neurobashing

It's not surprising at all since Apple was foundational in the specs: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4791

The very short story is, one member of the crew maintains control of the aircraft (hands on yoke and throttles, maintains general situational awareness) while the other enters the data into the autopilot (set altitude to X, bearing Y, at speed Z). The aircraft then executes the maneuver(s) entered, while under supervision of a human.

FWIW I am using Deadpool Telephony LLC, which uses the T-Mobile network (as MVNO), and Private Relay works fine.

One of the things they told us in infantry school was, "if you get shot, don't die", meaning: don't immediately think that you're dead, because experience has shown that you might actually die from a survivable wound if you _think_ you're a goner.

If I had to guess: someone will eventually build a transpiler/converter of some sort, most likely vim9->Lua (assuming my guess that vim still has more users than Neovim).

be wary of any person talking about you're going to have this big distributed consensus, based on some kind of buy-in to something, without first finding out who has the most buy-in, and just what it takes to overcome their %.

Just a (hopefully amusing) piece of anecdata: we have a squaredrop trailer, with a set of solar panels to power/charge the 12v marine battery and a pair of Jackery power banks. Most of our camping is done in the eastern woodlands: WV, PA, VA, etc.

There is so much tree cover all the time. Some days, even though it's mostly or fully sunny, we're almost always at the end of some disused fire road on the wrong side of a mountain, and we're lucky to get a couple of % back from all-day charges. I'm considering one of those water-powered turbines, since it'll work all night long as well.

A lot of people here talking about splitting semantic hairs/what it means to propagate/etc and not enough fond remembrances of when DNS really did take 48 hours - maybe more! - to update. Like at one point I remember being on the phone with the admins of a big dial-up, begging them to update sooner so we could fix a problem one of our customers was having.

There was a time when computing resources were precious. Kids these days, I tell ya.

if I had to guess: things like Docker, K8s, and Lambda. All of them make installing sprawling apps with tons of dependencies really troublesome at best. A single executable with almost no dependencies really simplifies that problem.

Perhaps I'm pedantic here but, no, you don't need "a bookshelf". The PHB/DMG split is obvious; you don't need the DMG (or MM) if you're a player. You don't need any of the supplements.

Also, you can run D&D games with or without TPK, you know. You can do troupe play. You can do all sorts of game modes. Rules are a framework for your game, that you build, not natural law.

I took it to mean something about use of blockchain, especially but not limited to Ethereum, and "smart contracts", to create a new kind of distributed app platform. But I am not sure that's right.

for some, simply not allowing me to opt-out without using other mechanisms (some sort of internal firewall etc) is enough. It's my computer, my network, and I get to say precisely how it is used; and that includes telemetry.

There are other threats and reasons, that others more versed in this can explain, but that is the one I can speak to.

well there's Dave Hyatt, co-creator of Camino, who left to work on Safari. That didn't help.

I think we need the denominator here to put '20' into context. 20 out of 100 million possible mutations is, meh, I'll take those odds. 20 out of 100, well, that's something else entirely, isn't it.

well for example there is no law against standing in a public square, be it physical or virtual, and screaming racial epithets. The government cannot forbid it, and within certain limitations (eg "disruption of the peace") they cannot stop someone from doing it with law or force. It is free and protected speech, albeit abhorrent.

However there is no law against our hypothetical racist being uninvited from the opening of an art gallery whose first exhibition is the work of african-american artists. It is a private organization who does not want to associate with someone.

Or to put it simply: it's OK to downvote someone. That's how communities work!

It gets a small (peripheral?) mention but The Jackpot books - The Peripheral and Agency are really good. They're going to be a series on Amazon Prime too.

The (IMHO wonderful) film Real Genius riffed on the real-world examples of people trying to exploit corporate sweepstakes:

"When Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jon Gries) sends in a large number of entries to the Frito-Lay contest, he is mirroring the actions of Caltech students Steve Klein, Dave Novikoff and Barry Megdal, who, in 1974, used a similar strategy to win a McDonald's sweepstakes. Their entries came to roughly 1/5th of the total entries and won them a station wagon, $3,000 cash and $1,500 in food gift certificates."

"It said enter as often as you like, so I did."

I have never been more miserable than when I was doing fasting. It was truly one of the most horrible times of my life.

I tried for months. My sleep as disrupted, I felt awful, and I had no energy. But more to the point, _nothing happened at all_ in terms of weight loss. Just thinking about it makes me angry!

I have no idea what the hell is going on with my metabolism and why I am the pure opposite case. I'm genuinely curious.

Right now, I lift heavy 3x a week and do moderate cardio 3x a week (run, bike, swim, etc). I feel great! And I get to eat like an insane teenager. My blood chemistry is perfect and my resting heart rate is in the high 40s.

It's more than a little frustrating at times that I have to do all that _work_ when I personally know people who dropped a bunch of weight with almost no effort via fasting. I feel great, though, and at this point I'm used to the program.

An interesting thing in this whole tempest is the notion of the CSAM itself. Specifically, there are more than a few people whose argument against Apple seems to be, implicitly, that CSAM is something of a moral panic. It exists but not at the scale that Apple needs to embed this technology in every device. Other posts alleged NCMEC lies about stats, ostensibly to justify their budgets (if CSAM is not a growing problem, then they don't need more funds). Others insist that the existing means of policing don't work in an increasingly technical world; and the bad guys are good at this stuff. I don't know which side is right - or if there even is a "right", here.

To me, then, the whole thing at least partly rests on those questions. If CSAM is a moral panic, then this technology is not just bad, but doubly so. Apple got played by the Feds, or maybe they really have been dreaming of backdooring their devices and finally had the rationale they needed.

But if CSAM isn't a moral panic but an actual growing problem that needs a technical solution (or assist), what are we to do? Just shrug and say "well it's a hard problem, maybe one day we'll solve it" and hope for the best?

A few other points I didn't see anyone mention:

Extensive Applescript support. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume most HN readers are not fans, and probably those who know any of it hate it. But, BBEdit has great documentation and an extremely solid and comprehensive implementation. It's one of the only Mac apps I truly feel I can do anything at all with in AS.

Shell worksheets. Something of a Mac-only tool, I think. Emacs users won't be impressed, but this feature isn't common on other Mac editors, and I think both camps can agree "why the hell NOT?". Having your shell environment be your text editor is great!

that's a common trope, though. Baxter did it the Xeelee Sequence: the monads selected our particular universe "seed" bc it was amicable to life, and the proto-Xeelee and others tweaked universal constants (via unexplained methods) in the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang that allowed for, well, us. And there's too many to list of the whole "Ancients/Precursors" who basically made intelligent life or whatever.

I guess the answer to me is "it depends". Modern cruise missiles are pretty much drones, but at the same time they're always what I guess I'd call "weapons of state". Big, expensive, and part of a large decision-making loop. You can't just lob one; someone signed for it. Attacks are planned in advance at high levels.

whereas this "slaughterbot" idea is smaller, low-cost, and with far less top-down control.

At least, as I understand it.

This started happening to me a few weeks ago; my assumption was they'd changed their paywall promo thing and my Pihole was blocking it.

it seems to me to be the white-collar version of the blue-collar "I have 14 jobs to stay afloat" thing, some sort of weird awfulness that a certain group has spun into a sign of moral goodness. Look how great things are, they work 3 jobs to pay the bills! Well, we only usually work 1 job, and we get paid a lot, so it's been spun until "look how many tasks they take on a day, aren't they great?".

Fans of the Xeelee Sequence are probably thinking, Meh, just go find a Starbreaker, and take out all of the system!

well the point is that OpenBSD does not support it, so having OpenBSD on a laptop removes the laptop-ness.

kidding aside, I'm opinionated: if it doesn't suspend/resume, it's not a laptop.

Makes me think of boot camp. Once you realize Parris Island is as much a mental exercise as physical, it completely changes. Yeah an hour in the sand pit doing mountain-climbers after you just humped 10 miles is a bit tiring, but you just have to keep doing it. You just have to keep telling your limbs to go. The point is to teach you your limit is far, far beyond what you think it is.

> I know a lot of you are married so let me put this out here: I (and most young people) will not put their romantic life on pause cause of a virus.

I'm Gen X, I came of age the last time there was a virus going around that had potentially lethal repercussions if you got it.

We didn't stop dating. We took reasonable precautions. To be blunt, you didn't raw-dog someone you just met.

Only fools expect you to abstain for years. Only fools look at a person and think "well they _look_ healthy, I'm probably OK."

the fee exists, at least from what I have gleaned historically, to provide some mild barrier to people who would otherwise spam the App Store with crap. By building a modest amount of hoops, it keeps the laziest spammers out. (Also something about "paying to keep the lights on", as if AAPL needs money these days)

In practice, well, just search this site for threads about it. I'm not sure, like you indicate, it's worthwhile for the browser ecosystem.