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This is not what you want to hear, but if you pay Google you can get very quick support. The Google One product which includes cloud space and other features includes phone support for Google products.

Turns out, when you use free services, you don't get support, but when you pay them even just like ~$1/mo (I think my Google One for more photo space in the cloud is $15/yr?) they'll pick up the phone and answer anything.
>> If you pull up a list of countries by tax rates and some quality of life index they seem to be pretty corrolated

Try correlating restrictive immigration policies and quality of life index. Should we tax people a lot and make it very hard for immigrants to become citizens? Scandinavian countries do precisely both.
Could be Facebook as I think production releases are always rolled out in phases e.g. first to 10 users, then 100, then 1000 and so on. That means there's much less chance of even the worst mistake having a serious effect.
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Hello guys,

few years ago I made an experiment where I translated the disassembled code of a game (Alley Cat, Star Goose) into C++ or Javascript. It was just a proof of concept and a lot of things needed to be fixed by hand. I sporadically returned to this experiment to improve the translation process. Now it has became quite powerful and standalone and this is a result (Star goose in swift):

https://youtu.be/IaZiQrUdR9s

Anyone interested in this topic? Anyone who would like to contribute to this project? It is in C++ and there are still a lot of things to be improved. Currently I am finetuning the conversion tool to port the Xenon2 game and I am looking to extend the compatibility to Borland C applications.

Gabriel
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The signal:noise of the modern web has decreased, on average.

And quality content is increasingly centralized & standardized.
sbt is not perfect but new build tools are coming up lately for Scala (check out lihaoyi/mill and propensive/fury to name) plus people are working with bazel (but i guess that's more for monorepos/very big codebases. my experience (7 years and counting) with sbt is that it's very very good until you need to roll out your own tasks/plugins.
With the COVID vaccine, we’re now very close to being able to infect someone with vCJD through a pinprick, with technology that within a couple of years someone will be able to make at home.

The difficulty with what you’ve asked is we don’t have the API in the same way as with computers. I suspect that for many many iterations of computing power and biological understanding we are going to be a long way from being able to determine how to make something dangerous from scratch (although it should be easier to make something dangerous become more dangerous)
They are so cheap now that there really is no reason to not have one in the bathroom cabinet.
Honestly, seeing the high-level requirements for what constructor theory defines as Possible / Impossible, I mostly expect that it will have to conclude that many of the transformations that happen in QM are Impossible (a constructor can't be conceived that could achieve those tasks with arbitrary precision and reliability).

Related to your observations, I believe you are absolutely right in that it's likely we've sort of reached the end of the road in exploring beyond the quantum scale with the current approach. I do believe there are some dangling threads that can be pulled to help guide some other directions - such as the measurement problem and the no-communication theorem.

I also have some hope that computer theory may be able to shed some light - at the moment, we have a clear distinction between quantum algorithms and classical algorithms, but we don't know if they are fundamentally different or not. A discovery of how to efficiently compute quantum algorithms on classical computers (i.e. BQP = P or at least BQP = NP) would likely be a major insight into QM itself. Conversely, proof that quantum computers are fundamentally different from classical computers would also hopefully show WHY/HOW they are different and help in this area. Alternatively, if it turns out that quantum computers are in fact not physically realizable or require exponential memory or energy would essentially prove that physical reality does not obey some of the properties that make quantum computers (apparently) more powerful than classical computers.
I wonder at which point did he quit his job and make this website his sole income. How much money was the site making him at that point?

Either way, very risky to quit your job for what is basically a content website with as few as 500 visitors daily average, if even that.

It does not seem to work well either, or at least contain very few products, I searched for steinberg ur-12 and got no match. A very popular entry level audio interface.
Yes, the law does not require blocking the account globally.

It also does not require to do so without warning or clarification.
Probably forced by technology, browsers don't allow autoplay with sound anymore.
Does that not just speak to a larger problem with the current political system that twisting the arm of a large company is the only way to affect change?
I agree with this at the macro level. It’s easy for a government to strong arm an individual into regulation, a small company even. When the markets themselves shift, that’s when government is going to have a hard time regulating. Crypto, good and bad, is here to stay because government is slow to respond to shifts.

What’s going to be interesting to see is how this government regulations vs the people’s needs play out. The street vendors are suppling a demand, there’s a need, illegal vending or not.
They don't have a choice it's not githubs fault
Acknowledging is not addressing, and in this case the statement amounts to "they realize this: ... (they would not realize this)." It is either too flawed to make the point intended, or illustrates a flaw in the underlying argument.
Well, if I remember correctly his original suggestion was to use the mobile phone to steer the car, nothing could go wrong with that...
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I think it is ridiculous to treat this misbehavior of letting someone log in from Iran as a mere transgression of a subsidiary. Clearly Microsoft needs to shut down all their servers as they are paying for Github.
>Especially us europeans should not rely on American services at all.It's not worth it.

Sure, please let me know how the EU plans to build Office 365, AWS, GitHub competitors of similar scale, quality and success.

We have no private investors that would pony up enough money to go against US tech titans and fat chance the EU would ever fund such initiatives and if they would, the money would evaporate over night to companies with political connections and overpriced consultants who would just produce documentation.

Let's face it, the ship of EU dominance in tech has sailed a long time ago, we might as well get comfy with the US pulling the strings on that front.

The only way the EU would ever stand a chance is if the EU would pull a Chinese style great firewall and outright ban foreign tech companies on their internal market, leaving space for local companies to spring up and fill the void but that will never happen.
> It's just bizarre that the terms of the extradition treaty, which explicitly bars extradition for political offenses, would be irrelevant.

Basic UK constitutional law: judges apply the law as written by Parliament, not the law as it ought to be written if the treaty had been properly implemented. If this leads to the UK not following their obligations, the remedy for this is Parliament need to modify primary legislation to satisfy their international obligations. All treaties need ratification by Parliament.

(There are two major exceptions to this: the European Convention of Human Rights which was "domesticated" by the Human Rights Act 1998, and EU law which, pre-Brexit, was brought into UK law by the European Communities Act, and has now been integrated into UK law through the EU Withdrawal Act.)
Correct, a complete write up on how OpenBSD and associated projects view licensing can be found here:

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
I’ve always found Locust to be incredibly simple for simulating any user behavior. Very well designed task and user behavior APIs and patterns in it.
@pas: Mattermost is indeed integrated with GitLab Omnibus.

To enable Mattermost, you can add the Mattermost external URL in the config file, and run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure`. I'm wondering if that's something you've tried? https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/#getting-s...
Android has an API for reading OTP from around 2017 I think.
I'm in Africa and most companies here host their systems either locally (very expensive and slow) or in America. The other day at work I had a pretty heated argument at work with a colleague when I mentioned it is really not good for us to host any of our stuff in America (all of it is currently in America). He basically freaked out about it. I just wanted to hear his thoughts about it, but he took personal offence (he's an aws fanboy).

There are problems with the laws, copyright laws too, US gov agencies etc that are all incompatible with our own laws. If something bad were to happen, our own courts have zero power to help us. We also don't have a direct fiber line to America so all our traffic hops through Europe and more recently through South America, so about 200ms added to most requests.

The only reasons to use American hosting companies is because of:

1) The financial cost can in some cases work out to be lower than local options.

2) It can be easier to scale your service vs self-hosting on premisses.

3) American hosting platforms have really nice GUI's and tooling, while being well integrated with the billing side - everything mostly just works as expected.

But other than that, if money and skills are not a problem, then on-prem is best here.
I can’t imagine what a bad workday this is gonna be for the rest of the company.
I can confirm on Android it does not warn you people will/could know your precise location in anyway.

It implies it's only 'nearby' with a warning about people you don't know messaging you.

Claims the app warns you or the user should know are either everything wrong with IT, or perhaps iOS is different.
There is also another scenario.

I steal with social engineering (or phishing or other method) the GitHub credentials of an employee from a company I wish to harm.

And then I simply log in GitHub(or use a VPN to appear in Iran) with those stolen credentials.

Sounds like a very easy DOS method.
I would argue that "capitalist democracy" is the least wrong of the two.
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I'm on GitHub/Microsoft's side here. They are not responsible for the content of US export control laws, and they have an incredible amount to lose if they are found to be in violation of US export control laws.

Presumably GitHub needs some automated tool to prevent inbound traffic from sanctioned countries, and it's hard to be certain that they are complying with US law if such automated tools have some wiggle room allowing for a non-zero amount of usage from sanctioned countries.

The whole situation isn't great, but none of it is GitHub/Microsoft's fault.
This is ridiculous.

China requires access to your company code and pretty much owns you.

The USA government is interfering as much as Europeans government do, by making stupid laws and demanding access when they can think of an excuse.
Sure, it's bad but it's not as bad as China.

You can't trust any government, but some are better than others.
Sounds like you're talking about a Matrix client, not Matrix itself. So I still don't know what you're talking about exactly, which client are you using?
That is one interpretation, but the reality is that we do not know. In fact, what you are describing is the position known as anti-realism - that quantities that can't be measure are not real, a major feature of the Copenhagen interpretation.

But in other theories (those termed "realist"), such as Pilot Wave or Superdeterminism, the uncertainty principle is exactly an artifact of measurement. A particle has an exact position, momentum, energy, spin etc, but they can't be reliably measured all at once.

In the end, these are philosophical positions, outside of our current mathematical and physical tools. Perhaps in time we will be able to settle these questions, but for now there are no definitive answers.
Public decency is not addressed by Section 5 of the Public Order Act, which was the act the police officer cited.
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Scribophile is specifically for fiction and peer review.
> You have relinquished so much control, why be surprised if that stares you back in the face?

We live in a market-based economy with highly specialized division of labor. The idea of "keeping control" of all our necessities and dependencies, is an archaic one. The system generally works, because we create sensible laws that foster trust, vet for partners who are trustworthy, and name-and-shame entities that violate our trust.

If you're a behemoth the size of FANG or a nation-state, maybe it is worth the effort needed to insulate yourself against these black-swan scenarios. But for a startup or small-medium-business that no one has heard of? That just sounds like bad prioritization.

All of which is to say... we should absolutely be surprised when a vendor like GitHub blocks an entire company because of an employee logging in from Iran while on travel. And this surprise, and the resulting name-and-shame, is what keeps the wheels of our economy turning.
Western countries (and particularly the US) have been conducting similar research for years. Despite imposing bans and other restrictions on their own soil, they may want the option to continue doing this in less regulated places, e.g. China. In the same way and for the same reasons that our manufacturers have outsourced hazardous production processes to less regulated countries. Personally I think it needs to be banned everywhere, urgently, and an inspection regime imposed.

The US may also have been complicit in this particular experiment. There was a lot of collaboration with Chinese researchers working in US labs and the US sponsoring the WIV, etc.
Such presumptions have, historically, led to such actions as the wholesale internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. This included 2nd and 3rd generations born in America, who never had left America. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

So, no, it's not merely a "sensible" assumption.

It's an assumption that carries collective trauma and negative connotations for many who's ancestors have experienced painful discrimination because of their ancestry.

> I don't think there should be any consequence to being Iranian, but I don't have a say in American politics.

No, you don't. But you do have a voice to ask critical and nuanced questions out loudly.
> GitHub should get flak for that in the same way Paypal regularly get flak for randomly freezing accounts.

Random? I think the problem with Paypal was that they do not warn or provide reasons for freezing. GH's reasons are clear.

> Blocking a whole European company not conducting business with Iran because one of its employee tried to login while there is not respecting the embargo, it's just overreach.

Says who? There is a law, the law is unclear and IHMO a bad law. The law is overreach. Blaming GH for shitty US laws is akin to killing the messenger.
> sexual exploitation, human trafficking, modern day slavery, organ trafficking, high value thefts (petrol, or digits bank robberies), standard social engineering scams etc

That kind of logic can be used to justify putting government cameras and microphones inside everyone's homes too.
Great idea! Maybe GitHub does some additional checks for determining if somebody is in Iran? Or they have a special way to know if a VPN is used?

I think that some VPN services offer a "random server" access, so you are essentially playing Russian roulette if you just happen to log in via an Iranian server.
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Discussions like the current one make me wish we had huge but relatively affordable space habitats [1]. People with a radical idea for restructuring society [2] could pool their resources, build/buy a space habitat, and prove that their way is superior to the status quo (or fail miserably, or something inbetween) [3]. This way, empirical evidence could be collected, and radical ideas could be tested and adopted if they turn out to be beneficial. The best way to convince others is to demonstrate an implementation.

Unfortunately, this is not possible on Earth, because pretty much every square meter is already claimed by some entity, but there's virtually infinite room in the solar system.

[1] Like O'Neill cylinders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder or the Stanford torus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus

[2] Regular contenders are UBI, abolishing IP or private property, and communism.

[3] Kind of like in Scott Alexander's "Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism" essay: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...
Does it support consistent replication and automatic failover? (you need implement raft or paxos-like replication algorithm for this)
Github does not respect Schrems2 neither.
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You can't blame GitHub for intentionally over broad, OTT US sanctions.
Ok, if there are very reasonable answers, perhaps you can point to them?
Discard just the photo or the résumé entirely?

If the latter - do they acknowledge the irony?
Is there a quantification of "high performance"?

It will obviously be much lower than the IPC of an actual high performance CPU (modern x86-64), but how big is the difference? And how does it compare to typical mobile processors?
All those abbreviations on the block diagram make it very difficult to interpret. A key map in the image would be great, or at least some markdown directly below it.
The existing ideas are usually as good or better than mine, making it impossible to break in. Or if it's too similar, there could be patent issues. I'll give you two examples from when I was a kid.

I saw one of those geometric balls that expand and contract at the gift shop of the Smithsonian. I thought, what if they use something like that in a transmission instead of multiple gears? You could have one like that which expands and contracts with a smaller one that varies much less but just changes the pitch of the teeth to fit the big one. The next decade they came out with CVTs which objectively were a better design using (very basically) two rollers that change geometry.

In middle school, I created an invention for that young inventor program run by Sears. I made a device that would slide up and down on the side of an extension ladder. It was a basket to hold paint or tools. I couldn't find anything like it back then. 20 years later and I see an infomercial one. Perhaps this was my best idea I ever had. Sadly I was just a kid and never patented or sold them. I didn't even win the competition.
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Iris unfortunate that they decided to name it 'spice' despite the pre existing and well known project already using this name.
The top 33 "software and programming" companies by revenue in the world can be found below [0]. 28 of them are American. Two are in the EU. One is in the UK. One is in Australia. The last is Russian.

One of the companies in the EU produces enterprise software almost no one on this website uses (SAP). The other is Dassault.

In the US the top five companies are Microsoft, Oracle, ADP, Adobe, and Salesforce. If you include Alphabet and Amazon, well...

When the EU or Asia (non-China, I guess) can offer mature alternatives even remotely competitive with the American companies, I guess your strategy could work. Until then, no one is going to flock to Hetzner over AWS.

And I like Hetzner.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_c...
I realise this is a fuzzy question, but is rustls considered a production-strength TLS implementation, or just a curiosity?

A TLS implementation in the safe subset of Rust, with the guarantees that brings, sounds like a great thing. If it can be used as a drop-in replacement for OpenSSL, even better.
IF those are all legal actions, you do not know how taxes work (knowing how an internal combustion engine works generally does not mean you understand valve timing formulae) Your anger is misplaced, and should fall at the feet of lawmakers.
I'd be a lot more open to this if the Socialist countries and the Capitalist countries hadn't spent the last half of the previous century at each others' throats.

In any event, we have a term for New Dealism and what Norway is and everything similar: Liberal Democracy with a Welfare State. The problem is, in the US, the Republicans have been insulting that model by calling it Socialist for so long that people think that's what Socialism is and then insist they are Socialist when the idea of regulated Capitalism and a social safety net sounds good to them.
Not really my field, but the page itself is a nice example of how to do a "get our newsletter", not with a dirty great popup that you have to dismiss, but with a discreet little thing in the bottom-right corner.
Well, not quite. You seem to be conflating "money laundering" with all "undesired"/illegal transactions.

Laundering implies transition from "dirty" to "clean".

This is the kind of scenario that these kinds of regulatory requirements impede:

"Dirty BTC" transferred to Binance, traded for ETH, sent to Coinbase, traded for USD, and sent outward to a fiat bank account.

Like you say, strictly peer-to-peer value transfer is game over. If every point of contact between cryptocurrency and a regulated entity requires full KYC, those illicit funds can be prevented from entering the regulated economy.

What's happening here is effectively a battle over the fungibility of cryptocurrency. If the transactional history of each UTXO comes under scrutiny for a business to touch a BTC transaction, the practical value of each satoshi differs. This was actually brought up many years ago as an argument for why bitcoin in its current form (sans untraceable transaction) may lose the "fungibility" property and thus will lose its utility as money.

This was early on a main selling point for Monero; "truly fungible cryptocurrency".