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My first compute was ~1984 Timex_Sinclair_1000 $99 and with 2K RAM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000

It definitively the gateway drug that hook me into computer.

Bought $6 book on how to program Sinclair computer and copy the Basic Code from the book into that computer and record that program into audio cassette tape and output to analog TV.

Now I working daily with systems that have 128 cores, 256 threads, 256-768MB of L3 cache memory, 1TB DDR+ 8xGPUs each with 32GB of HBM.

I still think I got more "High/Rush" from the sinclair 1000 37 years ago than the latest 128C/256T CPU. Now is a job, back than it was an adventure, exploration to whole new world!
Other than the historic lineage how different would it be to say SMOM? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_...
Where did someone mention government level threats?

If the threat model is a government, Tor is the only safe solution, and only after extensive training and safeguards. Using anything else is actually-crazy.
I dunno, I mostly agree with you, but I think lately, at least with my family and friends, the coronavirus political response has made many more people much more skeptical about centralized authority figures.

The narrative that is commonly recounted is that it's obvious that the people in authority are either incredibly incompetent or crazily power-hungry, and both are leading many of my family and friends to question everything. I mean total normies who are otherwise just typical taxpayers.

It's funny in a Kafka kinda way to witness the slow erosion of trust in institutions.

Don't get me wrong, I love institutions. Just seems to me and basically everyone I know that the people who should know the most about how trust is built, do everything possible to kill off that trust.
The real question is, who interprets "You can stream 20 hours of video on one iPhone charge" as "you should watch 20 hours of video on one iPhone charge". The metric is clearly about battery life, not watching video.

Also,

> who watches video on a 6 inch phone today

Millions of people
Meaning they want single party rule and don’t care for democracy
Yes we can look at particulars when applying the law to a particular case.

When we make out laws they should be impartial and not put the thumb on the scale when writing them.
Did Airbnb Profit from Disaster as California's Caldor Fire Burned in Tahoe?
iPhone resale value is very good. Many carriers also give you significant discounts on new phones.

I got two iPhone 12's for free + free line and did not sign a contract.
I'm not talking about you being afraid of being shot. I'm talking about them being afraid of being shot by you.
A lock screen is not the same as a login screen. A lock screen is the functionless screen you have to dismiss before being presented with the login screen.
I'm enraged by the new UI where you can't have multiple instances of the same application side-by-side in the taskbar. It's one of the things I hate in chromebooks, which Windows decided to adopt as their only (non hidden) option.
I like that driver management no longer sucks, I like search-to-launch, and I like the way you can send windows to the left or right half of the screen (decent tiling WMs or Spectacle on macOS are much better, but hey, Windows' thing is better than nothing).

... that's a fairly complete list of improvements to Windows since, I dunno, Win2k, that I care about. Most other changes have been neutral, or made it worse.

[EDIT] oh, and two of those three probably would have been at least as good as high-quality add-ons (like the Spectacle example is, on macOS), so as far as really vital stuff goes, making drivers suck a lot less is just about it.
Yes, I'd like to know exactly what part of our current US government is tenable even from within. The only office I can think of is the unitary executive. The Senate was created in the founding father's own words to protect the "opulent from the many". The house is perpetually obstructed by this Senate, the likes of which smarter nations have discarded. But, even the house is captured in such a manner that citizens in more populated states have less representative voting power than slaves during the 3/5 compromise.

What other option is left, aside from rebirth? It's no coincidence that dark forces conspire to now "get out in front" of this zeitgeist and swap the baby in its cradle for something ugly.
Why does it go both ways? The symmetry isn’t obvious. I can kick you out of my house for whatever reason but I’m not automatically complicit if I let you visit and you pull out a rifle and shoot someone out the window when I wasn’t looking. That is right. And it should be that way.
>And despite the low murder rate, many are still convinced that they're about to be killed by one of those many, many guns

I suspect the reason is because a higher than average proportion of people who post here tend to live in cities (and be in their 20s), where crime is both naturally higher and vastly more visible than it is when not in a city; this is why city people tend to be a lot more authoritarian and risk-averse than people who live in regions with population densities with a more favorable ratio of People Who Destroy Society per mile.

These people are people who, all else being equal, do things the average person would rather them not do, like property crime, pounding the apartment walls at 1 AM, shitting in the street, and the like. It's possible to build places where these things don't happen, but none of them are compatible with maintaining the political power of the risk averse as they currently exist today (even though, ironically, those places give even more power to the risk-averse).

Case in point,

>Many are even required to carry transparent backpacks, just in case one has a gun.

which is only in effect in the places with most of the crime (read: inner city), and the occasional suburban district where irrational risk-aversity got a foothold. Everywhere else tends to be a little bit saner and would prefer to not constantly broadcast a message of "be constantly afraid of a thing that's vanishingly rare" (which is what the backpacks are meant to symbolize), at least until irrational risk-aversity starts paying political dividends in those areas as well (or it is forced upon them by the cities if the state isn't structured in a way to keep them in check).
If you care about an issue, any issue, the answer is to find like minded people and build or attend a meeting, a coalition, a movement, or some other form of solidarity between individuals to pursue it. Maybe that means you get elected, maybe it means candidates seek your support, but unless you have millions of dollars to donate, your biggest power is not as an individual, but as part of a group.
Indeed. Given that a toddler isn't capable of "murder," we're talking accidents. Of which there were 486 lethal ones in the US in 2019, the last year for which the CDC has collated the data. Pretty sure there were more than 121 lethal accidents caused by people older than toddlers.

Hint: stop digging, admit you're wrong.
Manhunt jumps to mind. There's a few games, some of which from Rockstar, that aims to be edgy and gratuitous for the sake of it. Maybe the Hitman games, since they are literally murder simulators?
I'm old enough to remember when stating covid came out of a wuhan lab was "dangerous misinformation" that could get you removed from social media. Not so much "misinformation" anymore...
> The murder rate varies widely by state/area.

One fact about murders that has exceptionally low variance is the likelihood of personally knowing the person that murders you. This is 90%, in almost all circumstances and areas.

Means, the gun, is only one part of the equation and has been noted generally the smallest. Motive is far more important when attempting to put murder rates into context.
Since GDPR in 2018, simply reading the news requires a VPN.

Many other benign aspects of life need it too, if the same conveniences are desired with no adjustment.

It's nice if you haven't noticed.
can't wait to go get my Bezos bucks after a hard days work at the warehouse, watch some prime, play some games on twitch, read some amazon store approved books on my kindle.

Are there any theatres, museums or bars or political organizations in my company town? Probably not, that might give people bad ideas, and the booze is bad for productivity

Turns out the 21st century looks like the 1890s, there is no new thing under the sun
The problem is that informal policies can be bastardized by individual managers. Relying on rapport and good will doesn't work with narcissists (an extreme case) or people with different values (more mundane), for instance. And different values are common in most workplaces-- almost everyone has a slightly different answer for how much leave is too much.
Could argue they sell more by fashion and desire to have the newest thing than people caring at all about specs, more ram or cpu or x% better resolution etc.
Why specifically is that worse than config files?
Unless you are rich, you can't just decide to run for President (or Congress) tomorrow without having any existing political experience.

First stop would be to run for a local elected office, like a school board, county/city treasurer, or something like that. If your city has some sort of city council, work your way up to that. From there, give mayor a go. Next stop might be your state legislature. From there, you might have enough popularity and name recognition to run for the US House. If the US Senate is your goal, you may have to spend more time at the state level -- controller, secretary of state, perhaps lieutenant governor or governor -- before you'll have the backing for a US Senate run.

And that's the thing. Even if everything goes to plan, you're looking at 10-20 years before you're competitive enough to get into US Congress (either chamber, but the Senate will take more work and time). I'm not surprised that it's hard for people to go from "I'm really upset with how the US is turning into a surveillance state; I wish there was something I could do to change that", to "I'm gonna ditch my existing career and dedicate the next several decades of my life to politics". And consider that doing all that is no guarantee you'll be successful! Even if you make it to the House or Senate, it'll still be a hugely uphill battle to get any kind of surveillance reform bill passed and signed into law.
I remember my first beer.

I've come to the realization that, no matter how much you try to share what you've learned with people, ultimately, everybody has to learn things for themselves the hard way.

A great example of this is stock marketing investing. No matter how much data and information is provided upfront, it will never be enough to overcome the classic noob belief of "I'm going to get rich day trading!" If I think back, 18 year old me could not be told otherwise.

It's the same with technical people (engineers, designers, etc) who start businesses for the first time.

No matter how much data you give them that market and distribution are the most important things in any business (not your code or your design), they will ignore it and say things like "Marketing is deadweight!"

Exactly what specialized finance and accounting knowledge do you think will come in handy during the first 2 years before you even hit $10k MRR?

Is this finance/accounting wizard going to conduct a Double Irish to save on the 73 cents in taxes you owe?
One thing I dislike about our new moral arbiters is their view that intent doesn’t matter. They will use anything (e.g. a microaggression, a usually inadvertent tiny slight) to justify cancelling someone. Tolerance for them also only has only one meaning: tolerate us.
This is what the google / facebook monopolies have done to silicon valley culture. People want the least amount of work and accountability, but feel entitled to every promotion, bump, perk in the book.

At the end of the day, to pay these salaries, the company needs to drive performance and growth. Keeping a company alive is super hard - it's not your safety net.
At least they're being honest and up front about the consequences of their business being acquired.
i agree, but i've come to believe that there are other ways to prevent this without a gun. hence my believe in mace as a form of self-defense. i've never been in this situation and hopefully never will be in this situation. so we'll let this hacker news comment act as a historical note for my personal decree.
And if the nearest animal control office is 200 miles away?
Genius. I'm asking to do this tomorrow.
I like Windows, and I would prefer to keep everyone in my family running Windows, but Windows 10 just doesn't work as smoothly as it should considering the resources that Microsoft should be able to throw at it. Due to various latency issues in Windows 10, it feels like it was written by a couple of developers that don't fully understand the api/framework they are using. This should be their wheelhouse, since it is their OS, but it feels cobbled together. So I am slowly migrating my family to Linux as I don't have much confidence that MS will fix their shit.
Most people educated in the last 50 years are unfamiliar with the old weights, and the older people were forced to become familiar with the metric system.

Nothing will change except a few old timers being stubborn just because they can, until they either give up due to lost business or retire due to old age.
well that's a bummer. i can't update the URL and remove the "q", no matter how little it is
This is pretty much the equivalent of “I would try to make a rocket that just lands on Mars instead of crashing”. All I gotta do is make it take off instead of not taking off.
Year after year, real world tests show that Apple’s battery estimates err on the conservative side. Enough that we should stop seeing comments like this and yet here we are.

What is meaningless is raw specs on their own. Your massive phone battery is useless if you’re using it to power a 1000W space heater.
I liked this one... I searched for 'George Harrison' and among the first results there was a page with interesting comments about Harrison's solo career; someone reminiscing about the time they got to talk to him about guitars for half an hour at a bar at the airport; a transcript for an interview he gave on TV... Whereas on GOOGLE: an instrusive 'People also ask' which I was not interested; thumbnails for videos on youtube that I was not looking for; previews to garbage clickbaity news articles; and then finally for the search items: a bunch of websites for lyrics; his Instagram (!) and fb pages; his imdb page; some more news articles I was not looking for...

Granted, google's web results above are perhaps what people are looking for 75% of the time, but how limiting and boring.

I'm also a sucker for the simplistic text-centric, information-laden pages from the pre-facebook era.

For 'global warming', however - since Marginalia excludes modern web-design pages - the results are of dubious relevance and interest, since they are, well, 'old'.

I see myself using this engine a lot.
Seems pretty cynical. Isn’t this trick easily defeated by taking regular PTO instead of hoarding it?
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Sure. An individual can’t count on a message being carried, yeah we know, it’s a private company and all…

But… it should concern people the concerted effort to censor anything including the truth if it doesn’t fit a particular narrative.

What is Twitter decided hey, they wanna be on the side of the police and now anyone reporting anything that goes against the police narrative gets banned, true or made up. Does that sound okay?

It’s effed up of people think that that’s okay because they are a private company and it’s their platform…
China Intensifies Hunt for Cryptocurrency Miners in Hiding
The vast majority of cops don't train very much, and requalification is often minimally difficult. Overall the civilian population is probably better trained.

This is also biased by big cities that have extinguished their gun culture, NYC in particular. That has grave consequences, shall I say.
> No hassle of shutting down your pc after an update.

Has kernel hotpatching made it into a free distro? The only way I ever got it to work was installing RHEL (money) or Ubuntu Landscape (money after 10 servers). This would be super nice, as then I could once again have year long uptimes for my boxes.
We optimize for 2 things politically, one being jobs (which we have enough of right now), and a far second being wages.

Livability, affordability, social cohesion, work life balance, cost of living relative to wages, and a safety net are all not even on the list. That $18 an hour you can earn probably doesn’t get you a 1 bedroom rental apartment unless it’s in the middle of nowhere. 6 figure incomes are priced out of housing markets, outbid by corporate cash offers from the likes of Zillow, Bain, and private equity who are flipping entire neighborhoods. It feels like the basis of society has fallen by the wayside in order to give nation state money and power to a few individuals. Only when income inequality starts to go down will any of these trends reverse, and we’re not near the peak yet. I really don’t see any reason to believe that America will be a superpower in the next 30, let alone 100 years. And maybe that’s what it needs to focus on the livelihoods of its citizens.
One downside not mentioned is the accessibility aspect. Screenreaders are great at reading basic HTML like forums. Discord? Significantly more work and trouble. Last I checked, VoiceOver completely skips emojis in Discord messages.
Good point. I think #meetoo showed that internal corporate oversight failed miserably for women. A lot of women were done wrong by many companies and I'm glad their struggle became known and I'm glad things have changed (but still more change is needed).

This situation is a dispute over compensation (PTO), not an accusation of abuse. I stand by my premise that the best way to help his wife would be to further negotiate with Atlassian for unpaid time off w/med benefits or something similar.
Well we're not a bunch of pussies and shit
Australia is 20 days as well, some companies voluntarily offer 1-2 weeks more. It accrues if you don't take the leave and must be paid out if you leave, there are no caps. But most companies will force you to take leave if you have accrued 40 days as it affects the balance sheet.

Sick/Personal leave is min 10 days/year and also accrues with no cap but is not paid out if you leave. In addition there are myriad of unpaid leaves for causes like bereavement, natural disasters, domestic violence etc.
I don't carry a phone. Partly for security, and partly because for 26 years (fed) I was required to carry one. Of course early in my career I had a pager. Every fucking day for 26 years.

The phone I do use I bricked for all activity save voice and text: it sits on my kitchen table and there it stays. The upshot is that my phones are inexpensive, <$100. In fact, I just purchased a new one and am pleasantly surprised at the voice quality of 4G LTE.

Certainly most people with jobs cannot afford to be out of touch and I understand it is a luxury to be un-tethered. However, my position in fed security and CI drove home the point: If you are connected with a cell phone, you're going to get pwned. The level of pwnage is directly proportional to your status and employer.
Very interesting. I definitely get phishing SMS messages from time to time, but I didn't realize these were some of the very few which actually made it through. Any idea how these bad actors are able to send out these massive batches of spam SMS? My naiive guess would be bulk purchasing disposable SIMs but I imagine it's more sophisticated?
Folks are calling the 13 an "S" tier phone(ala iPhone 5 -> iPhone 5S) disguised as a new device.

Apple decided to take the 12S design and call it the 13 for a two key reasons.

1.) they can get the unlucky number out of the way and save their big new design paradigm for 14.

2.) due to supply chain issues, it is more feasible to source the iPhone 12-esque parts for the next year. Normally they would release an S version mid-year and release the next numbered phone later that year. This gives them more time.
I thought that our representative system existed exactly so we don't all need to become politicians or have to vote on every issue through direct democracy.

There is hope for software engineers working together to improve access to information instead of, argh, becoming all politicians. That also would be to the detriment of the entire human race which wouldn't have as many software engineers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...
Sorry, actually I meant pads. However, there's nothing there that could bridge them.

Btw. there were several reports of signature validation errors right before the phone finally "died".
I've never been to China, but I'm curious - is it possible to connect to EC2 instances in us/eu? Anything stopping an SSH tunnel or wireguard to such a machine?
Vaccine Mandates Crash into America’s ‘Don’t Tell Me What to Do’ State
I’d have thought the streaming test is done over wi-fi. Maybe the Targeted Wake Time in WiFi 6 combined with higher bandwidth can account for the difference.
They are very upset with what they see as growing authoritarianism from the government -- particularly wrt many covid interventions. (for what it's worth, I mostly disagree but I do see signs of growing authoritarianism among many on both the left and right)
I'd argue that's a result of the historic usage that has persisted, partly because it's compatible, but only in context.

A steam regulator supplies steam from the boiler to the piston/traction, at the desired controlled rate.

It does it via a restrictive valve, but even that's a stretch for it to be considered primarily a retarding device, and not an enabling/ accelerating one.

We don't call a cars gas pedal a deccelerator or fuel-regulator, we call it the gas, or accelerator.

The consistent usage is as a definition of supply.
That's not what happened. Minaj claimed "a friend of a cousin" had a simply impossible side effect. This is pretty clearly a simple case of an urban legend being shortened from "friend of a friend of a friend" and so the rumor always gets passed on as "friend of a friend" no matter how many links there are in the chain.

Did you notice that you shortened it from "Minaj claimed a friend of a cousin..." to "Minaj claimed a friend...?" Hey, you're human too just like all of us. We suck at passing along rumors.
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nothing specific other than speculating about hearing about stuff around that bottom part of the body: lower sperm count, slower bowel movements with constipation and stuff. I wonder if there's anything else anatomical down there that could potentially get disrupted from extra mass bearing down on it.
No, it is legal to burn the US flag assuming it's your flag (in the United States)
Dataflow Architecture
This is fucking insanity.