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Taxes will also eat away at that

Pretty sure the TOS of AppleTV prohibits exporting the movie - you have a limited license to view it only under the circumstances Apple dictates, in partnership with everyone Apple has deals with. If you want to be able to watch it on other devices, you need to purchase a limited perpetual license in the form of a DVD/bluray.

Now, of course, this depends on the movie having a physical release (which is becoming a bit of a rarity these days), but still, the MPAA has made sure to write ironclad contracts to prohibit watching streamed content the way you want.

>x86 is also proprietary technology that Intel is currently making money on. Should Intel be able to sue AMD out of existence?

AMD has a license to the x86 architecture, alongside Via (though I'm not sure if they even make x86 chips anymore). I'm sure Intel would love to take back AMD's license, but they're probably too afraid of antitrust actions to try.

Big companies don't wait for some rando to complain to take these kinds of enforcement actions. Chances are it was already well underway by the time he typed up his message.

It really is impressive how some people seem to be able to embed themselves so well in an industry. Not many people have the drive to pull it off, even fewer have the circumstances.

Relevant Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1727721586856222893

Original title is "GHSL-2023-112, GHSL-2023-102, GHSL-2023-103, GHSL-2023-092: Buffer Overflows in Notepad++ - CVE-2023-40031, CVE-2023-40036, CVE-2023-40164, CVE-2023-40166", but whether you eliminate the GHSLs or CVEs, it's too long to submit, hence the cut down title.

Dang, feel free to adjust as necessary.

This makes a lot of sense. I took a couple online classes when I was in college, and despite my efforts, I definitely didn't learn as much as I would have otherwise. THere's something about someone telling you something in person that makes it easier for my brain to absorb, even if it's in a giant lecture hall and you don't go to office hours. I can recall accounting principles (taken in person) far better than material from my project management class (taken online). I took the former for an easy minor and never use what I learned, but the latter has proven much more important in my career, yet I managed to forget it all.

And my online classes were explicitly taken online, with professors who had done online stuff before, not hastily moved online in the midst of a pandemic. Knowing how computer-averse some of my professors were, I can only imagine the transition to online was rough, and I bet I'd be scared away from online classes in college if I had to go through high school like that, even if I got a full ride.

And, as others have said, going to college isn't just for the degree. Yes, that's a big part of it (the expensive piece of paper at the end), but just being able to be away from your parents really helps you grow up and become independent.

It was. Every time I hear people grumble about criminals walking free (which, admittedly, is infuriating) and that we should be allowed to settle things "like we used to", I think back to how disputes between families could be so bitter that you might not even be able to leave your own home. And these disputes could last for generations.

Rule of law certainly has its benefits.

Not as much as Rust has, though. I'd be hard pressed to go back to C-land now. I'm surprised they wouldn't consider a greenfield component (HTTP/3) a good candidate for it, sad.

>Google has gotten away with way worse on way more regulated fronts i.e. their antitrust case which slapped them on the wrist.

Although I feel that Google has won its position in search, etc by offering a legitimately better product, we need to punish companies that continue to break the law. Success does not put you above the law. If you use your massive profits to absorb fines for breaking the law repeatedly, you should lose your ability to operate as a corporation and be dissolved. We need to reform antitrust laws. It's not just being able to control an entire market anymore, it's about being able to ignore international law because you have so much money.

Maybe they're valuing inferior products they only prefer due to advertisements?

Imagine how much better our world would look without advertising. Will some adtech devs lose their job? Yes, but honestly it would probably be worth it. They'll find work in a non-scummy industry and can be a net positive for humanity.

I wish America would group TV ads together, it would make them much easier to skip and would remove the need for forced cutoffs (you really notice them when watching on non-cable sources)

Agreed on keeping the status quo, adding generics makes it really easy to write bad code and increases mental overhead. Simplicity is what we should be going for, not having generics should've been kept as a selling point.

Pre-canned infrastructure is generally fine, this requires you use their programming language and their text editor. The article and website make no mention of if your code is stored in version control you can mirror, or if there are any plans to open source it (it appears to be a complete black box, which is fitting for a product called Dark). You also rely on their infrastructure, so it truly is putting all your eggs in the basket of a single startup.

Why would it make more sense to "spin a limited number of times before going through the slow path to acquire a mutex"? Does a mutex have more overhead in the short term than a spinlock but after a few cycles become more efficient?

Off topic, but I remember reading that the Linux kernel prefers spinlocks to mutexes. Is there a good technical reason for that?

I really dislike this. It feels trivializing and insensitive, like being disabled is something you so for fun and that it's not a real thing.

Yep. You can really tell how hard they're grasping at straws with stuff like this:

>If a founder fails, tech discourse interprets it as a sign of young vigor. In a country in which twenty-five-year-old white rapists are “still boys” and black twelve year-olds on the playground “look like adults,” the question of who gets to be a kid and who counts as a grown-up is clearly charged with privilege.

Just have to shoehorn race in somehow, adding an entire paragraph to the article that is nothing more than filler.

It's disappointing that so many websites drop trust and human moderation in favor of half-baked solutions that disregard the disabled. I've found forms where I could remove the disabled attribute from a submit button and bypass captchas entirely, I have no faith in them any more.

Blade Runner really made me rethink a lot about life and why were put here on the earth, what were made to do and our free will. Given how we are likely doomed to climate change, I worry we will become slaves to corporations which act like governments, only in a much hotter and drier world, and I doubt Musk will found a colony on Mars before our society collapses.

They don't let you disable their spying on Windows 10, why would they treat Office any differently?

I remember when a weather app using your GPS to automatically change to your current location was controversial. Now we willingly subject ourselves to corporate spying at the OS level.

Increased usage would likely lead to more UX improvements, but people don't want to use something not as slick as Word and Pages. Chicken and egg.

>Google's algorithm would presumably remain proprietary.

This is not a good thing. Basic keyword searching on an index isn't viable to compete, then you go back to when keyword spammers were at the top. Google should be forced to distribute all their search technologies to the public with the threat of the Alphabet corporation being dissolved if they do not comply. That is the only way to get us out of this mess and break Google's stranglehold on the internet.

>opt-in data processing consent not conditional on service

I see this violated so often with full-screen popups requiring you disable adblock or exit private mode. The EU really needs to fine these companies into oblivion, I should not have to create an account just to look and see if they have a disabled tracking toggle (and they usually don't, so the only way to prevent tracking is private mode/adblock).

AMDs really had some amazing improvements, are they close to reaching the limits on this architecture? When should we expect the next major architecture change?

Art can also be a tax shelter if you have your own museum. Launder money to your friends, then shrink your tax bill by making massive "contributions" to your private museum.

Incidents like this really show the lack of proper security measures in place. Why should package ownership be able to be arbitrarily shifted on a whim? It's a large signle point of failure. Sadly, there are no good alternatives besides entering in in GitHub repo paths manually for now.

Sadly, this doesn't apply to America. Our grocery stores are very much homogenized, and in many parts of the country the only grocery store will be Walmart. Urban areas will have higher end chains that stock a wider variety and some foreign and independent stores with unique selections, but once you get past the cities and into rural America, your options for groceries are about the same from town to town.

I see these Vim-enhancment posts a lot. If you need to install a mountain of plugins just to make it usable, why not use a more modern editor? Seems like nostalgia for the Unix greybeard era, possibly some eletism for when someone who isn't intimately familiar with their config has to ask for help to use their machine.

I'm impressed that Apple would continue to replace devices without a warranty. Really shows their dedication to their customers, not many other companies would continue to drop so much money on devices they don't have to support.