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Do you have an example of a nontrivial user-space project that has malloc failure handling that actually works, with tests and all? The one I'm aware of is SQLite. Then there is DBus, whose author disagrees with your assessment.

https://blog.ometer.com/2008/02/04/out-of-memory-handling-d-...
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Seems like it could easily become a distraction. Any early user feedback?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -C. S. Lewis
Also, AT&T will only allow two unlocks for non-customers.

So if you left AT&T, you can only unlock two devices.
They're not good practice on the part of the website operators, for sure, but they are real examples of the root and www domains being different. In my experience there are also lots of old or government sites that just plain don't work without the www.

And when the person phones up tech support “ma'am, does it show the www. in front of the website?” “no” “sorry you need to retype” “it still doesn't show www.” is going to happen.

Or someone will write down the URL from the screen, and when someone else types it in, it won't work.

Oh, right, and there's the same issue with sites where https:// has a different site to http://!
Selling the phone doesn't magically terminate the contract - they are still on the hook for all outstanding payments whether the phone is there or not.

If fraudsters are doing this in bulk (and using false/stolen identities to sign up for the contracts in the first place) then the main problem here is inadequate identity checks & fraud protections during the initial purchase and not phone unlocking.
Interesting, most Tor operators are doing so because they feel that people should have a right to anonymity or an uncensored internet connection. I'd even argue that Tor trades lives in a far more direct way than 8chan ever could given that fentanyl and weapon sales as well as plotting of child abductions or slave sales occur right there.

Tor operators in doing so are making a choice: they feel the freedom of anonymity and speech are more important than human lives, even the lives of children.

I'd argue that running a Tor node is explicitly making that choice and that statement, so then it confuses me why you seem to be okay with Tor but more questioning of 8chan and similar services where the choice is made less directly. Is it a matter of having the ability to discern "good" uses from "evil"? You're surely accepting both uses by operating a Tor node and knowingly doing so, so I don't see how that makes sense.

If you want to look at gun laws on the other hand, that's a freedom for security trade that seems more debatable given that other countries have the same access to information, but not nearly the same gun violence problems.
No.

First, a subsidy can exist in many ways. It's not explicitly "when someone gives you money". It's often the case that phones are discounted through deals such as buy one get one (BOGO), for example. When you purchase those two phones they are tied to a contract that states you'll carry new lines of service through the carrier that subsidized the phones for a period of time. That's one example of a common US carrier subsidy.

Second is when costs of a phone are spread out over a contract period it is credit, not a subsidy. The carrier gives the phone to the buyer on credit since they haven't paid for it up front. This is often done now so people can buy phones they may not have the capital for up front. In this way the carrier lessens churn by locking buyers into a continuous upgrade cycle. If they want out of their contract they have to pay the balance of the phone and any early termination fees (ETFs). To imply these are "hidden installments" is disingenuous as the terms are laid out in the contract.
>> I talked to person A, who said... Then I talked to person B, who said...

this has the added benefit of discouraging most developers from being willing to take over the task
old.reddit.com still works for me.
hence why I said a config file based (i.e. include the path that stores one's media, won't matter what program you use to play it), but yes, page cache does play a role (but hence why I also said it be interesting to explore how different applications behave with and without it and how that impacts other system performance)

i.e. I really wonder for desktop workloads if one only caches "executable" data, how would that negatively impact perceived performance. I'd imagine it have some impact, but I'd be interested in seeing it quantified.
> Maybe it's supposed to feel this way for me now.

No, it's not supposed to feel this way. It's not ok to go oppressing people without cause just because one can invent a justification describing them as powerful.
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I still don't understand how. Regardless of who ends up using the phone, surely the original purchaser/signer is still on the hook for the monthly payments?

ie. If I buy a contract iPhone from AT&T then unlock and sell on the phone, that doesn't nullify the fact that I still owe AT&T $100 a month for 24 months, regardless of where the phone is?
> Maybe a legal requirement for intetnet standards compliance makes sense?

there is no internet standard for how a URL should be displayed in a browser.
The fact that operational costs are low doesn't mean that development costs can now be ignored.
> I agree financial debt can kill a company. I'm not familiar with what management debt is.

> But I don't know of any companies that were killed by technical debt.

I would imagine the failures of those companies are attributed to other causes. Is it hard to imagine a company with a low bus factor being in an unrecoverable state if a key person leaves? The time it takes to get a new person up to speed could cause the business to cede ground to a competitor, just as a for instance.
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I don't think you got downvoted for the jokey insults we're trading. (I also think it's pretty funny that I will go out of my way to avoid watching a video. What kind of person do you think I am?)

I think you got downvoted because it's ridiculous to suggest that current safety features make cars safe compared to most other common methods of transportation, especially for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Its hostile for power users but it prevents grandpa from renaming 'IMG_144.jpg' to 'Idaho_grandkids', hammering enter on the 'are you sure you want this' nag screen and then wondering what broke his picture.
Grubhub's value to me is that they send out surveys to most (or all?) customers who order from restaurants, so the star ratings are actually useful to me. A lower rating is a huge red flag when I'm checking out new places, at least. But is that worth 15%? Most definitely not.
The history of advancements in the mile, the marathon, and other competitions seems to suggest that expectations about what's physically possible effect people's performance individually and generally--e.g. apparent endurance barriers.

A similar phenomenon might also exist in the context of longevity. If you get sick and weak at 70 but expect to live to the average age of 90 you might be more optimistic and committed to getting well. If you're sickly at 95 but expected to have already died you might give up the ghost sooner, so to speak.

Assuming that such a phenomenon exists in the context of longevity, I'm intimating that increased awareness about extreme longevity might have the effect of changing expectations and therefore advancing at the margins the extremes of longevity that some people attain. And if the phenomenon behaves like it does in sports, one would expect clustering followed by intermittent breaks to a new limit.

EDIT: To be clear, my main point isn't that this phenomenon exists but that given the possibility of its existence, and in tandem with the clear paucity of reliable, accurate data, the clustering we see might not be strong evidence of a hard barrier at ~117, and in particular not strong evidence that 122 is wildly improbable.
> I do miss how people there tried to be _neighborly_

Yes, there's a certain presumption of goodwill that seems to be lacking. I think of it as "tolerance" in the engineering sense — the idea that we each need to give a little more than 50% in an interaction to account for some slippage and human error.

I do believe that micro-aggressions are a real thing, that small-magnitude interactions that are consistently in a negative direction can add up to a large negative effect. But focusing on those makes it hard to gracefully accommodate the normal noise and random error in humanity. If we aren't also tracking the "micro-benefiencies", then it paints everyone who ever makes a mistake (which is all of us) as deliberately malicious.
Companies with high technical debt don't die suddenly they are prevented from adding new features. What kills the company is a change in the world that the system cannot adapt to because the debt.
Fraudulent SIM swaps are already being done and it's a lot less sophisticated than this - just show up to a store with a fake ID (or bribe the low-wage employee who isn't paid enough to give a shit so I can't really blame them).
well just increased globalization in the last couple of decades. California produces lots of crops and most of it isn't even consumed by Californians. The California water crisis is basically just a product of a globalized economy. Non-Californians are getting their food using California's water.

Having grown up in the California central valley (the Ag capital of the country), it's really sad to see the state flora and fauna suffer so that people who live on the other side of the planet can get almonds.
This looks great & hi Abhi! Will this support left script languages?
Order matters in English, because it lost its Germanic declensions. In highly inflected languages order is less relevant to meaning.
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I’m from Sweden. We have massive fresh water sources and most projections of the future show us retaining our water advantage while the rest of the world suffers through more intense droughts.

Why do I deserve all this water just because I was born here? Why doesn’t someone born in a water stressed environment deserve more water? Water is not a luxury, and we can’t easily make more of it, so I just don’t understand how we can knowingly transition into a more unfair world than ever and not feel bad about it.
If anyone is interested in early human development/the onset of civilization I highly recommend the book "Sapiens". Really compelling pop-science book if you are interested into that kind of thing.
Looks like they completely buried the lead. That is, US carriers use proprietary hardware/software devices to establish and maintain a profitable strangle-hold on the consumer.

No doubt the law the broken. There's no justification for that. However, the lead is the lead is the lead, and it's burried.
I'm running the iPad OS beta and have yet to run into a site that it breaks. Mostly it's a huge upgrade, you can use sites like YouTube that have been serving the gimped phone version to iPad users for years. Set the video resolution? Don't mind if I do!

It sounds simple, but I've read that at lot of work went into the desktop class browsing experience so that it can handle websites that are designed for cursors. There's more to the change than just sending a desktop useragent.
This incompatibility is one of the reasons why I reduced my dependency on it, though I still use it for minor things.

The last straw came when it turns out that unison was incompatible with the same version, if that version had been built on a different system. I can't remember the details but there was some library version difference that results in a unison that has the same version number but wouldn't talk to one from another system without crashing.

Drove me crazy.
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Last week I purchased an NVMe drive for a small home server I'm building. Take into consideration the last time I bought components was about 6 years ago so it absolutely blew my mind seeing how small the NVMe drive was, like the size of a chocolate bar and barely more than 1mm tall. I took photos of it in the palm of my hand!

Seeing they're looking into shrinking these things even further is even more incredible to me!
Only issue I have with this is it removes a bit of useful information when I'm asking users for screenshots when reporting errors on websites!
I just opened this page on safari and I see just “bleepingcomputer.com” with a lock icon.

Its great chrome will do the same. Every browser should. Low level technical details and historical artifacts should go die in fire.
Arles is not a large city, there were about 30k people in the 30's. The Calments were a rich, notable family. I have a hard time imagining that nobody would've noticed the daughter becoming the wife, but I suppose it's not entirely implausible.

>Really? If you're going to go assume someone else's identity with their cooperation and you're not stupid you're going to find out every little detail about their past life and remember it.

The only motive they managed to dig up for the potential daughter/mother swap was to avoid inheritance taxes. Would they really go through all that effort for something like that? Would the administration really start asking such minute details about Jeanne's life to make sure that it was indeed her? How would they have even known to ask for something like that? It wasn't some young jew trying to evade the Gestapo during WW2, it was (presumably) a rich family trying to avoid taxes. It doesn't really add up to me. Actually it sounds like a world of troubles to avoid paying taxes to me, but who knows, rich people are weird.

More generally I agree that her age is extremely anomalous and as such it warrants some skepticism and there might be something hiding underneath all that. Still, at this point we have decades of researchers who have investigated her case and found nothing weird, and then these two Russian researchers who built this theory comparing old photographs and making Facebook polls asking their friends who they thought looked more like Jeanne on the pictures (it's literally in their paper, I'm not making it up).

It's possible that it's true but the evidence so far is extremely circumstantial and rather weak. The most compelling argument is effectively "people don't live to 122, so something fishy is going on". I suppose it's worth considering.
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This is a great view on history of seL4. Is there a list of use cases where seL4 is being used outside academia?

Also, I would like to know why Google didn't go for seL4 and instead created Fochsia?

I wanted to mention that we wanted to see if we can use L4 for isolating our network filter from Linux kernel (trustability) but instead we opted for bitvisor (much simpler code base but not verified).
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> Life insurance charges more for smokers and health insurance should too.

It does. (It didn't help.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5589079/

> To account for tobacco users' excess health care costs and encourage cessation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed marketplace plans to impose a surcharge on tobacco users' premiums.

In fact, it appears to be actively counter-productive:

> Relative to those facing no surcharges, smokers facing medium or high surcharges had significantly reduced insurance coverage (-4.3 to -11.6 percentage points), but no significant differences in smoking cessation. In contrast, those facing low surcharges showed significantly reduced smoking cessation. Taken together, these findings suggest that tobacco surcharges conflicted with a major goal of the ACA – increased financial protection – without increasing smoking cessation.
Syncthing is a better choice for a Dropbox-alike. It's what I use. Apart from anything else, Syncthing syncs in real time.
It would be nice to be able to look more closely at the data here. What makes up this scalar 'water stress'? Maybe those areas using the available water are efficient?

As other commenters point out, there's a 2nd order effect: if you live in a low stress area, near (in a transportation sense, not Euclidean distance) a high stress area, you're bound to have problems unless border control comes to rescue.

I should have paid more attention in geopolitics class..
> that her claim however improbable (someone has to win the lottery) is completely correct

That line of reasoning does not apply here. Someone will win the lottery given enough time as the possibility space is bound - but there is no similar given guarantee that any human would ever live to age X if we have never observed a human living to age X before.
Really? Where is this rule stated in the GDPR?
This is a giant AMP scam.

The next change will be that it will trick users into thinking they are on are on a real site like example.com but will instead be on Google.com/example.com.

But chrome will remove google.com just like http/s.
You should have received a seed phrase as part of that airdrop. You'll be able to use that seed phrase to claim your tokens on the testnet and mainnet. Ping me at tieshun at namebase.io if you want to try things out on testnet — I'm happy to walk you through it.
Since then, the Disney corporation has been working hard to ensure that Mickey’s likeness is a trademark in actual widespread use across many varied product categories. Even if another copyright extension isn’t granted, they’ll still be in a good position to go on the attack against other companies that try to use Mickey for commercial gain.

If that happens, it’ll be interesting to watch; where will the courts draw the line between legitimately using the public-domain films and confusing consumers by using Disney’s trademark which is embedded in that film?
The last hackathon I attended, the winners just built something from an Instructable that existed well before the hackathon.

My friends and I built a time machine radio (i.e. you tune it to a decade, with a knob and everything, and radio news from the decade was included if we could find it) and won best hardware hack, so it wasn't a total loss. Had a blast either way.
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.lnk is one such extension.
that someone got a Science or Nature paper out of it doesn't necessarily make it a good, or novel, idea
The article makes it sound like this particular guy was just charging consumers to unlock their personal phones so they could use them on different networks.
I usually want the exact opposite: measuring what I'm doing without bothering me at all. RescueTime was quite good, unfortunately time has gone and not much new features and user interface changes has been made to it. Still pretty good however.
Furthermore, water storage is stupid easy compared to electricity. Build out some excess capacity and then run off of cheap solar, storing the water needed for the evenings. No emissions issues, no power cost issues.
Okay, so the problem isn't Dropbox's original business model was inherently flawed, but that they have a competitor who is behaving unsustainably.
You're not going to cure the human condition. If checklist fatigue is a real problem, telling people to suck it up and do their jobs is not going to work. The process needs to be improved to account for check list fatigue, it's that simple. Be it read aloud each item before checking it off, have a secondary scribe confirming and checking it off, or any other improvement that minimizes the effect of the fatigue.
The numbers quoted for the Queensland plant referenced above would translate to about A$1.50, or US$1, for a thousand gallons. (10c/kWh for electricity according to [0])

There are running costs other than electricity, but it's always talked about as being power-intensive, so it seems fair to assume the cost of electricity dominates.

$1 for a thousand gallons seems like a non issue for domestic use in developed countries. It's on par with the cheapest rates consumers currently pay in Europe, while some countries pay 8x more [1]. Even in most poor countries it should be attainable.

[0]https://www.aemc.gov.au/energy-system/electricity/electricit...

[1]https://www.thejournal.ie/water-charges-in-ireland-versus-eu...
How much of that was because in that context "office job" meant "management" which in turn implies being in a position of leadership as opposed to under someone else?
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All those iterations take resources from somewhere else. Manager with strong tech skills can reduce number of mistakes and frictions significantly and improve projects chances.

> you can question & identify if it is either the manager's judgement that was debatable

You are probably referring on some VP level person, so I think they usually have even lower expertise, and will just fire manager who doesn't deliver, which is correct, VP shouldn't dig to such low level of execution.
Isn't that just predatory pricing?
I'm guessing you're in the UK? In most (all?) of the US "Dirt" and "Soil" are used interchangeably in casual conversation, with "Dirt" actually being the more common. "Soil" is only more common when referring specifically to tilled soil, or bagged potting soil. But even those will often be refereed to casually as "Dirt".
> There's also the issue of legitimately buying/acquiring a phone, finding it to be locked and having no idea which carrier it is locked to nor how to go about getting it unlocked. It isn't an easy process even if everything is legitimate and the phone was acquired legally and not stolen nor its IMEI/ESN being banned anywhere.

It sounds like you're talking about buying a used phone. Sure - there's danger there. Danger which can be completely mitigated by buying at the owner's provider's store, and having an employee look up that info before giving over money.

If you want to avoid all that business, it's really, really easy to just buy from the manufacturer. If you do that, they always come unlocked, not stolen and not banned.

Broadly: locked phones suck. I would never buy one (unless it was used and on a network I'm already with). But I also know several people who cannot save money. At all. Subsidized phone plans are specifically tailored for those people. The subsidized experience will always be worse than strict ownership simply because incentives between the provider and the user are not aligned. But for those people who can't save money, I think this is the best option they have.
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Then it should also apply to the use of contraceptives
Absolutely. My grandmother lived to 104. She had my mother when she was 45 and was still doing push-ups to stay in shape in her 80s. At her 100th birthday party, she blew out 100 candles in one breath. It's not hard to believe that at least a few people out of a billion could go well past that.