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> Using Apple devices without being signed in iCloud? Does anyone do this?

I don't have an answer to the specific problem you had, but I wanted to say that, yes, I've been using multiple Apple devices for years without ever signing into iCloud. I've avoided lots of mysterious problems that iCloud brings to other people. Admittedly at a loss of some convenience: I have to do backups using other methods.

Sadly, I was forced to start using iCloud on one iPhone when I bought an AirTag. It is apparently impossible to use an AirTag without iCloud. (Clearly network connections are necessary for AirTag to work, but I would have preferred something simpler and cleaner than all the baggage that comes with iCloud.) Also, I found it presumptuous of Apple to immediately start syncing your photos and documents to iCloud the instant you sign in for the first time. It should at least ask you.

I'm not liking this trend of many things being linked to and/or dependent on iCloud. I much prefer a standalone device.
30 years ago people planned rewrite stuff written in C in C++.

20 years again people wanted rewrite stuff written in C/C++ in Java.

Now people wanted to rewrite stuff written in C/C++/Java in Rust.

Meanwhile core infrastructure of humanity still runs on COBOL, C, C++, Java in that order.

20 years from now people ask AI to rewrite all stuff written in C/C++/Java/Rust and it picks ADA SPARK as implementation language.
There's a whole lot of social conventions tied to local time, sunrise/sundown, and the circadian rythm in general.

Sure, it'd be possible but we'd have to concieve a lot of new cultural concepts to replace the ones invalidated by the shift to UTC, and find new ways to remind people that it's impolite to call people in the middle of the night.

In the long run, a list of time zones aren't that much more complicated to work with than a list of times when it's mid-day is in the major population centres on the planet.
copy-left licenses are better for users.
> The crew subsequently declared emergency advising they had no autopilot trim and no electrical trim system on their brand new aircraft and needed to trim the aircraft manually

I would assume the bigger problem was loss of the electrical trim system. From what I understand, manually trimming a 737 (or any large commercial jet) is a physically demanding task, even with both crew members doing it in tandem. That will add a lot of workload to the pilots that could cause further delay in reacting to new problems as they arise, and there's always the chance that can happen. When a malfunction like this occurs, it is absolutely safest to land as soon as possible so the issue can be assessed on the ground, especially when relevant failure checklists or company policies indicate it.
I don't do Windows development, but I remember that used to be the rebuttal from game devs that Linux missed the point about all the ease of use features that Microsoft provided.

Although all the other Direct services are dead, have they not been replaced with new versions?
Naoki Yoshida: The term "JRPG" is discriminatory
During interview the Naoki Yoshida stated:

“For us as developers [in Japan], the first time we heard it, it was like a discriminatory term,” explained Yoshida. “It’s as though we were being made fun of for creating these games. So for some developers, the term JRPG can be something that will maybe trigger bad feelings because of what it was in the past.”
The clutch lag is there regardless of the auto stop/start, so adding auto stop/start does not introduce any additional lag.
Lunar days are longer than 24 hours (~29.5 earth days)
Not really, I did try it with multiple attempts with multiple people and chatgpt had more issues. I just shared only one of them. If someone tests in a more systematic fashion that'd be great.
> The calendar then would track the Earth calendar as close as possible, with shortened months to accommodate for the longer days.

Why bother with months? Why not just count weeks? You could use something like the ISO 8601 week calendar – the year is divided into weeks. Weeks run Monday (1) to Sunday (7). Every year beings on a Monday – ISO 8601 has two years, the Gregorian year (starts on 1 January) and the ISO week year (always starts on Monday). The ISO week year always contains a whole number of weeks, either 52 or 53, so the first day of the ISO week year is often a few days before or after 1 January. 2023-W09-2 is an ISO week date, it is the 2nd day (Tuesday) of the 9th week of 2023.

So, here's my idea for a Martian calendar. The base unit is the Martian day (sol) of 24h39m35.244s. 7 Martian days is a Martian week. The calendar year is based on the Earth year, but it starts on the Monday of the Martian week closest to 1 Jan 00:00 UTC.
Let me try to translate that a bit.

In chess, the pieces are intrinsically different. Their role in the game depends on the kind of piece they are, which doesn't change (unless a pawn promotes, I guess), instead of their position or relation with other pieces, which changes constantly. In go, all stones are identical, and their differences arise from their relationships with other stones around them.

In chess, you play to kill the opponent's pieces. In go, you play to claim territory. It's possible to win without ever taking an opposing stone. Although what's territory can be very fluid, because stones can be placed anywhere, and thereby kill a group that was thought to be alive, save a group that seemed dead, destroy or claim territory. But it all depends on the stone's relation to other stones. Chess depends much more on what a single piece is capable of. Even a poorly positioned queen is worth more than a very active bishop, because the queen can move to a better position, but the bishop can't turn into a queen.

I'm sure a missed a lot of nuance. I have no idea what they mean by nomos and polis, and parts of the second paragraph sound like I disagree with it. Maybe my translation is more my own opinion than a translation of theirs.
Exactly. That’s what I said.
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Horns are a thing?
Beats per beat? I can think of more confusing language constructs.

Plus acceleration is metres per second per second and that isn't unitless.

One solution though would be to make use of one of the freed up words and use minute instead of beat. So we could say minutes per beat. Does that deal with your concern?
Most open source development is the result of people 'scratching their own itch', not randomly selecting a project to 'help'. So if I, hypothetically, was to contribute it probably would be to an engine I was actually using ;)

Godot seems to be furthest in developing a GUI-first engine which is what most people find more approachable since you don't have to learn coding to get a simple game to run. It will profit from network effects due to its growing community.

Bevy is a great engine too, but there are literally hundreds of 'library based' game engines. Also, it requires you to learn Rust first which makes it more of a niche.
> No copy-left license?

Are you planning to make proprietary changes to `cat` you are unwilling to share?

> Compatibility ...

GNU coreutils work fine on all the mentioned plattforms

> To annoy Richard Stallman?

Not really sure if pettiness would be sufficient motivation for me, but then again, I'm writing this response...
> Anna Karenina is about a woman who jumps in front of a train, why bother to read the other 863 pages.

Spoilers! I hadn't read it yet.
Trying it out now. Really cool!
The fix is in.
Did you add the default ChatGPT system prompt at the beginning, when using the API?
There is a little bit of waste associated with engine start, but it is worth it if you are idling for more than +- 10 seconds.
> If you're talking about automatics then maybe you should get a manual if you are so concerned about lag.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but this seems disconnected from any reasonably modern automatic transmission vehicle I’ve seen. The torque converter is never really fully disengaged, so there isn’t lag from a stop to a creep, compared to in a manual transmission which is generally disengaged and covers up the start-stop lag during engagement.
A 40 billion dollar fine if you don’t do as the EU says… at some point tech companies are just going to pull out of the EU, right? For most (but not all!), GDPR was worth complying with (and had benefits for citizens). This is likely to also be worth complying with (and also has benefits for citizens), but I imagine the EU is going to run out of ideas that legitimately benefit users long before it runs out of desire to levy huge fines.
"quirk" looks more like "major overlooked detail" to me

I mean, left side expressions and right side expressions are different
Oh yes, they have aluminum bodies and are very useful for this reason. You'll also find a few people out there who want them for projects or just to drive around. I knew one person with a VW rabbit diesel swap LLV.
For the love of $DEITY, I read 'Europe will acquire Apple to open up iMessage' and had to re-check today isn't April 1st :-)
You forgot Fortran!
From personal experience, I prefer to work for US companies. I worked for a few US based and for one French.

The gig in France didn't end well - I had to build an MVP of a video streaming service. It wasn't even a full-time job - it was part-time work - 4 hours per day. It ended after around 4 months.

It turned out that:
- my everyday reports that I've sent wasn't read
- they didn't test platform at any stage while I was developing it
- they thought that if I received an HTML+CSS design from them it will be super easy to add missing features - they thought that HTML+CSS is like 80% of the work done :)
- they were super not satisfied with result that they had after 4 months

And of course, it was just my fault :)
I burnt a cake when I was 12
What the whole 737 MAX/MCAS debacle highlighted was that the 737 is a design that is more than 50 years old, and that Boeing can only update it within strict limits, because otherwise it would need a new type certificate, which airlines with massive only-737 fleets like Southwest or Ryanair want to avoid at all cost. So, even with the particularly egregious problem which crashed two planes fixed, my trust in the 737 has diminished considerably.
cough leap second cough
Meanwhile the CEO is moonlighting at Tesla. Is the right balance for humanoid-robots to humans ratio at child minding twenty to twenty one or twenty three?
this is about both January and February (missing an r), if you can still update the title ;)
That makes sense, thanks! I'd missed that part when I scanned the page and the headline is misleading in that case, since it only mentions autopilot when it should be the other way around.
Forklifts?! No, you either use intermodal containers, or just put the entire trailer onto the train.
whoever doing this has some serious time wasting issue. Check the previous project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26303996
Sci/Tech Hams Jam Space Spam (1999)
I've had rental cars where it had an annoying lag and every start felt like a start from cold (ra-ta-ta-ta-voom), but in my current car there is no lag, by the time I've lifted the brake the engine is ready to go. An auto-stop start is also much quieter than starting from zero. I'm not sure what it's doing - this car has an ISG (integrated starter-generator), I'm not sure if that's the difference.
From what I can see of the format, there are special tokens (imStart and imEnd) which never appear in external sources.
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pro/studio level: PRISM Sound Lyra or Titan
> I'm not saying being robbed is anywhere near as bad as getting sexually harassed or raped but I never thought the line of questioning was really unreasonable.

Then it is probably a good idea to listen instead of putting up a defensive front so that you can understand why these situations are different and why women in general feel the way they do.
If data transfer bottlenecks are the issue, would using a hybrid CPU/GPU (Intel IGP, Apple Mx) setup not solve the issue?
The article didn't imply that the food was still edible.
Just use the timezone of the person who first discovered the Moon.
> It's probably the reason they punted and let a _kilo_gram be a base unit in the first place,

Not quite - it's so that the system is coherent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(units_of_measuremen...

which makes a whole bunch of other things simpler. The other option to meter-kilogram-second would have been the centimetre-gram-second, but then you're not using the metre as your base unit for length. Scale is probably the reason for picking MKS over CGS, but it's only moving the weird-base-unit problem around.

ISTR reading once that MKS has coherence advantages over CGS with regards to electromagnetism (probably current), but I can't find the reference now.
https://plakkers.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/nee-nee-stick...

Translation:

NO unaddressed printed advertising material, door-to-door news papers NO

These stickers are reasonably well respected here, and violating them leads to a barrage of complaints to the advertising company. Lots of people have them.
Physical thing being, well, physical is something magical. Flipping a book gives a different full body experience than reading on screen. I guess similar can be said about seeing moving in cinema or attending music performance.
I see no one has 3d printed one yet.
I don't think it's tested explicitly, but you usually need to trim the aircraft for takeoff.
Hey, they did say they were going to make it open at launch remember…
Can we call it "Stardate"? Please?
Ask HN: Is MSFT Backsliding?
Mi amiga (amigo?) Meadhbh posted this on their page. I checked it on my LinkedIn account via Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu 22 and sure enough, I can't post images. So maybe the question is... Is MSFT going back to the Walled Garden of the past or is this just LinkedIn not testing their page on MacOS-X or Leenucks?

I've found DotNet on leenucks "less compelling" than DotNet on Windows, but I always chalked that up to MSFT having more resources that understand Windows than *nix. But... I dunno. Anyone else seeing MSFT backsliding?

https://meadhbh.hamrick.rocks/v2/non_fiction/linkedin.html
Isn't the same we have on MacOS?
The opening paragraph is just weird. It does not sounds like the guy kept books secret ... he was just uninterested in social activities and discussions with strangers over them.

Those are two much different things.

> with a smirk, “Have you read all of these?”.

No obviously not, I do not read all tabs I have opened either. I also dont end up liking every book I buy or get gifted.
What about interplanetary time? Solar time?
Pregnancy is killing 800 women a day
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People are hard to see when driving. Especially children and people on sidewalks who are about to step into the street.

Also if I’m backing up would you rather a muted noise or me constantly hitting my horn?
Just say you think it's human. Saying you think it's not makes them add 50 million parameters, each time.
Why shouldnt they? Amazon is probably more financially sound than many banks!
Many other segments of the population also get much less work than they would be willing to accept. Time to cut the standard working week ?
Wanted to add this to my list of books to read, only to find that of course 'Neal Stephenson' was already there.

Thnx anyways
> 1. The purpose of the OS would be to run microservices only

Ah, a microkernel approach! It's not a bad idea but tends to lose out in performance terms.

> Some interim solution for providing sockets would have to be built until wasi spec supports it

With a little ambition, and an inter-process communication framework, you could have a "network card microservice" that's got access to the PCIe registers and takes packets in and out. You could then either do "user-mode networking" in the application or run a normal IP stack to hand out packets to more normal looking sockets.

> No file system, no writing to disc

No reason why you can't write a NVMe driver in WASM...
If you mean web not internet then there is a similar confluence there, Cern, money into research, Tim Berners-Lee and advocates of what he created.
Why do you assume bad faith on behalf of the EU?

Maybe when they run out of things to fine firms for that don't benefit their citizens ... they'll just stop fining them ...
It's amazing how Russian missiles have been bombing Kiev for a year now and I still see these "but neither side is perfect" takes from Westerners. Can we just agree that invading countries is always bad (yes, when the US does it as well) and move on?
You definitely need to watch Dark City (if you haven't already!)

The movie does a variation on this exact plot. Very well, even.
Unikernel is kind of the opposite of microkernel, though; a unikernel merges the application "upwards" into the kernel, while a microkernel system tries to split responsibility into lots of not-especially-trusted pieces.
I think they're releasing those over 12 months later.

Nov 8 2021 "Apple has released its twice-yearly transparency report, this time covering the second half of 2020." https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/08/apple-transparency-report-cov...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/23/apple-use... suggests, it's not entirely clear, the first-half-of-2021 report was released September 2022.
> * I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?

You look up her profile in teleappnal, and it says she's online, so you give her a call. Easy. Or, you book a calendar appointment like anybody civilized, and she either accepts or rejects it. (Telephones are another abhorrent Victorian invention which we'll get rid of, and sooner than you think.)
I had compared a couple of coreutils with their BSD counterparts for a personal project. Anecdotally, the BSD versions had much more readable code and less compiler/preprocessor black magic. Which also makes them easier to build with non-GNU toolchains (perhaps not out-of-the-box, but with less effort anyway). So, overall they would seem a better match for learning/diy purposes.

Poor choice of name though. Debian has a bsdutils package since forever [1].

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/bsdutils
One example: watch some 80s movies again. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom stands out. Indy forces a kiss on a woman and it is seen as romantic -- she says no but wants it. A lot of messaging like this is just accepted and we never think about it. But when you realize it, it happened a lot.
The US has quite a bit of freight rail - that's what is currently one of the things holding passenger rail back. There might not be a train station, but there definitely is rail!

Meanwhile, Europe has so much passenger rail that freight is really tricky to run. For example, there is a really busy freight corridor from Rotterdam to Germany with rail dedicated solely to freight, but the rest of The Netherlands is pretty much 100% passenger. Europe uses a lot more inland shipping instead.
list of topics (as a tldr;):

- ttop - System monitoring tool with TUI

- ni18n - a super simple and fast Nim macro for internationalization and localization

- news for nimib-land - updates from nimib ecosystem project

since I am a coauthor on the nimib related content I will say a little bit more here, also since nimib might seem a bit weird to the non-nim casual user.

nimib is a DSL (Domain Specific Language) to write html documents that run and contain code. It is somewhat similar to rmarkdown/jupyter but different since: the files are nim files not markdown files (as in markdown); this makes them more flexible (in particular you can add inside a document a interactive js app, since nim compiles to js and there are frameworks like karax that allow to easily write SPAs). Also there is not an interactive frontend to write your nimib documents like in jupyter (since this is harder to do in a compiled language), but one day there might be.

We are actively working on improving this nimib ecosystem.
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From reading the docs it looks like there are ( or will be soon ) two distinct ways for API endpoint to consume the prompt:

1. Old one when all inputs are just concatenated into one string (Vulnerable to prompt injection)

2. Inputs supplied separately as a JSON (?) array, so special tokens can be properly encoded, maybe user input stripped of newlines (potentially preventing prompt injection).

I guess when Microsoft were rushing Bing features and faced with a dilemma to do by the rules or by tomorrow they chose the latter.
Yes, but Deutsche Post only delivers letters and small untracked packages. Large packages come through DHL, in a truck.

AIUI, the US Post Office does everything in one.
90% for a presumably already semi efficient setup is insane
Thanks, I've filed an issue that the locale shouldn't be used for units.
COBOL: You’re thinking about it wrong – GCN
Thanks, filed an issue.
Thanks! So, OK, if you write a review and provide your honest feedback about this on the App store, I will definitely consider doing that! Sound like a bad idea? :)
When I get nervous from what my kid is doing and feel an urge to tell him to stop, I try to ask myself "what's the worst that could happen". If the answer is "break a bone", I try to stop myself from saying anything. Though I'll still subtly maneuver myself into catching position.
That's not true. The MAX always had two sensors, it's just that the software design only ever used one of them at a time.
> makes GUI prototyping tool

> demos the worst UIs in existence

> shows fullscreen ads on navigate