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> The difference (or at least what would be argued as a difference) is that you have no other choice with Apple (Amazon maybe in a similar situation).

> If I didn't like AirBNB I could use VRBO/whatever else, or I could use both even.

Read what you wrote again, and think about it. If you don't like AirBnB you can use one of the competitors, but there are no competitors to Apple? Would you consider that you might have a blind spot to something very obvious?
> If we shut them off tomorrow what do YOU need to replace in your life without them?

A translator and editor would be nice? I use GPT to give feedback on my writing. It works well, especially suggesting other ways to word things. This is something I didn't even know I needed.

There are all kinds of other uses. It has offered advice to me on programming language design, approaches to math proofs, etc.

Again, I don't NEED these things, but yes it makes it a lot easier to have that there.

Just like I don't NEED google. I could scan through hundreds of thousands of websites or hire someone else to do it. But it's just easier to do that myself.
I like the idea of NTPD in Rust. Is there anything to read about how well ntpd-rs performs? Would love a new column for chrony's comparison: https://chrony-project.org/comparison.html

Particularly interested in the performance stats, how well the daemon keeps time in the face of various network problems. Chrony is very good at this. Some of the other NTP implementations (not on that chart) are so bad they shouldn't be used in production.
Reuters article:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa...
> don’t buy their product if you don’t like it

I like their product. If I buy it: do I own it or do I rent it from them? Obvious next question: If I own it, do I have right to install whatever I want?
> At least this has the same quirks everywhere.

That would make a great slogan for the project.
I heard a stat once that most adult male drowning victims had their fly down. This points to someone very drunk trying to pee into a body of water at night. One should always pee away from open water. I recall the suggested distance 100 feet for pee and more for number two.
Same way anyone gives software away for free, put the source code up and give instructions for compiling / installing. That Apple imposes time limits on self installed applications is the user's problem, not the developer's. The user chose the platform, the consequences of that are theirs to bear. If they wanted to install arbitrary applications that weren't beholden to Apple's rules the options for that were always there. Apple's restrictions are well known and are as restrictive as they have ever been, there was no bait and switch here.
"Childhood" is a fairly modern invention.

>herding goats and picking olives at 5 years old - there was no time for an idyllic childhood

I bet you could charge wealthy people $50,000 tuition to have their 5 year olds herd goats and pick olives if you had a good marketing team. You could lean heavily on calling it an idyllic childhood experience, make sure to overuse the word "rustic".
I work in infrastructure for an EHR provider, so interoperability isn't really my area, but I do work with devs who must do this.

I'd say the problem is approximately zero to do with HIPAA; we almost never even talk about it in my experience. It's just a lack of standards, and poor implementations of what standards do exist - every once in awhile something will crash because of a weird escape character or something in an HL7 message (though that could be on us no doubt).

I believe last year was the first time that there was a mandated standard to export EHR data and one of the devs was complaining that it didn't even say if units should be imperial or metric.

I'm told the labs are a complete mess and have no federally mandated standards; I know they've written code because doctor X wants to use lab Y. Obviously the big national labs win because you only have to write code for them once and all customers can use them.

It's just another aspect of a broken American healthcare "system" - there's no incentive for anyone to interoperate in the best case, and in the worst case it allows you to create lock-in for your product.
Funnily enough, I ran 2003 and then 2008 server versions as my desktop for a long time. No cruft and great performance. Very easy to enable desktop stuff and disable server stuff also.
Personally, I haven't heard of it happening. Most of the market is off resale websites anyways. Now if you started a boutique trying to resell Hermes bags, then you might have an issue.
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i think you aren't passing @ the gate of speech thing [0]

but anyway, your comment has 12 words or 56 characters! with this amount we could type: "Linux has lots of WMs like: awesome, DWM, i3, xmonad etc"

[0] https://suncoasthospice.org/the-three-gates-of-speech/
I use komorebi on my computers and I rarely ever have more than 1 or 2 windows on any workspace open at once. However, to give the main reasons as to why I use Komorebi is:

1. I love the automatic tiling, even if I 99% of the time only use it to have 2 windows split. It's just such a nice feeling not having to tile windows each time you open them up.

2. It let's me set programs being tied to specific workspaces at launch, so I always get spotify and discord on the first workspace on my second monitor. Again, a nice qol feature.

3. I think komorebi's workspaces are more powerful than virtual desktops. In virtual desktops then you change the desktop for both monitors when you switch, with komorebi you only change one monitor at a time. Which allows me to for example keep a youtube video on my second monitor playing while switching between workspaces on my main monitor.

These are probably the main reasons, I mention most of that in my youtube video that got linked in the thread.
It's a bit of an out-there suggestion, but apparently the Google Pixel tablet supports LineageOS: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/tangorpro/

Probably not the best-value option for loading a safe Android ROM, but it is pretty recent and has a nice form factor for smart home stuff.
In ALL of the great lakes, 45 people drowned last year. I have no idea what the drownings near shore was, but I mean, millions of people live on the borders of the Great lakes. 45 is pretty damn good and I think resources are better spent on other things.
I’m unclear how teaching someone about an unpleasant historical event is perpetuating “racist, sexist, and ageist tropes”?
Is it possible to build so that hear is kept in but not out? I sort of thought that heat flow was bidirectional.
> the evidence for Riccioli’s system is weighing down the scale-pan, while Galileo’s less substantiated suggestion rises upward

What exactly is the difference between the two theories? It would be interesting to see them both in the context of the time.
They have and a lot.
To access a new context a tiling manager requires moving my fingers. Multiple monitors requires moving my eyes, head, and/or torso.

Sometimes one makes more sense, sometimes the other. Fortunately, I can use a tiling manager with multiple monitors if I want.

But, I can use a tiling manager on my laptop anywhere multiple monitors are impractical. For me, that’s most places. YMMV.
Love the name. For those that are curious:

It's the Japanese word for sunlight, which is filtered through the leaves of the trees. In particular, it means the visible light rays.
“Komorebi” is composed of several parts of the word: “Ko” means tree or trees. “More” means: something that comes through, something that shines through or seeps through. “Bi” means: sun or sunlight.

The word “Komorebi” reflects the romantic and emotional love of the Japanese for nature.
Yeah, I feel like I could (should?) get around town faster in a beat up Corolla, and getting around faster on a highway in a supercar would require taking a lot of physical + legal risk.
To be fair, the designer of the website can’t restore scrollbars…
> If you want to show progress while the reader is somewhere in the middle of a page, you could use a page progress bar.

As best as I can tell, the standard name for these is 'scroll spy'. Gwern.nt mobile example: https://gwern.net/doc/design/2023-04-28-gwern-gwernnet-mobil...

They are becoming increasingly common as web browsers/OSes kill scroll bars and you are forced to implement your own: https://artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scrollbars.html

> I’ve seen this floating ToC done before, but could not find a site off the top of my head that implements the feature

Gwern.net has it! It's just that because we use both margins already, there is usually not enough horizontal space. But if you have a wide enough screen, you should see it, like https://gwern.net/doc/design/2023-08-07-gwern-gwernnet-deskt... You can also see this on LessWrong.com and https://80000hours.org/podcast/ podcasts.

> Relatively often I come across pages that have unique IDs for each header, but no clickable links! I end up having to use inspect element to find the anchor points.

Chrome has a 'link to text fragment' feature for this which got standardized and which Firefox is supposed to support at some point. So not so necessary as it used to be. (The unique IDs are often not so unique anyway or unstable.)

> I’ve found the link processing code on GitHub , and even the list of websites that get their own icons . I could not find a verbal description, though.

Links.js hasn't been used in years on Gwern.net. You actually want https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net/blob/959ba9c50d327a960e07... https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net/blob/959ba9c50d327a960e07... and for the history/overview, https://gwern.net/design-graveyard#link-icon-css-regexps , and to see all of the link-icons, https://gwern.net/lorem-link#link-icons

> Gwern’s website has no shortage of cool ideas. Among them showing link previews on hover. When hovering over a link, the site displays a popup window that contains a view into that page. I suspect that this view is also archived somehow, so that it retains a view into the page that matches it at the time of writing.

The archiving is complicated. Most of what you are seeing there is the use of iframes for 'live' links. (I manually check that websites do not break in an iframe before whitelisting them for popups like that.) But we do make extensive use of archives: https://gwern.net/archiving#preemptive-local-archiving

> Links to Other Sites

Gwern.net has a blogroll, incidentally. But I've always found the traditional 'big list in the sidebar' to be clunky. More fun is the 'site of the day' approach. So we went with an 'X of the Day' approach: in the footer of every page, there is a quote, a website, and an annotation of the day. (It's not really 'daily', but every few days after a full site sync.)
> What I dont get is what stops Chinese manufacturers from recruiting equally skilled local artisans in Asia to create their own luxury brands,

Luxury brands are selling a story, and that story is generally ‘European, old (100+ years)’. Companies like Rolex and Hermes have perfected this, upstart luxury brands from China would need a good 20+ years or genius marketing to start building the type of brand that can sell a story.
The article's author now works with his girlfriend on this[1] game also written in Rust.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/
Starliner is currently cleared to return. The astronauts are not stranded. Mission leadership has opted to extend the stay on the station because it is the best place to troubleshoot the issues they are having.
I did do something similar with Svelte, but the rendering aspect is the last of my issues really.

>It does indeed sound like a very infectious obsession, I hope I can forget about the idea :-)

If you don't I could use someone to talk these things through.
This is a good question to ask, especially in the age of everything pulling in every possible dependency just to get one library function or an `isNumeric()` convenience function.

The answer is that there is observability functionality which provides its results as JSON output via a UNIX socket[0]. As far as I can see, there's no other JSON functionality anywhere else in the code, so this is just to allow for easily querying (and parsing) the daemon's internal state.

(I'm not convinced that JSON is the way to go here, but that's the answer to the question)

[0] https://docs.ntpd-rs.pendulum-project.org/development/code-s...
> Whenever you're compressing a file on your computer the frequencies are known beforehand.

Not at all. The best compressors learn to predict the frequencies as they go, they do not compute them up front and store them in the output.
Thanks for that; this part in particular:

> I do not therefore consider them true and conclusive; indeed, keeping always before my mind's eye a most solid doctrine that I once heard from a most eminent and learned person, and before which one must fall silent,

Assuming that the following really is the "theological angle" suggested by the Pope, it's literally saying that the Pope is a most eminent and learned person, and that the argument he's made is "solid doctrine" and an unassailable argument. And Simplicio isn't coming up with the argument himself; he's saying he's heard it from this other eminent and learned person. All that's perfectly consistent with a good-faith attempt to flatter the Pope's wisdom and influence, and accommodate his request regarding the theological "escape hatch".

Unfortunately, it's also fairly open to being construed as being a sarcastic insult... or even an attempt at a sort of "dog whistle", where "devout" people take it as face value, but people "in the know" take it as being sarcastic.

EDIT: And, seriously:

> I know that if asked whether God in His infinite power and wisdom could have conferred upon the watery element its observed reciprocating motion using some other means than moving its containing vessels... From this I forthwith conclude that, this being so, it would be excessive boldness for anyone to limit and restrict the Divine power and wisdom to some particular fancy of his own.

It's not saying "God could just magic things to make the water appear to move like this"; it's "There are lots of other possible reasons why the water might appear to move like that".

It sounds to me like a description of necessary scientific humility. We have these observations, this one theory is consistent with them, but there lots of other possibilities, so we should keep an open mind and not be too insistent on one particular theory.
off the original topic, but on topic for this -

Yes! Gibson recognized they were getting cut out of the vintage market and started making not only the reissues (RIs), but also the limited edition copy-of-famous-person's-guitar. What gets me is that Reissues these days are priced so close to vintage instruments. It's so hard to justify the purchase.
A lot of fairy tales are just there to scare children into obedience. Probably most of them.
That would also be Gwern.net. :) https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net/blob/master/build/Inflati...
Apple does not hinder any developer from selling their software on competing devices or operating systems. I don't see how an honest person could claim that they're doing anything anti-competitive. I see how the EU politicians can claim that, because they are dishonest and expected to support parasitic actions.
I think the biggest balance I had was ~$65k at one time. I'm buying one, maybe two per trip depending on what kinds of bags collectors are looking for in the US. I don't have a buyer setup before hand, but I'm in a couple of private facebook groups that I can usually find one a few weeks before I fly to the US.
I have noticed that there seems to be a subset of gamers that want so badly for Linux gaming to be a thing that they ignore the problems.

For the record it is great, they have done a very good job with proton and I am not diminishing that work.

But try to bring up this conversation on YouTube, reddit, or similar places and it becomes toxic very quickly. Even when presented with raw numbers. It has even gotten that way here a couple times.

And the Steam thing is a big sore point right now, for the average user once you leave Steam it is not as user friendly as just running Windows.

Valve's marketing also isn't helping the situation in the slightest.
Loan? I certainly hope no one is taking out a loan to do this.

Well, I guess if the resell is pretty certain, then a loan is a smart business move. But really no one should be going into debt for an item like this.
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Boomers aren't making them. They are the captive audience in Facebook groups. I predict that around October, the content on those pages will switch to political stuff (at least for American audiences).
I feel so frustrated by nearly any degree of censorship. "Should we censor fairy tales? Should we censor Roald Dahl? Should we censor the speeches of Confederate generals?" No! Why do the pro-censor groups think that an uninformed populace with incorrect understandings of what people in the past said and did is better for the future?
> we do not have a direct democracy, which is what most people hear when they hear "Democracy".

That hasn't been the dominant use of the term for centuries, but, sure, you keep pretending.
Jeep's system is absolutely heinous to use with a trailer or in a garage.
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I hate writing code in golang, because I have to pepper every single function call with `if err != nil`, but then I think about how much C code I've seen that doesn't do that and I wonder how much of it should.
This seems to be the crux of their argument, and I find it convincing:

> Passing comprehensive privacy legislation would be a major public good–but APRA no longer can be called comprehensive. Civil rights guardrails are essential for consumer trust in a system that allows companies to collect and use personal data without consent. The new draft strips out anti-discrimination protections, AI impact assessment requirements, and the ability to opt-out of AI decision-making for major economic opportunities like housing and credit. We cannot abide a regime that would perpetuate, in the words of Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a form of ‘Jim Code’: ‘the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities.’
And, the download area at the bottom doesn't even mention iOS (or Android). I found the app, last changed 2y ago.
Correctness matters, in their particular game that's especially true although I'm doubtful of common insistence that it's better for this or that software to be fast than correct.

Rust is really good for correctness. Take "Hello, World", the obvious toy program. Someone tried giving it various error states instead of (as would be usual) a normal happy terminal environment. In C or C++ the canonical "Hello, World" program terminates successfully despite any amount of errors, it just doesn't care about correctness.

The default Rust Hello World, the one you get out of the box when you make a new project, or you'd show people on a "My First Rust Program" course, will complain about the errors when they happen. Because doing so is correct.

It's the New Jersey style. The priority for these languages was simplicity of implementation. It's more important that you can cobble together a C compiler easily than that the results are useful or worthwhile. This contributed to C's survival, but we pay the price until we give it up.
It's mainly to avoid having to use a mouse, you don't have to create many tiny windows
> none of the big three consoles allow you to install anything you want on them.

The Xbox kinda does: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...

And while unofficial, the Nintendo Switch has an exploit chain that lets you run native apps or mainline Linux/Android with Nvidia's Tegra drivers: https://github.com/CTCaer/hekate https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere

So that's two of the big three consoles that technically do let you install anything you want.
> Then I'll start up my career in fraud and embezzlement.

You're planning to become a politician?
Those of us who run ISPs have just as much trouble getting large corporations like Cloudflare or Ticketbastard to respond to blocked IP address issues like this. I know as I have tried to fix things on behalf of my users in the past, and it was impossible to get anywhere with anyone. The issue was magically "fixed" several years after the problematic IPv4 /22 was put into service. For reference, it was a direct allocation from ARIN. It's not like the old days when NOC contacts actually responded to emails reporting problems.
Well, the real question is: this amazing tech, assuming they would be able to mass produce it, how efficient would it remain in that case? 40%? 45%?
I mean, if you want to lower the carbon footprints, don't have an Olympics. Travel to and from the games from outside Paris will cost a great deal of carbon.
Goalposts shift from

> most people

to

> a nonzero number of Americans

Holy motte and bailey, Batman.
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I mean technically isn't this a bit like saying we should preserve the amount of colored ink in things we print, as colored printing costs more?

Sure, the books printed in color costs marginally more, and there are a lot of people around the world for whom a few extra dollars would marginally impact their ability to afford the books printed in color.

On the other hand, you have to express yourself without color to abide by this rule, and it would negatively impact both your expression and the number of these books you could sell.

In short, there's really no point in preserving bandwidth if it attracts more of your target demographic anyway. I don't think people on a rural connection in the 3rd world really care about...borderline any first world website? So what is the point of "preserving" access for those people anyway, at the cost of cooler interactions/more colors/more engagement/whatever.

It just seems a little silly. The pipes are bigger now, use 'em up.
I think the feigned shock from GP is that Komorebi was inspired by Linux tiling managers, so porting to Linux maybe feels like a copy of a copy.

I guess it's a little like moving to Mexico and asking if Taco Bell has ever considered opening a location there, as you're interested in dishes that feature tortillas, rice, beans, and cheese. : )
> And tonight, it will generate 0%.

This is a bold claim. Can I see your source that global solar will fall to 0% generation at any point in the next 24 hours?
The U.S. seems to be able to maintain a quite impressive railroad system for freight purposes, in what is still the largest rail transport network of any country in the world. Passenger transport withered away as long-distance road travel and cheap air flights out-competed it. With sufficient ingenuity and capital expenditure, I wonder if perhaps it could be revived?
It’s the economics - larger reactors produce relatively expensive power (per megawatt-hour), and that’s while still benefiting from economies of scale from their large size (as all thermal power tends to).

SMRs are technically fairly straightforward, but they need to be able to built and operated cheaply enough to produce power cheaper than existing large nuclear plants to be economically viable, given the price of competing power sources in most grids. And that’s not on the horizon at this point. Everything points to them producing more expensive power.