On an annually recurring license. So the taxpayer doesn't just buy hundreds of books no one asked for and will never read, he buys them ten times over.
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It's a bit fuzzy, yes. It would clarify the argument to replace "generational issues" with a specific concept, and skip the performative hedge.
The bailey seems to be "poverty implies violence." What's the motte?
I can stipulate; this is why running companies is hard.
Adversity exists. I don't think it diminishes my assertion that visionaries do, too.
Until quite recently, the quip was "millionaire." What forced the change was American socialist icons embarrassed to find themselves on the wrong side of the barricade.
> in order to have the propensity to accumulate that much money, far more than any one human would ever need to survive comfortably, you have to exhibit a significant amount of sociopathy and antipathy towards your fellow man; a willingness to usurp resources far beyond any natural need
It isn't money; it's net worth. An old-fashioned market crash could vaporize most of the inequality in a week.
In any case: wealth isn't "usurped resources."
I reject that proposition. It's how record labels (investors, etc.) gaslight their artists (founders, etc.) into signing bad deals.
The businessman ("anthropomorphized lawnmower"[1]) has excellent PR. What interests him is an ownership stake in your vision and execution.
> “From the beginning of [Dischord Records], people have said that the way we do things is unsustainable, unrealistic, idealistic, and we were just dreaming,” he said. “Well, the dream is now 35 years old, so they can go fuck themselves.”[2]
-- Ian MacKaye (2016)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040429 [2] https://www.avclub.com/buttholes-and-lawyers-how-a-lawsuit-t...
The general model for package management in other language ecosystems is rubygems and bundler.
Like: a GitHub founder invented semantic versioning.
I hadn't heard, thanks!
https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/
"Web push notifications Coming in 2023."
This is 19th century zeitgeist.
It failed to recognize fulfillment of human needs as an evolutionary process. "Waste and duplication" -- trial and error -- is necessary. You can't design for what you haven't discovered.
Here's a picture that always humbles me, representing one infinitesimal aspect of human thriving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions#/m...
> You can decrease the energy consumption significantly without affecting the quality of life in case of adopting a new political philosophy
Does it involve telling people what constitutes "quality of life?" Why does this "new" political (in fact: economic) philosophy so often devastate so many lives?
Even if you presume to run human civilization as an ant colony (How dare you?), even with honest intentions, centralization is a bad idea. It lets you pretend you're making informed decisions based on a complete model, and not just running an experiment with global risk.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
That seemed obvious to most observers, up to the Cold War.
It can't account for international trade, which functions on mutual self-interest.
Progressivism conquered America a century ago. Antitrust law. Central bank. Income tax. Universal suffrage. Old age pensions. Public education, research grants. National parks. Interstate highways. Welfare, public housing. Equal opportunity employment. Disaster relief. Socialized medicine for the poor and elderly. Workplace safety. Automobile safety and emissions standards. Space shuttle.
Recently, a flirtation with Universal Basic Income.
You're concerned about what? Free Prime delivery?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
The other 20% is stuff that doesn't work in an emulator. Usually Apple, certificates.
It's enough of a minefield that QA means real devices, unfortunately. Used phones are vastly cheaper than "false alarm" bug reports.
> in our experience, nobody wants to push to those platform that frequently, and force many upgrades of the app every day, so instead they do nightly builds at best
If my team's big enough for daily builds, we have continuous deployment (Fastlane or similar). Strictly speaking, the pain is the build step (slow; can be flaky), not pushing the artifact.
I hope this is helpful. Feel free to dig deeper, I'll keep an eye on this thread.
That doesn't ring true. TestFlight / Play Store uploads are typically available within 15 minutes.
Still, it's nice you're solving deployment overhead. In particular, my team needs side-by-side installs of the live/prod build and dev/staging build.
It's double the headache to stand up a store listing and comply with policy changes, just for an internal distribution channel. Save me.
"Yes, they literally wire 'em together to power a lawn mower."
I'm interested now. What happened?
The M1 Max is arguably price competitive with Intel 12900K, at half the performance and 1/6 wattage (at full load).
The M1 Ultra is twice the price, closer in performance, for 1/3 wattage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/20/...
39% of residents are black[1]. 17% poverty[2]. 80% Democrat[3], mostly the new kind that can't see why moderates ought to exist.
Does that change your assessment?
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/durham-nc-popula... [2] https://www.welfareinfo.org/poverty-rate/north-carolina/durh... [3] https://bestplaces.net/voting/city/north_carolina/durham
The effect is "better than linear;" see Table 2.
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...
In general, li-ion has the properties you want: no "memory," deep discharge OK, partial charge OK.
The one it lacks is "shelf life:" they don't like long-term storage at full charge. So they ship at 3.7 volts instead of the "full" 4.2V state. (This is the old wisdom of not keeping your laptop on a charger.)
Lawn tools, for example, might have a smart charger that draws them down after a month without use.
I imagine it's upsetting to need your flashlight, vehicle, etc., and it's only at 50-70% capacity.
https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/dongle-auth/dongles/
Personally:
- NFC Yubico with my car keys. I can't remember ever using NFC to authenticate directly on mobile, but I like having a hardware backup for time-based one-time password (TOTP) codes. (Google Authenticator / Android)
- Tiny Solos (Somu[1]) live in my keyboard, laptop ports for "touch to login" (universal 2nd factor, U2F). - Open hardware a plus. Pre-order fundraising is 100% legit. Hotplug works well in Debian. - Original Solo was a bit loose in a USB-A port. It was tricky to press the button without pins losing contact.
- Pixelbook power button can act as U2F, which is neat.
[1] https://solokeys.com/products/somu-tiny-security-key-two-fac...
The `go` tool. "Language runtime" refers to the ~2MB of thread scheduler, garbage collector, etc.
> No central server required!
Now you have five proxies to choose from, because coupling your project to a bunch of strangers' version control systems is bananas.
> Neither of these are Go issues, just maintainer issues
In practice, separating downstream quality-of-life from the language proper seems to breed chaos.
Example: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661
Until I have an extremely Go-shaped problem, I don't need that headache.
This is a strange conceit. Martha's Vineyard and Maui do not have orders of magnitude better "public infrastructure" than Kansas.
If anything, recent US real estate growth is a function of people leaving high-tax areas for inferior asphalt.
It ignores that zoning is contentious precisely when "public goods" are perceived to harm land value.
There's a circular reasoning in "land monopoly." Cover a grocery store in solar panels: who is "contributing to the general welfare," and who collects free rent?
They can't evolve the way the latter did. "New API every year or we break your app" is not an option for the web.
As a user, what drives me crazy is the absence of "human interface guidelines" and sane local storage. On the other hand, I insist on the freedom to sideload.
As a developer, I pine for an application platform that is not a 30-year-old messy abstraction over a 50-year-old operating system. If it can help my layouts on a 5" vs 50" screen, all the better.
I don't think there's a future where "energy policy" (a euphemism for subsidies/lobbying/permitting) ceases to exist.
If nuclear power is the least-worst of the industry trade groups, it should count for something.
However, it might behoove us to consider the wisdom in allowing the whims of "energy policy" to vaporize twenty-year, $10 billion infrastructure projects.