mritun

> “Now we're seeing quantity come through because companies with internal 3-year product cycles are starting to dump their 2018/2019s, and inevitably a lot of those are locked,” he said.

Yeah, right! 2c says these computers are MDM locked and still on the managed inventory. These recyclers should talk to their supplier. Just supplier saying “trust me it’s 100%” legal is not enough.

And yeah, I really don’t want Apple or any other manufacturer to make it easier to fence potentially stolen goods. Many people don’t remember the times when white earbuds (ie you have an iPod or iPhone) made you a hot mugging target! It’s not a thing anymore since Apple added reselling locked devices worthless.

Yes, it’s easy for a criminal to do that. However, then they escalate from simple marketplace fraud (which is very hard to prosecute) to committing wire-fraud which is not just a federal felony but also carries stringent punishment and is much easier to prosecute.

For evidence, see the trial of Elizabeth Holmes and SBF.

pg is definitely not leaving Twitter. It’s impossible for two billionaires to quit each other. It’s a small close knit community and everyone is on first name terms with the other and their family. Not happening!

At twitter engineers are working 18 hours a day, 6 days a week - sleeping on the floor of the office. I don’t agree with Musk but he’s really influential and his style of management is going to be copied like others copied Steve Jobs!

This is just a start :)

Flamebait?

If you know the password you can enter it when ‘su’ asks. This vulnerability allows all processes, even untrusted one, to gain root privileges- which is a problem if that is not what you intend.

MacOS is actually less locked down than a Linux server built by even a half competent sysadmin.

It can be hard.

The key is to

1) not engage in conversation

2) add mechanical tools that fail the build if coverage isn’t enough!

A lot of times people argue that it’s stupid to have a “target” code coverage. I used to be one such person until I saw what happens when you leave it to people. Most people would still keep quality bar high, but one rotten fish spoils the pond and the tools that mechanically measure quality metrics are very effective in pushing back on bullshit like this.

Oh and whatever you do, don’t engage in debate on this. They /will/ wear you down.

How do you avoid “curation” being either called as or actually being equivalent to “censorship”?

At the end, isn’t it one entity vs others’ opinion whether they like you or not?

Unions are not allowed at Twitter. Who knows what is cooking there.

Just like that without evidence you laid an allegation on Amazon even though all facts are that Amazon does KYC and doesn’t actually let anyone sell health products (among many others) without receipts.

This is text book rumor-mongering and spreading misinformation.

Spam. The problems with an arms race is that you generally can’t have many winners.

Again I have one on my 2017 Forester, and never turned its safety features including AEB off. All it does when reversing is beep because the sonar sensor is confused. It never behaved unpredictably.

(and yes the AEB did save me from backing into things at least twice in these years, so I know it works)

I drive a 2017 Forester and in 5 years of driving it I never had to turn off any of its safety features including pre-collision braking.

QUIC uses TLS1.3. You need a trusted CA on the ends but it doesn’t need to be one you pay for. That’s how any version of TLS works.

Yes they do, mainly because it’s the law.

That it’s a misguided law is open for debate, but I don’t believe there is any state in the world that doesn’t monitor and control tele-communications (internet is regulated as tele-communications WW).

Which country with “authoritarian vengeful regime” are you speaking of? Pick one

- China - Germany - UK - India - USA - All the above

I gotta believe that this culture is not also present at Tesla. These cars are drive by wire and I am feeling very very concerned that people writing. code to control these 2ton hulks are optimizing for lines of code written.

And yeah, Mr Elon has a LOT of fans and if you’re a professional, you need to be concerned that someone in your line of management might be getting inspired by this!

This is the correct answer (on Linux) and the article dismisses it after lightly touching on it’s correctness.

In a multi-threaded environment someone needs to pay the cost of synchronization if the entire event-queue is loadbalanced. If you don’t want the events to be trivially load-balanced and want the events from one fd to be delivered to a single worker, then it’s way better to use SO_REUSEPORT and get it right from the get go.

Expecting kernel to solve a problem of user-space’s making is asking for trouble - can be done, but the edge cases will sink your project!

It’s the curse of popularity!

As soon as gaming a search engine becomes financially profitable, the hoards of “SEO”s develop methods to do so.

On plus side, this means ddg is finally getting noticed, on the minus side, this means they need to react fast or lose ground to the competition that’s relatively better able to fend off spam.

Btw, this is also why search engines only grow big (or go home). Fending off spam is very very expensive and thankless job!

That’s interesting! It could partly be explained by falling Euro but could also be Apple increasing prices to include the “fine” taxes. Cost of doing business invariably gets passed on to customers.

> I don't understand. I want to develop code. I don't want to become an AWS/S3/Github/Jenkins/Action/terraform/etc expert.

They’re tools for the job, like your compiler and the language you use to program.

That’s like saying “I like to use Python and couldn’t care less for Java”. It’s fine to disagree with the team’s choice of the tools, but one needs to eventually commit to the choice, even it’s not your preferred one!

There’s an old adage that “if you’re writing clever code then you may not be clever enough to debug it”. It’s true! Operations requires deep understanding of the code running in production, the business rules and the customer. The person who will operate your code will eventually be smart enough to develop it entirely too, eventually cutting out the “dev”. I’ve personally seen this happen over and over.

Um, well-received consumer grade noise-canceling earbuds are typically $350/pair.

I have been down this rabbit hole (you can imagine why) and $1300/PAIR for auto-adjusting, personalized hearing-aid that can be had OTC is frinkin steal. That’s less than the cost of just being evaluated and measured if your insurance is less than stellar.

Almost nobody wears seatbelts in India and 99.9999% of them do not get into accidents or die when they do.

What’s exactly your point unless you’re trying to say that your anecdote is better than theirs? Have you considered that it may just be your survivor bias talking and just maybe you are just plan lucky?

I’ve lost family members covid! Have friends who did too.

A lot of words, manifesto decrying sqlite somehow striffling innovation and a battle-cry for all to join … but backed with very little code.

SQLite is public domain. Anyone is free to claim it as their work and do anything they wish.

No need to disparage. You never were prevented from doing what you wanted to do. Take the code, improve it and if it’s any good it may get recognition.

The fact is sqlite is good enough for 99.9% case. Everything else is fighting for the niche and the poster seems to be simply pissed that sqlite has the mindshare even without having their favorite features.

That’s backwards. Russia didn’t gain military power to invade Ukraine from UN, it is in UN because it already possessed the military power.

Now, you can say that UN failed to prevent the invasion and do its job, but expelling Russia means you’re left with no forum for dialogs and negotiations. Contrary to the scenes made out of the sabre-rattling in public, it all comes down to money and power - and those things get negotiated in private in these forums.

> What are the possibilities? Jailbreak or use it as a paper weight?

Assuming you have a working phone, why would you not just keep using it?

I have a bunch of old Nokia phones that still work. They’ve not received an update in years and probably never will, but as long as they support carriers frequently, they’ll work.

It’s a phone, not an app… and even apps don’t need to be constantly updated.

Just came back from cross-country trip flying United.

No kidding, even the worst Airlines I’ve flown (Air France and now-defunct Deccan Airways of India) do not hold a candle to the condescending staff and torturing seats.

Extremely interesting point in this ruling that I have never seen before and I guarantee is sending shockwaves to the boardrooms is the definition of market. In this ruling EU chose to define the market as “Android phone manufacturers all over the world except China”.

Of course that definition is very peculiar. I was doubtful that it would stick but apparently it did.

This is fascinating that a regulator can define market as “users of YOUR_PRODUCT excluding all competitors you thought AND across the world EXCEPT the very place where everything is made”.

Now that it has stuck, it would change the dynamics of business. It started with tech but its going to trickle down :)

To all those defending EU’s march towards coal and wood, please remember that India and China will follow the suit :)

Because they’re classified as pickup trucks i.e. a farm vehicle even though most of them will never drive through mud.

We have the same 12” cast iron skillet and every word is true.

Sometimes people mention rust and it’s true as well. We washed it many times in dishwasher and it’d rust. But then scrape it with a scraper, oil it and heat it until oil polymerizes - voila you’ve your pan good as new.

Oh and if you need to cook tomatoes, get enameled cast iron skillet - you’re not going to go back ever to non-stick.