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The ergonomics of the AirPods are definitely worth a lot to many people. When used in conjunction with the Apple Watch, you never have to reach for your iPhone for audio. It works great and the sound is adequate when I'm exercising or doing some other outdoor activity. The AirPods are not audiophile quality but they are not horrible either.
Ah. To be fair, that intel.com link is confusing, because it sends you off to see if you have "Intel® vPro", which is certainly on consumer hardware, like various i5 and i7 systems. Which does not jive with the earlier line "This vulnerability does not exist on Intel-based consumer PCs". It sort of depends on your definition of consumer hardware.

Overall, though, it does seem to validate the sequence was something like "he had a suspicion" then "intel released an update".
Intel slashed prices of a lot of their chips by up to 25% basically overnight with Ryzen's release (in consumer and enterprise segments). It doesn't necessarily get Intel competing again, but it at least cuts into the fat margins a bit.
why does it need a whole launcher app instead of taking a script to run on the webpage with a control api baffles me
As covered in Moneyball (the book), the "sluggers" tend to swing at more. So although they may hit home runs, they also tend to strike out a lot too.

The actual approach was to get a bunch of people who worked to extend the inning by not getting out.. aka getting on base safely. You don't need many big hits when you can get singles and doubles consistently.

A couple years ago, I met a small scale angel investment group that complained "we haven't had a unicorn" but when we chatted more, I found out 60% of their investments were acquired in under five years with them making ~5x each time.

Not as sexy but sounds like a good strategy to me.
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There is only one such fund that has survived over a long period of time and that is RenTec. As far as I'm aware, there aren't many others.

And my understanding is that no one can invest in RenTec anymore either because they can't scale the strategy.
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Maybe a "/s" will save you the downvotes.
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They didn't have 12 Cs [0], but can you think of any absolute snubs? The team only had 1 true center and 1 true PG.

Isiah Thomas was deserving, and Laettner was picked over Shaq. At the time, both were tossups. Johnson was older and so was Bird, but I assume they had high salaries per the topic.

[0] http://www.basketball-reference.com/olympics/teams/USA/1992/
One could even claim that any mechanical device is ultimately reducible to a wavefunction, which is really just math.
Physicists just came up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine
Are you sure? Both my ThinkPad (personal) and my MBP (work) appear to be affected; they report CPU models that, when I look that model up in Ark, Intel says has the vPro technology.
> This becomes less of an issue once you go through some abstract algebra. But typically, constants would come from the start of the English alphabet, and vectors, from the end.

That rule gets broke quite a bit though. For example, if you have a optimization program with some affine inequality constraint A * x <= b, it's not uncommon to refer to the individual hyperplane constraints as a_i^T x <= b_i.

Math obviously has many more concepts than we have notation so selecting a unique notation for each concept is not feasible, but I bet some standardization can be done.

> Did the code remain "worst" after you found out the names came from a paper?

No, I am fine with naming things after variables from papers, but I always put a note as to which paper the notation came from. Giving someone a few hundred lines of code where few variables have more than 2 letters and no context is just cruel though.
They've also been discussed a lot in those terms because of the prevailing narrative of Apple being in a slump or not being able to innovate anymore.
They don't keep their reasoning secret and sell their sentancing recommendations either.
Didn't Mike Pall step down sometime last year? It looks like he's made a ton of commits [0] and also made the announcements on the mailing list [1]. Anyways, congrats on the new release!

[0] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/master

[1] https://www.freelists.org/archive/luajit/05-2017
Heh, this title takes a pretty liberal interpretation of what the article says.
Anyone expecting another shadowbrokers reveal soon...?
Given that no software is error-proof, I'm betting on accident here.
As mentioned in the article for Apple to have a successful desktop, they need to make it boring. A simple tower that allows the users to upgrade a couple components like the RAM, hard drive and full-sized graphics card. I think the starting price should be around $1600 which was the entry price of the PowerMac G4 back in the day. At that price it should be on par with the 27" iMac or better since you don't have to include a retina display. I'm not sure how big the market is for desktop macs anymore, but I'd really like to buy a mac like that.
> Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) reported lower-than-expected quarterly revenue in its business that supplies server chips

What server business?
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I will likely end up using this in personal capacity, and would also appreciate if the UX of using Google Authenticator were more similar to this, rather than requiring me to screenscrape my phone with my eyeball and then type information into another device (or, more painfully, another window on the same phone).

The easiest way to do that probably results in a callback to Big Daddy G every time I access anything sensitive and I'm cool with that.
I found this paper[1] to be a particularly good source of information on the legal landscape of using algorithms in the judicial system.

[1] Barocas, Solon, and Andrew D. Selbst. "Big data's disparate impact." (2016).
APA https://www.accmeetings.com/AM16/faculty/files/Article_461_D...
It's a lot easier to lose other peoples money when you get a bit cut of the upside.
Clarity moved to chrome webdriver, but they are not using the headless features. It's standard selenium webdriver, and xvfb

https://github.com/vmware/clarity/blob/master/.travis.yml#L4...
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Writing test benches in Icarus Verilog was quite helpful for me, along with pretty much everything at asic-world[0]. I haven't looked for a VHDL equivalent of Icarus, unfortunately.

Of course, always remember that "can be compiled" != "can be synthesized".

[0] http://www.asic-world.com/verilog/index.html
Lots of bans going on over at /r/pfsense where users are asking straightforward questions and the staff are just banning them. Read the edits made to the posts there crazy....

Seeming more and more like this is a cash grab thing to get people to upgrade to their hardware.
It gets more confusing because Intel is crediting Maksim Malyutin from Embedi: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...

Intel would like to thank Maksim Malyutin from Embedi for reporting this issue and working with us on coordinated disclosure.
Ah yes, broadcom, the poster child of openness.
Is it just me or is there almost no information in this advisory besides telling people to update their firmware?

I don't know what this vulnerability is or how it is exploited and I barely know what systems of mine might be affected by it.
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Is there an analog of this issue on AMD chips?
Google Maps, Amazon, and EBay Drop Apple Watch Support
I think they are trying to do it with StartupSchool by replicating some of the features of the program on a larger community.
Black Swan fallacy. And I never claimed to be Malthusian so please leave your tar brush at home.

Also you may note that my criticisms are aimed directly at the current broken systems under utilizing and abusing our agricultural and water resources. We absolutely have enough land and water to go around, but the way we misuse it is going to have the extraterrestrial archaeologists digging through our powdered bones and plastic wrap shaking their heads in sadness.
I'm not seeking a flame war, but what Emacs shenanigans were those? I mostly use Emacs, so I am just curious. Thanks!
The commit author doesn't tell the whole story: the long description on most of the recent commits mention somebody else.
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I use objects that can't transition from one state to another practically every working day. It's a strange view point to me that because something is immutable, it's not really an object. But a view worth thinking about.

To me the important thing is hiding internal state and sending high level messages instead of something like "change internal field x to y". Whether that internal state you're hiding is immutable or not seems irrelevant to me.
I think that it'll be a cut-down version of the old tower, not the entire huge thing. My prediction:

2 16x PCIe card slots: YES

2 4x PCIe card slots: NO, use Thunderbolt 3 instead. Every time Apple can push a device maker to switch from slow PCIe to Thunderbolt, that's another device that's usable with a MacBook Pro.

4 3.5" hard disk bays: NO

1 3.5" hard disk bay: MAYBE

2–4 PCIe Flash storage bays: YES

2 optical/Zip/floppy drive bays: HELL NO. Most users rarely use optical discs, and almost no one uses both bays. An external drive is actually more convenient, because you can put it somewhere on your desk when you need it, and put it away when you're done. Then you can place the tower wherever you like, because you won't be stuffing discs into it. In addition, ever since the Blue and White G3, Apple has had to rig up some doors to hide the off-white plastic of the optical drives. Never again!

The starting price will go back to $2499, like it was in 2012. The B&W G3 started at $1599, $2340 in today's dollars.
Honestly if they could transition to even a China-like level of openness that would be light years of improvement in my opinion. Incremental change that doesn't involve some sort of bloody revolution with lots of loss of life seems like a great option. If they were able to build themselves up to be a functioning country it would probably help in a move toward disarmament, or less war-hawking in the highest positions of government.
Lured in for a spanning tree protocol CVE, left with an equally important civil engineering discussion.

It would be interesting to see an evolution of the concept of 100-year event over the few decades that its existed. Given the crazy rate of change compared to more stable engineering challenges like the national bureau of standards definition of the second or length standard, the endlessly changing definition of 100 year events look barely more scientific than rolling DnD dice.
>it's a charge card, not credit.

What is the difference? I have always believed the terms to be synonyms, and the Wikipedia article for "charge card" does nothing to change that impression.
"what the practical difference is between this and threading"

The biggest practical difference is synchronization-free programming. In other words event loops are already always synchronized and you can do whatever you want with shared memory knowing that no other code is going to interfere until you explicitly stop and give up control. This allows for more reliable and more complex concurrent applications with less effort.
Can someone confirm, is it possible to tell via inspecting /proc/cpuinfo or similar, if my system may be affected?
I would disagree with you. For certain tasks, outlines are undeniably better such as presenting information in a file explorer.

However as far as links go, which is what these mind maps present (just a bunch of links connected with arrows), mind maps are perfect. At least for me, they have solved my 'bookmark managing' problem.

Before I saved a lot of links into safari bookmark manager only to then forget about them because it's just impossible to find it later or it takes too long. In this way, everything is sorted. I don't have to search for anything and I can just explore what I see. This is the fundamental difference between these mind maps and the search engine I am building to Google or DuckDuckGo.

In my case, the entire database that is being searched on is transparent and anyone can make a change to it. There is no black box and there is no problem of not knowing what to search or look for. You can just explore the mind map and see what you find interesting and what you don't.
Yes, which makes it really annoying because the one thing you want to know is how you can see if this has already been exploited which is the difference between a system wipe and just a firmware upgrade.
PG wrote this about a year before YC gave up doing the Boston program: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
I love mine too. I'm not sure if I'd say favourite product in years but that's because they're so frictionless that I don't have to think about them. I just put them in my ears and rarely ever have to worry about charging them or pairing them.
Chinese gov't recruits 20K people to author its Wikipedia with 300K+ entries
Agree agree. Misuse of resources is the key problem. New systems required.
Yes, Paul has stuff, so he must have done shady things. As a rule, honest, hard working people have nothing.

Paul didn't work two jobs for fifteen years to scrape together a down payment. Doesn't happen, except in stories. Paul's family didn't immigrate with just the clothes on their backs and in their suitcases and a couple of dollars. Hollywood hogwash.
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They really don't make it easy to parse this. Wish they just had a list of models/skus.
Re: popularity; If you play PC or console games, you probably listen to a lot of Vorbis encoded audio.
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Awesome!! In the US interns are slaves.
IMO AMD is really going to shine when they release the server version of Ryzen (Naples). Ryzen was great and certainly delivered on performance and price but it still gets beat by Intel in applications which are no heavily multi-threaded. In the server space, there are many almost entirely parallel applications where this advantage will be even better.
I do come across the view a lot that immutable objects aren't really OO. It's something I really don't understand - state that changes over time doesn't seem like a key ingredient to me at all.
BIOS settings, check if AMT is enabled. That may not be the whole story though, Intel is really not very helpful with the text of this announcement.
Is there any reason KVM/IP is not a viable solution for remote management?

Remote access to DMA capability is just batshit insanity.
If the economy were expanding one strategy would be to wait for the pool of buyers to enlarge enough to buy in. But since its not, in general, on average, across the country...
GeoAlchemy for PostGIS/SQLAlchemy is a good example of explicit support. But typically, you can always "deal" with custom types in your ORM, even if that means falling back to binary data.
Walk in any Rails developer office and look at the words written on the whiteboard - you never know if it's a list of gems or a they're having a schizophrenic episode
For Mac, I did this. Please anybody out there, confirm whether this is a legit approach. From a console I put:

sysctl -a | grep -i intel

There should be a bunch of noise, but in there was a rather specific model number (not just "core i7"). I googled for that and found a page on ARK. Look for "vpro" and it should say whether you have it. (I didn't)
Correct, you do need to externalize trust somewhere, but the Richard Stallman level of "chips are ok but firmware is not" is not the correct place for it.
I work with Grand Circus, in Detroit Mich., and it's very important who is teaching every coding bootcamp. Our instructors come from diverse backgrounds - our lead instructor has his PhD and works with Wayne State University's computer science programs. Another is a full-stack developer with 20 years experience. We have several others with extensive programming backgrounds.

It's important to do your research. Some coding bootcamps solely employ graduates of previous programs. Some train developers a new language to fill a void in their teaching schedules. You can research folks on LinkedIn and talk directly to teachers. Additionally, read reviews on the specific program you're looking at. Course Report, Facebook, Google Reviews, Skilled Up and others can provide insights on how well the programs are structured to prepare you for a career in tech.
Cheap ones: probably yes, business grade ones: probably not.

Nice list here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...