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I’ve suggested binary distribution as part of a black box exercise in the past. Locking down the source and being able to change details for each candidate would mean solutions posted online would not help.

I would love to have Wed/Fri as no meeting days, so I could choose which one to take off depending on how I’m feeling, what the current work streams look like, and personal plans.

A three day weekend is great for a trip. Hump day off is great for a break. Either could be good for an extra day of big exercise/recovery or deep cleaning my house.

And then if working on either day, I get a full day of heads-down time.

Just look at the various films that have been lost to fire over time. Of course with the old ones piracy wasn’t really an option. Digitization has its own issues as well.

They said their last shipment is a gift to the subscribers. They even had a signup period where they’d give you 10 of them, sadly I missed that email. Thanks spam!

I think GP meant “They shouldn't be done as a career by people with potential”

I definitely fall prey to the line of thought but when I think again I realize that if they actually have potential, they will strive to meet it.

Nice! Move over elevator pitches, now we've got mile-high hacks!

Could always send base64 data strings!

Those will never be good enough to overcome social engineering.

I see a lot of people downplaying the claimed downsides of “Meta/Google will just build their own app store and force you to use that” or that malware will proliferate via 3rd party app stores by saying “well nobody is going to make their own app store, it doesn’t really happen on android either”.

So if no 3rd parties are going to make their own app stores, why force Apple to provide the ability at all? It’s a huge engineering cost to do so.

> If the ecosystem relies on app inspections that much it simply needs to be secured better.

How do you secure something without inspection? We have health code inspections for restaurants, car safety and emissions inspections, IAEA inspectors visiting nuclear facilities… Should we throw all those out too? What replaces them, the goodwill and word of people?

I haven’t fully jumped into home automation although I would like to and have thought about it for a while. I think I would only like to have things connected to an airgapped LAN that never connects to the internet. Maybe put it on my tailscale net. This is exactly why.

> people on iOS monetise REALLY well compared to other segments

And therein lies the motivation to "open up" Apple's ecosystem, people just can't stand looking at all those dollar signs without being able to get their hands on them any way possible.

"So Apple just gets exclusive access to their users' money?!?" Well, they are the ones that built and maintain the ecosystem. Everyone else just wants to get in there and extract wealth like slash-and-burn rainforest developers or strip-miners.

Same, iOS developer here. Maybe if software were treated less like fashion that had to constantly be updated, resulting in a neverending revolving door of bugs and new waves of learning curves, and instead like a focused tool, it could catch up more to paper.

There are absolutely benefits to software over paper but they feel hamstrung by the constant desire to roll out the next UI paradigm. Sooner or later the set of constraints between device, OS and app versions forces an upgrade. Security updates should be the only reason to even hint at that possibility IMO.

Maybe I’m just too close to the problem. If I squint enough I can see how a pen running out of ink is like an app crash, and replacing the pen/ink has a real, nonzero environmental cost. I’m not sure how to amortize the costs of device manufacture and software development across all bugs, and compare that to the costs/benefits of pen and paper. There is some shade of rose on my glasses, no doubt.

I need more information, but I sense it’s not the kind of information that is important to many people, and especially corporations, to gather.

How many miles are on it? City/hwy?

I went from VSCode back to emacs. I just stick with most of the emacs defaults, although I’m sure you could find a package for VSCode defaults.

I really don't understand how gold/silver provide any protection beyond paper currency. What's stopping any government from just deciding that instead of two ingots, you owe them three now? They own the scales, they can put their thumb on whatever side they want as hard as they want. If you want to argue with that, you ultimately have a gun pointed at you. It's the same thing with a slightly different set of steps.

Thanks for taking time to write such detailed replies. I realize my reply was off the cuff; it's just astonishing that that much information was able to be absorbed and operationalized. Hats off to folks that were able to make it happen at all!

If I ran a company where someone tried to release a 19K page spec I'd keep firing people until someone could produce a spec that I could actually review and sign off on, that could also still be reproduced in working technology. How does this kind of thing fly at all?

It’s too bad they don’t do set “blocks” any more or you’d get a good double entendre with “blockchain”…

There's more to that quote if you click through to the source. Before it was this: “I want everybody who works hard and plays fair to prosper," Rowe said. "I want everybody to be able to support themselves. But if you just pull the money out of midair you're going to create other problems.”

“There is a ladder of success that people climb,” he continued. “Some of those jobs that are out there for seven, eight, nine dollars an hour, in my view, they're simply not intended to be careers. They're not intended to be full-time jobs. They're rungs on a ladder."

"[Those jobs] are ways for people to get experience in the workforce doing a thing that might not necessarily pay you as much as you'd like, but nevertheless serves a real purpose,"

And picking up where it left off: "So to me, the brightest line needs to be drawn between skilled and unskilled work. We need to encourage more people to learn a skill that's actually in demand."

Ah, I didn't see the part about //go:build

Doesn't that mean that all code written so far can't take up newer versions of the Go compiler for any other reason like new features/bugfixes/optimizations/etc without a full audit of codepaths involving for loops?

I wonder if you add a text expansion for "good night" expanding to "good night" again if it fixes it?

or “of” vs “if”, “in” vs “on”, “I” vs “o” (wtf? lol), and on and on

That’s only for known contacts. Maybe you need better friends?

Yeah this is really annoying. I goes I had played around with it when it first came out and created some alternatives with focus modes. I recently stopped using my wallet-like case, so now my screen is exposed in my pocket, and I couldn’t figure out why it kept getting into a meeting focus mode and silencing all my incoming comms!

I don’t get it; I receive notifications for missed calls.

So we agree there’s an absence of evidence then? The onus is on those claiming existence to present evidence.

You’re not wrong but what’s your point? Those people often create terrible policy. So… we are supposed to let conspiracists slide too because there’s this other group that also has problematic beliefs?

Absolutely agree! I’ve pushed back in the past when more analytics-type data was being considered. It can definitely be done anonymously and I believe users should always be given transparent options.