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I partially agree with you. I think most security compromises are due to misconfigured mongodb databases, bad passwords and unpatched software staying unpatched for months or years. Things like that. Lots of B tier engineering companies get done by this stuff every year because they’re sloppy.

But memory bugs in C++ seem genuinely hard even if you do care about the problem. Google and Apple have never (as far as I know) had customer data stolen by some trivial misconfiguration problem. They pay out a lot of money in bug bounties. Google recruits some of the world’s smartest people to look for security problems in their products. And I’m sure they pay a bomb for access to proprietary C++ static analysis tools. And yet, they apparently still can’t consistently write memory safe C++ code. So yeah, I think that writing bug free c++ at scale is hard even if you do care about it.
The FAANG acronym was invented by a TV host of a stock market show based on their value to stock market grifters, not actual tech they're working on (which is why it has Netflix but no Microsoft).
No problem here either (FF 122 on a Pixel 4a)
Perhaps, I thought your complaint was not finding enough "4K" (not a term I like much).

If it's about finding 1440p that'd mainly be because it's not a common broadcast format to the best of my knowledge - I just don't see it about much.

Articles such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

don't mention it as a broadcast format, and articles that are specific to 1440p: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1440p

have it as :

As a graphics display resolution between 1080p and 4K, Quad HD is regularly used in smartphone displays, and for computer and console gaming.
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You and I both. I had the fortune of taking the kids out to look after a field camp years ago, where a storm.in the distance would cut internet and TV signals, and cloudy weather would knock stuff out for days. They learned a different way to use a compass and how to repoint an antenna to get signal using team work. Thoroughly rate it.
Turkey's inflation sees biggest jump since August, nears 65% year-on-year
can attest; I bounced off Xcode several times when trying to bootstrap my way into a dev career in 2010 or so, despite being a lifelong Mac user.
If you have to nag/guilt/coerce/subvert me to use your product, it sucks.
Sure, but that’s not what the linked article discusses. It specifically states that commas are mandatory on each line. Not that the rule for commas is relaxed. And what I’m arguing is that requiring commas on each line is pushing the syntax in the wrong direction.
"Polluting HN" is more than just the vitriol thats flagged - there are plenty of self-promoting, downright wrong, or comments clearly unrelated to the posted article but comment author gets to segue to their hobby-horse (off-topic discussions are annoyingly frequent, IMO). HN is better than most, but its not immune to being gamed. Once there is a financial incentive for it, it will become more common - see how Twitter turned out after offering monetary incentives for engagements.
That does not seem to be too different from having a visible, readable ID plate - the information spread is "individual at that reader at that time" (though yes, if unneeded it should not be there).

The issue is with more with recordings and with the principle of sending data around beyond the ID - and especially with the contract that would make such activity accepted.
Rather than reinvent the wheel, one place I worked used SRV records for service discovery. Unlike A recrods, SRV records can have host names, so the limit is a lot lower, and they hit it. They might have even hit it twice when a client is UDP-only.
Like a Boox Palma? That doesn't have the SIM ripped out, it's a phone-sized device that isn't a phone.

It has wifi though, but you can't watch videos or scroll fast because of the e-ink screen.
Possibly true today... was it true a month ago, or will it be true half a year later?

I see this contend constantly coming and going thing on Spotify also, and it really annoys me. (and no, I won't pay to google even if their crap is better, i'l rather buy CD-s and rent a warehouse for them, or pirate content)
I'll admit, I've only read a few passages, but I think I would have felt more comforted if they just said "We know and love illumos, and for many of these close calls that's enough." Because this RFD can sometimes feel like Linus's half-bigoted comments re: ZFS.[0]

For example, the systemd section especially could have been stolen from a Reddit thread of 5 years ago. I'm also willing to bet, simply because of its breadth of use, systemd is faster, as, if not more, stable, and much better documented than SMF. Linux's procfs and sysfs are similarly pretty great these days, and are also slagged nonetheless.

But my point was -- familiarity isn't a bad thing when you're building a cloud computer, and you've already built a cloud on illumos. Deep knowledge of dtrace should make you choose it over eBPF, and deep knowledge of FMA/SMF should make you choose them over systemd, especially if you're not confident in the alternatives.

Notwithstanding, since I'm not buying a $1 million rack, I'm actually much more interested what, if any, portable OSS tooling will be built around this computer. Because IMHO if anything was wrong re: Joyent, it was that not much of its OSS technology saw wider purchase, and one reason was -- it was and is exclusive to illumos. My (backseat QB) fear is Oxide may have fallen into the same trap. As mobilizing as a Cantrill-ian presentation may be, (again I'd bet) `ripgrep` created thousands upon thousands more Rust programmers and 100x the mindshare. illumos may be a perfect fit for this rack scale computer, but can you imagine the mindshare gained by simply having all your cool new tooling work on Linux? As we know re: an exciting new company, mindshare means a lot, so ... `statemaps` for everyone?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22005181
No direct DOM access means it will continue to remain a second class citizen on the web
Good grief.

"...starting to view it as..." does not mean "there is actual growth". It describe a mental state, not electrons moving in the grid. If you can't understand the difference between a shift in thinking and construction, then discussing anything with you is completely pointless.

I am not going to comment on the rest, as it is even less coherent gibberish.
I feel like torrenting is af an all time low if not a local low.
Since rarbg went down many of my friends seemed to be less enthusiastic about torrenting.
The change was withdrawn to improve it for F41 [1]. There were concerns about using $PATH to find executables for v2/v3/v4, especially for containers and absolute path specifications.

[1]: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3151
How does cutting taxes make them less irritating? The government can offer you tax rebates or tax credits or deductions that are difficult to obtain. The amount of tax you pay might even go up when the taxes get more complicated.

When I do my tax returns I'm not complaining about the amount at all but about gathering the information. If anything, it distracts from how much I am paying. It's much easier to check how much money you've paid to the government by looking at your monthly salary slip than doing anything tax return related.
It's definitely quite readable. Good luck trying to figure out what a Dane is saying though.
i have been back on a dumbphone for quite some time now. i use the web almost exclusively on laptop - when i am mobile i don't want to be connected to it.

whatsapp works great in the browser on a laptop. if you only have a dumbphone you can use your number to register the whatsapp "app" on any tablet and can then log in on any other browser you want to use it on. works super nice.
Ironically the Vanguard group's branding - at least as far as I've met it - has been as the company who specifically don't have opinions about markets. I'm sure they have a large advisory group, but they're famous for the index funds.

I think they're obviously wrong. The long term interest rate is clearly trending to 0% [0] (and someone is lying about what "real" means, that interest rate wants me to believe my gold bar is getting bigger every year. I have a tape measure handy, it is not getting bigger in real terms [1]) and the US strategy is [see a crisis -> print some money], which is not a political environment that will tolerate borrowers getting a fair deal for any length of time. Something huge (ie, a financial crisis bigger than anything in the 1980 -> 2024 time period) will need to happen to buck the political zeitgeist.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y

[1] Or we could use M2 as the adjustor where we get more realistic price movements... https://ingoldwetrust.report/chart-m2-gold-ratio/?lang=en
this is great information, thanks! i think it confirms that even back in the mid-70s they used different hotspots
> Program testing can convincingly show the presence of bugs, but it hopelessly inadequate to show their absence.
That Russian word had a useful information. It means "contrast", and that obviously implies "Increase the contrast to reveal the secret message".
If ripping out the bugs causes systemic collapse then maybe that's a good thing. Regarding capitalism.
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They are not bugs but features. The problem they have is that their catalog is mostly filler content at this point. If they addressed the "bugs" you'd be looking at a fairly sparsely populated page with mostly stuff you've already seen.

Netflix is designed to suggest that they have more content than they actually have and that the reason you haven't found anything worth watching just yet isn't that they don't have it but that it's behind the next page of filler content. That's why they have the horizontal scrolling and the endless generic groups of the same content that you've already seen. It's all circular. It doesn't matter how you navigate, it's always the same stuff that surfaces.

I cancelled my subscription last year. I'm planning to re-enable it in one month bursts only if/when I know they have something new I actually would like to see. I'm not paying anyone to watch ads.
Great examples buddy.(I know it's bad).
You mean they couldn't get a just in time delivery of a few more gigabytes?!?
Read "Japan's Longest Day", by Kazutoshi Hando and the Pacific War Research Society, which goes into great detail about how the decision to surrender was made. Many of the key players were still alive when this was written in the 1960s, and many were interviewed. The surrender almost didn't happen. A sizable fraction of the Army leadership wanted to fight on, and tried hard, in a near-coup, to block the Emperor from issuing the surrender proclamation.

The US plan for invasion, "Operation Downfall" [1], called for what planners expected to be an invasion with a million casualties on the American side alone. It was scheduled for 1 November 1945. On the Japanese side, "The Glorious Death of One Hundred Million" was a slogan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
IIRC the main reason to use FreeBSD instead of Linux was BSD being a lot simpler and have a lot more room to optimize their specific use case.
I highly recommend West with the night[0] by Beryl Markham about a bush pilot in africa, super entertaining and the book is beyond well written.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_with_the_Night
> they want complying with taxes to be as complicated as possible so they can get more people pissed off at taxes more generally.

There's nothing in that article that says that:

> Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, does not. His presentation at the meeting argued that a return-free system would essentially audit every citizen, help the government increase revenues, and keep taxpayers unaware of their growing tax burden. Uninformed taxpayers might also be wary of challenging government-generated numbers and end up paying too much.

The closest is "keep taxpayers unaware of their growing tax burden" but then you'd have to explain why you think it's the complexity that would increase awareness -- it generally does the opposite. And the first sentence on their website begins with "We believe in a system in which taxes are simpler...":

https://www.atr.org/about/

It seems like their position is that the tax system should actually be made simpler instead of leaving it horrifically complicated and hiding the complexity from people so they're easier to take advantage of. Which isn't really the same thing as wanting it to be complicated.

Also, that article is from 2005.
i'll have to think more about this; thank you very much
When I was a network engineer I frequently experienced IPv6 skill rot. I'd go long periods of time not encountering it in the wild. It's hard to be confident with a thing you're not working with on a regular basis. I guarantee you I made mistakes because of it. There was only one maybe 2 year period where I would have considered myself an IPv6 expert.
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No amount of mathematics is going to prevent you from making something nobody needs.

It will work beautifully though.
I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers.

Define: k = multiple of 1920x1080 pixel count

1920x1080 ~= 2M pixels = 1k
2560x1440 ~= 4M pixels = 2k
3840x2160 ~= 8M pixels = 4k

So now 1440p = 2k, and k becomes meaningful. Problem solved!

It also gives a solution for ultrawides like 7680 x 2160p, which are 8k.

More interestingly, “8K” TVs now become 16k TVs, which marketers should like. We’ve come full circle! Now the k nomenclature also gives you an idea of how difficult that 16k display will be to drive with a video card relative to your existing monitor.
Well in my own language commas are entirely optional. They actually only exist for JSON compatibility (ie pasting JSON blobs into the language rather than transcribing the data). But I will concede that having a comma separated list on a single line does at least improve readability for some people. In that particular scenario we are drifting into the laws of diminishing returns and thus things become a lot more subjective.

However having a comma terminator when followed by a LF doesn’t. The whitespace is larger and more visible than the comma. In that scenario the comma doesn’t add enough visual distinction to add value to the syntax.
Av1 doing 1080p at 3-4 mbps will be reach the point of diminishing returns imo for 1080p content. I can’t wait till that become mainstream. It’ll be the perfect archival quality/space effeciency.

Too bad even devices that claim av1 support … even some from the makers of said codec .. ahem chromecast w/gtv .. still stutter or fail.
So Chrome on MacOS is more secure than Edge or Firefox on the same OS and gets 1080p while the other two don't. But it is not as secure as Chrome on Linux? I don't get it. What is Chrome on MacOS doing differently from Chrome on Linux? What is possible on Linux that wouldn't also be possible on MacOS?
When visiting London I noticed they have something called a "happy to chat bench", which you're supposed to sit on if you don't mind someone trying to strike up a conversation with you. I'm not a resident, so I'm not sure how useful they are in practice, but I found the concept interesting.
i'm not questioning the artisanal challenge or general visual appeal. there are just some subjects that are popping up so often that i just wonder if i'm missing something.
My pockets are absolutely overflowing with revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained, it's ruining my pants!

Do you know where I could stash all this revenue big corpo would otherwise have gained? Or perhaps I could give it to you? Would you be interested in giving me something in exchange for all this revenue big daddy corpo would otherwise have gained?
At what point does it become cost prohibitive to Boeing to keep making fixes to this plane and axe the production of it entirely?
Sure, the planes that are already delivered need to be serviced and operated to reasonable life time, but given the reputation damage, wouldn’t anybody at Boeing bring up “how about we go back to the drawing board and actually do things right on a new plane that will save our future”?
The US-Europe antitrust divide: Key to Silicon Valley and Chinese surveillance
This. Philosophy is the grandparent of math. And if there is a point to math, then that there always has to be a proofable point.

I think the problem is a cultural conflict between sub-concious problemsolvers and "concious" problem solvers. The later expect a algorithm , step by step instruction from the former, who when this is demanded, use there subconcious to produce a plausible story. When asked for there inspirations to deduce the process yourself, you get a crows nest of shiny things, bits and pieces, not making a reasonable whole - but they infuriatingly at the end of day do.

Why not accept that there are things you can not directly communicate with and if you are hellbent on becoming such a thing, there is no step-by-step instruction.
Agree. I used to say that my biggest competitors were my own customers.
He's asking because he wants to sexually harass and assault women, and he wants to know if there's an official policy against it.
I can appreciate a book being obscure or dragging things out when it is trying to give the reader an aesthetic experience. But this point seem to be one that would easiest be communicated clearly and succinctly.

Or is the point "there is so much mystery in these systems that perhaps there is room for an explanation for consciousness"? Maybe then I would be more sympathetic.

Or perhaps I should just read the book before condemning it :)
Which could have been done with WebAudio and WebGL/WebGPU as well, without the pain of dealing with WebAssembly tooling.
>What is the benefit to the rights holder in having a “secure device”

The goal is to make it expensive for it to even make it to a pirate site. We will get to the point where it will require a new hardware exploit to be found for each show that gets cracked. As the industry gets better at security the price per exploit will go up to eventually not be economical to continue doing.
I loved that bug. To the point that I actually spent a (probably unnecessary) number of hours QC'ing it to try to figure out what was causing it. I didn't manage to figure out that it was the blinding check that was a problem, but I did discover that if you basically murdered all the people in the Byzantine empire, or you elimited the cultures that allowed blinding people, your game perf would go way up.

So I made a little personal mod that immediately castrated (if there was something to castrate) and blinded all characters of the Byzantine empire on game start, and it seemed to solve the problem.
When it comes to antitrust policy, Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus. That was my takeaway from a major competition policy conference last week in Brussels, where all the top US and European regulators, as well as those from many other countries, tried — and failed — to develop a shared approach to the massive concentration of power that has built up in several sectors, most particularly platform technology.

Bringing the US and Europe together is key to successfully curbing both the power of Silicon Valley’s largest companies and the Chinese surveillance state, especially given how artificial intelligence is further entrenching the dominance of both.
The physical world is hard to manipulate; the digital one less resistant to legislation.

India banned TikTok by legislation and made it stick. Rule that social media properties are either dangerously addictive or enemy cyberweapons and ban them.
And then hit it with spraycrete and hey, presto!
Memory corruption is literally 2/3 of the iceberg. Look it up.
> Well, well, well, if it isn't for the consequences of my own actions!
By mass adoption, do you mean why not all existing softwares are ported to webassembly so that they can be run on browsers?

Most websites are just that - "sites".
Complicated softwares that _need_ to be run on the web are already leveraging WebAssembly to an extent.

1. Figma (Design tool) uses Webassembly underneath for graphics operations.

2. Zoho Writer (word processor) uses WebAssembly for leveraging ICU capabilities (grapheme splitting, sentence splitting, core algorithms, etc)

3. Google Docs (word processor) uses WASM for offline proofing

These are just examples. If you look at the pattern the transition isn't happening in a way that all softwares are entirely targetted for webassembly. It's happening in little steps leveraging webassembly to parts of the product where it makes sense. This I believe is how the transition should be as opposed to jumping all the way to webassembly just because it's shiny.
> their pyproject.toml doesn’t even specify a dependencies section

Doesn't it though? https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproj...
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That should be 16 IPv6 /64 networks, right? Which means Azure gives you a /60 prefix, I guess?
Don't forget that when watching in your desktop/laptop is hard to get a good quality, like you have a 4k display, but every service want to serve you 1080p or lower quality when you already pay for the 4k content plan.
I go on this rant regularly, and apparently Netflix staff never visit Hacker News, or just don't care.

Interestingly, it took quite a bit of dev effort to make their subtitles this bad. They had to figure out which subset of languages to show in each region, for example.

I'm sure these decisions are made by the same team that refuses to show English subtitles, and instead always uses English for the hearing impaired. Because why would any human not be able to understand English unless they're deaf, right? Also... no French people are deaf. Everyone knows that.
The only current search engine that I can use in my native language, Catalan, is Google. I can't wait for a project like this one to get good at that.
> And performance doesn't come close to Linux on the top end or even high middle end.

The Playstation System software (Orbis OS) is a fork of FreeBSD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software

I'd guess performance was pretty high on Sony's list of priorities.
i'm not underestimating efficiency; i'm well aware that in many situations it's more important than correctness. but i think it's important to distinguish between decisions made for the sake of efficiency and decisions that tend to make your code more modular, flexible, comprehensible, verifiable, or maintainable. promises originated as a way to make highly concurrent code more modular, flexible, comprehensible, verifiable, and maintainable. halstead's futures did, too. so did rust itself

async in rust is the opposite, and to me it looks like such an expensive way to get that efficiency that it strongly undermines the reasons for adopting rust
I recently watched a 90s show that, because of the context and the country it was made, they used music with no regard for licensing issues. Essentially, no one would have expected or foreseen that it could run into legal issues at any point.

However, when they put it on netflix they changed the soundtrack for that reason.

Some kind soul uploaded the original versions to youtube.
The difference is people don't die off or develop life crippling ailments (physical or mental) on the same numbers.