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I'm curious, why does this always happen whenever Apple's browser monopoly is brought up on HN?

What is it about Apple in general that makes swathes of people take it personally whenever any kind of criticism is leveraged against that particular mega corp?
Just did the same.
I’ve been on a team with a mix of old fogeys (I was one of them) and much younger folks. It was great. The olds had been around the block enough times to know what problems to fix before they happened, and the youngs brought new ideas and new tech into the mix and pumped out a lot of code. Would definitely be on such a team again.
I have nothing but bad things to say about Brother. I will never buy another one.

Last purchase was a $350 multifunction color laser printer that stopped turning on. I was just over the one year warranty and no support from Brother and their authorized service centers want to put me on a commercial support plan. I bought it for my wife, a teacher, because the school copiers were always broken or unavailable.

HP makes shitty printers but they will actually help you get something replaced in my experience.
I can't try Chrome out on my work iPhone because Apple won't let me download a free app without first signing into their store. That and other things make me doubt the sincerity of their privacy push.

Why do I have a work iPhone? Because Safari is the one browser that you can't just assume things will work for so I need to occasionally use it before pushing website changes.
The tables were good for the time they were picked. And the beginning of the article, it shows that at low resolutions, both ringing and banding are unacceptable. At high resolutions, beyond what was considered normal when the original quantization tables were chosen, then ringing becomes much less of a problem, so it makes sense now to change the quantization tables to prioritize banding over ringing.

It is no secret that high resolution images and low resolution images compress differently, and modern codecs are optimized for high resolutions in a way that older codecs weren't. For example going from H.261 to H.266 globally improve video compression at every step, but it is most apparent at higher resolutions.
This is so funny.

Like, yo, how? What does it even mean?

Cryptocurrency addresses don't have names or physical addresses. There is no recipient. It could be a multisig address with ten owners, it could be a smart contract, it could be fully computerised in which case the address is like some AWS datacenter somewhere, etc.

The idea that an address is under the control of a single person who lives at a single place is like, the entire concept that cryptocurrency was designed to eliminate, just layers of fluff on fluff.
Heads up, this is over 20 years old. Not saying you shouldn't read it, just a lot has happened since then.
It 100% did not in that universe. Safari is massively lagging behind, and has been for so long it will certainly be years before it catches up with Chromium or Firefox.
Former polisci PhD, now in an economics department. I’m gonna offer a qualified defence of the savagery.

1. Social science matters. If we predict inflation wrong, or mistake what causes development, we screw up the world. (Hello Gunnar Myrdal.)

Therefore, if there’s a tradeoff between a nice atmosphere and getting things right, we should always prefer getting things right.

2. There is a rightness-maximizing level of savagery, which is strictly positive.

Bad ideas must be challenged. Sometimes bad ideas get entrenched. Then they must be challenged loudly and persistently.

Fields where this doesn’t happen tend to degenerate into back-scratching cliques. (Hello, humanities.)

Now clearly there is some level of savagery which is TOO savage. If you destroy a PhD student’s confidence, that’s hurtful and you’ve lost their future contributions. Aggression from the top can be used to defend entrenched but mistaken ideas.

And there’s certainly toxic behaviour in economics. I’ve seen it and experienced it!

3. Nevertheless, overall, econ does better at removing bad ideas than other social sciences. Our models can be critiqued… other soc scis often just have verbal models which are too vague to be wrong! Our focus on good research design to uncover causality is stronger than many other fields, also.

Lastly:

4. There’s more than one kind of toxicity.

There are many stories of bad abuses of power - eg sexual harassment - in supposedly “warm”, and highly feminist, fields like Eng Lit. Doubtless there are many reasons for any differences between fields. But I think one underestimated factor is that when there’s no ruthless, hard-faced empirical rigour, when theories are vague and evidence is narrative, then getting published comes to depend on academic politics - on alliances and cliques. That is a fertile breeding ground for abuse of power.
Easiest is still as subjective as it gets. I never smoked. So, I could say not smoking is the easiest thing. I haven't drunk alcohol in years. So, also more easy than loosing weight. And so on.
The only time in my life when I thought I knew everything was when I was a stupid new developer.
It should. I suspect this sim is done wrong. If each round is independent and variance is constant the CLT should dominate.
I'm reminded of the "Object oriented programming is bad" series: https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM
What was your worst experience with a Reddit mod?
IMHO the main reason to learn functional programming is to learn to untangle state and behaviour.
For all its blemishes it's still the most natural way to represent the concept of "user-defined data type" in a procedural language.

"Modeling the world as OOP", OTOH, is a load of bull.
I think a PO is mostly useless if they do not provide a clear set of acceptance criteria. Low-effort requirement descriptions are just shifting the responsibility to the developers, because they leave too much room for interpretation. Lack of technical understanding is another common source of friction. TBH, the best PO that I worked with has a CS degree.
I'm not committing that fallacy as defined because I'm not making "a claim about the present meaning of a word based exclusively on that word's etymology".

> and "wine" have been used for ages to refer to cherry wine, dandelion wine, apple wine, etc.

The possible problem with that argument is that compounds are often not the same thing as the intersection of their components. One famous example from my native language is that "pietní akt" refers to a memorial act for the dead (for example, fallen soldiers), whereas merely "akt" refers to a nude painting or sculpture (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_(art)). "Pietní akt" is not a subtype of "akt"; it's an idiom/colocation with its own peculiar meaning.
I think that's called "whataboutism".
For those interested, this adage is known as Hanlon's razor[1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Responsive web design, mobile-first design, progressive web-app, there's a lot of phrases that have done the rounds over the past decade or so. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) was a thing for a while too, early drag-and-drop and other such interactive things on a website.
in my experience this is because larger organisations have incentive structures that counter act each other at different levels, usually related to budgetary constraints and... getting the credit for doing something good.

I spoke with a friend who has done the manager track and every time he rises up one step on the ladder he's befuddled on what he's actually measured on in forms of metrics. Moving from Moderation to QA was at least somewhat related, but then going in to TL he found that his teams performance has NOTHING to do with how he's evaluated. it has more to do with what extra projects he has taken on that gives him and his department more visibility and credit in the company.

I know people dislike Jordan Peterson, but he does touch on this briefly in one lecture on performance prediction from 2017 (When he was still teaching) https://youtu.be/Q7GKmznaqsQ?t=1296

David Gerber did a more in depth anthropological investigation of bullshit jobs and found that there are 5 types https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kehnIQ41y2o

Most of us might find ourselves in that. Im in IT Support and 95 times of a 100 I just read the help document that is published on our website out loud to customers.... and Im in a very large B2B SaaS Tech Support...
I thought Self-Hosted was free to you? What does self-hosted even mean otherwise
It's good that this exists, but Mattermost's threads are very suboptimal.

If Alice posts a message and Bob replies, then _that is_ the thread.
If that thread goes into a certain path you can't branch off of it, you can't reply to Alice's original message if you're talking about a different thing.

I don't know if this makes sense, but hopefully you got my point.
That is a great format for an online book! The text looks like it could be read on its own for a quick review, and the hundreds of short embedded videos dig into detail.
and name and address is not PII?
Simulation of Norvig, same topic: https://nbviewer.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb
The only real difference is that inheritance as explicit language support while composition is something you can easily implement with common language features. It's not really more difficult to use composition than inheritance.

As an example, if I want to use composition in C# using ASP.NET, I simply inject the class I want to use into my new class using the built-in DI. This is as simple as extending the class.
> Investment funds suffer from the same problem. And so do banks, for amounts exceeding the FDIC insurance.

This hand-waves away a century of banking and investment protections everyone with assets at Coinbase willingly waives. Your funds at Fidelity are insured up to $500k by the SIPC [1]. Every person at Chase is insured up to $250k by the U.S. government, which backs the FDIC with its full “faith and credit” [2], a number which happily doubles with your account at Bank of America. (People concerned about this sweep [3] their money across multiple banks.)

When Lehman went bankrupt, customers’ assets were ringfenced [4]. A private equity firm can’t buy a bank, lever it up and gamble away customers’ deposits and assets.

None of the above apply to Coinbase. Nor should they. Everyone in crypto opted out of that system.

[1] https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects

[2] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep_account

[4] https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/0...
> The top 20 US Economics Departments train a majority of PhD economists so “quite common” seems fair.

Perhaps if I had commented about PhD students. I specified "places" because there are lots of places to work, and the miserable folks are mostly found in a small percentage of places you can work as an academic economist.

> There is a very visible ranking and you’d get substantial agreement on it from most academic economists.

Others are free to define "top" as they wish. I am under no obligation to accept their definition.
Yep, the random part was interesting...

Because in a "real" world, where you have people who are more competent and hard working than others, it is pretty much expected, that a few of them will offer services and slowly gather all the money from the rest, who just spend the money and don't do anything.
When I was a kid glasses were fine, but transition lenses were mocked. Most of time they are a shade in-between glasses and shades and look terrible.
I am sorry but a two-pages app with a text input and two buttons does not qualify as a "non-trivial" app.
International spread and expansion of antimicrobial-resistant S. Typhi
> IMO, the only way to use Copilot's output in an ethically sound way is to only use the output it produces in AGPL licensed projects

Even then, that is missing attribution which should really be the default for all code reuse and derivation even when you legally are allowed to omit it.
In job interviews, people don't write the code they would write normally, they write the code that they think the interviewer wants to see.

And that brings me to a topic that's entirely different but also very relevant: job interviews bring interviewer-biases with them.

If you run into an old-school interviewer who would do exactly that "Prius extends Car extends Vehicle, etc." nonsense, but you don't know it, they would rate you negatively.

If you run into someone who is just in love with functional programming, you'll lose any OO implementation.

If you run into someone who doesn't like it when you ask questions, you'll lose. If you run into someone who doesn't like you asking questions they don't know the answer to, you lose.

And if you get sent a 3-hour long Hackerrank or Leetcode algorithmic test, everybody loses.

Tech job interviews are just horribly biased and the game is won if you read your audience correctly. And even then, if the other person is a racist, or just doesn't like your face, or had a bad day, or feels threatened, or disapproves of how you write "Javascript" instead of "JavaScript", you still lose.
I'm about -2.50 and can function around the house without glasses most of the time - because I almost never wear glasses, I hate wearing them. I wear contacts otherwise and don't find them much of an imposition besides when camping. My main concern is probably eye health given I'm lazy with changing/cleaning contact lenses.

At 45yo, should I bother?
The data was encrypted and protected with a password, according to the city.

– The Japan Times
A sandwich can’t be eaten by 1 million people, it’s an inherent property of the sandwich and has nothing to do with the state. Animals have been guarding the kills for millions of years before humans even evolved. Meanwhile, a million people can all use a sandwich recipe that’s an inherent difference.

Secrets aren’t the idea. Far more than 1 million people use 6 digit pins therefore most if not all of them are shared by many people and that’s completely ok. The value is in the secret not the exclusivity. RSA private keys are compromised if someone knows the number and knows it’s part of someone else’s key, two peoples private key’s can happen to share a prime number without issue.

A sandwich on the other hand can’t happen to be eaten by 20 people without the others noticing.

Finally, what protects the company producing cokes is the trade marks on their packaging not the formula. I can know Coke’s formula or something close enough to be indistinguishable and nothing changes for them because I can’t undercut them and sell an identical product.
Ok... so if I need a printer, that won't fuck me with stuff like this, what should I buy now? Except HP of course, and now Brother
that was the intention actually but then we thought many people would use it on mobile and settled on clicks. would you prefer dnd interaction?
I ground through the hasp of a really expensive bicycle lock one time to open a lock, and that was an eye opener. First, because I had no idea if it would work, and it worked very quickly and effectively. As you noted, that makes one look at locks a bit differently.

Second, I've never spent a lot of time around a metal shop and it did not occur to me how hot a small piece of really hard steel would get when grinding through it. That was exciting.
I think for a later generation, Runescape captured that same vibe - especially since it was free to play and ran from a browser, so it could be played everywhere.
They're usually edge cases. For example let-chains changed the parsing logic for if-let constructs across all editions.

I expect these to become even less frequent with ever rising amounts of Rust code that isn't on Github.
> The company explained that the employee had drinks after work and later fell asleep on the street, but when he woke up he realized that he had lost the bag containing the USB.

Oh, Japan...
> amazing how inconsistent the skeptics are

Most people looking to trade large quantities of crypto have most of their wealth in other assets and expect to be able to convert between them, with the dollar as the default go-between.

This is true of practically every traded asset, including FX. It’s not true of e.g. MGM tokens. But that disparity highlights the difference between crypto and other traded assets.
I see a lot of people put rust down for what it is today, and then in the next breathe wistfully wonder about the future of zig, or some other language, etc. It's just not fair.

Rust today let's you avoid allocations, if you want smart pointers you can have them today, I'd you want a GC inside rust, you can have that today as well. Don't need to wait for another language lol.
Seeing the grass across the road from the optometrist when I tried on the test glasses was a very memorable moment for me as a teenager. Couldn't believe things could look so sharp!
I've spent the last four years now trying to start a business on the Internet (working on ideas roughly two hours per day before work).

Each project had valuable lessons (both business and code/architecture) that carried over into the next one. So far I've built:

- bill splitting service (2017)

I spent days agonising over which new framework to use (this was late 2017 after all), eventually learned to just use the tools I knew (react, node, postgres). I didn't really care about the problem space, so shut it down.

- jobs aggregator (2017/2018)

I learned that implementation is meaningless to the user if you're not delivering value. I wanted to copy remoteok.io and make it serverless (effectively free to serve traffic), I didn't realise existing sites provided value via their traffic. The reason StackOverflow can charge as much as it did is the millions of page views per month it receives, creating value for its job posters.

- appointment scheduler (2018)

I built an appointment scheduler, had no real means of attracting users, shut it down.

- room booking service (2018)

Spin-off of the previous idea, but for meeting rooms. Tried to build the whole thing using Google APIs, eventually got stung by API limitations, gave up (learned not to rely on other's APIs without understanding their limits first).

- graphql API monitoring service (2018/2019)

Traction again, couldn't find users (tried in-person sales for the first time, too).

- site speed monitoring service (2019/2020)

Essentially running google lighthouse as a service. had some users, but fixing all the edge cases around chrome/puppeteer/lighthouse across super slow websites was a total pain.

- uptime monitoring service (2021-current)

Doesn't seem to be as useless as the other projects. Has bought me the MacBook Air M1 I'm typing this comment on now.

Rewrote my old graphql API monitoring service from scratch to monitor APIs, websites and web apps, seems to be going well so far. Planning on adding features for incident management. Content marketing/word of mouth brings in the users.

If you want the long story across several articles:

- 2018: https://maxrozen.com/2018-review-starting-an-internet-busine...

- 2019: https://maxrozen.com/2019-further-reflections-trying-to-star...

- 2020: https://maxrozen.com/indiehacking-3-year-review

- 2021: https://maxrozen.com/2021-strangers-paid-my-macbook
Thanks for answering!

I still can't find anything, but, well...
Why Beauty Matters (and how it has been destroyed by “usability”) A short thread
> Battery thing aside, it's inferior.

On mobile platforms that's a pretty major feature to brush aside.
I envy you! I'm no less lazy and hate any physical activity maybe except for the ones that give other funs (hiking to collect fossils eg), but I'm so overweight...
I am speculating here...but maybe they made every carrier and vendor a client and node of the blockchain network. From which they can add their own transactions as they happen and the entire chain will carry an accurate representation of the transactions from every carrier. Making it easy to collate in almost real-time.
Anecdata: for the past decade, my preferred way to begin a ketosis regimine has been a long run to "burn off remaining blood sugar" based on the old-wisdom of "the body starts to utilize fat after 30min of intense exercise."

This seems to work great. Fewer cravings.

I've even taken a this a step further. Running on the first morning of a 3-day fast. Works the same.

Note: I wouldn't recommend doing the above without carefully managing electrolytes. But, anyone who's been keto successfully for more than a month should understand what I mean about managing electrolytes.
A blade cutting my eye sounds terrifying though. Did you go completely under?
I suppose it comes down to risk assessment; if those CVEs are critical “fix this now or the world catches fire”, then their relative infrequency seems to be outweighed by their impact, no?
Two examples I have encountered in the past month alone that work just fine on any other browser but Safari:

- CSS outline not being affected by the border-radius property.

- Drag images being completely screwed up if the dragged element, or any of its ancestor, has a CSS transform.

Both of these problems have workarounds (insanely ugly hacks would be a better term), but they shouldn't have.
I think it’s a power law distribution. Power laws tend to arise naturally when winning a game/interaction enables you to play more games later.

If everyone has an equal (random) chance of winning, the person who can play the most games wins in the end.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

You see this in sports where Steph Curry isn’t much more likely to hit any specific 3 pointer than any other NBA player. But he tries almost an order of magnitude more often. So now he’s known as one of the highest scorers in the game.
If you want to send crypto in the Netherlands that’s you’re problem to solve. From Coinbase or other exchanges it’ll be as simple as denying the transfer if the requirements aren’t met. Just the same as wire or money transfers today.
I wonder if this is an actual crime = vandalising your printer. It is not the inferiority of the ink = make prints bad consequentially, they are taking command and making it act against your best interest.
Gotta be class action in there...
> Just got this email from Coinbase, and it seems one by one the promises of crypto of the last several years are evaporating

This is a a somewhat weird take to not say uneducated. What coinbase does has nothing to do with promises of crypto, if those promises existed to begin with.

The fact that OP omitted the part of the message that specifies that such measures are meant to comply with Dutch laws also tells me there is some dishonesty at play here.
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As someone who loves organizing my music, a file hash would be a shitty solution. I want to be able to edit tags and transcode the song (e.g. for iTunes compatibility) without losing ownership.
Buy an EPSON. Apart from the fact they have separate ink cartridges for each colour, they also don't act like satan.
Printers in general suck, but... Canon? Haven't had any headaches since I switched to them from HP. Then again, since it has been a few years, it's possible that they too went downhill since.
I also find it hard to spot why OCaml is the natural "step up" for creating real world applications instead of Haskell, Rust, Clojure or even Kotlin, C++, Python and Go.
There is definitely something to this. Basically any man who takes their shirt off in a film is generally ridiculously muscular. As in, a body shape that's only achievable with hours of intense training a day, probably with an expensive personal trainer, diet plan etc. I remember an interview with Henry Cavill (The Witcher) describing the process of dehydrating himself on days before shirtless scenes to enhance muscle definition.

I know it affects me. Looking at media 20-30 years ago I don't this was as prevalent.