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> They get confused by the difference between VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI

Back when there were RS232 (aka 9 pin) connectors on PCs, my dad's computer had two mail connectors, one CGA and one serial port (I think it was a serial port, but I'm not sure, as those connectors were usually female). I took the VGA cable and accidentally plugged it into the serial port. When I turned on the computer, I heard the startup chirping noises, the screen was black for a few seconds, and then white smoke started pouring out of the power supply. I turned it off REAL fast :) Somehow the computer still worked after that.

EDIT: changed VGA to CGA
Oops – "$160 million in charitable donations" was what I meant
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99pi just released an episode about that font. (https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-i... )
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fraktur/
In theory we could use renewable energy sources to manufacture synthetic jet fuel in a carbon neutral loop. It would be more expensive, but sustainable. Hopefully costs will come down enough to make this economically viable.
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Here's a screenshot I took of what it looks like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERM8lVvUwAA9kSl?format=jpg&name=...

Not touching it.
That's hilarious, this happened to me right before I saw this was my top story. (I use the hide feature a lot.)

Anyway I guess no one's targeting me personally, so I'll just wait for the post mortem.
My favorite is support people that send you a nicely truncated stack trace with all the useful information missing.

E.g only "java.lang.NullPointerException", only the top of the stack, missing "cause" etc. :D
This practice is not new. I had a online furniture site call me and say they will send a free gift, if I give a good review to a recent I bought on their site.
I don't know the best way to handle customer worries after sth like this, but I'm sure "a samsung care ambassador replied on page 22" is not the best way.

At the very least, ensure that a google/bing/ddg/... search ends up in that thread, where a pinned note explains it.
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China’s manufacturing supply chain pummelled from all sides
Keybase is the best encryption tool around and you can tie it to a pseudonymous identity
See also: actual double slit with huge molecules

https://www.livescience.com/19268-quantum-double-slit-experi...
This is such a great demonstration of the value of public libraries.
Oh we still exist.
I had this discussion not too long with a colleague about how some slowdown because of bloat he could have easily avoided was a very minor thing.
Would require the dude that made it a day to change, would cost another half day to distribute, etc
He found it really strange that i was so adamant about such a tiny bit of slowdown that nobody was probably bothered by until i after low-balling the amount of people using the software and amount of times they experienced that delay every workday over the past years calculated how much that had been in total and came out on months of lost time. Even if just a fraction of that ctime ould have been used it would have been worth it.
Genuinely curious who comes up with titles like: Samsung Care Ambassador
> Non-profits optimize for a pleasant work environment for faculty

Some do, some don't. Some Non-profits optimize for maximize impact to their vision.

> for profits for maximum numbers students.

Some do, some don't. Some for-profits optimize a small number of wealthy clients.
Malazan is goddamn amazing, it has world building like no other fantasy series since LOTR. It's a real sleeper, I believe it will become much more popular in the future, perhaps after a grotesque screen adaptation. To my friends who are hesitant to jump in I often liken it to Berserk meets ASOIAF; unrelenting horror with captivating enigmatic lore meets a rich political drama of war and conquest spanning many continents and cultures. The prose isn't as gracefully written as Rothfus stuff and the editing is periodically disappointing, but I can't think of any modern fantasy series that even comes close in terms of the depth and complexity of the world's fantasy lore. Recommendations welcome!
I was a sysadmin since 17 and a client-facing, on-prem AWS consultant for F200 and startups in the early days.

A lot of big companies outsource their IT to the cheapest vendor, who, in turn, outsources roles to onshore/offshore. There's not necessarily incompetence by virtue of people from elsewhere in the world, but there is sufficient incompetency, second-stringers and lack of accountability because of all the bureaucratic layers and indirection in the responsibilities. As such, technical debt, confusion and substandard work thrives because of all the vampiric technology "ticks" consulting companies who maximize profit before customer value.

The way-out is for companies to directly hire fewer but better technical employees, employee-ownership and not jumping on the IPO bandwagon because of the perverse motivations of publicly-traded companies.
How much can you trust that data? My car tell me what the speed limit is by using a database and reading signs. On my commute to work there is a part where it tell me the speed limit is 5km/h when it actually is 80km/h and another place where it for a short bit shows the limit as 80km/h where the correct is 30km/h
<link rel='stylesheet' href='res/lettercrap.css' />
<link rel='stylesheet' href='res/style.css' />

;o
Seems like a great solution, I will test it for a few domains.

Multi domain registration could be nicer ;)
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Either a dev was playing around and oopsied or they got hacked.
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That’s too bad, its awesome 80s/Vapourwavy stuff. I wonder whether SoundCloud limits are daily or monthly.
Agree. Though I would rather state it "just" works. You need to watch for DNS propagation, particularly if your DNS provider has some sort of CDN-like features (which is the case for instance of OVH) which makes the timing of the propagation non deterministic and non observable (you will likely be served by a different DNS server than the let's encrypt bot, how can you check it has propagated?).

Let's encrypt will only check the DNS entry once, if it doesn't find it, it fails the authentication process and doesn't retry (contrary to the specs).
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I think you're missing half a sentence in there.
Why are people still bothering with Google fonts? They were useful when font formats hadn't been standardized, and you needed WOFF, TTF, and SVG for some Apple products. Now, WOFF works everywhere, and you can offer WOFF2, which is compressed more. So why not just put the fonts on your own site and avoid a side trip to Google?
Here is one recent example of a failed attempt to scam money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22348721
From a Samsung Care Abassador on page 22 of comments:

> Hey everyone,

> From what I can tell, this is a some test on Samsung's end to assure services are working. U expect Samsung will make an official statement explaining but I want to mention it now to hopefully put some of you at ease.

> I hope this helps.
I'm starting to think Samsung is running a social experiment instead
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Every year, up your rate little-by-little.

One extreme example is there is this homeless guy who is a retired very good teacher who has a way of both teaching kids and correcting problematic behaviors. Unfortunately, he doesn't advertise and he doesn't up his rate ($20/hr IIRC). It's a shame.
The only economic reason I can think of is “I have a plan which requires violating EU rules, which will be more valuable than the additional trade costs that will be caused in the event that the EU continues to think that that rule we want to violate is a good rule and insists on the UK not breaking it as a precondition for a zero-friction trade deal”.

I would be more optimistic if the UK government didn’t appear to hold the position “pivot to a no-manufacturing/service-only economy while simultaneously aiming for a trade deal that only covers food, mining, and manufacturing but not services”.
You could just loosen the firewall for a few minutes before and after you requested DNS validation.
We know it arrives as a particle. We don’t know it travels as a particle. What we know is that it acts very wave-like when it travels. If I were forced to bet, I’d say it travels like a wave and arrives like a particle. That doesn’t mean “duality”. It means the condition required to arrive somewhere require a set of values that are packet-like. But we insist that it’s a packet all the way through, so the discussion remains confusing to lay people for 100 years.

If you measure before/at the slit you affect the experiment. You affect how it travels through the slits, removing the interference pattern. So yes it’s not split but that has no bearing on when the detector is not at the slit. They’re different situations and have different outcomes.
+1, this series of posts is my favorite explanation of it. I love the focus on it from the philosophy of science angle.
Crypto is like Linux on the Desktop i.e. about as popular as it's always going to be.

And the reason is that most people simply don't hate the status quo.
Yes, this is a violation and they'll get canned.
That still sounds like 95% of their interactions will be with family members?
I was actually looking into this and found that it's apparently not _that_ expensive to get quantum entanglement at home, though of course you are going to be succeptible to some loopholes. Also, you have to be willing to keep a small amount of radioactive material somewhere in your house but apparently it's not much more than background radiation levels.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/ho...
Emoluments case got thrown out the courts plus he donates 100% of his salary each year. His company’s net worth has dropped by at least 700 million when he became president. Meanwhile the previous president is now worth over 120 million and bought a $15 million mansion recently. Pelosi is worth $140 million while being a life time politician. Won’t comment further as I don’t want HN to turn into political flame war but I had to set the record straight because it sounds a lot like accuse opposition of what you are doing.
Even “I work from home Fridays” would be a relevant bar I think.

It wouldn’t be allowed, or technically unfit (no access to critical tools) in a lot of companies I’ve seen 10 or even 5 years ago. Someone “working from home” would be considered traveling and lose most of the work resources.
If you touch it it goes away.
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Dutch government is pushing for more and better international rail services
I think rebase is fine, you just need to synchronise with the people working with you on the branch. There shouldn't be more than 1 or 2, otherwise you're probably doing something wrong.

Also, I only rebase when it makes sense in that case, you need something from master or you're about to merge back into master, so disruption should be minimal.
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Your experience isn’t invalid, but it’s by and far the best developer experience compared to everyone else.

Stripe was “bleeding edge” in their desicion to use JSON when I first integrated with them which was a hell of a lot easier than integrating with PayPal’s SOAP API
This notification comes from an app that is designed to tell a remote user where you are located. That was enough to spook me.

I dismissed the notification, deleted as much data from Samsung apps as possible, and turned my phone off.

Rough moment to be a Samsung executive. They're just about the only top smartphone manufacturer that doesn't manufacture the vast majority of their handsets in China so presumably they are in position to take some market share from the competition. Yet today we are seeing some fear about contagion in SK, and this very strange notification that -- benign or not -- is going to scare some users (e.g. me). I for one would like to see a formal statement made to the public.
Any blocking can lead to confusing and non obvious results - another reason to oppose ISPs and states doing it. I run a block list (2 million or so URLs in Pihole) for reducing adverting and tracking. The things that happen can be unpredictable and unexpected, particularly because issues are rarely encountered. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if users of this iOS feature have had problems and haven’t known the source or reported them (even when there is an error message).
Hey, not a french speaker but will take a look, thanks!
VGA is DE-15 (3 rows), DE-9 (erroneously called DB-9) is 2 rows. ;) Interestingly, VGA only really needs 6 pins to operate: R G B VSYNC HSYNC & GND, and monochrome only needs 4.

I don't see how that's possible without really crushing it in there. Also, CGA & EGA were the same connector as serial (DE-9), which would've been easier to confuse.

It could've been worse: I knew a guy in high-school who plugged a parallel printer into a Mac classic's SCSI DB-25 (the same physical connector as a parallel port, female on the computer; DB-25 serial is a male connector on a PC) and baked it into "apple pie" with that "lovely" magic smoke aroma.
I dabbled a bit in dogelang and the "great" thing is that it almost is Haskell but not. You can deconstruct tuples which looks like pattern matching but it isn't. You can use generator lazyness which looks like lazy and non-strict evaluation but the generator has an internal state.

It's amazing if you really try to write something haskell-like where it actually breaks.
NIMBYs also win in local votes. Most voters turn out for presidential elections. Far fewer turn out for state elections. And the voter turnout for local elections is frankly pathetic. The votes where San Francisco set a cap on new office space per year and made apartment buildings near the coast inordinately slow and expensive to build? Off-year elections where the NIMBYs have an electoral advantage.

http://beyondchron.org/the-failure-of-district-elections/
I wouldn't be surprised if that's one of those unpaid / volunteer things -- you know, where the company allows one to provide free support to other customers for, um, the "prestige" or "recognition" or something. Dell used to do that with their forums and such, not sure if they still do.

Kinda like how years ago [0] folks who wanted you to design a web site for them for free would try to bullshit you into believing that "the exposure" would be worth waaaaaaay more than any money that they might pay you.

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[0]: I'm assuming enough people finally said "FYPM" that this doesn't happen so much anymore but I would not be shocked to find out I'm wrong.
A better article perhaps:

https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-accidentally-sends-ou...
Perfect! I just replied to the issue too. We don't even need email auth. As long as there's a way to login / create a user in the back, we can handle auth.
While remote tracking, bricking, etc is very useful, I do not trust any company to make it secure enough, so the features becomes moot. It would be better if I could create a encryption key myself to be sure that only I had access to those features.
Almost certainly the former. Careful people need to be in charge and keep a tight leash on people who are careless until they are careful.

Also pre-emptive response to “something something about systems something cgpgrey”. At the end of the day we live in the real world with imperfections everywhere. Every system eventually boils down to trust in humans.
> I don’t know how long it takes to fully get past stumbling through borrow checking and learning the intricacies of Result but it’s long enough to be a detriment.

That's right, but no one expect to learn quantum physics in a few weeks either. Rust is indeed way longer to learn than Python, Javascript & others, but it's also much more powerful. And with the same level of power, both C and C++ are way harder to master than Rust (and arguably, nobody really master them in practice since even the most brilliant programmers shoot themselves in the foot from time to time. Yes, even DJB [1].

> Rust in a spot where it has use cases where it is clearly the best option but many use cases where it is overkill.

Indeed. It would make no sense to switch to Rust if Python is good enough for the task. I was just arguing that once you've learned Rust, you can do pretty much anything you want with it without friction, and I personally wouldn't bother writing anything in Python nowadays, because I can write Rust as fast and get the static typing guarantees and sane error handling that comes with it.

> Go shines particularly well for servers thanks to Goroutines and the fact that many servers have a shared-nothing architecture these days.

Having done quite a bit of Go, I don't agree with you. It's way too easy to accidentally share data between goroutines, and then cause data race or deadlocks . The day they introduced the race detector, we found 6 data races in our code (a few thousand loc) and a few others in our dependencies, and in the next year we found two not caught by the race detector (because it's a dynamic thing, it can't catch all races). More than generics (which are being introduced if they don't change their mind like they did for error handling) Go really need something akin to Send and Sync in Rust. M,.or maybe like Pony's capabilities system, but Go definitely needs improvement on that front. Multithreading is a hard thing, and Go makes it too easy to use, to people without the necessary experience (because Go is so easy it attracts a lot of junior or self-taught devs) without safety net and this generally doesn't end well.

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/16058/D.j.bernstein-Djbdn...
Now do you think that propagating probability amplitude is a real physical thing?
In grad school some of my lab mates accidentally fork-bombed UT Austin’s entire CS department compute cluster. Someone had written this weird re-entrant shell script that would, depending on arguments, either submit a batch of jobs to the cluster or actually run a job.

Unfortunately the script was called with the wrong arguments, leading to the cluster submitting jobs recursively back to itself until the entire thing went down.

Good times.
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Samsung officially announced (at least in Korea region) that it was an accident during internal app testing and there is no effect on the device.

(The link is from a korean forum)

https://clien.net/service/board/park/14612726
This also freaked me out in the morning. Right after that, I randomly heard about Google accusing Samsung of increasing the attack vector on their phones [1].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-samsung-stop-messing...
Don't you still need to worry about the clock not going up in pace with others? Like if a system has a lease until "100" but the clock doesn't tick (or more realistically ticks slowly), then another system could think it had the lease if it observed a local system time of 101? Maybe I'm misunderstanding how you're using the leases though.
Why was the title changed? This is a samsung specific issue and the loss of specificity detracts from the title.
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Remote work doesn’t equate with being hands off or having no coaching.

This is not a pleasant scenario, but some companies will stick monitoring tools on their employees environment, and it becomes the equivalent of the boss sitting behind you but in remote form (then again it won’t mean much for productivity, but almost nobody understands optimizing for productivity anyway)

On the coaching part, being able to share screens is the most important part I think. From there, there is only a small handicap in doing it remotely. The real missing bit would be the white board IMO.
The same person who decided to rename helpdesk/support to "Customer Success Executives"
Some of the arguments make perfect sense, some do not:

> If messages can be sent in plaintext, they will be sent in plaintext.

This is not an inherent problem with e-mail and can be solved with client software. You can still have unencrypted communication while giving a big red warning if a user sends an unencrypted reply to an encrypted conversation and strip away quotes by default.

> Metadata is as important as content, and email leaks it.

This is true, but can I do think that this can theoretically be solved be a new generation of server architecture while keeping the federated nature.

> Every archived message will eventually leak.

The problems here are a matter of implementation and what software is used.

> Every long term secret will eventually leak.

This is the one inherent problem with PGP e-mail in the entire post as I see it. It is an issue.

All the issues the author bring up certainly hold true today but most of them are not inherent to e-mail and I think with enough coordinated effort they can be fixed while keeping decent compatibility.

I do think that apart from the metadata issue (not saying that this is to be disocunted!), we could keep using the exact same servers as today in a perfectly secure and private way if we have a new generation of e-mail clients and e-mail cryptography.

As for the metadata part: I've been toying with the idea of a messaging system using e-mail for transport but having an encrypted protocol on top of that which solves these issues.

It would also require some way of distributing encrypted messages around (maybe in a gossip-like protocol akin to SSB) and broadcasting gateway servers that relay these messages on behalf of large amount of users.

Finally, there's something to be said with that PGP was ever only meant to solve the secrecy, non-reputability and integrity of messages, which is only part of a security and privacy story. It doesn't mean that PGP is broken, only that it is incomplete depending on your threat model.
Come again? The drag is proportional to the lift, but if you’re flying higher, and thus faster, to get the same lift, you’re getting to your destination faster.
If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(this will be moot shortly, because I'm going to change the URL)
How this works is via trade deals.

If you're a foreign company selling to EU citizens you can be subjected to EU fines because there's usually a trade deal that says so.

But yes, checking the nationality of all your customers isn't feasible, but I bet the waters get murky when requests, such as data access or deletion requests, come after the fact, with proof of EU citizenship.