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This isn't how Airdrop works.

The first step is a device lookup with "Bonjour", which allows devices to ping each other an see who's who. Any network device since the 1980s pretty much does this by default unless you disable it. Remember Netbios?

The second step, is Airdrop requesting a device to accept a connection.

At that point, you see who is sending you the send request, and you can accept/deny. Airdrop is also disabled by default from unknown senders since a dude sent a dick pick on an airplane. Your Apple device will only accept connections from known contacts by default, and you can override that setting to allow connections from anyone.

You can disable this behaviour in Settings by blocking Airdrop.

From the article:
> While AirDrop’s device-to-device communications channel is typically protected from third-party snooping by its own layer of security, that wouldn’t shield someone who may have been tricked into connecting with a stranger, perhaps by tapping on a deceptively named device in a list of contacts or by thoughtlessly accepting an unsolicited connection request. This step is required for the sender to be identified, according to security experts.
But the argument you'd prefer to focus on isn't connected to the topic in Scott's piece, because Scott's writing to address specific claims with predictive power (as in: we can "replay the tapes" of history and see if what we'd expect to see, if they're true, is evident—and they're strong and confident claims, so we'd expect it to be pretty clear if it is) in a couple other pieces, to which pieces the argument you want to make also isn't connected.
This and music control are the uniques cases where Siri Just Works for me. “Add toothpaste to my shopping list” no fluff no nonsense replies, just “I added that to the shopping list” - and it’s on my phone’s Reminders in that list.

I wonder how well they’ve optimised Siri for a just few specific use cases like this, because nothing else seems to reliably work on it.
How do you Airdrop to new contacts then? And how do you sync shared secrets securely across multiple devices of a single user?
The current unemployment rate in San Francisco is 3.5%, so this is not the clever demonstration of your point you believe it to be.
Yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
Of course. People in Los Alamos were (and are) enthusiastic to work on nuclear weapons. There is no shortage of people enjoying building such things.
If you don't mind streaming games, Geforce Now works WAY better than SteamLink in my experience, even when the two computers are in the same apartment. (Also, with either, using a landline ethernet cable works much much better than WiFi, FWIW).
I'd be willing to compromise on that, with the provision we roll it out at the top first; starting with Senators/Reps
Only gripe here, and it's not a devdocs problem per se, is that Firefox deletes the offline documentation if you haven't opened devdocs in a while.

Is there any way I can turn that off, preferably on a per-site setting?
...in all cases. You've got a great counterexample, but it doesn't invalidate the successful use of self-regulation in other areas.
Does it move if you poke it with a stick?
It's also going to be used to read those really boring reports
I've gone back and forth on this over the years.

I'm glad 15 minutes has been your experience. For me, who does not use Windows at all for other purposes, it has taken considerably longer than 15 minutes to figure out where all the settings are to disable and uninstall annoyances. As somebody who stopped using Windows in the XP era, none of the settings are where I remember them being more than a decade ago when I last seriously used that OS for anything.

Since I'd only use Windows for gaming, there's also a non-trivial amount of time spent rebooting into Windows, and the slight annoyance of having to either keep a remote desktop tool open or a laptop nearby if I wanted to do something else on the computer other than launch a game.

And since my gaming computer is custom built, there's also a non-trivial expense of purchasing a Windows license.

The one compromise I have considered is keeping a dedicated Windows gaming PC in a closet and using Steam Link so I can actually play the games on my preferred device, whether it's at my desk or on the TV. It doesn't solve everything I mentioned above but at least it gets closer to the set-it-and-forget-it approach you've taken.
Seeing something like this be open source is so exciting for me. Living in the Dominican Republic, the main products offered are never available and it's hard for them to justify investing in building out support for the country since it's not a huge market to their eyes. Open source solutions like these opens the door for motivated engineers to contribute and make it happen.

Props and hope the bet pays off!
The declared aim is to make Gaza unlivable? Really? Israel has stated hundreds if not thousands of times that he declared aim is to (1) destroy hamas's ability to wage war; (2) return the hostages; and (3) prevent such an attack from recurring.

Yes, there have been particular government officials who've said they want to make Gaza unlivable, just as there are crazies in the US congress and senate who say things like we should nuke the middle east.

In terms of the earth going around the sun, the point I was trying to make is that at first glance it does look like the sun goes around the earth, just as at first glance it looks like Israel is trying to reduce Gaza to rubble, but after careful observation and adherence to scientific thinking we learn that the earth goes around the sun -- and that Israel is not carpet bombing gaza.
Yes, the cool thing about this approach is that you can reach extreme vehicle mass ratios without staging. So for example, it could make a single stage to orbit vehicle feasible, on re-entry you replace the cheap consumable "body" and you are ready for another launch.

But it's only an improvement if the fuselage is actually effective in containing the propellant, or is the propellant (imagine a long stick of rocket candy burning at the end, mechanically drawn by a closed nozzle). Otherwise, what you gain in mass ratio you use lose in useful impulse because you need to lift this large mass of mostly inert plastic at launch.
I don't think LLMs are evil either, but I think the real risks are extremely underplayed. This is a mostly innocuous example, but there are a lot of people trying to get LLMs into more places where the just aren't ready for yet.

The difference between a template is that the behavior is generally deterministic. Even if someone fucks it up, it means it's (usually) trivial to fix.
As far as I understand the "vulnerability" (it's really AirDrop working as publicly documented), it happens when you attempt to share content, not when you're visible for receiving content.
I don't think that's what parent did?
Whether it's misanthropic or not is moot if it's just a plain fact.
I think this is more confusion around language for something which isn’t quite that simple. The page that quote is from is a summary, not the actual statute, and each agency will have different policies, as well as terms written into contracts for actual procurements. In general, I’ve found literal statements of fact to be uncontroversial (e.g. if you say X.gov uses Y, and anyone who looks at sam.gov can confirm the same), but it gets increasingly more likely to raise challenges the more it looks like a recommendation, especially if it includes superlatives about the product or service.

Anyway, if this is remotely relevant, get a lawyer and ask the agency in question since they’ll likely have some nuances.
I've been using Zeal. It doesn't have everything (yet?), but it's very relaxing.
They all seem to be 3rd party products and not stuff sold by Amazon. Some 3rd party seller is doing some doo doo
> Docs especially fall into the common trap of handling the happy path hello world quickstarts, then become increasingly useless as you want to get beyond that to real life use cases.

Yeah, Java is what I'm most familiar with. The "Getting Started" shows how to do some basic manual instrumentation and collect the output with curl. Then the "Next Steps" are just random things with no guidance about why I would or wouldn't choose any of them for my next step.

But, ok, I choose "Automatic Instrumentation", that sounds promising. And it actually is really easy to set up auto instrumentation. But then at the end it says

> After you have automatic instrumentation configured for your app or service, you might want to annotate selected methods or add manual instrumentation to collect custom telemetry data.

Uh... no... after I have automatic instrumentation enabled I want to do something with the output

The two major flaws in the docs seem to be

1. The common failure of docs to explain to users why they might choose one thing or another. "If you want to do x.. If you want to do y.." what if I don't know?

2. Because otel is agnostic to the consumer of the output, there's very little in the way of explaining how to get value out of what otel produces. To connect the dots, you really need to use the docs of your observability tool. Which I understand, but then most of them have their own setup directions because they want some extra fields included in the data, or they have their own fork, so not everything in the otel docs is actually usable.

I'm not sure what the answer is. It's not like I expect otel to document how to build a dashboard in Grafana. And a lot of frustration I've experienced has been with the observability tools themselves. But at the same time, I always feel like the otel docs just don't get you anywhere close to getting value out of the library. Which is a shame, because turning on auto-instrumentation and seeing all your traces with literally no extra work is a magical moment.
>Don't bother responding with another "no."

Go fuck yourself.

That better?
That sort of compensation is largely limited to places with exorbitant costs of living. It's nowhere near as lucrative as it sounds.
Hmm they have already found 7 other planes with loose bolts in the same section. On other airlines besides Alaska. Don’t think distracted 3rd party is the issue… seems more like a production problem considering the Alaska airlines 737 was only 2 months old
"A modification of Windows, designed for gamers."

"Performance: By Removing unnecessary components, disabling power-saving features, and optimizing services."

"Privacy: By eliminating Microsoft's notorious tracking, pre-installed apps, and bloatware, you can feel confident when using Atlas."

Github link https://github.com/atlas-os/atlas

I use this on my gaming PC. Works well for me.
And it’s bonkers how little they care about things that impact the customer. I’m a “Vine” reviewer (free* products in exchange for a review). Sellers game this system by listing a dozen or two duplicate SKUs and submit them to Vine, each in very small quantities (<5). Then, they wait for the reviews to come in. Then any of the SKUs which got negative reviews are deactivated, and the rest of the listings are merged into one. Instant highly-reviewed product! A complete mockery of what both reviews and Vine are supposed to be about, yet Amazon turns a completely blind eye. I mean, one non-skilled FTE could do the job of policing Vine for abuse like that, and they do not even care a bit to try.

*Note, they 1099 you for full retail value so really it’s just a discount of 100% minus your marginal fed and state income tax rate!
Turtles age. I find it absurd I need to state the obvious. They age and die. They live longer because of their slow metabolism and... well they don't do much.

You'll find it curious I did think about turtles when writing the comment you're responding to. Can you spot the part where I thought about turtles? Something about total productive life? You know, sitting idle for months on end and staring at one point is not exactly what you envisage in your dreams of 150 year old humans or are you? If you want to see turtle-men, visit any nursery home, unfortunately. It's not a happy existence.

Anyway what am I doing, explaining basics to someone who just told me they're "a furry". As I noted people who dream of immortality are either narcissists, or infantile, and I'm sorry to be blunt, but describing yourself as "a furry" strikes me as a combo of both.

This is not a personal attack, but our beliefs shape our opinions, and certain extreme beliefs very much so. You can believe whatever you want to believe, beliefs are free (and most of them among humans are quite mediocre and laughable), but don't expect me to be convinced or entertain your notions.
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What they're describing is infrastructure, which is what government should be.

Not a ruling class.
I suppose that having white fur would be a death sentence for most animals in an ice-free landscape. Luckily for them, polar bear were at the top of the food chain, although that still made them conspicuous to potential preys.
I definitely agree that they don't return brand results. I don't use Amazon enough to remember the example(s) that were the final straw for me. Do you have any examples/remember which brand search you did? I am curious if some categories are "better" than others.
https://www.nber.org/digest/feb12/impact-real-estate-market-...

> Housing prices have a significant impact on a family's decision to have children, according to a new study by Lisa Dettling and Melissa Schettini Kearney. In House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby (NBER Working Paper No. 17485), they find that a 10 percent increase in home prices leads to a 1 percent decrease in births among non-homeowners in an average metropolitan area. However, the negative effect among non-owners is offset by a 4.5 percent increase in births among current homeowners, who are now wealthier. The total fertility effect of an increase in house prices varies across demographic groups, largely because their rates of homeownership differ. The authors conclude that "house prices are a relevant factor in a couple's decision to have a baby."

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w17485/w174...

(look to South Korea if you want to see the future: https://time.com/6488894/south-korea-low-fertility-rate-tren... ["The number of babies expected per woman probably dropped this year to 0.72 and will continue to fall through 2025, when it’s expected to reach 0.65, the statistical office said Thursday in its latest population forecasts. South Korea already has the world’s lowest fertility rate at 0.78 as of 2022."])
At least you've dispensed with any possibility that you're discussing this in good faith. Your flagged comment was nonsensical, please spend some time reacquainting yourself with basic logic and the nuances of fallacies before embarrassing yourself again in the future.
FWIW, it did NASA wonders when they created the IV&V program to strip individual facilities the right to self-inspect missions.
FPS? Fuckups per second?
I'm prone to losing sunglasses, so some years ago I went through the process of testing out a dozen Alibaba sunglasses to find the best ones. I settled on one that's $4/pair, sturdy, and looks/feels/functions just like a $50 pair. Of course, being Alibaba, I had to buy it in bulk, so I now have sunglasses for life.

But that brings me to the type of site I want to see. Not curated luxury products like Le Creuset cookware at a markup, but curated dirt-cheap Alibaba products with low margins that have been tested and vetted extensively.

Massdrop or Monoprice are a little bit like this, but only for a few niches like headphones or cables.
Agreed. Nobody is closing deals near the end of the year. Also it takes time as a sales person to worm your way into a company to sell them on a product. This takes good leads to follow up on. No idea if the sales agent even had that. Were there even any so close to the holidays?

Sales can be hard because you have to build relationships with companies/people. If you compare a green sales agent against an entrenched veteran they will always look bad. The veteran sales person has contacts, revolving sales from existing companies and people they can hit up to drive new sales. The newb has none of that. The amount of time she was employed was not enough to determine that.
No, I’m saying pay for new openings is flat. I just went through a job search, the numbers in the level.fyi data match my own job search experience looking at current openings.
Do you run this? I’m curious what your experience (and others) are with it.

I have a Pop!OS box and it was a little work to set up. I was mostly pleased with the result, though. Steam experimental Proton had a wide range of my games library compared to regular Proton. I did run into major bugs running some of those games, but it was good for scratching a nostalgia itch.
This is true, but this was never really a problem for the adoption. Spec delays, no firmware upgrade support, and most importantly no proper backing by phone or gateway vendors. Thread and matter seem to have fumbled their opportunity though, so it might not be too late.
Unless you’re the one conducting layoffs, what you think is dead weight and what people conducting layoffs think is dead weight might be different people.

Plus that L4/L5 employee might look stellar on paper. Or even be stellar, just not very vocal about what they’re doing.
Down for me in the US West. This really can't happen. Search is essentially a part of the web browser itself.
Thank you so much!! Will push this project more with our open source contributors!!
It is sad to see the number of commments here and no one mentions that a manufacturer not inspecting their own work is like an employee who does not check his own work, or an engineering team that does not check its work.

Boeing is great! It does great work. But yes, it lost several moments of pride, and that does not work great for Boeing.

In order for a company to do better, you need to take an honest multi-year review of their processes and cite multiple issues, and see through multiple corrections. Then we will have a well corrected company. And that is what Boeing needs, along with a bifurcation for increased competition.
The difference is the failure is non-deterministic and not predictable in any real capacity
Consider the idea that some people feel that they benefit internally from having the experience of becoming less wrong than they were at some earlier time.

There are many ways of attempting to become less wrong, and without doubt many of those who follow those ways have other motives. But I do think that there is room for people for whom there is an intrinsic motivation in seeking out the experience of discovering that what they used to think is less correct than something they've just been introduced to.
Okay, so what does this have to do with science, exactly? Back in the days of the original liberalism, often with no regulation of markets whatsoever, science indeed was a tinkerer's world, with ethics and reputation being at the core of an essentially rudderless and bottom-up endeavour. And it worked very well, but then matured and became more bureaucratic, formalized, which is a trade-off, yadda yadda. How is this latter state "neoliberal"? Are you saying this wasn't already happening in the 1970s when changes/reforms that can be described as neoliberal started happening, and then was caused by those reforms?
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Yeah, true too.
> In practice, parties tend to govern by attempting to control the supreme court, because there's no possible way to pass their agendas due to our vaunted checks and balances.

I agree that the the Supreme Court is more important because of the inability of Congress to pass regular legislation.

However I don't think the root cause is "checks and balances". I think the root cause is the (unconstitutional) Senate filibuster. This prevents parties who control both Houses of Congress and the Presidency from passing laws. It is often the case that this happens (2016-18 for Republicans; 2020-22 for Democrats) and in those periods it should be possible to pass many laws and thus diminish the role of the Supreme Court. But the filibuster prevents this.
Power has been consolidated. The things that could be done - protest (OWS), mild insurrection (Floyd protests), actual insurrection (Jan 6th), primary (AOC) - have been tried. It turns out that it's difficult to get anything done when the top 20% of us in terms of wealth are somewhere on the scale between "Zero backbone" and "Actively running interference for Boomers".

On the note of "selling": after certain Boomer family members were complaining about the cousin in NYC who won't renovate and get that sweet ABnBux cashflow from her brownstone, I pointed out that our family had let go of 8 figures worth of property in my lifetime (for about 6 figures in cash), and that they had no right to pin our landed gentry hopes on her. Like water off a duck's back; I don't even think they understood what I was trying to say, repeatedly misinterpreting, "It shouldn't be all on her," to mean, "We could swoop in and finance it if only she'd let us." No, I meant, "You squandered your portions of the pie Boomering around in the 90s and early 2000s; leave her be."

They just... don't listen.
it can vary pretty tremendously within the same city. i lived 3 miles from the "downtown" part of Seattle in a house, and 50% of my Amazon deliveries were late by 1-3 days. my friends lived 2 miles further out from the downtown in the same direction, but in a 100-unit apartment and they never had issues.

not that 4 day delivery is bad. but promising to deliver something, and then regularly failing, is. i'd make plans for the thing being here by the promised day and just regularly be screwed.
Software developers are used to being docile, but in oder industries being brave is a virtue. She’d make an excellent lawyer or leader. I dont understand why fellow workers are so angry at her if not the fear and terror at being in her shoes. Anxiety is common among keyboard operators. Watching this video is a great tutorial on how to change that.
Voice Assistant Contest – Let's build and win some prizes
I'm curious why she knew to record this video if she thought she was performing well.
^_^ "Never gonna let you down" is going to be our company tag line!
Hey Paul, I just want to clarify that you are an idol of mine and I hugely respect your thinking. I've read your essays for decades. I think there may be an imbalance between your knowledge and confidence when it comes to these matters, but I still highly respect you and I know you're more philosemite than antisemite. Thanks for inspiring me for decades.
This may also indicate that parents are living in areas that children are (or forced to be) satisfied with.

Many of my contemporaries moved from their parents home not because it was cheap, but because they wanted to be in another location.

If they were staying in the same area, they’d often live at home until marriage, etc.

Because why live in a small apartment when you can live in a much bigger house that even comes with various other support, and cooked meals?

Some would do that and even pay rent to the parents that was equivalent or higher than an apartment would be.
This would be great, and I'd be really happy to see it.

One (definitely not insurmountable) problem that would exist in such a federated and open system is credential authentication:

Currently, Apple signs your email address and phone number (hash) so that you can't impersonate somebody's trusted contacts and send unwanted material to them without their consent, which has been a problem for Apple in the past. That's supposedly also why they have removed the "allow all AirDrop senders" option in favor of one that times out after 10 minutes.

There would either have to be a federated alternative to that, or the open source system would have to drop sender authentication; then you could only receive AirDrops while your device is in "allow all senders" mode.