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None of the reports I found bothered to link to the court ruling. I eventually found it on Justia. That one refers to an earlier case involving a laptop battery, so I've included a link to it as well. I haven't had a chance to do more than skim the rulings so far, but at least in the earlier case the courts focused on third-party sales where Amazon held the product and shipped it from their own warehouses.

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2021...

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2020...

I follow Hacker News using its RSS feed.

From some of the replies further down that thread, it appears this is not as big a problem as it first seems.

First of all, the dynamic linker is slow and not optimized for program startup times. [ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4b77489c05f6459ead7233c3fb69f61... ]

And second, compiling clang with Profile Guided Optimization makes a big difference. [ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YItU3YrFi8REwkRA@archlinux-ax16... ]

There are examples of straight JavaScript exploits that allow a website to read memory from anywhere in the process its code is running in.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/7/245682-spectre-attacks...

One of the big reasons the M1 is so fast is its RAM is on-die. Latency and throughput to memory are dramatically better and you don't have to drive those long traces, saving power as well. Servers need to scale to memory sizes in the terabyte range. Apple will need a new design that uses conventional memory before they can go after the big workstation market, let alone server.

Your site looks a bit hastily done. Your page title is "Store - Webflow Ecommerce website template".

In 2018 she chained herself to the front door of Twitter's New York offices while wearing a yellow star to protest being permanently banned from Twitter for hate speech against Ilhan Omar.

My Subaru's stability control system may not have saved my life, but it saved my sheet metal several times. I still wouldn't let it pilot my car.

I uninstalled the updates and was then able to install the March 22 version. It didn't offer any update until I did that.

I wonder if Google's QA is getting worse. I had a broken Android Google Maps update last week where street view had multiple severe bugs: it didn't even show the blue lines when enabling the street view layer, split screen didn't show the marker for the virtual observer's location, and tapping in the map in split screen just rotated the view instead of moving the viewer to the new location. Something this broken should never, ever make it out the door.

Just hearing the song that closed that episode makes me want to cry.

An app that installs without the permissions it really wants and then refuses to function AT ALL until granted those additional permissions has got to be some kind of violation. It's basically lying about the permissions it needs to function in order to make it into the appstore.

I wrote a frontend for CompuServe's British Legends using Crosstalk Mk.4's scripting language CASL. It had a complete dungeon map and let me navigate using the PC's numeric keypad for directions. An onscreen keymap with labels for each number key showed where pressing that key would lead. It even randomized choices, so if NW and W both led to the same place it would pick one randomly if you hit either key. (This was to confuse wizards who could tell who you were by your habitual choices.)

There is a link to a PDF of this article on the Ad Nauseam site:

https://rednoise.org/AdNauseamVsGoogle.pdf

That article just reinforces what I gathered from this one:

GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-ope...

I canceled the return and looked at the Amazon app again. There is no option resembling "incomplete delivery" in my case. It looks like if you ordered only one item they assume you got something and they want it back before issuing a refund or replacement. I may just send back their defective envelope with its missing glue strip and hope for the best. I'll be dropping my Prime subscription at the end of the month.

After my latest Amazon order got me a completely empty, unsealed shipping envelope, I tried to get my money back. AFAICT, there is nothing in the system that even allows reporting "package was empty". Thankfully the item was less than $5.

You can send spatially-separated signals down a single multi-mode fiber.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53530-6

It's using a different method of loading the kernel:

https://github.com/containers/libkrunfw

Firecracker is using rust-vmm:

https://github.com/rust-vmm

Reading Catherynne M. Valente's 'Space Opera' was like going back to those glorious days when I first discovered HHGTTG.

I found some revelation about how this happens on a climate change forum. The very same people who accept climate change is real will argue that new Covid-19 strains are "fake science". I do not understand they will accept one and not the other.

Any list like this that doesn't include Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun is highly suspect. I kept on scrolling, but it wasn't there.

We went through that last time with their sad attempts at UEFI compliance.

So long as they allow the possibility it will happen.

In other news, they allow firewalls to work as designed in this release. So some kind of sanity may be taking hold.