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> App developers want consistent look of their application across various OSes, be it Mac/Win/Linux.

No, app developers want to write their code once. A consistent look is just a byproduct of that desire.

I’m also glad you didn’t mention anything about the customer, because ostensibly the app developer is doing this so they can deliver customer value faster, but at the cost of having an application that doesn’t fit into the native operating system. “Consistent look of their application across various OSes” usually means “invent your own custom look and behavior that isn’t standard for any OS”, which means customers have to spend extra time and effort to learn your bespoke UI customs rather than just use the ones they already know from their OS (gives the finger to Visual Studio Code).

The end result is that nobody gets to have an application that looks and feels like their chosen OS, and nobody gets to have a cross-platform application that looks and feels like other cross-platform applications unless they’re from the same vendor (and even then, it can be iffy).

> And users wouldn't be able to help each other because Mac user would know different interface/look from Linux user.

Not really. Customers can handle reasonable variations between software running on different operating systems. They do it today, for applications that work across different operating systems. Even when such an application takes most of its cues from another OS, there’s at least some deference to the native platform design in terms of menu design or control behavior.

What it would mean for the app developer is that they actually have to understand the design systems for the different OSes in order to build a design that can reasonably adapt to Mac/Linux/Windows. That’s why the “one design fits all” approach is so appealing when it comes to look and feel. You don’t have to understand anything. You don’t have to care about the native platform at all. There’s no extra work involved. You do whatever you want, the way you want it, and then throw it over the wall at the customer to deal with.
Ah, the work of fiction based on an Ayn Rand novel?

Considering I'm operating from a very different set of values than she was, I doubt I would find the movie particularly persuasive.
I think it's more intuitive this way. When you draw a rectangle, you start with a corner point and then draw the width and height. With a circle, you go to the center and then draw it with a radius.
As a certified project manager myself, huge portion of all these practices are just pure none sense and sometimes are used only to feed the managers ego and burn the employees more while producing nothing but a garbage product. They see it done in an XY big corp and they start mimicking it blindly believing that in few years they will become mulit-billion dollars company, and I always say it, just because some approach worked in an environment with these people and that product, it does NOT mean it will work for you, it’s a tool, it fits that work it doesn’t mean it will fit yours, but holy crap how ignorant some people are when they just apply work without thinking, it is far dangerous than not knowing, the former one will think they know it all!
You and the Obsidian team been a huge inspiration to me. I love how the principles of File-over-app, user-funded, and private-first can align your incentives not just with the user, but with what feels soul nourishing to actually build.

It seems like there's an art to targeting a niche market segment that VC funded companies won't be able to compete in because the "gold vein" isn't large enough to support the hypergrowth and expected returns. OTOH if you plan to keep your team small then you can just set up shop and stay lean.

I've been building a product that integrates with Obsidian (hopefully ready to share soon), and it has been the highlight of my career to design and build software with these principles and to not be worried about balancing misaligned incentives.

Thanks for building a great product -- I'm super happy to subscribe and support y'all. <3
Every term has that property. If there's a thing called T you can say that the good Ts are "real Ts" and the bad Ts are "not real Ts". It means nothing to dismiss an idea because of this. In the No True Scotsman fallacy, the fallacy is not the definition of the word "Scotsman", it's the use of arguments of this form.
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Why are movies given tax breaks at all, is the question.
In your scenario the illegal parts would be:

1. claiming insurance on it. AFAIK this isn't applicable in the case of the movie

2. endangering other houses by doing it in a non-approved way

Other than that setting houses that you own on fire isn't illegal.
> ... I believe a large corporation simply can't be run in "true" agile manner.

Who was suggesting they could or should be?
Where do you draw the line? If someone buys the Mona Lisa and burns it for the tax credit, is the owner to be prohibited from doing so based on the public interest?
Where "completely" in this case implies "for road-going vehicles". General aviation (largely small, piston-engine planes) still overwhelmingly run on 100 octane low-lead (100LL).
I feel similarly, but this is specifically why I chose Obsidian, I've been a big Markdown/LaTeX user for years, and I jumped from vim to StackEdit to my own Nextcloud instance, and I've happily settled on Obsidian for the past 1.5 years.

In each instance, my notes were pure Markdown files backed by a simple file system. I was able to bring my hoard of Markdown notes with me.

As a bonus, I think there are a lot of technical Obsidian users who are ready to jump ship at the slightest whiff of shit. If Obsidian were ever bought out, I'd expect the Logseq contribution graph to go hockeystick shaped.
Sounds like Greg Egan, but I don't recognise that particular story. If you don't get a result here, try a story identification question on Stack Exchange, the residents there are amazing at this:

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-ident...
Desktop computers. Might take 20 years though.

Even laptops are at risk.

There will be a time when Mobile phones will be able to power multiple monitors and have the processing power of current desktop computers without their heat generation.
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Also see the recent post & comments: "The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39317107
If I burn down my house, I lose money. Should I be able to claim insurance on that?
back in 1993, I had just immigrated from China to State College, PA, and was just starting to eat cereal for the first time in my life. One of the offers on cereal boxes back then was a "making of star wars" VHS tape, which I collected barcodes and received by mail order. Of course, that video is currently on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuDjjlIPak
I've never tried to plug a fermion into a USB port.
We can draw the line right here. We don't need spurious analogies when we have a clear case where a company is abusing the tax system.
Fair point, in general. The difficulty is that certain strategies like cueing (using nearby illustrations to help guess what a word is) and relying on just the first letter of a word leads to improved outcomes at first, but worse outcomes when the kids start reading less-familiar words, and reading books with fewer pictures.

A kindergarten or first grade teacher might think that it's great to use cueing and other non-phonics based strategies since it improves her kids' reading ability in the short-run. But studies show that it is harmful in the long-run, and should be avoided.
It's so beautiful! Love it!
This is a clear example of "catch 22" situation:

a) we won't implement this change because it's incompatible with the design;

b) the design was set 10 years ago and never changed since then, so there's no reason to doubt it's sound.
I gave up on making services openly reachable and instead just put Wireguard on my server and then connect into that and access things via their IP:port as though they were local. At some point I might set up a reverse proxy so I can give services names, but this has been fine for the past year, so motivation to change it is low.
Taxing people on income they didn't make but the government imagined they could have made in some situation that didn't happen sounds like a slippery slope to be standing on.
Why do you need a special program to unpack rars? I just use qbittorrent and put this command in the "run external program on torrent finished" box: 7z x "%F/*.rar" -o"%F/"
Only revenue? Ah, sweet summer child. Unless they used ChatGPT or photoshop to fake it all up. Which happens.

Oh and don’t have a friend pretending to be their boss on the other side. Easier to do now than ever, especially with all the free phone and text services.

Used to be you had to have a friend halfway decent with forgery at least (or with a similar enough name and a real job they’d buy it).

Or steal someone’s mail.

Or any number of scams.

And don’t worry, very few judges will throw them in jail if there are a bunch of kids in tow - even if they aren’t actually theirs, unless you can prove it.

Some people never stopped modifying those ‘F’’s into A’s on their report cards, and just got better at it not getting caught.

Good due diligence should catch it of course, but it’s always a game of cat and mouse.

How thorough would you need to be to feel comfortable? How thorough do you think you would you need to be to actually not get scammed with 99% certainty?
How so if funded by private capital?
Interestingly, in other contexts I've heard people say that equality of outcome is an unwelcome suppression of meritocracy.
Alzheimer's is a side effect of a sugar rich diet.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9099768/
Tesla critic buys Super Bowl ads urging Tesla boycott over Autopilot
So you’re saying the Japanese are godless ubermench and they were Christian they wouldn’t be seeing population decline?

My grandmother lived in a family of five kids and her parents were unemployed (her father was disabled in a factory accident in the 1920’s) during the Great Depression and homeless. Most of the world is considerably poorer yet have more children. You can afford to have children, they’re only expensive if you lavish wealth on them. That’s not strictly necessary, education is free. What people usually mean is they don’t want to sacrifice their standard of living or disrupt their way of life. That’s fair - but literally everyone can afford to have kids, that’s why so many kids are born into poverty yet reach adulthood. :-)
What's the regulatory situation for selling energy back to the grid? Friend of mine 10+ years ago in Porto Alegre opted for solar for water heating only, because there was no mechanism for net metering.
End of Q1 2024, according to the Supernote website. Presumably it’s going to be very similar to the recently released A6X2, just larger. The specs are great (300dpi display and performance bumped SOC), the design is expandable and repairable (SD slot, replaceable battery, easy teardown), and the OS is based on Android (so you can install the Kindle app and more if you want).
And why should a studio be allowed to claim a movie they destroyed on taxes again? I’m not interested in the answer, “it’s legal,” because a lot of things are legal that should be illegal and vice versa, I’m looking for your moral reasoning here as to why this shouldn’t be made illegal.
Fusion 360 calculates things like moments of inertia and weight, and this was very helpful since the controller requires these parameters to convert control inputs to torques, for example. I still had to tune the controller gains, of course. (Which I did by hand.)
no, if you had an offer for $30M, then that was the value.
I have a feeling you’re talking about spelling here, not about reading?

IME, phonics (sounding out the letters as you read them) is equally valuable as a learning tool for beginners in a language with regular spelling as in English (which has irregular spelling).

The various rules and exceptions are necessary to have memorized when writing, though!
A big difference I see is that Boeing is the consolidation of many different going entities. Each entity likely had subtley different goals.
If you pay people according to value you get happy value-generating employees. If you pay people the minimum of what you can get them for- you get the minimum - unhappy, less productive employees that eventually leave your company.

There is no free lunch. Just because they aren't the type of person to get counteroffers or move to the bay area doesn't mean they don't recognize their value or won't feel taken advantage of.
If you're not applying specifically to AI type jobs, would you expect to see LLM or vector database experience alongside React? Seems like that would be a silly set of requirements to look for in anything but a low-interest rate environment, especially at comoanies that have a real product or have been around for longer than a year.
It'll work just fine on an iPad, several folks are doing so (Goodnotes and Notability are the most common apps people use for loading and annotating the pdf). I've done a little work towards color themes to better support the iPad, but for now it's just black & white since most customers use eInk tablets.
Why does everyone rip on Jack Welch here? Was he ever a Boeing exec?
You don't! That's the beauty of free-market capitalism.

You can start your own company, or even freelance. And there are thousands of companies to choose from.
Commenting before I've read the article:

That's ridiculous. There's no obligation for anyone to bring something to market regardless of how far along it is.

After I read the article:

Still not persuaded. It reads like motivated reasoning, the person doesn't like things not getting released and says that governments should step in. There's some mention of taxes and lost work, but nothing tht holds water.

As an example: if it cost you $100M to make a film and you write that off you could reduce your tax burden by as much, netting a $15M lower tax bill if your rate was 15%.

By contrast if you release it you've no guarantee of that $15M, especially once promotion and other costs are factored in. If it's a trash movie that'll also damage the firm's reputation---something that's tough to quantify but no less real.

That's not great, but its I wouldn't want to live in a society where that was criminal.

Then there's this:

> nobody who did any sort of work on a project that consumed years of their lives will ever be able to point to it as evidence of what sort of work they’re capable of doing

That's the status quo in most jobs. Things don't ship all the time.

It's a bummer, yeah, but that's it.
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Anybody who starts off their paper with mentions of the Kardashev scale is already pretty far out there. It has never been clear to me if even a Level 1 civilization is practical, there could well be physical (as in physics based, like thermodynamics) limits that prevent you from reaching that point. And the scale goes dramatically up from there. Level 2 is building Dyson Spheres.

It always felt like the whole thing was made by someone who didn't really have a good grasp of scale. Maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I tend to think that projects on scales like that are just too impractical for real life. It's like if you decided to make up a scale for land speed records, and made type 1 100,000 kph, level 2 100,000,000 kph, and level 3 100,000,000,000 kph.
>insurance money

That's fraud because the insurance policy specifically says it won't pay out if you intentionally set it on fire. If you actually did set it on fire, then claimed that you didn't then that's the deception.

>No, you are not entitled to claim it as a write-off.

Can you point to the relevant tax law that prevents this?
Without commenting on the larger issue the article brings up, this specific point doesn't survive scrutiny to me:

Some of the company’s tactics post-merger were garden-variety ruthless, like eliminating 87 series from its streaming platform Max, so that they won’t have to pay union-mandated residuals to the talent that created already-existing programs or pony up funds to produce more seasons of existing ones (such as “Our Flag Means Death,” one of the company’s most popular and critically acclaimed comedies—canceled after just two seasons).

In the streaming era, it's very easy for the revenue created by hosting an older piece of content to be dwarfed by residuals. Streaming services get customers largely by releasing popular new titles; it's entirely predictable that pushing for higher residuals would drive services to sunset series faster, and it's entirely reasonable for services to stop hosting titles that lose them money.
Definitely not the best, but the most mathematical fiction book might go to Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned On to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness by of course no other than Donald Knuth.

And you could put The Part-Time Parliament by Leslie Lamport near that if you stretch it.
I don't understand the move in the first place.

Do tax write offs for corporations work differently than for people? What's the point of spending $90m just to reduce your taxable income by $90m? It's not like corporations have progressive tax brackets.

Or did they acquire the movie as part of the acquisition, and are now somehow able to claim a write-off for something they didn't actually spend any money on?
This is correct. Environmental accumulation would be highest in the areas that industrialized first.
You are confusing "not releasing it" with "claiming a value of zero."
> Sure but do you actually need the absolute best people around?

No. You need a great _combination_ of people. Over my career I have seen teams assembled with “the best” folks to great fanfare an expense. Then, over and over they are schooled by a team that works great together. If there is one lesson for companies to learn in hiring/staffing/team building it’s this - focus on the team and the team’s results.

Yes, there are exceptions.
Is there anyway to tune the controller gains beforehand? Also if you don’t mind me asking, how much did everything cost you? This looks super fun and I’m debating to build one.
I am a grad student and I was going for something similar with converting papers to text which could then be used in an audio app like speechify with this - https://github.com/kanodiaayush/make-doc-listenable . I love the idea of this and will try it out, good luck!
No, laundering it's far more specific than that, it means the original money is somehow "dirty" (revenue from criminal activity) and is being "cleaned."

In contrast, a Ponzi scheme can operate just fine with 100% clean investment money coming in some unsuspecting victims, and the (smaller) amounts flowing back as dividends would also be clean.
math as a plot device is difficult as anything other than a macguffin, and then even if you did manage to create a popularized understanding of a concept, the backlash about calling it misleading, and to discourage people from reading it, would overpower it.

its why you dont write music for people who make music, there are too few of them to bother pleasing and most will just talk about how you dont know what youre doing and their own basement project is superior. the dearth of mathematical fiction could also be attributed to successful writers knowing better than to write for insufferable readers.
Honestly, if we want to disincentivize Hollywood from burning movies, that's the loophole to close. Stop letting them take a movie that generates a net loss as a write-off.

This would have monumental consequences to the Hollywood business model.
This is exactly why the conflation of "capitalism" with "markets" has been such an effective propaganda coup for the neoliberal rentiers: while there is often non-zero-sum value creation and growth in the short term, it's usually with an eye towards long-term consolidation of social power and rent extraction (converting flows into capitalized assets, representing expected returns and embedded growth obligations).

Monopoly, oligopoly, and market power are a feature, not a bug, and that includes reducing labor to a commoditized asset on the spreadsheet like any other: not only as cheap as possible, but as predictable, and as fungible as possible. (The extent to which the social power of these fiefdoms is not always a means to a "Number Go Up" end, but instead a primate drive for status and power merely enabled by rent-seeking, is left as an exercise for the reader.)

See "Markets Not Capitalism" and "Capital As Power".
The argument isn't that WB shouldn't be able to scrap projects. The argument is that the tax break for doing this is bad and should not exist
Try being realistic. Is "cultural treasure" your line?
Ben Kenobi does pause in a pregnant way right before delivering the fateful line. In a way that almost looks like he's thinking about how to hide something. It works perfectly with the later revelation.
It feels like tax fraud. Given that it is apparently not possible to prove that they deleted the movie, it seems like the IRS should assume that they still have the movie.

I bought a stock share for $1000. I wanted to sell it for $2000, but no one was willing to pay more than $400, so I decided to tell the IRS that it was worth zero and take the full tax write off (which was tax fraud).

On top of that, refusing to release or sell the movie should have triggered a shareholder lawsuit.
>I’m looking for your moral reasoning here as to why this shouldn’t be made illegal.

If you read the thread more carefully, you'll see I never made such a claim. The only claim I made is that it's not fraud. I thought this was pretty clear with my earlier comment:

> "fraud" doesn't mean "losing money in a manner I don't like", so I ask again: where's the deception here?
Nothing.

The EU has an instance at social.network.europa.eu

There's a Dutch one at social.overheid.nl

There's a Swiss one at social.admin.ch

There's a German one at social.bund.de
That’s a walking nightmare, not sure what’s cute about it.. that being said, I wished they talked more about the technicalities being on IEEE than just advertising Disney.
where to draw the line?

when other people get their hands on the files

we must admit (and later on embrace) the digital possibilities we have. if the artist or model want it deleted they best make sure nobody copied it first else, in my opinion, they must convince every person holding a copy from voluntarily agreeing to destroy it.

nobody should have a right to force other persons to act against their own will even if they created some artifact they no longer fully control
I think this is a funny case of a false cognate. Vapeur is the French word for steam. Vapeur sounds like vapor, and steam is a vapor. So a steam gun is still sort of a vapor gun, but it's definitely a vapeur gun.
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Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant
I feel the Mona Lisa's destruction would be more valuable to culture than its continued existence. Imagine the headlines, the people with stories of having seen it in person, the conspiracy theories...
One of the ways the “West” begins/is losing its way: don’t prioritize the truth and don’t focus on the truly important things. Think short term. It took them long to get to this point.
And the value went to $0 after destroying it. I don't see what's the issue is here.
Since - as only one example of the complexity involved - the music used in the film is almost certainly licensed and must be paid for, and the studio does not "own" it, there's no way that they can simply release it for free distribution or put it into the public domain...