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"...if you want an airgapped phone, use it in airplane mode."

Right, that's what I do. In fact this post comes from a smartphone sans SIM with airplane mode on, with a firewall against apps phoning home, no Google or Gmail account, all Google Gapps nuked including playstore - in fact all Gapps have been completely removed - not to mention that most replacement apps come via F-Droid.

Yes, technically it's not fully airgapped but it is against Google and that's my main aim.

Of course there's a penalty: I also carry around both a pocket router with WiFi and SIM to which the smartphone connects as well as the dumbest of dumb phones just for phone calls.

Yes, it's a little inconvenient in that the combined paraphernalia is about equivalent to two normal smartphones (both the router and dumb phone being somewhat smaller). Next step is to upgrade to a Fairphone or equivalent. (I've often wondered where I'd fit on a percentage scale of users who'd go to such lengths - somewhere between 0.1 and 0.001% I suspect.)

You may well ask why I've gone to such lenghts. It's more principle than privacy really. It's because governments around the world completely abrogated their responsibility when they deregulated the once-private telephone networks in the 1980s, when they did they let the Wild West take over. This 'vacuum' then led to a depreciation in the value of privacy on telephone networks. The ultimate insult came when the vacuum was filled by the likes of Google and others who usurped the last vestiges of our telephone privacy for good - and these damn governments just stood by and let it happen without so much as whimper. Remember, we telephone users were never first consulted about our privacy - governments just let Google and Apple et al take over the whole damn caboodle without question. (In the future after all the world has finally woken up to the disaster then we'll have dozens of historians trying to figure out what the hell happened and why. When realization finally dawns everyone will be flabbergasted.)

Now, long after the horses have bolted and without so much as an apology, governments are trying to reign in the likes of Google and Facebook. Right, our governance is a fucking farce - it has to be when governments simply allow Big Tech to not only effectively overrule longstanding law but also to go on and do whatever they damned well feel like with impunity.
I live in an area where cable/fiber is not an option, and have been using T-Mobile Home Internet for a while now.

People in other locations will surely have different experiences, but for me it just works okay and the signal is poor. In rainy weather, it degrades even worse. Even with a Cel-Fi booster and directional antenna, the signal is worse than AT&T without any booster. While I sometimes get 50 Mbps down, usually going over 20 Mbps gets a bunch of latency and packet loss.

For backup, I have an AT&T hotspot, which performs much better but is limited to 100GB. I get 120 Mbps down on this with no degradation.
What's wrong with letting them go out and get sick, if that's what they're comfortable with? You're telling them they need to either stay home or get a shot? Why not let them go out, and take the risk of getting sick? We already know, at a population level that complications from Covid happen in a very small percentage of people. At this point we have the knowledge and tools to manage things. Let everyone out, some get sick, many recover, and we get over this in 6 months.
Really it seems the lockdowns are the problem since it's letting this disease meander and figure out the best way to keep transmitting.
Not only to spray some champagne, after he did he just threw the bottle on the ground.
6510's clock is driven from the VICII. So the 100mhz would be paused half the time while the VICII did its thing.
Wow this really puts the show "Dark" into a different context. It's like a propoganda piece about the dangers of nuclear power.
Shame sounds like a bad way to retain otherwise reasonable employees.
I think all national level politicians should be sent into orbit, and we only let them come back down when they understand and promise to play nice.
The theory being spread around is that pilots had a sick-out because they oppose Southwest's vaccine mandate, based on fears about blood clots + flying.
That also has the effect of artificially raising the price for everyone outside of the government sphere of influence. Ex: me, because I'm not on Medicare / Medicaid yet.

Since I have to pay for my medical procedures, the fact that the big government has "decided" that its okay to overpay on X means that I __also__ have to overpay on X. I, the small market participant, am relying upon the big guys to negotiate prices and set them more fairly for the rest of the market.

Nominally, this is the job of insurance companies, but no one trusts those guys. (I pay for insurance. The insurance companies negotiate more detailed prices with hospitals). And there's the issue that the government (or more precisely: Medicare / Medicaid) is a "bigger" market participant than any insurance company, so the government's lack of negotiation is probably raising prices on everybody artificially.
A lot of the fallout on land in Western Europe was in Scandinavia and Austria due to the prevailing winds and the places where clouds happened to precipitate into rain.

In some regions they are still today monitoring the cesium content of grass and moss, and bringing sheep and reindeer in for the weeks before slaughter to be fed hay from other regions to ensure the meat is within acceptable dose limits.

Edit - link to map: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy-Mousseau/public...
The features developed in “novel” languages make their way into the languages everyone uses. C# now has strict null checking, Java has type inference and lambdas, most runtimes support async/await.
And why should they? Are billionaires responsible for your problems?
Is that why it is impossible to insure a nuclear power plant on the private market?
The article also says the head of the pilot's association denied it was a protest against vaccine mandates. Why would they lie?
Unless it wasn't of interest to the management. Sometimes people just go crazy an make bad decisions. Sometimes people just go crazy and make bad decisions.
But even if that 165K a certain amount would have died of other causes if not this. The best you can really do is look at excess mortality.
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If that's not enough, you could check out "Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859706
So why would everyone hide it?
No, overworking only comes if you're not motivated with what you're doing, forcing your brain to overwork.

But if your brain is simply tired of doing motivating job, then it just reduces a level of motivation, until it gets enough rest. So it's a self-regulated system.
> What you are ignoring is that government is more involved in colleges in these other countries and they manage to keep it under control. Again, how is the US screwing up whereas everyone else has it working properly? You haven't actually addressed this.

With college in the US, the specific mechanism seems to be a combination of (a) colleges that have an incentive to raise tuition as high as people will pay, (b) people who consider a college degree important enough that they'll pay as much as they can afford, and (c) government action that greatly increases people's ability to pay, either via subsidies or by expanding the availability of student loan debt.

Compare this to the public K-12 school system, which doesn't have the same split between a seller and a cost-insensitive, subsidized buyer in its funding structure. (This is similar, I believe, to the way college is funded in a lot of other countries.) The cost per pupil in public K-12 school is also rising faster than inflation, but at a much slower rate than higher education. Same country, different funding structures, different results.
I'm convinced at this point that Facebook is currently being attacked by a state intelligence agency.

I absolutely loathe Facebook, the product as well as the company, but what is going on right now with it is extremely interesting to see. I don't think all of this is entirely organic.
What do you mean by "safer"? Less accidents compared to eg coal plants?

No exploding coal plant will render a whole region unlivable for >30 years. Both happened at Tschernobyl and Fukushima.
TMobile has a great service. I'm on their $15 unlimited talk and text including 2GB 5G, having moved away from Google Fi who billed me $50 for reselling exactly that. Trouble is dealing with the lying salespeople in the TMobile stores. It's really a slap in the face to have to speak with someone who is plainly lying to you to up their commission. TMobile would actually be more competitive if they had no stores IMO. But I would never accept 5G over Sonic Fiber. Never.
>Seems to me like you are losing to better players and are willing to install invasive software to protect your feelings.

I like how you are instantly turning to victim blaming, true toxic CS player lol not even surprised
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> bought my first 64bit AMD CPU somewhere around 2001-2002

I doubt it. The first Athlon 64 was launched late 2003.
>Why does it have to be someone with real power?

Because unless there are either powerful folks advocating for this, or a huge group of people doing so (and neither of those exists, AFAICT), it will never happen.

Yes, there are folks out there with ridiculous ideas. Mah nishtanah, ha-laylah ha-zeh?[0]

If I were to promote the idea that we should require all women to wear shelf bras[1] (or none at all), that would make me a pig and an objectifier of women.

In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if there were folks out there who already do so

Would such a thing garner widespread support? Would someone advocating for such a thing be taken seriously by enough people (or the right people, which was the point of my initial comment) to make it happen?

The same can be said of "confiscating the wealth of the billionaires."

It makes me wonder if we should expand Peter Medawar's comment[2] beyond just religious institutions. [N.B. I am an American]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Nishtana

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bra_designs#List_of_br...

[2] https://quotefancy.com/quote/1574828/Peter-Medawar-The-USA-i...
The point is that there was never a time where Nuclear became unsafe. It was never a lie.

The reverse of your analogy would be if cigarettes were actually good for you but we banned them because two people died of lung cancer.
I had noticed myself using Facebook too often, and recently deleted the app from my mobile phone (and am not signed into FB via my mobile browser). And I've been surprised how much less I check into Facebook when my only way to check it is on my laptop.
"Safe nuclear power needs German engineering"

France and Germany jointly developed the European Pressurised Reactor (EBR). In France, development was led by Framatome and EDF, and in Germany by Siemens.

There are currently 3 nuclear plants under construction (or almost ready for operation) using EBR in Europe - they are in France, Finland and the UK.

Unfortunately, all three plants are over-budget and over-schedule.

The UK plant (Hinkley Point C) is expected to provide 7% of the UK's electricity when it is operational in 2026. It is designed to run for at least 60 years. (Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58724732)
What is it with this "billionaire hate" narrative? What have billionaires done besides create enormous wealth for their country and themselves? How is that a bad thing?
The amount of self-inflated grandstanding on CO2 matters is astonishing.

It took a lot of energy to make the computer you're typing on, shame on you.
That would be unwise though, considering that building nuclear power plants is slower and more expensive than wind and solar in Europe.
Hi, what's the general population's stance on Belgian nuclear plants ?
It's not just a matter of safety of the plans themselves.

You need safety against external threats e.g. a nuclear plant can be targeted during war or by terrorists

You need safety around illegal dumping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Illegal_dump...

Also, extremely centralized energy production creates political risks (coups, corruption, hiding mismanagement)

Nuclear proliferation risk.

Investment risk: solar keeps getting cheaper and nuclear has very long ROI that might grow indefinitely
A sick out requires pretending your are sick. Publicly saying otherwise would be breaking the rules.
If fossil fuel power plants were legally responsible for harm caused by their carbon emissions, they would also be impossible to insure.
and health insurance companies have zero incentive to lower their prices, it's not even a competitive market because the majority of health insurance is tied to employment – even as an employer costs are roughly the same across the board, especially if your company is too small to negotiate better rates
Any use
"Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would have hidden from it in terror."
Although as with any "common case performance improvement" this can be risky if what the common case is for a given server changes. We learned that this was what our server did when we launched in a new country and our auth server started needing 1.5x the computer per query. There was an ASCII special case and then an especially bad / expensive Unicode lookup when that failed, which we started triggering way more often.
Maybe your situation or industry is an exception, but my view is that affiliate marketing is one of the most corrosive influences on today's internet. It drives a truly mind boggling amount of spam of all types, from affiliates who add literally no value other than inserting their affiliate code into the transaction. The proportion of content on the web that provides no true new information, but exists solely to drive affiliate traffic, is surely massive.

So, it's great for your business that this worked, but I personally don't see any strategy that leans on affiliates to be worth celebrating.
The article says the head of the pilot's association denied it was a protest against COVID vaccine mandates.
> That doesn't follow. We have countless examples across multiple industries on technologies that became cheaper and safer at the same time.

Well, that is because nuclear energy is unlike "multiple technologies and industries", it is a highly politiced industry which when it has failed, it has done so spectacularly and at high localized costs

All the updates and changes after high profile accidents such as Fukushima are highly expensive same with review of being built and existing reactors which bloat budgets and schedules, this is precisely one of the big issues Westinghouse and Toshiba had post fukushima

Currently on a bus, so I can only answer to the initial excerpt, when I get home I'll see if I can answer the rest
As an aside: I know the thin grey fonts are trendy, but please have some consideration for those whose eyesight isn't as good as yours.
Nuclear energy fear reminds me of people that are afraid of planes.

It is like if there is a crash it is going to be very bad. But it is also true that your chances to have a crash in a car is just higher.
One is empirically based and the other is faith based, so no, they aren't he same. The faith is based on beliefs in something metaphysical like a supernatural realm, and on value judgements (morality).
From a meta point of view, it's a bit wild to be living in a point of history where people actively debate where our trusted source of truth should exist.

For most of human history you didn't get many options. Before the printing press, King and God were the roots of trust and truth, because churches and states were the only ones with the power to disseminate information reliably on a regional, national, or global scale.

The printing press added newspapers as potential roots of trust. Then radio stations. Then TV stations. Still, with limited papers and channels, and large barriers to entry, institutions arose and the status quo was not too much changed.

Now we have an eruption of information as anybody can create a massive following for any idea with sufficient effort. The implications of this have yet to be realized.

One thing is for sure: You can't really trust the science. Definitely not the media. And certainly not whoever you follow on Youtube, the links you see on HN/Reddit, or the posts shared on Facebook. It's hard to say you can know anything for sure these days.
Ha, and people keep saying there's no corruption in Germany.
SWA continues to try to push this weather excuse and ATC excuse... but it doesn't make any sense.

Weather in Florida impacted flights in Las Vegas and San Diego? The pilots and crews flying those routes aren't the same ones flying the Florida routes, which definitely do not make up 30%+ of all SWA flights.

Despite the weather in Florida and ATC issues revolving around the Naval exercises, all other airlines are making their flights and not cancelling anything near the number SWA is...

I don't know if this means it's a covid vaccine mandate thing or something else - it seems it would be illegal for pilots to walk-out in an organized manner, which might be why the union also claims it is not an organized walkout.

Whatever the problem is, it would not surprise me if SWA is blowing smoke here...
I clicked on the US and see that it gets loads of secrecy points in all kinds of categories, but 0 points from the category of "Consistent Personal Income Tax".

I laughed.
Looking to get off Apples ecosystem after their last couple years of privacy debacles etc.
I'm also facing a 350eur battery replacement as my mbp trends below 70% life and Apple requires me to replace about half of the laptop to get a new battery.

This is the answer that I've been waiting for.

My MBP is 15" and I prefer the bigger size / spec but this laptop is only 13" and would normally be a dealbreaker for me however, I'm going to put that to one side and jump in as soon as I have the capital. I want to be part of something that I see as good and a move in the right direction for repairability, openness and choice.

I see a lot of people holding off because it needs X or they want an AMD cpu, I just want to say support this team now, they're doing great stuff and we as a community need to back them.
It's worth noting that nuclear is really expensive when factoring in insurance and disposable, a lot more so than wind and solar.

>The cost of generating solar power ranges from $36 to $44 per megawatt hour (MWh), the WNISR said, while onshore wind power comes in at $29–$56 per MWh. Nuclear energy costs between $112 and $189.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nucle...
I often ponder all the work put in to make electronics execute series of instructions one by one but where it is undesirable we often lack abstraction for parallel computing. The funny part is how parallel is so "easy" in electronics. My gut says there has to be some simple approach we've all overlooked.
How does Vivaldi fund development?
Not yet, but it certainly could be. Would it be useful to publish the helper classes that render the waves out to ASCII? That's really the guts of the thing. After that, you just use whatever testing framework you want to do the actual diffing (in my case Expecto for F#).
Because when the public hears about other reasonable people showing hesitancy, it shows that the media narrative isn't as true as it is made to be.

I imagine it is to the advantage of both pilots and SW to not admit it is about the vaccine, because the media would take advantage of that fact otherwise.

Also the pilots can't admit to a sick-out one way or another to avoid legal repercussions.

Not saying this issue is because of the vaccine mandate, but it would make sense with the way this story is playing out.
There are no guarantees. You need to compare vs. the safety of burning coal, for the climate and for human health. You need to compare it with how sure you are that renewables & storage will satisfy our energy needs tomorrow, or the safety of not having enough energy to go around.

That said, nuclear is pretty safe. I would live next door to a nuclear power plant, and if I did I would be likelier to die slipping in the shower.
At least the story has a happy ending. He got to be on Fox News, as he always wanted.
Hopefully employees will realize that they need to be getting a similar raise to keep up with inflation.
It’s not as different as you’d think. We had a bad flu season in 2018 that strained a lot of hospitals.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/15/flu-hospital-pandemics/

Limited hospital resources are just a fact of life until we commit to expanding them.
The parent was clearly exaggerating. The point was pretty obviously that Americans should curb their appetite for carbon before proposing extreme population control policies for others. Which is an eminently reasonable point, and sad that it has to be articulated explicitly.

More seriously, "getting your neighbor out of their F150" or any other "personal responsibility" approach is doomed to fail because citizens don't have appropriate information to make informed environmental choices (we can't accurately estimate how much carbon goes into the manufacture of the products and services they consume) which is why carbon pricing is necessary.
It was not a sick out. The article clearly states:

“The sick call rate over the weekend was no different than it has been since June and the pilots actually picked up open flying as well,” Amy Robinson, a spokesperson for SWAPA, told TPG on Monday.
I haven't seen that in ages...
To browse the modern web you have those three choices, yes. You could probably still get by on the EdgeHTML based Edge, but support will wind down over the coming years.

If you manage to even load your banks website in netsurf that's impressive. For me it crashes even loading wikipedia, and it does not support JS at all, so basically all interactivity on the web besides forms and links is not supported. I don't think anyone, even netsurfs developers recommend even trying to use netsurf as your main browser for things like banking.

A "rebasing fork" is something like waterfox and similar projects that essentially have modifications to one of the big three engines and periodically pull in all the changes the source engine did. A lot of the chromium based browsers do this to be able to include modifications to chromium in places where it is not officially supported.

A non-rebasing fork would for example be when google forked webkit (to create blink which is a core component of chromium), which took a much more divergent path.

I forgot to mention two other engines that might be interesting to read about: kHTML (the original source for webkit so it is chromiums grandfather in a sense. Not developed since 2016) and Goanna (a fork of firefox from before firefox quantum. It is developed but last I heard they couldn't keep up with new standards and security. Development seems a bit chaotic).
Exactly, so relying on them in some hope they fix something is a bad idea.
Shaming doesn't seem like it would work well when people believe they are right. However CEOs sweeping problems under the rug is more or less expected (good ones solve them, bad ones make temporary problems permanent trying to solve them and don't fix solvable ones). Things "going wrong" makes them look bad so that is more or less what the selectors want - wisely or otherwise.
its worse now. Because they are the majority in all media and are pretty aggressive too.