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Real property like resorts all exist in the real world. There is no copying a resort. You can't just instantly copy a building. You can't just create more physical space on this planet. The limits of physics renders such property inherently scarce.

Data is different, it is infinite. You can copy it infinitely at nearly zero cost. You can transmit it to anyone anywhere in the world at nearly zero cost. Any attempt to own bits fails because of the inherently infinite nature of data. Any notion of property is imaginary, an illusion. Intellectual property degenerates into number ownership, it's that ridiculous.

If you follow this logic to its conclusion:

> the player is controlled by the platform

Then intellectual property will lead to the end of free computing as we know it today. We cannot have computers that do what we want while simultaneously preventing us from copying data some rightsholder "owns". The copyright industry will lobby the government until free computing is illegal and all computers come pwned from the factory so that we can only execute "legal" code. This also goes hand in hand with government desire to control cryptography, paving the way for total surveillance and oppression.
mainly because it’s more reliable / convenient / cheaper ?

And as a consequence the user population on average becomes more ignorant, less likely to care, and less technically capable. It's one thing to crush internet freedom when half your users are programmers. It's entirely different when half your users don't know what a "file extension" is.
I don't know that any stock Android swaps to disk. They swap to zram, generally.

That said, the thing that seems to make old Android devices obsolete is Google Play Services. It takes up significantly more RAM over time, and it keeps getting updated even when your OS isn't. A degoogled older Android device stays about as useful as it ever was.
You are simply playing with words in a manner that is pointless. There are clearly objective facts about this universe that can be plainly stated. And there are rules of logic that allow us to objectively identify certain sets of assertions as containing a contradiction. Therefore, as I said above, “Are you suggesting that it is difficult to judge what ideas are great and what ideas are idiotic? I actually find this easy.”
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> This means that if there's a better connector,

What if there's more than 1 design in progress for a better cable and connector with competing tradeoffs? Designing stuff means picking the right tradeoffs. For instance, you could probably design a phone that is close to indestructible and has a battery that lasts for a month if you made it as big as a brick, but obviously nobody wants that. For cable connectors, there's all kinds of subtle tradeoffs that could be taken into account: data transfer speed, electricity transfer, size and weight of cable, how easy it is to connect and how secure it is when connected, its role in waterproofing, stability in heat and challenging environments, security, etc. Are you really comfortable with some parliamentary committee vote picking between the right design tradeoffs?

And what if there's a connector that's slightly better than the existing one today, but you know that something that's clearly much better is ready in about 1-3 years? Can a parliament have the judgement needed to make the right engineering decision in the face of loads of political pressures?

Their choice has to be right because no market alternative would exist. Do you genuinely feel comfortable with this? I sure don't.
I will basically immediately throw away about a dozen cables and need to buy new ones. I'm unclear on how I'm gaining in this.
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This is not the reason. The reason is, the last time they changed ports (from 30pin to lightning) it created huge blowback from consumers who had lots of 30pin accessories that were no longer compatible, and even though lightning is FAR better people don’t like switching.

USB-C is not much different than lightning for charging / connecting a phone, so the blowback from consumers will be huge when all their accessories are no longer compatible with the next phone.
Yea it is achieved by having space for the cards and exposing a USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface.
Why over complicate it with electronics? It’s a computer.

Just have your device shutdown when it can no longer poll another device. For example, if the router or some other network device isn’t contactable for longer than two minutes, it might indicate that the power is out.
That just means George and Ringo were wrong :-)
Apple may have started this. Back in the day Ipods would ingest mp3 files and hide them with hashed names in weird folders to make sure you can't give a copy to a neighbor.
Android is even worse: they create absurd views of the file system with entirely made-up structure... Well, Apple too, but I've been boycotting Apple since the 90s.
Which works good in this case, someone middleclass or higher buying a house.

But it also screws the poorest people, as it is very regressive to push expensive requirements down to the poor.

So you need to also include some kind of rebate for lower income folks..
What kind of content are your guinea pig eyeballs watching? I have 2 and would like to put them a video and see what they do.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply - they included a dongle that allowed micro-USB charging of iPhones.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33078596.
What a romantic girl. :)
Good, keep them distracted and out of the way.
The cables are declaring their capability, but they're not LIMITING anything. That's on the charger and chargee side.

>Cheap, lying, uncertified USB cables that declare their ability to support higher charging rates — for example, 100W which is 5A at 20V in USB — have been known to short out and destroy chargers and devices in the process of doing so.

Yes, HN loves to discuss and gripe about it over and over again (quoting the same kind of unconfirmed posts that are out of date by years)... it just fails to prove that this is still any kind of widespread issue worse than any other cable connector issue.
Quick questions, apologies if they're too sensitive:

- Regarding your co-morbidity, how did you know/decide to seek ADHD treatment and diagnosis? Was it before or after your bipolar diagnosis?

- Was there any concern about med interactions?

I live with my sister, who's bipolar and we think she MAY have ADHD, hence my curiosity.
Back around 2006 the consulting company I worked had internal team go all in on a developing framework around MDA and Java. Sales would offer it to a client as a way to validate the model and interactions and then generate all the code. Even for basic CRUD app there was so much left out of generated code and was too easy to get the code and model out of sync. I came in late on a project to help solve performance issues. That short stint gave me more insight into that world than I ever wanted.
This is sad, IIRC the goal (and reason it only goes to living people) is to throw good money after good, in the hopes of more to come, not simply reward past advances and fund retirements.
I am much more expecting them to do something like remove the port entirely and move to wireless charging only; or, for maximum humor value, make the lightning port incapable of charging the phone in Europe only, such that it isn't a charging port there and thereby isn't subject to the regulations (forcing only the people in Europe to use wireless charging).
Social media to blame. At least in my case.
Too many distractions. Too many temptations. Very difficult to stay focused with all that.
HUGE swatches of the US are this way. Especially places without mass transit. I cannot see a house out my window without at least a 2 car garage, some go up to 4 or higher.
USB-C is inferior from the hardware/form standpoint. It's a larger, more fragile and flimsy connector (than lightning) which is very un-apple. It can be crimped shut if rolled on by a chair. Additionally the charging standards are a total mess, with PD and QC requiring compatible chargers and cables, which are often unlabeled.

I'm all for a great charging standard but USB-C ain't it.
You sure can when the tactics are the same.

They should have made the second amendment the first. Then I think you'd get it.
> aside from syntax sugar is there a difference from (() => { ... })()

Well it will be more efficient unless the compiler is smart enough to inline the closure call. If it is, then no, it's just sugar. But as you say, the reason to inline code is for readability, and sugar is useful for that.

I tend to find I don't use (() => { ... })() much because all the noise often makes it less readable overall.

An example where I would use it:

const foo = do {
let foo = "bar";
if (complexCondition()) foo = "baz";
if (condition2()) foo = "quz";
foo
}
Both satire and free speech in general can be dangerous.

edit: I don’t understand why people are downvoting a simple statement of undeniable fact. Do I need to mention that doesn’t mean I am in favor of government intervention?
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But again, this is if you think of USB-C as a replacement for Mini-USB and Micro-USB. USB-A remained an uncontested standard for roughly 30 years, and is now gradually being replaced by USB-C.

If USB-C has the same longevity, and can also replace small-form-factor connectors, that's a pretty big win right? It's not too bad to put up with a connector change 2-4 times in your life.
Anyone interested in the history of DVD DRM / region locking may be interested in the "illegal number": a hex code which defeated DVD AACS encryption, prompting an attempt by the industry to surpress it across the internet, leading to a streisand effect and the end of effective DVD DRM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...
I don't think I've had any decent lightning cable wear out. The super thin and cheap ones have, but I haven't had any from Apple or Anker wear out yet.
USB-C, so good you’re forced to use it!
Internationalised domain names will display fine because they are punycode that browsers and other clients happen to render as internationalised domains.

E-mail is even worse than web applications at this because even common and popular mail clients can't do UTF-8 in email addresses right (https://www.google.com/search?q="SMTPUTF8"+site%3Adovecot.or...).
I buy blurays, rip them and then store them on a NAS to play back via Plex. Much, much better quality than any stream from Netflix et al.
In all fairness, why do Android devices not have to use Micro-USB now?

If they were mandated to do so by law, what were the conditions that have presumably un-bound them now?

Or are they all violating the Micro-USB law but being allowed to do so because it's obviously the common-sense thing to do?
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I buy digital movies all the time. Not often at full price because there are sales and deals on iTunes weekly (daily). To me, "buying" a movie for $4.99 or even $8.99 (which is only a dollar or two more than the rental price) is worth it on the off-chance that I may want to watch it again in the future. My digital iTunes movie library is nearing 900 movies at this point. All backed up and downloaded locally so I reduce the risk of what this article is talking about happening to me.
That's a reasonable solution because it doesn't create a liability on the provider to refund your purchase in whole.

I wonder how it works on the backend. When you "buy" a digital movie, does the publisher get a royalty? Then for the credit the provider could just eat that extra cost since it likely to be very rare. It still kind of sucks that the publisher can reap the royalty payments for all the "sales" and then turn around and pull the license.
The DNS providers who don't do this sort of filtering will become the defacto standard.
Parents with kids who like to repeatedly watch certain movies and shows.
If there is no better connector, why should the committee put any effort into developing anything better?

Tech history, and human history in general, is littered with examples. Especially in the old Warsaw Pact states.
This is what not really owning content implies about that computer you think you own: If a content publisher can reach into your computer and turn off access to content, you not only do not own and control the content, you do not properly own and control that computer. If you did you could assert that removing access to data on that computer constitutes unauthorized access. It's a security breach.
>There is nothing to "pay for".

There is: salary. I assume that's what GP meant, that one way to attract talent (beyond other important stuff like preventing dumb fiefdoms, trying to keep down unnecessary red tape vs reasonable, general workplace quality etc) despite other unattractive aspects is to offer a very competitive salary/benefits. A lot of government jobs in general do still have some solid benefits, but the salaries now lag fantastically behind equivalents in the private sector for many key roles, and "spirit of public service!" only does so much.

This is true all the way to the very top in the US at least. Presidents used to get paid more: $25k at the founding (what President Washington got) would probably be something like $4.5m today. $200k in 1969 would still be about $1.5m today. But POTUS salary now is still $400k. In my opinion it should be more like $100-250m. It's easily one of, if not the, single most important jobs on the planet at the head of one of the largest, most powerful and highest revenue "organizations". It should pay more or at least equivalently to CEOs of big corps, enough that POTUS will never feel financially beholden. And onwards down, Senate should probably be $25m, House $7m etc. Pay structures throughout gov don't match the responsibility and impact the jobs have on the world. Trillions of dollars and millions to billions of people are impacted by the decisions of people getting paid a relative pittance and we wink and pretend that it's some noble thing while of course what actually happens is everyone is expected to either be independently rich or to cash in somehow or be beholden to rich patrons. It's stupid.

But the political will for paying for doing it right doesn't seem to be be there anymore.
That's so simple it's coded into all prescribing systems and even written in paper prescribing manuals. The issue is that while some interactions are harmful, many are harmless and some even beneficial, but knowing the context that influences this range of effects is based on more than the contents of the prescription. Judgement and wider knowledge of the patient is required. People are still good at that but not infallible. I'm an ex pharmacist. Drug interactions, overdoses and plain wrong drug mistakes abound even in the age of computerised prescribing.

One of my bosses has a photo of her and a child's prescription fixed to the wall of a paediatric consultant who would have a killed a child if a pharmacist, my boss, had not queried a prescription.

Checking each other's work is essential in many industries but more so in healthcare.
I find this argument really funny since Apple already dropped lightning connectors on the newer IPADs in favor of USB C and already doesn't support lightning laptops.

I guess you'll have to figure out how to handle the slight inconvenience that Apple is putting their IPAD customers and laptop customers through.
You've said in a nutshell another of my issues with "visual programming will solve everything". If you take any non-trivial code base, or generally any non-trivial algorithm, and you have to express it all visually, the result is a useless mess.

Another issue with UML is that people find it easy to conflate "UML" with "diagramming in general". Using diagrams to describe existing code can be useful. I'm not a big fan of it honestly but I can tell I'm probably in a minority, albeit a large one, that's fine. But once I'm not able to use UML tooling because I'm no longer building a diagram in the proscribed manner, why should the diagrams I'm producing be UML qua UML diagrams? I can draw boxes and lines without reference to the UML spec; I was before and I am after.

In fact I will plead guilty to opening the UML elements pane in several diagramming tools over the years and then just using the stuff in there as little more than graphical macros without regard for what UML thinks they are. Nobody has yet complained. Only one person even noticed it was the UML graphical vocabulary.

In the interests of not posting again, there's some discussion about the utility of sequence diagrams elsewhere. I also agree I've gotten value out of them... but I don't draw them with UML semantics. I just draw them. UML demands details I don't have, either due to not yet knowing them or simply being inapplicable in my domain, and it fails to capture things I really care about, so ad hoc diagramming it is. Ad hoc diagramming isn't really that big a problem. I think it's actually a perfectly acceptable solution to a complicated problem because diagramming isn't about the diagram itself, it's about communication, and building a jargon vocabulary as you go is not something we sadly do because we have no other choice, it's actually a good solution. It shouldn't be resisted. It is possible for it to run a little too willy-nilly but the solution to that is to reign it in, not instantly flip to the opposite extreme of the spectrum.
Amazon voluntarily requires all USB-C cables sold to be USB-IF certified, starting in 2016, after the majority of cables for sale were exposed as being noncompliant safety hazards.

There is no EU law requiring any retailers to care, so far as I know, as long as the unsafe cables don’t have USB-IF logos printed on the connectors.
USB-C has the springs in the plug while the receptacle is only fixed contacts. Lightning on the other hand has the springs inside the receptacle.

This means that for USB-C you replace the cable when the springs wear out, but for Lightning you need to replace the port.

Cleaning lint out of a USB-C receptacle with a toothpick is safe, but sticking anything into a Lightning port could damage the springs.
If you're talking about loaning a physical copy of a movie to a friend, sure. We have to make arrangements to get the "thing" from one location to another.

Surely you can understand that freely "loaning" digital copies - with none of the friction involved in physical media transport - would de-incentivize purchasing by others.

If you want that, fine. But that will jack up the price of movies, since a lot fewer of them will be sold.
About the only point I agree with is the "Lorem Ipsum" point.

To put it in another way, try to design with realistic data. Eg designing a grid layout with lorem ipsum filler content can easily lead to not addressing issues when presented with real data. What do you do when a title wraps to the next line? How do you handle different length descriptions. Is some of the data optional?
The fact that the files aren't meant to be hand edited already makes it quite clear how it goes, not every kind of image file is a binary blob.

That is why there are export/import tools.
Yes, but we really should take a more optimistic view of automation. We now have an autonomous system that can do work a human previously had to waste their time and effort doing.

The automation isn't the problem, it's capitalism. The gains from automation are realized by the owner which isn't the worker.
I would love it if there were a massive, correctly-tagged list of starter templates for all kinds of combinations of frameworks/libraries. The question is, how should you manage that list?

One idea I've been implementing for fun lately is a git repository where each branch represents a combination of optional features that can be generated. E.g., the branch `aad/aspnetcore/hotchocolate` is the starter code for an ASP.NET Core GraphQL server that uses Azure Active Directory for authentication. Whenever I make a change in the aad/develop branch, it automatically merges to aad/aspnetcore, aad/aspnetcore/hotchocolate, aad/aspnetcore/rest, etc. The problem is there are a lot of merge conflicts as you can imagine.
I really like the article layout of this website. It is something done by OP, or some framework that everyone can use?
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2011 wow... Thanks for sharing!
Quite extensive list. Some good points, some bad points, some obvious points and some impossible points.

I wouldn't consider it like that, but the context of his presentation his talk of firings would be considered a huge faux pas, even if meant tongue in cheek. So professional conduct did not seems to work.

51. Don't hold others to standards of conduct you cannot guarantee to meet yourself.
Even if they throw them out, it's better to pull off the bandaid than to go on creating more and more redundant cables and e-waste for the next 30 years
Much discussed at Bogleheads https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=387202.
I'm not making fun of anyone. My beliefs on the subject are informed by my own experiences and direct observation of others. I do have some concern about the long term effects of putting people on a close chemical cousin of methamphetamine indefinitely, even though it is, as I said, an excellent productivity booster for those diagnosed with ADHD. Of course it's also an excellent productivity booster for those who aren't diagnosed with ADHD, which is why you see a thriving secondary market at colleges and universities.

After college, I worked in an engineering org at a big tech company you've definitely heard of. A surprisingly large number of developers that I worked with suddenly got ADHD when they realized it was going to take 60+ hour weeks plus on-call to not get stack ranked out and they saw how effective drugs were making those who were using them. I am confident that some persons were just gaming the system. I know this because they explicitly said so. Not everyone tries to be objective in their self-assessment though, so I imagine many of them actually believed they had ADHD and weren't just engaging in a cynical behavior. And I suppose it doesn't really matter: it's an ego-preserving belief that doesn't appear to have any great cost. In fact, technically speaking once they got the diagnosis from a licensed physician they did have ADHD, by definition, regardless of how cynical their motivations may have been. Edit: I also believe some legitimately had ADHD. I assumed that was obvious, but I now feel like I should be explicit.

I have no doubt whatsoever that plenty of people experience one or more symptoms that are associated with ADHD. I've known too many people of whom that is true not to. ADHD is an observational diagnosis. Medical professionals are just speculating at this point when they say it's some kind of neurological disorder rather than just part of the range of physiologically normal brain function. The brain is complicated and it could be any number of things. I have no doubt that the brain can be trained to exhibit ADHD associated characteristics for example. That is after all pretty much the business model of another one of the big tech companies that you've definitely heard of that I've worked for. We euphemistically called it "engagement."
But can they still drop the port altogether? I bet they will, going full MagSafe.
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Is MagSafe resistant to wear from connecting and disconnecting?
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> Imagine still having USB A because the EU said so.

The EU literally did mandate USB-A/plug + micro-USB (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply).

The successful development & widespread use of USB-C afterwards, culminating in this updated directive standardizing it, is a very neat demonstration that it didn't stifle innovation at all.