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that's easy

For a tiny fraction of the population this might be true, for the rest of the population it definitely isn't true. I'm part of that tiny fraction, and pissed away hours trying to find a LineageOS (or similar) build for my current handset. I don't consider the task easy

Even if it were easy, it means giving up access to a huge variety of apps that expect and test for official builds. Anything with DRM for example

Precisely because the average social media user is petty, insecure, and attention-seeking. Like shaming is a fabulous concept I for one could get behind. Next up do follows, replies and retweets, and eventually people might slowly begin to measure social proof for themselves once more.

Can you imagine Donald Trump's twitter account with all those idiotic metrics scrubbed from it? It would have been a beautiful sight, just an angry old man typing in caps to himself

I had pretty much the exact same experience as parent comment. There is no apologizing for software that can quickly and easily accept your credit card number, but drag its feet and require non-existent humans to intervene to stop taking your money. Extremely bad look

https://i.imgflip.com/5b0hgl.jpg

These licenses are totally meaningless when Google make anti-competitive threats to their partners for attempting to exercise that license. They benefit from all the marketing of their vendor ecosystem in the public eye using the open thing, while quietly holding a gun to everyone's head in the background. That is the absolute antithesis of what "genuine open source" is supposed to be about, it is a marketing ruse and you've fallen for it.

This is the correct answer. Do not allow a subtly different technical design distract you from the largest switcheroo here: this is a single-vendor enterprise OS delivered under the guise of open source, it comes with all the trappings of a single-vendor enterprise OS.

Let's not be too quick to forget when Android first started out, all the idealism about the wonders of a free software mobile OS. A decade later, it's almost impossible to buy an Android phone that hasn't been strongarmed (no pun intended) into including Play Services, Chrome and Gmail, often including through threats to the manufacturer's unrelated businesses.

We're older and wiser, avoid this garbage like the plague, and don't fall for all the same old tricks.

Adding an extra 50 yards to any single Ryanair flight would likely bankrupt the company

Most folk don't even know it exists because it's been the default option in their Internet banking for so long..

That's a highly optimistic read of it. China move fast and brutally when they decide to move, but often their motivations are approximately identical to what applies in the west, we just take a more gentle approach to changes in our extremely fragile financial system.

I think US banking is the outlier here. I've never paid anything like this anywhere in Europe, the vast majority of transactions (for example SEPA) are free, or very close to free.

honestly don't mind this one, worth it for the fairly awesome meta footnote

Any idea why the minimum plot size needs to be so damn huge? Really killed the attractiveness of the whole scheme for me

Speaking as an IRC lifer, every article I read about this fails to actually make any kind of cohesive point about what's going on and why it is bad. Explain like I'm 5 please?

Who controlled nickserv/chanserv before this Andrew fellow? It seems there is some leap to "omfg he's taking control of services!" without mention of who is /losing/ control. It seems perhaps a large chunk of story is missing here.

Meanwhile I'll probably continue using Freenode until it starts serving Viagra ads during connection or something similarly tangibly evil. Right now I just see a bunch of dumb IRC drama. It's a chat network, come on.

The reason it's not generally done is because the select API has been effectively replaced with better things like kqueue and epoll and poll and ppoll. If you actually want to do something like select and you expect to have a lot of FDs, using something newer than select is a better choice.

The performance difference between select() and poll() isn't measurable for small sets of descriptors, and for epoll and friends, fixed setup costs are substantially higher. It's therefore not correct to suggest select() has been replaced with better interfaces, in the case of poll() it is a more complex interface and in the case of epoll (or io_uring or ..) it is a much more expensive interface.

Always wondered about this, can overlapping systems be used simultaneously for higher reliability or precision?

Artificial pricing is still possible in the blockchain world, it's just called staking over there

Came here to say this. It's a site designed for idiots not engineers. How does rendering work? Can't even tell if it's HTML based or some hipster immediate UI toolkit nobody's heard of. What do I need to give up to get a 640kb binary? etc etc.

Answering my own question, https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry , so looks like it loses one of the advantages of Electron in that you control the exact browser in use. Maybe that's incorrect. Who knows? Web site appears to not exist to provide such important details.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/blob/dev/ARCHITECTURE.md could lose a few thousand words, but this seems to be the real starting off point

Am I correct in saying after one usage, the parachute system generally needs replaced? I think I read this about Cirrus planes anyway

It seems initial distribution was centrally managed in this coin. Needs much stronger proof of no foul play in this case than a shiny web site

Numerous articles document Bitcoin's energy sources, which are

Primarily based in a country which is also the world's largest consumer of coal

Its security model has yet to be proven on any network worth discussing. Those claiming otherwise are selling snake oil.

If there are specific problems worth raising about PoS, please share them, I'm sure plenty of folk here would love to learn what they are.

My take is that it's probably an ESG thing, perhaps some funds voiced their concerns about the potential for Tesla stock to hurt their ESG ratings. There was never any question of whether holding and transacting in Bitcoin would eventually start appearing on the same page as Greta Thunberg, the only question was when. It seems Musk just drastically accelerated this outcome.

Not a specific one - any API

Defining this is a job for industry bodies and suchlike, as is keeping it current. Lest we forget jokes like the 2020 Brexit agreement containing references to Netscape Navigator 4.0

Is anyone surprised to learn there are informed traders on the other side of these hype-driven bubbles?

edit: it defies belief that this is somehow a controversial comment

They have tens of knobs, some strange and esoteric, targeting specific corners of the banking system, but I believe if they want to control inflation they simply need to cut back on bond purchases.

As they buy less bonds, their price drops, as the price drops risk-free yields drift higher. As risk-free yields drift higher, consumer credit becomes simultaneously more expensive and less available, as lenders allocate less of their capital to risky lending and more to risk-free (government) lending. This credit shrinkage causes the deflationary effect.

The trouble is that every time the fed has even hinted at this on past occasions (stretching back a decade), an immediate violent market event has usually followed. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taper-tantrum.asp

Bitcoin regularly moves in tandem with SPX and this effect will continue to strengthen as more ETFs become available, and futures volume (on classic regulated exchanges) increases. These instruments are gateways that enable a much larger class of investors to come into Bitcoin cheaply, but it also means Bitcoin joins their portfolios and is treated similarly to other asset classes during market events. Uncorrelated, mass adoption: pick one.

During the massively undersubscribed 7 year note auction last month BTC absolutely tanked and recovered in perfect synchrony with SPX, TLT and gold.

During a recent deleveraging event (last month I believe), it was possible to observe BTC following an identical path to SPX for almost the entire day.

I never log into YouTube and this still happens, it's at least in part keyed to IP address

I'd be incredibly surprised if mobile power management did not account for the difference between "blitting array of 2D pixels" and "running massively parallel shader". Even if not done for energy conservation, it might be for TDP profile.

Separately, it's long been a thing on Nvidia Optimus laptops where the most inexplicable thing could cause the iGPU to be swapped out for the power-hungry discrete GPU. A GL-powered terminal definitely seems like it could be in that territory.

In short, many reasons it could be less efficient, hence the question, is there any evidence that it /is/ less efficient?

Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working modes is shutting down everything and just hacking away in vim, partly for distraction management but primarily because of battery.

You cannot put a price on career-long isolation from office politics

You don't understand, I'm already a user of PyArrow and it doesn't match that page at all. It handles Parquet and Feather, right? They don't appear on the home page. Clicking the "specifications" link instead starts to talk about Flatbuffers. What's going on?

I'm similarly confused. It seems to be a family of table encodings that sacrifice encoding simplicity for compactness. PyArrow implements parquet files for example, but also I think feather? PR for this project is a mess. Front page should be a bullet point list of deliverables rather than aspirations nobody understands