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What ROM do you use and what level of support does it provide?

See here: https://e.foundation/

Do they just allow older phones to run newer versions of Android, albeit without full security updates?

The "full security updates" GrapheneOS references has to do with proprietary device drivers. This is an unrealistic over-reaction in my opinion.

Why abandon perfectly functional hardware based on some unknown possibility that exists with both old and new hardware? Newer, supported devices could easily have these same sort of issues. They really don't know and the OEM does not offer any guarantee or certification otherwise. If the mere possibility of a bug is enough to abandon support, they really shouldn't support anything because this possibility always exists.

Most security issues occur in the OS or can be mitigated in the OS. Without physical possession of the device, access to drivers passes through the OS.
If a single man can forgive $400 billion in loans with the stroke of a pen, why even have a congress?
No one is chasing shoplifters, at least in America. Store employees have been shot and killed attempting to reclaim stolen goods. Or even worse, employees have tackled and injured shoplifters who have then turned around and successfully sued the stores for huge personal injury claims. It is store policy everywhere that employees are not allowed to pursue suspected shoplifters and folks have been fired for doing exactly that.
GFW that can inspect petabytes of traffic per second for 1.4 bln population cannot be written by juniors
> Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format: <code sample>

This is how every new version announcement should start! I'd never heard of Hurl before and that intro + code sample on top instantly made me want to install and try it out.

Congrats on what seems like a great release
The best solution when you see an ad is to ctrl-click on it dozens of times. Then do it again with as many proxy/VPN/tor IPs as you can. It will cost google or the advertiser money or get them banned for clock fraud. Wish I could automate this. Which reminds me I need to install ad-nauseum again.
Could you explain what you mean by partial initialization?
Thinking that Reddit is seeing any viable threat from the "fediverse" is laughable. I think mastadon.social is seeming like a nice place, though I'm worried it's a left wing echo chamber, but do we have any evidence the vast majority of the userbase has left reddit? These are the same millions of people that just scroll r/pics all day, they really won't care if all the """valuable""" content everyone claims is only made by the power users disappears and all that's left is GallowBoob reposting their stash every year interspersed with overt ads and "native" advertising.
Katakana is also a useful skill in shopping situations. You can often confirm that a product is what you want by reading the katakana on it. This is helpful not only in Japanese stores, but some Chinese situations where Japanese products are popular (eg: health related products).
In the US there's only really one category can carry a person and is unregulated and unlicensed by the FAA and that's Ultralights [0]. <254 lbs dry excluding safety and floatation devices, <5 gallons of fuel capacity, <55 knots and there are strict restrictions on when and where they can fly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aircraft_(United_St...
I dislike CommonJS for a different reason: questionable "fs" module. This module mixes file I/O with file system accesses, which is confusing. More importantly, it does not provide line reading in a synchronous way. I sometimes work with multiple files simultaneously and need to control which file to read. It is awkward to do that with async APIs. Influenced by CommonJS, dart is similar. This ruins large text file processing. Most other languages can read a file line by line in a synchronous way.
This is really interesting. Have your strategies out performed buy and holding index funds, or are you mainly just doing this with a small amount of capital to learn how the markets work? I have always wanted to try algorithmic trading to learn about it, but I have always read it is a fools errand to think you will beat just buy and hold.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/brittney-griner-russia.html
I know this isn't exactly the same, but I used to work at an adtech startup and my boss was very savvy in the industry, and right in front of me did some quick napkin math showing that Hulu probably makes about $20 a month off of people in the free tier, and only $13 from their ad-free* subscription.

So by subscribing Hulu makes less money off of you.

The main reason is video ads pay the most, which doesn't apply to papers, but does apply to websites. So what's their excuse now?

*Their "ad-free" tier has ads.
I remember having a .swf of this 20+ years ago. I wonder if I still have that somewhere on my computer.
Well, I use a controller to game and interact with the game, the most ways to game, the more fun I have

Hence why I bought a Nintendo Switch, the premise is: to have fun
PPP forgiveness was pretty much there in Congress's law wasn't it? Didn't require stretching the bounds of executive authority to do it.

Source: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2021-01/PPP%20--%20I...

Even if you grant that student loan forgiveness is a good thing, it is not necessarily the case that the ends justify the means.
Congress gave that single man the authority to do so.
15 years later it's negative. The user experience of having to download and switch compilers (or even think about it at all) is terrible, especially given that (after performance) one of the main motivators of switching to ldc (i.e. all serious use of D to make money) is either a bug or lack of platform support in dmd.
Didn't the law that created the PPP program have explicit language to forgive the loans if certain conditions were met?
Yeah, that’s always a risk.

And not just that - if you only share your pihole’s IP with a small group of friends, do you really want to know when they ask your pihole to resolve some shady url?
I visited Israel circa 2012 and this was true even then.
It seems Google finally decided to take decisive measures against these proxies. For last 2 weeks I'm seeing Invidious and Piped sites (and freetube app) struggling buffering or even stopping completely; video quality drops sometimes as well.
I'm not entirely sure what we're supposed to take from this. Are you saying that they are not actually AI experts, and we're returning to the claim that only people who do not understand the tech are concerned about these risks? That's a stretch.

Or is it a new move:

- people with safety concerns just don’t understand the tech.

- “here’s a list of people with safety concerns who demonstrably do understand the tech very well”

- Those particular experts are bad people so we shouldn't listen to them.

I'm really not committed to a side of this debate, and if I check my own bias, it's probably on the Steven Pinker "progress is good" side of things. I just keep hearing bad arguments from the AI-optimist side, and your comment is just another example.
They also moved back to their normal ponzi and mlm schemes that they've always been doing.
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I'd love to continue this conversation more, as I was going to write a long reply to your previous comment. Please reach out to the email in my "about" box. Would love to chat!!!
The kids call it stick drift today, its a big problem on the switch I heard.
Is this real? is ROCm not horrible to use now? Anybody using it rn, if so what card and how is it working?
By the creator and benevolent dictator of the Zig language.

I think it's same to assume it's an official goal, now.
I can't think of a "good faith" reason for why the grievances of some races are elevated to a top priority, while the grievances of other races, that are often more recent and relevant, are not just ignored - but these races are further penalized by these "social justice" policies.

It's likely that individuals that support the social justice cause have good intentions, however, the cause itself as a system is leading to paradoxical outcomes that are different and sometimes the opposite of what it pretends to promote.
> You're describing a standard CIA black op. And if they aren't going after a Russian government asset, I'd wager there would be less likelihood of catching heat, especially if the one's doing the work are native Russians looking to make a quick buck.

Black OPs are not necessary, and would likely be too messy, what is more effective is flooding weapons into a border nation (like Ukraine) currently at conflict with Russia and then tapping into the local dissenting populace (aptly justified) and allowing them to infiltrate a porous border.

While I'm not stupid enough to think that the CIA aren't above such things, the truth is just like with Cuba/Castro they cannot resort to such tactics anymore: land invasions end up like Afghanistan and Iraq, Stuxnet leads to further instability for almost no gain (blame Israel/Mossad) and this seems more like what they did in the Iran-contra situation mixed in with operation fast and furious. This allows for nearly absolute plausible deniability, while also letting Russia know it's not beyond the West's touch.

The Pentagon/DoD supplying the weapons is just the right amount of overt message
that gets the pint across.

Geopolitics and War are absolutely disgusting, but at least their is a logic behind it instead of Red scare BS they were once so headlong to follow; what I ultimately fear is the path these psychopaths are likely to lead us as a Species down if this doesn't end soon.
When companies stop making “document1.pdf” publicly facing, while expecting “document2.pdf” to remain confidential, then we can talk.
A bit tangential: I was happy to learn about Android apps that can change the home screen, such as Lawnchair (thanks to whoever pointed that out to me, after I had posted an cranky comment that was understandably downvoted).

For example, it makes it easier to disable the search on the home screen, and many other tweaks. I also like being able to hide apps from the list of all apps, but they are still accessible using the search. It helps make the bloatware less visible (ex: I don't use the Youtube app, or most other pre-installed apps).

I use a Pixel 6 with very few features from Google, and happy with it. Long-term support is the only issue, although they do offer 5 years for security updates, which is better than previous Google models.
There's after market trading on venues. But because most of the liquidity has "gone home" you can't transact as much at those prices and those prices are based on relatively few/small transactions.
> It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money.

Does this guy really not understand the difference between someone asking for money in exchange for nothing as opposed to asking for money in exchange for something of value? If Coca-Cola was advertising a Venmo address to send them money in exchange for nothing it would be much more annoying than what they currently do.
And other data points say the opposite: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-s...

"In a major shift, Walgreens, which said it saw a spike in shrink during the pandemic and cited organized retail crime in its decision to close five San Francisco stores in 2021, is backtracking.

“Maybe we cried too much last year” about shrink numbers, Walgreens finance chief James Kehoe said on an earnings call earlier this month.

During its latest quarter, the company’s shrink rate fell to around 2.5% from 3.5% of total sales last year."

I don't see a clear picture of increasing shoplifting. I do see a clear incentive for stores to claim there is an increase in shoplifting though.
Nonpaying users still have value. If they didn't, companies wouldn't pay for bots to follow them on social media.
They're making a much broader point about advertising in general, while you're fixated on internet advertising.

What benefit do freeway billboards provide to my life? How about the spam mail I get in my mailbox? The bright and flashy signs for businesses along the road?

Every time I'm on the freeway I pass a few dozen ads selling liposuction or some other expensive and unhealthy "beauty" treatment. What value are those companies bringing to the world, and why should I have to put up with their ads? Just because someone bought property adjacent to the freeway?
The Department of Education issued the loans. They should be able to decide if they want to collect them. The money has already been spent so the only "cost" is the opportunity cost of collecting. So it's not an appropriations issue.
Selective pressure doesn't need to be perfectly foolproof to be valid.

Humans are pretty observant, and have decent odds of noticing over time when particular things correlate with health problems. A plant known to cause health problems is less likely to become and remain a dietary staple. A plant that isn't a dietary staple misses out on a wealth of opportunity for propagation.

I think you're also hyperfocusing on the issue of evolution. The point isn't that stevia is a plant which merely exists, but rather its longevity in human culture[0].

What you're saying makes sense for random plants picked up in the woods; less so for plants that have been consumed by humans since antiquity. By the same logic, there would be no a priori difference in risk profile between vegetables and random research chemicals.

0: https://www.britannica.com/plant/stevia-plant#ref350513
My understanding is that Craigslist is still making a tidy profit, and it's owners do well. Sure, they might not need to testify in front of congress or buy all their neighbors land so they can have privacy, but most people consider that a plus.
Judging by this ruling, evidently not.
Not only that, the web designer initially filed the suit in anticipation that maybe, one day a gay couple would ask for her services... and then the specific gay couple who she eventually denied services to doesn't seem to exist at all.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-...

> Maybe it should not be a surprise, though, that this strange fake “request” popped up in a case in which the plaintiff’s main argument rested on the claim that someday, out there, a same-sex couple would want her to design a wedding website. The closest thing Smith had to an actual inquiry—the nonwedding of Stewart and Mike—arrived within 24 hours of her having filed a suit in which said inquiry would be potentially a helpful piece of supporting evidence. The inquiry floats through the filings only later, and still it remains. Despite the district court raising doubts about it representing a genuine inquiry from two men getting married—and the court didn’t even raise the real doubt that the couple does not exist—it is now part of the case history, a bit of fan fiction joining the other phantom gays the case invokes. ADF made no mention of Stewart and Mike specifically in their arguments before the Supreme Court this session, but they don’t need to: Their entire case, after all, is built around the idea of gay people doing something that they have not yet done, nor ever will do.
Interesting project, might try it out!
I have lots of wooden kitchenwear, all of which gets put in the dishwasher regularly and none of which has gone mouldy.

I also tend to wash a lower heat if that makes any difference. Though I can’t see why it should.
We Have a Dopamine Problem
Awesome write up. I have a similar project in Go myself, although I just use minute bar data instead of realtime ticks.

Can you share your approach for plugging in various strategies? I quickly learned that having a pluggable strategy system is tricky as it could span across multiple layers of the system.

Also, with backtesting, are you storing and replaying all the quote/tick data? or just using the historical aggregates?
It absolutely happens. My guess is that your machines just don't actually lose power very often. Any normal desk- or laptop won't. When you hit the power button, it doesn't just cut the power; the system is told to shut down so that it can neatly terminate processes and unmount filesystems before halting. Takes a few seconds.

At work I'm writing software for industrial machines. It's essentially a Linux system in kiosk mode running on semi custom hardware. We actually do have a power button that simply shuts off power (much to my dismay), and we have data loss all the time. We just make sure that whenever there's actually important data that needs to be stored (very seldom) we make it blatantly obvious to the user that now is a very bad time to push the power button, and sync before those warnings are removed.

But we've had boxes that were rendered unbootable because someone decided to push the power button the moment an apt-get upgrade completed and a lot of updated files were still living in memory only.
A perfect backup system would include testing on an airgapped system.
Improving query performance with continuous rollups
Without advertisements, you have to be bothered by things enough to actually want to implement or look up a solution. When it comes to banal consumer goods, if you can't think of a product on your own, you probably don't actually need it.
If anyone from Polygon is reading, there's a typo in the URL: https://polygon.io/blog/case-study-algorithmict-trading-with... (algorithmict has an erroneous "t" on the end). Normally I wouldn't mention this but the corrected spelling 404's.
A cash grab rip off of McManshion hell? Anyone citing the New York Post on their website better be trolling or a parody.
In many ways, the difference between 1 and 535 is insignificant.
Put stuff behind a paywall then or stop trying to act as a free video host, nothing new to solve here. Netflix & other OTT players are thriving anyway
The binding energy of a neutron becomes progressively weaker as the nucleus becomes more neutron rich. At the neutron drip line, the next neutron is not bound, so it's energetically possible for it to just escape.

There is also a proton drip line, where nuclei can decay from their ground state by proton emission. This would be slower as the proton must surmount a potentiel barrier, just like an escaping alpha particle does in nuclei that can undergo alpha decay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_drip_line
Not at all. They simply must build a function to determine the probability that a given {browser fingerprint, IP} will block ads. If the probability exceeds some threshold (derived from expected potential ad revenue vs cost of service, perhaps), they won’t be served video.

This is downright trivial for a google engineer, and I bet you could and would do it too if your company’s finances (aka your salary/livelihood) depended on it.
Yes, and I wish it was even more accurate :)

Doing metrology on production parts normally means disassembling them and putting them under the microscope or X-raying them, but sometimes there are problems that only manifest when the pen is assembled and closed. There's a lot of geometry that isn't visible externally in a pen, more so in certain markers. The writing systems are very sensitive to manufacturing tolerances, and out of spec parts are perceived by users as a bad pen or marker (which we don't want). With a normal X-ray, it is very difficult to resolve internal geometry deep in the assembled pen with any degree of accuracy.

CT scans allow us to examine internal geometry non-destructively and they are relatively fast to run. The scans shown in that blog post I would guess took about 6-8 hours of scanning + 1 hour of reconstruction to generate. Once you start the machine, it's completely automated from there, so you don't need a technician or an engineer sitting at the X-ray machine (which BTW is running Windows XP or something worse) takings images of parts.
They’re the admiral of their peers in this space, no doubt of that.
Wave of Bay Area tech layoffs may foreshadow something worse
I think in those old days of CentOS, they had direct access to the srpms from an ftp server. This is marginally harder.
1. I think buying and holding is more probable to have a higher return

2. Sometimes you get a cool api and think wow this would be fun, and next thing you know you've lost thousands on boneheaded trades.

I did something similar during the pandemic with Rust with the Polygon API (and instead of interactive brokers, I used tradier). Eventually I learned I actually had more fun building the thing than actually trying to beat the market.
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I drive the speed limit. If I did that in the middle lane, people would be passing me on both sides. The right lane is for slower traffic. Lanes to the left are for passing. Merging is the responsibility of the drivers merging.
(Aside: You've started every reply you've written to me with some sort of "I don't even know what to say" or "I'm flabbergasted". I'm not sure if this is just a rhetorical tick you have, or if it means that maybe you should sit with what you've read for a bit and think it over until you know what to say or are no longer flabbergasted by it. I don't find what you're saying flabbergasting, I just disagree. I think you could perhaps reach a similar place with what I'm saying if you take some time to think about it.)

People don't need "breathing room" to care about a political issue. People care about issues that are affecting them. You clearly care about this issue because (from your comments today) it is clearly affecting you. You aren't going to suddenly care more about whether college administrators are or aren't incentivized to raise the costs of college after you've been freed from the clutches of your student debt and have more room to breathe. You'll move on to caring about the next thing that is affecting your life directly. That's not a criticism of you or anybody, it's just the natural reaction.
FWIW, while I completely understand the argument, PPP loans are different animal. For one, they were designed from get to to be a massive giveway, which meant that they had 'forgiveness' clauses built in. Student loans explicitly do not. I am saying this as a 'loser' in this case.

I am not suggesting I should be subsidized ( I will be fine, but I am not sure I am a common scenario ). I am saying that I am annoyed that we are throwing money at a lot, but when there is even a suggestion that not-well-to-do are helped, it is immediately thrown out. But you want to throw money at Ukraine? No problem. Money at farmers? No problem. Money at chips to reshore? No problem. Money at corps to relocate and fake build stuff? No problem.

Remove some of the burden from students? Whoa whoa whoa.
If nine unelected people in a smoke filled room can create and nullify law at will, why even bother with democracy?
Although you jest, phone cameras are always not as good as a regular camera due to the physics of lenses, apertures etc being so much bigger in a camera vs a phone.