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We use the same mind, same hands, same eyes for all of those things as well.

People view and use their phone as an extension to their body. I don't think it's possible to change that.
> "a SIP trunk would give you the same access as a cellular modem"

Can you please cite your source?

I frequently hear that SS7 is "trivially easy" to exploit, yet do not hear of how people get access to SS7 in the first place.
From what I've seen, the ratio is quite different. They'd rather make many less good hires who do as they're told than a more complicated one, even if that person were better at all the attributes. You can tell people a lot about culture and how some things are just formalities, but the contract is what remains, everything else changes with the next reorg.

From the point of view of the person at legal it makes sense (too much complexity and extra work), from higher management it makes sense (potential risk with someone who can think for themselves and won't accept everything that is handed to them), and the hiring manager will probably not pick a fight for someone who's not even on the team yet.
What's the point of a $3000 contract review if the employer's response will be "Not changing it, sign or walk."
Even better. I have zero phone. Do you really need a phone in 2020? No. I refuse to own a computer I can't write a code running on it and distribute it freely.
This is complete luck, believe me!
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> such a normally open-minded community (hackers)

What community are you referring to? I'd like to go there.
I would think it more likely people pick days of the month and month numbers (birthday, wedding day, etc). That hypothesis can be tested by looking at the number of winners vs the winning numbers. Draws where all numbers are over 31 should have relatively fewer winners.

Also, if the numbers have to be picked from a grid, the layout of the form may drive what people pick (similar to why 2580 is a relatively popular security pin. See https://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/)

And interesting squares you picked there :-)
Good for Business, Mobile Iron, etc are commonly deployed on personal cellphones with little regard for the fact that these devices and the associated cell service is not paid for by the employer in any way.

Pretty crummy for employees who can have their data wiped at any time by a petty employer.
When we worked with Snowflake, they did slip this in (a contract renewal is required to retain credits) without much emphasis. However they did disclose it and it informed how big our initial contract would be. Generally the economics favor a smaller contract to start.
Given Australia is in the Five Eyes I doubt it needs to get this capability from a third-party provider. More reasonable to assume that there is a maligned private actor in AUS. I don't believe Circle's admission that they only do business with nation-states one bit.
I'm by no means an SOC expert so am perplexed by a couple of things:

1. Why the 4-3-1 setup? More specifically, why couldn't Qualcomm fit all 4 X1 cores on the same package?

2. Why did they decide to change the naming scheme? SD875 was completely sensible given the incremental improvements but instead...we get 888.

On paper it seems underwhelming given the node shrink to 5nm (albeit Samsung instead of TSMC). Main selling point is on-package modem and perhaps NPU performance (~100%), not the CPU or even GPU.
It should be possible to quantify the increased risk from exposure, use that to weigh disability adjusted life years, and bake a color code from that.

French fries known to cause cancer, but daily consumption would impact by <1 DALY on average -> a far less aggressive label than goes on a bottle of benzene.
> Telling the courts/lawyers to piss off is not a viable option. That's not how depositions work. You might be able to get a lawyer to file legal motions with expert testimony attached pointing out they shouldn't need access to the whole phone for the reasons you said, but 99% of people will not bother getting a lawyer for something like this.

No, that is now how subpoenas and depositions work. I've been involved in a few. The judge needs a specific reason to approve inclusion of your personal device: like a record of information having been sent to it specifically or being used in a context relevant to the case at hand. And the information request will have to be specific to the case at hand, so you can just return with "There is no information on those devices relevant to the subpoena parameters" (said under oath).

If they demand your personal device anyway, because the subpoena is too broad or something, you can fight it with the judge and argue why it shouldn't be included.

If you never, ever mix personal and work then you should have no difficulty getting your personal devices excluded from a work related inquiry.
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If you're wondering whether there is something of value hiding underneath all of the obscurity and if it might be worth your time to do a deep dive, IMHO the answer is a resounding no. There is nothing hiding in Urbit other than a deliberately obfuscated computing model, of the same stripe as brainfuck, but with (again IMHO) very different motives. Brainfuck is obscure purely for the sake of being obscure, in the spirit of a puzzle or other intellectual challenge. Urbit has more sinister motives, not least of which is to separate fools from their money by selling them "real estate" in the Urbit cyberworld. The obscurity is there to conceal the fact that there is no there there, to entice people into investing time and effort into it, and then keep them sucked in by leveraging the sunk cost fallacy. It is a tactic taken directly from the playbook of con men and cult leaders through the ages.

What is worthwhile (IMHO) is to read some of Curtis Yarvin's (the founder and designer of Urbit) writings and compare them to the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, particularly bootlegged copies of the "secret" teachings of the "church" of Scientology, not for content, but for structure. To my eye, there are deeply disturbing similarities.

[1] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/

[2] https://www.xenu.net/archive/ot/
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To the best of my ability. I like being informed as much as possible. But sometimes, yes, it _IS_ exhausting. But that is part of the price we pay to live in a world/country that basically wants to poison us for profit.
I think it might be done to more of an extreme in the UK than people are used to elsewhere.

For example the BBC will report a headline like <Man "walks on moon">, and some people react to that like 'why is it in quotes are they saying they don't believe it?' What they're doing is reporting that they have been told by a source that a man walked on the moon. The source may be the President of the United States, but they're still reporting what the source told them, because they weren't there they don't know they didn't see it with their own eyes. They just know what they were told and so they quote that.

It's a principle, and sometimes principles look funny but the point is you always do it... on principle.
We knew we weren't going to use the entire prepaid amount and said to the sales rep we didn't think it was worth doing it because our usage was low and we would have amounts left over and the rep insisted the roll-over process would be perfect for our use case (he can see our prior months of on demand) and said literally it is just paperwork (I guess that is technically true, paperwork is involved, so lesson learned!). That said, from what he wrote it seems these "policies" may be new to 2020 because he told me that even newer customers have the renew at the original contract amount or more to roll-over so maybe it was easy paperwork any roll-over back in 2019 when we signed and that has since changed. The contract is so vague that it only protects them, not the customer, if they decide on changing their internal policies. Obviously, if they just stated the policy, we wouldn't have signed any contracts.

We purchase because without contract, you can't access their support engineer which we thought we would need but turned out not needed at all (also, I am starting to doubt if the support engineer part is even true, you can probably submit a ticket anyway).15% is not a significant enough saving to sacrifice the flexibility, given AWS can offer like 75% off at reserve. I wrote this post so others who may be considering it should know their rep may not be transparent about everything or might not be able to live up to their promises. I feel like for their long term, this is counter productive for their business strategy, shrug.
Anyone who writes [0]

> Not all humans are born the same, of course, and the innate character and intelligence of some is more suited to mastery than slavery. For others, it is more suited to slavery.

should be disqualified from having his works shared here. I'll pass.

[0] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/07/why-carlyle...
In a fair number of states, its funny math. They don't increase the size of the budget, they just shift the money around. So if lottery revenue goes up for the state, more of the education budget may come from lottery money vs taxes, but the overall budget remains the same.
Did I read that right? They got the new number by measuring superpositional differences between an atom and... itself?
My favorite siteswap that I can actually juggle (once or twice in a row) is 97531. That's 5 balls thrown in such a way that they reverse order - the first ball comes back last and vice versa. Also, all the balls reach their apex at the same time, making a vertical line of balls.

Here's me doing it, twice in a row, a long time ago: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/jugglevids/97531twic...
The article says the world relies on fossil fuel for energy because it's cheaper. That's true. It doesn't mention that the world relies on it because it's reliable. It doesn't disappear for 6 months of the year, or stop producing for 3 out of 5 days or during peak demand periods. Make renewables cheaper and more reliable and they will replace fossil fuels in a snap. Cheaper is not enough if it doesn't do the job.
Being nitpicky here, but the canonical representation of "containerd" is all lowercase, as in the logo.
State secrets in China are not same as classified information in the West. State secrets mean: do not broadcast to average Chinese. It is a censorship tool, it is meant to protect the government from its citizens.

You gave an excellent example. Tax rates are NOT on receipts in China. That would put pressure on the government to lower tax.
Only if you stay on demand, which is why I say, use Snowflake if it works for you (not knocking the product), just stay on demand.

Edit to add that for those who don't believe the sales process was as misleading as I portrayed, just look at their investor earnings release from today! They really try to paint a picture that it is trivial to rollover your credits beyond your contract term and you wouldn't be anything you don't want to buy/need/use. I mean gotta laugh considering their newest policy is you have to buy new contracts at the same or greater price point as last year to rollover.

"Product revenue is a key metric for us because we recognize revenue based on platform consumption, which is inherently variable at our customers’ discretion, and not based on the amount and duration of contract terms. Product revenue includes compute, storage, and data transfer resources, which are consumed by customers on our platform as a single, integrated offering. Customers have the flexibility to consume more than their contracted capacity during the contract term and may have the ability to roll over unused capacity to future periods, generally on the purchase of additional capacity at renewal. Our consumption-based business model distinguishes us from subscription-based software companies that generally recognize revenue ratably over the contract term and may not permit rollover. Because customers have flexibility in the timing of their consumption, which can exceed their contracted capacity or extend beyond the original contract term in many cases, the amount of product revenue recognized in a given period is an important indicator of customer satisfaction and the value derived from our platform. Product revenue excludes our professional services and other revenue"

https://investors.snowflake.com/news/news-details/2020/Snowf...
> Believe or not there are other roles besides "developer" within technology related jobs

I would assume much of AWS, at least the services I mentioned, are targetted at application developers though. So if you say running your own box is easier or better for running your application, you'd need to convince an application developer that it is.

And as an application developer myself, like I said, I don't find it so. Targeting Lambda for example is much simpler. If I need a DB, using RDS or DynamoDB or S3 is much simpler than spinning and maintaining my own instance on my own box. If I need to publish notifications, well I don't even want to think what I'd need to do to replace SNS or SQS. If I want to have application logs and have them archived for some longer period of time, and make sure they don't fill up my box's hard drive to the max, I can just use CloudLogs. Etc.

So again, you'd need to convince me it can be more convenient and less maintainance for me to use my own box instead of using those AWS services. That's even before we talk about availability and scale.
More things convince me that trust is earned by behavior over time, not by anything else, including promises, words, appearances, group membership, etc. (Forgiveness is required; trust is earned.)

And trustworthiness matters very much. To choose whom to trust, it seems one needs to have and look for core principles, starting perhaps with honesty, kindness, etc.
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> A halfway decent butcher won't have the same issue, and they're not that much more expensive.

This is true. Unfortunately, where I live, all of the grocery chains have reduced or eliminated their own butchers. The one that I can think of off hand that is still in town was good for a while, and contamination is unlikely, but the quality of their sources seems to have diminished over time.

I'm honestly half-tempted to go back to grinding my own, which probably sounds unnecessary. But hey...
Yeah, because 230 is so clearly tied to national defense...

/s

(And SMH...)
Former Docker employee here. We've been busy writing a way to allow you to build OCI images with your Kubernetes cluster using kubectl. This let's you get rid of `docker build` and replace it with `kubectl build`.

You can check out the project here: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/buildkit-cli-for-kubectl
You really want to be dependent on other countries for your vital infrastructure? Imagine if we go to war with china/russia, and they shut down energy exports to the US causing rolling blackouts everywhere.
Yes, solar is even older, with plants and other organisms on the forefront of energy production and development. It is kind of an untapped source of renewable energy.
UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category
Why would you think I was the start of this thread, can't you see the usernames? A person said we should never have domesticated animals in the first place because it is cruel. I said that if being cruel to animals to ensure your species survival is wrong, nearly nothing deserves to live. You then took that out of context and made some bizarre assumptions about ethics and hyenas. You were wrong, and I get your confusion. Following these threads is hard. But it's okay.
The EU appears to he clueless, as usual. I am surprised it’s not imposing sanctions on the UK as it does with most countries going against its will.
Did she make the change on company time? If so, her wages would be material damage. Even if made off the clock, it could still be considered material because Google needs to pay someone to fix it.

Your voting/property analogy is completely off-base. It completely ignores right of ways and public property. And if you have people actually trespassing on private property on the way to a polling place then they are in violation of the law and can be cited. I see no legal way that you can "weaponize" property law to prevent access to a polling location. Also, there's nothing stopping employees from exercising their right to concerted efforts off company time and property.
Google's Pair group has a great explainer here: https://pair.withgoogle.com/explorables/anonymization/
> I just don't want them to be able to sniff my personal profile info without me knowing.

They will, and you won't. (I've been there.)
In zig there's a concept of "comptime" -- note that fmt parameter is marked as such. It's more than just inlining.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#comptime

See an example calling firstNPrimes. "When we compile this program, Zig generates the constants with the answer pre-computed." "Note that we did not have to do anything special with the syntax of these functions. For example, we could call the sum function as is with a slice of numbers whose length and values were only known at run-time."

Then see "Case Study: printf in Zig"
Those who decide what gets a label have no downside to adding the wrong thing, and no upside to incorrectly leaving the label off something. As such if there is even the slightest possibility they mandate the label. Few bother to fight them, so everything has the label.

Roundup is the only case I know of that was successful: it has been well studied and found not cancerous in the vast majority of studies. So the few exceptions are not enough that they can be forced to but a label on - but it is still listed by California, it just doesn't have a label. Based on this success a few others are trying to get their label removed, but I'm not aware of other success.
I like to think of this "good enough" thing by calling everything beyond "good enough" as irresponsible, and actually sabotaging those very same kids' future needs by squandering your (their) resources today on things which can not actually be justified.

That way, even if you were subject to feeling guilt over not providing the very best of everything, you can satisfy it this way.

"good enough" and "justified" must consciously and explicitly include some pie slice for "non-essentials" though. Some amount of "non-essentials" are in fact essential. Anything else is simply not living. So, once in a while, you do splurge on the expensive weekend.
> it is impossible to make a rational choice about the issue.

I think this is over-reaching. I agree there should be a better system, but I am perfectly willing to do the work and research the warning. Thus, I am able to make a rational decision based on the best information I can find. As with all science, what is rational today may change as new information becomes available. THat is the price we pay to stay informed, versus ignorance.
That's still cheaper. No need to create battery farms that can hold power for half a year.
It does mention this briefly in the Batteries and electricity storage follow learning curves too section.
Wow. That's a lot of extra steps compared to what they do with other discharge lamps. I'm not an authority in this area and I don't know proper terminology, so forgive me if I'm mistaken here. There must be some good reasons for all of this. Probably a long list of things to do with optics, power density, and contamination.

Here is a video of a rubidium standard teardown that I like to share. There aren't many places to actually see a discharge lamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymV9LwhD0W0
That's doesn't make sense:
TSMC 5nm has 170 Mtr/mm2 so TSMC 5nm is smaller than true 3nm? No way.
So that North Americas energy can come from China during the night?

The sun is always shining somewhere but this does doesn't sound feasible simply due to geo-political and infrastructure reasons.

Have any serious plans been put forward for this idea?
California deregulated electricity and in the absence of regulations, electricity providers discovered that they could collude in reducing capacity until prices went nice and high, and make continuous windfall profits from then forward.
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Running a power cable across the Pacific is going to be rife with expensive engineering problems, but sure, you could send electrons from Three Gorges to Google at some cost. I wouldn't call it cheaper, though.
Retries and health checks.
Eternal September sucks, but Urbit has traded "ability to ever be relevant or gain significant momentum" for "no eternal September". It doesn't strike me as a pragmatic choice, then again Urbit is prehaps better viewed as an art project pursuing the ultimate navel-gazing extremes of NIH syndrome, and when viewed in that light the choices they make start to make a lot more sense to me.
Look at the way people communicate here, how little empathy they show, the complete sense of humour, how anal they can be about not about the big picture that the other person is arguing for but, say, choice of words, someone's formulation of a sentence, use of the oxford comma, whatever really.

There are too many commas in your sentence :)
I admire you for this, I have thought about doing the same thing many times. And also making a habit of only bringing the corporate phone (and not the personal one) with me when crossing into the US for work. "Sure, feel free to search away on this phone, have at it..."
Thank you, looks like I stand corrected. A very large part of that is prostate cancer which isn't really significantly affected by alcohol. But you're right, the total increased % mortality of cancer is higher than what I stated..
Counterpoint: just read the contract before you sign it.

Salesmen are full of shit and everybody knows it. The contract you sign is what matters. Read it first.
Which is used to argue for reduced progressive (or even flat) tax-based support for schools.
> Fossil fuels dominate the global power supply because until very recently electricity from fossil fuels was far cheaper than electricity from renewables. This has dramatically changed within the last decade. In most places in the world power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels.

This is the thing our great-grandkids will ask us about. ("were you alive back when?")

Millenia from now, historians will not talk so much about the commercialization of electric power. They will divide time between the "pre-industrial" and "post-solar" eras, because that's what will be visible in the fossil layers.
Yes, this. If an employer wants me to install an app, they had better provide the hardware, too.

Also, never use employer-supplied computers for personal stuff, and don't login to your personal accounts with it. If you work at Google you can afford a laptop that you truly own.
Building cost-effective Lambda functions with per-millisecond billing
Don't even try. It's obvious you didn't. And I use GCP, homes.
True, that part is lagging behind, but it is also improving fast.
Is this similar to the mouse scroll wheel? I've seen both in use depending on the operating system defaults, but I definitely prefer "toward me" being up, and "away from me" scrolling the page downward. It's inverse to how a typewriter works, and seems to obey the "up is down / down is up" result.
I'm not sure you understand their business model if you think they made the decision based off of privacy.
Oh really. A close look from someone experienced on most topics will reveal the opposite. Tech discussions at least are pretty shallow or mis informed and usually limited to a few recycled topics. Easy to appear clever in front of impressionable fresh graduates but most experts will immediately see through most comments. But hey whatever suits the echo chamber.