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Wait what? I wish people would make up their minds on this. They have gotten a warrant. That's how law enforcement is supposed to work.

Being against warrantless tapping is not the same thing.

Can you refer books/other material about this?

This really is a "stunning" victory that I did not expect. In today's world, big money rarely loses a round to NGOs and the public interest. Maybe this happened because the circumstances around the selling were _that_ egregious.

This is very eye opening, thanks. Yes, in the US, the implication is the opposite: "I bought a car" is taken to mean brand new.

I guess part of it is that it's a very car oriented culture, but the other part is that people value owning a new shiny thing over financial cautiousness.

Missing any math in any year is a disaster. There is a real continuity in math teaching starting from addition through high school. I've seen so many people who gave up early on, and they have _no hope_ of making it up later on.

I've used this to create a little muxer for opening URLs, which routes some to safari and some to Firefox, based on domain. Platypus allows to associate the app as a URL handler with the OS, which is very nice.

That works if it's a bottom up organization. Decisions like this at apple are very much top down. Luckily, the PMs there make the right calls, when it comes to privacy, since it's one of their key differentiators.

Source?

Fwiw, the "{}" formatting is common in python, so that might be a reason they went that route.

Ya but I wouldn't be surprised if the Ticketmaster TOS that you sign (click) makes you give up your suing rights in favor of arbitration or worse.

One thing that I've always noticed about this video is how much it makes sense when explained iteratively at each step. The final product, though, I can't picture that checked into source control for someone to understand weeks or months after it was thought through and written. Unpacking the final form seems almost impossible.

I'd love to know the software engineering side of using APL. For the same reasons that using esoteric bashisms instead of say a clearer python script is bad form, I can't picture APL fitting into good engineering practice. Maybe once you think in APL, it all works out fine.

the point is not leaving, the point is that he cares (enough) about Elm to try to ring the alarm that its leadership is bad and needs to change.

wow. ask yourself what part of your social self this kind of comment came from, the good part, or the bad part.

that would require one to keep in mind all the $PATH values and their order, which doesn't sound fun.

the media storm has been the most disheartening thing to me. the media (all media: the news, social, tv, print) exist to serve your eyeballs to advertisers. the biggest, scariest headlines win, and it really seems like outlets are only too keen to exploit that right now. the signal to noise ratio right now is MINUSCULE, with "experts" and talking heads and human interest stories dominating.

please try to convince your flatmate (as I do everyone around me) that the media will gladly firehose useless panic mongering, as long as it keeps people around past the commercial break. it's difficult to disconnect, but our mental health depends on it. take in what you need to know for the day, and no more.

i'm sorry, this is really awful :( can you contact your current apartment landlord and see what they can do, given the circumstances?

hang in there.

you're right, testing is the long term solution. you can't control what you can't measure.

the embarrassing point is that in the US, isolation is the only effective tool at this point. it's embarrassing because ramping up testing was what South Korea did, and they started much sooner, and that's why they are over the hump now. the US simply doesn't have the testing scaled up.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...

that page has a WebRing at the bottom! what a blast from the past.

this is what sites used to do before aggregators and search engines dominated.

serious question: all of the reporting around the FBI and its intentions focuses on iPhones. There is not much reporting about android phones, though. Is this because they are generally not as airtight in design as iphones are? Is it because iPhones are more likely to be up-to-date in terms of patches and security updates, and hence android is easier to crack? Is it because Samsung, Google, etc, have been more willing to play ball, so the FBI has not had to wage a public battle?

the article mentions it but not much detail:

> Android devices, on the other hand, end up having large variations in the security of devices from different manufacturers, which may have their own vulnerabilities or may have difficulty distributing security and Android operating system updates to phones quickly.

those are probably all signed binaries.

what would be more telling is if other anti virus tools reported the same thing about the test binary in question.

Same boat here. Even for technical searches, which ddg is supposed to be good at, I would routinely find the Google results of much more accuracy and quality. Finally switched back.

Luckily, for the things I search, ads are not usually a problem.

this doesn't make sense. if the user wants to replace the default with a spammy app, they should have every right to (with explicit UI to do so). spammy app will get uninstalled enough and the market will direct them to not be spammy or die.

choosing apple (or Microsoft, or Google, ...) as the arbiters of what defaults exist on a platform, and making them unchangeable, is anticompetitive. strangely, we're no longer in a climate where calling out companies on this behavior is appealing anymore. Microsoft got much worse treatment when it did this decades ago. apple has been given a pass on this forever.

The app admittedly can do nothing about overseas callers. I feel as though those are the large majority of scam calls I receive.

What a great way to put it.

What's great is that learning assembly is like taking the first step to understanding the bridge between software and hardware.

I remember a taking class that started out as confusing as hell. The first few exercises seemed really mystical and just so brittle. You'd have to be a wizard to ever get this, one thinks. But by the end of the class, we made an asteroids-like game, complete with RNG based on input timing (the time between game execution and when the user clicked start). That was really an enlightening moment.

So we have to bring it up every few days?

Just look at this comment thread. All switch stories. At this point it's preaching to the choir.

Time for the weekly Chrome bash thread on HN. Cue the "I also switched to ddg and it's great!"

Seriously, why does this happen so much here? I'm not even talking about the merits of the argument (I switched to Firefox), I'm just talking about how much of an echo chamber this is.

Woodworking. What's cool about this is that it can scale with the amount of space/money you have to dedicate. Start building little boxes, you can do it with just a Japanese have saw and some glue, maybe some clamps. Stain it to make the grain really pop.

If you have a garage, start with a work bench build. Design it with 2x4 lumber and carriage bolts, make it your own. Once you're standing at your new workbench, then the inspiration really starts going.

Also YouTube has an endless supply of quality woodworking videos.

I would say as long as it's not interfering with the rest of your life, it's perfectly fine. The breadth of quality games available in this era is really remarkable. To be able to explore that universe and have real experiences is perfectly worthwhile.

Where I think it becomes problematic is when the focus is on exactly one game, especially ones with online gameplay with toxic communities. In those cases you should ask yourself if you might be part of the toxicity cycle (not always the case, but worth some introspection).

The feats of strength!

The attack on a difficult profession that already suffers from stigmas is not necessary or welcome.