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In their defense, browsing from Bucharest, the Pro page shows me this:

> Hey! You're coming from Romania where this could be too expensive. I believe in Purchasing Parity Power, and I want to make this affordable. If you need it, use the code ROPRO for an extra 52% off the regular price.
> Italian usually don't benefit from "more tax money'

Like Amazon would have used that money for the greater good instead.

Like the US is much better at this, throwing trillions of public money in weapons while they can't seem to afford free public healthcare.
It is a very strange request and I'm not sure what good it will do. Anyway ...

There are non-resetable electromechanical counters. If you have an access card reader activating an electric strike in the door jamb, then the pulse to the striker could also go the the counter. If you don't use access cards, then a push-button could be used instead.

With the access reader and electric strike you could simply get a log of all card swipes and avoid the need to write down the numbers. Plus you would get time of day for each access.
Yes, but Lidl buys those and resells them. It's not like you can sign up with Lidl and pay 39 Euro/month to get a place in the cereal corner. The concept is a very different one.
I'm a fan of the aesthetics to be honest, white on black or black on white is far more preferable to me than the colourful primary colours of other themes, especially solarized
I get that emotions are high when we discuss Amazon, but the article seems to imply that they were fined for not adding the "Prime" badge to items that were not fulfilled by Amazon (i.e. that didn't use Amazon warehouses).

Frankly I don't see why that's a problem, the Prime badge is for one-day or two day shipping item. If the seller is not using Amazon for their logistics then they simply can't guarantee the time window so they don't add a prime badge?

From a customer point of view it would make for a worse shopping experience if Prime items weren't fulfilled by Amazon
It does not. There are alternative mobile. browsers that adblock,
however.
This is not true. A billion hurts - it’s many people’s bonuses, etc. Amazon is all about margins, they’re fighting teeth and nails for
saving money wherever they can. Their efficiency comes from the fact that everything matters to them, and a billion absolutely does matter.
Remember that an OS ROM (especially a custom one) may not be just for one particular country or region. Here in the UK the emergency number is 999 (and also 112 on mobiles) and we are constantly told that the emergency services are understaffed, so making test calls would be irresponsible.
> mRNA vaccines do not use the live virus that causes COVID-19

That has caused resistance among friends I know, who say that its not a real vaccine, since vaccines give you a small dose of a live virus to trigger one's immune response. Perhaps the mRNA injections should have used a different name to clear misconceptions.
> The shiny new ethernet switch was rarely flipping a bit in packets, then happily fixing up the packet's CRC and IP checksum so that the computers on either end of the network link had no idea that the data was mangled in the network fabric.

shudder
I guess it's inevitable that we'll reach a "hard" limit at some point, with exponential increase in density (electrons and photons have a "size"). But I don't know how that translates to current densities (how many atoms in a gate on the Apple m1 chips, and what is the theoretical minimum?).
I believe Amazon has quite fat margins as a monopolist? The days of subsidising losses in favor of market share are long gone as the competitions has mostly been crushed.
Register allocation is not that hard, especially if you don't do it via graph coloring and have more than 2 general-purpose registers available. Build SSA form, remove critical edges, spill temporaries until the number of simultaneously live temporaries is strictly less than the number of available registers, assign registers in a straightforward manner, move out of SSA (that's where that one unused register may come in handy). See [0] and its bibliography for more details.

[0] https://hal-lara.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02102286/file/RR20...
VW and Airbus are fairly recent examples.
What if you want to dial an external line that begins 11? How long should it wait before deciding you're stopping at 911?
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Careful with that assertion. macOS is a derivative of NextStep, which is a derivative of 4.4BSD which also spawned FreeBSD and NetBSD. That makes macOS and FreeBSD cousins at best. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
If that's the only solution/workaround, I guess Teams should be banned from Play Store and existing Teams app automatically disabled or uninstalled next time a user pings Play Store.

In any case, it's Google that is responsible to fix the mess caused by broken sandboxing of their OS.
US postal mail locks, eg https://youtu.be/EenxAWPetFo
Macintosh and Amiga, without any sort of memory protection, could easily be made to crash by bugs in any program. But crashing was the exception, and an embarrassment to be fixed as quickly as possible.

Windows, instead, absolutely routinely crashed every day, or even several times a day. A few people managed to keep it up for days between crashes. It would crash even when you weren't using it.

I had an Apple A/UX system that stayed up for months at a stretch. That was simply normal for Unix, and later Linux. Even in the mid '90s it was expected that a Linux system would be rebooted only after you deliberately shut it down to upgrade to a new release or install new gadgets. (This was before there was USB.)

Microsoft ended up redefining crashing to mean, not just needing to reboot, but failing to reboot so you would need to re-install the OS, because something got corrupted on disk. It was totally normal and expected to need to reinstall Windows every few weeks or, sometimes, months, and everyone got used to that.
I have both myopia and astigmatism. I prefer dark themes but even my dark themes have a light dark background compared to those punkish very dark backgrounds.
Last time I looked, it didn't have a stable way to export a C-compatible ABI for FFI. Unless the majority of your project is in Swift, or there is are bridges for the project's other languages, interop with existing code can awkward or expensive.
It's not exactly much when DaoCloud Network Technologies Co. Ltd., a company which doesn't even have a website, beats them by almost 2x. For them to put it above WebKit - an incredibly important technology which they did build - is extremely bizarre. It does give the impression that this is a recruiting tool, and that they're trading on Kubernetes' name recognition.
Amazon planned to enable Prime for Dropshippers working directly for Amazon (called Direct Fulfillment nowadays I think) and 3rd party sellers. It's a bitch to qualify for, so. Because the same performance thresholds apply for those third parties as they do for Amazon's own FCs and 3PLs, and those are strict.
> The US can only take measures in the US on EU companies that are breaking US law and/or regulations

And they do: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-28099694
That’s more revenue than they pull in from Italy in an entire year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/881406/amazon-revenue-by...

They took a massive loss on that fine so it’s way more than a finger wave. Please put some effort into justifying your statements.
> some weird SCSI card (soundblaster with SCSI, I think)

I can't help but imagine it as working similiar to the Floppotron...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw
Pity there's no issue tracker on the repo. I am not on Discord or Slack but maybe it was discussed there, and maybe that can still be found.
And that is an absolutely insane state of affairs as well. I remember when my Packer playbooks stopped working because Linux kernel dropped floppy disk support and that was the method that was being used to inject the config on vmware.

99% of Linux installs are done on some hypervisor... ISO files are absolutely awful for this use case. Yet everyone keeps using them because the tooling is already jumping through thousands of hoops to make it work.
And where exactly am I talking about "estimates"?

Quote from my post:

"The earliest direct evidence,"

Direct evidence != Estimates.
> It might not be the best idea to post the example drivers with inferred types,

a `cargo fmt` option to add inferred types to the source code would have some advantages for that.
I understood from the OP that in Golang the sync and async code would be the same - contrary to e.g. Rust were you have async/wait. Go achieves this with coroutines and the go keyword.

f()

is a sync call to the function f, and the function f used async calls inside. Somewhere then needs to be a transition from async to sync contexts (aka wait/block).

I wondered where this happens.

From your comment I assume there is a difference, in sync code I would do

x = f()

while in async code I would use

f(channel)

?
Market dominance exists because they offer a better service to the customer. It's not like Amazon has always existed in Italy and always had a dominance position. They gathered their position because they offer a better experience and people are willing to pay a premium for that.
“Fat margins” is relative. For Apple, it may mean 50%; for a webshop, it may mean 10%.

My point, however, is that we need to look at their profits, not revenue, to understand the impact of the fine.
Exactly, thanks for the counterpoint example.

No if we had a decent system for making the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Apple, et al, actually pay taxes in the countries they clearly do business in I think that would be better than one off fines, however big.
If FreeBSDers want to complain they should have used the GPL.
>> a networks of lockers so you don't have to wait for the package at home

> That one is tricky. Although I guess the market dominance argument could still be used to say "well, your problem to figure out how to solve that, it's not absolutely impossible to let others ship stuff to those too"

Poste Italiane (the national postal service) has those kind of lockers as well AFAIK, plus offices in every town where you can collect the packages (OK, that's probably not an advantage given how slow they are and the big queues you have to do each time).
Those born after 2008 are forbidden from buying cigarettes

Those born after 2012 will be forbidden from buying spirits, only beer with less that 4% ABV

Those born after 2016 will not be permitted to go outside in the winter without nice warm mittens.

Those born after 2021 will not be allowed to cross the road without holding mummy's hand ever so tightly.
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I'm going to disagree with you there. I agree that their bottom line benefits from their being nice to me, but that's not the same as being motivated by profit. Similarly, I'm not looking to obsessively optimise for the best product.

I find your description distastefully cynical, but more importantly not particularly in line with my experience of how people behave.
Why raise hell about this? There is an issue in Android/Teams/inbetween, a user reported the issue and all involved parties acknowledged the issue and are "heavily prioritizing" fixing the issue.

What would filing a complaint improve to this process?
- push notifications (APNs)

Almost every Apple device is constantly connected to these servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_servic...
Saw that dot on the map and had to go look at it. Careful there, the Crab people may be coming up for the holiday season.
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Nice! But why do they always make code comments in a color that's so discret it's barely readable?
Google is the best kind of monopoly: one sustained by the quality of the product. If there was a better competitor tomorrow, we'd switch in a heart beat and Google could do nothing about it. No consumer harm there.

Apple has created their own hardware platform(s) and it has a healthy competition for it. There are rules to be on it and they are mostly for the benefit of the consumer.

Facebook is simply a forum. If facilitating communication facilitates genocide and election interference it's people who are the problem, not Facebook. Besides, TV & Radio are much bigger facilitators for genocide and election interference and nobody attacks both.

Amazon - any physical retailer is both a market place and sells its own competing products crated using said customer data. Just visit any supermarket.
> How can a sandboxed user installed app with limited permissions cause dialing 911 to fail?

No idea about this particular problem, but my takeaway was that Android apps are more similar to web extensions with service workers than to traditional executables.

An app can register itself for all kinds of OS hooks during install. When a hook is triggered, the OS will send an event to the appropriate process of that app. If no process is running, the OS will launch one.

This means there is not a lot of meaningful distinction between "running" and "not running" on Android: As long as the app is installed, the OS may run code from that app at any time.

(This is why you can have half a dozen messenger apps running "in the background" without draining your battery: There is no actual background process for each messenger, just entries in a database somewhere. When a new message comes in, the OS receives a push notification, displays a message to the user styled according to the app's configuration - and might eventually launch a process for the app if the user interacts with the message.)

So it's quite possible that the Teams app registers itself for some kind of "outgoing phone call" hook, and there was a bug in Teams' handling of that.
But that was to stop them restarting because the battery wasn't powerful enough after being so old. Android phone makers barely remember they made a phone 3 days after they stop selling it
No, unless things are different in Europe. In the US they aren’t even close to a monopoly so they have to compete with Walmart, Best Buy, Target, etc.
Now that you've posted it here, I predict the Dracula folks will see an enormous increase in the use of the ROPRO code by "Romanian" developers living all around the world.
I support this, I miss the minimize button a lot.
Android has grown too big for google to maintain, which is why most change seem to be looks and user-goodies, rather than focusing on bug fixes or stability.

I've experienced the severe decline in stability over the last 10 years of use, and on flagship phones, not outdated.

Currently my Pixel sometimes displayes an open app partially off screen, or scaled wrong and clipped --- this is basic UI that worked for years and is now broken again.
In the worst (for Amazon) scenario, we're looking at 20% of localized revenues over a year. Amazon reported an average 5-7% profit margin in the last few years. Even in the worst case, they will be back in pure profit after just a few years...

For illustration, 5% of 5bn is 250m, so if the fine is 1.1bn, it will take them 4 years to absorb it from localized profits only. Peanuts.
I found Get Back incredibly inspirational. It's all just so ordinary, like any band rehearsal I've ever been in. It's kind of amazing to see The Beatles just doing the same stuff that everyone in bands does
For me the up- and downvote icons are too close together and I always have to pinch zoom to upvote (I don't downvote often). So prefer a bit more spacing between them.
Suffice to say that, if the 5-10B rev estimate is indeed true, the margins can not be fat enough to shrug off a 1B fine.
... But isn't this FBA <> free Prime shipping relation the point that the CMA of Italy believes to be problematic?

I understand the CMA's point from a markets perspective: why would / could the relation between the customer and a different seller impact the prices of shipping for a different seller on the same platform? Prime is primarily a transaction between the customer and Amazon [the shop], for cheaper products and free shipping for their products; allowing it to impact the customer<>seller relationship of third parties could be considered illegal bundling.
I don't have much of a view on what other people should do with themselves or how drugs ought to be controlled, I just wanted to throw out this fact I had seen before.

An estimated 65% of people who inject heroin don't develop an addiction compared to only 20% of cigarette smokers [1]. I wouldn't bet my life on these exact numbers but everything I've read suggests that occasional heroin users exist [2] and may exist in similar proportions to occasional smokers.

You mentioned cigars, which might be different, but the original article is primarily about cigarettes.

Again, I'm not endorsing anyone smoking or using heroin, nor any particular policy. I'm just bringing up some findings that contradict the idea that responsible use of heroin is much less likely than responsible smoking.

[1] https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/08/whats-the-most-addictive-...

[2] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/27/health/functioning-heroin...
No, it was a life changing trip in the sense that I made so many memories and redefined the direction I wanted my life to take. Not physically in the sense of health being damaged.
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I think that's why he brought up this example. He knows it's irrational.
> YMMV, but if I search for "transgender" on Amazon.com in an incognito window, the very first result is the author's book.

Yup, I'm seeing the same thing here. And this blog post was created 7h ago so I kind of doubt that's a recent change.

I'm starting to think there's a lot of easy advertising to be had on the "I'm being silenced!" circuit nowadays. And it probably directly targets the type of people who'd be into this book.
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Amazon is not profitable. AWS is.
We're interested in federation and discussed it a couple of times but we don't fully support it yet. Happy to learn more about what you have in mind.
What a weird response. Modern smartphones are absolutely valid lifelines. You might as well tell travelers to leave their money behind because they should be able to build their own shelter.
> I'm not even slightly convinced they care at all about most of the people in their empire either (unless said empire is excluding non-apple devs)

I'm not quite sure they care about Apple devs either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29493643
Thats exactly on topic, and the current issue. Google doesn't care about performance or testing, just new features to advertise, a new clock face, and phone sales. They've left functionality by the wayside
There's no way Dracula is not copyrighted. What next, StarWars theme?
> Why on earth would you want apps to be able to intercept calls on a phone?

Because there are housands of users even on HN that WANT apps like Signal to be able to manage secure encrypted calls like a first-party app with the same rights. Basic software freedom and all that.
This is working as intended. Imagine your phone restarting during a 911 call. It was 100% the correct decision.
This would be a Quality of Lifesaver for me as well. Loss of cartilage in the hips due to excessive bone growth with only partial remediation with surgery. I've gone from full distance triathlete to walking in pain in a decade. Can't kick a ball with my kids without limping for two days.

My local hospital is pioneering with lab grown cartilage, but that is only applicable in the knee. You can't put a patient head down for a few hours to drip cartilage on the hip. I know there is some progress (in mice) with halting the transformation of cartilage into pseudocartilage (scar tissue). All in all I'm many decades to young for hip replacements so any progress even in the next two decades could give me massive return in mobility.
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It definitely stops the seagull effect where people
Just fly in and shit uninformed opinion all over stuff.
Not to mention downvotes by the flock.
> It is the same state that threaded systems store.

Nope. Synchronous task switching systems additionally have to store CPU register state. In the cooperative case you need to store the caller-saved registers, in the pre-emptive case you need to store all the registers.

Async systems simply don’t have to do that extra work.

> But some async, stackless systems do a bunch of extra work unwinding and restoring entire call stacks whenever an async task pauses in await

Just the really bad ones. In any competent system a callback is stored ready to handle the event. No “unwinding” necessary.
Apple now allows developers to create custom App Store product pages
And that's not a standard permission, have to go to All Permissions to see it, and I don't see a way to remove that permission, or find all apps that have it
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The citizens only come the US for high paying jobs because there aren’t enough innovative businesses in Europe to support strong software wages. There aren’t enough innovating businesses because of the tendency of the people to reach for regulation for everything.

You can’t pass a law that demands your economy be better without somehow actually making it better for businesses.
I don't smoke yet I find this ridiculous, how much of a nanny state can New Zealand be?

If you want to make something disappear you educate the people through advertising campaigns and whatnot. This seems incredibly short sighted in the sense that people won't magically stop smoking because they can't buy their cigarettes at the convenience store.

Also purely on principle, the idea that there are things that are forbidden based on the year you were born seems like weird discrimination to me.
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