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> Balckberry, Treo, AIM, XMPP, and Windows Mobile

2 of those aren't phones, did you mean something else?

On the other three, that's kind of like saying that the IBM Selectric blazed the trail for the PC — not wrong, but minimizing how much room there was still to go. If you used a Blackberry, it was good at message, tolerable for email, and bad at everything else. The Treos had some nice ideas but were agonizing slow, PalmOS was unstable, the software selection was limited, and the UI was … uninspired. Windows Mobile was at least stable but held back by mediocre hardware, and it had the lowest-common denominator problem that developers had to deal with the same OS running on a wide range of hardware and thus apps weren't usually tailored to work with the hardware.

The major trailblazing things added by the iPhone were the first touchscreen UI which was often better than a desktop UI — the Palm-style touchscreens with a stylus were much clumsier – and a desktop-grade web browser. Yes, other devices had mobile browsers earlier but they had significant compatibility issues and the UIs were uniformly clumsy — I briefly had a work Blackberry which was one of the last non-Android devices they made and despite coming out later, it was worse that an iPhone 1 in every way except messaging, and that's only if you excluded the App Store because that wasn't in the first release.

One of the big things which people underestimated was how much bigger the iPhone screen felt: when you were used to having something that size which was half controls, the iPhone had significantly more usable space (at higher quality than the displays common on many phones at the time, too) and the touchscreen keyboard could adapt to the context so it was much easier to use than the various systems like A9 which some phone manufacturers had invented. One nice side-effect of this is that it made localization better since the manufacturer didn't need to ship different hardware for different languages and multilingual users could just switch.

The final big thing was that breaking the carrier roadblock wasn't just about cheaper data. It also meant that the carriers didn't disable features based on marketing plans or try to force you to use some terrible app or services they got a kickback on (iOS 1 didn't support other apps but the bundled ones were quite good compared to the field and the App Store shipped shortly afterwards, which finally unleashed the mobile development industry which had been held back by the carriers).
>$500 million on Bitcoin or, say, gold bars

In both of those cases, wouldn't the creation of those assets require burning $500M in real stuff? Gold as well as Bitcoin costs what it costs because of the expense of mining, which is real peoples' lives, materials, and fuel burned.

If Bezos kept his $500M in Amazon stock or cash or something, then it would be just numbers and not waste.
Metaverse is like a video game with WAY more money and reach.
Clickbait article. Psaki does not specifically target Spotify to take further action against Joe Rogan in the press conference. She's speaks of tech companies and news organizations generally as a whole to call out misinformation. It's a pretty generic statement that has been sensationalized to bolster a weak news article.

https://youtu.be/HZg43LxJD0Q?t=4324
Why would they do that when they could Rewrite it in Rust®? Given that it’s ~50× as complex as hello world¹, it should only take about 54,800 dependencies (including 30,000 C binding crates), 1.65 terabytes of disk space for the target folder or even just 190 GB after a clean build, and maybe raise a quad-core CPU to 1567.6°C or a 200 core one to 95.

¹ Written in Rust here: https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs
mbasic.facebook.com works fine
> On top of that, the vesting schedule sucks (5/15/40/40%) and the RSU value is overstated: it assumes growth in the stock (no other FAANG does this). Yes I know there's a sign on bonus. No I don't care.

It's funny how Netflix is given credit for their all cash offers and yet Amazon is dinged for giving the best of both worlds. They give huge signing bonuses which are tacked on to your paycheck for the first 2 years, which is cash money you can use however you want. After that, either the stock increased in value a sufficient amount and you are even more happy, or you move on to other opportunities that pay better. The up front cash mitigates the short term risk, and the long term back weighted grants give you the potential upside if it does pop.

That said, assuming the stock will increase 15% every year is certainly non-standard from a comp perspective, and Google and Facebook blow Amazon out of the water with their stacking refreshers and generous equity awards for high performance.
I see you've discovered the people who work in "enterprise sales" for any niche software or technical product.
This may be like the first time McDonalds posted a loss:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2688665.stm

I still remember it and the changes that came after it, the McDonalds of today is nothing like the McDonalds of 2003.

We'll see what Facebook does, I assume buy out Snapchat or Tiktok or some other product where the kids hang out.
Definitely negotiate, but the first rule of negotiation is to never be the first to give a number. And the 2nd rule is to always have multiple options that you'd consider.
Here's what you said, minus the arbitrary numbers:

> Sure but think about if a particular setting is used by a minority of the user base but takes up some of the real estate and confuses the majority of users that have no idea what it is and no intention of ever using it.

Now that we've removed the arbitrary numbers... ;-)

If the way setting is presented is confusing, then that is the problem that needs to be fixed. Remove the confusion, maybe make it less prominent in the UI, but taking away the setting doesn't actually solve the problem, it just breaks the product for the users who need it.
I don't see the relevance. There's no reason Medigap coverage couldn't either continue to exist, or be subsumed into Medicare under M4A.
FFVI is amazing and has amazing plot and characters. You should try it out! :)
I guess it just doesn't really come up that much? I personally aim to have whatever I'm not currently working on written to disk, and very rarely redefine things in the REPL once I've written them to source. Other than that every time you change anything it's automatically propagated, with a few known exceptions (macros mainly). I can say I've never wound up in an unknown state, and I'll keep a slime server running for days.
Let's agree that spending 3 minutes typing an essay asking "what does it do" could be better spent actually evaluating the product and reporting back with info for the rest of us
but it was you who claimed to be an expert in lisp and said that you implemented several lisps in support of that claim
The problem with TikTok is that it's even more opaque than Facebook.

Content can be said to exist or not exist on Facebook, and that's usually it. Sure they monkey with the feed, but it's still essentially user-derived.

TikTok effectively exposes one interaction: get next.

What that returns is completely at the mercy of whatever TikTok decides it should be. They've optimized for virality. But it would be pretty easy to tweak that and optimize for something else.
"The Flying Spaghetti Monster exists and is the only true god. The evidence exists but you have to already be an expert to understand it and it would take too long to explain it to you." This a tactic to shut down the discussion, not advance it.

Any time someone invokes "human rights" or "natural rights", it's worth at least referencing a common basis of facts written somewhere. Without this, such discussion is likely to follow two diverging paths and the people discussing it likely aren't talking about the same concepts. The relevant Human Rights document is usually the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights[1] and Free Speech/Expression is Article 19.

Some people sat down and decided the list of things that are "human rights". Lots of other people object to some of the items on that list, so it's not exactly infallible.

North Korea is a good example of a place with the lack of 1A protected speech from government interference, but it also has lots of other "human rights" violations, so you aren't really clarifying the problem with free speech by using it as an example. North Korea frequently violates most of the 30 UN declared human rights articles, so the connotation of using that country as an example leads to conflation of other issues.

Everything that creates or improves "personal feelings" isn't a human right, so that doesn't help the discussion much either.

[1] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
I would like to figure out if it's possible to do DNA sequencing at home. Like detect Covid virus or other viruses. The idea is to get a nanopore MinION, and some library kits, flow cells, learn how to extract DNA and a computer. I know how it all works.
Yup. All I see is second life v2. (Third Life?)
This has always irked me. Perhaps it's heavy handed, but I would love a law that (1) requires governments at all levels to use open-access websites (and radio, a local newspaper of record, &c.), and (2) requires services like Facebook to syndicate any news and updates.
Depends if it evolves into wide ranging paid bundles. Probably not something to worry about if you can pay 250/year for updates of all crates.io for instance. It would help the package contributors, not hinder observability, and not be a burden for most of the devs.
This idiot. Took down a countries internet and bragged to the press. I wonder how many doctors in NK couldn't serve their patients without network access?

But why stop there? Take out the power as well. Contaminate the water. We'll all have a good laugh. No wonder they're building missiles to shoot at us.

This hacker franchise has run its course. Ok it was a fun movie in 1995. But in our modern world what this guy has done is plainly terrorism, probably with a real body count. Not a prank, not hip and not cool. And if it was done to us it would be a clear act of war.
ok i couldn't resist ... Lisp is written in Lisp :)
he's trying to be punny.
And? I was responding to the OP's absurdist claim that the majority of programmers learned Lisp in college. They then tried to use that same absurdist claim to draw a conclusion which is, in a word, moronic.
It may be seen as a transmission ratio: reward = ratio * effort.

Then the ratio is indeed high!
Peak coffee consumption (per capita/US): 1946

Peak cigarette consumption (per capita/US): 1963

Peak oil production (global): unknown, maybe 2020-2030

Peak Facebook: ??

That's an incomplete peer group, but I find it interesting that at some point, society does start to unplug from addictive substances. The tapering off is quite slow, though. Unclear whether heavy users cut back, or new generations just don't develop the habit as older ones die off
This scene does the same thing well in that the danger and excitement is not about spiderman being harmed, it's the civilians.

I don't know that the special effects here held up especially well though. The machine gun and rocket are dorky. There's some irrelevant punching as well, but not too much. It could be argued just enough to establish GG as physically strong. The fight conclusion feels a bit weak though. I'd say it's a pretty solid scene despite this stuff.
Don't you love going to Instagram and having it refuse to show you pictures without logging in? I sure do
I guess when I say I wouldn't want to work on a CL project with other programmers, it's more for their benefit than mine :)
Proxmox has a template library. Most of my LXCs are just the Ubuntu 20.04 template with auto-updates turned on.
No they don't. At all. That is why I related it to people selling real estate on the Moon when moon landings were yet feasible. They are clearing trying to associate the brand Metaverse with Facebook right now, and hoping they can fill in the backend when they (possibly) have the capability to. They are trying to steal brand recognition for vaporware right now. Playing the long game.
All my lights have a physical switch or button. The smarts come in subtle ways:

1. Turn lights on 45 minutes BEFORE sunset at any time of year

2. Turn lights on and off at specific times, automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time (I'll never have to listen to my wife complain about the lights needing adjustment again)

3. Start warming up/cooling off my house BEFORE I get home from vacation

4. Double click a button in my Family Room to put my whole house into Movie mode

5. Some of my buttons are also temperature sensors. This gives me the ability to monitor the temperature of parts of my home very closely. I've had some struggles with our boiler this winter and we also had the insulation redone in our attic. Instead of relying on anecdotes, I have actual concrete data that I can use to make decisions and gauge the effectiveness of various mitigation strategies.

6. Put hard stops on devices (such as TVs or connected network devices) (i.e. turn the TV power off at my children's bed time).

7. Monitor my garage door and notify if it's open too long or if it's been left open accidentally at night.

8. Fans!! I can turn my ceiling fans on and off based on a variety of triggers (temperature, time, etc). I hate having the fans off but my wife can't sleep with the fan on. Now the problem is solved and we don't even think about it anymore, the fan runs on a schedule.

One of my next big projects will be to automate the opening and closing of our front window blinds. They are in an inconvenient place and are difficult to get to, but I really like to have light coming in during the day but have them closed at night.

There's more but I tire writing this. I hope I made the point. None of this is revolutionary or changes any existing behavior (all the buttons/switches we had previously work same as they always did). But boy does it make some things a lot more convenient.
Physics has calculable observation biases baked in. At least you can create experiments where you knowingly limit those biases based on some serious fundamentals. All other fields have so much more to worry about, it really isn't fair.
> VR Chats made by consumer-first game developers are already only minimally compelling to niche groups (furries, anime weebs, etc).

I'd like to take advantage of this moment to share furries making fun of Metaverse, on VRChat (1m 30s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGmlhHvm-Tc
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/12/22772157/tiktok-tics-sug...

I think researchers are starting to notice mass psychological phenomenon specific to the platform already, though maybe 'tiktok tics' just sounds nicer than any of the other social media networks and 'tics'
That is why I related it to people selling real estate on the Moon when moon landings were yet feasible. They are clearing trying to associate the brand Metaverse with Facebook right now, and hoping they can fill in the backend when they (possibly) have the capability to. They are trying to steal brand recognition for vaporware right now. Playing the long game.
I am thankful to these evil companies. Thanks to them - I spend less time online, try to read more books, appreciate real-life conversations, rely on locals for information and news, and let my mind wander.
Yes, it feels like a return to the walled-garden days of America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe, etc. Essentially, they seem to be want to create a separate network that they control--one that is not "internet-ed" to other networks in an open fashion.
Are you paying listed pricing or do you have a discounted enterprise contract? That might be a starting place.
How $300M worth of ETH were drained out of the Wormhole Bridge
> I personally prefer software to be customizable and give me a lot of options to configure and get what I want out of it.

In my experience doing support, this is a give them an inch and they’ll ask for a mile situation. Power users are the worst when it comes to asking for more features or more settings. I had better luck with very limited settings and saying take it or leave it. Would just tell them straight up “What you want has a 0% chance of happening. Happy to refund your money.” Hardly anybody took me up on it and it greatly reduced ongoing support conversations that went nowhere.
Among other things that have been incompatible for a while: - many system tables use the Aria engine; has been impossible to start a MariaDB server over a data directory created in MySQL for many versions
- mysql.user table has some completely different columns and authentication plugins diverged greatly as of MySQL 8.0, ie no caching_sha2_password (makes writing a user migration script challenging)
- Even the data dir initialization scripts/programs are very far removed
This would be a feat.

But many more people look for the fun. The good bits without the pains of ancient tooling, lacking debuggers and graphics tools, etc.
This is a great military-design story, along with the one about how you shouldn't put armor over the places where returning airplanes got shot, but the spots that were probably shot on the airplanes that never returned.
Literally all Zuckerberg has to do is be the same person who made him worth $80 billion.
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> I got a message that said "We aren't cool enough to support your browser". Something about the sarcastic snootiness of the message really angered me and prevented me from ever opening a Facebook account.

Really? I think Facebook's message is kind of nice compared to the standard "Please use a different browser". Whereas the common message implies that you are the problem for using an unusual browser, Facebook's message acknowledges that they are the problem for being less cool than you.
I think it has more to do with alternatives (except perhaps in case of cigarettes which have direct measurable health effects) availability rather than society starting to unplug from addictive substances.

Peak coffee is in 1946, but what have consumers moved onto from then? Alcohol, Tea, Energy drinks, Soft Drinks ?
I... that's... surely there's more context here? Nice work if you can get it, I guess!
> It's very uncomfortable when you sweat, which you do for any of the active sports games. The Oculus falls off your head and causes you to break out.

That's fixed by replacing the strap. The default one is extremely uncomfortable for anything but viewing movies.

> 2. If you have glasses but cant wear contacts (my issue) it's a lot harder to use.

There are magnetic lens addons that can be used with eye prescriptions. I have this myself. They are magnetic so you can switch them out if there are multiple users.

> 3. Lack of interesting games. I like golf, the golf game is actually cool, one free course with the option of paying for 1 other course, so 2 total courses.

There are about four different golf games now. They aren't all equal and take different directions.

While the current library doesn't compare to Valve's, it's a decent size and there's something for everyone. If you've only played one golf game before dismissing it, then you're missing out on the start of the next paradigm.

Also, I wouldn't think of it as just a gaming console. You can watch movies in it inside a virtual movie theater, you can use it for light CAD and art, and one of the most common uses for it is for fitness. I've lost 20 lbs so far. Another use is being able to "hangout" with friends and family who are either really far away or are busy due to life circumstances eg. people with children
You're absolutely correct. For the design of everyday things, we naturally want similar things to look similar in some way. The similarities can be surprisingly subtle, yet we appreciate them without being able to describe them.

Back in graduate school (at Carnegie Mellon), a fellow graduate student wrote his thesis on a study of architecturally similar Queen Anne style houses in Pittsburgh. He wrote a kind of grammar called a "shape grammar" to generate instances of these kinds of houses.

A good article he wrote he was kind enough to make publicly accessible:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23540603_More_than_...
You mean “Meta” will lead it?
Bacause FB/Meta and none of it's other incarnations is not fashionable among young generation anymore, it's platform for old people.

I'm wondering what kind of play would be successful long-term in this scenario with long-lasting social platform to capture next generation which is naturally inclined to be in opposition when it comes to parents way of life. Maybe creating some kind of "undercover" division not officially connected to parent company? Or even spinning it as some part of company "revolting" against main body and going "rogue". But in both cases mainly founding would uncover the plot.
Of course buying competitors usually works too to some degree - or at least allows to buy some time.
The Royal Game of Ur?
I think this has been pretty obvious for a while... MAU doesn't tell the real story and I think we all have anecdotal evidence that the engagement and demographics changed substantially over the last 5 years.
Wow I had no idea Americans used to drink more coffee than now. Surely serving sizes have grown and grown - absolutely nobody was having a 20-ounce coffee in 1946, but now that's normal. Doesn't seem to add up but I'm sure you're right.
It’s 81% to be precise according to it’s Q4 earnings.
TIL people still actually have cocktail parties. Thought that was a boomer thing
Congrats for that fine strawman of yours!
Perfection is not required, your analysis is faulty.
Disclaimer: wrote this on phone and writing from memory

From how I understand this, ReasonML was/is the true OCaml derivative in JS world.

Whereas Rescript, which was called BuckleScript I think, took the nice pattern matching bits along with the type system from OCaml and married it into JS syntax.

That said, they’ve further tweaked the syntax from BuckleScript days presumably and removed support for JS classes.
At least in my bubble, TikTok has plenty of misinformation too, and to me it's as bad as Facebook when it comes to dissemination.
I meant more along the lines of dynamism, s-exprs, metaprogramming, a first-class REPL, that sort of thing. Clojure is a weird lisp for sure, but it's certainly more similar to Scheme than, for instance, Java, Python, or Go (let alone Rust). Not sure what you mean by that last part, care to clarify?
The difference is, the US population kept growing, so while per capita figures falling is noticeable, total coffee/cigarette consumption may not have fallen.

Facebook's numbers are falling despite a growth in world population, and I'd bet a larger growth in the internet-connected population. That's worse, especially for a platform heavily reliant on network effects.
> Increased (+33%) risk of dementia which is something you should be terrified of

Terrified of dementia, yes.

Terrified of a ~2% chance becoming a ~2.6% chance, not quite so much.
What I always find missing from these Deep Learning showcase examples are an honest comparison to existing work. It isn’t like computers haven’t been able to generate code before.

Maybe the novelty here is working from the English language specification, but I am dubious just how useful that really is. Specifications are themselves hard to write well too.

And what if the “specification” was some Lisp code testing a certain goal, is this any better then existing Genetic Programming?

Maybe it is better but in my mind it is kind of suspicious that no comparison is made.

I love Deep Learning but nobody does the field any favors by over promising and exaggerating results.
Hitting quarterly numbers, amassing wealth and power is difficult to do if he is not doing what he does.

Human greed has no limits. And once someone gets a taste of that amount of wealth and power, it is difficult to not get morally and ethically corrupt, either directly, or by turning a blind eye to reality.