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Worse, it's now all soldered in, so we can't even upgrade it.

Like - fuck. this. shit.

I will take - in a heartbeat - (we'd all better!) whatever slight decrease in performance and slightly larger design that comes from not being soldered in half a microsecond if it means I can actually upgrade the RAM later on after my purchase.

Not just because I want continued value out of my purchase - because honestly, that's not even getting started on the amount of eWaste that must be created from this selfish, harmful; wasteful pattern.

Think about all the MacBook Airs out there stuck with 4GB of RAM and practically useless 128GB SSD's that could be useful if Apple didn't intentionally make them useless.

We've certainly gone very far backward in terms of any computer hardware worth purchasing in the last ten years.

I really don't get the point, beyond greed - of this whole soldering garbage. No performance or size benefits can be worth not being able to continue to reap value from my investment a couple years down the road.

This not only creates seriously less waste, but also nurtures a healthy, positive attitude of valuing our hardware instead of seeing it as a throwaway, replaceable thing.

I truly hope environmental laws make it illegal at some point. The EU seems to be good with that stuff. The soldering issue accomplishes literally nothing beyond nurturing, continuing, and encouraging a selfish culture of waste that only gets worse the more and more accepted we allow it to become.

We've only got one planet. It's way - way - WAY - past time we started acting like it.

Ten years ago, the state of hardware was far more sustainable than it is now.

For. Fucking. Shame.
I don't have one in particular in mind. I have in mind a whole pattern, going back at least as far as the invasion of Georgia in (IIRC) 2008. That said - in actions, not just words - that Russia feels free to invade neighbors if it doesn't like their policies.

Then came Russia's statements at the time of the color revolution. (No, I don't recall specific statements - that was eight or nine years ago.)

Then came the invasion of the "little green men". Russia said it was an internal thing, that Russia was not involved. Ukraine knows better.

Was that not enough for Ukraine, as early as 2013, to be looking for alliances to help their defense?

But for every move they made, Russia felt threatened by NATO. And so Russia responded by threatening Ukraine even more (mostly verbally, until 2022). But the bigger the threats that Russia uttered, the more Ukraine sought to strengthen ties to the west. This was now a positive feedback loop. It doesn't matter if one side was "right", it doesn't matter who made the first move, Russia's reactions were driving Ukraine more firmly into the camp of the west.

Since the invasion, Russia's comments have been jaw-dropping. "Ukraine has no independent existence." They threatened Finland for joining NATO. (Why do they think Finland might see the need to join NATO, after decades of non-alignment?) They threatened Poland for being a transit point for weapons flowing into Ukraine. They talked about re-creating the USSR or the Russian Empire or some big thing from the past that had a bigger land footprint. They talked about already being at war with NATO. Do they think that people don't listen to this? That they don't react? That the reaction is going to be to bow down to Russia's diktat? People (not just Ukraine) are scrambling, either toward Russia or away. Belarus is scrambling toward (Russia having kept Lukashenka in power might have something to do with that). Uzbekistan and maybe Kazakhstan are moving toward Russia. Everyone else is scrambling away, trying to find allies big enough to deter Russia from attacking them.

(Now, in fairness, since the invasion Russia has been running wartime propaganda, so of course their rhetoric has hardened. That doesn't convince their neighbors that Russia wants to live with them in peace, though.)

So, yeah. It's not just one threat. It's the whole pattern of Russia's words and actions over the last decade or two.
>the US is very resistant to the idea of education reform in general,

I suspect almost all Americans are interested in education reform, but are split between two opposing directions: getting rid of nondischargeable, subsidized federal loans; or making the whole thing run on federal money.
laws have jurisdiction so he's probably saying he doesn't know all laws from all jurisdictions?
Glitch was an an amazing game the the explorer, social, and achiever archetypes. Wonderful narrative too
> Create a call stack map and write it down

(personal anecdote) I strongly agree with this. Writing it down is very important. Whenever I trace through a call stack, I tend to construct a visualization of it in my mind (in the form of a DAG + each root starting with the caller, if you will). But I could never hold that image especially when it gets too complex. Forcing myself to write it down helped me a lot - it doesn't matter if it's messy writings or drawings, somehow the _act of writing_ just helped me so much in reconciling concepts and connecting the dots.
Sarcasm doesn't work on the internet - there's no way to read your tone.
> this would completely preclude SQL injection :)

No it wouldn't! I regularly see web apps with URLs like this:

someapp/reports/foo?start=1000&end=2000&sort=DESC

There are two fixes for this that mostly work:

1) Use a binary-only format that has no string representation at all. Instead, queries must be built up using a fluent builder style, or similar API surface. This is fine for "apps", but is less useful for ad-hoc queries obviously.

2) Use something similar to what web app frameworks do when generating HTML. Instead of accepting naked 'string' types, only accept something like an 'IEncodedHtml' type that automatically converts from strings, but escapes them in the process. Passing in a raw string as SQL would require some sort of scary-looking function call that is easy to grep in a codebase. E.g.: "QueryBuilder.UnsafeConvertTrustedString(...)" to really drive the point home. And then of course, IDEs and build tools would need to emit warnings or outright errors if HTTP inputs are directly passed to this function as-is.

Having said that, nothing will ever be sufficient. Developers start sentences with: "I just want to...", which is basically to say that they don't want to have to "deal" with security and just get it "working".

Another GIANT mistake I see in most (all?) database clients is that there is no distinction between needing a read-write connection or a read-only connection.

Making read-only the default would have huge benefits, such as:

1) Making all apps automatically gain the ability to do read-scale-out when using systems such as SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups with readable secondaries. Right now this takes a major application code change to have any benefit, which means "nobody" does it. I've been literally begging and pleading with developers to just add a second connection string with "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly" in it for report generation, and NOBODY has done it. Not one developer.

2) Security! If you don't need your app, page, or specific query to write, then don't enable the write privilege! Again, the default here is super dangerous, but every developer does it because it's the easy happy path. I'd be shocked if even 1% of the web applications in the wild switch to a read-only account or connection string, because it is so fiddly in current systems.

Even with all of the above, databases won't be perfectly secure against injection. The latest SQL injection attacks I've seen pen testers use is to add "DELAY" commands to exfiltrate data one bit at a time. This works similarly to micro-architectural side-channel attacks such as the famous Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in Intel. Even if explicit injection isn't possible, timing attacks are often still possible if ad-hoc query generation is exposed.

Security is hard.
"classic-like" Ehlers-Danlos is triggered by misregulated tenascin-X. Tenascin-X is very close to major histocompatibility complex II, a TRPV receptor, heat shock proteins, and more. Also in the same region as TNF-alpha.

Chromosome 6, region p21.3 is chock-full of interesting genes.
It's down again.
> Autism isn't a mental illness. https://www.youngminds.org.uk/young-person/mental-health-con....

Hmmm. Multiple organizations see it as a "mental health disorder." At least in the US.

https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Rel...

> Your opinions need a lot more research and emotional intelligence.

Right back at you.

> The "my friend" thing is so predictable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280771596_I'm_Not_H...

If you think anyone who has ever had a gay (or other minority) friend or family member espousing their empathy is really veiled phobia, then you have more issues than I could have imagined. Your link didn't help you any, unfortunately.

> Go learn something.

Right back at ya.
> I really wish people spent less time fetishising old ruins and more time actually building a liveable city. Paris would be so much nicer. Might be even more relevant at the national level actually. France really is a dying country.

8% of their GDP is tourism, so the old ruins are actually important.

Now to address your real point, I just came back from Paris and if anything it's a very good example of positive "human-scale" urbanization. Sure they don't have skyscrapers, but every building is about 6 stories, which is great for density. You can take the RER/Metro/Train to go basically anywhere. For shorter travels you have a great network of buses that isn't (compared to Canada and most likely the US) snubbed by wealthy people so you don't feel like you'll get stabbed by some homeless person when you climb onboard.

> France really is a dying country

On that point we agree actually, but I really don't see how their issue is bad urbanism.
In general, that may sometimes be true, but in the SF Bay Area, those restrictions on residential development have always been excessive and about protecting property values for existing home owners.
Alright so you can go check out datalisp.is and tala saman then.. it's my attempt
With Hacker News containing mostly user submitted links, and those having target-provided descriptions, the web site is really a "real web site title or satire" quiz.

IOW, nothing particular about HackerNews, even if it uses HackerNews to aggregate the non-satire headings.
But not earnings, instead let's use wealth. Otherwise all the unemployed rich people will claim zero income and get off for nothing.
I know you said "probably," but, in fact, not all SWE commutes are optional. I once had a job programming a $50k test rig for a $75k piece of hardware, neither of which existed outside of my company's test lab. You could SSH into the test rig, but there were other logistical issues that made that a painful way to work, and not something you'd want to do often. I didn't mind my commute, anyway, because it was a 5 minute bike ride or a 20 minute walk at a leisurely pace.
This is a pointless semantic argument.
I feel like we have a lot of non-critical stuff that we should be able to cut.

Right. And if you don't value books, music, or art then San Francisco is not for you. There are plenty of other more bare bones cities to live in. Even in the Bay Area. You would likely be much happier in a city like Emeryville or Denver.

It costs more to do more. San Francisco does a lot of things that other consolidated cities push off onto the state or private companies. Speaking of world class education, City College is run by San Francisco. Denver's community college is run by the state and doesn't even have a dedicated campus. Muni was servicing well more than half a million trips daily and is funded in large part through the city budget. Denver's got a regional transit district funded independently and the whole region only sees about 200,000 riders.

I mean, look, I get that you're tap dancing around cutting social services. Who wants to pay to deal with homeless people or drug addicts? However, that's only part of the puzzle. All of the other cities (except for NY and DC) either push off the cost of the services San Francisco funds or they simply don't offer them at all.
I wonder if this will affect employee retention. Going from no commute to "miles" must be a pretty jarring experience. I'm sure the rest of MOFAANG is paying attention to see how it pans out.
> but enough CEO's and mil/billionaires to completely skew the medium far higher than it should be

Are you confusing median for arithmetic mean?

Median is meant to avoid the skew from the top 1% (or top 10% or 20% or whatever). Half the population is above the median and half below.
Is there room for principled takes on moderation?
Not sure when it became a feature, but since at least 5 years ago you can click and drag the equation edit bar down to reveal multiple lines for editing.

Pair this with Alt+Enter (line break) and adding 4 spaces at the start and you can nest functions in a familiar, albeit manual, way.
Oh, totally agree. It’s not a performance thing for me. I don’t have a fancy car, just enjoy the activity.

I mostly envy the nav on my wife’s Apple Car Play. Otherwise it’s just a running map and an album art display.

We use Waze for interstate travel and Google Maps for local. It’s nicer than a “nav package” or my phone holder. Otherwise, I’m happy with whatever let’s me listen to my tunes and podcasts.

But I don’t need it that much. My little car is mostly for in town. We always use the van for trips.

I do love a good minivan. I’m not ashamed :)
Perhaps a better URL is this blogpost: https://preactjs.com/blog/introducing-signals/
ICE lifespan lasts decades longer than an EV battery with zero degradation on range. I'm still driving my 1992 vehicle today. Your assumption is just wrong.
I've seen the ones on the second set meaning completely different things from one application or environment to another. Even switching the meaning between themselves.
"This is hopeless."

On this, we agree. You appear to be basing your understanding on the reason.com article and have not read the actual underlying proceedings. He was fined because he lied on his renewal application. There are likely very few examples of this exact issue because most professionals don't behave in this fashion. Seeing as how the article leaves out this salient point, it's fairly clear that the article is not an unbiased source.

As for the "strawmen" comment: you're getting direct, personal feedback from someone who does this for a living and has been for over 15 years. My opinion is that my association would have done the same thing, if not more, and would have been correct in doing so. The court involved in this case agrees. If you choose to hand wave it away because it's inconsistent with whatever deeper meaning you have read into, you do you.
I think Windows 11 is not so far from “good” from a UX perspective. The issues with Windows 11 are largely on Microsoft’s desire to promote features and content that they would like you to see. You can disable most of this and get a very usable OS.

MacOS, on the other hand, is bad and getting worse and not many people are talking about it. MacOS has no such “house ad” issues, but instead I spend half my time fiddling with windows in MacOS, sometimes inexplicably switching between full screen mode and normal mode to get apps to do what I want. Sometimes full screen mode is buggy, or maybe the app’s implementation of fullscreen mode is buggy, but either way I end up having to restart the app. Animations that once hid the limitations of spinning disk hard drives, making things feel faster than they actually were, now just make things feel slower than they actually are. (Windows, since 11, has actually added more animations, but, thankfully, you can turn them off).

It is a real shame too because Apple hardware is second to none. I just have grown to feel very frustrated by the direction of their OS. As Windows has progressed the Mac has gone backwards and it has to do largely with Fullscreen mode and the lack of window snapping.
I don't think it's a women vs men issue but rather medical system just sucks and men biology is somewhat simple relatively speaking but men are also suffering from low testosterone, hair loss, ed, brain fog, low energy, and more and all doctors just say your cholesterol is good are you depressed?
Generating new tax revenue via overbearing nanny state actions is a 2/2 for most modern demographic societies.
I really wish y'all had a grip on and were measuring the bufferbloat you are creating with TCP_INFO. hundreds of flows in slow start are really tough on the network even with fq_codel or cake, and ledbat...
Banning gas furnaces for new construction is removing choice.
I'm guessing lethal administration is by injection.
More like it doesn't work on the internet with a general audience, because some people will need you to say something in a funny voice to know not to believe it.
They are advocating for immediate change, not a long slow transition. Read their release.
GP meant write once, read many
It won't be widely adopted.
Web3 accounts, web2 accounts, cryptography, and custody
> the person behind privacytests.org is a current Brave employee

I wasn't aware of this, thanks. It doesn't seem like such a good impartial reference now :/

> and still make bad decisions

Agree 100%. I hope the Binance fiasco scared Brave into being more honest, and resulted in more scrutiny of their codebase.

One more misstep like that and I'd consider Brave completely untrustworthy, regardless of privacy scores or research paper findings.
Neuropunk Revolution. Hacking Cognitive Systems Towards Cyborgs 3.0
- CO2 harvesting
- Desalination
- Nuclear power (fission & fusion)
- Robotic labor & automation
- Sustainable 3d printed structures
- EV’s
- Urban cooling chimneys
- Plant-based food tech
- Genetic engineering
- Synthetic human organs
- Weight loss meds
- Synthetic blood
- Augmented cognition
- Robotic medicine
- Online higher education
…as a start
> The low end doesn't need PCIe slots for anything: integrated GPUs are good enough to do all generic business work, integrated sound, network, blah blah blah.

Although 'low end' may be a misnomer, you do have a point.

But then, if expansion slots are not needed, you can go with ITX motherboards as that's the point. If I'm buying a full size ATX board, it better have plenty of expansion capabilities.
Cool: that's called "c", it comes from doing "a" and "b" for a while.
> As a complete outsider and observer with no stake in the game

Here's a PR on a competing Wasm runtime, which someone on your github account authored. You should consider changing your GitHub password or getting a carbon monoxide detector.
https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer/pull/3013
If your outside experience was in the UK, I would tend to agree. Their healthcare is drastically underfunded.

In comparison to France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc I would disagree.
So, if you choose to define poverty as relative, that works. Checking via dict.org, the first given definition however is: "The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need." The second allows for a possible relative measure, in proposing both need and desire as conditions: "Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas." (Based on 1913 Webster.)

<http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=poverty>

That's limited support for the relative definition you propose, unless one chooses relation to survival and thriving itself, though your definition would suggest a societal relation.

I'll accept that Man of the Hole's circumstances being contemporary and having interactions with the broader human community introduce a social element. My intent was to consider his circumstances independent of that relation, which was why I'd proposed alternatives clearly absent that aspect. You've not addressed those in your response.
> If every unoptimized Electron app (but I repeat myself) were writing its memory leaks straight to permanent storage my computer would never work again.

This is a catastrophic misunderstanding. I have no idea how you think a computer works, but if memory leaks are written to permanent storage, that will have no effect on anything. The difference between volatile and non-volatile memory is in whether the data is lost when the system loses power.

A memory leak has nothing at all to do with that question. A leak occurs when software at some level believes that it has released memory while software at another level believes that that memory is still allocated to the first software. If your Electron app leaks a bunch of memory, that memory will be reclaimed (or more literally, "recognized as unused") when the app is closed. That's true regardless of whether the memory in question could persist through a power outage. Leaks don't stay leaked because they touch the hard drive -- touching the hard drive is something memory leaks have done forever! They stay leaked because the software leaking them stays alive.
There is lots of other regeneration.

Immature humans can regenerate fingers severed back to the first joint if not stitched up, producing a complete fingernail and (different!) fingerprint.
So, again: how is that an even remotely recent phenomenon? That's literally been the case since we invented domain-specific scientific publications.
I'm not opposed to tax revenue generation, but the cigarette tax is a regressive tax on a product that is harmful. In the interest of public health wouldn't it be better to eliminate tobacco?
"The Death of the PCIe Expansion Card" seems like an extreme description of the latest set of motherboards having "fewer than five" PCIe slots.

Yeah, the numbers have shrunk over time, but I think that's probably due to USB and perhaps to some extent HDMI making an expansion card unnecessary. Also, motherboards have enough hard drive controllers in them now that most people who would add a hard drive to their PC have no reason to need an expansion card to do so.

I don't particularly like the trend either, but I think PCIe is far from dead at this point.
Is this supposed to link to a specific comment on the page, or the article itself?
'Workstation-class' computers absolutely can have 128 GB of memory, or even more.

Even Apple does this (not just on the Mac Pro, you can configure the Mac Studio for it too). On the PC side all AMD Threadrippers can support at least that much, as can the Intel i9. These aren't server-class CPUs that require ECC memory or anything exotic like that either. Normal consumer hardware.
The main deterrent here is that it's too easy for the leaders of the evil government to end up being infected too. Even if you target a virus at specific genetics or make a secret vaccine, it's impossible to predict how it might evolve once it's out in the wild. At least given current technology, viruses can't be controlled well enough to make good weapons.
I've experienced a similar effect but from a fresh operating system reinstall from any of Windows, Mac and Linux. I expect it's due to a fresh disk format and install, so all the files should be unfragmented for faster sequential reads. Also over time the search indices and data builds up which just makes things slower.

I haven't used Windows 11 much myself but I just thought I would mention this. I've even seen this effect on an iPad where a fresh install makes searching fast again but over time the search function just becomes excruciatingly slow.