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> Feinstein’s current term isn’t up until 2024, so should her seat become vacant before then, it would be up to Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, to appoint a temporary replacement. Newsom, like most governors, would have no restrictions on whom he could appoint – other than the constitutional age, citizenship and residency requirements that apply to all senators.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/05/03/how-do-st...

> Recycling is a last resort

It sounds like that's exactly what Apple is doing though?

>> If your device isn’t eligible for credit, we’ll recycle it for free.

If they can, they will resell the device. But a 5+ year old phone with a busted screen and dead battery is just trash. There is nothing to do but recycle it.

I am not personally a fan of Apple products for exactly this reason. I think the user experience on all their products (iphone, ipad, mac) is not good out of the box and is really restricting in what you can do.

But, I still believe Apple is trying to make the best products they can. Their design philosophy is heavily opinionated, and therefore a lot of people don't like it. Google's core mission is to slurp up user data & sell ads, and they are willing to make their products worse for the user to satisfy that goal. I don't think Apple would intentionally make a product worse to boost some short term metrics in that same way.

> why do you think that the ipad (with the same processor as the laptop) has not gotten more capable over the years?

I think Apple has consistently shown that they don't really care about power users. Why can't I snap windows on a mac? Why can't I customize the launcher on an iphone? Apple doesn't care about that use case. They stuck an m1 into the ipad because they already make them and its a super power efficient chip; they still have the same product vision for the ipad.

> Make no mistake, Apple is no paragon of virtue here.

Certainly, no company is virtuous. I think its more about incentives. Apple is incentivized to make good products and maintain their brand. Google is incentivized to sell as many ads as possible.

I assume you foster children, then?

I think the point is that the blame lies with DCF, not the doctors. Doctors should report, and DCF should competently investigate. In this scenario, the doctor did their job and DCF did not.

My first inclination is to blame DCF workers.

> These people are working in the shadows, in darkness," Lamanna said. "They can show up at your house in the middle of the night with no paperwork, no court order whatsoever, and say we’re removing under the B, we’ve decided an emergency exists."

> According to DCF’s 2022 quarterly report, about 60% of parents are reunited with their kids within a year after being removed by DCF.

Anyone who feels justified in stealing kids from parents in the middle of the night, without any due process, WITH A 60% MISS RATE, is completely and truly evil.

Seriously, more often than not DCF realizes they made a mistake and the kid goes back home. Insane.

Apple comes to mind as a company with some degree of long term vision and strong leadership. They are meticulous about maintaining their brand, and so far have resisted the enshitification.

They also have more cash than they know how to spend. So maybe the pressure to increase revenue this quarter is just lower in general.

> because it’s been only 2 years

The net neutrality repeal took effect in 2018, its been 5 years

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/technology/net-neutrality...

Vitally, net neutrality is an actual law in California. It can't be overturned arbitrarily by some bureaucrats.

Since Congress won't do anything at the national level, this is going to be re-hashed out by the FCC every time the president's tie changes color.

We are tired of the fear mongering and propaganda. We have seen the internet work just fine with and without net neutrality - its a micro-optimization as far as I am concerned.

Political capital is limited. Instead of wasting it rehashing this bandaid, why not campaign for something like municipal internet that would fundamentally solve the problems of ISPs?

Of course they do, its just invisible to the consumer. It is way cheaper for amazon to ship something via UPS than it is for you, because Amazon and UPS have negotiated contracts in place.

If you believed the scare tactics at the time, losing net neutrality literally threatened the end of the internet as we know it. But my internet has worked the same before, during, and after net neutrality. I really don't get what all the fuss is about.

However, if you really do believe this is a civilization defining piece of regulation, Why leave it to the FCC? It seems like people on both sides are happy to leave this super duper important decision to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats. Everyone loves executive overreach when its their side that does it I guess.

I'm not really concerned with what the criminal tells themself.

I am concerned about society at large sympathizing and excusing criminal behavior because the criminal was poor.

So tired of this notion that poor people have no morals.

Someone who is capable of kidnapping a child for ransom is seriously fucked up. Paying that person off with welfare so they don't "have" to resort to heinous crimes, as if that's the default, is unconscionable.

Okay, to be more pedantic - the vast vast majority of people living in suburbs have access to a car and do not consider a 2 mile drive to the grocery store an inconvenience. To say these people live in a food dessert is silly.

You are very clever to point out that people can actually walk around in a suburb, doesn't change the point.

I don't really buy this scenario where everyone on food stamps are unable to go to a grocery store. And if that is really true, subsidizing uber with tax dollars is not the solution.

> Well, 5 miles down the road makes it not a food desert, so there we go.

Not true. Unless you live in a truly rural town with less than 5000 people, you are counted as "urban" and any more than 1 mile from a grocery store is a food dessert.

I am 5 minutes from a grocery store and technically in a food dessert. Its silly.

But nobody is walking in a suburban town. This definition makes basically all suburbs a food dessert, even though the grocery store is only a few minutes from most people's house.

The problem is the definition of "urban or suburban". The census classifies any town of 5000 (!!!) people or more as urban.

I live in a small town of more than 5000 people, so it's technically urban. It takes me 5 minutes to get to the grocery store, but it's technically more than a mile so I am in a food dressert even though I have easy access to fresh produce.

Yeah, I have no problem with people using their EBT to pay for groceries; that's what it's for. But it feels wrong for Uber to take a cut

> The IEEE floats can represent a subset of integers in their range exactly. For example, 64 bit floats can represent the range of 32 bit ints accurately (and more).

I know, I am being a little facetious. A double has a 52 bit mantissa, so it can exactly represent integers that need 52 or less bits.

Still, as a percent, a float can represent 0% of the reals. There are an infinite amount of numbers it cannot represent, even if we give it lower and upper bounds. Whereas an int can represent 100% of the integers within a lower and upper bound.

> they represent subsets of the reals

Sure. My point is that this subset is useless. Because trying to add, subtract, multiply, or divide members of this set will result in a number outside the set.

> When you want to do exact calculations with floats, and you can, you just have to set yourself up so that the result is exactly representable, it's not as intractable as you make it seem.

In the general case, you absolutely cannot. Lets look at some examples.

In forex trading, you need 9 digits after the decimal place in the price. So right off the bat, a valid price like 1000000.000000001 cannot be represented by a float. If the exchange sends your system that price, your system is guaranteed to be wrong.

Lets say you start at a representable price, like 1000000.0 and want to tick it up or down by the tick size, say 0.025 . The result of that addition / subtraction is not representable, so you cannot calculate and round prices correctly.

If you don't have control of your inputs, and you need precision, floats will never work.

In programming, an `int` perfectly represents the integers between INT_MIN and INT_MAX.

A `float` on the other hand, approximates the real numbers. It can perfectly represent exactly 0% of them.

Having control over the rounding behavior is meaningless - floats cannot correctly represent any non-contrived calculation. Exact representation is important in financial systems.

A shocking number of devs are simply afraid of bits and bytes.

These systems use something like 10^-8 as the implied decimal in the real world. Some forex exchanges even go to 10^-9

> be done with some level of abstraction so it doesn’t matter at all what your computer’s implementation is.

This still doesn't do that, its just integer math. It doesn't matter how your CPU implements it, as long as `x = a + b` gives the correct value for x.

You don't have to immediately reach for an abstraction layer when you hear the word "bits" ;)

BCD is better than IEEE 754 floating point, but simple integers with an implied decimal point is much better than either of those.

Sounds slow as hell, what kind of financial systems have you worked with? I write trading software, and pretty much everyone uses integers with implied decimal place, similar to TFA.

How do you know you convert your internal string to a float/int correctly? You have to deal with the numeric types eventually

Because the brain physically, anatomically, has these "old strata". Lizard brains are pretty much just a basal ganglia. Humans have a basal ganglia, and then extra stuff on top. Mammals, and only mammals, have a neocortex "strata" to their brain as well.

I am not qualified to argue for or against the Triune brain, but it seems easy to see why the brain is different from the stomach in this regard.

So you agree that this is a problem then, and we should work to increase agency and reduce disenfranchisement by moving more power to local communities?