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> The result should be a single .exe file with no or minimal dependencies and a size of less than 40MB

Computers come with a modern browser now. Instead of a .exe file, could it be, let's say, a single .html file with inlined image/css/javascript?

> For a large company this is a millions of dollars

The FDA was expecting that companies spend millions to ensure that the products are free of sesame to help people with allergies, but companies realize that it's easier to just add sesame into their products.

I am not sure the government could do now to help people with sesame allergies. Ban sesame outright from certain products? Mandate that certain companies produce sesame-free products?

Here is a question that's been bugging me. What is the modern day tool that achieves the same thing as HyperCard back then? Is it html/javascript?

Black text on Grey background was nice. I am not sure why we switched to dark grey text on white background or light grey text on black background.

It didn't help that Apple provided the $0.99 price point for iPhone applications when the expectation for programs before was at least $20.

The only thing constant in modern web design seems to be the ever-increasing amount of margins and paddings. Everything else goes in cycles.

When Google fully-rounded the corners of a rectangle, they added even more margins and paddings. When texture comes back in style, I bet we'll see even more margins and paddings.

> War between nuclear powers doesn't happen any more

That might change as more nations acquire nuclear weapons. Or maybe the pathway to world peace is to give every country nukes.

> leaving a huge opportunity for competitors to make a 5€ a month product.

Best of all, if the competitor becomes a threat, the company with 50€ a month product can just buy them out.

Doesn't 10.x.x.x only have 255x255x255=16 million addresses? Still a lot through.

My bad. I didn't realize that the Move to IOS app had been addressed in your blog.

I also looked into transferring WhatsApp data from Android to IOS recently and there is an official way to transfer in both directions now.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/686469079565350/?helpref=hc_fnav

I didn't end up going through with it through since there was no way to take a Signal backup created in Android and restore it to IOS.

I have a different take on this.

If the same feature were built on Android or iPhone, the data would be encrypted, and the researchers would have had a hard time accessing the SQLite file itself.

Microsoft's takeaway from this negative news would be that it needs to lock down Windows 12 by adopting designs from Android and iPhone, effectively closing it off.

> But they maintained a land, air, and sea blockade of the region, controlling water, food, power, trade, and immigration. And the region remained under continuous threat of the Israeli military returning. That's not self governing.

The key is that Gaza can be "self-governing" even with the above restrictions. What they lack is "sovereignty".

While it says that your personal data may be seen by human reviewers to troubleshoot, address abused or make improvement based on your feedback, it does not mention that your data will be used to generate ideas for blog posts.

It's harder to avoid bad quality videos that now you can't see downvotes.

As for the video being unnecessarily long - I have played with copying the transcript from the video into ChatGPT, but they tend to be too long for ChatGPT to handle.

> Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

When properties are being used as an investment, they are rented out. If that's true, it should show up as higher rental vacancy rate and low/stagnant rent. That's not the case in Vancouver, BC as we have low vacancy rate and rising rent.

Homes could be left as left empty as well, but we have multiple annual taxes, ranging from 0.5% to 3% of the total property value targeting these underutilized home, and that hasn't driven price down. In additions, these taxes essentially provide an one-time only increase in the number of homes available. They can be easily absorbed by population growth.

With the population increase in Canada, building more is the only way out.

I was surprised to hear that they got authors of RSS readers to get in touch and fix issues. Last time I looked for an RSS reader for Windows, it was a graveyard of abandoned software.

Steve Gibsons was always a bit of a laggard in adopting things through. He was writing pages about how assembly languages create small programs in the late 90s when that advantage was no longer relevant, running a newsgroup server and hooking up a web UI as a web forum, and so on.

It was a good era where when ICQ added too many ads and features to the 99a client, I was able to switch to an alternatives like Miranda IM and they didn't make any attempts to block the alternate clients.

They committed to manufacture each Pi models for a number of years. This is important for those building a product around it.

Is this the reason that my old mid/low end android devices become unusable even through they no longer get updates?

> This concerns the “macroeconomic slide,” introduced as part of the 2004 reform of the public pension system. The macroeconomic slide is an indexing mechanism that automatically limits total payouts of retirement benefits to keep them in balance with revenue from contributions (supplemented by fiscal subsidies), even while the contribution rate of working people is held to a legal ceiling.

In other words, the pension system was designed as pay as you go. Pay as you go system doesn't do very well with a decreasing working population because it relies on the current working generation paying for the previous generation.

High powered laser would also work.

For context, ChatGPT doesn't seem to be very good at less popular languages. In my experience, it's able to generate good C# code, but it is very poor at generating Autohotkey code. So it's a similiar situation here with LISP.

IMO, Google Reader was an important part of RSS and that killing it injured the ecosystem.

That's really confusing: If there is so much solar generated that they have to pay industrial user to consume electricity, why don't the solar companies just stop sending power to the grid instead of paying money? Are the solar companies unable to turn off their system due to a limitation in their system?

> I also want to take this moment to clearly state that Evan Koblentz, the director of the Vintage Computer Federation for many years, who took the original donation, had absolutely no say or part in this pulping of historical magazines, having been driven out of the organization years before.

Sounds like new staff came in and they decided to clean things up, but decided to keep the plastic boxes.

My point was that Google is taking cash from their ad business to support their Chrome product to protect their ad business.

I was thinking out loud if a case could be made against Google, similar to the EEE logic.

> So, in other words, complaints about "Google's broeser is too good, it is unfair how fast they are moving!" Therefore ring hollow.

It's an interesting concept that a company could gain a dominant position in a market involving an open standard, then lead innovations in a way that would be difficult for other companies to challenge or follow.

It's not embrace, extend, extinguish because the changes are not proprietary. Chrome is simply able to out invest everyone else with their cash from their ad business. I am not a legal expert, so I don't know if this type of cross-market subsidization is legal.

> Chromium is open-source, and there are plenty of Chromium-based browsers (Edge, Brave, and Chrome,), it's less obvious.

I agree. In the Internet Explorer days, there were also browsers that were custom UI built on top of IE Trident. The Chromium-based browsers of today actually offer little innovations beyond what browsers building on top of Trident have accomplished in the IE days.