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Apple with their stupid single port is just idiotic

This is on a single specific device.

The best port selection with usb-c is on the 2015 chrome pixel laptop. 2 usb-c, 2 usb-b

You mean USB-A.

Just having a single usb-c has caused endless pain, all so apple could sell stupid dongles.

Nobody I know using MacBooks has a particular problem with this. A dongle would be required in most cases to connect to an external display in any case; it's not like Apple are selling more dongles.
Side note: great dek on this story.
I agree. There are way too many projects with the name sonar in them. There needs to be a rebrand.
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I think Qualia is a similar concept, inherently unquantifiable and useless when it comes to making actionable predictions.

Qualia is essentially what it feels like to experience data. When we see 700nm light, we experience red. When a computer sees 700nm light through a CCD or CMOS, it experiences #FF0000. Does this mean it has qualia? How do we make this distinction? Just from how convincing it sounds when they put it to words?

If it's merely self-reporting, does that mean people weren't conscious until vocabulary for qualia existed? Because that was about 200,000 years for anatomically modern humans. How about animals? They can't report qualia. We essentially are no closer to explaining or defining consciousness at all thanks to qualia.

If I may hazard a baseless conjecture, I'd bet qualia is an illusion. It's still only data. Just like when a thermistor measures some temperature, it's not really communicating the essence of Kelvin to a microprocessor. It's not communicating the frequency of the movement of molecules which is temperature. It's reporting a difference in voltage, which is read by an ADC, which gets assigned a hexadecimal value, which gets interpreted by all kinds of software in all sorts of ways. This sounds suspiciously like qualia, but of course we can't prove or disprove it any more than we can prove or disprove if other consciousness exists besides our own.

Qualia is just data wearing intangible, spiritual clothes. This is just like the classic stoned college freshmen discussion of whether the colors I see are the colors you see, or if the way you perceive red is my green, or whatever. It produced nothing useful then and it produces nothing useful now. All impossible to prove either way, just like solipsism.
A lot of SF-set movies are shot in Atlanta now, with only crucial shots and B-roll on location.
Depends on the maximum range provided. If both part's pick a X bit number then you need a power of 2. If they pick a number 1 to X then can use X.
GitHub could've built a service that is actually profitable. I know, a radical concept. But, they had a lot of time to think of something to go IPO with.
Sure, here's a short version of my own story. In 2010, I moved to a new city knowing one person previously from college. We weren't close though.

I didn't want to be sitting in an apartment by myself all the time so I did a lot of research on how to make friends before moving.

I found the study from my previous post was a good start. I decided I needed to be in area of the city where a lot of people my age with similar backgrounds lived based on the proximity factor.

I also decided I needed roommates based on all three factors. I ended up moving into an apartment with two roommates who seemed nice when I met them.

After living together three months, my roommates and I were consistently hanging out inside the apartment and doing activities outside the apartment.

After six months, I would say we were friends.

I became friends with another person my age down the hall from our apartment. I happened to see him go into his apartment a couple of times previously. I knocked on his door and introduced myself. Fortunately, we had similar interests, hung out again and again, and became friends over time.

I repeated that with another person across the hall who one of my roommates had already become friends with. I also ended up meeting my fiancée on the elevator in my apartment after I mentioned the weather to her.

From my two roommates, the two people living in apartments nearby, my new girlfriend at the time, along with a person I met at my work orientation who lived nearby, I was introduced to probably over a hundred other people. Some of whom I became friends with. And I'm excluding other friends I made at work, through activities, and social gatherings etc.

By 2017, when I left the city, I had a close circle of maybe ten good friends, and an extended circle of thirty friends. It ended up working out well.

From the research I did and my own personal experience, I don't completely agree with the rest of the advice from the comments. I've seen similar comments on other forums before.

If there is more interest in what I've learned, I can continue. Any specific or personal questions, please email me (in profile).
I'm happy with it as well, but imagine being a lactose intolerant seven year old with English as a second language trying to pick a milky beverage from:

Almond, Banana, Coconut, Chocolate, Goat, Malt, Oat, Organic, 2%, Soy, Strawberry and Quinoa milk.

This is why I don't think it's stupid to put the standard wording "May contain traces of milk" on a cartoon of milk.
They also have a history of pushing through unpopular legislation by tacking it onto bills they can force it through with by holding congress over a barrel. "If you want this, you have to agree to this too." I view this as malpractice and a corrupt way of introducing legislation, but this seems to be an accepted way of behaving which leaves me aghast every time I see it.
>When I buy 'beefless beef crumbles', I'm not confused.

You don't think someone may buy this product believing that it's actually beef? It seems pretty easy to make that mistake to me. Besides if they described themselves as 'beefless beef crumbles' instead of 'beef crumbles beefy' it probably wouldn't be an issue.

https://store.veganessentials.com/beyond-beef-crumbles-by-be...

>If I make an impossible burger thats indistinguishable from an animal product, does it matter that it came from plants?

If I make a chicken patty from a caged chicken that's indistinguishable from organic, free-range chickens, does it matter that it came from a cage? Can I sell it as 'organic, free range chicken patties'?

Of course it matters. Consumers have a fundamental right to know what it is that they're buying.

>Change hurts, but pretending this is a naming issue is just posturing by an industry that uses tons of land for grazing

I'm not going to defend meat industry practices but pretending like this isn't about actual false advertising is wrong. Look at these products.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Beyond-Meat-Beast-Burger/13728403...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Beyond-Meat-Chicken-Grilled-Strip...

These are being placed directly next to meat (you know, the animal flesh kind). This most definitely is an issue of false advertising.
Happy Anniversary, Amazon-Whole Foods. What's Changed?
Hopefully it's easy to tell.

I once interviewed a guy from a very large computer manufacturer with 12 years of "software development" experience who couldn't write a single line of code when prompted.
USB-B? Do you mean USB-A?

https://www.differencebtw.com/difference-between-usb-type-a-...
I was part of a YC company that died due to our CEO following well meaning, but bad advice from VCs and advisors - it was a consumer technology play, but all the
advisors had made their money opening online shopfronts. So, we burnt time trying to find consumers, and the product and service languished.
Wells Fargo Bans Cryptocurrency Purchases on Its Credit Cards
didgeridoo?
The USB trojan connects back to the command and control server and waits to be instructed to spray VX nerve gas into the fan. A refreshing cool breeze of remote death.
Cool. Now where's my FTTH?
Netflix pays for bandwidth on their end, and I pay for it on mine.
You said this in at least 2 different places in this thread, but I hope you understand that 1) all drugs do not have the same effects on different patients and 2) Clonazepam is in the class of drugs known as benzodiapines, which are considered some of the most dangerous and addicting drugs given to patients. In fact, bad withdrawals from benzodiapines often result in worsened anxiety symptoms and at times hallucinations and even delusions.

Throwing around alprazolam/clonazepam as a solution for anxiety is trite and can be damaging. Take caution with them.
For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)
You're more naive than the people you're referring to.
I mean not necessarily, although it stops data access to your computer you're still powering a device close to your computer which could have sniffer/camera/microphone
> How is the regular guy supposed to figure out if a USB device is OK or not?

If you are not absolutely sure it's OK, then it's not. Pack your own chargers, use a "USB condom" or a power-only cable. If the charger has a cable that can't be removed, use it to charge a trusted battery, then charge your phone from it. Don't trust any smart battery, BTW.

Journalist covering summits like this are not regular guys and should receive opsec training before any such assignment.

When working on the Brazilian electronic ballot, I had two computers: one that was connected to the corporate network where I could read and write e-mails, and another I could manage (so I could run Visual Studio's debugger), that was on a completely different network, in front and behind some of the most aggressive firewalls I've ever seen.
Yes, they will be. Q2 is going to be negative again, but Tesla has enough cash left for that. From all announcements it looks as if Tesla has made all investments needed into the Model 3 production to reach the 5k cars/week production goal at the end of the month. At that rate Tesla should be slightly profitable.
error code: 503. Seems not a CDN issue. Where does Reddit hosted?
Thanks

> matters are worse because without knowing which shell we are running under

The shell in exec can be configured, it's /bin/sh by default but of course this is linked to all kinds of different things on different OS, ubuntu links to dash, used to be bash, FreeBSD has a "proper" sh. I suppose if going through a shell was somehow necessary you could try to be more secure by specifying a absolute path to a shell but...

> In fact, if some sloppy sysadmin have a dot in the search path, the cat binary might even be attacker uploaded.

:P I feel like it's game over at that point, is there really any point in worrying about library security when the $PATH has been effectively hijacked?
I badly want to spend a single summer at a company where you can gain experience as a developer without actually knowing anything. I bet it's a bloated bureaucracy. I want to understand that.
I did something similar for sports (http://www.sportstrace.com), but this looks amazing and (TBH) better! I'm excited to check this out.
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Now thinking about it, if you made a malicious USB charging block that looks like the iPhone‘s and offered it to me, id probably fall for it.
Can you explain who you're implying? If it's other customers, I'm completely okay with subsidizing people who couldn't otherwise afford internet. Whether it's my cost going up or the quality of my service going down, that seems reasonable; I can always buy a higher tier of service if I need it.
> Its chairman has long argued against the rules, pointing out that before they were put into effect in 2015, service providers had not engaged in any of the practices the rules prohibited

This whole thing just has me stumped as to how we even got into this position. How in the hell does a single bureaucrat have this kind of power in the US to make a unilateral decision affecting millions of people and billions of dollars in commerce?
I agree. My device charges faster, and I haven't had any issues with cables not working.
I would be fine with this if the pipe owners (== natural monopoly supported by the state) had to sell access to their pipes to competing providers.
You can always learn how to make a UBB power-only cable out of a regular one.
Imagine the majority of people in entire countries only having access to Facebook (eg. via Facebook's own network infrastructure) and Facebook-approved websites.
Speaking as someone in the industry who's worked on Type C-enabled gadgets, half the bloody problem is that the Type C products offered by the major semiconductor companies are _terrible_.

For sake of a simple example, consider designing a rechargeable flashlight. For whatever reason, you'd like it to be rechargeable over a USB-C port. You also want the flashlight to charge as fast as possible from whatever power source you connect it to, because you know people will need to charge it quickly. To do that, the ideal solution would be a single IC that sits on the USB port and monitors D+/D-, CC1/2, and the rail voltages and sets a few GPIOs to tell your battery charge circuit what is and isn't allowed on this port.

Inexplicably, _that chip doesn't exist_. It does exist for USB 2.0 (that is, BC1.2), available from several vendors, and works perfectly. There are solutions marketed for Type-C... but they don't touch USB 2.0. That means someone who uses a Type-A to Type-C cable with a beefy older Type-A charger doesn't get fast charging. There are some bigger Type-C products that might work, but they're incredibly complex, physically large, expensive, often in BGA packages, and will blow out every line on your budget.

Admittedly it's been about a year since I turned over every stone in the industry searching for my Magical Unicorn Charging IC (like the ones that exist for USB 2.0...), but I do pay attention to new product releases and I haven't seen anyone going in this direction. Probably you could get something customized (at medium volumes) or certainly full custom (at high volumes), but if volumes or margins are low enough to require COTS parts, there really aren't any workable solutions.

I am confident that Type-C's market penetration will skyrocket as soon as the difficulty and cost of actually integrating it into a product reaches sane levels.
Recording the things you learn every day
For business purposes I strive to use simpler words and speech, but I still get noticed for using a complex vocabulary :(
Glass is claiming the opposite, that it's not subjective. That is disconnected.
Sorry to be pedantic, but there's (almost) always a buyer at the right price. "there are no buyers" means "there are no buyers at the price he wants to sell".

Makes sense?
>Regulation tends to impose higher barriers to entry for smaller businesses

Sure, they can, but what about in this specific scenario? How does NN deter small ISP's? The big ISP's already stomp out all small options anyway, I don't think NN is a problem.
Designed by the same consortium that was fine with letting manufactures put the “this side up” symbol for micro USB in black, on a black cable, in a size ~a couple millimeters square?

Btw, if you are still using some of these cables coloring one side with a bright colored Sharpie will change your life.
This definitely was a fun little browser game. If you want to keep working on it this is what I would add.

1) I clicked through the splash page too fast to read the instructions. So I was confused for awhile. I wouldn't mind having the basic commands persistent inside a floating box in the game for awhile.

2) I would like the ability to invite someone to play with me, in case the game is empty.

3) I would like a win condition, like if you hit 100 the game says you win and resets.

Did you follow a game building tutorial to make this, or was it entirely from scratch?
Actually, not a whole lot of people have the option to move out of their home country.
The malware this USB device installs had better be called "Fan Death."
I use this tool every day at FB and it's awesome. I highly encourage you to try it and see if it fits into your workflow!
Sad but true. :( Empathy and maturity (intellectual or otherwise) develop independently of technical skills. A lot of people need to confront a lot of failure and not getting what they want out of life before they feel compelled to look in the mirror. If I was considered a VR wunderkind at such a young age and had so much early success with a cutting-edge company like Oculus, I would probably also be cursed with thinking I'd figured it all out already, and that my challenges were all external and business- or engineering-related.

Another way to think of it is as another variant of "success hides failure", although in this case it's his business successes hiding his personal failures from himself. It's like the pattern of conceited or arrogant people so often being deeply insecure- ironic but sad, and really obvious from the outside looking in, but not at all apparent to the individual.
The original hypepotamus article is a lot more user friendly. Not to mention they're a pretty good resource for startup news in Atlanta. https://hypepotamus.com/news/perspective-bird-chargers-atlan...
> Its chairman has long argued against the rules, pointing out that before they were put into effect in 2015, service providers had not engaged in any of the practices the rules prohibited.

But this is a bald-faced lie, and the proof is in the public record; while there was en evolving approach to enforcing the open internet principles prior to the 2015 Title II rules (in large part because the prior approaches were struck down by the courts, forcing changes in approach), there is a long line of enforcement actions by the FCC against ISPs for actions that would be in violation of the 2015 rules. ISPs blocking legal P2P traffic, ISPs blocking legal VoIP services, etc.
ISPs' actions and stated intentions prove the need. Other posts go into the details, so I won't repeat them.

PR only matters when there's meaningful competition. For most American households, there isn't.
The rumor I remember hearing is that Apple designed USB-C after Lightning and gave it to the standards board because they wanted to get rid of USB-A on their laptops. But to get it to work they didn’t take credit and let Google have the first product with it (a Chromebook?).
And not unreasonably, given the possibility of putting backdoors into these.
This is technically true, but in practice I've yet to have a Lightning port fail. The worst thing is that they tend to accumulate pocket fluff quite easily, though they're not hard to clean.
“We're America, Bitch”
Sounds like it's time to get them involved building cardboard labyrinths for younger kids.
Their lack of working semiconductor technology is definitely not the result of any lack of attempts at it on China's part.
This is achieved right now with net neutrality, you just get a low data plan for IoT, nothing will be improved by removing net neutrality in your scenario.
vcpkg is almost there
This kind of makes sense if you look at how this should work..

Having a single port for everything is bad idea, because the electrical interface can't possibly be the same for everything.

Making this happen is obviously a really hard task from an engineering standpoint. Device makers have to employ various adapters internally, so that everything works on the same interface.

No wonder manufacturers are suffering to keep up!
There's a distinction between "killing" and "being killed". Both should be avoided for different reasons.
Not the same, not even close.

Capital is abstracted value that everybody needs. The differences this makes in such a situation is drastically more disorienting.

>and you don't know whether they will still be there if (or when) you no longer have those qualities deemed so desirable

This phenomenon is heartbreaking and surely happens with things like talents and innate characteristics, personality, etc., but it would be very rare with those compared to with capital. When it concerns capital, the issue becomes exponentially more common with exponentially less potential to be understood. When it's happening with more people in a society, it's instances collide and fracture relationships at a far greater rate.
Scale those numbers 10x and you're probably closer to the mark.

Why would ISPs lower prices? They have monopolies in most markets so there is virtually no force driving prices down.
Just leave that country.. It is as good or mehr in literally any other developed country.
> Port shortages

Would it hurt anyone to put two USB-C ports on a smartphone? Thank goodness my phone still has a 3.5mm jack, but some people would like to charge their phone and listen to (wired) audio without having to buy an adapter. And it's not like this is an uncommon use case either, anecdotally some of my friends with iPhones face this issue.
Current GC work in Go is actually looking closely at a related but different hypothesis: that Go programs may tend to allocate memory on a per-request basis.

Are there any go servers architected according to this? There are libraries for HTTP/HTTPS and JSON which strive to have zero allocations, so we're probably close to this as it is. If all code is allocated on the stack and all requests are served by goroutines, wouldn't this fit the hypothesis perfectly?
In Atlanta the scooters are only scattered throughout a small section of Midtown, so while they are a kind of novelty in that area, I've never encountered one outside of that 1-2 mile radius which is mostly comprised of park and Beltline.

Does anyone in ATL know if people are using these on the Beltline? I'm almost certain it's 'not allowed' but the beltline does make for an interesting pairing with the scooters if it wasn't so crowded in the midtown part.
I got in the habit of typing old.reddit.com. Much much better, especially with RES.
Facebook launches ‘Memories,’ a new home for reminiscing
Ah, I didn't see this was a cross-post. Thanks!
Nobody I know using MacBooks has a particular problem with this. A dongle would be required in most cases to connect to an external display in any case; it's not like Apple are selling more dongles.

Agreed.

My wife has a MacBook with a single USB-C port. Having only one port has exactly zero impact on her. The only thing she uses it for is for charging, and very occasionally plugging in a tiny hard drive to look at her iPhoto library which is larger than the computer's built-in SSD.

Everything else in her lifestyle is wireless. And that's where Apple has been going for a long time. She is Apple's target market for a single USB port device.

If you're the kind of person whose lifestyle or workflow necessitates more than one port, you buy a computer with more than one port. Doesn't seem like rocket surgery. I don't understand why OC is so upset.

As for Apple selling more dongles, I don't think that's what's behind it. Apple would probably rather have the shelf space for higher-margin in-house products than use the space for SKUs from another company. I doubt Apple is making bank on USB-C dongles.
Reminds me of The Butcher's Son in Berkeley - a completely vegan deli, with menu items advertised as if they were meat. I eat meat but it's one of my favorite spots in the Bay - along with the Impossible Burger finding it's way into restaurants I'm excited for more amazing vegan options so we can wean ourselves off meat.

http://www.thebutchersveganson.com
I've noticed that lot of websites nowadays don't allow mailinator. What do you use then?
Actually you're an extremely sensible investment. :)

If you could close it in an hour how much money would you raise on standard terms and at what valuation? (You can list both as a multiple of any metric you pick - any metric, including unjustified projections if you want - if you don't want to name figures here.) Obviously given what I just shared I'm not a VC.