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> AppLovin, who, incidentally, tried to buy

It’s more like they asked Unity to merge with them at fairly favorable terms (Unity’s CEO would’ve been in charge and their shareholders would still control majority of the new corp).

That would imply that AppLovin felt pretty desperate. For good reason I guess since these licensing changes seem to be in a large part designed to run AppLovin and its other competitors out of business.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/13/iphone-15-pro-models-mo...

At least something...
I don't think there is any reason ambiguity would clash with a project like this. Take "value.fair_market" in the concepts section [0]. Sure, lawyers can argue over what this means, but these competing definitions can also be defined programmatically.

I agree with your idea that our interest in laws shouldn't focus on implementation details but I think they should focus on outcomes. This requires a method to produce an evaluation function to measure the outcomes of a new law, and a system such as Catala to help model expected outcomes and to help select between competing laws (eg if our outcome = "we want less pollution" then our policy might be "ban polluting industries" or "tax pollution externalities." Both have complex consequences which would be better analyzed automatically and measured empirically.)

[0] https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala#concepts
type erasure for generics is annoying

I too have spent significant time programming in both C# and Java. This complaint about type erasure in Java: When does it affect your daily life? There are so many craft workarounds available now that it hardly comes up anymore.

Also, would your opinion of Java significantly change if type erasure was removed or never existed?
> I also hide my ID in mine (between cover and phone) so that I do not have to wear a wallet...

That's interesting, are you legally required to carry ID where you live?
I used HLH Orions for a couple of years as an undergraduate at Heriot-Watt in the 1980s. I don't think I ever actually saw the machines I used - ormazd and oberon.
Glad you liked it - albeit not sure where you pulled xenophobia from.
I go to the Teaching/University dentist clinic in my city.

It's a very reputable University and the times I've gone, I have felt very confident in the quality of attendance that I am receiving. Mostly because it's usually 1-2 students that see you and whatever they do they get checked by a supervisor.

This inspires trust in me because, well, the supervisor is there to make sure the students learn. It's not so much about profits here at all. Obviously this means that sometimes you get students that might not have all the techniques down and so they might take a bit longer... but quality wise I know these are going to be very successful dentists too; as this is one of the top unis in the country.

I think if I were to need to find a private sort of arrangement. Most likely I would go to the university dentist clinic and ask around for recommendations. But why would I do that?
As someone who takes supposedly very high quality suppliments is there a easy, relatively cheap, way to DIY test these and myself?
Right.

So there’s a proven market for a rugged iPhone.
> Most people don't upgrade every year, but those that do, typically have a still very good condition and usable second hand device to sell or hand down to another friend/co-worker/etc

I don't upgrade every year and still was able to turn in my previous phone for some hundred bucks so far
My ISP (Liberty Global) did configure IPv6 but then made your IPv4 to be a CGNAT ending in next state over.

Sigh
Are you aware of any blind tests done on this? I'm fully aware that I can taste the difference between my Specialita and a blade grinder.

What I'm less convinced by is that more and more expensive grinders taste better to any noticeable and consistent degree. Personally I'd say that the taste changes day by day, maybe according to my mood, whether I brushed my teeth or ate something sweet in the last hour or two, the humidity, bean freshness, whether any defect beans got into a particular cup, and probably a ton of other factors.

I'm willing to accept that my tastes are not developed enough. But I need real double blind tests to back that up, not just people saying I should trust them because they claim to be an expert. Are there any?
Seems like you just don't want to give up the convenience of being able to buy the most top-notch hardware at any point in time. No one ever said that being sustainable wouldn't be without sacrifices :)
To a rational military thinker, 1500 people seems about the perfect
number to drive, cater, clean, farm and fish local food, run the local
diving and surf schools for RnR ... everything you'd need to support a
military base. They'd be loyal, travel very little, and easy to keep
an eye on from a secrets POV.

Isn't that basically the state of Hawaii?

But instead of choosing to integrate the lawful inhabitants and grow a
local economy we've treated them like animals, as pests.

As a rational thinker I can't see anything behind a decision like that
except pure racism. It is a stinking stain of shame on the pants of
Britain, and as a Brit I can't apologise enough for the embarrassing
people that have "led" my country.
Not really questionable. They are building Starship, Starship infrastructure, new factories for Starlink, upgrading existing factories, designing new Starlink version, deploying Starlink ground infrastructure, selling Starlink terminals at negative mergin, at a are developing Raptor v3 and commissioning the factory for it. And of course most of those launches are for Starlink so they don't really produce profit.

And while they raised a lot of money, it isn't actually that much. If they had 0 or negative margin on launches the company wouldn't be nearly sustainable.

That they made any profit at all is a damn miracle.

> Granted maybe there's some marginal benefits, eg launching n+1 rockets is cheaper per rocket than launching n rockets

There very clearly is. Every launch company has talked about this. The fixed cost for infrastructure, boats, launch teams and so on is absolutely huge. That is why so many New Space companies bet their company on launching often.

At the same time SpaceX is now recovering fairing on almost all launches. Landings have been perfect. Development is done. And Fixed cost are distributed over a whole lot of launches. They can now fly the newer cores 15-20 times.

The Upper Stage is the biggest cost, people estimate it between 5-15M. And then 10-20M in fixed cost, labor and recovery hardware amortisation. I think it can't really be more then 35M, I would guess less.
> After that, there was even a guy who escaped Auschwitz to tell about it.

15 people even.
Do you have any examples where ambiguity is truly beneficial?

For all the examples I can think of, the most beneficial outcome is removing the law altogether.
The same way we all do: A shitty modem that gives an ipv6 address to all devices, but only applies firewall rules to ipv4 addresses
This is the first I've heard about your event, or the preceding border:none ... despite living in Nürnberg and generally being on the lookout for English-speaking events.

I'll put both in my department's "General" Teams channel, as nearly half of us are not native German speakers - and most of the native German speakers are perfectly happy to get their web dev content in English.
I guess the operating system part is subjective, but what do you mean with substandard products that need to be replaced frequently?

If anything, the Apple products I had held their value much better than their Wintel counterparts. Writing this on a MacBook Pro from 2017 for example.
ah yes, ofcourse ! i stand corrected...
Yeah exactly, it's not just taste. While bitter, catechins are the antioxidants that give green tea its cancer-fighting power. So your tea may taste less bitter, but you're getting less benefit. Generally though if your green tea is too bitter you should reduce heat.
They don’t need to prove consumer harm to pass laws.
Maybe it was a littoral combat ship?
Technically, yes.

But good ISPs filter the prefixes their customers can announce to only those they actually own.

Then you have shitty providers that dont do it, and thats how you get BGP hijacking.

And you cant do this just from any connection, fyi.

You will need a datacenter, cloud host or residential ISP that actually allows you to peer with them and announce routes. This isnt a standard thing you get just by being a customer.
I really admire the work of conservators. Imagine being given an extremely important and yet fragile piece of code and you only have ~1 shot at refactoring it (unless they want to turn into one of the infamous restoration memes). That's what these people have to contend with. They have to gain an intricate understanding not just of the function of the object but also how it was put together. Make just one mistake, and a one-of-a-kind artifact could be ruined forever.
Mother Earth's Plantasia — warm earth music for plants and the people who love them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZkR3PyHTs0
The Roman empire was unsustainable though since it was built entirely on exploitation. Turns out paying the barbarians to leave you in peace is significantly cheaper than the taxes for the army (by the end almost entirely staffed by the same barbarians) to protect you from them.

Also the collapse occurred in parallel with climate change and plague which were responsible for most of the population decline.
Good point! Maybe that explains why they chose it only for the bands. People touch the phone the most at the outsides, so this sounds like a great trade-off between allowing the phone to cool itself (via the aluminum back) while not being hot or cold to the touch when holding it.
I too dislike dependency injection frameworks. I try to always wire manually myself. I'm tired of debugging old SpringFramework apps where changing the JVM by a patch level or changing one JAR dependency breaks the wiring. I have seen it too many times to count.
Maybe they don't consider it economical? He was pretty clear about wanting to have solutions that are actually economical. Another consideration is that his timeline of seven years is not compatible waiting for nuclear plants to be built.

Many recent nuclear plants come online years late and many billions over budget. So he'd have a good point.
Other example: raster map tiles (basically up to millions of tiny square pictures)

Zip vs tar vs filesystem vs sqlite. Tested all these scenarios, and sqlite was the fastest and the smallest, even beating plain archives with no overhead
I wouldn't say Annihilation is in any way a remake of Stalker, shameless or not. It is clearly inspired by it a bit in terms of setting, but it has a very different message to say. Stalker was essentially a movie about faith. Annihilation is a movie about self-destruction, both in the destructive sense, but also as a necessary step to building a new self.

The concept of a special zone where things are not the same as in normal reality is merely a shared motif.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they make the smallest subnet have 64k addresses? I remember a networking teacher say that by that point just ARP traffic will have long killed the subnet.
A tale of failing to design rule boundaries – Data-last functions
The thermal output of any nuclear or fossil fuel power station is not a significant source of global warming.
I grew in a family where we were self-sustained on potatoes. We had ~250m2 plot that yielded ~1200kg every year. More than enough for a family of 6, so we gifted/sold a hefty amount too.

What article doesn't cover is the amont of hard work required to sustain such garden. At least we had a two-wheel tractor that tremendously helped with planting, bushing, weeding and harvesting.

Harvesting is not a final step either. You need to let it dry, clean from soil and probably sort by size to pick ones you will plant later. You need a pretty big, cold and dark storage for over a tonne of food. You need a way to transport it to your kitchen. So work spent by us only on potatoes was ~400 man hours each year.
Widely-rumored executive order on AI will be the longest executive order ever
How do they warm the planet? They don’t emit CO2 right? So are you saying its just from radiant heat, or what?

Seems hard to believe the heat it generates actually warms the planet.
Google nears release of AI software Gemini
https://archive.ph/HaYrg
> since OpenDocument predates SQLite

This shocked me. Impressive how far SQLite's come in such a short space of time.
They must have been relieved to find them!
I was optimistic that Audacity adopting SQLite would be a substantial improvement in its file saving capabilities. In practice I encountered many gotchas:

- On Linux, saving into a new file onto a root-owned but world-writable NTFS mount created in /etc/fstab, fails due to permission errors or something. Saving into an existing file works as usual.

- Files are modified on disk when you edit the project in the program, creating spurious Git diffs if you check Audacity projects into Git as binary blobs. And when you save the file, old and deleted data is left in the SQLite file until you close the project's window (unlike saving a file in a text editor), and you can accidentally commit that into a Git repo if you don't close the window before committing. (I recall at one point that you had to manually vacuum the .aup3 file, but now closing the window is sufficient.) I'm getting Word 2003 Fast Save vibes.
Apache contributors were much better-skilled.

That is quite a broad statement. Two negative points about Apache Java libraries I can think of: The original "lang" libraries have not aged well at all. Also: The HTTP client libs are a fiasco. Very challenging APIs and weak documentation.
Interesting, but a longer wave will still have some impact, that can be detected by a smaller organism - or not?
Its a /48 for IPv6.

Thats what I have in my RIPE Account.
I'm so relieved and happy to see people who are able to pull of such feats of engineering and openly share how they did it. It really warms my heart.
And bring back headphone jack
Hamachi was popular back in the day because it meant you didn’t need to forward ports on your router. (Something that still confuses some of my friends).
Even if the buses are assembled by an American company most of the parts (including the most expensive part - the battery) are very likely imported from China.
Well, some people think of museums as timeless - the sort of place we put 2000-year-old roman stuff, 5000 year old egyptian stuff, 200 million year old dinosaur stuff, and so on.

Of course, the practical realities of most museums are a rather different matter; rent and employees have to be paid, and land in tourist-friendly areas is seldom cheap.
Personally, I find the Overleaf web editor to be worse than a local editor (even with Vim keybindings, dark theme, etc.)

But if your organization pays for Overleaf, you can sync Overleaf projects to local Git repos - and just pull / push as you would any other Git repo.

This is the best of both worlds IMO, since collaborators that don’t know Git can use the web editor without prior knowledge, while collaborators with strong opinions about editors usually know Git (or are willing to learn it).

There is also a Dropbox sync option, but I don’t recommend it. I’ve experienced bugs several times where TeX files suddenly become empty when using it.
Saving 20 grams of stationary mass is equal to saving possibly 200 grams in quick movement, such as taking the phone out of a pocket quickly. This is going to be quite noticeable. Add in to this the authors calculations of rotational inertia savings of 15% the effect might be even more pronounced.

So when moving the phone from pocket to quickly see a message or phone call, those savings reduce the weight of the phone during this motion by almost the weight of the phone itself.

Definitely noticeable.

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A few years ago I tried to work out the stationary weight limit of my roof rack on my 4wd, for example if I wanted to mount a rooftop tent with two adults (I'm overweight at the moment) and wanted to know if my size was an issue. Assuming a stationary weight of tent and other stuff and me and my partner I pushed my estimate to 400kg.

The roof rack is rated at 100kg carrying capacity.

What does 100kg equal to when going up and down sand dunes?

I found a forum post where someone worked out with calculus the "weight" that 100kg turns into 700kg - 800kg whilst off-roading aggressively, the roof rack experiences almost 80% of a ton due to the acceleration/deceleration pressing into and away from the car in a vertical diagonal motion.

With that I could rest easy knowing I'll never approach those numbers whilst the vehicle is stationary.

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I figure that quick motion moving the phone from pocket to in front of your face involves similar forces. Intuitively this checks out. Hold your phone in front of your face. Now move quickly side to side. Your phone is easily exerting 1kg of force as you wave it around.

That 20 grams saving will make a huge difference.
Waldorf school have a nazi like base idea that you can evaluate people/kids based on their head forms (no joke)

Pls try not to support something like this :(
> Was there a precedent in human history when this was successful? Ever?

The US is extremely successful (well economically, anyway..)

Because of immigration it will mostly avoid the aging issue (based on current predictions it should surpass China in population by the end of the century)
Why the change in the title? It is not the original and there is nothing clikbaity about it. Is HN now editorializing the Economist?
In the UK there's a an obvious principle agent problem. My uncle told
me how in the 70s the school dentists were paid by the government,
5 quid for every filling they did. The perverse incentive to drill away
healthy kids teeth was overwhelming, as you can see in the crooked
smile of everyone of that generation.
I don't trust any doctors. Sometimes it's revenue goals, but often it's also just a lack of specialized knowledge. But you obviously can't go to a specialist if you don't know what exactly is wrong with you. When I get multiple opinions, they are usually completely different.
Hurricane Electric Network Tools can do it.

Its an app.
At this point, why are we still using JSON/XML when there is SQLite for new projects? Stop the non sense of JSON/XML. SQLite is like json, but very queryable. Just send SQLite files around.

MongoDB also saves document db type of store space just FYI.
Hot and cold do measure motion, if we want to be very technical (since temperature is just a measure of the average momentum of molecules).

Pain should probably be considered a separate sense indeed, though it can also be argued it is something different from the senses themselves, since it is fully internal, it doesn't reveal some fact about the outside world.
I believe the author means "the best transactional k/v store"
Benchmarking Blunders and Things That Go Bump in the Night
> have ages old strong own culture

Modern Japanese culture has its roots almost entirely in the 19th century and the post WW2 era.
iirc ydotool just whips a relative device into a corner before trying to position it, which gets it extra wrong if there's mouse acceleration. It's one of the reasons I wrote dotool (https://git.sr.ht/~geb/dotool): echo mouseto 0.5 0.5 | dotool
This is a moot point, if a power plant operates at any significant efficiency, it doesn't matter what the process of generating power is - the generated power will 90% of the time be turned into waste heat anyway.
Has anyone looked into the plastic lining on the inside of disposable coffee cups? I feel there could be significant health implications, both in terms of scale and toxicity...
I'm confused by that cookie banner. Is it a joke or not? What do you mean by "Do you consent to sharing cookies?" are sharing cookies a special kind of cookie or do did you just mean storing cookies?
I don't feel strongly about it, but my reading of the complaint is that the implication is it should've been something like an address in 240.0.0.0/4 plus more bits. Then to IPv4 it looks like a reserved for future use address (and we declare we're done with IPv4 now, there will be no (other) future use) but to (this hypothetical variant of) IPv6 it's a longer address.

I think what annoys people is everything else that changed with it, if DHCP (I know), subnets, NAT if you wanted it, etc. was all just the same, if the model was the same the IPs were just longer now, that they wouldn't really complain.

I'm not even sure it would be necessary to put it in unaddressable v4 block, since it would be too long and a different version anyway. Obviously people have thought about this a lot more than me so know a lot more about it, I'm not naïve about that.
What's your alternative for cleaner primary solution for base load?
I think you are totally correct but now I'm stuck trying to find if anyone really knows about the formation of scratch marks inside a mug. Is it really the metal from the spoon depositing on the mug?
That price is just always going to keep going up… I miss the spend-once on CS5 days, especially given that I don’t get any benefit from the new features scattered throughout 20 apps when I only use one or two
NB. This is not a premise of mine, it's the argument being made to Judge Mehta in the DC Circuit by Google's lawyers in the antitrust case relating to search.

Essentially, the argument is: "People choose Google search, and they choose it because it's the best." (And further, "switching search engines is easy; it only takes seconds")

But if that's true then why pay billions to be the default. People would choose Google anyway. Because it's the best.

And this leaves the question: What's the reason for the agreements and payment of tens of billions to Apple, etc.
InnoDB is a bloated pig. No, it hasn't gotten 5 orders of magnitude faster in the past 10 years. http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/memcache/

And the overhead of SQL processing vs LDAP protocol hasn't improved any either.

You're spouting lies.
Bernstein is known for being very... opinionated.

For example his Qmail was conceptually a very well designed email server but the email standards kept evolving and I'm fairly sure at some point he just said "Qmail is feature complete and secure, no more new features and patches". Like, what? It's networked software, that's not how any of this works.
My iPhone 10 battery already lasts me over 2 days on a charge and I use it all day.
when they spend a launch on their own stuff, they lose out on opportunity cost
I love the indieweb philosophy. I'm a bit off the topic of the tech sites shared here, but I have a recipe site (mostly from around the world) with my partner. This is the domain (in spanish, sorry!): https://www.foodisea.com
Is this yet-another Apple scheme to avoid taxes or raise stock prices? Many of these "clean energy projects" are incentivized by the governments through tax benefits, additional investment, or giving land basically for free (and land is investment these days).

> This past week Apple announced its first totally carbon-neutral product, its new Apple watch

I'd be happy if Apple announced an acid-neutral project (not counting other carcinogenic materials used to produce every single component in that device). Plants (even animals and, to some extent, people) can neutralize carbon compounds, but those acids can't.

And let me not start with all the necessary mining and production pollution for batteries and other components no one talks about.
China went into isolation after Zheng Hes journies, going as far as burning the ships and declaring basically the coast a no-go zone. What little seafaring the Chinese did was illegal smuggling (a lot of others, e.g. Japanese, seafarers contributed there) and coastal fishing. Hence, when the Europeans showed up, with better armed ships, there was not much in opossing them on the seas.

So the answer is, by the time the Europeans showed, those ships didn't exist anymore.