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> Premium Hardware, Struggling Software

This sums it up well. The hardware is great, the software isn't.

I recently programmed the same app for iOS and Android. iOS took twice as long, simply because Apple's APIs suck. Case in point: The background task APIs (plural, yes, unfortunately) are so bad that Apple felt compelled to publish a video "Background execution demystified" [1]. If a dev creates an API and then has to publish docs "[my API] demystified", then the API sucks. Period.

I value stability and the freedom to configure the OS to my liking. macOS is stable but forces countless things on me that I do not want. Windows offers freedom but comes with many glitches. Linux is extremely stable and puts me first by letting me configure it. I love it.

[1]: https://wwdcnotes.com/documentation/wwdcnotes/wwdc20-10063-b...
I have to add the obligatory “you’ve solved the halting problem” question here.
That's very opposite from my experience in c++. Enabling break on throw in gdb or lldb always brings me exactly where I need to be no matter the OS / platform. But the software in c++ pretty much always adheres to "exceptions only for exceptional circumstances" and thankfully let them bubble up without rethrow à la java, otherwise it would be absolutely terrible developer ux
Did pipewire actually build in their pulseaudio and JACK emulation, or is it still acting as a shim between already-running pulseaudio and JACK daemons?

Also, (FWIW) I've a fine time with JACK2, openrc, and xorg. I had to do some manual work to tell JACK which sound card to use and to set up the pulseaudio backfill for software that doesn't know how to speak to JACK, [0] but everything else just works.

[0] The "tricky" part was disabling all pulseaudio backend modules but the JACK backend. This was -of course- not tricky at all.
This is almost certainly a custom (or copied) prompt to an image generator API + open source raster to vector conversion library.
> When a new major version of macOS is released macOS developers seem obsessed with quickly releasing a new version of their apps that will only run on the newest operating system.

This is encouraged by Apple to help with their planned obsolescence of old OS versions. With new macOS versions there is often a requirement to rebuild your apps with the latest version of Xcode which ships alongside it. This is because Apple changes lots of its internal APIs etc between OS versions, and only the latest version of Xcode supports those changes.

Also the App stores only allow new and update submissions for apps built with the latest SDK, which in turn must be coded on the latest version of Xcode, which itself cannot be run on older versions of macOS.

Is this all a conspiracy to keep people buying new computers and phones? I cannot say, but if I wanted to keep people bying more of my product this is how I would do it.
I think you forgot that US has over 9 bases here, and we are less than a hundred miles below Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bases_in_the_Phi...
Sure but maintenance is just part of the definition of productivity. You have to do maintenance too to be productive. (On long time scales)
At least the window settings app can be resized like normal apps
I'll just hop on this chain since you commented recently.

I recently updated a very carefully managed (over many years) local Apple Music library to sync with cloud Apple Music. One funny (captive laughter) side effect was performance issues I had long since learned to live with just disappeared. For some insane reason running a completely local library is much, much laggier than one that is constantly syncing with the cloud.

The real fun, however, was when I recently created a smart playlist and noticed it was missing tracks that obviously should have been matched. I luckily found an older smart playlist with the same rule and lo and behold this one contained the tracks that were missing. So two smart playlists, exact same single rule (equating to "not Favourited"), with > 1000 difference in total tracks.

This is stressing me out. How can I trust any of my smart playlists anymore? Is my library corrupt, or is it just a bug? Who knows, and who knows when or if it will ever be fixed. I can list numerous other bugs with playlists in the macOS Apple Music app that have existed across 2 or more previous major releases.
Wait do you not know what the KMT did? They're a rightwing party that killed/disappeared 30k journalists and intellectuals in Taiwan. How in the world is that comparable to the "union"? (But also yes Puerto Rico might be a better example).

In the sense that they're on the V-Dem index, they have election laws, they have voter rolls, they have voter turnout, etc. Yes they have one party, so you don't directly vote for the President, but neither do Americans.
> Isn't the price of a KW of solar panels similar to the price of a KW of nuclear power these days?

Solar panels are down to something like $0.20/W, a factor of 50 cheaper than a nuclear power plant. Solar panels are only a fraction of the cost of a solar installation though. Utility-scale solar is around $1/W, a factor of 10 below nuclear. Adjusting for capacity factor, solar is still several times cheaper than nuclear (and has lower operating cost).
Well, solar and wind are only usable when it is sunny or windy. The only way to make solar or wind power sustainable is to have ways to store the energy, like hydroplants or hydro pump stations. Right now, they are sabotaging the economy to build sustainable sources.
Given how US threw Ukraine under the bus, I don't think freedom or democracy are anywhere on the US foreign policy agenda.

In fact, even genocide doesn't really move the needle given the Gaza push.
I do not think this option alone would suffice, but I think Mozilla under estimates people’s willingness to donate to the development of Firefox specifically.

Nowadays Mozilla seems to be focused on many things, just not their browser. I do think there is a significant amount of people that would be willing to donate if they are sure these funds get allocated to the development of FF instead of AI and AdTech investments or ridiculous CEO pay packages.

Again, I don’t think this funding stream alone would suffice to make up for lost Google money, etc. - but I do think it would be significant enough to be worth a shot.
Moderators should fix the title and add "in 2018" to the end, as it's on the chart itself. Omitting "in 2018" part changes message completely and is misleading.
Apples to oranges. But in italy, solar with batteries may already be cheaper. Or geothermal energy. But, hey, they want to do a study and the study will find that out too.
> though they really would like an American backstop.

It's not a really would like. In all of their speeches by key politicians, European boots on the ground is conditional on US backstop. So it's not happening without US support.
Sure, but given that hypothetical new nuclear plants would become effective in a decade or more from now, and that we already have an energy crisis, one would expect Italy to first ramp up the fastest option (solar).
Democracy isn't when you have multiple parties. It's when you elect people to govern. Many americans think that America has a uniparty, despite all appearances.
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I've been extremely lucky: No bikes stolen ever. Part of the credit goes to my Anti-Theft Aesthetics (tm).
*Big Tech Silicon Valley, I'd say.
You're right, it really depends on what the security guarantees are, how they're stated, and whether they're credible.

As an example of a case that has worked, the mutual security guarantees within NATO have prevented WWIII so far. (knock on wood)

Obviously, we should be trying to go for something more like the latter.

Alternately, of course, no security guarantees, and both sides continue to fight.

China is already closely watching how the west responds to Ukraine, with potential implications for Taiwan. This increases the likelihood that American security commitments/requirements will eventually be tested more directly.
It hasn't been launched, yet, but the public tender details are here https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/port...

I don't know if the commenter refers to this one or not, it's probably too recent and far from "solved".

The EU portal itself has an identity verification functionality, I can use my national ID (national insurance number, specifically) in EU polls, petitions and other EU portal functions, but that's anything but anonymous by design.
Ask HN: Europeans living in the US, where do you draw the line?
With recent political events, is there a red line at which point you can't in good conscience stay living in the US? Or are you happy to stay no matter what?
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> The article makes some great points about how iOS software is regressing, but it still feels so much better than almost any other software I use on a daily basis.

I face none of the issues on my Samsung S23 phone, which the parent commentator describes - no issues in phones calls (I make 4-5 calls daily, mix of WhatsApp & regular calls), no major issues in Google Keep (which I use 2-3 times daily, specially never of a note becoming "blank"), and again no major issues in the Google App Store or updates (which I use on an average once a week).

So maybe, the software quality varies by user experience rather than one platform being universally better.
And takes weeks to plan and set up. Compared to decades.
Since I can't fight the windmills I just lowered my expectations and tried to alleviate the pain as much as possible.

My iphone starts playing spotify after connecting to car's bluetooth? Screw it, I just removed spotify. Macos opens itunes every time when I connect to bluetooth headphones? – Can't remove itunes but here's a script that monitors and kills it. Macbook constantly overheating? – cooling pad is a solution (kind of). Airdrop almost never works? Okay, there's no airdrop, we send everything via IM. Management of photos is complete dumpster fire – that's ok, Photosync and locally hosted photobank is a solution.
Read the original as "[sheer] tyranny of the majority" then. But no, given correct conditions you will manage to have decision making which is collectively beneficial and acceptable.
I think it's OK as long as I can keep my development tools and productivity tools.

I'm intrigued by Apple products because my working laptop is a MacBook Pro. I'm thinking about buying one for studying MacOS internals and app development, so as long as I'm not forced to update XCode, homebrew, caffeine, sublime text and a few other tools, I think it's fine.
If you hear the name “lab126”, that’s Amazon’s team.

Nokia owns the shambling corpse that is Bell Labs. Looking beyond the English speaking world, I wouldn’t discount that the chaebols (LG, Samsung, Mitsubishi, etc) all have a few companies dedicated to research at the Bell Labs level.
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Nuclear isn’t something to be afraid of, in fact it’s a natural progression. It’s quite safe when done right, it’s cheap, there is the disposal question but in relation to anything else it’s pretty manageable. If nuclear was a bigger resource we might even see better research into better methods of disposal.
I was having a similar problem due to company managed profile. IT forced lock-computer and turn off screens on 2 minutes of inactivity. MacOS atrocious window management completely fumbles to restore window positions when external monitors are connected.

Meaning _every_ _single_ _time_ I step out of my workstation all my windows would reset back to my laptop screen instead of my external monitor.

My solution? Install 3rd party tool to prevent my computer from locking automatically. Congrats IT you played yourself.

Like I get the lock-computer settings, but why also turn off the screen? It annoyed me enough I opened an IT support, but like always IT people don't care about the workers worflow.

They also didn't let me change my wallpaper forcing me to use company-brand wallpaper. That is just petty.
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I am not knowledgeable about nuclear energy, however, I would not be surprised if this reversing could have to do with having a nuclear pipeline - or at least a nuclear knowledge - already available in the country, in case things go south and there's need to develop own nukes
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Here is an article from the same blog about mechanical pencils:

https://paperwhisper.com/blogs/blog/write-smarter-the-hidden...

Seem like the Uni Kuru Toga Dive is the peak mechanical pencil.
V-dem, Bertelsmann, and EDI literally has scores for China. You'll notice places like Brunei, an absolute monarchy, isn't on the list.

Because China is a democracy and Brunei is not a democracy.
Except that with immigration you add adults and families that need housing as soon as they get into the country. Additionally the birth rate has now been below replacement rate for long enough that population would start to decrease without immigration (and the need for housing would obviously decrease with it).

I can't understand this disparaging stance against anyone who brings the issue of immigration up.

It is at the highest level on record and the only cause of increasing population but, no the only issue is that we should build more apparently. And we should also do that while saving the climate and the environment.

There are many contradictions and cognitive dissonance here... And the way my comment is shut down is very telling of that.
You’re right that this release is really announcing a major slowdown in construction.

But this plan from Ben Thompson is laughable.
do you have an alternative market design in mind?
I would think it's the job of the static analyzer to ignore errors for print. Unfortunately, the proper and consistent use of an appropriate static analyzer is not common in typical rushed corporate settings. Rust avoids this dilemma by enforcing it at the compiler level. There are numerous other types safety reasons too why Rust is safer for careless teams.
I'm wondering if sufficient knowledge of MacOS internals is good enough to disable some features by hack.
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It was already on HN recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43232410
The nukes were never under Ukraine control or possession. It's like saying Turkey has nukes, they don't, they are US nukes.
De escalation worked with the Soviets. I’m hoping cooler heads prevail.
This isn’t slowing down because of contractor issues. Intel is pulling back because no one wants their cruddy product.
It doesn't matter.

As far as I am concerned, self sufficiency comes before price concerns. Nuclear is very safe and reliable.

By all means, EU countries should keep investing in Solar, Wind, Geotermal, etc. but that should be done alongside Nuclear.
SQLite has had a WAL (write-ahead log) since 2010. Admittedly, it is not the default. [1]

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
Putin was popular in Russia in 2022 and his domestic enemies were weak. Putin didn't need a war to hold on to power. Wars are sometimes fought to distract from domestic problems, but that wasn't the case here. Putin has argued for more than 20 years that the Russia/Ukraine border was not determined correctly when the USSR fell and that the 1991 borders were "unfair" to Russia. Add to that Ukraine's cultural shift away from Russia, messy elections, NATO, and the belief that Russia would easily defeat Ukraine and it's pretty clear why Putin decided to invade in 2022. No reason to hypothesize alternative theories. Putin is still very popular especially among older generations despite the heavy cost of the war.
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What products? Caviar and crude?
The disruption is (part of) the point.

Degrading the ability of government employees to do their jobs leads to greater inefficiency and more failure, which can then be pointed at to validate assertions that government isn't efficient and produces bad outcomes.
I find it incredibly frustrating if something breaks and my experience from attempting to repair it is that it's impossible to disassemble. I'm currently sitting with a broken coffee grinder that I can take apart with a brick :(

I frequently dream of openly licensed appliances that are repairable!
Unfortunately energy security is not on Taiwan's side during a blockade. We only have one active nuclear energy plant here, a bit of wind and solar, but mostly imported coal and LNG. I think electricity rationing would happen more or less immediately.
If you add storage to the network you can store the surplus renewable generation for later dispatch, Europe's largest just went online: https://archive.is/p9qsS
I have a similar issue, but it is about key stroke lagging when entering the password if there are external monitors connected. Eventually I installed caffeine and problem solved :)
Isn’t this a pretty much solved problem though? Just add a battery to your house?

Batteries are just going to get better - especially over a 10y time span
I used to goto Cornwall regularly back in the 90s. The site of the wind turbines on the drive down always gave my heart a little flutter.

As a tourist I loved the sight of turbines on the far away hills.

They're a damn site nicer to look at than concrete cooling towers or gasometers.
Real estate cost (the opportunity cost of human occupancy) is capital cost. So is the material and labor for any of the more elaborate frame systems required to work on a non-flat surface.

Only about half of Africa has any home access to electricity, and very few have access to the sort of high current associated with HVAC or EVs. Much of the population are going to leapfrog over the phase of full expansive grid construction, access & maintenance, and go directly to a somewhat more decentralized mode of operation.

But that experience isn't all that relevant to the developed world, whose countries have invested tens of thousands of dollars per person in establishing almost universal electrical grids.
THe green narrative fromt the 70s is still strong today. Many of my friends still believe that nuclear is the most dangerous source of energy even though the per TWh metrics are pretty clear.
Agree. The reforms of regulations are needed as much as ever right now. Let's hope for the best that our people will wake up to this and we will be able to withstand the oncoming crisis.
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Huh? It seems for the next 4 years at least, 'staying' won't be their choice...
A big part of the problem is the UK used to let in about 100 thou immigrants yearly, that figure is now over a million per year. That means putting up a new house every few minutes. Unless you let Lagos or Caracas-style slums flourish, that’s not going to happen.
> Coal is not a problem for energy independence as it is much more evenly distributed on Earth.

Not true - it's just more prevalent in Europe than oil, especially in Germany. And the CO2 emissions are much worse, which is where all this starts from.
I'm struggling to think of a time when his erratic behaviour has paid off in the geopolitical arena.
Presumably Windows machines with AMD processors, too.
Not that I’m aware of, and neither do I care. I don’t use nor do I plan to turn on Apple Intelligence. You can visit the relevant section in System Settings yourself and peruse to your satisfaction the comprehensive explanations and links they make available.

This is the stupidest feature to be mad about. Why go through all the trouble of creating Private Cloud Compute and ensuring every request is private, to then add a separate visible feature to get a report of your activity? It would be significantly cheaper and easier to simply not having gone through the effort and log everything like every other provider does. The reporting feature is for you. It is so you know what was sent and can make informed decisions. It is a feature that adds transparency. It gives you more control over your data than if it didn’t exist.

Clearly Apple did a poor job of communicating what the feature does. But rallying about it will only make them less likely to add other transparency features in the future. Save your breath and complain about the things they do do wrong. There are plenty of those to pick from.
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Curtailment means there’s a different between what wind farms can produce and what the grid is willing to buy.

Wholesale prices are really just one aspect of grid manufacturing and paying them doesn’t mean you’re getting the equivalent of a percentage of wind farm productivity.
I dont agree with shittier hardware. The flagship phones of companies like Oppo and OnePlus are incredible, easily on par with the construction quality of the best iPhones, with often many more features.

On the software side at least on Android you have the power to do something about it. You can flash custom firmware or launchers, hell you can even code your own to completely replace the android interface if you want.