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Why is it so hard to believe that competing products are simply inferior? $93bn in profits might seem huge, but is it really such an outlier for a company of this size?

Microsoft profits are over $150bn.
Yep, it's misleading. The America is big argument fails to hold water once you actually take a look at a map. Take Columbus for example where we're within just a couple hours by train (could be less if we had any sort of seriousness about our country) away from:

Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh

and maybe just a few hours away from other cities like Toronto, Buffalo, Louisville, and more.
Network topology is independent of euclidian distance.
You obviously dont have the French bureaucracy that I have to put up with !
>6TB for a family is not unreasonable and that's what?

Microsoft in particular has a 6TB for $100/year family plan, sharable with up to 5 other family members for a total of 6 persons each with 1TB. Google's plans can all also be shared with up to 5 other family members, though their bytes-per-dollar can't compete with that particular Microsoft family plan.

Basically: Local storage with personal management needs to be very easy, cheap, and carefree (which it isn't) to compete practically with cloud storage.

The only exception is if one's needs are niche and specific. I actually have a Synology NAS at home that I keep most of my data on, but that's because my data is mostly "bottle of rum" and "Linux ISO" in nature and thus not something I can throw on cloud storage in the first place.
X simply increments with time as a 16 bit signed value so it wraps. Consider it signed value q15 so range is +/-1. Y is then (1-x^2)^2 which approximates a sine wave for brightness (0 to 1). The accumulator "a" gets this added on, but it's as 12 bit accumulator and the overflow/carry bit goes to the led. The carry is cleared on the following iteration. By the mask just before adding in y again. The rate of overflows determines the brightness.

All in constant execution time too!
What % should they charge then? It was my understanding that 30% was/is a fairly standard cut taken by retailers in general and they are just aligning with the industry. A quick search seems to confirm this idea with articles like this.. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/07/report-steams-30-cut...
> After the duty to document, comes the duty to expose it

And then to maintain it. Which is hard.
I assure you it is semi opaque. A one way mirror is a primitive example of this. You can make the reflection increasingly transparent but it will be tinted up until the point it doesn't reflect anything.

It may not be noticeably visible to the human eye under most lighting conditions, though.
Can the US just buy airplanes from Airbus at this point?
Can web Microsoft Teams FINALLY support having 3rd party cookies disabled? Please?
All words are general-purpose, but when we arrange them they adopt new meaning. I'm not nitpicking, and just pointing out that the meaning of those words as arranged may not be perceived as the author originally intended.

Alternatively, I'd suggest a different arrangement of words like "lens cover", "webcam cover", "webcam cover slider", or "webcam privacy shield" to be more accurate.

Of course we were able to grock what "mechanical camera shutter" meant in this context, although at first I was confused and wondered if in fact there were webcams with mechanical focal plane or leaf shutters.
Bluey is an absolute master piece.
I complained about this as well since I use it for automation but SHIFT+F10 does the same thing.
> I bet if you ate asbestos continually it would probably irritate the lining of your colon and increase the likelihood of IBS or Colon Cancer

Well, that's never actually been proven so you can make a name for yourself by investigating this topic, if you feel so inclined.
A lot of things came together over the last decade or two to enable ever-more-impressive 'maker'/hobbyist projects. Ubiquitous 3D printing, cheap PCBs, powerful CAD software available to hobbyists, YouTube's growth as an educational resource, excitement over FPGAs, super-affordable microcontrollers and single-board computers, and a big wave of 80s/90s nostalgia often giving it direction.

At the same time, modern 'mainstream' computing has become increasingly user-hostile, built to encourage spending, ad-views, and content consumption rather than experimenting and creating.
IMO regulation should kick in based on market share, regardless of device type. If 50% of the population was being taxed 30% on digital transactions by the platform owner, it doesn't really matter if it happened on an iPhone/Android or Nintendo Switch.
The drones will soon be autonomous. The technology is already here, just not well distributed. EW (except for EMP pulse) will be a dead end.

They are already tracking down signal sources and targeting them. The drones fly around till they get a signal maximum then look down.

I have also seen enemy analog video snooping where they watch the drone take-off point and geo-locate it to bomb.
I categorically reject the premise that giving Israel free rein to be as vengeful and unsubtle as they want is the only way they can degrade Hamas as an organization. If that's the case, then Hamas is perfectly justified in retaliating with equal violence against Israel. Either we hold modern societies, particularly our allies, up to standards of civilization or else we're back to eye for an eye.

Yes, we want to reel Israel in before they can commit genocide regardless of whether it degrades Hamas as an organization because Palestinians are human beings, not orcs. "Just let them keep killing until the problem goes away" isn't supposed to be an acceptable policy position in modern societies.

And it turns out it isn't - except to Israel, the US and Micronesian states which I assume are just vassals to the US.
This is my reading and might be off base, but it seems like they’re saying that Elon is undermining the “no assholes” and “zero tolerance” policies with his very loud and visible opinions. As long as Elon is seen as BEING SpaceX, his dismissive attitude towards things like sexual harassment will make it difficult to enforce policies against that sort of behavior. That’s why they asked SpaceX to distance itself from Twitter Elon.
It has more to do with the introduction of Crew Resource Management than anything else, many airlines still fly 30 year old aircraft without fancy automation. Recall AF447 where the over-reliance on automation caused a tragedy when it failed and of course the MCAS debacle where the automation was directly implicated. There is room for a more nuanced answer here.
In Italy the high speed trains literally killed the internal flights. Moving between the major cities is cheaper and more comfortable by train and the time spent on the train is the same if you consider security controls, boarding and the fact that airports are usually outside the city center.
Let's wait that the tunnel under the Alps will be ready and we can have fast trains also between Milano and Paris (5 hours).
> as amazing as the other competitors in the marketplace

Do you mean worse?
Thanks!

Can't recommend anything specific, to be honest. I've been piecing together information from old Apple docs, StackOverflow, API header files, and a bunch of really weird blogs. A lot of trial and error as well.

I think your best bet is ChatGPT. It has seen every possible use-case of Apple APIs from GitHub so it should know a lot. I've gotten some good tips from it for very specific things that did not exist on the web.
To play devil's advocate, and very lax with what they might have meant, if you replace the term "white supremacy" with the also commonly misused term "fascism", and assume that by "fascism" they very loosely meant "an excess of law and order to the point that it is suffocating and damaging", and assume that they value greater personal freedom and less than balanced order like anarchism...

Wait, I see now where this goes, and they still don't have a point. My bad.
> Apple doesn't have to tell about the competitions on their app store, but they should allow each app whatever they want to do.

So you think it's OK that Walmart doesn't want to sell a product that says, "Hey, don't buy this from Walmart", but you think it's wrong for Walmart not to want to sell a product that links to a website, where the website says, "Hey, don't buy any more of our stuff from Walmart"?
Why is suddenly “able to install another App Store” a thing or even a necessity?

I think this entire situation has been blown out of proportion. There are a few “loud” voices lobbying for stuff that are of no consequence or just false.
Mail from pacific ocean floor is slow or it’s a separate case?
I gave you an answer.

Literally picked a couple things I like (pc gaming and rock climbing) which require me to maintain health insurance and a good financial status so I can buy a 4090 and whatever to play some games. I have to be productive to enjoy those things. That’s not even what we are talking about, and I don’t understand why you conflate those with cartels who behead and dismember people and people who just disturb the peace or attack people while on hard drugs.

And yeah I guess I don’t approve seeing people destroy my city with drugs and violence. I’m paying more than half of my annual personal income in taxes, and what I have to do is to avoid certain areas of my city at night because it’s not safe and not a nice sight with people self harming themselves voluntarily and on purpose.
Replying to say that I literally don't know if I'm being downvoted for negating left-wing or right-wing orthodoxies. The world is so confusing nowadays.
When I used to use macOS on Intel laptops I would be hit, every so often, by gpg’s smartcard pinentry getting stuck in a 100% loop. The only thing that ever notified me of it was the fan turning on!
Decades later, the Win95 keys are still making my life a little bit worse, throughout each day. (Jammed into the laptop keyboards that I use all day, when I only want Ctrl and Alt there.)
I avoid them easily using Kagi :))
Side note, been a while sense i looked, is there a sqlite db for the contacts table?
Back when I had a PC which was somewhat capable of playing games I would play Left 4 Dead in cooperative mode. You play along with three other players, and navigate the levels attempting to move from one safe room to another, fighting a hoarde of infected. The game attempts to keep the players moving by adding "special" infected, which have different abilities and are good at forcing the team to leave the current area.

One of the special infected was the Tank, which is quite strong and can throw chunks of pavement. I always knew when he was coming because my PC was kind of weak and the fans would go nuts about 30 seconds before he made an entrance. The other players were surprised that I had a sixth sense when it came to knowing when it was happening.
To clarify I didn't mean that all eye-contact is cultural, I meant specifically during video calls. I was told that if I didn't look into the camera during my interview, it would be perceived as rude or unprofessional.
This should already be the case with the Meta key (which some platforms will insist on calling "Win"), shouldn't it?

I think the model of having a key which is only ever used for workspace management, and never by the applications themselves, is so obviously correct that the MacOS Command key actively baffles me.
Quite right old chap! Surely no reasonable consumer would interpret terms like "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving" to mean that the car autonomously drives itself!
The World and the Machine
Squeeshy Toy
... I wonder if the Maps app itself plays some role in providing Location services. That'd explain why they'd privilege it for location data, but not other first part apps that use location (why wouldn't they do that with all of them, if they were really doing this to "cheat"?)

[EDIT] Though, regardless, I do see why it'd rankle that in fact Apple Maps ends up seeing fewer permission-reminders than Google Maps, even if it's for a not-exactly-intended-as-nefarious reason—I don't mean to dismiss your complaint.
I have had little to complain about Linode, but they did get eaten by Akamai.

If I had to move, I'd look at BuyVM or Incognet, but I don't really look around until I feel the need.
I dunno that such a large majority of the world would agree with such a statement.

I'm all for human rights, individual rights. I agree that there is a basic floor of those rights which should be respected on either side of the partition, and everywhere else. But rights of a group of people to act as "a people" with a state, and control over a contiguous block of territory, seems way less credible.

Does every civilian have a right not to be bombed or shot at or have power and water cut? Yes. Also rights to be treated equally before the law, not be subject to arbitrary detainment, fair and public trials, etc.

But "a people" as a group having rights? Would Catalonia, Veneto, Wallonia etc have a "right" to be separate states if their populations desire it? Unclear. What if Afrikaners tried to assert such a right? Seems sus. Did people inside the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone have rights to create it? Probably not, even if they had organized a plebiscite first. So where's the line?
The article is citing Alberto Mazzola, the executive director of the CER. He says that reduced emissions and price are driving the rise in demand. Clearly he's not impartial here, but I'd trust him to be forthright about these reasons.
Not if you are comparing to Deutsche Bahn. Where in the last months only 52% of long distance trains were on time:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-november-train-punctuality-wor...
On the other hand I'm grateful to live in a society during a time when this is attainable and not particularly uncommon. When layer after layer of problem is already solved (you can even have "the help" put in your mandatory 2-hours since it interferes with yoga time or your brunch, it's time for you, girlfriend!) I guess there's worse things than going ape over relatively rare fruit.
That has some unique edge cases as we have been discovering when you interleave UIKit and SwiftUI together.

I kind of wish that SwiftUI was a clean break in some ways and did not depend on UIKit and avoid all the abstraction leak issues that have been arising as a result. I know that would never happen in practicality although.
If you ever see Jason Statham replacing your battery - RUN.

If you are a diplomat in Iran, dont buy these cars.
The GPU he used is not free, you need to buy compute units for these "premium GPUs".

https://colab.research.google.com/signup
In several organizations, I have been the person who writes high-quality documentation. I enjoy writing (and reading) good technical documentation, so this is a self-appointed responsibility. I agree that people aren't interested in documentation for something they either probably-know or probably-don't-need-to-know, so a vacuous thumbs-up emoji is all I expect when creating documentation.

However, the "you can hand out a link" part is what really grinds my gears. The expectation of my former coworkers that it is <someone else>'s job to find the proper documentation pages for them was quite exasperating. '@anatnom can get you the docs for this' and similar messages is...disheartening. My workflow was always to go to <internal docs page> and search for <relevant term>.

Perhaps there are organizations where the documentation-writers are not also encumbered with being the link genie, but I've not had that experience. I wish I could teach a dev to fish, but instead I have to hand out fish all day.
Firefox is irrelevant to most users because it just doesn't "work". It just takes a few sites that under perform for a firefox user to switch to chrome where it does indeed "just works". This happened to me personally with roll20.net. Recently with Air India, where I literally couldn't buy a ticket with them with firefox (it spins and shows a blank page)... with chrome, perfectly works fine.

It's a combination of factors (anti-competition, default installed, devs/designers do not have firefox @ tier 1 testing, mozilla executive board fat & happy "Everything is fine").

My main browser is still firefox, but, let's be real, I keep chrome/chromium around to jump to when needed. The web has failed. There's a thin veneer over it, but we're basically back to client/server.
Alcohol would be a great comparison. Alcohol causes more deaths (and presumably human suffering) than illegal drugs. Only recently has the Opioid crisis caused a dent in these stats.
Maybe. But what about the rest of the opioids? Then you get some kind of cancer where you need them. There is no simple solution here.
Briefly, but yes, I've experienced that.

My reaction was "our social support systems really suck" and not "we need to restrict how people choose to live their lives".
> Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.

Is there an antitrust angle on this?
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People expected Amazon deliveries
For sending (not syncing) many files, SSH. For one time file transfer, magic wormhole.

For continuous sync, Synchting.
Grenades used to cost $8. Crazy how cheap that stuff is.

I just saw Ukraine drone-dropping Russian landmines back onto Russians. Fields full of free munitions.
Dead man’s (safety) switch
At my last job, we slowly started adopting Swift in 2016 by writing some unit tests with it. Once we felt comfortable and established some coding conventions, we started adding some production code. By the time I left in fall 2023, we were well over 50% Swift without any big rewrites of Obj-C code. Almost all the new code came in as Swift because developers enjoyed writing it over Obj-C.

Sounds like you rely on Categories a lot. Check out Extensions in Swift. [1]

There are some limitations (e.g., Swift enums lose a lot of their power if they're needed in Obj-C) but overall the interop is great. I don't remember anything in UIKit that couldn't be done with Swift. And if you're dealing with unicode text, doing things in Swift may make your life much easier.

[1] https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...
> I feel like there must be anti-competitive barriers somewhere

The barrier is inventing and organizing the logistics of delivering the most cutting edge technology and the accompanying software and support to hundreds of millions of people around the world every year.

If anyone else could do it, they would do it. Samsung and Alphabet come sort of close.
Yes, government's definitely the answer here. Once the government forces Apple to open iMessage, then competitors (RCS, Signal, Telegraph, etc.) can all just die in peace, making life simpler for everyone.
I share your thoughts towards the lameness of SLS, but consider: would it even be happening if not for the threat of China going to the Moon? It seems to me that the whole point is to spoil China's fun.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4J-DTbZlJ5I
I agree that this shouldn't be anywhere near the top of people's privacy concern list. A $1 traditional digital camera can already be hidden very easily and this probably costs thousands of dollars at least if you could even get it.

It's still creepy though.
> The bad news is that people do sometimes do dumb things with keyboards for no reason.

cries in Thinkpad
A train ride within the Netherlands is around twice the price of a flight to many countries.

Trains here are full because cars are super expensive and parking here is more expensive than anywhere else.. >$8/hour, 24/7
Ok, I don't know much about trains, but it seems like if they can build this kind of system then they could also build a system that only allows trains to go as fast as track "speed limits".
In the MCAS case the 'optional' component was an AoA display available to the pilots. Due to a misunderstanding about the design intent, planes without this option also did not display an AOA DISAGREE alert if the sensors disagreed. (I agree that such a simple situational awareness aid based on data the plane already has being a paid option is pretty absurd)

However all MAXes did/do have two AoA sensors, and prior to the fixes, regardless of the AoA display option, MCAS only considered one of them.
As an iPhone user, I find it super annoying too. I love my iPhone and Apple products in general but it's not fair to expect all my friends to be the same. One of my friends has an iPhone but turned off iMessage out of an abundance of caution. As a consumer, I would really like it if non-iMessage user can get the same experience as all the iMessage users. We know there is a way. The standard wasn't great when it was new but it has matured a lot. I would really like it if Apple supported it. Its behavior seems needlessly antagonistic.
Except that's the complete opposite.
No, this is a result of how the DMCA is written. If a content distributor is notified of infringing content, they must take immediate action or else face penalties. The problem is, there's no definitely way for a content distributor to know if content is truly infringing until a court has made it's decision.

This puts content distributors in a precarious position. The only way to ensure liability is minimized is to to assume any complaint is valid and take immediate then arbitrate on the back-end.
Loved your comment. Sometimes we can get lost in the technology but that can be fun in itself.
You have no idea what procrastination is.
No worries, thank you!
The convenience is very much new. 15 years ago in Poland it was completely normal for a train to have multi-hour delays. Now it’s not, and the trains are getting a lot faster. E.g. currently it takes 2h-2h 22m to go from Warsaw to Gdańsk. In 2016 it used to take 3h. 15-20 years ago it could take half a day or longer.
Yes, it's not population density that's important but the distribution of said population, and USA is more urbanized and clumped up than many European countries with much better train system than USA.

The problem in USA is that the people making the decisions don't live in the cities.
Give homes to the homeless. It works.
I don't have experience with InterRail, but the bad experience often starts with buying a ticket.

The amount of "we cannot sell you that ticket, we can't even tell you the price" I have gotten when checking international connections is wild. It is slowly improving (I just checked a particularly absurd example where Deutsche Bahn was unable to sell a ticket to switzerland through if it wasn't bought a long time in advance - seems at least they fixed that), but still... it's absurd if your train trip starts with "figure out how to get a ticket, because the train company won't tell you."
Before Starlink, SpaceX assumed/hoped that a mass of new customers would come out of the woodwork when cheap launches became available (the easyJet strategy!). When they didn't, they came up with Starlink to be that customer.
Microsoft’s profit is $72B for the most recent year.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/net...
Software and products changed fundamentally when ubiquitous internet access rolled out. Now every such product comes with a string attached (figuratively but literally), be it a game, a robot vacuum or a car.
Military pilots probably have a lot more relative hours doing stick flying instead of autopilot, too.
I also still habitually look at the camera (due to said training early in my career), but I think that the important thing is I don't think it is rude when other people don't do it. And in my experience, the vast majority of people I interact with don't either, which is why it feels like we have agreed that it is not important.
The First Precision Lathe – Constructing the Antikythera Mechanism