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The reason for the suspicions are the counter stories about Bloomberg having "only one source" (not 17) and a story about Bloomberg's pattern of writing negative stories about Apple. So it introduces some (legit?) FUD: reporter personal beef/s, hate on the megacorp or legit stories stretching the truth.

Either way, I hope some definitive, well-sourced, highly-documented stories come out from The Intercept or similar to clear up the dis/misinformation.

Is that with or without a carbine? (a-la movie: Gran Torino)

FreeBSD vulns or Junos introduced?

What's eyebrow-raising is that it's been used as para/virtualization platform for Linux. (Ordinarily, SELinux MLS/MCS is pretty good though.)

If something like Minix 3 "NetBSD" in Rust ran on seL4, that would inspire more confidence.

I'm still on the fence as to the veracity of this story. ~ 60% true, 40% maybe not so.

Must read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

I think the future is a community overlay platform like i2p or similar where people can donate with micropayments or electricity/computing power to access/offer storage, computing, networking and other higher-level resources anonymously and privately.

I was listening to a podcast about a Scandinavian sounding rocket causing Boris Yeltsin to insert the key/codes in the nuclear briefcase and nearly pushed the button to launch a counter attack if that rocket were a surprise American attack. Apparently, it was proactive readiness and the Russians only disclosed week/s on to not alarm people unnecessarily.

San Jose has had a curfew law (unless accompanied by a parent/guardian, which most trick-or-treaters have) for many years, but I doubt it's enforced apart from downtown.

https://www.sjpd.org/bfo/community/crimeprev/psa/curfewordin...

The big thing UBI can do is help people whom want and desire to get out of suffering and miserable circumstances to higher level of productivity, lifestyle and tax generation. It's a no-brainer. Otherwise, pitchforks will be coming for the 1%. https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8

There's BS and cool on both sides of PRs.

- MYOB fail, as mentioned, sigh.

- Closing issues before they're resolved. Proper etiquette is to let the filer close it after it's fixed and working.

- People demanding features or making vague trouble reports.

- Submitting a properly-tested PR that fixes an issue without need for a fix-it issue.

- Committers open to some globally-beneficial change only to change their mind after it's already done.

- People refactoring your commit with something better.

- Rust and a lot of small languages have tiny, good communities of generally humble badasses.

- People changing whitespaces or switching to British grammar. SMH.

I look at it this way: you gotta take the shit with sugar. Not trying to contribute upstream is consuming without producing... I'm against this because it helps no one and it's uncool.

Telfon Don Drumpf generates BS faster than even John Moschitta Jr. can call it out.

I would guestimate the answer is yes. Having an animated or visual affordance to locate the cursor might be helpful to many people.

Yup. There's a wide variation within all people as to how each brain processes perception. For example, some dudes can't remember what a car looks like or are bad with directions.

Interesting. I'd like to know why I can't remember people's names but can/have identified faces reverse aligned with path of travel with a glimpse (anecdotally; the brother of a roommate).

I would also ask: why are "useless" majors so popular? Ostentatious elite uselessness?

Is there any effort to extract ORCA from Pony (which is better than Erlang's and Azul's C4)?

Then music is priced too high.

(And musicians don't get a big enough cut either.)

Shortcuts are great when survival time is bought. This can turn into a self-defeating problem when there is extreme habituation to recurrently and disproportionately sacrificing effort, cost and/or burdens on others in future for the now such that the shortcut wastes vastly more net time and money than it could've ever saved. I've seen founders shoot themselves in both feet and unable to move fast, or anywhere, because they knowingly stuck themselves with keeping 50 plates spinning while trying to swim through quicksand... especially solitary founders because they lack the check and balance of a second or third founder to keep them honest with reality and on-track.

Duplication of effort is common-place at scale because there are too many communication paths to even hope for very much collaboration, much less organize everyone/everything top-down (eg, impossible).

Technical debt is like the national debt: interest gets paid along with way, but sooner or later there will be a reckoning.

There is often too much ego-investment, NIH and sunk costs bias for people to diverge much from whichever direction they were moving, even if it's not a good direction to go.

There is no perfect; and in fact, the perfect is the enemy of the shipping; and there's a infinitely massive continuum from fragile to awesome.

IANAL, but this website mentions Chobani sued Alex Jones / InfoWars over allegedly defamatory, fictitious statements. [0] Perhaps Bloomberg can be sued for defamation by Supermicro if discovery can turn up evidence that the story was both malicious and intentional.

0. https://www.robertreeveslaw.com/blog/sued-fake-news/

Yes, hardware implants would best be done by swapping out a BMC/IPMI/DRAC/ILO chip, eg, modifying it upstream in the supply-chain. This type of implant would be much less geo/politically-damaging, if discovered, and more difficult to notice (unless the client checks integrity of all Flash EEPROMs) and more difficult to track down.

CMOS especially, which consumes energy in direct proportion to the square of the frequency because a level crossing is a virtual, instantaneous short-circuit across the chip's power rails.

As such, future chip will likely be driven to reversible / adiabatic tech because cryptocurrencies, AI and more are guzzling energy ($$$ and running more circuits) and dissipating more heat that can be sensibly handled in a given unit volume (per-socket thermal characteristics; chilled water plant capacity; forced per-cabinet cooling or submersed in mineral oil).

To check DNSSEC:

https://dnssec-name-and-shame.com

To check DANE (such as freebsd.org port 443):

https://www.huque.com/bin/danecheck

Yes, sigh. Cyberdisinhibitionism: accountability and boundaries are reduced, lack of impact seen for committing such repressive acts leads to it.

Next on front-page HN:

How sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes

Help, help, I'm being repressed!

Yes, hourly earning in the US is customarily gross earning (before taxes).

The median rule of hourly earnings to yearly earnings is 40 hours/week and 50 weeks/year, which results in every $1/hour == $2000/year in earnings.

For $15/hour, that's about $30,000. For a single person in California, without dependents and claiming themselves for one exemption, it would be 4,264.50 (14.22%) in Federal taxes and 579.35 (1.93%) in State taxes for a total of 4,843.85 (16.15%) in taxes.

Calculator: https://www.tax-brackets.org/californiataxtable

Hard-coded business logic: yuck. IIRC there's proprietary software (SDKs / integrations) specifically for specifying, running, testing and enforcing business rules efficiently so that applications just present an API or respond to events rather than having to know everything about the business, and so not having to change N apps when a business rule changes / track down weird bugs when a business rule changes because another system didn't get a change also.

Yes, they're definitely from Texas: not the usual "cowboy coders" == "coders whom take too much initiative / don't follow a plan / directions."

J2EE usually means GC pauses (hell), XML (hell again) and dependency injection (hell also). Thankfully, hells tend to pay well if someone is willing to schlep the muck around quickly and reliably.

JVM (IBM's, Oracle's) and CLR runtimes are battle-tested and much more widely deployed to run civilization than most non-enterprise developers realize.

Also, I should probably look that guy up as I'm in North Texas at the moment.

Silicon Valley Community Fund has an endowment of between Stanford's and Harvard's, around $14 billion USD. The reason is that backers can pledge funds and get tax advantages now, while deferring transfer of funds/assets until later. It's also under no obligation to help anyone, and donors can put strings attached to realize their own pet projects. IOW, the whole thing is a tax-dodge.