AdamJacobMuller

I don't think Assange operated in any kind of self-interest per-se, I think he operated based on a principle of maximum transparency.

I definitely don't think that is always a positive thing but I struggle to think of anything which Assange leaked which I really disagree with. Probably some parts of cablegate should not have come out as they were very "inside baseball" talk between diplomats and were too easily construed negatively in the media, though, I think for the most part our allies realized that they said the same things about us in their private communications and there was really no major fallout from it.

Now, all that said, Assange did break the law and I don't think there should be no consequences for that but the way the US went about this (across 3 different presidencies) is just terrible. Nudging and cajoling and perhaps berating our Swedish allies to jin up a "rape" case against him so he could be extradited from the UK to Sweden and then obviously to the US, and, denying that we were doing that was just dirty on our part. I'm sure if there is a cablegate 2.0 we'd find we did some fairly terrible stuff to persuade our Swedish allies to prosecute this.

Ultimately the simple reason I think there is near positive reaction to this news is that everyone understands that even given what he did, it does not merit almost 15 years of prison in some really terrible conditions. Should he have walked away free? Maybe, maybe not but he should have had a fair trial with fair charges and faced a fair jury and he never got any of that, he was effectively extrajudicially jailed.

> I wonder if the USA will informally say "we got Assange; we can get you"

I can't imagine we haven't been saying that since the day Assange set foot inside the Ecuadorian embassy.

It also sucks for the riders and I really can't imagine Uber likes the situation either.

It's a really annoying situation because you end up arguing with some driver over text or worse in person about it.

They don't want to cancel because cancelling a lot impacts their rating with uber and they will get less rides.

I don't want to cancel because after a few minutes I'll be charged a cancellation fee and now I have to start all over with another driver and a dice-roll if i'll get another driver who refuses to go to NYC again. If I want my $5 back I also have to argue with some AI customer service rep for an hour.

Terrible user experience.

Lyft seems to do better with assigning only TLC cars to NYC rides, but, not 100% -- Uber also biases towards TLC cars for NYC routes but there isn't always one available of course so sometimes you get assigned another one, just anecdotally Lyft seems to get you a TLC car more often.

TLC are the only ones winning here.

Profit, sure.

But can I buy a non-profit hospital and force them to start buying syringes from my for-profit syringe company at a 1000% markup?

Impossible, especially for drones, because it would allow people to trivially flash firmware to drones which can bypass restrictions like no-fly zones and reporting requirements which allow the FAA or other LE to answer questions like "who was flying a drone playing chicken with a low-flying Cessna"

100% would go back today.

Drove through Be'er Sheva in 2019 while Hamas was sending rockets (earlier the same day I was there, not at exactly the same time) and would go back again without hesitation.

it was on some temporary AWS service like lambda or something? (We had eight ECS tasks on AWS, all running five instances of our backend), but, regardless logs should be somewhere persistent.

If they weren't, that should be the first thing you fix.

I don't think it has any benefit for them to explain why. Explaining why just invites argument.

"Oh, you can't pay because we are in Russia, just pay to our Massachusetts subsidiary!"

If they money didn't flow through Kaspersky (the wording here of "Kaspersky" donating it vs Apple donating it is weird) and it was donated to a neutral charity (say, red cross or Médecins Sans Frontières), I don't think anyone would raise an eye on it.

The fact that they couldn't find it by looking at error logs is weird to me.

This is an entirely forgivable error but should have been found the first time they got an email about it:

"Oh, look, the error logs have a duplicate key exception for the primary key, how do we generate primary keys.... (facepalm)"

Funnily enough, I saw the error in their snippet as soon as I read it but dismissed it thinking there was some new-fangled python feature which allowed that to work like the function def defines that default= accepts only functions so the function gets passed? -- I haven't kept up with modern python and that sounds cool and I figured the bug couldn't be THAT simple.

> “It is necessary to bear in mind that we are interested in the works of the realist movement,” [...] Kahlo’s Surrealist style was “alien to the principles of Soviet Realist art,” and therefore “the possibility of displaying such artworks in the Soviet Union is excluded.”

Even with my knowledge of how restrictive life is under communist rule I find it incredible that an artwork that was apolitical and relatively tame would just be wholly prohibited from display. Banning things which are considered subversive the the government or things which are seen as contrary to good morals I could understand happening (though I would never agree with it), but, this seems so more deeply restrictive than I imagined life in the USSR was like.

> Of the 300 or so works produced by Kahlo during her short life, more than half are either missing, confirmed to have been destroyed, or in the hands of private parties that refuse to loan them to exhibitions.

That's sad. I hope that statistic is heavily weighted towards private collections.

What makes you think there are no influential artists on social media?

Even if you want to discount taylor swift for whatever reason, there are huge numbers of artists on social media.

The proportion of those who are traditional oil on canvas painters (insofar as much as Frida Kahlo was traditional) is probably tiny, but, that reflects the fact that the proportion of artists who are traditional is tiny and I would suspect they skew against social media.

Just off the top of my head one of my favorite X-nee-twitter accounts I follow is https://twitter.com/straczynski who is incredibly directly engaged with fans (and sometimes hilariously confused people https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1794874375101194421) and is absolutely an influential artist by any definition of the word I would agree with.

> you can’t is because it’s unsafe to expire old data in such a system if any backup is writing

I did this, I just don't expire any object created in the past week.

I don't know rust, generally don't advocate writing things in rust but I find the people complaining about the people advocating for rust to be completely insufferable. People are talking about it because it's cool and new and shiny and they like it, you see it a lot because there's lots of people who find it cool and new and shiny.

Technically anything (>14 days) could be considered "weeks ago"

I was born more than 2000 weeks ago.

That bit of the headline is just pointless.

I did?

No. 1: SpaceX

No. 2: United Launch Alliance

From TFA

Even if you're right, having 1 company with 10x of the #2 is not what I would describe as healthy.

I have a toddy, produces excellent quality cold brew.

https://www.amazon.com/Toddy-THM-Cold-Brew-System/dp/B0006H0...

Kind of interesting.

I have the Jura Giga 5 and I would say it produces coffee which is better than I can get in any chain store, and, better than the average specialty shop as well. Obviously there are some specialty shops which produce excellent coffee which is better than the Jura, but, not by a massive margin. Interesting that you find the A1 to be much poorer in quality, or my pallet just sucks. Either way I fully agree with you that having "push button, make coffee" is fantastic, I don't want to fiddle with scales and worrying about blooming my coffee grounds for 14 seconds at 92c before brewing with water at 90c. Push button. Make good coffee.

The other "maintenance" item I've noted after having this machine for >10 years is that every 5 years or so it breaks and I have to send it back to Jura.

Their warranty service is a flat-rate $500 and they either repair yours or send you a refurb unit, for something which I spent almost 5k on, I'm very happy that they seem to have the option to basically keep the Jura working forever if I want.

The Giga 5 prefers to listen to the Spotify "upbeat pop music" playlist when I run the cleaning cycle FYI.

For a contracting company the videos are exceptionally well produced.

They remind me of something more like an early-era discovery channel show like extreme engineering.

They just need to get mike rowe to narrate.

The thing is, it's not even remotely close.

SpaceX had 98 launches in 2023.

ULA, the closest competitor, had 3.

For all of these others, considering that this article is from 2022, how many of them even still exist?

Don't get me wrong, I hope SpaceX gets some stiff competition because I believe that competition breeds innovation. At the moment, however, I have no idea where that is going to come from or when it might reasonably come.

I'm a big fan of LIFX bulbs.

I have a large installation of them in my home and have custom programming for circadian rhythms.

Works great technically speaking. Subjectively I think it organically works great too. Definitely when waking up at 4am for the bathroom having a 5% dim 6500k light to aim by instead of a super bright 2500k light is way better.

Correct, that was my point, and iOS already does this. I'm surprised Android does not.

Oh, I'm well aware.

I've spent 25 years fighting against intrusions in our rights. Admittedly, quietly and sadly, mostly unsuccessfully as every year things are eroded further and further.

I don't think the US will ever devolve into a scenario where the police will beat you for refusing to provide your password, I don't even think we will end up in a situation where police can legally compel you to give up your password. I think we will end up where cloud providers will be legally compelled to provide data on request (banning E2E) and consumers will be incentivized (both in unnatural and natural ways) to more deeply rely on cloud services.

My understanding of it was different.

As I understood it, the police can not compel you to tell them something you know because this would be analogous to testifying against yourself, however, they can require you to give them something you have (or something they would find with a warrant) because it is a physical thing, not testimony.

It's the difference between being required to give up a safe combination which the police can not compel you to tell them, vs, a key to a safe which the police could search you for and take from you and use to open the safe within the bounds of a warrant (or some other theoretical circumstances).

From a practical point of view these kinds of cases are interesting to me, because, coming from an iPhone this seems like it would largely be a non-issue.

If my phone was handed to or taken by an officer, I would either quickly do the 5-tap on the lock button which will require a password (not faceid or touchid) next time, or, simply by them handling it, faceid would be locked out.

Is that not a thing with Android? I've seen articles where a suspect is requested or compelled to unlock a phone with biometrics which was held in evidence for months!

Does Android (and I know this is a much broader question than with iPhone) just allow touch/face ID in perpetuity with no locks on it?

Maybe it averages from newest -> oldest

With software that bad, who can say

Please don't take the "from scratch" bit as criticism. It was just amusing trivia :)

Ah, the almanac part I completely forgot about, that makes a lot of sense, I read that part but forgot how it USED to be done when we couldn't just throw cycles at it.

He didn't make his own FPGA with sand from a beach? Weak. (Sarcasm, for those whose detectors are broken)

That's cool, I can understand just enough about what's going on there to know I have absolutely no idea what's going on for 90% of that article. Excellent to learn from.

Cool article.

Whenever I see "from scratch," I'm always curious to see how from scratch the author actually means so I'll admit I was a bit disappointed to see that the hardware was just RTL-SDR. Still, the protocol decoding was very interesting and the result is great.

> GPS was launched in 1978, which was 45 years ago at time of writing. Five billion people are currently under 40 years old, so well over half the world’s population has never existed in an environment but this.

A note based on this. While GPS was around since 1978 the signal was intentionally degraded with a process known as "selective availability" until 2000. This largely rendered GPS unusable for many many purposes, definitely useless for road navigation, it had some limited utility in areas like backcountry navigation and was definitely useful for marine navigation.

> gypsum can go from a cold start to a fix on the user’s position, and the precise time, in less than a minute of listening to the antenna

This is very impressive and outclasses what I see even commercial receivers doing today, do you have any idea how? I remember on road trips in the early 2000s I would have to sit on the side of the road and wait for the GPS receiver to get a fix (a 15-20 minute process, when it worked) before we could leave. Or, more likely, my mother would just start driving with paper maps.

croissants (and any other delicate pastry) require precise humidity and temperature control for reliable results.

Think PID controllers which control the heat/humidity through the baking cycle, or, conveyer-based systems with zones of specific temperature/humidity.

In addition, very modern systems, they are using computer vision systems to dynamically analyze the baking to ensure perfect doneness.

More repeatable results with less skilled labor is less waste is more profits.