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New comment by denis1 in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

denis1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:45:06 +0000

> Your stylized example is unrelated to reality. Users cannot subscribe to Spotify in app, so Apple makes no money

And what do you think the reason for that is?

> while providing all the R&D they use to play audio on the device for free

Simply absurd logic. The device owner paid for their device and the OS. Apple already got their cash bag for it.

New comment by denis1 in "Home Assistant: Three years later"

denis1 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:56:32 +0000

The problem of reliability isn't really with Home Assistant. It comes from the pain of integrating the almost-but-not-quite compatible cheap Chinese devices that claim to work with a standard, but don't.

The ecosystem is so fragmented between cheap race-to-the-bottom gadgets and the more expensive "works only with OUR app" that integrating anything more than just a few bulbs is a pain.

And that's not even considering the amount of customer support that someone doing this professionally would have to provide.

New comment by denis1 in "Moscow retaliates against Western sanctions with export bans"

denis1 — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:21:04 +0000

> Russia and Ukraine generate a quarter of the world's grain, and nearly as much so of corn.

They generate a quarter of the grain export. That's a very important difference. Russia stopping wheat exports would be a very bad thing, but it's not nearly as catastrophic as some present it to be.

New comment by denis1 in "Thank you Wise for blocking our business account"

denis1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:44:27 +0000

How's that going to backfire? What you've presented as the "bad option" is the current status quo. Putin had sky high approval for decades and the Russian population has supported him while he strengthened his grip on power.

New comment by denis1 in "Russia Cannot Win The War"

denis1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:14:53 +0000

Or... there aren't better troops and weapons?

Hear me out. Russia is corrupt to the core with leadership that's only focused on enriching themselves.

It wouldn't surprise me if their conventional military proved to be way less capable then they're presenting it to be.

Sure, they have enough smart people that are able to design advanced weaponry, but do they have the industrial capacity to actually build? And do they have the capability to maintain it? How about troop training?

New comment by denis1 in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"

denis1 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:01:33 +0000

They did have those secure means for communications up until now. Nothing changed. Or, dare I say, it changed for the worse. The regime in Russia got worse by the day and the people of Russia, at best did nothing, at worst cheered Putin on.

New comment by denis1 in "Tell HN: If You Are in Russia"

denis1 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:35:06 +0000

> From Russia’s point of view, they had many reasons to annex Crimea.

Oh they sure did, and all of them were of the militaristic and imperialistic variety.

> Having studied this situation a bit, my conclusion is that both sides are to blame

How can Ukraine/the West possibly be responsible for Russia launching an imperialistic annexation war? Nothing can excuse that.

New comment by denis1 in "Russia 'Likely' to Default on Debts"

denis1 — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:01:22 +0000

The map of Eastern Europe and NATO expansion over the last 25 years makes the fact the Russia is a shitty neighbor very clear.

It's not that the US/NATO want to extend, it's that the countries of Eastern Europe seek protection from the mad neighbor to the east.

Scala 3 Capture Checking

denis1 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:45:19 +0000

Article URL: https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/cc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30358795

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Introducing Email Protection: The easy way to block email trackers

denis1 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/?s=pr-hd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27919742

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by denis1 in "Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B"

denis1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:26:00 +0000

You can use Play and not care about Akka that much. I think the original question was about using Akka directly.

New comment by denis1 in "Etsy to buy fashion reseller Depop for $1.63B"

denis1 — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:25:28 +0000

I think it's mostly Play Framework on top of RDS in terms of Scala usage.

New comment by denis1 in "Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration (dark energy might not exist)"

denis1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:15:24 +0000

Followup video with Sabine Hossenfelder speaking with one of the authors of the paper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1mwYxkhMe8

New comment by denis1 in "Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal"

denis1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:35:22 +0000

I want Epic to win. It's fine if you want to have Apple as an option. It's not fine to have Apple as the only option. Apple should either allow 3rd party IAPs or 3rd party app stores. Having neither is Apple abusing it's power and forcing it on consumers.

New comment by denis1 in "Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak"

denis1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:23:36 +0000

Your MacBook Pro didn't now become less secure. It always was. We should be thankful to these people for making the vulnerability clear to us.

Apple seeks damages from 'Fortnite' creator in App Store dispute

denis1 — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:59:17 +0000

Article URL: https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN25Z308

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411698

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Signal in LIGO/Virgo Data. Found by a Burst Search

denis1 — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:41:24 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/LIGO/status/1216914957977227272

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22046485

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

French auditor says Ariane 6 rocket too conventional to compete with SpaceX

denis1 — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/french-auditor-says-ariane-6-rocket-too-conventional-to-compete-with-spacex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19104842

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by denis1 in "New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops"

denis1 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:08:19 +0000

FYI Dell issued a recall for XPS batteries. You should check their support pages and make sure to get it replaced (or have one shipped to you).

New comment by denis1 in "Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (2001)"

denis1 — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:13:53 +0000

Edit: The OP expanded that the post was about the linked article... now my comment doesn't make too much sense.

If you say that about Milewki's talks then I don't agree. He does use Haskell notation a lot, but gives C examples as well and most of his arguments are based in category theory/general programming.

Anyway, I think that the series of talks linked in the GP are a must watch. Even for people that don't fully agree with the viewpoint of Category Theory being a "holly grail" the videos do provide a different point of understanding.