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I am sorry for what happened to you. I really am.

I heard before that Israeli security can be scary if they sense you went to either Palestinian areas or some of their flags get triggered. But no excuse for them to do what they do.

I hope you raising this issue help you get your laptop back.

I personally worry that they might take my laptop from me and install some spyware, so I try not to carry one, or if I do, travel with Chromebook. Whenever I can get away without carrying laptop, it is huge relief to just breeze through customs. Essentially excuses they have to talk to you are diminished and potential for some unpleasant interaction are greatly reduced.

I carry Kindle and if I have to Chromebook, life is much simpler. Friends borrow me their laptops if I have to do some work.

Again, sorry for what is happening to you, I can't even imagine how horrible you are feeling, hope for quick and positive resolution.
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I mean Stuxnet comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Of course all it takes is a malicious USB.
ZoL was forked from Oracle ZFS, if you want the real answer you need to ask Oracle, presumably it was so that ZFS would be incompatible with their competition (Linux GPL based work)
I always (at the very least) carry a survival bag in the hills - just the big orange plastic bag things. As recommended in this list:

https://www.mountaineering.scot/activities/hillwalking/getti...
Considering that a typical office worker in a large city in Vietnam makes about $300/mo, that's like a $100 million investment in the US. Personally, I'm happy to see such things happening as they should never have been so centralized in a single country in the first place. This kind of investment will also help grow the economies of India and Vietnam.
They may or may not be impartial, but is it really any different than the EU PDO? If Italy can claim the flavor is special to the region, Wisconsin should be able to make similar claims of their superiority.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/how-good-has-u...
I would speculate part of Java's success is due to being available but not deeply integrated on Linux-based OSes, for similar legal reasons. As with ZFS, it became very easy to upgrade your version of Java without having to go through an upgrade of the whole baseline OS (which was often the natural path if you wanted to use a new version of, say, Python).

Of course ZFS has a lot more potential to be broken by kernel updates than Java, but the parallel is interesting.
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Disclaimer: optimistic wishful thinking ahead

I think the scenario is:

- China has tons of cheap labour
- manual manufacturing in US is expensive
- most companies have the problem of over-reliance on Chinese manufacturing
- Apple has tons of reserves

I see this as an opportunity for Apple to invest in more and more sophisticated mechanization driven by the smarter robotics. It may be difficult for a machine learning algorithm to tell a bird from another but equipment/machines are much more defined than fuzzy. Further, Apple being a sought-after employer in general shouldn't have problem attracting top talent for this exciting and growing area of work (with all its issues, US still attracts the best minds it needs for such research).

If they invest and get to a state where they are not only making phones but smart machines that can make machines that make phones or whatever, they will open up a new world for themselves and can solve a problem much bigger than making phones cheaply (while still making phones cheaply).
Couldn't you just link against a different version? e.g. mymodule-avx2.o vs mymodule-avx.o
That's Matthew 20:1-16. :)

Edit: I assume of course that the proposed severance is at least as big as the PTO.
See, the problem is you're interpreting words like "unlimited" by their dictionary definition.
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Outrageous!? I thought it was cheap.

Where do you find your copywriters, if that's expensive?
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Eh. I miss having a door I can hang a pull up bar from, walls that are not see through and are at least a little sound proof, and feeling like I have my own space. But it's a easy way to get started.

Have been in WeWork spaces and other coworking spaces.
Some whistleblowers might have dismissed this option out of fear for their live. Being under public scrutiny can provide a lot of safety.
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I agree that may be part of it.

I think coding interviews are fine as long as they aren't insane like what you see a lot these days. We just need a good metric on how to know if the person I'm interviewing can solve general problems, my problems, and has the appetite to grow more.

That's really hard.
> > The only thing preventing me from eating a pound of parmigiano is the price.

> That's the only thing?

Yes. I did not specify time though. Let's say 8 hours.
Because... That's not userspace, that's kernelspace. Linux's policy on kernelspace API breakage is famously, "we do what we like, and if you're not in-kernel, then you get to keep both pieces when it breaks".

If ZFS wanted to live in userspace (and get Linux's userspace API guarantees) then they could have made a FUSE filesystem instead.
Dreaming of stuff that happened can be useful if you take it seriously. I often visit experiences in sleep which, when they happened, had led me to say to myself, "I should think about that, figure out what I could have done differently, what might have been going through their heads."

Evolution doesn't tend to waste things. As long as some processing is happening, it might as well be put to good use.
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Tables are also extremely performant in internet explorer, where table rendering is gpu accelerated.
It appears to me C++ will slowly fade away. Languages like Rust are gaining traction fast, and most importantly, they're building a huge, passionate and dedicated community, especially Rust itself. C++ people are slowly getting curious, like what's up with this Rust thing ? I could give it a try... Thats how it happens i guess.
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Using internal kernel APIs is a pretty long way to being userland. Internal APIs are guaranteed to be broken, and for in-tree modules, the breakage is fixed by those, who break it. External modules have to do fixes themselves, thus motivating them to become in-tree.
In our field, unknowns and chaos are unavoidable. This profession offers a lot to be cynical about.

Establishing clear lines of communication and trust is hard work. As hard as development. People are unpredictable and diverse. It's like writing a different language for every part of the application. The syntax you use to communicate between people changes.

As the world continues its descent into reliance on technology and software, more people are faced directly with generating requirements for developers to implement, and right now the gap between the two world is still rather large. The best way to help close those two worlds in, is not to point a finger at those around us and complain they aren't capable in this environment, it is to help build the bridge so that the person who is in your position next does not have to face those same realities.
Do not take electronic devices with you when you leave your country. Use a burner instead. Counts for USA, China, Russia, and apparently also for Israel
I believe that's what the word unlucky is for. Lucky is for positive rare occurrences, unlucky is for negative rare occurrences. I'll admit I have no clue what normal/average occurrences would then be.
I wrap my cheese in a lightly damp paper towel of white vinegar. I suppose that is probably sacrilege and passes on some vinegar taste, but I don't notice and it generally keeps the mold away.
Maaaaaaybe. It's really hard to get objective information about this stuff -- people naturally tend to evangelize the tools they already understand, and discredit the ones they don't -- which would make crowdsourcing this kind of info a real challenge. The inventor of tool Foo saying "Foo is good for this but not good for that" signifies much more to me than Random User of tool Foo saying the same thing.

Oddly enough, as I'm rereading through my own list I'm just now noticing how many of them really boil down to assessing the quality of the tech based on the humility of the tech's inventors: if they understand that their code isn't self-explanatory, and that good documentation is important, and that it isn't necessarily perfect for everything just because they invented it, then that implies a lot more care and deliberation in the code itself.
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Any other things the public hasn't caught up on that you care to share?
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What you experienced is not rare at all for travel through Israel. Answering that you're a SW engineer is not suspicious, it's how you answer that they're trained to look at. The questions are basically irrelevant. You and your equipment got flagged.

Once when I was boarding a plane to fly into TLV from Athens, I got about 200 questions in the space of 5 minutes, from 3 different people. When I mentioned who I used to work for, they asked me what that kind of work entailed, what did my office building look like, what city was it in, where was I living at that time, why was I living somewhere else, etc. I got the same questions multiple times, spaced apart.

They don't actually give a crap what my old office building looked like. They're looking for responses that appear delayed, evasive, made up.

After the questions I had to follow them to another room to have my bags meticulously inspected and scanned. They then checked my bags for me (breaking my zipper in the process - and no, the airline didn't do jack about it) and finally let me board. After I was on, they barged on and insisted some older passenger who had been sitting quietly leave the plane immediately while it was on the tarmac, and left.

Traveling through Israel is a pain in the ass.
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I was traveling through Istanbul and there were multiple tiers of security before reaching my plane. One of the checkpoints was run by private security, and they took my laptop out of my bag and asked me a ton of questions. They asked me to open my computer and log in so they can review data in my machine.

Lucky for me, my laptop was completely out of battery, so when they opened my MBP, all they saw was the red blinking battery symbol. They mumbled to each other under their breathes, handed me my laptop, and waved me through.
> no, i probably couldn't tell it from Grana Padano if i was blindfolded.

I can — they are quite different cheeses. Apart from the different taste and texture (Grana Padano has reliably less taste, and is dryer and more crumbly), I am extremely allergic to Grana Padano: after eating even a tiny piece my throat will swell up and slowly constrict (not life threatening, I think, but definitely uncomfortable). Parmigiano Reggiano doesn’t elicit the same reaction. It’s a very reliable, albeit unpractical, way of telling the two apart. Either way, this indicates that they are distinct on a fundamental level.

(Just to clarify: this allergy obviously isn’t specific to Grana Padano, it affects plenty of other dairy products. And, as far as I can tell, seems to be against some by-product of the fermentation that is only present in some dairy products and not others.)
There are always potential legal issue with layoffs. It seems reckless to have that kind of discussion in public.

I don’t see that as dishonest (really, how is it?), I see that as being cautious.
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Agreed. This is a point I make routinely when discussing the performance of platforms and frameworks: all else being equal, selecting a high-performance platform and framework affords you, as the application developer, the luxury to defer optimization of your code.

It's an inversion of the instinct people have with our culture's commandment about deferring premature optimization. The instinct is that selecting for performance at the start of a project is premature. I argue that selecting a platform is precisely the time to consider performance because it is a decision that is extremely high-friction to change later. Therefore, it's timely, not premature.

By selecting a high-performance platform, you set the performance ceiling and baseline performance of your application high. This gives you the freedom to develop application code in a sub-optimal manner—deferring its optimization until such time that it is necessary, perhaps forever. With a lower-performance platform, you will run into a performance hurdle event that requires optimization effort earlier and the level of effort to raise your performance ceiling will be greater than it would be had you selected a higher-performance platform at the start.

The key, of course, is all else being equal. That's not always the case for all teams, but it is still often the case. The key is knowing when your team can manage to adopt a high-performance platform and being careful about that decision.
What movement? You got infected by politics to think everything is a "movement".
I searched "GPU" and almost all of the top results were people doing weird/unusual things with the GPU: terminal emulator, Postgres query acceleration, stripped down HTML engine, APL compiler, etc. A search of "Direct3D" suggests HN doesn't have much interest in Direct3D, though.
Same here. What problem do they solve?
Dang, I'll have to start considering something like this. And keep all my data on the cloud instead. :(
That was the promise to americans when we signed all these trade deals

The reality is that the rich simply pocketed the labor arbitrage as profit rather than passing the savings on to consumers, they have 0 incentive not to because their is no punishment for doing so. That's why corporate profits and income inequality the highest in decades.
I concede. That is a good point.
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Taxi. I've traveled to Israel a few times now and the extra questioning seems standard.
Breaking into a hotel room and installing a rootkit on a laptop does not require anywhere near that level of sophistication.

In many cases, obtaining a hotel room key requires only entry-level social engineering. How do I know? I've received keys for my own hotel rooms from the front desk with essentially no verification. Adding a rootkit to a laptop depends on how well-secured it is, but that's often little more effort than inserting a flash drive and rebooting it.

These things require the resources of an individual and skills that can be learned from a google search.
Nice. This is actually pretty useful. Classpath issues are some of the worse to deal with on big applications, especially in distributed computing (flink, spark, etc) where your dependencies have to be perfectly tailored to the framework it will work on.
does the PDO actually guarantee quality? It guarantees it's made in a particular region, and the case for it is that certain ingredients are only available in that region but, for example, I often buy own-brand 'Italian-style hard cheese', which is effectively the same, it's just made outside of Italy so can't share the name.

Call me cynical, DPOs seem abused and more about protecting regional industries as apposed to guaranteeing quality for consumers.
"Games for Apple" - Apple Live. this will be GREAT. thank god i just bought a MAC FOR GAMING (said no one ever!)
I guess I am missing something. Why should I use your service than change.org?

I'm sure you know your audience very well - it is just that I am missing something.
... or they know about the time a woman in Pennsylvania was able to seek justice by getting her murder-attempting neighbor on mail fraud when the local cops wouldn't do anything.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/21/us.scotus.toxic.love/ind...
Ah I didn't realize it was a fork, I had thought it was a clean room implementation.
China has no blue water Navy and can't feed it's own population without importing billions in food.

US would blockade Brazil and stop exports of soy and corn to China. China would starve within months if not weeks

China has zero force projection ability
I recall talking to an old hand at Li & Fung (they're the largest contract manufacturing company in the world) and he talks of the old days where Shenzhen was literally a village with no factories, no paved roads, and no electricity. When they wanted to manufacture textiles back then, they literally had to build a factory from the ground up.

It's true India has a lot of issues. But the good thing about investments like these is that it creates an opportunity for everyone involved to potentially make a change for the better. This could be the start of a new series of investment in manufacturing and the potential could batter enough heads together to fix issues like electricity reliability especially if every has a vested interest in making it work out.

I'm not saying it will definitely happen, but these are the sort of gamechangers that could disrupt the status quo for the better.
There's a couple reasons that this dangerous enough that converting some street parking to commercial load/unload is a better solution:

1. There's no quick conversion in the middle of the street. It's a curb, which would require hopping, which is nearly impossible for an ebike and a dangerously unstable maneuver anyway.

2. There are cars blocking visibility with the sidewalk. If you hop onto it, you might strike a pedestrian you didn't see. Perhaps a short one, such as a child, who are unpredictable anyway.

3. Going to the right of the truck is a great way to get doored in the 0" of clearance between the truck and other parked cars. If it's the truck, enjoy your guaranteed head injury from the truck door 3 feet off the ground.

4. Biking on the sidewalk is illegal in many cities. So is parking in the bike lane, for that matter. Expecting one party to break the law because of a failure to enforce a separate law is unreasonable.
brutalism does not mean "brutal". It comes from "béton brut" which means "raw concrete" in French. Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/b/brutalism
Made in India 2025 is a long term commitment that will become very profitable.

Since India is also a closed market, but more aligned with Western values
I imagine any factory builder would take this into account and construct enough onsite power generation to maintain full operation during outages.
I would ignore that user: There have been several new users posting the exact same comment lately. Looks like a concerted operation.
The risk is in trying to keep compatible with the Linux Kernel, when not part of the Linux Kernel dev team.

If ZFS was a module within the Linux kernel source tree, Linux kernel devs would keep it in mind when making changes to the Linux kernel's APIs. They wouldn't make potentially breaking changes to that API, or replace APIs with ones that can't be made compatible with ZFS at all, without considering the effect it would have on ZFS. The Kernel devs have to take the whole tree into account, including all the modules.

But since ZoL is not part of the kernel, and is instead a separate independent module that gets loaded into the kernel, the ZoL have to play catch up. Instead of Kernel devs working with them to make sure things stay compatible, or giving them a heads up when something needs to be changed for a new version, the ZoL team is on the outside, trying to make sure they don't get boxed out of the Kernel API.

It can be a tenuous position to be in. For a more everyday example, look at the Firefox and Chromium browser updates. For Firefox Quantum they completely revamped their extensions system, making all existing extensions worthless. Either the extension devs rewrote them with the new API, or the extension is just gone. Similarly Chromium is changing its API for how extensions can interact with the DOM and networking, which would make Ublock unusable. If these features were officially part of the browser or official extensions, the browser devs would work with the extension devs to make sure things stayed working; instead the extension developers need to keep up or watch their product die.

If the Linux Kernel completely changed its module API, and ZoL was caught flat footed and needed to make substantial rewrites, what would the projects backers do? Would they commit the dev time and resources needed to make those changes, or would they compare the benefits of ZFS vs the competition -- solutions based on btrfs or LVM, both built into the kernel -- and decide to jump ship before committing more time? That's where the danger really lies. If the Linux Kernel makes a serious breaking change, ZoL's supporters might double down to fix it, or they might just cut their losses.

And while there is an official way to integrate external filesystems into the Linux kernel, FUSE, it's extremely slow compared to Kernel native modules. There was a userland FUSE implementation of ZFS, and there's a reason it's fallen out of favor. ZoL is significantly faster because of its direct kernel extension, but it's playing with fire by not being part of the kernel tree itself.
Just because the bar is low doesn't mean its height is in any way related to its discernment of quality. Say, for example, the bar was simply based on the institution that the author is employed by. That may be a low bar in that anyone from Harvard can get a paper published, but it also doesn't actually tell us anything about the paper's validity. Whereas I wouldn't be skeptical of a good Rush University paper, simply because its authors weren't prestigious enough for Nature to pay attention to.
I don't pretend to have a great understanding of what goes into building manufacturing facilities on the scale of Apple/Foxconn, but is the state of the electrical grid actually that relevant?

It seems like that they would be a big enough consumer of electricity that any standard grid would struggle to accommodate them, and they would be doing things like:

- Placing themselves immediately beside the power plant.

- Place their own wires between themselves and the power plant.

- Maybe even build their own power plants (particularly with things like solar/wind that scale down nicely).
Which might very well be true as "software developer" is very vague. Same with security expert. Use the term "consultant" instead
I'm not sure how applicable this is because of the nature of the AI beast. It took decades for asbestos to be banned and given how slow we were to collectively make the decision we might just be too slow in turning away from AI/ML tech.
Indian government can be almost as temperamental, and it's legal system has to mature yet.
I had problems with Samsung and SanDisk cards, which worked fine in a GoPro, and troubleshooting the weird Pi symptoms was aggravating. So I tried aMLC cards from ATP and have had zero issues. They cost significantly more (~$20/ea for 4GB @ qty 10 from Digikey w/shipping) but it’s worth avoiding the hassle to me.

Obviously 4GB is not a lot, so I use tmpfs and USB storage as appropriate.
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