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> Google builds well polished products that work well.

The basic tech, I agree, like Youtube is great for watching videos, it barely buffers and you have billions of videos at your disposal and can watch each one and it just works.

But polished? The search is atrociously bad. "Set your location" basically doesn't work. Comments under videos are a mess, half of them are deleted, but you can still see "10 replies", only nothing will load, creators will say "I didn't delete it, Youtube did".

Shorts? Oh, the ability to upload TikTok clips and then get them presented in a way that's worse than random and actually makes you want to stop scrolling?

I don't know Stadia, but I had a similar experience with a lot of Google services. It works, the fundamentals are solid, but the UX leaves much to be desired.
No it definitely has moved forward.
See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069418

https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/15#issuecomm...
> implicit in Sivers' idea is that there actually is, at bottom, a notion of objective truth that is more than merely this sort of utilitarian notion of useful.

Sivers' perspective is subjective. As most opinions are. So even if he is implying an "objective truth", none of us are obliged to treat it that way. But that isn't specific to Sivers or his above post. That literally applies to everybody.

Again, it's like saying water is wet.
iOS widgets are a complement to existing apps, and most apps that stand to benefit from them do already have widgets.

There are even dedicated custom Widget apps like _David Smith’s WidgetSmith which does fairly well for itself once people realized they could have a more unique Home Screen with custom widgets.

iOS Widgets just don’t do a whole lot right now. The current widget API basically skewed away from Dashboard-style widgets and made them more like the Windows 8 Tiles but better: fancy app icons that can display dynamically changing information with some deep-linking capabilities; with the non-dynamic fallback being to just use the App’s existing icon.
This is also good for the future because Google will take down the update site on December 31
In a similar vein, once you pirate something you also own it forever. Netflix is never gonna delete Bojack Horseman off my hard drive.
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Realistically, who is this affecting? How many people are actually relying or even using local backups? I certainly haven't as long as iCloud Backups have been a thing because they've been miles ahead in terms of UX and general use since they were released. They're on by default and automatic.

At the end of the day, this might desensitize the 5 power users who still use local backups, and they are probably harder to desensitize than most.
Yeah, I don't think we should breed cows. I don't think anyone who is concerned about the welfare of cows to the point of not eating them will go "Oh, well now they also have additional torment baked into their biology, it's OK to

A) breed them into a life of constant suffering
B) Start providing the same cramped, unhealthy, and unpleasant living conditions at a young age that we already do
C) Once the physical pain inherent with living past ripeness sets in, let them experience that just long enough to slaughter them
D) Slaughter them, even though we likely haven't bred out the desire to live, just piled on more pain. No matter that despite experiencing mutiliation, pain, and poor conditions throughout their lives, these animals still often display a desire to live and additional fear of death.

If anything, I'd suggest the most humane thing to do (if we insisted on raising animals), would be to breed them to desire being eaten, like the cow in Douglas Adams' "A restaurant at the end of the universe"
Several good reasons:

- Fuel cost when traveling is significant. And the whole point of owning such a thing is covering some distance. So, it's nice if you can travel long distances without having to worry about that

- Evs are pretty comfortable to drive, have lots of torque, and are easy to operate. All great stuff for e.g. elderly/retired drivers.

- Having a huge battery is nice when you are not driving. Basically you can cook, have all sorts of appliances, have hot water, etc. and use that for days before you need to charge the battery. So, you can go off grid with this thing and live in relative comfort. It's also a reason that the new F150 is extremely popular.

- Maintenance is a big deal with RVs. Plenty of people drive really old and crappy ones and they can break down at inconvenient times (i.e, while traveling). And when that happens it's a lot of hassle and also costly. And even when that doesn't happen, you still need to deal with costly inspections, repairs, etc. EVs have a lot less of those issues. More reliable, less moving parts that can break, etc. Nice to not have to worry about that as much when you are traveling.

- For the same reason, the second hand value of electric vehicles is pretty good; they don't depreciate as much. And if the battery isn't used that much, the vehicle can last quite long. So you buy one, use if for some years and then you sell it on and get a good portion of your money back all while having enjoyed the benefits of all of the above. Doesn't sound like a bad deal.
ChatGPT will be the calculator for writing, top economist says
I’ve only started learning Swift, so I don’t know how it performs on bigger projects, but so far I’ve been loving playgrounds, if not for the dog-slow compilation, but that’s in-character for all LLVM-based compilers, so maybe not exactly XCode’s fault.
> Which part of "the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world" did you not understand?

Suggesting that "the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world" implies that some significant number of Americans would reject rehabilitation demonstrates a complete and obvious failure to reason, and personally I find it weird that you would broadcast that publicly but carry on...

> Turns out that universal healthcare (including proper mental health services), social safety support systems, and a detention systems working to help people before putting them back into society, work better than just shoving people into a concrete cube and tossing them out on the street into a society heavily stacked against them with a parole officer breathing down their neck. Gee, I wonder why they return to crime here?

Right, and like most Americans, I agree with those things, the difference is that I don't believe we should throw our most vulnerable communities to the wolves by sharply reducing policing without first establishing those other crime-deterring alternatives. I don't think it's sufficient to say "we'll definitely address the root causes one day in the future, so it's totally fine to reduce policing now". And indeed, that's what was demanded: BLM was an anti-policing movement first and foremost and "defund the police" and "abolish the police" were not euphemisms for "establish a stronger social safety net before reducing policing".
you could think in a bit different dimmension. imagine we humans are a single cell organisms and thing that emerges from ai is a human. and we as humans are cells in that human. no cell in your body is smarter than you. your smart actually comes from all the cells in your body. same with ai. its like you trying to be smarter than italy. italy is already smarter than you even without AI.
Firefox 50 was released like a week after Trump was elected. They do have an LTS version if you just want stability: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/ Or it was just a typo I don't know sorry
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, try and switch javascript off on your mobile device. It's like using an ad blocker, really.

But because we're not neanderthals, you can also whitelist the sites/apps you like to run JS (in Chrome) and/or use another browser for your JS-powered sites/apps.
Excel too. The banking industry would grind to a halt if that was taken away…
Actually, I have long covid. The sick feeling / malaise were some sort of early PEMs I think. Soon afterward, after I pushed it a bit too much with no awareness on the issue, I had a huge crash that did not feel like being sick, more like beign drained from all energy. I used to work a bit and play a video game when I was sick previously, now I am not able to watch more than 1h of a movie without resting.

My whole life is suspended. I hope I will get to recover. I will try to rest as much as I can. I believe I got this because I was working while being sick. Who the fuck know something like this was possible. They should fucking teach about this in school... don't work while you are sick or risk ending up disabled. Instead most doctors don't even know such illness exist.
If we had used this model in past centuries we would believe the earth was the center of the universe and that germ theory was a crackpot idea. Those ideas would have polled poorly in their target audience and been suppressed.
As someone who works at a DoD FFRDC, I can confirm this is true. Matlab is the language of choice for 95% of my colleagues who have no CS or programming background, the other 5% is Labview. They write spaghetti code to get the job done. I’ve been scolded for using Python or Julia in programs because no one else can use it/understand it. I’ve wasted hours setting Python environments up for people which is especially hard due to strict firewall rules. Even once it is setup, it is usually to run some script the found on the internet, if it doesn’t do exactly what they need, they give up and move on. Matlab on the other-hand is a one click install with all the packages pre-installed.
I am also looking for an alternative. What about self hosted mediawiki?
I use two widgets. Current weather, and firefox search. Neither of those make any sense as widgets.
David Brin's Kiln People also touches on this theme, though in a fairly benign way within the overall structure of a whodunnit.
Tech layoffs shock young workers, older people not so much
ah! thank you kindly for the explanation.
There is an old manual on USAF dog fighting tactics written by Frederick Blesse after the Korean War. It's pretty interesting: https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/delimitedoptions/files/do...
Maybe they shouldn’t have limited them to SwiftUI. Most major apps don’t even use Swift, let alone SwiftUI.
> There's zero sugar in meat..?

In high school you learn that your body converts fat and protein to glucose.

> If you go on a carnivore diet you will be non-type-2-diabetic within a week.

No.
You need people developing them. There is no incentive to do that.
I'm not vegan but I don't eat meat, and generally contribute to such conversations.

There is quite a spectrum of positions one can hold on this issue and it's not binary. One can be sympathetic to the perspective of vegans without being willing or able to become one themselves due to practical concerns.
My experience programming for the Watchy (epaper watch on esp32) exactly. Basically the only way of programming it is being woken up every minute by the RTC, running as little as possible, setting up the next interrupt by the RTC and going back to sleep.

I got mine to last about a week on the stock battery, i know of people who have done better but being a minute-resolution clock helps a lot.
Here's the truly obese video and audio version of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpl0QVCr6U
But that's an irrelevant implementation detail. The password requirement is there to protect the account owner from harm should an unauthorised user purchase apps or other expensive content using their account. There is no such harm for free apps.
Just to be pedantic, firmware and drivers are not the same thing.

I'm not familiar with Stadia but when I saw 'Dump of controller BT firmware' I assumed that this is the code that runs on the actual bluetooth controller chip inside the controller. Presumably this handles at least the lower layers of comms between the controller and the host PC.

Maybe there's another application processor in the controller that handles higher-level communications or maybe the BT chip has a small general-purpose CPU core inside it, but regardless I don't see why this firmware would need to be modified to make the controller work on a windows PC.

Drivers, on the other hand, would run on the host PC side and would likely need to be rewritten for each platform that you want the controller to work with (although hopefully at least some of the lower-level bluetooth layers are already handled in windows/linux/etc. and the actual code required might not be too extensive)
I hope these layoffs don’t impact the GA release of Google Tables. It’s marked for GA release but still under Area120 domain.
Scroll all the way to the bottom, click “Edit” and then “Customize” to get all the old widgets
Hobby subreddits in hobbies I’m more versed in are incredibly frustrating as it converges to people trying to fit the same rehashed suggestions onto whatever is being asked without any real thought about the context of the question. I get the feeling its just people trying to fit in by repeating authoritative recommendations while having next to no experience with what they’re suggesting.
Some of the widgets I've used don't automatically update, so I've just had a bad impression and haven't bothered to try more, and don't really see the point in developing them. NetNewsWire's would only update when I opened the app, for example. (I could be holding it wrong, I didn't really investigate the issue.)
Why would you ever want to put a network between SQLite and the application logic. That is SQLite’s one cool trick as it were. At that point the db seems like an implementation detail rather than a selling point.
TikTok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)
Splits don't change the value of the stock. If there's a 2:1 split, the market cap stays the same so the share price halves. It's just a way lower the price of individual shares.
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Movie theaters as they are now need/deserve to die. The horrible chains like AMC are the reason people don't want to go to the movies--you get fleeced for any 'refreshments' and the theaters are usually dirty and rowdy. Now that I have kids, I can see why people don't want to go.

Eventually, I see the big chain movie theaters like AMC dying and being replaced by smaller/local/indie movie theaters like Alamo Drafthouse--which will be a win-win for everyone.
Google and TLV University Proposed a Text-to-Image Model Guided by Sketches
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I think people who commit crimes should be seriously punished simply because of all the resources we have to spend to be vigilant against such things.
This is not necessarily true. The tuition at a place like UPenn is now approaching $80k for what is really just about half a year of classes. If we use the rough approximation of a 50% tax rate in NYC/NYS, well, that's $160k pretax income. Sure, there are a few people at Goldman who can just write that check, but it's nowhere near as many as you think.

Another part of the problem is that UPenn is one of the schools that asks for extra information about businesses, 2nd homes, other children, etc. These forms are much more complex than the FAFSA.

Still, I understand why people want to focus on this. Her family doesn't have the same financial stress as most of the kids in college.
Left-clicking the title text engages a hyperlink to the answer.

Edit: I know it's smartass, but it feels appropriate in a comment thread for The Register.

They use flair in their writing, they aren't the Times or IETF. The answer is in the article. Come on.
Has this with an album recently. Released in 2012, one day it was just gone from all streaming services.
I’ve been using a budgeting widget which also doesn’t update until the app is opened, completely defeating the purpose of the widget. I still keep the widget on my screen just to remind myself to open it now and then.
Elizabeth Holmes Attempted to Flee the US After Her Conviction [pdf]
I don’t think the issue of Google is a lack of advanced AI technology but the transfer and realization of products. So many Google’s products are half-backed, only half-heartedly developed and then be buried at the end. For a giant like Google, they must be stuck in a rut and to get free need all the help they can get. If they continue the business as usual, I afraid they will experience a never-seen before landslide.
I believe calling back the founders at this critical time is the right move.
From the first paragraph,

> More modern brain compression techniques, many of them developed with direct reference to the MMAcevedo [person] image, have compressed the image to 6.75TiB losslessly.

This says losslessly which is very different, but I still get such a mega Permutation City vibe from this.

And there certainly seem to be some similar threads, about trapped uploads.
everyone i know including myself hates widgets, i even disabled notification badgets for a long time because anything that calls for attention and stress on my homescreen is kind of toxic, the onlything useful in this direction is the clalender app icon and weather app icon reflecting the real current date and weather and that is allready possible without widgets that need to take up more space to be useful anyways and at that point i can just open the app.
I never really liked widgets on Android either, so I'm not in a hurry to have them on iOS. And the Apple Watch complications allow me to have quick access to some data that I want to have immediately at hand (like the weather).
The only correct behavior is to (at the very minimum) call isatty(3), and (ideally) query terminfo for specific capabilities.

If your stdout is not a terminal, and you're sending out escape codes, you're just spewing useless garbage.
A more useful application of this same idea ("you can do stuff during static initialization") is for building a static registry.

https://artificial-mind.net/blog/2020/10/17/static-registrat... gives a good overview.
They lack interactivity, update inconsistently (lets say if you're in battery saving mode) and most users across the platform haven' t been trained to use them
Neat. I got up there too, and after a while someone noticed me and climbed it too.

Also, if you jump onto the clothes rack thing on the same building and go as far towards the road as you can you will get stuck in the falling animation.
When you find software that has a clean abstraction it really is a beautiful thing. sndiod (also from the BSDs) is also amazingly simple and reliable.
In my past engineering university Matlab is popular. Students and staff get access to a network license and courses (non CS) are built around it. It is what older professors are used to and I don't see them shifting to a new language given how busy university professors are, and that Matlab just works.
So outside the university, Octave is the path of least resistance for those not planning to purchase Matlab or get it by "other means".
The "homeless guy" also experiences suffering, and experiences it more deeply than a frog.

Would you argue we have an obligation to turn every fruit fly into a human? What about every tardygrade? Bacteria?
This is a great deck, very entertaining to read and I like the commentary a lot. On the topic called 'Heavy Clouds' I think about this a lot: I wonder how many new CS grads, bootcamp graduates, or otherwise new web devs have been instructed that 'the' way to spin up a website is on a 'Heavy Cloud', thus normalizing all of the so-called 'web scale' autoscaling and whatnot; learning HOW to engage with 'Heavy Clouds' but never really understanding when or why they should do it.
Ideally the architecture has the foresight to carve out a specific 'hint' space as "is a NOP today, may do something magical on tomorrow's CPU" rather than having to retrospectively borrow encodings that theoretically did something nop-like.

Sometimes "specified but useless" encoding space gets taken back for other reasons -- Arm originally blew 1/16th of the entire encoding space on NOPs by allowing and documenting the instruction condition code 0xF to mean "never execute" because it happened to fall neatly out of the original design. That later got taken back somewhere around Armv4 or v5 to be used for new instructions...
Yeah totally agree. I feel lots of people do this and feel better which is why ios now pretty much hides notifications by default from the lock screen.
Heh, The Register.

Now there's a blast from the past. And I see their flair for snark is still in tact after all these years.
Aristotle also recognized that there are a wide variety of people and what works for one group might not work for another. The Sivers piece reminds me of a phenomenon I see all the time: people assuming that what works for them will work for everyone. People are really different in a lot of important ways and that makes advice hard to generalize unless it is pretty banal (spend less than you earn, do the things you need to get done, etc.)
.. more bullshit propaganda bullied into 'medical journals' by the lobbying scum.
SteamDeck is astonishingly good. If you have a chance give SteamOS a try.
In the not-so-new dept., cf Aesop's The Lioness
Indeed, I didn't cite any sources but I'm fairly sure there's literature studying this phenomenon. I agree that DEI when used as a political tool is a distraction for a company.
Rock, paper, scissors.

Interesting how that seems to work out.
Have never heard of LifeSum, how do you like it?
I would happily build a service that simply took all the JS heavy sites people visit and present them as basic HTML.

Unfortunately, I don't think there'd be enough takers to make it a viable product.

Information for free, without ads, is tough to do.
I keep getting spammed marketing notifications and tricks to get your attention, there's no way to stop them so need up having to disable all notifications for the app.
Wow. That's a little bit surprising but not entirely. Chris' role could easily be put in a "non essential" bucket because it's an advocacy position more than anything else (unless he's doing something different these days). I would be surprised if didn't have advanced conversations though.
No, not vice versa, because people are buying and installing the renewables. It's the nuclear people who are complaining. Talk to the hand, nuclear stan.
That's going to depend on the state the debt is incured in. In states without community property, the spouse is probably not liable. In states with community property, it depends, some states will consider medical debt a personal debt and some consider it a community debt.

If this is something under serious consideration, it's worth a consulation with a subject matter expert and not just random internet people. Also, divorce may affect immigration status, which seems to be in play as well; and it may make visitation more difficult, although you might just not tell medical facilities about the divorce.
How do you get it to scroll? I use it myself in list view but it’s static
Absolutely, that's what I meant by "vegan-sympathetic". Even people who eat animals (but try to buy the less cruel kinds), but are idealogically aligned with principle that it's better not to cause suffering to animals.
The calendar widget on iOS definitely doesn't scroll
I think they just have a different orientation to the world than you do. I'm not religious for what it's worth, but for many of the religious people I know I don't think stripping them of their religious belief would make them any better off.