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Hi fellow traveller - I do that, too. Can’t say I agree that I think of it as a problem, though: it’s mostly paid off for me.

We’re surrounded by so much complexity - anything that helps to defray the cost of learning how to use a new bit of kit is appreciated. Most recently, I’ve been unable to resist the siren call of N100 mini PCs for a Proxmox cluster, but another example would be my teles: having 3 tvs all running the same OS (now long-unplugged from the internet) is just a massive timesaver. One practically needs a PhD and a lifelong Digital Foundry subscription to get the darn things set up just right - why spread that across two different brands or models.

Same philosophy with cars - although clearly that’s an area where most of us don’t own more than one. In my case, I chose the car with the best-established record of long-term reliability, and plan to never sell it. Read the docs, spelunk the forums, learn its quirks, then just live with it.

Buy one good thing - along with a few identical backups, if possible - then use it for ages. Then go outside and touch grass.
Nice article!

But I couldn't help but notice that when `_PyCompile_AstOptimize` fails (<0), then `arena` is never freed. I think this is bug :thinking:.
You don't even have to record every in person conversation. Why would you need to keep a permanent record of all chat communication ever? How does the law support that?
I use Firefox on both Mac and Android and it works well. I'd just wish it was proper open source project with BDFL and public team of developers and not some corporate failure.
Yeah those are interesting corner cases for sure.

When UI is only visual noise and has no impact on functionality, I don't see much value in automated testing for it. In my experience these cases are often related to animations and notoriously difficult to automate tests for anyway.

When UX diverges between UI and the accessibility tree, I'd really expect that to be the exception rather than the rule. There would need to be a way to test both in isolation, but when one use case diverges down two separate code paths it's begging for hard to find bugs and regressions.

Totally agree on testing with screen readers directly though. I can't count how many weird differences I've come across between Windows (IE or Edge) and Mac over the years. If I remember right, there was a proposed spec for unifying the accessibility tree and related APIs but I don't think it went anywhere yet.
It is fascinating for sure. I don't think there's anything in chemistry like it. It depends a lot on the geometry. A chemical reaction can be sped up or slowed down by the shape of something, but that's just because of exposed surface area.

In the case of Slotin, the thing he dropped onto the core was a neutron reflector so it redirected neutrons back into the core.

https://www.science.org/content/article/near-disaster-federa...

This is an interesting read, it's a story about a more recent near criticality that took place in 2011.. You can see a picture in the article of the dangerous configuration -- it's just a few rods of plutonium near each other. Any closer, if one tips over into the other, and they might go hot and release a huge amount of radiation.
> BTS

The band [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS
Although I generally agree with the notion that the probability of two civilizations meeting each other is extremely low. I think there are factors that can improve it.

Even if a civilization only survives say 1 million years, it can definitely leave something that emits messages for a much longer period of time.

Now if we accept the previous point, and calculate the number of planets that are suitable for creating life, the probability might improve to an acceptable number. It's no longer just a few light years, but maybe a billion light years -- if we believe residues of a dead civilization may survive that long.
> First Japan was allied with nazi Germany

That's an odd way to critique Imperial Japan, given that the US was allied with the Soviets, under Stalin no less..
Worth noting that Firefox for iOS isn't actually truly Firefox. Due to platform rules, browsers on iOS are all required to use the webkit engine so they all are basically just reskins of Safari.
Thanks! I’m going to give this a try. I have a food saver I just wasn’t sure if I should leave space in the bag or not. Sounds like not and just vent the bag if it inflates too much.
> Foiling terrorist plots is a critical component of policing.

Uh, what? Is this sarcasm?
Firefox like Chrome still allows long-lived i.e. 400 days first party cookies.

This is being abused by advertisers to track you across the web.

If they do care about privacy it would be good for them to copy Safari and make this 7 days.
You really want them to?

It'll be the end of jailbreaking, and another step towards the dystopian digital totalitarianism Stallman warned us about.

[To those who think there will still be alternatives: do you not think they'll also follow, under the threat of being called "insecure" and "unsafe"?]
Does anyone also feel that any new feature in C# changes to a flame war between Java and C# :-)
I expected that before clicking the link, and came prepared :popcorn:
He isn't dismissive about the problem, he's dismissive about the proposed solution.

A certificate would not change the status quo at this point.

Software developers/engineers are - for the most part - seen as essentially blue collar workers. Replaceable gears that MBAs can just "scale up" or "down" to fit their currently desired velocity. Let's ignore the fact that this fundamentally isn't true, but it's what they believe.

The work they do is decided by MBAs, and the time they have to implement these changes is heavily influenced by other MBAs.

Adding a certificate to this mix will change literally nothing
https://archive.ph/XXCA3
These quantum compasses are pretty cool, but they are not a GPS replacement. They are a more accurate version of an IMU to use for dead reckoning. They will still drift over time.

I'm guessing that once these are put in production, they will be about 1 order of magnitude better, which is still a significant improvement, but not a "quantum leap" so to speak.

Also, an electronic/physical device that "doesn't drift over time" is a device that hasn't been tested for long enough.
no more "sloppiness" than to refer to the USSR as just "Moscow", as that's where the majority of important decisions, the kinds that nuclear weapon would fall into, were made.
I can see your point. What I was hoping to highlight is slightly different which can be illustrated through your comment on growing your own food - you need the privilege of both time and space to even do that. Lacking both you may be forced to choose something that harms your long term interests like shopping at Walmart and putting local grocers you can't afford out of business.

A good example of this is an urban single parent of multiple kids, time and space are likely very scarce and choices are limited.
Interesting, anything specific you like about South Africa? I've gotten the impression that it is a bit dangerous.
Nebula is really nothing like CS. It's a video streaming service which many online creators (most already on YouTube) post. Currently a lot of Video Essays. Many creators choose to publish simultaneously on YT and Nebula, but Nebula has no ads and they can rely on sane applications of fair use policy.

Creators often also post exclusives or early releases.
I’m looking forward for Ladybird browser to be released to the General Public. On the meantime, I’m using LibreWolf instead. I’ve uninstalled Firefox after noticing the surreptitious advertising check
That would be a very high risk move - significant chance a federal judge says “I refuse to second guess NASA’s own engineers on astronaut safety”. In the unlikely event they prevail at the District Court level, I doubt it would be held up on appeal. And if they lose, their reputation will be even more in tatters than it already is.
Stop-the-world is only brief, to scan the register file of each thread and any other capabilities held in the kernel (asynchronous I/O, signal handlers, etc). Once done the entire memory sweep can be done concurrent with execution.

As for porting, it very much depends what you're doing. Operating systems and language runtimes, especially those with JITs, have intimate knowledge of the architecture and like to play cute tricks with pointers, so those are disproportionately involved to port. General user code requires very little, if any, porting. In one study, a basic KDE+X11 desktop stack was ported to CHERI, seeing 0.026% LoC changes across 6 million LoC, or 1584 lines. It's non-zero, and of course there is a lot of code out there so even a tiny fraction of it isn't insignificant, but it is very small as these things go.
It isn't about pinning everything on management, that's just as unfair to them as today's setup is for everyone else.

When management actively makes decisions to prioritize profit over security, for example, they should be held personally liable when a security issue occurs. I'm not really sure what a reasonable argument for that not being the case would look like.

If such a setup did result in a shitty work environment, people would ultimately have the option to not work at certain companies or to work for themselves. We can't assume that people must work for big tech and limit ourselves to what works in that sandbox.
I've heard of a lot of people heading up to Norway recently. What's your experience up there?
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> So in hindsight, if you were CEO of Mozilla - what would you have done differently that you believe would have maintained Firefox market share?

Integrated ad blocker, enabled by default. It’s the one thing Firefox can do that Chrome never will.

Most people aren’t tech-savvy enough to install an ad blocker. Most people really do see all the ads on the Internet. Blocking ads by default would make the browsing experience far more pleasant, and so browsing with Firefox would be far more pleasant than browsing with Chrome for most people.

And obviously, continue to invest in improving the core web experience instead of getting distracted by side quests and firing everybody working on Servo, etc.
I think this is changing, in my country the equivalent of PE will soon be required for a number of engineering disciplines, not just civil. But that's kind of missing the point, which is that professional engineering is guided by fairly comprehensive standards, such as those from the IEC (or ANSI, IEEE), and compliance with those standards is generally a legal requirement.
Two comments. (From a non-CA legal jurisdiction context.)

You can always ask (but not pressure or require). Make sure you make it clear there's no downside to them refusing.

Another option I've used is to hand cash to co workers and ask them to spend it on their credit card for testing. I've rarely had anyone refuse that. (A few very junior staff members who were maybe right on the credit limit on their cards I suspect.)
I do this too. I buy two of anything I like and save it in a “timecapsule” for the next decade when it is not available. It also lets me treat my possessions for use and not inconvenient preservation. if i really beat on it, i get a third so i have a replacement available.
Thank you, and that does seem like a ridiculous thing for which to request an SSN.
Nicely put! Well argued!

I was not able to put my finger on what I felt wrong about the article -- till I read this
No, that's not quite accurate - the phases are effectively additive.

37% fail in Phase 1. Of those that make it through, 69% of those fail in Phase 2, and of those, 42% fail in Phase 3.

So, of 1,000 possibles, you have 630 make it through Phase 1, and 195 that make it through phase 2, i.e. 80.5% of your drug candidates didn't even make it to Phase 3, that "most expensive phase".

A more accurate phrasing would be that 42% of the drugs that made it through Phase 2 fail to make it through Phase 3.
> seem to be doing better, at least economically, than their more hands-off counterparts. There's a couple of possible explanations for this

It's in the text:

decline in empathy and a rise in narcissism
Fair Source is more than just the FSL. There's also the FCL, and the BUSL, with room for more licenses exploring other ways to monetize.
No argument from me, makes sense. I posted this with the title "as it was" from The Register.
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And then we end up in the same situation where there's some new thing that should probably be regulated at the federal level but can't be since it's not explicitly listed in the constitution.

Imagine one day we invent portable teleporters. They would immediately be used for crime once they are available on the market although there would certainly be plenty of legal uses. That sounds like something the federal government should regulate, yes? You simply can't leave that up to the states because everyone is going to have a different standard for who can own one such that all you would need to do is travel to the least regulated state, buy a teleporter, and teleport back home. Having 50 different laws saying who can and can't own one would simply not be feasible based on how easy people can travel across the country. The federal government would need to establish regulations but only if the constitution says they can. Congress in 2024 would not have any notion that those could exist and would likely not explicitly give the federal government the power to regular them.
The federal government is a lot bigger than even the DoD, and the other agencies (e.g. NIST as linked above) have been very careful to make sure they aren't only recommending Rust, even if it's clearly a major alternative.
>You still have to purchase the Kickstart ROMs from AmigaForever from Cloanto (or acquire them some other way) to use it.

Please, pretty please acquire them some other way, e.g. dump them from your Amiga.

Do not fund these lawsuit-centric companies that are effectively keeping Amiga from moving forward.
> Why does a city police department even have a "homeland security" department?

It looks like it's mimicking the NYPD's counterterrorism group [1]. The point of that group is to interface internationally. (It presumably also gets more leeway with surveillance.)

Maybe this is the team that interfaces with the DHS's fusion centers [2]?

[1] https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/investigative/countert...

[2] https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers
I suspect I'm not the one who has a deep misunderstanding here. How do you expect this to work? The police were tracking a bunch of people they were suspicious of with lists. Then several of them (I assume there is overlap here) have been charged with crimes. They may, in fact, be criminals. They probably are criminals, the US has a lot of dangerous and misguided law on the books that criminalises reasonable activity. Unless you happen to be a judge or a whip in a legislative body, you don't have the power to arbitrarily declare who is and is not a criminal based on your preferences. Odds are your entire community is a minority that lacks that power on many issues that are important to you.

The way this works, and the only way it can work, is the police decide who they think are criminals and then there is a review afterwards of whether the police were reasonable or not. If you think they're doing a particularly terrible job then the review might result in all sorts of actions but it isn't a reasonable position to say that the police can't use public evidence when deciding who they think the criminals are. That is a view that will lead to silly results.
A "sanity check" is a test. Alway always always test that real prod payments end up in the bank account they're supposed to before whoever can rollback goes home for the day. _Always._ And document the existence/process/details/outcome of that "sanity check" test.

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> He’s referring to the patterns on the glass not the shape of the glass.

That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass that separate a champagne glass from a cognac one. Or different sizes of beer glasses...! Did we read the same sentence?
But it's 42% of 19%. So out of 1,000 drugs, you're looking at 805 being ruled out before you even get to that "most expensive phase", which is my point. At Phase 3, you're looking at 113 succeeding, so you're "only" eating the really expensive[1] costs of Phase 3 for 82[2] of 1,000 attempts.

[1] Which isn't to say there's zero cost for Phase 1 or Phase 2, but it's a lot lot less than Phase 3 trials.

[2] 1,000 drugs, 63%, 630 of which make it through Phase 1. In Phase 2, 195 drugs, 31% of 630 succeed and make it through to Phase 3, and then 82 drugs (58% of 195) make it to regulatory approval.
please don't, need I remind you the joke that social science is not real science
In the happy wild times of custom ROMs frenzy on Android (around versions 2.6-4), there was plenty of such attempts. Many devs included them directly in ROM by default.

Unfortunately, all I saw were rather dirty hacks that only kinda worked.
Oh no. Just block every connection through uBlock Origin so you get a mostly JavaScript-less website.

There are so many benefits to browsing without JS
The Bill of Rights is a specific list of things that government cannot do. It's been under constant assault ever since.

Something to keep in mind when thinking about Chevron.

Consider the 2nd Amendment. I'm not a gun nut, and in the abstract don't care much if gun ownership was banned. However, that would require simply ignoring the 2nd Amendment. If the 2nd can be ignored, ignoring the rest cannot be far behind.

When you let a tiger into your house to get rid of the dog, the tiger won't stop there.
Most laws are written in response to harm. The goal is to prevent the harm, but how to achieve the goal is not something you can encode into law in some kind of recursive function. Context matters.
> If they do care about privacy it would be good for them to copy Safari and make this 7 days.

If I get logged out of every website on a weekly basis I'm going to be annoyed.

> This is being abused by advertisers to track you across the web.

How do they use first party cookies to track you?
Is it a compass? It sounds to me like they are mapping these magnetic anomalies. If they have a map it should provide an absolute position, not a movement vector to integrate, so no accumulation of error. But they have to map the anomalies.
Nearly all of humanities pursuits is giving the middle finger to entropy. Yes, we're accelerating it's eventual win, but in the short term we're comfortable.
Goggle still has special privileges to your computer through Ungoogled chromium.

I’ve uninstalled them and will only use them on a VM
> Stop-the-world is only brief, to scan the register file of each thread and any other capabilities held in the kernel (asynchronous I/O, signal handlers, etc). Once done the entire memory sweep can be done concurrent with execution.

Is there documentation of the scheme that allows this? I did some quick Googling and found CHERIvoke (which is not concurrent at all) and Cornucopia (which requires scanning some user pages while the world is stopped). Are you referring to something newer?
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Absolutely and about as far as you can throw a Steinway.
How much power would such a device need to be detected above background radiation? Would a power source for it last long enough to improve the odds significantly?
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> Uh, what? Is this sarcasm?

No. I'm not saying it should be the job of local police. But when a terrorist plot goes through, one of the first questions asked is why it wasn't stopped. (DHS and FBI are police inasmuch as they are not military or strictly IC, i.e. they can make arrests.)

Similarly, police seize guns before they've been used to commit a crime and arrest dealers before they've sold drugs. In this case, the crime they're investigating would presumably be conspiring to do terrorism.
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Good question and I thought about it too after submitting the reply. I guess this is a real obstacle.
Crime is not random lottery. It is concentrated and specific to certain places and circumstances. Thus, pretending that it is a stochastic process that is well characterized by per capita number over the whole city, and that if more people move into a bedroom community 20 miles from you, you automatically become safer because per capita numbers decreased - is innumerate at best. If you are present where the crime is concentrated, you risk is high, regardless of how many people live 20 miles from you but still in the same administrative unit. This should be obvious but some people still insist on focusing exclusively on large-area per-capita numbers.
With or without a trebuchet (the standard tool for piano tossing)?
“You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...
Why is paying a multi-step process? Back in the day you would wave, get the bill, get your wallet out, round up a bit and walk out after putting cash on the tray. Now with cards, why is the payment terminal not brought over at once? Do most people really check their receipts carefully?

I often also do an Australian: I simply walk up to the bar or whatever and ask to pay. If I know I am not having anything beside the main, I often simply ask to pay when they serve me.
You can have a ban in certain areas or times without a state-wide prohibition.

Consider the sentence "In 1995, California was the first state to enact a statewide smoking ban for restaurants." at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_Un... .

Or from a 2003 article at https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2003/10/16/french-students-f... :

> DOMONT, France: French high school students are up in arms over attempts by teachers to ban them from smoking between classes. "We're not allowed to smoke anywhere on the school grounds any more. They treat us like babies," said Melodie Gambero, 17, a student in Domont, north of Paris, who went on strike with fellow students last week against the new rules.

Just like, how the "California ban on singing or chanting at religious services" at https://apnews.com/article/7c11840c31de504a939c926f63006102 did not preclude singing or chanting at home.
And even then there was still an attempted coup to try to stop the surrender:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident
> It's statistically very likely that a "side" with power (economic, monopolies on violence, etc) is more likely to abuse power than a "side" without power...

Isn't this tautology? Only the side with power can act on its abusive impulses.
The prices aren't that much better than Amazon. I'm not signing my basic rights away for a discount on a crate of noodles. It's offensive as well. When did it become Ok to presume your customer is a criminal? Sure if you have video feed of them stealing stop them. But "random" searches when they don't like the look of your face is crossing a line.
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