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I think the elephant in the room is that Apple is just doing what other closed platform distributors do, in an area where we aren't quite as used to it.

I make AAA video games, so 30% for me is basically standard.

* Valve: 30%

* Playstation: 30%

* Xbox: 30%

* Nintendo eShop: 30%

It's only the competitors that give better rates in the open-ish platforms, but people *openly* hate them; (I legitimately still have people denigrating uPlay and EPIC to my face, aggressively, when they find out what games I make).

* Microsoft Store: 15% (12% for games)

* EPIC: 12%

I'm sure there's not much sympathy for AAA here, and it's the nature of consoles to sell the hardware at a loss (something not true for iPhones), but for me when I see the outrage I'm always incredulous.. as this already existing and accepted ecosystem is what Apple are modelling.

I find it ironic that Xbox of all people would complain.
In the networking classes I took, we used binary search to determine where a problem was occurring, but with a slight twist: Each step away from the end device (e.g. workstation, etc.) take two steps upwards in the network. This broadened your scope easily but allowed for very fast refinement of "These are fine, but this is broken".
If you look at the text rendering alone, this is a massive feat. People take text rendering for granted. No sir, it is not. Even for Latin script, it is not. Let alone exotic languages such as Urdu/Persian that are highly cursive and ascend upwards depending upon the length of the word.

This seems to be built out of pure love for technology but I am wondering how much time and effort has gone into that.
An outdated argument that hasn't kept up with modern technology. Previously surveillance was expensive and hard, now it's cheap and easy.

This argument was invented in modern times to justify stripping the anonymity of the crowd from the general populace and is destroying the freedom from constant surveillance we once took for granted.
I just got my auto refund for this from Steam.

Looking forward to trying Deadlock. I hope something pans out in this area.
OpenAI has been proprietary since GPT-3.
I've been using parametric CAD (Pro/E / Creo, Solidworks, and Onshape) for 30+ years. Automatically adding sketch constraints is nothing new. Just about any 2D sketching tool out there will have some sort of snapping and/or auto-constraint-adding system. What's often more frustrating is fixing things when they get accidentally over-constrained. Solidworks tries to help with this in the form of cycling through what it thinks are the most likely constraints to remove and then re-solving the sketch. It's OK, but that sort of tool could be better.

A number of popular CAD systems use the D-Cubed 2D sketch constraint solver [0]. Siemens owns this and the Parasolid kernel, along with NX. All have been in constant development since the 80's. I really question what major new problems a startup is going to fix in 2D sketching constraints. I'm sure there a bunch of small quality of life things which may be out there, but most of the hard issues are more 3D or spline related, not finding things which could be tangent or equal.

Probably the biggest paradigm shift with constraints that still hasn't really taken off is what Siemens is doing with SolidEdge. It allows for defining the 3D equivalent of constraints between surfaces, holes, edges, etc. and then using direct modeling techniques to modify solids. Perhaps adding more intelligence to that approach would make direct modeling more popular.

Onshape has innovated in the way that it's brought Google Docs-like collaboration and GITHub like versioning, branching and merging to parametric CAD. Nothing else has these capabilities at the moment. To me that has been one of the most innovative changes in the mechanical CAD industry.

Onshape also has FeatureScript, which is the programming language which describes all the parametric features. Right now, none of the LLMs know FeatureScript well enough to be the least bit useful. They hallucinate wildly. I'd be very happy to have a Copilot for FeatureScript.

[0] https://plm.sw.siemens.com/en-US/plm-components/d-cubed/
Yeah I stick to TOTP for the most part which means the YubiCo app has the list. I always enrol two keys though, one back up and one active.
I use this and it is fantastic for my use case as well; I use Syncthing to sync it (just a directory with other directories and files) across multiple systems so I always have the latest notes/todos wherever I am.
There is no sharp line with modern tech, and widespread neuralink and competitors will blur it even more.
Woodwork: Data Typing for 2D Tabular Datasets
Be careful about the K2, are you getting K2-MK7 (most likely) or K2-MK4?
Check out my other post on the same thread.
Surprised they allow you to keep the remainder of the trial. Other companies cut you off the moment you disable the subscription, which shows that they basically bank on you forgetting about it.

I recently started getting ads on NextDoor about this $19 cleaning of my home. When looking through the app you basically discover that they enroll you in a $49 / month subscription.

So not only to they take a cut of the cleaning person you contract, they are rent-seekers behind the scenes.
This is beautiful. Thanks for this. Is the choice of `M` for "the strength of the restoring force" intended to resemble `m` for mass?
1Password has this functionality and it's excellent.
Yeah I mean the vacuum landfill thing is stupid. The point was never to try to trip people up, there's no wrong answer (or question), just find out if they could recognize ambuiguity. "Let's try to estimate the amount of pet food sold each year in the USA." -> "Dogs and cats too?", "In terms of dollars or pounds of food?" type of stuff. This was for analyst roles - basically your whole job would be something similar to this where you're asked ambiguous questions and you need to translate that into a semi-rigorous analysis, infer intent, etc. I hate to say it but if you didn't realize that going into the interview, you were probably not a good fit as an analyst in the first place!
All globally?

Less than 10.
> the existence of android doesnt make apple not a monopoly

How come? User doesn't have to buy an iPhone. Many buy Androids exactly because Android has some apps that they want, so not only it is a competitive market, but it's also a market where this exact issue (whether certain apps are available) drives (in part) user decisions.
So instead of the BS about DNA preserved in ambar (it doesn't actually work), Jurassic Park should have dinosaur DNA recovered from frozen samples collected from a shaded moon crater?
I think you need to review the site guidelines about tone and purpose. Moreover, I'd suggest you review the history of quantum mechanics, because Einstein did not invent field theory, just as Newton did not invent or understand the Lagrange or Hamiltonian formulations, nor statistical mechanics, even though his theory provided the foundation of them all. I'm not a historian of physics, or a psychologist, so I will bow out of the conversation. May your clear passion for science continue without making you hostile.
Theyre actually very easy to produce, in fact you likely have one in your house. They are known as microwave ovens.
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Yup, had the opportunity to switch to full time software a couple years back so I jumped at the opportunity.
Red Hat is hiring for a virt-v2v developer, to migrate off VMware to KVM. You're going to need skills in low-level systems, virtualization, and C.

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/virt-v2v-take-out-hiri...

Location: remote, but see the post for some subtlety on this.
Or reduce your own cut, like they expect Apple to do?

As always, the consumers lose when corporations fight. Even as they use us as their jurors in the court of public opinion.
> you cannot just replace a YubiKey.

How would this work?
> I was in fact an intern at Apple working on the first iPhone when it launched

> I’ve had conversations with people who were within the company including some senior leaders

There we go, why didn't you just say that in a disclaimer up front? At one point I cursed the Apple influencers and was mainly referring to you :D

You had a very different experience than the mainstream since you worked at Apple when it launched.

> This by the way is straight from the horses mouth - Steve Jobs was one of presenters for interns that year.

Sounds like you were doing keg stands in the Apple Koolaid while most of us were still pirating Windows Vista off LimeWire and changing discs at red lights! You haven't lived unless you had a 6-disc changer (in your trunk for some reason).
> Giving up on investigating American crimes in Afghanistan

The ICC has no jurisdiction in the U.S. We never ratified the Rome statute.
> What they could have done was stayed as an open research org [...] and focused on sample efficiency and cultivating copyright free data sets.

Ironically, if they stayed a non-profit research org, they could explicitly use copyrighted works since many countries have copyright exemptions for research.
"I mean... it's Apple's userbase. Both 30% takes are outrageous."

Agreed on both points.
How do people take 20/30 min naps?
Fixed. Thanks for the note!
It's very common for daemons/servers to chdir("/") at the top of main. Relative paths sent by clients getting broken is a feature, not a bug. (In fact I just fixed a bug related to this an hour ago because a relative path was not being canonicalized before being passed to the daemon I'm working on and it caused a file to be written to the wrong place).

There's no way create a process such that /proc/self/exe is incorrect except if the process itself performs a chroot, or someone has overwritten what it points to. I'm talking about some other program running the process where those challenges don't show up.

> . And some software may be portable where argv[0] is a fine choice that works 90% of the time without worrying about maintaining a better solution on Linux

Except it's broken on MacOS and Windows, too!

I'm pretty confident saying that if you want to get the path to an executable, use the bespoke method for your platform because it ain't argv[0]. I have seen that codepath break so many times that there should just be a standard library method for it (and there often is, depending), and I have written this function at several companies.

There are not any edge cases that I'm aware of, except for a few esoteric ones. But there are quite a few edge cases for using argv[0], they exist on all platforms, and it's very annoying for people that have to fix or work around it because a software author didn't understand what argv[0] was.
Energy weapons are not theoretical.

Take apart your microwave oven and put the magnetron in a wave guide and point it at your face. Go ahead and tell me its theoretical after that.
Yes, I have a series of nested systems/methods that are designed to build and maintain momentum. The Ten Tiny Tasks are for overcoming inertia and eliminating the small barriers that keep you from starting. I do the tasks before I have my coffee in the morning.

Everyone else presuming you need a list to keep track of them is missing the point - spontaneous and immediate action with minimal commitment.
This is something we are going to add for sure. Ideally, we will support any unit (em, rem, %) you can use in CSS for any property we expose like padding or font-size.
Imagine a indie hackers founders cooperative, you take a few successful bootstrapped founders and start a new holding company that shares an office space and has staff to handle legal, accounting and all the other stuff that most engineers hate to deal with.

You offer founders that apply a coworking space and a stipend that can get renewed each year if the members of the coop agree to keep funding it. In exchange the new member commits to giving up 10% of their future profits that get split into an investment budget and dividends.

If a company is failing the members can vote to stop funding them and set them free of the agreement.

If a company needs way more funds and VC route makes more sense you spin it out as a c corp, convert the 10% profit agreement into equity and let them raise funding like any other startup would.
The article contains no discussion of their market cap. Changing the headlines seems like unnecessary editorial comment.
AFAIK it was basically just minimising Stripes cut so overall the cost may have been higher then that.
We are already experiencing how destructive LLMs have been to information, news, art, articles, blogs, novels etc... not even from the framework of money or copyright, but from the lens of culture and our daily experience. This very well means that any corporation can just suck up anything you create and crap out ten thousand times more "content" that is sanitized of all human context and meaning that buries the people who they stole from and everyone else in cheap meaningless trash. How is the inconsequential? That's massively destructive, even more so than tech already is over the past 2 decades. Of course people have a problem with that. It's not just about money or barely surviving.
This is fascinating.

Before the voice did you have an inner monologue.

If so how did it differ?
How does the current voice differ from the inner monologue?
If you have a hardware key setup for anything you want sustainably operated in the future,

you register at least two keys, and when one fails or is lost, you pull the emergency backup out of a safe and register new one(s).
> Real life disti of physical goods is 1-5% in the business I’ve dealt with.

Back when we bought games and software as physical goods, retailers used to get around ~30% too. In fact, they still do: https://www.serkantoto.com/2020/12/30/price-video-console-ga...
But powerful humans are also gamed, and usually more easily than computers. Haven't you ever told an exec what they wanted to hear, or refrained from telling a manager something that might make you or your project look bad? The whole lobbying apparatus is about altering the perceptions of lawmakers so that you get more favorable laws. People usually operate on fewer pieces of data than computers, and so one falsehood can alter their decision-making more than it would a computers.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than what we have now.
Just fyi, Google lists sites you’ve used to “sign in with Google” in your account setting page. Apple and GitHub have this as well.
This seems to all be presupposed on the idea that the population growing is a positive thing is a universally accepted truth. I don't think that is a de facto true statement. I wrote a lot arguing this point, got towards the end of your comment, and realized that most of it is nothing that will change your mind, so instead I'll focus on why I deleted it all:

> Saving the lives of geriatric people, who will die someday anyway, having made no more children than before they got cancer? Willfully blind.

I originally wrote about how cancer impacts more than just geriatric people, and how even from your perspective, around 1800 children die from cancer every year - people who will, in theory, even at sub-replacement levels, produce more kids than an individual making their 2.1 children.

But I realized that this one line shows that we fundamentally have different viewpoints about the purpose of life. If life isn't good, what is the point of having kids? Back when I still wanted children, I had decided not to have them because of concerns about climate change. I believe that it is at the very least human-accelerated, and most likely primarily caused by us as well, but even if not, we have clear trends and data showing that there is a very real risk that huge portions of humanity will have their lives significantly disrupted by it in my lifetime, much less that of my children. I don't want to force someone to have to live through that.

But if the prevailing opinion of people in the world was "Let's not cure cancer because it's just saving geriatric people who won't have more kids anyway," then that's not a world that doesn't match my value system and not one I want to subject my children to living in. I think the existence of humanity is an amoral thing - there's not fundamentally any specific reason we need to exist beyond us wanting to, and if as a collective whole we decide that existence has not been a thing wonderful enough to bring new people into it and we no longer desire to exist, then, well, that's fine.

If we want humanity to continue, let's make the world a place where people want to bring children into it, and incentivize them doing so.
I think the main issue is: should the iOS app market be considered a "top-level", government-regulatable market by itself (just like the entire standard market for goods and services of all kinds in the world)?
Depends on how truthful they were when filling out the warrant application. Cops often lie and exaggerate on warrant applications and hope for a sympathetic judge to not ask too many questions.

In that example it's unclear why a warrant would even be needed, it was parked in a hotel parking lot and it appears that they made no effect to contact the owner before requesting the warrant. It'd be really interesting to see what their justification was for asking to seize someone's car instead of just walking inside and asking the desk clerk to call them so they could ask for the footage.
Well, Microsoft expects Apple to give most or all of their cut to Microsoft...

They're both assholes in the size of their cut; don't pick Microsoft's side just because they spoke out first.
Surely all of GitHub is “enough training data”
IIRC, Apple disallows instructing users how to purchase said things elsewhere.

It's a very weird position to be in as a user. For instance, I can't buy any ebooks on my iPhone's Kindle or Google Play Books apps.

Edit:

"There's no flat IAP requirement" - https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 3.1.1 - If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase

> [..]

> 3.1.1(a) - Link to Other Purchase Methods: Developers may apply for entitlements to provide a link in their app to a website the developer owns or maintains responsibility for in order to purchase digital content or services

So it looks like you can apply to host a link, though Apple isn't clear on when they'll grant it: https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

EU devs can seemingly just use them, though: https://developer.apple.com/support/apps-using-alternative-p...
It's disingenuous in that they are both platforms doing the same thing.

Apple could argue that it's Microsoft's 30% cut that makes it impossible for developers to get their games published on the App Store. That too, would be disingenuous.

But Microsoft are making a PR maneuver that they can bring to the table to strike a deal with apple.
Considering that people whose doors are broken down during a no-knock search that turns out to be the wrong address have to fix the damage out of their own pocket, I doubt it.
I recall a story about a private mailing list with ~1000 participants, where someone was leaking all the messages to the public. To quickly catch the responsible subscriber, the admin used binary search and selectively altered the messages by inserting an extra blank character somewhere.
Sure, but using tax-payer money to save malfunctioning banks is pretty much the opposite of capitalism.
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A few interesting wiki reads on the subject:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distincti...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_color
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There probably is at least one, but it's equally probable that they go out of their way to avoid being outed as such.
Of course hearing a voice is a behavior, especially one that isn't there. Your brain is producing a voice and then experiencing it, both of which are things your brain is doing, i.e a behavior.

And in any case, obviously people don't get treated for the specific behavior (or experience, if you want) of hearing voices. They get treated for the behavior of complaining about voices.
Pretty much everything. From Stockton Rush who would disregard safety, to British Petroleum who thinks the EPA is the ultimate evil. You may die from lead poisoning in your store bought food, but that is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
I am especially curious what games you make to have such experiences and strong opinions. Interesting that you left that part out.
I thought I'd found my place when I got into open source distributed pub/sub over WebSockets. I worked in this area for over 10 years but you won't find my project in the first 100 results on Google for those niche 7 keywords.

Surprising considering that almost none of these terms even existed 20 years ago.
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A possible model is to divide your shares into ownership/control class shares (reserved only for workers) and profit shares which can be bought/sold by third parties. This gives workers ultimate control over the venture while allowing third-party investment. I don't know if this has been implemented anywhere, but it's a possibility. It's not going to fuel explosive growth like VC funds do, but TBH I'm finding as I get more experienced that those types of ventures generally end up being trash dumpsters once the honeymoon phase is over.
Ah, qaaf, that totally makes sense (same shape again, I guess you could say the same for faaf too, but since the sounds are the same 'f' works fine already).
Indeed! Sorry you had such an experience, I hope you've been able to pull some good things from it.
> Apple's userbase

Apple does not own the rights to me because I bought an iPhone.
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