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This is a false dichotomy - It's not one or the other, it's both and more.

It's the right question about Jim Walton, and there is a question about breaking up Walmart on top of that. Walmart can still be broken up in a world where inheritance tax exists!

> On top of that, to enforce them requires a level of privacy and personal liberty abuse that is counterproductive.

Disagree with this - forcing billionaires (or anybody for that matter) to provide details of their estate for tax purposes is pretty well-trodden territory.
They do not sell subscriptions on apple store.
I do find it hilarious that Apple expects companies to fork over 30% of the price of renting a movie in an app and considers that "fair" and then on platforms where THEY would have to fork over 30% (e.g., Apple TV app on Google TV) they don't let you rent at all. So everyone gets a shittier worse experience everywhere on the off-chance they can extract rent.
In the spirit of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/289 please familiarize yourself with Hobbes' Leviathan and the concept of state monopoly on violence and the advantages of it before embarrassing yourself with posts like this.
The other thing is that a bunch of stuff it auto-completes is way below any reasonable threshold for a copyrightable work even it bit for bit reproduces code from a piece of AGPL software. There are also only a finite sane number of ways to implement basic data structures like single- and double-linked lists in common per language. If I lay claim to the copyright for all of them should that prohibit anyone else from implementing the data structure (without unreasonable contortions)?
Not to mention it seems like most of the blog posts and tweets about this are also very purposefully prompting to get GPL code.

Secondly, if you take this seriously you should already being doing some kind of static analysis to detect it because what if one of your employees copy/pastes some GPL code from somewhere?

It's practically a non issue that people are blowing out of proportion.
Well, saying "fuck you" to billionaire drug lords won't do you much good even then.

I think it's fair to settle for 99.99% "fuck you".
I agree that complexity doesn’t imply capability. However, in general they are different architectures which cannot be readily compared. Saying a neurone can only do signal integration from dendrites is like saying a computer can only add 0 to 1. The reality is those dendrites are spatially arranged and may perform computations before reaching an action potential.
Also, neurones are still cells and can change structure/position as well as gene expression, which may (or may not) impact on processing over a longer time interval.
Tailor-made fits are desirable but, with elastic materials, not longer required.
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There's more than 45 years of precedent if you want to count video game consoles.
Apple fights hard to not allow users to install from other sources on devices they own, so they can charge rent from developers, then complains when some apps that are too big for them to control are installed from the sole app store.

The solution is pretty simple, let people use the devices they own as they want; allow multiple app stores; allow people to download binaries and install on their devices.
> Trivial. Drag your white cursor quickly across the screen against a black background. You will see clear gaps between the individual cursor afterimages on your retina.

That's the outcome of aliasing, not of the FPS limitation itself. You could analytically supersample the motion in the time domain and then blur it just enough to remove the aliasing, and the distinct images would then disappear. Motion blur approximates the same result.
I think you have to appreciate just how egregious the behaviour of Microsoft was in the 90s. We're talking about systematic attempts to use their absolutely dominant market advantage to move into new areas and kill rival technologies, plus quite deliberate sabotage of open standards process to prevent the web taking off. (I knew a few people involved in W3C then and Microsoft's behaviour was breathtaking)

Personally I'd avoid comparisons since you're looking at one of the worst situations imaginable, so anything else is bound to seem less harmful.
It's a community driven site. What we had before Stackoverflow / Stackexchange was a mess.

I'd suggest starting to provide correct answers and cite your sources. Build trust in the community and make things better.
I'm originally from the US (I moved to Australia in my mid-20s), and it's interesting how different it was for me and for my Australian partner.

I first used a computer when I was a toddler in the 1980s, and I have been using them ever since. I went to a very low-income public school in a poverty-stricken, high-crime neighborhood, and we were using computers (albeit very outdated Apple II's that had been donated) starting in 1st grade. We were writing stories and printing them out by second grade, and learning how to "surf the web" and cite websites by 3rd. By high school, we were learning Photoshop and video editing.

Meanwhile, my partner attended a very expensive private school, yet his first experience with a computer came drastically later (like some time around 2000 or so?), and it was because his family bought one, not because the school had them.

On the other hand, he was already playing video games on a SNES from an early age, whereas I didn't get my first console (a cheap secondhand GameCube) until 2005 or 2006 when I was a university student.

I can really see the difference in our parents, too. His mother is essentially computer illiterate to this day, whereas even my grandpa (born in 1930 and grew up sharecropping) was making websites without any help from his children or grandchildren while I was still a little kid.
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This is about setting boundaries - being a good listener only when you are comfortable doing so.
Naively, if a model is smart enough to spit / whitewash a bit of code, it is also smart enough to add attribution, isn't it? Wouldn't correct attribution be just a master prompt line away?
Starting around 2016, I noticed our young interns had no compunctions about finding and using unlicensed streaming sites. Most of them are women.

Just recently, I overheard one all-girl group lamenting the balance between buying the laptops they liked versus gaming laptops, and that they'd all settled on streaming from their or their partners' PCs and consoles at home. I asked if The Sims was really that performance intensive, and they said, "Oh, no, BG3."

Listening to them talk about quest lines, battle and party strats, how and where to get certain characters and fashion, it reminded me exactly of conversations I'd had with my friends (over the same franchise, even) in the 90s and 00s. It makes me wonder how or if our parents ever felt like we were their kids with how different the world became in such a short time with the internet. And here they are now, all born after 9/11, the smartphone and internet age, with high bandwidth ubiquitous, instantaneous global connectivity, and I don't know why I ever thought they might be different.
> Today, Spotify has a 56 percent share of Europe’s music streaming market — more than double their closest competitor’s — and pays Apple nothing for the services that have helped make them one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

And they shouldn't have to, users should be able to install whatever software they want on their devices without paying a gatekeeper for it. Spotify exists on the web as well, they don't have to pay Google or Mozilla for delivering the service to their users. They don't have to pay Microsoft when users downloads and installs desktop software for windows. So why should Apple get any money because users install Spotify on their iphones? I'm sure Spotify pays Google for their cloud services that actually helps make them successful.
Historically, who was draining those aquifers? It seems that pumping large amounts of water out of the earth is a relatively new thing. On planet timescales anyway.
Dear god. This site still exists????!!! I thought it shut down like ... 10 years ago.
It's interesting how different we can be, this meandering seems dreadful to me
I can train a human (such as myself) to reproduce entire song lyrics, verbatim.

We have entire professions (musicians, actors) who develop this ability.

Is that, in your view, 'illegitimate' too?

Why or why not?
The best way to do it is to ban advertising.
Banning ads for tobacco has been effective.
We don’t need to criminalize vice. Just don’t allow advertising for vice.
> Pessimism much

I'm asking for facts, hope doesn't come into it.

> ...our mental model is asymptotically converging

Which is not what I'm picking up, so have you any evidence to change my mind? TIA
But at least the victim isn't then paying the criminals' AWS bill.
Do they really? Where do you live? I'd never sign a paper like that.
So what happens when there's a breakdown out in the field? Do they have some specialized unit that can drag a train on the fritz back to the sheds?
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> That *could* be fixed, but I imagine the sense is that anyone who's hardcore about their zip performance or feature set will likely be using 7-Zip or WinRAR, etc.

On the contrary, power users like me use 7zip because built-in ZIP support is so slow. And the vast majority of regular users - they just silently suffer and use the slow-built in.

(And I use 7zip because it's the least bullshit compressor/extractor I know - works perfectly fine through context menus, without having to ever look at the main UI. But you know what would be even less bullshit? The compress/extract functionality in explorer.exe! If only it wasn't dog slow...)
> You have to be in a pretty sparse area for this to be the case,

Nope, unless you mean "You have to be in a pretty sparse area for it to be that low".

From North London, you should plan on more than 90 minutes to get to Heathrow, regardless of which transport mode you choose. It's not because of sparseness or "far from a city" of the parts in-between, quite the opposite.

Gatwick is worse.

Stansted is slightly is better, but I'm seldom going somewhere that flies from Stansted.
This feels like a challenge moving with the times. I strongly agree with the guidelines – paywalls are becoming pervasive entirely due to people not compensating journalists for their work – but the number of different subscriptions needed to follow more than a handful of writers is starting to cost as much as a cable TV plan.

Previously I thought that the subscriber share mechanisms would offer a bit of a balance here but with the entire industry worried about AI training I’m not sure that’ll help since they’re going to be worried about even a single retrieval not gated behind a login system where you agree to pay them more for training.
$100/year dev license. Not bad for 119 billion downloads!
They can continue to take 30%, but can't stop apps using other subscription methods.

> Apple will now have to remove terms that prevent developers telling users about other subscription methods.

https://www.politico.eu/article/apple-gets-e1-8b-eu-antitrus...
Try to think about this from the shareholders’ point of view.

They want Elon compensated with the bonus he hit very difficult growth targets to earn because they want to make money from him further growing the company.

If they just donate the shares they personally bought, then they don’t make money. They lose it.
Well HDR screens are becoming more common so we're moving in that direction.

Also, simulating realistic processes is not incompatible with tonemapping the result to be able to display it on limited screens.
Cough NNT cough
While we're at it, ban it for prescription medications, too.
Probably a host of reasons. MS had 90%+ of the OS marketshare (Excel had ~90% of the spreadsheet market). I think it's hard for people to understand just how dominant MS was at the time - closest might be peak Google with search. Bill G while likable today because of his philanthropy, was really painted then as a ruthless businessman. MS ignored DC and politics for the most part. At the time, the west coast was even more of a different world than what was going on in DC.

All the companies today learned from MS. They have armies of lobbyists and court politicians. They are all ruthless business people, but come across as more human and cuddly. They have become key parts of the US economy. I think there's also some fear that if they do go after big tech they could inadvertently make things worse for constituents. Remember, the only thing a politician thinks about is getting re-elected.
The issue is that pausing that way isn't really fixable mostly because of systemd priniciples. One would have to interact with it AFAIK which makes it way more complex, and still there are the usability issues. (I wrote the blogpost)
SO is not wrong. People are wrong.
Your comment seems to suggest that religion can be used to combat excesses. In my experience, the only times when religion works in that way is when itself substitutes the previous excesses. Normally the person becomes someone completely different, seemingly lobotomised, and ends up giving away all their time, energy and many times money to the church or whatever organisation is behind it.

I'd hardly call that combatting excess. YMMV.
You do not need a lot of speed to host a personal or hobbyist blog, and NAT is just something you configure once and it's done. I use my domain providers API to update the DNS records as soon as my public IP changes (with a tiny shell script on my server). I even host some semi-commercial sites from home and it is fine :)

I would much rather run the chance of some occasional downtime in exchange of being in control of the infrastructure and owning my own data. I really like the idea of a inter-connected net that is kinda spread all over, not super concentrated to a handful of data hubs.
The EU has about 450M inhabitants, so that would amount to €4 each. Your suggestion is vile, and you didn't even bother with the basic arithmetic. Kindly fuck off.
Oh God, after reading your post, it suddenly struck me that maybe I should try using a different Google account, even though I don't really have anything special in my main account.

I registered a new account, and voilà, it suddenly worked!

I compared all the options and couldn't find anything that would cause this until I discovered that my main account's Tools > Accessibility Settings had "Turn on screen reader support" enabled, for which I have no idea why.

I turned it back off, and the issue immediately disappeared.

To be fair, I think enabling this accessibility option shouldn't cause such a bug; but for now, I can finally use it again.

Again, thank you for taking the time to test it!
I agree with the sentiment, but that's not entirely true. Video game console have pretty much always relied on this model to make money.
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No point in continuing as you said. If you were capable of admitting you were wrong you could have done it on any number of points so let’s just stop here. You’ve even gone on to the green issue and there plenty of stats out there to show break even after x miles so maybe that’s a good place to start for you without me feeding you the numbers.

It’s sad people buy in to the conspiracy stuff. If you ever find a way out, please let me know as I’d like to help my friends overcome it too.

One thing with the conspiracy angle that absolutely baffles me that maybe you could explain is the whole “agenda” / control narrative that gets pushed, as if EVs are somehow evil and controlling. Can you explain how having a vehicle that you can take completely off-grid, and even fuel yourself by solar panels is controlling? I’ve never understood what the logic could even be here.
If that's all you know, it can be a reasonable alternative. But for most professional print use-cases it's woefully inadequate. Starting from the awkward box model for layout, down to the very bare-bones typography support.
The output isn't derivative, the model weights are.
I don't see how the result would avoid being either uncomfortably bright or still having shitty contrast due to the unavoidably high "black" levels from the ambient light.
Here is a colab notebook that replicates some of their examples without needing a togetherAI API: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pzz1KHQjylrpfZt2xS7...

Choosing the A100 environment is required though
But SE is not YouTube. On the latter, it doesn't matter what comment has the most likes.

On SE however, one can say that what answer gets the most upvotes is the most important aspect of the site.

For me, the date of the answer had become a key information to check before I even reading the answer.

I use Django a lot and it significantly evolved over the years. And for too many times, I'd spend time implementing a solution, only to realize it no longer worked since version x.y that was published z years ago.

The thing is, stack exchange was built to serve an industry characterized by its very rapid evolution overtime. Yet, it fails, IN MY OPINION, to adress such a key element in a graceful way.

The documentation industry solved this years ago. Going back to Django again, its doc site allows users to select the version they're interested in order to show them relevant content.

I think stack exchange needs to implement something similar for its answers. How can that work? Well, users can be allowed to add tags to mark versions where they know the solution doesn't apply anymore. It may not be the earliest version where this issue arises, and that's understandable. Other users can later refine the threshold data.

SE can then display the info where searchers can easily spot it [Answer not applicable since x.y] and avoid them some confused head scratching.

We can push this even further with multiple correct answers for a single question, depending on the version. Users can even add the version of different software they're interested in and see the correct answer that applies higher, regardless of number of upvotes.

(Written on my phone. Apologies for typos.)
So I guess apple learned how to be slightly more subtle, and to let their rabid fanbase do some of their work for them. It's still wild to me how they managed to get people to argue against the freedom to install whatever they want on their device.
Even currently managers are doing exactly this. E.g. SAP is in the process of bringing employees back to office for at least 3 days a week. Reasons given were nonsensical. And probably it will just work out as they want because not enough people vote with their feet.
"peak boomer" is a very effing nice pun on its sonic boom. mad props.
Despite all the talk Microsoft wasn't broken in pieces and never paid a significant penalty. The loudness of the congressmen was to compensate for that.

Now the Overton window has moved and people no longer believe a company can be broken up.
Haha I fell into the same trap around 15-25 years ago!(but tbf, elementary school me was going through cryptozoology phase)

von Daniken really knew how to write in academic prose, which only sold it further.
Well yes, and I'm also more likely to install a random golang tool than a random python tool. :-)
This isn't about music streaming but about the payment restrictions Apple forces on Appstore devs. The court decided that Apple's practices destroy competition, which is obviously true. Also it's in line with the new gatekeeping laws that are coming this month.
They could buy out 7zip, shove it into Windows install, and make the existing UI point to 7zip API calls instead of explorer.exe ones. A drop-in shim, that would improve quality of life for millions.
> Private offices and cubicles with high walls are the best if we are excluding remote.

I really wish people would stop conflating these, as if they were meaningfully equivalent.

Like, yes: compared to open-plan, high-walled cubes are obviously much better.

But I've been in high-walled cubes, and I've been in (and now have) a private office.

There's really no comparison when it comes to privacy, customizability, and just overall the feeling of it being your space.
That could be a nice backup for when I experience downtime, but I would rather run a simple webserver at home for stuff that does not require extreme scale or a lot of resources. Hosting some websites at home is not that complicated and it keeps the dream of a distributed Internet alive!
The thing is that in the 90s it used to be 30 to 90 minutes for getting on board an international flight. Much like Concord we decided that slower is better for some reason.
I find this argument kind of ridiculous - yes, access to Apple's APIs does bring value to its app developers, but crucially, the app developers increase the value proposition of Apple's product by being available on the platform.

It would be just as fair in this case to say that Apple should be paying Spotify for making their app available on the App Store.

Luckily, by custom there is another solution - the platform providers charge nothing and let their customers decide what software to use, and the developers targeting the platform do not charge for developing their software for the platform. As it has worked forever on Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS, etc.
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> People dedicated to working at home haven't worked in a good office

This is a crazy generalisation. I am fortunate enough to have a job doing something I enjoy, and I try hard to be a productive and reliable part of my team. But work is still just a means to an end for me. If I won the lottery tomorrow my notice would be in before I even cashed the cheque. I’m dedicated to working at home because it minimises the impact work has on my life in so many ways.
Dave almost certainly has "fuck you money" from the stock he got in his employment at Microsoft. Not everyone's employers are going to explode in value like Microsoft either
Are we absolutely sure they're saying culture and are not actually saying "cudgel"?
Ofcourse you can't trust it. It's trained on code from github repos, and, suprise, people copy paste GPL code all the time into their repo which they randomly chose a permissive license for when the repo was created.
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So much arrogance from them recently. The biggest threat to Apple right now are themselves.
Spotify does pay - 30% of subscription fees.
Then let's kill that too. We don't need rent seekers killing free market competition.
This is the right answer.

Apple was nearly dead. Microsoft literally gave them a big investment to keep them alive [1] , in part to avoid monopoly-related issues [2].

Microsoft was doing everything in its power to kill the only other serious browser at the time, Netscape, and it basically had "won" the desktop and server market. It's pretty astounding that Apple was ever able to do as well as it did in the server, laptop, and desktop market.

1. https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-when-micros...
2. https://www.engadget.com/2014-05-20-what-ever-became-of-micr...
It’s telling that Apple would rather get 30% of 0 than lower their fees to the point where it’s mutually beneficial for Spotify and other large apps to offer in-app subscriptions.

If an app is charging users $1000 a month, what entitles Apple to $300 of that versus the $3 of a $10 subscription? It seems like more of a tax than a fee that allows Apple to profitably operate the store and infrastructure.