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My experience was nearly the opposite. I tried to teach myself c 15 years ago and found pointers completely bewildering. I didn’t really know how to program any other language then. After a 10 year, non-technical interlude, I went to grad school and spent 5 years writing matlab. In the last year, I decided to learn c again. This time, pointers seemed completely straightforward. The most difficult part for me this round was keeping the syntax straight.
I’ve only ever met two kinds of people with regards to Joyce; those who hate this and those who love it. I have to admit, however, that I’ve never felt compelled to investigate for myself. I’m glad. Wow, that is astoundingly dense.
There is no evidence for that. No one is fleeing, but we are at the start of a harsh recession, when seeing rents fall isn’t weird at all
There are multiple GEO sats that already provide service for popular airliner routes and for cruise ships.
Security researchers on the other hand run away screaming when you tell them that all of your data and configuration files are a complete language and you execute the language to parse the files.
What dimension? It's not competitive for anyone who can get high-speed internet right now, and it's not clear if it will complete with traditional satellite in cost.
Well that is kind of the the point of multi-factor authentication.

* Something you know (your username/password).

* Something you have. The Yubikey or other hardware token.

If you lose your Yubikey, by itself it should not allow access to anything. I keep mine on my keyring with my keys, which I haven't lost yet.
Here's a good-ish article on bloodletting in the modern age: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-potential-benefi...

TLDR: There are correlations that it reduces circulating iron, circulating cancer cells, arterial hardening, decrease insulin sensitivity, and it increased metabolism. Not a lot of super firm evidence though
> The only truly safe power utility-scale power source in widespread use is solar.

Apparently a fair number of people die from solar as a result of falling off of roofs.
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> You should boil the milk anyways, you want all other bacteria/bugs dead and only the "wanted" bacteria to "spoil" the milk.

UHT milk tends to be sterile, if it's straight from an unopened carton.
"The trigger event is known to be a leased fiber circuit failure from a third party provider in the Southeast. This is something that happens on every mobile network, so we’ve worked with our vendors to build redundancy and resiliency to make sure that these types of circuit failures don’t affect customers. This redundancy failed us and resulted in an overload situation that was then compounded by other factors. This overload resulted in an IP traffic storm that spread from the Southeast to create significant capacity issues across the IMS (IP multimedia Subsystem) core network that supports VoLTE calls"

I find it interesting that rerouting telephony data was enough to take down the system. I guess the event was something similar to when a small ISP breaks their BGP and routes the entire internet (or a large chunk) through a network that can not handle it?
Assuming this is for Android, the APK would no longer be signed and would cause all login attempts to fail.

Have a read about "SafetyNet Attestion API" for Android.
Source? There is no indication whatsoever that the service will be cheap enough to be for the consumer market. In fact, all serious cost analyses show it's not.
It isn't just that. People will cherry-pick the worst incident that ever happened on a platform involving children and compare everything else to that and say that if you support privacy you're supporting this everywhere.

The one, admittedly terrible incident, will shock people and they will push exaggerated means to "stop" it. Ones which just so happen to feed tons of information into the NSA machine.

People come up with stories of live-streamed child pornography too but do these children live in some parallel universe where crimes can be committed against them without recourse? What is the police doing? Did they not find suspicious behaviour in a neighbourhood? Did a counsellor not pick up on it?

Yeah sure, child pornography is awful but why is this part of the equation the only one that is ever mentioned? Why is it always about encryption or anonymity?
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They waited until it was too late to try to innovate. So they bought Braintree and Venmo.
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This sort of thing has been prevalent in the game world for decades.

I once had the chance to work on a project disassembling casino machines, and they had similar protection appropriate for the technology of the time
Is this some sick joke? Do you really not see how arson and explosives are absolutely comparable crimes? The arson which accompanied looting in Philadelphia caused a massive fire in downtown Philly which could have easily killed people. Your apologism for serious crimes because I guess it suits your political biases is not OK.
It’s only disruptive when it actually disrupts something I guess is my point. I’m not so curmudgeonly as to think “this stuff will never work,” I just see so many folks selling it as if it already does.
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It's far too black-and-white to hold the belief you wrote. Pessimism is an indulgence.
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> I think you'd be able to blog about your work at Netflix, Google, Facebook, etc. Plenty of their employees do so.

There’s two types of work-blog: the kind you have on your personal website - and the kind on the company’s own blog.

Most companies prohibit what you can talk about on your own blog (rightfully so - competitive secrets, etc) but some companies like a Apple outright prohibit you talking about your work to others at all beyond generalities.

Company-run blogs, for all their casual demeanour, are still ruled by management - and one’s blog articles become their copyright unless otherwise stipulated (as it’s a work stemming from your employment). When/if the company ceases to exist - so do your articles.

I had my own blog on blogs.msdn.com when I was at Microsoft - I sometimes posted somewhat subversive articles (such as guides on how to tweak the appearance of components of Windows if you didn’t like the defaults using publicly available articles and documentation) - I was hoping it would still be online today but it seems most MSDN blogs that didn’t reach Raymond Chen-levels of popularity got axed when the “MSDN” brand was retired. Oh well...
I’ve had dual 4k monitors under Ubuntu Mate for years without problems so I’m gonna have to disagree. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
READ is Turing complete, because the reader can execute arbitrary code: the #. read macro alone is enough to ensure this.
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I agree with the problem and the severity of it, but I disagree with the proposed solution. Don't get me wrong, the more screen real estate the better, but I recently switched to GNU Unifont as my primary font and wow is it nice and crystal-clear at 12pt. Bitmap fonts might be "ugly" and inflexible, but they do seem to entirely sidestep boneheaded antialiasing strategies (provided they're configured to not be needlessly antialiased).
One nit about this article. It claims that the Yubikey does not support TOTP (Time-based One Time Code). I believe all of the Gen 5 versions that plug into your computer's USB port support TOTP.

There is an app called Yubico Authenticator that can scan for a QR code on your screen and import the secret key from a website, into the Yubikey, when setting up TOTP as supported by Google Authenticator. You can also require a touch in order to generate the One Time Code, which I would recommend.
I've heard of these before; they are very cool. The only problem, as far as I've seen, is a smaller frequency range and lower gain compared to tubes or transistors. Not crazy smaller or lower, but don't expect a single magnetic ham radio amplifier to get you from 160m to 10m at 1.5kW legal limit.
Facebook is actively hostile to privacy and security, including by building black hat exploits for open-source software and not reporting it to the developers afterwards and quietly shelving E2EE for Messenger (rumor mill says because of LEA influence or pending water down / walk back).

I have no doubt there are innumerable FB employees who will defend privacy and security. Zuckerberg doesn't care, and will sell his users out the second it impacts the bottom line or offends the government FB is in bed with (go listen to the hot mic recording between Zuckerberg and Angela Merkel, for example).
Ack, you're right, I did!
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I think your math is off. What elevation are you using?
> As Modernism declared: ‘Form must follow function’

This is true, but there is nothing saying you cannot start with a functional baseline and add form on.
dracut on RHEL7+ builds the initramfs in "host_only" mode, which attempts to strip it down to just the kernel modules you need for boot time.

Which is also somewhat annoying because it completely trashes portability, which can be really irritating in cloud environments.

Ubuntu has similar capability (and I'm guessing Debian upstream?), but you have to specifically enable it, by default it ships the full modules set in the initramfs.

I would imagine most places outside of embedded world and maybe microvms, this stuff isn't that valuable.
Radio telescopes work better on the ground
There are many implementations but not as many that are active (here is a brief list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Mod...). Dyalog provides more than just a interpreter/compiler but an entire development environment.
Maybe just a coincidence, but this finding happened at the Grand Sasso National Laboratory, in Italy, the same lab where the "faster than ligth" neutrinos were announced [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano...
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My vehicle is 18 years old, so I couldn't figure out if that comment was sarcastic or not.
Those would most likely be inductors or transformers. It is mentioned in the article how the simplistic Figures 2 & 3 magnetic amps would act as a transformer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_inductors_and_transfo...
Electric hall effect thrusters that use krypton as propelant. These give the individual satellites a really efficient thruster with a lot of delta v. They also use krypton instead of xenon, which everyone else uses for electric thrusters due to it being cheaper.
I know that this is part of it: https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memor...
This was a great watch. I fully understand why they aren't used any more, but what a mechanical delight! Watching people work at the smooth speed of practiced efficiency is a joy to see, too.

(Couldn't help but notice how black with lead everyone's fingers were as well.)

[edit] I am impressed with the printer's comments at 14:10 re: the inevitability of computers
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Advanced treatments, technology, better patient satisfaction can help to improve the dentistry. The main thing is to give proper treatments to patients, treat them well, help them to get rid of their dental issues and satisfy them to get satisfaction.
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If you built 10 space telescopes for the price of JWST, I believe that EACH one would still be more expensive than the most expensive terrestrial telescope ever
My brother and I grew up in a world that sounds similar to yours. I’m not negating your experience. The fact that you and I have privilege doesn’t negate our own hardships.
While those numbers are good, TimescaleDB does not even attempt to compete with the performance of purpose-built time series DBs (e.g. shakti, clickhouse).

Time series DBs (and OLAP dbs in general) have very different trade-offs/needs than transactional DBs.
I think people get causation and correlation a bit confused here ... Java code is like it is not just because of it's nature as a language but because a gigantic number of huge corporations use it. And they have bajillions of dollars to pay developers to figure out a gradle build, or navigate a typ e hierachy etc. That's why equivalents of Spring etc., have appeared for .Net etc.

Btw, did you know the default Gradle configuration for compiling a Java app is literally 1 line?

apply plugin: 'java'

I'm not that much a fan of Gradle (too much magic), but it's one of the least verbose and easiest to figure out parts of working with java.
> got leaked out somehow

They let the Washington Post take high-res pictures of the masters while supporting them doing a story about the TSA and those got published which was enough to decode the keys.
At one point, Amazon was arranging pickups of the boxes if you filled them with charitable donations (clothing?). Probably not 1 for 1, but it’s something.
You could patch Android and run it in an emulator. Or patch Snap not to care. Not super familiar, but there should be a way. Client side security can only do so much.
I honestly can't tell if this is satire, but if nit, this comment is the laziest kind of strawman argument I've ever seen...

Burning down an occupied home, and burning an unoccupied car are both arson, do you think they're comparable crimes?

Actually let me answer that for you, because maybe this is just the legendary HN contrarian who does not let common sense stand in the way of making a point...

They're not. Sending pipe bombs to CNN is intentionally trying to kill people. Burning a police car is intentionally trying to destroy property. Sure someone could be hurt by both, but you'd have to throw out any semblance of common sense to pretend that they're comparable in malice...
Their latencies are not at least as competitive as anything if they're not proven. With low orbits, they need multiple hops to get to most destinations, along with queuing and network delays. Propagation delay may not even be the dominant factor.

The cost will need to be very expensive, relatively speaking. See this quick math for why: https://mobile.twitter.com/quirkyllama/status/12727488943806...
340 miles.

If it's not able to cover more than a couple hundred miles, I don't think it's a line of site issue.
Some of the U2F-only tokens are their own thing, but the flagship Yubikey is literally a smart card bundled with a reader. The USB token form factor makes a little more sense for an individually assigned laptop.
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I use a single 34" 4K monitor with an arm mount on my Mac Mini. The power button on this monitor is one of those touch sensitive ones on the bottom right that I sometimes accidentally brush past. When I switch it back on, every single window gets reduced into an incoherent size and everything gets moved to the top left. It's really annoying.

I'm thinking of flipping my monitor upside down so I'll never accidentally brush that area while picking up something on the table.
Source? Which islands?
Ask HN: How to connect two computers to one USB-C display?
Has anyone found / know of a KVM switch that will take USB-C in from two computers and output USB-C to connect to a USB-C only monitor?

I have my laptop for work and a gaming computer under the desk currently with a DualLink HDMI to an old 30" Apple Cinema display but need to upgrade as the monitor is starting to get old. Would like to go with some of the 4k/5k options, but they seem to be trending towards USB-C and I can't find any way to replace the KVM easily.
Motorola jumped from their 8-bit 6809 to a full 32-bit (internal) processor in 1979. Intel delivered a 32-bit processor 6 years later in 1985.

Intel Motorola
1974 8080 8-bit
1974 6800 8-bit
1976 8085 8-bit
1978 6809 8-bit
1978 8086 16-bit
1979 68000 32-bit
1982 80286 16-bit
1985 80386 32-bit
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Read it! I finally finished it about a year ago after about 15 years of false starts, and am so glad I never have to be bothered by it again. (It's actually just really bad, in every single way, even reading slowly and thoroughly and cross-referencing, unlike the other two of my final three bucket list books I knocked out of the way last year (Gravity's Rainbow, which I'd read once but decided I hadn't followed well enough to count, and which upon the second reading I can't say I loved but it had its moments, and Swann's Way, which was was a bit slow but reasonably good enough once you get used to the pace that I'd consider reading the remainder of the books in the series)). But it's so freeing not to have anything else on the reading bucket list!
You make some very good arguments, and I've carried this line of thought myself -- surely its a new reality, because there's no blood in the streets and people can still put food on their plates.

What is the endgame though?

Can the governments keep adding new debt at the rate they have been adding in the past 12 years?

Can they just keep going into negative rate teritory? For how long?

Will we eventually see -1000% interest rates so that the government/public debt can be maintained?

edit: actually, the government does not need -1000% interest rates to service an infinite amount of debt, it just needs real 0% interest rates and the ability to issue more debt.
I don't really like Mr. Stamos because he has been saying everything he can to discredit Facebook since he got ejected after a row with management. This could just be my perception of him but I don't find his arguments to be entirely in good faith.

Denying E2EE is a cost as you are punishing people for the crimes of another, this is depriving them of their hard-earned freedoms and liberties, for something someone else has done or may do.

Look at the activism going on today. BLM, dissidents in China, the rise of oppressive far-right governments in Europe like Hungary. I am sure if you dig far enough, you could find many people fighting in obscure causes, high profile causes, in a number of countries, who would fear the fist of an oppressive government.

What if the FBI / NSA decides to surveil BLM, as they already are? What if the CCP strikes down a dissident as they already have on Zoom? What if Orban decides you are a secret agent of George Soros plotting to undermine the government? Is it the case that everyone should roll over because a criminal might use the same means as them?
As a big ol' disclaimer, I work at Google. However, it's no longer necessary to install a 3rd party extension for grid view, it was added natively a few months ago.

Also IMO there's been some drastic improvements to audio quality lately. My very noisy fan that triggers my mic in Discord is totally inaudible in Google Meet, even when I'm talking.
Capitalizing on the fact that sneakernet is still faster than Internet.
You might like to look into Dhall - a config language that has been careful to remain non-Turing-complete.
That's neither unique to internet sleuths nor to angry mobs. LE will also on occasion misidentify people, and they + DAs also don't always stop that quickly.
How is this biased:

"No evidence a working starlink network can offer lower latency, or lower prices, than terrestial"?

The FCC themselves don't believe the 100ms, and the price nobody in the industry thinks will be affordable since they haven't released any info about their user antenna.
Take look at Synology devices.
Oh yeah good point, I always forget about the OATH part of the YubiKeys - unfortunately it's like the OTP feature in that I haven't had enterprise customers asking me about it at all (they're all hyped about U2F), so I start to forget its there.

I'll have to add it in to the article :)
> Ok so my original example becomes this

No, you still don't understand. Methods can't have additional type parameters, only functions. This part is not allowed in your "example":

(type K, V, Q comparable)
Why don’t we listen to the information too, and decide for ourselves by thinking critically? Maybe even change our own minds sometimes? None of that is beyond my reasoning abilities, and I have a hard time believing that it is beyond yours.

By the way the GP is criticizing the “appeal to authority” fallacy, and you are criticizing a form of the “argument to moderation” fallacy.
The problem is that if you’re categorizing by “what fraction of people think this is true,” you have to group the Bible with Darwin and antivaxxers. You can’t decree “we’re organizing by truthfulness” unless you’re okay with other people organizing with what they think is true.

On the other hand, if you group it by topic covered and style, the Bible gets sorted with history, which isn’t great but at least is reasonable. And then there’s also the category of religion that fits even better.
Has no one heard of NAS devices that can run docker containers? Synology Play?
Linux has (at this point) a variety of hooks you can attach eBPF programs to; bpfilter is one of them. The naming is confusing. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, but its original use case was only for capturing a copy of network packets for inspection (think tcpdump/Wireshark); the "filter" was just used to select which packets should be captured. bpfilter, on the other hand, applies eBPF to firewalling – in other words, a more typical definition of "packet filter".
How do I pronounce... any of those?
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How long is a string? No more than any other magnetic component, such as the switching transformer in your cellphone charger...
Even though the theoretical line of sight is 1800 miles, I expect that you'll get much less range. The satellites move very quickly— the satellite that's halfway between you and the ground station is very quickly going to be more than 1800 miles away from one of you. Transmitting signals at such oblique angles is also a lot harder. Part of it is just typical signal strength los due to r^2 law. But if you're transmitting thru that much atmosphere, you're going to experience a lot more interference from things like rain fade.
At one place I worked, we had a printer that would die whenever the PCI-DSS auditors would run a network scan.

There was a Windows vulnerability that came out in 2010-2011ish, when I was working there, that I had to deal with. I ran an nmap scan of the entire network looking for the bug, and accidentally BSOD'd half the office...
In which case does it not guarantee reproducibility?
What is this list? I guess I can think of a few things—tearing down a statue or two, getting a few people killed, destroying a few businesses, getting a few product names changed. And getting a couple people charged rightly and a couple probably charged wrongly. Getting one city to get rid of police. Ok. I’m not sold.
And at the same time they are probably pressured by the nsa. They should just upload every call to YouTube so any intelligence service can access them
I have a similar question, but it’s for coworkers who are in Iquitos, Peru.

(In actual Iquitos, not Pebas or Nauta).

100% of my coworkers there (I am on the board of the NGO) are COVID-19 positive. While I can whatsapp them, I feel powerless right now to help them.

Any suggestions are welcomed !
Anecdotal data point:

This asshole was renting 4 separate units in my small apartment complex (despite me constantly pestering my landlord and city council) and a few weeks ago he came by to get all of his furniture and told me he's closed 60% of his bnb's.
Those radomes are extremely expensive. If that's the user terminal then it's going to be quite a bit more expensive than any consumer service.