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This judgement only settles overcharges through Nov 8th. If Verizon keeps charging this discretionary undisclosed fee, hopefully enterprising class action lawyers will make suing them for settlements an ongoing business model. Future judgements against the same behavior might also make judges amenable to increasing punitive damages on top of recovery of actual damages. I suspect that might eventually "encourage" Verizon to reevaluate the cost/benefit of continuing this practice.
They have a laundry list of anti-trust investigations lined up against Apple for "anything Apple do better than Google" so it appears that they will be resting on their browser, search, video, and mapping monopolies which are funded by their ad duopoly, and using the US government to force competitors to hand their products over to Google.
I don't necessarily agree on the libc thing but I do agree that OpenBSD have missed the boat on Rust. It should be the natural platform for it, and sadly it's anything but.

The project feels very fossilized on various somewhat-outdated views. It probably won't change until there is a significant change in leadership, something that is always difficult and traumatic for BSD projects.
> Our evolutionary ancestors never had need to evolve means to process much of it.

That's not true because about half of the carbs in fruits and vegetables is fructose. (Cherries have the lowest ratio I know about at about 30%; apples and pears have the highest at around 70%; most fruits and vegetable are almost exactly half fructose and half glucose.)

Also, if you eat a spaghetti meal or a lot of potatoes (which rapidly become glucose and get absorbed) your body will convert a decent amount of the glucose into fructose according to researcher Robert Lustig MD.

(I don't disagree with your overall point that most affluent people consume too much fructose. In the ancestral environment however calories were scarce enough that people should have and did eat almost all the fructose they could find.)
Any ideas what im I supposed to do with the firewire mixer i bought 14 years ago?
Exact same for me... didn't notice anything strange. I also erase cookies when I close the browser, might also perhaps have an impact depending on previous visits to CNN.
After working in teams using Scrum and fully unstructured “trust the engineer”, I agree there are certain parts of Scrum that feel like dead weight / overkill.

Daily standup can feel productive when you are doing it, but I think you have to be a very small and nimble team with high density of juniors for it to be appropriate to meet that frequency. With a mostly-senior team folks just reach out when needed to unblock each other, and proactively broadcast async updates. Tooling to encourage this “ambient information” is I think under-invested. Takes a lot of discipline in Slack to prevent channels from devolving into noisy discussions.

I think a lot of teams think they need more predictability than they actually do, and sizing/points are overrated. Again this is contextual; in some projects you really do need to forecast a Q/H roadmap for customers. But if you are shipping every week or two, sizing barely matters as you can just Kanban it and keep picking the most important item to work on each sprint.

I think retro is mostly time wasted. You can fill an hour per two weeks with it but I’m not convinced it’s the best use of that time when you are moving fast. Async tools that can measure a pulse survey & flag common themes that are bright red/green is probably a better place to be.

I think some sort of stakeholder review on a regular cadence is great, and sadly is the bit that is taken least seriously in Scrum IME. When stakeholders (in small companies this means CEO and the rest of leadership!) take this seriously you get a great feedback loop. Too often I see folks skipping as they have “real work” to do. I think this also points to lessons for the engineers; really need to keep things snappy and customer-focused. Have your tech-facing demos another time. Or, even better, record your product facing demos and post them, so you can get feedback async. If the CEO comments regularly on these it can still provide that feedback that the meeting / demo is valued and important.
Reading this I thought it was a very elaborate version of this old joke:

A young married couple are lying in bed after making love. The young wife turns to her husband and says "Darling, if I died, would you marry again?"

The husband frowns and responds "Well, I've not thought about that, but I expect after a suitable period of mourning I may marry again".

The wife is less than pleased with his answer. "I see. Would you move into this house?"

"Why, probably. Yes"

Further incensed the young wife says "Oh! Would you let her sit in my favourite chair? Would you let her sleep on my side of the bed? WOULD YOU GIVE HER ALL MY THINGS, EVEN MY GOLF CLUBS?"

He replies "Not your golf clubs, she's left handed"
Yes, it can be used. Depending on different nuances and intonations, it can be considered polite and distancing, or authentic and meant for connecting.
Moreover, such links can be used to evade email filters that companies usually employ [1]. Combined with the habit of these corporate email services to obfuscate links "for safety", it can make it much easier to get tricked into being phished.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linkedin-smar...
> Anyone who has learned a second language will have made an exhilarating (and yet somehow unsettling) discovery: there is never a one-to-one correspondence in meaning between the words and phrases of one language and another. Even the most banal expressions have a slightly different sense, issuing from a network of attitudes and ideas unique to each language.

Actually, as a native Romanian speaker, it shocked me when I moved to the UK and started noticing how many phrases have a literal translation along with the same meaning in both languages. For example, "straight from the horse's mouth". I can only assume it's a modern acquisition in at least one of the two, but it's still surprising to see such an unexpected bridge between the languages.

Of course there are plenty that don't translate, but even the few that do are interesting to see.
Dutch are so direct and straightforward that one must draw a line when dealing with them.
> Because one of the key objectives of the Windows Registry is to centralize the chaos induced by programmers being programmers.

The issue is the registry. Macs manage configuration without it just fine!

> You can access and modify the Registry using any of: Registry Editor, Powershell, and plain text files imported into or exported from Registry Editor.

Oof. Instant failure.
I’m gonna strike a guess that the more interesting part is also the most expensive part. Replacing that means saving money.
The fact that feds have signaled interest rates are going to drop this year.
This is not a bad survey article but strangely misses the deep tradition (~700 years at least) of hermaneutic linguistics that generalizes the central thesis of the essay. It's not just languages themselves that present "unbridgeable gulfs in thinking and perception" but the experiences/history of individuals themselves even when speaking the same language.

Anyone who speaks more than one language in the home has jumped back and forth between languages in a sentence when trying to convey something "properly". When you live with a spouse/partner, over time you learn to consider your choice of words even in a single language in order to make it happen -- individual words can have idiosyncratic implications. Over time (decades) you have to do this less and less as you form a "household language" with your partner.

BTW the origin of the hermaneutic effort comes from aneffort to reconcile inconsistencies in the christian texts: if they are truly the word of a god then any inconsistency must be due to human confusion or imperfection of human language; this was an attempt to find the underlying meaning (or as the article says, platonic meaning). This led to quite a bit of development in linguistic philosophy in the 20th century (some of it quite insightful and some of it plainly absurd). Because text cannot make the same adaptations one can mid-conversation, it's both harder and (to me) more interesting to look into the text itself.
Consequence for acting against Apple's terms of service.
> Edo was renamed Tokyo and made the official capital

It is funny that they just reversed Kyoto when they picked that name. I wonder why they did that.

Edit: Apparently "kyo" just means capitol and Tokyo is eastern capitol and Kyoto is capitol city. But it wouldn't surprise me if they picked those names as a pun to make the names similar.
This is the coolest, old school hacker tech I've heard in a while
The original SuperMemo 20 rules for creating SRS cards are a treasure trove:

https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...

It will improve a lot your cards
But don't neglect the kaolin.
The audience of mostly-male, mostly-white, mostly-young, mostly-affluent, readers? Those with a plausible interest in historical details, for example how men almost a hundred years ago felt the exact same about women as they do now?

Also, it’s really a neat little story. Believe it or not, there are people here appreciating that too.
Yes, I would. If robots are known to work at least as well as humans, I choose the robot.
I'm curious why there's so much interest in using Rust for gamedev. It strikes me as the polar opposite of a minimal-friction maximum-iteration-velocity you'd want for something creative like video games. Is it just a product of the general hipness/hype around the language?

Jon Blow (Braid, The Witness) on rust for games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SodXi2t1mtE
The intellectual value of an MIT degree is only partially the classes themselves — it’s the whole experience, including who you meet, how you learn to think and the stuff you do.

I think that's true of many good schools; perhaps it's even the definition of a good school. It certainly was true of my own relatively well regarded engineering school. Who I met who influenced my future success, the opportunities I got access to, the way to approach learning new things, my preferences in extracurriculars, many more, all came from my time there.
At some point/place I heard it was going to have a ribbon type thing flow down menus. This would help follow stuff in deep drill downs. Really wish someone had done it.

https://store.kde.org/s/Opendesktop/p/1080563/

Personally, I think this OS has promise if it could get more modernization. It’d be nice to have another OSS GUI with some leanings into UI/UX.

Edit-modernizations like cross compatibility with linux, would be my guess. Think linux subsystem with gui support? Wonder what else…

Edit2-maybe throw in some modern stuff like swift (the apple language), zfs/bcachefs, and definitely a way to leverage already extant drivers.
Just watch the video from ReactConf 2018 where hooks are introduced (by the dude who built them). You can play along at home quite easily by getting started either with "npx create-react-app myApp" or a simple html file with one script tag to download react from a CDN and one script tag for your code.

Talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dpw9EHDh2bM&si=6TyFab5RYKV1RwEY

By the end of the talk you'll probably be leaning towards "this sounds cool, I'd like to play around with it" or "that sounds like cursed incantations for the damned".
It's not a marriage. It is a string of relationships with different people, all of them with a history of abuse and manipulation and a unfounded belief of "this one will be different". No, thank you. I rather preempt the whole thing and stay away from all of them.

Let me summarize: I do not accept the premise that I owe them anything for viewing the videos that are publicly available. I do not accept the premise that they are entitled to their business model. I do not accept the premise that they can dictate how I watch the video or how my browser (aka the user agent) must behave.

If they do not want to serve content for customers that do not pay, they need to authenticate and paywall their site. Destroying the competition by price dumping and changing the rules after you are a de-facto monopoly is not only immoral, it is illegal.
Search: [retailer] gift card balance

Ad shows up:

Text: Check Your [Retailer] Gift Card
Display URL: https://www.[retailer].com/

Click the ad, get redirected to the malicious site: https://www.[retailer]-gift-card.com/

Ads always have redirection involved, typically through a third party, to track ROI, conversions, etc. How the attackers take advantage of this is their redirection redirects to the real site if it's the Googlebot or from an IP range known to be owned/used by Google (or other filtering based on location, language, etc). If it's not, it redirects to the malicious site.

One solution is that the first hop in the chain has to match the domain of the display URL. That at least somewhat shows you can have a redirection that you control on the display domain. Of course, there could be an open redirect on that display domain, but those are becoming increasingly rare.

Work for a large retailer and we dealt with this a lot a year or two ago. Built custom monitoring to detect it and we sent gobs of data back to Google showing it happening. Still pops up every once in a while, but they've made some improvements in their detection/prevention.
There are some libraries that add the kind of utility functions you're talking about; I'm fond of samber/lo [1] myself. I don't know how widely used they are, though.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/samber/lo
before "outliers" there was "the tipping point" and "blink"
Interestingly I became aware of a similar cultural difference regarding punctuation: I frequently use three dots ‚…‘ in more informal emails at the end of a sentence to indicate that I am not sure about something yet or still wondering about it.
Like „I guess we could discuss this tomorrow…“ or „Yeah, I might be able to do this…“

Some month ago an Italian PhD student of mine (I’m from Germany) asked me if I was upset or mad at him.
I had no idea why he was asking and was completely taken aback by this suggestion. But turns out, in Italy (at least the northern part of it), the three dots typically indicate that you are upset or at least impatient with the receiver.

I still wonder how many of my Italian collaborators I have sent strange impatient emails in the past…
https://web.archive.org/web/20240115144427/https://www.newyo...
> licensing and support for the hardware

Sorry, but who pays for licensing and support of the hardware? I've never done that. You buy a Dell server or whatever, you pay for the 5 or 7 years warranty up front, you put in in a rack and you never literally touch it again until it's EOL'ed. If something breaks Dell touches it, not you. That typically costs around $500/year, albeit paid upfront.

But you usually don't do that. Instead you rent a dedicated metal from someone. The cost if of the order of $1000/year including some storage, no more to pay unless you exceed 100TB/year. A similarly configured AWS EC2 instance is $13,000/year, plus bandwidth, plus whatever other services you get sucked into. And you will get sucked into it because if you ask AWS about any problem (like say, monitoring why your bills are so high), the answer is invariably "use this paid service of ours".

You're kidding yourself if you think using AWS is cheaper than the alternatives. Those discounts you speak of are from an absurdly high starting point. I'm sure there are lots of reasons to use AWS or a similar cloud service, but unless you only need a lot of grunt for at most a few months price isn't one of them.
As a Frenchman, when I worked in the valley, people told me to tone it down, that I could come off as rude.

On my side, I wanted to slap those people calling others they barely knew "friends", overselling their lunch as "amazing", assuring an outcome with certainty, virtue signaling or refusing to say when something was completely wrong. It's like they were always in a tiny marketing process.

Eventually, I learned to smooth communication, and to appreciate their enthusiasm.

But it did take time.

Also I must confess I have an American filter permanently on, now. If something comes from the US, I just assume most of it is BS until proven otherwise.
also: October 2009 : https://t.ly/pol9a
Our worlds are so different. I live in rural Massachusetts, it's a slower pace of life than New York City. People, on average, in extremely different environments will value different things and act differently. It's not 'rude' for a busy lunch place in NYC to expect you to order and get out of the way. They need to feed 15 million people.
Not just fat either. The cold snap has me dealing with frozen pipes in our house right now...
These are called calques.
Yes I get groceries from popping into the whole foods one block away, or get them delivered from amazon fresh or whole foods.

You don’t really sweat on an ebike.

It’s trivial when you live in a dense city where drivers don’t feel entitled. They are rather respectful of pedestrians and cyclists here.
At least you got the CHANCE to explain before. Now you can't even do that because your resume is not passing the screen.

You're handicapping yourself with the lack of transparency. It just comes across as shady. Why are you worth the risk compared to the overflow of excellent candidates in this market?

You need to suck it up and share this information. Briefly explain each situation on the resume (i.e. "fixed contract ended" or "startup shut down due to loss of largest customer").

Edit: spelling.
My code there is all MIT licensed, I think it's totally fair to interpret permissive licenses as allowing AI model training. They don't train on private repos.

For people who work on GPL'd stuff sure, it's more questionable.
Maybe they'll change course if we throw enough adjectives at them.
I don't believe Americans are fake, but I do believe that Americans are trained since an early age to display at all times that they're not a threat, and that is kind of sad.
The obsession with iMessage and the "blue bubble" seems to be a US only thing, no? All group chats I've ever been part of, and 99% of all other messaging, in the UK and every European country I've been in happens on WhatsApp.
I have a long history of trouble with intimacy and long-term relationships, and as a result, I live alone and rather isolated. I have a few friends on FB and others who I email on a regular basis, and I try to cultivate closeness with them as much as electronically possible.

But many of my social interactions are based in commerce. So I'll go to a restaurant to eat, alone. I'll go grocery shopping, alone. And so the clerk/cashier/waitress greets me and serves me and of course they're nice, because their wages are on the line here. And gradually I just felt fake and futile, because all these pleasantries we exchanged had an undercurrent of a business transaction and not the bonds of trust, fraternity, an actual relationship.

Yes, it does feel really hollow when I enter a store and the clerk greets me enthusiastically, because they don't know me, and any concern for one another's feelings, that's merely a business transaction. I tire of this fakery.
> are holding onto them until they die

Also because of anti-features in newer cars, like buttonless soft cockpits, dangerous shifters with no positional feedback, keyfobs that make it easy-ish for unsupervised toddlers to start the car along with thieves with radio proxies...

or the fact that small trucks don't exist anymore in favor if annoying to park gas guzzlers due to, ironically, fuel efficiency standards.
In the news quite recently a woman doused herself with gasoline and lit it in protest over wholesale Gaza slaughter. She does not seem to have slowed the process.
You can choose to let Apple stand between you by staying on Apple's App Store. If you don't get an app because Apple is blocking it from the App Store, isn't that working as intended? If you choose to ignore Apple's block and get the app elsewhere, then it sounds like Apple's barrier is a bug
Patchscopes: A Unifying Framework for Inspecting Hidden Representations of LMs
Water vapour in the sky traps heat, so how much is the cloud seeding that's blatantly-obviously happening widespread impacting-causing this?
I remember the Octave course as well! It was pretty cool, you could submit and get a grade right from Octave.

The pain of working with Octave arrays in that course pushed me to learn Python.
>Google's policy is that both display and landing page URLs should be within the same website. This means that the display URL in your ad needs to match the domain that visitors land on when they click on your ad.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6246601?hl=en

The author paints the picture that bad actors can just use any URL when that does not seem to be the case.
Fair enough, it's a bit annoying because now you need about five seconds and you can replace almost anyone (at least online) with a tuned LLM without much thought.

It was fun to watch people disagree about things, that's mostly gone in the political world (and that world eats all discussion boards eventually, in my experience).
Car infrastructure is stupidly expensive. The dutch save SO much money by building simple bike paths.
Any of the mainstream job site's listings get hundreds of low-effort, rapid-fire applications. GP's post on who's hiring (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501428) requires you to think a little about what they do and send an email to a jobs@ address. That's more effort than the person who is "applying" to 200 jobs every day is willing to put in.

Sonara*1, LazyApply*2, and others allow job seekers to create an incredible amount of noise with virtually zero effort.

*1 "We send out job applications on your behalf, while you watch the interview requests roll in."

*2 "Automatically apply for 1000's of jobs in a single click. LazyApply will auto fill job applications and apply to all of the jobs..."
"successful" is a very optimistic way of looking at it. it has several downsides but largely works for my needs:

- read access is mostly available for sensors, even if access wasn't granted.

- some integrations (especially custom integrations) don't care about authorization. my fork mentioned in the blog does, because I explicitly added logic to authorize requests. the HomeAssistant authorization documentation is outdated and no longer works. I looked through the codebase to find extensions that implement it for an example. maybe I should submit a PR that fixes the doc...

- each entity needs to be explicitly allowed. this results in a massive JSON file.

- it needs a custom group added to the .storage/auth file. this is very much not officially supported. however, it has survived every update I have received so far (and I always update HomeAssistant)

I will share what I did in detail when I get some time on my hands
Why is it short term? Are employees less familiar with the technology they’re using day to day more likely to stick around? I’d guess the opposite?
For a lot of the same reasons people use C++, but I’d argue rust is more approachable.
A bunch of people who didn't watch their commercials and don't have that feeling about Burger King just got a reminder that they still exist.

In spite of your hatred for them, you just provided better advertising than they did for free.
I am willing to pay $10K-20K in cash to anyone who can find a contractor work for me. I want to use a service like Deel.com to receive payments.
> maybe I need to do my own blog post about my pile of computers...

Yes, several of us love to read about that! I haven't switched to 10 Gbit/s yet...
New cars are expensive because of feature inflation. We don't need all those features, we just want a basic cheap car.
Today, a large part of Internet traffic is HTTPS. It would be extremely hard for the government to do large-scale HTTPS MITM without people noticing.