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Consumers already pay for the hardware which is why they're a trillion dollar company.

However there are other trillion-dollar companies that have free consumer services if that's really the issue (which it isn't). By the way, millions of apps are not monetized and therefore free to host so clearly there's not a critical cost associated with the app store but rather pure profit margin.

Simply allowing the install of additional app stores would solve all these issues and allow for more competitions and the free market to discover the real price of app store services.
It's not the PCB that is hard. It is interfacing with all the interface ICs, each having their own quirks and proprietary drivers, etc. At a certain point, reading data sheets becomes like filling out tax forms, extremely boring work.
> also the ones that benefit most from federal spending

The analyses that draw this conclusion leave a lot out. By narrowing the discussion to spending, they ignore the many benefits of federal policy for corporations based in the big cities in a few states. A few industries come to mind that would make a lot less money if federal policy were different: banks, pharma, entertainment, and even technology.
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The 1990s "antivirus" industry was able to suppress most malware source and executable distribution. You could only find it in small print run zines, or the very occasional book. All that led to was people typing the source in themselves. The result was a proliferation of minor variants.

My guess is the suppression held back the tide of Windows malware a year or two, but also gave MSFT a few years of fat, dumb and happy ignorance. Nimda, Code Red, Word macro viruses, etc hit Windows hard. If jokey small threats had been as available as they are today, MSFT might have been able to ramp up rather than get buried.
I've used Mint. It wasn't a good experience. I like and use daily the command line version of Linux and despise the desktop version in all its various frankenstein's monster flavors.

And for the record, I've been using desktop Linux off and on since before Slackware was released. I simply no longer have any interest in making yet another attempt at meeting my day to day needs with such terrible products. If I really wanted to use a Linux gui app that bad, I'd just dial it up in the Windows 11 hypervisor.
Except for the fact that native apps also use SGML or XML inspired markup for their layout engines. A tree of heterogeneous objects maps extremely well to how people think about UI.
What’s a TFA?
> it looks like technically things like \w, \d and \s are not in [POSIX]

The relevant standard is UTS #18, it subsumes POSIX afaict. Do you think the same as me about it, namely that following and implementing it is essential?
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Can someone please explain what it is?
As a counterpoint, most or all of that is also true of the majority of entheogens with deep cultural roots, like Ayahuasca. Amanita Muscaria is another abundant mushroom that is even toxic if prepared incorrectly, and yet has a long history of use in shamanistic cultures(though not in viking culture, as is widely misbelieved). I'm not going to speculate much about the extent of psilocybe semilanceata usage in Germanic/Sami cultural history, other than to say that it would likely have become taboo due to Christianity, and therefore went unrecorded.
Huh, I hadn’t even thought about it, but I’m in the same boat. I haven’t needed SO since switching to Go in 2014.
I often wonder how companies like this exist. Their "Market" isn't really a market but forced government regulation. I suppose its all sweethart deals, kickbacks, lobbying for contracts, and fedramp.

Having 4000 employees for what is essentially streamlining the process of filling out government paperwork seems absurd to me. Don't misunderstand I've delt with compliance and know very well how much a headache it is and the mountains of paperwork. Yet I just cannot possibly see how this many employees could be needed or profitable to hire.
I put the likelihood that the Joplin, MO / Pittsburg, KS area is becoming any kind of destination for remote tech workers at 0%. That one has to be a case of a very small number not needing to increase much to have a large percentage increase.
I think eventually we will be back in the cities. Just not now. And by we I mean people in tech who are the only real group with this privilege.
It's been the entire basis for the _MASSIVE_ explosion in VC investors and tech investment though. Without it way, way fewer people would be here and we'd all be making way, way less money. So, it's kind of a double-edged sword.
>Their martial prowess has been somewhat exaggerated.

That straight wins/losses analysis leaves something wanting. Which were defensive battles and which were offensive ones? Could their reputation have prevented defensive battles which they would have otherwise subsequently won? And maybe more important, if it would have prevented battles they would have lost. The "If" reply being of course the famous example.
Seems like if this were successful it would weaken the extra security provided by pointer authentication, at worse weakening it to the level of a CPU without pointer authentication like the x86_64 chips they used to use. So not great but not catastrophic. Or am I missing something?
I've done management. It's mind-numbing and soul-sucking. I'll take the pay cut to have the stimulation and challenge of being an engineer.
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I vouched for this comment. And all your comments are [DEAD] aka shadowban. You likely did something to piss off the admins. Either protest or create a new account.

The problem that you bring up in a meta- way is that these are the consistent responses I get from the open source devs. And as much as I appreciate the OS devs doing the hard stuff, basic functionality and hardware defect repair should ABSOLUTELY be part of Pine.

For example, when the PP keyboard has a bad support for the pogo pins, this should have been stopped, recalled, and fixed correctly. Instead, nothing. The open source devs said to use paper to shim it https://www.reddit.com/r/PinePhoneOfficial/comments/svc38r/v...

I mean, what the hell? Im glad fellow harmed users found a way forward, but seriously this is only 1 issue that makes Pine a shitshow to deal with.

And "Charging ICs are finicky things on its own - the risk of frying the board/device is always there." dismisses the fact that if a company wants to sell a product, "NOT CATCHING FIRE OR RELEASING SMOKE" is like the baseline here. Worst yet, early PP keyboard adoptees weren't even told this was an issue. Leaflets were only included later. But still, this is a shit situation - you have 2 USB-C ports. There should ne no situation where 1 port = hardware destruction. Again, make the hardware right or don't fucking do it.
Someday I'd like to hear the inside story of how third-party ad-blocking discussions go inside Google. Do managers take new hires out to a one-on-one lunch and quietly tell them, "It's come from on high that we want to gradually shut down third-party ad-blocking. If you know what's good for your career, find reasons to interfere with ad-blocking and always nod along to the PR excuses."?
No, the computer that runs it is on Earth, but Mario’s actual world is nowhere on earth, it’s a fully distinct reality.
And this can really not be fixed in any way? Not trolling, happy to barely understand this in the first place
Let's dictate to the readers who they are supposed to see as the bad guys in that list!
Let's talk about the word "objective" here. It means outside of any person's perspective, the same for everyone. Like the laws of physics for instance. "objective" and "moral" are contradictory, considering that "morals" are defined by individual perspectives. Even murder and child molestation were considered normal in some cultures historically (e.g. classical Greece). There is no such thing as objective morals, which is why the same story told by two different people can have vastly different tones. It's why we have laws to draw lines, and courts to get around the confusion about where those lines lie.
Re: jumping in particular, my point is more nuanced: that we train too many paratroopers and also there are too many dangerous jumps for which the readiness ROI isn't worth the additional injuries.

Those two are related and form a vicious cycle. The more people you injure, the the more you have train. The more jumps you require for minimal readiness, the more folks eventually refuse to re-up to even leave the Army as they watch their friends drop like flies to spinal injuries.

Jumps, and dangerous jumps in particular, are a huge point of contention in the Army because the Army likes to screw soldiers by claiming that spinal injuries from jumps aren't service-related.

Then there's a really long tail of physical fitness training that has more to do with macho signalling than actual readiness. Plenty of discussion down-thread.

There is nuance and trade-off, but there's a LOT of training in the military that does little or nothing for readiness and contributes massively to injury rates. I think the Army is so far to the "stupid" end of that spectrum that the nuanced conversation doesn't make much sense to me.
There's a conspiracy theory going around that the overreaction to Covid was because people wanted to hide how rough things were going to be economically.
> I think supply chain problems are taking a bite out of demand. I have wanted to buy equipment for my photography/art hobby and I can’t get it. I am saving money until it is available, not buying something else.

There's another aspect of this one..

There are people buying right now despite not being able to get their item because they're afraid it will cost much more later. Then they wait.

On the retailer's side, the responsible ones hold the money and count it as a liability (ha!) while the normal ones count it as revenue right now and spend accordingly.

The complication comes in later if that retailer goes out of business. Suddenly you're out the money and the item gets delivered to an entity that no longer exists.. and then goes to a liquidation auction getting sold for a fraction of the price to clear the retailer's debts. (Technically, you'd be on that list but so far down it doesn't matter.)

This isn't hypothetical either. If you know where to look, you can get some AMAZING deals right now.
Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem
I blog on my own site, on my own domain name, on my own hardware.

But it seems that most HN'ers use a static site generator and push to Github Pages.

EDIT: might as well give the link: https://theandrewbailey.com/
More rain yes, but that rain comes down in heavy storms instead of miserable perma-drizzle and mist. This means even days with a forecast for rain will often be sunny until the front rolls through.
I'm certainly not claiming you should never design anything up front. And I'm also not saying you should never design abstractions. As with everything, the devil is in the details.

What I am trying to get at is that I've seen many times where a complex abstraction was introduced, and then it was only ever used for a single implementation of something. I've also seen many times where an abstraction was introduced, to make plugging in other backends easy, but then when it came time to plugin the second backend, the API was sufficiently different that it couldn't be shoehorned into the abstraction without a ton of extra work.

Sometimes you know enough about the problem space up front to avoid those problems, but often you don't. I often the better approach is to keep things as small as possible until you need more.

E.g., for payment processors, just ensuring that the surface area between payment processing and the rest of the code is as small as possible is likely sufficient. Maybe that's done through a simple abstraction, maybe not. But the point is, if you only have one payment processor now, the cost of implementing the abstraction doesn't change between now and when you actually need it (unless, of course, you chose a bad design, which we're obviously trying to avoid with either approach). So you can pay the cost of adding the abstraction when you actually need it, and can spend your time on something else that you need now.

I guess maybe bringing up the word "abstraction" was the wrong way to word it. In my experience, it's usually better to keep the code as small as possible early on, regardless of whether or not its using abstractions, because making it do what you want later is much easier when there is less code (in terms of constructs/concepts, not necessarily lines/characters). Also, try to keep things as orthogonal as possible. I think the reason I mentioned abstractions is that complex abstractions trying to predict all of the possible future extensions to the system is where I most often see design go wrong.
Yeah, they mention it with a "grid balancing issue" but it seems that could be solved by adding under-floor battery packs to the trains or the stations themselves - store braking energy to restart the train afterwards.
A lot of the emails I get that come from discussion mailing lists tend to be in plain text format, and they look fine. Some mailing lists also insist on plain text as I recall. I think gmail sends its emails in both plain text, and HTML so if I get an email in my organisation (which 9 times / 10 will normally be sent from gmail) it'll look fine. The only HTML emails I get tend to be newsletters from places like The Guardian, and I normally have to open them in a browser because they just don't look right looking at them straight from neomutt.

I don't know about you but I don't tend to get bothered too much when I get sent a HTML email because neomutt will normally use lynx to format it into plain text that can be read from a terminal. Lynx isn't very good for browsing the web but its better for this sort of purpose. I'd, of course, rather people use plain text more for email because I reckon a lot of the HTML emails I see really don't need to have been written in HTML at all. Although the only issue is that HTML emails generated from software sometimes look horrendous in neomutt which is slightly annoying.
Out of curiosity, why does your 401k max out in November? If your employee does matching then wouldn’t you want to spread it as evenly as possible throughout the entire year?
Good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression library
https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
where? i've been to Portland many times, and haven't seen any booming.
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This is a common problem w/ Seattle. I've always thought that the bad weather did push enough people away in tech.

This spring is one of the wettest and coldest, but it has been going that way, wetter springs, colder winters/snows Jan-Feb

High prices and reduced value all around.
> Why care about bugs in code you don't use if it doesn't even end up getting linked into your program?

If things are segmented in ways such that you can automatically tell that you're not impacted by a bug, cool.

A lot of log4j emergency deployment pain in BigCos had to do with the limitations of tools that could discern whether you weren't impacted, because security vulnerabilities of that magnitude aren't an area where "probably not" is good enough. I wouldn't really be comfortable with "it's fine that my <bank/surgeon/cloud provider> uses a framework with massive unpatched vulnerabilities, they're very careful to hand-pick classes to import that are safe".

(modulo the security of real world banks/surgeons being, uh, less than ideal, and all of my PII probably being accessible from some wordpress endpoint somewhere)
What I find interesting is "artificial neural networks are indeed conscious and intelligent beings". You can see based on that response what a confused mashup human thought is on this subject with the training data.

As if consciousness, intelligence and being is all the same thing. Interchanging these words is the standard way of having this discussion in English.
>That implies the only alternative is not doing things?

The option is often not to do things. Leave aside the fact that I live in a semi-rural area. Even if I lived closer into the city, there are a bunch of outdoor activities (hiking/kayaking/etc.) that I do which require a car. Could I rent? In some cases with the caveat that the vehicle may not have an appropriate rack to transport a boat for example. And I probably can't just wake up Saturday morning and decide to go somewhere.

My observation is that people do indeed tend not to do activities that have a lot of friction for them. And it goes both ways. I'm very selective about making the effort to go into the city for evening activities.
They cooked a sample and found 15% of the mass was volatiles like water, carbon dioxide, and organic materials!
Ah, the good old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis linguistic theory. I'm not a fan.

> I think words have a lot of power.

They do, as symbols, as tools. That's why they're fundamental to civilization. They allow thoughts to stay. However, they don't control people. IMHO people are pretty recalcitrant and more powerful than words.

Tools do not control the hand.
It is great, I used it during their early-access, but the 10/month is a bit steep tbh. I would be more inclined to pay up at <5/month. One of my favourite features was the toggle for showing results only from discussion boards.
Games for iDevices aren't created out of thin air.

All relevant AAA tooling already do Metal for a while now.

As of Metal 3, Khronos APIs are now the only ones left without any kind of support for mesh shaders or optimized API for texture IO.

No worries, they will probably get a few more extensions to load per GPU vendor, making it no different than having a proper plugin infrastructure in place.
Two things that change between phones that are still relevant are screen and camera quality. There is loosely a correlation between those and the total phone price.
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> The top 10 metro areas list is interesting. Philadelphia, San Antonio, Houston, San Diego and Phoenix not on there despite all 5 being in the top 10 MSA and city population, while DC, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston are on there.

Yeah, I found that to be an odd "top 10" as well. My guess is that they are the top 10 US metro areas from which Stack Overflow traffic originates? It'd be nice if we didn't have to guess though.
> Hopefully you're good at that and you can remember, else you'll duplicate things. Hopefully your entire team are aligned on the same naming conventions, or your project's styles will be a total mess.

- CSS classes can be named on a per-component basis, according to one of the well-established naming conventions (BEM, SMACSS, or whatever). This does not require remembering the names of other classes.
- With the arrival of web components, styles can be scoped within the shadow DOM; and the name collision becomes a non-issue; as well as keeping track of _all_ the CSS that's written in the project. If CSS classes don't leak, you can focus your attention only on a given component and ignore the rest.
- Instead of CSS-in-JS, one could use CSS modules, which are just regular CSS with a build step. The relevant project-level (site-level, page-level) constants can be defined as CSS constants on the root element.
The foundations of end-to-end encryption: Domain separation (with code example)
I was talking about Sámi history as a whole. Sámi parliament in Finland was recognized in 1995, and its authority is extremely limited. Basically they have no power over the Finnish government. Like I said, they have been thrown a bone and some positive developments have occurred in recent years, but that doesn't make the governments non-repressive as a whole when looking at their history and how they are still affected today by it. Just because you grant them some rights, doesn't erase what has happened before and the resulting societal position of the people.

Finland also has a minority of Swedish-speaking Finns. Just compare how the Finnish-Swedish population and the Sámi population were treated throughout history, and you'll see the difference. Swedish is an official language in Finland, none of the Sámi languages are. And you couldn't get an education with Sámi as your primary language until 1994.

These are very recent developments when compared to repression lasting centuries. Just like racism towards African-Americans didn't stop with the Civil Rights Movement, repression of the Sámi people didn't end with the Sámi parliament.
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You just hit it with some other bomb/missile. You think the government doesn't lie?
It'll depend on the types of games you play, but the 2080 will blow the 3050 out of the water, it's no close comparison. Nvidia's budget spec GPUs, especially for laptops, isn't as impressive as the similarity to its bigger siblings might suggest. You can probably play plenty of games on it, but they definitely won't be as smooth and beautiful as playing games through streaming services.

The extra $250 spend on a laptop puts it at 1.5x the price of a decent 500 dollar Chromebook. That's over two years worth of Stadia subscription at the current price.
I haven’t seen any modern UI for desktop apps which wasn’t bad in the sense the parent meant: too little affordances, not following long-established OS conventions, not using the native controls and look&feel, not being keyboard-navigable, etc.
"Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight"

I had to look up Moonlight because I also had no clue:
https://moonlight-stream.org/
Yeah they probably should have linked Moonlight[1] in the README.

[1] https://moonlight-stream.org/
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ugh, i hate it. "We are a family here" ... "haha jk, get lost"
This is beautiful.

I wish I could remember enough to contribute, especially to the DEV/XBL online chapters.

If I ever recover my old /modding/ folder, I will reach out [OP].

I was pseudo-privy to a lot of non-public stuff that I think the public could benefit now from, with a decade passing, I think it would be be appropriate to share.
The problem in Seattle is that it's been flooded by highly paid tech workers. Our population has exploded in the past decade (over 21% increase). The city council has pushed through tons of rezoning and construction has been faster here than elsewhere in the country but it can't keep up with demand.

So, it may not be polite to point it out, but it's not inaccurate to say that the problem is in fact people like the OP.
Ridiculous. Its not zero sum. I can get money, and coworkers, and engagement, and growth, and mentoring.

If I'm going to be by myself all day. Why work here when I can actually interact with humans and grow.

You assert the company doesn't care about me. WFH coworkers don't care about me either. They make work worse, because they only care about their immediate desires.
I have not worked in the ad space so I'm certainly ignorant of the day to day mechanics. How can you prove that the people didn't just come back 6 hrs later and spend the same time clicking and viewing the same ads? Just in a different timeframe? Is the cost of an ad at 6PM really that much greater than at 10PM?

IME SLA's rarely pay out enough to really make it worth pursuing. However I have gotten a couple payouts from SLAs for companies i worked at in the past. I didn't think it was worth the time but I got paid either way.

I get they have profit models that "prove" they lost money but they all must be based on an assumption. The assumption that there was only this one chance to catch the attention of the customer and never again. To me this is a very big assumption that simply cannot be proven and is probably wrong.