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Now hardware and bandwidth is so cheap now you dont have to care about design so much. Make a service, JSON in JSON out. Some kind of loose versioning but no formal schema and fix it up as it goes.
I don't really know how this all works, but can't I (a hypothetical human) just create a user account on each disconnected sub-graph? Why is this significant?
His ideas weren't particularly marginal before. The notion that industrial civilization is fundamentally alienating has been around as long as industrial civilization.
I've been trying to sign up all day just to see what the talk is about. It's failed. Over 15 times. Over a 12 hour period.
"Taking into account recent events"; cf. https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230607-Minut..., https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User_talk:Raidarr#c-Dmehus-20..., https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/User_talk:Owen#c-Dmehus-20230... — admin abuse and drama, to grossly oversimplify
Yeah, I bet nothing of that sort happens. This programming sci-fi is entertaining to read but it's not grounded in reality.
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> It is not a false dichotomy, it's called herd immunity.

> If such a switch exists, EVERYTHING will use it. Absolutely everything. There will be some "cool thing you can do" that requires sideloading, like pirating games, and at that point every fucking teenager on the planet will be sideloading. At that point it's not the "weird minority usage"; it's the real API everyone uses.

> This is exactly how you get a tragedy of the commons.

> Your decisions do affect me, and I hold you in hostility for the same reason anti-vaxxers get held in hostility. I have had family members get hacked and have their drives ransomwared because they're on an insecure-by-default platform, and using the equivalent of root access is the default way to do anything (windows + run as admin). Those who consistently advocated for "libertarian computing" brought this tragedy on me by proxy. It doesn't matter how careful I am, and how disciplined I keep my own stuff — other people I care about exist and I cannot protect them from what SHOULD be harmless actions.

I hate the logical end state that such a decision ends up at, as it demonizes the exploration of a device THAT YOU OWN. I SHOULD be able to learn how my devices work. I SHOULD be able to repair it by my own efforts. I SHOULDN'T have to rely on the manufacturer as the sole source for repairs & maintenance of something that I SHOULD OWN.

Just like how you demonize that my stances on "libertarian computing" brought this tragedy onto you by proxy, your stances on walling off such access brought upon me the tragedy of the manufacturer being the ONLY WAY that I could fix something THAT I OWN. Your stances against self-repairability, *as a consequence of wanting such access walled off*, contributed to the unrepairability of modern appliances & the tech landfills that have ballooned from such a decision.

> Network. Effects. MATTER.

Yes, they do matter. Including yours. What's being signaled from your network is that you don't want repairability, even if you say otherwise.
Exactly. I was watching carefully for some new capability, something that couldn't be done before. But I didn't see anything, except maybe "watch movies on a plane without looking down at your tablet/phone". Maybe I'm weird, but if I were so sensitive to bad experiences that I couldn't just watch a movie on a tablet, I wouldn't be on a plane in the first place.
> but it's an extreme form of selfishness to demand that someone else sacrifice earnings to provide perpetual unfettered platform access to things that were put on the platform of posters' own accord without coercion.
Apple also has their own burgeoning ad business…
Second this ^.

I saw your post on Reddit and started using it.
Thanks!
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Is there simply a lack of intersection between folks who care about UX and those who care about distributed computing? (And haven’t been sucked into web3.)
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Well, it is a conference, not a party!
I'm guessing Apple is hoping that the apps will be the killer thing. They claim to have not expected the app store to be so successful, so maybe they're hoping they don't need to create the killer app that someone else will. That's why they are introducing the dev tools for it so much sooner than it being available. They are banking on killer apps being announced before launch
> We don’t have to meet our deadline. We told folks hey, we need to come up with a plan, or we’re going to start billing you on July 1st.

I don't understand why he keeps doing these interviews, he's just terrible at responding to completely predictable, reasonable questions.
IBM is the only one really left...for now. They just shuttered US-based AIX development and moved everything to India, so the writing is on the wall.

HP/UX and Solaris are barely on life support and basically moribund. I seem to recall a recent announcement that HP/UX goes end-of-support in 2025. As far as Solaris...Oracle is gonna Oracle. Illumios, et. al., won't save it.

SGI IRIX is long dead. RIP.

SCO (the part with a product, not the part that fails miserably at litigation) got sold to someone noone has ever heard of and probably never will. I speculate there's an SMB PoS market out there supporting it and that'll turn out just as well as the OS/2+ATM market did. No innovation going on there, just milking a dwindling revenue stream. I doubt anyone has sold a Xenix license in decades.
I think they are comparable. A blow from a bronze sword will kill you just as well as a blow from an iron sword. The most widespread weapon of all times prior to the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic wars were spears. A spear with a bronze tip and one with an iron tip will also kill you with equal probability. If you have a shield, the damage to the spear is much more likely to come from a broken shaft than from a cracked tip. The shield itself generally had a metallic part (a "boss") that could be made of bronze or iron. Both were equally effective.

Swords were generally not used in battle. But if used, a bronze sword was a bit more likely to crack than an iron sword. Bronze weapons were resistant to corrosion though. So that meant they did a better job in their secondary role: that of provider of status. A warrior with shiny armor, shield and sword is much more imposing and frightening than one with a rusty armor, shield and sword. Of course, in the bronze age, war was more ritualistic than war during the Roman empire, when war was much more like an industrial operation. For the purposes of the Roman empire, iron was probably doing a better job than bronze.
I don't think federated systems without something like urbit underneath will work outside of a hyper technical niche. You end up back at a handful of even crappier centralized servers with a worse experience and even more capricious mods - a worst of both worlds.

The reason centralized ad-based companies are so successful is the centralization solves serious UX problems that are unsolvable by systems that are not centralized. You need a unified platform where users share an underlying system that stuff can be built on top of that they can actually own, where the details of the system are hidden and it's possible to actually get UX/discovery/auth that is just as good as centralized systems. It has to solve for the problems that lead to centralization. [0]

This stuff will only work when to an average user they have no idea they're even on a system that isn't centralized, just looks like a normal app. You can't get there without solving bigger issues upstream from the app itself. [1]

[0]: https://zalberico.com/essay/2022/09/28/tlon-urbit-computing-...

[1]: https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progr...
Hn ppl r so wrong usually abt Apple. Wrong abt this too. Go look at thread on iPad, on Apple Watch.

This will succeed. Immersion is good, and resolution needed for good experience is finally here.

The end.

I got a good laugh readin the Apple Watch announcement thread. Will laugh in a few years at this thread and others 2
> any hope of creating a community to rival reddit is going to be thrown out the window.

I haven’t been following lemmy, can you elaborate on this? Isn’t the idea of blocking instances part of the point?

Like if I made “GoatseLemmy: Where Every Post Is Goatse” I wouldn’t expect content on it to be available for everyone without any input from admins that pay to run other servers.
Snowden never says anything pro-Kremlin you dimwit. He DOES criticize the west for perfectly valid reasons.
> can't I (a hypothetical human) just create a user account on each disconnected sub-graph

Managing multiple identities is challenging. It’s solved-problem challenging, but that implies a single client which sort of defeats the purpose of de-centralising the back end.
I'm actually rooting for RustPython to reach a level of maturity that we'd just be able to ship apis and stuff with it.... https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
Imagine your mom emails you and asks why she can't access her favourite subreddit anymore and you have to explain she now has to make 2 different accounts to access different subreddits. I mean 'instances'. I just picture my own trying to wrap her head around "why".

It sounds like a minor hurdle to our demographic but most people are super lazy and bad at juggling online authentications. I would never recommend Mastodon to any non-tech person for that reason (beyond the other UI issues) unless there was a specific niche community they were interested in.
I think you can do all of that on Apple too. They have an exception for educational/dev language interpreters IIRC .

Just a random example: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pyto-python-3/id1436650069

It can even run shortcuts which is pretty cool for home automation. I don't own an iPhone but your comment made me check if it was possible to run actual commands on the different python ide apps on Apple.
You keep saying "better visual experience". What's alleged to be better about it? I watched the short promo video, and didn't catch anything about that.

The reason why I would prefer to use a real screen is that I (imagine) the visual experience to be better. At least we agree about the reason.
This is interesting to me, because I always figured the Diablo series was prized for its moment-to-moment gameplay, rather than for its story or cinematics.
I really just don’t understand the lemmy and mastodon thing. It looks like the same interface even on different servers and can’t you just make an account on another server? It doesn’t really make sense and I don’t see why I should care
mainly because hoodie and flannel pants rocketed past bathrobe tech about 15 years ago.
Honestly, isn't that fine ? It means that the community has control and not a singular company. Just important to never let any single instance get as big as a company.
> I don't understand why your particular experience matters in this argument.

It doesn’t matter. We are having a very enlightening discussion based on my opinion. I’m simply sharing my experiences and an opinion based on those experiences. Nothing more, nothing less.
They can. Just advance against the IPO money and apply it retroactively. I figure they will charge $100-200 a share to the public.
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Ask HN: How do you choose an idea/problem and sticks with it?
Over the past few years, I've had maybe 2O products/tools ideas that I started researching and/or coding, and at some point I always ended up finding too many cons to actually finish and ship them, only to stumble upon months later on a startup/guy doing the exact same thing and getting traction

How do you personally manage to choose and stick with an idea or problem to solve?

I'm especially interested about answers from people who are either making money or having active users.
Well, signed up on lemmy.world today since it seemed large and specifically wanted to read communities on beehaw too.

Should have waited another 12 hours to get it confirmed that it's never going to pan out
> to spend one year in the development

> one chief programmer and two junior programmer

Way too modest by today standards. Also, I would say chief programmer will spend most of the time teaching juniors, unless then "junior" was what we call senior today.
I perhaps wasn't 100% clear.

I'm not suggesting English is a perfect representation of thoughts & concepts into strings of letters & punctuation, or that any one variant has tweaked it to be just right.

I'm complaining that the Rest Of The World has to contend with the dilution of metric terminology (by the regrettable rise of f.e. 'metric ton') that's being perpetrated by a nation state that doesn't even use metric.
I think this can be felt in cars; without the extreme life and death situation.

My father taught me the skill of listening to the car, I can diagnose many problems with a motor with barely any description, but I can get really far with a screwdriver as a stethoscope. Thanks to understanding how they work, even rough descriptions of symptoms or noises 20 yards away and I'll remark about what's wrong with the engine or accessories. (Granted, as a kid, we had the sounds of Sebring on reel to reel)

Luckily, ICE knowledge is also transferrable to fun things like boat engines. Boats, then have their own set of physics to try fun things with (like trim tabs, outboard hydrofoils)

As it turns out, a 20 year old car, a 20 year old boat, hobbies like track days and slalom skiing lead to many busy weekends.
The only thing saving your 3390 from irremovable bloatware is its weak hardware.

If bloatware could be install it would be as Nokia like most phone makers will try to curry favour with the carriers to get them to promote their phones.

Apple is probably the only phone maker who didn’t do that. They didn’t need to. Heck it was the other way around - carriers wanted to sell iPhones so they can get an edge over / won’t fall behind their competitors. If carriers have a problem with Apple’s refusal of their demands, they could go screw themselves. Their loss.
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> there's actually something to do

What do you imagine people doing that isn't done about as well on some other Apple device? I can sort of get the gaming use case; I think it's wildly oversold, but it's legitimately different. But even Apple's launch video doesn't suggest that general computing will be notably improved here.
> Written German of the times of Mark Twain is also quite different from today's.

The German language mutated less over the centuries than the English language. An educated native German speaker should be able to mostly understand the "Nibelungenlied" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied), a text written down in the mid 13th century, which is thus nearly 800 years old.
All the ancient religions used hallucinogens (when they didn't use meditation or weird sex or whatever).

That's how you see God.

It sure beats reading old books.
Difficulty of demonstrate is also a pain. It's easy to demonstrate to friends or mom that BB is useful, but demonstrate any HMD usage/functionality is one of the most hardest thing ever. What most people can do best is just send WWDC video.
> Did all these previous generations find less satisfaction in life?

Heck yes. I lived half my life in a non-Internet era. And I can say with absolute certainty, that it was horrible. Finding community, especially for specialized interests, was virtually impossible. Finding specialized information -- completely impossible, unless you had access to a University library. There weren't even efficient ways to find out what specialized information you could have but don't.

Encyclopedia Britannica is not remotely a substitute for Wikipedia. And the same holds for pretty much every other form of information, every other form of communication, and every other form of community except family.

If you want to go back 100 years... all my ancestors worked 18 hours a day in the mines, starting at the age of 6, and died young from Black Lung Disease. Which is considerably less satisfying.
My understanding is that newer strains aren't much different in terms of severity, but the hospitalization and mortality rates will change by some percentage because our treatment protocols improved. When covid first hit, people had no idea what to do with the infected. Doctors around the world were sharing information and research was underway but they all had to learn as they went along. Eventually things were bound to improve, even if the virus hadn't evolved at all.
Looks nice. Honestly I am just kind of playing around right now and the Luxonis products are the only ones that seem to have any kind of active development, support, and usable (for me) hardware in the hobbyist (<$200) price range.

nVidia's platform is just a huge mess. I tried to get their SDK running and their own documentation was out-of-date, missing necessary links, and sometimes blatantly wrong. I wasn't going to dump $400+ into that ecosystem.

Google gives up on hardware consistently and has the worst support of any existing software company (effectively zero) and has bungled the AI hand every change they get.

ARM NPUs I am not going to bother with. I can't even get video encoder acceleration working on a non-Pi ARM SoC except for the Rock64 and that is like 6 years old and was missing that functionality for 4 of them.

Intel only cares about its corporate partners and doesn't give a crap about hobbyists in regards to A.I. But their VPU was (is) decent and Oak guaranteed supply for at least until 2025 or thereabouts and built a useable API so we don't have to mess with OpenVINO.

It's all a mess right now but I can't say that competition is bad. It will be nice if we dispense with all the bespoke platforms and agree on some common architecture for edge devices, but I won't hold my breath.
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Seems like the changes are being reverted now (The index on the home page for C is restored, and most other pages
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This just supports my decision to delete my 13+ year old Reddit account.
Was this unexpected? Having instance-level control over federation is part of the point of federation.
AVP is another vector for vendor lock-in, same as iOS. It cannot even do video out from a Macbook, because then you might actually play a video or a game without passing through Cupertino's toll gates.
I am sure this is why they want us all to buy EVs much more than the reality of "climate". It will lead to complete control of mass population; you can shut down a persons home and vehicle remotely and they can't do much about it.
What? The cinematics are absolutely incredible. Would definitely pay to watch a full Diablo movie.
Why are you calling for centralization from a federated service?
The ultimate negotiating position is law. Simply make what they're doing illegal until it stops happening. Computing freedom must be enshrined into law. It doesn't matter how much money it costs them.
Everything, including our climate and other basic needs as humans. Wild that it hasn’t been overthrown yet.
> Lemmy has a great chance achieving what mastodon couldn't

Why would you expect that? Don't Mastodon instances also routinely block each other?
It seems like it's aiming to be a laptop replacement. Wearing it outside would probably be the equivalent of walking down the street holding a laptop in front of you.
That's an interesting take on it. On the one hand, it wasn't presented as "this would help my recovery/treatment," rather it was presented as "I threw out my rotator cup so I'm not doing swords, but if you wanted to sell, I can connect you with someone who wants to buy one."

I am acutely aware that one never knows what is going on in the other person's head in a conversation, so I have to accept the possibility that he was hoping to generate another sale to me, but I feel pretty strongly that if that was what he was hoping for he would have mentioned it.
This is your opinion, but many disagree. I personally find processes infinitely easier to deal with than thread, it's not even a discussion in my mind. For me, threads are banned from usage, until it's absolutely necessary to do so. When I write code in C++ there are cases where a problem cannot be solved unless threads are used. It's fine to use threads there. For everything else I appeal to either multiprocessing or `async` concurrency.
Only a fraction as much malware on the iOS App Store, where xcodeghost infected hundreds of millions of users out of a smaller number of total devices.

This makes sense because the Play Store applies the same review that the App Store does and has additional automated checks on top. Meanwhile, no devices have been infected with malware from F-droid, which Apple will not let you use.
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In addition to the login bit, reddit/hn style threaded comments for conversation is way better UI (imo) than pages of slow loading quoting forum posts.
Sounds like a good mentor. She knew how to do it, she told you how people do it, she demonstrated for you how to do it, you know how it works now.

You can choose to participate, also you can sit at the end of the bar, lots of other choices also.
Square ships iPads, most of the other payment terminals are some brand of leenucks (some are android, some are not.) There are more WinCE terminals still out there than you would expect (verifone's been around for a LONG time and has probably used every embedded toolchain/cpu architecture/rtos that's come down the pike. And that's just one example.)

IBM 4690's supposedly run a SuSe derivative, and Walmart doesn't seem to be replacing them with iPads. I think Sears & KMart also used 4690s, but also a mix of predecessor systems which ran an unholy assemblage of OSes: flex, dos, a bizarre mix of Os/36 and IMS, etc. As best I can tell, they never ran an OS from CMU.

Next time you're in a gas station, grocery store, cinema or chain restaurant look closely at the cash register. It's not an iPad.

Square did a mightily brilliant thing to marry its dongle to a consumer friendly iPad to support small retail, but apple is not in the business of selling PoS systems. Heck, apple stores didn't use apple devices for PoS for the first two or three years after they were launched.

The assertion that iPads are "taking over" PoS seems to be based on an inappropriately small sample.
if anything they are likely claiming it was the driver, but was more likely the algos listening in to his every conversation through his devices in the home.
>In a time where a lot of people are reducing their online footprint

No they aren't. The average person is increasing it. Social media platforms are bigger than ever before. I 100% expect that if they released a brain chip that gave you instant access to GPT-10 making you smarter than everyone else, people would buy it. You'd be unhirable if you didn't because everyone else has instant access to all human knowledge.
Not only the hosts, but also the hospitals. Treatments became available, and we learned what worked well and what didn't. The care a person who is infected today gets is very different from what people in the first months of the pandemic got and that's improved outcomes.
Only, kids these days don't even understand how postage works.
> I think if the iPhone was open we’d see numerous ad-blocking efforts that would have made facebook’s data siphoning impossible long ago.

Or it would lead to a bunch of apps which instead of blocking Facebook would either siphon all that data or display their own adverts. Scammers would be happy to have such powers. Thank you very much but I like trusting that only I can use my banking app on my phone.