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I’ll just have a guess and say there’s zero chance Apple will cut prices.

They want to lower costs but I’m sure they’ll also use this as an excuse to increase prices justified by all the investments.
I appreciate your response. I hope it swings back.
> farmers were subject to capricious taxation and the transformation of their farms into grazing and hunting grounds. Yet some of Khubilai's policies, such as the provision of social insurance against crop failures and natural disasters, suggest a real concern for the welfare of his subjects.

Still sounds capricious to me, but at least the Mongols understood you can’t get blood from a turnip.
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True, but doesn't WFH solve that? There must be somewhere that's both good and cheap once you go far enough.
Apple has this sort of advantage in numerous standards. Everyone tests their Bluetooth & WiFi against Apple, and iterates until it works perfectly. So this means that Apple effectively gets the right to interpret standards in the way they want, and implement the subset of optional features that they want, and the rest of the industry will conform to them.

And if something doesn't work, the user is unlikely to blame Apple. They always blame the other guy.

So Apple seems to be one of the only companies that could plausibly homegrow a 5G modem, picking and choosing the parts of the protocol that they want to implement, and perhaps supporting only 5G instead of all the legacy protocols as a sort of "brave" stance.

At the very least, their development of such a program could induce their chip vendors to give a price break.
> I suppose you are technically correct that noexcept can throw to themselves. But that's just being pedantic, isn't it?

No. There are comments in this thread from people who are surprised that you can still handle exceptions within a noexcept function. Some seem to believe noexcept is supposed to mean "don't use exception within this scope". My comment is intended to clarify that, yes, you can throw and catch any exception from within a noexcept function, because noexcept does not mean "no exceptions within this scope" and instead only means "I should not allow exceptions to bubble up, and if I happen to do then just kill the app".
It clearly helps SpaceX, Musk mostly indirectly, and GOP not at all.
Sometimes people just died, or whatever.
I’m aware of the junk fee work and that is a fair point. And I agree it was somewhat weak, particularly if held up to what some other countries do to protect their people from businesses.

Biden’s last ditch attempt to hold on was discussing actual action on SCOTUS.

That campaign death rattle alone seems to have been enough evidence to me that push come to shove these folks will force something that results in more support, especially if it means keeping their job.
In general I think you just call it a color filter array.
Visa and Mastercard provide entire global payment platforms, yet only (generally?) take a small fee per transaction.

Apple seems to do a lot less, but wants ~1/3 of every transaction.
What browser can't do that?
How much does save france wheb they have to shut down powerplants because the cooling water is too hot and the water level is too low?
You can thank Ronald Reagan for that.
> This illustrates a common problem with our laws. They're very often vaguely defined, needlessly so, in a way that keeps attorneys and judges very rich

The best part is the insulting pretense that it’s all very rigorous and formal, and that it requires a giant intellect years of training to appreciate the intricacies of the legal and ethical calculus these chosen few are dealing with every day. But the closest things to axioms are precedent, basic rights, etc and these are routinely ignored whenever it’s convenient.

If you watch kids often enough you’ll occasionally observe the kind of bully who is actually kind of smart. They make up rules for a game, describe just enough so that play can begin, and then enforce them arbitrarily, add new ones when necessary to keep power, and generally pick on whoever they were going to pick on anyway but do it under the appearances of upholding fair play, etc. These bully’s become lawyers instead of cops.

The actual intent of the rule of law and civilized society in general is wholly predicated on these kids being outnumbered by some equally argumentative children who happen to actually be concerned with fairness, or at least consistency. This needs to happen in every generation forever, regardless of the fact that it’s easier and more profitable to be a jerk, and that being a jerk gets you to places where you can have longer lasting impacts. It’s all so fragile.
that's a nice read, but does it also apply to MySQL (InnoDB)?
> Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.

Roblox is in clear violation of this clause, downloading and executing entire games written in Lua. Apple does have an exception to this policy for HTML5 games and streaming games but Roblox does not qualify because it is not HTML5 and not streaming. Many people have had their businesses destroyed for far less serious violations of App Store policy.

I believe there are also other rules against putting an app store inside your App Store app. Clearly Roblox is an app store for games, with its own currency. Apple has not been reasonable on this point with other companies: they originally didn't even want to allow cloud game streaming apps to play multiple games in a single app. Their ridiculous plan was to require a separate Apple App Store listing for each game that a streaming platform supported, and they only relented under pressure after Microsoft went public with their complaints: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/11/21433071/microsoft-apple-... And after that debacle they explicitly added exceptions to their policies for game streaming apps. They have never done so for Roblox-like apps, which are still plainly forbidden under their publicly posted policies.
Same policy here. Seemed like it worked just fine. If you really needed to use it, you had time between periods and during lunch.
Given China's experience with the West's sordid attempt to subvert them via opium, it seems highly unlikely that roblox would ever be legalized there.
More like:

- Get money through the platforms' users and their payment methods, without having to worry about asking for users' credit card information, billing, chargebacks, or individual invoicing: 25% platform tax.

- Get money through your own means, similarly to what Amazon did with Kindle books: no platform tax.
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Obviously, like all public companies. But have they disclosed the specific risk that Apple might stop giving them special treatment and stop protecting them from competition or start enforcing the policies they violate? I believe I read their S-1 some time ago and didn't find any mention of special treatment from Apple. It's possible they started disclosing it later, but even that would still expose them to shareholder lawsuits from IPO investors.

Edit: They are also vulnerable to insider whistleblowers. Any whistleblower would be eligible for rewards of 10-30% of any penalty ultimately assessed by the SEC. The SEC has paid tens of millions to single whistleblowers in the past.
I installed fiber to connect two pv inverters at home, over a distance of 120m (to avoid equipotential bonding, through an empty conduit underground). On the one hand, fiber is a nightmare compared to Cat 7a - you have to handle it carefully, there's a pulling grip attachment that's too thick to get through most wall holes, and you can't pull too hard or the fiber will stretch beyond a certain limit and degrade. On the other hand, our cable withstood a lot of force, was bent at 120° angles, and pulled through all kinds of dirt/water without damage. I just wish that I could crimp fiber ends myself to avoid all the hassle, but the equipment is just too expensive.

It's also interesting that 25m of pre-crimped cable costs almost the same as 125m, because the crimping seems to be the expensive part, not the cable material.
But we didn’t treat it this way until Ron and Nancy’s War on Drugs.

So while this might be a very old bug in the Rule of Law, it got much worse during the 20th Century.
> these are the exact same arguments people make against something like UBI or really any public benefits. "starving people feel motivated to eat food, so they work to make money to buy food. therefore starving people is the correct thing to do because I believe that if we give people food they will be lazy"

Hyperbole much? The mainstream arguments against UBI are nothing like this, because we already have systems in place to give starving people food.
Great move. This along with banning under 18 social media use should be nationwide.
Yes, this is the first thing in the article.
> I was already a keyboard maximalist from previous jobs where I learned speed = productivity

I've never understood this. In over 30 years in the industry, I've not once held a job where my keyboard speed had a noticeable effect on my productivity. Even when I had to type one-handed for a month, my productivity was unchanged.

The average developer averages 10 lines of finished code per day. And even with a raw 10x that amount to account for variance, changes, debugging etc, you'd be at 12 lines PER HOUR. Being generous at a full 80 chars per line, you have a maximum of 1000 keypresses per hour, or an average of one every 3 seconds. Even doubling your typing speed or keyboard response time would have no discernible effect.

90% of software development happens in the mind. The small amount of time spent actually writing it out seems kinda silly to optimize for.
Last I checked, being nationalist is not a bad thing?

If your government does not stand up for your country, who else will?
The cool thing about market chains is that you can tune the probability with which it will jump between "genres" of it's training-content by making the analyzed N-Grams shorter or longer.

E.g. it starts out as a news headline and ends with a bible verse.
> Implying to dissolve the marketplace is unserious and not an answer to the problem, and not helpful to the ideals of computing for the masses.

My implication was busting the monopoly into its logical components, not out of existence.
Drone that drags cables and small shaped charges for controlled detonations in place. Mudcover is removed with waterjets. Scanning is sonar and magnetic field mapping. Strange new things are reported, otherwise automated finding, attaching of ropes via sprayonglue after cleaning.

Ressources used: electricity, ropes, glue, detonation capsules.
To look at life expectancy, you need to normalize for the fact that numerous things have shifted dramatically in society. For instance smoking rates have completely plummeted relative to the past, to say nothing of the fact that up until the 90s you could generally smoke everywhere, even on airplanes! Then there have also been major changes in typical occupations, reductions in youth driving, and so on.

Given that life expectancy increases have been coming at a snail's pace, and on occasion reversing, I suspect if one normalized for these sort of non-medical shifts in society, we'd see that life expectancy is most likely decreasing, likely due to things like widespread obesity, mental illness, and other ailments which modern gadgets are significantly contributing to.
You can use #[non_exhaustive] if you want to avoid this.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there has been no investment/subsidy/sop given to musk by this government?
I know a guy, in jail, with a weird brain injury[1] who they call the human photocopier. He has this ability.

The problem is people are always asking him to "draw Mickey and Minnie and a big love heart with my wife's name in it" and it is close to impossible for him. He almost completely lacks the ability to draw anything novel. If you give him pics of Mickey and Minnie he can combine them and copy them perfectly.

[1] he has an enormous scar from ear-to-ear from where apparently they had to do work on his skull as a small child because his brain outgrew it. He's not clear on the details as he was adopted at birth, his mother was an addict.

https://imgur.com/a/pE6Y032
I doubt she deposited so much via in-app purchases. Financial apps don’t have to use them.
> Apple seems to do a lot less

Not suggesting that this warrants a 30% cut, but unlike payment gateways Apple also provides discoverability and distribution.
I don't get how the no-hiding theorem implies that the information will be preserved in the remaining qbits, if the "environment" of the measurement is the lab, not the available ancilla.
The software industry literally has no standards.
Because kids aren't utilitarian. They want shiny things impulsively now in whatever niche game they are playing at the moment. Or want to keep up with their friends who got cool stuff to keep status. Doesn't matter to them that they'll switch games in a week and lose everything.
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It takes over 30 minutes to run the entire test suite for our application on my local machine. Thankfully you can get it for under 20 minutes if you push it and have the CI test it for you.
Sadly there seems to be reserves[1] for quite a long time. The real question is how much of the reserves are profitable to exploit.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...
Does this apply to Google though? You can download untrusted app on Android phone. The same scam situation is yet to happen on iOS.
Germany isn’t “high-freedom”.
Their people might be happy(though Germany seems to get more and more politically polarised every day), I wouldn’t know.
> Write everything (generally, new features) twice has turned out to be really good strategy for me, but it doesn't sit well with bizdev or project managers and tends to be perceived as unnecessary slowness.

Silo-isation compounds this. If the maintenance costs are borne by another team or if any rework will be funded out of a different project, the managers are not going to care about quality beyond the basic "signed off by uat".
Well, Tencent needs to pay the same Apple and Android tax as well for its gaming business, but guess what, Tencent's gaming business is very profitable. The real difference is that Tencent has a big market share in China(arguably the most profitable gaming market in the world) and Roblox has none.
You‘re getting downvoted for making a low quality post. Not for pointing out that regular people can’t do networking.
Yet, they are still a lot bigger than most micro-libraries. And more complex. And most of them tend to be parts of the same package (coreutils). So no, they have nothing in common with microlibraries. Not in concept, not in how they are used, shipped or maintained.
> why should a dev make the scope of their work bigger if they won't be able to keep putting the same quality of work?

They shouldn't...but that's not at all what the primary developer said.

The issue is the primary dev seems to require reverse seek functionality to work with all codecs, and since some obscure codecs can't efficiently support it, they're not interested. Their challenge to others to submit a PR is counteracted by all the signs that they might provide a high-to-impossible barrier to approval.

It's not clear that even a trusted contributor would be able to sway this person's mind. Most likely, contributors either agree, or keep quiet on the issue if they disagree.
> also provides discoverability and distribution.

Apple seems to be incredibly poor at discovery, so that's not a point in their favour.

Distribution could be done by any number of other CDNs, as will likely be done by the new EU based App stores.

What's the bet those won't be charging ~30% transaction fees to cover things? And they won't even have the same scale as Apple. ;)
This thing just gets repeatedly uploaded, I guess deletion is not that useful now.

Put that aside, Eric Schmidt did told the truth (maybe except AI and NVidia stock thing) and offered the public a glace of how things actually work within the industry.

One important thing he mentioned was (after simplified) "just steal, and deal with justice later", which actually mirrors what Steve Jobs once said "Great artist steal". This should remind everyone, that if you want to have significant achievement in this industry, you at least needs to guard against thefts, because there WILL BE (maybe ALREDY are) people who comeout with a "be shameless or be dead" mindset after been educated by people like that man.

(Also, I found it quite funny that one of Eric's girl friend has probably took his lesson too)
Apparently counting cars in Ethiopia is hard.

In 2009 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-50426159 said it was 600K cars at 2 cars per 1000 people, so 300 million people.

In reality, the Ethiopia population is ~110 million (and it was much less back in 2009).
Not sure what you’re talking about, you still can’t buy kindle books on iOS apps.
I don't know, I can see it both ways. I think it depends on programming context. On one hand you're right that it's annoying and a technically unnecessary gotcha, but for some Python use cases it simplifies the mental model to simply Know which version of a particular package is running. For example, pandas and numpy are IMO bad offenders for transitive dependency issues, but it's because they're used as building blocks everywhere and are intended to be used compositionally. It's not uncommon to have to step through a data pipeline to debug it. That would become confusing if it's using 5 different major versions of pandas because each package brought it's own. Or a trip down the call stack involves multiple different versions of numpy at each level.

For web dev and something like requests, it's just not as big of a deal to have a bunch of versions installed. You don't typically use/debug that kind of functionality in a way that would cause confusion. That said, it would be definitely be great sometimes to just be like "pip, I don't care, just make it work".
And that's why Google/Alphabet ought to be split up.
>BCPL

Was used by some parts of AmigaDOS (dos.library) and it is unfortunate.

AFAIK nothing third party uses BCPL.
But doesn't that have way more to do with (EU) regulation? I thought that they take quite a significant chunk in the US
I'm sorry to say if you can't google the difference between setup.py and pyproject.toml then it's a skills issues, because in 14 years of using Python that has never been an impediment to getting anything done in a timely manner.
Here in the Netherlands many (middle) schools have banned them by now, just in time for my son to enter school. Looking forward to him having nice conversations with his schoolmates. I hope his generation is not like some of the students we got at our company who join the lunches but picked seats at the very edge of the table and had their eyes on their screen the whole time.

Yes, every youngster has some fears communicating with people experienced in their proffssion of choice, but it is up to the experience people to engage with them and up to them to do the same. Locking themselves out of conversations during lunch is not a habit that builds good and valuable relations with colleagues. It really feels like these youngsters are addicted, or at least they are not in the habit of joining conversations, lacking the skill as everyone does at the start, but now also a method available to avoid honing those skills.
The performance argument I cannot subscribe to. We did extensive load testing in the past on different products, and the bottleneck in the end was always the DB (or more recently, getting screwed by OpenSSL v3). Sure Spring might not be the fastest in its class, but it's a cheap problem to solve, just fire up more or bigger VMs (as long as you've kept it stateless).

The security concerns about actuator I cannot subscribe to either. Why are your endpoints exposed to the outside by default? Why is the management port reachable from the outside? Why are devs not reading the docs and only enabling the endpoints they need?

The magic annotations part can definitely be a problem. Would recommend to stay away as much as possible and keep that simple. Only use it as a last resort, but boy can it be powerful. Need your own request scope that is bound to transactional commit/rollback? You can have that to for example only send out side effects when the transaction succeeds, or to build transparent caching solutions on request scope.
If that's too difficult then you might as well not be in the profession, because it's one of the simplest things in the world.
> Turns out some of my types were 80k characters long,

I know Rust uses name/symbol mangling but what sort of type declaration in Rust ends up with that long names ?
> This would require deep OS-level features from Apple/Google/etc. See my reply to a sibling comment for spitballing ideas, but I don’t think it’s necessary for this to be invasive.

This is by definition invasive; having the device maker or OS maker integrate it makes it more invasive, not less.
Simplicity.

You have one key combination: Alt+Tab. (Alt+Shift+Tab to go in reverse, if you're fancy.)

You have one list of windows, also visible on the taskbar.

People worship simplicity. Life is busy enough without more arcane voodoo rituals to make sand think.
They could, and 'winning' would be a bitter joke, if it went nuclear.

Having said that, China is different from pre collapse Soviet Union. Population and industry are much more densely concentrated, and therefore more vulnerable.
Plus the advertising network takes its own tax, right? Then it goes into the same or similar pockets again anyways.
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That a bit unclear. Are you meaning Visa/Mastercard charge less in the EU due to EU regulations?

If that's what you're meaning, then I simply don't know as I've not heard that before. :)
Then only use the software that Bob wrote in the same building you work at, I don't know what to tell you.

I don't think you can necessarily trust Bob's code without looking at what he wrote, just because you see him in person.

And coreutils has 200 contributors, many random people and strangers, from all over the world now.
I haven’t used Graphile Worker since I’m not familiar with JavaScript. PgQueuer is tailored for Python with PostgreSQL environments. I’d be interested to hear about Graphile Worker’s features and how they might inspire improvements to PgQueuer.
this. i'm on the swiss german keyboard layout. backticks are hard to do as a keyboard shortcut. they barely work as a character (e.g. for markdown formatting) but with a bit of pracitce that _does_ work.

try getting default vim bindings to work on a swiss german keyboard... i eventually gave up.
Those are good points. Probably too late to make a difference now, but I hear you.
Was nearly hit by this just last week. ANOVA(sous-vide stuff) decided hey soon we will start charging new customers money. And not that small amount... Drop prices to compete with others and make shortfall elsewhere. Or likely fail to do so...
It's exactly like that, even the top grossing "legal" apps are casino games anyways.

There's a reason Google is paying radio ads in the EU to convince everybody that they are helping small businesses, anybody who ran the figures on the mobile store knows that it wouldn't survive scrutiny.