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by hapless 5y ago
Well, there's not really any slope here. Apple plans to have a target database of BAD FILES!!1! that will get your name handed to the government. It's not subtle. No expansion to the program is necessary to violate your privacy
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by hapless 5y ago
No. That's the whole point of this endeavor. It's a privacy-preserving framework to allow the government to monitor the contents of iCloud directly, with few, if any, Apple employees ever having to get their hands dirty. Apple ju
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by hapless 5y ago
There is no solution to searching private data that I am going to find acceptable. * If the "target" database is secret, then government entities are free to use a "CSAM" database to monitor dissidents by adding their ow
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by hapless 6y ago
The model 16 was so much bigger and more powerful than the original TRS-80 that it included an entire original TRS-80, whose only job was to operate the keyboard and serial port. Seriously 100x as much CPU power
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by hapless 6y ago
"I am a heroin user. I suffer from delusions."
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by hapless 6y ago
It's worth noting that Frederick's employees quit -- her statements on twitter angered her staff so much they no longer wished to associate with her. That's not cancel culture. That's common sense. Don't make you
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by hapless 6y ago
It's worth noting that Querix was founded back in 1994 -- when Informix and proprietary databases were more popular than today.
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by hapless 6y ago
The original EFI spec very much did extend that abstraction. You can do a lot in an EFI environment if the hardware plays ball: network, disk, video etc UEFI, sadly, added support for raw x86 option ROMs, to some extent casting us back int
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by hapless 6y ago
The author makes a good case against open source businesses, but he indulges himself in a false dichotomy between a traditional proprietary model and open source. Increasingly often, there is no market for your proprietary software. It i
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by hapless 6y ago
It wasn’t a joke. It was quite literal. Stay safe, fellow employees, there are literal goose stepping Nazis in the streets.
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by hapless 6y ago
A lonely college student wrote thousands of lines about “incels” and “low T” and “soy boys” I think this fellow just needs to get out if the house more. And spend less time on reddit.
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by hapless 6y ago
This guy's story doesn't track, for so many reasons, but I'm gonna stick to the basics 1.) median wage in America for ALL workers is around $28k a year -- meaning this guy was, supposedly on his "minimum wage" job,
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by hapless 6y ago
It's worth noting that the Bay area, the entire metropolitan area, is about the size of Detroit. It's about a quarter the size of Los Angeles or New York. It's a very, uh, Bay-centric view of the world that would lump those
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by hapless 6y ago
Well, "the rest" is a long tail of areas with between 100,000 and 500,000 people. Very few Americans live or work outside an urban area, and a very large fraction live in the largest urban areas. Ignoring the facts of urban pov
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by hapless 6y ago
It may surprise you to learn that moving is expensive and difficult
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by hapless 6y ago
I think it's very plain that holding a minimum wage job implies a tenuous ability to house and feed oneself in much of the country. It is not a complex thesis. I'm glad you were able to get by on the cheap in an unspecified midwe
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by hapless 6y ago
Forty five million people live in the NYC and LA metro areas alone. NYC is about 3% of the national population. Los Angeles is another 2.5%. The average American lives in a fairly considerable city, depending on your definition of "l
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by hapless 6y ago
Yes, but, this particular guy was working in the suburbs of an expensive coastal city, while living in an exurb. That's obviously not universal. But it is certainly the story of THIS guy, as well as many tens of millions of other Amer
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by hapless 6y ago
We are discussing a memoir of a man's life working in the Bay area and living just outside the same. This memoir was not about Topeka, Kansas. Not that struggling to make rent doesn't happen in Topeka. Not that Topeka isn't
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by hapless 6y ago
Almost half of American children spend at least one year in poverty Not to mention, I don't know where you folks develop your anecdotes -- you really do meet a lot of totally ordinary, high-functioning adults in soup kitchen and commun
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by hapless 6y ago
The most painfully 1990s thing in this whole essay is a man surviving on minimum wage, however modestly If you were to re-tell this story in 2020 it ends with the fellow living in the homeless encampment but still trying to stay clean and t
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by hapless 6y ago
The X-1 could break the sound barrier in level flight. That is to say, it could move across geography, in a measurable way, faster than the speed of sound. Creating a sonic boom in a deep and dangerous dive is an interesting quirk in a fig
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by hapless 6y ago
Bullshit. This is a super cool, and very personal, story about a massive advance in VLSI avionics. Compare it to the System 4pi, or the value-based avionics of the Soviets. There were lots of other approaches, and this one was more sophist
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by hapless 6y ago
SCO's peak was in the late 1980s, when 286 and 386 systems cost a lot less than a more "serious" UNIX box
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by hapless 6y ago
SVR4 was released in 1990, before win32 or NT even existed. By the time Interix came along, the whole world was ELF — there was even an Intel standard that unified all x86 UNIX ABIs, iBCS. AIX is the only Unix to retain COFF. It’s deeply we
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by hapless 6y ago
As I understand it, it's not really possible to "improve" Win32 I/O performance -- both the fundamental I/O APIs and the NTFS on-disk storage format make high performance infeasible. Not without either abandoning al
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by hapless 6y ago
Cygwin is a very different approach. SFU/SUA lived in kernel space -- they implemented a new set of system calls alongside win32. Binaries for SFU/SUA could not be executed on a system without SFU/SUA configured, because the
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by hapless 6y ago
I don't think it's accurate to call it a "BSD coat of paint." Practically an entire BSD kernel is run as a single "server" in Mach. In Apple's open source release, a majority of the XNU kernel code lies
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by hapless 6y ago
The original POSIX subsystem was not very useful -- a minimal set of system calls, plus a Microsoft re-branded MKS Toolkit to provide shells and utilities. Microsoft ended up buying Interix, who offered a much more pleasant UNIX-on-Windows
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by hapless 6y ago
Fabrication is where Intel is falling down. They have fresh new chip designs that would be perfectly adequate, but they are still hobbled by 14nm. They have now released three? four? iterations of x86 design on the same 14 nm process, beca

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