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Musk feuds with Apple over Twitter advertising
> never be able to edit prices

I can't think of any database that makes a row strictly immutable, as in carved onto the platter immutable. People will find ways to undo any soft-guards you put into place, all in the name of being helpful.
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My grandmother still uses an iPad 2nd gen. Mainly because she's 97 and has dementia, and we taught her how to use facetime a decade ago, and it's all she knows how to do on it. It works for her needs, although the battery is completely shot so remains plugged in and we've since fixed it to the wall in front of her living room chair so it doesn't go missing.

Not quite as old but my Mum's still using an iPhone 5s from around 2014 which she had from new. She's not into apps so again, works fine for her as she doesn't need to be able to install anything. Thankfully homekit is still working on this and she's able to use it to tell siri to open the garage when she gets home.

Obviously these are very much edge cases, you can't find many apps in the app store still working on these older models.

I myself only upgraded from an iPhone 7 this September when the 14 came out. I'd had the battery replaced by Apple last year as it was a free recall thing which did massively improve its performance but it did eventually become too much of a pain in the arse to keep using.

I've got an old iPhone 5 which I keep for use as an occasional wifi hotspot too.
Dry, and strictly so. At least for the market I sell in they must be between 11% and 14.5% moisture off the combine (must be naturally dried).
The good thing if that if I wake up at 4am, it's prime time in the US.
So I can fire up a VPN on my ipad and live stream some US broadcast TV.
And then, after a few minutes, so back to bed.
> The big issue, as I understand it, is JIT. You can run any browser engine you like on iOS, but only WebKit (its JavaScriptCore component) is allowed to JIT JavaScript. Without JIT, the JavaScript performance will be bad; and considering the contemporary JavaScript-heavy nature of the web, that makes any alternative browser engine a non-starter.

IDK how it is now, but Apple used not to allow e.g. alternative Javascript engines in apps—you had to use Webkit's.

Having developed an app-building engine for Android in the days when some vendors shipped different engines to supply webview functionality (is that a thing? I actually don't know if they ever stopped) I can say I'm extremely in favor of this part of their policy. God that was a pain in the ass.
> As the world gets richer, people eat more meat.

Living in central Berlin (Mitte), one of the most expensive parts of the city, it feels the opposite is happening.

Everything here is vegan or vegetarian at least.

Even a steak place next door to where I live has vegan plates.

On that note: it made me sad that all the dramatic changes you listed omitted the suffering of animals.
I don’t think that’s right - my daughter does and she has a 6s
The limit on fresh water is a local problem. Maybe that's an issue in California during dry years, but not in North Carolina or Iowa, which are subject to completely different rainfall patterns.
I've always taken that as the characters not knowing which language is being spoken. If it's been established I expect to see [SPEAKING MANDARIN] or some such.

They don't subtitle it because the audience isn't expected to know what's being said.
I mean it’s the Walmart model; be cheap early, get less cheap over time.

My 5,000 foot philosophical take is because they were never making money in a day to day business way and relying on low interest rates to inflate values through money shuffling schemes to game attention.

Over time models made it apparent they would never make long term business sense as software improved and automation took over, so it’s a medium term pump and dump jobs program fueled by low interest rates to attract information workers into providing them code shapes to train AI that writes code and let big tech own all the copyrights.

So we’ll have MPAA/RIAA owning all art, and FAANG or whatever owning all technology. A modern patronage system kind of sort of.

Not saying it’s good or bad. Just an attempt at a meta viewpoint of society.
It was fast on say, 300mhz and faster hardware, but while watching a video where Windows 95 was running on a 486, I remembered how you used to be able to see individual UI elements being drawn on the screen piece by piece.
> You can only pay for software on their own store.

I would love to see Apple adopt a more open ecosystem, and I could see it happening in the net 5-10 years.

But, nobody cares about this aside from the tech community. The average smartphone user is fine with the status quo.
This post is also a list of reasons why everyone thinking seriously about becoming computer scientists should start nowhere else than with C
> your belief that "'affect' is the word for the whole phrase 'effect change in'" is mistaken.

It's not. "Change (verb)" is literally "cause (verb) change (noun) in". That's how verb noun relationships work. "Affect (verb)" is "change (verb)" and "effect (verb)" is the "cause/create in" but is missing the critical part of translating "change (verb)", which is the actual "change" part. To get from affect to effect without changing the meaning you must complete the phrase.
> if you do fflush(stdout); return INT_MAX + 1; the compiler cannot omit the fflush() call merely because the subsequent statement had undefined behavior

False! The expression (INT_MAX + 1) has no side effect (assuming no UB), so according to the rules of the C abstract machine, the compiler is allowed to hoist this calculation above the fflush(). If you run this on a machine that traps on integer overflow (which is allowed behavior), the process could crash before the fflush() is executed. Remember, everyone: With UB, anything can happen.
Does this support depend on a region?

I’m here in UK, my bill is sub £10k/mo and literally today few hours ago I had an hour with Google engineer discussing use of their MultiClusterIngress to mix GKE standard and Autopilot to handle spikes extremely fast. Afterwards dude sent me docs and his project he used as an example. It’s the second time this month: we don’t even chat about any specific bugs, more about my architecture goals.

I also have an account manager and she’s currently working on making discount rates from our contract to work with our new hierarchy of multiple billing accounts, some VAT paying and some not, that my finance department requested.

You also can have backup payment methods? I think we have DDs as a default and then CCs as backups.
I don’t think users intrinsically care about open source, what they want is free. If it’s closed source then that’s probably ok too.
A savings account is generally a no-risk or low-risk investment vehicle. This usually means that you could withdraw the balance on any given day and not suffer a realized loss. Even if you assume that Bitcoin's value will always recover long-term, having short term volatility in the 50% range might mean that the money in a Bitcoin "savings account" will not be available when you actually need it.
> being used on Twitter to combat Nazis and incels

There's something unsettling about putting these two terms next to each other.
It’s also shitty the entire time you use it. Let’s compare apples with apples (or replace the fruit, but you know what I mean)
The difference is Apple insists on removing most of the user's control over their device, which makes it an ideal target for authoritarian regimes. Android gives you more control and more options.
Not at all, is it not possible to succeed without debt trapping? If you build a road, you can agree to collect tolls on it and require a percentage of that is paid back to the construcrion company forever. You can structure and restructure the debt as needed, use your workers like the Chinese. Is the only reason masses of westerners visit asia to invade? I do not approve of CCPs ways but until the west does better and competes it has no place criticizing China.
I mean, I'll just be mad about air drop being limited in China directly. I don't need to also be mad about a stupid frog out of principle.
Apple admitted slowing down old phones. They DID NOT admit that the reason they did so was to force people to upgrade sooner. That is something you made up.
1) Southeastern US. We will announce exact location shortly.

2) Vine crops (Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers) and berries. No cannabis.

3) Greenhouses are supplying the US market from Canada and Mexico today. So they are already price competitive. Greenhouses are complementary to field farms as a) field farms do not produce during the winter; and b) greenhouses supply higher quality varieties.
It's being reported on with more e-mails by Unions Initiative which is Polish non-profit supporting unionization efforts in country:

https://www-za-org-pl.translate.goog/prezes-sii-polska-i-wla...
I definitely get the sense that it's getting worse. It's very hard to visit a site without getting a popup to subscribe, purchase, or donate. Apps are constantly pushing you to subscribe or create an account.

I wonder what the end game is for all of this. Is this just the way things are going to be from now on? Is the pushiness going to die down a little bit?

It certainly makes me want to visit sites less. If there's any friction now on a site, such as a pop up requiring sign in, I simply don't have the patience to try it out and more often than not just close the tab. It makes my experience of reading dead-tree books and magazines such a joy nowadays. I know I can flip the page without anything popping up.
> I'm not aware of any Mac user among my friends who isn't aware of this.

I don't think any of my non-tech friends would know this.
I seem to remember a PADI endorsement of my old dive computer, but that was many moons ago.

They aren't just training agencies. They also certify stuff. I remember seeing their names all over my stuff, but that was many moons ago (mid-1990s. I stopped diving, after I had my noggin worked over by a noggin mechanic).
Yes, but the service life of a Land Cruiser 200 series is 25 years. There’s a profound amount of environmental impact beyond the gas pump, and most of it comes from building and shipping all the parts to assemble the automobile over and over again. The manufacturing process is profoundly environmentally destructive, so vehicles that have a longer service life (Land Cruiser is 2-2.5 times the average) have a role to play.

They are also one of the few petrol vehicles that are still built to this kind of standard, so they do demonstrate as the “smoking gun” that the industry itself engineers obsolescence into their vehicles and could do much better.

Somehow we’ve all been reduced to yakking on and on about fuel economy. There are 30,000 parts in the average car, and almost all of them are manufactured and shipped. What’s the impact of tens of thousands of components and built onsite for JIT manufacturing?

If we wanted to change this, we could do very easily. We would just need to put a sticker in the window of the car that says: “Designed to Last: 12 years” or whatever. That way people could make an informed decision and game theory would come in to effect. Auto makers know this information: every car has a design life of you wouldn’t have anything like the “25 year design life” of a Land Cruiser in the first place.

I consider it the impact of car and oil company propaganda, as they’ve narrowed the discussion to “miles per gallon” rather than the overall impact of design life and the constant need to remanufacture the same vehicle over and over again for the same customer throughout their lifetime.

The hidden danger is in the subtle propaganda of suggested talking points from industry that subtly moves the conversation over decades. Propaganda isn’t to tell us what to think, it’s to frame and influence the things we talk about and give us a industry favorable set of opinion talking points to frame a conversation that benefits the status quo.

The Land Cruiser is one of the last petrol vehicles that demonstrates without a doubt that we could be building to a much higher standard for viritually the same money. It was 84k when it went off the market in 2020, and Toyotas next most expensive vehicle with half the service life was about 75k. The Land Cruiser has a 10,000 usd tax because it isn’t assembled in North America, so double the service life vehicle can be delivered at the same price as the top end vehicle in a lineup. Its simply a choice by car companies not to do it.

But all we as a society can talk about is gas mileage, because that’s something the “industry can get behind.”

It’s something to bear in mind.
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That's a fantastic way to setup your github - I shall steal it asap :-)
If only iPhones had a way to turn off its cellular radio, some kind of “airplane mode” or something
Miami nightclubs mourn absence of high-rolling crypto entrepreneurs
Diving Deeper in Vim Regular Expressions
What are you contrasting the "West" with? As a person who lived most of his life in an Asian country with a very strong familial and social construct, I can say that there were no shortage of lonely, broken people there - we as a society just did a better job of hiding it. Perhaps the sense of failure and isolation may have slightly different causes, but that is not to say that Western society is somehow uniquely broken.
This is exactly the sort of reason I don’t think I could ever switch back to android.
https://playingcards.io/ is a good tabletop simulator for card games. Can make custom decks and use their pre-made widgets.
Substack in particular seems to have pulled a bait-and-switch in terms of strategy. Their original line was "Each newsletter is a separate publisher and separate business and we're just a platform. You can take your list and leave at any time." But in the last months they've been rolling out feature after feature designed to bind publishers and readers tightly to Substack as a brand: A reader app, app-only chat, checkmark-badges for high-sellers, semi-mysterious (algorithmic?) promotion features for driving subscriptions, etc.

At this point it seems like actual email newsletters are kind of a nuisance to them, and they're trying to be more Medium than Medium.
It is plausible to track people using airdrop. This move does also protect protest attendees who can still turn airdrop on when they think they want to receive things.

But cause and effect and consequence is for other people to jabber about.

I’m not some massive hypocrite like others here. I have Apple products, I don’t need to love Apple. I think the alternative is worse, but that doesn’t mean I need to get into an off-topic rant about how Elon is being mean… because somehow that organically keeps coming up.

I would Apple to act in the best interest of their customers. This move is at least some percentage that.
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I've seen them asking for private forums to stop giving such folk a platform, because an organization can choose to do what it will with its private property.

But public forums? No, I can't say I have. In fact, I remember witnessing a President giving a large speech in a public forum that was followed by a riot at the Capitol (whether said speech was causal to the riot is still a matter for the courts). Nobody challenged his right to give the speech until the question of whether it was "incitement to riot" came up, and that challenge is unrelated.
Fair points.

Stargate: wow! With that kind of return on investment on $20 M, psychic readings for $10 a pop sound like a bargain in comparison. At worst, the readers are good at reading some signals hiding in plain sight and prompting some self reflection.
A universal OS

That would run on desktops, tablets, servers, phones, IoT devices, etc
Steam Deck is:

- very big and heavy

- button placement is very bad (as a result of the size)

- steam software is just bad, slow and resource intensive (it's basically a web browser powered by chromium)

- not every games are compatible

- not every games have controller support

The Nintendo Switch is imo a better handheld console, it's the perfect size and you know you can play every games released for the switch, so you are not gambling

Valve control the Steam platform, and yet they can't enforce Deck's compatibility, worse, games that worked can end up not working anymore [1]

I don't own a Switch, i'm still waiting for a proper Switch alternative/successor, hopefully Sony will decide to revive the PSP

[1] - https://twitter.com/gamingonlinux/status/1596824471670648832
Are you just guessing or do you actually have a reason to believe this?
"Apple is still definitely slowing down Macs with every single little release."

This was true for Intel Macs 2014-2020. I bought a 14' M1 Macbook Pro with 32GB of memory / 1TB storage and it absolutely flies. Best machine I've owned in almost a decade (2014 15' MBP).
At Automattic, I think the mu-plugins folder for WordPress.com had at least a hundred directories and at least another count's worth of the same in files. It was massive.
Again, you're using a totally non-standard definition of capital. Google "capital definition"

> wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.

So yes, if you redefine the word capital to fit whatever you like, then sure, I agree with you.
I can blame him for lying!
I mean, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Templates have evolved a great deal over time, and continue to do so (C++20 added Concepts).
I started coding with C and OCaml in 2019. Everything in between these two was so unnatural. With JavaScript as the worst of all
Huh. Google Trends shows a pretty much constant interest in the word over the last few years:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Perhaps a slight increase, but nothing like 17 times more.
Completely agree with you here. Even in my circle of engineer friends I'm generally viewed as the open source zealot for only buying Pixel phones purely because I can unlock the bootloader on them and root them still. I only have one app that actually uses it (for making backups of installed apps) but it's the principle of the thing: if I bought and paid for a device I should be allowed to run whatever darn code I want on it, not only code that the manufacturer says I'm allowed to run. It's my device, not theirs.

Apparently that's a radical position to have these days and I find it irresponsible that software folks of all people won't stand up more for the right to run their code on their own devices without the approval of the manufacturer. As you said, the existence of our industry is due in large part to the openness of previous systems. We owe it to ourselves and those that will come after to ensure this level of openness persists.
I had F-Droid installed, but removed it because of the lack of useful apps.

They call it "curation", I call it a ghost town.
Somehow I don’t have much trouble with spicy food in subsequent bathroom trips. Guess I’m just lucky.
You clearly only read the title
Sri lanka is in talks with China to restructure debt and Pakistan is a nuclear power it won't just lose territory unless it was intentional, hard to say they have little to show for it when the road isn't complete.
Nice. I’ve been wanting to go with something simpler and lighter than Influx and Grafana, but the setup was so dang easy, and rtl_433 as InfluxDB support built in, so I went the lazy route :)
Eh, everyone on HN being ultra-contrarian just because we like to hear ourselves speak and feel better than other people by making "better choices" doesn't exactly mean we are a healthy community or not in a bubble.
Yeah Hammerspoon is great. I've written scripts to rearrange things correctly when I plug/unplug my laptop into external monitors.
Google, iHeartMedia Pay $9M to Settle Deceptive Endorsement Claims
> There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use.

You're right. It's also true that there's nothing terrible about making devices that Chinese dissidents can safely and easily use. Luckily there is no government that wants to limit your mom's freedom (unless she happens to be a Chinese dissident).
> We can solve these problems because "Either a given technology is possible, or else there must be some reason (say, of physics or logic) why it isn’t possible". Knowledge is what allows us to develop solutions to all our problems.

This is very much like the law of excluded middle, (there is a solution) ∨ (there is no solution). The point here I think is that there is no reason to not try to solve problems because either the problem is solvable and we make progress or it isn't and we figure out why which is again a kind of progress. This is certainly a reasonable perspective but Hamming and Heisenberg have quotes that provide more nuanced perspectives.

Hamming: Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark, “Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think,” surprise you? Evolution, so far, may possibly have blocked us from being able to think in some directions; there could be unthinkable thoughts.

Heisenberg: What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
When gold was discovered in northwest California in 1850, speculators crowded the remote redwood region in search of riches and new lives, and companies harvested the trees for booming development.

Mechanized logging was widespread there by the early 1900s, such as with steam winches and steam trains, and gang saws and rotary saws.

Before the Gold Rush, estimates are redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres of the California coast; today, the area has only 133,000 acres.
I recently abandoned Apple, went with a frame.work laptop running Ubuntu.
"3rd party repositories

Third party repositories are not under our control what so ever. If you think a 3rd party repository is violating your rights you will have to get in contact with their respective operators. Procedures described here apply exclusively to f-droid.org."

From your first link.
If we had a succinct way to explain or logic to point to, it would help clear the confusion about the massive difference between algos built into Mastodon SW and the ML type algos deployed on platforms.
Apple has removed all tweets from its Twitter Account
I recently had to use ffmpeg, and I ended up scrapping it in favor of sounddevice in python. Thanks for the helpful info
I agree with all of your points. To me this seems like correcting an oversight in Apple’s original implementation vs Apple taking away a ‘feature’.

I’ve gotten AirDrop spam here in America and welcome this change.
To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s API with versioning
I'm just amazed at how much crap is crammed onto the title bars and everything these days. Look at the clean interface of Outlook 97-2003 compared to now. They have undo/redo, "customize quick access toolbar", "ribbon display options", your Office Online account, and other crap on the toolbars that used to have the close/minimize/maximize buttons.

I like to think that some PM at Microsoft got promoted and brags about how one of those is 'their' button.
Unvaccinated, never had any symptoms (actually, haven't been sick at all since covid, really strange), was working in public with lots of contact for the entire period before the vaccines were released. I never got tested for antibodies.