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"Oppo" is British naval slang for colleague, I heard it alot from the older navy staff at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

https://www.hmsrichmond.org/dict_o.htm
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_m...

> OPPO
> Naval slang - short for opposite number - for the person doing the same job as one's self in another watch or ship. In the former case, since you relieved each other (in the old two-watch days), it behoved you to become friends; thus the word Oppo came to mean Chum. On a two-watch watchbill, the name of a man's 'opposite number' in the other watch was shewn against his own name in the opposite column.
>Who are we to tell them that they aren't thinking about things the right way?

you're an oncologist. Would it be an unreasonable expectation that you have observed/learned a correlation, if any, between patient outcomes and the various ways of thinking the patients practiced, and thus that you may have an idea what is the "right way" and what isn't?
Nice list. Though I'm pretty sure iZettle & Truecaller aren't founded in 2018, both were founded much earlier.

UPD: finally got it, the companies were funded in 2018, not founded
Why not replace it by MD-6?
This is reminiscent of the Frederick Forsythe short story "The Shepherd", in which a Vampire (early British jet bomber) suffers instrument failure flying westward to Canada on Christmas Eve.

I highly recommend the audio of the classic reading by Alan Maitland of CBC's "As It Happens", available on their website. They rebroadcast it every December.
To maximize value for the VC, not profit.

In some cases value can be very different than profit, depending on your investors :

- They may want your project to have a positive impact on the local community

- They might only want to have business that are sustainable

- Maybe they care a lot about men/women equality

- Maybe they want to generate recurring revenues

- Or they are looking for short term sale

The question is: are those objectives aligned with what you want to do, or not. Most issues arise when there is a delta there.
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I use this text as a kind of informal test for my collaborators/phd students. If they can decipher most of it, then they are true hackers and good to go working on open problems. Otherwise, they will be assigned more menial tasks.
first of all FL studio is a superb software, good on you for choosing it! might as well begin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIsEZsalAo

And good luck!
Ok, I know nothing about space, but looking at this video, it makes me realise something.

Would have it been possible for thie Oumuamua to directly crash into the sun and just... end our solar system? Just like that?
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Can't afford it, won't be able to afford it. This is for bigger businesses.
Do not think about building anything around this - they may pull a quickbooks or microsoft and ruin future updates too.

In the event of considering a contact, consider making a new email addy for the spam and a different phone number.
Prepare to limit information given to the sales person that they can use to craft a price and to re-sell to others later.

Will not bookmark, will not put into notes for other future projects, will not mention the product when speaking to others who may be in need of something similar.
Yes. I assumed it would be straightforward after you figure out how to hide wifi inside a USB cable.
I think there are two ends on a diagram of skepticism and scrutiny.

On one end you have individuals who will find nearly any conspiracy viable for whatever reason. That most conspiracy theories are eventually shown to be false doesn't really seem to bother them. On the other end you have individuals that will never believe anything could possibly be true, so long as a government or corporation has plausible deniability. The lengthy list of conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, or other conspiracies that nobody knew of - only revealed decades after due to declassification, don't really seem to bother them.

I suppose we could call both ends naive. Naively trusting to naively untrusting. The 'right' degree of scrutiny is somewhere in the middle. In this case you have the largest ad delivery corporation in the world. They've "accidentally" engaged in behavior such as snooping and logging data from unsecured wifi connections with their street view vehicles, continued to track users' locations on Android devices even when tracking was "disabled", and so on. Google is also one of the companies that known is known to be collaborating with intelligence agencies including, but not limited to, the NSA. Most recently they were one of the first companies fined for refusing to abide the GDPR regulations for a variety of actions including lack of legal basis for the information they were collecting, lack of transparency in what/how it was collected, and enrolling users in tracking without their permission. And while not directly related, I think it speaks to the true character and ethos of the company that one of the words they plan/planned to black-list in their tracking enabled censorship driven search engine in China is literally "human rights." [1]

And now they "accidentally" forgot to include on the packaging information that an internet connected device installed centrally within homes also had a recording device. I mean given the context of who you're talking about where do you think the idea that this device, and omission might be less the benign, ranks on the scale of 'naively trusting -> naively untrusting' scale? The connotation of conspiracy theory, as in your usage, is implying it's naively untrusting. I do not think this is a logical conclusion.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/google-china-censorship-...
Demand for programmers is very high. Given that you speak English and have good programming skills getting job in Stockholm is pretty easy. In my current team there're 3 Russians, 3 Brasilians and one Iranian(among non-EU workers). All of them were relocated by the company. The relocation takes up to several months.
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I don’t really get it. Of course he is losing something. His life. I lost my mum last year because of cancer. I don’t get why it’s a bad thing to fight for something you dearly love. Your life. What else you got?
You might want to check Randall's "Thing Explainer": https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
I think this page is written for that exact use case!

https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html

And it’s linked to from the other pages you mention with a disclaimer that a simple HTML page is still the best way to get started. Sure, you can ignore that, but what can we do.

But whether we like it or not, plenty of people want to kick off a single-page app with a whole toolchain rather than just “try React”. Earlier docs that you fondly remember didn’t help with that at all, leading to a lot of frustration.

Some people will be unhappy with either approach. That’s why the docs include instructions for both.
Yes. Here's a photo of my Lindstrom cutters (good, but for copper) and they show the diameter wire they're rated for. And these were not $10 snips.

http://imgur.com/a/Zk3LBCE
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Neat little tool.
https://ssh.sdf.org/ - there's some still around, they've just evolved.
It's more useful precisely because there's nothing running and no remote access on the OS. Traceless. Norton ain't catch that.
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Why would a tiny object crashing into a star "end" the solar system?
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A counterexample to your claim that mass cannot grow infinitely. It doesn't work though...
It rather depends on where you are, but so does language. The words we use were cast locally. If you speak English some words were cast in the Ukraine, some in Germany, some in Rome, some in France, some in Britain, but the people living in those places weren't obliged to make the words globally meaningful.

If you go to Cape Town, a "north wind" presumably doesn't mean cold, because the area north of the city isn't colder than the city itself. This didn't matter to the people who first said "north wind" and I don't think it means much nowadays either. Just another little thing to watch out for in intercultural communication.
> I’ve never had a salaried job that was paid monthly.

Interesting. I'm Dutch and I've never heard of a permanent job that was not paid monthly. If someone told me they were not paid monthly, I would assume they are a temp with variable hours.
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Yes, so you are simply begging the question. The reasons you give for skill being the more likely explanation are purely speculative. Investing is a good example. Even if success in investing were largely down to chance, you'd still expect to find a small number of individuals who were enormously successful.

Compare misfortune, which no-one wants to take credit for. A small number of people are struck by lightning or die from rare diseases. There's nothing necessarily special about them - they're just unlucky.
Exactly. In this circumstance at the lowest I had £12 to buy a week of food. I had to cash advance the rent from my credit card and the £12 was what was left. I also had to maintain a perfect appearance and state of mind and hide all this from my new employer for the 4 weeks until I got paid.

Didn't have the cash or energy to start it off and after 5 years I didn't want to go back to that bit of my life and kick it all off again. Plus he folded the company after a bit so chance I'd get anything were near zero.
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My understanding is that crating and shipping an airplane requires disassembly. Then you have to reassemble it at the other end and reprove airworthiness as it has been rebuilt. The price, not to mention time consumed, is higher than just flying the thing to its destination.
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Digging through internal data is OK with Amazon because it's available to everyone. Posting it publicly is definitely not OK though. I'm sure he's violated NDA in some form or another.
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You know sometimes you just can't resist it and and thought to yourself "Hey this is the perfect time to put this in...". So go ahead and share with us.
I've also felt annoyed about the dishonesty of the blood donation market but that makes actually "some" sense. then again they should just register donors and extensively check them plus paying. then everybody wins.
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The "cable" has WiFi, so it's probably possible to set up a hidden WiFi network around the premises of the target and have the implant connect with that. With the right type of antenna you can set up a WiFi connection to a specific device from quite a way away. Then tunnel the connection from your malicious AP and emulate ethernet on the USB side of the implant.

Or, search for open/guest networks and use those as an uplink. There's plenty of possibilities for this to work as a malicious network adaptor.

However, I think the network example is just a proof of concept and the remote connectivity is much more interesting to any real attacker.
I remember downloading the complete Dune 2 from a BBS. We were visiting a friend of my dad, and his son showed it for me (he had quicker access to the sources from his uni). By the time it was downloaded it was long in the evening, and I was tired (being about 10 years old or so), but it was super cool seeing the game. Or maybe it was just the demo because the download took too long, I can't remember.
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IIRC the Mill CPU handles this by performing a translation at install time.

For Mill CPU variants with wide vector units the CPU could execute certain instructions in one go, while for variants with narrow units it might have to issue multiple instructions.

Their idea is to handle this by basically doing ahead of time compilation of a generic program image, turning it into a specialized version for the installed CPU.

Sounds neat, proof is in the pudding.
I wonder what the result would look like if this were applied to source code. IMHO a probabilistic algorithm for code completion could turn out interesting.

Most code completion algorithms work deterministic by deducing the set of completion candidates from the receiver's type/class or a list of keywords. Given that people/teams tend to name variables in a certain fashion, a probabilistic completion algorithm could make use of this and adapt to team/project-specific conventions. Given a team's code base one could probably build a pretty good code completion algorithm without any knowledge about the programming language.

likelycomplete[1] tries to do this in a dilettantish ad-hoc way for vim. It rates completion candidates (that are gathers from previously seen code) on the basis of context information. It's hampered by the limited performance of vimscript though. A full fledged solution would require an external server.

[1] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4889
> all nouns are abstract because there’s no such thing as a chair divorced from reality,
> there’s nobly instantiations of these abstract concepts we consider close enough to be
> concrete

Very Plato for an 8 year old.
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I guess it would be possible that it crashed into the sun, if it had the right trajectory, but it wouldn't have had any effect; the thing is 50 - 130 meters, while the sun is nearly 900.000 KILOmeters in diameter. It would likely have burned up before even reaching the surface of the sun. Even if it was idk, a huge nuclear weapon that detonated before melting, it wouldn't matter because the sun already is a huge fusion nuke. It does coronal mass ejections regularly that, according to a pop sci article I just read, already has more energy than 20 million nuclear weapons - anything that would end the sun would have to be several orders of magnitude stronger.
Average for other companies is 65 days of production. Currently at 69
Funded.
>>> I have directories on my filesystem(s), files in those directories

>> Your library.

> Yes, its already there and quite organized in directories. Now ebook readers came along and pressed those hierarchical data flat, with long waiting times, because it needs to index first.

This has been a complaint of mine with music programs for, literally I think, decades. If you need to overlay some metadata that's fine, but in that case at least index it by header checksums or something, not by file names and paths! (Especially not absolute paths.) Please respect my organizational choices and make sure I can rename and move things around without worrying about "ruining" the database.
Are you sure about that battery drain?

A malicious actor could easily conceal their activity by making 24-hour-long recordings and sending them in the night (or whenever connected to WiFi and plugged into power).
For me one of the issue of the current names is that their definition change too much depending on the context and the person interpreting them.

For instance if you say someone your arm is 'broken', they understand something is deeply damaged (not just fissured). They might not know the specifics on how it broke, where exactly, how you are healing it or how it impacts you, but they know the basic criticality of it.

If you say you have "depression", they don't know if you'll take your week off to recover or actually need extensive professional follow up with a long term medication. There is no common sense of how bad it is 'broken'.

From there people all have their anecdotes, visions of how they solved "depression" and come with a very personal idea of what your issue is that most of the time will have nothing to do with your actual diagnosed issue.

In that sense the word doesn't work that much as a conveyor of information, they'll just know you have "something". I see the reasoning behind getting rid of a word in medical context if it doesn't bring any viable information with it.
If we build prototypes of the Breakthrough project probes in say 5 years there's a real possibility that we can catch it in a decade or two.
And many people don't have Android phones, so this could be pretty significant.

Besides, the attack vector for a non-Google attacker to access this mic may be different than for accessing the mic on a phone
I think it's fair to say most people reading this comment haven't met Tony. I don't mean to be excessively demanding, but maybe you could share some more specific insight because I'm genuinely curious what you mean.
As someone who works on B2B web apps, I can honestly say I've never been tempted to add Easter eggs. Is it that common outside gaming?
Indeed plain-text BBS (over a slow modem) were faster than loading 10 MB of javascript over an ADSL.

Also the information density and signal-to-noise ratio was higher. Even if you use ad-blockers.
I worked in electronic sub-contract manufacturing for over ten years. We built products for coal mining, and test equipment for aerospace, and products for a variety of domestic and commercial uses. All of this involved use of a wide range of hand tools.

A few people have told you that wire cutters come in two forms: hardened and not hardened, and that if you wish to cut steel you should buy cutters that are rated for steel. The price does not tell you this information. The data sheet for the tool does.

Here's a pair of snips that cost over £50. I'd be displeased if you borrowed mine and used them to cut guitar wire. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/cable-cutters/0614766/

One thing you can't see in the images is that these cutters tell you what wire you can cut on them: https://imgur.com/a/Zk3LBCE

If you want to cut steel you need snips that specifically say they can cut steel. These don't have to be expensive: Here are some for £7. https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/cable-cutters/0732820/
>You have two options, choose one:

Your analysis is sensible. Where we should choose the most likely explanation, it might become sharper:

- In case you're not familiar with it, one helpful tool is prior probability (Bayesian thinking). This video is short and accessible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK7X_XlGB8

- There is a public intelligence budget in 2018 of $54.9 billion in the United States[1], as compared with the combined annual R&D expenditure of Apple, Google, Intel, and Microsoft at $53.2 billion[2]. This employs over 100,000 people[3].

- According to Snowden, they covertly use microphones.[4] He had reporters put their mobile phones in a fridge/microwave, since they could be turned on remotely.

A sensible assumption is that you are unlikely to chance upon a covert surveillance mechanisms if one is installed. (For example, speakers could also be used as microphones.) Where a bug is present, I think assigning 1% to the probability of finding it is reasonable.

In view of the above, after you find an undisclosed and apparently (but not physically) disabled microphone in a product, which is more likely?

1. One of the 100,000 people mentioned, using some of the $59,900,000,000 annual budget mentioned, put it there. They do this thousands of times per year, and you've just found one of them. However, the chances of your finding it are low. (1%).

2. It was put in there as part of normal product design but left unused. Perhaps it will be legitimately enabled in a future version. Perhaps Google will use it for OK Google, its voice assistant. It has no covert intention. Google spends a lot of effort on ensuring privacy. The chances of your finding it are very high (90%) - it's not meant to be hidden and is no secret.

If the chances of your finding a covert device is 1% in case there is one, and the chances of your finding an unused but not physically disconnected microphone is 90% if there is one, then to complete your analysis of which is more likely, you should know how many times the scenarios in 1 and 2 occur.

I hope these additional tools - Bayesian probability and some figures about the base rate, could make your analysis sharper. Personally, I feel it's likely that a 1% chance of discovering a covert bug, multiplied by the thousands of such bugs (devices) out there, makes it more likely than the 90% chance of finding a totally unused and unadvertised microphone in a product, since there would be few such cases.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_bud...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/265645/ranking-of-the-20...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Com...

[4] Pick your reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=snowden+microphones
That’s just a bunch of bullet points. LAME.
Cool, I'd love an xtron (or waylandtron ;)) legacy, 3D with multiple levels... hmmm...
Surely they'd always install the radios above bus/lorry height? Even in low sprawling areas of the U.S. there's sufficient building height available for that?
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Don't you think it's pretty damning for psychiatry if this guy is the first one who figured out he's actually ill from taking drugs, after decades when he was treated as mentally ill?
I'm confused by the "stuff" suffix in English though; the Dutch "stof" can also be translated as "dust" or "matter". Matter probably has origins in French or Latin or something though.
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Yeah this. I see people camped on machines, just sitting there on their phones. They're not resting between sets. Just sitting there. Yesterday it was a guy pacing in front of the dumbbell rack, talking loud enough to hear over my headphones, not exercising at all.
never reported publicly anyway...underpinning of psychic phenomena perhaps?
When downloading files via command line my hands still type 'wget -c', even though it's been many years since my last interrupted download.
I have written many. From writing a long comment in a particularly ugly code with the starting letters spelling F* to substituting North Korea for 'The Glorious and Awesome Democratic People's Republic of Korea' for a particular operation. I thought it was catchy.
Isn't the whole point of SIMD being as similar to original x86 instructions as possible? reusing as much the existing cpu as possible? Otherwise you would have something like the ps3?
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ICANN is a scam. It should have abolished canned TLDs altogether, but instead turned them into a profiteering scheme.

There’s no reason that a domain can’t end in ANY string. Bingo, no more fake “shortage.”
Do you have a better suggestion? I am always looking for improving on things like this.
Likely it's just a compliance thing. remove sha-1 and you can stop explaining it all the time to auditors why it's there.
The renter did not have the chance to buy the fire alarm, read it again. Instead, the renter offered it but the landlord refused.
A port scan could be illegal in your jurisdiction, but it doesn't have to be. There's much cooler things to try out IMO such as SDR. One thing I know very sure though: if you want to do all the things not legally allowed, go work for the cops or a 3 or 4 letter agency.
There was a recent NPR segment highlighting also a program of Sweden for entrepreneurship of a six-month-leave where your job would be saved for you while you pursued a startup or business venture as well but I forget the name of the program in Sweden.