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Not quite the same thing, but it still amuses me that we use the infrared Remote Control Tranceiver driver and hardware in the ESP32 to generate LED strip PWM signals!

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...

https://github.com/Lucas-Bruder/ESP32_LED_STRIP/blob/master/...
GoDaddy has the IANA Registrar ID #146,so I think it is not the oldest internet domain registrar company. Since ICANN rules the internet, they shouldn't use an unreliable company like this, why didn't ICANN use Network Solutions which has the IANA Registrar ID #2(#1 is reserved)? Hence,Network Solutions is trusted and used by the United Nations and its bodies. GoDaddy did really bad things, so why did ICANN ever do this?
> Or if it's too annoying I'll switch refrigerators.

You think that having to switch a working major appliance for another because of a post-purchase update by the manufacturer is an acceptable cost for consumers to have to take on? I assume this is because you think the free market forces always end up optimal in the end somehow, and that regulation will cause more harm than good?
Yes, you can do this, particularly it can make sense for a long-lived CA to have root #1 sign a certificate for root #2 as-if it was an intermediate, so then you can bring root #2 into use but older clients can trust it by sending them that intermediate certificate, while newer clients should rely on their direct trust.

Some older clients unfortunately can get into a state where they distrust root #1 (e.g. because it is old) but they know it exists, and so even though they trust root #2 they can see this alternate path via the intermediate to root #1 and reject the whole mess. People shouldn't write software which does this, but they did.
I would recommend banning Netflix first while you are at it:

data centers providing Netflix streaming services would consume around 370 TWh per year (Kamiya 2020) [1]

That's not counting all the client devices power consumption while watching it.

While BTC uses 87 TWh. [2]

1. https://blogs.salleurl.edu/en/energy-consumption-data-center....

2. https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index
The Western Main Stream Media lie so much that you will get a better idea of the Truth by simply reversing everything they say.
No.

They are not purchases of digital goods.

Read more at the Apple App Store guidelines page https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus...
Have any private keys actually been made public? I don't see any evidence of that. The only claim I see here is that they're being used to sign malware.
Is this an argument for more Safe injection sites or for criminalizing children in parks?

I can never tell with San Francisco
Free speech is a spectrum. Speech can be more or less free but when used on its own it usually refers to the freeness level allowed in the US.
4090s support NCCL and are not allowed in datacenters
> After the casino ads took over the App Store, it became apparent that they're just bullshitting about safety and trustworthy computing. Because why not, if you care about those things, where are you going to go, Android? Ha-ha.

Hopefully they’re at least vetting the casino apps. The only thing worse than shady casino ads are ads for shady casinos.
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Depending on the age of the devices in question, 'simply' may not accurately reflect the solution as Android vendors generally stop updating devices as soon as they can get away with it, security issue or otherwise. Unless these are newer devices, I'd expect that a fair number of them will never get an update.
I agree with with you. I watched live every Lee Sedol Go game in the first match. Lost some sleep due to the time difference. I was so excited. That was a long time ago. Now large language models get me more excited for progress in AI.

At least this new model is very different to the approach taken in Alpha Go.
Everyone has faced this to some degree. You want to get your work or message out there and it gets shut down by the powers that be. The question is how to encourage a level playing field. You could have the government step in, however, that comes with its own issues. I wouldn't want a larger entity who has guns being the decision maker.

Apple has been the vanguard of selling software for years. People don't buy desktop software anymore, and it wasn't all that successful to begin with. They do buy software on phones, though, and Apple enables an ecosystem that might not otherwise exist. It's not clear to me that Google needs paid apps. They were happy with ads before that.
One thing that I'm genuinely curious about that I've never heard addressed is whether the large increase of people identifying as trans(trans women in particular) could be related to the same factors that are causing lowered sperm counts and testosterone in men. There are massive amounts of compounds in our environment that are endocrine disrupters or mimic sex hormones like estrogen. Like maybe many persons assumed to be trans could be people affected by the same environmental contaminants or other factors that are behind those and that's why they end up feeling different than typical for their sex? Maybe they would even benefit more from hormone treatments in the opposite direction than the "gender affirming" treatments. How do we know we need to affirm their gender feelings instead of treat their medical problems? I haven't heard anyone in any public forum try to explain in good faith why or why not explanations other than what they feel being completely natural might be the case.
Structurally, the book is a mess. But it is a narrative disaster much like Snow Crash, in which it doesn't matter because you're so busy trying to integrate all the mind candy you don't notice until a re-read.

I feel like there are other science fiction books like this - overstuffed with lovely things to think about, from an author who is either inexperienced or doesn't care about the craft side. (In this case, Charlie was a fairly fresh author, he's improved a lot.)

Some of Greg Egan's writing fits that, but I'm having trouble thinking of other authors.
Had this for a few months. It's great but lacking in tools to manage the subscriptions.
Glory to Zalgo, it’s finally been solved:

https://ibb.co/KwGLy9C
Why can't I root a Qualcomm Samsung phone for the US market? What about carrier locked phones? Et cetera.
The BBC? LOL.

The BBC has been famous for broadcasting everything the British Government tells it to for nearly a century, since the 1930s. Like all Government-funded media the world over, they know that their existence depends on saying what they are told to say. Or else.
Oh absolutely! Here’s an example from 2019: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15900

“An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. On platforms without strtonum(3), sscanf was used without checking for error cases. Instead, the uninitialized variable errstr was checked and in some cases returned success even if sscanf failed. The result was that, instead of reporting that the supplied username or group name did not exist, it would execute the command as root.”

Fail to check that your input parsed correctly, wind up with privilege escalation to root.
No. They have already thought of this scenario, years ago.

Paying for GAS is paying for the computation .. which is a digital service .. which is https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus... what Coinbase agreed to share a portion of the money taken from customers with Apple when they published an app on the App Store.

In my view, Apple is providing customers another layer of trustworthiness, since a purchase of a digital good or service is intangible .. "did anything just happen?" .. the customer has recourse via Apple for an app that theoretically abuses that "seller of digital items" relationship.
>That said the private key for the CA could be compromised and in that case everything not up to date is toast

I don't follow. Do different Android distributors make use of the same CA? If so why? I don't even see why they would need to make use of a CA if their public key is shipped with the device.
> I don't think WASM should/would unify the GC across memory models

WASM already has a GC proposal[0] which is already at the "Implementation stage"[1] so it looks like this IS going to happen, although it's uncertain if language runtimes like Go will actually make use of the feature, or what.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

A glance of the overview and spec seems to indicate that WASM will provide some primitive data types, and any GC language can build their implementation on top of it. As I understand it, it's heavily based on Reference Types[3], which allows acting on host-provided types, and is already considered part of the spec [4]. It doesn't remove the need for the 5 different runtimes to have their own GC, but it lowers the bulk that the runtimes need to carry around, and offloads some of that onto the WASM runtime instead.

[3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...

[4]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/blob/main/finished-...
This is a Fox-News style tabloid story (I say that as someone who reads fox news) I don't think there are any useful societal conclusions or recommendations to be drawn here
Honestly, the current status of iOS is sh*t. I left macOS and am doing my own Linux config because I found it's actually a better experience even if I suffer config hell from time to time.

I need my phone, however. Some stuff like having a Google maps with GPS are very valuable. Being able to join a meeting call while still going out is also another advantage. Then you have a bunch of apps that now I can live without but don't want to (like Apple Pay, Banking Apps, Taking a photo...)

Point is: If there is an alternative, I'd switch immediately. And please don't suggest Android as that is Apple with extra-messy-steps.
I can't explain the downvotes, but for what it's worth both Apple and AMD offer far more power for the same TDP when talking about low-wattage parts, do they not? Thats the whole benefit of TSMC's process advantage (and also why Nvidia also moved to them from Samsung this generation). In practice of course, to get the performance uplift consumers expect, AMD and Intel and Nvidia are all pushing TDPs to the limit where they can, but for products that want performance-per-watt, the TSMC-based ones are king, from what I've seen.

That said, it's all a moving target, and anyone who thinks Intel isn't producing good parts today is wrong -- they are.
Writing a Chat Client from Scratch
I have a vague recollection of reading parts of a novel something like this in comments on slashdot around the early 2000s, was this released that way?

All I recall about it was it was 3 parts, pre-singularity, singularity, post-singularity or something like that.
Went after the wrong rat.
there were, numerically, basically no alt-right people 20 years ago. now regular assholes are being infected by this stuff and a huge percentage of the information storm coming at me every day is either angry, an outright lie, a reposting of something hateful or untrue, and "sunlight" isnt helping anything. we are creating an insane landscape of anger, loathing and unreality, and now more and more public figures are amplifying it, including the owner of a major social media site.

sunlight being disinfectant is not true. stochastic terrorism driven by media hyper engagement is definitely true.
I've fixed it, still unsure about the cause of the problem but it should be there now.
The "splash"-page might be a better link (eg: there's an epub version, not to mention a few interesting paragraphs about the origins of the book - of particular interest to the hn crowd):

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
Many computer/electrics manufacturers and OEMs, like ASUS, Acer, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron, MediaTek, Synology, etc are HQ'd in Taiwan. Though PRC company may be able to supersede them, unlike TSMC.
No country can get more than 7% of the employment or family based green cards.
Well, your examples are from 50 years ago...
No.

AFAIK paying for 'gas' is paying for a digital service of computation. This is covered by Apple's App Store Guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#bus... for years and years.

Being a consumer who buys digital services through an app hosted by App Store should have some recourse. And that's, again AFAIK, what Apple does with its Guidelines...help empower the consumer should, theoretically, Coinbase not uphold their part of the digital purchase fulfillment relationship when $$ was exchanged on an iPhone app.
> What happens when you microwave a detergent covered bowl?

So... what happens?
Just wanted to say this. Still using p2p in 2022. Yes, it’s less frequent than before due to ubiquitous content online but it’s still very reliable.
No.

Apple Pay vs Store Kit - first is for things like T-Shirts, second is for digital purchases like virtual currency in videogames.
It's fiction that moving to the cloud removes most of the complexity of running computer systems.
anyone know how to link this to a GUI?
Apple doesn't have any monopolistic positions. None. At all. And they also manifestly have not "driven out" their product people. They're still making genius products.
> seething car owners who will fight tooth and nail to keep their free parking spaces

I was going to say that despite the objections from car owners, we did get Citibike... but if I use that word, I know they'll just replace the bike stations with trash containers. "Cleaner city and no parking spaces lost," they'll say.
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Enact a secondary system that rewards the discovery and elimination of illicit rodent breeding programs.
How Do I Implement a Traffic Policy?
Cloud GPUs aren't better.
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Yes.

This route avoids Apple having ANY obligation to protect its consumers .. when they choose to use a random website to transact.

This Coinbase issue is about Coinbase using an Apple App Store App to perform a service around digital purchases which ALL Apple consumers can EXPECT a certain set of values upheld BY APPLE INC on their behalf .. sort of protection by Apple when buying anything digital via an App.
The species that mutilates and heats the planet, and which created those companies?

This may be a long-overdue self-correction.

Global infertility may just be what solves global warming.
Is the Apple Music app honestly much better? The web interface was pretty garbage last time I tried too, constantly stopping for no reason.

And I'd say Firefox for Android has Safari for iOS beat by mile. I can use add-ons like Ublock Origin and no script, plus stuff like background video fixer to play YouTube videos in the background. And I can't think of a single thing it lacks over Safari.
Fair enough, I lost myself in that comment.

What I mean to say is that the thing has no value in a market where it's being sold digitally. If it's so easy for a person to make copies of something and share it with their friends then some people will make every copy they can and give it to whomever asks. In this world of proliferated general purpose computers and the public internet, it turns out people can make infinite copies and give them to everyone. I 1) do not think it's necessarily wrong for someone to choose to do that and 2) do not agree with where the line has been drawn for when it is considered wrong. In this case, the person downloaded 100TB and uploaded 20TB and we're saying it's wrong enough to be 5 times more receptive than giving that we threaten prison.

All that being said, I see a situation where someone thinks they have something they can sell, but then it happens that anyone can indiscriminately make and share copies of the thing so it's not actually worth buying. The producers of the thing then start whining about people making copies and those people who choose to do that get thrown in prison. It's very hard for me not to see the people being imprisoned as the victims when the people alleging harm have done fuck all to prove that they were caused any harm.
Poking around the github there's a FORM cookbook: https://github.com/vermaseren/form/wiki/FORM-Cookbook with some examples.

It looks like it's basically a fancy term-rewriting system.
Render Price Hike
Who remembers Jean-Yves Girard? His linear logic was the foundation of Rust.
We live in a world where people who got participation awards in school need training wheels now.
Wake me up when sqlite is rewritten in Rust.
Sarcastic, but LOL .. like Elon Musk did, and now is talking like he had some epiphany of unity after enjoying the Apple campus tour.
I think Apple is forward thinking here. The Apple store is a very big business.

And crypto is looking for a use case.

Buy NFT to access this app features.

See?
isn't desert colder at night?
Exponential is to factorial as linear is to log-linear.
> software wise quality has suffered and this quote applies…

I agree but Apple had lot of software issues when Jobs was CEO. Software can get incredibly complex and subjective to the user using it.
To each their own, bit this is what it boils down to for me: I trust Mozilla's intentions more than I trust Brave's.

There's no telling when Brave are going to decide it's time to monetize and start compromising themselves and their users.
People didn't just drop dead from heart failure during the great depression. 6000 people are dying a week in the USA from unspecified reasons.
That wouldn't be relevant if it were for entrapment purposes, would it?
It wasn't my experience that they were harder working or more capable than the domestic talent. Because of the immigration benefits, some had additional motivations native-born Americans didn't have, but there are easier ways to immigrate. There were some differences culturally in how certain things were approached, but I thought capability wise there was not an obvious and significant disparity in terms of capability of students by national origin.

What was noticeable is that there were a lot of these students and to the extent that the US does not retain them, we are training the workforce of our competitors. To the extent we do retain them, we are poaching the talent of our competitors. My guess is this is tough to balance and where we're at now is making total global innovation higher but lowering the proportion of the pie over which the US has dominion.
Why shouldn’t this kind of inconsistency be pointed out?

I’m happy to believe GP didn’t say exactly what they intended to or simply misremembered what exactly they said previously. It’s certainly something I’ve done before in an online conversation. And when it’s happened to me I’ve appreciated having it pointed out explicitly so I could clarify what my thoughts actually were. Often it’s because I misstated my opinion without realizing.

Either that’s the case here (what I’m choosing to believe) and it gives GP an opportunity to explain further or GP is engaging in this discussion in bad faith. In either case, I don’t see the downside.
Lowers the severity of these issues tho.
> Garbage bags on the street are a nuisance, but not the problem.

I find it hard to believe that inexhaustible mountains of calorie-dense food would not affect the population of an organism adapted to that niche.
That's basically what it is