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> I agree with your point tho, bureaucracy has trouble thinking about edge cases, it's hard to create a complete spec of things like not requiring bringing someone in for an open beer if they aren't clearly drunk.

It is very much the job of the courts to interpret the law with respect to those edge cases and their judgements can provide guidance to politicians about how to more narrowly define the law. This is how things are supposed to work _in theory_.
For more about giant trees in California, read The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. It's a fascinating story of redwood tree researchers, and reads almost like a novel.
Apple Pencil 1 actually came with an adapter to charge it.

I take it you've never used it before.
That's not what Apple says on their docs. They say:

"To charge your Apple Pencil (1st generation), plug your Apple Pencil INTO THE Lightning connector on your iPad. You can ALSO charge it with a USB Power Adapter by using the Apple Pencil Charging Adapter that came with your Apple Pencil. "

(Emphasis mine).

Besides, you shouldn't need to plug it that way to pair it either.
Or perhaps covert local-ish deployment from places closer than 10 Mm. Essentially a medium range torpedo with higher top speed.
Not everybody want's to live as a functional alcoholic in crime ridden city.
Besides, The World didn't even blinked when thousands years of mankind history was decimated in Iraq.
Move on.
It is definitely brilliant and is one of my favourite satirical shows, but that doesn't mean it's beyond criticism.

My primary criticism is that it didn't actually satirise the government's ideology or policies -- the main criticism was of politicans, civil servants, and interest groups like unions. These were actually in line with Thatcher's ideals and policies at the time (it's therefore unsurprising she said it was her favourite show).

I'm not trying to blunt any of their wit, just point out that (like most works) it had its shortcomings. It's unlikely the BBC would've aired it if it had just been a scathing ridicule of the PM at the time.
Recent XPS models use a "killer" branded wireless card that's soldered to the motherboard. I suspect things would be better if you could use an Intel card (as is used on most other premium laptops)
Agreed. And this is not a good time for Google to spoil their brand since Apple services have been improving. We met up with friends in Chicago yesterday and while walking around using both Siri and Google on two iPhones, we were comparing results and ‘ready at hand’ utility. Google is better but I like Apple;s trajectory of improvement.
Do you have any sources for this? I find it hard to believe.
I take it you've never read Apple's instructions before:

"To charge your Apple Pencil (1st generation), PLUG YOUR Apple Pencil INTO THE Lightning connector ON YOUR iPad. You can ALSO charge it with a USB Power Adapter by using the Apple Pencil Charging Adapter that came with your Apple Pencil." Emphasis mine.

Apple not only designed this BS way to charge, but also promoted it as the canonical way on their official docs (even on their videos).
The use case was server side data analysis. If it’s important work the researcher should get the much much more powerful server and run Linux like most sane people do. Who cares if your server can pair with your Apple Watch or use WhatsApp.
It was pretty widespread. PhD students generally outnumbered MS students, fairly substantially. I went to a second tier program, and there were zero MS students. It wasn't a thing.

My own college didn't have a graduate program. This was based on multiple advisors having similar expectations about applying for grad school.
Why invest in a product that might be “well past it’s EOL” in six months and which has a support model of: go read this FAQ?
Watching both seasons through the "this isn't exactly OG Star Trek" lens has made both seasons pretty darn enjoyable for me. The Orville is close to a classic Star Trek feel, and that show has filled that void for me.
Afaik, its a workaround for IE.
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I can't provide you with a good source for this at the moment, but it's my understanding that during the Cold War a team of US ethicists determined that the most ethical direction to point nuclear weapons was at major population centers (not military targets) because targeting military targets would be necessary to launch a first strike. Targeting civilians signaled that those weapons were intended for retaliation. Adopting a retaliatory posture was considered to lessen tensions, if only by just a little, making nuclear war less likely to occur.

Edit:

@justin66: Right, there is a difference between what a few ethicists determine and what policy is actually enacted. America was actually postured for a first strike, with Russian airfields,etc being the highest priority targets, urban-industrial targets being lower down the list. After that, population centers were considered targets. This was based on the supposition at that time that a Russian attack could be anticipated and preempted.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear...
Detente is the easing of position, a reduction in tension.

Reagan's arms reduction - START - was indeed early 80s, and did succeed in rowing back some of the tension in Europe. Star Wars almost immediately threw a spanner in those works. Fall of the Berlin wall and the rest of the Soviet bloc disintegration - set in chain partly thanks to the cratered oil price - achieved far more.

Keeping nuclear secret was unlikely - the capability was progressing in the UK - albeit merged (more like taken over, but I digress) with the US part way, Germany, Russia and the US.

MAD is hugely overrated - there's been far too many politicians and generals believing they can win a nuclear exchange. MAD hopefully delays things long enough for someone to have second thoughts.
> There is really no way I would maintain that same project without types.

That's bold. Do you think no developer would be able to manage it without TS? In that case you must be a fanboy!

And honestly, are you not using 'any'? And do you think your app cannot crash because of a type error at runtime? And do you trust all the third party libraries you are using that they always provide you with consistent types, also during runtime? I ask this because most TS proponents live in some kind of dream.
Yesterday, FB also removed a public API endpoint showing share counts for an URL (though their official button still shows the number). Not sure if these 2 things are related.
Pushing the analogy, if you do the latter, you're liable to get hurt or die. You have to wait your turn, but you might not get one.

Show and reputation are better weapons.
Ok the story about being covered by stinging bees and having to repel down (with the bees still stinging) is pretty much my worst nightmare.
In the US we have a little freak-out every time a private entity like the Blizzard gaming forums or Google+ does this. I cannot imagine the shitstorm if it was attempted on a national level.
> Is there a reason nuclear weapons would be aimed at military targets, rather than political targets? I always assumed a nuclear war would just be a bunch of decapitation strikes where suddenly nobody has capitol cities.

Yep, it's just an another examples where the definition of a military and political objective in war differs dramatically.

In case you fight a purely "political war," that might've worked, but imagine in a scenario a gigantic indoctrinated military "with mind of its own." You can kill a higher animal by decapitation, but not a hydra that does not need a head to function to begin with, or will possibly even get more aggressive and stronger without it.
Are you paying for slack? Since we started paying the quality vastly improved.
Not really, what many seem to keep missing is that programming languages are products like anything else.

One buys into eco-systems, not language features bullet point list.

And there isn't something like an universal eco-system for any kind of business case, hence multiple languages.
Laws like this are long past due. This particular law may not be the best implementation but governments do need to take action to provide their citizens with a real public square online.

Excluding fake and paid users (without a declaration of who is paying them) from that space and protecting free speech in that space is essential to having a public policy discussion.

Private corporations have not done this, and probably never will, so government is the only option left.
In nuclear planning, there are two main attack scenarios: counterforce and countervalue. Stronger side counts on preemptive strike which is counterforce (trying to take out enemy's missile silos before they can launch). Weaker side relies on retaliatory countervalue strikes.
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Leave Windows Defender/Firewall on as default and stay away from dodgy sites. Simple as that really.
Why the hell people put screenshots of code in articles like that if they are able to put beautifully syntax-colored and copypasteable code snippets instead?
I know this is a highly unpopular opinion (and hence the throwaway), but I really don't understand this idea of wanting to "break up" Facebook and the underlying motivation behind these types of statements.

What exactly is it about the platform that makes it so "evil"? Do we just think Zuckerberg is innately corrupt and trying to slip some sort of mastermind plan of internet domination without us noticing?

I understand and similarly dislike the idea that Facebook is aggregating statistics about its users and selling them to advertisers, but at the same time, do we honestly believe that the vast majority of people would rather subscribe to "get rid of ads and access to data"?

I don't use Facebook myself (despite having an account), but from my perspective, it just seems that society as a whole has simply decided to scapegoat Facebook and its "ecosystem". We seem to be trying to blame the company for the unwanted secondary effects of the rise of the internet and all the inter-connectivity that has come as a result.

A good example in my mind is WhatsApp. Facebook went ahead and had the whole messaging system E2EE, much to the applause of everybody. From this point on, even among security experts, WhatsApp was well regarded as a messaging platform - essentially only second to Signal. However, a little while ago, following the Brazilian elections, there was a massive uproar that "fake news" was being spread through WhatsApp and that Facebook hadn't done enough to intervene and stop this. Really? So now we are complaining that Facebook isn't reading and censoring messages accordingly?

Do people not remember those annoying e-mail chains back in the day - usually forwarded by some naive friend? Are we really to blame the medium? I feel people will always find ways to use the internet to spread misinformation.

Do we really think we can stem "fake news" by expecting Facebook to bear the responsibility for everything that is communicated on their platform(s)?

Lastly, are we truly confident that hamstringing Facebook with a "break-up" is really going to lead to a better future? Do I really want my kids to be using TikTok/WeChat/Telegram or some other foreign controlled platform over which my government has much less oversight?
It's not like it HAD to have the Lightning connector. It's not like it uses it for any of its other capabilities except charging.
In case of Linkedin, they do ask for consent. But, even if you didn't allow it to export your contacts, other people may have allowed it, linking their linkedin profile with your email address. LinkedIn then shows them to you as suggested connections.
This personally bothered me for a while then.
As someone who alternates between windows and mac I was going to knee-jerk reply to your post explaining why your criticism wasn't valid and windows is actually good enough, but then I took the time to carefully read it and I have to say it's spot on. The ways you describe are exactly the ways that windows is bad.

Still, for me personally the software lead macOS has over windows had shrunk far enough a few years ago that I opted for a thinkpad over a macbook pro. I love that thinkpad, it's an excellent machine. YMMV.
Algol solved the problem.
Keeping totals secret could me maintaining secrecy of some locations -- if your number is much higher than your "enemies" then they're likely to have missed some locations, especially under a backdrop of CND where over-estimation by the state would be politically unhelpful.
Simple. I assume that my PC is compromised and do not do any financial transactions on it. Still run dubious software in a VM but have a separate cheap netbook for banking/online purchases.
Does not hold up nowadays, at least not for multiplayer games which is why a majority of people play. If you get the game after 5 years, most of the online games will be dead.

On the other hand, here I am, playing Counter-Strike:Source every weekend with a group of friends. But I'd say CS:S (and the older games in general) are not following the modern trend of multiplayer games. I doubt the latest CoD (whichever one it is) will be playable online in 5 years.
This law is like having to provide and record ID when entering a concert, restaurant or other public places. It's an authoritarian dream, but will be shot down by courts, that's for sure.
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This is not an absolute, people do stupid antisurvival things all the time. Especially if the drawback is long term combined with a short term benefit.
Can we get something a bit more technical to give it a more refined and scholarly name? Perhaps Hydrostatic glassware.
I'm not imagining anything; I'm speaking from personal knowledge. I grew up in poverty. Poor people aren't a distant mystery to me; they've been my friends, family, classmates, and neighbors most of my life. (Not so much coworkers because I was fortunate to enter the tech industry.)

I've known many people who prefer to live on benefits and take pride in their ability to work the system. That life may not seem comfortable by SV standards, but they like it. They have no intention of working hard and earning a more expensive life.

Of course, I've also known many poor people who worked hard to improve their lives. People who advanced by going to night school while working full time, or through hard work and loyalty for an employer, or by living simply and investing what money they had. But I rarely see policies that help that kind of person from either party.
Call it a less dumb Pascal's Wager of sorts. The possibility that they still exist is high enough that it's only rational to tread lightly under the assumption that they exist.
Heh, I wonder if Mikolaj will respond to this comment. I don't think it's a coincidence. Some spill-off traffic never hurts. Although the icon8 owner may frown upon this.
>This will just put foreign platforms, who will ignore the law, into an advantageous position compared to local platforms. Users might switch to foreign platforms that don't require identification.

Doesn't really matter, as those things move the Overton window.

Tomorrow, when the US, China, and EU adopt similar laws, there wont be any "foreign services" to use.
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The distinctions between stocks and bonds are fairly fluid, in practice.

High finance & legals are sophisticated. Stocks and bonds are ultimately contracts and if you're not trading them on a market with standards, they can be written however you want. You can have bonds with all the practical implications of stock and the reverse. Voting rights and fixed interest. No voting rights, but with dividends, etc.
By filing taxes in every jurisdiction they are legally required to file. Let's use the grandparent post's example: australian founders, company registered in deleware, USA.

They need to file at least the following:

1) US federal corporate income tax

2) Deleware state franchise tax

3) Australian income tax

Probably more. If you want to stay fully legal and compliant, it's just what you have to do.
what you suggest is a really good technique which has the additional benefit of inheriting the social graph of whoever owned the phone before. it's easy to get them from immigrants in one of the mom+pop shops offering international "calling-home" services.
Why would that require asking for the user's GMail password? (Which is what this outrage was over.) I thought Facebook used the passwords to access GMail?
I only found about the adapter after almost a year of owning the 1st gen. By then I was already desperate to switch to the new, vastly improved design.

It was just a terrible idea, no excuses. Requiring a dongle only adds insult to injury.
<3 Time to resurrect my C64 from the cellar. <3
Not much experience with C++ I suppose.
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Only selling SIM cards with an ID, would.

And going to jail for 5-10 years if you're caught bypassing the law, would as well.
What is a "computer-enhanced podium"? Why would I ever plug a usb stick into a podium?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_bypcPW5O4

Guess which one apple (and everyone else) is using despite this being available for two years? (Not aptX) Wireless just isn't ready yet.
So it's not state owned but might be state controlled, and ownership could easily be changed without the employees having a say?

(I am neither for nor against the company and have no skin in the game)
Right! This is one of my biggest peeves with anti-Apple complainers...there are a few legitimate complaints with some of Apple's current designs but this isn't one! Apple Pencil 2 wireless charging nonwithstanding, this is the better design. Plugging in to your iPad is much better than having to dig out a cable, plug it into the Pencil, plug the other end somewhere else. Just think when your Pencil dies, which is more convenient?
Yep, same. Sometimes I’ll spin up a VM if I’m visiting a site that I’m suspect of or installing something random (even if it’s open source because I didn’t build these binaries and I haven’t audited the code), but as I used to say when I was doing desktop support “you don’t get malware by visiting CNN”.
The lack of a zero-copy sendfile for ZFS is one of several reasons that we (Netflix Open Connect) use UFS on our CDN nodes.

It would be interesting to see how he solved this. From a brief look at the FreeBSD code several years ago, I seem to recall that ARC dealt in 8K chunks (maybe because it is the sparc page size??), but x86_64 uses a 4K page size, and mmap() and sendfile() expect to deal in pages.

The other issue would be "taming" the ARC. We make heavy use of FreeBSD's SF_NOCACHE flag to sendfile(). This allows us to teach the VM system to keep hot content in the page cache, and drop less popular content.
The government may and should provide their citizens with a public square online, but neither do they need to take away anonymity on existing squares, nor does the public square need to be non-anonymous. The concept of being able to go out on the streets, make mistakes, and have them be forgotten is old and integral to public spaces IMO.
Maybe they were inspired by her case, but the former MP does not support it:

> Criticism also came from the former Green Party politician Sigi Maurer, whose fight against sexist posts was cited by the government as proof that the law was needed. "The government abused my case to propose this censorship law," Maurer wrote in a tweet last week. "Not in my name."

https://derstandard.at/2000101677286/Government-Seeks-to-Eli...
They suppressed exact details of the violence of the attacks, (Bataclan), but that's understandable I think. The authorities make apt response even if the public is prevented from exposure to the true horror ~ a fair balance I think.
>Even with the issues above it still has an excellent display, I like the keyboard (waiting to start having issues), and the battery life is the best I’ve ever had.

I don't understand this.

I understand not liking Linux Desktop(I hate it, but LOVE LOVE LOVE Ubuntu Server, fav OS of all time)

And... the screen is what has you sold on Apple OS?

I'm flustered at this logic. Pretty screen-> Good operating system

I only imagine you use your laptop as a facebook machine. Would a cellphone do?
Sounds simple, and it actually is, and this served me well for the past 20 years or so. I think. Did take me some 'practice' though, i.e. got bitten once only then knew better than to trust random executables. (Now if I really want that I just fire up a VM.) And back then there wasn't even Defender and now I still turn it off usually, sometimes it wrecks performance. On the other hand: for all I know my machines are all infected..
Very simple, install Python. Install Flask.
That's it! I just use the development server.
I confess I vary too - sometimes there's a few really clever ones. I think it's most frustrating in the busier subs where the pollution gets out of hand. I;m much more forgiving of the odd digression on here or the more on topic subs.
Sure (and cool reference,) but to me, "prudent to act as if they exist" is not the same as "they exist." Even if they don't, there's still much strategic utility to extract from pretending they do.
This legislation is not about "aggressive behaviour", it's about criminal conduct. While I can't comment professionally on the validity / reproducibility of this research (looks bogus to me, they only examined comments on an online petition platform, not FB and news sites where all the crazy people are[1]), anyone who'd claim that criminals don't prefer to be anonymous or that perceived anonymity has a negative effect on criminal behaviour, would surely be laughed out of academia.

Besides, the anonymity vs. other users will not be changed, we're not talking about a "visible real names" policy here. You can still use nicknames, just the forum operator has to store your real name.

[1] The final dataset includes 532,197 comments on 1,612 online petitions. There were a total of 3,858,131 signatures over the 1,612 petitions between 2010 and 2013, with detailed information about the wording of the comment, the commenters, the signers and the petition.
The configuration is a shell script with regular "apt install" commands.

There is a config.json for defining inheritance only.

edit: Here are my recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes/tree/master/re...
Feels a little like pulling up the ladder for the Instagram accounts who've already established a presence on the platform.

But maybe it'll work the other way around and give smaller accounts better, sigh, engagement?
How about wifi? I am experiencing random wifi disconnects ever since the mid-2014 MBP all throughout the current-gen 12” MB. It’s so infuriating that I had to disable wifi and Bluetooth altogether and switch to a dongle with an Ethernet connector. I changed routers and even my home (!!) to see if the issue persists (it does). And I’m not alone, forums have similar cases dating years prior to me.
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I mostly stick to open source or well known commercial software, run Windows Defender, and I run uBlock Origin. I'm of the opinion the biggest risk of malware comes from rogue ads.

I've only been hit with malware twice in the 25 years I've been using Windows. Once was me running a sketchy exe from a torrent site (that's on me) and once when I wasn't running an ad blocker.
Yet many phone makers have done the same thing now, where you can't use wired headphones and charge the phone at the same time.
Have a separate admin account. Use a Pi Hole.
1) windows defender

2) ublock origin + privacy badger

3) using brain before i click on stuff

4) keepass for logins and veracrypt for private stuff
Would you tell us if it said otherwise?
The experimental reactor being sold to Saudis is not capable of producing enough plutonium. And they don't have any reprocessing or fuel enrichment capability.
Somebody make something like this for DOS floppies please. It'd be great to see visualizations of normally formatted 1440KiB floppies vs. 1680KiB DMF ones.