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by conradev 5y ago
How do you pay for digital goods with cash? Are you suggesting that every single online business that exists should have a mailing address to mail cash or checks, and have people to process them? I imagine that you pay for software in some
902.
by conradev 5y ago
> I'm not really seeing how regulation would really fix the scenario in the OP. What regulations that are likely to pass would prevent Apple and Google from removing apps arbitrarily? https://www.congress.gov/bill&#x
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by conradev 5y ago
John Mearsheimer has a really great video from 6 years ago about Ukraine that I found fascinating: https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4 Basically, he thinks the west precipitated the crisis by pushing to have Ukraine join NATO, and
904.
by conradev 5y ago
This reminds me of Tailscale, which has open source clients, but the server is not open source and, sure enough, someone wrote an open source server: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
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by conradev 5y ago
Helion is trying to capture the energy directly using the magnetic confinement field instead of a heat-driven turbine I am not sure if any of the other designs avoid the turbine
906.
by conradev 5y ago
From the linked post: “If you’ve ever looked at the Audible ACX contract, you’ve seen the complicated sales earnings math (another future post). For now, let’s focus only on the result: the amount of money which ends up in our bank” I perso
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by conradev 5y ago
I briefly looked into the same possibility, but I am trying to keep my physical modifications of the iPod to a minimum – mine is pretty tight in there with the big battery, although I could buy a deeper back plate. Power and audio can easil
908.
by conradev 5y ago
I would only use this in conjunction with something like iTunes Match (which is still around), because I want the original song data. That is what I meant by "high quality"
909.
by conradev 5y ago
I’ve done this myself and the thing that ultimately blocked me from enjoying my iPod is the fact that I wasn’t able to take my music library, which is all streaming, and put it on my iPod. It is still on my todo list to write a high quality
910.
by conradev 5y ago
Well, the real and underlying problem causing this is that they have the final say on what operating systems can run on iPhones. They don't do this for Macs. Ultimately, though, someone needs to maintain a database of malware. When thi
911.
by conradev 5y ago
Of course – Apple's App Store policies go beyond security, which is why it is critical for different stores with different policies to be able to compete. Its role in the threat model, though, is limited to automatic scanning and revoc
912.
by conradev 5y ago
Your iPhone cannot get hot because of protections built into the platform. Apps are heavily restricted in the damage they can do (and the runtime they can have). No app can render your phone unusable unless it exploits these protections. Th
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by conradev 5y ago
I imagine that part of it is for security. Figma has a good overview of the different approaches they considered for their JavaScript plugin system, and JS-in-JS was one of them: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-
914.
by conradev 5y ago
How does good privacy engineering at the platform level have any effect on lock-in? It is abundantly clear that Apple loves locking people in, and also clear that they love taunting their advantages over their competitors. But I just don’t
915.
by conradev 5y ago
You can also use this to wedge the C preprocessor into Swift for example, I can inject variables into the C preprocessor in my build settings and have a C header that defines constant strings with those variables, which I can then import di
916.
by conradev 5y ago
Mildly ironic and also a clever way to repurpose existing infrastructure and training
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by conradev 5y ago
I found the password to my teacher's eBoard[1] in 4th grade (a five digit code) and started changing things as a practical joke. Then I started seeing more five digit codes just written on Post-it notes… [1] https://www.eboa
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by conradev 5y ago
It means you can pull CO2 out of the air to make biomass (plants), then you can add (renewable) energy to the biomass to make it into fuel. When you burn the fuel, the CO2 is put back into the air.
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by conradev 5y ago
“They use just the instruction set and make their own microarchitecture.” Is that really the case? My understanding is that while, yes, they make their own microarchitectures, they rely heavily on IP from ARM to make that happen Do they wri
920.
by conradev 5y ago
1000% For example, California wants to electrify lawn equipment: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/zero-emission-lands... There are a number of competing ecosystems of batteries. They each have a leaf blowe
921.
by conradev 5y ago
This problem exists with cash. We teach people to not keep too much cash on them, but to keep it in a bank where it is safer. You could get a credit card, too, and then it’s not even your money that you are spending! or your money that you
922.
by conradev 5y ago
This problem exists with cash. We teach people to not keep too much cash on them, but to keep it in a bank where it is safer. You could get a credit card, and then it’s not even your money that you are spending! or your money that you lost
923.
by conradev 5y ago
Logging is something you do for some future purpose. If I write a string in a log message, the future purpose is usually for me to read it later. The reasons in the post did not convince me on why my log messages should be structured. For
924.
by conradev 5y ago
That is like saying biologically speaking, 65% of the world’s population isn’t designed to drink milk, because they don’t produce the enzyme lactase. Yes, it is true. No, it does not mean anything on its own. Those same moral philosophies s
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by conradev 5y ago
and, thankfully, "cream on top" milk is now more available in US supermarkets brands like Straus are generally available on the west coast, not sure about other regions
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by conradev 5y ago
This. It is all in the yolks. Farm fresh eggs from happy chickens can be a nice deep yellow/orange, whereas factory eggs are usually pale yellow. Of all of the farm products discussed in the thread, eggs show the biggest difference in
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by conradev 5y ago
Thank you for the recommendation for the podcast, I am looking for exactly this
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by conradev 5y ago
Cars are expensive and use an enormous amount of energy. You can buy dozens of e-bikes for the price of one EV, and charge dozens of e-bikes from one fully charged EV battery. EVs do not fix the emissions problem, as most emissions are from
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by conradev 5y ago
I meant this (from the same article): > When outside the United States, cellular phone calls cost $0.20 per minute, data costs the same $10 per gigabyte (i.e. there are no extra data charges outside of the US), and texting is free
930.
by conradev 5y ago
To me, there is nothing to indicate this is a power grab by Apple. Google supports eSIM. Google can sell you cell service for your iPhone from the couch. If any phone manufacturer is trying to compete with the carriers, it would look a lot

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