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I agree. Like others here I don't know the context, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but her first paragraph seems about as sincere and direct an apology as anyone could reasonably want.

After that she talks about broader organizational stuff which isn't intended to take away from her own apology ("Separate from this personal misstep...").

It's a shame that based on the reactions in the linked thread, many seem unable to take what seems like a genuine apology at face value

There was an interesting article in Quanta a while back on this topic.

> Researchers have since determined that rogue waves probably claimed 22 supercarriers and more than 500 lives in the second half of the 20th century alone.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-r...

There are dozens of known CSME vulns -- there's a list on cvedetails [0] which itself seems to be missing some (e.g. 2019-0090/2019-0091). Plenty of these could be used by a sophisticated attacker with physical access, and some can even be executed remotely.

Here's an Intel Whitepaper detailing one such vulnerability of moderate severity (CVE-2019-0090, CVSS 4.4) [1]. From the 'Potential Consequences' table:

> Unauthorized BIOS compromises OS loader and OS integrity... All use cases / user secrets protected by Intel TPM are compromised.

Other bits and pieces of firmware including AMT have been similarly plagued with vulns [2], such as CVE-2017-5689, with a CVSS score of 10!

These are often difficult to patch, and even more difficult to convince manufacturers to spend the effort testing and distributing updates for their products. My own laptop is still running a version of CSME vulnerable to many of these attacks.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-238/...

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/security-...

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-238/...

> Democracy as implemented is stupid.

> I want to vote on policy I care about and understand, not a person I've never met who I can't necessarily trust that's meant to represent me.

Representative democracy is designed as a compromise between giving power to the people and giving (what's perceived as) too much power to the people.

In the case of a true direct democracy, many fear the ignorance and apathy of the average voter, and wonder if the majority rule would lead to tribalism and repression of minorities. That said, the few actual examples of direct democracy don't really seem to have borne these fears out.

In a way it comes down to how much (or little) confidence you have in your fellow citizen; "the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter," and all that. I veer towards misanthropy, so from that perspective direct democracy doesn't do a lot for me... seems like there's no perfect system.

> So, in your view, human rights cannot be suspended, even if there is an emergency?

This does seem a pretty common misconception. People seem to forget that even the most liberal countries still regularly and systematically infringe on people's rights, e.g. by imprisoning criminals. But you don't see many of the anti-lockdown types protesting the existence of prisons.

In both cases, it's a matter of proportionally balancing the loss of individual rights with the interests (and indeed, other conflicting rights) of the community as a whole.

Many of these criticisms can -- and indeed already have -- been extended to plenty of western democracies including the US.

Chomsky and many others have been warning that corporate and political interests are infringing on the (increasingly centralised) media and other institutions for several decades. Questions around the strength of democratic institutions are raised regularly, with the various Trump sagas being a prominent recent example. Australia has been the test-run (or the canary in the coalmine, depending on your view) for privacy-destroying legislation -- following the footsteps and wishes of the NSA, of course. Declines in public education and communication infrastructure, widespread political apathy? Join the club.

So it seems like it was caused by FF blocking HTML5 canvas fingerprinting. Enabling that allowed it all to load correctly. I guess I must've hit disallow without thinking when I first visited, and that response was saved even after clearing cache, so that example at least is probably my fault.

I do wonder if every user would be aware that the 'Allow site to extract canvas data?' popup can break site functionality though -- its not as though there's a warning to that effect in browser.

Stuff doesn't always completely break -- e.g. Google forcing new Chrome-only web standards on certain sites and making other browsers like Firefox resort to alternatives which can end up being 5x slower [0], or serving a more dated design of google search on FF mobile vs Chrome. I suspect this sort of thing might be enough to make some people switch.

And I have had a few experiences with sites not loading properly in the last few months. Try windy.com for example: on FF 90 with no extensions enabled and tracking protection on 'balanced' I get blue and yellow banding on the map, and the wind gusts graphics fail to load properly. I have reported a few of these instances in the past, but a lot of the time I'd rather just switch to chromium temporarily and continue with what I'm doing.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-exec...

> Living next to busy roadways is linked to increased dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. This has nothing to do with CO2--it's the rubber and metal and not addressed by Teslas or whatever.

I had thought that the pathological effects from highway pollution was at least partially caused by heavy metals and various unpleasant nitrates and sulfurs and the like produced by combustion engines, not only the small particulates released from tyres and roads. Obviously combustion-based pollution would be reduced if not eliminated by EVs.

See e.g. this study, which found NO2 and elemental carbon pollution to be most harmful amongst various highway pollutants: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24231417/

> They also dont do trial by jury, but inquisitorial judges who you have to prove your innocence too.

Inquisitorial systems are pretty common among civil law countries e.g. much of Europe, and not intrinsically better or worse than the adversarial system usually seen in common law countries -- indeed they are sometimes used by the latter for specific purposes like summary offences and coronial inquests.

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I think the points that have been raised in this thread are all quite valid.

Just to add another: I wonder if Tesla's driver assistance systems has been designed to minimise false-positives in comparison with those of other manufacturers. When driving a friend's Subaru on a road trip a while ago we all commented on the lane-keeping alarm being overzealous, and ended up disabling it altogether to shut it up (this is on somewhat narrow b-roads). I've read of similar complaints from automotive journalists regarding various other manufacturers. In comparison, I've barely ever experienced false positives from the model 3's lane-keeping assist, even on similar roads -- maybe once or twice ever.

Minimising false-positives is important for system efficacy, as otherwise people will simply disable it. But I do wonder if this comes at the expense of increasing the chance for false-negatives, which are far more dangerous. Is trading 100 false alarms for a single missed obstacle worth it? I'm not sure.

I remember using python and plenty of other programs on my TI CX CAS via ndless [0][1]. That thing was actually kinda powerful, it ran a port of gpSP far better than it should have. Nothing better than finishing a test early and being able to sit back and play Pokemon Emerald on your calculator. Good times.

[0] https://github.com/ndless-nspire/Ndless

[1] https://ndless-apps.org/

I'm a hobbyist, not an expert, but my impression is that many modern lens designs are heavily based on classic designs, with more corrective elements (often at least 10 total vs ~6 in many classic designs), as well as increased use of special elements (e.g. aspherical) and proprietary coatings which improve optical properties.

For example, Sony describes their modern 50mm 1.4 as a ”refined double-Gauss design incorporating two aspherical elements, including one precision AA (advanced aspherical) element, works with an ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass element to suppress field curvature and distortion". The basic double-gauss design has been around since the 19th century!

Has anyone else noticed reddit on mobile browsers being ridiculously slow? My experience is that the page loads fine, but then there's 10 seconds or so of loading animation before the page displays. Requesting desktop site makes it load immediately. I'm 95% sure they just have a timer they make you sit through in an effort to get you onto their app.

A lot of people seem to use refurbished enterprise sff machines (optiplex micro, thinkcentre m, etc) for vms and similar, if your storage needs are more modest. I've also seen some run WD externals from them via the stock usb enclosures, although I'm not sure if running raid or the like on usb devices is a good idea.

I've used this before -- it works well and integrates nicely with markdown, which makes it more convenient than using draw.io for plenty of use-cases imo

Yeah you're not alone in wondering that. I was expecting more substance to this article, not just single-sentence responses to a few straw-manned arguments.

Or honestly this can apply to much of the commercial meat industry. It usually isn't pretty.

> This idea is nothing new. In one of the star-trek episodes this was the theme, the only difference there was a real human was sacrificed for each virtual human lost!

Surface Detail by Iain M Banks also explores this idea. That novel also goes through the obvious problems -- you have to trust that the virtual outcome will actually be accepted, and that the conflict won't bleed out into the real. And at the point at which you have that trust in your opponent would you really be having a war in the first place?

It is a nice idea though, shame it's unlikely to ever become a reality.

I believe you could get a similar result using Jellyfin and rffmpeg [0]. From a quick glance it seems like it should work from ARM->x86

https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

Yeah, this feels like a good solution for when you only occasionally need to get the remote machine to do the work, e.g. the macbook example for simple dev work. In that case it probably is more convenient.

If you were relying heavily on the remote machine, maybe using a pinebook pro or something, ssh or rdp might make more sense.

It's cool to have more options though, I have considered workflows like this before especially in the context of replacing my laptop with something like a pinebook.

I also was a little confused about the term -- urbandictionary.com is a great resource for this kind of internet terminology.

Could be a good upgrade for the KFConsole -- turn the chicken warming chamber into an actual air fryer.

I really hope you're wrong and this device achieves success, but you may well be right honestly.

I suspect they'll have to charge premium prices, but that might be justifiable even considering the availability of cheap Thinkpads.

As good as $200 Thinkpads are, they are old devices, with dim, low res screens, old processors, poor battery life, relatively thick and heavy chassis, old ports, old wifi/bluetooth etc. Again, perfectly functional for many people, but I think there are legitimate reasons to want a newer device.

Maybe there's enough of a niche market there, who knows.

This is one of the reasons I actually really like the Surface Book keyboard [0]. It has home/end/pageup/pagedown as primary keys in the fn row, where they all fall to hand just by moving your right hand up from the home row.

Key size and placement is generally pretty perfect for the size imo (backspace, shift, enter, etc aren't cramped), and key travel and feel is up there with the best.

The up/down arrow keys and lack of brightness control in the fn row are the only real problems.

[0] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IMG_3...

I think they are referring to part of the Chromium OS project, which seems to be open source firmware for basic device functions including "power sequencing, keyboard control, thermal control, battery charging, and verified boot" [0]

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/m...

> Why do you feel compelled to engage with the words on the screen of some internet stranger who likely has a different cultural background from you and does things for reasons different from yours?

Because I like discussing things with other people, especially people who might come from different cultural backgrounds, do things differently or otherwise hold different views from me. It's often interesting and educational, helping us both to get different perspectives on things.

I won't pose the obvious reversal. Given this conversation is certainly not interesting or educational, I think it's probably best if we stop here.

I agree, but in that case why bother? In replying with such a distinction, the assumption is that you're actually responding directly to the op, not just quoting truisms.

> It is unreasonable to implicitly assert that it's the only factor and the clear singular cause

Sure, but did op assert that? I didn't read it that way.