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iMessage is the only messaging system free of spam, where sending spam gets your device banned from the network. Apple’s use of TPM attestations is mandatory to sign in, and only the gaming console networks for PlayStation/Xbox/Switch have this. It raises the cost of spamming to a hundred dollars per estimated hundred messages (actual threshold may vary), which makes it unprofitable.

This makes it highly appealing to users, and since no one else in the mobile market can secure their existing messaging network in this way, government-mandated regulation would create considerable harm to users if the flood of paid-by-spammers and data-scrapers and anticonsumer-trackers clamoring at the gates in Google’s regulatory complaint gain access.

Is the cause of openness worth that harm to users? That is ultimately for regulators to decide, and it’s a critically-important decision for everyone that makes money from messaging.

(Also, the inevitable STIR/SHAKEN requirement would likely end up requiring processor TPMs, secure attestation, and uniformly deanonymize all traffic on the ‘open’ system, accessible to ‘all’ OS boot+root images signed by corporate-registered signing certificates. I’d rather not see Google accelerate the modifiable computing apocalypse, but here we are.)
The US also has lots of tribal/ethnic/skin color/religious/socioeconomic delineated groups that are not necessarily aligned with each other, and are OK with other groups being screwed.

One example I especially like to use is how agricultural workers are somehow not deserving of the same minimum wage as others. Even in the progressive states. Surely, it could not have anything to do with the workers mostly being poorer immigrants from a certain region.
It's so disappointing, how very little it takes to get so many to sell out. Murder for hire for a couple hundred. Selling votes for a thousand. Betrayal for a little nookie.

People are so much more venal than we give them credit for.
Casual stroll through the supermarket at OP's neighborhood
It says both are options, so that could just mean you get slightly more expensive variants.
new to me! link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki_(software)
There's a ton of work in this area, and the reality is... it doesn't work for LLMs.

Moving from 900GB/sec GPU memory bandwidth with infiniband interconnects between nodes to 0.01-0.1GB/sec over the internet is brutal (1000x to 10000x slower...) This works for simple image classifiers, but I've never seen anything like a large language model be trained in a meaningful amount of time this way.
Blockchain is smokeware. Vaporware would imply an emission-free power source.
Here's some old thoughts on the matter of small firearms written by someone long ago:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
I don't think the GP comment meant eggs specifically. They just chose a random specific consumer good as an example.
Most western democracies dont publicise arrests and mugshots like the US. Most of these countries are more free and have better functioning democracies than the USA. In fact, many coutries would consider publicising every minor arrest as an imposition on personal freedom and a massive overstep by the government.

I do agree that police should be filmable in almost all circumstances.
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> your toughest career problems are less frequently technical but political, interpersonal, and organizational.

I feel this statement is spot on.
The overlap between working politicaly and working in unions is pretty big, the unions in Sweden have to a large extent socialized with the center-left parties. The concrete issue was with a local union chairman, who was a front figure for the far right wing SD. He had to choose, and choose the party above the union.

That unions and political parties founded by Nazis might have issues with each other have historical reasons.
Our jobs might not be physically demanding, but many of us are mentally exhausted every day. I don't work an insane number of hours, but the expectation is always that I'll figure out a way forward with limited information and a team comprised of both competent and incompetent people who mostly want to be told what to do. In the vast majority of software engineering jobs, writing the actual code is trivial.
I used to, but mostly changed my mind. I still do it with certain people/discussions, but that's usually for long, high-context, complicated discussions.

In the general case, I try very hard to make no more than one point or ask no more than one question per email. It feels reductive and limiting, but it really does make comms with the median person work much better.

I'm not sure what work that weird, irrelevant gendered speculation is supposed to be doing, so I have no comment.
Have you seen the tab being worked upon by Avi Schiffman. Seems like a interesting concept.

https://twitter.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1708439854005321954
having done this, I generally think my old code is fine.

When people say things like I this I always point out that this may be true for the first 2-5 years of you developing but if it's true 15 years in you're not actually improving you're just being mercurial.

At some point your growth as a developer moves outside of code and you recognize that there's beautiful code, devilish code, and then a huge grey area where things are just fine even if they aren't how you would have personally implemented them.
Safari on MacOS?
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I'm not familiar with MSNBC and have never even heard of Mother Jones, but surely it's not controversial that Fox News is unreliable? They're an absolute punch line everywhere outside the US.
In thr US that is probably legal currently
Whether an extension is supported on Mobile Firefox or not is completely arbitrary. There's a list maintained by Mozilla of all the extensions you are allowed to use. But if you are using "Firefox Nightly" or "Fennec", you have the ability to use a different or user-created list.
"Current consensus" is the closest thing we can even pretend to be "the truth" on complex scientific topics.

If Wikipedia existed in its current form in the mid-20th century, it would have dismissed plate tectonics. But, importantly, as the scientific consensus evolved, so would Wikipedia's stance on the theory.

This is the key difference between science/academia and politics/religion. The former changes with new evidence while the latter doubles down in the face of it.
There was a case a while back when a satellite guy answered a question about power requirements for a cubesat while overseas for the launch. When he got home the FBI talked to him about violating ITAR. I think he was able to work it all out with the application of multiple tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

But the first rule of ITAR club is you do not talk about ITAR club related technical details when at a launch facility in southern Russia.
The intention is that web.crypto is used when reversing should be difficult.

The goal for Math.random is to have much lower memory and speed impact. You can certainly disagree with their priorities but given those priorities, it makes sense to go with a much simpler algorithm that can be reversed easily.
You'll get them, but you'll have to be 91 to start collecting, and they will be worth less than it took to print them, because some "people" think that giving more tax breaks to those that need it the least is a better use of the money you've been forced to pay into the system.
Close, but...

Cut the main power at least quarterly, and for-sure a week before each performance review of the managers in charge of making sure the "redundant" and "fail-over" stuff actually works. Similar for cuts to "redundant" internet connections, etc.
Did they ever get to Montaigne? Montaigne has a realisation of the messiness of human life, and how unbridled pursuit of virtue can cause more harm than good.
I'm really into what Australian startup Roev is doing in that space - they're doing exactly that: leveraging your electric car battery to do arbitrage on the grid. They're targeting larger more industrial/commercial fleets of vehicles as well, which typically have more of an idea of when they'll need their vehicles to be at 100% charge and when they're OK with having them act as grid batteries. Means you make money when your car isn't in use as well.
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https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs
> ...his place as a symbol of injustice helping to animate the overwhelmingly Black district and propel him to victory.

But he's also clearly a symbol OF JUSTICE as his conviction was overturned when new evidence was discovered. To say he was exclusively a symbol of injustice is to condemn the jury based court system we have entirely. No system is perfect and he was wrongly convicted but that's not the end of the story.

> "I am really the ambassador for everyone's pain," he said. "In many ways, I went through that for our people so I can now lead them."

The Jesus thing is tiring.
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It's the same in software and likely every industry. Yeah, you still have plenty of very senior folks who have adopted the cloud and are building things in modern ways and on the bleeding edge of things. Then you've got the crusty HN types who think a Hetzner VM and Postgres is the best way to solve all the problems in the world and javascript is the bane of all existence. I've met the 50 year old developer who has written nothing but Java enterprise apps for the last 20 years who are all but useless outside of their niche, and a 60 year old developer who is still as giddy as a child while he's playing with code generation models. If technology is your passion, it's far easier to stay up to date and stay relevant. If technology is just your chosen career, you've got to intentionally put in the effort to stay up to date or risk becoming out of touch with the industry. There are passionate doctors and career doctors. Passionate home builders and career home builders. Etc. Etc.
Just a note, the Planck lenght is not the smallest possible distance. The plank length is where quantum and graviational effects are of the same "size" and as such, both our theory for gravity and our theory for quantum physics are guaranteed to break down.

It has nothing to do with smallest possible length or something like that and it's just a common mistake in non-scientific physics articles that has sadly spread.
I legitimately did not know Dish had a phone network. (I also don’t have TV.)

Best of luck to them, some disruption would be nice. I would like at least one cell provider to not have dead zones in my area.
> Suggestion for improvement

> 26. Given the Commission’s failure to identify the list of experts despite the complainant’s clear interest in it, the Commission should register this now as a new request for public access to documents and handle it in accordance with Regulation 1049/2001.

I know the ombudsman doesn't really have power and can only provide recommendations but surely "and the people who initially denied the request should be fined/fired/imprisoned" or some such language would have been OK to add? Seems like 'we can ignore the law until someone jumps over the substantial hurdles to complain about us ignoring the law and then we can follow the law' is not good for democracy.
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Maybe. Or maybe you’re proving my point.
> I also was under the impression that Apple already did that (at one point at least).

Apple backed down on their on-device CSAM scanning. It was never implemented.

However cloud image hosts, including iCloud, do scanning (PhotoDNA etc) of uploaded photos and have done so for years.
That is already common and they go in and film anyway. If the public can legally get there they can legally film
What points of views are scrubbed from WP, with credible scientific evidence supporting them?
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The struggle isn't seeing how other people fall for this. That's easy to characterize. It's easy for someone to call another person's actions stupid and move on, it happens all the time.

The hard part is realizing that these people are a mirror. That their susceptibility is a reflection of your susceptibility.

You look at the people who follow trump as disinterested in truth and I agree. But have you also seen the behavior of people on the other side? The modern day liberal is just as disinterested in truth as the trump following conservative.

And that is the purpose of the experiment. The experiment was not conducted as an observation of "human behavior". We can already observe that by looking at the nazis. The experiment exists to tell you something about yourself.
What exist is code that can be maintained, and code that just cannot (in practical time). There is no sharp cut, is a continuum. But if nobody cares, at some point it grinds to a halt.
I don't actually find this model so disgusting as long as it's implemented in a non-restrictive way.

If a garage door manufacturer offers me a (free, local) API to fully control my door and allows me to check a box to let Amazon in, what, exactly, is the problem? Sure, I could also allow Amazon in without checking the box (assuming Amazon offers the appropriate integration and I'm willing to deal with maintaining my side of it), but it also seems okay for Amazon to pay the garage door opener company for the first-party version. Everybody wins.

Forcing the actual device owner to use a crappy cloud service is an entirely different story, but it's not required for the Amazon business model. Similarly, many video recording devices support ONVIF and have an optional paid first-party video storage. (And I imagine that quite a few commercial users demand the former -- no one who operates a concierge/security desk or a serious office building or a warehouse or an industrial site has the slightest interest in using four different first-party cloud offerings from four different vendors of their various gizmos that contain cameras. They are going to run one NVR, possibly with off-site backup, with one integrated system for viewing and analyzing the feeds. And they will pay handsomely for that, and they're paying that money to one of several established companies in the space, all of whom require at least token ONVIF or RTSP compliance, and they aren't about to kick any of that money over to the camera makers, because there is no shortage of competing camera makers.)
One should not discount the impact of climate/weather on the style of construction. Buildings enclosing gardens or a common area open to sunlight in an internal square is a great idea in moderate climates, but would work poorly in heavy snow regions.
This game is going to be massive. GTA 5 was the fastest selling media (not game, MEDIA) at the time of its release. This game has a decade of pent up demand it's going to be off the charts.
Cue the copyrighted music playing 24/7 in NYPD stations in 3, 2, 1, ...

No, I'm not joking. This is a real thing that has happened elsewhere, using copyright law to take down evidence of police misbehavior.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/15/california-p...
The "population change" effect mentioned above is called Eternal September. Wikipedia is a good source here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I didn't quite find the quote mentioned by GP but for stack overflow itself, an explicit design goal is to minimize discussions and make the site focus on Q&A, since the kind of argumentative jerks mentioned by GP tend to be involved in long discussions. I quote from Jeff Atwood:

> At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion necessary to produce great questions and great answers. That's why answers get constantly re-ordered by votes, that's why comments have limited formatting and length and only a few display, and so forth. Almost every design decision we made was informed by our desire to push discussion down, to inhibit it in every way we could. Spare us the long-winded diatribe, just answer the damn question already.
Almost every teacher I've known has complained a lot more than most of the S/W engineer folks I know. I do complain a bit myself though, but I think that's a reflection of having high standards and an eagerness to improve things (to put a positive spin on it).

You do make a good point though - we don't have to work in the sleet, or in human filth in a 2 foot crawlspace filled with spiders. It could be a lot worse!
> Basically the whole "disable submit button after submit" thing is a lazy hack.

It is and there is a ready-made solution to handle it https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ET... Your HTTP library likely already has support for it.
There is a ChatGPT Classic: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic
Yes, most things are cheaper, except those tiny, insignificant ones, like houses, college tuition, medical bills...
I can't help but wonder what it would take for Europeans to develop a sense of mistrust in top-down governance.
Why did you wait so long for Docker to do the thing when there are other, better container tools on Mac? Docker Desktop is an abomination.
> It does make discussions more "robust", though.

Citation needed.

> especially women

Citation needed.

But (semi-)jokes aside, "reply in-line" can be good for debate in the sense that you can dissect arguments point-by-point and argue them individually. It does however also mean you can derail the conversation more easily by attacking multiple irrelevant fragments of the post without addressing the actual point.

Replying in-line to multiple points is useful to you, the reply guy, when writing the first reply. It's completely useless to anyone else two replies in as you're basically forced to either maintain multiple different conversations in the same post or need to decide which ones to abandon.

It's trivial to overload any conversation using "reply in-line" with the shotgun approach of throwing a bunch of low-effort nitpick replies into one post and seeing which one sticks. This is the opposite of robustness. Instead of being forced to steelman the other person's argument because you need to reply to the post as a whole or risk being called out for nitpicking, "reply in-line" allows you to unravel the argument, pick out the weakest parts, ignore the rest and then derail the conversation by replying to an army of strawmen all at once. This is the conversational equivalent of bikeshedding.
> It’s not crazy. It’s a very effective way of balancing the power dynamics between corporations and workers. What’s crazy is not having these rights enshrined in law. Why should the government tell workers how they can or cannot strike?

It's like asking, why should the government tell business how they can or cannot do business? It's essentially an anti-trust issue. You don't want any organization to have too much power, whether it's a company or a union or even the government. You want power to be distributed as much as possible, but unions, like any other organization, centralize it.

The typical argument is that corporations centralize it too, but the answer to this is more anti-trust measures, not less.
There is no one set of tradeoffs that you can perfectly make across situations. Each have different needs, and so have executors that provide for those different needs.
Who is the winner in this case?
Printer drivers or firmware? Because the drivers are generally whatever CUPS works with, and are perfectly fine.
What you say is correct. But there is literally no way to figure out what will be needed 10 years down the road using any kind of methodology. If you are clever you try to use stable things, technology that is likely to be an ok choice years down the line and maintain an architecture that is easy to maintain and modify.

But if your software managed to survive a decade of good use without any major issues I'd already count that as a job well done.
Sure I get that. My focus was on this part: "But I have to imagine we've crossed the point where "better camera" stopped being noticeable to the masses?"
We went with an Owlet sock that we got pre-nerfing from the FDA to track breathing/O2. The internet connected monitor was actually the Owlet cam. It worked decently enough, but just headaches from it being a cloud connected camera pushed us to get an RF-based system when we wanted a second camera.

If it works for you, that's great. I'm not trying to yuck your yum, just sharing my own personal experiences.
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I am immensely disappointed to have clicked on that and not been greeted by the age of empires priest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxVh7T41GAI
You’ll never win an argument that has such different cultures in the comment section, sadly. Not only are there the US ideas of unions here, but also Musk fanboyism. It’s a lost cause!
An underrated topic, we have a lot of things to fix here: https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Men-Modern-Struggling-Matters/dp...
In any inflationary environment, corporate profits should be expected to regularly break records (in nominal terms) just like GDP should be expected to regularly break records.
> In Europe there is some expectation of privacy even in public

which is reason #1367 why the UK had to leave the EU.

Thanks, I'll be here all week, until I die.
> Have responsive customer service. Some potential chargebacks can be prevented simply by being very accessible. Analyze your UX to see that customers have everything they need to understand how to get in touch with you easily in all emails. Even so, some percentage of customers will just do a chargeback and never contact you.

> Make sure to include your service name in the bill. Some chargebacks happen because a company operates off of a website like "example.com" but then does the credit card billing through "ABC Jones Incorporated". It's very easy to forget a service if you see the wrong thing on your credit card statement.

> This might be a little off-putting to some potential customers, but if part of your business involves having a live video chat with them, it seems like there might be a way to get fairly convincing proof that they used it somewhere in the process of a call. Even so, you'll lose some percentage of chargebacks just because credit cards generally side with their own customers.

> Your business caters to people who are looking for work and are probably a little financially desperate and can't afford an immediate hit to their wallet. Understand that this might mean more chargebacks than normal, partially out of desperation. And consider if this is an opportunity in disguise: maybe you can offer a free service but then figure out a way to get paid more once they are employed?

> Consider if offering payment through some unchargebackable options such as crypto might be feasible.
tl;dr

* Removing contacts

* Message editing

* Message formatting

The most requested feature (usernames that enable hiding a user's phone number) is scheduled for "early 2024":

https://signal.miraheze.org/wiki/Usernames#cite_note-45