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They only call it interference if it supports the wrong people. Russia taking out ads on Facebook: election interference. Various state sponsored media outlets and foreign politicians and officials disparaging Trump: free speech.

>Have you ever lived close to the poverty line and/or earned below minimum wage?

Yes. I grew up in poverty in an area far from any big cities in the '70s and '80s. We only had eggs and meat because we raised chickens and rabbits. Half my calories during the summer months came from the garden.

>No one says this, but at least that you wrote this makes it clear that you don't want to engage in a discussion in good faith.

I paraphrased. What was actually said was "I hate living in a country where everyone is greedy and don't want to support the poor and homeless."

> you don't want to engage in a discussion in good faith.

Your comment ended in a way that demonstrated no interest in a good faith discussion. Preemptively telling the people who disagree with you that they have no empathy is a sure-fire way to guarantee that tone of response.

E: Both your comments so far in this subthread are predicated on invalidating the opinions of other because you assert they don't have the right life experiences to know how it is.

The use of "frustrated" language demonstrates no self reflection and recognition of the fact that why someone earns a low wage is because they have chosen not to improve themselves and they have a large amount of envy about other people's lives. The takers love to ignore the past and only look at this instant moment and complain about how unfair it is.

Ironically, the people who say "you're selfish and greedy if you don't give me the money you earned" and "you have no empathy" have no empathy or consideration for the people they want to take from.

Yet book prices will be adjusted so, on net, Amazon does not lose money.

How do you tell the difference between a datacenter and a supercomputer cluster? According to wikipedia, the government data center in Utah is pulling 65 MW.

> advocate for activating bio lockout at the border

This is a terrible idea. When you're crossing a border you have to submit to the rules of entry. If one of those rules is that you let them create an image of your phone with all of its contents, that's the rule. If you say no, then, if you're lucky, you get to turn around and return to where you came from. If you're not lucky, then you get to go to jail.

What needs doing is the ability to make a backup then a way to reconcile the backup at a later date with the contents of a device. That is, I should be able to backup my phone to my home computer (or cloud I guess) and then wipe my phone or selectively delete contents. Then I travel abroad, take photos and movies, exchange messages with people, and so on. Then when I get home I should be able to restore the contents of my phone that were deleted without having to wipe all the new stuff from the trip.

My screen realestate changes several times a day. My work daily driver is a laptop that has a built in screen of a particular resolution. In the office it plugs into a dock with one monitor that has a different resolution than the built-in display. When I take it home and plug it into a dock it has two external monitors of different resolutions.

Icons need arrangements in each combination of monitors, resolutions, and scaling. So that when I'm sitting at my desk in the office I have a consistent experience of icon location. When I'm at home and have different screen layout, I can have a different icon layout suited to that screen layout and everytime I plug the dock in at home I should get the same arrangement that I had yesterday. If there's a new icon that has never been placed in a particular desk setup, drop it anywhere.

On the spectrum from bare majority to unanimity, being in the bottom 20% of the range is not "a wide margin."

It's not a matter of what's located in France. It's a matter of what documentation about your company requires you to keep. Regardless of where the computers you use are physically located if you can't produce the required documents you get to be fined, be shut down, and/or go to prison. No company gets to play the game of "we're doing business in Uzbekistan but our accounting servers are in Sealand so we don't have to file any taxes or provide any other records." Not only is the idea absurd, anyone who thinks that is congenitally stupid or stupid by choice.

Hard to see how a company can imagine it can do business in a country and not follow that country’s record keeping laws and be subject to criminal and civil statutes in that country.

> If you were designing the flight software for the Ariane 5, which choice would you make?

I would take note of the underlying hardware and what range of inputs are allowed and code appropriately. Stop pretending that your software doesn’t have a specific purpose and will run on an actual computer. If you’re doing finance you should be using fixed point integer arithmetic with two or three decimal places. If you’re doing physics simulations you need to be aware of how many significant digits exist. If you ignore your problem space and the kind of system your code is going to run on you’re living in spherical cow world and it doesn’t matter if you over- or under-flow because your software is garbage anyway.

"Infinite monkeys" would produce Shakespeare and every other book, document, and all future possible book and document in the amount of time equal to the number of letters in the book and the typing rate of a monkey. It wouldn't take an infinite amount of time. :)

Prior to recent years, the singular they was more often used as the generic pronoun. I'm old. No offense was intended.

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

I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data.

You do it at the file system layer. Clone the template which creates only metadata referencing the original blocks then you perform copy-on-write as needed.

Government institutions are not meant to be autonomous. Outside of a narrow set of explicitly political positions, everyone who is in government should be apolitical in the carrying out of their duties.

Reasonably certain that when the parent wrote "We'll comply" they very explicitly said Apple is complying. Which removes the majority of your bullet points.

Yes, why would they go above and beyond to create unrecaptured expenses for themselves?

I mean, you as a human only ever pay the minimal price for a product that they will sell it to you for. Why would any other human do otherwise?

I mean in terms of his quest for GPU + ARM. He's been futzing around with Pis and external GPUs and the entire time you've been able to buy a variety of SBCs from nVidia with first class software support.

> If NVidia wanted their GPUs to work on Raspberry Pi, then it would already be done. It wouldn’t be an issue. But NVidia doesn’t care, because that’s not a real market for their GPUs.

It's weird af that Geerling ignores nVidia. They have a line of ARM based SBCs with GPUs from Maxwell to Ampere. They have full software support for OpenGL, CUDA, and etc. For the price of an RPi 5 + discreet GPU, you can get a Jetson Orin Nano (8 GB RAM, 6 A78 ARM cores, 1024 Ampere cores.) All in a much better form factor than a Pi + PCIe hat and graphics card.

I get the fun of doing projects, but if what you're interested in is a working ARM based system with some level of GPU, it can be had right now without being "in the shop" twice a week with a science fair project.

> loop: move.b (a0)+,d0 move.b d0,(a1)+

...

> loop: mov al,[rsi] mov [rdi],al

This hurts my brain. When we invent time machines I'm going to use it to go back and slap whoever at intel came up with that operand order.

You're failing to see the secret that is exposed by the fact that their Chief Engineer comes from hyperloop. They're going to dig tunnels connecting all their destinations and run the airships underground in a vacuum sealed network. No atmospheric drag at all! Bingo!

This seems like those bums who run out and smear up your windshield at stop lights who then want to be paid.

If you want to get paid for software development, start a business and sell to customers, or get a job. The number of "developer in residence" positions is approximately zero. If you want to get paid for scratching whatever itch you have, good luck.

If that one million people dying is followed by 3649 days of no one dying from that cause, yes it is.

Yeah. There are plenty there that would convert a yes to a no. Many of them give the impression of lawyering and make me think the person knows they will routinely act on the margins of acceptable.

    $ uname -a
    SunOS bob 5.11 11.4.68.164.2 sun4v sparc sun4v kernel-zone
    $ pwd
    /usr/bin
    $ file * | grep 32-bit | wc
    46 1008 8890
    $ file * | grep 64-bit | wc
    1036 21449 185122

I think Solaris is famous for doing away with static linking.

E: A Solaris 10 amd64 box is all 32-bit in /usr/bin.

If you have physical access to a device that you can solder an antenna you can compromise a TPM or anything else by sticking a custom DIMM in there that you can program from the “back side” so you can replace any part of memory with anything you want anytime you want. You don’t have to randomly flip a bit and hope for the best. You just inject your entire program.

Sun used common stuff quite early on, well before "the bitter end". They adopted PCI in 1997. Their workstations they moved from SCSI to ATA around the same time, though the servers are still with the SCSI family today. Regardless, mostly you couldn't plug in generic hardware anyway because there are no Solaris drivers for most of it. Honestly, it was never a big deal.

Not Copenhagen, but if you are in the Seattle area you should think twice before gardening or eating fruit from free growing plants if you are south of Elliot Bay on the Puget Sound.

https://apps.ecology.wa.gov/dirtalert/?lat=47.273840&lon=-12...

>Sadly, every culture has had a slave or slave-like underclass. Even the US has one - anyone with 50K in student loan debt, working a minimum wage job, with the debt growing faster than the payments, can tell you it feels awfully close to slavery. Some would probably even prefer being beaten once in a while, than to have no hope of ever getting free of the debt after a decade of trying.

This is not slavery nor is it slave-like. You diminish the evils of owning people when you jump on your anti-pay-back-the-money-you-borrowed hobby horse and claim it's slave-like.

Stop reading here.

$50,000 is an outlier for student borrowers. The mean debt for a graduate in 2023 is around $30,000. For someone a decade ago it was 20% less according to a brief search. A person a decade into their career who has $50,000 in debt and is working a minimum wage job needs to take a hard look at their choices. The majority of borrowers have less than $20,000 in loans to pay back.