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silentOpen··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
DNS-based blocking is the way (possibly via conditional VPN if you can tolerate the minimal latency bump).
silentOpen··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
As a very simple example, airdrop to macOS with multiple logged in users will frequently pop up the confirmation notification in the user account that is not active.
silentOpen··on The era of open voice assistants
OpenWakeWord has worked well for me especially using well-trained models like “Hey, Mycroft”.
silentOpen··on Tool for Euclidean geometry aware of logic
In Euclidea, you don’t manipulate the proofs but unless you’re just brute-forcing the levels you have constructed a proof mentally. Similarly, if Euclidea is implemented correctly, it generates the proof internally and checks it (even if these stages are fused). I wouldn’t rely on a game for building large developments and indeed Euclidea lacks abstraction and modularity as far as I can tell but the same developer may have a freeform environment with these features. Euclidea is an activity that mentally scratches the same itch as proving and in the same or very similar theory to TFA.
silentOpen··on Tool for Euclidean geometry aware of logic
This seems a lot like the great game Euclidea https://www.euclidea.xyz/ where you have to build target constructions in minimal steps. I highly recommend it for getting your proof fix on-the-go in your pocket when you may not have your favorite proof environment to hand. Happy proving!
silentOpen··on Largest airship built in United States since 1930s to take shape soon
Seems like a waste of scarce He.
silentOpen··on Largest airship built in United States since 1930s to take shape soon
Seems like a waste of scarce He.
silentOpen··on -h –Help -help Help –? –?
OCaml exception constructors are just term constructors in the open sum type `exn`. In OCaml, to distinguish constructors from bound variables, constructors must begin with a capital letter. Thus `let Foo = 4;;` is an error.
silentOpen··on Van life (cancer edition) finale
You mean Henrietta
silentOpen··on The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (2012)
And almost all of those, except maybe the router and phones if the users are technically sophisticated enough, will be locked down and refuse to obey the user. When Linux gets Tivoized, well-meaning devs have helped corporations abuse their users and customers.
silentOpen··on Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur
It depends on the host firewall... many quality operating systems allow host firewalls to apply process-based policy which your upstream certainly can’t achieve.
silentOpen··on Hospital workers make masks from office supplies
Sorry about that. You’re right; I should have been more careful with my news consumption and commenting. Thanks!
silentOpen··on Hospital workers make masks from office supplies
I believe Germany reports deaths differently. Last I heard, they are not reporting covid deaths where the person had some underlying health condition and are instead only reporting those deaths where the cause was covid and only covid. I’m sorry I don’t have a link and don’t have the time to dig it up — check BBC or Guardian coverage of the European epidemic.
silentOpen··on In Britain, even jails have a class system
Federal law does not a priori supersede state law. The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution reserves _all_ rights not explicitly granted to the federal government to the states and the people. The Civil War was fought, in part, over this contention between the power of the federal government to emancipate slaves and the power of the slaveholding states to continue to allow the practice of slavery. In more modern times, certain aspects of the constitution have been interpreted more and more broadly to allow e.g. the regulation of medical products under the auspices of regulating “interstate commerce” (even if said products are only ever sold in a single state — they can be transported across state lines).

From this system design, you can deduce that there _does_ exist a hierarchy in the theory of US government — the Constitution is the law of the land and all other actors and subsystems are subordinate to it. Modifying the Constitution requires significant effort at multiple levels of government usually including (by state law) extensive popular support and supermajorities of representatives.

silentOpen··on Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems
They explicitly mention that the effect seems unrelated to wavelength of incident light — would love to see a test with a UV or IR laser source to demonstrate that the primary downside of the attack is mitigatable (of course with additional expense and increased safety risk).
silentOpen··on Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal
Why do you think that they have what they are selling to investors?
silentOpen··on Unity Engine ToS change makes cloud-based SpatialOS games illegal
Improbable doesn’t have planet scale solutions. Their most touted title, Worlds Adrift, is explicitly discretized into regions. They use ‘creative’ solutions like ‘impassable storms’ to prevent crowding.
silentOpen··on Ask HN: What APIs do you use the most?
POSIX
silentOpen··on Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
Children would be lazily loaded and would not appear in directory listing of the parent directory. `find` would search your existing local checkouts only and the file system would still be POSIX.
silentOpen··on iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
To the author: the double quote characters in your phishing dialog are straight ASCII " but the quotes in the official dialog are Unicode open/close double quote characters.
silentOpen··on We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet
Some more context: Andrew Anglin is the editor of The Daily Stormer neo-nazi web site.

I re-watched American History X last night and I greatly recommend it to anyone who wants a little (dramatic) insight into modern American white supremacy motivations. In particular, the main character, Derek, gives a speech to a group of skinheads which is disturbingly similar to some of Trump's campaign speeches (though more eloquent).

silentOpen··on We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet
The person in question is Heather Heyer, victim of the vehicular homicide hate crime in Charlottesville, VA.
silentOpen··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Vagrant for development environments?
Many developer use cases do not demand heavy bind mount file access. For example, incremental builds of static languages typically work fine.

docker/for-mac#77 is related to "bind mount" performance but docker/for-mac#668 is virtual block device performance. Have you posted a reproduction workload that demonstrates the performance problems you are having?

Docker 17.04 includes a `cached` bind mount flag that relaxes consistency of the mount in exchange for significantly reducing guest-host roundtrips especially for inefficient workloads that repeatedly access the same files.

silentOpen··on Comparison of British, American and French Systems of Justice
The 14th amendment does not guarantee privacy so I'm not sure why I'd believe anything else this page says...
silentOpen··on Unikernels are unfit for production
> An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

~ Daniel Ingalls, co-creator of Smalltalk http://web.archive.org/web/20070213165045/users.ipa.net/%7Ed...

silentOpen··on BNSF Railyway Co. helped lead fight to delay train safety technology
I think it actually requires comparing relative prices to save a life which only puts a floor on the value of a human life.
silentOpen··on Thimble – An online code editor
I ran across a couple of issues:

* highlight to copy is broken (I assume because the source is not first-class text and they manipulate the clipboard with JS)

* failing to close the last list item in a ul causes the preview window to stop updating and highlights the next line in the editor but doesn't provide any indication of what is wrong

This is definitely not going to be sufficient for professional programming or web development but it looks and performs far better than similar projects I've seen in the past.

silentOpen··on Ghosting: Julian Assange (2014)
This piece is a disturbing study of some of Assange's mental pathologies. As a sympathetic party and partially informed observer, I greatly enjoyed reading O'Hagan's writing about Assange's outlook and concerns. I laughed; I cringed; I would read it again.
silentOpen··on State seizes 11-year-old, arrests his mother after marijuana school presentation
What mistake? She has not done anything wrong according to this report. With only hearsay by a minor in a school setting, I'd be surprised (or maybe not ugh) if the warrant stood up.
silentOpen··on Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds
The post is a bit dishonest regarding prior funding and risk.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/24/andreessen...

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