anon4242

This is ignoring the fact that most people commenting here already won big time in the lottery of life: the family you were born into.

If you were born in a family in the wealthiest 10% of the world you have a lot of advantage over the person born in the least wealthy 10%. It's a lot more profound than that you got a game console for X-mas every other year.

For instance, does drowning while crossing the Mediterranean sea on a substandard boat not constitute a willingness to do whatever is necessary to improve one's station in life in your view?

I think you miss the point. I believe the point is if you don't try then luck won't help you. Or in other words you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.

> This is a really magical feeling. Being connected to people who you like, where you just feel welcome and don't have the feeling to be on your guard all the time.

This. Maybe a bit weird but often for me these connections has been with total strangers while traveling when I was younger. Sometimes it would be with another tourist and sometimes with a local. It's surprising how deep it can get quickly.

I think this is why I love the movie "Lost in Translation", I think it perfectly captures this emotion. But I think if you haven't had that kind of experience with strangers the movie is probably lost on you.

Or maybe, if they're all Spaniards, they are just saddened by their country's prominent position in this domain?

> a "machine that makes water out of air"

Isn't that just your typical air-con unit?

Not a superstar but this fits me pretty well. I was hired by a pretty well-known cool company after having apparently "aced" their interview. It was just that their interview suited me well, it was both designing big stuff and solving small problems which is what I had done previously at several companies when I always was in a team of two or three developers with technical ownership of a complete product.

Pretty soon after I started, it dawned on me that I would probably not partake in designing "the big" stuff. Partly because most of the big stuff was already done and whatever remained would probably be solved by some of the more senior devs. Any semi-large stuff would need to be fought over by the rest of the devs. What was left was drudge-work compared to all I had done before. Also most of my tech-skills (besides the programming language in question) were not needed and when I helped a colleague in another team working on something I knew pretty well, my manager reprimanded me after, telling me that our team couldn't spare the 2hrs I spent.

I was pretty unhappy and during this time was pretty far from living up to my own expectations. My manager never told me I was falling behind however so I don't know about their expectations. I quit soon after.

In my case I was moving from the experience of small companies and being "forced" to do everything, to a large company and only allowed to do very few things.

I'm not sure whether you are confused or intentionally trying to be confusing but that doesn't make sense in the context of the discussed issue.

The signing key would of course be unique per ECU/keyfob that needs to sign stuff so dumping another ECU doesn't help you crack it.

It doesn't have to be that complex. Enough HW crypto support exists in smaller and smaller MCUs. A good enough PSK programmed at the factory would probably be enough and that's the only thing that needs to be unique, everything else can be off-the-shelf vehicle-class components and open source.

Btw it's "fun fact" and it typically means there is something factual, not just guesswork.

Not a theory. This is used in vehicles today, for instance authentication for tachograph downloading. The key is of course you are not authenticating all the time, in this case it's enough to do when starting the vehicle when the CAN-bus typically is quite quiet.

> The education isn't free. It's covered by taxes so you, and everyone else, pays for it for a long time.

Hopefully it leads to higher income jobs which leads to more taxes paid by the (now) student in the future, leading to more money that can be spent on educating even more people...

Sweden is a pretty sparsely populated large country and there's quite a wide range of property prizes reflecting this. In denser areas the prizes are probably more akin to those in the Netherlands. Just took a quick look at hemnet.se and right now you could get a farm for anything between ~30,000€ to ~10,000,000€.

I wonder if this is related to the large number of more and more desperate sounding emails I've been getting from a Docker sales rep.

Are they bleeding and trying desperately to find additional revenue streams?

Actually in C++ you are allowed to strip const and modify the value as long as the original object (not necessarily object in an OO sense) isn't const [1].

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/const_cast

I'm not a JS/Vue/React programmer but I would definitely expect function One to return <div>Count: 4</div> if props.count == 2 when One is called. For function Two I would be more suspicious and would not be overly surprised if it returned <div>Count: {props.count * 2}</div> to be evaluated at a later stage.

At least we know the malware wasn't produced in Switzerland, because if it were, it would've told us.

Yeah, if you allow yourself some Perl to help you with those parts that regexes can't handle...

Though, as a Swede, I would love to have Swiss-style democracy...

I love the fact that it uses character ranges instead of NULL terminated strings so there is finally a string to float library where we can use std::string_view without going via std::string. Sure, there is supposedly std::from_chars _but_ it only has support for floats on the very newest versions of GCC (and Clang and VC++).

Here's a link in Swedish: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/70eXyK/forsvarsmaktens-...

Under the first bullet in the screendump in the article it says:

* Experience from personnel management positions and documented good leadership qualities (Here Henric lacks the clear experience why I think it should be moved to meritorious)

> I don't know the individual story, but for me it sounds like a line was crossed.

I do recommend that you read (google her name and it should come up) it because it is very informative just how destructive these internet mobs can be.

Interestingly enough, she said her post was sarcasm to highlight racism and thought her 170 followers knew her well enough to understand that.

> [...] practical value you get from it is next to 0 compared to for example learning medicine, electronics, IT, math etc.

Source missing. Seriously though, you sound very certain of your claim so let me at least offer a counterpoint, however anecdotal.

I've had tons of practical value out of some of my language skills. I would not have the career I have today if I hadn't learned English as a second language. Admittedly my third language, German, was a bust, but I blame the way schools teach language for that (grammar, grammar, grammar). My fourth language, Thai, OTOH was a great investment not only because it made it possible for me to be self-sufficient and socialize (and make friends) while living in Thailand, it also was so different from the previous languages I knew that I could feel my mind expanding. Finally, I've also cracked my head at (Mandarin) Chinese but in that case the practical value has been much closer to 0 but it at least made it possible for me to travel around China on my own, which was well worth it at the time for me.

Or, if you're not a native English speaker who moves to another country where English is not the main language then adding that language tend to have a lot of practical value.

> One of the biggest reason I love using Sign-In With Apple is so that I don't have to give my email to any one else.

I have an infinite supply of email addresses so I can give a unique one to whoever asks and then kill it if it's abused. This way I don't have to tell Apple whenever I logon to Epic or fear that Apple will revoke my access to Epic because of a random adolescent outburst not really befitting of a company of that size.

> Pay software engineers on their payroll to help Spotify sell music on the iPod (oops; I mean iPhone)?

Well, Microsoft did that, they developed the Spotify app for Windows Phone back in the day.

> I am sincerely trying to understand _why_ would any developer _need_ to take this expense if they cannot afford it? Can't you develop a web app instead?

I guess because such a large portion of phone users use iPhone, not developing for iOS means you remove yourself from competing about not only those customers but others as well. Say you develop a chat app (fat chance of that now but anyways), a large portion of Android users will say "It's nice and all but because some of my friends have iPhones I want to be able to chat with them as well."

So quite simply, you need to be where the customers are and customers want native apps not web apps. They don't want to open Safari or Chrome or Firefox, type in a URL and some login credentials. It's too much of a nuisance. So if you don't write a native app some one else will and then they take all your customers...

It doesn't if the breached CA is removed from your system.

Hehe, I have a son like that too, he'll be 13 this year and I'm happy to say there has been a small increase in intellectual curiosity in the last six months or so. OTOH I also have a daughter who'll soon be 10 and she has the opposite problem, she's curious about everything (for instance she self-studies Japanese because she loves robots and sushi and wants to go to Japan and just the other day she learned the location of all 50 US states, just because, and we're not even Americans) but it also means she never really dives deeply into anything. So intellectual curiosity is good but it's not enough. These days I try to teach her grit, so she will stick to something even when it becomes a bit boring...

Anyway, with my son I've found that when I include him and let him help with things I do around the house, like carpentering, he's much more interested than if I try something more "artificial" for lack of a better word. It's as he wants to do "real" things, because nothing beats a computer game when it comes to not being real.

Weird indeed. This is my second reminder today that technology does not spread equally around the globe. The other was hearing my wife ask the IT-guy in her company if they had a fax number for a form from the Italian government.

After having my photo taken at the police office for at least my two latest passports it's somewhat surprising to hear about so many countries still using "the old way". There are such obvious advantages both in security and convenience by having the passport issuer take the photo and the technology is obviously available.

From the article:

> Such manipulation of photos is typically invisible to the human eye, the researchers found.

> 2. Appeal to the customers by giving away free games every week

This is actually bigger than just appeal. I now have almost as many games on Epic as on Steam. This means that I start the Epic Games Launcher almost every day to see if there's something I want to play. In fact I now run the Epic Games Launcher more frequently than Steam. This exposes me to their store and I have started buying games from them. Before Epic started their free give away, the launcher was in the same category as the other non-Steam launchers I have, like Uplay or Origin. Something I virtually never start except when to play a game that requires them (and even then I'm reluctant). This means I'm never exposed to their stores and never entertain the idea of buying a game from them through those stores - out of sight, out of mind.

> All homes are horrible investments.

I beg to differ. Were I to sell my home at current market price I would not only have lived for free for the last decade, I would've been paid to live in it.