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I've seen it happen personally, except it was the support cable to a pole with a transformer. Cable anchor came out of the dirt, pole fell over, sparks everywhere, transformer fluid all over the street, hazmat cleanup crew, big mess.
What if I had four legs and a tail? Edit for clarity: both are non sequiturs. You provide no justification for your spurious speculation. The article has a video.
I doubt that Thunderbird would want to go back to a plugin for PGP. They just moved that support into the program with S/MIME.
For those like me who don't know much about the technical aspects of music discussed in this comment (motif, texture, modulation, etc.), I recommend checking out Craig Wright's lecture series on "Listening to Music" offered by Yale Open Courses: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhYB41gNRjT1L2CyJRwtS...
We really wish no one would do that, but they just keep lickin'! Frustrating really...
"I'd be interested in hearing both sides of the story with supporting evidence."

Me too.

Coming in guns drawn is not that uncommon in that scenario. You have a suspect refusing to answer the door for 20 minutes, so you don't know if they are preparing an ambush or other danger.
I’m not making a comment about whether it was right for them to do so or not, but “someone that clearly do not pose a threat” is not as clear cut a category as it might seem. When the potential consequences of making an incorrect judgment are very large, they have to be extremely careful in drawing such conclusions.
Ozone Layer Depletion
> removes one layer of Google code, but keeps building on the Google layers beneath it.

Well, the layers beneath it are AOSP and free software. The situation is certainly not great, with source drops, nonfree firmware blobs, etc. But it is relatively easy to grab an AOSP source-tree for your device, make some changes, rebuild the OS and install this to your phone, given an unlocked/unlockable bootloader. In my opinion this is a highly desirable property of any system I'm using. It also enables things like GrapheneOS and CalyxOS which are Android distributions which focus explicitly on security and privacy.

> Can the Exposure Notification Framework be trusted less than the rest of Android?

ENF is part of Google Play Services and thus proprietary software. It is also a hugely scary and absolutely giant bundle of software you need to keep running in it's entirety, you cannot use just the ENF part. Play services can remotely update any software on your phone, they have also been known to "accidentally" not respect users (location)-tracking opt-out choices. So while I personally don't consider googles ENF implementation problematic (from their docs, the sources are ofc not available) the rest of play services most certainly is.

> Or does this support more hardware?

Apart from the already mentioned gapps free ROMS it supports modern Huawei phones (which also come without gapps). Making it work on Android 5 will probably happen (Google ENF supports Android 6+ afaik)
> The system is Internet-exposed. Even proving the user is in the country that you think they are is nontrivial.

If you run an internet exposed service and you log IP addresses and have the ability to issue a warrant, it is entirely trivial to trace a request back to a specific house.

There are a lot of ways to obfuscate your IP address, but if you don't know how to cover your tracks, it's easy to get caught.
The trick is to not break it up. Adding more lose ends will just make the ball of twine more complicated. What you can break out though is independent code that is the same for many apps, that code can be made into a module and reused across apps. Pure mathematical functions can be turned into a library.

But what could probably help keep your sanity for a CAS is to add a test case for every change to make sure the same input produce the same output in the future. As well as performance tests to avoid performance regressions.
I don't as such blame them for not wanting to do it for free, but they did want to do it for free until they didn't, and you could argue they're under no obligation to keep doing so, but given the way they have introduced the change, I would be uncomfortable being a paying customer of theirs, too. What's to say they won't be trying to change the terms of their offering in other ways? And if so, why should I think they would get any better at doing so in a fashion that minimizes the disruption?
I don’t get the “LOL” from you but ok. Anyway, the fundamentals are in textbooks for a reason, they aren’t domain specific. To answer your other question, I could definitely solve most leetcode and so could my colleagues. Maybe not perfectly optimally first try for all but who cares about that.
One gonna need at least a few grands worth of strange equipment normally used by people who repair electronics (the strange equipment used by manufacturers costs millions). Having prior experience with these tools is recommended.

Another obstacle is 3d printed case, phones need both high precision and high strength, AFAIK many 3d printers/materials lack at least one of these properties.

Still it looks doable, and apparently some people actually did similar stuff.

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mellis/cellphone/index.html

https://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/09/diy-mobile-phone-...
That's actually easy to regulate at the state level, if states were on board. Simply failing inspection would take them off the road.
Xbox Series X is very far from the top graphics available. GTX 3090 at 35 TFLOPS is what Apple needs to compete with for Mac Pro. Those chips are reticle limited which means there's simply no room to add a CPU, let alone 32 cores. You need separate dies.

Also, Xbox uses GDDR which trades off CPU performance for GPU performance. Apple probably wouldn't do that for a Mac Pro. The high end needs separate memory so the GPU can have bandwidth and the CPU can have low latency.
Ah you might be right about Swartz. I thought Morris developed the HN we use today?
without the prior consent of the Board of Directors

I can't really answer, but have you tried getting in touch with anyone on the board? As a shareholder you should be able to attend the shareholder meetings. You might inquire about being invited to the next shareholder meeting and go from there.
Why? We have no evidence of this being either lawful or unlawful.

I guess people just want to downvote my question without an answer.
Police have to announce their presence. You would think also just from common sense and context that this was something that could have been done with one officer politely knocking on the door, knowing there is a zero percent chance that there would be someone hold up with a gun trained on the other side of the door in this instance. I mean it's not like this data scientist was some drug lord or arms dealer with a history of resorting to violence. The guns were for theatrics and nothing more.
Not unless the startup was Amazon, which used emacs as an application platform for all their customer support :)
> So as long as guns are as easily available as they are currently, it's not unreasonable to expect a law officer to start the interaction in this way which is a manner that protects the officer the most.

I don't think it is as simple as this. While one should train for the worst possible scenarios one also has to be aware what to reasonably expect. Like the source in my original comment notes, being a police officer is relatively safe. Given those statistics an officer should not view every situation as deadly. Though it is fine for them to be on high alert. It is still something that is often drilled into people during gun training that you should not point a weapon at something you do not intend to destroy. That is rule #1. Officers need to understand that by erring on the side of weapons drawn is equivalent to escalating any given interaction. Is that the mode of failure we want to have in police?
Where did I say that? Senior should have both fundamental coding and also more broad system design interviews.
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Is Mootools a better jQuery?
I like the dish "Whale bacon". It's pretty un-PC, but would eat again.
> I don’t know what you’re getting at but it isn’t my point.

I can't tell if you're upset by their disingenuousness, or by their refusal to give a cut to the state. If the former, I sympathize. But it mostly seems to be the latter. The obvious rejoinder to which: why should they feel so eager to fork over their money to an institution that did ~nothing to contribute to their success?

> California is expensive because the opportunity to become rich is greater here than elsewhere

Your statement only explains the e.g. high housing costs. The tax question is orthogonal.
And for that matter, I often take a cab from the airport because it's not my money and I can't be bothered to mess around. Uber and Lyft are often more trouble than they're worth.

But if there's a local alternative known to be better for going out with their friends, you can be sure that a person used to going out regularly with their friends will know what it is.
That is not strictly true.
Sonic resells me AT&T and their best suggestion, since they cannot file issues with AT&T (what?), was to post on their forums and hope the Sonic CEO sees it and acts on it.

Does seem like they have noticed enough to start escalating it though: https://twitter.com/sonic/status/1336013450909257730?s=21
Prospective Memory
You have made some lovely statements. You have nothing to back them. They will play well here. This coming from a person who lives in Florida and has a carry conceal permit.
That’s why people do more than 1 interview. My example was just an example, I probably should have qualified it.
Yes, but SV doesn't have alleyways to run the power lines through, so you have all of these ugly wires everywhere and you're not allowed to have big trees in the front yard, since they could interfere with the power lines. It's really ugly and looks like Baghdad after the war.
Your config should be as big as you need it to be. I’ve been using Emacs for 20 years and I tend to use features with default keybindings and stick to a small number. There’s no right way to do it
An IP router can function perfectly well without knowing anything at all about TCP, UDP, or any other protocol.
The TCP checksum catches some issues but it won't detect everything. Other newer algorithms like CRC32C[0] are much more effective at detecting corrupt data.

The following is an excerpt from Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real Data[1].

The TCP checksum is a 16-bit ones-complement sum of the data. This sum will catch any burst error of 15bits or less[8], and all 16-bit burst errors except for those which replace one 1’s complement zero with another (i.e., 16 adjacent 1 bits replaced by 16 zero bits, or vice-versa). Over uniformly distributed data, it is expected to detect other types of errors at a rate proportional to 1 in 2^16.

If you're deeply interested in this topic then I would recommend Jonathan Stone's Phd thesis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#Polyno...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3334567_Performance...
It's not necessarily a 'lack of training' so much as 'money spent on irrelevant training instead of what they need'. Either police departments can agree that not all members of the police need to carry guns and be trained to shoot, and redirect training funds from weapons to de-escalation and assistance - or we must move the funding away from the police department to a different department that will do so.
NTD mostly seems to be airing public hearings, not opinion pieces. NTD, RSBN, OANN and The Independent (UK) for the most part seem to be the only outlets providing full-coverage of these hearings.

There's very little editorialising going on, from what I can see.

Can't speak for Newsmax, I haven't seen many of their videos but they do seem to have more "opinion" anchors.

Are you arguing that the public hearings themselves contain misinformation? What percentage of the testimonies do you think is misinformation?
If you weren’t trying to make a left or right comment why use the word “right”?
The fact that they were able to get a search warrant suggests they have some evidence pointing to her. The most obvious evidence is server logs.

It doesn't take a ton of expertise to set logging, most web services log access by default.
Exactly. I can recall when the right was all upset about Ruby Ridge and Waco. Now that it's people they perceive to be their enemies being punished they're cool with it.
It's possible the guns were not point at them but were in a low ready too.
My 2010 MBP 17" has a higher than 1080p resolution (1920x1200), and the "Early 2009" did too: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
I'm not saying there wasn't excitement about AVs. The specific claim I'm disputing (which I've heard over and over again over the past few years) is that either company considered AVs to be the only path to profitability. The history is a bit complicated, because before the IPOs neither company was focused on profitability as a primary goal.
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> Given that no one currently is and that the average salary in the US appears to be about double the average in China - that seems about right?

An experienced factory worker (5-7+ years) with professional training, certifications, and clean track record costs at least 15k CNY a month in salary, and 6-10k more in pension/insurance/other social payments.

Factory workers in US get how much now?

> An early career Factory Worker with 1-4 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $13.28 based on 228 salaries. A mid-career Factory Worker with 5-9 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $14.17 based on 91 salaries.
If that's the implication, then I think the implication is wrong. It's not like they don't know they are voting to cut entitlements and lower taxes on the wealthy.
That recommendation strikes me as much closer to an attempt to make a statement with a rhetorical question than the question I actually asked. Even the most charitable assumption of good faith would most likely yield a response lacking detail and devoid of any insights that I was after.
Most of those attacks, as the paper points out, are fixed. The one that is still relevant is the issues around sampling decoys vs real spends. At the time, with high probability you could assume the most recent tx in the set of decoys was the real source of funds because money is spent frequently. Monero improved their sampling algorithm, but it's still an arms race. The existence of the problem at all, whether or not its reasonably dealt with, should tell you monero isn't cryptographicly strong privacy, its obfuscation. This isn't a Zcash vs Monero thing, people should do their own comparisons. But that has to start with facts.
Sussman built a course ostensibly around this book, but I couldn't find any indications of the specific material inside of the book itself; on the course pages there were just a bunch of essays not written by them. Any leads?
It’s Weev all over again.
It’s the fundamentally different kind of danger from machines. They make mistakes we can’t understand.

I can understand a person being distracted, reacting slowly, not seeing me, etc. I can also mitigate this risk. Crossing the street I can make eye contact with a person and be really confident that they aren’t going to run me over.

Walking in front of a robot? I have no internal model for the kind of mistakes they make. It seems equally likely in any circumstance that they’ll make the mistake of running me down, and there is nothing i can do to avoid it.
Sonic's support is much, much better than AT&T's, FWIW.

If you must Comcast, at least make sure you Comcast Business so that you get connected to non-idiot support people.
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337469
> For the vast majority of people, the Librem 5 and Pinephone are probably not worth even considering. The GNU userspace and associated “mobile” paradigms within it are very much not ready for daily use.

> Linux phones are definitely not yet ready to be daily drivers

Despite the author making this point twice and some of the negativity regarding Purism's pricing - I still feel very good about the state of Linux phones and the incredible work these two entities are doing. We can't lose sight of this.

It wasn't too long ago that the mere mention of a Linux phone was pure fantasy. We now have two companies (and two passionate communities) that are helping move Open Source Linux forward. I'm still very excited about how things are developing and the trickle down effect it will have as we move forward.

> One of the neat things about the Pinephone is the ability to boot and use a variety of Linux distributions on the hardware itself. It’s as easy as loading the distro onto an SD card, and then booting the phone. You don’t even have to flash anything to the internal eMMC in order to run it!

This is such a killer feature for me - while also providing a modern-ish platform for the various distributions and app developers to test their wares. It's probably the biggest single most important thing about the PinePhone right now.

No more unsuccessful rooting, flashing and possibly bricking. No more nagging feeling that you are merely renting a device and are constantly at the whim of a corporate overlord (which never ends well).

I think, like the author, I'm a bit more excited about the flexibility of the PinePhone but acknowledge the importance of the work Purism is doing to try and bring a First Tier Linux phone to market. We all benefit from this.
In part, because, on an individual basis, Wall Street's skim is tiny. It's only big in aggregate.
Used to be that way in the US too.
Funnily enough, I think the newer games are much tamer than the horrific gore and human mutilation that's constantly shown in the originals. I'm kind of glad they didn't go that far, because it was probably tolerable only because of the low-res art.
> Yes, but: The agency's scientists in a report last year said studies support a new limit between 8 and 10 micrograms, which they said could potentially save more than 12,000 lives a year.

> But officials noted that U.S. particulate matter levels are 20% lower than in France, Germany and Great Britain, and five times below the world average, per WSJ.

I'm floored. I think this is the most informative article describing an EPA rule I've seen in years. Our discourse would be so much more fruitful if we compared what we're doing to what folks are doing in our counterpart developed countries.
Frm Head Israel Space Program: Aliens Asked Not to Be Revealed, Humans Not Ready
Apple has some great engineers, and do produce some great products. Completely agree. And with the new MacBook Air, I agree with everything you said except the battery life - the 2 day battery life is only true for "light" computing. Do any heavy computing, like compiling on Xcode, and the battery life comes down drastically, and may be nearly comparable to other Intel / AMD laptop (ARM processors do beat x86 processors in power consumption).

That said, I do completely agree with you that the new Apple processors with its associated products will increase Apple's profit and even its consumer base. So much that the loss of "insignificant" consumers like me, who care more about computing freedom and avoiding closed systems won't really matter to them. Apple's target consumers are no longer the tech savvy.
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On Linux, you can check to see if the kernel is operating in lockdown mode to verify the integrity of the system. Lockdown mode forces all modules to be digitally signed and trusted by the kernel keyring before they can be loaded. This would functionally be equivalent to what you do on Windows.
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I imagine police officers are trained to have their guns drawn any time they enter a home where they cannot see the occupants.

There is not enough time to draw and shoot if the occupant runs out with his gun.

By the way, you are absolutely right about what it means to have a gun drawn: they are indicating that they are willing to kill. That's how they are trained.
I speak several languages fluently, so no big deal for me, but one of my talents is learning languages easily.

The not fitting in is a way bigger deal in Switzerland. Germans will never be accepted, no matter what. Eastern Europeans aren't even considered people.
Remove funding for military equipment, restrict gun carrying by police to special teams, stop using militarized police as a response to nonviolent crime. These are all necessary changes that are part of defunding the police.
Again, this fits the pattern of half-truths and lying by omission that she uses to fuel her sensationalism. Her tweets conveniently leave out the fact that she ignored the police for 20 minutes and was uncooperative.

My brother, a Portland living, Bernie Sanders voting guy who is in charge of the covid data analysis for a large, global defense contractor (he does it all day, every day) has called her an irresponsible hack from day 1.
Related: There exists programming language Unlambda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlambda which is based on combinatory logic in which "Variables are unsupported".

From a programmer's viewpoint it seems like a daunting task: Write all your programs without using variables. Can that work in practice?
Perhaps preparing for conflict is the natural response to interacting with the police in the US, because that is what the police do before barging into your home and interacting with you. I'd lose my mind if some swine pointed a gun at my child. A message to police: don't do that, and you won't have a reason to be armed around me.
I often hear arguments about capital gains taxes being an unfair advantage, and that it should be taxed the same as income.

But often these arguments don't present a full picture - because it only discusses the end result of the dollar received and compare the tax rates.

What about the risk? A job-income is 100% guaranteed to be received if one worked. Even if the business paying the said wage doesn't make a profit, they still have to pay the wage. The owner cops the loss.

Therefore, to encourage investments, the taxes are lowered on the profits of such type of investment (which is what capital gains are). The person trying to make capital gains income has to take on a risk that a wage earner doesn't, because the capital gains aren't guaranteed.

If capital gains are taxed the same, you will find that there will be less investments, which leads to less jobs and less wealth overall.
In a just world, these cops would get a 10 year prison term for this. They had no reason to aim their guns at these citizens, especially children.
Assuming this is a hoax, it has to be one of the best timed hoaxes in history to be honest.
All of these large companies seem to have (correctly) realized that 95% of tech support cases are trivial issues that can be resolved via automated responses.

The problem is that they then assume that all cases are one of those 95% in order to solve the 95% as quickly as possible, which probably looks good to whatever metrics they're tracking.

But if you're one of the 5% you're fucked.

If there's anyone out there designing tech support procedures, you should add an "is this a 5% problem?" question to whatever checklist you give to support staff.
Children don’t have diverse identities. I used to think I was Batman, my mate used to think he was black. Impressionable children are impressionable.
> pointed guns at her kids.

That is a problem. It might be poor training. It might be bad policy. It might be personnel who make bad decisions. Or some mix of all three.

But it isn't corruption.
Things like AppImage are certainly helpful though for maintaining binary compatibility, at least until a libc7 exists and is completely transitioned to.