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Although I'm unfamiliar with bluetooth drivers, how would you go about making binary files portable?

I'd imagine one would decompile the binaries, and modify the source code for redistribution as some portable library supporting whatever build target a user has. Of course, I assume (1) the decompiler can't detect compile-time macros detecting architecture and (2) you'd be screwed if you need shared libraries.

P.S. Interestingly, the first link when one googles "firmware decompiler" is to CIA code on Wikileaks lol
What corporate network? I only use github and Slack.
very relevant. Mathworks has an iron grip on the defense industry and academia. Like others have said, because of simulink and a paradigm called "model based engineering". Simulink is nice, especially HDL coding tools because writing HDL by hand can be a real pain. I wish Octave made an open source - maybe one day.
> but what’s the benefit of going with a walled off proprietary $$$ tool when you can use something like this

My day-to-day stack nowadays is mostly Python with a smattering of others, but I’ve been using MATLAB for almost 15 years.

Like any other enterprise software, you’re paying for support and generally very good documentation. If you have a technical issue or even just a development question you get a response from a human within a day or two, often just a few hours.

There are also many domain-specific tools (e.g. Simulink) that do not have similarly functional open alternatives. Octave is great, but can lag behind new language features and generally isn’t 100% cross compatible. Whether or not this affects you is really dependent on your use case.
Then what do you do if the connector that plugs into the phone/laptop gets damaged? Throw away the whole charger?
See also a good home-made trap that relies on this behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhifTGKtUQ
You can still see the widgets on the separate page, just scroll all the way to the left. That functionality is still the same
It uses Mapbox GL JS v2.x, which is no longer open-source and is tied to the TOS, so the distinction of using Mapbox tiles or not doesn't seem to matter. Just loading the library requires a token from Mapbox.
> On April 1, a Navy EP-3 electronic spy plane, operated by the National Security Agency and on patrol along the Chinese coast, was forced to make an emergency landing on China's Hainan Island. After evacuating the crew, Chinese intelligence agents went to work extracting some of the agency's most secret espionage and cryptologic equipment, along with piles of documents classified above top secret. An enormous windfall, the hardware, software, and documents gave Chinese intelligence critical insight into the NSA's targets in their country, and the methods used to spy on them.

I don't understand this at all. Why would a spy plane be carrying all that? Why would top secret documents be unencrypted (or decryptable by the couriers of said documents)?
Fun! Nice retro vibe. Great job.
Interesting aspects for me are i) automatic shooting and ii) multiple hits required to bring down a ship.
> They are not better than modules.

They are. You don't control your runtime environment with modules, nor your deployment. You create problems due to the need to manage releases and deployments. You can break everyone's work if you make a mistake, which worsens the problem. You are unable to pick and choose what technologies you use. Etc etc etc.

With a service, you just tell everyone where it is and what's the interface, and leave it to everyone else to work around that.
>I find it very hard to make the mental leap between religion and nationalities. I think the correct thing to actually discuss is if "nations" are true. Nationality just means you belong to a nation, by definition.
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>If we stopped believing in nations, people would still form groups. Groups would organise and govern, nations are reborn again.

Well, nation-states didn't exist until the 19th century/late 18th century, so there's that.

Just for example, 'Italians' didn't exist until the late 19th century, and it took another 30 - 50 years for people in places like Sicily and Naples to see themselves as 'Italian': most immigrants from Italy to America spoke Sicilianu (featured in The Godfather and Boardwalk Empire) or Napolitano (featured in The Sopranos), not 'Italian', which IIRC is actually Tuscan, the language of Tuscany.

Similiar story in France, where a national identity only emerged after the Revolution and the top-down imposition of French-ness; people largely spoke their regional derivative of vulgar Latin like Occitan or Picard. Hard to talk about a 'nation' when there are around 20 regional languages spoken in your borders. 'French', as we know it, is the language of the ils-de-France urban center that was imposed on everyone else; like wise with 'Italian'.

So I don't think 'nations' are inevitable, they're a fairly recent and well-documented phenomena that we don't really have to guess about its causes and origin.

A kingdom is not a nation-state, a kingdom is a large piece of real estate whose legal identity is that of the monarch's body, or, where breaking the law is a personal attack on the King or Queen (hence, the King's peace). Even if you are King of all England, like Aethelstan was, you are not the leader of a nation because that is an altogether distinct entity, one where the law is ostensibly an expression of the unitary will and identity of the people irrespective of the offices of power (read: a constitution).

So if people don't see themselves as a unitary identity with others hundreds of miles away, the nation will cease to exist. The American Civil War was just such an incident.
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Interactive theorem provers, perhaps, though I guess they also allow for exploratory use (though I'm not sure anyone ever used an interactive theorem prover to show a conjecture they did not know was true).

But automated theorem provers (e.g. for first-order logic, SAT, or SMT), they can and have been used to solve open problems in mathematics: the famous four-color theorem, but many others.
Counterargument is that if i pipe them to e.g. grep, i do not want them lose terminal control sequences, as the output ends in terminal anyways.
The anthrax event in the USSR was determined to be of natural origin until the fall of the USSR, when the investigator was provided with actual data pertaining to the release from the lab in the city in question.

We can only hope that someone in Wuhan preserved the data as well. Now we just need to wait for the fall of the CPP.
I used it in grad school a lot, especially when I was running/editing someone else's Matlab code. But if I were to build something on my own, Python would be the way to go.
I will be typing this comment on my Nokia's keyboard.
> But there is no reason my phone should be forced to build a bunch of HTML just so I can read an article

But the goal usually isn’t to let you read an article.

Often the goal is to get you to read another article, click an ad, sign up for a newsletter, or buy a subscription. Apps can be good for all that.
Folks are right, the Upgrade option is no longer available for me either.
And you wanted to go for ... how long?
This so much! TBH I care more about Excel 2010 than Windows 10, 11 or whatever.

So that's where I draw the line: if the OS stops letting me run Excel 2010, it's not Excel I'll change, but the OS that'll get the boot.

I've already got a good experience running Excel 2007 on Wine. Sure I'd prefer keeping Windows 11 because I prefer the UI, but Excel is just more important than anything else.
If this was genuinely an important issue to even just the 38 million people living under the poverty line, they could certainly find candidates. If you count low-income people as poor, you’re speaking of something like a hundred million people.

The real problem is that people simply don’t care. People are much more willing to go to the polls over their right to own guns than issues like this.
Google does seem to have many solid engineers, as far as I can tell. (Though the bar must definitely be lower than back when it was a smaller company.)

Their problems lie in management: executives, line managers, product, etc.
Eight weeks seems like a long time for a diet change to affect basic biomarkers. We aren't talking about weight loss here. What's your theory for why a diet of red meat would require a 2-4 month lag before it started to affect inflammation and glycemic control?
all "old" computer users urged to move to unix/linux.
I can't find any actual accounts of the wind stopping entirely for "weeks" in Germany. It is a theoretical possibility. Periods of "low wind" are fully expected in summer, since there is usually more wind power generated in winter, although I'm not sure when you're referring to specifically. Similarly, solar produces more power in summer and less in winter.

Critically, we have the ability to transmit power over distance. That's the whole point of having a grid, instead of just having each person operating off-grid and only having access to the resources that are within arm's reach of their house. Individual solar panels may be under a cloud or individual wind turbines may experience no wind, but it is tremendously less likely for entire regions to experience this for an extended period of time.

The US has encountered several winter storms that brought a number of our fossil fuel plants to a halt for days at a time, causing blackouts. That's not theoretical.
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>The violence erupted after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims caught fire

This is such shoddy journalism.

A simple search reveals this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanavati-Mehta_Commission#:~:t....
Which makes the fact they seem so flat-footed by ChatGPT seem so insane. They invented or partially invented all this crap.

I think they were afraid this tech would cannibalize their existing offerings and wanted to slow-roll things. Now they're sorta f'd.
I've worked in places where Pact [0] was used for testing services developed by different teams (external) and teams themselves (internal)

[0] https://pact.io/
I feel like that is a strange way to reason about something happening.

In any case, we're not talking about isolated incidents of torturing animals. Today, we keep hundreds of millions, if not over a billion, of animals in captivity just in the US. Captivity is a nice word for it, too. I encourage you to research about what that captivity looks like.
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But eating things grown fertilized with manure doesn't wig you out?
> But I'm curious where octave is popular. Does anyone pick it over julia or python when starting a new project/research?

In many non-CS engineering disciplines Octave (and Matlab) is quite common. For doing everyday numerical calculations. Python and Julia do not compete with the simplicity of using GNU Octave.
... that has no Internet access, and never will. I print the outputs and mail them. With the price of certified mail it would probably cost less to pay for software to e-file, however ...

In my estimation, one simply cannot trust proprietary software. They'll advertise trust and serving your interests on the front end, and then flip your information to the surveillance economy on the back end regardless. The more you try to avoid it, the more valuable your data becomes. Webapps have led the charge, but proprietary desktop software has the same dynamic now that Internet access can be taken for granted. Without a general privacy law like the GDPR, there is little downside to them doing this - the only risk is that they get caught by an independent researcher, and lose the few customers who notice and care enough. Essentially, since there is no political will for privacy regulation we're left with a low-trust relationship. And since I've got to spend effort protecting myself from the law of the information jungle, I might as well embrace it.
Crypto exchanges, like other platforms, grow because there is capital that wants to trade there. This means that they have the same bootstrapping problem as a competitor to Uber or Facebook.

FTX's solution to that problem was Alameda Research, which traded huge volumes on their exchange. That, in turn, made the exchange look big enough to be a serious player, which drove customers and more growth.

The "phenomenal" part of FTX's business was the fraud.
Mechanics would have to file tickets with the car design team :)

In software, we don't yet have a profession of Maintenance Engineers who can put up a shingle and strace/kernel debug opaque software experiences as a regular "practice."

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Upon reflection, I realize free and open-source software fills this slot in a sense.
Very much so. As a bioinformatician, for me conda has become a central part of my workflow as a generic package manager through the conda-forge and bioconda channels. I know a few university HPC clusters that use it to handle software instead of e.g. environment modules.
Does the scanning software in the update have any opinions about installations of LibreOffice? Asking because Microsoft really has a strong opinion about not using Microsoft Edge, whose shortcut icon they keep resurrecting from the dead to haunt my desktop. Twice just the past 10 days.
It doesn't involve opening shrink wrap, for one.
Yes focusing eyes close all day is the real culprit. But there is something about bright light of monitors that seems to impact my vision too, i am not quite sure what its callled though. I don't feel the same fatigue reading a book. Its just my personal experience.
Yes that’s true, they were much less woody despite being more lush and bearing larger and sweeter fruit, and I had to provide stability support to some.

Note however I didn’t say I wasn’t going to exercise are eat only hydroponic mixtures. A viral infection is not the same as adaptation stress, where the former is well demonstrated and I think conclusively good for you in the long term. So, yes, the metaphor isn’t flawless but the point remains. Some viral infections lead to a long term result of cancer, we think according to these and other research easily googled some severe infections leads to increased risk of long term poor neurological outcomes, and I posit with no proof that viral infection contributes to aging. I’ll wager an outcome of COVID will be a bulge in viral infection long term effects, and I’ll further put $5 on my statements above.
I try to find this balance between recognizing the humanity of everyone I interact with and not allowing this respect to be an attack vector. Over time, I have shifted more towards ignoring salesman in front of a store, not replying to messages and hanging up on a call as being things I'm okay with doing. I don't always give courteous attention anymore. I'm fine with giving nothing ("ghosting" as the kids say) and only giving active rejection if it's really needed.

To your point, I think it will shift in a different way over time. Gen Z can't imagine hanging up on someone on the phone, they can't even imagine signaling to the other person they don't want to be on the call anymore (aka saying "goodbye"). But they don't end up on endless phone calls. They just never pick up the phone.

Have you ever been in young person's home when someone unexpectedly knocked at the door? It could be Tuesday afternoon and their whole body takes on this dread like they're realizing their life has suddenly turned into a slasher film.

I don't mean "kids these days are destroying society". They have other ways to connect than just showing up where someone lives. But I wouldn't start a business selling vacuum cleaners to the next generation of homemakers door-to-door.
That's the thing you can't outsource IT security because in order to be secure you need to have institutional understanding.
That's sad and hope something can be done about that. But that still doesn't mean we should go back and kill the iphone if we can do it. Because then we should go back to get rid of cars (so many accidents) and kill industrial revolution as well (so much pollution)...
Why do your rubber boots have a keyboard?
While I don't know if it is the sole reason, it certainly is a nice side benefit. I think all the major tech firms figure they can all do a layoff and then hire each other's talent as needed at reduced compensation.
Yep. The title of this thread is not the same as the title of the study. The OP of this thread (who seems to submit a lot of anti-vegetarian articles) has edited the title in a way that is misleading. But nothing unusual to see here - these kinds of posts tend to make the front page at least monthly.
We had this use-case back when I worked for a pro-audio company building analog synthesizers.

One of the components of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is a linear to exponential converter, that converts the 1V per octave control voltage to a per-hertz reset pulse for the sawtooth waveform.

Such components can be done in various ways, but one of the most traditional is to use the exponential part of a transistor's voltage-to-current transfer function (not sure what the actual term is here). The issue is that this function is very sensitive to temperature, and so fluctuation in temperature on this part can easily detune the VCO by a very audible amount. Fluctuation is less of an issue at higher temperatures (around 70-80°C), so the solution was: heat!

The trick we implemented in the synth was to use a transistor array in a chip: use two transistors for the Lin/Exp converter, another as a heat source (we nicknamed it "the oven"), and another as a heat measurement device, to get some sort of PID feedback loop. I believe there were five transistors in the chip, so there was a leftover that got used for another purpose.

Surprisingly efficient, though we could still hear some pitch drop when blowing on the transistor array chip. Once in the enclosure, we figured only applying some ice on the front panel would have an effect.

This "heating trace" in the PCB would have been a good alternative, as some of those transistors arrays were particularly hard to source (we needed a particular transistor type, can't remember which).
I appreciate your advocacy for the devil, I do (it helps me wrap my Brian around these concepts more completely), but when you make a "never" statement, it only requires one counterexample to disprove. Consider the following 3 counterexamples to your argument...

Example 1) You're in a prison block with 100 inmates and 20 gaurds who are all average-sized and skill humans except for 1 inmate who is Mike Tyson (in his prime, the heavy weight boxing champion of the world). The prison warden says "We're going to have a boxing match. The prisoners may select a fighter to represent them from the inmates, and I will select a fighter from the guards. If the prisoner fighter wins, everyone goes free. However, if the guard wins, we add 2 years to everyone's sentences."

Here is just one case where it's very important to know that Mike Tyson is statistically the "strongest" (fighter in this case) over any other individual human candidate (gaurd or prisoner) in the set of candidates.

Example 2: A small zoo has only 3 types of animals: an Elephant, a monkey, and a wolf. Each animal is pregnant and will have a baby this month. The zoo attendants have a $1000 pool going and you have to bet on which baby will weigh the most when born. In this case, you clearly wager on the elephant as they are statistically "the strongest" over all other individual candidates with respect to the body mass of their offspring.

Example 3: Back to your tennis example (I play and follow tennis, not that that matters much). Hyperbollically, if you have 5 players and each plays each other 100 times, and player #3 beats all other players 90/100 times, whereas all other matches result in a 50/50 split. In this case, yes, player #3 is the strongest player and is favored to win over any of the other 4 players in the set in a head-to-head match.

Yes, very often we rate and characterize the "strongest" as being the candidate that is statistically more likely to beat any other individual candidates in a set.
Guessing we will see a new popup ad for office 365 at some point. Wouldn’t rule out a start menu ad either.
Getting divorced goes against the promise of being there "through better or worse, in sickness and in health".

That's a brutal suggestion even if your intentions were good!
Yeah, but the widgets themselves are different. Something ticks me off regarding the new implementation compared to how it was previously. Dare I'd say perhaps it was more "integrated" before?
The whole "foundations of math" part is extremely exciting!

But I'm not an mathematician so I don't understand much (if anything). More in the programming languages "department" of interests.

But if something is "good enough" to describe whole math it could be useful for getting strong guaranties about programs, I guess. So I would be quite interested how this HOT stuff could be useful in practice. What could type systems based on this enable?

My limited understanding is that you get additionally "paths" between types and type constructor which denote equivalence between them.

But I have no clue what one could do with that (besides doing math, of course).
We can argue whether Deep Mind is part of Google or not (I think for many years it was officially a seperated entity inside Google, and recently moved out to be under Alphabet), but basically you agree with me :)

Google is still one of the special companies that are prepared to take advantage of AI when it gets to the point of capturing trillions of dollars of value.
What does it mean to be Czech or Slovak? At one point, those countries were combined into the nation of Czechoslovakia. Was a person born in Czechoslovakia Czech, Slovak, or Czechoslovakian? If we’re going to take ethnicity or language into account, then what does it mean to be American?

Many of those Eastern European languages are more of a sliding scale than divided by country borders. Moldovan and Romanian are basically the same thing.

I met someone on my travels from Italy who was Italian, but only spoke German, as they do in parts of Northern Italy.
Hey, online pharmacies: Quit spreading around everyone's data already
We may be talking past each other and I don't follow the part about euthanasia you lay out at all.

My point is that it would be vastly more cruel to turn a frog into a human, let them live a little and then abandon them to fend for themselves after they've outlived their usefulness to me (which is how I understood your point above) than to leave the frog alone entirely. By turning them into a human you have acquired a degree of responsibility for their well being which I would argue you can't shirk under normal circumstances. (C.f. making babies.)

This logic hinges on the assumptions that 1) humans have a higher state of consciousness than animals (which might be debatable in certain cases, ok) and 2) that a frog is indifferent towards its current state of existence because it doesn't know any better.

Lastly, you write "every human life has value" but in that thought experiment in the OP, they are not humans so far so that logic doesn't hold. Just because you have the ability to elevate/create life of a higher consciousness, absolutely does not mean that you have to do so IMO and that it can be downright inhumane to do so. (Again, babies, contraception, abortions etc.)
Sweet! Since I started hacking on the v1 Kindle I've been waiting for this.
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This explains the user acceptance testing which we use to test whether the software is fulfilling the functional and performance requirements of the end user.
> …I suspect more external impact will be felt as a result of them firing the head of Open Source who's been there for 19 years. :/ Tech press hasn't picked that up yet though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DiBona