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This is over indexing on semantics. The feature name is now Tasks, but the functionality is exactly the same and is now better for Tasks users.
The very next text in the article after what you quoted (following the image) is:

> I consider this a customer-hostile practice. I should not have to connect a piece of hardware to the Internet, even once, to use all of its features. If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS

The author then describes connecting the phone to a networking sandbox and monitoring its traffic, all the way through where they were eventually able to unlock it after giving it internet access.
Have you read that part?

> If I hadn’t connected the Pixel 7 Pro to the Internet, then “OEM unlocking” would have stayed greyed out, thus I would not have been able to unlock the bootloader, thus I would not have been able to install GrapheneOS.
> Have you read that part?

> >Google sold it to me with “OEM unlocking” greyed out.

> So no unlocking even with internet access.

Reading the whole article reveals that the option is enabled after providing internet access.
Have you been using promptlayer? How does it fare for you?
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But AMD doesnt package everything in one big die.
Thanks, it makes sense now. Basically needing to play down the the lowest common-denominator :/
Or use the "Turn on windshield wipers/increase wiper speed" voice command.

https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/voice-commands

If that's your safety criticism, that's more evidence for my point. Teslas are statistically safer than any other car by any measure.
Wow, so much to unpack here...

> Take any controversial situation and sift it down to a simple good\bad binary pitch that props up some weird view point

The argument Doctorow makes against Big Tech is not that they're 100% evil, but that they don't (and don't want to) compete.

> "monopolistic sociapaths"... Lame. I've benefited GREATLY from some of the open source tools that these big bad tech companies have made freely available.

You can benefit from monopolistic sociopaths. You would benefit more from a free (as in competitive) market.

> And the non-stop self-masterbratory articles about the evils of "crypto" from these guys is obvious and cheesy (individuals making money = bad).

This is not close to an honest reconstruction of his argument. He argues that crypto scams are taking advantage of people's good intentions, which is absolutely true. The vast majority of crypto content is promoting shitcoins and Ponzi schemes, not promoting the freedom of [insert country's citizens] to transact without their government intervening.

> Merkle-tree's were popularized by these crypto-bro's...

I don't know what "popularizing" Merkle trees means, but you can easily see that there is no relationship between interest in Merkle trees[1] and interest in Bitcoin (which I used as a term because it predated the mainstream discussion of "crypto" or "cryptocurrency" as a general topic).

In fact, peak interest in Merkle trees happened well before Bitcoin was invented.

> ...and have helped other distributed forms of technology.

Crypto has not created or helped any other distributed form of distributed technology except crypto. The closest thing to a distributed technology that has become more popular since 2011 is Mastodon, and that got its surge of attention because of Elon Musk antagonizing Twitter's user base.

BFT data stores have been around for a long time, and their usage in industry hasn't increased recently.

1. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=m...

2. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=b...
CMO liked to say that up until UK data started showing the vaccinated getting sick (and therefore spreading it) more often than the unvaccinated. That data got worse with time until the vaccinated had a >3x case rate.

2022 meanwhile had record-breaking case levels. Vaccines didn't reduce the spread even on average. But the UK still treated the unvaccinated horribly, justified by these lies about spread.

The correct response to all this is to realize that governments employ a lot of people who are fanatical about vaccines and will lie to any extent necessary to get people to take them.
I don’t know that code was always text, but I’m thankful to have been born in the days after programming assembly on punch cards was not the only way.
Above a few million it's simply an ego thing, it's what keeps folks like Jeff Bezos paying his staff a pittance so he can accrue more wealth.
It could be true for some of them, but it's also possible that "autoimmune" is not a very good description of what's happening for some others.

Disorders lacking an obvious cause seem to get lumped into the autoimmune category whenever the symptoms are related to inflammation. Before modern medicine, these disorders might have been masked by or passed as a milder form of tuberculosis or something else. It's still possible that there are pathogens involved that haven't been identified.
Hey, author here. Thank you so much for taking the time to write a thoughtful comment. I had no idea what the response to this essay would be, so I'm really grateful that you read it in the first place and that the essay moved you.
I've done a lot of greenfield web application projects and my current stack of choice is also Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView. An opinionated stack solves a lot of the issues the author mentions. He also seems to be mixing in product / UX concerns with implementation concerns.
I keep my root notes folder open as a project window, and just use CMD+T to find by filename, or CMD+Shift+F to "superfind" across all of my files by word or Regex.
This cuts both ways. Just because you’re ignorant about the usage of something doesn’t mean it’s in fact not being used.
Somewhat! The authors talk about the longevity of CL, which is less a fact about lisp than an accident of history. Janet, for instance, is obviously quite new. Elisp is quite old, but I wouldn't use it for non-emacs development. Schemes are old, and while there are lots of one-off schemes which seem to be educational projects for their developers there are also lots of very old and battle-tested dialects (Chicken scheme comes to mind, Racket is old-ish and backed by its use in education).

The interactivity is fairly universal. Scheme in its smallest nuts and bolts doesn't care that much about interactivity, giving eval but no other real support for a REPL, but due to cultural effects pretty much every specific scheme is very interactive. I've seen complaints about every specific lisp I've ever used that it's not a real lisp because it doesn't support [extremely specific interactive option user integrated into their workflow in '93 and can't live without], but everything the authors talked about is likely to be present in just about every lisp.
Arguably mainstream public cloud computing is a little more than a decade old but not by much. AWS was only announced in (late?) 2006.
It has nothing to do with being charmed. These infections are generally rare to start with, and are not automatically life threatening.

There's a reason humans survived to modern day.
> The benefit of lib/ is clearer in my opinion. Files that live there are only explicitly loaded. Some might be loaded in development, some in production, some in test.

This sounds like such a recipe for confusion... why not just have a lib_dev for the very very rare case that something in lib/ isn't appropriate outside of a dev environment? Any RSpec already has spec/support for the test environment side. Saying that everything in lib/ has to be special and unique just because <10% of are dev-only makes zero sense to me. 90% of the lib code I've ever used/written is used in models, controllers, etc and it would make no sense to need to require it everywhere you use it when no other code in Rails works that way.
I had to find a copy of 'IE6 Full' on archive.org in the process of making this blog post. Most copies of IE6 are web installers.

I have to say I'm really quite irritated by Microsoft's habit of deleting old software from their download site, forcing people to get it from potentially untrustworthy third parties. I'm fairly sure there's some downloads on there that are just gone for good.

And, ah, wow. I was not expecting someone to mention IE HTAs here. Welcome to the club. ;) Another thing for the blog queue in the future, though frankly the number of IE-specific technologies is so large I should probably break it out into a separate series.
Overread that, my bad.
no, it's just unintuitive but also it makes sense.

first, the software is traditionally up-front cost, development cost, and as such it's not accounted for in the production cost aka BOM of an individual vehicle.

but even if you'd jump the accounting hoop of spreading the software costs to the vehicles it's neclegible compared to other cost factors.

VW group builds 10mio cars a year. the core ECUs board computers are shared across all models and makes. a major revision happens every 3-4 years. that's 30-40 mio units you spread the software creation costs to.

the major cost (as in 90% of that) is going to be silicon, PCB, housing, the physical part. and share of ECU costs in the overall vehicle costs likewise is in the low 2 digit percentage, should it even reach that.

the accounting makes sense.
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You’re downvoted. But I had it. It is great to rest 3 days and do 4 days shit diving. Of course, pay was lover accordingly. I gladly would do 32 hours on 4 days instead of standard German 35 hours on 5 days. Paradoxically it is impossible to find 4 days position despite it is being advertised in ads as optional feature. No hiring manager is offering it for real.
Never really understood what draws people to Cory Doctorow. Over-the-top polemics aren't really good for much except making you angrier about something you're already angry about.
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> I cannot wait for the uprising or revolution to come against this in the decades to come. And I hope it will be spectacular. It's not a matter of if, it's just when.

There _will_ be a revolution, but it'll be in your head — when you're older.
Have you seen their military?
Depends on what you mean be effective. TDD is great if you want to be sure you don’t break things in the future. Repl seems better for getting the next thing working right now.
> sometimes we only think about aesthetics. Clearly, aesthetics are important but aren't the ultimate goal of design.

Exactly — we get caught up in form over function. The goal of text is to be readable, not to look pretty.

Text display formats like BeeLine are aesthetically nontraditional (to put it kindly), but from a readability perspective they are a godsend for many readers. [1] BeeLine is typically offered as a user-configurable option, and most sites with BeeLine have it off by default. But some sites have found it to be so helpful at increasing engagement that they actually turn it on by default. As one user put it: "it's ugly, but it works!".

1: http://www.beelinereader.com [disclosure: I am the founder]
> adding magsafe by default would probably raise costs

What do you mean by this? All iPhone models currently sold by Apple (except for the SE model) have magsafe and wireless charging by default.

They could also just have a non-charging Lightning port on the phones and say screw you to the EU :P
2 is probably not legal. The onus is on a manufacturer to prove that the customer's changes caused damage sufficient to negate their warranty responsibilities.
I also work in manufacturing metal parts, mainly because it pays better and is more stable than using my creative skill, and I am currently without a workshop. Creative skills are often devalued on here as well as operating skills are devalued in factories. The 'industrial revolution' is often cited as the end all argument, despite a complete lack of understanding of the skills and labor required for both manufacturing and creative processes, to appropriate the efforts of said creative skills for free. And as someone who has had to 'wrangle the robots' in our semi automated line I can safely say automation is not nearly as widespread or glorious as it is made out to be. The data didn't fall from the sky and it wasn't created by robots. It takes humans to make data just like it takes humans to work in factories.
> especially with downvoted or text posts.

I think making them unreadable is the point?
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This behavior is not new. This has been the case since at least Pixel 3.
> And the scientists individually don't have a choice unless they are closer to the end of their career. Intentionally publishing in less prestigious journals will sabotage your career, period.

I think it would be helpful if corporate scientists published more. They too value prestige for bragging rights, or whatever, but a corporate career is more about patents and blockbuster products than about publication. So corporate scientists could sabotage the prestige of publications.

Many corporations could also afford to hire editors and self-publish their own journals. For students looking for jobs in industry, or for PIs who want to place their students in industry, publishing in the corporate journals would be better than publishing in tier 1 journals.
Well, there are highs and lows when it comes to being known a century later.

From my hometown I think there are two past living things that people are aware of a century later.

First is Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Prize, no further explanation needed I guess.

The second is a circus horse that I couldn't explain why people care about 100 years later even if I tried.
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Haha that rx7 video is so unfair, all you can hear is the straight cut gears. 4 rotors definitely sound better but it's still a cool sound imo https://youtu.be/MSbMeLE8qf0?t=19
Would that make things like wormholes similar to a heartbleed attack?
Thanks. So evident causation, since there remains the possibility of obscure(d) causal sequence.
You don't have access to the data that's sent to Google when you connect the phone to the internet, so how does that help you mitigate or at least be aware of a supply-chain attack?
Conversely, if you got a brand new phone, the bootloader is supposed to be locked, so wouldn't you immediately be aware of tampering if it wasn't?
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A point the authors didn't make is that Common Lisp compilers are quite fast compared to e.g. C++ compilers. So even in rare cases where you do need to recompile everything, the cycle time is short.

CCL's compiler is lightning-fast. I can recompile an entire system in CCL almost as fast as I can load the compiled object code. SBCL's compiler is slower (while often generating faster code because it does more work at compile time), but it's still much faster than a typical C++ compiler.
this is what i've been saying. the good writers will become even more valuable. if everybody grows up not learning to write, then the ones who learn to write will be well positioned.
In a case where you are offloading the computation to another device because of compute limitations it would indeed probably make more sense, at least at the moment, to offload the computation to a trusted device.

But there is always the case where the server side with the model does not want to disclose the model itself while the client does not want to disclose its data either (like in many healthcare applications for example or in the case of the recent Open ai Samsung incident).
In this case the FHE tax might be a decent price to pay.

If you want to read more on the topic, there is blog post about the cost of running a LLM in FHE: https://www.zama.ai/post/chatgpt-privacy-with-homomorphic-en...

The main improvements in terms of speed will come from dedicated hardware accelerators but some models (those that run on tabular data for example) already have acceptable runtimes.
And 30 years later the businessman dies of old age, alone in a fancy care home with only his nurse there to watch him pass and his last words are “if only I had listened to the fisherman”
In what way is it more centralized?
I think killing of any kind is obviously more "titillating" than any mild or even moderate sexual content, to someone not already exposed to and desensitized to it.
CAT achievement tests are generally considered the easiest to administer for home schooling families they don’t have any requirements for the administrator so they can be given by the parent/homeschool leader. They are widely accepted in states that require achievement testing for homeschooling. Additionally they have an untimed online version that makes it a great fit for easy fulfillment and many homeschoolers have shared that the untimed version helps their students who may have some test anxiety. So it seemed like a good place to start - would be open to recommendations on more tests that might be desired by the community.
Peer reviewers are fellow academics who are not paid. Peer review does not add any cost to publishing. The cost all goes to for-profit companies making record profits.
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Only slaves? Or…?
If the standards are so good, they shouldn’t need to force companies to use them.
In case anyone is worried they missed some recent news, this is from 2017.
> But in practice a device could totally require PPS for fast charging, and only do trickle charging with a non-PPS charger.

Not sure we have the same terms. Trickle charging is 0.02-0.05C charging to see if the charger can get the battery safely from being overdischarged to say 3V where it can start normal CC charging phase.

That would probably piss off a lot of users and the EU if not even normal charging was supported by a device connected to any USB charger, because that's back to requiring a specific charger for each device, where not even basic things that all users expect work anymore with all conforming chargers.
i think the google shuttle thing and tinytapeout are only for digital chips, not even analog

i was thinking of directly measuring rc fall times for the keyboard multiplexer rather than running free oscillators

relaxation oscillators will give you a lot of harmonics, might be good or bad
I feel like I'm living in both the golden age of ergonomic keyboards (kinesis, ergodox, etc) and the golden age of modal interfaces for Emacs (evil, devil, boon, meow, etc).

Lots of new and interesting HSI ideas today, at least for us Emacs users.
I fully respect when anyone decides they don't want smart devices, but all of your bullet points are quite easy to accomplish with off the shelf devices these days ("unnecessarily complicated" will always be debatable though).

All of my lights, outlets, and dozens of other niche things, never connect to the internet, and everything is fully functional when there's no internet connection.

Home Assistant with Zigbee devices is fantastic for avoiding vendor lock-in[0]. EspHome and Tasmota fill in nicely for if/when you want wifi devices.

[0] https://zigbee.blakadder.com/all.html
> Also they’re not going to win on the marketing front with that naming strategy. Just awful. M1/2 and Pro/Max are so much simpler. It’s like Intel’s naming, such a mess.

Apple has an easier time with processor names because they have a single customer that wants a simple product lineup. Amd and Intel sell their processors to OEMs that want to have products for every budget, so you end up with lots of processor skus and lots of laptop skus and have to do a bit of research to understand what you would be buying and have to decide what you want. On the plus side, you have lots of choices, on the minus side, you have lots of choices.

Simple processor naming doesn't seem to stop Apple from naming every iPad 'the new iPad' though. But then again, other OEMs like to use the same product name and number for 3-7 different devices these days too, so everything is horrible, as usual.
With a $500k down payment, your costs on a basic 2BR could be as low as $9,000/mo!

Or, you could go buy a house in a normal COL region and then lose it to unpaid property tax bills because you're unemployable locally and Silicon Valley companies don't need to tolerate remote anymore.
The EU is in origin and execution a political entity in which trade is one of its tools. The value of adding, say, Romania to the EU was hardly economic, but important for the anti-war mission. The integration of Turkey would be economically quite significant and valuable, but (sadly) lacks impetus on the political side. It is a NATO member.

Likewise, Ukraine’s prewar economy was so small (midway between Hungary and Slovakia) that it would have been economically irrelevant to the EU but, as we have seen, important in the anti war basis.

The economic size of the Eurasian Economic Union is quite small and I doubt it plays into the planning of anyone but its members and some of its immediate neighbors.

I am from a small country with an economy roughly the size of Russia’s (Australia) and it’s clear that the EU has little interest, positive or negative with trade with Australia. Conversely I have literally never seen mention of the Eurasian version in an Australian newspaper.
I don’t think that clause would be enforceable because of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.

They can’t deny warranty coverage because of a user modification unless they can prove the modification caused the damage?
> breach the warranty when you unlock the bootloader

Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act in the USA, activities such as unlocking the bootloader, launching a service menu, removing a sticker or opening a case cannot by themselves void a device's warranty.

If I understand correctly, in order for the warranty to be voided, it is the manufacturer who has to prove that what you did to the device has indeed damaged it or made it otherwise unsuitable for further warranty service.

Unlocking the bootloader is a reversible action. The phone might implement some one-way unlocking mechanisms though. For example, a fuse which needs to be blown. Or some encryption chip whose private key needs to be erased while a new valid private key can only be generated by the manufacturer. Then it would be a process that is irreversible for a regular customer.

That being said, undertaking such activity would only result in some control mechanism being triggered and some software flag being set. It might be permanent, similar to you scratching the case of your phone. But that does not mean it makes the phone unfit for warranty service.

The phone's functionality would remain unaffected.

It would be on the manufacturer to prove that the presence of a flag indicating an open bootloader is in some way detrimental to the device's functionality.

There might be similar laws elsewhere.
> I'm sure they are also willing to give you back any money you have paid to date...

A "free plan" is one thing, and what you say is totally fair for that.

A "free forever plan", though, contains a promise. And whilst we know it isn't literally true (companies die or pivot, takeovers happen, economies crash etc), there's an element of broken trust when "forever" is not only dropped but the communications around it are silent or misleading about the loss.

I've no skin in the game (or axe to grind) but it feels like that might be the crux of the issue - it's a question of integrity when communicating.
The points in the Prime Video article still stand. People overuse microservices and serverless and stuff gets expensive quickly.
I wouldn't say tesla's software practices should be emulated. Pushing random updates to prod OTA is terrible practice and look at the number of times cars have rebooted while driving