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dingo_baton Why the iPhone can’t compete in India

That was my point. Apple is so afraid/lazy that they don't implement useful features and cut out widely used ones.

dingo_baton Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5

It's the opposite. If C++ doesn't cut it for your particular niche you go to rust.

dingo_baton Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5

> Moreover, the header file is optional, and is never included by the source file.

That is totally opposite to my experience. Example from Linux:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/smpboot...

dingo_baton Why the iPhone can’t compete in India

Every feature that gives any sort of flexibility to the user is an attack vector for the lazy developer.

dingo_baton Pointers Are Complicated, or What’s in a Byte?

Can you explain this more? Surely the compiler can reason about p being able to point to i's address.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

https://m.economictimes.com/jobs/india-to-have-highest-salar...

Average salary increase of 10% sounds like it somewhat answers what you were asking.

Here's another relevant tidbit:

https://www.livemint.com/Money/5wpK2P8H02D3ujDFYHzfBI/Number...

Anecdotally, in my company, an annual salary bump of just 10% is considered a punitive action.

Edit: looks like the wealthy are getting more wealthy and the poor are getting more wealthy, but not as much.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

For sure!

dingo_baton Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent

> First of all, do you think the US would do anything about anything, out of the goodness of their heart?

No, they would do it because there is massive money to be made. The Venezuelan people and oil reserves are a great untapped resource, no use letting an entire country go to waste.

> the only conclusion I can draw is that you view the Venezuelans as somehow incapable of making the right decisions and ruling themselves.

Isn't that blindingly obvious by now? What more evidence do you need in support?

> I won't comment on this one, because I cannot even fathom the train if thought here.

I never mentioned anything about "ransacking". Multinational companies are ultra-efficient and very beneficial to their employees and partners. Let them freely do what they do best, and they will generate great wealth in Venezuela. Everybody wins. The communists lose. What's not to like?

dingo_baton Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent

When will a superpower (China or USA) step in and end this miserable spiral? An effective military action and instalment of a puppet government, followed by a free reign to multinational oil companies should swiftly end the miseries being endured by the Venezuelan populace.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

> This is exactly the kind of hateful stupidity

Maybe you should try to be a bit more civil when making your point, it will motivate the other person to take you seriously.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

I think you're right. My family doesn't stay in one place for more than 7-8 years. We always move to wherever there are better jobs, etc. So my "part" of India is wherever there is most growth.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

I think you're being a bit unreasonable. Are you really suggesting that anybody in the world who wants to walk into the USA should be allowed to? It seems like that nullifies the existence of the nation itself. Why have a border? Why have a military to protect that border?

Also, the freedom of movement is not a blanket statement. It does not, for instance, grant me permission to move into your house.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

It's not a bubble if the economy is growing at the same or faster rate, though.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

Immigration needs to be based on merit of the immigrant and need of the country, not as a form of charity. It's hard to believe that USA needs 2.25 million people extra every year. I wonder why the law in this regard cannot be simplified. You are allowed to immigrate to the US if:

- you will earn more than $100k.

- you have a STEM MS/PhD from an institute of repute.

- you clear a set of security checks.

That should take care of most of the problems related to immigration.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

> Prices aren't completely crazy yet, but my house is worth 65% more than what I paid for it, and is increasing by the year at too large of a rate.

Just an anecdote, but in India this rate of growth is expected. People expect their property to fetch double returns in 3-5 years. My parents bought an apartment for ₹1.5M, we lived there for about 7 years and it sold for ~₹6M.

Me and my wife are planning to purchase our own now and we factor this growth expectation into our calculations.

dingo_baton Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education

So? What is the argument exactly?

dingo_baton Street dogs in Moscow learn to ride the subway

I've seen stray dogs patiently waiting by the side of roads, and cross only when the traffic dies down. It looks extremely human. As if there is a person trapped inside the body of a dog.

dingo_baton It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros

Irrelevant. Those who understand can use it.

dingo_baton It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros

T2 and SSD can be intact and other stuff in the motherboard may be fried. Would target mode work in that case?

dingo_baton It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros

Don't have to sell different configs. Just a checkbox in the settings should be enough.

dingo_baton WebAmp: WinAmp 2 in Your Browser

The milkdrop is running better in the browser than it used to natively run in my old desktop.

dingo_baton Microsoft: Join Developer Design

Did not know you could put emojis in git commit messages: https://github.com/Microsoft/join-dev-design/commit/db8133c7...

dingo_baton Review: A Counterfeit, $100 iPhone X

> They assumed that the device was likely insecure, and kept it in a faraday bag, which blocks all incoming and outgoing wireless signals, to keep it from potentially causing any trouble at their office.

What sort of "trouble" are they talking about here?

dingo_baton Inside the Windows Console

Actually the cmd now is vastly improved over the one in win7. I cannot go back to that after using the latest one. The changes are definitely not underwhelming.

dingo_baton Farewell, Google Maps

Nokia maps was pretty decent. They had acquired Navteq, which had been in the business of mapping for decades. When Google maps just used to have a list of driving instructions, Nokia maps had full turn by turn voice navigation. Of course in this case Google maps didn't drive Nokia out of business, that was totally their own doing and maps was just one collateral damage.

dingo_baton Farewell, Google Maps

It seems to me that in simplifying the cost structure, Google has excluded some use cases completely. Enterprise pricing should be as complicated as possible, to closely mirror the actual costs incurred by the service provider.

Treating every map load the same even though one user can move around the map a lot, zoom out till he can see the earth, etc. is not smart. A much better metric is number of tile loads, so that cost corresponds with usage.

dingo_baton An entomologist rates ant emojis

It's like a font. The webpage specifies "print the capital letter A in times New Roman font size 20". Your browser or app prints the letter as best it can.

dingo_baton Riot Games Approach to Anti-Cheat

I think the number of people playing LoL in wine could be stored in a uint8_t.

dingo_baton Ultrasound can cause anomalies in the Xiaomi MI5S Plus gyroscope

This is exactly why we need to escape the mentality of sensor fusion and make our robots reliable just based on optical data. Then they would be susceptible to attacks that would affect humans too.

dingo_baton Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters

> I've never noticed the referenced git operation as being slow

On our monorepo, a simple 'git log -- random_file.cpp' can take anywhere from 10s to a couple of minutes.

Edit: This is on VMware instances with 16 Xeon cores and 32 gigs of memory with SSD backed storage. My puny laptop would probably struggle to even clone the repo.