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> you'd be restricted to scenarios where you walk on flat ground

I don’t think it’s either surprising or discouraging that flat walking surfaces get worked out before dynamic surfaces.

It might take a while, but it is inevitable.

A rolling wave, with a grippy active surface, could keep you centered while you perceived an upward slope. Seeing and feeling a vista of uneven slopes in VR would be fantastic. I would love Skyrim as a health app!

Also, simple tilting could provide the force feedback of changing speeds.
But many aren't. The author shows Shell Shock code, and even retrieves a UPX packed executable.

One could just as easily assume that the mere scans are aggregated and sold later. If your HTTP server gives back a file "aws.yml", the URL may just get sold. It's well known that cyber criminals work in an economy with division of labor, and specialize in particular skills.
> best refactoring is usually done in small increments.

Yes. And contrary to many people, I'm fine with the (eternal?) limbo that we then end up with: parts of the codebase using the new stuff, parts still using the old stuff.

I actually prefer that. Just add proper documentation, if the language/framework supports it: add deprecation notices and move on.
Through e.g. "refactor on touch" we can move the old code to the new if we are there anyway, changing other stuff.

Sometimes I'll find that after a while, the old code is used so rarely that now's the time to just rip it out entirely - a small refactoring. Sometimes I'll find that the important pieces - important business logic, critical performance path, often touched code, exposed parts etc - can be changed to use the better/more-performant/more-testable/safer code.
I think just leaving the last 10% is preferable over postponing the entire refactor untill we can also move the last 10%.

It's part of what I tend to call "Continuous Incremental Refactoring".
One thing I was thinking recently is that if we get sufficiently good at humanoid robots, perhaps it will be within reach to build a robot around a human that can put arbitrary pressure on different parts of the body sufficient to create the feeling of soccer, jujitsu, or even sex. This is probably a 10-100x harder robot to make than a humanoid robot. But it seems more straightforward than a HBI capable of full VR.
Just updated my Librem 5, to see where it's at after catching dust in a drawer for a year. No bluetooth audio, sluggish browsing, no maps, no suspend, nice terminal, sweaty hands from the heat exhaust. So... still no battery life, and charging takes a couple of hours. I didn't even bother to try calls. Been there, done that with the PP & PPP. Great idea, nice proof of concept, but this is not a usable phone at all. Back to Fairphone + CalyxOS for me...
There's no sideloading, just alternative application stores, which are subject to Apple's approval and fees.
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And Facebook is still doing fine, and even last time I looked they were still outright defying EU regulations with their "consent to tracking or subscribe" popups.
Gruber takes a detailed look at the proposal. Sure, he's an Apple fan, but he still has some valid insights.

I appreciated his point that anti-big-business isn't necessarily the same as pro-consumer.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/apples_plans_for_the_dma
Seems like an unlikely claim given that much wider variety of small artists making it work now than before
Yes, which is why I loathe them. They aren't just playing by the rules - they are destroying endless economic opportunity behind them with their rent seeking and desired monopolization. Those things are not compatible with capitalism.

They have decoupled their incentives from their users incentives to extract more profit, and then they lie and use scare tactics to gaslight their users into thinking this what they want.
As a merchant, you either pay to enter the walled garden, or you pay for user's bathroom passes so they can go to your shop outside.
Could you identify one or a few that stand out?
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Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39148422
I didn't think anyone would have a toaster as old as mine, I might take mine with me just for preservation.
One of my favorite such observations is in winter. Arriving at the top of the Mt Hood Express chairlift, soaking in blue sky and white snow, a smell of sulfur is often in the air. The magma chamber of this “potentially active” volcano is venting gases from the rock at my side.
That's insane. The whole point of sideloading is that it should not require approval. Otherwise Apple can use this to block competitors and we're right back where we started.
People who are using spreadsheets for making lists of things or opening csv files have lots of options. Most people who require the functionality of excel are probably already using it and know they need it.
> The headline is true for the 99% of apps that cost a dollar or less. If they succeed and make ten mil, Apple takes at least 62%.

I'm not going to assume good faith.

As written, the statement: "If you make $10M in sales, Apple's cut is $6.2M annually" is false, and I think you know it.
Well. US Christians aren't Christian.

That isn't anti-Christian Hate.

That is pointing out that US Christians have strayed pretty far from the Bible.

They culturally think they are Christian, have made a lot up, and come up with cultural mashups like thinking Jesus supports Gun Rights.

This 'cultural Christianity' can be studied, and it is ok to have a term to describe this effect.
Seems like Apple is well capable of enabling secure messaging to and from outside the Apple-ecosystem and are using security as a red herring, in that case.
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Alcoholism (or to be more precise, alcohol dependence) is a physiological condition. Gambling ‘addiction’ is a psychological condition. That is what I mean by difference in type. No amount of self control will stop Delirium Tremens but some amount of self control can absolutely stop you from gambling. But since a dominant political ideology wants to deny self control altogether it groups these two different situations together under the same word.
Side loading on android is laughably easy, probably easier than installing a program on a Windows device. If we can consider the installers that Windows users need to use to get something as simple as Chrome installed easy to use, downloading an .apk file and opening it and pressing install should seem trivial by comparison.
You're right. In reality it is not Apple I loathe, but the capitalist system of which it is an outgrowth.
When I was in undergrad, I had a lose reproduction of Super Mario 3 on my TI-89 graphing calculator. It got me through so many calculus lectures!
So you've solved it.
this is incredibly normal behavior, but I’m ok with making it not normal, sure

have at it, let’s cancel Anima and pretend this is a unique problem until it is
Maybe it would have been better to allow alternative OSes rather that alternative appstores?

The OS is something that gets actively managed by Apple. So they can argue that interacting with it has to follow certain rules.

Independent OSes would just use the hardware, which is fully paid by the user and does not change.
> In my experience, that sounds about right. At least the part about the complexity being in the process. The hard part of any big project is usually not the tech, it’s the politics, organization, and getting decisions made.

This has been my experience a well. The reason why working in corpo policy heavy company is hard is because of processes, blockers, and a management that is more interested in political maneuvers than any actual product or services.
No one competent would ever have thought dev. was safe. It's quite simple: if you don't own the domain, or it hasn't been reserved (e.g., home.arpa.), don't use it!
thousands of people a year sounds like a pretty safe compound. We probably should encourage everybody to consume more of it.
Not yet... great idea, thanks! We’ll add to the roadmap
That is said in every field at (almost) every time.
That's fair. If they make an arbitrary list of people to be excluded, well, it's their game, their rules.

Still, saying that "support of Gamergate ... is a direct challenge to the lives ... of other players" sounds a little bit hyperbolic to me.

But maybe that's just my privilege of having heard so many diverse opinions that their existence no longer feels like a direct challenge to my life.
I've see this message every day from different people/groups.

People think the opinions of giant corporations means they're somehow more valid so it hits every single form of media. So really, its news outlets that are shouting louder.
Spotify’s biggest purpose is to serve as negotiating leverage for the 3 big music licensing businesses against Apple/Alphabet/Amazon.

As far as I can tell, their only hope is if copyright terms are drastically shortened, so a good portion of the music they need to stream is public domain.
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I do judge them but Watts is not the personification of Buddhism for example, just an effective messenger.
Honestly, if you look at old German documents written in the Kurrent cursive system, it's about as bad. For the most part, it's just a matter practice and familiarity with the writing system.

Лишин though, that's definitely a rough one.
Why doesn't Apple sell the Apple Watch Ultra?
IMO the real conspiracy is that when you hear "conspiracy theory", you think UFOs, not Watergate.
...but the community was really nice.

That still doesn't tell us how low the parent commenter's standards for "just works" are. It's irrelevant.
When I open an .apk file from a new application for the first time, I get a popup that asks me if I want to allow installations from unknown sources for this app, with a button that directly takes me to the setting to toggle this, and then immediately allows me to install the application.
I really like the idea. But until it has an actual lock screen, it is not that useful sadly.
The latin cursive scripts differ country by country. And reading old letters, even if it's in my language, is very hard. The letters looked differently. A proficient writer would write them consistently but to read it, you're looking for "distinguishing traits", not for the letter shape as depicted to learners.
“They’re some of the same people that have been working behind the scenes with Congress to write legislation,” Kirkpatrick told the In the Room With Peter Bergen podcast.

>> Isn't this a conspiracy theory ?
To a point. The thing about craftspeople in modern times is that they are mostly fungible/replaceable by other goods. I buy artisan bread most weeks, but if I don't feel like it I can get decent bread from any supermarket these days. It seems stable, but compared to salaried career? You're always hustling for very little money.

My mom is independently wealthy, which helps support the teacup-making.
Well, what is it?
Extremely disappointing, I had hoped Apple would stop caring once things got to the point of "the user has a MacBook and iPhone, now they want to run something on them".

I'd say maybe Beeper could be the local SMS app (no iMessage) and bridge that way but I think that's still not possible on iPhone even after the DMA changes. The best possibility remaining would be something like the Google Voice(or other VOIP) bridge they've floated.

10 years later and I'm still waiting for something that worked as 2014 era Hangouts - everything in one app or web page on any device you use.
Gotta love the martyrdom. If anyone disagrees with you they just enforce your point. Winning all the way.
Nice article, quite often I've seen similar things in logs and wondered about the details, but most of those would be obvious wordpress exploit attempts (not hosting wordpress tho).

Makes one wonder how much time/energy/resources is spent on such botnets.
It would be cool to add this to iconv (part of glibc I think). There's a lot of code that interfaces with Windows formats that converts to and from UTF-16LE. In fact I was just fixing a binutils bug recently in code which did this.
They must be vibrating the surface of those picks with ultrasound to modulate the friction. Pretty clever.
I didn't receive any other fake personalized email from the who is hiring thread, did you?
That really depends on which the "simple features" are, because to every user, they're different, and also, what a "watch" is.

The reason I'm making this distinction is because at face value, any fitness tracker will do. They display the timme/date, have many extra simple features, and they last 10/14 days.

If one wants something more watch-looking, there are small/budget smartwatches, that are essentially fitness trackers with a larger screen (and in some cases, a GPS).

The problem is actually the apps, which are terrible and/or aggressive. Huawei display ads, and very weaselly, they introduce a small delay, so that one can easily click on them by accident; also, for some models, the app is not provided on Google Play (!). Most, possibly all, apps keep warning the user about giving location permissions, even if one doesn't care.

Besides very special cases (solar-powered, battery-powered etc.), the smartwatch with the longest battery life was the Amazfit Bip, but it was really, really terrible.
That's what Big Wiggly Butt wants you to believe.
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Labels own the copyright to the recordings that Spotify is streaming.
It's not problematic, its just plain wrong.

Also, the phone number is right there on the flier so its not like the fliers owner can't be contacted after seeing a flier to see if the animal has been found and if the flier can be removed. Doing the right thing sometimes takes a bit of work.
I don't think capitalism is inherently bad, but the system we have is bad. Adam Smith wrote a lot about this, in particular he loathed landlords and entities that suck value out of the system while offering little in return. Apple is a weird case, because arguably they do create a lot of value, but currently we have a problem where that value isn't returned to the broader society, instead it goes into the hands of a small minority of people and groups.

Asymmetries need to be balanced, such as the balance between labour and capital. Unions help labour, but thanks to a decades-long propaganda campaign against unions, we no longer have that push back against capital.

Personally I think the problem will only get worse, so I'd suggest buying the S&P 500 with as much cheap leverage as you can afford.
> Apple is simply playing by the rules of capitalism

This is reductionist, like saying all biological behavior is about reproducing. Yes there’s a primary goal. No, that does not define or dictate the how. There are people making decisions about what to fight and where to spend the effort. Fighting and weaseling pro-consumer regulations is a choice, obviously, since Apple is being a much bigger crybaby than even other big corporations.
What people want is no justification for anything. If people want to have cars for free, are you going to facilitate that? No, Spotify just does it because they can get away with it, while filling their own pockets nicely at the expense of the creators of their merch (Ek's worth is estimated in the $billions).

> into fiscal gains

That does not contradict pay per stream, at all.
> England is blessed with its pleasant climate

Two sentences in and I already have a thousand questions.
> reside primarily on someone else’s computers

> Why not use ... cloud sync

If you have your openoffice files just sitting unencrypted in s3 or Dropbox, this is no different
I would like to think GDPR ensures this pinky promise is good enough
hello,

i look at my desk ...

TI 30 galaxy solar calculator - bought in 1985 for high-school and still in use: maybe not daily, but at least once or twice a week :))

cheers
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ps. also a multimeter and a soldering-iron from the 2nd half of the 1980ties ...
I don't feel like they need to be effective. Lots of pedestrian pet lovers will stop to check out poster on their own volition, especially people from the neighbourhood. They have internal interest to look for random pets, and being walking speed, have much better chance and probably already acquainted neighboorhood regulars vs strange outdoor pets.

Now what does actually seem ineffective is color posters with different shot of same animal, and their fur looks different colour in every shot, because that's how fur behaves, but to human mind it's a bunch of different cats.

What seems supremely ineffective are lost bird posters.

I've seen the same lost cuckadoo posters in different neighbour hoods in my city... over multiple years. SOmeone was very attached.
I trust a company that stands to only gain a profit from me using their products just as little as the state I reside in, if not less.
You may be surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of people, and thus the overwhelming majority of Apple customers, have precisely zero interest in any of these things. Part of the value proposition Apple offers is that they will work to keep your device secure and free of malware. That inherently means restrictions around code execution.

This is simply the tyranny of the minority.
If Apple has to approve of every app, then what changed?

I thought the whole point of alternative appstores is to do away with that?
Definition:
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Am I missing something? What stops a company from imposing enormous fees on a competitor?

By continuously installing/uninstalling the competitor's app they can even make their business unsustainable. And more, what would stop apple from hiring a third party to do that, just to inflate their own profit?
yes I have
I’ll look into all of those. Thank you!
When Hamas got elected Israel aborted all peace talks and built a fence with gun turrets around Gaza. No peace talks means no peace.
> Or should they just jack up their subscription rates?

Why do you have to make that sound so dismissive? Is it that bad to let people pay a pittance for what they use?
The use of serving <hr>-in-<select> to iOS is to avoid having to maintain two different code bases, which is an anticipated problem you specifically complained about, saying "I can't share code between Mac and iOS."

Choosing to serve different code to different browsers complicates development and maintenance, for almost no upside (minuscule bandwidth savings).

Serving the same code, including serving <hr>-in-<select> to iOS, has the significant benefit of simplifying development and maintenance, has the benefit of automatically "upgrading" iOS users to your better experience once their browser supports it, and has no negative impact on usability (the iOS <select> looks and behaves identically with or without the <hr>).

That is the point eyelidlessness is trying to make. There are two courses of action, one of which has a lot of downside and little upside, the other has a fair amount of upside and no downside. That's what he meant when he pointed out that "it’s no less usable with the <hr> than without."
Yes, there was lots of uncertainty and for sure we do not know how many "potentially cataclysmic events" appear in the PDB on a weekly basis. That uncertainty is predictable and in fact is written directly into the NSC's pandemic playbook. However, looking at that same playbook, it's a little difficult to get from the information we had at any given point to "do absolutely nothing in January", then "close the borders to China in Feb", then "slow down testing to make your numbers look better." The first two errors are pretty understandable IMO, but the last one is not. Your argument is "we didn't know that much," and I agree, it was hard to understand. My argument is that the White House, per its own admission, was actively trying not to know much.

Of course the issue is that the administration did not use the NSC's playbook, or apparently any other playbook, per their own admission. That's another unforgivable error.
Correct. And chances are there will be EU proceedings against Apple, because the DMA contains wording explicitly prohibiting this behaviour. I guess they are just trying to stall a little bit more, and maybe make a quick buck, before they're told to stop playing games.
And yet they are not artists.
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When more than 13A is required at a socket in the UK it will be the blue "Commando" type. Those are either 16 or 32A.

I once had a blade server chassis delivered with a cable for this.
I think my vacuum might be 15-16 years old... Other than that, not too much as haven't been around buying stuff for that long.

Hmm old 27" 1440p Dell monitor seems to be still working most of the time. And I think I got even older Lenovo L220x...

Also old HP Color Laserjet from 2010 did print things recently.
Feel free to share here then. I think YC companies should be held to a higher standard not abusing the HN community.
You're trying to add layers of complexity that don't exist. The universe is remarkably uncomplicated, much like biology (which, you correctly assert, only exists to replicate itself). Humans like to anthropomorphize and we have a tendency to see things that aren't there, and we're also highly suggestible and easily manipulated by marketing tactics.
Co-ops are fantastic for utilities, over half the landmass of the US is serviced by rural electric co-ops under the NRECA established by FDR during the Great Depression. Internet connectivity should absolutely be treated as a public utility similar to electricity.
It’s easier than ever to make music and sell it on Spotify or elsewhere (especially without a label), which is a double edged sword: an artist is competing against everyone else who joined the talent pool.
Yeah, I had the shareware version on the old Apple Mac back in like 2002. I then bought the full version as it was fun.

But like back then I think the computer had shareware version of Avernum and of Unreal Tournament (1999), It wasn't like you had a huge amount of choice.

They are good games though nonetheless.
On the flip side I love Apple. I want a privacy focused company with a stellar reputation to monitor security and fight the data mining monsters on my behalf. I want a thoughtless instrument that I can use with abandon for important day to day activities. Why shouldn’t they have overflowing coffers if they can manage to pull that off for me?

If you don’t reward invention you get China, where inspite of everything, can’t seem to come up with new ideas of significant impact.
A pagan :D lol
It's also the case that cutscenes have become much more numerous, and much longer. This makes me avoid a lot of mainstream modern games, which feel more like an interactive marvel film -- which neither makes for a very good movie, nor a very good game.
The project was mostly inspired by simdutf [0] which has been around for a couple of years already, and I don't think iconv has any of its vectorized implementations for other architectures.

[0] https://github.com/simdutf/simdutf
The government itself is akin to a perfect corporation: not liable, no accountability, monopoly on taking, monopoly on force. What’s this alternative that corporations that you’re alluding to?
I can assure you that I am not hanging around on Hacker News to reproduce.
And they call it the "Dog Star."

Coincidence? I think not!
Seems to be somewhat of a trend among companies recently to post job offers and reply to either the "top" candidates only or not reply at all
I'm seeing a 300 MB app (iOS) and 3B monthly active users. Perhaps 900,000,000 GB of data transfer per year between fresh installs and updates?

Using dumb file hosting on Backblaze this would cost somewhere near $9M (public pricing). A full app store would have additional costs but $70M still seems high.
Everyone in the video looks like they are walking funny, which kind of makes me wonder if it works if you walk normally?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCYpZebx9U