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You are describing veterans in large corps.

- CYA above all. The chances of a significant project succeeding in such an environment are pretty slim. Prepare your umbrella from the get go for when the inevitably will hit the fan. Some heads will have to roll, and you will not be easy pickings as you have been prepping for this since day 1.

- Greenshift like there is no tomorrow. Your manager is going to anyways until 80% of the budget is spent and the last thing she wants is someone pooping on her parade. Always be positive, but make sure not to get caught on factual lies. Remember, you don't want to be the one easily thrown under the bus when she needs to find a scapegoat.

I chose not to stay in such environments.
The explanation is also available here in markdown format https://qml.entropicalabs.io/explanation.md
Hold on. This patent was filed in May 2016, so presumably this concept was being worked on around the same that the oft-unloved keyboards were being developed/released. I may be missing something, but this sounds like old news and not a signal of current thinking within Apple.
why not? if he did something bad 10 years ago and he did again one month ago, is says something about his character.
Of course one device can be tracked. But not every CPU can be tracked, I consider that quite infeasible indeed. If you already know the target, and know that target is looking to buy a new PC/laptop, you can feed it a specific CPU, sure. But you could just as well feed it some sort of modified BIOS that doesn't require any special hardware, and would be pretty much just as hard to detect for someone that isn't specifically looking for that kind of modification.

But that's usually not the interesting case. The interesting case is that you find a new target, and that target already has a PC/laptop, and you want to gain access to it without having to physically infiltrate. Now, you might be able to manipulate their network in some way, or send them an E-Mail, or get them to visit a website that contains an activation code. But having to backtrack which CPU that laptop contains seems impossible to me in the vast majority of cases. Even if you can somehow figure out where he bought it, most stores aren't even going to be able to tell you the serial number of the product they sold, and even if they can, now you have to match that serial number to a CPU, which is... impossible? How would you get that information? Retailers buy hundreds of thousands of CPUs, and they probably don't tell Intel which CPU they put into which device, or even who buys which individual CPU. If you send a CPU back on Amazon, they don't even check if it's the same goddamn model! (Hence the surprise of some people who bought a $550 CPU and got a $550 CPU box with a $50 CPU in it.) And if the CPU or laptop was bought used, now you're really out of luck. I really don't see how this is very useful, when instead of doing that you can just force Intel to give up plausible deniability and hack everything in sight. If you get caught (which is incredibly unlikely in the first place), you just say "we did it for America!" and that's it, nobody would care. I mean Intel would be kinda fucked, but the NSA wouldn't be.
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Huh. My wife uses Chrome (won't switch to Safari, even as she constantly complains about her battery life—go figure) and the last couple days she'd been saying that her battery life on her Macbook Air had suddenly dropped to like 25% of what it had been, leaving her seeking wall power every hour or so. Wonder if it was that.

Of course then it stopped booting at all yesterday so if it was that then it must have pushed the 4.5yr old battery over the edge and killed it. Or overheated something until it died. I don't think those fans have ever been cleaned.
For some reason recently I've been seeing a lot of datings ads on YouTube. Not that I've been searching for anything like that. First it was Christian dating services (I'm not Christian), but clearly that didn't spark my interest so now they've starting showing me ads for Muslim dating services (I'm also not Muslim). I'm excited to see what's next :-)
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If you can read your WhatsApp messages on your phone and you don't control the WhatsApp binary... then Facebook can backdoor WhatsApp to read the decrypted message.
You have to delete Spanish as a secondary language from your iPhone. (I had to do the same with Portuguese.)

Turns out it's not under Keyboard settings, it's under the language settings for your phone itself.
I avoid any company that has forced arbitration as a condition of employment
It's borderline unusable for me.

It takes 20 seconds for every YouTube video to load while they load instantaneous without WARP:

https://streamable.com/9tp1k
You can’t demand someone to resign, but you can terminate someone for no reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

Resignation is an employee choosing to leave a job, and results in becoming ineligible to receive unemployment benefits, which results in the employer’s unemployment insurance premiums to be lower.
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Because the UI/UX is terrible, and XMPP is not mobile friendly at all
Isn’t it a bit like global warming? If people feel the issue is so much bigger than them they will just resign and give up.

Unless you communicate why we need to do sth anyways and what small managable steps can be taken it is hard to tackle this alone, even if you are an informed person with the motivation and the breathing space to do so.

So unless the felt pain and the impeding doom doesn’t exceed the threshold of “oh shit this isn’t fine, what was I thinking!” people will just call the whole thing off as unmanagable and move ahead.
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I can confirm.

Last night i was testing it and geo-location was visible...
Which even for C++ compilers isn't up to what intrisics are capable of.
> I recently estimated a task would take 30 minutes.

My boss at my last job told me that he had observed that if he asked somebody “can you get this done by the end of they day”, he would get an accurate answer (either yes or no). Any further out, there was no correlation between what they said and what they actually delivered.
What about phones running on Kirin or exynos SoCs?

shouldn't be that difficult to support your own fabbed SoC, but yet they sorely lack updates.
Plenty of solutions have been proposed and even some proof of concepts have been developed, unfortunately "management" has not budged. (In the US anyway.)
Weird. I thought it was common opinion that recession occured from housing mortgage defaults and the subsequent credit crunch.
Also, have a look at the paper on LMS:

Explicit SIMD instructions into JVM using LMS -
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....
I agree with everything except after doing this for 20+ years, I think of my estimate and then multiply by 3. I've been much better at hitting my estimates since doing that (but I still miss 75% of the time).
You're afraid of free speech? Manipulation occurs no matter how open or free communication is. Discourse and skepticism are the only weapons we have against Manipulation, and those exist via free speech.
Summer is only one season that's warm everywhere, and then lot of people are on holiday.

The rest of the seasons are equally important for your well being and coming from southern Austria in April where I was in T-Shirt, shorts and sunglasses to Stockholm & Copenhagen where I had to wear my winter jacket and apply lip balm and hand cream to counteract the skin cracking from the wind was quite a shock.

I love visiting Scandinavia and the Baltics but as a person who enjoys the outdoors all year round, the weather there would be way to depressing for me.
> we don’t have a marketing department or a management team of people who decide on a feature that is then pushed down to the users, as has been happening with RealPlayer and BS.Player. So, when we add a feature it’s because people actually need it and actually want it.

There is a clear distinction between software written with profit in mind and free software. Behind the first one often there are people with agendas, strong opinions and marketing departments. They keep breaking things and force me to change my habits to their likings. The second group however, is user-oriented with no marketing department. I used to dislike vlc and its ui. After many years of experiencing software that breaks and pushes to change me I learned to love vlc. Even if it looks different. I don't care about this anymore. Actually I've developed a liking for it, let it break the UI conformaty. It works and is a solid piece of software and this is just brilliant.
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My last conversation like this:

Manager: ‘we just need a rough estimate, we won’t hold you to it’.

Me: ‘Ok based on the 2 minute conversation we just had I think about 3 months’

Manager: ‘Ok, I guess then we need to outsource it.’

Me: ‘Ok, then I need 3 months for guiding them through it, and 3 months for fixing their bugs.’
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An observation here is that a house or a boat is something that people can see; we've all seen a building go under construction whether it a single family home or an office building. It takes time, and we know you can't rush the process or risk the building being unstable.

With software, many parts of the business can't "see" the development happening, so they don't know why it would take so long. At the same time, unlike a boat or building, software is more likely to be easily modified. Therefore there is less of a risk to get it all right initially. I do not condone said behavior I am merely pointing out a possible scenario in which it could happen.

It is also true that a developer is more likely to be a push over than a general contractor. Source: 11 years as as software engineer and my family has been involved with land and real estate for a long time.
I simply don't understand the obsession with this at Apple.
It looks decent for hiding your traffic from your ISP
I don’t think people should be able to cover up the truth. That’s rotten. If there are lies about you, that’s covered by slander law.

Not letting others know things that are true that reflect poorly on you is though is a different story.

Take for instance the since-freed murderers who have used the law to hide their past actions. I don’t think that is something you should have the right to ask the world to forget.
Isn't thinness in a laptop the epitome of diminishing returns at this point? The high end ones are already at a pretty ideal level of thin, anything thinner is overkill and barely adds anything to the product.

If anything, they should be focusing on battery life, 4k webcam, OLED/HDR displays, etc.
I guess also some people find out by trying. It's scary when you don't know if the response will be "fine, ok then" or "hm, well talk about this later", and you find yourself demoted or encouraged to leave (Europe) or fired (more a US thing I guess).
Isn't that like saying there's no point in using an anti virus as viruses are always evolving?

You're still catching entire classes of existing issues..
Another commenter on this thread said that there are already VPN services with Wireguard support and easy-to-use apps. Why not recommend those to friends and family?
Early on in Cloudflare’s history when we were asked who our competition was we said Facebook. The concern was that the challenges of being online would get so hard that individual websites would give up and just move to run Facebook pages. We saw our role as providing the security and performance needed to compete without making you give in to use an all-consuming platform.

We haven’t said that in a long time, but I was reminded of it while we were on our IPO Road Show. One investor we met with said:

“Here’s how I think of you: Cloudflare is to Facebook as Shopify is to Amazon.”

That resonated to me and reminded me of our earliest days and why we started the company.

So I appreciate the concern but hope there will always be more independent web because we exist than there would be if we didn’t.
There are two problems - surveillance itself and the lack of democratic oversight and control.

Most people would agree that the state should be able to deprive people of their liberty ( prison ), but that stringent controls should be in place, with that process being public and involve peers ( though that is being slowly undermined in the west ).

What are the controls around surveillance? What processes stop abuse? Who is accountable? Where is the transparency?

You could argue that you can't be public about intent to spy, but there is a lot more that could be done.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/defence-and-security-blog/2...
Centralised DoH is bad for privacy
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I thought they started to get kinda crappy back in '08 or '09, it just took until recently for the consensus to catch up.
Realistically, what else could we have expected him to say?

"Nope, the company is pretty much fucked. I'm out of here as soon as I negotiate a large enough golden parachute."
No doubt there are some great answers there, but the test isn't to google it (which is what you should be doing with such a basic question, btw), it's to post it and see what happens.
Earlier this year I left an IT & engineering contracting company (Alten, one of the biggest here in France) and I heard from a friend who was still working there that it was one of the union that prevented remote working because "it would prevent them from controlling the workers".
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The Chinese are also able to build high-speed rail systems, while the US is not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

Also consider continued spending on projects to send men to orbit/Moon/Mars etc, but which never seem to actually get anyone anywhere and are reprogrammed and rescheduled every few years.

Then there is the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, first started in 2005, keel laid in 2009, launched in 2013, expected to be deployed in 2020 once all the bugs are worked out of things like the electric elevators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
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It's not even right:

> If you have not taken steps to disable System Integrity Protection and your computer is on OS X 10.9 or later, this issue cannot affect you.

SIP came in with 10.11. Any machine on 10.9 or 10.10 is vulnerable.
And there you go. Check your bias, because it's making you sound remarkably like you have an excellent elbow-pad-and-fedora collection,
The problem is how do you control for quality? What if the driver shows up in a filthy car, or they have a violent criminal background? I guess it could operate on a rating system, but the first wave of users would be taking risks.
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I wouldn't say I don't care. I would say I permanently trust government less, as I do feel mostly powerless to make them less nosey. If I have an opportunity to vote against mass surveillance, I will do that for sure.
I don't really see that use case. If you're in a different city, presumably, you're there to visit something physically located in that city. If not, why travel there? So during the day there's no need for an office. You'll be visiting the factory, client site, etc. that brought you there. For the rest of the time your hotel room comes with a desk and you can work there.

Sure, there's probably some need for temporary surge office space like a insurance company setting up after a disaster. But that seems a pretty small niche to build a billion dollar business on.
Seems reasonable you could devolve Uber and Lyft into

1) Market makers matching drivers and riders with an open API
2) Multiple apps for drivers and riders which handle maps and payments
I guess Lithuania has he same problem as all the Nordics, dark gloomy weather year round.

Except the Nordic countries have a lower suicide rates than the US. The whole high rates of suicide in the Nordics is a myth.
I don't see it either, perhaps a slow rollout?
I doubt this is widespread here. Companies don't want excess legal/reputational risks, especially professional HR folks are for sure aware of legislation they're operating under.

In countries with more lax approach to privacy, yeah sure it's going to happen.
Reminds me of this article [1] from Michael Wolfe. I've sent this to several PM's over the years and they've all begrudgingly agreed with me once I applied this to the current project. The beer probably helped too :D

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-softwar...
Weirdest toolchain in the world, at least among popular ones. Custom calling convention, custom (AWFUL) assembler, insistence on using syscalls directly on systems where the libc is the only officially public API (FreeBSD), bad portability as a result (I tried to add FreeBSD/aarch64, it was an awful experience, thankfully others have continued the work). Don't tell me about gccgo, it mostly copies the standard library from the main implementation, so it also uses syscalls directly.

Just look at https://github.com/minio/asm2plan9s / https://github.com/minio/c2goasm — carefully read the readme and understand what this hack does. If the existence of this hack does not make you extremely angry at Go, I don't know what will.

Oh and I don't like the language itself either. The anti-intellectual attitude of the designers sucks. "Screw anything discovered by PL research in the last 30 years, we just want everything like in the good old days with C but with GC and concurrency" is just silly. The "developers are too stupid to use smart features like generics" attitude is quite offensive. (I guess they are responding to the overwhelming demand for generics now, but it's not like they had a big change of heart, it's just caving to external pressure, not personally embracing the concepts)
In principle that sounds great. In reality, that introduces more steps as each price offer and counter offer produces a time delay and makes me think.

Right now the app follows KISS (keep it simple stupid) and "don't make me think" principles.

A free market price negotiation would introduce a lot more complexity.

One way I could see this working is if driver's set their own rate (per minute or per mile) and riders can accept or reject that rate.
Fun counter-fact: The only technical writer on the internet in Austria is: a woman. Ingrid Brodnig.
Are you implying Uber could convert to a worker cooperative? That would be a little difficult to pull off given the amount of VC money they've raised on top of already going public.
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I’ve already started to see price gauging on UberEATS in SF. Not sure if I was an A/B test or not, but deliveries which include both a service fee and delivery fee totaling $7/8/9 AND the UI defaulting to a $3 tip before delivery, just has me scratching my head.

Throw in surge pricing which adds ~$15 for even close (<10 minute deliveries), and you quickly see it falling apart.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. It's an interesting idea to consider.

It would probably require Uber going through a bankruptcy and reforming as a company with a dramatically different structure. Uber going through a bankruptcy process is not a far fetched idea considering their financials.
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Private files could be leaking in production through source maps
hint: with driverless cars they don't need employees
Ignoring subsidies that Uber pays drivers, if you let drivers set their own rates, I don't see how that's not worse for drivers. Whatever rates Uber sets, there is a willing driver 2 minutes away, so that price is clearly sufficient for a driver. Letting them set their own rates seems like it would just incentivize lower rates at a time when the gig is already pretty bad and hard to live on.
Yep. Everyone is gonna start to see tech the way tech sees finance and military contractors
No, no, they've gone to plaid! :-)
My closest one was a tree outside my window while I was inside with an opened window (maybe 7m). And I certainly felt some sort of static electricity before, paired with a slight smell of ozone (how a laser printer can smell when you print a lot).

Boom and it was bright and incredibly loud. Nothing happened to me, but the tree burned on the inside.
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A friend went through this type of situation. What happened in her case is that somebody with a bad credit history used to use her cellphone number years ago.

When my friend linked her CVS account to her mobile phone, CVS sells each interaction to various parties. There's a whole business where certain debt collectors will buy almost aged out debt for $0.01 on the dollar, "make contact with the debtor" and once that happens, they can resell the debt for $0.05 on the dollar.

All of the sudden she started getting messages that she won cars, etc. All attempting to establish contact.

Because companies buy and mix data from different sources, it's easy for companies to inject bad data, as they assume that certain types of data are highly reliable.
> It is sometimes said that Uber was started based on Kalanick's Randian free market ideas. And at a superficial level, it sorta looks free market - the price responds to supply and demand for instance.

If you need to pump billions of dollars into the market every few months, it's definitely not free.
This is spot on. Uber deep down is only a logistics company. Maybe logistics with a price modeling underneath, but its not a ride sharing company. That's what they are using their logistics software for today (and now meal delivery) but as soon as they realize the can license their logistics software for pretty much any industry, they will layoff thousands and simply license software and raking in buckets of money for YEARS. This is where they will finally find true meaning in their valuation.
Yes. I want my (non-proprietary) ports, and I want my disk media drive, I want a long-lasting battery, and I want key travel on the keyboard, and I want a power+KVM+USB3 dock with magnetic connector.

I will be working and playing on this thing, not waving it around in the air with just two fingers.
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