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What happens when "USB-D" is designed? Will it be illegal to upgrade to in Europe?

Also I wonder if this will push Apple to go wireless-only.
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Do Java job listings still mention UML as a requirement?
I hope the US doesn’t have to have USB-C iPhones because of this.

Just like it’s super annoying getting a cookie bar on every single website I go to every single time. I just roll my eyes every time I see it.
The law disallows dongles as a "solution".
> Their phone company (Nokia) was the market leader until they got wrecked by an inability to innovate

Until they got wrecked by ex-Microsoftie North American Steve Elop - who drove the company agains the wall so hard that many people who looked at it at the time said that it couldn't have been accidental...
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Technologies: machine learning, deep learning, signal processing
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Hi, I have 10 years of experience in solving hard research problems through data science and signal processing & machine learning.
Keypoints:
- dozen of highly robust models in production for 15+ companies
- PhD in DSP/ML
- several patents and research papers
It's interesting that even storefronts run by the same company don't always have the same reliability. Microsoft fucked over thousands of gamers when they pulled the plug on Games for Windows Live, yet I can still download episodes of Invader Zim I purchased on the Xbox Live Store in 2006.
I thought it was going to have no ports and only wireless charging
Idem, if I understand correctly, to go below the light pitch with DUV litographers, multi-patterning had to be used: a huge burden at chip design time and "pressure" on nm-grade alignment equipment (heard about coupled piezo electric motors with xray interferometers?), which is supposed to be from Taiwan.

In other words: photomask madness.

Photomask manufacturing is another critical part of silicium chip manufacturing. It seems EUV photomask are special (no more transparent crystals, but instead reflective "patterned" surfaces?), wonder if they are still using electron/ion beams to engrave patterns.

Wonder where are manufactured EUV photomasks, heard about Japan a lot.

Oh, and I realised that I am really curious on how they keep the EUV mirrors clean from the tin droplets :) Wild guess: EUV mirrors far away, H2 gas reaction, etc?).
There are cheaper USB-C connectors available with fewer pins for that purpose
You can do that any time you want, but enough deviation from the mainline kernel tree and you're no longer allowed to call it Linux.
I hope this moves them to add USB-4/thunderbolt along with adding support for an ipad-style desktop when connected to an external monitor.
You do know that the reason we were using micro-USB for everything instead of a hodgepodge of proprietary connectors ie because of the same EU body bringing the hammer down that is now also mandating USB-C?
Elon Musk's Empire of Risk
I know two people that semi-retired in their 50s just being independent SAP consultants that specialized in one of their many modules
Yes.

https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-fascist-know-the-signs

Is this satire or are they just genuinely angry about stuff that isn't really happening? Hard to tell.

> You have more than one kid and you love being a parent: Dedication to the family is a distraction from service to the state. Just abort, you fascist – don't you want to be liberated?
Wow wow stop there...when did that ever become past tense? Nobody told the bureaucrats...they still doing it.
There are at least 3 different standards for wall plugs in the Eu.
Bitcoin does that sort of thing all the time. It is hardly evidence of a bubble, just normal variance.
It's clearly stated in the article that this is not the original webcam.
This (coolify) looks very interesting. Since others may have the same question as i do: Does it scale horizontally? We actually have our own racks in datacenter and if i gave 3 machines to it would they handle that?

I saw you mention the K8s soonest: is that your scaling solution? Seems it would be simpler.

Regardless I think we may look into this.
Is emotional manipulation a good thing if it has positive outcomes? What about torture, is torture with positive outcomes a good thing for society? Why stop there, what about killing people without a trial, if we can find enough positive outcomes?
Seeing as the U in USB stands for Universal, there are plenty of incentives besides politics to /not/ change physical designs such as the connections.

USB-C's introduction was (and arguably still is) fairly disruptive because it invalidated the universal nature of USB-A (and to a lesser extent -B and Micro).

Personally, I hope USB-C will be here to stay for at least the better part of a decade going forward. Finding that what was once universal won't be universal tomorrow is annoying.
Dave from EEVBlog had the same issue. His mains power battery does not do 0ms switching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JT8M8v_zNg

Semms like, if you want the features of an UPS, you should get a UPS.
The industry (Apple) could have played nice and decided to use the best thing and make it standard without being forced by a law, but this would not make them money... if that would have happen then there would not be a need to update the law...

As a EU citizen I benefit each time EU forces big companies like banks, telecoms to do the right thing for the citizens and be just a tiny bit less greedy. I was not on HN when telecoms were regulated to have small roaming charges , or when companies were forced to print clear information on their product labels, or when banks were forced to have some limits on the ATM charges but something tells me americans predicted a big collapse in EU and that we will have no telecoms and banks anymore. But reality shows that for telecoms we have even better prices then US, so for some reason regulations did not collapse this giants.
Of course, the SRECs and other subsidies are the only reason that there is actually a solar industry anyway. The economics of solar simply don't work and would not attract any investment at all if it were not for huge crony-ready subsidies paid by governments.

(FWIW, I'm not anti-solar at all, but I am a realist, and spent six years in the utility/commercial solar industry.
The second point is that most people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Designing what you're told only works with people who have done the exploration themselves, which tends to be a tiny minority (because it essentially requires the design skills that they're expecting from the designer themselves).
Calm Companies
Elop was the last nail. The reviews for the N9 were good, but it was too little, too late. Mind-share was already taken by Android and iOS, and Samsung were already eating into Nokia's dumb phone dominance. Nokia were dead in the water.
Perhaps not the movie itself, but the media and its content are things that can be sold.

VHS, DVD, BluRay. If you have the media and a compatible player, you can watch them. You can lend or sell them. That's not very different to a physical book.

Even video-games are a bit like that. It's true that you may lose access to updates the game received after the physical launch but as long as you have the media (BluRays, cartridges, whatever) you can still play them on a compatible console, lend or sell them.

With digital "purchases", you can only do what the platform allows you, for as long as they allow it, for as long as they exist.
The Steam Deck is a handheld, but blurs the line between PC and console, since it runs Linux (or Windows) and can play most of the Steam game catalog. It's not a flagship console in the sense that developers target it as a platform (yet)
Traveling much of Europe (humble brag) the only places where I have seen some noticeable difference is Britain (of course) Italy and Malta. That being said, any remotely modern building or establishment expecting travelers on Malta or Italy has plugs with at least USB-A or the two prong "European" (with the round prongs, don't know the standard name).
Yay, since noone else has mentioned it, I get to add :) that the standard "why is minix interesting" nowadays is "it runs the Intel ME in a gazillion CPUs".

That says something about what one bunch of Very Careful Engineers think about the implementation's uptime and reliability provenance...

(The ME-cleaner project has identified that if Intel ME does not initialize, the CPU resets a few minutes after power on - so this suggests that a hard-unrecoverable error would leave the CPU unusable.)
Did that help with tracking down the thief too?

I suspect the outcome is still the same of your catalytic converter being gone for good, even if it helped you narrow down details for a police report.

As such, the utility is still zero, since the desired outcome is "get my property back", unless you needed this many details for insurance purposes (they usually only ask for a police report, and police are happy to take any data since they are unlikely to find the perpetrator anyway).
At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?
I've done a few diagrams in PlantUML, which were better than nothing, and better than using a vector editor and doing it by hand, but there's a constant low-level frustration. One, if the authors didn't think of something, you can't do it, and two, if the layout engine makes bad decisions, it's truly tedious to instruct it otherwise.

It also starts like a mile-long freight train, and goes about a hundred yards. I have no idea what it's doing for the first five seconds, but it isn't compiling my diagram.

I've switched to using Pikchr, which has never met an abstraction and doesn't want to. It uses a Logoesque layout language, invented by Brian Kernighan as PIC, and reimplemented with improvements by D. Richard Hipp.

He uses it for all the railroad diagrams in the SQLite docs, as well as many more UML-like diagrams in the Fossil docs.

If you've found yourself cursing softly at PlantUML/Mermaid/dot, because the icons just won't go where you want them, I strongly recommend giving Pikchr a try. If you want to diagram something which was never contemplated by Booch and friends, there's no second choice.
> I can't even tell what this blog post is complaining about, it seems so badly organized and written.

That's because it's an ad for the service, not a real blog post.
This is complete bollox. My [small] crypto portfolio has lost about a third of its value since the beginning of the summer and, outside of the normal daily fluctuations, has shown no signs of recovery at all, since the € and £ tanked.
At this point, I think even the average household in developing countries has USB-C. And that's probably due to entry-level android phone makers choosing to go with it.
1. if you are worried about these type of attacks than charger is least of your worries... You should probably turn off thunderbolt support completely...

2. I think mag safe chargers will be allowed to continue. Note that even now you can charge the macbooks with magsafe with usb-c charger..
Any guarantees a new, incompatible USB standard does not get introduced soon after? (Or even before end of 2024)

The one true universal charging port is a round DC plug. USB power delivery should only be used to power external devices.
Is this just mandating the physical plug? USB-C has a near infinite number of power delivery and/or data modes. Not to mention thunderbolt, display port, etc which are totally different protocols running on the same physical cable as USB-C.

How will this legislation be maintained? Are Europeans going to be stuck to USB-C in 30 years, when the rest of the world has phones that charge wirelessly in 10 seconds and last for weeks?
What i'm trying to say is that if you can convince enough people to subscribe, the price could be 20$ but the video media industry keeps clinging to the dream of exclusives which will in turn make people turn to piracy again. It might be much more expensive to produce music, but that also results in allot of music being produced compared to tv shows
edit moving this discussion to the active thread.
Did the law mandate USB 3 or just the USB-C connector? You can still have USB-C connector with USB2 data rates.
I couldn't find mention of comparative hardware/license/support costs for the on-prem servers. Is there that kind of resource out there readily available?
Only if your interpretation is correct - otherwise the serial comma is wrong.

I read it differently because of the use of “also”
It's OK to make decisions with long-term beneficial impacts that may come with short-term negatives. I'd also wager the majority of iPhone users have USB-C cables already.
- safety is not binary. Some security guarantee are still better than none. (And most security guarantees of Rust still holds in the kernel)

- Rust is at this moment more mature and stable than Zig or Nim with a more broad ecosystem. I don't know much about Ada but I think there are some technical issues there.
No need for decentralised naming schemes, alternate roots or targeting routers with DPI. This article describes only orders against third party DNS providers, not authoritative DNS servers. Perhaps the censors are interested in restricting resolution of certain names by third party DoH providers.

Regardless, failure to remove the names from the applicable registries will mean the names can still be looked up, using nonrecursive queries.
Everyone already replied with their use cases and I've been in several similar ones.

In general, I obtain a huge amount of value in being able to know what happened in my own past. This can be both for work and for personal reasons. For this, my calendar and Google Timeline are the two tools I use the most.

Most usefulness is in the past 1-2 weeks, and things become less useful over time, right up until they become extremely useful. For example "Oh crap, I lost this thing, the last time I saw it was on this date. What are the possible places I could have lost it? Let's retrace."

It's hard to convey how much things change once you're able to reliably have this information. Your mindset changes. Things you couldn't do before are unlocked.

I would love a better Google Timeline, one whose data I personally own especially. I suspect there will be an explosion of these types of apps at some point once people catch up.
You don’t stumble across a thing you’re good at unless it’s trivial, and you may not be particularly good at anything. You can work and practice at stuff and see how it goes. But turning your hobbies into this sort of a grind seems self defeating. If the motivation for asking the question is that you want to feel special and reassure yourself that you’re the protagonist of reality, you’d do much better giving yourself a break and finding what makes you happy (which still takes work but much less).
The point is that "spirit of the original work" needs to explicit, not everyone who uses a software should have to have personal insight into the mind of the dev.

> The induplicability of food is completely irrelevant here.

Then in what sense is the metaphor valuable? It was merely meant to depict an emotion that the humans on this forum will already be well aware of?
I moved 4 personal websites with a total of 7 services to railway.app (no affiliation) this weekend and was very impressed with how simple it was. Previously these websites were hosted using a combination of GitHub Pages + Heroku + Fly.io but it’s nice to have all of them hosted in a consistent way now.

I vastly preferred the railway.app migration to the fly.io migration but fly.io feels much more production ready than railway. This isn’t a big deal as none of the projects I moved have paying users so downtime would be acceptable if it happens. I was able to deploy all of my applications from the UI without ever having to install any company specific CLI which I prefer. Railway being such a small company has lacking docs and is very difficult to google for specific question about the provider —- most “railwayapp” google responses are for actual railways. Pretty much everything was intuitive and didn’t require the docs though which was much more pleasant than my experiences with fly.io.

To get the custom domains working I had to move my DNS to cloudflare for all sites which was something I had planned on doing anyways but felt annoying in the moment. I was previously using my domain registrar’s (namecheap) DNS but they don’t seem to support CNAME flattening which allows for CNAME apex domain entries which were required for getting custom domains on railway.

I moved all of the services in about a day and everything has been running pretty well. I do think railway is slower than fly but everything is still plenty fast so far. All projects have automatic github deployments which have been working well so far. Overall for a new project made by a small team I have really really enjoyed using railway for hosting. Railway is organized in a way that matches how I think about project hosting and most things seem well thought out with lots of good stuff still coming.

The websites moved were
https://trentprynn.com
https://habitapper.com
https://weightwatchapp.com
https://samueldebartolo.com

these are all open source and can be viewed from my github
https://github.com/trentprynn
> Installing a GitHub app comes with challenges, it basically gives Coolify access to your account should they want it

Depending on the permissions they ask for, this may be limited to modifying webhooks in the repositories you specify.
I ignored the irrelevant and unsupported anecdotal premises and focused on and defeated the underlying argument which is "Paul McCartney is a great musician because his memory is freakish." I think, instead, like anyone at the top of their field, McCartney is a great musician because he studied and practiced music.
And what do you think the board was thinking when they bought Elop in? They were thinking "Oh no, there is no way a European CEO will have enough experience in a real market to compete with this American juggernaut that is crushing us".

They didn't bring Elop in because they thought they needed a steady pair of hands. They'd been caught out doing what great-grandparent says they do - sticking to the herd, playing safe, doing things the standard way and not innovating too hard.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ll check it out in a bit deeper detail soon.

First reaction though: How many query languages does one need and why has Facebook come to define so many of them? It’s pretty interesting but also somewhat suspicious.
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Is the USB2 speed a limitation of the Lightning connector, or is it that Apple just doesn't care to improve this?

Because if it's the latter, as you say, there's no guarantee we'll see improved speeds because of the port change.
If you don't know what you want to do, then trying different things is a good way to find out how things really are. It does not scale to all jobs (you can't "try being a neurosurgeon for a while") but will give you an initial perspective for a lot of them.

Keep in mind that at the beginning of a new project or hobby we all go through a "learning phase" in which the effort put does not correspond with a lot of value obtained. Process can be slow, mistakes frequent. That's normal. Look not only where you are now, but where you could end up, and ask yourself if that's where you want to be.
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> A 4 year old iPhone still works perfectly, but a $200 Android will find its way to a landfill way sooner

Not really, though. I'm using one and it's just fine. Nonsense aside...

> Nowadays all laptops can charge over usb-c (including Apple laptops, mind you!). Did anybody have to force Apple to do this? No

Yes. That's what the EU has been doing by talking about forcing the standardization. Dollars to donuts that apple would still be on their proprietary connector if not for that.

> this EU mandate is totally unnecessary

Disagree. Just look at the iPhones apple is still manufacturing, which they'll now be forced to change.
> I find their content …dangerous even as satire

This is precisely why we need strong protections for satirists from those who are so insecure in their positions and beliefs that they respond to satire like it’s threatening.
Reminds me of the Copenhagen Design Museum. Full of completely useless modern-art-esque "takes" on various items (one specific highly practical item notwithstanding: a specific chair design).

"Design" means achieving an optimum in a highly multivariate requirements space: functionalities, ease of use, aesthetics[1], cost, material use, robustness, longevity of the design[2], scalability, cost to the user, cost to manufacture or provide, ease of marketing[3], etc etc. Which basically none of the exhibits actually showed.

If you focus only on the form, it's "just" art. A worthy endeavour, certainly, but it's not the same thing.

[1]: extremely variable among people so an optimum that many people agree on in this axis is very hard to reach. "Great designers" often are famous specifically for excelling here without major impairment of other requirements.

[2] can you still make it next year, next decade? Will people still want it even if you can?

[3] it can be easier to market a lesser product, say, that's cheaper, even if it's disproportionately worse for that lower price
It is surprisingly not.
I travel frequently with random ESP32 projects in various stages of looking highly suspicious and never get hassled about them. 4oz of an unfinished bottle of water though is absolutely not getting through security.
They'd have to throw away their phones first for the cables to become useless, I'd say the phones are the larger e-waste problem.
Gaming laptops draw over 100W. Won’t this eliminate an entire market of laptops that require specialized plugs that can deliver more power? Or else you’ll end up with the dreaded “dies while it’s plugged in” situation.
After clicking the link to pwpush.com I had a recollection of the splash page.. Seems we've met before! https://gist.github.com/stevecondylios/16a53b73f22621e3cde2e...

Awesome to hear Password Pusher is going very well :)
Plot Twist:
When google's algorithms decided those two individuals should pair, it started showing them ads for the same events in order to increase the probability of them meeting.

The goal was achieved by the system in 3 months, exactly as predicted with a 99% probability with a 95% CI.

The system's next goal is to subtly nudge the couple to reproduce within the next year in order to help google meet their user accounts targets for 2034.
Even if you're buying from Amazon or AliExpress, there have been very few cases over the last few years of them damaging your device compared to the first years of USB-C.

They might still have other issues, but nothing that damages your device.
Maybe the robot can drive your car around...

(runs)
This does not match the dates of the ban.
>Bell himself noted this weakness in using physical setting choices and argued that human ‘free will’ could be used rigorously to ensure unpredictability in Bell tests

Please don't flame me if this is an outrageous question, because I readily admit I know nothing on the topic of quantum physics, but isn't it a quite large limitation to assume human free will as a given? Or is "free-will" meant as a proxy for "pseudo-random" and that's enough for this experiment?
Well. Somebody said they will just ship adaptors with the iPhones...
They removed their free tier plan.