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>Alex claims that without the FDA, pharmaceutical companies would release lots of bunk drugs. I respond that we don’t see this behavior in other markets.

Which is irrelevant, since we see this exact behavior in the drug sector, with tons of crap released, even with FDA approval.

It's not a coincidence that one of the common references to invalid and crappy (and often dangerous) products sold to suckers is in the drug domain: what we call "snakeoil".

That this (manufacturers putting out cheap dangerous bad crap for quick profit) doesn't happen with cars (the TFA author's other example) is because cars need huge investment to be designed, assembled, shipped, and stored.

If you're going to alienate your target buyers by selling crap, you'll never be around long term to recuperate the costs. And of course a bad car can kill people, and get the vendor in messy trials paying huge recuperations (with far more frequency and certainty than legit car companies face today).

Whereas, if you can forego trials and FDA approval, to package any BS and sell it as a drug for cancer or losing weight or whatever, has almost 0 upfront cost. Hell, already in the gray areas there are trillion dollars sold of tons of crap sold that the buyers imagine it serves medical purposes (and is being promoted as such) based on BS non-scientific magical thinking. Never mind the myriad of "herbal" cures, homeopathy crap, and so on: people will even by "healing crystals".

And of course, in other loosely regulated markets, manufactures push all kinds of crap, to the point that Amazon is a wasteland when you search for cheap electronics for example.
https://app.livestorm.co/revenuecat/apple-dma-2024?type=deta... < Live panel discussion about the whole mess between the RevenueCat folks and some other industry insiders
Most people think of the knight moving 2 and then 1.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193230...

>The Company’s total net sales were $383.3 billion and net income was $97.0 billion during 2023.

Because $97B is < $100B, it is impossible for AAPL to have earned $100B net income just from the App Store (because we also know its other divisions do not lose money, again according to the 10-K they filed).
Whoever was in charge of the language for this did a great job. I know some may disagree, but if I were Apple that’s exactly how I would word this announcement.
I think there should be a spam complaint button for notifications.
I used to have the "KaufDa" app on my smartphone but they would send me spam notifications in addition the useful ones and when contacting support they would feign ignorance.
Fortnite to Return to iOS in Europe Following App Store Changes
You a big user of napster?
Naren Shankar and the cast have said pretty much that same thing and Wes Chatham said something around the lines of "there's more in the works", but that is it. My comment was around the fact that there hasn't been anyone saying anything negative around it's future, so we can presume they're still trying.
Let’s be real most people don’t give a shit (unless they’re into emulators apparently), this is really about companies trying to slice up the pie between them.
Snapchat: "We also work to proactively escalate to law enforcement any content appearing to involve imminent threats to life, such as...bomb threats..."

So looks like Snapchat leaked it to the Brits who passed it to the Spanish.
Dial-a-Phone is a side project I've created to solve a problem that has been bugging me for a few years.

Ever since the iPhone became popular, phone number links have popped up all over the web (tel://555...). Tapping these on your phone of course dials the number, but clicking the same link on your PC does nothing.

So I wrote Dial-a-Phone, a Windows app that will send the number to your iPhone so you can quickly dial it. This works great for when you need to dial a restaurant or other business while you have Google Maps or their web page open. If you're on Windows 11, you can also dial from other apps like Word or Excel, or even any text you have highlighted in any other app!

The apps, along w/ a video demo, are available on https://dialaphone.app/

Please let me know what you think.
What made SC interesting, like most Blizzard IP of the time, was also the well written story lines with amazing character arcs

Is there an alternative universe version of StarCraft which had good writing? Because the one I played had pretty standard SciFi plots and characters. And while Sons of Liberty was adequate if perfunctory, the writing in Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void is some of worst writing to make it into a finished media product.

StarCraft succeeded based on its technical and audiovisual polish, despite the lackluster writing.

That being said, Zerospace and Stormgate both look cartonish, but that's the graphic style they have chosen. They have budgets and teams a small fraction of the size of Blizzard, so the lack of visual polish can be forgiven if the game mechanics are good.
Intention doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the intention is expressed through the law. Not every intention can be, at least not in a state that actually respects the rule of law.
Those apps still have to be notarized by Apple, and the notarization will be checked upon installation. Presumably this will require an online check. So yes, Apple will track those.
I assume our politicians already spent significant time thinking about this before coming up with the DMA. But okay, I'll bite. How does it benefit society for Apple to steal 30% of everyone's transactions?
Maliciously is a stretch. If a rule is unjust then violating is just IMO.
This is the way. Groovy isn’t that bad but the CPS interpreter & sandboxing is god awful to develop on and troubleshoot.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that:

• Apple makes 100% of its profit from the App Store.

• This profit comes equally from the US, EU, China, and the entire rest of the world. (It doesn't, the EU is a smaller market.)

• Half of EU users would stop using the App Store entirely if they were allowed to side-load.

• Apple's keeps 75% of its revenue as profit.

By my calculations, this would mean Apple's EU App Store monopoly is worth 9.375% of the company's worldwide revenue. Please let me know if I made an error in my math.

Why is Apple willing to risk 10% of its worldwide revenue to protect 9.375% of its worldwide revenue?

Okay, I guess maybe Apple thinks it's unlikely to be fined the maximum amount, and is willing to roll the dice. But I also chose ludicrously favorable numbers here.
Please don’t use green and red like this, especially with multiple shades of red. It’s a nightmare for colorblind people.
No they don’t. You can do whatever you like with the physical device.
Yeah, why not? Stop selling the app when you hit 1 million and have a new version from a new company and just license the brand or whatever to the new one.

Companies do these kind of trickeries all the time. That's how they avoid paying taxes: by technically being within their rights. It doesn't matter if everyone knows what they are doing.

Apple's EU HQ is in Ireland and its totally selling the product from there, German companies are definitely don't sell restricted parts to Russia, they are selling it to Kazakhstan and Kazakstan suddenly had success with selling stuff to Russia, all the SV startups are incorporated in Delaware, all the Ships are Panaman and all kind of products that are assembled just the right way to avoid ban or taxes but can be reconfigured to do the banned thing.

Even at this very topic, Apple is trying to comply in such a way to circumvent actually allowing to freely install apps to iPhones.
Neural upscaling would make it even better
Yea this is the basic premise of chess …
Wow cool this is nice to know!

What about the payment methods? Are these also exempted?
Unity kept revising it over and over again so these two got removed IIRC:

> that even loading the game in a web browser was an "install", and someone downloading and deleting and downloading the app over and over on a device was also repeated "installs".
I had the same thought. I imagine that Apple will have a very strict templated way to install and run an alternate App Store, you’ll have to use certain API calls to register the apps installed so that they show up on the Home Screen etc. So the reporting side of this should be reasonably easy.

I wonder if the alternate App Stores will have to be installed via the official App
store?! That’s the way I would do it. Gives Apple a way to shut them down if they try to circumvent the reporting piece to bypass the 0.50 fees.
I thought it was really neat when I came across it. There was a detail that I didn't find in the paper (or might have missed).

What if the key you're adding has a lot more (or a lot less) leading zeros in its hash than the number of leading zeros in the current root layer? Do you just add nodes in between the root and the new node? What should go in those in-between nodes?
I don’t think the game is trying to lie to you, rather the implementation hasn’t been polished yet, no need to be so harsh
Wordle doesn't accept "ponzi" either. It's also not a valid word in Scrabble.
Intention is the only thing that matters. Laws in the EU do not work like in the US where you can get by on a technicality because the wrong grammar was used in the text.

If you purposefully interpret the law in the stupidest way possible that will benefit you, don't be surprised if the court disagrees with you.
Yeah, I wonder if it would be a slight improvement to combine move+capture.

So pawns would be

/|\ /|\

\|/ \|/

which looks less anti-directional.
I don't think commit messages are useless at all. It's not about "showing your work" like the author says. It's about summarising the changes in a way that you can quickly read and understand. People forget that commit messages don't have to be just one line, you can write full paragraphs explaining the motivation and thinking behind the change. Many projects enforce detailed commit messages like this because they can be invaluable years down the road when everybody involved is gone.

>Git recently added an --allow-empty-message flag, but really this is backwards. Commit messages should be empty by default. If you want to name your save points, you should have to do so explicitly. Actually, why doesn’t it just constantly autosave your work, like editing text anywhere else (Google Docs, Notion, etc.)?

If I were to clone a repo and find empty commit messages I would probably flip a table and refuse to work on it. This is a terrible idea. How would you use git bisect without commit messages?

The tool should not allow people to do things just because it feels easier.

>We all write them, and they cost the collective engineers of the world countless hours writing ridiculous messages like, “changed something”, “did work”, or the super descriptive, “stuff”.

These kinds of commit messages are typically an indicator of a broken process where somebody needs to commit to see something happen, like a deployment or build process, and aren't able to assert that stuff works locally.

I think the problem comes down to many people just using git as a glorified storage drive for code and not really understanding how to get the most out of the tool.
Wouldn’t it look like four capital tees joined at opposites/right angles at the stem?
I think that providing hardware as well as gatekeeping installs with fees is double dipping. Users want to use your hardware because of the great software that runs on it. Don't bleed your developers.
Technically it only requires you view marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Despite the conclusions of the article, I'm going to keep closing the lid since my toilet uses a Flushmate. The power flush works really well, but it surely produces lots of aerosols (though seemingly not a lot of large-droplet splash).
I would say yes.

They definitely want to "demotivate" big players from running the show. If they do, they'll have to pay huge fees, so it's a big win for Apple.
You're generally right, but I wasn't talking about the length of signals.

I was talking about if long period of "high" can be distinguished from long period of "low"--DC offsets.
That and having many separate app stores would not be fun for most people. Got no horse in this race cause I never download apps anyway.
Yes, I understand. The reason that I disagree is because of the number of times that having greater granularity than that has been enormously valuable.

In my opinion, a VCS should maintain a history of all commits, because it's impossible to know which commits will be the key to solving a problem in the future. Even commits that are later reversed can occasionally be of tremendous value.

A truly great VCS would allow you to do a "visual squash", hiding the intermediate commits unless you need to see them.
Providing hardware and gatekeeping installs with fees is double dipping. Users want your hardware because of the cool software that runs on it. If you depend on 3rd parties to make attractive software don't harm the developers!
> It doesn't give you a lot of room to show off by writing clever code, so instead you have to show off by making a great application.

I agree with your comment as a whole, but I have also seen plenty of dumb Go code. hey, lets toss out all compile time type checking:

https://johnstarich.com/go/pipe/pkg/github.com/johnstarich/g...
In the jargon (at least in "low energy" physics and related fields), 'one-dimensional' often means that only one spatial dimension is relevant to the behavior of the system rather than that the system is only one-dimensional in terms of spatial extent. In that sense, a string of perls could be considered one dimensional if you care only about the motion of the perls along the string but not the motion of the string itself, even if the string is curved in 3D space, or the pearls are 3D objects.

This is also true of higher dimensions. For example there are some '2D' materials that are several atoms thick, but as far as the behavior of electrons is concerned the 'out of plane' direction is not important.
> Elon Musk said it might be because they “still don’t believe it’s real.”

That's because Musk has been lying about the state of full self-driving for years. False claims, staged videos, and continuous lies of "next year, for sure!" aren't a good way to go:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...

In 2016 Tesla claimed "that, as of today, all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver". That was a lie:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

Lying is part of the company culture at Tesla.
What?

Hardware-platform SDKs generally cost tons of money. Visual Studio Professional Enterprise — essentially (if you think about it) the SDK for the Windows platform — costs $250 per month per seat!

(And that's cheap, compared to the SDK costs for proprietary platforms that people don't usually consider "computers." How much do you think Blackberry charges for a QNX SDK? There's a reason that maybe five companies in the whole world ever bothered to develop car infotainment "partner apps", before Apple CarPlay and Android Auto came along to make the platform moot.)

These SDK fees pay for "the platform" — but specifically, in IP terms, they give you a license to use the source code and libraries that come with the SDK, a license to redistribute the outputs of the compilers that come with the SDK — and so forth.

PC and smartphone platform vendors stopped charging so much for SDKs (or at least their non-enterprise-level SDKs) right around when they introduced App Stores. Because they changed the model, to one where the license you got with the SDK, said that your IP license to the stuff in the SDK, is paid for through royalties, by the revenue you make from publishing your app on their App Store.

And that's a perfectly valid arrangement. If you breach the contract, by not giving Apple royalties, then you don't have IP rights to redistribute the derivative works from their SDK any more!
Yes, iOS is the only solution available if I want to use iPhone hardware. Selling software to people that have phones has been recognized as a market under the DMA, which relieves Apple of any and all control over it.
You're missing the point. The point of this legislation is to open the platform up to competition. These fees accomplish the exact opposite, they ensure that alternative marketplaces aren't viable for freemium apps, i.e. most of them.
> Do huge swaths of Rust users value vanishingly small performance gains over memory safety, in a language that prides itself on being able to provide speed and safety?

I mean, yeah, probably? It was meant to appeal to people who were still writing things in C/C++, who are by definition people with those values. For general-purpose use the language was always "OCaml but with vanishingly small performance gains".
Name a place there is significant power generation with no access to the grid? This is not a thing.
Nothing on nebulaflare.
They probably have Apple shares. It's the only explanation I can think of for some of the people here actually arguing in favor of Apple stealing money from society with junk fees.
> all the EU has is power. Apple provides value

Let me give you one example of some EU provided value:

"ASML is the only company in the world that makes a specific machine needed to make the most advanced chips. Apple couldn’t make iPhone chips without this one machine from the Netherlands’ biggest company. ASML doesn’t just shape the Dutch economy — it shapes the entire world economy."

source: https://www.theverge.com/23578430/chip-war-chris-miller-asml...

Apple could cease to exist today and the world wouldn't lose much except some overpriced gadgets. Couldn't say the same for ASML. And that's just one example.
My repository history tells a nice story. I like to keep it that way and certainly not useless.
What grinds my gears is that HDR output in a lot of software is "Mac only", even though Windows supports HDR video output just fine, and has had support for wide-color and HDR since Vista!

E.g.: DaVinci Resolve has HDR capable only in its Mac version.

Similarly, generating a Dolby Vision file is basically impossible on Windows.

"Just buy a Mac" seems to be the best and most practical guidance I've seen for HDR workflows...
Sounds like clear bs.
Throwing you directly into the mess is completely intentional
Lots of word game dictionaries don’t contain proper nouns. Ponzi is an interesting example because it’s now used as the definitive for what it is, so words like that are hit or miss. Other examples that might or might not be in dictionaries are Kleenex, Xerox, etc.
The primary purpose of the 30% fee is not payment processing or delivering updates, it is the licensing fee for the use of Apple's intellectual property (SDKs and developer tools).
> This happens all the time.

Not only does it happen all the time, it's often the only way to sort out what legislation means in practice.
Maybe that's true, and consumers don't know what's best for them. However, we live in a free society, where consumers are supposed to be able to decide for themselves what they value, and spend their money accordingly.

Where we do impose regulations to ensure public safety, they are decided by a democratic process. And as imperfect as that process may be at times, it is better than letting a single for-profit corporation set the terms.
If you build an additional 5000 units then you could still use that to offset 5000 units of coal. You can keep doing this until there is no coal left. When there is no coal power, and no gas power, and no oil power, then finally you are right. How is this point not clear?
This malicious compliance shows the problem with the regulator superpower fantasy when it comes to software and platforms.

With hardware, the EU can demand adherence to standards like USB-C.

With software and terms of service, the EU can ban specific things, and Apple can come up with other terms to keep control of the platform.
Expanse was apparently axed at end of s6 because of budget reasons from one Reddit comment thread I came across a few years ago, someone quoted something along the lines of "Internally it was called 'The Expense" because of how much the show cost to make". Makes you wonder if someone else would be willing to put up the money for new stuff. But then again you have shows that cost multiple millions per episode these days.

A small hope of something is better than nothing.
> Apple doesn't develop those SDKs and tools in order to make money selling them to developers

Yes, they do. They explicitly stated so during the Epic trial. Otherwise there would be no fee at all.
I can change the verbiage to say "not in word list", but FYI it's using the same word list as Wordle so Ponzi would not be accepted there either.
None of those options apply: Apple did (and still does) ship regular security updates for iOS users which included Safari, but did not include Safari web-platform feature updates (i.e. CSS+JS+etc support) unless it was a significant iOS update (such as the yearly major-number increase or the "half-term" point releases) until 2022.

Apple's handling of Safari mirrors Microsoft's stated plans for Internet Explorer back when Windows XP (and IE6) launched in 2001: they said they'd treat the browser as a core OS component that would only receive major web-platform updates with major OS releases (hence why we had to wait five years between IE6 and IE7, during which Firefox saved us from a mediocre web experience).

...could be worse: could have been like Outlook which has been stuck on Word's HTML rendering engine since 2007 right through until today's "New Outlook" rewrite - that's that's got to be an unbeatable record for the "world's most stagnant web-browser".
See what I think above
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> Idiomatic SBCL (as opposed to just idiomatic Common Lisp) code does look like the versions achieving best results, because people often use SBCL for compiler optimization
They already look like this. Stop tweeting and go start a business!
If you can't land reliably, then a lot of the science is wasted. On the other hand, once you reliably solve the landing issue (which was one of the main objectives here, and where they made significant progress in that they successfully deployed the two mini rovers anyway), you can add on as much science as you want.

Also I've said before and will say it again, the moon is not far away. Unlike Mars and other celestial bodies where we have to time launches around orbital positions, gravitational slingshots and such, the moon is really close by, and we should be lofting stuff onto it on a monthly basis.
> i guess the "1D" short hand is well understood within the community.

Yes, this refers to systems where only one dimension is important for the physics of the system.
Regarding your first point, the flaws are almost always in the implementation, not the design, though specs inevitably leave too much to the implementation.

Regarding your second point, security works in layers. Much like it's better to have two locks than one.
New instrument to capture stardust as part of NASA mission
Philosophy aside, the point is there's no mechanism to distinguish grifters from non-grifters in academia. The proposal "staking professional reputation" requires reputation to be an accurate measurement of competency.
Duh, that's exactly what this legislation was designed to change! To have an option of not distributing via Apple's app store.

A real option, mind you, not one that's tilted so far in Apple's favor that any competition looks hopeless from day 1.
I don't know. What does "Be available on iOS in the European Union only" even mean?
Eh?

> 3rd of January until today sits at 1256 searches

1256 / 23 (days between today and Jan 3rd) = 54.6 searches on average per day.

Some days higher, some lower. Sometimes it can take a couple of tries to get the search right, so you do 5-10 searches in one minute maybe. Doesn't seem farfetched to me.