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"spent some time wasting the caller's time"

My time is more valuable than the caller's time so there is no way I can make it more unprofitable for the spammer than it costs me in my time.

My technique for spam calls is to waste as much of their time as possible while minimizing the amount of time it costs me - I answer the phone, put it on "speaker," and don't respond. Most of the time it is a robocall so I let the message play to the end. Often the message is "press 1 for..." I press 0 which sometimes gets an "operator" on the line and bypasses number mazes. If it does not, I press 1 (or whatever) which generally gets a human on the line. I then let the human play the "hello" "Hello" "HELLO, is anybody out there" game until they give up and hang up. Quite often it wastes several minutes of the scammer's time.

The beauty of this technique is that it takes almost none of my time since I can go back to working while the scammer is playing the "is anyone out there" game.
That's a good point. I think this will finally be the thing that makes Intel move away from that marketing approach too. Its outlived its usefulness.
What?! I got that book somewhere. That's hilarious, I didn't expect that. Now I have to read it.
Difference cause of a similar issue. A fair bit of go code relies on reflection to list the fields of a struct and decide what to do, so e.g. if you change the name of a field in a struct and you happened to be serializing the struct somewhere else the serialization will change even though nothing near to the name change suggested that the struct was ever being serialized in the first place.

Apart from serialization I've also seen this with ORMs, and some of internal code for metrics. I imagine there are other cases too... but while I currently work in go I'm not really that much of an expert in the language.
So, there are a few instances where Apple does bin their products:

1. "7-core GPU" M1 Macs, which have one of the eight GPU cores disabled for yield

2. The A12X, which also had one GPU core disabled (which was later shipped in an 8-core GPU configuration for the A12Z)

3. iPod Touch, which uses lower-clocked A10 chips

It's not like Apple is massively overbuilding their chips or has a zero defect rate. It's more that Intel is massively overbinning their chips for product segmentation purposes. Defect rates rarely, if ever, fit a nice product demand curve. You'll wind up producing too many good chips and not enough bad ones, and this will get worse as your yields improve. Meanwhile, the actual demand curve means that you'll sell far more cheap CPUs than expensive ones. So in order to meet demand you have to start turning off or limiting perfectly working hardware in order to make a worse product.

Apple doesn't have to do this because they're vertically integrated. The chip design part of the business doesn't have to worry about maximizing profit on individual designs - they just have to make the best chip they can within the cost budget of the business units they serve. So the company as a whole can afford to differentiate products by what CPU design you're getting, rather than what hardware has been turned off. Again, they aren't generating that many defects to begin with, and old chips are going to have better yields and cost less to make anyway. It makes more sense for Apple to leave a bit of money on the table at the middle of the product stack and charge more for other, more obviously understandable upgrades (e.g. more RAM or storage) at the high end instead.
The Real travesty here is that people can't afford to pay for their lawyers (let alone a software expert or QA to actually look at the code or test it) , they aren't entitled to representation, so they have no option but to plead guilty.
Not forcing introverts into painful, humiliating social encounters will go a long way.
Anyone remembers the times when "web development" was something you could do on a pretty any computer available?
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I do all of the above. I can cope without it, but I don't consider Google a crutch. Why not use every tool at your disposal?
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Indeed it would seem a trivial change to cache failed lookups here[1]

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:u...
I mean that seems inevitable.

I have a 2014 retina iMac. At some point in the next few years, I’ll probably replace it with an M series iMac, and then put Linux on it. It’s hard to imagine that it will ever really reach end of life due to speed at that point.
The 8 gigabyte machine is fine for 90% of people. I've recommended just getting that platform to a number of people, and none of them have had issues.

I've got an 8 Gigabyte MBAir, and it never stutters. Meanwhile, on my 16 GByte Dell XPS (Ubuntu 20.04) - I routinely live in fear of exceeding my chrome tab quota because I know it will bring the system to a crashing halt. Somewhere around 45 is the point it all comes down.

Meanwhile, I don't even think about how many safari tabs I have open (hundred+) - and 8-10 applications open at the same time.

Different operating system has different models of swapping and degrading performance. Apple has nailed it.
Presumably the owners of the trade marks you just referred to (Scrabble, etc.) are onboard [no pun intended!] with you? Otherwise I see tortuous infringement court cases in your future!?

I thought Mattel only allowed their own online games to be called "Scrabble" RTM.

Disclaimer: this is personal opinion and relates in no way to my employment.
The part where you couldn't find and apply enough common sense to see there was a typo.
The reality is that the US has always been tribal. There's been religious tribalism, racial tribalism (non-Irish v Irish, Black v White, etc), and even regional tribalism despite the rising national consciousness during and after the American Civil War. I'm not saying it's good but I'm just wanting to state it's always been there. Today, the Internet makes it just easier to see. Instead of having to hear it at the local hardware store or diner you can just go on facebook or some other social media site and see it in near real time. Also, the pseudo-anonymity of the Internet just gives it a sharper edge than normal (the person on the other side doesn't feel like they're reacting to another person but just another blip on the screen). Heck, as a mutualist anarchist I've gotten into spats with ancoms and other anarchists over silly issues (think of the whole ancap spats over NAP and proportionality or 'thickism' if you're a right libertarian). So to me this isn't new. Maybe to talking heads who aren't as 'online' as me and others this seems odd but I'm just surprised how clueless traditional media can be on these issues. It's not the 90s anymore folks, just about everyone is online and probably more than they should be (myself included).
You're absolutely right. I think a lot of the stress-related stories we're seeing do depend on the location, demographics, and a ton of other factors; a large city academic center might have a lot higher load and resource stress than a smaller hospital.

But overall, I just like to point out to people that some of us in medicine and nursing are doing just fine through all of this. A lot of people assume that we're all miserable because we work in the acute hospital/ICU setting.
That is a really interesting point. Experimentation could be taught. There are the various “REPL based dev” rants but experimenting is more general. Although the barriers to entry to each new piece of modern technology seem a little higher. Hello world in Python REPL is a bit easier than a hello world container in a k8s container. I often don’t bother to try out new stuff when I first hear about it because generally the process of getting it to work in the trivial case is 90% of the effort and 90% of the googling

Part of the things you learn to increase your power in various environments is how to achieve certain capabilities in certain environments. Now I know how to set up terraform modules to deploy services on VMs with zero downtime deploys, and plop in some lambdas for end to end monitoring with alerts going to the slack channel. I can implement all our new things we need to deploy without too much frame, I just can worry about the picture. It makes me correspondingly less interested in setting the same thing up on Mesos or EKS or whatever. But eventually you get calls to do some new thing three times and you have to respond.

Fortunatey, we have people that can deploy helloworld in fifty different frameworks (but don’t seem like they can actually write or debug complicated code). They are useful but it is a weird thing to master. All experiments and no new logic wrested into being to do things.
Just for the fun of it, I tried to play WoW classic on my late-2012 mac mini and it ran like a toaster oven, but it worked just fine. Pretty fun. After putting the SSD in it, of course.
Yes, this attacks are just the result of sanctions against those countries, we, over here in the US shouldn't be policing the world, if those countries want freedom they should rise up on their own, is hard, but have had happened in the past.
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>I don't particularly feel the need for gods, ancient traditions or worship

You do. It's just that in modern society we've substituted these for more easily digestible, commodified, manufactured replicas. Hollywood celebrities have replaced the pantheon of Greek gods. Consumerism is the new piety. Techno Utopianism and liberalism (in the classical sense) has supplanted the ancient traditions of old. The Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world are our priestly class. We still need these things, but instead of searching for them, communing with others, and engaging with our inherited body of three thousand years of western cultural heritage to find meaning, we purchase it with the press of a button on an app.
>> The 5800H gets 2.5x on cpu benchmark's rating vs the 2400G.

That's in large part because its 8 cores instead of 4. The test I ran makes good use of multicore, but going from 4 to 8 won't cut the time completely in half. I suspect the M1 will still beat it by a bit.

I take back my comment on availability. We ideally need to compare things on the same process node to see which design team has done a better job ;-)
This is a really bad take. Do you honestly compare something that WILL happen 1 BILLION years later to a slope on which we are already sliding down that will cause massive real catastrophes all around the Earth? Being so close that you will likely experience it, and your children will definitively.
There's nothing about this process that's contingent on capital, and 'capital' is a confused term anyway. The causal factors are both social (generally grouped under the broad term "modernity") and technical (since technical changes might make some forms of d18n more feasible than they would otherwise be).
This is only true really for younger developers who haven’t understood the value of RTFM for software. Web search is less valuable to me as I get older due to experience. It is more valuable to those that don’t have experience and want a playground to say: “if I do this, how can I do it, who else has done it?”

A good example is if I ask a developer to write a MITM proxy server. You can search all day how to write one and you’ll find a few projects on Github. However not a lot of info on the whys and whats. This is because no one wants the responsibility of their work being used in an attack. To get all the whys and whats you need to read documentation for the protocols and language you’re using. Otherwise you will end up with a pretty hack-y solution.

Because there is no stackoverflow on this, a younger developer would spend the greater part of 3 months understanding something simpler than it appears to be.

Search hasn’t made me a better developer so it’s importance is minimal. Best practices have made me a better developer. Searching for solutions is not a best practice.
Yes, usenet was huge for me back in the early 90s when I had questions on C programming. I would ask them on comp.programming.c and had some of the best programmers providing guidance. Of course they were strict with questions/discussions being specific to ANSI C.
The brazenness of the fraudsters, the incompetence of the German regulators looking the other way, such a work of art chef kiss. Life is truly stranger than fiction.
We're far from knowing enough about the brain to say anything as conclusive as that.

We do know enough to say that there are some intrinsic differences- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_sex_difference...
It’s funny you say “innovate.” They certainly innovated with the M1, but with one key difference. They did so in public, step-by-step over the course of a decade.

Perhaps more than any other Apple innovation, we have the greatest visibility into the process with the M1.
That would work but wouldn't let you say that jank happens "once every 50 minutes" because you don't actually know how many times that happened.

Also, this article isn't talking about UI blockage. This is talking about the time delta between user input & the result hitting the eyeball, presumably even across any asynchronous threads/IPC.
This is a great read on what it took to make a manuscript. The printing press was one of the great leaps in human history, but the effort savings are not always obvious. This article really lays out just haw laborious the work was prior to the press.
That was a recommendation, not a gatekeep.
That is a protection. The government holds the money and you can apply for it anytime. As can your relatives. Have you never received unclaimed funds you didn't know were due to you?
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Yup. Looked at the source first to double-check there wasn't a legitimate reason for the registry read.

EDIT: Filed the suggestion upstream: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=120214...
Are you suggesting that it's not? Maybe I'm out of touch with both the state of technology and the general public (guilty on both counts), but last I checked major operating systems all came with CD ripping software included. Do people really not have CD drives any more or something?
> It feels like when I was a kid and went from a 386SX to a Pentium at 4X the speed

I remember the jump from the 486 chips to the Pentium being that dramatic. Heck, 486DX2-66 to P100 brought Linux kernel compile times from 45 minutes down to like 5 minutes.

Back then, I think a big part of these jumps wasn't just CPU design. I think a lot of it was that those CPU design changes were often accompanied by massive improvements to overall system architecture. So the I/O buses, memory, peripherals, all of it got a lot faster as part of the same upgrade.
My guess would be that many of those excess overdoses are suicides.
Compression is always a good alternative, which is especially effective when modification is infrequent.
You've implied it's permanent transfer of ownership to the state. It's not.

From wikipedia: "Escheats are performed on a revocable basis. Thus, if property has escheated to a State but the original owner subsequently is found, escheatment is revoked and ownership of the property reverts to that original owner."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat#United_States
Do you have a machine with slow storage (hard disk or early SSD)? Chromes HTTP cache does a lot of tiny reads and can easily make the whole system slow, especially when the profile is gigabytes or more.

Clearing the cache, or even the entire Chrome profile will fix it if its the case.
Speak for yourself. Me personally? I would like one core per Chrome tab.
I really liked your app/website name, play on word Bakasura[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakasura
> soul-successor

I think you just made a new malapropism by getting the "sole" in "sole successor" mixed up with the homophone "soul" and then relating it to "spiritual successor"

Both "sole successor" and "spiritual successor" are accurate descriptions in this case, so it works beautifully.
I was reminded of a 2-minute video from the FSF, Shoe tool.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/presenting-shoetool-happ...
Luckily this has been true for Apple so far. But there is still the chance in the future that they stop supporting the DRM (either voluntarily or involuntarily).

Just look what happened to Microsoft's ironically named "PlaysForSure" DRM. They shut down the DRM servers in 2008 and made everyone's "purchased" content unplayable.

edit: I double-checked how Apple FairPlay DRM works to make sure I wasn't mistaken. But no, to play FairPlay DRMed content, you need to log in with iTunes which downloads your user decryption key. So if you got banned from Apple's services (credit card chargebacks, etc) then you can no longer log in to play your content, even if you have the media files. So you are only licensing it for as long as you agree to the terms of service, not buying it.
Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through Cloudflare, and it's S3 compatible. It's peanuts by comparison but I've been storing ~22TB on there for years and love it.

Wasabi and Glacier would be my 2nd choices.
> from a longer term perspective

Yes.

Longer term, new hardware will also make it practical to train large models in a fully parallelized, fully distributed manner -- i.e., without having to backpropagate gradients, which requires a lot of complex bookkeeping and plumbing for distributed training.

Recent progress suggests this will happen. See, for example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04182

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03725

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01047

I for one am excited to see what happens over the next decade as it becomes trivial to train/use models with 1K, 1M, or 1B times more dense connections than present state-of-the-art models.
I think the point is it’s not a scam because these businesses are of value to you overall. That they decided they needed DRM to make sustainable business is unfortunate but doesn’t make it a scam. The words may be scammy in this case, but digital media is better than physical media and you get the good with the bad.
I would consider moving to my own metal and using hadoop.
zram is a game changer. I believed I needed to upgrade 16gb to 32gb, with zram and a decent cpu no I don't. 97% full memory + 20GB zram swap and no noticeable problems.
100% agree with others in this thread that my immediate thought was this headline and subheadline are misleading. It doesn't take a bunch of studies (although there are many and thanks for posting some of them) to know that lockdowns, social isolation, closing of public gathering spots, "death count tickers" on TV, reduced family visits, and when one does get out in the public, constant covering of everyone's facial expressions (no smiles) to know that there's going to be a public health impact. I don't think we'll know the extent of the impact for years.
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I think YAML works fine if you're mapping it into typed data structures, because if you know the target type, you can coerce where possible and fail with an error message otherwise. It can potentially cause a mess if you're using it in a dynamic language, and aren't explicitly coercing/validating the input.
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Or, maybe your preconception doesn't fit the facts? Suicidal ideation is up, which seems very likely to increase the number of suicides. How would you explain that?
Zuckerberg is on record disparaging his users with regard to their blind trust in him. He is an astounding demonstration of market failure.

I presume that, to affect the world in a positive way, it's done though collaboration with those able to articulate real problems and form a coalition of those working to address them. In this regard, technical expertise is a necessary element, but one should not confuse our part of the effort with the entire work. We should not be seeing ourselves as building "the solution" to social challenges, so much as we may better equip a community that tackles those problems.
What’s also lacking from a marketing perspective is the “Intel Inside” campaign - which was incredibly successful for the Wintel monopoly in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Seeing the sticker or hearing this slogan used to imply a premium or cachet to the product/hardware to the average Joe or Joanne.

No longer, Intel’s brand recognition has really taken a hit in the past decade.
I hooked the main ground wire up to the wrong bolt on jetski engine. I'll just have to move it over to the correct one when I get the chance.

I got my pin number wrong a few times on a business card I don't use often. Then I finally remembered it.

I thought the asparagus would be ready today, but it needs another day or two.

The list goes on and on.
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> I believe evryone will agree that digital is better in most cases

If you include modern piracy in with "digital", sure. If you only include legal offerings, absolutely not.

Even DRM'd physical media that doesn't use the network in any way to authenticate is way better than DRM'd digital media, which you can never truly own, and which exists at the folly of the service operator.
Generally people just get a feel for it from practical experience, but there are some thought exercises you can use to help.

For example "What if two programs did this?":

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35...

Often people with a poor grasp of complex systems will make a naive suggestion like "if x fails, we can retry n times". In isolation, this makes sense, although it adds complexity. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't make sense, because if x does y, and y has a failure and retries... and then y does z, and z has an failure and retries, well now you have x * y * z retries all multiplying out and you won't hit your top-level "n times" restriction until after the heat death of the universe.

With a bit of practice, you can spot and point out these kinds of things.
>Backblaze B2, ingress and egress are free through cloudflare

AFAIK cloudflare ToS prohibits you from using it as a file hosting proxy. You might not run into issues if you're transferring a few gigabytes a month, but if you're transferring multiple terabytes it's just asking for trouble.

edit:

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ section 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content
They have a correlation and that's why it makes no sense to race-bait with statistics like this that imply that the difference comes solely from race.
Your legacy is the content you've purchased and not the things you've built?
In my opinion, knowing what you're planning to do w/the data once it's stored is the important piece to giving you some idea of where to put it.
Any plans to allow the use of your site without a login? I'd like to play with my family but getting them all to create an account would be too difficult.
Given that these hackers are acting maliciously on behalf of a violent dictator, it’s a workaround.
Is nursing home suicide a common thing? It's not something I've ever heard of before (and not something I would have any personal connection to). A couple minutes of googling seems to imply that nursing home rates are actually lower than general population, but maybe I'm not finding the right studies?
I agree about sexps, it feels like the right default for storing human readable data. The only place where I think it's a little weak is when used more like markup, since data would need to be in quoted strings.

That definitely seems like a solvable problem though.
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??

Covid was the third leading cause of death in the US last year as it was.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
And why some of my past upgrades were driven by the web browser over-taxing the machine on certain sites, while nearly everything else was perfectly performant with absolutely no complaints.