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>The frequently cited "0.002mm tolerance" is misleading without context. LEGO's actual mold precision is 10 microns, but different features have different critical tolerances.

The article never mentions what piece has a 0.002mm tolerance. Is there any such piece? If there's no such piece, then "0.002mm tolerance" is not just "misleading without context", it's straight up false.

>Apple buys and uses so much RAM across all its product lines that it’s in a better negotiating position than the likes of Framework or Raspberry Pi, but CEO Tim Cook acknowledged in the company’s last earnings call that memory pricing could begin to eat into Apple’s profit margins later this year.

That quote doesn't imply that those companies are pushing for it. The lawmakers might be pushing for it, and the companies might be ambivalent to whether it's done or not but said "if you're going to do this, then it should be worded this way."

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

> In the USA, they want a reason to fine you.

In my area of the US, I don't think so. I'll go 9mph over the speed limit when I drive by a police car. I've never been pulled over.

In some other areas of the US, you're right, which is why I'm less likely to speed in other areas.

Are you asking (1) why I think what I think?

Or are you asking (2) how we wound up in this situation as a society?

(1) I think what I think for several reasons. Basically everyone speeds. Probabilistically that includes he very lawmakers writing the laws, the police, and the road designers. I've also read some articles talking about road design, and in it it's mentioned that the designers factor in that most people will speed if the road conditions are amenable. I've also seen police cars driving around without their lights on, passing people at higher than the speed limit, and when unable to pass, the appear annoyed to me.

(2) I think this situation arose in sort of a "normalization of deviance" manner. Police didn't want to be too strict, or didn't want to bother fighting tickets for people speeding only a little, so only gave tickets for people speeding a lot. Then over time many people realized that, and started speeding a little. More are and more people started speed just to fit in with the surrounding traffic, until eventually everyone was speeding. Peer pressure. I've heard driving the same speed as the surrounding traffic is generally safer than driving significantly slower (or faster). Once everyone is speeding, that includes lawmakers, road designers, and police. And they factor that in when they write laws, design roads, and enforce laws.

Speeding is a special case, because it's unclear what the lawmakers, road designers, and police intend. When the speed limit is 65 mph, do they actually intend for everyone to go no faster? I don't think so. I think the lawmakers, if driving in traffic, want people to go a bit faster. Same with the police. And I think the road designers design the roads knowing most people will speed.

I want to follow the law. But when it comes to speeding, it's hard for me to follow the letter of the law, because all the parties involved in creating and enforcing the law don't want me to follow the letter of the law. So I instead follow the intent of the law, and speed up to 9mph. When Google Maps pops up a "police ahead" warning, I don't slow down at all, because I'm following the intent of the law, and that's what police around where I live enforce. If I'm driving in other areas of the country, I'm less certain what police want, so I'll be more likely to follow the letter of the law.

If there was automated strict enforcement of speeding, then it would be clear to me that the letter of the law is the intent, so I would gladly obey the letter of the law. There would certainly need to be a transition period with clear warnings that in the future, the letter of the law will be enforced, instead of the current status of something looser.

Aragorn isn't in The Hobbit.

None of those links are about this "open letter". This open letter is by employees of OpenAI and Google, whereas those links are about what Anthropic.

>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Would this "open letter" be covered on TV news?

Not the entire Google account.

> bans for Antigravity usage also blocked access to Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

>This suspension affects your access to the Gemini CLI and any other service that uses the Cloud Code Private API.

That sounds like the suspension only affects those things. Not e.g. gmail.

>But Google are banning entire accounts, with years, even decades, of personal history, photos, even phone accounts and app development projects.

Source? It seems to me only the anti-gravity access was blocked. The link says

> Our product engineering team has confirmed that your account was suspended from using our Antigravity service.

> there’s no way we can restore our accounts to use Antigravity anymore yeah?

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

I don't think Mozilla requires a LinkedIn page. bachmeier is complaining that Mozilla's CEO doesn't have a personal webpage, and only has a LinkedIn page. By not having a personal webpage, and having a LinkedIn page, it appears that Mozilla's CEO doesn't really care about the open web.

10.0 score, and there's literally a mistake in the first word of the text. ("M r." instead of "Mr.")

What do you think of Go's nil vs Java's null?

Small errror: the demo program says

    some_var[1] = 500;

however, seeing the output, what was actually run must have been

    some_var[1] = 1;

Hmm, did the monks have no concept of 0? 0 doesn't exist in this font. However, their system can very easily support 0: just a vertical line.

Switching to Cloudflare DNS solves archive.today problems? That's strange. archive.today is known for having problems with Cloudflare DNS[1]. Switching to Google DNS should solve it. (This isn't because of a bug in Cloudflare DNS, but rather that archive.today dislikes that Cloudflare DNS doesn't support EDNS.)

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on the DNS team.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39925822

(1999) (The movie is from 1994, the review is from 1999.)

That quote is about building security vs not building security. It's about the government potentially ordering Apple to not build security. It's not about proprietary security vs non-proprietary.

Nothing in the article is saying that HSMs, rate limits, etc are weak.

> If you're talking about Pre, those people are individually background-checked before hand, and it costs $19/yr,

The lowest amount I see on https://www.tsa.gov/precheck is $58.75.

The middle 4 are all fairly common words. "Ode" isn't super common, but I hear it in "An ode to..." phrases. And "err" I've only ever heard in 1 phrase: "To err is human."

The proper thing to do is not to zeroize the correct string memory before comparing. The proper thing is to only store the hash in the binary in the first place, not the correct string. (Although having a 2nd layer of hashing before comparing might also be a good idea, and in that case you would want to zeroize the 1st hash before comparing the 2nd hash.)

I don't understand.

That article (written in 2016) says that Apple will build unbreakable phones in the future. Now is the future. So it seems to imply that Apple phones today are unbreakable.

Also, where does the article discuss "all of these protections"? (HSMs, rate limits, etc.)

Apple originally had a bug in that censorship code. It would crash your phone if you received a text with the Taiwan flag.

https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x34.html

Reminds me a little bit of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...

Maybe the person thought "I've given Tylenol to babies in the past and it was fine" without realizing the difference between Tylenol and Tylenol-3.

It's possible the person even thought "Tylenol-3, hmm, that must be another term for children's Tylenol, Tylenol for 3-year-olds. I've given that to babies before."

Do you have a source for that? I can't find anything online about a state with a definition that long.

Is simonw untruthful or unreliable?

Why do you think someone intended to kill the baby?

>But the forensic-toxicology laboratory’s measurements showed that his acetaminophen concentration was in the range of what you’d expect to find in a baby’s bloodstream soon after he’d been administered a standard dose.

>“I am familiar with patients whose babies have died after a caregiver gave the opiate directly.”

Maybe the person thought the tylenol-3 would help the baby.