Amazon does do overnight deliveries at 2am sometimes! Its handy if you aren’t worried about nocturnal porch pirates because you can just get up in the morning and find your package waiting for you.
My Samsung phone has forced updates even worse than this. It will download an update silently in the background and will nag me with a new notification every couple of hours. It will let me delay the update for a random length of time before just rebooting on its own. The last update let me delay for something like 10 hours, but I've also had it reboot in the middle of the day while I was using my phone to show something to a customer.
This has also soft-bricked my device more than once. I use a custom launcher, and Samsung apparently doesn't like that, so the system updates can get me stuck in a loop where the launcher repeatedly crashes.
There is no way at all to disable auto updates or stop the process once an update has been acquired. I've even tried blocking IPs in my router, but it seems to change addresses now and then. My only option is to just always keep WiFi off. It thankfully won't download over the cell network.
I'm never buying another Samsung product. I hate this phone more than I have any other piece of technology.
The idea that some company can at any moment force my device to download gigabytes of unknown data and run anything they want on my device without my knowledge or consent is just reprehensible. I paid over a thousand dollars for this piece of crap and I don't even own it. It's utterly ridiculous.
Every few weeks I get a new notification that the Samsung EULA has updated. I just dismiss them. It's not like it matters if I agree or not.
Dang, so this is a recent Samsung phone then? I've heard really good things about Samsung though the last one I used was the Galaxy S3 and that was my wife's phone.
What are you going to get instead? I've been pleased with the Pixel line and have delayed updates for many weeks. It will just nag me with a popup every week or so but never forces. OnePlus I've also been very pleased with and have never even gotten a nag from them.
Note 10+. It was their flagship model 3 or 4 years ago.
I can't decide what phone to replace it with. I love the idea of the pinephone but it's way too cheap. The other open source options are way too expensive.
The best option seems to be a Pixel device with a custom OS, but I'm loath to give google money.
Under no circumstances will I buy another phone that I can't run a custom OS on.
This is definitely the best civ game. The depth of this game is incredible. So much more immersive, more creating than any of the other civ titles. I haven't played it in years but I can still remember the voices of the faction leaders.
It's pretty good advice on a micro-level, though. When you see a situation brewing where one side is going to get screwed and another side is going to get-off handsomely, take the winning side of the trade if it's at all open to you. Do this enough times and you end up one of those rich capitalists, because each trade that ends up in your favor opens up more opportunities for future trades.
Capitalism has a bunch of negative feedback loops - usually by becoming a problem you help solve it. If people notice that a particular good is about to become really expensive and switch sides to become a producer, they increase the supply of it and drive the price down. Even if they hoard and don't produce anything, they drive the price up early, when existing producers might still be able to increase production, and then drive the price down during the shortage as they unload their hoard. If people notice that renters are going to get fucked by rising rents and buy property to become landlords, they increase competition in the landlord market and drive rents down during the crisis.
The average person gets the initial capital to enter the game of capitalism by living like a poor person and banking the difference. That's how it works: this "capital" that earns a return is simply the difference between what people earn and what they consume. If you get a positive return on it you might eventually start being able to earn like a rich person and live like an average person.
I understand your point but the Congress is not really a typical conference where ideas flow from speakers to attendees.
Instead everyone is expected to contribute ideas (and even physically as a volunteers)
The talks are actually only a part of the whole things and the main track talks (for which this CFP is for I assume) are only a part of the talks (the rest are organized by assemblies)
It's very different to usual IT conf, even compared to FOSDEM.
(Not part of the orga, this is only my understanding as an attendee)
That's the equivalent of "just run with sudo". People don't want to deal with different configurations, policies, etc. So to provide a "one-click" Installation, they'll just change the whole environment to whatever they think they need. Good luck installing multiple such programs.
It's like homebrew making /usr/local itself and everything in it all owned by whatever user installed homebrew for years until Apple finally just took over the directory.
"most macs are really single user anyway"
Really? That's the excuse? I'm supposed to feel good about software coming from this quality engineering?
Thanks!
Maybe the fact that the author is Frederick P. Brooks should be mentioned. From the domain name I was expecting something written by Bret Victor
HN typically goes by original title with some exceptions. It's ok to have to click through to figure out what the title is about (or by whomst), it's less ok to puff up a title by adding things to it which is usually why people slap on the author.
