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What irked me in the new trilogy was that not just was the first part a xerox of the beginning of the first trilogy, there was also no explanation given at all why had gone so horribly wrong.

We left the scene at the end of episode 4: The empire was defeated, the good guys had all the power, wisdom and allies on their side, there was a big victory celebration and everything was abuzz with hopes and plans for the future.

Then... things... happened and suddenly everything is reset to the same bad old times.

Yet no one even attempts to find out why this happened and where exactly the old plans and assumptions went wrong (and where they didn't). All that is done is either stoically holding on to the old plans or frustratedly admitting "failure".

I guess you could see this as an analogy to today's times as well: Everyone is panicking that the fascists are back, that inequality is rising, that living standards are falling and that no one is stopping climate change - but there seem few discussions about where exactly things went wrong, except that all it's somehow the baby boomers'/the millennials'/facebook's fault.
Teller isn't part of the PSD2/Open Banking world. They've reversed engineered all the bank's private APIs for their mobile apps, in part because they believe the banks will hobble and cripple the Open Banking APIs because it's in competition with their business model.
WRONG. You fell for the Intel PR strategy. AMD is completely unaffected by Meltdown, since AMD checks permissions before fetching memory into the cache.
I went with Vista in 2008 (having 4 GiB RAM) and never had a reason to complain; in my case, everything from drivers to games just worked. I liked the Aero and UAC. After a few years I permanently switched to Linux, but kept using Vista for compiling some projects for Windows under MSYS2 (until MSYS2 stopped supporting it).
I have many friends who took the academic route. They drink more, not in a good way. Experiences vary but I've observed sad people who do not enjoy writing grants and do not get to do the research they always wanted despite going to elite universities for their PhD's.

Adulthood kind of sucks - everywhere.
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The intro here was interesting to me, I hadn't considered the cost that embargoed vulnerabilities like this might cause to people / companies outside of the inner circle. How many man hours went into debugging AWS performance drops alone before the public disclosure, and eventual identification of the link between those performance drops and these issues?

Could AWS+similar have made people aware in advance that patches would slow their system down? Would that have leaded to an earlier disclosure? Would it have reduced the incidental costs?

Probably the answer is no - they couldn't have, but it's interesting to consider.
You need to get out of your comfort zone and try new activities / things until you discover something that resonates with who you are.

If you're in the valley, go jump at Skydive Monterey Bay. Sign up for a rock climbing clinic at Castle Rock. Go to wine tastings. Or data science meetups. Or founder events.

As an introvert myself - you will never achieve happiness unless you expand your horizons and open yourself up to serendipity.
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Been thinking the same thing lately. I'm in my last year of law school and it seems to me that life as I know is changing. I always liked to program, fiddle with computers, read about some obscure computer history but it seems like I've grown quite a bit.

I do not have nearly as much life experience as you do, but my plan for now is to 1) sleep well 2) eat well 3) try to work under my burn rate 4) socialize. I hope that if I stick to this goals things will change and I will at least be able to keep my sanity.

I remember the days when I was working on my Forth interpreter when I thought I could always make myself occupied and happy no matter what my life circumstances are. But now I understand I was being too naive.

The one thing that kinda works is trying to pursue romantic relationships. It's hard for an introvert I know, but if you treat it as a personal side project, things start to lighten up :). Another advice I could give is to spend some money, if you're earning well. I don't know, get a sports car or an expensive cappuccino machine.
Emphasis on "mitigate".
GitHub is not so old, it started in 2008 IIRC.
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>[anti-virus vendors] just wanted their old solutions to keep working even if that meant reducing the security of our mutual customer — the very thing they were supposed to be improving.

Wow. Is there a backstory here in regards to the development of Windows Defender? I think that was introduced with Vista?
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I understand from where you are coming from. But the very point that it takes a lot of effort to be "extrovertable" is an issue. I have tried this and on the weekends where i "extroverted" myself, I feel pretty exhausted by Sunday night and dread the Monday mornings.

Perhaps, I might lie in that "unhappy everywhere" group... but I think I was pretty happy in college around the bunch of other like-minded friends. It's just that those happiness activity metrics might not best match with society's generally accepted metrics. But now that I am more aligned to general things "happy" people do, I usually find myself more aloof and unhappy along with usually tired feeling with all the "extroversion". Have practiced enough for years (especially being a founder of a company now), but it's still pretty tiring :(

Also mostly the happiness experienced in such situations is often temporary and bonds formed are feeble, as I can't keep up the "extroversion" for too long and soon become boring for a lot of people, so I am actually trying to move away from that now :)
That's cause Android pushes Chrome and Google Search and Gmail and... you get it, the whole data collection and ad serving mechanism provided by Google.

I bundle telemetry/data collection with ads for my post since in the end they're just different ends of the same continuum.
There are futures to hedge against that.
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Anectodata, so “caveat emptor”.

I helped a non-tech friend migrating from a crumbling XP laptop to a newly bought Vista laptop.

Took us the best part of an afternoon, because I was really careful and she was paranoid about losing her stuff.

Two things did not work for her:
1) No way to migrate groups (address lists, not sure of the name) from Outlook Express to Vista mail standard app (I also tried Thunderbird and/or another free email app and in the end had to cobble together a small utility to get the addresses out of sent email headers).
2) Word had to be updated (paid) - I don’t remember exactly what the problem was but I think it just wouldn’t run.

On top of that the UI felt alien and non-intuitive to us both.

So while technically it might have been a jewel, in terms of user experience (including the fact that third-part stuff worked, while MS apps were the only ones giving us problems)it really looked like great advertiing. For OsX...
I did notice a subtle ad on a coworker's laptop once. I am a bit afraid of what happens if their Windows revenue goes down.

Also, they do operate on the other spectrum of this continuum, Windows 10 collects a lot of data, for what I presume is user tracking for ads & co.
My daughter just quoted this Spike Milligan poem to me last night :

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2B or not 2B?”
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If you want to meet lots of new people and mostly techy/nerdy ones, go learn some partner dancing. You may be thinking it's not for introverts, or people without skills, but you'd be wrong. (I was both when I started) As long as you enjoy some danceable music, and live in a city, you can probably find a place to learn. You'll end up going to some evening events very shortly and talking to lots of random people in a friendly atmosphere. Close contact with people did change my introvert mind quite a bit as well.
Hilarious example to me, because while I’ve been a consultant or contractor seen as an exellent and valued member of a team (being the only contractor) they still insist (perhaps even on the hr level now) that I pass the interview process which is all of the first part that you describe. I’d say it’s their loss but I like it where I am. There is no recourse and everyone around me acknowledges that it’s broken, but nobody wants to change it.
For some strange cultural reason now computer bundles of yore are considered ads.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a500batman.html

Back then they were Packs, now in digital format they are ads.
A major problem with Windows 10 is that its search is basically retarded. It’s easy to get into a situation where the query ‘printer’ will find the Devices & Printers applet, but the query ‘printers’ will not.
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Ok, maybe not direct adware, but more like light spyware and "carriers", as you said. They bundle services, including data collection, so that they can turn you into the product. Microsoft less so, but and I hope they stop this trend they started.
Teller is interesting; I have some reservations (mostly around the attitude they portray, which is a bit unprofessional) but they have a good vision.

The downside is they are encouraging you to share passwords, as you say, which isn't driving the right customer behaviour.

More critically; in about 18 months the PSD2 Secure Customer Authentication guidance comes into force and this sort of approach (sharing credentials, which everyone basically refers to as "screen scraping" in its various forms) will be dis-favourer, to the extent that banks might have to go to great lengths to try and stop it. Teller might have to go forward fighting continual reverse engineering battles.
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Your point about searching is really interests because I feel like it's a good example of what happens when you care about user experience. I think that Spotlight, at the time, was really heralded as a really good search engine. Why? It found what you wanted.

On Windows Vista (and later versions) search, sure, it would find the things you were looking for. But no-one gave a thought to how it should be displayed. Does the search work? Check. Feature done.

Apple designed Spotlight in a way that it would actually return the results you expect when you type a search query.

I bet it took a lot of effort at Apple, too, because making a good search is really difficult. If you just depend on the tools given to you by your database, you'll probably end up with something that works, but not necessarily something that does what you want.
I noticed ads on the lock screen when it was set to Windows Spotlight.
:) Always suspected that the British tv got the grim reality right rather than the hopeful American ones I have watched more often.

But on a serious note, thanks for sharing this. I sort of had forgotten about this part while my mind was painting a more rosy picture of that career option.
>not about selling you the devices but in dividing the spectrum differently //

The point there is that initially it was hard to sell DAB in the UK because FM is pretty good, and very cheap. So people could only be convinced to buy DAB because the channel width allowed much higher quality. My recollection is that once momentum built on purchases then channel width was changed, making the perceived quality similar .. but now radio sets cost a lot more. The additional features don't really do anything for me, the only effective change for me is that it takes much longer to tune to a new station.

The cost of the DAB processor can't really be so much, the quality increase allowed prices to be anchored high; cheapest DAB is still 4x FM price, I can't see that being all tech costs.
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Are you referring to this?

Performance Details
Overhead
Naturally, protecting an indirect branch means that no
prediction can occur. This is intentional, as we are
“isolating” the prediction above to prevent its abuse.
Microbenchmarking on Intel x86 architectures shows that our
converted sequences are within cycles of an native indirect
branch (with branch prediction hardware explicitly
disabled).

For optimizing the performance of high-performance binaries,
a common existing technique is providing manual direct
branch hints. I.e., Comparing an indirect target with its
known likely target and instead using a direct branch when a
match is found.

Example of an indirect jump with manual prediction
cmp %r11, known_indirect_target
jne retpoline_r11_trampoline
jmp known_indirect_target

One example of an existing implementation for this type of
transform is profile guided optimization, which uses run
time information to emit equivalent direct branch hints.

-- https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886

Note the parenthetical in the first paragraph. The way I read the above, they're merely saying that the performance is the same as disabling branch prediction for the section of code. Which would be really slow. But, presumably, faster overall than _actually_ disabling branch prediction as there's probably no good way to explicitly do that in as localized a manner.[1]

And as I interpret this, the reference to FDO is unfortunately confusing and perhaps better placed under the heading of correctness. They're merely saying that the transformation of indirect branches to direct branches is something compilers already do to steer speculative execution down the correct path. Except in the case of a retpoline it's steering speculative execution into a trap.

[1] I'm no expert in this area (nor do I do much assembly programming) but AFAIU branch predictors these days have substantial caches of their own. Disabling branch prediction or flushing the predictor's caches is probably much more costly than simply steering the predictor into a trap. The single pipeline bubble you create is better than the many bubbles that would be created if the branch predictor had to warm up again for later code.
On a slightly different note - does anyone have any suggestions for a good pencil sharpener?

The screwed-into-a-tabletop ones we used to have at school in the 80’s and 90’s were great, with the crank and rotating blades. Was easy to make razor-sharp pencil points.

At home, with my kids, we only have those common cheapo sharpeners with a single angled razor blade. They sort-of work, poorly.

With those it’s too easy for the pencil point to break off, often the planed curl of wood will snap at the boundary between the two wooden halves of the pencil. It’s not smooth, and very hard to get a nice sharp point with them.
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It’s full of ads for Edge, OneDrive, Office and some more of their own services, and then it’s automatically installing and wasting the space you paid for on Candy Crush and other games, even if you tune the Start Menu so you don’t see the tiles.

I understand that you don’t see it if you don’t look but you certainly are paying for it.
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AMD CPUs are completely unaffected by Meltdown, since AMD checks permissions before fetching memory into the cache.
Surely since you have monads you can just use the tools they give you?

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That's got nothing to do with monads though, you can do that in Swift or Rust which have a monadic option type but don't actually have monads:

match (xm, ym) {
(Some(x), Some(y)) => x + y,
_ => 0
}
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That’s weird because the article states it works better on spinning media but it is only offered automatically on SSD.
Concerning "Be happy".

The easiest way to be happy is to be "present". "Be here now" as the saying goes. Recognize that in this present moment, everything is fine. You are experiencing the incredible miracle of being alive, of having awareness. Relish it. Appreciate it. It's fleeting and then perhaps gone forever (who knows?).

Neurotic thoughts of fear, anxiety, dissatisfaction, embarrassment and whatever else are firstly thoughts, and secondly projections into the future or recreations of the past.

The future and the past don't exist except as concepts. What exists is only the present. When the future "happens" (so to speak), it's in the present that it happens.

To be fully present means to not project or recreate, but to simply observe what is, without attachment to any emotion or thought.

In the previous sentence is an implied contradiction which needs to be resolved. To be happy, you have to give up attachment to any outcome (i.e. wanting to be happy).

Meditation is the best way I know how to learn how to detach from your thoughts and emotions and to be fully aware and present in the current moment.

I'm not always happy, but compared to 10-12 years ago, I'm incredibly happy. Meditation, being present, letting go of negative thought patterns (by simply observing them and not attaching to them and thereby loosening their grip) have contributed a great deal to that.
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I meant the trend started in the company/in the Windows division.
WTF? What is open about a system that only very few organisations can use? Imagine in the paper world, now you not only can ask the bank how much money you have, you can also authorize other companies to look at your account statements for you ... but noone got the idea that maybe you, the account holder, should be able to get a copy of the account statements?

It seems we are still at the "reading and writing is for monks" stage of digital technology? God forbid the laypeople themselves use pen and paper!
I think we've independently arrived at exactly the same point with our reservations.

In particular I'm concerned that Teller will have a massive target painted on it's back, because it has those full login details - they could become systemically important to the UK banking system, and then perhaps the regulator should step in!
I don’t think it’s that clear-cut. Most abstractions come with a runtime cost. Code generation is a buildtime tool that can be deployed judiciously, and with modern version control it’s much easier to understand which sections of the codebase are dependent on compiled models elsewhere.

Ultimately it’s a cycle. Runtime abstractions tend to pile up until they hinder performance and debugging, and then code generation becomes interesting. Over time those patterns become incorporated into languages, at which point code generation seems pointless again (think Qt’s code generation tools in 1996 vs. C++14). And when the language has new interesting features, it seems to translate into people creating runtime abstractions, thus setting off another iteration of the cycle.
By design or a bug in the system?
Could you please disable that annoying behavior where scrolling slightly left or right swaps to a different article? It’s hard so imagine anyone actually uses that and it is extremely annoying.
null pointers can be encoded as an option type[0] (that's basically what languages like Swift or Rust do, they eschew nullable pointers and wrap non-nullable pointers in an option type instead), but they are not because

1. you don't have the attending type-safety of knowing that some pointers can't be null

2. the compiler requiring checking for nullity before every pointer access would be horrendously unwieldy

[0] which can then be compiled back to a regular nullable pointer at runtime
I don't know, but honestly, most antivirus companies are such clowns that it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft created their own antivirus just to force everyone to be up to par. Which they still seem to be failing at...
The records amalgamation was one of those £10s-of-billions software project that failed to produce any output [other than great profits and some nice bonuses, I'd warrant] wasn't it?
I think part from the dog, the lists overlap fairly well more or less. I don't own a dog, but like playing with them whenever i get the chance. Also loved ones are fewer than I would have liked. Trying to help out enough people and yes it does help a lot, but also takes up a lot of time. There's always a tradeoff I guess. :)

While your last response statement is quite on point with what i feel i should do as well, but it's quite difficult to execute unfortunately. Have tried delegation, but the results have been not upto the mark and personal ego has taken a hit as a result quite often :|
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In india we call eraser as rubber too :) Fruit Flavoured Rubber will sound too NSFW in America :)
That doesn't explain the semi-ironic ones very well, and the individualized ones (the ones with the baby's name) not at all.

Maybe they are all gifts given by people who want to signal that they care but consider it too boring to give something that is actually useful.

And who either don't care or understand or who secretly enjoy that they are forcing the receivers' hands into making a fool of themselves out of politeness.
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Section 6.4 of the Meltdown paper seems to indicate that the same flaw is present in AMD CPUs, but not easily exploitable.

Do you have a different source for that?
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Just yesterday I acquired 3 5440 ibm disk cartridges.. I have no clue how/if I'm ever going to be able to read them, but some day I will try:)
Yeah the fact that society values the extroversion skill more, even to the point where alcohol abusers are "cooler" than people sitting alone working for years on end to solve society's problems, is pretty shitty.

Anyway, it's a topic that interests me a lot, so feel free to connect (twitter, email in my profile) if you want to chat about it.
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