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What apps does Apple charge for?

TV I guess?
On Vista side, lets also blame greedy OEMs selling underpowered laptops as "Vista Ready".
> Disney retorted [...] tenuous waiver

They've since backtracked on that retort though and accepted the court process[0].

Although their first response was nothing to do with arbitration[1]. Their lawyers are flip-floppers.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/disn...

[1] "Disney made no mention of arbitration, instead arguing it was not liable because it has no control over Raglan’s operations or management and merely serves as its landlord."
Also outside the scope of the duties of a police officer. Shouldn't fall under QI.
Yes.

The repubs lost their battles, and decided they wanted to win at all costs. They had people show up to vote, vote in a bloc, volunteer for lower level positions, join multiple different organizations and basically organized them to dismantle the country.

If people can be driven to do that, then its not much to assume that at least a few more people could have done the same thing.
> Highly illegal[1] but sadly once the dust clears and Elon finally gets prosecuted he will receive a pardon.

I think there is a good chance that he will be abandoned. This administration is not known for sticking to agreements.
> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.

Seeing as how Trump was inaugurated on Jan 20th, it's hard to come to the conclusion that this is something that DOGE is responsible for.
You are correct he meant 1% faster
I remember in word for windows (Either 2 or 6, not sure) on my 40MHz 386, you could watch it reflowing text if you edited a paragraph near the beginning of a multi-page document. It would correct for widows and orphans, which would cause surrounding pages to potentially do the same. It could take a non-trivial amount of time to stabilize, and if you printed a document before it did, you could end up with duplicated or missing lines at page breaks.
yes...I haven't seen him post for some time
Just think about this statement for a second.

If you know someone has done terrible things, why would they change once they acquire more power?

Having a bad past stops you from owning weapons, from obtaining security clearance. Why do you think this is the case?
Social media encourages outlandish posts to get attention, it's a terrible situation as it lands on everything.

The paying for a diversion mission thing is interesting, although I suspect nations with an interest would do it regardless of the asteroid's destination, those nations aren't historically penny pinchers when comes to expanding their self defense capabilities.
> (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).

Respectable. The state of desktop Linux is pretty good but it's very much a 'your-mileage-may-vary' situation. Every 'exotic' thing you introduce into your setup (having a variable-refresh-rate monitor, having an HDR monitor, two monitors of different refresh rates, running Wayland over X11, having a brand new GPU, having an NVIDIA GPU) is another possible, sometimes likely, source of pain.

Some of the multiplayer games I play with my friends can be played on Linux, but I make a point of using my Windows partition for those because I don't want to waste their time on my troubleshooting.
> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.

DOGE didn't exist on January 8th.
Really like this. It would be nice if the spoken translation did it after hearing the target language.
I haven't upgraded because my ssd needs to be reformatted to meet install requirements and I no longer enjoy the hours of environment config that will entail
Paying? I believe my Windows 10 got upgraded to Windows 11 for free. IIRC this OS install that I'm using originally started as a Windows 8 and I didn't have to pay to upgrade it even once, but may be misremembering...
I've never seen a single ad since getting it. Then again, I use a PiHole, and turned off all the optional stuff on the initial install of W11.
Could you dumb this down a bit (a lot) for dimmer readers, like myself? The way I am understanding the problem you are getting at is something like:

> The way person_1 in 1850 wrote a lowercase letter "l" will look consistently like a lowercase letter "l" throughout a document.

> The way person_2 in 1550 wrote a lowercase letter "l" may look more like an uppercase "K" in some parts, and more of a lowercase "l" in others, and the number "0" in other areas, depending on the context of the sentence within that document.

I don't get why you would need to see the entire document in order to gauge some of the details of those things. Does it have something to do with how language has changed over the centuries, or is it something more obvious that we can relate to fairly easily today? From my naive position, I feel like if I see a bunch of letters in modern English (assuming they are legible) I know what they are and what they mean, even if I just see them as individual characters. My assumption is that you are saying that there is something deeper in terms of linguistic context / linguistic evolution that I'm not aware of. What is that..."X factor"?

I will say, if nothing else, I can understand certain physical considerations. For example:

A person who is right-handed, and is writing on the right edge of a page may start to slant, because of the physical issue of the paper being high, and the hand losing its grip. By comparison, someone who is left-handed might have very smudged letters because their hand is naturally going to press against fresh ink, or alternatively, have very "light" because they are hovering their hand over the paper while the ink dries.

In those sorts of physical considerations, I can understand why it would matter to be able to see the entire page, because the manner in which they write could change depending on where they were in the page...but wouldn't the individual characters still look approximately the same? That's the bit I'm not understanding.
That lax regulation allowed:

>An Office of the Comptroller of the Currency study in 1988 indicated fraud in 11 percent of failures between 1979–87; a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation study in 25 percent of failures in 1989; a Resolution Trust Corporation study in 1992 found fraud in 33 percent of its cases; and a 1994 General Accounting Office study reported 26 percent of banks that failed in 1990–91 had issues with fraud.

10%-25% fraud in the industry. Yay, can't wait until I have to judge whether my bank is outright fraudulent again.
>What about closed source tooling? How do you expect an AI to ever help you with something it doesn't have a license to know about? Not everything in the world can be anonymously scraped into the yearly revision.

This is not a novel problem. Proprietary toolchains already suffer from decreased resources on public forums like Stack Overflow; AI did not create this knowledge segmentation, it is scraping this public information after all.

>It's pretty interesting and mildly shocking that everyone is just making the same 'who needs a new JS library' joke.

Surely the proprietary toolchain is itself the 'new JS library'?

Most developers I know don't enjoy working with esoteric commercial solutions that suffer from poor documentation, when there exists an open-source solution that is widely understood and freely documented.

I do not see why AI code generation further incentivizing the use of the open-source solution is a problem.
Thanks for sharing. It just worked well for me: https://www.phind.com/search/cm753jbx800013b60odargu2h.
100%, however, you see interviews with real life supporters and they have already printed shirts that espouse this new view and when you hear them talk about it, they talk with so much conviction that you think this would be a long held belief.

Musk could say "the sky is green" and millions of people would support it.
Hahaha. The right says the same thing about the left. Being obstinate just increases polarization. What you are seeing happen right now is precisely because of the position you are taking. People have been pleading for decades to cut government spending. Trying to do it "the right way" hasn't worked. So now we are to "fuck it" if they won't work with us just tear it down and ask for forgiveness later.
Good point that was not initially noticed.

Another in that same tangent, ever notice that a company that makes $350,000,000,000 a year in revenue and has 183k employees, somehow cannot manage to have a main search page that works without Javascript?

Tried experimenting with turning Javascript off last month just to see how bad the situation was in the modern web. Actually ended up rather surprised and happy. A lot of the modern web actually have reasonable fallbacks and work correctly.

The stuff that was kind of expected to be broken was broken. Facebook doesn't work. Reddit doesn't work. Youtube doesn't work.

Most modern news websites do work though, surprisingly. ABC, NBC, CBS, Reuters, Bloomberg, ect... They won't load the images and the fancy videos in some cases. A few, "pending content" issues. In a lot of cases the result is almost preferable though. Snappy, quick web page loads. Don't actually care about the lack of image and video loads.

Quite a few of the other sites I read load. Stackoverflow, Slashdot, Hacker News, Wikipedia.

Quite a few searches will even load. Bing will search without Javascript. DuckDuckGo will search without Javascript. Ecosia will search for images, news, and videos, just not webpage content.

For some reason Google won't search. "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching" Main product. What their entire reputation is built off of. Nothing.

Note: This response was written (and edited) with Javascript turned off.
They could spin it as "protecting children" by "putting a paywall on explicit material" rather than "We are a porn app."

"The vast majority of our content is suitable for all ages, but out of concern for the minority that isn't and the evolving legal landscape, we felt that the best thing to do was silo our 18+ content. After looking at ways to implement this, while still respecting user privacy, our team came to the conclusion that a paywall is by far the most reliable method."

Sure it's bs, but that's standard for this world.
a neurosurgeon I worked with could get his waiver approved in a day usually. But he made friends w/ all the IRB members and had a significant budget for donuts donations.
The underlying thesis to a comment like this is that the majority of people are stupid and easily manipulated (not smart like you).
>I mean it's kind of hard to not call it partisan when it starts with "Trump administration".

...If it's about the trump administration.. what is it supposed to start with?
It appears to be conflating things that may or may not be real with other things that are being misreported in the news and making up sensational stories out of them.

Unclassified government networks are mostly connected to the internet. The government is mostly bad at cyber security. These are well known facts. Whether or not "DOGE" has any actual connection to this is not really in evidence at this point, this is a highly partisan person's attempt to influence other people to their point of view.
A group of users flags it all but dang has done a good job of overriding it lately.

I'd still like if threads indicated whether or not flags were turned off. Dang must be tired of answering these questions
Many actions are illegal, but who is going to stop them? Supreme court is stacked. Congress and house is in republican control.
It is expected, at least where I'm from, that a PhD in an engineering discipline is going to go get a decent tech job. It is not by any means required, so it remains a personal choice and changed the nature or the jobs you'll be offered to a certain extent.

For me, my employability vastly improved when I graduated, and subsequently worked where I did (which was only unlocked because of my grad work).

Also I just love computer science. It's magic.
I can think of a number of reasons I'd downgrade.

-The absolute crap of a start menu now being all but useless
-Advertisements
-Increasingly forced to online accounts rather than local

Also the UI changes didn't improve anything, and the changes make upgrading more painful and frustrating than needed. One thing OSX has got right it doesn't keep making major surface change every upgrade.
Or its just everyone who accepted a federal job to put food on their family table or to perform public service. It's all federal jobs, not just health as in this article, where those that are hired within the last 1-2 years are being summarily fired. Without consideration of performance or need.
They'll murder you in cold blood, and get away with it. They'll move to another county and get a raise.

They'll steal your possessions and drain your bank account, and get away with it.

They'll share your nude photos and get away with it.

Thin blue line or whatever though.
Let’s hold off on judging the bull we just released in the china shop unitl he has time to wander around in there for a while.
At the earlier stages when there are few customers, non-technical members of the startup need to justify their presence.
> Once it has finally released, it usually remains stagnant in terms of having its knowledge updated....meaning that models will not be able to service users requesting assistance with new technologies, thus disincentivising their use.

I find such argument weak. We can say the same thing about a book, like "Once The Art of Computer Program is finally published, it usually remains stagnant in terms of having its knowledge updated, thus disincentivizing people to learn new algorithms".
> there is no difference.

That’s not true, Facebook’s business model is inherently privacy invading.
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SWE version of a checklist?
i definitely didn't say i did, my calculator is out of order
Discussion (11 points, 10 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046342
The world is laughing at us, when they're not busy booing us. Hopefully we've all learned a valuable lesson here.
Most of the time I have ProtonVPN in my phone and computer, which solves the IP association problem for me
There's always a relevant XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/932/
It does help quite a bit with SEO if done right
Discussion (11 points, 10 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046342
That's not what happened here.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b0...
For the last 35 years, X Windows, Citrix and RDP have done the job just fine, in what I am concerned.

No, they aren't anything better than what I am used to.

Also, as compromise, a cloud shell, browser based IDE setup, and dev containers, also does the job in what concerns cloud deployments, which should be driven from CI/CD and don't have shells on containers anyway.
"not any protection whatsoever" is way too strong a statement. NAT does raise the bar to exploiting a random smart lightbulb in your house significantly higher.
metadata on Prasad is important data - if he cannot get basic COVID epidemiology science correct, and if he has a history of promoting a controversial agenda, it is telling gauge of how reliable the information he presents.

A quick look through his post: he cites overhead from several universities as "luxurious" but doesn't really go in to the specifics of why/how NIH and the institutions negotiated this amount. A lot of what he's complaining about seems more like his personal beef with university bureaucracy, which he tries to tie to indirects, but I think it smacks of someone who didn't bother to pay attention to the "people" part of the institutions he works for vs. the technical part of his work (see related post on linux kernel maintainer politics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037699)

He is wrong about private foundations with their no-overhead/15-20% cap. These grants are routinely rejected by university contracting; or if accepted, it doesn't really count to justifying a faculty's salary (and hence their future career at the institution) as bean counters do not consider the overhead enough to keep the department in the red/lights on when operating overhead costs are considered. The general gist I got when reviewing foundation grant opportunities were "that's nice, haha, but do this on your own time and not department time".
One thing I always found awesome is that even the very first versions, like "Linux Aktuell 4.x" from 1996 or so, already had full support for Braille terminals during installation.

That made SuSE very usable for blind people, even installable, while for other operating systems you always needed someone to set the system up for you (and probably still do).

I am not blind personally (and I don't know anybody who is), but I still found that a fascinating thing to do (I assume they knew someone who was blind and required that support?)
All of these firings are flatly illegal btw. There re laws governing mass terminations (reduction in force laws) and the Trump admin isn't following them.
But that’s only useful if the incoming people in charge don’t have any contempt towards existing employees and want to leverage best practices instead of pretending that they know better. Twitter had the same problem after Elon took over.
My problem with this approach is what metrics are you using to determine whatever I am doing is "low quality?" On LinkedIn specifically, I barely ever post "content" publicly - I use it to network with recruiters and read technical articles mostly. It's completely opaque and will catch users doing absolutely nothing wrong or "low content," maybe they are on the spectrum or disabled in a way that makes their user clicks look weird. No managers ever consider these things, it's always like "oh well, fuck em"
Microsoft is desperate to push people to their always on-line pay-per-boot operating system. They succeeded in pushing me out of Windows altogether. When I bought a new gaming / AI rig, I moved to Linux.
It's been a while since I last saw a CMS pulling data from a database... It's a miracle the website didn't crumble under the load.
They're just telling you it's not going to be $0.00. It could be $5/year, $20/mo or anything else. It's the gentleman's rug-pull.
After upgrading my W10 laptop to 11, I decided I'm never buying another windows computer again.

I'll be shopping for linux pre-installed and natively supported laptops, or Apple/OSX going forward (and I hate apple and refuse to use most of their services, but their hardware is solid and OS is now far better than windows)
So if they let you try a Ferrari for free, you wouldn't because you might like it but you can't afford it?
I would, even if I know I could never buy one.
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All the problems that systemd is "solving" is a large part of what we dislike, I think. So, no, of course we wouldn't have a replacement software.

My recent experience was trying out Fedora atomic. I love that idea. I found systemd is kinda nice for service management.

But still, I kept running into issues with it spreading into everywhere, doing its own thing, and difficulty working around it. Partially figuring out the atomicity, and partially that no other distro I've tried has leaned in that hard to systemd.

I'm moving on to Arch since it looks like I can at least get this out of my boot process.

(Or, more on the topic of the thread, Tumbleweed looks like an interesting take on being able to roll back to known working states as a replacement for Fedora atomic.)
It feels like YC population these days is mostly employees of mid-to-large tech companies trying to get rich out of RSUs. It used to be more about founders and wannabe founders, but the attitude shifted through the years to a mix of cynical money-grabbing attitude, so it's unsurprising that anything that doesn't mean "higher TC" is unpopular (except for side projects involving hardware, for some reason)
Truly and honestly 99% of developers haven't even heard of chatgpt or copilot let alone the general public. It's a self-emposed problem on the orgs that choose to use such tools. More to the point, recency bias is so much stronger I'd rather have a system that points people to the current correct solution than a slightly better solution that is somehow harder to understand despite it's claimed simplicity by fanatics.
They probably caught wind of a bad jobs report upcoming and so they're trying to cover it up with mass federal layoffs and say that's the reason it's bad. That would be par for the course for these people, wouldn't it?
no, there is not. kanata is lightning fast
Chris Sacca thinks devs are fucked. I disagree. [video]
https://opensource.org/license/gpl-3-0

gpl is osi approved
truly poetic
I would love to edit my comment to instead say "having the rug pulled from under my feet", which is the feeling I was expressing.
This is the key point, most of the waste comes from contractors who can navigate the insane contracting process and the fact that we’ve brain drained the federal government to the point that the Feds just take whatever contractors say as gospel.

Cutting federal employees further isn’t touching the primary problem at all.
Sign a four year contract and use that time to fix your status. If not it's on you.

I read a story years ago about an undocumented resident who worked as an MP in the military. Not a problem as everyone operates under the authority of the president. He left the service and became a police officer. That was a major issue as non-citizen's can't enforce civil law.
My point was that you miss-represented the scenario: Google has not been ordered by the President to do anything, because the president doesn't have that authority.

Your dishonest redirecting here is both transparent and insulting. Whether Mexico or the US is more "liberal and respectful of free speech" is neither relevant to this conversation or to my prior comment.
I don't trust Apple - I assume they're tracking. Their record here is better than Google or MS, but that's a pretty low bar. And now that I've picked my poison for overall ecosystem, I want to limit (or at least opt-in) to other tracking.
yeah, the claim that the bureaucracy is the thing that is broken-- can we look at a few things?

Every time the administration changes, the heads of all the departments change, and the incoming people are typically pretty ignorant of what the department does. How would a corporation work if every 4 years you rotated the C-suite and 2 levels down, with people from a completely different business sector?

Meanwhile, funding is shifted even more often. Or is just outright cut once every few years.

Meanwhile, every action they take is an official government action. Which means it is LEGALLY REQUIRED to happen in certain ways based on laws written by people who don't think about consequences or how they are enacted.

And it is 2.2 Million people. There are economies of scale here.

So I wonder how this compares to current Google, current Facebook. I've heard people here talking about how messed up those companies are, projects started/stopped at whim, massive investments that get abandoned 2 years later, etc.

Or to banks. Banks don't modernize their software because they can't, not because they don't want to. No wonder the US government has similar issues.
Totally different. You aren't adjusting your development workflow based on a soft drink. If it weren't a rug-pull, why wouldn't they charge for it immediately, or at least tell us the price now?

They are specifically hoping you'll become dependent on it and then feel compelled to pay. This shit works because people like you believe it doesn't.