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> This is the solution being applied before the problem again. It is a case of applying compromises to fit the solution into the available device rather than look at the problem and choose a device suitable for it. I travel with my iPad. It's fine for that. But I'm certainly not going to be writing up anything extensive or writing any code on it.

To each their own I guess.

> I prefer not to shit or wash where I compute :). As for the surfaces, the iPad is the least flexible device. At worst you have to hold it constantly which is painful after an hour or so.

11in iPad isn't that heavy, I use it for hours on end this way. Don't skip arm day?

> Having used Swift Playground extensively, I think you must be living in the future where they fixed all the show stopping bugs and crashes. It's totally unusable for me and doesn't meet even a minimum bar for quality.

Maybe try the new version? I don't know what to tell you. It works great for my primary work which is in SwiftUI and app development.

> It's definitely quicker to type. But it's quicker to draw than type if the scenario isn't suited to textual description.

Never in that scenario personally.

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It's almost like personal devices are used in personal ways and your weird application of "logic" to peoples decision making processes differs from how others think.
I'm amused theres actually a guy named 'Leatherman'
I also don't put my predictions in writing, but I appreciate those that do. It's easy to look at the state of the world today and say, "Of course. How could it end up any other way?"

Looking at how badly old predictions miss the mark serves as a good reminder that the bets we make today for the future are probably just as wrong.
Same goes for Youtubers who go "in depth" on futuristic technologies. They always hype you up before they introduce some realism.
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It's simple: election margins are super slim right now, and Democrats are concerned that some sliver of their base--people too poor or busy or whatever to get an ID--will be disenfranchised as a result.
The problem won't be legal, but scale: the Pentium 3 has ~9.5M transistors [1] - and the world's largest FPGA, at a staggering price point of 55.000 dollars, has only 9M logic gates [2].

Probably you could use an FPGA a bit smaller if you use FPGA-native memory for L1-L3 instead of transistors, but you'll nevertheless need an FPGA that is many orders of magnitude too expensive for a hobbyist niche project. Also, you would need serious quality photographs of the die... which can be done for old and small chips on a budget, but will be really expensive even for something of the Pentium 3 era.

What has always interested me though: how are CPUs and modern GPUs actually developed, given that FPGAs are way, way too small and silicon-making runs extremely expensive?

[1] https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/story/330

[2] https://hackaday.com/2019/09/24/who-could-possibly-need-an-f...
You're submitting a new HTTP request with each keystroke, which makes the back arrow reaalllllyyyy annoying.
Congrats on launching, the screenshots look great.

Lately I've seen a few MacOS specific apps here on HN (another one was the terminal app ) and they all look really good UI wise: the general UI, popup/search dialogs, dropdown menus for command palette, file trees etc.

I would love to write apps that look and feel like this on other platforms (mainly Linux for me personally) but the toolkits don't seem to have that level of polish or even lack most of these controls/components. Gtk, Qt and Java Swing all have pretty simple controls and require a lot of customization or reinventing the same custom controls.

The closest I have gotten is with JavaFX but that does not seem officially supported/maintained anymore. Are there any other toolkits that aim to have this level of polish?
The main issues with election integrity in the US are all the tactics used to cull voter lists (often removing legitimate voters), make it less convenient to vote (e.g., getting rid of early voting, not enough polling stations, voting only on workdays), and of course, gerrymandering (rigging district boundaries to allow one party to win far more seats than its overall vote share would imply).

It would be sensible to have a national ID in the US and to use it in voting, but in practice, the voter ID issue is simply used by the Republican Party as another tactic to restrict voting. They know that Democratic voters are less likely to have ID, they intentionally include/exclude various forms of ID based on the voter demographics, and they are generally against measures that would ensure that every valid voter obtain ID.

So yes, in a vacuum, voter ID sounds obvious. However, when you see how the issue is actually used in American politics, it's actually pretty sinister.
The only thing we should be talking about is the climate crisis
On other hand there could be an extension that sends tracking history and everything else to everyone. If you really want to share that information.
When you see a symbol you don't recognize, like 'σ', you can just paste it into google and it'll tell you.

I personally don't see why greek letters are such a big sticking point, there's only 24 of them, and unlike Greek children you don't have to learn them all in one go.
Would love to read a blog post about what this kind of code looks like!
The voting offices are supposed to be adapted to the amount of French citizens in the area. Here in Belgium there are 12 of them for example.

It's possible that the consulate of Montreal misjudged the amount of voters (the turnout in 2017 was higher than expected for the citizens living abroad, if I recall correctly) but more generally, citizens are expected to make the effort necessary to cast their vote.
I bought an M1 iPad Pro (12”?) last year and feel about the same. The processor is overkill and the battery life suffers as a result. It’s bulky, not nice on my lap (w/ keyboard) and is heavier than the more capable MBA. It does have some redeeming features which stop me from selling it:

+ Excellent mini-LED screen (some bad ‘blooming’ effects though)

+ It’s highly portable without the keyboard

+ It’s great for weird locations, like watching something in the bath, or while cooking

+ Enables me to easily sign and fill forms without printing

I am disappointed by the offerings for note taking with the pencil. I’m nearly through with a civil engineering degree and have had the iPad for 2 semesters. I thought this thing would be super handy for marking up plans, highlighting in textbooks, making hand-written notes in class… nope. I’ll read a pdf on it every now and then, but I find all of the other tasks too cumbersome to repeatedly perform on the iPad.

Notes are annoyingly stored inside apps (goodnotes) until you manually export them. Goodnotes itself is not very ‘good’ either. It’s clunky and turns the device into a space heater. I cannot find a pdf/note-taking app that:

+ Doesn’t have intrusive menu bars that are permanently on

+ Has sane keyboard shortcuts

+ Can edit/markup pdfs in-place without ‘importing’ them

+ Has a smooth drawing feature. (Goodnotes is smooth. Apple default is crap)

+ Has drawing tools that are more than just making squares and circles

+ Has good support for equations and scientific notation (OCR or other interaction).

Have any other science or engineering students found anything better than goodnotes or notability?
Kind of makes sense inflation has been over 5% for almost a year now.
High mortgage rates mean that is only more expensive for “poor” people, while the wealthy will continue on their merry way. The US desperately needs a land-value tax as a step towards making home ownership costly and depreciating, removing the home-as-investment angle. Who wants a nest egg that means giving up your dwelling in the case of actually needing to liquidate it anyway? (Oops, got expensive medical bills? Now you’re sick _and_ homeless!)

Actions like this will unfortunately destroy a lot of older middle-class wealth in the short-term, but longer term it would hurt the upper-classes the most (and even short-term it’s not like the upper classes haven’t been winning every transaction anyway). And the longer we let this problem fester, the more lives we disrupt of the younger generations who have seen countless ladders pulled up in front of them.
The problem with the US approach is that the restrictions are targeted at groups - versus this approach which is uniform.

For example, you can't get an absentee ballot in Texas. Well, unless you are old and a likely Republican voter, then it's totally ok.
Lol you really don't know much about this topic. Sorry if I am sounding rude but you just revealed that with yet another response looking simply to be right and prove me wrong without any actual thought.

In the context in which we are talking, yes indeed a spammer needs to create accounts to dm people, upvote, retweet,.etc etc etc.

You might be thinking of email or something, which is a different type of spam in a different context.

Again, please try to stay positive and look for value rather than just simply trying to win.

A Twitter spammer creates many accounts, scrapes to identify an audience, follows and unfollows to build their audience, DMs, tweets, etc for the purpose of making money.

There, are there any more blanks that you want me to fill? Or can I go back to living in peace and speaking with people who aren't trying to poke holes in everything.

P.S. sorry to anyone having to read this drivel. But I feel the need to defend when people come in here with an intent to argue for the sake of arguing and showing zero intent to listen or understand.
That's what Neo4j did, they took the AGPL and added a Commons Clause making it AGPL with Commons Clause.

They then say:

> Neo4j Enterprise consists of modules from Neo4j Community Edition and modules licensed under AGPLv3 with the Commons Clause in this repository, and other closed source components not present in this repository.

I actually don't see them claiming their enterprise edition was ever open source, they also have an open source community edition licensed under GPL V3.

This is their License file:

https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/3.4.13/enterprise/com/LI...

You can see the: "Commons Clause" License Condition at the end of it.

Also, the history of the project, their enterprise edition started as AGPL, and later versions they added the Commons Clause over it, and finally now they've just gone closed source, probably to avoid all these legal woes.
> Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger.

> Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if “un-woke.”

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/

Well, TIL.
The "Free World" has become markedly less free since the fall of the Berlin wall. Part of this is just the result of the fact that was deemed no longer necessary by those in power to portray the image of being "The Free World" now that the cold war was over, part of it is due to the fact that the enemy-shaped hole left by the demise of the Evil Empire was filled by things like "globalism" and "climate disaster". Globalism created the conditions for the rise of China as the up-and-coming superpower, the climate scare created the conditions for the WEF "Build Back Better" [1] strategy which is to usher in that globalist world where "you will own nothing and you will be happy" [2]. Then the SARS2 pandemic hit - oddly enough just a few months after the WEF finished practising for just such a scenario in their "Event 201" program [3] - which severely restricted freedom all over the world, markedly so in states which were deemed to be the poster children of "The Free World". Many leaders started using the rhetoric of "The Great Reset" and "Build Back Better" [4], some leaders of "The Free World" openly proclaimed their admiration of the Chinese approach [5], many others were inspired by the Chinese "social credit score" system and forwarded plans to create similar systems in "The Free World" under the guise of "Pandemic preparedness". Many if not most of those schemes ended up being shot down in the parliamentary process but is has been made clear that the freedoms which were once seen as inviolable in "The Free World" - from ownership rights through freedom of speech to freedom of association and freedom of movement - are seen as a detriment to their ideas of how society is to progress by a number of influential people.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/to-build-back-better-...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the... - notice that the WEF removed the page related to this quote: '1. All products will have become services.' leads to 'Sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for' while other links still work

[3] https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

[4] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YkcaeaD45MY

[5] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eqnmfNiaM-Y
what tools did you use to set up that port routing thing? that sounds endlessly useful
The pattern at big tech companies seems to be that once they reach a certain size they lose their product focus and the money-focussed people take over.

This has definitely been the case at Facebook. The social media market was theirs to lose, and if trends in my circles are anything like typical, it seems like that's exactly what is happening. I'd put that down largely to user-hostile decisions that are pushing their users away (Facebook has turned from a place where you could see photos and personally written sharing from family and friends with a few adverts mixed in, to mixture of clickbait and a lot of adverts), and that they didn't need to make as they were incredibly profitable anyway.

I suspect Instagram (being owned by Meta) will go this way eventually. But for now they seems to have avoided the worst of this.
There's been a bit of a movement for open startups like this lately. I think it's pretty neat and inspiring.

See also:

- https://nomadlist.com/open
- https://ghost.org/open/
- https://www.bannerbear.com/open/
- https://openstartup.tm/

pros: if you're an early adopter, it's nice to know how the service you're investing time in is doing financially. One of the biggest risks of choosing a new/unknown service, as a consumer, is that it will fail/close and you'll have to migrate somewhere else. I think the open company movement has other benefits as well. Behind just financials, but companies sharing their employee handbooks & policies are a great resource for entrepreneurs.

cons: probably some. At times, depending on your long term plans, it's definitely better to keep your cards close to your chest. This model seems to work best for bootstrapped companies, and less-so for companies that go the VC route.
You're making the assumption that everyone _wants_ to target as many platforms as possible, have the resources to do so, and are just too lazy to do so.

In other words, you're assuming that people don't build for your platform because they're "bad."

Why so cynical?
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I think it's more about the variety that one cares about. I love both BotW and Elden Ring, but I could see either one 'lacking' somewhat in variety depending on what I choose to care about more.
At least in my experience, even people who understand how it works seem to have this bias. On average it might even be a fair bias.
You can't blame all of today's popovers on cookie regulation, the HEY DO YOU WANT TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER????? crowd had them beat by years. At least the cookie banners usually only cover a small part of the bottom of the window and can be ignored if you don't want to interact with them.

If a website doesn't want to annoy you with a cookie banner, they could always opt to not use any non-essential cookies.
No it hasn't become more expensive due to hitting 5%, though it may be more expensive for other reasons. The market will equilabrate.

There's a couple who live at the peak of the bell curve that defines your market. They can spend $X,000 per month on a house. 2.5% vs 5% just changes how much of their money goes to paying down principle vs the interest. With that the price of the house will fluctuate to account for this reality.
> Have any metro areas built entirely new subways where there were none before in recent times?

None that I can think of in the US, but Madrid is generally pointed to as the stellar example of rapid and cheap subway expansion. They added an unbelievable amount of track and stations at really low cost.

> Between 1995 and 2007, the Spanish capital swiftly and cost-effectively upgraded its subway system, building more than 150 new stations over 120 miles at costs far below New York City rates. First, in just four years, Madrid designed, constructed, and opened 39 new metro stations and laid 35 miles of rail, 23.5 miles of which required new tunneling. The expansion was unprecedented for its low costs (about $65 million per mile of rail) and speed. Then, between 2000 and 2003, Madrid built Metro Sur, a 28-station, 25-mile circular subway line that connects the densely populated municipalities south of the city. Simultaneously, Madrid completed a direct metro line from the city’s central business district to its airport, now a 12-minute train ride away. Finally, between 2004 and 2007, commuters in the Madrid region gained an additional 80 new metro and light-rail stations, at a cost of $6 billion.

Just like high speed rail, this was less of a revolution in public works, and more a series of unglamorous minor improvements that added up to something greater than the sum of its parts. The government aimed for speed above all else, with the understanding that delays and financial uncertainty are the doom of any large project. So they would hire multiple teams to bore tunnels at once, and pit them in friendly competitions to bore faster. They negotiated with local land and business owners over more interruptions over a shorter period of time to reduce lawsuits (a big issue in NYC subway expansion), and they designed all the stations to be modular so that they wouldn't waste a ton of time designing and constructing bespoke stations. The sum is that they got it done really fast and really cheap.

Ironically, it looks a bit like the way that we construct our highways.
Yeah exactly and each device has a time & place imo too, while I said travel without - I typically don't. But when it comes to the device I can wield in a given scenario it absolutely depends, having the options is great.
It doesn't really affect them because the tenant is defacto paying the mortgage, and there is no shortage of tenants. It will just further increase rent rates during the next rental contract renewal, but buried in with all of the other regular inflation (increase in building materials for repairs, labor rates, etc).
I think that's probably the cultural difference. When I think "accomplishment" coming from a country with a large social safety net, I'm thinking self-realization (writing a book, climbing everest, reaching the olympics, founding a company, making a scientific discovery) - but accomplishments in this case are independent from economic security. In fact, in order to accomplish I'd probably have to give up some of my economic security.

Meanwhile in my case, sending my kids to college or paying for day care is a non issue, even on a low paying job. Getting a nice degree, even a PhD isn't an issue (because higher education is paid for and PhDs are paid positions - but not one you take for future economic gain).

So if I want to maximize my economic security and worry about house prices, then I have to accept that I probably need to give up the thought of personal "accomplishment" of the Everest kind, and Instead I'll just work 40h a week and raise a family.
hm not a Baudelaire reader here, but I have some experience in the arts world. The kind of "social impact" from art movements and individual artists, poets, painters and book-oriented arts, has been vaporized in the modern Internet era by film, sound, video and more recently TikTok and influencer videos. Individuals on a personal journey do find this material and yes, it might have some important impacts in a personal way. But the kind of "social magnification" that is implied with awed words and grandiose terms describing the arts, I will claim today, has been vaporized, elbowed-out, rendered insignificant in the modern media context.

So that brings the comment to the particular translation done by a particular translator, from French to English. A non-starter for social magnification effects, for the reason stated above. Since this forum has active minds, some individuals may be affected and care, but you can see in the comments that some immediately say "why not read French then?" .. and they are not wrong.. enough on all this, and back to daily matters..
Being earlier doesn't mean it has a better value proposition. It just means it had an opportunity for entrenchment before a competitor can bring their product to market. Had they successfully leveraged that opportunity, that would be valuable, but they didn't. Microsoft/HD-DVD decidedly squandered that opportunity considering the PS3 (primary BR player purchased pre 2010) launched a year later than Xbox but had sold as many units in ~1 yr as the xbox had in 2, effectively eliminating any such market advantage in it's first year.

> HD DVD was cheaper.

Correct. Which is why my comment talked about value, and why "X is cheaper" as an individual metric in and of itself is not useful in measuring success. BR and the PS3 was decidedly more expensive. People still bought more of them than HD-DVD/360.

> At the time there were many claims that the porn industry would be the deciding factor.

Which was almost as laughable then as it is now.
It's quite depressing. Attempting to buy since August. When I started my rate was 2.7 and today it's 5.2 and climbing extremely fast in the past month. Inventory continues to be a problem. There just has been so little on the market. What's interesting in my observation is the rate increases have actually created even more competition. People are straight up desperate right now.

Also now that overlapping showings are happening I spend nearly every viewing with 2-5 realtors who are showing over zoom to buyers looking to move from a HCOL to my city (Denver). I found it hard enough to make a major decision after a 20 minute viewing, but to do so over a poorly narrated zoom/facetime walkthrough? Can't imagine.
Why have cameras at all?
I use it because that's where everyone went after the Tumblr exodus. Many of them will post to other places as well, but Twitter is the only place where I can follow all of them without jumping between sites.
Yes, wind is always blowing somewhere. Unless you are Texas, and can't bring yourself to tie to the rest of the grid.
It may look good --- beauty is in the eye of the beholder --- but it's ergonomics are bad. All those hamburger menus, all those disabled configuration parameters, the non-modular architecture, the poor state and quality of Gnome Shell extensions. I really try to like the modern Gnome, but they make it very hard. If your goal is not staring at some graphic design, but having tools that help and do not stand in the way, then Gnome feels just wrong. The primary reason why I still try to work with it, is its integration into system services.
Respectfully. If they were true journalist they would do this. Unfortunately, we too often get hacks posing as journalists.

We, The Public, need to stop giving credit where credit is not due.

Put another way, if your pet barked would you call it a cat? Of course not, yet we allow hacks to pass themselves off as journalists. Such language abuse is Orwellian, at best.