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> Have you seen the rig Apple uses?

I cant find this, do you have a link? I'm quite interested in what they do.

I would much prefer a market based solution.

Searching news on Google is a bad experience. AMP has made it even worse.

There’s room in search.

My trigger is hairdryers. This is the best channel by far: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5ryuK4Fv1hvvIxMcXfcHsQ/vid...

You might like https://bucklescript.github.io/ Facebook use it in Messenger.

I'm with ExpressVPN. The performance is fantastic.

The Wikipedia page on Julia says one of the original goals was that Julia could be used as a specification language. Does Julia already provide tools for formal verification?

Have you ever used a $50 Android tablet? Those sorts of tablets are almost completely unusable. And I don't mean that in a snobby tech-elitist kind of way. I mean they are literally broken, at least every one I've used or seen reviewed.

Microsoft has put a bit of effort into accessibility in Visual Studio. This video demonstration blows my mind every time I watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0

Modern Progressive Web Apps mostly fix these issues.

When you visit a proper PWA multiple times, your browser is supposed to notice and ask you if you want to save it to the Homescreen.

But you're right, web on mobile is still miserable in general.

That's only a partial solution. It may be a user agent or a queuing system (or anything else sitting between a person clicking the button and where the final transaction is recorded) that attempts a retry.

Portmanteaus for naming new technology should be banned :P

Deepak Chopra, is that you?

And yet, the US is the leading military power and war is decreasing (and is at an all time low).

I'm not saying they are related, I'm just saying that the opposite is obviously not true.

I think it's fairly straightforward to make a argument against what she said.

Western society worked out ages ago that it's best just to leave individuals to pursue what they find valuable. It may not be the most efficient system, but it works.

Anything other than that implies that it's possible for everyone to have (more likely to be forced to have) the same set of values, and that we can all agree on how to order human pursuits from most beneficial to least beneficial. We already know that kind of collectivist approach fails every time.

I feel sorry for the poor guy who has to deal with your ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of HTTP 10 years down the line.

It's the next logical step to me. We have the Link, Internet, and Transport layers pretty well sorted. The Application layer is the next in line and it seems likely the web is going to win. A good thing about the web winning(and possibly part of the reason it's winning)is it has a lot of the next(and possibly final) layer already standardized. I'm not sure what you'd call it, let's say the Semantic Layer, all our human shit. (HTML, XML, and all the data formats, etc).

I think what your parent meant was Australia doesn't have any explicit freedom of speech protection laws, unlike the US and some other countries. Which is true.

"The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensible part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution. It operates as a freedom from government restraint, rather than a right conferred directly on individuals." - https://www.humanrights.gov.au/freedom-information-opinion-a...

People unfamiliar with history live in a fantasy world.

Smalltalk or more specifically one of it's dialects, Self (an even more "extreme" Smalltalk), made huge advances in JIT compilation. Advances which later ended up in the Java HotSpot virtual machine. Some benchmarks hit half the performance of optimized C. That was in the late 90s.

This thread is so HN.

Post -> Comment on Post -> Analysis of Comment -> Analysis of Analysis -> Analysis of the act of Analysis -> Question truth itself.

It's like that Wikipedia phenomenon where all articles lead to philosophy.

Why would you accuse Valve of 'missing the boat' just because they aren't the best at everything?

Do they, or we, even want a single company to run the most popular game distribution service, the most popular gaming chat service, the most popular game streaming service, the most popular VR platform and the most popular gaming OS?

That sounds awful to me.

Thanks for clarifying. I feel bad for jumping on you so quickly. There is a growing anti-free speech movement that scares me and I come down on it hard even at the hint of it. I've lost good friends over it.

I agree with your point (if I'm understanding it correctly), you can't use software to encode human values.

Piracy is an interesting example. Companies implemented DRM to try and stop people from copying information they own, and it failed. Now people are attempting to do the same to stop companies from copying their information. It didn't work in one direction, why would it work in the other?

"...while I can appreciate sticking to the view that free speech is best for all, there are some behaviours which society has mostly agreed are objectionable..."

Free speech exists specifically to allow people to go against "what society has mostly agreed is objectionable", that's the whole point.

"What society has mostly agreed is objectionable" is the problem that free speech fixes.

I'm not sure I understand. Do you have an example?

There are entire branches of philosophy dedicated to that line of thought. More essays than you could read in a lifetime.

Personally, I find reason to be the only way to find truth.

No, people should speak what they believe to be true. The onus is on the listeners to not blindly accept everything they hear as reality.

Thank you! I should have checked Whirlpool first, seems like the obvious place. Such a great resource in general, but that NBN wiki is very detailed. I'm lucky enough to live in an apartment with full FTTP NBN 100/40 and in a way it sucks because if I have to move the chances of me getting it again are so low.

I think your explanation is quite good. Assuming I understood you correctly, a shallow example might be a basic electronic circuit - a bulb, battery and switch connected in series. You could model the whole circuit without any concept of time even though the flow of electricity is not instantaneous.

Do you have any sources on this? I always wondered why NBN was such a disaster.

Yeah, I remember when US products like Dr Pepper first started showing up in NZ they would have a sticky label over the top of the nutrition info with a more compliant one.

This is going to reveal my lack of networking knowledge but how does a company get an IP like 1.1.1.1? A bucket load of cash?