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> Did you ever publish to appstore ?

Yes.

> The amount of bullshit you have to go through so that an alternative payment method isn't reachable from mobile is insane, and they want % of a lot of things

You say insane, but you don't say why. Revenue-sharing is the best for content producers; I would definitely not want to go back to the retail model. What exactly are you trying to do?

> a lot of business ideas are unviable because of the policy.

A lot of business ideas are unviable without slavery! So what? I don't want that, and I hope you don't either! So what is it you actually want?

> Not to mention that your competitors don't have to pay the same, big players get special deals and exemptions,

I don't compete with "big players". If Apple didn't make an iPhone and I didn't make an app to put on it, I wouldn't get that money, and pretending otherwise won't make it so. The people I am competing with are in the same situation I'm in, and if they're getting success and I'm not, I think I should worry about what I can do.
In UK it's 100 quid now I think.
That should be the next step, yes.
On most pre-iPhone cellphones you could install any .jar file, but there were 2 challenges:

Finding a .jar file that works on your phone was the biggest. Games often only supported a single screen resolution and so there were multiple .jar files for each game and you had to find the right one for your phone. Also sometimes even if you had the right screen resolution the .jar just crashed when you started it without any clue as to what's wrong (probably they needed more RAM or some platform specific code, but I was in high school back then so I didn't know much more about it)

In the early days, there was also the issue of how to get that .jar file to your phone. I distinctly remember old Nokia phones could download them through WAP (which was paid) or receive them through IrDA/Bluetooth, but themselves couldn't send applications through IrDA/Bluetooth (I think Sony Ericssons were the ones which could also send them....), This issue was later solved by microSD cards and USB cable transfers from PC.
You know what's the most secure device? The one that doesn't work.
> human-race scale impact that I believe google recognizes

Not sure I buy that.

They're clearly ignoring the already existing human-race scale negative impact of their do-anything-to-capture-peoples-attention advertising business.
GC pauses and a very high memory usage are still a problem. That's why we don't see many Java games (Minecraft was a notable exception and ran like a dog).
People extract tokens from apps all the time. Jailbreaks for modern versions of iOS do exist and if they become too hard to pull off, that'll just create a market for pre-jailbroken devices.

Tokens embedded into your app can and will be extracted. You can make life harder for criminals by rapidly updating tokens and invalidating all but the last X updates, but I doubt your users are going to like that, and I doubt criminals will be stopped for long with the amount of money at stake.

There are ways to make it incredibly difficult for hacked apps but if the file ends up at a user's device, you lose control.
Fair question. I sometimes envy the amount of time people without kids have. But even for all the time in the World I would never trade the experience of having my three year old daughter. The pleasure I get from her is beyond anything I ever managed to get for myself, even when I had all the time in the World. Whether down to biochemistry or insanity, or both, I don't know. Having kids also helped me value my personal free time a lot more, so in some ways I feel like I'm more aligned with what I want now. Don't read any of this as advice though, I would never recommend anyone having children unless it's something you really want.
> Regular users don‘t need to install software on their own anymore, the same as they don‘t need to put processors, storage and Monitors together or install a sound card.

Uhuh, sure.

"Shut your mouth, pay and be happy"
They could try some shenanigans like requiring "certification" to side load anything and that would come with a contract.

It would be struck down by the courts and version 2 of this regulation but for a few years it would be there.

I'm hoping apple doesn't do that but at this point I think they'll try anything they can to protect their golden goose (aka app store) even from minor competition.
I humbly accept this proposition. Do you have a suggestion on what term to use instead?
I'd get annoyed too, because I know there are much simpler alternatives. Language design should encourage doing things right by making it more convenient than the shortcuts.

In Rust that entire check can be a single "?" symbol.
How much syntactic sugar is too much is a matter of preference, but I personally think that properly handling all errors without syntactic sugar turns into an unreadable mess because there's just a lot of things which could go wrong.
I think you kind of answered your own question. You have to have outside experience of the words to really have them click. We all have extremely strong associative memories. And you risk associating those words with the games/sentences on Duolingo, instead of the thing they actually represent. This is why watching movies, reading books, listening to music, etc in the target language is so important.

Duolingo lessons generally fail to build up on each other sufficiently. Lesson 10 should regularly reuse the vocabulary of 1-9 (to help 'widen' the association). Instead, it tends to be lesson 10 vocabulary paired with extremely simple words to form grammatically correct sentences and learn the vocabulary of lesson 10, which is then almost entirely discarded in the lessons that follow.
I regularly ask people: have you read the man page? Seems a minimum effort one can do.
Are Text Messages the New Social Media? One Startup Thinks So
There is as much separation between the language of Alexandre Dumas and the language of William the Conqueror as there is between the language of William the Conqueror and the language of Theodosius, Emperor of Rome.

But you'd like to say that William the Conqueror was speaking French and not speaking Latin. Why?
requiring professors handle it is waste. but now we require professor fight against administration team.
> I think Apple has also done good things with their strict app store policies

Apple could have hidden the settings to enable it behind two levels of menu settings and anyone like you would never get to it. The only reason they have "strict" policies, as has been shown over and over again, is for their commercial benefit.

> Apple has been for example putting limits on data collection and tracking.

I want to be tracked by apps, because it leads to better ads for products that I am actually looking for (than some random garbage that I don't care about)... and better usability in general. Apple put those rules in place so that their ad business has the edge over competitors. If Apple was running in a country that was not corrupt, this would be seen as anti-competitive and they would be sued.

> Strong players, like Facebook, may just take their app away from the official store and distribute it through other ways.

And? If you want clear rules on tracking, go talk to your politician. Apple is blocking competitors from tracking users while it has access to all of users data and uses it for their $5 billion revenue business.
> if those interests align with what is moral it's just convenient and an easy way for the US to get other to go along with what they are doing

Sure. But the American strategy relies on building alliances. That naturally aligns us to others in a way a more-domineering imperial approach doesn’t.
I'm not sure how military spending props up STEM exactly, but I do often hear people say that military spending is good for science because so many research advances have come from the military.

But if you look at how much the US spends on military versus the scientific progress coming from the military (e.g. DARPA stuff), the yield is actually surprisingly low. At the very least we can probably agree that it's not a very efficient way to fund research.
> So all these suggestions below to use server side generated HTTP headers and 302 (or 301) redirects are incorrect...because you won't know, on the first page hit, if the client has scripting enabled.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding you, but do you think that the HTTP approach only works when JavaScript is enabled? That isn’t the case.

Go ahead and use HTTP 3xx responses; they work in all cases. Don’t use the <meta> element or the <noscript> element. Just redirect with HTTP. If you try to use HTML for this, you’ll be serving up 200 OK responses and things that understand HTTP but not HTML won’t understand there’s a redirect.
Maybe because we collectively pretty badly handled knowledge transmission between generations.

For the pioneers the most difficult part of learning CS was to get hardware needed. This mostly determined the technological stack they would then learn.

Nowadays hardware is commodity and the main problem is to determine what the hell you should start learning first because you can't learn everything it has now became humanely impossible.

I was born somewhen in the middle. Because of my first field I wish I could have mastered python. But at that time the python2/3 war was at the highest and you couldn't find reliable documentation. Hell even python3 tutorial kept on blabbering about how python2 concept translated. What was i supposed to do? learn both?

That is why I focused on SQL because at least documentation was quite stable (special thanks to PostgreSQL documentation teams).

I can only imaging the nightmare that must endure rookies frontend dev nowadays.
I only used the app in the beginning of my language learning with English, so 6 years ago, but the learning was artificial, making you feel good about making no progress, and I was doing the hardest mode they had with 30 experience or something daily. I switched onto real methods of learning such as immersion and Anki later on, which is when I really learned a number of languages. The gamification is fine, but it should be combined with real progress. As an alternative point, Duolingo is fine to start with as in following the paradigm of "starting small", however has to be abandoned shortly after.
Evaluate candidates through pull requests
That's not really what you would call supporting the device though is it.
There is an appstore with third party apps.
How to use Google Discover without Google app or Chrome?
I really like the recommendations but don't want to use the Google app or Chrome. Is there any API available for Discover?
Since start. Originally, they were too fine-grained though.
Yeah... And we hunted that population to... ?

Humans and their livestock make up the vast majority of the mamallian biomass.
Android has so much malware in the play store the argument is moot.
Like the sibling comment says, sideloading. Same as how you do it on Android, where other stores exist (e.g. F-droid). It's not as convenient as the Play Store, because Google hasn't made it such, but it's not too inconvenient either.

The fact that you can't even imagine how that might work points to the real problem.
Most people act in their own interest

A nation is comprised and guided by people

Thus, unless something extraordinary happens, nations will act in their own interest
Two handed presses are a technical prevention which restricts a person from putting their hands in danger. Education was not enough.

Lockout/tagout is a technical prevention which restricts other people from messing with a system that could endanger you. Education was not enough.

A monopoly app store is a technical prevention that restricts someone from running un-vetted software that could potentially steal your life savings or compromise your entire digital life. Do you think education is enough?

I am not saying that that is true or correct, but I do think that's an argument that someone who disagrees would have to take in good faith and respond to satisfactorily.
> content (or more charitably: their highly visible external communication) is a large part of what launched them onto the scene so quickly and had them in consideration as a top tier firm

The VC predates the blog. It used to be a serious name, being an early backer of Twitter and Y Combinator. It started to go dogshit about ten years ago and criminal after 2019. They remain a fundraising powerhouse. Though the market seems to be noticing their flagging performance, with secondary funds trading at strong double-digit discounts to NAV.
Buying 3rd party batteries is a nightmare, you never know what you are going to get.
That's the GP's point, they rent you games but the language they use is "buy", and they shouldn't. They should say "rent" instead.
How would you recommend going about that?
Presumably, each molecule of atmospheric methane (CH4) primarily degrades through oxidation to 1 CO2 and 2x H2O - this is basic chemestry.

Although atmospheric losses to space and capture into oceans and subsequent precipitation into hydrates cannot be excluded as potential atmospheric methane sinks, I expect those to be only marginal at the grand scheme of things.
> It sounds more like you’re upset about apples revshare model on their channel; Why do you care if all your competitors also have to pay it?

There's a Ukrainian saying

> Хрін з ним, що своя хата згоріла, головне у сусіда корова здохла

Which literally translates to "Who cares if house is burnt down, the most important is that neighbors' cow is dead" - that's you. Ever thought that maybe you and/or your comptetitor shouldn't have to pay in the first place or that shares are unfair?
The name is tied to the verification. When you change your name a human at Twitter needs to confirm the change is legit and not an impersonation.

This is happening because Elon Musk is abusing his rudimentary Twitter Blue verification process for profit and forcing false endorsement of a service to people who want nothing to do with it. So as a result, the implementation of it... and the intent of it... don't quite match.

Frankly I hope he gets a massive lawsuit for this.
Given that most available models are instruction tuned now (they directly respond to instructions rather than just predicting text), not much "prompt engineering" is necessary anymore. It's remarkable how quickly this has been forgotten, the article doesn't even mention it.
I am one of those people that cannot memorise times tables.

That hasn’t stopped me getting a degree in computer science, and working for a FANG since I graduated nearly 10 years ago as a software engineer. I have provided value.

I can do just fine in the real world without having memorised the times tables.

Different people have their heads wired differently. I was lucky enough to be in a state school that had a great learning support program, and some teachers that saw potential in me despite struggling with some conventionally trivial aspects of education.

The solution after diagnosis[1]? Just give me a calculator (I was allowed to use one in the normally “non calculator” exams). And in a pinch, I can still do it by hand but slowly. I often don’t just “know” the result, and that’s something I’m fine with not being “fixed” about me.

[1] https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/dyscalculia/how-can-i-identif...
Yes, "thumbs up, thumbs down" voting is a pretty good way to collect directionally unambiguous feedback that can easily be aggregated across many users to serve as training data.

But it's terrible interaction design for communicating what you want. Imagine trying to fulfill the 1001st most common user need and pressing "thumbs down" 1000 times until you finally get there.

In such cases, being able to construct a more specific prompt would save you a lot of time.
It's kinda weird to realize how motivated people are by updating a spreadsheet in a complicated way.
US was supposedly well intentioned in a lot of countries that are now in chaos.

Good luck finding a conflict where the US wasn't poking around before it started.
The source there would be that they both contain only one carbon atom...
Good tools, but I disagree with the last one, which feels more like an outlier. The feat, docs, whatever style is highly opinionated, and I have yet to encounter a need for something like this in a professional setting
> thats not how it works, they already made their bets long before writing something like this

Correct. Andreessen is unusual in that its partners have a habit of plugging their books irrespective of the underlying companies’ health. So when e.g. PG says “look, I funded this company and they’re being badass,” people listen. When these guys write this tripe, it makes me wonder who’s running out of cash on that list.
starship looks cool, but the syntax of the shells is still different. so how can the user experience be the same?

for me syntax, search and autosuggestions are the key features of fish which no other shell has and starship doesn't seem provide those.
I would love that option, but even with Ahasi for iPhones you'll still need to deal with the horrific kludge that is the modern modem. Open source networking stacks exist but they're still extremely limited. Just look at how long it took for the Pinephone to receive calls, and they interface with the modem over a standard protocol like USB.

The ability to install your own OS would be a nice end goal, but at this pace it'll take at least another 10 years of government regulation before Apple would even consider allowing that.
> macOS stores fonts in resource forks? I'm confused, what use does this have and what happens when you accidentally miss them?

Classic MacOS considers fonts to be a type of resource, and hence stores them in the resource fork. Contemporary macOS fonts are just ordinary files with a data fork only. I think grandparent is talking about the 1990s, although some of those machines remained in active use through the first few years of this century.

Windows originally considered fonts to be a type of resource too – the original bitmap fonts used with Windows 1.x-3.x are stored as a resource–except unlike MacOS it embeds resources into EXE/DLL file data instead of putting them in a fork. In fact, a .FON file containing a Windows bitmap font is just an EXE with no code, only resources. Nobody really uses this any more, everything is TrueType now and TrueType uses its own file format not resources, but Windows still supports the old bitmap fonts for any legacy apps which still use them.
He managed to fudge a largeish consensus to close Gitmo. When he became president, the former president and McCain had voiced will to close it

He could have let them be tried in civilian courts, but chose not to do so because some of the inmates had evidence against them "tainted by torture" and that they were better held in indefinite detention.

If we learned anything from interviews with officials after Obama's presidency was that he, after the first failures in 2008-2009, never considered any alternatives to indefinite detention in "Gitmo North, Illinois".

Point 2-4 has nothing to do with my first points. On point 2 I would say he is the only president in recent times that actually cared about health care decency. In a recent comment here in HN regarding the Mr. beast video with him paying people's cataract surgerys I said that USA is the richest country in the world, yet some people can't afford not to be blind. Why this doesn't upset more democrats and even republicans is completely beyond me.

And regarding point 4 some people argued that the increasing lethality of the war on terror under Obama was due to a reluctance to detain people...

As you might have guessed I stand quite a bit to the left compared to mainstream American politics. I still prefer Obama to all other recent and not so recent presidents.
Nobody wants Linux on an iPhone. People want both the Apple ecosystem, but also apps that do not want to participate in it or apps that Apple does not like.
> How long? A decision that must be made in an hour can't have too long a chain of command. There are several historical instances where we or Russia almost launched by mistake.

The chain is even longer then the higher ups decision to actually launch a nuke though.

Would you press the button to nuke another country knowing that doing so will very likely kill your entire family and you?, or would you ignore the order?.
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It's rocky in the sense that it has elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, but not in the sense that it's solid. Temperature within the cores reaches 40k Celsius, so everything is molten.
Wall Europe off and let them suffer their government regulated mobile phone. Anyone cheering this has a short memory.
"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" - Henry Kissinger.

And also... “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
> A lot of business ideas are unviable without slavery! So what? I don't want that, and I hope you don't either! So what is it you actually want?

Did you just compare freedom to choose alternative payment method to slavery? What a bizarre world, I don't know why I've even bothered to reply to your comments, lol.

> I don't compete with "big players". If Apple didn't make an iPhone and I didn't make an app to put on it, I wouldn't get that money, and pretending otherwise won't make it so. The people I am competing with are in the same situation I'm in, and if they're getting success and I'm not, I think I should worry about what I can do.

You're dictators wet dream.

"Don't care about unfair system, dig within yourself! If competitor is doing good under dictatorship it means the problem is within you!"
All the while cows' methane emissions can be greatly reduced, e.g., by oxidizing methane or by using food supplements that reduce enteric fermentation.

One should not forget soil erosion of typical farming, with a big environmental impact. This can be alleviated by letting cows graze on land to stock carbon in the soil (sequestration of soil organic carbon).
Robust science? You mean NY Times or Chicago Tribune?
Musk's decisions are all three in a co-dependent relationship:

It seemingly starts as (3), then in time it's revealed to be just (1), but he's too embarrassed to admit, so he drowns all signal in the noise of monkeying around and claiming it's (2).

For example, he wanted to use his "cave mini submarine" to save those children in Thailand (3). But in time it was apparent he has no idea what he's doing, and he's risking the lives of these children to do PR for Tesla on their back (1), which hero diver Vernon Unsworth spelled out for the media, so Elon Musk lashed out calling him a "pedo-guy", and then in court claimed he's just messing around and that's a harmless insult from South Africa (2).

This is just a tiny example. You'll notice all his companies start with moonshots for the investors, then it's about him personally getting shares, power and money, and finally he masks it all with inane behavior and trolling.

The sad thing... is that it works. Say, it worked for his "taking Tesla private, funding secured" tweet. "Oh, I was... just joking!" Boom, case dismissed. Is it any surprise he keeps using the same rulebook?
There are plenty of indie games written in Java, there are low-lat GCs available for the JVM (ZGC) that promises sub millisecond pauses, and you don’t have to use a ton of memory, there are ways to manage it.

Minecraft was written in a very suboptimal way, its creator was a very novice developer — there are mods that easily increase performance many-many times.
Can it parse Rust debug output (dbg!() or {:?}) back into original data?
Yes, it comes in bundle with SunOS, since that one part of it it's implemented in the kernel IIRC.
I've also been able to run NeWS 1.1 (which was before the X/NeWS merg) inside QEMU, although the keyboard input is not working (and for some reason the patch to add the Sun Type 4 breaks everything).