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> If you can't reasonably afford the loss, insurance can make sense and you should consider AppleCare. If you can (or if you can self-insure across a large install base), you probably shouldn't.

You should also check to make sure you aren't already covered by an existing policy. My home insurance covers accidental damage with only a £100 excess, so AppleCare isn't so useful for me (although I've yet to test it!).
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This looks pretty awesome! My biggest question is support for mobile. I wonder if there’s any planned integration with React Native?
Thanks for the question. Markdown files are basically html files with syntax sugar, and a lot of markdown files directly use html. So to properly render most files you need a basic html renderer at minimum. Although yes, you don't need the other features of a browser but typically most markdown renderers are either web-based (GitHub) or electron based (VS Code).

GPU rendering helps for scaling images, rendering text and drawing other primitives efficiently. It frees up CPU time, and can redraw many times faster in scrolls and resizes. This is why most browsers use the GPU when most web content is 2D. GPU's don't really crunch huge numbers but instead utilise parallelisation.
Good for you, but if you used the service only "very rarely," I don't think you've experienced the problems that are being discussed here. I had signed up for paid support for a project a while back and remember having so much trouble even paying for it (some trouble with invoices), let alone get any value out of it, that I ended up canceling it.
Would really have helped the Uvalde police department.
I would say I'm still very happy with my choice so far. I haven't written much due to being busy.

Some things that happened after the first month that might be worth mentioning:

- By working in the local co-working space (which I did for a month to get some additional contacts outside of my workplace), I've managed to get to meet quite a lot of interesting people. Once, the minister of Digital Innovation came to visit. He talked about his work/future projects, we could ask questions, he seemed pretty knowledgeable about his stuff. In general it seems to be pretty easy to get into contact with anyone if you have some question (be it government-related or startup-related).

- A couple of weeks ago, the Estonian startup community organized a "freedom convoy" to Kyiv (pickup trucks for the army). I participated and since it was organized by Ragnar Sass (co-founder of a local unicorn called Pipedrive), I got the chance to hang out with a "real" entrepreneur. I found it a interesting experience, since I've always wondered if there is something special about successful entrepreneurs. My main observation has been that he did seem to be a very high energy kind of person, I guess that helps with building a successful startup.

- I discovered there's a really sizeable French-speaking community in Tallinn. From most people I've heard the same reasons over and over: stifling bureaucracy and high taxes.

- I'm noticing also lots of Italian people moving here.

Just to give a balanced perspective, I'll try to also mention some downsides:

- Coming from Belgium, I sometimes miss the architecture. Tallinn is mostly modern-looking, except for the old town (which I don't find myself in that often). Some of the new areas are actually quite nice-looking, but I still feel older architecture has more liveliness to it.

- Due to the war/inflation, the prices have been rising noticeably lately. I'm not sure how to feel about this, but I guess this is something that is not just the case for Estonia, but also wider Europe. (Estonia did have the largest inflation numbers at one point though). We'll see how it evolves, at least I have more faith in the Estonian government than my previous Belgian one.

In general, I think the main reason I'm happy to live here: Estonia feels like a country on a positive trajectory. Living in Belgium can be, at times, a bit of a downer: it feels like everyone is just trying to "maintain"; and on some level everyone agrees: the best days are behind us.
As an infosec person, I'm trying to get us disentangled from this mess. Lots of orgs install surveillance under the guise of security reqs, but let's be honest, they are doing it because they're afraid folks aren't working. IMO this stuff hurts the security team's mission.

https://honest.security
> the haystack is actually a needlestack (everyone has DNA)

But not everyone has matching DNA. Matching DNA makes you a needle.

> a needle identification expert told you the chance that this is the wrong needle is 200 million to one against

This statistic is incorrect, and if the jurors are paying attention you'll be able to tell them why. If it's possible for multiple people in the world to have matching DNA, say 3, and you have matching DNA the chance at this point is 1 in 3, no? Whatever that statistic represents isn't relevant.

If the trial was a gameshow and a false conviction cost the jurors $100 (and a false acquittal something commensurate given the standards of proof -- maybe $10 for 90% burden of proof) each I guarantee you the jurors would acquit.
They mean a policy of redistribution of wealth between countries, not the mechanics of a bank transfer.
> Bash is a much slower shell than Dash, which is why Debian and friends don't use it as /bin/sh

Their advice is mostly about using a known interpreter, rather than 'vague POSIX hand-waving'; e.g. they end that section with:

> The key message here, of course, is to choose a specific shell. If you’d rather use ZSH, or Python or Node for that matter, set it to that. Pick a specific language so you can stop targeting a lowest common denominator

Your suggestion of Dash is compatible with that (as is any other particular shell interpreter).

An analogy would be running Selenium tests with particular browsers, rather than using /usr/bin/www-browser and trying to accomodate lynx, dillo, netsurf, ...
> State exactly which claims are ridiculous and why they're ridiculous.

the media did not give Trump free air time as a nobody, fringe candidate. Especially left leaning media. Trump ran for president many times before and he was always treated as the joke he is. What changed in 2016 was he had HRC to run against as well as a potent backlash in conservative politics that was brewing after the Obama presidency.

> "The report shows that during the year 2015, major news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers—a high volume of media coverage preceded Trump’s rise in the polls."

your statement is: "The media (left especially) proceeded to talk about Trump 24/7". The above report does not break down anything about "left leaning media" vs. centrist media vs. FOX news. I'm a consumer of left leaning media. In that world, Trump was a total nobody until he began winning.

> Of course, you provide 0 "documentation" for any of your own claims and are just dismissing whatever I said as "made up".

the burden of proof is on you to show "left leaning media" reporting on Trump "24/7" *before* his polling dominance and electoral wins occurred.
I've been hearing teachers complain about this kind of thing my entire life. To me, it seems like complaining isn't working. If anything, the issues teachers are facing are getting worse. This is because, I imagine, administrators know they can ignore the complaints and still get the output from the teachers at the given pay. If complaints don't hurt administrators, then they won't motivate change.

I think complaints can be useful in identifying a problem, but if your complaints have been made, just continuing to complain doesn't do anything. On the other hand, quitting, does two useful things. First, it takes you out of a bad situation letting you move on to a better one faster. Second, it helps brings the problem to a head. The administration can ignore teachers complaining, they cannot ignore teachers quitting. At some point they will have to resolve the issue.
What happens when a Chromebook or your MIL-SPEC LG laptop breaks? The possibility to even get a repair done in a matter of days was what kept me with Apple so far. When you have to rely on a device being available (or suffer economic losses as a consequence) I don't really see any alternatives right now to Apple. Worst case is you could buy a new device and restore your backup.
In the past, the only comparable service was IBM's on site technician service where they'd send out somebody in a van full of replacement parts to repair your ThinkPad on site.
Transfers as in better-off regions supporting worse-off ones.
Why would you need Wayland for trackpad gestures?
Ye. I solved it by booking a meeting with myself for a year so my status was always "one way street" when I WHF:ed.
That is strange. I am working in the tech sector and it is normal and accepted everywhere I work. Maybe not the norm, at some companies most people work 40 hours - but its not like 32 is unacceptable.

Maybe its different for people in leadership positions, or embedded development or some other domain I am not so familiar with?
But it's nowhere near the braking point, in fact it isn't nearly as bad as the PBOC or, arguably, the BOJ and the FED (per person EU debt is still less than the US), so they definitely still have the option to kick the can down the road.

Ergo, you can safely bet both your kidneys that nothing's going to happen.

It's crazy how hard it is to make 1 European country agree on finances these days, all the EU member nations agreeing to seriously tighten is about as likely as the President of the US declaring he is an alien.
I mean in the sense of "rich countries aid the poor ones"

https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/A_European_trans...
That's not the topic of the thread.
I'm of the mind that Snowflake and Databricks are losing their value prop now that Delta Lake is open source and Iceberg is maturing. What's to stop me from rolling my own Spark clusters and just using one of those? Is anyone doing this?
What will have to give is the welfare state. Difficult to see how a retirement age in the early 60's is sustainable given this level of inflation. Better to abandon pensions entirely and just offer disability stipends for those who cannot work due to advanced age.

Returning several million net-negative economic migrants to their home regions would also be necessary.
See my comment at the top level for a comparison to Last.fm. Let me know if that clarifies things. (I use last.fm too!)
I hate this too. I got a top end Sony TV and it was covered in ads. I left it in Basic mode but it's still covered in an ugly ad to please sign up for Google TV

Then I finally got a PS5 two days ago. It's also covered in ads with no way to turn them off. I might sell it as I don't want to support such crap and there is nothing I absolutely need to play.

The thing I find most infruiating is that someone else gets to decide what I see every time I use either of them (well the tv works in basic mode tho it's an eye sore)

Often what's being shown to me
is something I find offensive or hate. I hate sports for example. Or it's a TV show I can't stand or a movie with an actor that rubs reminds me of a bad relationship .

I get there are lots of situations in life where other choose what I see but for some reason my TV's default when turning it on is one too many
Or if you know that you will probably have issues with your computer sooner than later even though you're not rough with it.

I did initially not buy it with my current laptop. Something broke during the standard warranty. Got the motherboard replaced... With a faulty one. So they replaced it again.

Got a feeling that buying extended warranty would be a good idea. And indeed, 3 months past the standard warranty end, it refused to boot at all. And once again, got replaced with a (less) faulty motherboard (some faulty USB ports).

I'd have preferred not being given broken motherboards by the warranty service, but since I have no ultimate proofs, had I not bought it, I would most likely have been refused service.
Ah yes, the Risk Clause of the Just World Hypothesis.
72% of Internet users will only access the web via their mobile by 2025
sounds more like you want a written and signed letter from the driver that they don't intend to restart the car, co-signed by their spouse
Boss gets a bonus during layoffs, and plenty of taxpayer help to survive downturns.
Is it a web app? A web service?
>I'll give one 'hot take': women have gone to work, now both women and men are miserable.

Famously, before women could vote and work, they never experienced emotion.
Very hot and enlightened take from someone who clearly knows a lot about women.
> Kraemer discovered that the only way to avoid wage-theft was to do "mindless busywork" that produced the clicks that her bossware demanded, even if it got in the way of her work.

Warning: Potential Severance spoilers ahead.

I finished watching Severance S1, and one of the open questions is what work the innies are actually doing. And reading this article it strikes me that the Severance work is the ideal culmination of the worker tracking + Goodhart's law cycle.

You make # of clicks a metric, so then the best performers are those who optimize for # of clicks, and so an AI trying to improve work efficiency by emulating what the best performers are doing rewards nonsensical clicking over actual work, and that cycle continues until you end up with something like the Severance job, which involves nothing but click and dragging numbers into 1 of a few bins based on how you "feel" about the numbers. At the same time the innies are told that what they are doing is extremely important.

YOu have the perfect combination of mindless work, which is not entirely monotonous (because you have to go by your "feeling", which would not be the case if you just had to repeatedly drag 1 number to the same bin) and at the same time you're motivated because you're convinced you're participating in a great good. This way you maximize the measured busywork output while still preventing your employees from immediately burning out.
The product mentions it handles PDFs with passwords.

Is that possible with just pdf.js

I’d like to have PDFs viewable in pdf.js reader that are available to download, but when downloaded, they are protected with a pdf password.

Anyone know how this can be done?
Curious which local ISP? My first tech job was at Kricket out of Alexandria (later moved to Marksville.) in 1994.

I played a lot of Ancient Anguish (MUD) on that graveyard shift. :)
I think there is certainly a place for audit trails etc, but it again comes back to how that data is used. An access log is an access log, but it's a difference if you analyze it to find people looking at data they have no reason to look at, or if you analyze it to track who spends how long on their toilet break. And a lot of what's offered by current "bossware" clearly falls in the latter category.
>But I'd say planes are more like "narrow AI", and we already have that.

Not sure I buy the analogy. A plane is already more like an AGI, you have to figure out enough aerodynamics to get the thing to be airworthy, enough materials science to develop the proper materials to build it, enough mechanical engineering to get the thing to be maneuverable, enough Software to make it all work together etc. So it's already an amalgam of many other types of systems. A Hang Glider might be more akin to a Narrow AI in this framework.

>I'd consider the possibility that we WILL get AGI in 10, 30 or 100 years, but it won't be that impactful compared to the narrow AIs already running everything!

I think this is misunderstanding what an AGI really represents. Imagine John Neumann compared to a Chimpanzee. There's no comparison right, the chimp can't even begin to understand the simplest plans or motivations Von Neumann has, now imagine an AGI is to Von Neumann as Von Neumann is to the Chimp, only the metaphor doesn't even work because there's no reason the AGI can't scale further until we're talking about something relative to us as we are relative to Ants or Bacteria. If you think nothing will change when a system like that exists then I don't know what to tell you.

>I'd consider the possibility that we WILL get AGI in 10, 30 or 100 years, but it won't be that impactful compared to the narrow AIs already running everything! It will be slow and suffer from Moravec's paradox (i.e. being much less efficient than a human, for a very long time)

If one considers the above and is comfortable with the idea that such a thing might be possible in our or our children's lifetimes then we should be doing everything in our powers to solve the alignment problem which is extremely non trivial and enormously consequential. At minimum an AGI could direct, orchestrate or improve the Narrow AI's in ways that no Human could hope to understand. All bets are off at that point.

I think the paradox was more poignant in robotics, but in any case recent advances have put tasks like object recognition, real world path planning, logical reasoning, etc well past human child levels and at or beyond adult levels in some cases.

>Now even Musk admits that, after Gary Marcus and others were telling him that since 2015.

Marcus is a constant goalpost mover and he'll be shouting about AGI's not really understanding the world while he's being disassembled by nanobots.
Can someone explain to me why support OpenGL at all? Vulkan is easier to implement. Is there a need for OpenGL on Linux?
Any tips?
That's how hetzner handles late payments and only does this after 2 warning emails.
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I mean, he doesn't like how they do politics which affect him so he left. Is there a better way of dealing with the issue?

He can't force a vote. He also doesn't have to stay. So he packed up and left. Sounds like a great way of dealing with people in power. Imagine if we all had that flexibility.

'We'll just pack up and leave. Good luck with your bullshit and governing over nothing.'
They should be freaking broken:

1. Ad business should be one thing
2. Other products should be different companies: Gmail, GCS, Domains, etc etc. They should not be "cushioned" by Ad business revenue.

That way they will play an even playing field with similar companies. And I think Amazon/AWS should have the same split.

If that happens, these companies will have to differentiate to their customers with non-crappy customer support.
Same experiences here. AWS was awesome. They did crazy things I wouldn’t expect like spend days in person and join us at equinix colo to get the direct connect working. We didn’t even spend that much relatively, under $100k/mo.
Honest question, how many creators do you support via patreon or similar?

I subscribe to some very niche content creators on YT and am a YT premium subscriber. One of the creators I follow has 200,000+ subscribers and is very open about the fact that without his patreon supporters that his channel would be unsustainable.

This was surprising to me - I (naively?) thought more of my premium subscription would trickle down to my subscription channels and that 200,000 subscribers would be enough to make a channel at least somewhat self-supporting.
I really enjoyed the second example of paying Netflix by the second. The blockchain has invented movie rentals.
Yep.

Million fish in the sea — just, not yours, if you swim around the same old beach.
Alphabet doesn't care, as far as they are concerned, someone messed with their Holy Money Machine and doesn't deserve to exist.
Cold (i dont think estonia is cold but whatever) > warm in times of global warming when you dont even have enough water to support nuclear reactors in France.

South Europe (outside south France) is probably worst place to live if you care about 10+ years window and plan or have kids.
You'll just let them out to live in 25% unemployment, high possibility of another immigration crisis and stagnant economy cause you prefere 40+ celsius over 25 in the middle of the day.
It's added before the number in (at least) the Netherlands.
This is exactly the problem with fake news. It sticks around, and you've been caught by it. It seems likely that this fake news has influenced your ability to make rational decisions about how you vote, etc. This is a huge problem for democracy.

No he did not withhold military aid from Ukraine. In fact in the initial offensive, the javelin missiles that they were effectively using against Russian tanks came from the Trump administration. And in fact Trump was highly critical of the previous administration for "only sending blankets", which was something he was called a hawk for.

AND NOT ONLY THAT but one of the major points of Trump's presidency was criticizing European/NATO nations for not spending enough on their defense; specifically warning that Russia was going to use their dependence on Russian natgas, and lack of military spending, to Russia's advantage.

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k
Moving to a country based on how many "unicorns" there are in that country seems uniquely stupid to me.

Better healthcare? Wonderful. More like-minded people who share your values and interests? Sounds great!

But a valuation means literally nothing. You could just as well have a country full of "unicorns" that absolutely do not improve society and result in crippling socioeconomic inequality.

I also don't understand the point about the bureaucratic German system. I've lived in Germany, and yes, the bureaucracy can at times be annoying. But are you really going to base where you live your life on how difficult it is to incorporate a company, an activity you will do at most a few times?

I also hope that you are now in a country that will help you "become a founder more quickly and increase the odds of [your] startup being successful", but I trust you already know that these odds will be overwhelmingly decided by your own ideas and work, not by the specific legal details of limited liability companies in your jurisdiction.

I truly hope OP finds a lot of happiness and a wonderful life in Estonia, but if they do, I don't think it will have been for the reasons they expected.

(Note: nothing against Estonia, I've always wanted to visit)
Im in the same boat. I was hoping to do it sooner than later but am still hoping, without being able to hope I’d feel quite trapped. My next logical step is working 4 days a week and when/if possible 3.
> For the level of service offered by the Belgian government, I would argue the tax burden is quite high

I live in another EU country, and I agree.

It's difficult for me to see institutions such as healthcare fall apart while the government is taking a large amount of my salary from my employer and myself every month.

One of the biggest reasons I struggle with it is lack of transparency. Something as simple as a quarterly breakdown of what my money is being spent on along with a feedback form would make it much easier to cope.
I'm not sure that's accurate. For example, Ireland has been the net recipient of €40B since joining the union.
100% - At my last company we had an unlimited sick policy. Wonderful for everyone - don't even question staying home if you're remotely ill. Well, it was wonderful until one employee was sick every Friday and Monday and some. We ended up having to adjust the company policy for two weeks sick time and beyond that required a doctors note. The employee continued their pattern and once they hit their two weeks of sick time off they couldn't provide a doctors note for further time off and ended up getting let go after continuing to call in sick. The company had benefits covering if folks needed counseling, substance abuse issues, etc... which were offered to the employee but they never took advantage of it.
Nothing to see here! Back to work! Put away the pitchforks! Keep voting! Move along now...