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But why are you talking out of your ass? The point of going to the moon was never to dimly increase utility to the public. JFK took us to the moon because "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space".

https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches...
> It has been suggested that already-allocated funds from the €95.5-billion Horizon Europe budget could be re-purposed. EC president Ursula Von der Leyen has said that, in addition, she’ll find €12 billion from public/private sources.

The rich get richer and stay rich. It's hard not to get cynical about the fact that the whole of Europe is working so that a couple of countries ensure their continuing wealth.
Well, all of that is true. There’s also the printing of many trillions of dollars to raise all prices on all things.
A new grad offer in much of the UK outside London would be up-to $33k USD maybe less though I may be a few years out of date. US salaries are very different and seem strange to (this) non-American(s).
As someone who deals with this every single day - frankly, it's at best painful, at worst nonexistent.. There is no CI that properly behaves in M1 land, if it exists at all. Sure, I can use the gcc to create a binary - but create and execute tests within the environment - nope, sorry. I can't get machines with any major cloud provider.

My current answer is to use Scaleway nodes. But due to their licensing constraints, each node must be up for 24 hours. This in turn becomes problematic when you opt to use Terraform as part of a GitHub Action to provision an M1 environment that you can debug against - or heck, Circle.

So now - I leave machines on that aren't guaranteed clean. We write jobs with Fabric and invoke, in order to execute them on remote nodes, and do the best we can. Tooling on the M1 makes it the thing I dislike the most.
If your dataset allows it, I would look at pngquant for "lossy" compression of PNG images by means of color quantization: https://pngquant.org/

This works absolute wonders if you are talking about images with a limited amount of colors and without many gradients. I use it to compress screenshots of websites, which, if you think about it, are mostly large blobs of uniform colors with hard edges. I also use it every time I want to include a screenshot from my desktop in some publication or email. The savings in filesize are too good to be true without any apparent loss of visual fidelity.
Oh wow. I thought those keys were the foundation for real end-to-end encryption, i.e. Apple doesn't have access to them. Does this mean their "E2EE" is basically fake?
Dino does OMEMO, it's what I use. Apparently they just added A/V the other month, I haven't tested it though.
I wonder if they'll do that with all their "Pro" stuff. Like, would the AirPods be Qi-only or Lightning+Qi-only, with USB-C reserved for AirPods Pro? Or would they go USB-C across the board? Or does Apple imagine a world in which their ideal "Pro" customer, with their iPad Pro, iPhone Pro, MacBook Pro and AirPods Pro, keeps around a Lightning charger for only their earbuds while literally everything else uses USB-C?

IMO, the only clean solution here is to go with USB-C across the board. But I also have no faith that will happen.
Mail has had MX records for a while, but yes for the rest.
As I wrote, it's a matter of what you focus on - I've run CI systems and internal git hosts for large organizations as part of my work. There are very valid reasons to do so, but cost alone is rarely a compelling one - an on-site enterprise gitlab license is roughly as expensive as hosted github seat, and the community edition is somewhat limited.

And it's definitely possible to run gitlab or any other git hosting solution on-site with little downtime. There's no magic or arcane knowledge involved. It just takes serious effort to do so - more than a single lone wolf sysadmin can provide. All their skills are worth nothing if they're sick and in hospital or on a beach holiday.
I should have made more clear that I'm absolutely pro paying for the service. So much so that it makes me suspicious that Telegram has been free so long.

I don't use gmail, I paid for my IM app, ... and I sure try to avoid services that pay for themselves by selling my data.

I just see the distinction between normal and premium as some lever they can push more in the future to generate more revenue.

Let's just wait and see how it'll work out.
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I’ve had two iPhones serviced (replaced) due to lightning port failure. I also had few cables replaced due to them getting the surface on the contact pins literally burned by the micro-fires caused by the high-current and the fibre residue of the fabric.

So, yours is just as anecdotal as mine. Would actually have to see some numbers comparing Lightning vs USB-C failure rate (on some premium Android smartphones), which we are unlikely to.
Crows, cockroaches, twinkies, and Keith Richards; the only survivors of the apocalypse.
> fostering a sense of community. Communicating with your neighbors

Look, I loathe HOA's as much as the next person but this doesn't pass the Chesterton's Fence test. If your alternative doesn't handle the case of an uncooperative antagonistic neighbor then it won't at all be persuasive to someone is pro-HOA. "Just stop caring about the problem that HOA's were established to solve" only sounds good to people who arlready agree with you.
It wouldn't have mattered if IE stopped progressing after IE6 given migration to other browsers, if there weren't so many "legacy" websites and apps stuck needing IE. Even in the worst days of IE stagnation Firefox and Chrome were only an install away. (And Chrome was busy using bad adware tactics to get as many installs as possible back in those days, but that's a different complaint in a different conversation.) What made IE truly damaging/dangerous was that before it stopped progressing it had lots of great "pull the web forward" features like XHR and CSS box-sizing that yesterday's developers wrote "bleeding edge" apps on that became those very same "legacy" sites and apps when the stagnation hit.

While the web eventually standardized things like XHR and CSS box-sizing, they were done in ways that made migration of those "single browser apps" just slightly uncomfortable enough so companies especially procrastinated staying on the stagnant browser as long as possible to avoid paying down tech debt in their "legacy" apps.

Today's "bleeding edge" apps are tomorrow's "legacy apps", and people aren't building "bleeding edge" apps for Safari [0], but they are building Chrome-only "bleeding edge" apps using all the little things that are like XHR in their own ways (WebUSB, Speech Recognition, what have you). The danger is that there are far too many of them.

Again, I can't predict the future and I can't assume that Google execs are dumb enough to do the exact same thing that Microsoft did: check their (current!) marketshare, declare themselves the winner, and decide to finish Chrome as a project, moving the development team to more important tasks to the corporate bottom line. I want to believe that the pursuant stagnation would be less overall a dark period for the web because plenty of Chromium forks exist, but the install base is huge and convincing them all to switch to a fork would still be a massive marketing effort that wouldn't happen overnight. But stagnation is the consequence of the danger of people building single-browser apps, it's not the danger itself.

The canaries (Safari, Firefox) are dying and blaming the canaries for being weak is avoiding asking hard questions about if the web is currently safe or not.

> Apple makes them even worse by preventing other renderers on its platforms. If I had an iOS device, I'd want to run Firefox. I can't. That's on Apple, and pretending otherwise is absurd.

That is a different, unrelated problem than comparisons to IE. Even when pre-installed on Windows IE never stopped people from installing other browsers or setting them the default. It got real unfriendly about it in some versions of Windows, but it never (could have) blocked them entirely.

That's still a problem to deal with, and maybe even a major problem, though these days iOS and Android are pretty neck-and-neck in the market and iOS does not have the domination it once had even in the US. But it's not at all the same problem as IE was.

[0] Anymore; I will admit there was a brief period early in the rise of iOS with -webkit- prefixed everything where it was a small concern.
Yep, lots of price changes will happen and apparently random intervals as contracts and prices expire. Some farms will be almost entirely isolated from much of it (if they grow their own feed corn for the chickens it could be a year or two) others will be affected immediately.
I'd say a whole lot has changed in drawing styles. There just happened to be a fairly accessible style of drawing that these sort of books teach which has stuck around well. It can be a nice intro to art and at least starts you thinking about how to construct your drawings. But yeah, once you move past that it's fairly impressive how much things have changed/evolved in drawing.
Sure, I meant things like interfacing with the OS, the Elisp interpreter itself, performance-sensitive tasks like redisplay, etc.
My daughter wanted to plant her own garden outside, so I made a 2x2' box for her to plant a few things in. I specifically made it small so that she could easily weed it and whatnot. She planted fennel in there, and boy did it take off. It escaped the box and now I find little sprouts of it everywhere and it smells like Italian sausage whenever I cut the grass.

Anyway, it turns out that swallowtail caterpillars love fennel. Each fall I collect fennel branches with caterpillars on them and keep them in a mesh canvas container in the garage. They form their chrysalis and seemingly go into suspended animation from about October until late May / June of the next year when they emerge as butterflies.

I collected 11 of them last fall, and there were still more when I had run out of room in the container. That's from a a small 2x2' square, so imagine what an entire field of fennel could do!
Because this is hackernews and this guy seems to find it interesting to work on.
Not if the fed has anything to say about it. The plan now is to let it crash since hourly workers have gotten uppity and are refusing to work terrible jobs for even worse pay. All the talk of "wage price spiral" and all that shows their hand.
This is essentially an extreme version of the the "digital bootstrapping" problem that I ponder more regularly than is probably healthy. It often seems like an intractable problem but I think n decent solution that doesn't require a lot of work looks like this:

1. Have an encrypted file of secrets that you can access with an offline password manager like KeepassDX. This file contains not only the logins to your web accounts, but also all of your financial information like bank accounts and credit cards, drivers license number, social security numbers, etc. Protect it with ONE strong password that you memorize. Use it daily to reinforce memorization. All other accounts you have, secure them with a random password and put them in this file. You only want to remember the ONE master password. You can use browser and browser extensions for sites that don't matter much in the grand scheme of things but NOT for critical sites like bank accounts because we all know browsers are the #1 target of attackers and regularly face security problems.

2. If you have multiple devices, share the KeepassDX file somewhere "in the cloud" with something like Nextcloud or similar proprietary service that actually syncs a copy to the local device. You basically want it available in multiple places, automatically if at all possible. I wouldn't post it publicly, but don't fret too much about it falling into the wrong hands because if you remember, it's protected by a strong password that you have memorized. For added safety, copy the password file to a thumb drive every month or so and keep it in your car or your desk at work.

3. Keep all of your important digital data (financial records, family photos, etc) on a NAS in your house. If you live alone and just have one "main" computer, then an external disk will do. Encrypt the disks, put the key in your password manager.

4. Back up your NAS to remote storage every night. This can be a raspberry pi at a relative's house, or a cheap VPS, also with encrypted disks that only you have the key to.

There are many variations to this, but the overall idea is to have ONE strong master password that you memorized and are forced to recall regularly which protects ONE file containing ALL of your secrets, ONE place to store your important documents, and MULTIPLE distributed backups/copies of all of these.
Sheesh. Makes me think Childish Gambino could write a “this is America” alternative about crazy housing things.
The real question:

Does it have military applications?
For web graphics, isn't a mix of PNG/JPEG good enough generally speaking?

I'd imagine the benefits of changing to something more modern/efficient aren't worth the cost/time involved other than in esoteric situations given that most end users have high bandwidth connections and bandwidth costs typically aren't too significant?
Dear site owner: your grey-on-grey text is nearly illegible.
folks were already putting postscript papers on FTP servers. Discoverability (linking) was the big hard problem.
They'll fine you for the violation and/or send a company to remove the weeds/flowers and fine you for the service.

HOAs have a ton of "power" and it's why subreddits like https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckHOA/ exist.
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All methods can create equality issues, which can be a reason for using a variety.

I’ve noticed that the way Teams “collapses” threads that often the last to reply is the only one read besides the opening post.
This is a flawed comparison because the use cases for the former examples are very limited in comparison to USB C which is arguably evolving rapidly still.

You could imagine if we had formed such a standard around USB A in the 90s and how it might have blocked the already high friction establishment of USB C and thunderbolt 3 standards.

USB C currently seems more mature than USB A, so I can see where things ar ea bit subjective here, but it's not really possible to see where unrestricted development would have put us.

I think I would have been more comfortable with simply banning lightning and micro USB than restricting to only USB C.
I refuse to believe that there isn't at least one person or team at Microsoft looking at this already, so it's not only free work but may also be redundant.
Google employee here, using a throwaway.

In my experience there are very few teams/managers who actually enforce the return to office mandate. No one cares whether you show up, regardless of whether you bother submitting the official WFH application. Based on how many seats I usually see filled, I'd guess that less than 20% of people are actually coming to the office.
Maybe you are not aware of what Staff Engineer roles tend to involve. There's lots of technical direction, scoping, working with other teams, etc.
I think there's a /s on the comment you're responding to :)
Lots of companies are predicting a crash in the near future. Companies are in pure profit taking mode and inventory imbalances are growing and the situation is becoming less stable by the day. China shutting down entire towns for weeks at a time is contributing to the problem. It's a big problem for a highly connected economy, if you have way too much of parts A, B, C, and E, but none of part D you are in the worst position. Not only are you making no widgets, but you are also paying to warehouse all of your excess of the extra parts. An entirely predictable result of over-consolidation of numerous industries.
It wasn't thwarted at every turn. Maybe we should have but we didn't, at least not at every turn.

We did warn then it was a bad idea. Other countries especially countries in Eastern EU warned them it was a bad idea. And lo and behold trying to bring peace through trade didn't work with Russia.

Unless Germany wants to exit the EU like the UK it does have to take the interests of other EU countries into account, many of them are much more anti Russia then America for obvious reasons. And even if Germany were to leave, not sanctioning Russia now would still be bad even if only considering German interests
Actually, Sinovac work as well as Pfizer when it comes to preventing hospitilization and death, but requires sufficient boosters. This is shown by this research paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272769v...

The "Chinese vaccine don't work" talking point is a bad faith myth created by western mainstream media, which misrepresented this study by comparing single- or two-dose Sinovac with 3-dose Pfizer. This sort of misrepresentation is unfortunately common practice in mainstream western media.

What is true however is that Chinese population has less immunity against omicron due to lower vaccination rates, especially among the elderly. For one, the Chinese don't see vaccination as really necessary because lockdowns work. Second, the Chinese worry a lot more about vaccine side effects. Here in the Netherlands, vaccines are sold as "100% safe, everyone should get it", whereas in China doctors would recommend against getting a vaccine if you have another medical problem such as heart problems. My other grandparents in law choose not to get vaccinated because they have many other health problems due to old age.

Finally, the Chinese public is by and large very supportive of lockdowns despite the Shanghai mess. Rather than "don't lock down" they now just believe "lock down earlier, don't turn into the next Shanghai".
Knock-on effects can just as well be ascribed to alternative targets for those Apollo funds. Those don't take much imagination to come up with, e.g. reducing the student-teacher ratios in schools.
"Wealthy millionaire retires to foreign country"
Really?

I didn't read anything good about working for Intel.
It's not just that. Reread my comment. Apple has single-handedly destroyed FOSS chat.
That’s a good point, have not thought of that. The sarcasm is uncalled for, though.
> Any discussion of monopoly must demonstrate harm to the consumer. Breaking up companies for breaking ups sake is not the spirit of antitrust law.

Historically this was not true, although it has been true in the U.S. since the 1970s. Historically it was understood that a lack of competition was itself harmful, regardless of whether the monopolist was benevolent or not.

In the case of technology, harm is more difficult to demonstrate. How do you quantify the harm done by the absence of new products or services launched? It's easy to say Company B undercut Company C until Company C went out of business after which Company B raised prices. It's harder to say Company A had such a strong position in the market that companies D-Q never got past step 1 before either shutting down or being acquired by one of companies A, B, or C. Harder to prove the absence is harmful, but there is still harm being done.

If nothing else, a company so large it engenders a fan base that will defend its every action is edging toward "too big to regulate" in a way that doesn't bode well.

For what it's worth, I'm not big on breaking up existing companies along arbitrary lines as much as I am on unwinding acquisitions. M&A activity is what I think is knee-capping technology, and Apple is less guilty of that than many others.
I'd argue that one of the biggest reasons deepfakes pose a threat is because a large number of people don't know they exist. It's just those e-mail chains from the early 00s with poorly photoshopped images that lots of people thought were real.

Now that the public knows broadly that digital manipulation is easy and they have seen it with their own eyes a ton things like that are believed less. Notice I do say less though, we still definitely have problems with misinformation being propagated with shitty-looking video/audio/photos that people should not believe in because they look/sound so inauthentic.

All that to say, these tools clearly exist. I think the public is better served by them being pervasive and well-known rather than having them be locked up in Hollywood studios, research labs, and government agencies.
RCA once had a monopoly on patents for broadcast radio and color TV, but its attempt to create "the next thing" (home video) failed utterly and was one cause of RCA going out of business.

A company like Facebook jumping into a new technology like VR with both feet faces the same kind of risk: a cautionary tale!
I love it and hate it. Beautiful and brilliant, and combines religion with sci-fi without demonizing the religious characters.

But events later in the book, while completely consistent with the premise, were pretty gut wrenching to read.
Happy to hear this.
> I recommend spending some time in a big organisation

My very first comment started with "I'm really not cut out to work for a big company". I am well aware that I do not want to do this.

> After my time at Amazon, I gleefully pay for 1Password

But that's exactly the type of cultural issue that I am talking about. So many people going to work at FAANGs and when they leave they think that mentality should be applied everywhere.

The first issue in this thinking is straightforward: I know that in your mind your company is the greatest thing in the world, but it is not Amazon. YAGNI applies beyond software development.

The second problem: FAANGs can operate like this because they are making so much money per employee that it simply does not matter to them. But this mentality when applied to a smaller company, can be the difference between 6 months or 2 years of runway. And every time that a company outsources this is a missed opportunity to learn how to do it more effectively. Instead of thinking "this would keep me up at night", I'd rather think "we are doing it the hard way, but that makes us more resilient and increases our chance of survival".
>I’ve noticed the local “free range fancy chicken eggs” have remained $4 since two years ago but the cheap eggs have gone from a Buck (sometimes 50 cents on sale) to almost the same $4.

I noticed this too and stared buying the free range eggs again (used to get these all the time for my ramen eggs). There's definitely a difference but I don't go through enough eggs or cook them in a way that I typically care (no time to prep ramen and therefor nitamgo anymore).
I don't think that's relevant to this article, unless you consider fireflies light pollution.

My firefly stories are from the late-70s and early-80s, on the south side of Chicago, as urban as you can possibly be, and every summer night all the kids would be outside catching fireflies and letting them go. I live on the same sort of a street now, still in Chicago, and I can't remember the last time I saw a firefly.

edit: my surroundings haven't gotten brighter. When I was a kid, there was literally a Sears a block away. Lousy with fireflies.