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But the iPhone only "just works" if you completely buy in to Apple's ecosystem. E.g. if you want to buy some FLAC music files from somewhere else, it won't "just work" anymore. Android is still the lesser of two evils in terms of allowing more choice on its platform.
It sure is a fine line - putting your thing out to the world & trying to make more of the world appreciate the thing more. My hobby being an art, I get to experience this internal tug-of-war with each new work. If I do nothing, I may be the only person on earth to appreciate it, which feels really bad. If I promote with the handful of inadequate tools at my disposal, I may become lost in metrics and disappointed with cost/benefit.
I think that there are several issues with this perspective.

Firstly, it presupposes that the music and the ‘concept’ are distinct. I love say Mahler 2 and the Rite of Spring but I love those pieces as a collection of notes and a concept together and trying to separate the ‘concept’ from the notes is impossible - when I listen to them the concept is an essential part of the experience.

In this case I can imagine listening to the notes in the knowledge of the wider context and being profoundly moved by the experience. I don’t see this as any different to music that is highly repetitive (and so not ‘interesting’ musically), for example, but still elicits an emotional response from many listeners.

Finally, if the classification is of composers into two camps, with Cage being in the wrong camp, then I’m afraid that the idea that Cage’s music won’t survive long isn’t backed up by the evidence as most of it is still doing really well many years after it was composed.
My PiHole is a must for my iOS devices.

Yes, there’s a reader mode.
Can you post a couple of the ones you like?
I compared Microsoft 365 with Google Workspace, so Google suspended my account
I made a blog post comparing Microsoft 365 offering with Google Workspace. It seemed to be a good time seeing Microosft just increased the license costs, but still, based on features and price Microsoft 365 seems to be the obvious choice.
https://betterlicenses.com/blog/microsoft-365-vs-google-workspace-new-prices

I decided to add the blog post to my Google Ads , a few hours after started running I get an email that my account was suspended due to "Unacceptable Business Practice", why ?

Image: https://betterlicenses.com/images/account-suspended.png
Testing the systems for Apollo was a huge task, more than I can describe here. Everything from component testing to putting a Lunar Module in a giant vacuum chamber on Earth. Each flight pushed things further so they could test in Earth orbit (Apollo 7), then Lunar orbit (Apollo 8).

For the ranging system specifically, they could do most of the testing on Earth. As long as they could predict the antenna behavior at long distances, everything could be tested pretty accurately. In addition, the Apollo Guidance Computer provided the same ranging data in a completely redundant way. So even if the ranging system completely failed, they still had a backup.
> if it's correct, smart people will eventually be convinced of that.

That's not how science has historically worked. Smart people won't be convinced, new people will. Status quo changes when the previous generation is laid to rest.

This is the result of the academia being just another human social system obeying the same laws of power as all the rest, thus inheriting all their flaws.
Is it seriously worth it for people to do stuff like this? I remember when stallman said he was giving the one laptop per child program a shot.

Since the drivers for the wifi were non free he used some USB device instead.

Last I read that lasted a few months because he got sick of it.

I can't imagine adding all those steps to use a smartphone is any less annoying.
Bonds prices are going down due to interest rate increases. They traditionally are the hedge against stocks falling. There is no easy answer for this.

Don't make the mistake of increasing your risk appetite to chase perceive erosion of value from inflation. Inflation happen regardless, everyone wishes they could find a 8% risk free investment, they do not exist. If you're not a trader stick to an allocation you're comfortable with. The worst outcome is you try to trade in a bearish market and end up down, while inflation is still going.
Some Samsung phones have excellent battery life. You do have to deal with bloat and Knox though
Not sure what you're talking about. I have zero issues using my FLAC files from elsewhere on my iPhone.
> Android enables tons of people all over the world to communicate and do things.

This... sounds like an ad.
> Sure, but I don't need to appeal to this fact to know there's a problem that must be solved. The infinities are enough.

By that logic, you shouldn't believe in black holes / GR at all, right? In practice, we can always replace infinities with some arbitrarily large numbers that don't grow all the way to infinity because of yet-unknown physics (probably quantum gravity, in the case of black holes).

> But again, even if MM couldn't have been performed, Einstein still would have had good theoretical reasons (consistency with Maxwell's equations) to posit SR. And indeed, this was the path the discovery seems to have actually taken.

I don't think this would have been promising if the MM experiment seemed a hundred years away, and in general I don't think SR would have been as compelling in that case. I suspect we would have still had arguments about an aether if experiments on the speed of light in different inertial frames had remained beyond reach.

> Sure, but this is a difference in degree, not in kind. You accept that theoretical arguments for new phenomena that are not directly testable (at present) are acceptable if they're convincing enough. The question about BHILP under this view (which I agree with) is then about how convincing the theoretical arguments are.

Sure, it's a difference in degree in the end. The plausibility of having an experiment "soon" is the degree here. I don't think that Hossenfelder would argue that if an experiment is only possible 2 years from now, or maybe even 20 years from now, you shouldn't work on some theoretical subject. But, when that time horizon stretches well beyond your lifetime and the lifetime of your students, it's perhaps time to reconsider.

I also know for sure she doesn't have a problem with doing theoretical research where you don't yet know how something would be testable, as long as you plan to define an experiment as well. She explains this in some detail when discussing her own work on superdeterminism - where she plans to first define a concrete model, and then come up with experiments which could invalidate that particular model - instead of giving up a priori because "there's no known way to test such a theory".
I’ve seen the work that goes into spotting & mitigating TOS-violating ads: you don’t have to believe in it for it to exist.
Related:

639-year-long John Cage organ performance has a long-awaited chord change today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384140 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)
Typically I use my phone when not at home since at home I have a computer to browse the web of course. Is pihole installed on your iphone? Does it work when in a train, in a restaurant somewhere, etc...?
Oddly I can't remember any wirthian scripting language, like Ruby or Python. Was Wirth biased against dynamic languages?
Nope, it does not work at 10 Gbps; just 5Gbps for short runs (30m) and 2.5Gbps for 100m. I never tried for very short runs (1-5m), but it does not work for 50m at 10 Gbps.
I am having trouble summoning the outrage I see in the other comment threads here. The App Store is stuffed full of abandonware. Apple should be more aggressive with this, not less. If you can't recompile your app and patch up support for recent OSes and recent devices on an ongoing basis, then your business model is not sustainable. I know, I used to sell iOS apps.

The market right now is absolutely flooded with indie games, some light pruning is probably for the best.
I use a local provider in NYC, and I used one in Seattle. I think both of them had some kind of point to point connection on the roof.
Try using a custom ringtone that you do not purchase through the Apple store.
Indeed. Who’s to say that viruses might not lose their ability to infect humans if humans don’t carry them for the next 10-15 years?

If everyone strictly followed the teachings of Christ and all humans were monogamous for an entire generation, would we lose herd immunity to STDs or would STDs go extinct?
At least in the USA, you have mainly three choices for "$500+ phones": Pixel, Samsung, and iPhone. The iPhone has been priced very competitively in recent years to the point that they are better hardware at cheap price points than Samsung. That has taken a large chunk of Android sales as people upgrade to iPhones instead of paying more for Samsung.

A thought: It seems that as people get richer around the world they move away from $200 Androids to what is more perceived as luxury: iPhones.
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Good advice, not very programming-specific.
If that supposition is even true, Twitter removing a blue check because he publicly supported a union— the initial implication to which I replied— and twitter removing and restoring a blue check because people exploited their abuse reporting system are two very different things.
Sons of Malta
> They are the people who best know what books their communities want and need, not the politicians.

Possibly they know well what is wanted,but certainly they have no special claim on what is needed.

The librarian works for the library, which is a far cry from being the sole arbiter of what books should be bought with public resources, in much the same way that the commanding officers of all the warships hanging out around Ukraine don't get to decide whether to start shooting or at whom.
Does "Samsung" mean Tizen or dumbphone (like Xcover 550)? Unknown/Other having the same color as Android? Also Windows Phone was discontinued 3 years ago. The interpretation of the data is rather reprehensible.
How do you measure the distance to a spacecraft?
Six hundred and eighty copies on worldcat, including one within 7 miles of me.
> Whatever consensus you wish to call it, it was the consensus of those in power in society at the time that believed they knew the truth.

Your definition here is an apt one, and your examples demonstrate this particular effect well.

My beef is that you framed them as 'examples of when the scientific consensus was wrong' when they do not demonstrate 'scientific consensus.'
Huh? In what world can’t I use FLAC files on my iPhone? VLC does it great, I use them almost literally every day…
Matlab for Brain and Cognitive Scientists
8 in rhetoric about Russia and China. 7, Russiagate and Jan 6
The block diagram is optional, everything can be done in Verilog. That said, I use IPI and find it very productive. Module reference flow lets you wrap Verilog modules and expose IO as interfaces so composing a top level in the block diagram and hooking everything up is easy.
I did the same, roughly two years ago. I'd been Android since the Nexus One. The lack of commitment to long-term support is what did it for me. Between Apple's support for OS updates for much older hardware than Google, and the fact that we can get a phone battery replaced at an Apple store rather than a sketchy phone repair place is what did it for me.

For me, the downsides are:

- Notifications really suck. Everything has the same sound, unless the developer really cares. Its far harder to have custom alert sounds vs Android.

- Garmin watch notifications can't be filtered. I realize this is partly Garmin's fault, since apparently competitors have worked their way around it.

- I hate that "firefox" on iOS is a wrapper for Safari, and I can't use add-ons like uBlock
I've looked at the smaller ISPs in my area and they're terrible as far as pricing goes. Both the "major" options are still using Rogers' last-mile infrastructure, they offer poorer customer service (because of the previous point), charge the same or more money for the same level of service and offer no real incentive to switch. Having talked to some techs at TekSavvy, none of the smaller ISPs can offer anything interesting like synchronous speeds over coax/DOCSIS because they have little/no control over how the last-mile infrastructure is run. For that same reason they can't offer anything faster than 1G down either. It all feels like smoke and mirrors, and the CRTC seems to have a vested interest in keeping internet prices sky-high.
Ask HN: What is your definition of intelligence?
I mean in general, which may include natural or artificial intelligence.
> Everything that we expect today - chat history, reliable message delivery, multi-device synchronization - is an afterthought in XMPP.

The author grossly misunderstands XMPP. The first letter X stands for "eXtensible", and extensible it is.

Chat history, milti-device sync, reliable message delivery is not an afterthought, it is extension (and btw they all are solved problems as of now) The protocol is by design modular, and it is a strength, not weakness.

You can't realistically expect all the world to share the same version of your monolithic messaging protocol. Different instances will support different features, some implementations will lag on with newer features, etc. The only possible answer to this is modularity and legacy fallbacks for some features that are not supported by remote party.

Sure, the protocol could develop more rapidly. I actually believe that XMPP survives despite efforts of the XSF coincils, not thanks to them. However, the core of the protocol is strong and allows to build communication products with UX not worse than Telegram or Discord. And if you lack some crucial feature like a properly working group chat, you can make your own XMPP extension - because eXtensible it is.
You don't deny fascism is a real thing but you strawman his arguments as disconnected and therefore false.

No: you must prove his arguments disconnected. He has demonstrated their connection and given examples in each truly fascist movement. The onus is on you to take any of the 14 and show why it is false.

No fallacious comparisons to dogs and planes.

Prove it. Show it.
I suppose this one isn't too bad in that regard, I think I was mainly thinking of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHIhgxav9LY

This video about leaded gasoline makes a solid case and the science and history are there to back up that Kettering caused the lead poisoning on this scale, but I think it's a stretch, or a gross oversimplification to say he killed the most people in history. I guess I expect slightly more scientific rigor and caution from someone like him (though, I understand that YouTube videos aren't expected to withstand the scientific method).

With this video, I think it comes down to the title. Saying he killed the most people is a reach, I think saying he poisoned the most people is probably more accurate. That's not saying anything to discredit how bad lead poisoning is and that it does kill people, but if you're going to accuse someone of being a mass murderer I think you need to make your claims really precisely and have data that really clearly shows a causation and not just correlation.

The video titles ironically seemed to get more clickbait-y after he released this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
Two hundred smackers on Amazon.
Most of the latter... aren't banned? Like, at all. They aren't so popular, but you can definitely find books on chemical synthesis in libraries.
The problem is that it inherently places an ever growing bounty on corrupting those "trusted" sources which are in fact human, not cryptographic.

The bounty in crypto is only in cracking whatever chosen cryptography, and this is the very heart of crypto's provably rock solid trust. This bounty is worth trillions, but we known with a (very) high level of certainty that no one can claim it. You would have to have broken cryptography, or developed a sci-fi level computer chip in total secret.

How much can you trust a handful of news sources when the bounty for gaming them reaches the billions or hundreds of billions in value? What kind of person suddenly wants to become an editor when they get to wear one of the rings of power? (sorry I've been reading LOTR lately)

There is a simple calculus here (and everywhere) that shows that as the value of trust grows, so does the value of breaking that trust. Crypto solves this by making the cost of breaking that trust far outside human's capability. It probably would be be asking too much to introduce an element that suddenly makes that cost practically obtainable compared to cracking crypto.
> It's utter nonsense that hasn't corrected its widely documented errors and omissions.

This goes far beyond all but the most partisan criticism I've read about the project, and even partisans are mad about the project issuing "silent" corrections without notice so your understanding may be outdated. Regardless, I think that some nuance is warranted here and it sounds like the librarians at BPL agree.
definitely overkill for now. But looks like author had fun setting everything up so why not?
Not really a polarizing stance the OP was taking. I totally understand that people don’t trust it, just look at all the crazy hype and the endless scam coins. I mean I have a coin base wallet that had at least three different scam coins randomly sent to it, or I really have 900k just sitting there for me to claim lol. I know a little and it’s hard for me to be optimistic to most crypto panning out to anything other than some thing people just buy and sell and continue to tell you “just wait, it’s the next big thing”. It’s just the next techno grift and it’s taking a huge toll on the environment.
I think there is probably a distinction between an archivist and a librarian. A librarian I know explained to me that the job of a librarian is to curate a collection of books, not to archive/preserve every book. Librarians frequently throw away old books they feel are no longer worth keeping around (generally due to lack of interest, relevance, etc) and certainly don't seek to acquire as many new books as they can. With the rate of modern publishing, only a tiny fraction of books published will ever end up in public libraries.

If you look around or ask, libraries often have a pile of books that are free to take and keep, and will otherwise be thrown away if nobody wants them. I've gotten a fair few books this way, though I've scarcely read any of them. I use one of them as my mouse pad; Microeconomic Theory by Henderson and Quandt, published in 1958. A true bore, but it has a very nice library binding that works great with laser mice.
> but your switch will still need to be within a few meters of that endpoint, and it's not going to be very green nor silent.

Mikrotik CRS305 (4xSFP+) and CRS309 (8xSFP+) are both passively cooled. They are pretty much silent :) though the blue led takes some tape to be less shiny.

> 10 Gb/s isn't quite there yet

If you really, really need RJ45, look into BCM84891-based transceivers. They still get hot, but not as much as others (according to datasheet, takes 1.6W at 30m and 2W at 80m). I also managed to get stable 10g over 20m Cat5e with them.
I second that. Go instantly came to mind as a fantastic beginner language.

- Go is also inspired by Pascal, but it has more of a foothold today, it shares the simplicity and the syntax is more natural and convenient than C and similar.

- It's a light language. You can approach it in terms of just functions (procedures) and data, as opposed to say Java (which unfortunately is one of the most used languages in to teach programming).

- The tooling is approachable, it compiles fast, there is no friction when it comes to automated testing, you get a static binary out of it etc.

- The std library is comprehensive and very easy to use. You can teach a ton of concepts with just that without ever having to worry about third party dependencies. A full web server, a CLI etc.

- It's low level enough so you can teach a bunch of important concepts such as pointers and constructs around pointers, allocation etc.
So a hundred duck sized ducks. Got it.
I think that is different. I am not religious so I find it crazy, but if you are raised to believe in a God it is not strange to think the God can do whatever he feels like and it doesn't need historical precedent or any evidence. Humans have believe in Gods throughout history.
TIPSWatch also wrote up a comparison between I Bonds and TIPS [1] from September 2021.

[1] https://tipswatch.com/2021/09/07/i-bonds-vs-tips-whats-the-b...
You can definitely sell extra warranties, support, or both for open software. I've helped a few clients do all those things, and published free form contracts online.

However, contracting for warranties or support does not have the same incentive-alignment effect as offering them within a broader license deal. A few thoughts come to mind:

- The one selling the warranties or the support needn't be the developer. Even if the developer does offer those things, others can step in and compete. The outsiders' costs may in fact be lower. They're not also spending on gratis software development, for one.

- Speaking of money, customers will usually pay a lot less for warranties or support than for use of software, or use of software along with warranties and support. That means fewer resources flowing back to the develop to invest in quality, security, IP hygiene, and the other drivers of risk driving demand for warranties and support.

- Offering support in isolation can produce a perverse incentive: invest too much in usability, bug hunting, architecture, and so on, and suddenly customers don't need paid support. Fundamentally, warranties and support are for when things go wrong. Training and consulting have a similar potential conflict with open documentation.
This one and the plain difference in the size.

It is easier to upgrade everything in some Blatic states than in some US cities.
I have had many apps (over 20) on the store, since 2012.

I haven't had any that has weathered the OS changes past a couple of major steps, without having to make some code changes (sometimes, nothing more than just recompiling with the latest toolchains).

I just put out an update to my very first app, which is ten years old, but I have done a few updates, since first releasing it.

I have another app that is about two years old, and it needs a facelift. I don't have the bandwidth to give it said facelift (It still works, but looks like crap). I hope it won't get pulled before I can give it its update. I won't blame Apple, if they do pull it, however (see "looks like crap," above).

I've generally retired most of my apps, when they got long in the tooth.
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Many dimensions to intelligence: there's book smart, street smart, hustle smart, etc.
You can do the same lock-in with most FOSS licenses. There’s no requirement to under any common license to document the code. And under the vast majority of them, you can deliver it as a service and be exempt from distributing your code too. Or, you can lock people in with complexity that, while anyone could legally expand on your code, they practically can not.

Data conversion may be a big cost factor in a small software deployment, but in a large deployment, it may only be a small portion of switching costs. There are a lot of switching costs that FOSS simply doesn’t address, particularly when labor, compliance, or legally related.
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135972