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> the equity is locked away on the home until they sell.

Some people get reverse mortgages so they can spend some of the equity of the home while they still live in it:

https://www.canada.ca/en/financial-consumer-agency/services/...

I'd say it was a dick measuring contest against the USSR:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_sto...

Sounds like a great aggregator but the poor site is getting slammed

In this particular case, it isn't an issue of 'data loss' which could be recovered from good backups.

It's a problem of 'data leakage' where the bad guys have a copy of corporate data - supposedly 4TB of personal medical information - and threaten to release it to the public which can cause all sorts of reputational or other damage.

Backups don't help much in this situation, you need to convince the attackers to delete the data they copied from your network, usually via lots of money but even then there's no guarantee they'll actually delete it and may extort you for more money in the future with the same data.

Should one trust a criminal to keep their word?

Does anyone know if there are Brother printers\MFPs that can scan directly to email? I don't want the scan to go through some local computer software.

I have to use HP MFPs because their scan-to-email is actually decent and can do authenticated SMTP sign-ins but I hate dealing with HP and their shitty toner practices.

Tech Crunch

> Only when I stumbled upon a random Youtube video of someone replacing the batteries in theirs did I get the oomph to pull the thing apart to change the batteries.

Same for me and the rice cooker battery, a random video convinced me it wasn't going to be too bad, Youtube is a great resource and I'm so grateful to those willing to share their experience!

I screwed up the part number, the correct part number is Keystone 1025, here's the link:

https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/keystone-electroni...

It had the correct pin locations for my model of rice cooker

Here's the video that helped me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVege0o-quQ

Yes, great machines but I shake my fist at whoever decided to solder-in the damn battery

I've done two now and replaced them with Keystone1250 battery holders from Digikey, soldered on the reverse side

They hold nice big CR2450 cells now and can be easily swapped but it's a real pain to have to do this at all

I suspect that some screws, depending on location in the device, need to be stainless due to moisture exposure

Some types of stainless are non-magnetic and thus can't be picked up with a magnetic screwdriver, thus the need to hand-feed the screw

Any Blackberry that had a trackball\trackpad was great at editing text - because it had the cursor movement and text selection cleanly separated from the touch screen.

Too bad that ship has sailed. I still miss my Bold every time I try to edit text on IOS

To me, RT turning to shit is just Goodhart's Law in action - "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

Originally, RT was more or less a 'good faith' measurement of the general sentiment\quality of a film, but it is so easily manipulated it was inevitable that it would become meaningless.

One reason I've read is that people (graverobbers?) were superstitious and afraid of statues, and breaking the nose off meant it couldn't 'breathe' and thus had no more life force:

https://suzannelovellinc.com/blog/where-did-egyptian-statues...

Is healthcare a Giffen good? Because that would explain a lot about the prices in the US healthcare system

edit: look like some people think so:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4103336-healthcare-ultimate...

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2006/01/giffens_paradox_1.h...

https://gulzar05.blogspot.com/2007/05/giffen-goods.html?m=1

I can't ever see the words 'electrolytic capacitor' without getting flashbacks to the capacitor plague in the early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

I still look at any electrolytics on a board with a bit of suspicion, must be mild PTSD

Good point! The longest-lived artifacts would probably have to be somewhere with much less weather and geological activity than the surface of the earth. Maybe if you put a structure in orbit or perhaps on the moon?

Paradoxically, extending on your thought - I guess anywhere with living conditions similar to earth (oxygen atmosphere, water, weather, etc) would not be conducive to long term archival of civilization artifacts.

So you'd have to look at 'dead' places if you want to find evidence of civilization. Or stumble across an derelict megastructure (dyson sphere\niven ring\etc)

The takeaway:

"That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of contemporary civilizations might be as few as a thousand."

A thousand civs spread across a galaxy means there is a low probability of meeting live aliens, but does that mean xenoarchaeology could be a thing?

My wife uses google maps in her car and lately the routing is strange - like making 3 right turns when there is a protected advance green for left turns. Apple maps just showed turn left.

Sure, I know that sometimes 3 rights is better than one left but it didn't happen just once, it was multiple times.

Apple Maps has come a long way since its initial (disastrous) launch (so bad it was a gag on 'Silicon Valley')

Sure sounds like it's adding a lot of friction to the purchase phase

I mean, silicon aside, isn't it all basically CUDA lock-in?

CUDA is the defacto parallel computing platform, and exciting tech moves VERY fast with early mover advantage - so no researcher\computer scientist is going to bother learning another platform or risk\waste time\effort on their stuff breaking when ported to OpenCL\AMD.

Unless a miracle happens, any new parallel-computing requirement that seizes the popular imagination in the next decade (or more) will done in CUDA.

> But I realized when I wanted to buy something I didn't even know what brands were in the space.

I this is one of the reasons why Reddit became so popular

An ipad to be used with an external keyboard is a very suboptimal typing experience - there is usually no strong hinge to hold up the screen at arbitrary angles.

In my experience this also means you can't 'pick up' the system by the keyboard to move it around (which I do with my laptop all the time) so it feels super-awkward.

For drawing with the pencil, sure it's a great experience but if you need to output a ton of text it's not even close

> I can purchase an iPhone and a developer account and find the same exploits I could if sideloading was enabled. The "obscurity" doesn't exist to begin with.

Obscurity DID exist - you said yourself that you have to get a developer account. That's a barrier to entry, which is defense in depth. Dev accounts are a tiny proportion of iOS users.

Also, if alternate app stores were permitted, any exploits discovered via sideload could be deployed at scale. By not having alternate app stores the risk is reduced.

As well, assuming no alternate app stores exist and you managed to deploy your 0-day in an app on the original App store, Apple could discover it and have the means to remove the app quickly to mitigate damage. If alternate app stores existed, it adds additional red tape to get the exploit app removed and potentially allowing more damage to occur.

Defense in depth matters.

> Security by obscurity has been debunked for decades. This is not an acceptable argument for anyone who actually cares about security.

Information about nuclear weapons are kept obscure and I'm pretty sure the US government cares about security.

Defense in depth is a thing.

Allowing sideloading increases the potential for exploits in IOS to be found, that could then exploit other IOS users.

If I had a well designed bank vault I still wouldn't want would-be burglars unrestricted access to probe the lock design which could then be used to exploit other vaults of the same design. In this model, I would put a cage or bars or say, a walled garden around the lock mechanism to prevent unwanted hacking or characterization.

Is reddit being down causing hackernews to get hammered?

It's as slow as the Apple news day

Not sure if this is what you were curious about, but heat-shock proteins are extensively studied in other organisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_protein

I remember ago Lars Blackmore of SpaceX released a paper on soft landing Falcon 9, that's the first time I'd encountered convex optimization

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lossless-Convexificati...

It blew my mind that you could convexify non-convex curves into useful-for-optimization convex curves to optimize for so many things simultaneously (physics constraints, control thruster limitations, sensor constraints, g forces, etc) and it's cool that part of the spectacular landings we get from SpaceX relies on it

I didn't know what WSL was, but now I do, thanks for the tip!

Are you offloading layers to the RTX2060?