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Samsung only makes SSD's though, right? It's fine if you don't have that much data, but past a certain size you're paying a lot extra.
The harbormaster is blatantly lying about picking out which ones don't have people on them while walking the shore at dawn and dusk with his dog. He's destroyed the homes of a hundred people, whom now are living in a homeless encampment adjoining where he takes his "walks". And since it's California he's not carrying a gun to defend himself... So he's a liar or suicidal.
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While I am pro-remote work - I do find it crazy that professors are considered the "experts" of how to run an office over successful CEOS.

From the article:

?A 2019 study by Harvard's Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber (then at MIT), found workers at companies that switched from cubicles to open-floor-plan offices had 70% fewer face-to-face interactions.

Office workers may talk, but "there is almost no data whatsoever" to suggest it helps the organization, Bernstein recently told the New York Times.

First off, the first data point has nothing to do with remote versus in office. We don't even know if the CEOs mentioned have companies with open floor plans or cubicles - and even if that have a low amount of face-to-face interactions in the office still have more face-to-face interaction than remote.
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This started going downhill about a decade ago. I wrote about it 8 years ago and I am fairly sure I had seen it going on for a while already at that time: https://techinorg.blogspot.com/2013/03/?m=0
They couldn’t use forward slash, as it is the divide operator.

They couldn’t use a period, like python or java, because they use it as the concatenation operator.
Products are sold with a warranty. If you want guaranteed support for X years beyond the warranty, pay for an extended warranty.

If the product in question doesn't have an available extended warranty, then pick another product.

Telling every hardware maker "you have to support every device you make forever" is ludicrous.

I have some 15-year-old netbooks in storage that still power on, should eeePC have to "support" them now? Should they have to maintain a repair depot with replacement parts forever? Should they have to just release their own version of Linux forever to support each model of hardware?
At the very least, the EOL date should be prominently displayed on the package (and product page, in the case of online shopping). Just like how I was able to see CentOS 8's EOL date when deciding what OS to install on my servers, except guaranteed.
Haha, ok you can believe any "expert" you want if it makes you feel better. I have no idea who that is and I dont care. Try looking at the idea logically and within a body of science not out of context and cherry picked =)

You shouldn't believe me you should believe science. I'm not arguing any of that go read about it yourself.
I did not read anything about the MyCloud devices yet. Is the firmware same and the MyCloud EX4 affected, too?
Yeah, I’m falling on this too. A client with write-only privs to a buckets on multiple cloud storage providers is literally the most durable backup in human existence right now. Like nothing else will get you worldwide DR and 30+ 9’s of durability.
There's really no winning with this.

You can release patches 6 years after your device is EoL but there will forever be more security issues and people using your ancient product (think how long it takes some versions of Windows to truly reach less than 100k active machines. Hell I wonder if Windows 3.1 has really reached that number or not. The long tail is going to be loooong). Not to mention you've created a precedent that the device is still getting patches and can be used by users, only making the lifecycle issue worse.

You can release a version which severely limits the capability of the product or effectively disables it but this is just a guaranteed way of getting bad press and even more customers will be mad at you for killing a device early.

You can turn the device over to the community (if you can managed to get it through legal and 3rd party agreements) but that isn't actually going to solve anything as it's not a product for extremely tech savvy users, at best it buys deflection in the news report in exchange for the effort of doing this (if you can at all).

You can claim the lifecycle is over and years later and be technically correct but still get the bad press and user feedback anyways.

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Retrospective in this particular case it would have been really great for them to fix this particular issue but that's an extremely hard thing to accurately judge unless you're from the future. I mean what percentage of devices that are many years EoL you've heard get this bad of a publicity hit? I'm sure there are many individual cases to point to but it's nothing against the absolute deluge of devices that have been discontinued over the years quietly without issue.
The service itself? Okay, so in theory anyone could host competitions with this backend.

The lion's share of Kaggle's effort lies in their expertise in (1) making deals, and (2) making sure the challenge is legit (no bias in training data, not too easy, etc.). That's not easily replicable, so while an "Open-Source alternative" sounds good up front, the bulk of the work remains.
I guess one option is to reward everyone for having children. Although this only makes sense if you want more children in your country. Some countries do. Singapore apparently has a giant "baby bonus" of incentives worth $121,400 USD to have 2 children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus
Not necessarily political censorship. Apple has several Chinese leaders and these could’ve been prioritized at their behest - the results were offensive or stereotyped them.
The real engineers spend weeks analyzing the pros and cons of a manual, one-time fix vs. building an automated solution.

And the even realer ones will spend years coming up with a universal solution to figuring out which is more optimal.
Yep, they wouldn’t include the heated seat hardware unless it was cheaper than having two types of seats.
The 2k stars where aliens would catch a glimpse of Earth
The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson was also absorbing.
Because that's apparently the "solution" to the existential horror that someone might buy something, pay money once, and then use it for a long time and maybe even fix it if it breaks. Instead, of course, the desired end state is that nobody ever buys anything, but is always on the hook for endless "rental" and "subscription" fees. More profitable that way for the companies producing the crap.

Unfortunately, they also believe (rightly or wrongly, I don't know, I'm not the target market here) that unless things have an App(TM) to go with it, nobody will buy it. Why would you buy a "dumb toaster" when you can buy an app-enabled "smart toaster" with firmware updates and the ability to send your phone a notification when your toast is done? Standing in the kitchen listening for the ding is soooooo old fashioned!

And, the reality is that most of the companies pushing stuff like that are also "data extraction" companies. There are other companies that pay what, apparently, is reasonably large sums of money for "big data elements" about people. How often do you make toast? Do you like your toast light or dark? What sort of bread do you like? What time do you eat breakfast? Do you sleep in on weekends and make toast later? Do you like eggs on your toast? Do you eat it in a box? Do you eat it with a fox? Do you eat it here or there? Will you make toast anywhere?

Why this is so valuable, I've no idea, but I certainly want no part of this ecosystem.

I've been considering a streaming stick of some sort to replace what appears to be a dying NUC, and some of the "privacy" policies are utterly absurd. Roku's is the worst. It roughly amounts to, "Anything we can think of, we will do and upload, to include scanning your network to find out what else you use. Once we have the data, we will do anything we want with it. And if the laws of your country would make that a problem, we'll just move it to another country that doesn't care and use it there." Really quite horrifying to read.

But they're absolutely inventing new problems - that your device is suddenly without firmware updates and "Oh No, Security Issues!" The solution is, of course, for you to buy another one to replace what would be a perfectly functional one, but they got bored, and updates are hard, and... seriously, who uses a hard drive more than like... 2 years, anyway?

Over the years, I've been increasingly spending my free time away from the internet, working with what seems to be a trend towards older and older machinery. Motorcycles from the early 2000s (some based on late 1930s designs with fairly little evolution since then), a tractor from the early 40s, a car from 1930, etc. And it's a nice breath of fresh air (well, and usually a bit of gas vapors...) compared to the modern stuff. They were built to be maintained, repaired, and have no bloody firmware in them. It's a nice direction.
Non-technical users don't really buy hard drives individually, they would at most ask their computer-savvy friend or go to a shop who will replace it for them.

I highly doubt the average non-technical user even knows who produced the hard drive they own.
I think it depends on your definition of poverty. If you define poverty as having an income below a certain amount, and you pay parents above that amount, then by definition the kids aren't born into poverty.
NAPT is for facilitating internet traffic despite shortage of ip addresses, the opposite of a firewall in a way. So it's a success, not a bug, if it manages to enable some incoming traffic.
Did you ever wear a face mask on a cold day? That made it clear just how much water vapour gets through.
So grinding leetcode in other words?
Windows 2000 was originally intended to be that. While the official switchover got pushed back (ultimately to XP) that made 2K an extremely capable consumer OS.
Want to sell it? :)
No one deserves to have their data erased, my mum wouldn't know the difference.
Until their children and grandchildren start looking to buy in the area ... and discover that they cannot.

That happens relatively slowly, however, and by then it is far too late.
Was very worried when I checked through the 5x 3TB My Books I have to find that all the data was ok - which I thought was odd as they're very old models.

Turns out at the start of COVID I re-did my home networking and the gateway addresses on all the My Books were incorrect, so they haven't had internet connectivity for over a year... (quickly adds extra firewall rules to prevent them for bonus safety).
... of course this is so redundant but urinals are an obvious solution for half the population and already in place... Like I said there would be a massive cost this is nowhere near trivial like someone stated. I also mentioned there may be other solutions (like redistributing the resources in another way, while probably similarly expensive for little utility imo). unisex bathrooms is a separate idea. Most of the time there aren't huge discrepancies anyway it's not like men's bathrooms are always idle while women's are always out of control so the efficiency isn't really an issue 99% of the time. If we are just moving urinals inside a shared area why are we doing it at all? We're just making one big line. It's nice that you don't mind waiting for your partner but try selling that to the guy who takes 15 seconds and has to go to the back of this new line. It doesn't make any sense

Intelligent building would forecast demographics and optimize for the future I guess if you really just want "max efficiency" I assume this is already being done to an extent, but changing things already built sounds expensive af for little to no value in my opinion.
I think there are actually two things going on. And the authors that article is doting on (sorry, Franzen isn't good) are just tapping into them.

1. Some books are chasing the past for its aesthetics or gravitas. One version of this is trying to reinvent old mythologies you loved as a child. Another is to write a novel about a child growing up in 1930's Germany and now it's a serious novel worthy of serious attention by serious critics.

If either of those are your jam, that's cool.

2. The other is escaping the present time, for a writer, sets you (and your readers) free from our politics and our cell phones and our knowledge, under a strange set of social norms where traveling long distances and sharing information are real hurdles.

One of my favorite books these days is Dexter Palmer's "The Rabbit Queen," about a hoax from the point of view of the fooled physicians in 1726. Yes it's based on real events, but it can also have characters and situations that would never work or even make sense if set in modern times.
Is there some recent work going on in SBCL on its GC?
Hardware products used to be supported for 15 years, then 10 years, then 7 years, then 5 years… … Now nobody knows. I guess h/w mfr. saw what s/w vendors do wrt their products, and figured they can you do the same. SaaS is worse, you are only supported until you pay.

Accumulation of benefits, shifting of responsibilities, the American way.
The error rate is so high that I see errors on a weekly or even daily basis when I fall back to Google and I only do 2 - 40 searches a day on Google these days.

I'm not searching a lot of Bulgarian names but I do search for npm packages and the like and despite my best efforts they frequently show me something completely different than what I searched for.

The saddest thing however is that DDG is just as bad, I use it just because I don't like Google and because it is easier to get from DDG to Google than the other way around.
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Consider that I worked on the 757 stabilizer trim gearbox. The idea is no matter what fails, the airplane lands safely. I've been trained to think that way.

Consider also that I've worked with computers for 45 years. I've seen about every failure you can think of, including fires and floods, explosions and earthquakes, viruses and phishing.

The most unreliable, by far, part of computing is the internet.
There was a Linux subsystem for NT around early 2000s in Microsoft Research.

There is amazing depth inside parts of Microsoft. For example, a team built Xbox360-on-PC sometime around 2007-08. That was emulating the PowerPC and GPU on Intel PCs. This didn't ship for various reasons as a product, but it was in the draw when Xbox One came along and they wanted game compatibility between Xbox 360 and XBox One.

WSLv1 was built on Drawbridge that originally came from MSR. I heard a rumor that WSL was spun out from a project using Drawbridge to run Android. Obviously a lot of work went into WSL subsequently, but the pieces to get started were in place.
I can't agree strongly enough with you, though I'm not sure about the term you recommend. On the one hand, imagine if your car were end of lifed after a couple years. On the other hand, imagine if it took 20 years. The first would ensure you are screwed, the latter would encourage serial corporate bankruptcy.

There's a good middle ground. Perhaps, like the 10 years for cars, it needs to be legislated. Perhaps this is what we consumers have decided to accept, that once the warranty runs out, that's it.
Seems accurate; I may or may not have resurrected and rehosted the works of a cult I joined as a youth. Thanks, Internet Archive.
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Interesting, I have a 2020 LR AWD, and I didn't realize/remember it came with rear heated seats. TIL.
It’s only your opinion that it’s wicked.
Not "allowed" to speak? Jesus, the hyperbole doesn't help your case. Trans people are a tiny, tiny minority. That doesn't mean these organizations are actively excluding them. Get a grip.
Despite the ease of development with modern languages and frameworks, the fundamentals still manage to creep in. Just the other day I was reviewing service code. Instead of letting the data store filter and sort the data with a single data call, the developer was pulling a larger data set and running an algorithm of nested for-loops to filter it in the service layer. I went straight to a Big O analysis of the code. Unfortunately, the developer had no idea what Big O notation was. AITA?
If they sold it in the EU I think legally they have at least 2 years of support to do. Assuming the software not working directly affects the devices sold abilities.
Again, no. One withdrawn article? That's it? Ok. They don't buy into the nonsense that males should be competing against females. Aka common sense.
1) you’d better be comfortable with false positives, 2) cheaters are smart too and will learn 3) how could a small game dev company afford to create an accurate model?
It is far from guaranteed the workers get the tips at checkout. I'm aware of a few places near me where I've been told (after asking) the workers do not even get the tips, it goes to the owner.

Personally, I only tip for table and bar service. I won't contribute to tip culture beyond that
Other related thread:

Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27625925 - June 2021 (66 comments)
Both NYSE and Nasdaq rules require the record date to be announced at least 10 days in advance, so a mainstream U.S.-listed company can't backdate it. Whether it'd pass SEC muster if we take exchange rules out of the picture, I don't know.
If they're recommending PhotoRec, it means it was either rm -rf / or a quick format. Your data is there, but the directories aren't there, and any file that wasn't written in a single extent is going to be awfully hard to piece back together.
Both of these are still perfectly serviceable texts for common lisp purely in terms of "can I run this code from 20+ years ago unchanged on sbcl I just installed via a package manager?". Practical Common Lisp is simply a phenomenal textbook in terms of pedagogy.
this will be forgotten in six months.
Exactly this. None of them are nearly as hungry as they were just over ten years ago.
I encourage you to read the Senate's comprehensive report on the Capitol attack, released earlier this month:

https://www.rules.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Jan%206%20HSGAC%2...

There was incompetence and miscommunication at every level of the multi-agency, multi-layer bureaucracy in charge of protecting the Capitol. For example: "In at least once instance, USCP protective shields were locked in a bus during the riot so that a CDU platoon was unable to access them, and as a result, the platoon was required to respond to the crowd without the protection of their riot shields." Worse: "USCP officers, for example, were given defective riot shields that had been improperly stored and, as a result, shatter[ed] upon impact."

Planners thought the Jan. 6 rally would "be similar to the previous Million MAGA March rallies" in which participants stayed in the designated areas, and violence was only provoked by counter-protestors. Given attendees' vocal support for police and years of prior peaceful rally behavior, I understand their assumption. In hindsight they were clearly mistaken, and their lack of preparation for every contingency was inexcusable.

The report describes general incompetence, complacency, and failures of communication. It does not describe favoritism or cooperation with the far-right. It does not show that Trump or his subordinates obstructed the National Guard deployment. In fact, on Jan. 4 call with DC officials, acting Secretary of Defense Miller "suggested locking down D.C. to avoid potential violence; however, the idea was not pursued." The Guard was only requested to provide aid at the Capitol at the last minute.
Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today

edit: How can I get downvoted for making groundhog day reference in a post with 1 comment D:
Other related thread:

WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27624735 - June 2021 (254 comments)
I'm not responding to the original post.
>Does it come with any guarantees of lifetime for those patches though?

This guarantee is called "consumer law". The requirement of a patch means that the product you paid for was broken. So yes, they absolutely have a legal requirement to fix that (or refund your purchase), and compensate for any damages that their broken product caused you.

Not that this is enforced particularly often, but given Apple's ubiquity and active hostility towards users that would want to patch vulnerabilities themselves, they specifically would get in a lot of hot water if they didn't provide patches for a device's lifetime.
As long as they small robotic arm is not also connected to the internet or the WD NAS
I find the name Asana for a company, to be offensive as cultural appropriation. Secondly, I am absolutely opposed to the Surveillance Capitalism model, which these people have driven relentlessly. This combination feels dystopian.
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If the first group realized that the second group weren't actually shocked, the first group would feel intentionally misled.

Especially if they found out the shocking discovery just confirmed what the second group already knew (and was what they'd been told by officials all along).
It seems to be a bad idea to buy commercial NAS devices, because eventually, every device would go end of life. Better build a DIY device with an open firmware.

But thinking again, this kind of approach wouldn't be applicable to typical ordinary people. Then I guess the next better thing would be to force NAS devices to stop accepting Internet-facing connections after their support period ends. Every device has a defined lifespan which dictates how long it can work without sacrificing quality. As a device dealing with important data, NASs should be given higher restrictions.
For this product class, just build something that OpenWRT runs on; yes even for a NAS. If chips support / blobs / etc aren't there, get them on the way to being up-streamed and public.

This was fairly obvious a decade ago, and today it should be planly obvious.
So either PayPal was earlier enough that you can make an argument that a "fair price" was $0.001 per share, OR you can make an argument that Thiel owned less than 10% of the company at the time. Seeing as there were only 3 original founders at the time of Confinity incorporation, I highly doubt that Thiel had a <10% ownership.

This is even more clear given that he (apparently) owned ~3.5% of PayPal in 2002, which is after the x.com acquision/merger, and raising ~$200M in VC funds.

Either Thiel has a valid argument for claiming a fair price of $0.001/share, or he owned more than 10% of the company.

You don't get it both ways.
> It's the sudden urgency and staged-shock that's the problem.

That’s a problem, sure. But I find the body count rather more alarming.
Nice find.

Did you miss the main page from OP?

http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/

Click the English link
This false fear mongering is something that I really hate. I have been living in India and an ascertain the fact that quality of life has gone up in the past 10 years. People keep talking about Fascist Government and not having freedom to express thrir opinions but whole media is completely filled with nothing but hate for the current Government. People post on Twitter Facebook Instagram left and right against the Government in power and then call them Fascist. What kind of a Fascist Government allows this? How is the freedom of speech violated if you are contact ranting against Government?

Also, do your due diligence and read about other journalists who have lost their lives due to unnatural reasons over the past 20 years. And also pay attention to the fact that why only handful of them make the news while others are given no importance.

Also, just to give you a reality check, at the ground level the Government's approval rating has gone up specially due to their handling of the pandemic.