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I don’t read this particular interview that way and even in cases where that signal is somewhat stronger, it’s still a mark of the CEO to identify a problem and hire an executive to fix it. That doesn’t make them look like an idiot at all in my book. If they left a significant problem to fester, that’s bad on them, but merely letting a significant issue develop and then addressing it is the on-going job of the CEO in many ways.
More “efficient” isn’t necessarily wise. Sure it’s cheaper now, but what about if China decides to take Taiwan over militarily? Or a natural disaster takes out TMSC manufacturing? Or some other black swan event that I can’t even imagine?

All these short sighted geniuses increasing “efficiency” are creating hyper centralized systems ripe for control and/or collapse.
Funny to see FreeBSD promoted, and Linux taken down a notch in the top comment on a thread for an article celebrating 30 years of Linux...well, funny, if a bit unexpected...
I mean why not? Seems like a fairly small price to pay, ask them to draw it out.
I don’t understand why this outrage seems so US-centric. This is the same Apple that hands over all your iCloud data (photos and otherwise) to the CCP if you happen to live in China. And they’ve done this openly for the last several years.

What am I missing? Isn’t that a much much much much worse thing for Apple to do? Why are we only suddenly suspicious of Apple’s privacy claims with this matter?
It’s not a leak. It’s an observation from evidence that came out during discovery in the Apple vs. Epic trial that’s being reported now that it’s useful context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/08/19/apple-e...
Hmm, a bit hazy on the details and of course entirely possible that I misunderstood something fundamental at the time, but...

I donated a "Frankenstein" PC to our high school classroom (or added random parts that were missing to an existing one -- can't remember) and had a regular CD drive and a SCSI harddisk attached to a SCSI controller. The motherboard's BIOS didn't know how to boot from the SCSI harddisk so I put a bootloader and kernel on a CD and used that to boot from the harddisk.

Worked like a charm. Ran enlightenment for the looks and played a lot of clanbomber with a classmate!

Edit: Aw, looks like clanbomber isn't in the Debian repositories anymore. Shame :(

Edit2: I think I slept on the couch at the local hackerspace (with fast internets) after getting that system to run (and brought the computer to school on the next day). Nostalgia~
And keeping Jones off of Rogan would've accomplished what? Someone who thinks the gummint is out to git 'em would believe a different 'gummint is out to gitcha' conspiracy theory instead?

I don't think you can win that battle. The 'Proctor & Gamble are satan worshipers' meme spread across the country before the internet existed. You can't stop people from spreading nonsense, but engaging with and ridiculing nonsense at least makes sure the counter-memes exist, when someone is ready to hear them.
Well, not necessarily.

One of the standard constructions of the reals is via sequences of rationals. A sequence of rationals that looks like it should be converging is called a Cauchy sequence. (I'm avoiding the technical definitions, but they are easy to find.) Two Cauchy sequences that look like they are converging to the same thing, are equivalent. And reals are defined as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences.

This translates pretty well to a constructive approach. For example we can build our mathematics out of things expressible in a programming language. We can define a Cauchy sequence as a function that can be proven by our favorite axiom system to produce a sequence of rationals converging at a specified rate. Again, two functions are equivalent if they can be proven to produce sequences converging to the same thing. We can certainly enumerate all possible programs. But we cannot, thanks to the Halting problem, write a program that is able to select out which possible programs represent reals. Nor can we reliably identify which pairs of programs are equivalent.

So in this construction there is really no actual set of reals that can be identified. Nor can we tell whether a real has been listed already. But there is a countable list that has all possible things that might possibly represent a real. Which will include each real many times.

Does that clarify what I meant by "self-referential tangle"?
it's not malice. it's more the recklessness and carefree attitude towards collateral damage just because of the war mindset. like "looks like a threat, let's bomb it in case. if any innocents get hurt everyone will understand it's just a casualty of war"
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I'd much prefer they scan their shared albums on the server.
This is ridiculous. Most subreddits will ban you for suggesting not to wear a mask anymore even if you’re fully vaccinated. It’s nothing but an attempt to control speech. R/Nonewnormal was the only place you could chat about government overreach now they want it banned. Reddit is such a cesspool nowadays. Ban any speech you don’t agree with, give me a break. Sure there were antivaxers, but I don’t believe the government should force you to inject something into your body you don’t want. And I fight for that right.
2017-06-07 - Purchased my First MacBook Pro

a1706? Terrible model.
i still think its more about dmca2.0 than any save the chiodren bullshit
In the essay the "i" in the headline is lower case, which is significant and chilling. It's a homunculus of Apple's new direction: the meaning changed from "me" to "panopticon".
Can confirm, I got a brand new still-shrink-wrapped copy of FFIX for my birthday just a few years ago.
> Those dark, dark hours/days/weeks with Xorg really made me into the hacker I am today. If the forums weren't there, read the docs, if the docs weren't helpful you could read the source. Not being stonewalled while discovering how to work with one's computer is a wonderful experience.

Same thing here. I distinctly recall having a stack of different linux distros that I would install and switch between, then spend hours configuring the os, tweaking xorg, etc.
Or go the rasberry pi route and produce household units inexpensively or free DIY plans.

Crowd-source it to municipalities and makers.
https://www.theverge.com/22611236/epic-v-apple-emails-projec...

#71, from the Epic v. Apple anti-trust trial discovery.
I made the switch from Android to Apple a few months ago for exactly this reason, and boy do I feel like I’ve been bait-and-switched.
The parents were wrong to ignore the victim's letters. That's a lot of money to force your kids give back, and I know it would be tempting to keep it if my kids did a similar thing, but the morally courageous thing would have been to return it then and there. It seems they took the greedy path.

However, aggressively defending one's legal rights is also morally justified, esp. in Common Law jurisdictions with adversarial procedure. In fact, we'd likely have a more just (and thus more moral) system if more people asserted their legal rights in criminal trials, and took matters before juries rather than prisoner's dilemma plea agreements. (I understand why they don't, which is why plea agreements are so pernicious.)
As far as is documented, the behavior of iCloud does not change, just the operator. In particular, the difference is that end to end encrypted data in iCloud remains that way, so saying all iCloud data is handed over is incorrect.

In fact, iMessage is the only end to end encrypted messaging service operating in the country (for example).
> JuSt MaKe YoUr OwN pAyMeNt PrOcEsSoR aNd StArT yOuR oWn BaNk!

I know you're right and I agree, but we should also do that, for other reasons. A large, diverse and competitive market of mutual credit unions could really democratize capital.
Hiding floppy disks to find a cofounder
Today if a robot is misaligned it is still almost certainly a humans fault. The robot was design, machined, assembled and tested at least in part by a human. And the robots maintenance and operation is overseen by a person. Hence at this point a human is still likely at fault, not that I am suggesting we find the person and blame them. Just understand that people are the weak link here not the machine.

Not sure that will ever not be the case, at least in my lifetime. People make mistakes, which by name are unintended and unwanted.

As for why liability should be any different, it shouldn't. Except IMO a company making efforts to find, address and make the situation right (without being compelled by govt) should be immune to non-injury based claims against them. e.g. the family that had a love one die in a fire caused by the issue can sue and get reasonable damages, but just owning the car doesn't entitle you to sue for "suffering", or "distress" or any of the other 100 excuses attorneys find to sue.
To pick one of the list, OpenGL and Vulkan mesh shaders extensions were published in September 2018 [0], while D3D12 didn't support it officially until November 2019 [1] (on insidier preview of 20H1 build, which shipped in May 2020). Granted, there was NVAPI D3D12 extension kludge for it, but certainly Khronos APIs weren't treated worse. Talk introducing mesh shaders presented examples in GLSL, and they said they weren't covering NVAPI because it's ugly. [2]

[0] https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/NV/NV_mes...
[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/coming-to-directx-12-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge427_2VORo&t=1607s
It's my understanding that Apple simply can't operate in China without playing by those rules. So really, the onus is on the CCP.

In this case, is Apple being compelled to do this by the US government? Or is it a choice Apple has made purely internally? I think that makes a difference.
Hijacking trees for this purpose makes more sense in some ways, esp. if resulting lumber becomes CLT, which could sink carbon for a long time
same reason casinos uses chips instead of cash. it reduces the emotional connection by introducing an apathetic layer.
I work from home.

Six hours a day four days a week.

It gets into my dreams sometimes but otherwise I am strict on the hours.

Why does working from home mean working more, for so many?
> This is a reduction in privacy. Do what you want on your servers, but hands off my phone.

Apple devices might not be precisely the smartest purchase if the concept of your hardware is important to you.
I'm not saying you presented it as better. Just that the idea is moot. If you can use vigilante justice, then everyone can do the opposite. It's just not a realistic option where you have the chance to "recover" something. The thing was never "stolen" in that world, because taking things from others is how that world would work.
You don't need to be money-poor to be time-poor and stressed. Just as with other vices, it's a matter of priorities - do you prioritize your near-term comfort or your long-term wellbeing? People can make either choice, but I expect them to take responsibility for the outcome.
I have worked in this industry for 5 years. I have worked with countless individuals regardless of race, gender, or creed to help them purchase homes and refinance. This article is missing information and I can only guess just what they missed by not doing their due diligence here. Off the top of my head there could have been several reasons why there was a delay in clearing the file to close, not the least of which is the need to clear any possible judgments that might have popped on a judgment search, a missed issue by an underwriter that could have possibly affected the loan and needed to be resolved by less than traditional means, or even an issue with the seller that the buyer was not allowed to know about. Like I said, I have been in this industry for 5 years and the banking industry in general for another 2, and this story reeks of inaccuracy.
Construction Disrupted Katerra – A ConTech Identity Crisis
Here's a list of lists of unsolved problems in several fields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
For embedding JS is there a reason to use Apple JavascriptCore over other libs like quickjs?
> When I upgraded my 2015 to Big Sur last year, it essentially became unusable because it ran so slowly.

Thank you for this. I haven't upgraded to Big Sur and now I never will.
We do agree that shareholders, who supposedly own the company in some sense, can definitely express their opinions freely, cajole or threaten the directors and officers of the company, and directly or indirectly "spike business deals", right?

And if some activist investor(s) were threatened with having their stock taken away because they were causing trouble, that would not just happen, there would be instant legal warfare which the entrenched interests might well lose, right?

Assuming everybody takes all that for granted, why would it be unreasonable for workers to have the right to do similar stuff without being fired? Especially if the damn law says they do.
Interesting. I'm not pro/anti vax or anything else, but I imagined unhealthy people were taking up hospital beds disproportionally. I was interested in why you felt the way you do; thanks for sharing your opinion.
That’s like saying QA testing is a joke because it doesn’t catch everything so why not skip it. Peer review catches a lot of issues early but it’s based around the assumption papers are submitted in good faith. Compared to most things you read in say magazines they might be good enough, but it’s really not the same.
Companies exist to maximize profit. The only thing that matters in pricing is supply, demand, and perhaps goodwill/brand power. Apple's already positioned itself as a luxury brand, so they would have no problem raising prices in the face of a supply shock.
> but the book's font is smaller.

If the book's font is smaller, but the lines are the same width, that means more words per line in the book, yes?

And each line is taking a larger fraction of the visual field, since the book is closer to my eyes.

Basically, if we assume books are somewhat optimized for ease of reading (and to a large extent they are), websites should be aiming for the same angular sizes as books. The reading distance is larger, so the physical sizes should be larger: larger fonts and wider lines...
...he complained, on a widely-read website, in front of an audience of millions.
This sucks. From the original release of MacOS 10 until 10.6 or so, every version felt faster to me than the previous version. I looked forward to the next release. It felt like getting a new computer.
Hacker news is the continuing education service
> But there is a countable list that DOES include every possible real - you just can't always figure out whether things on that list are reals!

A (hopefully) helpful way to look at it: Cantor's diagonalization argument doesn't work if every function from natural numbers to reals, that includes all reals, is partial. Which, per the halting problem[0], is exactly the behaviour you get if your correspondance function involves doing arbitrary computations decoded from the input natural.

0: The class of propositions "Turing machine #N halts.", in addition to true and false propositions, also contains infinitely many propositions that are neither true nor false[1], so compacting out the non-halting naturals doesn't help.

1: aka infinitely many counterexamples to the axiom of excluded middle
Saying the feature is "buried somewhere in settings" feels like a biased framing. Settings are in the settings menu. This is a setting so it's in the settings menu. I assume it's categorised in some way that makes sense. Is any feature that 2 taps deep "buried"?
> Does there exist one in which the Sun orbits the Earth though?

Yes. It's what I've been talking about in this thread. You could always, of course, demand that the local TV station change the word "sunrise" to "when the Earth rotates until the Sun shines on the TV station", but I suspect that won't be successful.
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So basically void linux plus trinity (TDE) or mate for the continuation of kde 3 or gnome 2.

There is an issue to package TDE for void and it apparantly can be built.

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/19243
If you are on the same boat as described in your parent posts and making a million per year and are just waiting for the vesting then I would say if you can endure this, do it till vested and then quit and sell. Then invest this in a diversified portfolio (I'm assuming you have a few million by that time) that pays dividends.

Take a regular job. Try the best you can to find a nice position so you don't need to hop too much but basically the point is to find a good company that you can have fun at and still feel valuable. And if they try bullshit you don't care because you have all those dividends and you probably don't even need most of the salary.

To me at that point the salary and steady CV would be reassurance against bad stock performance. The dividends are reassurance that I have to take absolutely zero abuse at work and can even use that to make life better for the rest of the employees by being able to speak the truth from a position of financial security. The position fills the hole in life that would otherwise show up soon (sure, take a year for traveling the world or whatever but chances are you won't make it through a full year at a time anyway. Maybe contracting is best, schedule wise.
Maybe similar pressure was placed on them here and we just aren't privy to it.
I've been trying to chase this high for a while. Unfortunately, using Ubuntu MATE with my current computer and HiDPI screen just feels _wrong_.
Those antivaxx / altright trolls are here, too.
>So what happens when, in a few years at the latest, a politician points that out, and—in order to protect the children—bills are passed in the legislature to prohibit this "Disable" bypass, effectively compelling Apple to scan photos that aren’t backed up to iCloud? What happens when a party in India demands they start scanning for memes associated with a separatist movement? What happens when the UK demands they scan for a library of terrorist imagery? How long do we have left before the iPhone in your pocket begins quietly filing reports about encountering “extremist” political material, or about your presence at a "civil disturbance"? Or simply about your iPhone's possession of a video clip that contains, or maybe-or-maybe-not contains, a blurry image of a passer-by who resembles, according to an algorithm, "a person of interest"?

What I don't get is what prevented these things from happening last month? Apple controls the hardware, the software, and the cloud services so the point at which the scanning is done is mostly arbitrary from a process standpoint (I understand people believe there are huge differences philosophically). They could have already scanned our files because they already have full control over the entire ecosystem. If they can be corrupted by authoritative governments, then shouldn't we assume that have already been corrupted? If so, why did we trust them with full control of the ecosystem?
I remember being blown away seeing expensive debugging software providing a debugging interface on a second, monochrome monitor. It's hard to bring across how "1 computer : 1 monitor" seemed like such a strong relation inherent to home computers, that seeing a multi-monitor configuration was sort of mind bending. It's two screens, but the same computer, how can that be?[1]

That feeling continued on when I had my own, first two monitor setup many years later. Nowadays, it's of course all very mundane.

[1] Arrangements with (e.g.) mainframes and terminals had been common among workplaces and universities for decades, but were basically an entirely different world from home computers, including PCs. It didn't "translate".
The early days were tough on some of us PC power users who were itching to try Linux.

I won a copy of Red Hat at a Unix User Group meeting, felt positively drunk with power all the way home...and never got it to start X. A few friends tried getting it to work, no go. Then I bought Mandrake at CompUSA. Same result.

I tried installing again, and it was infuriating watching all those icon files getting copied over, with a gut feeling that the result would be the same.

(Have you ever felt that eagerness, watching hundreds of icon names scroll by, and imagining how cool they would look on YOUR (hacker) screen? Holy smokes.)

So that sucked--nothing worked, no X, just a command line and I didn't feel I had the preparation to work with it, nor did I really understand that I could do most of my work on the command line if I wanted to.

Eventually, about a year later, I tried the Knoppix Live CD and somehow it shipped with the right modelines for things to just work. Why didn't anyone know to check my modelines?! I could have had X working for years. Stupid modelines...

After that, Ubuntu came out, and it also Just Worked for me, and Shuttleworth had rendered POV-Ray code in space, with even the resulting art showing this unique community effort. I started an online community for my favorite FOSS project, and it all felt like some kind of amazing global village. Depending on where you go, the same community vibe is still there in various places...

Pretty soon Textpattern and WordPress and Joomla also made it worthwhile to move away from Flash for the web, and boom--my media & web business could be built and maintained using Linux server and desktop platforms.

Congrats to the Linux community.
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I'm planing on taking some serious time off to work on my side projects.

I'm open to any country in the world, I want to just work on my games. So with that in mind I'll need good internet access. From what I can see, this is very doable in Eastern Europe.

Eventually, I do plan on returning to the US, but I want to spend at least 6 months overseas.
In terms of the speakers and amplifiers, absolutely. The home audio game's more than that these days though. Smartphone-controlled multi-room audio is convenient, if pricy.
> While with differently-sized infinite sets, the point is that they aren't (to the best of my knowledge) either 1) directly useful or 2) particularly interrelated with anything else.

The distinction between countable and uncountable is very practically useful. You can always encode the elements of a countable set such that every element is represented in the computer by a finite-length bit string, but you can never design an encoding that does this for every member of an uncountable set. No exceptions.

In addition, this notion of distinguishing countability from uncountability can be applied to show that the set of Turing machines is countable (up to isomorphism). This immediately informs one of the limits of computation, and why, e.g. trying to design a computer or program that performs exact arithmetic operations on real numbers in general, or say finding the limit of a series in real numbers in general, is as achievable as squaring the circle.

And make no mistake, computational modeling that today already permeates every aspect of society would look very different if exact operations on real numbers were computable and efficient. (and for the general programmer, no need to worry about the imprecision of floats and especially with financial stuff)
Very true, but my feeling on this is until the tech is scaled a lot of the advancements are either slowed or don't mature.

It's annoyingly the argument made for covering the surface of the planet in photovoltaic cells, but in this case if the tech is already CO2 negative it can't be that bad to try to test it's longevity or scalability and reliability.

Just need the equivalent got methane and were sorted ;)