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Thanks for your reply.

>The point is that while X (e.g. the real numbers) can be encoded as Y (e.g. Cauchy sequences), this doesn't mean that X is literally Y.

In my opinion, a mathematician does not know what the difference between "being literally" and "being encoded as" is - unless you assume that mathematics should aim to be a formal encoding of some pre-existing 'intrinsic reality', in which case what you're doing is physics and not math.

In physics, the debate is more open: Is the wave function literally the electron? Or is the wave function just an encoding of the electron, which is the intrinsic real thing? Or is the electron the way we humans perceive the wave function, which is the intrinsic real thing?

Anyway this is probably way too theoretical of a debate :)
Are the majority of aws revenues from casual users that probably wouldn't care? If so, I think you're going to be proven right.

If, however, major customers make up the majority of revenue, then the answer seems less clear to me.
My employer has a shiny new 2017 MBP for me that I have yet to touch because there are SO MANY issues with both the hardware (the need for four different dongles and no escape key) to the security issues to the fact a lot of core software still doesn't work solidly. I'm sticking with the 2015 MBP they gave me before.
Considering that on average you have a branch every 5 instructions and the reorder buffer of high performance OoO CPU is in the order of a hundred of instruction, such a CPU is pretty much running under speculation all the time (often of multiple branches at the same time).

Not being able to fetch new cachelines when under speculation would be a huge blow, as exposing memory level parallelism is one of the most important features of OoO CPUs.

Edit: also fetching a cacheline is not really undoable as it is observable from other CPUs via the coherency protocol: i.e. while it might be possible to hide to the local cpu that a cacheline was loaded under a failed speculation, the effect can be still observed by another core by noticing that an exclusive line is now shared (by timing for example the latency of an atomic instruction)
Holy imposter syndrome, Batman! Anyways, I think he is leaving, not the other way around. ACM CEO seems like a thankless admin job without much prestige, which you can probably get more of in a nice CS department administrative position.

All of those positions are elected, there isn’t any affirmative action involved. It is up to the ACM membership to decide who to elect, though often only a few candidates volunteer to run.
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>As soon as you value people based on their race ("your people" are worth more than others) you are in racist territory.

Then 99.99% of humans who have ever lived are "racist". It's an meaningless mindkilling word, stop using it.

The weirdest thing about this is most liberals qualify as "racist" by your definition, when they take the outside view. For instance China taking over Tibet. And flooding it with Chinese immigrants, to outnumber and replace the Tibetan people. Or similar things done by Russians to areas they conquered. Or some aspects of what happened to the native americans. Liberals seem pretty upset by these things and even consider them genocide.

>In Germany the most racism takes place in regions where nearly no immigrants/refugees live.

Because immigrants congregate in cities, and cities tend to be more liberal. Besides don't take what people vote for too seriously. When put to it, even liberal whites show a strong preference for living in white neighborhoods.
The tweet in the post you replied to points out that the page that you linked to was altered today to no longer say the fixes extended to those two.
In other news, Facebook says that people are also fine with them harvesting their web history and cookies from their browser for activity completely unrelated to Facebook.

Facebook also says that you said it was OK to take your lunch out of the lunchroom fridge and that apple from your desk.
Why should they disclose their identity and leave a permanent digital footprint? Some of us are private people by nature. Some of us have stalkers, sensitive employment situations etc.

I miss the pseudonym era of the internet. Uploading my nudes to Facebook so they can ID me is so dystopian.
The mitigations you mentioned are all for Spectre, aka variants 1 and 2, aka tricking code running in kernel mode into doing something weird. But KPTI is specifically for Meltdown, aka variant 3, aka having user mode code speculatively access kernel data directly (data which is mapped in its address space but marked kernel-only - thus the ‘fix’ is to separate the address spaces). Protecting kernel code with retpolines or by flushing the branch predictor won’t help with Meltdown, because it doesn’t rely on kernel code at all.
I paid $34 for Transmit 4 in 2013 and $35 launch price for Transmit 5 in 2017. Before that I used Cyberduck (and donated in 2010 to remove the banner!) I have also used Filezilla a lot on multiple OSes.

Transmit is better software. I mostly prefer it because it is better at managing favorites, I prefer its file editing workflow, I prefer its control over transfers and aesthetically I like the UI and how it presents multiple panes. Its directory mounting story is pretty good. I trust it more when I have multiple transfers in progress, etc. The use of tabs in the 5 update and easier search filtering of favorites has been worth the update so far.

Ideally everything I do would be a git deploy or an rsync command, but since it's not, I am happy to pay a quality software publisher to remove a lot of headache from annoying FTP and S3 operations. It's no different than why I pay for a good text editor or image editor even though I can get anything done in a free alternative.
It can be different for non-profits. I've seen several heads of those types of orgs posted publicly.
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I didn't read it that way at all. To me, it simply sounds like the ISP is making sure the customers know all of the details -- including any unintended side effects they might not have thought about.
Our transistors have nothing to do with those transistors.
People may have wanted but Enterprise customers like ME.
#2 is way off. By definition crypto is decentralized. Currencies that currently have the highest market caps (read: most popular) also tend to be open source -- anyone can contribute, and anyone can run a node and perform PoW/PoS contributions.

There are exceptions (XRP), but for the most part your comment reflects a misunderstanding of "crypto-space".
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Does it only work for MySQL and related programs?

Or does it work for other CPU-bound programs too?
As someone involved in the field, I agree on the need for a better theory, but disagree with your claim that "there's no getting away from the wet lab". The traditional wet lab absolutely has to be gotten away from, because there are huge issues with transferring knowledge gained on organism X onto organism Y.

Reason? Lack of theory. We don't understand enough about what causes something to work in one case, but not another.

There's just no getting away from theory, in the end.
> Yet, I’m on a MBA3,2 (late 2010) and it’s great. Still running Yosemite. It’s got 4gb ram but handles running 10 JVMs with modest heaps for development no problem. Stable and runs for months without issue. I’d love more RAM and more cores but none of these computers seem worth it.

I have the same hardware but unfortunately my experience is the exact opposite. It’s barely usable. I literally can’t browse JavaScript-heavy websites (e.g. Gmail).

I wonder if having kept up with the OS releases has anything to do with it (I’m on High Sierra).
As a former Rackspace employee, I had access to every customer secret IN PLAIN TEXT through multiple web-based systems with a click of a button (IE: business as usual).
I like MailGun (10k/mo free) - if cost is a significant issue for larger volume why not do the work to send directly from your server?
All Rackspace employees are issued hardware or software RSA tokens and a VPN client.

I seriously suspect this was the job of an insider, not a compromised employee laptop.
Ah, yes; the Russian defense. I know it well. How did it go?

"The hard-coded backdoor that was found can't be a hard-coded backdoor, because Western Digital would never be so crass and incompetent as to put a hard-coded backdoor hidden in such a way that a security researcher would find it and attribute it to them."

How can one argue against such flawless logic when it even has an aphorism to describe it?
This is strange, I’d never heard of this agreement. As I understand it, Intel x86-64 was actually based on AMD’s amd64 design originally. So in reality they are still two separate architectures in a sense?
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I'm sure some people actually do threaten to leave unless there is a marriage proposal. people with clear life goals (that I don't share)
BelAir is also a desirable place to live--at least if you're rich--which means eventually the homes can be profitably sold to an actual resident. (And part-time residents are still residents.)
also, do you not ever tell a potential employer you have an offer from elsewhere, and to either offer more or you won't be in a position to accept their offer? if you don't, you should, it works.
> “To keynote at CES, the speaker must head (president/CEO level) a large entity who has name recognition in the industry,” said Karen Chupka, who oversees the event as senior vice president at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), in a blog post a month ago. “As upsetting as it is, there is a limited pool when it comes to women in these positions. We feel your pain. It bothers us, too. The tech industry and every industry must do better.”

Sounds like CES isn't really doing anything wrong here.
If the claim is true, would you rather someone pull it out and access your data? This is like breaking HSM. So why “fuck that shit”? I hear a lot of people worrying not enough encryption. So perhaps take this as a positive thing??? Having an extra layer of protection is never a bad idea.
Unfortunately I don't think so. :(

> We offer a Free Trial plan for testing purposes only. The Trial is limited to 100 emails a month with no overages allowed.

https://postmarkapp.com/support/article/1107-how-does-monthl...
I am not currently forced to use Concur, but I did have that problem at a previous employer.

So, IMO, anything that helps kill Concur is a winner in my book.
How much of a hassle was it to set it up? Are all peripherals working?
The article mentions firmware version 2.30.165 where as mine is running 2.11.168 and when checking for updates, reports back I have the latest. I have the EX4 models.

I only run mine on private/home networks with no remote access in to them.

Curious about the version difference...
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And somehow it will go on. Imagine that.
I didn't realize the new monthly plans were required for new accounts - that's unfortunate. I'm still on the old credits system (grandfathered I guess).
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I used an older version of Transmit years ago (it was a bit cheaper then) and was always happy with it.

Then I went years without needing to use FTP at all (capistrano deployments for the win!)

Over the last year and 1/2 I have been doing lots of integrations with 3rd parties where some varient of FTP is needed (sFTP, etc) to download data.

I tried a few different free ones and used CyberDuck for a few months, I started running into strange bugs that were not reproducible and basically gave up on it.

Downloaded Transmit and never looked back - it just works, also a great S3 GUI client.
He does have the brand recognition, there's bound to be at least a few shops that would've picked the language because that's what Fog Creek uses. Which probably would have led to contributions further down the road.
I don't disagree. I prefer more open development and try to encourage it, but everyone has their own preferences for what to share.
Side note: Can't reach over HTTPS, access denied via Tor. Why do so many security-related sites use awful hosting providers?
> because, gradient descent is linear in the number of dimensions

Yes, but increasing dimensions does not mean the manifold of the problem space increases the same.
Yeah that is the one. It eventually failed after many years. I remember typing up the Eliza program in BASIC for it and one of our neighbors kids still has fond memories of playing with it.
What about suing for full control over a product you own?
There is a pickup that parks near my house that always has a piece of brick mysterious sitting on it's rear bumper. It took me awhile to realize it was probably put there whenever the owner parked to partially obscure his license plate.
Should add Apple could bring as it is just guess work by the analyst nothing substantial
Ah! But in the case of open source, a person willingly releases code, usually with a license, fully knowing someone will profit from it. That is their choice. Git hub is full of open source licensed code at the will of the authors.

In the case of the parent post I was addressing earlier; This is akin to a company claiming part ownership of your open source code because you used part of a public domain library your friend's dad wrote which they copied and incorporated into their closed source product.
Are there even a finite number of phases, or are they more of a continuous distribution, because they not truly fundamental?
“OK with” seems to really mean “don't navigate away from at a high rate”.
>Algorithmically is it possible to pass only 'safe' interpreted code to the CPU?

in other words, the halting problem?
The use case “Owners are not allowed to update or secure the other operating system themselves“ maps out across a number of industries and products. Car owners do not have access to certain firmware, airlines cannot patch airplane software to their liking.

Most hardware products are sold as is, without implicit guarantees, with market forces (stock market included) being the ultimate arbiter.

With that said, there’s probably a hungry law firm willing to do a headline-grabbing class-action suit based on “neglectful behavior”, “truth in advertising” or other potentially lucrative routes, so I am guessing they’re working on their customer acquisition strategy at the moment.
No MMT reasonable person ever says "deficits are good" are some prescriptive statement. The point is that deficits can be good, are often good, and are normal. The message is that having deficits or not should never be considered in itself good or bad, it's only in context that we can make such a judgment.

I do recall seeing MMT folks describe "full employment" as a policy goal that the government should have, so you're right there. I think that ought to be left out from MMT. Whether or not that is a good goal is independent from the facts of how fiat currency works.

Incidentally, I happen to believe that tying distribution of basic necessities to employment is unethical and economically destructive (it promotes make-work and even destructive broken-window-fallacy type crap).
You do realize, don't you, that if this is a relevant question I already have cause to complain? It's been the future for some time now, give us reliable upgrades already.

Yes, it’s the future, but as I mentioned, the Mac I’m running High Sierra on is nearly 10 years-old—it shipped with a version of Snow Leopard, MacOS x 10.6.

That was 7 major operating system releases ago—pretty sure nobody at Apple tested upgrading from an operating system that hasn’t been supported by Apple in many years, not to mention all of the permutations of hardware, kernel extensions, file systems, 3rd-party software installs, etc.

This is the double-edged sword: no matter what Apple does, they’re wrong. If they don’t support older machines with the latest operating system, then it’s a conspiracy to force its users to upgrade.

If they do support older machines and can’t guarantee perfect upgrades from every version operating system they’ve ever shipped, regardless of the condition of the user’s machine and how well (or not) the machine has been maintained, they’re also wrong.
"The reason why that's unlikely to happen is that companies treat source code as a significant asset, which is why I first mentioned a longer support period. My favorite approach for this problem would be regulation requiring mandatory release of source code, the toolchain, signing keys, etc. if the manufacturer stops supporting something, so the places which want to keep their trade secrets can still do so but are required to help their users at the same time."

I mostly concur, therefore I certainly hope you're all donating to the Software Freedom Conservancy for their GNU GPL enforcement efforts (see https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ for more) and encouraging people to license their free software under a strongly-copylefted free software license such as the GNU GPL v3 or later, or the AGPL v3 or later. These licenses allow users to request and deserve to receive complete corresponding source code, build instructions, signing keys, and other materials needed to build the software.

We all need free software for all our computers and we need it whether a manufacturer supports something or not. It's not the public's job to look out for Western Digital's interests including their alleged trade secrets. Western Digital still supports the WDMyCloud device but apparently can't be trusted to handle the software that device runs. It would help WDMyCloud users to publish that device's entire software as free software (if they haven't already), as well as the other things you rightly mention (build instructions, signing keys, and anything else needed to get the device running) so users aren't waiting for this less trusted party to make better choices. Users ought to be free to run, inspect, modify, and share this software or get someone else they trust to do this work on their behalf.
If you don't want to trust anyone go with FreeNAS and build it yourself. It's great, better hardware for cheaper. Just the higher learning curve...
Replace 'wealth' with 'value-generating economic activity'.

The basic point is that GDP fails to measure very well whatever it is claimed to measure, whatever language you prefer to use to call it.

Economics is fraught with this sort of semantic debate because what one person calls 'wealth' another will disagree with.
When I read the headline I didn't think I had run into this bug. Now I remember my OS freezing twice when quickly opening and closing some chrome tabs.

Could possibly be the same issue.
Yea, I've been able to forget how painful getting SSL setup and configured used to be since letsencrypt + certbot came along.

Automating that crap in ansible is almost too easy.
I do almost the same thing with pocket and GitHub. I use Pocket to save articles. I slack in tagging them but sometimes sit down and tag all the untagged items at once. About going back, I have recently started taking notes from them in a Github readme so that I can just go back to the readme and find the appropriate one to see. I have only recently started doing this as the number of saved articles have become overwhelming.

It works out well, if not perfect. Usually, articles are not to be re-read completely, only the important parts or the gist is enough.

https://github.com/m2n037/learning_notes

Please let me know what are your thoughts regarding this. May be we will both find a better way to deal with this.
Nifty.
It's so obvious now, in retrospect :(
I dunno what you're whining about, I've had multi monitor setups on several mac laptops and they've always worked fine. Same on my desktop. Same on my work desktop. It's almost always more reliable than doing it on Windows.
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Ugh, that sounds terrible. In my utopia, machines do all the work, and everyone in the world gets to do whatever they want, which will mostly be leisure. Yes, there will be some people for whom leisure means work, and more power to them. I still don't understand the drive to be "productive". What's the point of technology if not to shift the need to be productive away from humans?

It sounds like a very sad world to me where people automate their jobs away in order to just find new jobs to fill their time. Of course, that is the world we _currently_ live in, just on a smaller scale than I'd hope we'd eventually achieve. I think it'd be a wonderful world where we can only dream up jobs for a tiny percentage of the population, assuming the wealth created by automation is distributed so people who don't work can still live great lives.
Brings back memories of the flamewar when it was created https://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sh...
> Pen and paper in a good old fashioned steel cabinet (you can get those with some nice solid wood enclosing as well) require actual physical access to read.

On the other hand, also the bad part is that pen and paper require actual physical access to read ;)
Even if htop doesn't work correctly, and is complete garbage it doesn't install kernel extension and doesn't run with admin privileges so it shouldn't freeze the machine or render it unusable which is seems to do.

Turns out it doesn’t, but it’s not unusual for people to make these types of unsubstantiated claims; turns out it’s a build issue that conflicts with High Sierra.

The Homebrew team updated the formula so it doesn’t try to install on High Sierra until they can fix it.
Is that you Markov?
They probably mean the "postman sort", or whatever catchy name it goes by (radix sort, IIRC). That doesn't involve any comparisons between elements to be sorted. Think of how a postman sorts mail into P.O. boxes... you just algorithmically map a number to a row and column (bin), and deliver. This truly is O(N), but there's a catch: it doesn't work when you don't have bins to sort into, or when you don't know even how many bins you'll need. If you try to generalize this it becomes O(N log N).
I don't see where the contrary is stated; in a nutshell their architecture is not sensible and deeply flawed in regard to security, if they can't check that without throwing all the perf out the window.
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You can use other microarchitectural features than the cache to create a covert channel and do measurements.
As much of a pity as that after 3 billion years, all life is still based upon selection bias and random genetic mutations, a brute force trial and error?
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Are there any scheme implementations that dump executables the way e.g. cmucl or clozureCL do? That is they dump the entire core to disk and prepend the runtime. This is actually the more traditional way of creating an executable (all of the static compiling ones I'm aware of derive from a single implemenation, KCL)
Guys, can't we just detect a program doing spectre-like behavior and just kill it instead of having every other application suffer a performance hit by the proposed changes? Antivirus software already does similar stuff
So, this is a question best resolved by invoking Newton's Lightsaber, at least for now?