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article is paywalled

> We even have terminology for that in the auto world where you can “total” a car because it costs more to fix than replace.

It blows my mind that I never made this connection before.

I'm not sure of the root causes but British Columbia does seem to have particularly antiquated liquor laws, even compared to the rest of Canada.

This site helped illuminate the use of the word 'spectrum' for me:" https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you...

> But when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all.

I also enjoy a certain level of in-office face to face interaction but 90 minutes by car per day would be too much for me.

When I read that Finnish was a major seventh I was hoping that English would be a minor seventh or something even more subtly different. A minor 7th vs a minor 7 flat 5 etc.

Would be funny to create an elaborate system of notification tones that are only discernible by a trained musician

If you buy a phone, add it to your iCloud account, then the phone becomes broken in a way you want to salvage the camera/battery, presumably removing that phone from your iCloud account (which I don't believe requires the phone to turn on?) would allow you to use those genuine, not-stolen parts in another repair.

> The secretive program, called Secure Enclave

Not to be confused with Apple's Secure Enclave, which is also chip-related. They could have picked a more unique name I think.

More details in the original article here

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/sextortion-scams-now-inc...

Wow you weren't kidding. These are vulns that would have been embarrassing a decade ago.

This is really cool. Anyone know what license level of binja is required? Does it work with the free edition?

Nobody who meets that definition of "superficial" will self-select out of the process after reading that. Good candidates may, however.

This was a really well written blog post. I felt like I was able to follow the author's debugging journey very clearly.

Separately I've not heard of Adelie Linux and from a quick glance at their site I can't really tell what niche they're trying to fill. I gather they use musl and (before this post) openRC, and they aim for POSIX compatibility for legacy systems.

Anyone else notice how many typos are in this article? Does no one proofread anymore?

> Folks with superficial knowledge in one of these areas are not encouraged to apply.

Is this really necessary to call out? Why discourage candidates from applying?

The biggest issue with apple's Mail.app is they don't support vanity domains the way Fastmail does. You can add them individually but the Fastmail app lets you create one right from within the compose box - you just type whatever you want into the From: field.

I have noticed more downtime in the last few months than the previous few years combined. I think they recently did a server migration so hopefully it's not an indication of anything more serious changing in their culture.

There is a subtlety of language at play here. When a musician practices a song they "cannot play", usually what they mean is they cannot play it fluidly, at full speed.

There are many degrees of being able or not able to play any given song.

This is what I hear when someone says they are practicing a skill slightly beyond their current capacity.

It's not just compression - also the unified memory architecture.

so theoretically using timers and adding sleeps could solve the problem but practically there are better ways to achieve the goal of no timing information leakage?

is a constant-time algorithm just an algorithm that completes the entire calculation before returning even if it knows the correct answer sooner?

Not the OP but my biggest missing features would be: - the ability to send the output of one smart query into the input of another - not needing to escape every quotation mark in a query, and maybe the ability to combine operands eg ( title =~ {linux,macos} as opposed to title =~ \"linux\" or title =~ \"macOS\") - a dashboard mode that can show a snippet of the top headlines and maybe autoscroll - ability to mark an article as read after a certain delay

I've started working on my own "power user" RSS reader that lets you weight the keywords you're interested in (so an article that hits important keywords but is older could be displayed above an article that's newer) but it's still closer to a proof-of-concept than a complete app.

Unless I misunderstood (which is entirely possible, not a crypto expert) that article is answering a different question: whether adding random delays can thwart timing attacks. The GP was asking about implementing a constant-time delay.

This mostly matches my experience but with one important caveat around using them to learn new subjects.

When I'm diving into a wholly new subject for the first time, in a field totally unrelated to my field (similar to the author, C programming and security) for example biochemistry or philosophy or any field where I don't have even a basic grounding, I still worry about having subtly-wrong ideas about fundamentals being planted early-on in my learning.

As a programmer I can immediately spot "is this code doing what I asked it to do" but there's no equivalent way to ask "is this introductory framing of an entire field / problem space the way an actual expert would frame it for a beginner" etc.

At the end of the day we've just made the reddit hivemind more eloquent. There's clearly tons of value there but IMHO we still need to be cognizant of the places where bad info can be subtly damaging.

which company's press release is this from?

I am an adult who takes beginner lessons from a teacher and he says with new students he often has to undo the “learning” from (sometimes years of) those apps - and it can often be devastating to the ego, especially for kids.

This is an oversimplification imho. Many of the greatest jazz musicians like Miles Davis and John Coltrane played instruments that could only play one note at a time, and they still manage to convey harmonic concepts.

I don’t have an answer for why most music teachers don’t teach theory (and improv) other than it’s more challenging and they might not know it themselves, and it’s easier to teach rote memorization.

There are plenty of people who learn piano (which obviously doesn’t suffer from the single-note “limitation”) and also learn almost no theory.

Maybe the robot-joint could be used as rehab to automatically put progressively more weight on the leg as it heals

Sort of related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

This seems a false dichotomy to me.

Surely the optimal solution would be to spend a few hours / days in the first week picking the textbook, then 51 weeks studying it, as opposed to literally picking the first one you see and studying it for 52 weeks.