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Well, indexing and searching is kind of Google's thing. It also helps that they're using a unified build system. They can instrument the compiler to get cross references from the build instead of trying to figure out out by parsing the text themselves.

They open sourced the tool to do it- https://kythe.io - but I think it would be a pain to make it work for anything like GitHub that supports arbitrary languages and build systems with untrusted code

One of the rules of Mario Maker is that in order to post a level, the creator has to clear it, to make sure that all posted levels are possible. But the creator of this level admitted recently that their clear of the level was tool-assisted. The team that was working on beating all the levels don't consider such "hacked" levels in scope.

StingRay is a brand name. The generic term is IMSI catcher. Basically a portable fake cell tower law enforcement can carry around that will capture the identities of every phone in the vicinity. They can also pretend to be 2G-only towers to trick phones to use an insecure protocol so more data can be captured.

Since it tracks everyone in the area, there's major privacy concerns about how they're used, and police have been caught repeatedly lying about their use. To the point that if the defense in a case discovered police had used a Stingray to identify their client and challenged it, the police would drop the case rather than letting anything about the Stingray enter the public record. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/fbi-would-rather...

Even beyond ramping up a new project, it can be important for maintaining existing ones. If a service outage costs a company millions of dollars a minute, it can be worth it to keep a team around that can resolve the occasional outage a few minutes faster even if they have almost nothing to do the rest of the year.

Then it's a derivative work and copyright law covers that too.

There's four ways for code to not be copyrighted (in the US):

1. The author died more than 70 years ago or it was owned by a corporation and it's been 95 years since publication

2. It was written prior to 1989 and did not include a copyright notice.

3. It was written by the government

4. The author explicitly released it into the public domain

1 and 2 probably don't cover much code on the Internet. So unless it's a government repository and/or explicitly marked with a public domain notice, you can probably assume it's copyrighted.

Right but it depends where the device was sold. A Galaxy S22 intended for Europe is built with a vulnerable Exynos SOC but a Galaxy S22 built for the US has a Snapdragon.

If there are 150,000 results that match your keyword, which results show up first?

You don't want a spam filter in your email? Everything should go straight to inbox? And that's not even mentioning the processing they have to do to figure out whose email it is in the first place.

Is that single phase or 3 phase? Most homes in the US have somewhere in the range of 100-200A single phase hookup.

Yes, very. outlook.com (formerly known as Hotmail) is an email provider. Outlook is an email client which can be used with any email provider.

I Bond rates are recalculated every 6 months. If inflation goes to 20%, the rate will be great. If inflation goes back down to 2%, not so much

Total compensation

The title says clone. The article says client. Those are very different things.

Breakfast stopped at 10, not 8. Dinner started at 6, but most people didn't stay for it.

You can also pick it up at your local Walgreens (https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-wal-tussin-cough...) or CVS (https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-health-tussin-cough-liquid-gels...) if you prefer. Maybe your area has some regulations restricting access, but it's not a nationwide thing. It's just sitting on the shelf next to all the other cough medicines in mine.

The 5% = full employment threshold has always been calculated based on U3. That's what they measured to come up with that estimate. If you want to talk about how U6 is better, then you need to compare it to previous U6 measurements, not previous U3 measurements.

If, as you were implying, U3 was hiding extra unemployment right now but U6 was more accurate, then it wouldn't be so closely tracking U3.

The US uses a large-scale survey for unemployment rather than tying it to the unemployment process. The official definition most people quote is based on responses to the survey of "have not worked recently, have looked for work recently" but there are also broader measures of unemployment that count people who want to work even if they haven't looked, as well as people working part time who want to work full time.

Using even the broadest measure of unemployment[1], numbers are back down where they were before Covid. The labor force participation rate is still down though[2] which means that about 2% of US adults aren't looking to go back to work at all- many of them are likely now retired, students, or stay-at-home parents.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE [2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

U-6's 7.2% is compared to 7.0% in February 2020 and 8.1% in February 2007. So even that is similar to pre-Covid levels and better the the peak before the last recession.

It looks to be a feature request to support the newest version of Fortran (or at least one specific feature from the new version), not a bug.

The laws aren't antiquated. The old laws said "manufacturers couldn't sell cars direct if they had any dealers". States then updated them in the last few years to "manufacturers can't sell cars direct at all" specifically because of Tesla.

Likely branding. For example, Coca-cola can write pretty much whatever they want on the can and you'd still know it was them because of the font.

I think criminals gaining access to my bank account is far more lucrative for them than gaining access to my social security account so I don't think it makes the problem particularly worse than it already is.

But besides that, the federal government already has an SSO provider that supports smart cards, U2F, and TOTP. I suspect many agencies will choose to adopt that rather than trying to roll their own SMS auth.

That's all great in theory, but current US copyright law isn't really in favor of implementing any of that. If Google tried to do it, they'd likely get flooded with massive lawsuits from the media conglomerates because they'd lose the DMCA safe harbor.

Are you talking about in theory or in reality? Who or what do you think the people deploying these technologies are accountable to, and what prevents the accountability system from accepting "I did it because the algorithm said I should' as a valid justification?

We're already giving people harsher treatment because The Machine says they deserve it, with no ability for defendants to question The Machine and no one accountable for v its recommendations.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

I think Google docs has a limit of 100 concurrent users on a doc

Healthy young people with no underlying health issues are at very low risk of dying if they can get medical care. If we run out of hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators, the death rate climbs. If we run out of doctors and nurses to care for the hospitalized patients because they're all home sick with COVID-19, the death rate climbs. The death rate isn't a static feature of the disease, it's a function of how well we can care for the ill.

It's usually a sign that you don't have clear component boundaries or well-defined interfaces, which means your code is going to be harder to test and harder to debug. Every place you read and write global state is also a potential race condition in multi-threaded code.

Of course there are places where global state is unavoidable (even if it's just "the filesystem"), but by confining your global state to a small corner of your codebase and having the rest of the code interact with this component instead of touching all the global variables directly, you can reduce the number of potential problem spots.

I don't know about this one specifically, but in the past, they've taken advantage of the fact that a lot of these scams claim to be Windows tech support and the like. With a creative application of US trademark laws, which allow manufacturers to seize counterfeit goods, they got a court order allowing them to seize the domains and computers hosting the "counterfeit" Microsoft websites.