I love Postgres but my biggest disappointment with them over recent years, is they are still missing automatic incremental materialized view maintenance. Has been proposed for many years but never implemented, there are extensions but they are not popular which makes me weary to use them. Would be so nice to have in the core, would also be nice to have an explanation as to why they can't do it?? Oracle has had this for many years.

Interesting, over the past few years, I've ignored the critics score and just looked at the audience score - this explains why.

Looks good but what about Named Parameters? Why on earth is Javascript still missing such an important feature? I know you can kind of fake it with objects, but is clunky in comparison.

That's actually a benefit. It allows the type signature to be used to compose and verify what you're passing to a function, and to use that same interface in other places.

Exactly because of that, it would only cut the curly brackets.

Also it is the same approach done in C and C++, another two languages where being clunky is a something we got used to.

Rust has the same issue. In practice it’s just not a big deal, I think about it maybe once every six months or so.

Steve Jobs duly listed browsing the web, dealing with email, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks, and enjoying photos. Coincidentally, those were the exact things the iPad was really good at. Agreed * Except Music * I have loved having many iPads, but the speakers have always been terrible and they point the wrong way - about time this was fixed.

I have the 13" M4 iPad Pro and the speakers on it are incredible.

Meta copying Snapchat for the umpteenth time. Friend map is very popular with Teenagers.

One of the basic principals of the EU is freedom of movement between countries. One could argue that imposing such an onerous tax on moving to another EU country breaks this principal, so maybe worth a legal challenge - for someone with a lot to loose.

Or, alternatively, the bureaucrats in charge would argue that all EU countries need to implement similar exit taxation laws - that's where it seems to be heading lately.

When you start to run out of other people's money.

This is why this doesn't apply if you move within the EU.

It does apply

Depends on what you mean by apply. The taxation is deferred without interest until you leave the EU.

This is good news, the US should join in aswell in stopping this despicable behaviour by Apple. Apple handicaps browsers because web apps are the only viable alternative to Native Apps which generate huge commission for Apple.

It's a factor in the DOJ antitrust case that's going to trial soon -

> 43. Developers cannot avoid Apple’s control of app distribution and app creation by making web apps—apps created using standard programming languages for web-based content and available over the internet—as an alternative to native apps. Many iPhone users do not look for or know how to find web apps, causing web apps to constitute only a small fraction of app usage. Apple recognizes that web apps are not a good alternative to native apps for developers. As one Apple executive acknowledged, “[d]evelopers can’t make much money on the web.” Regardless, Apple can still control the functionality of web apps because Apple requires all web browsers on the iPhone to use WebKit, Apple’s browser engine—the key software components that third-party browsers use to display web content.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.544... (p22)

More likely because otherwise companies would have no reason to support Safari, they'd tell everyone to download chrome like they do on desktop - then google would have no incentive to optimize chrome for iOS because what would you use otherwise?

I'm surprised Carbon Fibre structural batteries have not been adopted by Car manufacturers - could be a game changer I think.

structural batteries that have competitive power densities will require precision 3D manufacturing at the same level as silicone processors, and is altogether theoretical for the forseable future. what we are seeing with huawaei is an example of excess engineering capacity of a large high tech company, much like Honda, when it gets bored, and starts making jets, or robots, or rockets...instead of mini bikes huawei is a bit different in that there big business of phones,routers, and cell infrastucture equipment got largely shut down, and so they are returning serve with a vengance in order to redeem there place as a player in high tech infrastructure industry.

Carbon fibre is incredibly expensive to manufacture. It requires a lot of manual part manipulation and yields can be poor.

BMW made a big bet that batteries would remain expensive and weight would matter for EVs. i3 and i8 were studies in scaling up structural carbon fibre mass production based on that bet that failed pretty badly.

Structural batteries are already a thing. Carbon fibre won't be the housing without a bunch of innovations.

Mirabegron a well tolerated drug for Urinary Incontinence also promotes thermogenesis and conversion of white fat to heat producing brown fat