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I'm secure enough with my masculinity that I don't mind carrying something that looks like a purse if it were useful.

But I'd never want to carry my headphones in my hand. When not in use, when I'm out (say I'm about to check-out at the grocery store and don't want to be rude), they hang on my neck. I'm not going to want to carry around an empty carrying case at the same time that I'm using my device so that I can neatly put it away when NOT in use. Maybe overnight, if there's some benefit?

I suppose if they were in a suitcase, it could prevent damage? But airports are one of the main places I love over-the-ear headphones, so they wouldn't be in my bag. Also, if in a bag, you wouldn't want the carrying strap because it just adds bulk.
Applications still have fallback though, right?

If so, I foresee blocks on DoH/etc to common resolvers like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1. I'll be blocking them at home on the assumption that I only want regular DNS lookups so I can point them to my own DNS server etc.
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Exactly. A vague and general population study just tells is that dark traits are on average not helpful, it doesn’t tell us anything about outliers.

Someone with dark traits and significantly above average intelligence, or inherited wealth, may be able to avoid the pitfalls that otherwise prevent such people advancing.

Even if such people are very rare, e.g. 1 in 10,000, they would have an outsized influence, so we should be as interested in the outliers as the general population.
Why not all of them? I'm just saying that the discount rate is an important part of why Tesla stock is so high: high growth with extremely low discount rate can get these valuations that look overpriced.

As for me personally, I'm not a bank, so I don't have access to cheap loans.
For most people, volume=quality. If it can get loud without distorting, and "really thumps" they'll be happy. Clear that bar, and it's all about the non-audible pieces of the experience.
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Audio quality aside does anyone else find these... Kinda ugly? Not the most important thing but I expected something different.
The question I'd rather ask: Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed in systems set up by people with dark personality traits?

Traits only have meaning in an environment, a context. It's not clear how much we can control the traits. But we definitely can control the environment. The modern corporation only goes back to the age of railroads. Many of our governmental systems don't go back much farther. These are things we can change.
You can pick up the WH-1000XMs for like $180 if you're patient though. $550 is pretty steep.
> 9/11 was special because nobody expected the towers to go down.

Even so, universally, the safest choice in a disaster is to not be where the disaster is ASAP.

Similarly, in a mass shooting, "run away" is the first piece of advice. Hiding or fighting is only when that option isn't available.
These were patients attending for another reason. It's a large teaching hospital (1250 beds) with many patients attending for outpatients every day, so I'm sure there will be plenty of eligible patients to give the vaccine to.
Unlike the Tiktok ban, it's not a discriminatory ban that targets US apps, for the sole reason that they're from the US. It's a ban based on non-discriminatory rules. From the article: "Most of the banned apps are Chinese"

Unfortunately transparency is a problem, as they did not state more details about the ban.
The infrastructure is still there at Apple to remotely censor apps on millions of devices, with no immediate recourse by device owners if they do so.

This is still a ticking time bomb, even if today they are only using it against malware (and apps that aid the Hong Kong protesters).

It's only a matter of time before they are forced to censor apps elsewhere, too.
My original airpods became impossible to use after about 18 ~ 24 months, since they don't hold a charge for more than 10 minutes of playback.

What would be the usable lifetime on these? Can the batteries be replaced?
I am guessing most if not All future Apple devices / OS will default to use Apple Proxy for DNS?
> For speakers multiply that by 10 at least.

I put together a ~$3k system recently that has blown away any headphone experience I've had [0] [1] [2].

I guess for me, the experience goes beyond just what the music sounds like. Being able to dance without having to worry about anything falling off of my head or out of my ears, and being able to share the experience with my girlfriend and others effectively multiplies the joy I get by an order of magnitude.

[0] https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd

[1] https://vtvamplifier.com/product/vtv-amplifier-stereo-purifi...

[2] https://www.parts-express.com/solstice-mltl-reference-tower-...
Minimalism was "avant-garde" when it was explored as a response to Serialism. Its history is comprised of works that would be considered unlistenable to most audiences.

Calling any modern regurgitation of Glass's very-listenable minimalism "avant-garde" is misleading and shuts out the contemporary listener to an entire world of avant-garde music - much of it, very listenable.
> Not every workload fits on the cloud (see: Discord, which runs on leased servers)

As far as I'm aware (don't work there), only bandwidth/CPU-heavy stuff like voice and video live on rented dedis; the core chat services live in GCP.
> My AirPods died recently. At $159 and 2 years of aggressive usage (probably 3-4 hours every average day), I think they paid nicely for their price. That should average for around $0.06/hour.

They'll still end up in a landfill somewhere. The batteries aren't replaceable, which makes them purely consumable with a 2-3 years lifespan at best (tiny ass batteries + heavy usage = multiple cycle a day).

Spending $549 on a battery powered gadget which will cycle several times a week and for which you can't get a battery replacement is such a weird move to me. This is peak planned obsolescence, battery powered + non serviceable should be an instant red flag to anyone.

For comparison, my dt770 and shure se215 are going on their 6th years with no sign of ageing whatsoever.
That's 2 very different things.

Microsoft not-supporting Windows 7 doesn't mean you can't use it. That means it keeps working, you can use it as you always did, but they won't make (and push down your throat) any more patches.

A library/app not-supporting a particular OS/version usually means you actually can't use it. And there often is no serious technical reason.
Can I download and run Amazon Linux at home (non-vm)?
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Super interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
> I could see this coming. CentOS didn't really show a value proposition for RH picking up the tab and supporting it. CentOS was recompiling RHEL and shipping it off; RH needs to keep their PR and image inline and HAD to help, since the whole point of CentOS was "this is RHEL without RH graphics and copyrighted material."

Bear in mind that CentOS was originally an independent project until Red Hat acquired it.
I always found these kind of studies bullshit: the worse serial killers and pedophiles were sometimes described as "nice" and "charming" people.

I don't think it's accurate to make a clear line between "real sociopathy" and "normal people" based on your behavior. Everyone has personal goals, interests, (whether good or bad) and try to have what he think is the the optimal behavior (wether good or bad).

The real question is what are you real personal goal / interests, not how you behave.
Because it's none of Comcast's business what software I run?

There's no way for your ISP to know what software you're running.

Gatekeeper checks if your app is malware (or not) and if its been signed with a valid Apple developer certificate. The OCSP look up goes over in the clear currently, but that's how OCSP works everywhere. Your DNS provider can see the OCSP lookup but that's about it.

Apple is in the process of addressing this; you can read the details of how the current process works at https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/16/checks-on-executable-cod...
I fiddled with it again last night and found that enabling “Ultra Fast Boot” fixed the boot issue I was having. I think I disabled it when I was doing some Hackintosh silliness. My Ethernet is working again too, for some reason.
TikTok has been outed as an app that captures massive amounts of telemetry data that could be used to identify a user after the fact. The data it collects (contact lists) absolutely could be used for targeted oppression.
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Use hn search (algolia)... I was just skimming it. People were super skeptical about the original AirPods. Then they tried them :)
Subscriptions are a perpetual source of revenue. They take your money for as long you use your product. There is nothing wrong with that.
Microsoft still supports Windows 8.1.
Can you please point out the contradiction?
He's also an adult himself and I believe was an adult when he was radicalized so that bit on "socialization" makes even less sense.
How do you not break people who depend on misfeatures, while eliminating misfeatures?

Hey, I think Windows drive letter names are misfeature.

Let's have a Windows-in-Rust and they will soon be a thing of the past.
Apple has absolutely not gotten rave reviews on airpod pro sound quality. In fact that's that biggest complaint, they sound the same as normal airpods. I own airpod pros. They're great for what they are, noise cancelling true wireless that interact very well with apple products. But the sound quality leaves quite a bit to be desired.
To clarify: have you modified your opinion on the matter such that you now no longer consider far right beliefs to be especially dangerous, but rather only note that they are one of many risks, and that the true risk in the system is unknown and largely unknowable due to the inherent complexity of a large chaotic system?
Why are so many tech professionals pro the ban of TikTok when most can see the problem in the monopolies of Facebook and Google?

To me TikTok and fair regulation of how to handle user data the hammer that finally can crack the surveilance advertisement monopolies of Facebook and Google.
Genuinely ? Seriously ? You don't have to look far in the man page to see the distinct lack of feature parity.

Its been a while since I looked, but IIRC, there's some pretty major stuff missing like PKCS11 which means you can't do the CLI smartcard stuff you can do with OpenSSL.
How else do you fund such a horrendously difficult thing? There is a reason there are no other cross platform UIs that are QT’s equal. Creating a good looking cross platform UI that supports things like accessibility and provides a close to native app experience (or can) is a real slog of a programming project. It must also be constantly maintained as native APIs change out from under it, hardware advances (e.g. higher DPI displays, HDR), and UI trends change.

Pay for Qt or pay for developer time to maintain multiple versions of your UI. Your pick. Qt is probably cheaper in most cases.
I intend to review my priorities and evaluate whether they need to be altered or rearranged in any way. I feel confident that I can make any changes necessary to ensure my actions reflect how I really feel.
Yes, the old one. USB-C is sometimes referred to as Thunderbolt 3 but it's usually kept to USB-C.
I don't have any knowledge of the matter but I can say with absolute confidence that yes, of course Google's legal department employees have corporate management software on their (corporate) devices, because Google's IT security department is not run by a bunch of volunteers working for the middle school PTA.
Checkout openSUSE; I've been running it for the past year or so for my personal projects (and their rolling-release version for longer) and I've been pretty happy with it. It's not quite the same position as CentOS but still very stable and nice to work with.
I wasn't the one making a claim about what happens in other countries, so I don't need to provide evidence of their claim. My claim is that the actions in this specific situation showed no misconduct and was consistent with similar situations (non-compliance and building searches) in this country. You want evidence? Use a right to know request for the procedures from your local department. You can also read books like The Tacticle Edge to gain an understanding of what's actually going on.
Bose, longtime frustrator of audiophiles, is a really neat company. They are extremely R&D driven.

Volumes have been written about them so I'll sum it up by saying that while they make some real overpriced crap at times... it is also true that over the last 50 years ago they have probably advanced home audio reproduction more than any other individual company.

Car audio, as well. Their role in car audio is extremely undereported, because a lot of Bose-engineer car audio is unbranded. But if you're wondering how factory-installed car stereos went from "sounding like clock radio speakers" to "honestly, fine" in the past few decades, Bose is a big part of that answer.
Do you still get the magic if you're moving between iOS devices with different iCloud users? e.g. a personal device and a work device?
You got me there, but that isn't a mass consumer product, either, so I think they are just charging whatever they feel like.
Yes, these were patients attending my clinic for other reasons. At any one time there are obviously several clinics running - I suspect the hospital will announce how many in total have been vaccinated at the end of the day.
Paying an extra $200 for the H1 chip to be able to avoid professional audio companies and and their absolutely incompetent Bluetooth implementations is money well spent.
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Have you looked at plasma-mobile at all? It seems like they've had convergence in mind longer... I wonder if the environment is any better? I predict a lot of Electron apps and PWAs for these devices.
Not really, that's why I'm asking here.

"Increasing radicalisation" just sounds much more like former-Yugoslavia than former-USSR to me, and I think the latter became former in a much better manner than the former became former.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373042 for the best I've come up with so far. (the Atlantic article covers deradicalisation of actual trained terrorists, essentially by hooking them up)

Footnote 2, although from a fictional source, is pretty much the whole problem with the idea, from a human factors standpoint.
I'm subscribed to nearly everyone in that pseudo-group, and I would consider them just as radicalised. If you peruse the comment section of 'How to Radicalise a Normie' by (I think) Innuendo Studios, you'll see a ton of comments talking about how these people used to be radical in the opposite way (e.g. alt-right).

But if you look in the comment section of an alt-right analogue of Innuendo Studios' video (something like "I used to be an SJW"), you'll see the exact same type of comment about how people used to be like the people in the Innuendo Studios comment section.

I've personally been on both sides at one time or another, and I reckon that the 'radical' component stays the same or even increases, even as the attribute of 'left-wing' or 'right-wing' may fluctuate, like a helix of some kind.
> Are you saying some of their products haven't been up to snuff? Or everything they produce is crap?

Some. They also make good stuff. But look at Louis Rossman's Youtube channel, he rants about the common defects in the bad Apple products better than I could.

> Also, the comment about people refusing to think is a bit obtuse, don't you think? Assuming that people who buy Apple products don't think is a ridiculous claim

It was the nice variant of what I was trying to say ;) The mechanisms of Apple fanboyism work like a religion or a cult, and that's not a novel thought by me. In that context it's not absurd, it really is what happens: People buy these products often enough without an ounce of thought, it's religious conviction and our primate brain wanting to signal status. Not always of course, but often enough. And that does produce the negative reaction in others -> parent was asking.
> China bans all of western social media

Many western social apps work in China. Microsoft Teams, Skype, Facetime, to name a few.

Apps are banned in China for not complying to Internet laws, not for being western.

Whether we agree with those laws is a separate discussion. Bans from anyone should not be discriminatory and should not target the origin.
> but its been shown pretty consistently that higher agreeableness (more empathy) has a negative effect

Be careful conflating agreeableness with empathy. In Big Five OCEAN, empathy is a sub-facet of agreeableness(A), but not the only one. Other sub-facets of agreeableness are conflict-avoidance, modesty, compliance, and naive trust in others.

Intuitively, it would seem to me those are more important contributor to success. In particular conflict-avoidance is a big contributor to being exploited by others. A person who scores moderately low on the aggregate agreableness(A) score could be both empathetic, but willing to stand up for themselves and make sure they're getting a fair deal.

Supporting this, the research has found that agreeable people do particularly bad in transactional, rather than transformative, leadership roles. When a team is working as a high-trust, high-cohesion unit, agreeableness is an asset. But when interacting and negotiating with third parties at arms length, it can be a major liability.
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Clearly Rust can't solve all bugs, but I bet it would have prevented this one.

GENERAL_NAME[1] is a struct containing a type tag "enum" and a union of the data (d) for each type. If I'm reading it right the bug here is reading the union as 'other' when the tag says its `GEN_EDIPARTY`.

In rust this would just be a fat enum where the variants of the enum would actually contain the data that this has in the union. Then the Rust compiler would only allow you to read the data as the type it's stored as.

[1] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/13a574d8bb2523181f81...
The book Blueprint talks about this.

Society can't function with only "dark personalities". When only dark personalities are in the room, everyone loses.

When it's a mixture, the dark personalities get more.

You can quickly see how this can impact evolution if someone swindles their way to wealth and has multiple wives/partners.
You are paying more for the design and user experience with Apple. Sure, there is always something better though I doubt many listen to music that is of sufficient enough quality via their devices to hear the difference or had a really good pair to compare it to. Beats headphones proved that audio quality is not always what moves the market.
Anyone else read the actual Paris accord? It's not like the Montreal Protocol that outlined the global effort to fix the ozone layer (which was crazy effective and it's on track to heal up fully in the 2060s). It's a giant load of blue hat bureaucratic round about bullshit ever written.

It's a general "you should stop beating your wife" declaration. Everyone must sign this document agrees they should stop hitting their wives. You will sign it and then we are going to get around to telling you how to stop beating your wife at a later date. By the way, by signing this you automatically agree to whatever our future committee will determine, which will be formed by an ad hoc committee that we need a committee to help develop. You can't argue with what that committee says, and yes it will be non-market solutions that you have to pay up for. Oh, and theres a 100 billion dollar fund that you are all going to contribute to. Yea, that's the floor, it'll probably be more than that. To solve the wife beating problem, we are going to fly women around to showcase them being beaten (metaphor for the constant fucking conferences that have all these twats burn more and more jet fuel to wag their finger at the public).

Co2 emissions is a huge problem. It's terrible for both the environment and people's health in general. There is zero escaping that fact. But signing a blank cheque agreement that hands your agency of action into someone else's hands... I mean seriously, we complain about companies and governments doing the same thing to consumers. We is the UN given a pass? They're no where near as effective as anyone imagines. Yes, better than nothing given the war numbers of pre-league of nations compared to post. There is still a ton of improvement that's needed. Their laughable bureaucratic system would make a wonderful dark comedy multi-season show. Add to that, the US pays a huge chunk of their payroll, which that 100b fund will be a huge burden on us because "of course the US is responsible for paying for most of it". Fuck off. At this point I want my tax money going into my community instead of heading out to pay for some elitist plane trip to have a TED talk somewhere to explain to me how I'm a bad person.
My AirPod experience has gotten much worse since they added the auto switching feature. It just keeps jumping between my phone, iPad and MacBook. Ended up just disabling it.
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I would at least consider them at $550, but in the Norwegian Apple Store they are $800. Even including 25% VAT, it's another $130 on top of that. Apple's region-adjusted prices are insane.
> I don't see what kind of snooping these privacy measures are there to prevent.

The point of this is to prevent some cloudflare competitor offering DoH, but logging what dns names each client looks up, and selling that information, or using it internally.

Think about the ways that facebook would abuse that information if facebook ran a popular DoH resolver. For example, they detect that you have used a hookup app (based on dns lookups for their servers), and boom, now your facebook feed is full off condom adverts. Or thousands of other scenarios, some even more creepy than that.
Haha fair enough. I ran an HD 6XX with a Jotunheim for a while, but ended up preferring a pair of JBL LSR305s with an SVS sub a lot more.

I think the main reasons were being able to experience the sub frequencies with my entire body (they're too big to fit in your ears!), and share the experience with my friends.
Apples customers don't know that. The entire strategy of Apple is, selling to people who compare a EUR 1500 MacBook to a EUR 500 HP laptop. Of course the MacBook is a lot better. Similar, these need to be a lot better than AirPods. They will be, and they will sell.
I'm sorry but you seem to have some sort of vendetta against a group you are branding as audiophiles, which shares very little in common with the vast majority of audiophiles.

There definitely an element of being a gearhead, but I just really love music, and want to listen to it in the most accurate way possible.

> The audiophiles don't like music
That is a pretty bold claim to make with such confidence about a massive and diverse group of people whose name literally means lover of audio.
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And that's how we end up with stock images and press-release speak everywhere...

Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't.