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>So they pressured the EU to mandate the change to a standard that Apple helped pioneer so that Apple's environmentally-friendly record would remain unblemished.

Remember when they made us trade our 30-pin cables to Lightning cables?

Remember when they made us trade our headphones with 3.5mm jacks to wireless ones or get a dongle?

Remember when they made us trade our Lightning cables to USB-C cables?

Remember when they made us trade our MagSafe chargers for MagSafe 2 chargers?

Remember when they made us trade our MagSafe 2 chargers for USB-C cables?

(At least we can still use those USB-C cables alongside MagSafe 3 cables)

Remember when they made us trade our first-generation Apple Pencils to second-generation Apple Pencils?

If switching support for one type of hardware for another type of hardware is an environmental blemish by creating e-waste, then Apple's record surely is not spotless.
That's inventing details that don't exist in the data though, correct?
Yeah that's the thing with all modern stuff.

"you know how good software performs really well?"

"yeah"

"let's make our thing not like that, and use JavaScript."

"great idea."
I believe there are two camps in the eco movement. One camp believes humans need to address our impact on the ecosystem. The other believes humans are the problem.

You see this split in the movement around extinction. Folks will shame humans for causing an animal to go extinct while simultaneously coming out in opposition to re-introducing extinct animals to their ecosystem through genetic research (I.e the Wholly Mammoth project).

I’d sum up the split as: one group wants to do something about it. The other wants humans to “just stop.”

Your list of solutions only work for the former group.
> it’s teens and early twenties not using Facebook, they are all using Snapchat for their social network.

Let me introduce you to: Instagram.
Still gonna be enough for some brisket & ribs.
If it doesn't count sales on GOG then it's not really reliable. GOG is owned by CD Projekt group, and one of the big points when releasing Witcher games was that people bought them on GOG so that all money went to the devs instead of paying the Steam tax.
Why? the graphics and animation did not age very well, so they need to be entirely redone, and the combat rethinked. But the last act will look quite epic on a modern engine if done well. Unreal use will allow faster development.

Witcher 1's main quest is the most interesting of the 3 games, I hope they do not commit the mistake of adding a minimap to casualize the remake, paying attention to the dialogues, environmental details and exploring the maps is very much what made the game interesting to me. It's one of these games where you can get stuck if you are not paying attention to the story, or miss certain timed events, which increases its replay value. It's much more interesting that just spamming witcher senses all the time to complete quests.

To those who didn't play the game, this is very much a "detective" story and most quests are shrouded in mystery, it can works ONLY if the player has to pay attention to the dialogues, lore and story. It will not work if the player is spoon-fed every little detail about who is whom, what potion to use or the devs resorts to bringing back the "witcher senses".

Just like Witcher 2, one can "side" with either of 2 camps, unlike Witcher 2, one can decide not to side with anybody, although choosing the latter option might not lead to the most positive outcome...
The USA — with the 'most rights of any people in the world' — incarcerates the most people, by far, in some of the most inhumane conditions (slavery is explicitly legal in such contexts) among the developed nations.

We're 'free' in an Orwellian sense. Freedom to be educated, have health care regardless of one's employment|wealth, welfare with dignity for those in need — none of these concepts come into consideration into what 'freedom' actually means in practice.

My political leanings started libertarian. Over the years, I have traveled and read, and came to see the US for the farce it is, and encounter the deluded population convinced America is 'the greatest nation ever'. It has potential for sure, but when will we unlock it and truly taste real freedom?
Serious claustrophobia on a 4k monitor, had a reduce the window size.

Very awesome.
Chrome Web Store reviewers leave a lot to be desired. My only effective strategy over the years has been to shame them in public and let them know that our interactions are immediately published across the web. You have to be relentless, otherwise they will destroy a decade of your work in a snap.

These threads will surely give PTSD to any extension developer:

https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image/issues/57

https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image/issues/63
I used to use Evernote, since moved to OneNote. Just a page per day with a table (I have a template). One column is some amount of time (usually valued in pomodoros, sometimes minutes for meetings). The other column is just what I was doing during that time. The full-text search and sync is really the big advantage of using those note taking platforms. It’s weirdly wonderful to be able to grab a note from like 6 years ago and know exactly what I was working on that day.

I’m FTE now, but I’ve actually billed hours by totaling these logs in the past and it worked well.
> I also believe that Spotify's audiobook play will be bad for consumers and worse for artists.

Could you expand on this?
wasm is bad for efficiency though. if you're running stuff at even moderate scale on a server you should compile to machine code.
Summary. "The prisoners were executed in a summary fashion."

Also means brief, concise. I guess a summary execution (which means without trial if I understand correctly) is a briefer process than an execution with a trial…

Would also properly qualify the rejection of an extension from the Chrome store, I guess, to go back to the main topic.

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/sommaire

(yes, found out by translating from French :-) - sommaire also means basic, rudimentary, now I wonder what made us use this word for executions - the brevity, or the basic aspect, sounded like the latter to me in history lessons)
If you take a long hard look at the overall economy, well, we waste a lot of time and energy on frivolous things. All in the name of supposedly making ourselves feel better. Which of those are actually important, and which of those are not? Who is to judge?

Some people will only be happy riding actual jet skis, where others will be happy riding one in a video game, which uses comparatively fewer resources. Should we outlaw or more severely regulate actual jet skis? Ditto for other activities (horse riding vs Red Dead Redemption 2 or Breath of the Wild).

Just for the record, I'd like to see everyone getting out there in the real world riding bicycles... but I'm not prepared to legislate that as the preferred outdoor activity.

And the same argument can be made for lots of things, from suborbital launches to gigantic art projects, to suburban cities vs. high-density walkable cities.

We could actually raise up everyone's living standards and have them all work less hours per week with some attitude adjustment, commonsense regulations and reorienting of our national priorities. I don't know when that's going to happen though.
Can you prove your channel was active and not dead just for squatting?
Probably a first yes :).

Model Y is predicted to be the best selling car for 2023 in volume worldwide

https://insideevs.com/news/602829/tesla-modely-best-selling/

And in 2022 it will probably be the best selling car model in revenue.
Mechanical circuits: electronics without electricity [video]
It was based on the Neverwinter Nights 2 engine, so the similarities to NWN are expected. Actually, from my perspective, combat in W1 was a big improvement over the turn based click and pray combat of NWN.
Definitely count at least one more person experiencing claustrophobia ...
It looks like I have a related failure. Latest iOS Safari with DNS level adblocking.
I remember there being a case where a developer’s app got banned because they used the word “windows” in the play store description and Google considered this as a third party trademark violation. The developer was referring to house windows, not the operating system…
While it's surely a constant, I think the entertainment industries at large have really started to milk the nostalgia cow hard

I could say a bunch of soft science things like, go with a sure thing in an uncertain market, blah blah. I think it's simply easier
Agreed. It's too difficult to move off of iPhone/Apple products, but I really want to do something to force them to stop with the anticompetative BS.
Yeah, it's crazy.

Pac coast to Texas: 800ish miles.

Across Texas? 877 or so.

Beaumont to Jacksonville (ie, Atlantic Coast): 784.
There's due a lot of technical discussion on this (and it's very warranted) but what does this say about the future of software ownership? There used to be a time where you could buy a big-box copy of Elite and just own it. Maybe there was a layer of goofy DRM, but the software was on a physical medium and licensed to you in perpetuity.

Flash-forward to 2022. Now when you buy the latest physical copy of a triple-A video game, you're purchasing a disc with an authorization key baked onto it. None of the game files are yours, your agency over the software is entirely at Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo's discretion. They take down their software store? It's gone. Game gets slammed online for releasing unfinished? It's gone. Ratings board decide to change their mind later? You already know what happens.

The philosophy of software ownership today sucks, and I feel like it's going to hurt even more in the coming decades. Hoard data while you still can, winter is coming...
Not so rosy for Asia: northern Asian Russian rivers that comprise a sizable chunk of the potential are very far from any inhabited places.

I don't know where Chinese rivers with untapped potential are located, but I'd guess they are in Tibet.
That's not gaslighting
Great insight, thank you!
I don't use Facebook, but this is a silly take. They're doing around $120 Billion revenue for 2022.

That being said, I'm glad to see them sinking and hope they take the rest of social media down with them, for the sake of humanity.
> "stop protesting like that, you're making us look bad! You're playing the exact role the bad guys want you to play!"

Well, sorry, but sometimes that might be true. Like, IMO this isn't a case of "you're making us look bad", that would be giving it too much credit in terms of impact. I would say this is effectively neutral - the people who already understand climate change will go "yep, climate change is a huge crisis, this is dumb", and the people who don't will go "wow they're stupid and climate change is fake".

Just because "the bad guys" like to delegitimize a form of protest doesn't make the form of protest any more legitimate. Yes, it's out of their playbook, but also this is dumb?

> And you could argue that fine art is a better target than say petrochemical facilities where you're just going to piss off people trying to make a living: fine art museums are strictly optional/luxury/rich spaces.

Two things.

1. No one is saying "go protest a petrochemical facility".

2. Art museums are not a luxury/ rich space. They're almost always free or very affordable, they're one of the few places I could go to with friends as a young teen in NYC because of that. School field trips to those museums were frequent. This idea that art is just for hanging on the wall during fancy galas is quite silly. Art in your home might be a luxury for the rich, that's totally different.

> To those supporting retributive justice against the protesters: weird

I'm very against that fwiw. At least to the degree people are talking about - it's pretty insane how people will say these people should be physically attacked over this or whatever.

> "we can't enjoy nature cause you're blowing it up, so you can't enjoy your precious art safe space."

This is the sort of thing children think of though. Like, you broke my toy so I'm breaking yours, and now we're both sitting here crying? IDK.

I think a few things can be true.

1. Climate change is a global crisis and we need to address it

2. Getting more people talking about climate change is a good thing

3. This form of protest is stupid
I switched to FastMail last Feb and am very happy. For personal email, I use the cheapest plan with 2GB storage and set the Trash folder to delete mail after 365 days. So far I'm only using about 13% of the 2GB quota, even including Trash. For business email I use the next level up to enable a custom domain.

I set Gmail to forward everything to the new Fastmail email address and set a vacation message explaining that I've changed email addresses. Very painless.

In some HN discussions people said Fastmail's spam filtering is not as good as Gmail. That may be true - I dunno - but for me it has been a non-issue.

The thing I really like is it is soooo much faster than Gmail.
How about taking a page from the political playbook of the U.S.'s NRA (National Rifle Association, an extremely pro-gun group in recent decades) - keep detailed records of how every politician votes (on climate laws, vs. the NRA's focus on gun laws), then zealously turn out to vote in every election? That gave the NRA political influence far beyond what their membership numbers would suggest, decades before America's current culture wars had really heated up.

Of course, that would also require some real work, and a grown-up attention span. Vs. "I scream for full gratification NOW" performative activism, which has seemed the default for kids since at least the 1960's.
>Actually the guy who set up Just Stop Oil

Google isn't showing me who that is; the only results I'm getting talk about the Getty heiress. Can you please tell us what that guy's name is and ideally a link to the story you're referring to?
You're not the only one - I generally also considering advertising a slight negative signal (although not for the reasons you describe.)

I just assume there is some other lower cost competitor that spends less money on advertising and returns the margin to me.
You are pretty much saying that all the world is in it, all the governments, all the independent institutions, universities, researchers, working together on a conspiracy to make the world a better, more sustainable place for no reason.

Can you not see? The changes became so rapid in the last few years that you can just go outside and see for yourself, extreme temperatures, heat domes, cold waves, wildfires, droughts, intense storms, vanishing biodiversity. Once in a hundred years events one after another. I remember my childhood when we used to have four seasons, we barely have two now, a mild winter with occasional cold waves and a summer with extreme weather. No in-between. Biggest droughts we have ever seen. A lot of insects missing.
It does for podcasts.
Some of the "renewables aren't affordable" people are just out of date. They ran the numbers back in the early 2000s and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be economical to switch to wind and solar. But prices, especially on solar, have been in collapse for the past 20 years. Previously unaffordable battery based grid storage quietly became a thing. EVs also dropped down to mainsteam prices. The solution to climate change is economies of scale.
USB-C didn't even exist in 2012 when Apple rolled out Lightning. Micro USB would have been the "standard" choice, but it couldn't match what Lightning was capable of. I don't see how you can blame Apple for this.
Ya, he's tried both and definitely prefers on site (at this stage).
You are advocating "learned helplessness."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/learned-helplessne...
Republican Party lost core supporters after the attack on Capitol
And it's indeed still called AWS marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search
Thanks for visiting&feedback--will get this fixed!
Someone will need to start an EU-based business where US developers can submit their rejections, and have the EU side get a proper explanation.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying - maybe I didn't articulate it properly.

We have all these things going on today because of the actions of governments over the past 10-20-30 years. I didn't cause the inflation, I didn't cause the housing crisis, and I certainly didn't cause the environmental catastrophes.

Why the government wants to clean up their messes with more of _my_ money has me flabbergasted.

For some reason, society has decided to put trust in governments to help us with climate change, when the very same governments put us into this situation in the first place.

The very same governments who said to trust them, while encouraging economic policies for decades that favor the rich and politically elite - insider trading, complete and total export of manufacturing to third-world countries, back-door deals...

The very same governments who said they'd take care of our health is the same government that let the medical system get administratively bloated without caring about front-line staff. Now there's country-wide shortages that likely won't be fixed for at least a decade, if not more while we try and encourage more people into medical fields.

The very same governments who said that we care about stopping inflation, but are peachy keen with sending billions upon billions of dollars overseas to a country that before a year ago, 90% of us couldn't find on a globe.

So many times the government has lied to the people - why would this time be any different?

Sure, the government relies on experts to make their policy changes - climate scientists, economists, doctors, etc. But do you think they'd ever follow an expert that suggests advice that is _not_ in the governments best interest? Better yet - do you not think that governments don't find experts that tell them what government wants to hear?

Far as I'm concerned, this climate tax stuff is all an excuse to extract more money out of the middle and lower classes. People who have literally no idea on how the climate works just parrot "i'm helping the planet!" while their wallets get emptier and emptier.

You can't enjoy the nice climate/life when you're penniless, starving, and working slave labor to make ends meet. But the rich and elite sure are on your dime!
I disagree. This "corporate drama" really does impact users, as well as developers (most of the HN crowd).
I doubt you will get a link and if you do it will not be from a reputable source.
A group calling themselves "Återställ Våtmarker" did glue themselves to a road in Sweden and an ambulance was delayed for a few minutes, however nobody died. The people responsible are charged with sabotage, not manslaughter.
You said this:

> By your own logic, ...

And didn't explain why OP is being hypocritical with their arguments.
It seems you are misunderstanding their position.
> A second data point is: other languages improved enough, Java is just another one among many.

To me, C# not only caught up with Java, but also overtook it and left it miles behind. Developing services with .NET Core is an absolute pleasure, and feels so effortless.

Beyond tradition and legacy code, what does Java have to offer?
> Btw here in EU GDPR also has effect in real world, just an example before GDPR you would get exam results published publicly with names,

In the US, for decades not even parents could know about their college students without the students signing paperwork.

> Same if you go to a clinic to do a blood tests, they need to give you a paper and specify exactly what they will do with your data.

HIPAA in the US never required cookie pop ups and has been the law for decades.

Its not exactly making a strong argument that there is one really complicated 11 chapter 99 section law that tries and failed badly to address different goals.
> The alternative seems to be a kind of milquetoast design-by-committee that satisfies the majority of people but also perpetually plays catch up to proprietary products by recreating their features without ever breaking new ground.

How is this not a description of gnome? I specifically argue this is my previous comment. In contrast to say plasma/xfce/lxqt which are mostly an idealized windows xp in terms of concepts, ie a frozen target, not playing catch-up.

> I did not interpret "radical" in the prior comment to have either a positive or negative connotation.

Neither do i. :)

> It merely implies that some of GNOME's decisions are polarizing and a drastic departure from norms, [..]

> I think it's great that a few open source projects are willing to be more radical and experimental [..]

This is not true, they are following quite closely the most recent trends in design. Specifically mobile platforms and quite apple-like: round squares, low-contrast thin-outlines, switch-style toggles, dock and launchpad-style app selector, simple window decoration, hamburgers, ... And this is a well-known choice, which has a history, motivations, requisites, etc. And surprise! the critics made at gnome are kind of the same (with a lower intensity) that are maid at apple or at mobile walled gardens: being dumbed-down, hiding OS concepts, discouraging any customization.

I'm really not very angry at gnome. It's fine to do this design style. I don't use it but not because of the look, in fact i like some apps they do. They just need to understand better how and why the thing they are inspired by has been maid and pay attention the the stuff that they should not reproduce, either because it doesn't make any sense in their case or because it's bad for the users.
Silly as it is I really miss song previews.

Used to be if you long pressed a song (iOS anyway) it would jump in a little and play for as long as you held it, going back to the music you were listening to when you let go.

Great for checking you've found the song you were thinking of and impromptu remixes to make friends laugh.

Annoyingly it was removed for "low engagement rate"[0]. I mean yeah, I found it by accident lmao. Maybe tell people about it?

[0] https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Touch-Previ...
I think you really need to explain who the target audience is, if not a site that routinely discusses climate change and climate targeting technologies/solutions.
Maybe it's a stepping stone into robotics for people wanting to live amongst their robot friends and helpers in AR? A future Boston Dynamics + Meta collaboration?

Also, to control robot avatars in the real-world from your bedroom! How else are you going to buy your milk?! And those robots will be used to map out a true virtual-reality that reflects the real world (RW.) Another way to do that is installing cameras everywhere at participating towns or stores.

So the key is in bridging the gap between VR and RW.

Checkout any walking tour on YT... I'm thinking interactive and live (or near-live) versions of those.
What we want them to do is not act like toddlers throwing a temper tantrum.

They aren't accomplishing anything but making people dislike the majority of climate activists who don't engage in such foolish, self-aggrandizing, wanton, and yes, highly narcissistic behavior.

Here's a productive activity that the vast majority of climate activists are unwilling to do:
Take cold showers. Start a big movement to take cold showers. Hot water heaters use tons of energy. My dad is a climate activist, and uses cold water, keeps his thermostat set to 50 in winter, doesn't use AC in summer. You know, things that are actually uncomfortable and require sacrifice that these narcissists will never do.