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> Apple and Google don’t value backwards compatibility that much

I'm incredibly disappointed that something like 40% of the many apps and games I've purchased for iOS no longer work.

The 32-bit apocalypse was terrible, but Apple's contempt for ABI stability and backward compatibility in general (resulting in an ongoing compatibility maintenance burden for developers, just to keep their app running on newer iOS versions) damages the app and game experience on iOS.

Apple's approach makes it impossible to build a game library the way one can on other systems without keeping a collection of devices that run the appropriate OS versions and have the game installed (since it may be removed from the app store.)

This is very different from, say, Nintendo DS games(2004-2020) or PS1 games (1994-2017.) Or PC games on Windows and Steam.

It's a disappointing tradeoff, because better backward compatibility would have massive, multiplicative benefit to iOS users and developers.
E-bikes are actually easier to dress for extreme weather since you can easily choose how much work you are doing.

If it’s really cold out I just dress as I would for a normal walk in that weather, just dial up the assist to avoid overheating.

Also let’s you commute in work clothes without worrying about sweating.
Yup. The lady doing the lecture asked this person what month they were born before making it explicit.

Mean for sure but between the 15yo in question being a woman in a college environment and this only happening in front of 1/10th of 1/4th of the undergraduate student body I doubt it was of any practical hindrance.
>My belief is that computer security is highly overrated. With a decent firewall, which every router has these days, only your own activity can expose you to attack from hostile actors. All internet browsers also help you by warning when you are about to do something stupid like executing code from a remote source.

This is a ridiculous thing to say. The reason that there are so few misleading ads, so few zero days being exploited, and in general a much less tricky landscape today is because the unyielding and unrelenting efforts of people improving computer security.
Ahh I see what you mean now, sorry. I mistakenly inferred something that wasn't there. I agree that it's all part of a physical system and that the absence of the signal is still meaningful.

Getting back to the topic:

While phantom pain may be more interesting, maybe a better example that the parent comment could've brought up is psychogenic pain. In this case there is no apparent physical (bodily) damage, no apparent signal, nor an absence of a signal. Searching for a cause of this type of pain in the brain (presumably some "wires" are getting "crossed") seems like it might help us develop a explanation of pain qualia...in humans/animals.

But I feel like this type of thinking and research could only apply to AGI if subjective experience turns out to be functionalist in nature, and arguments in favor of a functionalist interpretation of experience have so far been fairly unconvincing.
Instability aside, Windows 98 marked the point where Internet Explorer leeched itself into the operating system to the point of no return (only to be finally reversed in the past year). The complaints of social media apps being "preinstalled" with Windows 11 seem to echo the channel bar, Active Desktop and everything else that arrived with IE4. I believe that the notion that Windows 98 was good came when IE5 were released and pulled back on some of those integrations, which happened to coincide with the timing of 98 Second Edition. In any case it was by no means great, but it was good enough.
Is this based entirely on the SSID? In other words, could I force other people's phones to connect to my router by just changing the name of my Wifi network?

That seems like an obvious security vulnerability.
It seems obvious to access DRAM that way, but multiplexing the address pins was a big innovation from Mostek for the 4K RAM chips, and they "bet the company" on this idea. Earlier DRAMs weren't multiplexed; Intel just kept adding address pins and ended up with a 22-pin 4K chip. Mostek multiplexed the pins so they could use a 16-pin package.

The hard part is figuring out how to avoid slowing down the chip while you're waiting for both parts of the address. Mostek figured out how to implement the timing so the chip can access the row of memory cells while the column address is getting loaded. This required a bunch of clock generating circuitry on the chip, so it wasn't trivial.

I discuss this in more detail in one of my blog posts: https://www.righto.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-classic-m...
Ah, I forgot that it's DS:SI to ES:DI. Thanks.
Interesting fact, Monster Energy is the best performing stock of the past 20y.
Best response here.

Of critical importance -- percent of your income that you spend is the most relevant variable.

Over simplified, but if you can survive on 5% of your income, it won't take you long to be able to sustain that standard of living indefinitely (assuming you're able to save / invest the majority of the remainder).
So annoying. Monsters-the-mythical-creatures existed in the public conscience long before Monsters-the-low-tier-beverage. There is no chance this is being done in good conscience, and I hope the courts punish this accordingly.
Looks like they already have some: https://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/intl_cooperation/finland/
Most people I know that have some experience say that w2k was the best one ms ever released.
My wife says we should go into a side business all the time but I’d rather not have the chance of ending my marriage over a business dispute. We aren’t compatible on that way, and divorce is expensive.
Yeah. It's not the greatest but KVM switches with video support drive up the cost quite a lot. I'll gladly press an extra button to switch the monitor input.
I wonder if you’ve seen ChatGPT plugins yet. If not, check out the Wolfram blog post.
Curious about your math that equates 7 billion transactions per month to a "few people." That's a relative increase of more than 400%. I think you could argue that we were already on that trajectory, but it sure looks (to me) like Covid accelerated things, which matches my anecdotal experience.
When I was a kid I used to wonder how everything worked and would disassemble things to find out. Started to take apart those disposable cameras people used to use for vacation photos. Learned the painful way what a capacitor is and how it discharges enough electricity to make that camera flash in a hurry.

So my recommendation is electro-shock therapy. Self administered of course.
Sure, it’s always hard for those in between.

And of course, even though the British Empire is no more, we’re writing here in English :)
Goddamn it, I’m in.
>forget cells or atoms, none of your neurons or synapses understand chinese.

And yet some people seem to understand Chinese just fine. How can you explain that gap? It's only a stupid argument if you first assume that functionalism is true.
Plus a lot of vulnerabilities in Windows 10 or 11 also exist in Windows XP but they're no longer mentioned.
I mean... their could ask people to pay for a quality product that protects their privacy and keeps ads out of their faces.

You know, the old fashioned concept of making a product worth paying for and asking people to pay for it. And... I know this one is going to be even more controversial, use real money instead of inserting crypto into the mix for no good reason.
SQLite is a row-oriented store, not a column-oriented store, ie, there are fundamental tradeoffs between the two.
Not news.

Monster Energy has been suing every single company using the word Monster in their title. This has been happening for years. For every company you hear about them suing, there are 10 that are secret and were forced to change their name.

No joke.
And here I thought _I_ was an elitest for looking down at the Parker Bros. catalog et al from the Catanian peaks. I guess maybe I'm not so sophisticated after all ;)

Curious - what is your go-to board game?
One of the tests no one really wants to think about is as follows:

LLMs feel real to us because they use our language, which embeds a ton of information in it.

A model trained on an alien language would be the exact same model (worded get embedded as numbers anyway), but we wouldn’t apply any anthropomorphization to it because we wouldn’t understand it.

Creating that distance makes it feel a bit more like what it is - unbelievably good stochastic predictions that are too complex for us to back solve - that is very different than something with wants (organisms that evolve with the intent to reproduce).

Now if we start mating models…
can you elaborate on the workaround to remove the settings? after removing an eS and resetting all network settings, once the eSIM is active again, wouldn't the unwanted network settings be added back again?
The Aspirin and Heroin trademark revocations were punitive and due to the war, not due to lack of proper defense.

That’s why you will see non-Bayer acetylsalicylic acid literally marketed as “Aspirin” but even though the Kleenex trademark is considerably weakened, you still don’t see competitors openly labeling their products with the name.
This is funny, because the very first iPhone did exactly this in the US for the SSID "AttWifi". Crazy that they brought it back 15 years later.
FT is one of the best publications out there.
As another data point:

I'm on ios 16.4.
I see I have "AT&T Wi-Fi Passpoint" and "attwifi" added to "Managed Networks" - but I am able to disable auto-join for them. I wonder if that can be controlled by the carrier?

Does anyone know if there is a specific term for networks added like this to look for more documentation?
One type of superintelligence is collective superintelligence. Ted may be one sightly smarter person, but he was up against many people of varying intelligence.

I don't know if he was smart so much as driven, however.
Billions of them and being that small, I'm amazed it works!
It's at least 2 years old.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ios+carrier+wifi+applewifi+a...
Not necessarily. There’s nothing illegal about contacting criminals if you have no intention of committing a crime. The FBI might in good faith be looking for witnesses to come forward and be available to testify in a criminal case against the administrators.

It’s actually entirely reasonable for regular people to contact botnet administrators without any intention of purchasing criminal services. Security researchers sometimes do this when investigating the source of botnet attacks or when tracing machines they deliberately allowed to be infected (honeypots). The FBI may be very interested in getting testimony from these security researchers, even outside the scope of expert witnesses they may select out of the researchers they’re regularly in contact with.
Never playing because of something like that? I’d argue you guys took it too seriously.

I’ve played far more aggressive and complex games where we routinely turn on each other and we just have a laugh and keep playing.
It would be funny, but we do have a lot of other data around disease progression that tends to agree.
I forgot that it moves from DS:SI to ES:DI, but that's actually super interesting that the registers were named differently originally (and I did notice that the AX/BX/CX/DX order is weird before)... What were CS and SS called? DC and DS?
unlikely it affects high compression
Unrelated, but my Brave Creators account was suspended 6 months ago. At least I think it was suspended 6 months ago, I only received a confirmation a few days ago because I asked.

No specific reason given, apparently there's no way to appeal, and my sites are still shown as "verified" even though I can't access my account. Brave users still think they're supporting me... hopefully on suspended accounts the BAT is returned to the sender after a while?

I've praised them a few times here before, but the way they're handling this is just bad.
The US dollar has lost 99% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve.

The minimum wage in the US in 1964 was $1.25/hour. Notably those five quarters were 90% silver worth about $20 US today.

The British Pound Sterling originally referred to £1 being exchangeable for 1 pound of sterling silver or 1/270th of it’s original value.

It’s technically true that they haven’t gone to literally zero, but I would hazard to say it is close enough.
Didn't Windows 2000 also cost an arm and a leg?
>And what is hydrogen but fuel made from water?

98% of H2 is made from fossil fuels.

You know why, right?
Not to mention dependency management! Since a lot of ML code is in Python this ends up being a very tricky thing to handle at scale (especially if you need to update dependencies, etc.)
I think the argument for low pin counts was that Intel had a lot of investment in manufacturing and testing to support 16 pin packages, so it would cost money to upgrade to larger packages. But from what I read, it seems like one of those things that turned into a cultural, emotionally-invested issue rather than an accounting issue.
LMAO no, no it doesn't and has major migration consequences for existing data warehouses.

Reproducibility is more than just upstream data versioning.
Isn’t LLM a good NLP? What is the need to build another not as good NLP. Just curious
This is going to be an uphill battle.

Not only is enforcement on a judiciary level extremely difficult (the kids as well as the companies have ways and reason to skirt jurisdiction on the borderless Internet) but you have the problem that addictive products will remain addictive even if there are better options out there.

Personal opinion but I think the best way to counter the social media plague for young people will be something akin to making them "uncool in the schoolyards"
In a organization the size of the Chinese government, that is impossible.
This is insane. Thanks for taking the time to share. Good reminder we don’t control our devices.
Wow. I'm actually not particularly fond of Sanderson prose, but that article is so... mean-spirited? that I found it outright painful to read. Nonetheless, thanks for providing the context.
Real Life 3D: AI 3D conversion of photographs and video
> These bills will likely face considerable constitutional challenges. Previous attempts to block minors from accessing Web sites via broad legislation, including the Child Online Protection Act, from 1998, have been struck down on First Amendment grounds.

You might get farther instead of banning children from social media, ban all ads to children on social media.

Every single ad impression shown to a child is a $1,000 fine.

If you do that, social media companies will figure out how to keep kids from accessing their site.
I love how you put dispatchable fossil power -- ie. Gas peakers -- and coking -- one of the most promising avenues for replacing gas peakers with dispatchable loads and increased VRE production -- as two reasons for keeping coal long term.

Industry dinosaurs in dying market with an unbroken history of denying reality when it benefits them denying reality to reassure investors isn't a great argument either.
They are also heavily subsidizing solar panels that end up being installed in the US and Europe. (To the point that people complain about price dumping.)
OpenZFS uses 1.4.5 currently; the bug was introduced in 1.5.0. So no.

OpenZFS does support up to level 19, though I'd generally advise not using it for many reasons, so if it were running the newer version, it could be affected.
I tried to work as a nomad. I really missed my monitor and chair.
Looking at it it seems to require avx2. And use the "m" mode for fopen(), which I have no idea what it does, it's not in any documentation I can find.
Not on average, obviously. But most phones sold are low end. I bet Arm gets a lot more than $1 from ARMv9 Snapdragon 8 gen 1/2 with the very latest cores.
I believe you are right, I did mean complex carbohydrates so I'd better edit that in.
You can't fight for and against the man at the same time.
How much would you pay for a lifetime and/or annual subscription? I am only asking because I've been trying to figure it out for myself. Would I pay 100 and expect zero telemetry, tracking, healthsheck, studies, etc? That would be unrealistic, imho.

Then again, I am not exactly a visionary, or an expert
I actually RTFA and was thinking, "this dude should upgrade and run Win7 like me," - and was pleasantly surprised to find he is.

The only issue I've had was a few months ago Google Chrome now gives a small nag-bar on startup - supposedly dismissisable with a -flag, but the flag itself is either no longer functioning for some smirk sanctimonious reason, or more likely, hilariously not tested, and has since ironically regressed.

The only gripe from XP->Vista->7 is the respective mediocre, to amazing, to abysmal local search functionality.

Regarding 0-days: back when I had virtual valuables and wasn't a complete random, I had been specifically targeted and smitten with a TeamViewer 0-day. But, like the author notes, that would had happened regardless of my subscription to any one of the myriad of dubious AV products of the era.

win7, with its incredible native and specific backward compatibility mode, supports more apps than any other
virtual ecosystem. 25+ years of great software - some of which runs smoother than their great descendent counterpart. Shame to not at least have a box sitting around for the occasional sporadic encounter with an inane, archaic file type, needing to be fandangled into a newer format.
Why not ban social media from children. It was, at a point in the not so distant past, illegal to advertise to them.

Simply return to this standard, and make the penalty for non-compliance that your company is seized and auctioned.
I use ergonomic low-profile split keyboard Sweep[1]. My endgame (I hope so) keyboard after a long journey through the ergomechboard rabbit hole. If you're interesting in improving keyboard ergonomics with really custom solutions, r/ErgoMechBoards's Wiki [2] is a good place to start.

[1]: https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/wiki/resources
I noticed this a couple days back at Home Depot, of all places. Was looking up the locations of stuff I needed to pick up via their website while sitting out in the parking lot and my iPhone kept switching off 5g to hop on some single bar wifi that I couldn’t delete or deselect auto-join.

Eventually just turned off wifi and the problem was “solved” but man this is going to be annoying if it starts happening at the grocery store or something.
have fun uploading a copy of your passport every time you visit a new domain then.
Apple News (the paid version) is, by far, the market leader at this. I find it pretty frustrating. I’d much rather support independent journalists, etc.
> If you do that, social media companies will figure out how to keep kids from accessing their site.

Nah. The marginal cost of a cigarette is tiny compared to the lifetime revenue of an addict. The marginal cost of a some GBs is even lower than that of a cigarette, and the lifetime revenue of a social media addict is enormous.
I am imagining the kind of documentation most developers write and I just can't see this actually working. Maybe it's just because I'm old.
Funny story: In 1984, my mom, a Computational Geometry researcher, saw a proof [1] in some IEEE journal that she was annoyed with. It seemed way too general and was too easy to disprove, so she did [2], in a subsequent publication, with the author's name in the title.

She later told me he courteously publicized a correction, credited her, and would mail her pre-prints for his papers since. Earlier this year I looked up the claim and counterclaim: Turns out it's Kokichi Sugihara.

I guess in the 80s well-actuallying in Mathematics journals was good form. :)

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4767571

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4767487
Eh, I remember when this was coined, and it was specifically about people graduating college at the millennium. Granted, I thought then (and still think) this was a weird benchmark to use. But the whole thing is dumb.
If you use an LLM to write an email explaining why employees got laid off, you are a piece of shit.
So is the vast majority of electricity. Take away hydropower and nuclear, and it's something like 85%. Use to be 99% at one point.
> Brave users still think they're supporting me... hopefully on suspended accounts the BAT is returned to the sender after a while?

This is the same company that took (takes?) donations for people who aren't signed up at all, so I wouldn't count on it.
I wouldn't pay $100 all to Brave, but I'd pay $100 and let Brave keep $30 if I had reason to believe that the other $70 was making it into the right hands.
Bill Gates still owns a crazy amount of MS stock and stands to possibly double his fortune with MS going all in on AI.
This has been around for a while now and is not some new eSIM thing. It's existed with physical SIMs too. It's Passpoint access authorized via your SIM. Your device won't just randomly connect to anything with the same SSID. It has to auth via the SIM and it's on secure networks that your carrier has agreements with. Same as the access you get over the LTE or 5G network.
It's far superior to the EU model where politicians are tasked with creating requirements for ,,the next innovations'' and creating tenders, businesses popping up / recycled to win those tenders, do the minimum to satisfy the criterion that nobody really cares about, and try to siphon out as much money as possible using trusted subcontractors, meanwhile paying a huge part of the money for the privilage of winning the tender.

At least that's what's going on in Hungary, the most corrupt government in EU, I hope other parts are a bit better.
The SSID is the key. There is no other security as far as I understand it - you can test this by changing routers and naming the SSID and password the same. Devices will join this new network no questions asked.
What is social media? My daughters use messaging more than they use TikTok, IG, or BeReal. They send 100s of messages to each other in a span of 5 mins.

However, even within their close circle of friends, I see the same social issues (peer pressure, need for validation, etc.).
I agree that observations from analog black holes don't rise to the level of definitive proof of the existence of Hawking radiation around gravitational black holes. But what has been observed demonstrates that a system whose behavior is described by the equations that we believe to be correct will exhibit Hawking radiation.
Another entirely earnest and enthusiastic step towards the "future" presented here:

https://imgur.com/dgGvgKF
The original segment registers were RC (code base), RD (data base), RS (stack base), and RA (alternate). I think the "R" is for "relocation register". But in the microcode, DA used the alternate segment, DD used the data segment, DS used the stack segment, and I don't think the microcode ever explicitly accessed the code segment. D0 accessed "segment 0" for interrupt vectors, etc. I don't know what "D" stands for.

There's a diagram showing the original registers in the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4449184A
I was 16 when I graduated high school not even 10 years ago. And IIRC I had a classmate who was 15.

EDIT: Almost forgot: I did skip a year during elementary, not sure about her case.