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> IOW, refusing the statu quo is one of the way to change it.

And yet they aren't changing it. The FSF has had exactly zero success in changing the direction the world is moving in with regards to firmware and deep proprietary integration.

In fact, they've done very little for freedom in the past 10-20 years; most of the real breakthroughs have come from much more pragmatic people, such as those developing reverse engineered open source drivers for complex hardware like GPUs.

The FSF shows you how much freedom you lack according to their own bizarre definition of freedom... and then does amazingly little to actually improve your freedom.
That would mean if you park your car in a garage that blocks mobile coverage you’ll never be able to start it again. Sounds unlikely.
My biggest gripe with SUVs is that even the biggest ones like X5 and XC90 comfortably fit 3 passengers in the rear. There appears to by an Audi Q7/8 that could do it but it isn’t hybrid/electric.

Then If you want more, you have to get a 7-seater. But actually using it as such eliminates any cargo space from the boot.

And this while the outer rear seats are hugely wide and there is a ton of space between theseat and the door. My Passat gte has 20cm on each side where the sitting part of the bench extends further than the back of the bench. That could also have been used to make a comfortable seat in the middle.
If half the experts say to buy stocks and the other half say to sell, who is right? Aat some point, you have to decide. I have observed this a lot with finance. Listening to the wrong experts would have meant missing out on the biggest bull market ever (2009) or selling during the lows of the 2020 covid crash.
10 years ago or so, I wanted to have a windows on a portable USB HDD. Windows 7 didn't want to be installed on USB-drives, but once it was installed you could modify it (edit a text file or so), to make it work. So I used a VM with the usb-drive as the HDD. That way Windows didn't knew it was being installed onto a usb-drive and everything worked fine.
You can clone the hardware id (or whatever it is called) so that the VM matches the physical hardware. Which satisfies windows.

Though I don't remember how or whether it is legal.
Yeah, but somebody in that chain up the line still cares about the reputation and has to weigh that against more local goals.

Reminds me of that Better Call Saul episode where Jimmy makes a lavish TV ad to find members for a class action lawsuit, and finds a ton more people, but does it without getting the law firm's partners' approval, and they are angry with him because they care more about the law firm's reputation than the ROI for a particular case.

Edit: With that said, I'm not convinced this is the kind of the king that would actually hurt MS's reputation outside of geek circles.
Also, apparently while the Kia took 7 days to do this trip, the old trip took 59 hours: https://jalopnik.com/they-drove-a-tesla-from-la-to-new-york-... . The different speed might account for some of the charging difference as well. In any case saving five hours of charging to lose over four days on the road seems like a weird trade-off.

EDIT: BTW someone predicted results for different cars using ABRP: https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/qwnsa1/ki...

All cars on the list should be able to do the trip in under two days. Furthermore, median predicted charging time is seven hours as well. The best results could be under six hours.
I did this as well, and consider it to be my "weirdest" linux install as well. I documented it on AskUbuntu[0] and followed these instructions[1] - they involve creating a fake disk image using the VBoxManage cli. The reason I had to do this was also because of the "no-external-media-to-install-Linux" challenge. WUBI[2] used to be a solution for this, but it had it's own challenges (and was only Ubuntu iirc) and was discontinued (much after I used this trick)

Another interesting cross-OS trick is folks who use a shared NTFS drive to maintain a common Steam library between Windows and Linux. I did this for a while before I switched completely to Linux, but it's still fairly common.

[0]: https://askubuntu.com/a/47122/11736

[1]: https://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-des...

[2]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi
I too want knobs, but this line exemplifies why they're not coming back:

> I wonder if Apple iPhone will meet with the same success, as its touchscreen offers no tactile feedback. Will people get tired of having to look down every time they dial a number?
As someone in the healthcare vendor side of things.... Doctors make a lot of mistakes. There is plenty of software, processes, etc around trying to catch and mitigate those mistakes.
To me, it looks like you are consuming a lot more than doing something. Mere consumption of media always brings about problems like this. Try learning and hacking into something or starting something afresh (trying starting your own Twitch channel). All those talented people are consuming and putting what they learnt into practice.
Thanks very much for sharing your experience. It will be appreciated by far many more people than those who take to the comments here.

Ignore the naysayers :-)

I'm inspired by the Post-It notes idea...
I was putting my stuff on the belt when a TSA guy came up and slipped a lighter in my shoe. He did the “Shhh” gesture to me indicating he was testing the X ray guy but as a brown man I wasn’t having it. I started loudly yelling “he slipped the lighter in my shoe did you see that” and everyone around me nodded in agreement but despite the commotion the X ray guy still missed it. The guy who slipped the lighter in was very exasperated when I started yelling but even more exasperated when his colleague missed it, after the whole line was made aware of the frame up.
Part of it is rational, because they see lots of chaos/noise in the market while having to make too many decisions. Following the "best practices" only saves them decision-making time. Might not be the "best" in practice, but at least they don't have to examine a gazillion options that are available.
Imagine letting gtp3 loose on to the worldwide comment sections.

It has the ability to defeat any captcha, it can write well enough to waste peoples time, and it could push any agenda.

I think when such a weapon is released, there will be nothing mere mortal web owners will be able to do, since there is no digital identity that couldn’t be spoofed by it.
> Youth who think they're forging new territory usually aren't

But that's part of the point of the article: The territory actively changes, so even if it's the same location in some sense, it's still new territory, ripe for exploration. Old people can see that, but it requires looking with fresh eyes, as opposed to only being willing to see what was there decades ago.
Why do you think it would be 100x easier to go to them then the defense industry companies contracted for the SLS? Eg Northrup, Boeing ect? Surely you see how it is more strategic to keep 10s of thousands of rocket engineers and manufacturers at the weapons companies busy with pretend work, than rely on Musk and Bezos converting their private companies to war machines in a time of need.
World record in exactly what, however? Not in total trip time since the old record is way better than the new one in this respect (like, one third time of the new one). I'm pretty sure that if someone attempted that in a Tesla, it would be much better than at triple the speed. Apples and oranges here.
I searched a few weeks ago and find there should be a number of EV minivans for model year 2022.

For those saying that SUVs can fit this use case...the SUVs are almost entirely small crossovers. They have the shape but you can't fit more people than a car.
Comparing Tesla to Porsche is just ridiculous. Tesla might get some of the battery thing right, but they get so many car thing wrong.

For example, that touchscreen. Using physical buttons and knobs to adjust things in the car means that the driver do not need to move their sight away from the road, and can do it blindly (because the buttons and knobs are physical that you can feel with your finger). With a huge touch screen and almost no physical buttons, you need to look at the screen almost every time you need to touch something to make sure that you are touching the right thing. This, and the whole "auto drive" shitshow, among a lot of other examples, shows how Tesla don't care about the safety of anyone outside of their cars. And for a car, safety should be treated with the foremost importance.
Glider: An Opinionated HN Client
It would be great if there were hyperlinks on all the sea animals/creatures listed. Great visualization nonetheless!
If you think the state of physical security is much better I have some disturbing news for you
An Internal Email to Tim Cook and the State of Business Intelligence
A More Magnetic Mars
I’d welcome Portugal’s approach, but it is very different. San Francisco doesn’t prosecute dealers, and encourages open drug markets and camps on the street by funding and encouraging the behavior with permanent enabling, no path towards rehabilitation, and lack of law enforcement on the dealers and the non-drug crimes the commit.

Compassion and understanding of drug use issues is a different world than enabling spiraling dens of despair.
> We all pay more when coupons (cough cough affiliate codes) are automatically applied. It's not surprising that you like the appearance of saving money, your experience isn't special.

You need to think at the system level, and with the time dimension added.

Let's see how it would go down if I followed your advice:

- I use coupons, like everyone else: I then save money

- I take a moral grand stand and refuse to use them: I waste money

- magically (meaning I don't think it'll ever happen), people are inspired by my moral grand stand and almost everybody stops using coupons: everybody saves money

- someone doesn't care about morals, and start using coupon again: they save money

- they post about this "one weird trick", other people decide to join in, they try and realize it helps them save money, I do the same, and we're back to square 1.

And from that point on, more people will be using coupons until almost everybody again uses coupons.

You can't win a fight against the shared preferences of everyone else in the world.

If you think you can, great! Then the best tool is to use politics to legally forbid coupons. If it's such a great idea, you'll certainly have no problem finding a wide popular support for that?

If it's not so popular, then what do you think gives you the right to impose your preferences on the majority?

It may seem better to take this grand stand, but to me, it's pointless: you are just wasting money to feel good, with no chance to do anything else in a larger picture, but feel special or more enlightened.

But if you like it, why not?
Honestly Google perfected touchid on the pixel. I thought I'd hate having it in the middle of the back of the phone after using an iPhone, but it turned out my finger was always right there anyway. I'm actually disappointed they moved away from that on the 6.
On what? What are they spending money on? How much physical goods or even equity in profit producing entities(outside crypto) there is?
this feels like something to throw into a satellite for processing/digitizing the output from a custom image sensor?

or maybe some incredibly edge software-defined radio application...
Not even conscience but foresight to see political or even regulatory issues with something that, if implemented the wrong way, could amount to predatory lending.
They aren't taking away Intel's ability to push updates to people's computers, because they never had that ability. What the FSF and that Linux fork are doing is taking away users' right to be informed about security vulnerabilities in their system so they can make the choice whether to trust Intel's update or not. By withholding that information they are effectively eliminating the choice, and restricting users' freedom.
There are already several unauthorized exchanges, despite the popularity of the authorized ones. Banning the authorized ones would be a big boon for the illegal ones.
I guess it makes sense for a blog with "A.W.S." in its name but starting out by explicitly dismissing the obvious disproof of your thesis, Google App Engine, doesn't really make the argument work. App Engine exists. App Engine is serverless.
If he's co-writing with Kissinger, I doubt he's doing it as an effort to suck up to the Biden administration.
You are getting it backwards.

There are two flimsy arguments for machine intelligence from Hunter and Brooks. The paper is poking holes in that.
I did this on a Mac with my bootcamp partition with parallels desktop. I only booted into windows when I wanted to play a game. The rest was mainly done as a VM. I had some shenanigans with windows licenses and other software that insisted that these systems are two different computers ;)
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This article is trying to drive an artificial wedge between wisdom and innovation when there is none.

Both are valuable to people.

(regardless of age, sex, race, status, etc)
I hear you. It’s only worse now. Even with everything is connected, if you haven’t played recently, there’s an hour of console/game updates to download before you can play. Or worse, you spend an hour f’ing with accounts trying to get logged in, accept new terms, confirm to 2FA updates, link game dev account to console platform account, etc.

The few times I actually found motivation and time to play, it just added layer of frustration on top of whatever I was feeling. Fwiw, the Nintendo Switch mitigated a some of these issues (not all) and I eventually found the Zelda game to be helpful.
>It's also worth noting without Tesla there would be almost no electric car market. The occasional Leaf is about as common as a Ferrari.

Nissan has manufactured over 500,000 Leafs[1] since 2010, Ferrari has produced about 220,0000 in their entire existence [2]

>Honestly, under-warranty misaligned panels and air conditioning complaints are not signs that the company is bad

That's a sign their manufacturing process and QA are terrible. What are you objectively measuring Tesla's reputation on if it's not their ability to manufacture cars? As a life long auto enthusiast I can't roll my eyes any harder at Tesla fanboys who excuse this kind of poor quality on such expensive cars.

1. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129561_nissan-has-made...

2. https://www.ferrarilakeforest.com/manufacturer-information/h...
All of this could be true if the test had zero, or even negative, value in measuring the ability to learn & desire to excel.

Picking any test, and curating for those willing to and capable of the work required to pass it, would create this result.

That’s the problem with this justification. It doesn’t have a functional limit.

“DIY University” covered the history of how this mechanic brought down the Ming dynasty in just a couple generations.

Tests can always be justified by non-causal correlation.

Assessments ARE the reason why validated methods of learning, like project based learning, are not widely adopted.

We have copious amounts of evidence now that teaching to the test is both psychologically harmful & reduces the ability to learn.

We will not change our education system until assessments are dethroned.

The movement to end assessment is our only hope as a society to stop teaching children based on archaic & wrong ideas about how we learn & develop work ethic. It is a significant factor in why a generation is experiencing alarmingly destructive levels of anxiety on a daily basis.

We all have a lot to gain by building education programs where students demonstrate what they learn.

Tests are the worst possible option.

Check out “Most Likely To Succeed” for powerful alternatives.
OnlyOffice is pretty good these days. Also AGPL.

Install with the snap:

sudo snap install onlyoffice-desktopeditors
How an Indian metaverse king made his fortune
I don't know how "mini" it is, but the leaks for the upcoming s22 to be released in February point to a considerably smaller phone than the current models! I am super excited for it!
That logo is very similar to the Cisco logo:

https://www.cisco.com
You mean Musk -- the vehicle's private owner and user -- personally supplied it?
Not a very good example: The reason for this is most likely because of regulators (US and CH) which create such a huge compliance headache for US-associated customers that in most cases it isn't worth keeping the customer.
In theory a government could force AMD or Intel to sign a malicious firmware. That could be distributed as the normal firmware or used to target a specific person.

Firmware that ships with the actual CPU is a bit 'safer' because it has a lot more users and eyes looking at it (sort of). Depends on what your attack vector is.

Another aspect is that while this policy is worse for Linux-libre users, it is sort of a protest against needing these binary blobs. The hope is certainly that adoption of Linux-libre would result in AMD/Intel not having these non-free software requirements.
The Restic episode (Alexander Neumann) was also good: https://changelog.com/podcast/434.

I like how all episodes have transcripts so you can read/search instead of listening as well.
You're right, not yet (I wonder why? Maybe they cut too many other corners, or the FSF gave up on the program?), but that entire nonsense was squarely aimed at gaining RYF certification and done with the FSF's blessing.
Yep. This hybrid was probably manufactured in open air, so they would want gold plating to prevent it from oxidizing while heated during wirebonding / die attach.
Lol. Bitcoin
Blockchains solve the trusted intermediary problem which is far more general concept than double spending. It's also a common misconception that blockchains are anonymous; they are pseudoanonymous and there are companies devoted to de-anonymising and tying real world users to transactions. They do this quite successfully. There are ongoing efforts to completely anonymise computation and transactions on the blockchain using ZK snarks but most today are not using this. Also those use-cases you mention are the low hanging fruit, but as more time passes and the technology matures I expect to see a much broader range of uses for trust-less computation.
Even then you can bootleg the virtual world, the real world not so much.
I hate the keyboard on my phone. For dialing a number, it's awful. Give me an old phone any day!

But the smartphone does so many other things, I put up with it.

That doesn't mean to say i wouldn't greatly welcome a smartphone with a dial on the edge, or a touchscreen with tactile feedback. But due to lack of imagination of designers, technical impossibility, or economic cost (i don't know which...) there's no such thing on the market.
From my outside perspective, it seems like they must have an incentive structure that allows departments/products to forgo individual revenue if they're seen to be contributing to the wider company.
> The package maintainers doing substantive backporting work for any distribution absolutely are actual developers.

The maintainers doing the backporting are affiliated with the distro rather than being developers of the software they're doing backports for. That is a big distinction because it determines who has to incur the costs of compensating them/recruiting them to volunteer
Is smart tech the new domestic battle ground?
Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?
True, but all these cars are quite far from having a flat 200kW charging curve anyway.
> I don't mean to be snarky, but I would hope that after all this time on the internet, encountering all kinds of people in all kinds of places, we might be able to grasp the diversity, variation, and nuance in the human experience.
Its subjective. I have a $1200 Topre modded with a Norbaforce case and custom domes, pretty much as good as it gets, but its not even close to my favorite keyboard. Its nice but I'd rank Zeal tactile switches, Box Jade, Box Navy, Tactile Alps, Blue/White/Amber Alps, and Zeal linear ahead of them.

So far I like Amber Alps the best by a large margin. They are kind of hard to find though. Like I said though its subjective. There are some people that try every key switch under the sun and still like MX Browns the best. There is no "best" switch and there is no wrong choice.

Also, for the uninitiated, a Topre is a unique type of rubber dome keyboard. Unlike most rubber domes, they actually feel quite nice and better than many mechanical switches. They aren't technically a mechanical switch though.
Well, I'm actually fascinated and wish to hear more. How did you figure out that the cops were funneling people?
Well, that is weird then.

I get:

403: Forbidden

This error message is generated when the web server is trying to access a file that does not exist or has been configured incorrectly

So I asked Google if they were still around, and one of the links says they no longer are. I think there was a time that they were actually taken offline, so that comment might very well be outdated.

Maybe the error is a country thing. I'm in Canada. I used to be able to see their site no problem years ago.
The call for a citation is warranted, and, if the data supports the claim, I'm curious whether the same applies to homosexual males and if there is a significant difference between closeted and out homosexual males.

However, it does not follow that someone pointing out a biological reality (if it is, indeed, the reality) automatically blames women for their own sub-optimal performance and is therefore a misogynist. This is true, even if some misogynists use the exact same finding to do so.
If only it weren't run by a narcissist, Tesla might have been even better. Imagine a world with the reliability of Toyota but using Tesla drivetrain technology! Instead, we have a whiny man child who limits that great drivetrain to a handful of models of unreliable cars built in a way that's much more harmful to the humans on the assembly line due to poor manufacturing engineering. It's really sad, to me.
This is exactly what I would expect to hear from the kind of people who say they have nothing to hide, and therefore have nothing to fear regarding universal spying on them by their own government.

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”

-Cardinal Richelieu
There are bureaucrats making 6 figures sitting around and doing nothing for 40 years now. I don’t think shame is going to get them into action. Shame would be what they feel looking around their city. They must be used to it at this point.
Excerpts from a pretty good book. The obvious follow-ons:

Why didn't Republicans and Trump suffer the same fate as McGovern did after losing? Why are Democrats and the mainstream media taking Trump and Republicans seriously?

What would Thompson have made of Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns?
Thanks for saying that :)
Regarding white male life expectancy, it was mostly stagnant:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885717/pdf/nih... (page 44 / table 4)
Nebraska now has the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded in the U.S.
Yes, good point.

Although paying only for recovery requires a lot of access to internal accounting information to ensure that the victim is actually paying for recovery and not paying off the gangs in secret. And there's a pretty strong motive for the victim to do this.

While I find insurers are far too often in the category of scammers (e.g., see recision of fully paid health insurance policies on bogus criteria after an insured person gets an expensive disease), I don't envy them here. I don't see how an insurer is to make a product profitable (i.e., worth selling) when they are specifically & systematically targeted by these gangs.