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Musk's Conundrum with SpaceX military contract and Starshield in Taiwan(cybernews.com)
4 points by goblin89 2y ago|9 comments
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by goblin89 3y ago
If someone is looking for a Notepad++ equivalent on macOS, I can wholeheartedly recommend CotEditor. Native, too.
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by goblin89 3y ago
17.3, and not a zero-click exploit but a jailbreak tool.
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by goblin89 3y ago
As tourists, it is likely you didn’t have to get places on schedule. In regular life it becomes a bottleneck.
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by goblin89 3y ago
I believe the vulnerable (the non-infosec-experts) are not few but majority. It’s a spectrum, and I’m definitely on it. For example, I don’t know anything about the S-mode.
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by goblin89 3y ago
(That was in 2020, as of iOS 13 IIRC. It’d be interesting how much of that works against the current iOS 17, and whether Zerodium simply had cashflow issues at the time.)
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by goblin89 3y ago
I find cities in Taiwan frustrating to navigate without personal transport, at least a bicycle. Having lived in Kaohsiung for a bit, I observed that very few people use public transport unless they go to/from intercity rail or airport.
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by goblin89 3y ago
As a rule, I would not say a botched implementation is grounds to discard an approach. If you committed a change by mistake, acknowledge that as the root cause first and foremost. That said, if certain approaches reliably lead to increase
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by goblin89 3y ago
> MDM them Many of us cannot afford the luxury of working overtime as tech support for relatives. I personally do not even think I can do a good enough job at that for myself, in fact—I would have to be a professional information securit
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by goblin89 3y ago
As a user, I cannot recommend iPhone to my older relatives if there is a way to run arbitrary code beyond Safari’s JS sandbox. Simple as that. It is a nuanced question with a computer[0], but for a phone (increasingly used for more importan
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by goblin89 3y ago
I get very little spam mail. So, when I recently started to get some random invitations to webinars related to “adding” AI features to products, I have shed any doubt on whether this is a bubble. (First because they call it “AI”—it’s ML, of
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by goblin89 3y ago
This actually vaguely rings the bell. I think it happened just a few times and because I quickly heard it I corrected the slider and did not pay attention at the time I suppose. Don’t think it ever happened in DAW though, only when playing
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by goblin89 3y ago
IIUC this crackling has always happened to me regardless of the OS, both on macOS and Windows. It should be solvable by increasing audio buffer size (& therefore latency), getting better hardware, or bouncing/freezing tracks to aud
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by goblin89 3y ago
I have been producing music on macOS for 8+ years on multiple laptops (from x86 to ARM), different external DACs, wired and wireless headphones, etc. I am very sensitive to L/R balance and sometimes have to adjust the panning ever so s
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by goblin89 3y ago
That means I was wrong in my original understanding!
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by goblin89 3y ago
> A crucial difference is that there is no standardized form Depends on who you ask. What’s the region in question? What counts as a standard? Is Nynorsk codified by ISO? Et cetera. > People write Cantonese in private of course It‘s u
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by goblin89 3y ago
If they were solely written languages then you wouldn’t be able to, for example, read the text aloud, right? I don’t have any first-hand knowledge, but according to Wikipedia on Bokmål it looks like it can be spoken as well (Wikipedia uses
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by goblin89 3y ago
I know nothing about it except what is in the article, and the article characterizes Nynorsk as “cultural elite language”—it looks like the article is not accurate? That aside, “cultural elite” or “status” are always relative, of course…
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by goblin89 3y ago
Nynorsk is, according to TFA, predominantly used in speech and less used in writing, while Bokmål is the opposite. (Minus region specifics.) Is that not correct? My impression, only based on this article, is that Nynorsk and Bokmål are both
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by goblin89 3y ago
The status of Norwegian Nynorsk is reminiscent of Yue/Cantonese. In areas where it is native, it’s used in writing more rarely (and very rarely in official writing) compared to Mandarin (a distinct, not mutually intelligible language
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by goblin89 3y ago
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek… but let’s say you are the weird prepper who (considering the generally poor population) finds money to spare on an actually functioning Geiger counter; what do you think you can really do if it starts b
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by goblin89 3y ago
There is no need to worry of nuclear disasters in China, as you will most certainly not hear about it when they happen (even if you live in China). You can’t worry about what you don’t know, and after all everyone eventually dies of cancer
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Everything You Need to Know About China's Child Pneumonia Outbreak(bloomberg.com)
3 points by goblin89 3y ago|0 comments
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by goblin89 3y ago
It’s well-known[0] that discussing China-related politics is off limits for Apple-affiliated content producers. Along with removing relevant apps and blocking relevant Airdrop features coincidentally right during Hong Kong protests, with
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by goblin89 3y ago
Economy is not that different from psychology, physics, or indeed any natural science. All try to predict how they would change depending on various factors and invent explanatory models that are never perfectly correct. It’s just that some
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by goblin89 3y ago
You totally can, but we are talking about Google Translate here, how it mislabels scripts as languages and how it doesn’t support a major language (for what is likely political reasons).
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by goblin89 3y ago
We are discussing languages, not scripts. Standard being ignored by laypeople doesn’t make it any less useful in formal contexts sensitive to ambiguity.
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by goblin89 3y ago
First, not every Yue speaker speaks Mandarin. Second, the fact that they also speak Mandarin (because it was a mandatory lesson at school or they were otherwise forced by circumstances to learn it) does not mean there should be no support
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by goblin89 3y ago
Your comment would be true if American and British English were linguistically classified as distinct, mutually unintelligible languages (beyond amusing accent jokes). A Mandarin speaker in Taiwan has a different accent and slightly differe
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by goblin89 3y ago
Myanmar, while spoken by fewer people than Yue, benefits from an official standard for romanization from its own government (not ISO), and Jawi is a dialect of a language spoken by fewer than a thousand people total. When saying “little dem

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