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As an iDevice user that admits to using iMessage - why do you care what SMS replacement the rest of the world gets?

At this point, anything is better than SMS, and no - it is flatly not acceptable to force people into using ad-hoc communications apps solely because Apple refuses to play nice with the community.

Seriously, iDevice to iDevice communications will remain in iMessage. You literally get to have your cake and eat it too.

> And you think Google+carriers is the answer to this?

Obviously they are. Google makes the most prolific mobile operating system in the world, and carriers have to transport the messages. Obviously this requires both of them to cooperate.

People want a replacement and upgrade from SMS - not a WhatsApp or some other 3rd party proprietary app that will go away eventually.

Time to get in line Apple. You're hurting your own users by refusing to modernize SMS for quite literally no good reason. Telling folks to just buy an iPhone is like telling them to slap a rubber band around their expensive device due to an obvious design flaw... it's just unacceptable.
But can I buy these as an etf (or etn or whatever)
That's still implicitly making a pro-royalist community, at the cost of making a less flame-baitey community.

Pro-status-quo comments are inherently going to be less divisive because they don't challenge people, and seeing this thread full up of folks commenting on how personally meaningful the queen was to them without ever really being involved in their lives is a testament to that.

That said, I think it may also just go to show that's why royalism discussions shouldn't be the bread and butter of this community.

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Thanks for the response by the way. I disagree with some things here but I also talk with a number of people from wildly different viewpoints. A true testament to y'alls work.
I go back and forth on the push for carbon neutrality for large companies (as opposed to some form of carbon tax). I'll give a few examples that I've seen first-hand in my work as a consultant.

1. A large state-owned African agricultural company is using satellite and soil-sample data to measure the carbon sequestration potential of agricultural land if certain farming techniques are used (no-till, etc). They use satellite and soil-sample data feeding into a biological model implemented in fortran (from some academic paper that may or may not be replicated) for the estimation. The plan is to go to farmers and ask them to switch the technique. The company would sell carbon credits, give the participating farmers a cut and keep the rest. This has great potential! but the large-scale implementation is very difficult manage. The company would at least need to randomly check in on participating farmers. It should also take soil samples over time to make sure the technique is working. Carbon credit sellers should be auditable, but the government relations and size of the company might make that difficult to do rigorously.

2. An analytics tool hopes to help large companies identify the parts of their supply chain that can reduce the overall carbon emissions of a product with the lowest price increase to the end-consumer. Think about BMW sourcing steel from China for example. If this helps companies actively manage their supply chain in order to lower emissions, then suppliers will adopt to low-carbon techniques over time. The problem is that it requires suppliers to disclose their emissions accurately. Many supply chains in carbon-intensive industries are global and fragmented. If a bad-actor supplier on the other side of the world lied and got caught, they could just change their name and carry on.

3. Global supply chains also present issues with carbon taxes at the drilling/mining site. You can't force foreign countries to tax this (and if you did they would be incentivized to cheat), and you can't force foreign companies to accurately disclose energy use. A domestic energy tax would make local manufacturing uncompetitive, which is something most countries are not willing to sacrifice.

The debate between carbon neutrality vs carbon/extraction taxes is the choice between inventing an entire new bureaucracy of enforcement (carbon audits, carbon disclosure, etc) or the impossible task of rallying and enforcing global action (every country imposes the same tax, no exceptions). As an engineer, I understand the seeming beauty and efficiency of the second option, but I think the first is ultimately going to be our best bet.
I think that's a pretty big stretch. I don't see a direct link between the award Alexander Graham Bell got in 1880 and the research output of Bell Labs in the 1940s. Bell Telephone existed as a corporation prior to the award from the French government. "Bell Labs" didn't exist as a separate entity with that name until the 1920s.
If we could redirect our populism away from aggressive handouts and towards consumer protections, that could be a party I'd consider supporting. This is a great move.
IMO this is the same as the USB-C/Lightning controversy.

Apple came up with (an arguably) better solution than SMS w/ iMessage. Now there is a newer "standard" (USB-C yes, RCS not quite) and everyone wants to force Apple to change.
It’s hard not to read many of these comments as “Old man yells at cloud.”

I’ve been lucky enough to experience development across many different types of systems over my 20-year career, and web development has come a long long way to the point that Vanilla development is viable.

Generally speaking, I prefer to spend my time solving problems, not reinventing the wheel with boilerplate. Using a framework like react aids me in that goal.
i urge you to examine for any worldwide trends that were occurring in April 2020 that might have made people inclined to attend virtual events
Interesting. I love using SCSS, and personally won't write CSS without it. It's also not just for nesting but also for variables, mixins, and extend functions. SCSS, to me, has made css become more of programming rather than just markup rules, allowing OOP prototypal concept via mixins.

Absolutely agree re: depending on Bootstrap. Unless you're heavily leveraged in BS (no pun intended) either cuz 1) you're at an "early" phase in your product or 2) you've bought into yet another framework and are stuck with it :), you should start creating your own scss mixins to encapsulate these components.

My personal fave is to use scss w/ bem. The naming conventions coupled with nesting selectors also help real well to create long class names without having to type it all at one time
I think I've heard this option called a Pigovian tax before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax.
This is only an issue once we stop having electricity sources that can be turned on reasonably quickly when wind or sun is under producing (such as natural gas and, to some extent, hydro electric).

Since wind/solar is still a small part of the overall contribution, there is no need to model unreliability.

Ideally this would BECOME an issue in the future.
I have enjoyed writing HTML/CSS/JS (vanilla) apps on my personal projects and use React for large apps at work. When my apps get large, it gets harder to manage, whereas when using React, each component is contained, so I don't have to worry so much about what's going on around it. That's not a good description, but it's easier to built on top of a large React project, than it is on a large vanilla project.

Frameworks also establish a common way of doing things like tracking state. For example, in vanilla projects, one developer might implement it in a unique way that no one else understands. You want to work with code that works well with multiple developers on larger projects.

It's still fun and interesting using vanilla for personal projects. I built a bunch of apps with just a CSS framework and JS was vanilla. (my apps: https://lewdev.github.io)
I mean the author seems to believe that the SLS is a space program, when clearly it’s a jobs program.

Nobody in congress or the senate gives a crap about if the SLS achieves anything, as long it keeps paying for jobs in their home state. Even senior leaders at NASA hate the SLS, and the fact that it hamstrings into using ancient technology that was difficult to use, even before everyone with the knowledge to operate it retired.

NASA would much rather be developing new rocket technology, rather than painstakingly rearranging old rocket technology. But doing that would risk Apollo era jobs, so instead we have the SLS.
I’m not really in favor of making exceptions to the types of food that poor people are or aren’t allowed to buy. Removing corn subsidies would do a lot to change the pricing dynamics of food in the US. Sugary and heavily processed foods would increase in price due to the rising price of HFCS, meats would increase in price due to the rising price of feed for livestock. It may also make other, healthier crops more attractive to farmers to grow which would help decrease the cost of healthier options.

It’s not the only thing that is making America very fat, but it is certainly a large component to it and there’s basically no reason for the subsidy to exist.
As it works out, I would say it’s more in the vein of blaming IBM for their culpability in the Holocaust, not Mercedes, although clearly Meta’s role was nowhere near as awful as IBM’s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Another example is blocking permits for natural gas pipelines. This has resulted in increased coal plant usage.

Coal emits twice the CO2 per energy than natural gas does.
This article does a great job of muddying the distinction of the CO2 output of corn production in general and the output of an actual ethanol plant.

To focus on the claim in the title, calling the CO2 byproduct of yeast fermentation of a grain, in which its carbon all came from atmospheric sources in the first place comparable to the pollution of an oil refinery is absurd.
It's weird that we don't think it's reasonable to expect teachers with years of postgraduate study and experience in education to get kids up to grade level algebra and at the same time think having a gifted kid tutor them will be able to improve things.

Also, if we're expecting gifted kids to work as teachers' aides at the expense of their own education, shouldn't we be compensating them for it?

Or should the gifted kids just be grateful for the opportunity? If it's actually good for them, are parents just being irrational by focusing on challenging them academically instead of enrolling them in a teacher's college for tots?
Or, hear me out, what if we just used the plain old contracts that already exist... this article came out of an investigation of plain old contracts.
I actually have not touched any of the code yet as we are using a 3rd party developer to help us. (I will likely work on templates and other things down the road)

My experience when evaluating Odoo was using Studio, which I have found can really mess up your Odoo instance.

Are you working with Odoo code directly?
> No, Zig is simply not memory safe.

I didn't claim that it is. I said it has a good memory safety story, i.e. mechanisms that soundly guarantee some kinds of memory safety, plus a design that helps write correct programs. Correctness in general, and memory safety in particular, are very central concerns in Zig's design, it's just that its story isn't one of sound guarantees across the board but, rather, some balanced mix of approaches -- some based on soundness, others based on facilitating comprehension and easier testing.

> Most software in 2022 is written in languages that are memory safe. Zig is quite the outlier here.

No, Zig is a low-level language, and the vast majority of low-level programs in 2022 are written in languages whose memory-safety story is worse than Zig's.

> This says nothing about whether a brand-new language should be memory safe.

That's right. We don't yet have an answer to that question, because we don't yet have sufficient experience with low-level languages that do have sound memory safety guarantees. I mean, it sure is better to have more guarantees if they come for free, but there's no such option in front of us just yet.

> No, there actually is PL consensus that all new languages should be memory-safe

No, there really isn't one when it comes to low-level languages (and the interest in Zig is proof that there is no consensus that it shouldn't exist). Rust is a low level language with sound memory safety guarantees, which comes at a price that makes it unappealing for some, and so various other approaches are being tried as well.

You can't insist there's consensus when clearly there are people who disagree with you. That's the definition of a lack of consensus. I also think it is premature, to say the least, to declare an approach that is currently still far from proving a success as the only way.
> the people who used slide rules in their professions and were willing to pay over $50 to re-experience the nostalgia of playing with one again are now all dead.

The price of collectable cars is also affected by the age of the collectors market. Prior to me it was all about Model-Ts, old '30s era etc that I would see on the collectibles TV shows. GenX was after '60s era big body American muscle. Millenials are collecting 80s era box Chevys. The price of those early Ford Model-T, as an example, has declined because the collectors are too old. And anyone born after WW2 has little nostalgia for them.

Now I'm starting to see '80s Mercedes-Benz 300s at car shows. And the kids are dressing in 80s and 90s fashion, again.

There is no deep meaning to collectibles market. Owning a slide rule was fashionable until they were not. Classic cars, vintage clothes, and comics are basically the same.
Did you skip basic math classes? Or your parents still pay all your expenses?

Even with 20k bring home salary (which means you have been around a bit, possibly having family, mortgage, other investments, have hobbies that are a bit above just breathing air costs, teavel etc) you are saving just a fraction of that.

For some the fraction is really tiny, for some a bit bigger. 40k (just raw amount, untaxed) can be a year's worth of actual savings easily, even with good job.

Kudos to OP, bits like this keep my faith in humanity.
No. I am saying that privacy teams often go beyond that and that this "beyond" is in the vague and ill defined territory.
It’s not hard to understand. The mobile app stores trained people to expect sub $1 prices for everything. Games that were priced fairly did not sell well. They still don’t. The five (or fifty) people on HN who insist they’d pay full price for a game with no loot box mechanics do not a sustainable market make.

Unfortunately the loot box mechanic is so lucrative that all you have left in the market is unscrupulous companies.

It’s a natural consequence of gamers insisting that the content they love to consume cannot possibly cost what it does and the industry must be full of exploitative sharks.

Funnily enough, 15 years of this has not resulted in good games getting cheaper but rather good developers leaving the industry. Who could have seen that coming?
I like this one. I like especially that it stops to explain the junction bias volage and why it becomes the "diode drop" (even if it doesn't get into the implications), which is IMHO something most new people struggle with when understanding analog circuit behavior. Likewise it's careful to explain that the BJT transistor behavior is due to careful tuning of dopant levels, something that took me a long time to grok (FETs are easier to understand).

The one thing I do wish it would clarify though is that this is not a FET, and it's not discussing the kind of circuits used in digital logic. These are the transistors you se in analog amplifiers and very old computers.
That's extremely hyperbolic. Zig is a systems programming language with an explicit goal of operating at a low level of abstraction. Virtually all languages in its class are less memory safe than Zig.
> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid

Isn't that where Salesforce came from? At least in the CRM space. It is not as horrid, though that is not saying much :P
How does this idea merge with the idea of "unbundling"? For example, I think of Craigslist, and its famous "unbundling" story[1]. For Aibnb, fiverr, Getaround, etc., the individual niches were enough to build a big product off of, and there was no need (or maybe no ability?) to grow that product back into the "everything for everyone" of Craiglist. What is different about SAP/JIRA/Salesforce? Why can't "not bad" niche-focused subsets of these products become big and profitable while still focusing on their initial niche/area?

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research/craigslist-unbundling/
That could very well be the case. I looked up the professor and the company he created for this solution and the link is dead.

However, for an organization like the army that spends $$$ on logistics, I would bet they would continually fund something like this if it showed enough promise. One thing the DoD and Congress are good at is throwing money at R&D efforts.
paywalled. 12ft.io doesnt help.
Corrected link with image halfway down page showing the new hard hat interior design: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/09/1121903...

Direct link to that image (webp?): https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/09/08/hat-2_wide-6ae40...

WaveCel, the manufacturer highlighted by NPR, has a detail page about their technology: https://wavecel.com/technology/

They published a Biomechanics paper about this: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-021-02723-0
Another article about glut of available boats.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/09/worlds-largest-cruise-shi...
Huh, thanks, that does sound quite useful!
Georgian archaeologists find 1.8M-year-old human tooth
> If your new product is a choking hazard you're not guilty of manslaughter.

But you are still imho (morally) responsible for the deaths occurring out of the use of your product (this is where we would probably disagree). Even if you were not legally guilty.

I like another example that to me clarified the distinction between these concepts better.

Imagine one morning, you open your front door and find a baby having been placed there somewhen during the night. The child is still alive. You are not guilty in any way for the baby's fate, but now that you have seen it you are responsible for ensuring that it gets help. You would be guilty if you would allow it to freeze to death or similar.
Rails, Heroku, and Cloudflare. Very easy, but costs are rising.
I dont get what this has to do with AI. This is a discussion of CFD optimization, by using non standard indexing to link cells turbulence information.
All software is built from simple primitives. If the fundamentals are solid scaling up should be just a matter of managing complexity in your own code. I'm aware that performance problems that I don't have direct control over could occur at some point, but would that be the fault of the DOM API itself ?
Electricity is the behavior of electric charge, and electric charge is an intrinsic property of some particles (it'd be like asking what mass is, without falling back on what mass does).

Electric charge has a magnitude (arbitrarily, we have labeled the axis such that protons are positively charged and electrons are negatively charged, but it's symmetric such that if everything in the universe swapped positive to negative nothing would change). Particles with opposite charges attract, particles with same charges repel. When a source of positive charge and a source of negative charge are separated, there is potential energy. We simplify our math a bit by factoring out the charge that would be moving from the positive to the negative out of our potential energy calculation to get "electric potential" or simply "voltage". When there is a path that charge can flow through between a high potential and low potential, it creates a flow of charge between positive and negative sources of charge that we call "current". As the charge flows, the potential energy decreases, meaning other energy has to be released. The most common way this happens is simply by creating heat. Some materials allow charge to flow through them more easily than others: the ratio of the potential (voltage) across a component to the rate of electric charge that flows through it as a result (current) is approximately constant for most things, and we call that resistance. This gives us Ohms law : V = IR
I am personally acquainted with some senior citizens who have sharp minds and continue to learn and grow (in some cases doing original academic research). I hope I continue to learn and grow well into my old age
Thanks for these links! They look like the next logical step for HTML/CSS developers instead of React (or similar) which are overkill.
Why shouldn’t all employees of any for profit company “disassociate their professional lives from their personal lives”? I go to work to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter.
Governments have corrected themselves numerous times without revolution, unless you are counting democratic regime changes as a revolution.
Apple says they are working with Microsoft and Google to meet all FIDO standards on this. It's still early days, but FIDO as a standards body does seem to be working towards standards for working with heterogenous keychains. Given how many users use Chrome on Windows and have an iOS device, I think heterogenous keychains are going to be critical to mass adoption and everyone says they are working towards that. A lot of this may be on FIDO to truly coordinate.
The problem here is the US trying to control economic policy without controlling economic policy.

The Asian countries that pulled themselves up from poverty to being rich countries all had industrial policies, where credit was allocated to chosen industries. How well those choices were made had a strong influence on how well that worked. (See "How Asia Works", Studwell, 2014.)

The US has industrial policy through tax policy. It's determined mostly by lobbying. Financial activity is encouraged; most internal transfers within the financial system are not taxed. (They could be, and it's been proposed; that's called a "Tobin tax"). There's a strong tax bias in favor of owning real estate. Debt, which is not taxed, is favored over paying dividends, which are taxed. Certain types of farming are encouraged.

Those parts of policy are not adjusted very often.
It's interesting that they haven't considering their stance on privacy and user data. Maybe Facebook can cough up some dough to become a default social media app.

Apple slaps down Facebook but allows Google to pay to be the default surveillance capitalist search provider?
I don't think anyone in the industry is going to buy a $200 hard hat.
Seems like my integrated i7 laptop GPU can't run any of these examples due to incomplete Vulkan support for Haswell under Linux. Sad, since I doubt it'll be completed.

Maybe I'll have to retire this almost 10 year old laptop sometime soon, even though it still runs pretty well.
> I get it if you're a regular worker paying rent its a different world but hopefully one day you'll understand.

Understand what? Why would I think certain portions of the population should be exempt from certain types of inflation?

Life is consumable. The utilities, streets, city hall workers, inspectors, everything that makes the world go round. Everything decays and needs to be brought back to order, over and over again.

If the argument is that poorer people should get assistance to not be so poor (including retired people), then sure, give them cash. But I do not see why a retiree should get any more consideration for where to live than a poorer immigrant family who has not had the opportunity to save a down payment and has to rent.