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sgjohnson··on Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit
What does this have to do with Rosetta?
sgjohnson··on How An Apple Gadget Is Helping Drug Traffickers
What a headline.
sgjohnson··on Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs
Yup
sgjohnson··on Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs
You can use https://bgp.tools for that (e.g. https://bgp.tools/as/200676#prefixes)
sgjohnson··on Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
No, you don’t. You do need it only if you want to pull 2.5gigs on one device.
sgjohnson··on Panama Canal is so congested that one ship owner paid $4M to skip the line
Out of curiosity, what would happen if they decided to get rid of the locks altogether and just let the water directly flow between the Atlantic and the Pacific through it?

I assume that there would be a current that would erode the surrounding environment, but how bad would it really be?

sgjohnson··on To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again
> if it is not Turkey it is Türkiye. The former is perfectly fine in English.

Not according to the Turkish government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/turkey-changes...

sgjohnson··on Apple might have to pay that €13B EU tax bill after all
> What's the cause of all the flip flopping between Apple having to pay the bill or not?

Ireland doesn’t want Apple to pay.

sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
Yeah, I know that. I was only arguing semantics. :)
sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
> Why exactly can not it be filled?

Because eventually you’ll run out of people that can be hired.

Unless you’re making an argument that there are more software developers than job openings in the US, which is patently false.

And more importantly, this case is more about people who were already employed at Apple, on a non-immigrant visa, that Apple wished to retain permanently. I see no actual wrongdoing here. A tried and tested employee is ALWAYS better than an unknown one.

sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
Technically speaking, a green card is still a visa.
sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
> It's literally a claim that there are no US citizens or LPRs who could do that job. How credible you'd think such a claim is?

Very credible, because people already employed don’t really count. It doesn’t matter at what company.

Imagine someone leaves whatever company they are at to take the role at Apple. Now the company the employee left has an opening that can’t be filled.

And that’s how it works. Otherwise there would be no need for immigration in this sector at all.

sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
> Legislators can change the rules

Let's stop pretending that immigration law can be changed in the current political climate.

It's a remote, theoretical possibility, rather than a practical one.

sgjohnson··on Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says
> or a decade if you were born in the wrong place...

That's being generous. I'm pretty sure that for people born in India the backlog is well over 100 years. The reason being that only 7500 green cards per year can be issued to people of any particular nationality. If there are 750k Indians with approved GC applications under employment category, that's a 100 year backlog. I'm sure there's a statistic somewhere, and I remember reading an article a couple of years back that claimed that this particular backlog has surpassed 90 years, so it's not unthinkable that today it's over 100.

EB2 final action date for Indian nationals is currently at 01JAN12. Which means that USCIS is currently processing applications from almost 12 years ago. Which means they have to wait a decade before their application even gets approved.

There are people that will quite literally never see an EB2 or EB3 green card in their lives despite having an approved application. The only viable path to a green card for those is marrying a US citizen, period. (as that category has no cap or quota whatsoever)

sgjohnson··on EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts
> Dismissing politicians as stupid is a simple way to feel good about yourself, but does nothing to solve the actual problems.

There is no actual problem. Politicians see problems where they don’t exist.

sgjohnson··on Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails
> which means you're always vulnerable to them forwarding the unencrypted message to anyone they want.

email makes this trivial.

sgjohnson··on Facebook Is Ending Support for PGP Encrypted Emails
> I suspect this was a state actor funded operation, for this has effectively, and significantly reduced the usefulness of PGP/GNUPG.

If it was, they did us all a favour, because PGP as means of encrypting emails is a steaming pile of garbage, as it requires both, client support, and the counterparty to have the same OPSEC as you (e.g. not just forwarding the email unencrypted to someone else)

Email was never meant to be encrypted, and the existing implementations (including S/MIME) suck for this exact reason. And the worst thing is that it’s simply not possible to make it work.

sgjohnson··on Ask HN: Ways to make side income as a SWE?
You mistyped “put it in SPY on 4x leverage”
sgjohnson··on Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case
> Taxation generally is not an EU competence.

With the sole exception of VAT and customs duties.

Corporation tax is a matter of internal revenue and none of EUs business at all. Well, now it apparently is.

sgjohnson··on Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case
> the other involved sovereigns

The European Union isn’t sovereign. It likes to pretend it is, but it isn’t.

> Are treaties now just lies of convenience?

They’ve just about always been just lies of convenience. Think Molotv-Ribbentrop pact. Or the START treaty. Or the Iranian nuclear deal. Or the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which is dead as of yesterday, because NATO suspended it too.

sgjohnson··on Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case
No, they haven’t and they aren’t.
sgjohnson··on Apple and Irish Government suffer major setback in €13B EU case
Montana is not a sovereign state. Ireland is.
sgjohnson··on First Apple M3 Pro Benchmarks Show Surprisingly Low Multi-Core Gains over M2 Pro
> Perhaps many professional users would be better off using pro and not max?

That would be entirely dependent on whether they benefit from the extra performance or RAM that you can get with Max.

I don't think that there's a significant difference in thermals or battery life on identical workloads. My M2 Max gets me through a full working day with 30-50% charge still left. It's the only laptop I've ever had I can be completely confident about should I not bring a charger with me.

sgjohnson··on Maine's constitution has unprintable sections
While that is true, there's a parliamentary sovereignty doctrine, which makes it just about impossible to judicially overturn primary legislation.
sgjohnson··on First Apple M3 Pro Benchmarks Show Surprisingly Low Multi-Core Gains over M2 Pro
It was a deliberate choice to differentiate between Pro and Max

There's a 45% performance uplift between M2 Max and M3 Max in benchmarks.

You still get more performance between M2 Pro and M3 Pro. And you get significantly more if you're upgrading from M1 Pro.

sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
> 2002 above was the last concrete proposal.

2008 actually, when Palestinians were even offered East Jerusalem. I seriously doubt that they'll see such an offer ever again.

Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
> It's not like you get a pass on the tax evasion because you're also strongly suspected of committing much worse crimes, is it?

Tax evasion is what did Al Capone in. Because the bar to prove that he was involved in a lot of seriously criminal activity was quite high, but proving that he committed tax only required proving that he had undeclared income.

sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
This exactly.

People generally don't even understand what the term "free Palestine" means, even without the "From the river to the sea" part. It's not a call for an independent Palestinian state. It's a call for a Palestinian state where Israel stands.

And we all know how that would end for just about all non-Arab Israelis.

sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
> and him being a PEP.

I'm a immediate relative of a PEP. And banks treat those just like they treat PEPs.

I've banked in 4 different countries with about 10 banks total, disclosed to them the fact that I'm a PEP or an immediate relative of one, and it has never, ever caused any issue.

sgjohnson··on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts
Banks are almost never liable for fraudulent CC charges. The merchant picks up the tab just about every time.
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