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But even the unreasonable must first see the world as it is, so that he can adapt it to himself.

I'm not advocating that we accept the status quo, but I do take issue with not seeing the status quo for what it is.

> This is a horrifying view of the world even on its face

The alternative is easily classified as naiveté.

I think it just means he was really bad at it.

Far as their public stuff goes, I'd tend to agree with you. If the OpenBSD folks published a course like this, though...

To me it falls in a similar category as how highly intelligent people are less likely to be overweight. I think that with intelligence comes a better sense of how to control oneself. Ever seen the stats on how often lottery winners end up going broke? Not that many people have the capacity and knowledge to control their emotions with their reason. Being wealthy is not a question of making money, it's a question of keeping it.

I'd predict they have a plan to replace it with some GitHub-specific metadata. That would enhance lock-in and follow the usual Microsoft strategy.

Yeah. If there's an evolutionary aspect to the increase, we should expect to see c-sections as a generational phenomena, and correlated with cranium size. I wonder if that study has been done.

I'm guessing there'll be a big uptick in adoption once zig passes 1.0. At least for me, I'm just waiting until the syntax stabilizes, so I don't have to change my code later on or relearn how to do things.

> Imagine trying to break into the smartphone market. Turns out, having less money than Apple makes it a little difficult. Availability? Limited. Supply? Constrained. Even with a design so compelling that people pay ridiculous markups at StockX, nobody can get their hands on your fancy new flashlight. To top it all off, the assholes at dbrand have parroted your design and are making it for the competition. Sorry, Carl.

Their marketing copy sounds like a Seinfeld skit.

> The dude was a modern lunatic homeless man venerated into legend status for thousands of years.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” It's funny, but if you visit some of the vagabond subreddits you can read some very Diogenes-esque philosophies. I don't think they're all crazy - there's a subset who chose that life, and I think some of them have chosen well. Diogenes wasn't mad; he could just hear the music we can't.

I think that's why sleep has been called the 'little death' since ancient times. In a sense, you die every time you sleep, and wake up a slightly different person.

Edit: ya'll have dirty minds. Homer refers to 'sleep as the brother of death' in the Illiad. Apparently Buddha said something similar too, though I can't find a source.

Edit2: just going to leave you with this: "each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." – Arthur Schopenhauer

I imagine there's a psychological barrier to upgrading a plan. Make the customer break that barrier on their own, due to the necessities of their current usage, and they'll have less compunction to upgrade later on. Psychological barrier already broken.

Whether the decreased initial revenue is outweighed by the increased number of upgrades later on is a different question. Personally, I'm skeptical the strategy pays off.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

The articles I linked used the two words interchangably. Clearly that distinction isn't relevant to the layperson audience. You're just playing with words.

If these were internal memos among domain experts, then understanding the nuances between "100% effective" and "immune" would be expected. But when the vaccine is being sold to the general population as "100% effective" I think we're just talking about wordplay.

Those articles made some pretty strong claims, and I'm not really sure what else a layperson is expected to take away from this besides "100% I won't get covid".

> Covid-19 vaccine is 100% effective

> Researchers observed 18 Covid-19 cases among the 1,129 participants who were given a placebo, and none among the 1,131 volunteers who got the vaccine.

> Pfizer COVID Vaccine Is 100% Effective in Adolescents

> A two-dose series was 100% effective against COVID-19, which was measured between 7 days and 4 months after the second dose.

Ok, let me quote exactly what I just said:

"We're talking about if they were ever claimed to be 100% effective....if you overpromise at the beginning, you lose your credibility, and then you get cheap shots."

>>> It was never sold as "you'll be immune".

> THE NEWS HASNT BEEN TELLING EVERYONE FOR THE PAST YEAR THAT VACCINES COMPLETELY PREVENT THE DISEASE

We're not talking about the past year. We're talking about if they were ever claimed to be 100% effective. Don't move the goalposts. Also, dude, chill out. And anyway, who said they're still claiming 100% efficacy? The anti-vaccine crowd has been mocking the media and Fauci for continuously decreasing the % efficacy claims. (Not that it's a legitimate criticism, since with a leaky vaccine it's to be expected: but if you overpromise at the beginning, you lose your credibility, and then you get cheap shots.)

> We soon discovered they didn’t last and the virus mutated.

There were plenty of people who saw that coming, but they were dismissed as 'anti-vaccine' and 'anti-science'. Why are you surprised by basic virology?

> We skipped the long-term studies.

Yep. Sure did. Wonder what else we're going to find.

Yes, it was. But they'd be very happy for you to forget that.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/31/health/pfizer-vaccine-adolesc...

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021112...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/25/covid-vaccine-moderna-says-s...

Thanks!

Yeah, that's why I figure it's the bit of loose solder that's the ultimate cause. My solution was to remove the whole mechanism and the solder with it.

Looks like there's one here: https://github.com/hfiref0x/VBoxHardenedLoader/blob/master/B...

Alternately, it seems that QEMU on linux does a pretty good job as well.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Good point. I guess that would be relatively easy to check for programmatically.

What else is there that could possibly indicate virtualization? Available instruction sets? Strange limitations of the given CPU? (e.g., the cpu presents itself as some Intel chip that's known to have 4 cores, but there's only 2 available)

I imagine a script could be used with qemu - given that patch you mentioned, which I would love a source for if you have it - to match the names of the virtual devices with names of devices on the physical host. Then there's no way for software to check the device names against a list of VM tools, since it always matches real, physical hardware.

At that point, it seems to me that there isn't much left to distinguish the virtual machine from the physical. Behavioral properties of the CPU? Anyway, that's what I meant when I said it seems like after a certain point, it becomes impossible to tell the difference.

EDIT: based on the link above, it looks like current state-of-the-art doesn't go far beyond making sure names and common virtualbox performance shortcuts aren't present. https://github.com/hfiref0x/VBoxHardenedLoader/blob/master/B...

I have a nexus 5 that bootlooped, and fixed it.

Disassembled the phone, and took off the power button from the main board. Turned out the soldering job inside the power button was badly done, and the looping was due to a piece of solder that had come loose and was shorting the connection.

So now I have a totally functional nexus 5, but to use the power button I have to stick a piece of tin foil down inside where the power button used to be. I have a mod on there that added a 4th home row button which covers all but the 'on' functions of that button.

That's interesting - I would have guessed that after a certain point, a VM and a physical computer are indistinguishable from the POV of software running inside.

I wonder how feasible it is to remove such fingerprints - find a way to make the VM be functionally indistinguishable from the host.

It seems like the free-market solution is the cheap brother laser printers that keep being mentioned.

True. My memory confused population census tallies with voting rights. Still, measured worth of a person is fairly proportional to weight of their vote. Limit either, and you limit both.