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> you’re having bad hardware luck manifesting as glitches in software

This was precisely my experience back in December.

I purchased a stock M1 MacBook Pro as well as a customized M1 MacBook Pro, so I could set up the OS as I wanted and migrate Data and settings once the customized Device arrived.

The first device behaved as expected: fast performance, responsive UI, cool operating temperature.

The second device, however, had issues with UI latency, beachballing Finder operations, and inexplicable slow downs.

I tried installing and reinstalling and remigrating the OS, eventually discovering that one or both of my users would be unable to even login to the system. Further analysis revealed that the communication between the T2 chip and the hard drive (or some aspect of the trust a computer system) was not operating properly.

I'm not technical enough to detail the exact problem, but it was most certainly a hardware issue or a hardware issue related to the incomplete erasing and reformatting of the M1 MacBook Pro's hard drive.

I returned both devices, waited a couple of weeks, and purchased a single customized MacBook Air.

This MacBook Air in my experience actually outperforms both previous M1 MacBook Pros. I don't have benchmarks nor do I have the other devices to compare directly, but it seems that this MacBook Air is much more ready for prime time then my mid-December MacBook Pros.
"The process is not the product"

I found it more interesting and productive to provoke discussions around another perspective: "The product is not the business".

It's so common to see people think that just because their product sounds nice and compelling to its intended market/niche, it doesn't mean the same team would be able to sell it and maintain it in an ongoing basis, let alone evolve it.

The reality of business operations is too cruel.
That’s not me. I but can see how a DLT could work very well as means of a currency.

We could have the commercial banks, and others if necessary, run nodes. They could verify payments on “accounts”, or addresses, (if we want to keep the old meaning of bank account, that’s fine, then we could instead call these addresses) which are held by the commercial banks. These addresses could be non-anonymous such that requirement for know-your-customer still reside with the commercial banks (the central banks really don’t want to have to get anyway near KYC requirements). Each such “account”/address could be linked to addresses of currency at the CB, which at that point was anonymous.

The CB could then have full control of the issuance of currency, control interest directly on the currency itself, everything being anonymous to the CB.
Universal healthcare is exactly one of those blue tribe proposals that addresses the lack of distributed output, but rings hollow with the red tribe because it does nothing for their sense of self-actualization. You need to be able to understand this if you want any hope of understanding our current impasse.

Pragmatically I do agree that universal healthcare is a way forward out of the current ongoing catastrophe. But I'd much rather live in a society where most everyone were able to pay for most of their own healthcare out of pocket, rather than needing fake "insurance" in the first place.

And yes low interest looks appealing for short-term business reasons - that's exactly why we're in a spiral. The lower the rates, the more things get financialized, and the more accountants take over pushing myopic models of how much safety margins can be cut.
Do you really think the engineers at Apple are gods incapable of mistakes? The MacOS division in particular has been a prime example of "don't upgrade until you have to" with how buggy each new update has been.
Sounds like this was discovered by MalwareBytes so if you have that installed a scan should let you know too.

Also, Little Snitch will show you the connections it makes every hour. Before anyone says it - in macOS 11.2, Apple removed the exclusion list that allowed their own software to bypass firewalls.[1]

[1] https://blog.obdev.at/a-wall-without-a-hole/
Because Dulles had already been built prior to the need to redesign to provide the single point security design. I think there was no realistic way to add it after the fact and still retain the lounges attaching directly to the massive internal (effectively) one-room building.
And in the 90s, that would have been bandwidth.

Now, widely used messaging platform also means content moderation team and local law enforcement alignment.
> undef(argv[1]); // left shift down the args

Can someone explain what this does? Is this some Perl or Tcl thing? Unfortunately I've never used either :)
How do you get your initial take on API? I tried to do the mitm and observe the API calls but did not succeed. Do not have JB iphone, so I am curious how did you get the URIs
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Studies on the ability of the new vaccines to confer resistance to mutated covid strains are desperately needed. It will be difficult to hold the line on current covid policy through the end of 2021, most of the people I know are focused on just making it another 2-3 months to when they can get a vaccine.
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I feel like NASA really stepped up their game with the telecasts, learning lessons from SpaceX. SpaceX has been making an effort to make the livestreams much more accessible.
As a solo-founder/developer of [1], this is what I have been doing for the past year or so.

1. I searched for basic monitoring solutions for actively monitoring the backend and finalized New-Relic. They provide a free plan that is good enough for most startups. I have added a bunch of graphs for system, infrastructure and application monitoring. It keeps me sane and well-informed before things go wrong.

2. On my Digital ocean droplets and database, I have set up Slack alerts that page me in case there is a spike. I have created a free slack workspace just for this and added a different alert ringtone so as to not get confused with other workspaces.

3.I use Freshping to monitor Uptime and again, if things go down, I get email and slack alerts within couple of minutes.

4.I have Rollbar agent running for log monitoring. I get an email alert when there is an exception or error.

5. If I am out for more than half a day, I take my laptop with me.

6. I keep my phone on. Always.

In the last one year, rarely things have gone down. I mean maybe a couple of times.

Things I do so I can sleep properly,

1. I do not deploy before heading out, or on Fridays or at bedtime.

2. My infrastructure has a lot of redundancy meaning, a larger instance than required to handle a spike in case I am unavailable.

3. Database usually breakdown, so have recently migrated to Digitalocean managed database.

Things I am planning to do,

1.Try out Monit to automate some of the tasks.

2. Write down a list of steps or a runbook in case things go wrong. It is easy to forget steps when the production system is down.

[1] https://blanq.io
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest
A mistake ?

I don’t see how something in the documentation for the platform is “hidden”. It’s sort of the definition of “not hidden”.
I see a lot of centralised digital currency projects gaining traction in the current bull market.

The innovation of Bitcoin was the game theoretical incentive of mining to teach consensus on blockchain state. It would cost you more to attack the network than to cooperate.

The whole value add over traditional money is the decentralised nature of cryptocurrencies. For code platforms it is the potential of fully autonomous apps that operate as long as people are paying for their use without central control.

It is sad to centralised chains take off such as the Binance Smart Chain that runs on delegated proof-of-stake on just 21 validators picked by Binance.

You are just playing with someone else's funny money that they control.
Those things are terrible. I had a tight connection, was first or second in this movable room, and waited for 25 minutes for it to start moving. Then there was a security screening in the place it moved to, for another dozens of minutes. Terrible.
Is there a reason this isn't just a subset of the Mozilla Common Voice dataset, similar to their "Single Word Target Segment"? (Described as "a use case driven segment containing data to power spoken digit recognition and yes / no detection.")

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets
In Ruby it's called ARGF (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.1/ARGF.html) — which, if not perfectly descriptive, is at least evocatively similar to ARGV.

If you're already aware that ARGV exists, you'll guess that ARGF might be used in relation to it, and so when writing a CLI program that uses ARGV, you might wonder if ARGF could simplify your code and look up what it is/does.
I think this guy is living in a mass transit dream world, at least in the American context.

Even if city mass transit systems were now allowed to serve multiple airport terminal buildings, the number of cities able to pay for, let alone plan for and build such extensions to their lines is near 0.

Basically, this provision only provides benefit to a new airport (or new terminal building) going up, with a willing city metro system planning for a subway line that the airport planners also design to be integrated. The uncoordination of city infrastructure in the USA is too pervasive for us to have some NRT/HND/LHR/FRA style rail-to-airport intermodal paradise.

I cannot think of a single existing US airport where this could be taken advantage of in practice in the next 20 years. And the number of new major airport terminal buildings that have gone up in cities with metro systems in the last 20 years I can count on a single hand. We will be forever stuck with a shitty bus to LaGuardia.

And btw, our problem isn't getting subway lines to go to more terminals. It seems to be getting the subway to stop before it hits the terminal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEe5b_KkACw
I use DuckDuckGo as my default, and have for a couple of years. My workflow is to the run all searches the DDG, then, if I don't see what I'm looking for, I run the same search using the "g!" keyword. If I were more concerned about privacy I'd use the "sp!" keyword. I find that I wind up routing searches to Google a little less than half the time.
Some ruling parties in Europe were aware early last autumn that restrictions would last all the way to the spring at least (and regardless of case numbers and hospitalization), but they never stated that overtly. They preferred to claim that measures were just a short-term, temporary thing, and then when those measures were set to expire, they were just renewed again on ostensibly a short-term basis. This was done because those ruling parties knew that there was massive opposition to long-term lockdowns, and being open and honest with the public could lead to their defeat in the next elections.
yeah,its apparently called "golden card" thing, i'm not sure myself. it is looking like a in-patient cashless mediclaim policy for 500k INR per family or whatever.
By "fear porn" do you mean "updating the population as to the latest state of the worldwide pandemic in which half a million Americans have died in 11 months even while social precautions were in place"?
The guys at redcanary.com are giving cryptographic hashes as... MD5.

2021. MD5.

I can't wait to hear the apologists.

EDIT: instead of downvoting it would be nice to explain why it's fine to use and encourage the usage of MD5 in 2021.
This is a very interesting way to use a computer. I'm currently exploring other sorts of novel(?) ways of using computers, so this intrigues me.

What tools do you use for sentiment analysis?
Sadly, I don’t think we’ve hit bottom enough yet. Maybe when we do we can break from the cult of the individual. Though it can just as likely turn into civil war and bloodshed.
14h hours using up only 52% is impressive to me.
You make it sound like all of those changes weren’t many years of effort by many engineers...
Did... you stop reading my comment halfway through? I don't understand why you're correcting me with information that's literally in the following sentence.
Just build up the capacity to produce 8 billion mRNA vaccines a month and we should be able to react quick enough to whatever pops up. Easy.
> we have to imagine the band is "madly in anger" with Twitch over the fiasco

No, we don't. It's unlikely they care.
Python is a little happy place in the world of programming languages, for me.

It strikes an elegant set of trade-offs that suit my needs and preferences, for times when I want to reach for a dynamic language.

This article points out some of the pain points but hey, who's ever lived pain free in software dev? :)

Happy Birthday Python!
Bit if a side note: One thing about the “daycare myth” that bothers me, usually when it’s used to diminish the status of teachers, is how hard daycare workers work and how important that job is.
I use DDG daily but there's one thing that grinds my gears, and undermines their privacy by default statement.

They leak the searches in the URL like this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=this+is+not+private+at+all&ia=web
If it's a book that's only available DRM, I buy it on the Kindle. I'm not fond of buying DRMed books, but most are only available that way, and Amazon is the most likely to still be around in the future.

For non-DRM:

Tor Books are no longer DRMed.

Baen Books -- https://www.baen.com/ -- don't have DRM, and you can buy directly from the publisher, and manage your library on their site, and download as many times as you like. You can also often purchase eArc versions, and they have a monthly subscription bundle were you can read parts of the book as it comes out, and then you get the complete book when it's done.

If you're interested in translated Japanese light novels, there's J Novel Club -- https://j-novel.club/ -- for a monthly subscription, you can read book parts for free as they're being translated. Once they're fully translated, you can then purchase the final epub directly from their site.

Books are interesting in that they both are and aren't fungible. If, say, I want to read the next Martha Wells Murderbot book, or the next Julie McGalliard Rougarou book, I have to buy that particular book.

But if I'm just looking for another book to read, I always check Tor, Baen, and J Novel Club first.
They are not exact dupes. One is in http://www.reddit.com and the other in http://old.reddit.com Post to the BBC and other sites have the same problem. In some special cases the mods add autoconverters to canonize and deduplicate.
The concentration, though undesired, is accidental and not coordinated. That's the difference.
Vim does a similar thing to Emacs here: the `:sp` and `:vs` commands take an optional argument that, if given, loads a file in the new window. Otherwise the new window just contains the same buffer.
An event sourced version of Minesweeper (written in Elm)
Hold on:

> Amazon Web Services and the Akamai content delivery network

Why isn‘t AWS investigating?
We are honestly very happy to hear about every usecase people have for this right now. It's users that help us shape the product to a large extent, at the end of the day.

We can chat more about it here or feel free to pick one of the many contact routes scattered around the thread :)

What's the name of the product? What does it do?
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Nano doesn't maintain transaction history. It only stores the current state of the ledger.

Any bug or attack on the network may not be detectable immediately, and can't be recovered.

Meaning: it may already be compromised, have inflation or double-spend bugs, etc. and we simply don't know it yet, but once we do, the value of the ledger immediately reaches zero.

How is that "better" than Bitcoin in general?
Wow, just noticed this. I'm the guy who paid for Little, a bunch of other people did all the work.

I'm surprised to see it getting some attention but happily so. Little is what I'd like C to evolve towards, there is a lot of useful (to me) stuff in the language.

I'll wander through the comments and reply where I can.
1. Parents are assholes. In rich areas many parents doesn't give two shits about spending time with their kids as they are only interested in their job and friends.
Everyone wants them open, but mostly to eliminate the nuisances associated with child-care while working. I think a lot of parents hadn't realized just how messed-up their kids' schools actually were until now. (Edit: So, there are two separate problems: "Get my kids out of here so I can work and keep the lights on" and "Really?? That's all they've been getting all this time?")
While I agree with a lot of what you said, unless first world means “perfect and flawless”, what happened in California and Texas arent “third world events”. Our systems have limits, even multi billion $ systems built by very smart engineers. Rolling wildfires across a state is infrequent on that scale in California. That cold snap in Texas was one of the lowest ever on record. These are rare events that to prepare against except in hindsight would seem like a waste of everyone’s money. France and other places in Europe lose power during heatwaves and cold snaps. That’s just reality.

Our grid isn’t prepped for a nuclear war, or an alien invasion for the same reason. That’s not a third world outcome, that’s a look behind the curtain to see how fallible the world just is.
> grand[\ -]?father\ clause|grand[\ -]?fathered

So saying the word grandfathered is "disallowed"?

I'm sick and tired of these woke morons.
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Windows sure, b/c they tend to come preinstalled with a bunch of garbage, but we're talking about Macs.
> None of Zuse, Babbage, Torres y Quevedo, Ludgate, Dickinson, Desch, Atanasoff–Berry, Mauchly / Eckert, nor many of the other pioneers of computing came via Hilbert and FOM problems

I don't think this is a fair comparison. The modern computer is really distinct from everything that
came before. That's because it was built according to the theory of Turing Machines.

One of the most important historical papers for the development of modern computers was the Report on the ENIAC by Von Neumann[1].

Von Neumann took the idea's of others working in the field, and was able to apply his understanding of mathematical logic to formulate the principles which led to the first working modern computer, which Von Neumann built in the basement of IAS. At that time, there was a major debate at IAS between Einstein and Von Neumann, which centered around whether or not to only do pure math at IAS, with the idea that building a computer was part of experimental science. [2]

> Regarding the arrow of influence: a Fields medalist spent a decade coming up with a new foundation of mathematics (or at least algebraic topology), only to realise that the computer science department already teaches Coq to undergraduates!

LOL! That is an interesting and funny story. However, I don't think this example demonstrates that in the future, mathematics will not be the source of improvements to code writing standards.

Question: if code writing standards improve, where else will these improvements come from other than pure mathematics? I consider this question to be a problem type similar to maximum compression algorithms, i.e. its a question whose solution can only be verified using the language of pure mathematics. Therefore it seems likely these improvements can also have their roots in pure mathematics as well. At least, I would not say it "seems unlikely"

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

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Uni...
It’s a lot of fun to play with and test your intuition
I don't think this is true across the board. In my experience, the broader culture can make a huge difference.

For instance, like many others, I was bullied every single day in middle and high school in the US. When I moved to NZ and went to high school(called "college" there), I was dumbstruck at how accepting people were of me, as someone who has been constantly bullied back in the US, that I had a hard time accepting it at first. I was so used to being an outcast that I didn't know how to handle it at first when normal kids would actually approach me in a non-confrontational way. By the end of the year, the most popular guy in the school was voluntarily helping me study for chemistry.

Now some of that experience may have been influenced by me being a foreigner, but my bullying was due to a combination of being nerdy and fat, so it would have made sense if at least some people bullied me in NZ. There was pretty much only one kid who didn't like me and had to make a show of it, but he was easily handled.

Put simply, I think that culture in the US and probably other western countries that are heavily US-influenced is woefully broken, but it isn't as apparent to the conscious mind because we've become very good at polishing turds. We love to paint over rot and create rules for ourselves that just sweep problems under the rug so that they only manifest in places out of our control, such as with the interactions between children.

To your point, though...

> Instead they spend all their time with other kids who are have they exact same emotionally immaturity as they do. You get feedback loops of bad behaviour, and put them in bubbles where their peers and their psychopathic games (like bullying) make up 100% of their reality.

This is true in more ways that you might have originally imagined. Young people, and really people of all ages IMO, should be learning from their elders. Instead, we put way too much emphasis on mere socialization and compatibility. In adulthood we're even worse in these categories in that we either socialize too much or too little, and fewer of us will tolerate anyone who doesn't tick off all our arbitrary boxes.

> The only consistent counterpoint I can think of are cousins, who are typically slightly older or younger, and are outside of kids' normal peer groups. As a result these are often very positive relationships.

Cousins, unlike siblings, aren't competing with their fellow cousins over the love of their own parents, so it makes sense that these relationships tend to be positive.
It would also be easier to watch and seize the transations of people who oppose the governments. Maybe your tax would depend on your social score.

It would allow to automatically punish not only the targets directly, but also everyone who interacts with them. Like, not only would the undesirables not be allowed to get a good job or study at university, they couldn't even buy an ice cream at the corner, because the vendor would be warned that if they accept their money, the vendor's social score will be reduced in turn. (And there is no way to accept the payment without the system seeing the transaction.) The companies would be warned that if they hire them, their tax rate will be increased. The government could enforce social ostracism even if most people wouldn't mind the thoughtcrime per se.
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Unfortunately I don't know everyone's names, so I'm using "Apple" as an umbrella term for Apple engineers.
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This is the killer feature! I use it all the time for work and life.

Need to find .NET documentation? !dnab

Need to search Mozilla docs? !mdn

Need to find a Debian manpage? !debman

Java docs? !java (or !java7, !java8, etc)

Stack overflow? !so

Google Maps search? !maps

Wikipedia? !w

Amazon? !a

Ebay? !ebay
That argument works pretty well in b2c, but in b2b your customers often insist on high uptimes, even if they benefit little from them.

Though the promised uptime might not matter that much in practice, since the penalties for a couple of hours of downtime are often affordable.