhone cheap from a friend or dumpster, putting a cheap screen in it, and having used your skills to wrangle a bargain from the Universe, and therefore makes an easy internet upvote comment more than it makes a genuine objection?

You could still do almost all that if you could buy genuine replacement parts from Apple at not-extortionate prices, right?
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there are so many applications of NFT. it starts with art and ends with something you never thought of.
Yes and no. In Ardour, which has a substantial dependency tree (80+ libraries), if we statically link, the edit/compile/debug cycle becomes incredibly bogged down by static linkage. It takes a long time (even with lld) to complete the link step. If we use shared libraries/dynamic linkage, the edit/compile/debug cycle is nice and fast, but application startup is a bit slower (not by as much as static linkage is slower, however).

For users, it would be better if the application was statically linked, at least in terms of startup cost. But because developers do the edit/compile/debug cycle much, much more often than users start the application, we opt for dynamic linkage.
‘The kids’ seem better informed, more self-aware, more socially conscious, more creative, than ever. Young people I meet today always amaze me with what they know and think and are trying to achieve. Much better than I was at their age!
You mean if you pay 10$ per month for AppleCare? I dont pay for it but I have helped friends file claims with Apple, and they usually just ship back a brand new device instead of actually repairing the device. Even for things like screen damage. You can tell because small scratches on the back screen from normal use are gone upon return.
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Good. Share the (stolen) wealth.
Art imitates life

> What did we think would happen when we spent decades screaming about The Male Gaze and how film's treatment of women inherently objectifies them

This is not true, the affinity of latest generations for postmodern asexuality is a preference, not catechism
That’s really horrible that you think that a company commissioning custom computer chips somehow deserves violence.

I don’t know why anyone would possibly think that’s ever ok. Or why you would think that’s possibly ever appropriate to invoke in a discussion about computer chips or anything other than the act itself.

If your intent was to invoke a visceral reaction in the reader that causes the rest of your point to be completely ignored, then well done. Otherwise, if you want to actually communicate your ideas in a civilized fashion, please reconsider your choices.
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Dumbed down to superhero-movie plateau, PG rating for families, publishing in the PRC.

Money.
Graph DB's have the relationships and the data in one lump. With Table based databases you can have relationships between tables stored in tables and obtain your graph structure that way. You can also change your graph structure by changing the data in the relationships table. This was a big problem in ISAM databases, if your schema changed then you had to spend a lot of time rebuilding the whole graph (as I was told anyway - I came in at the beginning of SQL databases), I imagine this is a problem with graph databases to?

The advantage of relational was also you could store reference data in one table - not all through the graph, another problem with ISAM. Also often when reporting you don't really know the relationships you want to report on, if this is in a hard wired graph then extracting that data and putting it in the form you want is hard, this is the power of joins - joins allow you to make the relationship you want at query time.

Graphs assume you know the relationships and they're fixed in time, this is seldom the case when building a relational DB, thats why joins come in handy - you can restructure your tables without deleting the data, or not much deleting. You can add views in to, to present the data in the old way and so on.

There's lots more, but that is the big ticket items.
The title seems misleading, from the article: "Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets".

Also:

>"The 2018 JASON report, which was commissioned during the last administration, is not aligned with the Biden-Harris administration’s understanding of AHI [anomalous health incidents] and it has not informed our response," said a senior administration official, in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News.

>"Because of the acknowledged shortcomings of previous studies, this administration has purposefully established a new panel of experts from across the Intelligence Community, academia, and the private sector with access to the full range of information available to the government to help us determine the cause of these incidents and generate new insights that can help protect our personnel.”
What does a Sr Developer do? Most days I feel like I’m not ready for the entry level and other days I feel like some people in the field know less than I do. This post makes me think that I should be able to work in the field by now.
The first versions of most technologies are typically less of a qualitative change over their precursors. Even with computers, that's largely true. I'd say that's rarely a sensible metric to use.
Whereas pornography is mostly prurient, sex and nudity in film has a useful effect on tone and pace in narrative.
You can't even send the company a bill in the US, the nuclear liability cap puts operator liability an order of magnitude or more below what would be needed in a serious event with a bad wind.
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I would say that the Fed’s job is protecting Wall Street bankers and promoting a rise in stock market prices. I don’t think they care much about regular people.
When I was a kid I hated geographical maps that did not have a ligne claire drawn between the land and the ocean.
As we know, people are increasingly having less sex in front of cameras.
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Tor books is well known for publishing their entire library DRM-free. It's pretty awesome that such a reputable publisher has made their works accessible.
They are good enough for general purpose databases. That's very valuable when you're in early stages of development and didn't yet consolidate your business logic. Good enough is good enough.
They've moved to TV shows... Hard to watch any (American) Netflix series without an unnecessary sex scene every 6-8 minutes.
That’s fascinating. Can you share some more information about this process, where filming happens before the script is done?

It seems to be that there might be a parallel with software dev practices, ie waterfall model (write script, shoot script, edit film) and a more lean/agile model (writing, shooting and editing in whatever order it takes to build up the film)
Eh did you even read the article?

It literally says the opposite. It says having an elite background does NOT correlate strongly with these sprinters.

A lot of it (one of their examples was a woman) is being able to take tough or risky challenges and rise through them.
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I was watching The Beastmaster on Prime and commented this to my girlfriend as we watched it. It’s a great movie from the 80s that of course has some sex and nudity. Hollywood is completely terrified of sex and nudity now. It alters people’s brains in ways we don’t understand I think. We still hold what we see on the silver screen as a cultural reference point. There’s nothing dirty or wrong about the human body or sex but if you never see it on the big screen you might start thinking that way.
There's a great blog post by David Simon on the conversion of The Wire from 4:3 to 16:9 [1]. It goes into a lot of depth about some of the trade-offs and considerations as well as the lack of communication from HBO. Unfortunately, the video examples don't seem to work anymore. I can't help but wonder if HBO sent YouTube a DMCA takedown for David Simon's clips from the post (or they got taken down automatically). It's pretty sad if the creator of a show can't even post short clips from it to illustrate some of the design decisions behind them.

[1] - http://davidsimon.com/the-wire-hd-with-videos/
You ignore the fact that sonic booms are really fucking annoying, so I will dispute your claim and say that there is no way to put lipstick on this pig and say it was mishandled by the FAA. The booms annoyed everyone. This issue is further compounded by the fact that there is no useful purpose served by supersonic passenger flight; it causes little inconvenience for a small benefit to a infinitesimal fraction of the population when done over water, it cause an ongoing inconvenience to a large group for that same small gain for a tiny group of wealthy people when done over land.
Author here.

I read that essay a while ago and reread it before publishing my post.

I don't think the author makes a good case. They make bare assertions without examples and without evidence, so it's unconvincing.

For example, they say that a "Considered Harmful" essay:

> often serves to inflame whatever debate is in progress, and thus makes it that much harder for a solution to be found through any means.

But this could be true of any essay.

More to the point, I think that the tone of the essay or post matters more. Case in point, my "Dynamic Linking Needs to Die" post probably inflames the debate more than this new "Considered Harmful" post.

Maybe "Considered Harmful" essays have a reputation for inflaming the debate, and there's an argument to be made for that. But I personally don't think my post is one that follows that reputation.

Also, because I was writing a post about a pre-existing "Considered Harmful" essay, it was natural to use it, especially since I needed to make it clear that my previous post is harmful too.
> What is the best defence against this?

Backups.
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> but there’s a good chance that engineers could lower the boom from 105 decibels to just 70 decibels. At that volume, US lawmakers might revisit the speed limit if it means getting from California to Washington DC in half the time.

"good chance"..."might revisit"

Talk about a wing and a prayer...
I would also love to hear more about this. I have plenty of friends and colleagues who work in film and TV and I've never heard of this.

Can you share any links?
There are way more issues with Buffy on top of that too, and my Disney ire will forever be stoked until they rectify the situation (as the current owners of 20th Century Television.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28XcxHxH6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZWNGq70Oyo
Tor Books has had a policy of not having DRM on their eBooks for years now. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/tor-b...
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll put them on the top of my reading list. I generally consider A Fire Upon the Deep to be one of the great achievements of human imagination.

Reading this book and discovering Vinge's unique vision of a variable physics universe was akin to reading Tolkien and discovering his vision of a divine universe.
Yes and yes (in theory). To actually design the circuitry and fabricate it is well beyond the scope of this game (I'm playing it right now).
Liu Cixin managed to provide some very interesting answers regarding the nature of the cosmic dark forest and higher dimensional space in Death's End, the third book in the Three Body Problem trilogy. The Expanse book nine, Leviathan Falls, will probably explain the advanced alien conflict and unknown aggressors that proceeded human discovery in the distant past. Given how the authors have handled mysterious alien stuff so far in the first eight books, looks like they can pull it off.
1. "Easier to scale"
Scaling is such a weired topic, its like that joke about teenage sex, everybody always talks and is concerned about it but how many people really have to scale? And generally if you have to scale you have money and money can make any system work

2. "Closer to how we model the world in our minds, hence easier to reason about"
I don't think i agree. I would argue, most peoples mental model of data is strongly inspired by tables. Thus, the big success of excel.

3."Easier to query" ok maybe I am just too used to SQL databases but i would very strongly disagree there. SQL or using any ORM its super easy to query. Of course some joins might get complicated. But if you always have to run a lot of complicated joins you can probably work on the data model, or use caching.
I think they're the default because the relational model is either the most, or perhaps even the only logical data model with a solid theoretical foundation that makes it suitable to solve a wide range of database problems.

While there are some genuine problems that require extending or adjusting the model (e.g., temporal databases), all the problems people normally complain about relational databases are implementation, not model problems.

A common misunderstanding I find is that people think the relational model does not scale, but that makes no sense. The relational model is a logical model meant to, among other things, provide independence of the logical representation of data from its physical storage. A loose but hopefully useful analogy would be that the relational model is like arithmetic, while any given database product is like a calculator. At some point, you'll hit the limits of a calculator and will get an error as a result to an operation. That won't cause you to say "arithmetic does not scale!". Instead, you'll probably try a different calculator, or perhaps even end up implementing a new piece of software to let you handle that particular computation.

It is similar with the relational model. You may hit the limits of a specific implementation (can't scale beyond X cores, can't transparently partition data across multiple nodes, etc.), but that's an implementation limitation. The relational model has nothing to say about hardware, so those are not limitations in the model.

I think it's good pragmatic engineering to use the best tool for the job, and that includes using non-relational databases (nitpick: I don't think any of the mainstream databases considered relational are a good representation of the model. SQL, in particular, is very bad at the job. But we're probably stuck with calling them "relational databases") when they're more suitable for the task at hand. However, the important consideration is that the relational model itself can be used as a foundation to represent whatever data you need to represent, including graphs. It's just that there may be no suitable implementation for your needs right now.

One last thing, when you say Relations are like graph edges or foreign keys, I wonder if perhaps you're misunderstanding the relational model? The 'relational' in it is not about linking from one entity to another. It's about a relation from a set of attributes and types, to a set of values for those. In SQL-parlance: you can have a relational database with a single table, no need for foreign keys (even to itself) for it to be relational.
Looks like they fixed the article.
Related article: "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny: Modern action and superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it."

Link: https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/

Discussion (674 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381377
This article is just a bunch of anecdata. Has the proportion of theatrical releases containing sex scenes indeed declined in recent years? What about streaming releases? Neither of these questions is quantitatively answered. The “evidence” that sex scenes have become taboo because they embody the “male gaze” and are therefore problematic comes from some un-cited hypothetical tweet. Assuming this tweet is even real, is it actually reflective of the majority opinion, or just a Twitter echochamber? Again, the author does not even attempt to answer this question.
"For example, when inflation has been low in the recent past, workers might not demand raises as they would in a world where inflation was high; after all, their existing paychecks go pretty much as far as they used to. You don’t need some theory involving inflation expectations to get there."

Isn't what is described here /actually/ a theory about inflation expectations?

Literally this mechanism that recent inflation creates the expectation of more inflation and that drives behaviour that generates further inflation.. and no one is sure how to turn that back around without a crushing recession. Isn't that the conventional wisdom this article is allegedly skewering?
And to assume that only the syscall ABI layer is important is quite the understatement. I have software from the 90s that would work perfectly fine if it weren't for the fact that /etc/mtab is now a symlink. And that is just an example of the most smallish change -- not going to enter into the bazillions of binaries that are broken due to changes in audio APIs (even though the syscall numbers are still the same).

Static linking for future-proofing/compatibility has never been a valid argument in my experience. Not only it is much easier to fix (and debug) a broken dynamically linked binary than a statically linked one, I would even dare to say that statically linked binaries break much more frequently than dynamically linked ones when you change the rest of the system. Even when you include the breakage from libraries changing under the feet of the dynamic binaries.
One answer to this is "Bridgerton"; see also Game of Thrones. Sex certainly hasn't vanished frim media in general, or even HBO.
I'd love for someone like yourself to explain to me what your vision of the future is, or what you see as a "good" world in the next few years.

At what point can we go back to pre covid regulations/laws? What level of booster effectiveness would make you feel comfortable?

Do you even want things to go back to pre covid? Or would you prefer everyone wear masks for common colds and flu (common colds kill the elderly too btw).

What death rate is acceptable to you for covid before things get back to normal? Should we lock down on severe flu seasons in the future?

I'd genuinely like to understand how you see the future, I'm not trolling you.
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Where did you get that idea? The proportion of films rated R and also PG-13 has been steady over the past 15 years. The proportion of films rated PG has increased, but at the expense of G. https://m.the-numbers.com/market/mpaa-ratings
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I'm not sure I could keep shovelling money into a manufacturer that caused me so many problems. But I guess that's the Apple ecosystem at full force and it can be hard to "escape".

Closed systems like the Apple walled garden are always bad-faith, from beginning to end. Personally I have tolerance for max 1 problem from a manufacturer, if I ever have a fault that is not adequately resolved then I will never buy from them again.
Limbo was being positioned against Java, so I have my doubts.
Keep in mind it’s not trivial to run pain studies at all. Placebos have a strong effect in most trials and unless you get into the moderate to severe pain category, patients subjective experience can dominate.

Small changes to a trial can completely blow it up. Same with antidepressants or anything where the trial outcome is a subjective measure by the patient.
The link you sent points to a Chinese page while my locale of the browser is set to en_US. I read Chinese and I see the locale suffix in the location bar, but not everyone here.
There's actually one really interesting point in here: Zoomers are incredibly "puritanical" and anti-sex. It seems extremely weird that one of the most liberal generations ever is so sex negative.
It seems odd that this article did not touch on the role of actors in the situation. There have been a few female actors who have come out to say they felt pressured to act in nude / sex scenes against their will. Because of this actors now have tend to have more opportunity to refuse to do sex scenes if they don't want to. This surely must play a role as well.
I would be surprised if this list is on a default config, but it seems to be on this fake news list: https://github.com/Entree3k/Pi-hole-Block-List/blob/master/F...
I had suspected it was the opposite: sex is boring now that it’s more normalized than ever.

Once you get a series of BDSM-themed books and a movie that are socially accepted in regular discourse, a sex scene in a movie is just less risqué.