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I'm pretty sure Pantone would have charged only a fraction of the cost if Adobe would have included a license for everyone.

Since only a fraction of Photoshop users need Pantone, they now need to pay a lot more.
I immediately distrust any article that makes sweeping claims about one-paradigm-to-rule-them-all.

The reason why multiple paradigms exist is because here in the real world, the competing issues and constraints are never equal, and never the same.

A big part of engineering is navigating all of the offerings, examining their trade-offs, and figuring out which ones fit best to the system being built in terms of constraints, requirements, interfaces, maintenance, expansion, manpower, etc. You won't get a very optimal solution by sticking to one paradigm at the expense of others.

One of the big reasons why FP languages have so little penetration is because the advocacy usually feels like someone trying to talk you into a religion. (The other major impediment is gatekeeping)
They said the most profitable car! I know it isn't a good comparison, I'm just saying what they are saying isn't true.

The profit MARGIN of the model x is great tho.
Functional programming: the future of computing since 1977. (Dating it from John Backus's Turing Award lecture.)
I don’t care about having this kind of influence. These are tools. I want the tools I use to be good so I buy good tools.

It’s not about low quality discussion. A significant part of the Linux community seems to me to be deeply toxic and that leads to what I consider to be suboptimal technical choices.
I don't think it is whataboutism to say please go vegan!

Next suggestion, get other people to go vegan :)
...which is also what you get by using an RGB / CMYK approximation and then telling the manufacturer which kind of paint should be used for that layer (by specifying a Pantone color). What this $15 subscription is for is technically just that set of mappings built-in into Photoshop.
DRAM’s Moore’s Law Is Still Going Strong
The Flip Phone Experiment
True north, magnetic north and grid north will combine for first time in history
Not harassing and annoying unrelated people. If your cause is holy enough that you feel entitled to harass me or vandalize my property, you are my enemy, regardless of what your goals are.
Pure functional programming does require immutable data. There are lots of FP languages that aren't pure, though.
Have they tried competition? Usually that's the middle ground capitalism has been successfully utilizing.
Thanks, updated it.
Well, it's not just HN and a bunch of vbulletin boards. Every subreddit, every facebook group, every discord server is the kind of forum that section 230 protects. In fact, even if you block people on twitter you are arguably turning the replies to your tweets into a moderated forum. Should that make you liable for them?
If you are on Linux, give a try to Orca. It integrates nicely with KDE/Plasma and Gnome... and the browsers (Firefox, Chromium, Edge...)
Discussing Elon is tedious now
Charging more for the dyes would impact the bottom line of very large business interests, namely, the chemical companies that make the inks, and the printing and publishing companies.

Forcing a contract graphic designer to pay $15/month for the privilege of being able to participate in designing stuff for print is much more palatable to business interests.
Can you describe a monopoly that isn't "natural"? I see what you mean but struggle to think of a traditional monopolistic company that doesn't have a "we started with the industry" defense.
Jony Ive on Life After Apple
Only if you pay me $15 a month.

Seriously I think the value they bring demands a price. Seeing how Adobe abuses its market dominance to force people into their cloud, I can understand their attempts to do the same.
I used to work as a GD professionally, Pantones/spot colours are incredibly important in the industry. Process printing (usually CMYK) is great, but often just not accurate enough, and I really doubt Coca Cola or whoever else would be too pleased with you swapping out their pantone colour for an alternative.
With Google Maps I can literally download maps of the entire UK, and they are kept locally for 6 months? A year? I can't remember how long.

Any time I'm driving somewhere reasonably far (or where I know there's no service), I'll download or update the maps. Never had an issue.
nmap has a serialization cost, and sharing complex data structures is hard with it.

It's also different than multiprocesses as it will likely take less RAM.

Python is explorer multiple interpreters for these reasons. Python 3.8 SharedMemory works well, it's far from transparent.
Have we stopped speaking to the dead? (2020)
This article from 2020 is making the rounds because David Sacks is in Elon Musk's inner circle and now works at Twitter.

It's an absolute hash of an argument that would mire every American service provider in perpetual litigation. Twitter would be better off with no Section 230 than with one that requires them to prove "false statements of fact" (even the word "fact" in that phrase is a subject of white-hot intense litigation) or even "incitement". It's unlikely that Sacks stands by this analysis today, and more likely that Sacks wrote it believing that he'd never be personally responsible for implementing it.
Perhaps, but those are still FP solutions that have been added to non-FP languages.
Not only tooling is a problem. Name one FP language that I can use for high-performance and systems programming. Is there any one except ATS?

And ATS is pretty hard (unlike C, C++ and Rust). I think it will take a while until linear & dependent type languages will hit mainstream. Rust already succeeded in that regard, so it's a great stepping stone.
But that's exactly what I'm trying to understand. What is the problem people have with it? Maybe if you tell me, I'll feel the same way!
The problem is that Chinese mentality results in corruption, denialism and other attributes what makes working on R&D almost impossible. For that you need free minds, room for mistakes, no strong hiarchy. All things you won't find in China.
Great Stuff, Really simple to use :)
> It's accurate and factual to state that getting all low-risk people vaccinated with covid with the current set of available leaky, quickly-waning vaccines does nothing to protect genuinely high-risk people.

It's neither accurate or factual. Genuinely high-risk people who are vaccinated but get covid have much better outcomes than genuinely high-risk people who are not vaccinated. The vaccine can literally protect them from death. You'd have to be crazy to conclude that the vaccine "does nothing to protect" them.
For me, it's simple. Google is using this data to cement it's monopoly, to extort businesses and to pressure governments.

From your comment, it seems like your main concern is that governments can access your data. But what if beyond&above those governments, there is a single entity that's far more powerful? Would you be willingly hand the data to them? Because that is what Google is. Or is becoming. Or, if you're very sceptical: can easily become.
On the one hand, I'd agree the comment you replied to was unnecessarily hateful.

On the other,

> Also I guess you've never heard of Medicare coverage for hospice care and nursing homes.

Doesn't count for much if people aren't willing to be employed in those roles.
Well, at least you are being honest now.
Last year I shelled out 700 Euros for a Garmin Overlander off road navigation unit. I wish I didn't. The hardware is very nice - essentially a rugged Android tablet with a well thought out mounting mechanism.

But the software side ... oh boy. The "Garmin Explore" service this device is intended to work with looks like something from 2004. I mean not a finished product from 2004. But a proof of concept or minimal viable product from 2004. Usability is terrible. Planing trips/routes on the device is torture. Using the web interface isn't much better. (I'd link a screenshot but the service seems to be down ... again lol).

Sync breaks all the time. It's triggered by "bad" filenames for the .gpx files. Some special chars seem to break syncing so bad that the device won't sync at all until you delete the offending file in the cloud - but there's no error message. One day you just wonder why your recent route you planned in the browser isn't on the device. So you go to the sync tab and there's a message like "Last sync: 3_weeks_ago". Have fun fixing this as a normal person. (This bug also comes up when a route has a wrong count of waypoints ... it's not too many waypoints, it seems to be a number between too few and too many). I only figured this out by accident. Garmin support told me to reset the device and make a new account. (Which meant I lost all my tracks).

Now if Garmin did work on the software and provided updates I wouldn't be so salty. But there has been 0 improvements to the software side of things since the device was released like 3 years ago. ZERO. All you get is map updates which are for the street navigation side of things. The "overlanding" part? Forget it. There has been 0 bug fixes, 0 new features, nothing.

I guess you're supposed to buy the new (more expensive) Garmin device that recently came out. As if I would give Garmin one more Euro.

It's not even incompetence. It's maliciousness. They have a line up of wireless cameras (which you mount to your vehicle's bumper, etc). The cams connect via WiFi to the navigation device. Recently Garmin released a new camera - one which I'de find rather useful as it's small and works completely via battery and you can clip to the license plate. So you don't have to wire anything and can take it easily off when you don't need it.

But guess what - not compatible with my 700 Euro Android Tablet that could be made totally compatible via a software update if Garmin just wanted to. If you want to use the new cam: Buy the new 1200 Euro navi model. Oh, btw. some of the the older cameras won't work with the new device ... so you better buy a new set of new cameras.

I hope Garmin goes bankrupt. Sincerely.

/edit: I switched to the Gaia GPS app running on an iPad mini. Waaaay better experience.
I think F# has a good tooling story, since it's part of .NET and a first-class citizen in Visual Studio. It doesn't get as much love from Microsoft as C#, but it's still quite nice to use.
Sure it does, because that 23% intersects with college and athletic opportunities, and not as much with line cook opportunities.
In my place (Geneva, Switzerland), Google Maps stubbornly keeps suggesting for years the fastest route form my side of the town to the other through one of few bridges that is actually absolute no-go for public traffic, with tons of warning signs (sometimes some of them are obscured by buses but still hard to miss).

Needless to say, there is often some sucker going through there, and I have to admit I ended up there once too exactly because of Google Maps. No effort to correct it over the years, in one of the wealthiest and most important power/finance centers globally.

What you and parent describe happened to me too, maps are absolute blessing compared to what was there before but they are sometimes not that great ie in cities with a lot of traffic. Its easy to get used to something just working and start demanding perfection, when we are maybe 96% there.
Back in the day, IBM didn't own a distribution that worked to extract maximum cost to those already in the ecosystem.

It sounds like Rakuten is paying CIQ instead of Red Hat on basis of a price increase from Red Hat.
> Yes, but Pantone colours is more specialised software

Pantone has nothing to do with software.

The "software" here is a mapping of color names to hex. It's literally a text file.
He's got "incitement" wrong too; he's concluded that incitement is about "imminence", which is a factor, but the larger factor is intent. If Twitter was held to the 1A standard on incitement, it would be unable to block a great deal of content that was likely to cause imminent lawless action.
When you're trying to steer a boat toward a goal it's unusual if you can point your boat in that direction and then keep an straight rudder the entire way there. Currents exist and will push you off course. To reach your goal you have to steer against the current. If you tried to keep a neutral rudder you'd never make it. One side of this debate believes that equality is achievable without steering against the current, they are wrong.
Twitter replaced blogs because blogs were not discoverable or aggregated. Twitter accounts are.

Twitter was born out of the short "status updates" fad at the time, on both Myspace and eventually Facebook.

Those were born out of MSN Messenger and other IM programs at the time that had customizable social profiles of sorts - including an updatable Status that was shown as a subtitle in your contacts' respective friends lists.

I remember the general sentiment of Twitter when it started was that the short character count (120 characters or whatever it started with) was a fun novelty, nothing more. It wasn't seen as a "social network".

Twitter gets its name in part from the saying "A little birdie told me ..." intersected with the fact that your phone twitches (vibrates) when you receive an update. It mimicked the other popular app names at the time that often omitted a vowel, such as 'flickr'. The original site was thus called twttr.com. The whole point was to be short, concise, non-serious communication. "Yo" tried to take this to the extreme several years later and ultimately failed (or pivoted, not sure which).

When Twitter started gaining traction, it was clear that more involved discourse was nearly impossible with the shorter character count, thus the limit was bumped up to what it is now (240 or 280 or something). The initial response was, understandably, negative. People predicted at the time that this would devolve the platform into another battlegrounds for shouting matches and arguing just as Facebook had. In hindsight, they were mostly correct.

Threads were also added to improve cohesion within lengthy conversations, and those features alone are now what form the core of Twitter's major feature set.

It's worth noting that Twitter hasn't changed much, which is pretty widely regarded as a feature in itself and can earn long term retention even with on-the-fence users (see: Steam).

However, this is mostly just my recollection of events.
Tracking isn’t bad per se. The bad part is that all the information acquired from tracking is used to build an oversimplified profile of each user, that in turn distorts the information that Google searches return for that user.

This often reflects and amplifies societal biases. For example, users that Google identifies as female are less likely to be shown ads for high paying jobs [0]. This creates a feedback loop: if a certain user demographic is less likely to be shown a given result, they are less likely to view it, which in turn makes them even less likely to be shown it in the first place.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/women-less-likely-to-be-shown-...
Ask HN: What Is Ra1In3tP0l SSID on the London Underground
Ra1In3tP0l is an SSID which appears at every tube stop with wifi. Any ideas on what the name means and what it's used for?
> I am, however, somewhat concerned that TomTom uploads my travel history to their servers, since my device has LTE/3G capability.

They do, or at least they used to before the GDPR came into action. Not sure what the situation is like now.
Possibly only of interest to British map geeks.
Ask HN: How to deal with burnout and its consequences?
Hey HN,

Earlier this year I burned out hard and spectacularly, having nothing short of a total breakdown and being forced to take many, many months of medical leave by my GP.

My job wasn't overly difficult, but the corporate environment I found myself in was something I'd never done before and it was completely unsuited to me as an individual. It is the worst working experience I've ever been through.

I returned to my job late last month and I find that I simply don't care anymore. My burnout was never really fixed despite the time off. I'm unable to accomplish even basic tasks at work now and truthfully I'm at a point where I don't even care if I get fired. In the time I've been back I think I've been able to close one of two tiny tickets, the rest of the time I've literally done nothing.

During my time off I've been poked and prodded by psychologists and they seem to think I have ADHD and that it was a large contributing factor to this, though I'm not completely sure I buy this explanation.

I'm not well off like most people on here, I can survive 4-6 months with no salary, which I'm likely going to have to consider given my firing seems imminent at this point. I simply don't think I'm capable of maintaining this job anymore.

I really don't know how to get over this and how to move past it. I feel quite literally incapable of working. My mind knows what needs to be done, but my body says no and I am overwhelmed by apathy. I'm honestly not sure if I'm capable of working in tech anymore at this point and that's doing quite a number of any selfesteem I had.

Truthfully I didn't know things could get this bad. I'm trying to figure out what my future even looks like and how to move past this and any advice would be really appreciated.
Duplication problem is solved by immutable data structures with structural sharing. They are part of Clojure standard library and exist in some other languages.
It is totally okay to train Copilot on GPL code, but the resulting generated code should also be released under GPL license, clearly being a derivative work. I don't even know why it is being discussed.
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I think the OP meant the VoIP service was provided by T-Mobile.
Like their methods or not they are moving the Overton window in a very public and widespread manner.

They and their actions might be too extreme for many, with very public displays in art galleries garnering much media attention coupled with bring coal shipments to a stand still by suspending themselves from coal loaders etc.

But they have grabbed attention and started a broader discussion about how far is too far when it comes to limiting fossil fuel use, etc.
Most People in Society Are Allergic to Personal Responsibility
It was like that in the early 2000's. It's much better now.
The US has done much the same thing. Almost all graduate medical education (residencies) is funded by the federal government through the Medicare program. But despite increasing demand, Congress has held that funding roughly flat in order to keep Medicare costs under control. So we have a ridiculous situation where students are graduating from medical school but can't actually practice because they can't get matched to a residency slot. This is leading to delays in care and overwork for existing physicians.
I've lived in South Texas my entire life, so my winter experience is pretty limited (though I got quite the crash course in February 2021 along with most of the state), but I see lots of talk about modern heating systems the world over preparing for the coming winter in a time of energy shortage, and I just think about how these places have been inhabited since before industrialization and I wonder how?

I suppose the question that I have is what has modernity done to us? Are people just used to a comfort standard that is getting less achievable (I'd be pretty miserable in summer without HVAC myself), or is this a life and death issue that people are no longer able live in warm enough shelter to survive?
The bigger problem is that we have more people retiring than entering the workforce. This demographic collapse has been forecast for decades. COVID just pushed us ahead on the curve with some early retirements.

I wrote about this [0] and welcome input on how my thinking might be incorrect.

I work in multiple industries and am struggling with recruiting labor that requires years of training. I welcome creative ideas on how to have my companies succeed in this environment.

Fixing immigration is the only near term solution.

0: https://enki.org/2022/05/17/demographic-impacts/
There is a no-left-turn street near my work, and Google maps keeps telling me to turn left there. I've been reporting it every now and then since at least 2018 and it does nothing.
In those cases I opt to have no 2FA at all.

Only culprit that's really enforced it is the Canada Revenue Agency
The problem is not only, that things are Google. The problem is, that more and more stuff being Google means fewer alternatives, which in turn means more and more websites and other things start relying on Google, which in turn causes the users to be at Google's mercy.

I don't want Google to know all websites I visit. I don't want it to know all websites I visit, which have a map widget on them. I don't want Google to have knowledge about where I am going and when I am going anywhere. Websites for example using Google maps will indirectly enable Google to actually know these things. For example if I want to book a hotel and I want to know, how I get there from the next public transport station (or if I had a car, how I drive there). If it is a Google maps widget, data about what location I am viewing will be available to Google. Google being Google, I have no doubt, that they will try to use that for profiling people.

Relying on a becoming a monopoly does not help with freedom. The fact, that uninformed developers introduce dependencies to Google products without a second thought, makes them uninformed indirect helpers of a spying company, whose profit is based on profiling people and tracking people online, to show them pesky ads. It exposes us to the whims of a capitalistically motivated tech giant, which does not have our best interest at heart. That is, why we need alternatives. That is why at least initially any alternative based on non-Google things, is a good thing. The fewer people make use of Google (dis)services the better for all of us, because they wont have the same power over our lives.

So the whole "before Google it was better" thing, is actually a "before evil tech giant monopoly" thing.
"While vaccines do not offer 100% protection against COVID-19 infection, they can still partially defend against infection. Vaccines remain effective at protecting from COVID-19-caused serious illness, hospitalization and death."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/01/21/fac...
CentOS stream is "Red Hat right now". RHEL releases branch off CentOS.
It's never problem if it's just about small number of people.

When they track half of humanity, they can see all kinds of patterns that they, and other people can exploit.

Let's turn your question around. If all this information is that useless and harmless why are all corporations and governments spending tens of billions of dollars acquiring and keeping?
That's 0.003% of Twitter's "monetizable" daily active users.
The function of the previous blue check mark is still going to be available for free, as a label under the name (similar to what government affiliated personnel currently have). So there is nothing to lose if you don't want to subscribe to Twitter Blue. You will still be verified.