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I had tegra 2 tablet. Couldn't play video my year older phone could. Also didn't have NEON so was stuck using old versions of everything.
> If you’re okay with software companies charging different prices for users from different regions

We're not.
Have you been to South America? Flagship phones don’t cost less here.

Paraguay is about 20% more, Argentina 100 to 200%, and Brazil 30 to 40% more.

Anything that is high end costs much more here due to a combination of tarrifs, reduced volume and the people who are wealthy not caring.

Read up on Ciduad Del Este, it’s basically the electronics hub for the southern cone where electronics are smuggled into Brazil and Argentina. Beef and eggs from Argentina get smuggled into Brazil and PY.

Anything that you were doing pales in comparison to what everyone here is doing.
Timestamps can be vulnerable to clock attacks, right? Why not just include a monotonically increasing request number along with the nonce in each request?
I glazed over the character attacks (which I should not, thank you for pointing that out) but I think Karpf brings up a lot of really thoughtful points that are helping me clarify where I land on the techno-optimist/pragmatist/pessimist spectrum:

> What makes Andreesen’s 90’s retread so odd is the way he frames it as a challenge to the status quo. Technological optimism has been the dominant paradigm throughout my adult life.

> The most powerful people in the world (people like Andreessen!) are optimists. And therein lies the problem: Look around. Their optimism has not helped matters much.

> The Internet isn’t just the realm of the future anymore. It is also our present and has a substantial past. It is worth examining how the past promises of those 90s techno-optimists worked out.

> What do you get for the tech billionaire who has literally everything? The cherished startup vibes of his youth. It’s literally the only thing he doesn’t have anymore.

(That may be too speculative/personal but I think it's a really interesting point: the tech elite are approaching mid-life crisis age)

> that “manifesto of a different time and place” is the Futurist Manifesto, written in 1909 by Italian poet F.T. Marinetti. A decade later, Marinetti would be a principal author of the Fascist Manifesto.

> Andreessen spends 4,000+ words warning about the plague of pessimism that is sweeping the land, and then he finally lists the villains who are responsible and… a lot of them are tech workers, employed by Silicon Valley, but focused on the type of hard practical questions that bum him out.

> You can't claim the mantle of Bayesian rationalism without learning a single thing from the failures of your own dominant philosophy over the past 30 years.

All these direct quotes are pretty focused on the Techno-Optimist Manifesto itself and raise some legitimate doubts IMO
You could choose to give the manufacturer a copy of the keys -- or anyone else you trust to hold them for you. But what right do they have to retain them against your wishes or use them without the device owner's consent?
None of that was released.
Mike Acton used to work at Unity on high performance C# stuff. He also has a great talk on data oriented design at CppCon 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
Not the person you’re replying to, but I would have a problem working somewhere that had a business model of signing contracts they had no intent of honoring. Ethics aside, I’d have serious doubts about how they would handle any stock grants or other obligations to me.
That's the very last patent, and I haven't looked at it in any detail to see whether it might even be relevant to a typical software implementation; a lot of patents are on special optimisations / hardware implementations, so may not be relevant to your use-case.

It's also noteworthy that of the full list of H.264 patents here:

https://scratchpad.fandom.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists

...the majority of them have already expired. IANAL but since the original H.264 spec became public 20 years ago, everything in it should be usable as prior art.

Also, all existing MPEG-4 part 2 (infamous DivX etc.) patents and anything older, e.g. H.263, MPEG-1/2 and H.261, have certainly expired by now.
Certainly seems that way. Ironically Google's phones are the easiest to customize and install custom operating systems on. They have a good attitude towards open source software and firmware. Certainly something I've come to appreciate about Google.
i believe it was announced like week ago. saw it on israeli news i think
Vertical/tree-style tabs are a must if you're a tab hoarder, I can't imagine living without them.
Yeah, but a little late, and the successor was seemingly canceled.
Pay them more money maybe?
> Context Aware Access checks on every SSO

It's only available in the Enterprise plan levels.

> I don't know what you mean here but I'm curious if you wouldn't mind?

Using the prior example where GSuite is my IDP. If I want to require an MFA check before granting access to AWS SSO - I've got no way of doing this.

CAA might help, but if I want to be explicit "Hey, this has access to customer data - we're always going to do an MFA check on this access", there's no good way of doing this.

Using an intermediary like Okta would allow you to do that additional level of checking.

e: To be clear, I'm using AWS SSO as the destination application as an example. There's other applications that you might want to control access to that also have particularly sensitive data where you want to re-verify that someone else hasn't just walked past an unlocked laptop and decided to poke around.
> partner stalled for a while and then decided they didn't want that. So now acquaintance is left at an age where she really just wants to deal only with people interested in marrying, she has enough friends otherwise.

Gets scarier when you consider the divorce rate. This is a much deeper topic than just dating apps. I think what others are saying is that the apps trade quality for quantity. That's why Tinder became all about hookups. There are no shortcuts.
A semi truck is a very efficient way to move a lot of packages across the country very quickly. It is a terribly inefficient way to move a single envelope.

Deeper speculation, larger out of order window, more accurate branch prediction, larger caches, more execution pipes, larger register files…
> We conducted a comprehensive systematic search of the recent literature on cognitive outcomes associated with cannabis use and cannabinoids in adults age 50 and older. Although there is evidence of modest negative effects on cognition in this population, larger controlled trials using validated outcome measures are greatly needed to better understand the role of cannabinoids in cognitive aging, as small sample sizes and variability in study designs limit our ability to draw definitive conclusions at this time.
Targeting enterprise users was indeed the startup's focus! Unfortunately I think at the time a lot of businesses were perfectly comfortable giving all their data to Google, and some of the core apps weren't really good enough to justify the switch. I think a business building Sandstorm would do better today, but right now our nonprofit is focused around the self-hosting community first and foremost. I've done a lot of thinking about how to prep Sandstorm for different business verticals though and what that would look like.

The Collections app is currently the best way to share "a group of permissions", which you can in-turn share with a bunch of users, but there's definitely a missing feature there in terms of being able to share to groups of users or especially share some grains by default to new users.

For Tempest, Ian and I had discussed doing a lot more with "keyrings" of capabilities, and I absolutely would like to be able to do that someday.
I found the code here on their github

https://github.com/a1k0n/donut-raymarch/blob/main/di2.c
Because "evidence-based" medicine isn't.
At least in the US, Medical Training for MDs is probably the most dogmatic science-related discipline. Change is incredibly slow, because tenured professors will lecture positions and practices on topics directly contradicted by the very textbooks they assigned for the class (which they haven't read in several editions). It doesn't take a conspiracy for an incredibly valuable pool of people to remain insulated from things that would challenge their status quo (or worse, the egos of those in charge).

Medicine advances one death at a time - and it's not the deaths of patients, but rather from the death of the old guard.
I haven't really felt the need for a dedicated PDF reader ever since Firefox upped their PDF support. It works pretty well and recently added support for form filling, text box and drawing [1].

SumatraPDF does support other file formats, which is nice.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/pdf-editor/
Pretty sure “free market capitalism” includes the concept of contracts that people can freely enter into and which are enforceable.

The government prohibiting certain types of sale contacts is the opposite of free market capitalism.
My friends love the new Baldur's Gate game which now runs well on a little M1 laptop
Probable PRC "Spamouflage" campaign targets dozens of Canadian Members
I wonder whether state actors carry out cost-benefit analyses because this tactic does not sound that successful:

"Spamouflage should be considered a tactic or technique, not an entity. It is a network of new or hijacked social media accounts that posts and increases the number of propaganda messages across multiple social media platforms – including Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Medium, Reddit, TikTok, and LinkedIn. The word is a combination of “spam” and “camouflage”, intended to portray the hidden attempts to spread spam-like content and propaganda among more every-day, human-interest-style content. Spamouflage networks are largely contained within their own echo chambers of fake users, and rarely garner organic social media engagement from real users."
A Clevelander told you it was too cold for a Browns game? In October?
> Yes there are deadbeats who don't contribute (some of them can code just fine), as there are in every industry, but until you've been in a project that failed because there was no senior architect, someone getting paid a comfortable salary to be the "senior architect" and not write code sounds like a waste of the company's money to the intern.

Oh, if only the worst was not contributing. I've been at a company full of brilliant programmers that was just driven into the ground by the senior architect, who wasn't necessary. Hiring someone who can't Fizzbuzz for that position (and giving him the authority to overrule the development leads) was absolutely the single decision that sank that company.
There's zero practical means to hold police accountable.

The reality is that we managed to create a social mechanism that's beyond our ability to control and that alone means we aren't ready to employ it. We have to understand our natural limits as a species and come to terms that having police is beyond them. There's no shame in that. In fact, that's the most mature outcome.
Name and shame the company, my man!
Now, will 1Password pull a Lastpass and slowly and silently keep updating their blogpost, each time growing from “a lil bit compromised” to “oopsie we lost all your data through negligence but we care about your privacy we swear”
House prices do go down! Take Japan as an example: houses are considered a depreciating asset, like cars. It makes total sense: wood rots, metal rusts, etc. The land value is another matter, though.

For many people, the primary goal isn't lower house prices overall, but a change in approach to how we approach housing (especially zoning) in order to make shelter affordable.

It's not that everyone wants McMansions for cheap, but rather they want to see things built that are reasonable in size and affordable for normal workers. This could be anything from large concrete block apartments (they can be made cozy and nice!) to tiny house villages.

There are many great ways to live which are literally illegal to build in the USA due to archaic and regressive zoning laws, minimum parking requirements, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfsCniN7Nsc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Flsg_mzG-M
(dev here) Yes. I've spent quite a bit of time on scheduling. It's more nuanced than what this article says and there are ways to influence it (but sorry, can't share too many details). OrbStack tends to use E cores more than other virtualization-based apps do on Apple Silicon, especially for heavy workloads.
Try: https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

I also recommend a good photorealistic base model, like RealVis XL.

In my experience its like DALL E but straight up better, more customizable, and local. And thats before you start trying finetunes and LORAs.

Other UIs will do SDXL, but every one I tried is terrible without all those default fooocus augmentations.
but if some word related to specific concept of culture, do these words exist before people understand the culture?
You basically got Stripe level documentation (high praise) of an API endpoint that would let you get open trade offers, and place trade offers. There was a minimal UI that you could manually operate the system with. Actually understanding what was happening in the markets required you to write something to visualize it with data from API calls.

Each level had an increasing level of what you needed to do, with the first level being to buy some stock (which you could do from the UI).

Most levels had you operating some kind of marketing making system, where you had to constantly update passive positions that made money as bots traded against them, and the prices shifted.

The last level required you to "hack" the system to get info you weren't supposed to have, in order to identify the insider trader in the middle of 50 other bots. It was quite different from all the other levels.

Here was the level solving code from my second run through:

https://gist.github.com/DanielVF/d43e079050d1cf3c05d6
Wow - I loved tribes and was really excited to see Torque open sourced. Glad to see its still chugging along :-)
EMF's are super healthy. Everyone knows this.
Fair enough, but that argument was not "for all types of aircraft" right? Are you arguing for the FAA to remove all safety requirements that have a cost? How do you evaluate that cost? When I read it I saw the FAA describing a methodology and argument that counters the "safety at any cost" argument (is that what you call 'safetyism'?)

I read the article to say, "Sometimes our rules do not increase safety, sometimes our rules result in people choosing a less safe option because there isn't safer choice, and sometimes a new thing we haven't seen can be safer than what existing practice would expect." And MOSAIC was a response to addressing those observations in order to foster a more innovative and safer overall aviation industry.

When I read your original point I mistakenly thought you were criticizing the FAA for lowering the cost of safety regulation when doing so increased safety. So that is how I got confused by your comment.
Not every browser vendor runs a search engine…
That's all true, but nonetheless it was a ton of fun for those of us who were into desktop customization at the time. With how system extensions worked in Classic Mac OS (they could overwrite bits of the system in memory) there was practically nothing they couldn't do, and as a result it was one of the most effortlessly extensively customizable desktops to ever exist. Even 22 years later, in some ways Linux, the long reigning champion of customizability, has yet to beat it.

Of course, that extension model was hilariously insecure and wouldn't have worked in the modern era, but it had its perks.
You did amuse me! Thanks!

To me this is the kind of scope creep that causes a "simple" PDF renderer department to end up with 50 devs working in it full-time.

I wonder... can a PDF have an iframe that opens itself? Causing an infinie loop of it loading itself?
It pisses me off that AMD does either low/cheap laptops or extremely gaudy gaming machines. There's this high performance ultrabook niche that I wish they could make inroads to.

It is impossible to find: AMD + high resolution screen (3840x2400) + 120hz + OLED. In the last year even the Intel ones downgraded though, everyone went 3200x2000 @ 120hz OLED.

It's just frustrating when you're looking at upper-end AMD laptops and you cannot find 16GB of memory, or a decent screen. I'm glad they can dish out $500-$800 laptops, but I don't know why OEMs are always pairing the good components with Intel.
>are full of spam from idiot blueticks

Was always the case.
One of mine is the 3D hologram of yourself flipped upside down, when staring into a curved shaving/vanity mirror at the wrong focal point (i.e. further away than normal). Your eyes receive two images due to focal pont being earlier than expected, and you can resolve them into an (upside down) 3D hologram of yourself!

At first I thought I stumbled onto some clever new hologram tech, though it quickly del apart once I realised that the source image has to already be 3D, and if you can generate an actual 3D image at the source, then you don't really need a mirror to see them...
The current CAFE calculations include the FOOTPRINT of the vehicle, giving bigger vehicles lower mpg rates to pass regulations. It makes a strong incentive to keep trucks big, as more efficient engines are hard to make.

Truly the calculation is quite odd, the formula includes the Natural Log to the power of the footprint of the vehicle.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-V/p...
I have been lazy and use iCloud as my only backup for photos and videos for a while now... whats the correct way to backup to another drive from iCloud?

Is there a script I can run, or do I need to just do an export from Photos.app to a backup target or something?
So - I work for a company that uses Okta. Our Infosec/IT group also rolled out Yubikeys. I need to work with IT when I'm having problems with my Yubikeys.

When we SSO to Okta - they will for some applications (VPN, Github, etc..) require us to MFA with our Yubikey. But for some other, lower risk applications, MFA isn't required.

When an employee has difficulty connecting to one of the 84 applications that we SSO via Okta - they file a ticket with IT, not Okta. There is no way any employee would even know how to contact Okta, and there isn't any way that Okta could troubleshoot for the employee anyways - the source of truth for their password (first factor) would be the corporate Active Directory server.

Okta doesn't (to my knowledge) provide any customer support (I guess they might work with IT if there is a service-outage) to our employees. It's just an IdP SaaS.
It seems you're ok if the manufacturer (arbitrarily?) expands the definition of "thieves".
Won’t someone think of the shareholders???
Agreed. It's seriously disturbing that they have any access at all. I gotta wonder if other products are similarly compromised. ISP equiment comes to mind.
Surely there is some copyright infringement here?
The ole' "I know what was in your britches last summer"
If a chess engine was programmed with a general goal of winning the game, inadequate rules preventing it from cheating, and sufficient ability to influence the world to do so, it would presumably cheat to win.

If the only path it saw to cheat to win was to kill you and move your pieces for you, there's nothing stopping it from doing so.

Will it kill you because it wants to kill you? No. Might it kill you because killing you is a possible option and that option comes out as a likely way for it to achieve what it wants? Absolutely.

Probabilities matter. Is killing you the best way to win at chess? I have no idea, it depends on too many variables. But it's certainly less likely than if it were programmed to kill you as its goal.

However, as its power to affect the world goes up, it becomes more and more capable of performing actions which accidentally kill you while it pursues an endgame (pardon the pun). Like flooding the town you live in so you can't move, or whatever.
Is it all work related goals?
The DMCA is very broken. It needs to be amended to disincentivize frivolous claims, and to require that claims be processed manually by trained staff. Automation should not be permitted in this area. If that means some internet giants need to scale down to be able to service their accounts properly, that wouldn’t be a bad outcome.
Not the individual, no. Only what they're doing.
Abstractions leak. Many devs don't need to care, but anyone particularly concerned with performance or power consumption will want to know the details. (Just like many devs don't need to know about CPU cache, how GPUs work, etc.)
I wasn't talking about people who are well-intentioned but a bit abrasive if they're having a bad day, I was talking about people who are so unpleasant they "completely crush morale for the rest of the team or company".
> Several limitations must be considered when interpreting the evidence reviewed in this paper. First and foremost, medical and recreational use of cannabis are not the same and their effects on cognition should not be assumed to be equivalent. Adding to this variability are the different constituents of cannabis studied, including whole plant cannabis and isolated compounds.

So much this. You need three way split studies (And perhaps different category naming).

- +50 year varieties of cannabis

- medical cannabis (Higher CBD, lower THC)

- Modern dispensary cannabis (high THC)

We keep selling the idea that bud is natural but ask anyone older than 60 who smokes and they will tell you 'modern' cannabis is absolutely wild compared with what existed a few decades ago.

Anecdata I personally know someone in their early 20 who experienced a major psychotic event following regular heavy use of cannabis.

The mental health and neural maturation of 13 to 25 yr old while consuming cannabis is something that also needs very urgent studying.
If you don't use a joke in the right context it loses it's humor :)
I got expelled from high school for holding down shift while booting a windows machine, pre -98. Also suspended (the next year) because someone edited a teacher's gradebook in the "Mac lab" that he left open on an SE; of course the hacker that was expelled the year before obviously edited a single grade for someone they didn't know in a teacher they'd never met.

And I went to a Tech. Magnet. HS
That interferes with the ability to send multiple requests in-flight at the same time.
Set the column/cell format to “text” and it will retain what you typed.
I may be reading the critiques rather than the original "techno-optimist manifest". Either way, I want to avoid the original article for some reason.

"Optimists" may just be inevitable. But we need a few generations of intentional stewards. We need to engineer resilience and sustainability in our systems. Else we would have to rely on "Apollo missions" in the future (government setting the specific moonshot goals and creating highways to achieve those); rather than on "optimists" inside the macroeconomic structures to achieve those.
Can I ask what you are using for the docs?
Microsoft has a history of trying to use architecture transitions as an excuse to lock down the platform. But when both of the architectures are still available, that puts the newer architecture at a competitive disadvantage.