Oryx is proprietary, but vial[1] is open source and has similar functionality. It still uses web technology though, so you either need a chromium based browser, or electron to use it (or maybe Firefox with this extension).
Does this mean they can create a chip that emits light at a specific frequency they choose? Or the chip can emit a programmable frequency that is controlled "at runtime" so to speak? I wasn't able to figure that out from the article.
So they say you should use epsilons, then their solution to the first problem is to use an epsilon. There may be some cases when you can get by without using epsilon comparison, but in many cases epsilon comparison is the right thing to do, but you need to choose a good value for it.
This is especially true in cases where the number comes from some kind of input (user controls, sensor reading, etc.) or random number generation.
IME, most people (in the US) don't bother going to a doctor for a cold unless it lasts a long time or is especially bad, because you'll probably get better on your own and going to the doctor is expensive.
I was working in a church office when I came down with a runny nose and other cold symptoms.
My supervisor told me I could stay home for a day, but if longer than that, I would require a doctor’s excuse.
Now, that seemed fair from a labor perspective, but it is extremely unfair to someone like me. Because I do not own a vehicle, and seeing a doctor would involve boarding one or more buses and snorking the entire way there and back. Risking infection for everyone around me was exactly what I sought to avoid by staying home.
So what else could I do, but come into work and carry on? It is this sort of unreasonable requirement that fuels “presenteeism”.
> My supervisor told me I could stay home for a day, but if longer than that, I would require a doctor’s excuse.
You'd think the supervisor would realize it's in their own self-interest for you to not be around spreading infection (to them) by your mere presence.
There are of course people who abuse systems where doctors notes are not needed, and call in and then go have fun. It's not too hard to come across stories of people getting on short/long-term disability by know the correct doctor (I know of a situation where 3 members of the same family went to the same doctor and got a note for some condition).
> Lots of retailers (both physical & online) have similar requirements
My understanding (IANAL) is that that is illegal, and those retailers should be prosecuted as well. That is essentially price fixing, because the retailer is enforcing their competitors have the same price, using the supplier as an intermediary.
> many manufacturers have similar requirements
That is a different situation, and is AFAICT legal in the US (but not in many other countries, and IMHO probably shouldn't be legal), at least in some situations, but there are limits.
Is that actually bad for consumers? Wouldn't deranking the "not lowest" price make it easier for customers to find the lowest price (whether that is a different product on the same storefront, or the same product on a different storefront), and hence be good for customers?
In the long run it is bad for consumers. If you sell widgets on amazon for $10, and amazon charges $2 or whatever, you pocket $8. Maybe you also want to sell your widgets on your own site where your overhead is only $1. The "most favored customer" clause prevents you from passing that savings on to the customer and charging $9 on your site (or any marketplace where you might prefer to sell things compared to amazon). It promotes stasis or growth of large sellers and prevents new ones from offering price competition.
> Wouldn't deranking the "not lowest" price make it easier for customers to find the lowest price
The original wording was
>Amazon requires that anyone selling through their platform not offer lower prices elsewhere online.
which means if the seller offers to sell something on amazon for $x, but has a shopify site selling it for < $x, then that seller will get deranked. That's not the same thing as the lowest price, because it's possible that other sellers sell for higher prices, and some people might not find whatever obscure shopify site that has the lowest price.
The wording is admittedly ambiguous, but the fact that there are totally overpriced items available on amazon suggests amazon isn't deranking people just because it's not the best price on the internet.
If amazon was just ranking by price, that would be fine. But the described behaviour implies that they would derank a listing even if it was the cheapest option because it was made available by the same seller for cheaper elsewhere.
This kind of thing is ultimately bad for customers because it reduces competition between sales outlets, by making it very difficult for smaller players to compete on price.
As described in the OP, sellers didn't respond to this pressure by lowering prices on Amazon, they raised praises at other retailers. So the effect is to raise prices overall.
No it prevents businesses from selling directly from their site at a discount, and eliminates any incentive consumers have to purchase a product outside of amazon. It's one of the ways they became a monopoly, in addition to selling at a loss until all the small businesses were forced to close.
Almost all of the gui software for programming keyboards with QMK uses webusb or webhid, so you either have to use a chromium based browser or an electron app that is basically just a wrapper for chromium.
Yeah, it's a shame Qt/C++ doesn't have any way of interacting with USB devices and there's no libraries for that, otherwise there could be a native GUI app for QMK. Or failing that, because Qt is simply too difficult for programmers to figure out, maybe some day there will be a way to deal with USB devices from Java, then at least we could have an AWT app (or I guess Swing is the new hotness now?).
Yes there are things that Firefox does better than others, and that is one reason I use Firefox. But there are definitely things I would like to see improved, like:
- PWA support on Linux
- better performance
- devtools should be able to handle sites with large amounts of js with sourcemaps
- fix a number of bugs that have been open for a long time
- don't lag behind standards as much (I'm not talking about things where they intentionally don't implement problematic "standards" pushed by google)
- make it feasible to embed gecko in other projects similar to how chromium is used by electron and webkit is used in "webviews"
https://get.vial.today/
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