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> if the locals think it's important for them then they can pay for it

That's what I thought you were saying, but that's not what I'm saying. There might never be enough local money to support it. But the regional or higher levels of government might think it's strategically important, or even profitable over a much wider area beyond local municipalities. For example, the USPS services rural areas where they lose money because it's considered important enough.
I don’t understand why returns are so permissive, especially in industries that can’t/won’t resell returned products (eg fashion).

In my opinion, the onus is on you to do your due diligence when it comes to researching the correct product. Bought an HDMI cable instead of DisplayPort? You should have looked. Microwave doesn’t fit your space? Measuring tapes (and AR tools[0]) exist for a reason. Pants are too large? Use the damn fitting room[1] before buying them!

Of course, all three of those items are resalable after a return, but stores would most likely send 2/3 to be destroyed instead of refurbishment.

I just wish we could move away from the “customer is always right” deplorable tactics which create umpteen amounts of waste. Such as my coworker, who bought 10 dresses for a wedding and returned 9 of them after a test drive.

[0]: https://size.link
[1]: I get it, fitting rooms were closed during COVID. It doesn’t excuse the waste though (just shifts the blame).
I feel like this article underplays that there are many other factors effecting autocratic States like China and Russia. Russia, for example, simply isn't a high tech nation. I never expected them to be good at AI. China's zero COVID policy is not a failure of AI, it's an inevitability when it comes to a nation of 1.5 billion and a virus endemic to the rest of the world.

AI will enable surveillance and oppression of dissidents by providing a useful tool for States to detect "bad behavior".

AI will also empower amazing creativity and allow us to create works of art, often as an individual, that would have been impossible in the past.

AI are a powerful tool, and as humans do, we will use them for amazing and horrifying purpose. It's going to be scary and amazing at the same time. It's on us to make sure we live in the country where it's not scary.
What are some examples of them being anti-American or passing misinformation?
I’m reminded of junk DNA.
Still common on network devices (Cisco, Juniper, Arista etc.). No IPMI or similar on those.

Console servers from the likes of OpenGear and Lantronix still heavily used for those.
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>I don't see how "asyncio is annoying and can only be used for a fraction of scenarios everywhere else too, not just here" is anything other than reinforcement of what I said.

Well, I didn't try to refute what you wrote (for one, it's clearly a personal, subjective opinion).

I asked what I've asked merely to clarify whether your issue is with Python's asyncio (e.g. Python got it wrong) or with the tradeoffs inherent in async io APIs in general (regardless of Python).

And it seems that it's the latter. I, for one, am fine with async APIs in JS, which have the same "problems" as the one you've mentioned for Python's, so don't share the sentiment.
> less likely to get promotions approved

This is not how companies work (at least the ones worth working for). Retention risk is a reflection on their current role, compensation, manager, etc.

We have absolutely promoted high performing employees and/or given them raises even though we knew they were looking at other opportunities.
Yeah pick and choose makes sense for sure. Apple isn't exactly the king of choice unfortunately.
helps that ceo understands what these things are and why they are useful.
Yes, some are available up to 2XL and 3XL, which tends to be enormous sizes in the US.
Yes, I remember this.
This doesn’t mean it wasn’t an inside job. Dude could have a nice payday for “oops I got PDF hacked”, plus giving away enough information about their internal organization to make the attack feasible.
I wish they'd add some books or something that I could more easily "justify" the company buying, since they get so much value from Let's Encrypt.
I mean, I wouldn't at all object to shifting faster to full-electric vehicles, and getting rid of both full-ICE and hybrids. But it seems to me that this is a bit of a nitpick, given the degree to which fossil fuels are still subsidized (according to [0], it was about $20B/yr in 2019 for the US). I'm having a hard time quickly coming up with numbers as to federal subsidies for hybrid and full-electric vehicles for comparison (best I could find quickly was [1], which indicates about $7.5B allocated for building out EV charging infrastructure).

Personally, I doubt that hybrid vehicle subsidies come anywhere close to that $20B/yr, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong...and even if they are comparable, it still seems like a silly kind of self-sabotage to be calling for cannibalizing hybrid subsidies to give to EVs when fossil fuels are still getting that much.

[0] https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
[1] https://www.transportation.gov/rural/ev/toolkit/ev-infrastru...
Clearly the author didn't bother looking up any retired designers or engineers from the time, as the article is mostly speculation. There were lots of reasons why beige-ish tones were used. The biggest one was that's what IBM used, so to fit into an office environment, everyone else all followed along. There were practical reasons too:
- ABS yellows under uv exposure (sunlight). If you start out yellowish, the fading is much less noticeable.
- Beige mid tones hide flow marks really well. It means you didn't have to paint the outer case to get a 'perfect' appearance. The same goes for the comparatively rough textures used back then.
Yes! Bureaucracy is helpfull. Sometime, bureaucracy prevents more bureaucracy. The issue is that it is hard to understand how or why it was set up, and to differentiate bad bureaucracy from good bureaucracy. Both look the same and feel the same. Both can be simplified. Only, when you simplify bad bureaucracy, you can get whatever. If you simplify good bureaucracy, you will definitely end up worse, at least for a time.
After the first level you’ll know how it works, and then I don’t see much of a difference to the current version, except that you lose those players who are annoyed by the four-second wait.
The description of the steps you took is super helpful feedback - thanks! Hello performs best on "how-to" questions at the moment. We're still working to improve troubleshooting type queries.
Oak Ridge still consumes 20 megawatts. However older technology was appearing to require a gigawatt.
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If someone has your unlocked phone, they can look at the screen.
I agree half way with you, we need the web split into 2 parts, webpages and apps.

I seen some cool simulation, small apps, small games that I can just test online and not have to install them on my machine. Apple would love that we all got scared and only use installed apps from their store but the web is a decent deliver platform.

If we could have a modern subset of html and css for news websited and blogs , and the rest of js for web apps then you can have the option to turn off teh advanced settings or we could have different browsers that could focus on different things, like a website reader browser that does not care about super fast JITed JS it would not support webgl,camera or microphone acccess, it would just focus on text layout and simple forms,

and a web app browser that focuses on extreme optimizing for JS , canvas and webgl operations, camera and microphone access.
If you opt-in to iCloud, you're opting in to a lot of state-level security risk in any country (and this is true of any commercial cloud).
Apple's been making it real difficult to pick Android lately. Only thing Android still has going for it is the ability to flash custom ROMs, eg CalyxOS or Graphene.
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>>it seems like the current plan is to just try to prevent new users and let the current users smoke until they die (or help them quit if they choose to).

>The second part of the comment you replied to addresses this.

It attempts to address it, but in banning of Juul products, which many ex-smokers used and continue to use to get and stay off cigarettes, is very obviously counterproductive to this assumed objective. Banning Juul will create more cigarette smokers, both ex-smokers and kids who decide to pick up the habit. Full stop.
Lol does anybody else remember that little cat that would climb all over your open windows and desktop while working?
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The base MacBook Air had its price dropped to $999 in 2013 and battery life improved to 12 hours. That's what got me onto the Apple bandwagon.
This is a bit of a tangent, but shouldn't this be retitled as "Let's Encrypt merch", since it's for sale/donation. Swag is always free.
I can think of a few, at least applicable in the USA:

Apple doesn't have a military or police force with jurisdiction over me. They don't have the legal power to arrest me or throw me into prisons, which they also don't have. I don't have to pay taxes to Apple. I don't have to do business with them or interact with them in any way if I don't want to. I don't need Apple's permission to do anything unrelated to their product lines.

Same is true for any megacorporation. It's a big stretch to say they are even remotely as powerful as nation-states, let alone more powerful.
Most likely they will add one once Godot 4 leaves alpha. The major focus for 4 was a rewrite of the graphics engine.
They should really add the concept of array. Now you have to type "B2:B11" to refer to a range of cells, but why not "B2", and let the ":B11" part be implicit from the structure of the sheet?
Let's take the web server example: The most commonly used web server is nginx. Written in C (possibly C++ now?), with no libraries except Linux headers.

The layers are there to make developers more productive, not to make code quality better. In fact, layering is probably the most expensive thing that computers do today.
> You can do anything you want with Android or any number of manufacturers but no you have to do it on iPhone and iOS...?

Because I prefer the iOS user experience and Apple hardware irrespective of their management of the App Store? Because I would like to see the platform innovate and provide more interesting opportunities than widgets? Not to mention, even while Apple does not have a majority share of the smartphone OS market, it does have exclusive control over its platform in such a way that antitrust arguments are still arguably applicable?

> It just makes the problem worse. So can you not use this as discussion point? Either you haven't thought about this much or you're being disingenuous.

If more app stores were allowed to exist, they can compete with one another, leading to improvements in quality. There can be app stores and communities built around ensuring security, with even more exclusive standards for the sake of curation. Especially in the case of stores focused on FOSS apps where the code is open for all to review. Making Apple be the sole gatekeeper promotes a single source of failure and security via obscurity. Not to mention, because Apple has control over the underlying OS, they can mandate 3rd app stores use safeguards that transcend individual app stores, like they already do on macOS via notarization.

> If that weren't the case, you wouldn't be here trying to use Apple's products when you have multiple options and FOSS readily available.

What if I have an underlying heart condition or other preexisting condition where I must rely upon the Apple Watch to save my life, as Apple claims their products can do via their own marketing?

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/12/06/apple-watch-real-storie...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/1/22862543/apple-watch-911-a...

> Now I lose privacy regulations, apps, convenience, having a phone that just works,

If you like those things, you can still have them. Just don't use another app store. Like the majority of users wouldn't.

> all other users will have a worse experience on their behalf

This all-or-nothing emotional argument is very puzzling. It seems to reduce the Apple today, the most profitable company in the history of the world since the Dutch East India Company, to the shell on the verge the bankruptcy it was in the '90s. You insult and demean Apple by accusing them of being unable to handle an open platform. That all of their engineering, product, and design prowess is unable to square the circle, that all of their resources are for naught. You do not present an argument, you do not present a debate, all you do is insult Apple and say they are incapable and helpless. That is very far and away removed from present real-world conditions. Somehow, that is even more offensive than your insults towards the hacker community.
Depends on the infra and how it’s set up.

If you can afford to have something down for an extended period then fine. But even with a small team some services are built such that certain device outages cannot be tolerated, at least for an extended period.

So out-of-band/console servers or whatever still make a lot of sense and a relatively high priority.
I'm pretty impressed all the stuff they patched in the game at just 4.8 kB/s. TASBot was not active for all that long.
Just got Arthashastra. It’s amazing. Han Feizi is next on my list.
But should apple we liable when they, or any other organization making such claims, inevitably fail to protect their users?

I think their should.
Great analysis. Also, the level at which the OP is understanding the situation means that he is never going to leave the world of the bullshit-takers. Thus his best strategy is to work on continuously improving his technical competence so that he can be a higher-compensated bullshit-taker.
true fact: I work as a commercial/diesel engine mechanic and our shop routinely gets glowing correspondence about how wonderful it is to start an amazon account, take payment through amazon and be an amazon affiliate business. until about six months ago, you could even find a stub landing page on amazon for our "new" store that we never created "coming soon." our attorney was fascinated.

turns out we service so many various amazon contractor fleets and warehouse fork trucks our names somehow made it into the shit filled vortex of amazon.com marketing.
>That's absolutely not the case with IronPython, where being tied to the .NET ecosystem was very much the point.

That might very well be, but I talked about UnladdedSwallow and such "native" attempts.

Not attempts to port to a different ecosystem like Jython or IronPython or the js port.

>maintaining support for native extensions while speeding up the implementation would have been a goal even if it had to be in a fork.

That's not a necessary goal. One could very well want to improve CPython, the core, even if it meant breaking native extensions. Especially if doing so meant even more capabilities for optimization.

I, for one, would be fine with that, and am pretty sure all important native extensions would have adapted quite soon - like they adapted to Python 3 or the ARM M1 Macs.

In fact, one part of the current proposed improvements includes some (albeit trivial) fixes to native extensions.
If they were serious about correcting the power imbalance? They're not even joking about it, such a initiative is on nobody's table.
Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke was a core Rails developer. He's tightly connected to the Ruby & Rails communities.
You can already restrict apps with a unique passcode today. Will work for senile parents or children.

However, as a sane, functioning adult, I don't have my choice on the iOS platform - I cannot use native Firefox. I cannot make my apps without paying the Apple dev tax. I cannot distribute to my circle.
Released an update that only fades out the header/footer when pinch zooming, so it stays visible when swipe scrolling.

Also while fading during a slow pinch, it will no longer fade back in until after your fingers have left the screen.

It’s not perfect still, but much improved imo - thanks for your feedback
This is somewhat of the norm at large places isn't it? I've done interview rounds and was given example questions and more or less told to stick to it otherwise "liability" and "personal bias"
Investment in networking if nothing else... If I see someone in Let's Encrypt swag on the street I'm probably going to give them a compliment!
Amazon has done this once in a while, but I can't figure what triggers it.
>Like, you can't have "a brooklyn"

Every Brooklyn outside of the one in NYC is just "a Brooklyn" and not "THE Brookyln"
> you can write fast code just as easily as you can write slow code

I think some people can do this and some can't. For some, writing slow code is much easier, and their contributions are still valuable. Once the bottlenecks are problems, someone with more performance-oriented skills can help speed up the critical path, and slow code outside of the critical path is just fine to leave as-is.

If you somehow limited contributions only to those who write fast code, I think you'd be leaving way too much on the table.
Also wonder if the PDF exploit works for only local/native PDF readers (e.g. Adobe Readers) or also web-based. If someone occasionally checks their personal email from a work laptop, chances are they'd only use the Gmail preview to open the PDF. It seems like most engineers wouldn't get all the way to downloading a job offer PDF to their work laptop and opening it up there.
Most PDF "attacks" in the real world are very unsophisticated. One of the most common uses of PDFs in a phishing context is just as a way to deliver a link that would likely result in blocking by email security products (many don't inspect inside PDFs, and even for those that do the PDF format is complicated enough that it offers tremendous opportunities for obfuscation). I would wager money that the "PDF attack" involved here was as simple as a link to a malicious executable presented in a PDF to avoid detection by email filtering... in my time as a security analyst this was the #1 source of real compromise incidents, and anecdotally it seems to remain popular today based on the number of such PDFs I receive in my spam email.

The PDF format presents many opportunities for other exploits, either obfuscating a payload or running code, but modern PDF viewers are locking these opportunities down to such a degree that they are not very reliable (most of all because it is difficult to know which PDF viewer your target will use, and many popular PDF viewers today like pdf.js are relatively feature-incomplete which is a significant security advantage in this case). It's possible that something more sophisticated was going on but I would be very surprised if it was anything more complex than using the PDF as an obfuscated transport for a binary packed in it and invoked by the user (e.g. by clicking a link in the PDF with a javascript target). Non-user-interaction PDF vulnerabilities exist but are increasingly hard to come by as there has been more than a decade of work on locking down PDF viewers and the situation has improved dramatically in that time.

Contrary to what people sometimes expect, highly organized groups (such as APTs) tend to stick to very basic, simple methods as much as possible, since they are relatively reliable. The use of recent vulnerabilities in a specific PDF viewer, for example, is high risk due to the likelihood of failure and the opportunities for analysis it presents (you will have to do custom development rather than using off-the-shelf tooling). This is the kind of thing that organized groups try to avoid as much as possible, subject to an ROI analysis. Or in other words, if putting a link to an EXE in a PDF still works, why would you bother with anything else?
> Does anyone struggle with this, or do you have any recommendations for people like me who do struggle to understand what's happening in corporate meetings?

Your brain is functioning well, especially the filtering mechanism. There's nothing going on in those meetings. They are boring. I don't go, get work done and nobody complains.

In general meetings with more than 6 people(this is already too many) are not worth going to.
To put in perspective, Shopify has a market cap of 41B. This is 0.00002 of that.

The average net worth of an American is 122k[0]. So this is like the average American donating $2.44 to a cause.

[0] https://www.fool.com/research/average-net-worth-americans
Technically he isn't arrested for insulting diety. But I dont support his arrest, It's just stupid that process is the punishment.
"I really love your strategic approach, and I think we should seamlessly impact our intrepid cloud-ready technology with another meeting to go more in depth. I would like you, or John Smith from Marketing, to restore backward-compatible partnerships between our team leads. That way we can continually seize efficient human capital. That will really synergise with our stakeholders. What do you think?"

And you can respond to whatever they say with a thinking nod while stroking your chin. And street-kids would say "bet", you simply say "hmhm, very agile."

You'll be CEO in no-time.
The App Privacy Report is great, but too late. It shows you what an app did, not what it might do.
But 99.99% of people could stream Twitch 10 hours a day, put out half a dozen Youtube videos a week, chase every TikTok trend, and never make a dime. And at the end of it all? They wasted so much of their time doing things to chase the money, instead of things they liked, and when Twitch decides they're not going to preserve archives from unpopular streams, they don't even have the artifact left over.
You could, but uncertainty always exists in the real world, so if it doesn't exist in the trolley problem then your choice in the trolley problem doesn't map to the real world and is not useful.

For one thing, in the real world if the trolley is close and moving fast then you have little time to think and observe and high uncertainty, but if the trolley is distant and slow then you have lots of time to try calling other bystanders, untie or rescue people from the track instead. So the more your choice is constrained down to just moving the lever or not, the higher uncertainty and less clear the situation is.

And in the real world it's more likely that a group of young people would tie some shop mannekins to a track for a laugh, or a film studio would tie props to a track, than that a moustache-twirling villain would tie some real people to a track. There is uncertainty in simply believing what you see; seeing five people tied to train tracks and about to die and being convinced they are real people, would have me thinking I must be dreaming.
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> I don’t understand why returns are so permissive, especially in industries that can’t/won’t resell returned products (eg fashion).

Because it's a competitive market. Once your competitors offer something like a generous return policy you might need to do the same.
“Wasting” is a bad term. It’s subjective.
Fusion is anything but light, and still not optimized for M1 (still a Rosetta app). Even on a beefy Workstation, it’s no fun.
Logic is better but not exactly light if you have multiple track, AU plug-in…

So that’s not surprising - heck, with 16gb or ram it’s not a walk in the park. I’ve discussed with owner a Mac studio, and they were not happy for Fusion either, that’s with 64gb of ram so…