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by kragen 1y ago
Why would your credit card need to act against your interests? The only thing it should be doing is signing transactions to signal that you approve. The credit card company has their own computers that can be consulted to ask them if
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by kragen 1y ago
Yup. Which is why the real Richard M. Stallman has often used MIPS laptops.
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by kragen 1y ago
A lot of truly rich people live in houses that haven't been on the market for generations, or centuries, or ever. The particular hectomillionaire's vacation home I spent a few months in wasn't one of those (he's self-ma
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by kragen 1y ago
The established convention is to use the given name "Leonardo", just as with Raphael, Michelangelo, and little Donato ("Donatello"). Dan Brown is also not an authority on the descriptive linguistics of 16th-century Ital
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by kragen 1y ago
Interesting! How do you get started?
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by kragen 1y ago
I'm guessing that most rich people do not want the inside of their mansions to appear on a YouTube channel, especially one about mansions. Most of these mansions do not cost even US$100M and so probably do not belong to truly rich peo
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by kragen 1y ago
This reads like fiction rather than informed ethnography. I think I've only been in one hectomillionaire's kitchen, though it can be hard to tell, and the only resemblance to your description is that he had a large household staff
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by kragen 1y ago
Yes, just as if one limited the ability to "sideload", one would be restricting installing.
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by kragen 1y ago
I assume that's correct, for your very narrow definition of malware and a nonzero definition of zero, and it's a good point that trustworthiness is context-dependent. As Alan Karp used to say, "I trust my relatives with my k
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by kragen 1y ago
That's very exciting! Thank you!
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by kragen 1y ago
There's quite a spectrum of richness. I think my fridge cost US$100 used. This new 199-liter model costs US$280 new: https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/heladera-philco-top-mount-ci... So US$3500 is 12 times the cost of
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by kragen 1y ago
(For those who didn't make the connection, pizlonator also wrote Fil-C.)
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by kragen 1y ago
Try sudo apt install vrms
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by kragen 1y ago
The principle is that the owner should have full control of their own device, because that's what defines private property. In particular, everything that the maker can make the device do must be something that the owner can make the
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by kragen 1y ago
No, these are US$3500 fridges.
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by kragen 1y ago
If you're buying chips (other than Flash) made with cutting-edge semiconductor processes, your options are only Samsung and TSMC. How long will it take Samsung's foundries to start adding malicious hardware implants to their cust
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by kragen 1y ago
Yes, you absolutely should have the right to install (or uninstall) whatever software you want on any of those, assuming it contains writable program memory. The alternative is a nightmarish dystopian future where your washing machine comp
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by kragen 1y ago
Neither of those is a name for the kind of installing that Google is trying to prevent.
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by kragen 1y ago
Ultimately the only escape hatch is to build hardware that isn't dependent on Google, then stop being dependent on Android, which is what Huawei has done. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721022 goes into more d
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by kragen 1y ago
Maybe so; I haven't tried. Probably a lot less code depends on unsigned long wrapping at 2⁶⁴ than used to depend on unsigned int wrapping at 2¹⁶, and we got past that. But stability standards were lower then. Any code that runs on b
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by kragen 1y ago
I usually make my yogurt with powdered milk so that I can have less water in it. I don't add thickeners or sugar.
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by kragen 1y ago
No, I was only talking about the pre-existing C code that wasn't written for the bootloader, which therefore might have incompatibilities with fat pointers you had to hunt down and fix. Also I'm really skeptical about your "h
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by kragen 1y ago
Oh, somehow I missed that connection!
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by kragen 1y ago
The average user might have one or two non-free programs they depend on that aren't websites. Maybe AutoCAD, or Photoshop, or SketchUp, or Excel, or the driver for their oscilloscope, or Dark Souls. Everything else can easily be free
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by kragen 1y ago
Yes, I think that's reasonable. I imagine you wouldn't have to extend Fil-C very much to sneak some memory-mapped I/O addresses into your program, but maybe having the garbage collector pause the program in the middle of an
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by kragen 1y ago
There's a lot more porcelain to document than there was then; maybe that's a less useful approach now.
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by kragen 1y ago
Yeah, "Nutrisse" is clearly a defensible trademark, being all the way at the "fanciful/inherently distinctive" end of the distinctiveness spectrum.
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by kragen 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Chemical_reacti... says "Gasohol E10 (10% ethanol 90% gasoline by volume)" is 33.18MJ/liter, while "Petrol (Gasoline)" is 34.2MJ/liter. That&#
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by kragen 1y ago
Probably malloc(0) is not completely untested, yes. But it's unlikely to be regularly executed by applications.
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by kragen 1y ago
Because F-Droid inspects the source code of the applications they build, removes malware and other antifeatures from them, and compiles them from source to ensure that the binaries they deliver correspond to the source code they've ins

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