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"Due diligence". It used both as a tag for posts that try to give real analysis, as well as a meme to describe terrible or humorous logic for making trades (e.g. "DPZ DD: everyone at this party just agreed that Dominoes Pizza is the best pizza, go long DPZ", stupid stuff like that).

Yeah, and there was also TSLA and AMD and MU and others that did great.

The point is that they actually write out real strategies/positions as "DD", and you can make your own decisions.

I believe Brad Smith was chief of legal counsel before he was president. It would make sense for him to be very careful with his words here

Yeah, the phone app was crazy fast, and having moved from Mailbox, I loved the ability to easily archive from notifications.

Now that's Gmail standard, though

I'd love to see the law that allows the FTC to demand broad sets of documents like this without a warrant or even a purported crime.

Unfortunately, I'd imagine it exists, but that it basically says "the FTC can do whatever it wants if it thinks a company is being 'abusive' or 'misleading consumers'" with some vague definition of what that means.

Yet another example of Congress legislating away their ability to legislate and/or the courts' ability to judge.

Outlook for Desktop has its quirks, but it's still extremely usable and (mostly) performant, especially compared to any of the web-based mail clients out there.

Weird for me to see all the love for Inbox in a thread about bloated webapps. I liked the Inbox UI a lot, but until it was spun down, I had an issue where each Inbox tab would eventually bloat up to 2-3 GBs. Considering I'd have 3 of those open, one for each of my Gmail accts, it quickly became something I couldn't use on my laptop (unless I refreshed each tab every couple hours).

Yeah, I admit completely that I thought they were massively overpaying for Instagram at the time. I also shared the highest OP's sentiment that I didn't think FB was a good investment for the same reason (that people would migrate from FB to the next thing as fast as folks moved off of MySpace).

I was absolutely and utterly wrong on both accounts. Part of it was definitely wishful thinking, though, as I dislike FB by one or two orders of magnitude more than any other software company.

But yes, I'd say their acquisitions were not completely obvious slam dunks.

They also tried to be Snap, ofc, but my recollection is that Snap refused. Interestingly, folks have probably flip-flopped over the last few years in wondering whether that would've been good or bad for FB.

Yes, but I think that misses the original point of OP's argument, which is that the variable cost nature of SaaS is beneficial to customers that don't want to or can't think about 3 vs 5 year lifecycles.

And while you may still have a perfectly valid use case for hardware, I think the growth of IaaS speaks for itself in showing that variable pricing is popular.

He's saying that when consumers routinely buy products that need to be serviced by first parties, over devices that can be opened and repaired by the end user, the market is voicing its opinion on whether reparability has value to them.

I personally prefer the latter, but I also don't think that people loving Macbooks or integrated ARM SoCs is going to change whether I can get a Thinkpad where I can upgrade the RAM with a Philips head.

Sure, it might cost a little more further down the line, maybe Intel won't be the behemoth it's been for the last 25 years, but if most people are willing to pay for their black box to get repaired, why does that mean the government needs to step in?

It's been happening in the car market too: even entry-level sedans are becoming black boxes more and more, but people snatch 'em up.

I should also say I'm very much in favor of the "right to repair", but more in the vein of "you can't legally forbid me to repair my John Deere tractor" than in the vein of "Apple shall hand over detailed schematics and replacement parts to any repair shop that demands them".

If I wanted to get into these now, could you recommend any particular magazines (title and/or vintage) or time periods that are good starting points?

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised that the Winamp EQ is fully functioning.

I don't think it's any more complicated than that it's because they can't roll ads on videos that are downloaded.

youtube-dl et al are niche enough that it doesn't put a real dent in their ad business, but making it more convenient with a Download button might.

There may be some part of the law that prevents you from suing (IANAL), but if it wasn't disclosed before you purchased it, it make intuitive sense to me that you should have grounds to sue.

I felt the same way about the whole Sonos recyling thing too...

The big CPU-bottlenecked esports game is CS:GO, or any other Valve / Source game. Even on an older CPU with mediocre single-threaded perf (i7-5820K), I can run the game fine on high settings, 1080p (100-250fps), but it occasionally dips down below my 144hz refresh rate, which can be annoying.

And yeah, the GPU is never begged while playing, but multiple CPU cores definitely are.

Also, emulation is another big place where CPU bottlenecking is a thing. Look at Dolphin (Gamecube/Wii), Citra (Wii U), and yuzu (Switch), they're all CPU bound. Folks in the various subreddits will ask why their new GPU isn't netting them a higher framerate, and it's because the GPU is almost not even used (though in some cases with better graphical effects, shaders, etc. they can be beneficial)

It's interesting to me that what you're describing has basically been codified into the game design of "rouge lites" like Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, and now Hades...bunch more, Mana Quest, Spelunky...it's a whole game mechanic now

Same, Devolver is phenomenal. Enter the Gungeon and Fall Guys are both smash hits too

> Ctrl+F -> "quit.", "quit "

I see so much debate about what's right to do within FB, "how will people change the structure from the inside with this rule?", etc.

QUIT. Just quit. Seriously. Make it public why you quit. Quit en masse. FB is not a good company. Your talents are useful in many other places.

Yes, I'm privileged in saying this. No, I wouldn't feel comfortable quitting my job right now.

But if you believe enough that FB is an evil company--as many of us have known for 10+ years now--you should not work there.

If they are doing bad things, and they are not open to people fixing said bad things, stop helping them do bad things.

Whenever you talk about startups with people outside the HN-like crowd, they always ask you about "your ideas", particularly if you assume you have all the funding lined up no problem.

My go-to response is always "put Facebook out of business".

I've been thinking about it for probably 10 years, I still have no idea what that means, but your post here got me a little stoked it could be possible

First, just gotta say, I love Caddy, and thanks to you, mholt, and the rest of the team for everything you do.

I'm actually a recent Caddy convert, and only picked it up after I saw the v2 GA announcement here on HN. I'm also not using it at large scale: it's just the frontend reverse proxy for my home infra, which is itself frontended by CloudFlare's strict-level DDoS protection/proxy.

I set everything up a few months ago, and my pain with the documentation was that it tended to only address the extremes of dead-simple Cadddyfile examples or very intricate JSON reference. Given that I was working with CloudFlare, thinks were a little more complicated: I had to setup my own Dockerfile to recompile against the externally-maintained CloudFlare module (which, btw, thank you to ever maintains the builder container for making that dead simple with Docker's copy feature). Then some more extra stuff in the Caddyfile to pass in the API key, as well as to work properly with a totally different cert sitting on the web server I was reverse proxying.

That being said, I came back this last weekend to fix up some other stuff, and it seemed like the docs were more complete in general. I found a lot of Caddyfile reference that I needed very easily. So either discoverability or content was improved, or I was just not acquainted enough with Caddy to find it last time (which is totally possible).

And just 2cents from a user who also PMs some OSS software: mad respect for being out here and asking these questions. I completely feel how hard it can be to get anyone to answer this in good faith, and the slow build of anxiety that comes in seeing vague complaints like this littered throughout the internet. Even if I know that they don't mean it personally, it can get me very worked up, especially after many years of reading it.

And yet, doing it repeatedly is the only way to know wtf to improve. I can completely relate with Caddy on the telemetry stuff too, God knows that's an even more difficult sell.

Seagate mea culpa'd afterwards, but they still tried to pull the same crap with SMR until they were caught.

There's an order or two of magnitude less data and benchmarks on the Toshiba drives, but I just bought Toshiba 6x6TBs for a NAS build because I couldn't stomach buying WD or Seagate (or HGST which is just WD now).

EDIT: Forgot to say, the drives have been great. It's only been 6 months or so, but they've been performant, no bad sectors yet.

I'm not an expert here, but I'm thinking about it like this:

Creating a SHA-1 collision is doable, but it's still hard. If you want to serve someone a malicious piece of data, that's already one hash of the two colliding hashes that you've used up. Now you have to create harmless or "benevolent" data that collides with the hash of your malicious data so that you can create a positive reputation for your file from users who aren't your targets. That way, when your target inevitably goes to download the file, you wrestle into the protocol with a lot of speed and/or nodes, and you serve the malicious data to your target instead of the data you've been serving to everyone else.

If you don't need the positive reputation, and someone will just download and run whatever you put in the torrent, you don't need the collision in the first place.

Eh, it's less easy than it used to be if the application developer really doesn't want you to use a spoofed location. Pokemon GO and SafetyNet have been doing next-level in their ability to detect root.

And GPS spoofing as a debug feature is built into Android now, so there's less legitimate reason to need root to do GPS spoofing

As others have said, this article is mostly nasty rhetoric with very little substance. I'm surprised that the CAPTCHA isn't accessible, but that's about it.

Websites opt-in to CloudFlare DDoS protection. If you want to be crawled, you don't have to use it. But it's very difficult to expose yourself to the open internet nowadays unless you're hosted in a cloud or have something like CloudFlare.

I have stuff I don't want crawled at all, I use CloudFlare, and it's an awesome (free!) service that helps me maintain HTTPS certs and keep Chinese and Russian IPs from hammering my server.

I have to +1. Got somewhat dragged to totality by my girlfriend at the time with a bunch of her friends. It wasn't my prime idea of a long weekend but she and her friends were insanely excited, and she was always very supportive of me, so I went along with minimal grumbling (including when we woke up at 4:30a that morning to go from our campgrounds to an open lake area to make sure we got a good spot).

Any ounce of annoyance I might have been harboring evaporated when the eclipse went from 99% to 100%. It was insane how incredible of an experience it was, and so suddenly. To feel this intense connection to other people who had seen it, or are seeing it...people were screaming and whooping, it was just incredible.

I had driven a full car to the totality zone ~3 hours. I wasn't even mad that the drive home took 7 hours instead. I just had a big grin on my face, it was so worth it.

In my day job, I work on a relatively large open-source non-GUI application

macOS is becoming an increasingly difficult platform on which to release software. We're going down the notarization rabbit hole (which is a nightmare), but given that we don't fit on the App Store, it's very obvious that Apple doesn't want us on the platform.

My suspicion is that they will eventually charge $$$ for a "developer unlock" on Apple Silicon, a move that I think will make both Windows and Linux look increasingly attractive to developers.

Thanks for the link, didn't know that existed.

Reminds me of when Google security engineers...ahem...reacted...to the Snowden leak that the NSA was spying on internally decrypted traffic. [1]

It's insane to me that the US spied on an American company's internal traffic, got busted, and the only viable response was "well, I guess we have to make HTTPS mandatory in the protocol now".

Not that it was the wrong response. Just that it wasn't even on the table to say "hey, NSA, wtf..."

Unless you see the NSA as some sort of weird, legally protected black hat blue team.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...

Oh, I totally agree with you. I was just making an observation of the trend more than anything.

I'm someone who does everything that I possibly can while offline, and I'm mostly in the camp that the "Save" button being a floppy is not much different today than learning how to pinch-to-zoom or click a mouse (i.e. there's an up front cost to learning it, but it's already ubiquitous, so why change)

My issue is largely the assumption that presence of DNA == person who committed the crime.

We leave DNA all over the place. If I drop some hair at the scene of a crime 12 hours before it was committed, I could become the innocent sole suspect of something heinous.

Yeah, and upgrading to even 32 GBs is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.

I get that it has to be soldered on or whatever, but I'm looking at faster RAM on Newegg right now, in brand names, single module DDR4, for ~115.

I really wanna buy Apple stuff, but stuff like this continually keeps me away when I finally get to the Buy page.