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> - Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen writes a plan which becomes the sacred text of how the German army is to conduct a two front war against France and Russia. One of the critical parts of that plan is marching a truly massive German army through neutral Belgium.

> - When France Germany and Russia go to war Germany following the Schlieffen plan marches through Belgium triggering UK involvement in the war.

Neither of these points are true. Schlieffen produced several different war plans for different potential scenarios and in WW1 Germany wound up following a very heavily modified version of one of those plans. While Britain officially gave the violation of Belgian neutrality as its reason for entering the war, and it certainly swayed public opinion in favor of the conflict, they had signed a treaty with France in 1911 pledging military support in the event of a German invasion regardless; and more generally had been in an increasingly antagonistic relationship with Germany for years.

Perhaps had Schlieffen not been so obsessed with Cannae he would have made different recomendations, but the fact is that the rest of the German general staff generally agreed with the logic behind those recomendations. Then when their plans were put into action, they were largely vindicated as the invasion through Belgium did allow Germany to gain a massive advantage in the opening weeks of the war and sieze territory from which it would take years and millions of men to dislodge them. Indeed the main issue was that the plan assumed Russia would be slow to mobilize, giving the German army time to defeat France before they would have to reposition forces to the eastern front, but to everyone's surprise Russia instead mobilized quickly. A generation later, when the men who were boots on the ground at the time now led the German military, and had decades to study the previous conflict, they decided on attempting a plan that was broadly similar and again had great initial success.

It's possible that Germany employs a totally different strategy in WW1 if Schlieffen isn't obsessed with Cannae, but there's no real evidence that they would.
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okay, so assuming the US gov can access my private LAN data due to my use of the Ubiquiti USG as router/firewall, USG wifi APs etc, of what form would this data exfiltration take? can we please explore/explain how this "compromise" would happen in real-life.

if i were sniffing for outbound WAN traffic as root on the unix-like that the USG run, would i see the exfiltration traffic? or is this [supposedly/apparently] happening at a lower layer that an OS can't see i.e. some kind of BMC or BIOS layer?

wouldn't such traffic also have to navigate the varieties/restrictions of DOCSIS etc? or are they also compromised?

is the worst-case scenario here some kind of giant C2 network with waves hands tons of compromised lower-than-OS mini pieces of firmware exfiltrating data over waves hands compromised network providers hardware into the giant NSA AWS cloud?
Ignoring whether or not this would decimate legitimate site usage, I'm not even sure that requiring payment for access will solve the bot issue; those who are pushing a lot of the terrible bot spam and scams are also in the same group as those who would use stolen credit cards.
Go back five years and I'd guess this is still true. I do not think Apple's policy has changed this.
The problem, as I see it, with having a method to 'pair' and 'unpair' components right now... is that I don't think Apple is really doing anything too special to 'pair' devices. My guess is they're just using a serial number of the device (display, camera, whatever) and making sure that serial matches the what is programmed into the mainboard. If you allow any random person to change the paired serial number for say, the display, then you no longer have any guarantee that the new display is actually an authentic device. Maybe someone aftermarket makes a bunch of devices with 0xDEADBEEF as the serial number so you just always pair that.

If Apple knows that serial number 0x12345678 was sold to you, and that it is the component you want to install, then they have a guarantee that this part is authentic and should work properly.

So, Apple needs a way for you to pair a serial number, but also that the serial number you're pairing is authentic. I'm not sure they have the second piece today.
Only in the hipster blogosphere. In the real world, Java is quite strong.
Apple could just unpair parts when the phone itself is reset/deactivated. And new genuine Apple parts could at least have a one-time automatic pairing when signing in with your Apple ID.

Stolen phone? The phone is still activated, part can't pair with new phone. Not perfect, but at least somewhat less anti-consumer.
At my previous job, A/B testing was widely used to check which of the small UX tweaks works better.
OP was probably referring to the American experience, which is correct. AIDS has killed about 700,000 in the USA, vs 1.1 million Covid deaths.
Call me crazy, but I was expecting a Nintendo Switch / Steam Deck form factor.
Jajaja this is possibly the best memetic response to emotional dependency on AI.
Phone theft is also a big deal at music festivals. Last year an entire backpack full of phones was recovered. People who lose them either never hear from them again, or see them in Find My as a brief blip somewhere hundreds or thousands of miles away. Sometimes they're shucked on site and all you find is your empty phone case on the ground.

It's already awful to lose your phone, but even more so when you're at a multi-day event you paid hundreds to attend.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/lost-your-cell-edc-backpack-...
And "But I like ads that know what I want. Why would you want to see ads for things you don't want?" is hard to argue with until you realize there's no particular reason you have to see ads.

The '90s web was fine without ads, in its "pamphleteering" days when people spent an amount of money proportionate to how badly they wanted to say something, and that was it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamphleteer
Unfortunately, unlike in NLP where swapping out decoding techniques frequently leads to far better generation (i.e. novelty sampling like top-p/top-k for text gen, beam search for seq-seq tasks), this is not necessarily the case for diffusion based image generators.

Despite many methods being mathematically "superior" to traditional euler adaptive, it remains the default settings for a reason in all the major UIs (Automatic1111, Comfy). I have a lot of fun playing with other samplers, especially ones which converge and thus allow large sampling steps, but the impact is not as massive here as it is in NLP and we may be over thinking this side of the pipeline and not thinking enough about other important things (i.e. mixing in other losses besides regular diffusion loss for more control similar to controlnet).
No, it's been discussed to death and back with "everything is a remix" since 2012. Even the combination of previous ideas into a new one is an original thought. Doing it at the right time even more. Look at history, the invention of the bike, the airplane or the telephone. The technology needed for all of them existed for decades it just wasn't combined in the right way.
Replace SF with DC and that’s what happened to me circa 2013 or so.
There are 20 bitcoin wallets worth more than a billion dollars each.

I think it will be pretty obvious when someone gets a quantum computer working.
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:)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man
Being robbed at gunpoint is much worse than having to buy a new phone.
This article doesn't bother explaining the bill, and neither do the seemingly abundant links. I lost interest before even really understanding it.
> For aggregate totals of your VAT liability across your total set of invoices, you'd be fine with rounding up to the nearest pound, to the Inland Revenue's benefit

On personal tax forms you have to round in the taxpayer favour. If your income is 12345.67 you round it to 12345. If your expense (say giftaid) is 12345.67 you round it to 12346.

Surprised it's the other way with VAT, but then I do very little with tax other than click a few buttons and confirm "yes, you have to tax me as I have children".
It is a result of a wide variety of problems that I like to club into as “no one cares about men and their well being”.

High school graduation and college admissions rates for men have been dropping for decades. Meanwhile in the dating market, no one wants to date a college drop out (or less successful men than themselves). In fact as a man to be worthy of dating, you need to make six figure, be 6’ tall, not be overweight, look great, help with the household, support your partner’s career, be emotionally strong and a bunch of other standards. Meanwhile any problems you have as a man, don’t get even an acknowledgment. There’s a reason all the alpha bro podcasts are popular. And that will be the same reason AI Gfs will take over. It’s not that women can’t compete, it’s that women are being held to the same standards by men that women hold men to and they don’t like it.
What a ridiculous generalization. Sikhs are capable of being dangerous just as any other group of people are.
I'm sure companies are lined up to emotionally manipulate vulnerable people into an illusion of love and acceptance so that they can collect a record of people's most intimate conversations, thoughts, fears, desires, and hopes. They'll mine that data endlessly and sell it to anyone willing to pay, then accept money from others who want to use that AI partner to manipulate the customer.

I'm not opposed to the idea of people using AI for this sort of thing, but handing that kind of data over to companies who want to exploit you seems horrific. Unless you have control over the AI and all of the data you're just exposing your vulnerabilities while handing out ammunition that will be used against you. That and letting 3rd parties put words in your AI's mouth to turn it against you too.
Because if you have to manually notice, recognize, then look away, then arguably you've already paid with your attention. If someone or something is doing it for you (and others) automatically then it eliminates the 'payment' and undermines producers ability to produce.
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Apologies, I should’ve clarified that I was referring to the US, where COVID has, in fact, killed more people than HIV/AIDS.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-covid-deaths-...
Surely the most likely outcome is that Japan becomes increasingly reliant on automation to ensure sufficient resources are available to support the non-working population? How well that works out is anyone's guess but there are plenty of opportunities to reduce the need for human labour in the Japanese economy even with current technology, and I would imagine that will become increasingly the case as technology improves and economic realities set in.
zsh is derived from bash and much of the syntax and behavior is identical.

Also there are plugins like https://github.com/chrissicool/zsh-bash
According to iFixit, they've solved the "this is physically hard to repair" problem. Also, Apple aggressively recycles components, and is making bold claims about carbon neutrality of manufacturing this release cycle. On top of that, the cost of repairs is dramatically lower for the new models (again, according to the iFixit article).

So, I think those issues are mostly fixed, or at least best-in-class.

The problem of "I bought your laptop, but you didn't disable anti-theft" is questionable. Here's how to sell a macbook so that it can be used by the purchaser and so that your data is wiped:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212749

It takes 4 clicks (and probably a password entry), and it's easy for the purchaser to confirm it was done before forking over cash (assuming they turn on the machine to confirm it can POST). If the seller forgets to do this, they can initiate the wipe + unlock remotely via iCloud.

Apple parts are pretty cheap already, so that's not the issue either.

As far as I can tell, all the complaints boil down to people wanting to fix phones without Apple's authorization. Its a valid complaint, but it only really impacts independent repair shops at this point.

I'd also like to see better support for third-party replacement parts (like with PC's), but I don't think there is any realistic market demand for that, and it is not what people are asking for.
What's smurfing and sandbagging?

EDIT: I ask because I was once accused of smurfing (I'm only a casual player) in the chat during the endgame.
These restrictions also reduce pwnage. Zero trust has to be end-to-end, software and hardware.
That's the problem with generalization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sikh_terrorism
This is an important question the article doesn't even seen to try to answer. It does seem to rule out the "older men" theory as a complete explanation:

> Young women are also dating and marrying slightly older men, carrying on a tradition that stretches back more than a century. The average age at first marriage is around 30 for men, 28 for women, according to census figures.

If the average difference 8s only 2 years, that doesn't explain the whole gap, and its remarkable just how quickly people are to age difference must be the whole story.

So what is it? Are young women less willing to report to a stranger they are single? More likely to report they are in a relationship than just dating? Something else? It's a shame the article does no curiosity about this.
I don't ever want to do it. I'm worried that code I rely on will do it, and I'll end up building (or running) binaries that are missing basic security mitigations.
I often mention the whole Gen X trauma thing.

Part of it is literally seeing the ladder being pulled up just as we reached for it. Not just for jobs or college tuition, but also sexually -- the previous generation had a pretty good time and the worst that was on offer was herpes. Puberty starts rumbling around and we're wondering what the future looks like and suddenly "GRID." And we were flailing around, is it viral? (There was, most people do not know, a period wherein it was thought that this was some kind of weird immune reaction to getting semen, any semen, into the bloodstream, which seemed unlikely to me even as a tween) How transmissible is it? Okay so maybe kissing doesn't do anything. And by the time that we figured out that it isn't exactly Ebola in terms of transmissibility, some damage was done.

So, Sex = Death, rain is acid, the bees are coming, the nukes will eradicate us all. Gen X has been waiting for the other shoe to drop for decades and AIDS was just one facet of it.
Technically you can have noticeable differences before you even make it to 1 cent. For example, if you're trying to determine if a result of a calculation is negative, 0, or positive for whatever reason. With floats/doubles, you would probably need to consider "0" to actually be "a number sufficiently close to 0, if not 0 exactly" and then remember to handle that everywhere.

It can also be noticeable if you're just trying to calculate something like "is the invoice paid off". Maybe your view layer is showing $0.00 balance to the end user, but the backend hasn't correctly rounded off those extra bits from a floating point calculation, so your backend logic is now saying the invoice is not actually fully paid off, even if the end user has no idea what they could possibly still owe.
Especially when you are a nation state.
The goal is to make the boss feel more secure. And there are plenty of snake oil salesmen willing to sell to that boss.
Outside of a few places like the US, people care a hell of a lot about the genetics. Try putting Africans in India, or Japanese in China, and so on, there is no such thing as the melting pot in the vast majority of the world.
Or possibly it’s like the hole in the ozone layer, which has also faded from public discourse, because thanks to that huge amount of press and action it’s been largely addressed.

You’re basically saying “why is this thing we’re all working so hard to prevent not happening enough to justify prevention?”.
As long as you remember some ice so the crayons don't melt.
Yep I've actually started channel my inner Larry David these days even shaming the boss for not paying their employees enough. I even volunteer to teach them coding so they can get a better job (ok I am sure that's not a thing in this market but still). I find it releases the awkwardness and frankly is fun!
> Of course thieves are discerning. They are running a profitable criminal enterprise.

I can promise you the person who stole this iPhone doesn't run a profitable criminal enterprise. But I am also not disputing that someone along the theft value chain, someone will likely be discerning. However, your claim seems to conflate a criminal enterprise and the theft value chain with an individual thief.

Also, I find the notion that it is very risky to steal something in London hard to believe, but if you have some data to back that up I would be happy to change my mind.
More than casinos are being damaged. There's also hotels, restaurants, etc.
I have to try that. There are defect reports for corner cases.

In any case this is also allowed:

T val = T();

And copy elision is now guaranteed.
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It is true they can sting a little, but that aside I have a strong preference for them too - almost certainly because i grew up with them!

There's the obligatory Tom Scott video here, which always gets shared, deservedly so, whenever the topic of plugs and sockets comes up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
People were robbed at gunpoint before cell phones and will continue to be robbed at gunpoint even if every single manufacturer adopts this policy. This is not some magic bullet that stops crime. There is another commenter in this very thread describing being mugged at gunpoint and his mugger forcing him to go through the Apple unpairing process in order to make the phone completely flippable as a whole device.

Not to mention that it is not infinitely worse. There is some relative amount of needing repair to being robbed at which it becomes a bad tradeoff. Where that point is is probably different for different people. But that line exists somewhere for everyone.
My wife is from Thailand so I spend a lot of time in Thailand and with Thai people. My name is Robert which is difficult for Thai people to say. So I got by Bob with Thais despite never going by it in any other context. I don’t expect Thai people to be able to make sounds (R’s in particular) that aren’t commonly used in their language. (There is an R sound in Thai, but it has a roll, and is commonly pronounced as an L sound regardless)

Likewise we don’t expect English speakers (or Chinese Spanish French German or any other language) to be able to say her Pali name. (In Thailand they use Pali, the dead language used in the Buddhist canon, for names) She also has a Thai language nickname as all Thais do, but it’s challenging and so she decided to adopt a simpler English name among native English speakers upon arrival.

I think it’s laudable to try to pronounce names in every language across all of humanity with alacrity, but it’s unreasonable to expect everyone can and will. Certainly in my travels there’s a great deal less sensitivity to other languages and cultures than we seem to expect in the US and to some extent in parts of Europe. It’s an unreasonable standard. However in some contexts, particularly roles of trust and respect, you should always ask and try, and I think in general it’s a polite human thing to do.

But any expectation of success and remembering is completely unreasonable. In the first case, the brain just isn’t adapted to the sounds no matter how much they respect you and your culture. The second case, it’s like memorizing random nonsense words - it’s not nonsense to you, but to the person who grew up in a totally different culture and language, it certainly is. That’s not disrespectful, that’s a simple fact of reality. IMO the disrespectful thing is to be upset with humans being human - the attempt is the act of respect - anything beyond that is a measure of some intellectual capability that not everyone has.
Ok at home... for a fridge? But traveling with them is another story.
Having kids is a burden - financially, but also physically and emotionally. In the past people were "motivated" to have many kids, because sex is a great pleasure, and children are a side effect. Now that modern medicine remedied unwanted "side effects" there's no way in Hell to trick people to have more than one, maybe two kids.
How do they know there's an error?
Theres a great book in portuguese about about it called "Mafia dos Mendigos - como caridade aumenta a miséria" translate to somethinh likeThe Beggars mafia.

Its a book about a evangelic priest who lived in the streets among beggars for a year, and through observations came to write this a book about how non-goverment organizations make money exploiting the misery of this people.
Pretty sure you’re wrong here. There are already gaze tracking systems deployed in cadillacs and other high end cars. It’s probably decently easy to tell if someone is passing out or just not paying attention with a neural net at this point
At the time NT came out, it wasn't 100% POSIX compliant, but close enough for government work.

One stipulation in NT's subsystem at the time was that fork() needed to be followed by exec().
He was a Canadian citizen: https://globalnews.ca/news/9969537/who-is-hardeep-singh-nijj...
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