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If you don't want to install apps outside of the App Store, you don't have to.

If other iPhone users want to install their own apps without jumping through absurd hoops, let them instead of telling them what they can and can't do with the hardware they own.
>In an emergency, cellular will be the first to go.

As will all bank transfers.

I'm starting to sound like a crazy prepper for keeping enough cash and batteries to run my life for a week.

It's like people assume that if the internet dies they will too so there's no point thinking about it. Makes me wonder if living in areas what have natural disasters which knock off power once every few years vs ones that don't makes people think differently about this.
The fact that Facebook algorithms intentionally promotes hostilities as a side effect of its mission to every increase engagement doesn’t exactly make Meta passive like a phone service.

It’s even more damning for Meta when you consider just how insidious their tactics are to get people hooked on their platform.

They might not be selling the guns nor pulling the triggers, but they’re not exactly innocent either.
Sounds like a pretty unsustainable career to me
I believe there's the ability for the moderators to implement karma equity sharing, or maybe that was just someone's suggestion I read a while back.
Yeah. The archetypal “second amendment” weapon… the kind any regular American would need to hold his own was a musket, then a rifle, then lever or auto loader, then an M16. Now it’s a drone. A man or crew out in the country with AR15s are Don Quixote tilting at windmills with the advent of cheap drones.
Jazz is built specifically for a work-in-progress, but full app (essentially a Notion clone, TBA) and all the design choices are driven by that.

Completely agree that this is the only way to create frameworks.

Edit: also other people are building full apps with it too which I’ll showcase soon. https://learn-anything.xyz/ is one example, https://invoiceradar.com/ is another.
Not anytime soon, buddy
> near-peer

I prefer the Culture term “equiv-tech”
Yes, obvious once. Only light years away, I'm afraid. Try and get funding for that. GLWT
You need to think of EMI as having a magnitude and a direction. Half the time you are adding a negative voltage.
Thanks. It's not really a consolation, but it does give me some happiness.
> what's the advantage? You wouldn't be bound by the number of pilots

You gave part of the answer right there. Not only would you not be limited by the number of - hard to replace and time-consuming and expensive to train - pilots but you don't run the risk of losing them either.

> but if the drones are too expensive it doesn't matter.

The large expense for fighter aircraft tends not to lie in the actual production costs but in the development costs which are spread over a limited production run. Build more drones and they get less expensive per item. Build enough of them to overwhelm the enemy and you win drone superiority.
"Are Betteridge headlines dead?"
Where do you think Italy is?
Isn't it the Kessler Syndrome when the debris from the first collision creates the subsequent collisions?
They shouldn't die, just become robotic with optional remote control. Comparing to copters helis have significant advantages and disadvantages too. I.e. different enough to have different roles
Ever tried pomelo?
Neuromancer is by far my favorite novel. On first reading, it felt to me like someone was finally describing the world in a way that I saw it, but couldn't articulate myself. I come back to it every couple of years and it never fails to entertain me.
Treasurer of Python NZ stole money from the society
That explains the random names, but what's with the upper case lettering?
Well because it's their competitor, who now has a huge legally-enforced advantage.
Makes sense that privilege was taken away, given that Google is facing legal consequences for abusing their position in the mobile app distribution and payments markets.
Based on the amounts of re-reads: Das Boot. A soldier and artist, caught in the strangest of circumstances, either under the most extreme, life threatening danger or waiting for it, both in slow motion. Fascinating, state of the art technology, a miracle of science, but with a need of highly trained, expendable slaves running it for a single immoral purpose. Completely dependent on other peoples decisions, sitting far away in front of a chess board, ready to sacrifice him at any given time for their strategic goals. Any attempt to escape, to scream on the insanity of the situation or even to question it are grounds for immediate execution.
Based on a true story. I‘m reading this book for 30 years and the authors ability to describe the nightmare that happened to him still haunts and fascinates me.
Don’t those cost 10s of millions each?
I don't agree. TV/movie programming, and the services they run on, are not fungible. If I have a show that I like that's only on a certain platform, it doesn't matter how good or bad that platform is, I need a subscription.

The problem is tying the content to the platform. All studios should be required to license their content under RAND terms to all other streaming platforms. Then the streaming platforms can actually compete on objective measures like price, reliability, video quality, offline watching, etc.

In this case I don't think we've gotten better services. I still believe that the gold standard for a streaming app has been Netflix (well, at least until a few years ago; it's started going downhill IMO). All the others have significant problems, whether with reliability or quality, or with UX. They've certainly gotten better over time, but I don't think I'd consider any of them pleasant to use.

For the longest time, legally, movie studios could not own movie theaters. We correctly recognized that the studios should not have a monopoly on where and how their content is distributed. Unfortunately I believe that law has expired or been repealed recently. We're going in the wrong direction. We need more laws like that, and we need them to apply to streaming platforms too.
Thank you for that, I will.
For fiction, came here to say the same about Gene Wolfe, the whole solar cycle series by him might honestly be the (for now at least) absolute pinnacle of both the sci-fi and fantasy genres. Great world design, great characters, great writing (and variety of voice, the way he pulls off different characters writing is just brilliant, it really feels like a series written by several completely different authors.) The kind of books you read and reread and taken something new out of them every time. I'd honestly give just about anything to be able to go back into them completely blind again.
Yeah, but, I mean, the least you could do is to say UTC-7. I'm sure everybody living in PDT knows it's, well, their time, but how the fuck should everyone else know what time PDT is.
You want to destroy the more valuable thing (human) with the less valuable thing (drone). It could get worse than World War 1.
They were both in the same court (United States District Court for the Northern District of California).
> You pay such a high price for living in the walled garden. I honestly can't imagine why you would _want_ it.

I got an iPhone so that I wouldn't have to deal with the Android ecosystem. I go to the app store, install an app, and get on with my life.
Shout out to lemmy as well. Still missing some users to seriously challenge reddit, but also lacks all the spam and astroturfing.
youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc4UnB5xEDH9Aup_...
Indeed the institutional/industrial context of that photo is extremely intriguing and the stories I've heard could fill the pages of a Tom Clancy novel.

The level of secrecy at the facility was so rigorous and taken so much to heart that even years after various NRO programs were declassified (decades after program conclusion), the retired civilian personnel I've had the privilege to know were reluctant to speak openly.

I will see if I can persuade one retired engineer I know to join this discussion!
Why not trying using something like WSPR? It really depends from the propagation conditions, but it would be interesting IMHO
I think a packaging or production date would help this without causing people to throw out unspoiled food. (once they realize it's not an expiry date)

I am not sure I buy it for fruit/vegetables though, since those are often sold unpackaged and unlabelled already.
I would not call them “incredible”. Video generation is still at gpt-1 level. It will need several orders of magnitude scaling to get to gpt-2 level. We’ve just started making very first baby steps in this direction.
For WebPKI yes it should be.
If you haven't already, be sure to checkout MicroProse's [1] "modern" retro flightsim, Tiny Combat Arena.

Sure, it's beta and continuously in development (and likely won't be finished, ever), but still, you can take off in a Harrier and blow up stuff. The graphics are charmingly retro.

--

[1] published by MicroProse, but actually a one-man effort.
as a genxer I was not sure if he meant blue or grey and snowing.
I've heard from lots of folks in the Rails community that getting http/2 and streaming into Rails has been a slow and tedious process. I'm not saying it's going to be "a good fit for everything"—what I am saying is that it will be nice when we can run IO bound workloads in Rails without feeling like a fish out of water.

"it's certainly not a good fit for the overwhelming majority of Rails applications".

In my experience, most web applications are terminating HTTP connections from clients, then reaching out over a network to database servers, etc. to do work. This is very much IO-bound, so I'm not sure how this wouldn't be a good fit for most Rails applications.
I recently wanted to use tcc for a homebaked programming sideproject and was surprised to find it's no longer supported anymore, at least not by Fabrice Bellard. Upstream git still has some light activity but no releases. I wasn't sure how good of an idea it is to rely on it as a code generator.
Removing core parts of Windows is not a good idea
Example of use of AI in drug discovery (at the Broad Institute etc.)
Reminds me of the good ol' days of wardriving SF with 14 WRT-54Gs running aircrack-ng in the back of my GTI.

These days our devices do the sniffing for us. Back then unearthing a BSSID felt like discovery! It felt like exploration.
Agreed! The pitch is great. Deliver twice as much by writing half as many apps as your competitors to deliver the same features. Let your competitors write a server app and a client app, and keep them in sync, while you. just. don't.
You are complaining about spawn()?

both fork() and spawn() are just wrappers around clone() on most libc types anyway.

spawn() was introduced to POSIX in the last century to address some of the problems with fork() especially related to multi threading, so I an curious how your code is so dependent on UTM, yet multi threading.
Honestly, I've really disliked these kind of full cast recordings every time I've tried them. No idea why.

I'm a fairly voracious audiobook consumer, though.
“In a class above Toyota” in what sense? Certainly not in reliability or interior quality or CarPlay compatibility…
The point about the historical villains all being there still still being awful to everyone is so apt. But a couple of things. Tech defines such an overwhelming share of the market that it's an impossible to disregard giant. And the world has changed so much owing to tech.

But I don't think tech has had a positive human narrative in almost a decade. The noveau riche arose as semi-gentle intermediaries originally, empowering & connecting the small, and every single play we see is to intermediate, not serve.

So where is the contemporary good to report on, where is the modern earned goodwill?

Instead what is emitted is double trash. It's all inscrutable/doesn't serve a clear need to boot. And it's far more owned and intermediated than ever... Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies, VR, and now AI. None showing the genuine enrichment humans could really tangle with that tech had brought us.

Neutrality is not enough, only mildly bad news is not enough. We need to make things that fill needs, and that expand imagination/open horizons, in ways where we ourselves can be part of the narrative.

But yes please let's also cover the genuinely detestable parts of the world as such. Let all be accountable.
>>> This is
feasible in cases where the total number of distinct values in the
column 'a' is reasonably small (think tens or hundreds, perhaps even
thousands for very large composite indexes).

It's great this is improving, but this is a fairly narrow improvement. Personally, the multi-column indexes I use would not be improved by this change since column 'a' does not store a "reasonably small" distribution of values.
With every passing day I basically think this is going to be the future of the internet. Many disparate private/semi-private groups while the "public" internet becomes overloaded with AI slop.

It's largely already happening in places like Discord.

I think the first company that can capture what Discord has but is not wrapped in that "gamer aesthetic" ui/ux is going to do really well.
See the motivation section of the PEP for a summary with citations for further reading: https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/
Hey, thank you; I'm merely adjusting my level of discourse to the quality of TFA
> percentage

Already we're asking the wrong questions. A flat fee that may or may not be fair: $1000.
This is worth proposing. A tag where fallback text is provided within which can be overridden by the browser with a formatted date string would be excellent.
I don't understand why your comment is being retrieved so unpopularily thus far.

The decline in quality that you're describing not withstanding, I'm not surprised that private intelligence companies are on the rise as opposed to state agencies. I reckon that won't be for long though and that eventually any distinction between the two will be nominal.
On the contrary, nicotine poisoning is common, the lethal dose in humans is relatively well characterized (though higher than most poisons: 500–1000mg/kg) and there are many case studies of nicotine poisoning in the medical literature, many of which are life-threatening and some of which are even lethal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning. Moreover, nicotine has been widely used to kill insects in the past. Consequently, there are well-established occupational safety limits. None of these things are true of bisphenol-A, even though it is produced in much larger quantities than nicotine ever has been.

Perhaps your intended reference, however, is to the other toxic components of cigarette smoke, such as benzo[a]pyrene. That is, cigarettes kill something like one out of ten people, but the vast majority of those deaths are not due to nicotine. (Except in the indirect sense that nicotine is addictive and induces people to smoke cigarettes so that they are exposed to the other poisons in the smoke.)

Very well, then. What are the other toxic components of thermally printed receipts you're concerned about?

I'm open to hearing what point you think I'm missing, but so far all you've done is strike a pose of fatigued knowingness. If you have knowledge to share on this matter, by all means, share it; certainly I won't be the only one who needs the point spelled out for them, because as dumb and uninformed as I admittedly am, I doubt I'm the dumbest or least informed person reading this thread.
Author here: I find it quite strange that my kids have lost their mother, but I have not. I still have both my parents. That's so backwards.

Therefore I can't compare the grief of losing a parent to that of losing a spouse, and even when my parents do die (they are both in their eighties) it won't be the same because it will, to some extent, feel like the "right" time.

Losing a spouse is definitely disruptive as well and I have had to learn a lot of new skills, but they were probably overdue anyway. That part has been challenging, but quite manageable in comparison to the loss part.
Sell pyromaniacs this product, find the lighter two months later in a burned-out building, use it to identify which phone did it, catch perp.
I don’t think it’s misleading. SV isn’t the sum of Meta, YouTube, and TikTok (which isn’t even SV despite some roles here) - even if those companies impacts are outsized. The article explicits calls out things like AI; Anthropic and OpenAI are nowhere near like those others. And that’s just one category.

I would hope a YCombinator news site of all places would see that.
We should try a $200 fine for every leaked SSN.
Ah good point, I was assuming simple TTL where signal level is the bit that’s transferred, RAM is probably using something more complex
Just tried this in Arc and Firefox...I never knew.
"Erase disk and install Ubuntu"

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-desktop#6-type-o...
In which case there will be massive social upheaval, which won't be good for the newly minted god-CEOs. They are incentivized to share the spoils of infinite productivity. What good is being a god of a world in flames?
What about this classic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Strike
Seriously, why is it so hard to find a protein powder that doesn't include Stevia (or its distilled, chemical name). I don't care about my protein powder being sweet, but if it's gonna be sweet, give me some raw sugar. Stevia is bitter and ruins the whole shake.
The Conundrum of Governing Cyberspace
It's only two day in America? It's next day in Australia. And we haven't even had Amazon for long...
reminds me of using a modified milty zerostat to use the spark gap to induce emp for glitching.
It should definitely be a red flag and warrant deeper inspection, but that doesn't mean it's always wrong. The dems do eat babies, obviously ;)
The problem is that we will have proprietary software (distributed for free) doing bad things, and people blame their phone being slow.

I don't like that app stores engage in rent seeking behavior when it comes to payments, but that is a separate issue.
ApPatch [Andi Pieper, 1999]
IFV are not dead, rocket launchers as well. Even tanks are still a key. At the end people are capturing land/city, not drones.

But drones are changing warfare. Drone hunting other drones, drone with self guidance - they are being used in battle right now.

500$ or even less is the cost of FPV drone with night camera capable to carry 2kg bomb. Russia is buying soldiers for up to $25000 to be killed by such cheap drone later.
The US Army is cutting back in this area. The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, which was a small attack helicopter, has been cancelled.[1] If it flies low and slow over the enemy, it's going to be shot down. Better to send many drones and lose some of them.

The concept of tactical air superiority is now questionable. The USAF used to boast that American troops have not had to fight under a hostile sky since 1952. That era seems to be over. There are so many portable systems now that can take out an aircraft.

Jam-resistant drones are already a thing. Drones are going to have to be shot down one at a time. This is quite possible but the missiles to do it can cost more than the drones.

[1] https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/02/08/us-army-spent-bil...
Oh neat! I stand corrected then! That's really cool!

Definitely get that showcase up, I think it just helps to confirm this isn't one of those stealth-mode "solves everything" dev tools that disappears along with it's VC funding.
I think it's more complex than that. The US made Switchblade drones which cost tens of thousands of dollars were outperformed with lightly modified FPVs with grenades, which came in under a thousand.
Categories, allegories and circuit design (1994)
Since he’s using a Piezo lighter, shouldn’t it be just a single DC pulse like discharging a capacitor?
The opposite. Op would have preferred to work at Iridium, if only they offered higher pay compared to where they are currently.
It's still absolutely baffling to me that anyone is willing to run JS server side. There are so many options which are much better suited, why are people willing to jam that square peg into the round hole?
In isolation, a thief masquerading as a security system technician and an actual technician both do good work by checking on your home security. You can't meaningfully say one is better than the other, because even though one is secretly casing out your home so he can rob it later, in isolation they're doing the same thing.
I don't think GP is saying nothing matters, they are objecting to the idea that the way to make systemic change happen is to convince individuals to change personal behaviors through moral persuasion.

We have, however, had some success at taking collective action; compare trying to convince individuals to make a moral decision not to use disposable technologies with a regulation that requires manufacturers to make their products repairable/recyclable/etc.
this is the orange site though, so you never know
While we're on the topic of "Terrible "quick start" documentation, checkout the Wix Toolset "Getting Started" docs:

https://wixtoolset.org/docs/intro/

You learn how to install a tool, and then um, check it's installed?

Not a single example of how to run it, how to use it, or how to actually build a installer using WiX.

If you follow the links [1] you end up in reference documentation, the kind where it tells you a hundred different command line flags, none of which mean anything to someone getting started.

Ah, you realise you somehow skipped over "Tools and Concepts" [2]

Nope! That's just an empty header, which takes you to either a FAQ or jumping into "Burn bundles".

Like, all you want to know is, "I have console applications A and B, referencing library projects X, Y, Z, how do I put them in an msi installer?"

And the docs just don't provide that level of help.

By far the worst kind of documentation is this kind of "Technically correct" documentation, half-generated from doc-comments that might work okay as a reference for someone who has worked with the product and needs to remind themselves of a flag, but it's impenetrable otherwise. I don't miss the days when the whole of MSDN was like this.

As a bonus in the case of WiX, there was a huge breaking v3 to v4 change, so half of the guides / stackoverflow questions out there are for the outdated version. And the newer version appears to be maintained by a company that wants to monetise support.

Then mix in the .NET Framework / .Net core migrations on top, as well as installers being kind of old-fashioned compared to containerising everything, and it feels hopeless to try.

[1] https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/wixexe/

[2] https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/
> foo foo=foo

I hate those. I always make an effort to avoid using the same name for different things, e.g. MyParamName=MyValue indicates clearly that the two concepts are different and can be independently customized.
So long as people understand it, why should anybody care?
Thanks...that's the insight i was hoping for, great links. much appreciated.