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That I don't know. I personally wouldn't. I've seen big companies where 100+ people who just do Zoom / Excel / Jira all day have MacBook Pros, which is insanity.

I was simply mentioning that the machines get manufactured anyway so I definitely refuse to be guilt-tripped into "it's your fault that those machines exist!" extremist stance. No, it's not my fault. The machines are manufactured regardless of what I do so every 7-8 years I evaluate the market and upgrade.

Reasons are simple -- most modern software gets slower all the time and I still need to work and support my family. I would hold onto my machines for a lifetime but it's not the reality we live in and I wish the downvoters stopped being so tunnel-visioned and were aware of that.
Hm... I'm on a host OS with Meltdown mitigations disabled, but I can seemingly run a VM with the mitigations enabled, verified via InSpectre[1]. I guess that's different somehow?

1: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
How would you encode the local laws into a code that is generated by an app, published by another government?

The type of shot, and the amount of shots, even the date of the shot, are all perfectly valid requirements that can end up in local law. Astrazenica doesn't work well against the British covid variant, so in an outbreak you might end up with laws restricting the type of vaccination, easily.

To determine what is and what isn't allowed, the logic should be built into the verification code, which each government can make their own for.

If all of Europe were to use the same laws and regulations then I'd agree that this information does not need to be stored in the QR code. This is impossible to manage in practice, though.
Yes I could also live in another country for much less. Man, why even bother, I could just live in a farm and get fed by the farm owner and not even worry about any of it.

But maybe people have preferences of what they want in life and Iowa is not it. If Iowa was many people’s dream of a location, the unemployment wouldn’t be 3.7.
Can you explain why “editing simple text documents has become painfully slow on my 2013 Macbook Pro”? Because the process is instantaneous on my 2013 Chromebook Pixel running Linux, or on my even older Thinkpads. I certainly don’t have to replace my computers every few years. Is it a problem with MacOS or the software you’re using?
> There is a ton of content that is easier to make and sell than scifi

There is a lot of sci-fi being released. But, they tend to be more of dystopian then "everything will be great" kind of sci-fi.
Everyone would go where Windows would go, as far as I remember PowerPC Windows NT did not got much love.
Facebook is 100% willing, zuck even sold his kid to them trying to get in.
you're comparing a signed certificate that exist locally with a credit score that continuously update centrally and track your behavior across your social interaction with the government, third private entity and your peers
It does not, well it does, but you have to click to unhide it. There isn’t a Danish ID withou a SSN on it, and that’s secret. There where some resistance to allow resturant and other venues like that see your name and SSN.

So no, due to privacy, there no nane show by default.
I guess you have a crockery set with eight plates!
Past Futures of Programming: General Magic's Telescript
> You could limit NPC's ai to 50 instructions or so

The problem with this approach is that limiting the number of instructions doesn’t necessarily limit the amount of time taken. Any single VM instruction could be a call into a C function that performs a long-running computation.

If you want to robustly limit the amount of time a script runs for, you have to actually time it.
Don't think intro/extroversion plays much of a role here, I'm probably an extroverted autodidact and that's still my ideal model for learning. What I enjoy doing in my free time is completely separate from that. Sure, in an ideal world I'd have in-person lectures that are as high production value as the recorded lecture(/TV) in question, but 99.9% of the time I won't be getting those.
All modern trucks are conservatively rated in the towing department because of the grade pulling requirement in the test all the OEMs use.
I'd consider the microcode fix to be a security update, not a feature update.
Yeah, it does. But in the meantime you can purchase renewable credits to offset your consumption and help push adoption.
> I wonder if giving signing powers to however many hundreds of test locations will backfire at some point.

In Germany the vaccine proof can be generated at (most?) pharmacies. If that would become an issue, I don't think it would only be one in the Netherlands.
Sweden refuses to classify e-sports as a sport
Thanks for slipping in that reference to the greatest film ever made.
It appears that significant social change, only occurs when things get really bad for the majority of people and a revolt, or threats of it are raised.

Otherwise what seems to happen throughout history, is that people gain power and use that to extend their leads indefinitely. Technology seems to make this process even more efficient and with a resulting inequality that is millions of times greater than what could be achieved 1000 years ago.

Now there seems to be no hope for better social conditions, because the powerful can isolate themselves almost completely while retaining their power with automated tools. In addition, we are in the age of constant distraction and stimulation (panem et circenses). The future of the average person doesn't seem very bright.
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>I’ve seen some amazingly bad towing examples

Are we talking genuinely dumb things like forklift loaded facing forwards on a small utility trailer or the typical online pearl clutching when someone is 100lb over their tire rating?
Or, put, another way, anthropogenic global warming, and ocean acidification, is caused by the totality of human activity.

All AGW divided by total human population equals one.

So, naturally, The Great Barrier Reef is very concerned with totals.
It implicitelly does. In that case, the certificate has to show 1/1 instead of 1/2 for a two doses vaccine.

Besides, the recommendation for people who had the infection is to get the shot 6 months after the diagnosis, so it would make no sense to include that information in the recovery one.

Source: I work for one of the regional healthcare providers in my country and my team had to develop our EU compatible certificates.
Yeah, that was kind of tongue-in-cheek. Apple knows when to leave a cpu architecture. They've done it 3 times already (M68k->PPC->x86->ARM)

Though I think we're getting now to the point that we would have gotten to then. AMD bought x86 another 15 years of life.
> Second, Asian literature often seems to follow a "Life continues with or without you" path and the characters may not learn anything and may have been completely bound to their (generally doomed) trajectory from the very start and just resign themselves to their fate.

Some call that deep and meaningful--I call it crap.

You don't know anything about Asian literature or literature in general.

I am a Bengali, and there are so much deep and profoundly interesting works in Bengali literature alone- I am afraid I am going to have to die before reading all the good stuff.

Although Bengali is 1200 years old, the modern Bengali literature only started about 200 years ago, and due to invasions and political unrest during 1200-1757, there are mot much volume of work of note.

Japan has had political unrest in its history, but it is a more continued (for the lack of a better word) culture. There must be 3x-10x more works in Japanese than Bengali.

And I have left out modern and medieval Urdu literature, and whole of China out of this comment.

The fact that you are putting all of the works- literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands pieces of literary art into "Asian literature" bucket and trying to generalize them foolishly shows your utter and complete ignorance in these matters.
Completely fair enough. But that seems to contradict your earlier statement that you'd prefer to die.
I think you are on to something here. Make all elevators in hi-rises down-only and all stairwells up-only. Convert falling excess desk-jockey blubber into usable electricity while lowering rate of CV disease and generally improving fitness. Downside is probably a lot of BO that didn't exist before.
NZ has also, even more so than Australia, trashed all its rivers.
The official validation apps will not show this detail to the user. Unofficial apps may come up but app stores will probably quickly ban those (they are very careful about the whole COVID topic in the playstores).
There is still the chance of sideloading the app, but one does also need to consider if the vaccination information must really be protected that hard. In most countries, it's more or less randomly when and with what kind of vaccine you got vaccinated. And the really important information in my opinion is: is someone vaccinated or not? And this information is what the bouncer needs to know to let you in...
> thanklessly maintaining for decades with no pay. This is clearly an issue

Why is it an issue?

This is an assumption. Not everyone who creates and maintains FOSS expects to be paid in money. Many of us got to where we are off the backs of previous FOSS authors freely given efforts and feel that it's our way of giving back to the world.

If there is one critical dependency, relied upon by many, where the single author/maintainer is literally crying for help - in that they are unable or unwilling to continue giving their free time - then fine, maybe _that_ project needs outside help or outside funding... but that is entirely subjective.
Off topic: for those thinking it was a programming language optimized for a phone (like I did) the only one I’ve seen come close to being usable is J (APL derivative). I’ve been able to solve quite a few advent of code challenges this way:

1. App https://apps.apple.com/de/app/j701/id1255235993?l=en (there’s an android version I believe)

2. Copy input from page

3. `+/ ".jgetcb''` to get sum
This is one of those ideas that some people have but which has little root in reality.

I literally both read HN a lot and watch a lot of videos on TikTok. And I also know many other people that like to watch videos on TikTok. None of whom fit into the mould you are projecting. And none of whom base their identity around whether or not they watch videos on TikTok neither.
> You'd not hear people in poor places even today having these mental problems of depression/etc.

Poor people have both mental health problems and depression. I dont know why you think people in poor places dont have depression or mental health issues. If anything, poor places tend to have these worst. They also happen to have worst consequences on the person having these issues.
Lots of early infra as "code" used yaml. But I certainly don't touch any IaC stuff that wouldn't allow me to easily move between vendors. AWS have terraform because it can drive adoption.

It is in Amazon's interest to drive lock-in and it certainly seems their biggest goal.

If you don't like Terraform, perhaps you would consider Pulumi? It's similar, but doesn't pretend that yaml is sufficient. Infrastructure as Actual Code.

https://www.pulumi.com/

Keen to hear of similar tools myself.
None of them are remotely in a monopolistic position in their different businesses.
I'm not opposed to vaccinating the weak and elderly first, but the choice to also give them their freedoms back first leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'd like for everyone to be healthy, but also for everyone to be subject to the same restrictions.

The youth sacrificed a year of their lives for the elderly, and in exchange they'll have their freedoms restricted for longer while the elderly they've sacrificed their time for get a free pass to holidays and concerts.
Turn your paint brush into musical instruments and compose on sensorial canvases
It's more dangerous than sitting in an air conditioned office and posting on HN but if you're not trying to keep up with stop and go traffic it's not substantially worse than flat towing. You have to drive like a responsible adult and trust your buddy to do the same but that kind of goes without saying for any situation where you're moving double or more the weight you usually do.
Take your friends to a secret destination
DUNK is a mobile app that helps you take your friends to a secret destination!
invite your friends
pick a date and a budget
choose your secret destination
create an amazing teasing (games, clues and dares) before D-Day
You can do something similar using the Expire TTL by setting a date way in the future.

redis-cli SETEX mykey 310536000000 "helllooo"
myttl = $(redis-cli TTL mykey)
mdate = 310536000000 - $myttl
> Ah, the threat of the imaginary hackers

"The imaginary is that which tends to become real" -André Breton

> Banks can already track your credit card payments to figure out your profile, Google can track your location through your phone.

For people who don't even avoid these easily defeated tracking vectors (with cash and de-googling), sure, vaccine passport tracking won't make a big difference.
function randomIP() {

return int2ip(Math.random()\*4294967296) ;

}

says it all - better don't "mess" with what you encounter
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You can tell how long a key is just by looking at it. You can then say anything you want. The use of particular keys is a Debian policy issue. It has nothing to do with the use of a particular message format like OpenPGP.
They're closer to putting ipadOS on macbooks
Theres a whole extra layer of legal complexity here :)

e.g. some countries will consider you fully vaccinated X weeks after your 2nd jab of a specific vaccine. Others will say it's X+1 weeks.

The system has been built so that these decisions aren't in the cert itself, rather each country can layer on "business rules" on top. So - even if the cert expiry date is likely to be set far into the future, that has zero bearing on if it will be accepted or considered expired.
I wondered if other electrics could do this when I saw it as a touted feature of the Rivian electric pickups in Ewan MacGregor's The Long Way Up show.
You are a company comprised entirely of political partisans so your info is near valuless. Let's see manitees dying of starvation. Must be global warming propaganda. Let's do climate lockdowns. Or lets do that other thing to them that Jefferson would have done.
Bullshit.

Can clearly see your bias here. Why are you ignoring the emissions by the rich 1B people, they are the ones that can actually do something about it (reduce consumption and invest in research) thanks to their relatively luxurious lives. The others are just trying to survive - for them, consequences of climate change are still much better than the current state of poverty.

The rest of the world has a very low carbon footprint per person, just that the population is much higher. How do you propose reducing the population, birth rates have already been dropping drastically across the globe and human population will peak at ~10B. Do you want to kill them off? Do you feel your life is more important than theirs?
> Coal exports represent 3% of global CO2 emissions.

3% is HUGE.
The main advantage here seems to be that it is highly targeted based on location. It can both catch tourists and and avoid bothering people who are out of town.

The downside is that people are more familiar with alternate communication methods with SMS or EMail where people can check their history, forward to people who need it.

Furthermore (like SMS) this requires a connection to the cell tower, which some tablets may not have even if they have internet.

But overall it seems like a good idea.
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A real "Jake brake" (Invented by Clessie Cummins) slows a truck down by turning the engine into an air compressor. It does this by modifying the exhaust valve timing to open at top dead center while cutting fuel. Once turned on all you do to engage it is to take your foot off the accelerator. That staccato popping sound is the compressed air blasting out of the exhaust valves.

On old rigs like my '61 Mack the jake brake is switched manually. You have to be sure to turn it off once you get close to engine idle rpms otherwise the engine will stall.

A quieter version called a bleeder brake which does the same thing though it leaves the exhaust valve slightly open during the entire compression stroke eliminating the popping sound. There is also the exhaust brake which puts a butterfly valve on the exhaust line creating back pressure when closed. Though the exhaust brake is known to cause problems with some valve train setups.
Not surprising. You need a lot of server power to run X-Plane 11 with top notch graphics. Still, kudos to this guy ~ very impressive home-built cockpit simulator for X-Plane 11! /s
Sounds like a natural bio-weapon waiting to be used by a vegan extremist group.
Cyberattacks and Supply Chain Disruptions
Why doesn't red meat itself also trigger the allergy? What's different about the delivery from ticks that makes it allergenic as opposed to the delivery from food?
I wonder would it be possible for these servers to be replaced by cloud infra? Then they can save space and only have network connection.
Are you sure?

This is my first time really reading a legal opinion, but this line at the end of the first paragraph seems pretty clear cut:

"...the Federal Circuit invalidated the APJs’ tenure protections, making them removable at will by the Secretary."

Followed immediately by:

"Held: The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded."

The 'judgment' here is referring to the original judgment that was issued and challenged in the Federal Circuit.

It's totally possible that I'm reading this incorrectly, though
I have read 1Q84, and yours is the only response so far that mentions this book. It was a fascinating book.

While "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki" is more anime-like, I found "Hard Boiled Wonderland" very full of (unpronounced) deep and profound thoughts.

I found "Sputnik Sweetheart" to be the most original work of art by him.

I am yet to read "Kafka on the Shore", "Wind Up Bird Chronicle", and some of the others.
Yep. I recall couple years ago when Google updated their Gmail interface(wtihout any way to go back of course), Gmail suddenly became unbearably slow on older machines. Laptops which I could easily use for managing my emails were now stupidly slow, because someone somewhere at Google decided that having a slighly nicer interface is worth the extra CPU time. I wonder how much that one single change cost the world in burnt electricity, just to produce some useless features in gmail.
You assume that my goal is to spend the absolute minimum sum on tech over my entire life.

That's not it. My goal is to spend the minimum realistic sum for tech that enables me to do my job well and long-term so I am financially free and help the businesses that hire me, and keep improving my craft (for which I have love ever since a pre-teen).

That doesn't equal holding on to a MacBook Pro 2012 until 2030. It equals keeping an old machine around to check if the code in the final version of my current PR is well-optimized -- but I work on a much stronger machine because stuff like LSP and re-running tests is crucial for productivity. And we all know that most dev tooling is generally extremely demanding.
My understanding is that vaccination, recovery and a negative test are 3 separate QR codes. You normally only need 1 of the 3.
Very good advice. I agree!
In my country, there have been awareness campaigns about not giving out our passport or copies of our passport, as it contains our Social Security Number, biometric fingerprints, and other information that can be used to create a profile and impersonate a person.

This links 'a person' to 'a piece of health information'. Imagine what you or any data platform could do with that (big) data.

Imagine that you are only allowed to visit certain countries based on your vaccination status. Advertising agents of tourist and traveling agents would love to get their hands on that information, to create a better profile of you. Maybe Google could even make a FLoC of 'COVID-19 vaccinated people'.

Imagine that one year from now, one of the vaccines is known to cause health issue X, which would require over-the-counter medication Y.
Advertising companies would love to know exactly what vaccines you have received, to add to their 'profile'. and would go to great lengths to get this information (create their own 'reader app' and supply this to events).

Here we hide personal health information in a QR code and are expected to give random strangers 'consent' to this personal data to gain 'access' to a venue or 'service'.

Sounds awfully lot like a cookie consent-popup, which the EU is so actively trying to prevent through legislation.

Do you really need to link 'a person' to 'a vaccine profile'? Isn't it enough to link 'a person' to 'can access this service/venue according to local laws?'.

In software development, you separate authentication and authorization. The authentication part is 'are you who you say you are', the authorization part is 'are you allowed to access this resource'.
For authorization, you don't send the full list of all roles/permissions of this user for all authorized applications, you send a true/false based on the question canAccess(resource)? Otherwise a 'hacker' might find he has no permissions using the current authenticated account to resource A, but conveniently has full permissions to resource B.

You wouldn't give a random webshop access to your Bank Balance and history, would you? Your bank should only tell them 'transfer of X dollar is approved'.
I don't think that is true, at least not universally in all EU countries. And here in Germany they're allowed to check the old paper vaccination pass, so there is no reason to think they're not allowed to check the digital version.
Agreed, and I do that. During that meantime I can't work on an RPi however.
It didn't really help that one of the prime candidate company to issue the eId couldn't get even basics, like cert management, straight.

I'm quite thankful for Die Republik (slightly leftist daily internet "paper", which is ad free and subscription only) because I think they were quite instrumental in uncovering some of the shenanigans being pulled by those companies.
Too bad it’s hardly readable on mobile (mostly due to the sidebar). If I were you, I would mostly replicate HN css styles for mobile.
Coal doesn’t underpin WV’s economy, it simply doesn’t employ that many people. In 2019 it was at 13,988 in a state with 1,767,859 people. If anything it’s the federal government that’s underpinning WV’s economy.

For all the jokes WV isn’t like what most people picture. For example people think of poverty, yet while far below CA median household income is significantly higher in WV than the UK, Germany, or France.