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> (...) but it's not a decisive factor for the region (and businessess) to develop and prosper.

That really depends on what definition you personally choose for "decisive", "develop", and "prosper".

The EU is by far the largest trading partner of the UK[¹]. It's unreasonable to presume that a nation can improve their current state once they choose to introduce bureaucratic hurdles, delays, and additional cost on any dealings with their largest trading partner.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...
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No, upper class means you profit from underpaying other people for their work.
I would certainty pay for a decent browser that doesn't sell out my information to advertisers - just like I do for the email service and the office suite and other pieces of software. I would ditch firefox over this if I hadn't done this already a while ago.
I agree, though UK governments have been historically very willing to give tax breaks etc to encourage these things (Sony in Wales for instance). I'd assume that would be the counter to your points...
Vivaldi is not open source so that's an immediate "no" from me. I'm fine with using closed source tools from time to time, but a web browser is just too important and intertwined in my life to trust a closed source offering.

In a perfect world we'd have nothing but fully open source software funded by support contracts and commercial interest in offering superior software, but the world isn't perfect and so we have to compromise sometimes. But the browser is one place I draw the line.
Then why buy something from them at all? I don’t want spam as much as the next person, but the people I pay money are least likely to spam me.
>, but I enjoy writing books. The best way to sell books, is to build a mailing list of fans so that you can reach them when you have another book ready. It is not about reaching people who do not want to receive your comms. It is about having a direct and reliable connection to people who actually want to engage with you.

I have a friend who is a voracious reader of Kindle ebooks. She uses Amazon's tools to "follow" certain authors and get notified by any new releases. Yes, she has visited some authors' websites directly and even though they have the aggressive popup for "sign up for my mailing list", she deliberately avoids submitting her email and having a direct relationship with the author.

She'd be one of the buyers that's "really Amazon's customer" instead of soapdog's customer. But being shielded from you via Amazon is what she wants. Have you considered that millions of customers think like her?
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Not sure how this would work.

Apple is still entitled to a 30% commission. The commission is the licensing fee for Apple's IP

From the court ruling:

> At step three, Epic Games has identified no suitable less restrictive alternative for Apple’s use of IAP based on the current record. The only alternative that Epic Games proposes is that Apple be barred from restricting or deterring in any way “the use of in-app payment processors other than IAP.” This proposed alternative is deficient for several reasons:

> First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property.

> Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission

> Indeed, while the Court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property.
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Yes it was. WebKit and Blink then diverged massively after the fork.
Ads would be cheeky, but I would welcome any efforts to get into the search space through search suggestions, akin to what Apple is doing in Safari with Siri Suggested Websites. Whether those are provided by Apple or Google I don't know, but they do open a window for Apple (and Mozilla) to slowly develop search capabilities. I've no idea whether that's either Apple or Mozilla's end game, but it would be a promising development if it were so.
Unless they put the Fab in Northern Ireland.
Here is the best part, if you dig a little deeper into the issues and pull requests, you will find out that the .NET Foundation people have been removing the contribution option from the blank agreements, leaving only the assignment option.
Lol! Unsurprisingly, this upset some of the developers on the projects, as they were unclear about how this affected them.
Title more accurately: In which the justices learn that a Guantanamo detainee has had a habeas petition pending for 14 years

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Nitter link:
https://nitter.eu/fordm/status/1445809125007503365
Because the costs do not scale with the revenue
Yes they are :(
I checked myself and was already worried because nobody on the internet was screaming, yet :D
if you really want an EU vs UK comparison - we need to lump all EU countries together. (I don't know what this number comes out to)

But as "single most" - fair enough.
Nobody is offended – I think it's more that you're kind of ignoring the point.

Yes, there continue to be lots of funding deals in London. That's something that neither supports nor contradicts your initial point that "VCs came to the opposite conclusion" – all it tells us is that the UK remains competitive regardless of Brexit.
Fuck no.

I'm sure this will be able to be disabled in about:config but seriously.

From Mozilla:

Principle 4

Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

Principle 5

Individuals must have the ability to shape the internet and their own experiences on it.
More likely due to long-term export, supply chain and hiring issues.
Whats needed is a rebirth, basically the Mozilla team quits, creates a new mozilla inc and leaves the old one behind to go full chrome appocalypso.

Basically what nature does when the elder generation acquires to many parasites and dna damages, spawn a new generation and die, taking most of the parasites with them.
I forgot only UK had the pandemic, and the European HGV drivers and farm workers all died from the virus.
I've also seen a somewhat recent performance degradation on MacOS+Chrome in WebGL when the WebGL canvas is close to fullscreen size, and even for extremely simple scenes (it's inconsistent though, maybe related to remaining battery life?). My guess is that this is some problem in the interfacing between Chrome and macOS, or purely in macOS though, because other platforms are fine.
Remember Mozilla is ultimately a non profit and must spend a healthy percentage of their income every year. Mozilla is just representing the collective self interest of those it employs. People wanting to keep their cushy job.
Racism doesn't stop being racism when you think it justified. The situation we have today was predictable but officials seem to be heavily overextended to correct course. The people responsible are fascists under most definitions of it.

edit: Same with sexism of course.
I'd say put it next to ASML but then the Netherlands has a bunch of environmentalist anti capitalist idiots right now who are hell bent on destroying the one thing that makes this country good: money.
Bitcoin seems to bootstrap its own value: you can store and transfer value, because bitcoin has value.

So as long as its value is > 0, it has intrinsic value.
I have really warm feelings about AWK, actually! It’s such a simple language that you can learn pretty much all of it in an afternoon, but it is still expressive enough to be really useful as a text processing language. I have an AWK script that turns my CSV bank statements into Ledger transactions, and AWK is just perfect for that kind of thing.
Isn’t everyone here a developer? Aren’t you frustrated Apple can essentially take 30% of your revenue just for the privilege of strengthening their monopoly?
It's ACM SIGCHI. That's their thing. Lots of talk, very limited demos.
That is what I said. It is not about upselling stuff for those who do not want it. It is about making it easier to connect with people who do. This makes sense for some situations but not for others. The grocery shop example you mentioned is great, I agree with you there. People who don't want to be contacted, should not be contacted.

I'm not saying that the way Paddle implemented it is the correct way forward. Personally, I'd rather there was an opt-in option to share data on the payment form. This way, if you want to be in contact with the seller, you can flag it and the default option is not sharing. This is simple and would allow you to remain "not a customer" while letting those who want to be in touch to have an easy path forward. This is not possible inside the App Store.

The App Store model —and Amazon and others as well— make it really hard for you to find who the customer is. That is not because they're thinking of you. They're doing that as yet another vendor lock-in mechanism to prevent the seller from leaving or doing any kind of business with that customer away from them.

As ~NhanH said in another comment in this thread, you can put a form on an app. Yes, you can jump through a lot of hops, and maybe Apple will allow it through. It is death by a thousand paper cuts. From their PoV it is their customer, not yours. From their PoV, the seller is a customer as well.
Giving Google the power to decide what users are and are not allowed to download is another thing that Mozilla should not be doing.

Guess what Mozilla's response is when Google lists something they shouldn't? "Take it up with Google". And you think Google supports those who they defame better than their usual customers? No. This is not a hypothetical scenario.
Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems
They’re not doing that for existing apps though. It’s going to be a bit hard to enforce.
Exactly. As much as I want an Intel Fab in UK. Strategically speaking there is nothing UK to offer that give them a competitive advantage. Also agree on Ireland and Germany, or even Holland.

It also shows Intel is serious about being an IDM. And their expansion plan and OpeX are very aggressive, compare to TSMC which is a conservative company.
> Uhura : But why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century, we've learned not to fear words.
> Kotlin is strictly worse if you value language features above all else. In that, there are several (several!) features it doesn't have.

Could you please elaborate on that? It was my understanding that Kotlin did everything that Java did (or any JVM-based language) but actually added first-class support for basic features missing from Java that required magic sauce like Lombok to fill in the gaps.
I've disabled suggestion on Brave for awhile, it's a PITA if you start from fresh so you have to work on bookmarking a lot. But now this, I don't regret to have no suggestion in address bar at all.
Yes — that's basically what I was thinking: you could make an argument that using Kubernetes inherently adds an abstraction layer which might not be preferable to using platform-native components but it sounded like the person I was responding to was making the argument that using Terraform requires that approach.

I found that especially puzzling because one of the reasons why we switched to Terraform was because it let us take advantage of new AWS features on average much faster than CloudFormation.
The Netherlands, please.
Even if the developers working on a website care about performance, the company’s marketing department won’t. Unless the manager in charge of the developers is particularly good, marketing will be better at convincing management to do things their way than the developers.
Yeah Intel has built fabs in Israel and although it does have a very large and arguably very successful development center there it’s also a chicken and the egg so if you build it they will come…

I can’t see a situation in which the UK couldn’t have made a sufficiently enticing proposition when it comes to pure commercials.

That said I think the main factor here is that Intel is afraid of a protectionist EU policy as far as manufacturing IP goes with ASML being a Dutch company it puts the entire semi industry at the mercy of the EU if they do decide to push for a protectionist regime to bring back manufacturing closer to home.

Many other European companies also play a key role in the industry such as Philips (a lot of material engineering and manufacturing techniques) and Carl Zeiss (who makes the extremely specialized lenses and optical assemblies for lithography particularly for UV processes).

So whilst the EU doesn’t have manufacturing capacity especially when it comes to leading nodes they are in a better position to half the global production of advanced semi conductors and ICs than anyone else really.
Microsoft doesn’t get a cut from Windows apps. Why should Apple?
Through the Apple App Store they are not able to spam me.

I don’t get any spam from Apple either.

I want to buy things and not be bothered by follow up emails and whatnot.
And here's another one:

We don't get to use all the solar energy landing on the planet. Not even close.

Why?

Because, if you did, you would kill every single forest and all of agriculture. You would kill every single animal. You would likely kill the oceans. You might kill bacteria, insects and seriously disrupt weather. I can't even think about all the variables that would be deeply disturbed if humanity decided we are going to attempt to use a big chunk of what solar energy lands on the planet.

And blocking it from space? Seriously? Again, refer to the prior paragraph, let's go ahead and kill everything on earth.

These ideas might sound good after a beer or two but are nothing less than laughable once someone sits down and really puts pen to paper.

We are proposing to mess with forces we can't possibly understand. I have said this many times, we can't even take care of small-scale ecosystems and we are actually lending credence to nut-cases suggesting such things as deploying devices in space to block the sun. Wonderful.
> Having one more "spare" slot on the belt (e.g. triple- instead of double-buffering) can help to smooth over unpredictable spikes caused by other systems, but it always costs one more frame of latency even if the spare slot isn't usually needed.

This is not correct:

If your application frame rate is higher than your display refresh rate, triple buffering has lower latencies than double buffering. This is due to much more frames being rendered (and most of them discarded) so that the average age of the last frame rendered before being sent to the display is much younger (but never older) as in double buffering.

In terms of latency: VSYNC off < Triple Buffering < Double Buffering.
For my part, I'm going off of my life experiences.

In the vast majority of cases, the logic behind Hanlon's Razor held. Many times I assumed malicious intent and was proved wrong. As I've gotten older, I've assumed malicious intent less frequently.
$99/y is really nothing compared to the 30% cut when you look at companies like Epic or Supercell.

I’m certain that they could not continue to provide the App Store in its current form without any fee.
> But as a customer, I'd deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy and avoid spam.

I thought the same initially - but come on, this is the situation when you buy anything from anywhere else except the AppStore and we all get on with it just fine. You just decide if you trust the seller or not and block their emails if they're annoying.
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Getting started on a malbolge implementation, check back in approximately 1000 years.
One of my favorite things Borges does is interweave reality and fiction. For the longest time, I thought Casares was a fictional character. Nope, he’s a real person.
This is likely a reasonably accurate view.

I can definitely tell you (anecdotally, first-hand) that Brexit hasn't offered any benefits so far, but has made several other activities far more painful that they were before. Not enough to kill a business, but absolutely certainly the sort of thing that will cause some businesses that were previously viable to no longer be so – or to shift resources out of the UK and into the EU.
> dulltopain

Huxley ultimately believes, as all artists believe, that a creative life is the only life worth living. Suffering and conflict is the fuel of all higher pursuits. In Brave New World, people are drained of this fuel. Life is easy. People just go along with the flow. But this means they create nothing. This is a horrifying prospect to Huxley.

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

-- Nietzsche
Not sure I'd point to C++ of all things as being free from the concerns of large corporations lol. This is just such an uninformed take.
Exactly! The Chase cards I've mentioned are actually different, too, and give different benefits. I don't even churn them per se — there's still a benefit to keep all of them open longer term, because either there's no annual fee, or the AF is worth the benefits. Plus you get extra credit score benefits for the age of accounts.
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Spam? Who cares outlook will learn to ditch that in a few weeks.

Apple is just another parasite middle man and the defenders are sounding like brainwashed fan boys.
I prefer using Digital Ocean App Platform for the simplicity it provides.
> But on a collective level we aren't yet (if we'll ever be) as developed a civilization to have empathy on that level.

I agree. Which is why we have rules around politeness and manners, which roughly conform to same actions as actual empathy. Which makes sense - people don't always have the same level of empathy, there are lots of neurodivergent people who will never understand empathy but who can learn a set of rules that will allow them to avoid social problems.

Or at least, we used to. I feel like this respect for being nice to each other so we can all get along is on the wane.

Or it might be that I moved to Berlin, and Berliners are famous in Germany for being rude/abrupt, and Germans are famous globally for being direct ;)
All this brings up long subdued memory .... my HP-25 ,which had cost me one months work during school holidays.. I still
remember when I got payment and the next day walked into
the shop and told the perplexed salesperson : I want this!
He thought nobody in his right mind would buy a calculator without an equal sign button.
Anyway I used it from 1975 to abt 1993 when the battery
leaked .
Yes, I was so focused on the tech side, I forgot about who the core audience was and how much they of all people cares about language. I'm fixing the copy and I will get someone experienced on it.
The problem here is that you might consider yourself a good actor here; polite, contact your fans only and only rarely with what they would consider valuable notifications.

However.

The world is not full of good actors, because bad actors can make $$$$ by selling your information to third party spam and scammers.

There is no way, currently, to reward good actors, and punish bad actors… and the downside of the bad actors far out weighs the benefit provided by the good actors.

So, while I see your point, the issue here is that in a wider context people are actively abusing that channel, and there no way to stop them without stopping everyone.

So, sympathetic, but the problem here isn’t apple, it’s the folk who abuse and resale customer data… and I certainly don’t have a solution to that; but no one else seems to have one either.
ARM assembly code looks pretty nice. Mobile phones and Macs are using ARM, so there's lots of devices using it. Only Windows is using x86/x64.
I have similar issue with Chrome 94 on Windows.

It's fine when I initially open the page, but once I click 'run' I can no longer use PgUp, PgDn, F12, etc.

I'm guessing the emulator captures some input. But even when clicking on other parts of the page, it doesn't 'uncapture'.

FWIW, it doesn't really bother me.
> There is an institutional problem at Mozilla, we should focus on fixing that rather than trying to come up with even more complex sticking plasters.

How do you fix that from the outside if not by forking or at least using a different Browser to make it clear that the current behavior is unacceptable.
Parent is probably talking about this : https://www.government.nl/topics/nature-and-biodiversity/nat...

The Netherlands was too greedy for Natura 2000 subsidies and now we can't build houses, need to shutdown farms etc because we would exceede Nitrogen levels.

I also doubt a fab the size of Intel's would be feasible in the current climate(!).
Because if you let them do their thing, they group together, drag more people down to their level and then get one of them elected as president. That's not in my interest.
> Why not just tell it like it is.

Indeed. Mozilla should be honest. That's what builds trust.

We all know they need money, so if this gives them money to improve FF, fine by me. But they need to quit the marketing bullshit-speak.
> The continent has actually very rapidly caught up in terms of share of money raised over recent years. In 2020, VC funding in the UK only grew by 1.7% compared to 70% in Ireland, 25% in France, 11% in Germany, Scandinavia and so on. European share of the market is actually very quickly accelerating

growing high from significantly lower numbers always looks better in terms of % increase
Happens to me as well (current chrome w/ vimium on mac), but only after running the example in the emulator.

Before hitting the emulator (and/or editor, not sure) all keys work fine. After, well, only scroll on the mouse worked for moving through the page.
Can they just have me pay them $10 a month so we don’t have to deal with this kind of shit? I pay that for my IDE, and the browser is arguably more important.
> Also I don't understand why this is some new kind of company, isn't this just another payment gateway like any other ?

Paddle is an established company, they've just added a new mobile checkout feature.
I don't see any Go based ones? Does anyone know of a good one?
Rendering fast is nice, but when are they going to make the rendering look good? Image scaling at non-integer scales in Chrome is atrocious -- either coming out a blurry or aliased mess.

I almost always need to zoom in 20% to 50% because web designers love tiny fonts too much, and setting a minimum font size breaks their fancy layouts. This results in Chrome making a mess of all images on the page.

Thankfully Firefox resamples images so they look good at non-integer scaling factors too.
Brave literally has built-in ads, except now you're supporting the Chromium engine dependency. What do you think you're improving on by switching to Brave?
> She literally made a 1-line change in a configuration file with basically no downsides.

It was a change to a .csproj file, changing the project dependencies. Not a configuration file.
Or just stop buying Apple devices? That way the duopoly can shift from iOS/Android to Android/<Linux phones, or some other open alternative>.

I realize many people are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem, especially since Apple encourages that with the proprietary integrations between their different devices, but there's a point when one should realize they have a choice. It's a walled garden not a prison.
It took so long because they wanted to ensure the performance OCaml is known for.
Astrologers you say.. But is no one going to talk about how mercury retrograde wiped out Facebook ..?