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by ajross 22d ago
Yeah, basically this is terminating the trick some people used where they host a domain elsewhere but want to use an free personal GMail address as the "mail client" for it. Google sells their own domain email product, they'
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by ajross 23d ago
Fair enough. I'd view it as "florid" vs. "shallow", but it's not my opinion that matters and I fully agree that there's a spectrum between "strongly held" and "offensive" and you have
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by ajross 23d ago
Both of you are misunderstanding the point: I was responding (pretty clearly I thought!) to the ridiculous "all electric" range. Yes, it can go farther if you burn fuel. But so can a Dash-8, very effectively. No one is intereste
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by ajross 23d ago
It's chemistry, not technology. Motive engines that can suck ~70% of their reactant mass from the atmosphere have a horrifyingly unfair advantage.
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by ajross 23d ago
To repeat: the market is filled with fuel-driven turboprops. This only wins if it's better, and it's only better if it's cheaper. Is it cheaper? If it's cheaper they should say, and not spend time talking about "
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by ajross 24d ago
Oh sure, but that was a hack. The rest of the market (even in 1982) had already moved on, c.f. the ROM on the 1978 Disk II card that could load and run a boot sector automatically. Having an "operator" was a design paradigm, and
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by ajross 24d ago
> "LOAD .... 8,1" (I don't remember the middle part). Interestingly this was sort of the beginning of the end of digital computers as an operator-centered environment. So, the LOAD command took three arguments: the first
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by ajross 24d ago
> You're also still wrong about the nature of AnkiDroid So were you though, if you're still standing by "just some nerd programmers". They want to take donations through an outside payment processor, which they simpl
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by ajross 24d ago
> "Phone apps" is irrelevant, because again, Anki was not taking donations via their app but rather via a link to OpenCollective, a separate website. ...Irrelevant? That's the whole point. "Taking donation via a se
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by ajross 25d ago
Since you seem to have done the research, can you link some other iOS or Android apps that have been allowed to solicit donations for the Open Source Collective? Thanks. I mean, come on. Just read their page. They're not a charity,
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by ajross 25d ago
> Anki and Ankidroid are not the same entity So... why is one soliciting donations on behalf of the other?! My Fraud Meter is rising, not falling here. > It's also just some nerd programmers who ported Anki to run on Android. It
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by ajross 25d ago
Do LF and Rust solicit individual donations via phone apps (or at all, really)? Indeed, those are structured as corporate-funded consortiums of exactly the type you'd be very suspicious of if, say, your kernel or compiler logs started
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by ajross 25d ago
This just should not be the top comment here. HN being HN, it's way, way too bent out of shape about the company name attached to the app store and not the minutiae of tax policy, which is what this is really about. The app in quest
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by ajross 26d ago
Indeed the Nest integration is pretty solid. That said, the author might also consider installing an actual doorbell , which is a device their home should have had decades ago. You'll also want something to provide power to the Nest,
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by ajross 27d ago
> You're not wrong, but companies such as Google make business decisions, not moral decisions. It's far easier and cheaper for them to comply From the space between the lines in the article, it seems pretty clear that Google de
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by ajross 28d ago
I think we need to agree to disagree here. The kinds of things you view as evidence for literary analysis just aren't what I'm looking at, and frankly to me they look like coincidence and prestigitation. Holmes using christian-d
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by ajross 28d ago
> How can you say that 19th century Britain wasn't obsessed with worshipping a dead god? I think the burden of proof goes the other way? Obviously there were christians in England. But the British Empire really just was not a &quo
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by ajross 29d ago
Yeah, oversold to me, sorry. Just to start with: "definitely" and "subtly done" are at odds with each other. You can't be both. Klaatu is "definitely" a Jesus analog. The Emperor... meh. It's str
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by ajross 29d ago
> It was more than just a joke. It was a satire on England and 1980's society. Well... while I buy that to some extent, I think the point is oversold. While there are absolutely satirical aspects to the early game[1], they're
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by ajross 29d ago
Which is to say, the original authors didn't care and were just writing latinesque gibberish that sounded cool. One of the critically important things to remember about 40k lore is that the game was originally a joke . Their "re
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by ajross 29d ago
Honestly more than half of this sort of mess is incompetence rather than malice. But... yeah, sigh. Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like.
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by ajross 29d ago
> Remember, 640K ought to be enough for anybody. This is one of those countersmells that flags people as unserious. It was at best an amusing quip from the days of extended memory PCs about why they should move to modern OSes. Gates, of
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by ajross 1mo ago
To be fair, this kind of dominance is not unprecedented. Intel was even further ahead in the early 2000's. Every new competitor process was further behind the leading edge and not closer. TSMC started launching half nodes like 28nm
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by ajross 1mo ago
> later Chinese would speak of Xia the way Romans would speak of Troy Troy was indeed largely fabricated though! Really I think that's of a piece with stuff being, y'know, really old. There are big holes in Sumerian and Egypt
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by ajross 1mo ago
This is not Android Auto though, which is an entirely different product suite designed to connect a OEM infotainment system to an Android device owned by the vehicle operator. That protocol is proprietary, Google-owned and managed, not p
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by ajross 1mo ago
Headline really quite clearly implies it, though. I think the correction is apt. Bottom line is that lots of HN commenters here, as is our wont, will see this as a platform bug with a hated rival and not a bad third party integration that
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by ajross 1mo ago
> This isn’t a war Fingerprinting and other quasi-malware techniques being used by desirable third party software are absolutely a war, otherwise we wouldn't have this permission structure in place in the first place. And as much
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by ajross 1mo ago
Cargo (and PyPI) is undeniably better than NPM, which is just shockingly bad for cultural reasons. Yet it's not safe, and it's subject to the same class of exploit, as we're seeing. Indeed, the solution is to get away from t
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by ajross 1mo ago
Oooph. So this is all down to dithering on whether the public option qualifies as "single payer"? Like, is the "single" applied to everyone or just to the beneficiary? I'll point out that Medicare (the global ar
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by ajross 1mo ago
Well to be fair you didn't say that in the linked tweet. Delay is bad too, but again the original spirit of the license was absolutely OK with the idea of weeks-long delays. Our modern world of instant github access has spoiled us, b

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