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Apple CarPlay and Android Auto serve the same purpose these days, since they're effectively acting as an external monitor for your phone. The OEM doesn't have to keep anything up to date.

Just providing a "dumb" head unit with as close to zero features besides CarPlay and Android Auto would be sufficient to have a good user experience at this point, at least in the context of a "dumb car".

Last time I was on Android (~5 years ago), you could actually run Android Auto as an app on your phone, so a phone mount like that would be fine (even if not amazing), but Apple doesn't let you run CarPlay directly on your phone -- it only works with an external display designed for CarPlay, so a phone mount like this is notably worse for iPhone users. CarPlay's interface is much better designed for use in a vehicle than the regular iOS interface.

Phone mounts like that have the additional problem that smartphones have continued to grow and grow, and a lot of cars from 5 or 10 years ago that offer any kind of phone charging spot or phone mount can't fit most modern smartphones in the allocated spot... so phone mounts like that can become obsolete even without any electrical components whatsoever.
I wonder if there is something like “The Peter Principle” for businesses.

> everyone is promoted to their level of incompetence

Where the business sees some success and grows until they lose the thing that everyone liked about them to begin with

Business outgrows their market or something.

Blizzard stops producing highly polished experiences for money.

Googles search results are degraded and littered with ads for money.

Microsoft shifts from software to consumer data collection and now my servers all have Xbox services and a touch UI for some stupid reason (sorry, for money).
That's win-win for the server. Servers start doing this because automated traffic is cutting into their ability to provide service to humans. If you're freeing up their traffic to serve other humans you're doing them a favor.
> I have no doubt that the 'archived' version is retained.

Working in the preservation area, and being aware of what the BBC has lost over time, the title immediately had my interest. But this isn't a serious piece of journalism at all. The author doesn't make any attempt to verify the claim, and liberally decorates his piece with specious references to Orwell. He doesn't appear to know what an archive actually is, and thinks the BBC is 'state owned'.

It appears to serve little purpose than to ensure the header and footer are visually separated in a pleasing way.
Were the interviews online? Couldn't John study a recording of those to know who Holly is and bring up some story to explain some of the other odd stuff? I wonder how long you can pull this off without knowing your stuff.
Rent control would just create another class of citizens who would hold onto units for longer than necessary.

The real solution is to build more housing.

Many people don’t advocate for rent control because rent control placates the masses and doesn’t increase housing affordability in the long run. What we need is reasonable housing policies that increases the amount of higher density housing with good public transit availability.

But no one wants to do it because they are gatekeeping.
Ok, good points.

What about embedding a Google Map? I see those even on websites of German courts.

Are those allowed because the embed is needed functionally?

Or are they not, because you could instead use a cached image of the map and switch to a “live” connection to Google’s map server only when the user actually tries to move or zoom the map (and after displaying a consent pop up)?
No guilt either. It's on them for making the ads so damn annoying with popups, modals, megabytes of JavaScript, interspersed with more subscription and GDPR popups, and shitting cookies all over my browser, and tracking my searches across sites, and sometimes covering up over HALF my screen on mobile.

No thanks. If they had stuck with a simple, in-line, hyperlinked image I would have probably not cared, but this is too much.

The way the ad is delivered is what is annoying and not the ad itself.
Hey if I start spewing misinformation about my opponents while accusing them of not providing sources, all while failing to provide sources for my baseless claims like OP, then you can hold me to account. I never made such statements.

Perhaps you or OP would like to share details of the misinformation you claim was shared on Joe Rogan’s show? I watched both episodes and found lots of controversial claims - all backed by citations.

I would challenge that most of Joe Rogan’s critics have never watched the episodes in question. I wouldn’t be willing to stake my life on it however.
One side has a MacBook that only allows software from the AppStore. As far as I know, it gets used once every month or two.

The other side did not, until COVID started. Then they had to get one so their kid could attend online schooling. It is used just for that.
yeah, this is definitely a risk. I agree that the PR needs to be tracked as a post-launch task.

The advantage to this approach is that you do the hard part of removing the flag (ie, thinking through all the parts of the code that need to be cleaned up) while everything is fresh in your mind. Otherwise, you end up spending more time regaining all of the context, and are more likely to leave some vestigial dead code because you aren't sure it isn't needed any more (this is probably less of a risk with languages that lend themselves well to static analysis that can identify dead code, but these tools are never perfect).
What's this mythical world where industry execs leave profit on the table because they aren't being squeezed by ad blockers? Have you tried watching cable TV? You know, the service that was originally billed as a way to watch tv without ads?
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Well, a remote hire is generally super easy to fire. A local employee can go to court and really mess things up!
I can confirm that sports betting is also slowly eating away at what is left of the game of football (soccer, for US HN-ers) over here in Europe.

We’ve got the English Premier League and the Champions League that are (maybe) still free of this cancer, as in (maybe) their results and general play are as close to 100%-fair as one can get, but outside of that it’s the Wild West.

The second leagues in most of Central and Eastern Europe (I used to go to such matches before the pandemic) are pretty much a fantasy league for betting, there’s almost no sporting merits anymore when it comes to the game itself. The situation persists if one goes higher up the chain and further West, maybe not as dramatic and especially not as visible but if you know where to look and how to look at things it all becomes clear(er). In other words the game is pretty much gone, to paraphrase a famous /r/soccer meme.

And I didn’t go into the incredibly high psychical toll this phenomenon has on the people who are actually addicted to this s*it (pardon my French). I saw a close friend of mine going through it relatively recently and is hell, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even on my biggest enemies.
Since they sell ads that look like search results (which you agree on), they arrived at the same point of selling the top search result positions. Keeping that in mind I don't feel like the tweet is a misrepresentation. Do you, really?
I think I agree. It is used as a euphemism for bad code.

However, I feel there is a need for an iterate approuch when programming, and I would very much call not going back fixing stuff accruing technical debt. No matter if the fault is "OK" and part of the natural flow of programming or incompetence.
I don't recall how long ago this was, but I bought a digital subscription to The Economist only to discover the site refused to make good on my subscription while I had an adblocker active. I canceled the subscription explaining why.

I've since resubscribed as their site no longer does this. It seems so crazy to me that I tried to search for when The Economist changed their policy and found nothing relevant, other than a spate of 2015 stories about how they contracted with an ad-tech firm to determine how many subscribers were using adblockers, but the service subjected their readers to malware.

Newspapers have always made their money by selling their audience to advertisers. However, it wasn't too hard to ignore the ads in print and there is a limit to how malicious a print ad can be.
Radiocarbon dating only works for dead stuff:

> When the animal or plant dies, it stops exchanging carbon with its environment, and thereafter the amount of 14C it contains begins to decrease as the 14C undergoes radioactive decay. Measuring the amount of 14C in a sample from a dead plant or animal, such as a piece of wood or a fragment of bone, provides information that can be used to calculate when the animal or plant died.
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Once you get past the acceptance of the premise, you'll find people objecting to adopting that lifestyle. For many Americans, the nearest city is not a desirable place to live so they don't know what they're missing. For the remainder that want to at least enable a car-free life, the best path forward is a matter of debate.

Sadly what I think goes unrecognized is that the suburbs have forced their car-dependent lifestyle on cities for so long that trying to reverse all the bad history urban highways and transit defunding is exceptionally tough.
yeah, touch controls are wildly underrated right now. there'll be a comeback sooner or later.
Everything is relative. Java is more complicated than Clojure and Python, but it's less complicated than C#, Scala, and Kotlin, and no more complicated than Swift.
Is that really an ad though? A recommendation on the platform itself isn't an ad IMO.
Similar. Pi-hole, uBlock (desktop), vivaldi with adblocking (mobile, FF android has perf issues).

For the non-techie, Pi-hole isn't something I quickly recommend due to "knowing when it's the culprit", and the effort in disabling it.

I also have a simple Wireguard config (pivpn) installed as well and my mobile devices are set to always-on VPN for DNS only. Occasionally I will have to turn off the VPN to join certain public Wifi. also perhaps consider hosting your VPN on a well known port if you expect to be on restrictive networks.

Final note: Pi-hole and Pi-VPN(as a frontend to WG) can be hosted on any machine. I have them running on containers.
I used to type “reddit” after my searches to look for genuine and real reviews, but even that is now being gamed.

Advertisers and shady affiliate marketing schemes have caught on and nearly every search result I try is now filled with junk, upvote farmed nonsense with fake accounts using similar naming schemes.
I use Brave which somehow (not sure how) still does a much better job than whatever adblocking extensions I can find. I am also behind a PiHole firewall anyway, so most ad servers are blocked in the first place. Hundreds of websites that are completely unusable normally are completely usable as a result.
You're right, car dealers/manufacturers do use options packages to increase profit margins by bundling less popular high margin features with more popular ones. The number of brands that let you spec out a new car using a truly a-la-carte selection of options has shrunk, and is now mostly confined to the ultra high end brands (which make huge margins on everything anyway).

However, it's not a new phenomenon, manufacturers and dealers have done this with "luxury" or "sport" features for a long time. This has usually meant adding stuff like alloy wheels, different interior trims, better speakers etc. The difference now is the huge amount of complexity that modern "smart" features bring.
They don't give you a massive "hey WTF, stop doing that!" button for you to not use it in blind religious adherence to a shallow rule of thumb or misguided attempt at politeness.

People with your attitude toward horn use likely cause substantial harm to society through fender benders, delays, frustration, etc, etc.

I think I can maybe count on one hand the number of times I've had to move out of a lane lest someone merge into me. The times that situation has been prevented through horn use are innumerable. And that's just one example.
Dairy and eggs are what I'd struggle with if I tried to go vegan. I'd barely even notice meat missing—I love mushrooms, veggies, legumes, and tofu as the centerpieces of meals. Dairy and eggs are the part where I'd have to start making major modifications to how I cook and the sorts of things I can eat (or accept worse versions of the same thing). Eggs especially are hard to replace in a kitchen-chemistry sense, plus cheap, plus nutritionally valuable, plus store pretty well.
The theoretical limits of lithium sulfur batteries are about equivalent to methanol in terms of energy density, so if it is an application where methanol is out of the question (i.e. the vast majority of commercial aviation), then this is definitely too far away from practical. Looks like it could probably get close for commuter planes though.
Seems temporary, prices are going back up.
I guess in some countries and states? Many countries have deadlines of 2025 (Norway), 2030 (Netherlands), 2035, or 2040 [1], I don't think the hold outs will be able to keep up with ICE production and infrastructure for long after the richer states and countries transition.

And once the writing is seen on the wall, no one will want to be the last person to buy an ICE. Things will change pretty rapidly.

[1] https://electrek.co/2021/11/10/countries-automakers-agree-go...
You're seriously overestimating how accurate handguns are. Granted, I suck, but at 20 yards, I couldn't get 18 carefully aimed shoots on the same large piece of paper. None of them were anywhere near the center. At 10 yards, I managed to get everything within the outer ring.

Giving people a target to shoot at would cause more problems than it would solve.
If companies chose to run simple, clean, quiet advertisements there would be no need to block ads. They have only themselves to blame for creating a nightmare user experience.
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If they didn't know what they could be looking for, perhaps they didn't really need the thing in the first place. If the product is good enough, then it should grow in usage through word of mouth.
Another use case for crypto!
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If you find chess variants interesting, I would recommend looking at Go [1] as well. It is similar to chess in that it is an ancient turn-based strategy game for two players and with perfect information, but I find it much more pleasing from a game-design perspective. The rules are much simpler, there are no draws, and the starting player does not have an advantage. Also, you can have handicaps so that two players with different playing strengths play a evenly-matched game.

To me, this shows that it is possible to solve most of the commonly cited issues in chess by changing it into a radically different game. But can you do it with only a minute adjustment? I find it difficult to imagine chess without draws, but it is not inconceivable. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

[2] E.g.: if the game would end in a draw, instead the player who has made more King-moves wins. If that is tied as well, Black wins.
It's not a 1:1 comparison. For one thing, the regulations are different. There are few if any restrictions on online gambling advertising, whereas alcohol ads are disallowed from using imagery that might appeal to children, can only be run in places where at least 70% of viewers are adult, etc.

But more importantly, the nature of the product and the intent of the creators is different. Alcohol vendors for the most part don't want people to get addicted to alcohol, and most of their revenue doesn't come from addicts (90% of American adults drink at least socially).

Gambling, and gambling advertisements, are deliberately designed to hook people to it as an addiction. Only 25% of Americans regularly gamble, and just 2% of gamblers produce 50% of industry revenue.
> To add ArgoCD to your cluster you just simply type

kubectl create namespace argocd
kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml

If that makes Kubernetes simple, then everything is simple, since someone somewhere wrote a script that you can curl | bash.
Here's a link to Rogan's actual statement:

https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/1488160148350808071

Seems reasonable.
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You think the line has been blurred, but not removed, so a statement that Google won't sell search results because Google draws a distinction at sale time between ad slots and search results is not evidence of a change in position to the reality now where you can buy "things that look 99% identical and sit in the same location as search results" because those things are called ads in the purchase interface.

Others view these things as sponsored search listings because.... they have 99% in common with search listings and only 50% in common with ads as presented at the time that Google made this statement.

What they are selling, despite being called ads, are for all intents and purposes search results. So I don't think it's unfair to call them out for how it conflicts with earlier positions against the selling of search results.
It's a NAT router so needs at minimum to masquerade (change the src/dest IP in the packet headers to match the internal / public). I'd also be running fail2ban or crowdsec for the bare intrusion detection.
A strategy I've seen is that you can make only the new hires work on-site for their first year or so. Once they've proven themselves in their first year, they can start working remotely.
They probably meant 4 kWh
Most ads I'm seeing lately have been on relatives' computers while using shady movie streaming sites. Most of the ads are deceptive things like, you click on the movie to play it and it opens a popup of a different movie, which then asks you to make a free account (and presumably uses those credentials to try and steal your other accounts).

On the other side of the spectrum: using the Instagram app was the first time in my life I felt positive about the ads I was being shown. I was shown ads for microdosing psilocybin (it's legal here) which blew my mind hahah. It's almost like I got through the uncanny valley and into the other side where ads are actually relevant!

Pretty weird since I almost never use Facebook. But I use Google, GMail and YouTube all the time ... and yet, the YouTube and Google Ads really suck! (They seem to be based on IP address rather than identity: I keep getting shown stuff that's obviously based on my housemate's browsing.)

To be clear there was still the gross undercurrent of "okay, why the hell do they know that?" but it was nice to see it actually working as intended for once.
Why is the comment with the actual press release that honestly gives far better info flagged to death? @Dang can you fix this?
While I agree that the content of one's apology is largely irrelevant here (actions speak louder than words), the video makes two substantive claims about changes when controversial opinions about about covid-19 are presented:

1. A disclaimer at the beginning of the video will instruct people to consult their physician and provide a warning that the views expressed are "against the current consensus of experts."

2. When a controversial expert is interviewed, the following videos will feature experts who hold the mainstream viewpoint, serving to counterbalance the claims of a small minority.

Time will tell if this happens, but I find the above points far more meaningful than any apology.
> for a website owner

Not GP, but when I think about the negative consequences of BAT, I'm thinking about the user and society overall, not necessarily the website owner in specific.

Monetizing attention is dangerous, and I think we should be a lot more careful about when we do so, as opposed to monetizing attention being the default way we fund everything online. BAT is in many ways less harmful than existing advertising networks, but it's still trying to find a way to ethically commoditize otherwise private attention/focus on what we read/see, and I think that the omnipresent commoditization of that attention/focus across society is harmful regardless of whether or not it's invasive or collects PII and regardless of whether or not users get paid for selling something that we shouldn't encourage them to sell. I think that this has an effect on how humans process the world, I think it has an effect on how much energy we're willing to devote to different tasks. I think it has an effect on attention spans, and on what types of content get made, and the way that we spread memes/culture, and how we interact with each other. I think it has an effect on market efficiency and on what products succeed. I'm not going to oversell modern advertising as some kind of giant monster that's responsible for all problems, but I think its effects are likely more negative than positive at this point and that we can build better systems that don't optimize for keeping people hooked on consuming content endlessly just so we can redirect some of that attention to a product.

As a website owner, the social stuff still applies to me, I may not want my stuff commoditized at all. But I also recognize that users have the right to modify code running on their computer, including for the purposes of inserting their own ads, so if it's happening with the user's permission I can't really get mad at the user. In many ways I'm the least impacted person in this situation. However, that doesn't mean that I think Brave's system is good for the user or for society, and I'm not going to encourage people to use it.

My feeling is that Brave is trying to reform a system that I would like to see destroyed.
There are many cases where aftermarket versions of these features will perform as good or better than the OEM version. Granted, it's extra work to research and install them, but the end result can be great.

Personally, I will research used cars with top end factory trim packages, looking for models with either a DIN sized radio slot or readily available aftermarket upgrades.

By double checking for compatibility ahead of time you can then retrofit carplay, bluetooth, etc. into a "basic" car, for example: https://gromaudio.com/vline/index.html

I also prefer to shop for used cars because I see them as more "stable" than new cars.

What I mean by that is, major flaws in the model/year have been reported and ideally fixed (but are at least known) in the years since release. Common issues/symptoms and repair details are much easier to find online via forums, etc. after a car has been around for a few years.
There was a report last year that more than 37% of UK traffic in people under 30 had an ad blocker enabled. I think the analytics market is going to have to shift to server-side tracking in the next 5 years if this trend continues globally. I welcome it, though.
It would be awesome if you used a templating system for the writing process. Then the writers can have templates and just change who ${partyA} is.
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