jtchang

I can feel my blood boiling for you. In fact I'm in the market for a new phone and stories like this make me actively want to avoid Samsung. As companies get larger and larger they will tend to make choices that are suboptimal to consumers.

Cynical me says that Samsung is seeing above average warranty claims on these foldable phones. Thus they need to get them down so some manager somewhere decides that they will enforce the policies more strictly with small scratches and dents outright disqualifying claims. Lo and behold this reduces the warranty claims paid out but in the grand scheme of things completely demolishes any customer loyalty.

I wonder if author reached out via twitter or some other social media channel to have Samsung comment.

Also I have to think what Apple or Google would do. I'm pretty sure Apple would just straight up repair the phone with very few questions (that has been my experience). Google you'd have to go through a longer warranty process but my guess is they'd be more lenient and eventually you'd get a new or repaired phone.

Samsung is losing hard here.

The point is that I have to drive to a local walmart and deal with insurance. That sounds harder.

Living spaces is pretty solid.

Interesting how the organization was broken out.

What is the difference between "Engineering Information" and "Computer and Engineering Information" groups?

Whoops I was off. It's around 32 cents per KWH.

How is a heatpump more economical than natural gas? I am in bay area and it can cost anywhere from 15-20 cents a kwh for electricity.

VNC Connect by RealVNC is good. So is remote desktop and/or zoom. I'm in the same situation.

I'd be stoked to launch a space telescope as a christmas present! Congrats to them!

Ugh there goes all our CI stuff.

The complexity that AWS has to deal with is astounding. Sure having your main production network and a management network is common. But making sure all of it scales and doesn't bring down the other is what I think they are dealing with here.

It must have been crazy hard to troubleshoot when you are flying blind because all your monitoring is unresponsive. Clearly more isolation with clearly delineated information exchange points are needed.

I'm dubious that the appraisal difference was due to racial issues. Yes it might be but there is already an insane amount of random variance even between appraisals done during the same time. These appraisals were done with significant time between. A few days could mean huge differences by itself due to way comps are pulled (something new could have closed within that timeframe).

Lenders don't get to pick appraisers anymore. They submit into a system and the system spits out the next appraiser. This was done to prevent gaming the system that happened in 2008.

I have 16MB of flash and I wanted to link in some webrtc Go library and the binary was over 1MB. As I had other stuff it seemed like C was smaller.

I'd like to write go or rust but embedded constraints are tough. I tried and the binaries are just too big!

These days you have to treat colocation as a fungible resource. It's good for batch processing and things like that where you can distribute the work.

Whenever I come across some code and think "who could possibly have thought this was a good idea?" I realize there is usually a story behind it.

I feel like this comment belongs right along side the PAM source, if only to remind others that we weren't all that nutty coding it this way.

Thanks for this writeup!

The amount of low level CPU architecture knowledge to write such a program is mind boggling. Just goes to show how much room for improvement a lot of programs have.

How much hardware does this require on a country level to basically run everything through a proxy? Seems quite a lot.

I like this. They are basically making a call to self insure against these types of incidents and paying out of their own coffers. It makes sense since recovering the stolen crypto is near impossible (as designed).

It's funny how everything old is new again. We are just reinventing FDIC insurance for crypto.

I wonder how this compares to xz or lzo. Is the main draw the fact that it runs in really low memory?

All this sounds insanely expensive. Just makes me double down on the fact that it is cheaper to make disposable satellites than make them last forever. Especially if it is cheaper to get them into space as well.

How does fingerprinting them help? You can fingerprint them but they are just desktops/mobile phones/laptops that have been compromised to be part of the botnet.

The compromised hosts that are part of the botnet look exactly like normal traffic.

To block something like this you need to determine what is botnet traffic vs legit traffic. It's hard.

Source IP doesn't work since it is random and changes. You need to look at things such as HTTP headers, TCP window and any odd flags that might be set. If you're lucky the botnet isn't capable of running a copy of Chrome or Safari or using a random sample template from legit traffic. Lots of botnets are made up of low power IOT devices so once these devices are capable of running a full headless chrome it will get harder.

Not to mention when you do figure out how to discriminate traffic you have to code it. And the code to determine valid traffic vs invalid better run fast because you are getting hit with 100k requests per second. Oh did I mention the attacker can change their algorithm whenever they want? Hope you have a full tensorflow ML/AI pipeline that configures your hardware based ingress of choice just in time. All this while making sure your current production traffic is being served at a speedy pace and not blocking legit customers.

These are some of the issues Cloudflare and companies like them have to deal with.

Should Epic's algorithm be open to critique or is it IP that they can keep secret? If challenged should they be forced to explain it or at least provide the inputs? It's worrisome to me that the process behind these numbers is fairly opaque and is going to get even so with ML. It's often fairly difficult even for data scientists to precisely explain their own algorithms and weights that produce an output.

I mean why not go after Coinbase? The argument that everyone else is doing it why not go after them doesn't hold much water. Sometimes it makes sense to go after the biggest fish first.

Also, is Coinbase saying Lend isn't an investment contract? It sure sounds like one to me. Lend my crypto to Coinbase and I get a 4% return? I like the idea but it sure sounds like an investment contract to me.

Weird way to phrase the headline. Someone manually controlling the vehicle with a joystick hit the person.

You should risk it because the risk really is minimal and the greater benefit for society is enormous. I don't think people have cognitive bias. There are plenty of arguments in favor of getting it.

Because the issue is the interactions between the components and not the components themselves.

Nano feels a lot like windows notepad. Still my favorite editor and beginner friendly (as far as unix editors go).

C is not friendly but it sets you off on the right path.

Adding a bit of C to your tool belt will give you success wherever you go. The concepts it teaches are invaluable in understanding why things are built the way they are today. Everything from memory management, to trying to solve all these vulnerabilities, to why new languages have these crazy constructs.