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Is that true on Android? On iOS location APIs just don't work in airplane mode.

Governments serve Google with over-broad search warrants frequently, but there is not information in this article stating or implying that Google responded to this or other similar warrants. Google has a whole department of attorneys dedicated to evaluating search warrants. They claim they won't comply with vague and overbroad warrants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKKHxcJfh0&feature=youtu.be...

Ghostbusters was subtle Reaganomics propaganda. In the film the government is the enemy and the heros are libertarians, self-described operators of unlicensed particle accelerators.

Ever read "The Shock Doctrine"? It lays out how the rich cause and exploit catastrophe to consolidate and strengthen their holdings.

https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitali...

That makes sense since the implementation of things in GObject is basically the same as the internal architecture of Python. Since it's all just named properties and function pointers there's no chance that the compiler will rearrange it and break introspection. On the other hand there's also no chance that the compiler can optimize a GObject program, so you've traded good performance for an easier-to-use FFI for Python which might not be the trade I would have made. They've also traded away core developer productivity in order to make foreign language developers more productive, again a tradeoff I might not have made.

GTK and GIMP both suffer from the original decision by people who don't understand C++ to reinvent it in bare C except very poorly. It's what you get if you heard a rumor that vtables are bad somehow but don't realize that an array of function pointers is worse in every way.

Color template errors are the greatest leap in the history of computer science. No longer do I need to scan megabytes of output to find the unexpected |unsigned| in the fifth level of a template expansion.

https://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html

If you have thousands of errors it is likely you simply misplaced a comma or semicolon. If you have just one error you are in deep trouble.

Really curious why you'd want to study these unless you already had strong fundamentals in application architecture and are not afraid to expose yourself to antipatterns. GIMP/GTK in particular are a cornucopia of terrible ideas stemming from ignorance and prejudice.

How does the Tesla do with localization? On the Honda system my wife and I can get out and switch seats and the car will move the seats and mirrors to our respective positions. It also can determine if the key is or is not inside the car so that you din't lock yourself out, which I find to be a neat trick. I guess there's no reason you can't do that with Bluetooth, but I've never seen it in person.

The Analog Dialog is a treasury of good advice going back decades. Really worth your time if you have any interest at all in electronics.

Honestly curious why anyone would prefer a bluetooth system over an RF fob, especially an RF fob with physical key backup like Honda provides. Having to have a working and charged iPhone every time you want to open or close your car seems like a fundamentally terrible idea.

California irrigation faces its own problems: https://psmag.com/environment/cleaning-up-californias-three-...

There's a 1300-acre photovoltaic plant in San Benito County that sits on a 5000-acre wildlife preserve. It's a bit of a natural experiment in that area.

I think this is what the other poster was getting at: for some reason Tesla boosters think other people are copying the design of their keyless entry system, but even a base-model Honda Civic comes with keyless, touchless entry with walk-away automatic locking. This has not been a premium feature, or even a novelty, for years.

Modern wind has basically no impact on birds. It is several orders of magnitude less bird-hungry than are American domesticated cats.

The farming that would die is the very heavily subsidized business of essentially exporting California water. It's not like Californians will starve if we lose our cotton industry or if we don't have alfalfa to export to foreign dairies.

My mistake. I didn't realize anyone was stupid enough to put an antivirus on an Android. Please amend my complaint to say that the sample is biased toward morons.

Putting HTTP/3 on a userspace QUIC stack solves a number of these problems.

It's even more biased than this because it's desktop-only, Windows-only population. Mobile is HUGE.

Google many years ago made an explicit decision that their mission is to inform people, not just drive them away to terrible 3rd party sites.

The subway rail problem for SF doesn't seem to me to have a root cause of American governments lack expertise (which they do, to be certain) but rather simply that Americans are dishonest. Tutor-Perini thought they could chisel off a couple dollars by using inadequate rails because they didn't think SFMTA's supervising engineers would notice. They were right: it was a third-party audit that discovered the problem.

As a country we basically venerate fraud. This has consequences which could easily have been predicted.

I believe it does, yes. "All Causes". The problem with excluding it is there's not enough underlying data to get WISQARS to cough up a county-level breakdown. Explore it yourself by starting at https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/

You don't seem very familiar with our system of production, distribution, and consumption of food. The government is _very_ involved in all aspects of this. They intervene on the supply side to guarantee prices for commodities. They intervene on the demand side by directly subsidizing 10% of consumers. The federal government inspects all meat, fish, and poultry packed in this country. There is a USDA agent filing a market report every morning from every produce terminal in America. The government maintains a detailed database on soil conditions across the nation. The USDA alone has over 100000 employees. The government also funds a nationwide system of agricultural universities, extensions, and bureaus through the land grant program.

I think if you want to pick some aspect of American life that is free of government involvement, you started in the wrong place.

Why?

Are you sure this isn't just a bias of yours? Urban areas in the United States have a lower rate of fatal injuries due to violence than do rural areas. Perhaps this is not what you meant by "violent crime"?

I know the output of these reports is difficult to interpret but see [1]. The top decile of per-capita violent deaths are rural counties, not urban ones.

1: https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/cdcMapFramework/output/m5886273...

I'm not running antagonistic workloads in k8s though, I'm just running my own junk, each component of which also has its own laundry list of security nightmares.

Which of these issues strikes you as being a meaningful risk to a realistic deployment of Kubernetes?

The price is not even that outrageous. When specified similar to the top-of-the-line ThinkPad X1 Carbon it's only $200 more, and you're getting a better display.