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Successive rat's nests are the key, that way you can make intermittent progress without having the available time or desire to carry it to completion in one session.

I like to end up sorted then sub-sorted.

Generic Audio

Specialized Audio

Generic USB

Specialized USB

Generic Video

Specialized Video

Generic Power

Specialized Power

Etc.

For anything unique and/or essential to particular gear, one spare copy of the cable stays with the device.

If plenty of spares are available, one goes with each device where it's conveniently useful. Like one HDMI in each laptop case and one USB extension cable.

The extra-long cables of all types can be stored together in their own (usually less-convenient) location if there is only a small number of them. Then the sorted containers of nominal cables can be less sizable and more convenient. OTOH depending on the variety and amount of extra-bulky cords, they might be better if well-sorted too and then their fairly large storage space may have plenty of extra room for the smaller sorted wires in a sub-container within the big loose coils.

Don't forget about the cables for musical instruments, speakers, RS-232, HPIB, extension cords & power strips, networking, coaxial, land-line telephones, and not to be outdone, truly obsolete cables ;)
Yes you are right. There is nothing wrong with the network tab in those browsers but you may not reach all code paths in your quick (or lengthy) test.

Future behaviour may be different.

Also on the web code can change. Either the site owner or by a hacker. There is value in checking network requests if you need to but it isn't fool proof.
I don't think this really matters in this specific case; the DoJ itself has a policy of not prosecuting sitting presidents.
Article III of the U.S. Constitution is incredibly brief [1].

I propose the Supreme Court be reconstituted such that for each case a panel of judges from the appellate courts is chosen by lot. They hear that case, write their opinion, and then go back to that work. New case, new lot.

Having a permanent bench of judicial oligarchs made sense before telecommunication. It doesn’t anymore. Every ancient democracy used randomness to control corruption. I think it’s time we took a lesson from them.

(Note: this could be done by statute. How the supreme Court is constituted is entirely left to Congress.)

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-3/
The courts. Military courts have been handling this for a long time. No reason civilian courts couldn't apply the same standards in the case of a president.

If the president is able to bring physical power to bear, then it matters little what the law says anyway.
> So if you belive that the election was stolen, and organize a military uprising to fix that, then what?

Or if you don't believe the election was stolen. The court said In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.
Alt, f, a, p, saves as PNG, or j for jpeg, or o for other. Its changed slightly, but it is there.

Alt+space is still a shortcut, but it was repurposed.

You didn't "los[e] the ability to alt+letter all the things", they just slightly changed some of them.
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"If presidents could be prosecuted for their official acts"

This has always been presumed to be the case yet it has never resulted in what you say. It's a nonsense theoretical as cover for what is otherwise utterly indefensible as making the president king.
I'm not denying that they don't have all the above, but they are much smaller portions of their business than at CAT, Kubota, Mahindra Group, etc.

Just look at the earnings call for CAT [0] versus John Deere [1].

Q1FY25 revenue for CAT in construction was $6.4B compared to $3.21B in John Deere.

Q1FY25 revenue for CAT in Energy was $6.7B versus non-existent for John Deere.

Ik about the whole "John Deere Operations Center" vision (and imo it is very cool - I knew some of the Blue River guys), but they had to opportunity to acquire Granular and Climate Corporation as well, and consolidate the FMS space.

Alternatively, they could spin out the FMS and experimental portion of John Deere away from the more legacy AGCO/Kutoba competitor SKUs to better support profitability and R&D (sort of an HP/HPE kinda situation).

My callout about EV and Defense was moreso a jab at Mahindra being an Indian Chaebol that manufactures (crummy) EV cars and (half decent) Israeli ballistic missles, along with CAT's longstanding Power Generator and Military Construction SKUs.

[0] - https://s25.q4cdn.com/358376879/files/doc_financials/2024/q1...

[1] - https://www.deere.com/assets/pdfs/common/news/deere-1q24-ear...
The current standing precedent/law is the President only has to notify Congress within 48 hours of an action and must remove troops within 60 days if Congress has not approved an extension. Formal declarations of war are separate from short military actions legally. It's an extremely messy part of constitutional law precisely because of the split between the power to do and the power to authorize.
Would the court also need to carefully consider and rule on whether arresting or murdering a disagreeing judge is an "official act" by the President?
Thanks for the explanation! That makes sense. I knew from reading K&R that, in converting a char to an int without sign extension, casting to unsigned char first is just as good as masking by 0xFF after, and I guess I was just not sufficiently familiar with the type promotion rules of C.

This now causes a runtime error:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

char b[4] = {0x82,0x03,0x04,0x80};
#define UC(x) ((unsigned char) (x))
#define READ32BE(p) (uint32_t)UC(p[3]) | UC(p[2]) << 8 | UC(p[1]) << 16 | UC(p[0]) << 24
int main(void) {
printf("%08x\n", READ32BE(b));
}
----
endian.c:8:22: runtime error: left shift of 130 by 24 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
82030480

But this works:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

char b[4] = {0x82,0x03,0x04,0x80};
#define CH_to_U32(x) ((uint32_t) (unsigned char) (x))
#define READ32BE(p) (CH_to_U32(p[3]) \
| CH_to_U32(p[2]) << 8 \
| CH_to_U32(p[1]) << 16 \
| CH_to_U32(p[0]) << 24)
int main(void) {
printf("%08x\n", READ32BE(b));
}
----
82030480
> But even if a quantum computer is never built, new PQ standards are safer, more resilient, and more flexible than their classical counterparts.

lol wat? Nothing could be further from the truth. Just a few years ago, two of the four finalists of the NIST PQC were broken so badly that you could break production key sizes in hours with a 10 year old Mac mini. Most PQC deployments aren’t broken because they double up with classical crypto systems so that you have to break both, but people who were using these schemes were basically wasting their time.

Key sizes and signatures are typically much, much larger than classical cryptosystems.

PQC systems lack the flexibility of classical cryptography. Generally speaking the linear structure of classical schemes is what quantum computers exploit, and so it is gone from most (all?) PQC systems. That linear structure is what lets you do things like make a 2-of-2 by adding pubkeys and signatures. I’m not sure what is meant by flexibility of not stuff like this.
These are terrible points! Asserting that a special prosecutor is akin to a private prosecutor is absurd. They are just like other prosecutors, the only reason to use a special prosecutor is to avoid making the case seem political.

Also, the fact that other Presidents did illegal shit and we didn't prosecute them, thus they are above the law is also absurd.

The current ruling whips out the, "there's nothing in the constitution stating we can do things we've always done" when its convenient, then goes on to say, "we've always been doing it this way, implying it's in the constitution" when its convenient.
Well if mediterranean countries were not so business-hostile, and by that I mean, not hate on a daily basis the guy who works the most, that would surely renew the love for the homeland.

It’s ok to blame things on the taxes or free college, one also has to take a mirror and wonder “Can I change something in my attitude?”
Because you didn’t hire lobbyists to work on your behalf, didn’t fund elections etc…
I don't think this is true. The constitution was designed with the idea of preventing a king from coming to power. The whole separation of powers thing presumes that an individual is bad, but groups are less bad.
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I have already read the opinion and came into the same conclusion, much like Ian and many others have.
I see this persona a lot.

Functional programming just has something magical about it that really draws certain kinds of people in.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that, when you play inside the boundaries of what a functional programming language can do, everything feels so neat. So tidy. Like a game. Or using lego bricks. It almost feels insane to do things any other way.

But then again, most problems live in the real world, where things are not neat, or tidy, or like a game. I wonder if this is why you tend not to see functional programming languages more broadly used...?
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The first reference in the article you linked is titled "Computer simulation of Mermin's quantum device".
+1 for Photopea.com. I don't even bother with Adobe anymore. I just wish their subscription could be implemented on a usage basis instead of time based because I use it off and on but the ad blocking is occurring on the network level via a PiHole, and I'm not turning all of that off just to let them serve me ads for a couple hours once every couple months.
> I don't think you are wrong; it's just that a lot of people here on this thread are current or former Googlers. Compared to them, you don't know Piper so your argument is at a disadvantage.

Bah. Text boxes in browsers suck, and mine's not cooperating at the moment, so instead of writing another book, I'll just say: thank you for the reasonable response. =)
I heard of Natron, looks promising but it seems slow

https://natrongithub.github.io/
SCOTUS has repeatedly hemmed in the scope of bribery charges and expanded executive privilege. The only way to nail the president for a corrupt appointment at this rate would be:

Enter LOBBYIST and POTUS on CONGRESS floor

LOBBYIST: projecting voice I am now rendering payment in exchange my appointment as ambassador to Sweden. What say you?

POTUS: projecting voice Yes, I knowingly accept these improper funds and -

CONGRESS immediately gathers a quorum, impeaches, and removes POTUS mid-sentence

POTUS: - name you ambassador to Sweden.
> Clearly examining models of the universe that dont depend upon 95% mystical stuff may be an avenue worth exploring.

You're far from the first person to suggest such an idea. And far from it being a new idea. There have been a whole lot of people who have tried to come up with an alternative solution, and the problem is, they're all universally significantly worse.

I don't mean to disparage you, but this is pretty much universally the reaction people have when they first learn about the scale of dark matter, and that has resulted in significant research efforts to put forward a different solution... but dark matter is still a superior answer to the question.

One thing that isn't immediately obvious is that we have a wide variety of ways to estimate the mass of things. Just for galaxies, we can look at their radial velocities, x-ray spectrum and flux, and gravitational lensing. These approach the measurement from very different methods, yet all of them strongly align with dark matter. Modifying our theory of gravity to alternative explanations has yet to be able to account for just these three methods, and they're just a subset of the observations we have that support dark matter's existence.

> How in the world can the dominant theory for the universe be based on it being 95% filled with mystical shit that we cant prove, but makes our math happy.

We could write a library's worth of books about things that math has predicted before we could experimentally prove it or otherwise observe it. Dark matter makes a whole bunch of math in a whole bunch of places work, including in areas where MOND and its derivatives and other alternative solutions fall down. LIGO and gravitational waves have also blown big holes in alternative theories like TeVeS.

Basically, the more data we get, the more it supports dark matter. Providing a viable alternative explanation that can answer the same questions and would match our observations would instantly shortlist you for the nobel prize in physics. A whole lot of incredibly intelligent people have tried and failed. And it's not like physicists "like" dark matter - no one is more frustrated by the fact that something so hugely important to the makeup of the universe is damn near invisible to us than the physicists who work in these areas.
Oh yeah, Trump was really severely punished by being impeached twice.
Then they end up in the hospital systems in the US that the domestic talent passes over, after having to repeat their residency requirements of course trying to keep up with the 80 hour work weeks in residency with fresh out of school mds who might have 10+ years of youth on them. Circle of life I guess.
One is COBOL, worked on that in the 80s.

The other is c, which I went to in the 90s, that seemed to have started getting hate from everyone these days :) I prefer the K&R dialect is the version I started with.
Just to let you know that he (like the rest of us) have already read it.
People reinventing wheels at a pace never seen by mankind

I dont see this mentioned enough: https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

A location to track prompts for reuse by many people at the very least, specific tools including solving this exact same problem as well.

Even though i am very skeptical of all the ai-bull at the very least it needs some kind of global cache database where people share prompts, input and output examples, and human tagged information on how it works or doesnt work. maybe even linked to real testing on why/if putting in "take a step back and look at the results" type nonsense does anything at all
True. It's a complex way to measure performance, but I still hold onto my opinion that a system of anonymous feedback from a worker's colleagues is only ever of benefit to the employer when acting against the interests of the workers. Don't stand for it!
> The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.

Sotomayor's scathing dissent sums up my concerns on the matter. Even for Barrett, a conservative, the majority opinion was a bridge too far: even bribery now enjoys absolute immunity.
There are pathways to quantum computers that are intrinsically highly fault tolerant: https://sqc.com.au/news/
The president now has legal authority to do whatever he wants.

At the same time, the president's agencies no longer have the authority to do whatever they want.

So I guess the president can order the military to drone strike the FCC if he wants at this rate. I don't see what influence the Constitution is still going to have at this point.
It's only called an attempt if it fails. If it goes through till some point, it's His Royal Highness General Alladin bring order and justice and acting to grant their people all the freedoms they asked for.

Source: I'm from places that had the Supreme Court (of places, not US) overturn an election result due to fraud
Can't we sign the key with SPHINCS+ and be back to the same situation as with classical asymmetric cryptography?
If we have a declared war between the US and the people (US citizens or otherwise) who are taking up arms against the US, then sure, attack away.

But otherwise, the only remedy should be judicial process against these people: arrests, trial, etc. Otherwise we have a term for it: extrajudicial killing.

Of course, Congress has given the executive branch weird war powers over the past few decades, so legally I'm sure they're in the clear, unfortunately.
It actually would be allowed. I agree it's a questionable practice but it's long standing precedent that judges can hear cases which involve the party that appointed them, e.g. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/769025/in-re-executive...
>There may come a point where some quarters of the public will willingly accept some governor, attorney general or president ignoring a supreme court ruling

This already happened with Joe Biden ignoring the Supreme Court on abolishing student debt.
The ifdef name was a big clue! "SIGHAND" is short for signal handler. Sure, there is an implicit connection here from "signal handler" to "all code must be async signal safe," but that association is pretty well known to most openssh authors and code reviewers. Oh well, mistakes happen.
Early days torrent scene ran on proprietary adware clients like BitTorrent itself, µTorrent, and BitComet but nowadays open source clients are more popular and recommended by most trackers. I'm on a pretty big private tracker and almost everyone (+95%) is using qBittorrent, Transmission, or rTorrent.

Though Vuze was also one of the earliest clients and it's also open source for some reasons it never really became popular. Maybe because it's a Java client?
> Does the public (government) sector suffer from this same kind of 'applicant stuffing' problem?

People spend years trying to get a federal government job, because of the perceived job security. There's an entire industry devoted to getting a federal government job. Then again, if Trump gets elected this Fall, the thrust of Project 2025 is to remove that security - so who knows how this strategy will work out long-term?
> "... The indictment’s allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the Vice President to take particular acts in connection with his role at the certification proceeding thus involve official conduct, and Trump is at least presumptively immune from prosecution for such conduct.

> The question then becomes whether that presumption of immunity is rebutted under the circumstances. It is the Government’s burden to rebut the presumption of immunity. The Court therefore remands to the District Court to assess in the first instance whether a prosecution involving Trump’s alleged attempts to influence the Vice President’s oversight of the certification proceeding would pose any dangers of intrusion on the authority and functions of the Executive Branch."

As per the ruling, Trump does not get blanket immunity with his interactions with Pence. But it is the prosecution's responsibility to now make a case that it was outside of his discretion.

I'm not arguing that this is a clear or useful legal distinction, but Trump only got true "blanket" immunity for the first indictment regarding the abuse of the Justice Department.
It's an interesting idea, but I think you'll be surprised at how fast the sun moves. You can try it yourself. Put up a small mirror that reflects a sun spot on a surface. Clock how fast it moves a centimeter. Multiply that distance with how much further away a central tower would be.
Sonnet Is the Opposite of Lazy
Claude 3.5 Sonnet represents a step change in AI coding. It is incredibly industrious, diligent and hard working. Unexpectedly, Sonnet’s amazing work ethic caused it to regularly hit the 4k output token limit -- stoping its coding in mid-stream.

Allowing Sonnet to return code in multiple 4k token responses jumped its score on aider’s refactoring benchmark from 55.1% up to 64.0%.
> you're playing the "cite your sources" card

But I did not request any sources. A substantive argument is excellent its own right, even if citation-free.
Fedora: not yet.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2024-6387 (tracking task)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294905 (Fedora 39 issue)
And Eastern European engineers and doctors go to Mediterranean countries for bigger opportunities and salaries. Looks like the biggest culprit is the “free education”, no?
I'm normally one who will defend HN as being a haven for calm, rational disagreement, but these Supreme Court ruling discussions are really bad.

Someone's going to come along and tell me that the vitriol is necessary and good because the Supreme Court is so clearly and unequivocally evil, but that's just the point. Even the threads on the Israel-Hamas war have had better-quality discussions with more nuance than the hot takes and hatred that have been plaguing HN the last few weeks on these threads.

We can do better. I've seen it.
Alito, Thomas nor any of Trump's appointees have the scruples or decency to recuse themselves.