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by shawnz 5y ago
iCloud isn't end-to-end encrypted and Apple is technically capable of accessing the data stored there. As I understand, they already do server-side scanning for abusive material.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I think the point is that they are using careful engineering to gain the support of cryptographers on the technical aspects, to detract from the problems with the policy aspects.
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by shawnz 5y ago
If we are talking about ARM64 devices specifically, the prices of the new M1 products are actually very competitive.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I recently bought an M1 (my first and only Apple product so far). Anecdotally, I only bought it knowing that it can execute arbitrary code without restrictions, unlike iOS. If they decide to change that then you can be sure I won't be
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by shawnz 5y ago
I particularly like how they have this written at the bottom of this article about price-gouging: > Which Credit Card is the Best for Those Expensive Airport Beers?! Our credit card partner, C*****s, can direct you to the best cards for
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by shawnz 5y ago
I am just trying to explain why your comment is grey. To be clear, there is no speed increase from using a crossover cable instead of a straight-through cable together with auto sensing.
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by shawnz 5y ago
You are confusing two different conversations. Your IT department are the ones that used the language "obsolete", because they likely knew that the laptop (which they provided) supported auto-sensing and therefore there was no nee
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by shawnz 5y ago
VirtIO changed license from GPL to BSD so that it could be signed by Microsoft. See here: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/comm...
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by shawnz 5y ago
These semantic issues are why "layers" are a terrible way of classifying network protocols
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by shawnz 5y ago
Unless it somehow came from nothing, then there must be some pathway from what came before to what they have now (thus evolution). It might be a long pathway, which is so long that it's hard for us to see the beginning from the end, bu
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by shawnz 5y ago
It's a power tool, why does it need any silicon at all? Obviously the primary current path of battery -> trigger -> motor isn't going to be able to be routed through any integrated circuits. So I have a hard time imagining t
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by shawnz 5y ago
Who said it absolves them? I think the point is just that there is no alternative which can match them without resorting to the same abuses.
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by shawnz 5y ago
If that's the inevitable fate of all orgs then why bother creating any kind of society at all? I can agree that unions concentrate power in imperfect ways, but personally I still think they are an overall improvement on the non-union s
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by shawnz 5y ago
One upside for companies is that the unions are better able to represent the interests of the employees than, for example, the HR department would be able to, simply because of the incentives at play. This could attract more talent to the c
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by shawnz 5y ago
I'm not happy about that, but what bigcorp doesn't try to bust unions? Certainly Walmart does it too, so that really seems to just be an instance of Amazon merely matching their competitors' abuses.
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by shawnz 5y ago
In those cases the best solution would be to use a query builder library like JOOQ, I still wouldn't be willing to recommend someone in that position builds the query by concatenating strings together
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by shawnz 5y ago
If someone only has a tangential knowledge of the problem, would it be better if they just don't give their input at all and simply leave the thread empty? Non-experts contributing their opinion doesn't take away space from the ex
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by shawnz 5y ago
Imagine the question is something like "How do I concatenate these strings into an SQL query?" Would you be willing to be responsible for the fallout of answering that question any other way besides "use parameterized queries
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by shawnz 5y ago
> I'd be interested to read such research. See here for example: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/wp201... > It doesn't make sense. I tell my friends, either things
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by shawnz 5y ago
Remember the name of the site that SO replaced, "Experts Exchange". Obviously it's possible for non-experts to post authoritative-sounding answers on questions that they don't really understand, but I think that is a dif
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by shawnz 5y ago
Yes, but what about all the speculation that happened that didn't lead to bubbles and actually led to improved market efficiency? My point is that you can't just look at the most obvious examples of past bubbles with full hindsigh
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by shawnz 5y ago
> History says speculative 'investing' ends poorly Does it? If you look past the biggest scams and bubbles, I think most research shows that a moderate amount of speculation actually decreases volatility and makes market manipu
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by shawnz 5y ago
Since SO exists for the readers and not just the asker, I think that makes it even more important to highlight all the reasons not to do X if it really is unlikely to be the best solution. Maybe the asker really would be best suited with X
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by shawnz 5y ago
If you are so unfamiliar with X that you require the advice of experts to implement it, then how can you say so confidently that the reasons to do X instead of Y are justified, even though those experts disagree? If it's really true th
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by shawnz 5y ago
Yes, I could agree with you there. I'm not going to defend the stickler moderators on there (just look how they shut down the interesting comments on the top answer).
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by shawnz 5y ago
Despite the wording of the question I think it's pretty clear the real intention is to get their tests working. And even then, the top answers do in fact directly answer the question as asked.
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by shawnz 5y ago
If a subject matter expert thinks that people asking for X are falling victim to the XY problem, then I want to hear about it before I go down the mistaken road of implementing X. If there truly is a circumstance which makes X the right sol
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by shawnz 5y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but what are the chances that new advancements in protein folding research (like AlphaFold) might let us find cures for prion diseases?
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by shawnz 5y ago
But like you said yourself, they didn't catch on. Therefore I wouldn't describe those vendors as "successful". Apple was the first vendor to achieve that. It may be that the Qualcomm chips used by the majority of those d
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by shawnz 5y ago
Who says Apple will be the only vendor of successful ARM desktops? It seems like it's only a matter of time before other vendors catch up. The point is simply that Apple demonstrated the viability of ARM in those use cases.

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