spacedcowboy

:)

FWIW, I retired to the coast in the NW, I have a beach on one side of the house and a park on the other. It's pretty nice :)

Even up here in the NW though, it's been too damn hot recently...

That seems quite a claim from one datapoint...

As someone who moved from the UK, to the US and back to the UK, my money goes a lot further in the UK.

I can afford to not work at all here. With health insurance, property taxes, and general outgoings per month being so much higher in the US (California, at least), there was no way I could retire early over there.

And whereas it's easy to hand-wave away "Trump, the healthcare, guns, ... " in a dismissive sentence, those things have real impact on a society and on the individuals living in that society. There's a reason [1] I moved away from the US, and will never return. Money-über-alles has its downside.

It's also worth noting (since the author brings it up) that the Mississippi comparison is pretty bogus. According to data from the Office for National Statistics and the US Census Bureau, median household wealth in Great Britain is substantially higher (around £300,000, or $403,000)[2] compared to the US ($175,000) [3] and Mississippi ($59,000). GDP and personal wealth are not the same thing.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217106

2: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

3: https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p70br...

Whereas the cynic in me would usually nod and carry on, this isn't actually what I've been seeing recently.

My weekly limit resets at 10am on Monday. My current (Sat, 11am) usage is 23% used. Now I regularly used to run out of credit on a Saturday, about a month or so ago, but I've actually been thinking of reducing the package to the 10x because recently I've been nowhere near.

This is with 3-4 agents constantly (even when I'm asleep) working away - it's hard to get them to do a full nights work, but I generally leave them with Big Problem^TM to solve overnight and we take it from where they left it in the morning. Sometimes they've even done it....

I'm no lawyer either :)

Even if Apple benefits though, I'm not sure American law binds foreign subsidiaries, otherwise I think they'd be taxing them as well :)

You're probably right, and even if not, theres probably a whole slew of regulations they could impose to make it non-useful. Still seems odd that Washington gets to decide what a company in other country B does, forbidding the export of RAM by that company B to other country C.

What's to stop Apple using all this foreign-earned money to buy Chinese chips using their (say) European companies ? Then they'd even pay less tax on all that money sitting out there.

Apple Europe (or however it's set up) is presumably not an American company, and not subject to American law, being based elsewhere...

The only surprise here is that it wasn't already...

Yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back. I hail from, and only stand for, the Republic Of Scouse.

(and if you think Texans have it bad regarding being understood, try being a Scouser [1])

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5Isx6Hi0E

Apple’s proposed remedy: give Us all the ram.

you don’t need to be less intelligent or less capable, but you will necessarily be less informed.

How you hold it is, of course, up to you.

Having worked at Apple for over a couple of decades, I can attest there are some very (very) capable and intelligent people there.

I trust they know more about their business model than some rando on the internet, sorry.

Even if it were true, and not just some Israel fantasy playing on a weak-minded "leader" ... Iran and the USA are in a shooting war. Why wouldnt this be considered "tuesday" ?

This is funny :) True, as well...

I was well off, 20 years at Apple, didn’t help me or my wife [1]. I don’t think the NHS is perfect, but I also don’t think they’d intentionally mistreat someone to make more profit. Healthcare in the USA is genuinely fucked, and in some cases, genuinely evil.

1:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44217106

This. I never watch video posts. I can skim-read a text site in seconds to see if it's worth a real read. I can't do that with video, and there's always some ads in it, whether the author put them there or not. I hate ads.

And it's not just HN either, video is a very poor substitute for a well written article. Video can augment a well-written article, but it can't replace it.

Ah, but 'Manager' being vague is a feature, not a bug IMHO. Unless there's a 'ConnectionLifetimeManager' (which, to be honest, seems overkill in my experience), then I expect ConnectionManager to handle that. It's the catch-all, not the specific.

The contract I expect it to keep is (as I said above) the holistic view of the system of <item>s that it's managing. That can vary from type to type, but trying to pin down a class to just the exact thing it does is a fools errand (again, IMHO); there is a level of abstraction in naming that is somewhat above the code itself. Manager is the hint, the code is the truth.

YMMV I guess. It's worked pretty well for me for the past 40 years or so :)

Don't think I agree with this.

A "Connection" handles all interaction between two nodes. No argument there.

A "ConnectionManager" handles all the housekeeping to do with the connections - whether there's a limit on connections, whether there's external API that influences behaviour, whether there's resource allocation to split between them and the policy for that, etc. etc. Basically all the things that a more holistic view of the system demands.

There's nothing wrong with a Manager-type class, as long as its task is management of that type. It shouldn't conflate the connection functionality as its own, I agree with that much, but there are two very distinct concepts being modelled here, by different classes.

There's a review from PCW of the Apricot F10 in the 1985/09 issue [1]

1: https://pcw.oobergeek.net/magazines/PCW-1985-09.pdf

Is the interesting part the upvotes, meaning there's more people interested in UK train networks than French ones ? And it's a comment on demographics ?

Or is the interesting part that the UK one is real-time, and the French one isn't (or at least, zooming in, I don't see them moving).

It bothers me, that FIFA and the US government are so openly corrupt. But it bothers me more that it works for them.

The only response to Trump phoning the head of FIFA to tell him to remove a red-card is "fuck off".

There is no point in this conversation, it is pure emotional certainty coupled with a very vacuous understanding of the world you live in. You've been emotionally hijacked by your media consumption.

right back at you, son.

For Ukraine, America has treated them far worse than China, humiliating its leader, buying Russian oil, publicly agreeing with Putin, telling Ukraine to just give up its land and people, charging Ukraine for its support, trying to bend Ukraine over a barrel for mineral rights in exchange for weapons, I could go on.

China does what it says it will do. The US lies to your face and does what it wants to. One of these is a far easier country to deal with.

Its not for me :(

For me, I have to get planning permission (which I'm not likely to get) to install a normal outside-fan/inside-unit air-conditioner. That's the downside of living in a conservation-area. The house is viewable on 3 sides from the road because of where it sits at the junction of 2 roads, and on the side that is private, we're actually very close to the road, so the noise of the fans running rules out that position.

The other route (and I looked into it) is to get inside-only a/c (which doesn't need planning permission because there's no outside unit) which uses water as the transport medium instead - so now I'm also using a constant trickle/stream of water from the mains, heating it up to ~45C and then letting it go down the drain. Cost of this ? About £30k

In all, for the few weeks of overly-warm weather per year, I'm better off getting portable a/c units that vent through a window. Or fans.

It's worse than that, its "Some people I disagree with" on the part of OP.

Taken as read is the context "in Europe" here - it's a comment about European reaction to China vs America, and none of the above applies to Europe.

I fucking wish the UK government would do the same.

I mean, this is not necessarily a problem for the EU. Some might say it's a goal.

The USA is far more dangerous a "friend" than China is an acquaintance. China has not been threatening military annexation, China does not randomly start trade (or real) wars. China doesn't just turn away from international commitments.

Bottom line: China is a far better international partner than the USA.

They asked Claude how to hide the Epstein files data that it found, so that even Claude and Mythos couldn't straight-up verify that Trump is a paedophile.

It took a lot of doing, but they finally managed it, so the plebs get to play with the toys again

The level of abstraction when I started was that you had to solder the components (resistors, capacitors, chips - well IC holders, chips were expensive) to the PCB board - that was "building your computer", none of this nancy-boy rubbish of "plugging stuff together" with "slots that can only take one type of card".

I'm fairly certain I know how it works. Being a physicist helps with the even-lower-level-details if you want to start talking about transistor doping, or electrical circuit theory, for example