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Author here, incredible how much more demanding applications (at least on paper) don't suffer from the same pitfalls of Apple's native apps.

By the looks of it, it's a widespread issue.
A good way to create a dual-use technology in order to monetize it, amortize the development costs, and achieve production economics of scale.

For that matter, check out what China is doing with Ro-Ro ships. Amphibious assault -adjacent.
https://archive.is/U93VS
Too little too late.

I've been deeply studying "trust" for the past year, as part of a
project around "Zero Trust". It's a core pillar in cybersecurity.
Trust is very complex. Extremely hard won, easy to lose, practically
impossible to rebuild.

Mozilla have blown it and there's no going back for that company.
This is what happens when you let morally defective people take the
reigns. My advice would be, dissolve it and use whatever money is left
to start new projects for free-software browsers.

Mozilla's core major malfunction is that they are deceptive, as an
organisational culture. No amount of hard work, careful words, money
spent on PR will hide that odour, and whatever goodwill they show now
will naturally be undone as they return to business as usual.
> Citation needed

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/ by a Professor of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of California, San Diego.

> Like any life. It grows until it runs out of ressources.

Citation needed. Show me any other species that managed to increase the extinction rate of other species by 1000x in 50 years.

> Then it stagnates.

Have you seen what happens to slime molds once they run out of resources?
Damn. Here’s the upvote
> do the winners of the Opium Wars have a verifiable historical claim to the land for thousands of years?

No. Similar to how the Han Chinese don’t have one to Tibet (and other parts of modern-day China).

Practically all land touched by humans has multiple verifiable historical claims to it. The further back we go, the more there are and the more ambiguous they become. The only thing we can say with certainty is who is there today. Every other path means violence and is honestly a bit stupid.
Surveillance cameras and WiFi sensors of keystrokes will be disappointed when this is fixed.
The point is terraform can do it, and it does it well. Just because you don't want to use Terraform properly doesn't mean it's bad at what it does.

Using "a real programming language" to do the infra still has to solve the same issues faced by terraform. Using a programming language to define infra doesn't solve the auto scaling DNS issue, for example, you'll be using lambdas to create the dns either way. It also doesn't inherently solve coordination of the resource deployment, you still need to organise your code into modules and ensure the order of execution.

If you think Terraform is the problem here you're blaming the tool for a failure of process and understanding
He forgot to write a small doc for the server requirements.
They are having trouble. They also can't send their designs to TSMC to fab on their 5, 3, and 2nm nodes.
CNG/LNG have been around for a while and are yesterday's future. Synthetic zero carbon fuel simply loses too much in conversion to be economic, compared to direct EV. I think China is in the process of demonstrating what the transition looks like.

There will probably be a rump of difficult to convert use cases and long lives specialty vehicles. I imagine tractors will be the last holdout. And military uses.
> Why? This market is pretty much ideal and sets the right incentives.

Says whom?

> Why should sellers of renewable energy be forced to sell at their marginal cost when they are selling a commodity where somebody else gets triple the price?

It doesn't make sense to force them to sell at their marginal cost either (which is much less than their operating cost, consisting mostly of fixed costs).

In fact, in real life, for most good or services the marginal price is decreasing with volume (or even zero for most of the supply curve with occasional spikes), pricing at the marginal cost means you're pricing way below the average cost and will drive all businesses to their doom.

In the electricity world, this kind of pricing only makes sense for electricity produced from fossil fuel as the marginal cost represents most the underlying cost, but it makes zero sense for renewable or nuclear where the cost is swallowed upfront and close to zero afterwards.
This is not only an Apple problem. Most software developed today is in a terrible state. What boggles me the most is that how users are immune against it - it's so normal that software doesn't work or has bugs that most users don't even get upset - it's just the way it is. It's software - what can you do? :(
It is insane that not only has it lasted multiple Conservative governments and appears to be alive and well under Starmer's Labour, but also that the USA has now decided to embrace it too.

I don't understand it, I thought these guys were all supposed to have studied economics (is that not the "E" in that Oxbridge "PPE" degree they all have) how are they fumbling the basics so badly
Mint and/or Fedora, depending on how new your software needs to be.

Ubuntu pushing snaps like MS was the last straw.
Now it's "Error establishing a database connection"

People can complain all they want about CDNs running the internet, but my wife's crappy little website hasn't been offline since I left broke it myself.
Author here, I used the Apple's Product Feedback page[0] countless times, I don't have the Feedback app since I'm running the _stable_ builds of all their OSes.

[0] https://www.apple.com/feedback/
small docs are great, but only if easily searchable
It remains to be seen if the person I think you are referring to is a non-dictator. He said he would be a "dictator on day one", and he sure was, but then he somehow forgot to revert to non-dictator mode...

Regarding "crashing real estate": actually, most other countries would love to have built enough to bring down real estate prices. Being able to afford a place to live is good for most people! But of course, investing in real estate makes you interested into increasing the value of your property, so you're now incentivized to stop more real estate being built (and also to stop anything else that might decrease the value of your property - thus NIMBYism).
Then why do we even talk about "pronouns" and don't just say: "BTW she's a woman not a man." Simpler times.
> For residential uses, heating, cooling, and refrigeration are the main uses.

Heating and cooling can be offloaded into grid peak availability hours relatively easily with the price serving as a reliable trigger. This assumes proper insulation for the most part, but is viable and using the price as an indicator automatically sets up the right incentives. As for refrigeration, the energy use for that in a private household seems to be overstated.

> For commercial electricity use: computing, refrigeration, cooling, and ventilation

For cooling the same applies as for private households, maybe to a lesser extent. The other loads remain pretty static in their demand, but once a commercial operation has a certain scale building out the own battery storage to optimize for purchasing price (assuming a flexible price that reflects spot pricing) may be a viable strategy.

> For industrial electricity use: machine drive (lathes, mills, etc.), process and boiler heating, facility heating and cooling, electrochemical process.

For boiler heating and facility heating and cooling the same applies as for commercial and residential uses. For other energy intense workloads, demand shift is already frequently happening because the ROI is fairly quick. It’s not easy to assess from the outside because you do need an in depth process understanding that you just cannot provide as an outsider. But I have personally witnessed plenty of examples that demonstrate it is well within the realm of possibility
Anything more than 0 is too much.

Why would u need disk space to serve an http req?
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> The real leaky abstraction for HTML is string templating

With actual XML and JSON (or csv etc) I would agree: for that you need a serializer, not a string templating env.

But for HTML, especially when used to build GUIs, string templating makes sense - to me -.

What I meant with "leaky abstraction" is that when I write a web-app, my goal is to write certain HTML, the actual strings, to a browser. I'll have my developers console open, inspect DOM/source and then modify the code of the app until the DOM/source matches what I want or need it to be. The closer my "code of the app" is to this actual DOM/source, the less I need to think through layers.

I prefer to just "move this UL out of the DIV and next to the H2¹" rather than manipulating the structure in a tree of objects. To each their own, I guess, but I rather prefer to stay "as close to the metal" as possible, especially if that metal isn't complex or difficult.

¹ I realized I wrote my HTML elements in capitals. I am that old; and I don't anymore, but old habits creap in, I guess :)
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Again ?

Feels like we have been here before.
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 – World Economic Forum
> Sometimes I’m so frustrated, and thinking of my options - it’s either move to Android, or go get hired at Apple with a mandate to fix bugs in various products…

Those aren’t options, they’re fantasies. Like dreaming of suing out of existence a company that wronged you, or fixing the world by ruling it, or winning the lottery without playing.

Android isn’t perfect either, it’s a different set of frustrations. And why would Apple ever need to hire you for that specific task, do you really believe there aren’t engineers inside just as frustrated as we are?

The way I see it, the yearly release cycle is to blame. No one inside the company has time to do anything properly anymore. Features are announced and rushed every year, and we’re reaching the point where by the time something which was announced at a WWDC is out of beta, we’re preparing for the next one.

What these companies need to do is slow down and stop chasing every shiny thing. You know, like Apple used to do with macOS. Tim Cook needs to go.
As a resident of Scotland, I'm looking forward to zonal pricing. It might also balance out the London centric nature of the UK, as I expect it to end up with higher prices.
My company does hire outside of the U.S.

if you wanna email your resume to jenny@fifo.com and I can check you out

Thanks :)
There is absolutely everything you can do about it.

This is not a forum for plotting counter-action and with respect to
the owners and moderators I will not elaborate. Suffice it to say the
time has come when we all should think about how our skills are needed
(by our country) for more than simply making money, like rising to the
challenge of defending democracy.

Thankyou mdp2021.
Ill probably buy a petrol car for my lifetime. As long as there is a petrol station to fill her up.
Get a grip of yourself. The US survived the previous clown administration, it will survive this one.
It’s very on brand for Apple to remove an option to trigger / customise something that should “just work”.

Example: iCloud Photos syncing is complete crap on macOS. If it has synced recently it’s not going to do it again. So you sit there like an idiot waiting 10 minutes for a photo you just took on your phone e to show up. When a pull to refresh or refresh button would have fixed it.
Current head of Apple hardware is in the line of CEO succession. If he becomes CEO at some point in the future, could he have a positive influence on software culture within Apple?
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Even that's a pretty conservative estimate these days. It's typically less, ~11,000m (18,000km) and the balance keeps shifting in EVs favour over time as the grid becomes more renewables based...
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-misleading-myths-ab...
Because they could
(I'd kindly advise you to rephrase that - the second phrase - in more acceptable terms. For example, if you actually had examples of good proposals, that would be constructive and finally appropriate.)
My guess is 2-3 weeks, given how fast things are shifting
Not back in 2022: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/02/1112802
I prefer config files a lot to settings GUIs. Two most important points that come to mind:

1. I can manage them in Git
2. GUIs change all the time. With configs you have a much higher probability that some solution you googled will still work even when it is a couple of years old.
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I attribute much of our malaise to it being a long time since anything was done on 'economic grounds'. I'd love for us to have a fraction of the desire for capitalist principles that former communist countries have.
The war is a very strong reason not to rely on imported gas. We've seen that across Europe. Heck, there's a pipeline through the war zone which is surviving because everyone involved depends on it.
what's their agenda? (honest question, I'm not from the UK/US)
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I like the idea. It has it's downsides too but it's way better than either a wall of text or nothing at all.

I know a guy who writes a wall of text. He literally calls it a wall of text. No one reads it and he gets really angry.
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Capitalism does indeed work and I'm all for it although I lean left, but capitalism without safeguards (that is, allowing uncontrolled profit maximization) is a cancer. Having incentives to grow is a great thing, however one needs well defined limits to protect the poor. Corporations repeatedly find means to not pay or pay ridiculous amounts in taxes, which will invariably end up weighing on the shoulders of the middle and lower classes; that is something any sane government should address immediately, but it's hard to do that in a system where every campaign is run using mostly the money of the same entities it should tax.
A minor point, but it was hardly the first epic movie to have an intermission. Gone With the Wind has one, for example, and is a similar length.
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Not for those who are physically unable to drive.

And in countries where you need to be 17 to get a driving licence and where adulthood for many things is 16
And you think that's acceptable and our only play being desperation looting of our economy is a "fine" place to be?
I am old enough to get that.
I must be having problems I was not realizing I have, when my dad passed away I wanted to feel something but I just could not. Tears never came in, the life just kept going. I was (and still try to remember about) praying for salvation of his soul, but apart from that no feelings at all. We were very close with my dad, I wish I can be kind of father he was..
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Share your information if you are interested in "sliding in a cheque" to pre-seed founders with a MVP and pilot users.

Given that YC probably receives ~50,000 applications annualy, this should be viewed as feeding the ecosystem to get such companies into a fundable state, and therefore allowed.

Standard Terms: You get a fixed N percent post-money SAFE. N is negotiated between investor and seed company, depending on product/team/etc.

Please use this format:

Background:

Have you angel invested before:

Amount you plan to invest:

Areas of interest/expertise:

How you can assist beyond the funding:

Some kind of public profile with contact details:
(LinkedIn or X should be fine, you can screen connection requestors)
I think if google collaborated with NetBSD it would be successful than creating new OS from scratch
Because a newb might complain that their earbuds/pencil is not working.
That's kinda strange. I was rejected from the initial call with HR because of "we do not have the authority to hire in ... (non-US country)"
We have a broken mentality. In the US, they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Here, we're temporarily embarrassed landlords. The only ambition that's socially acceptable is a mortgage.
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Painful for who? They all outsourced their factories to China. Military power is an extension of industrial power. In the cold war the US had a better military because it could leverage the consumer technology industry. Now that's all moved to China.
Probably something chewing up CPU cycles.
Google Play is going to start highlighting apps with widgets
> "solving" it with a big hammer like generative AI is rather unsatisfying.

The reason is greed. They jump on the bandwagon to get rich, not to bring art. They don't care about long term effects on creativity. If it means that it kills motivation to create new music, or even learn how to play an instrument, that's fine by these people. As long as they get their money.
The president of the United States has in a matter of days:

- Insulted the president of Ukraine in a manner such that every news channel -- except Fox news and Russian state media -- called it shameful.

- Stopped military support to Ukraine after the previous administration sent ~$100 B in aid, essentially making that investment into an ally a giant waste of money.

- Prevented the three-letter agencies doing their job in Russia.

- Reduced sanctions on Russia.

- While turning up sanctions to eleven on America's closest allies.

- Invited Russia back into G7.

- Has said nothing but nice things about Russia and especially its kleptocracic and murderous leader. (Think about the ridiculous number of defenestrations in Russia, the polonium tea, giving dioxin to Yushchenko, etc...)

The terrifying thing is that I've spoken to some MAGA friends and they love this. Absolutely love it. They think it's brilliant.

It's just mindboggling.
In a multipolar world, historical ignorance leads to geopolitical disadvantage. One should be well-versed in history before offering opinions on these matters. While American power once allowed it to shape global order unilaterally, a truly multipolar reality requires deep historical understanding to avoid diplomatic failures.
51% is also not very viable for proof of work either.

What 51% gets you is that 51% of the time, you get to choose which transactions go into the blockchain. This is mostly only useful if you want to prevent someone else's transactions from getting in, or for complicated scams where you want one person's transactions to get in before another person's. 49% of the time, those transactions will still get in, so 51% actually doesn't buy you a lot. At best you cause a short term chain split and people will wait longer before the chain stabilizes.
> There is no data indicating this.

"examples of privatisation increasing costs to us taxpayers" ..

* First up, the entire US health system compared per capita to other industrialised countries.

* Any reasoned debate on whether privatization serves the public interest will include substantial links to wins and losses on either side, the classic preamble quote being something like:

there are flaws endemic in both private and public ownership: private ownership is not free of its own set of problems. In short, public provision suffers when public managers pursue actions that are not in the interests of the citizenry—for example, the employment of unnecessary workers or the payment of exorbitant wages. Private provision suffers when private managers take action inconsistent with the public interest—for example, performing shoddy work in an effort to boost profits or denying service when costs are unexpectedly high.

( ~ https://hbr.org/1991/11/does-privatization-serve-the-public-... )

Your blanket denial is in error.

> Based on your logic capitalism ...

Not my logic, there are examples of PE companies rorting public sector funds post privatisation from around the globe .. that's public, global, empirical observation not random forum "logic".

Then there's the hilarious question of "capitalism" .. do they have that still in the US?

I commend you on your nom de guerre, using the pet name of Elon's dildo to reply here is pure genius. Chef's kiss.
> Not to mention that Russian nationalists HATE the idea of Russia being a junior partner to anyone and especially to the Anglo-Saxons. That would be hard sell even from Putin.

America would be the junior partner. I do not see Russia doing anything for America, it is just America giving Russia what they want.