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thisacctforrealon Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are a lot of parallels to Jobs' Macintosh factory. He was similarly overeager with automation, and even coerced the executives to have the machines painted.

Excerpts from Walter Isaacson's biography: https://imgur.com/a/WlJ7wsD

Some videos: http://strategosinc.com/articles/strategy/apple-foxconn-stra...

thisacctforrealon Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?

I'm feeling the same way about Edge.

thisacctforrealon Global, U.S. Growth in Smartphone Growth Starts to Decline

Apple has been signalling to do the opposite, iOS 12 has been great in my experience on their 2013 iPhone 5s model.

I think it makes sense for them to cultivate the reputation for long-lasting given the new price points.

I'm slightly hopefully the 5s will get iOS 13, it was the first 64-bit phone and also has the secure enclave, I'm bet they could pull it off.

thisacctforrealon Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. Rand) Can Surprise You

"i.e." – for "id est" in latin – means "that is", or "in other words", "in essence".

"e.g." is "exempli gratia" in latin; just meaning "for example".

thisacctforrealon Ask HN: What are your “brain hacks” that help you manage everyday situations?

A wall and some sticky notes might be a good method.

thisacctforrealon Instacart is slashing prices as the war against Amazon heats up

Is it possible GP meant 30% more for a prime-compatible listing compared to a non-prime listing?

thisacctforrealon Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?

Editing a Minecraft save with sh and dd to resurrect my girlfriend's wolf.

thisacctforrealon Senators Demand Google Hand Over Internal Memo Urging Google+ Cover-Up

How do you feel about the log retention period?

thisacctforrealon How law enforcement is trying to avoid disabling Face ID

Using Apple Pay would be a joy. Instead you can press the power button 5 times to trigger Emergency SOS which disables FaceID/TouchID.

thisacctforrealon Democrats Propose 'Internet Bill of Rights' to Entice Voters Sick of Facebooks

However, the browser can choose not to send any cookies to google.com when making requests to google from mycuteblog.com.

It's known as blocking third-party cookies, a setting in most browsers. It does sometimes break when auth flows use separate domains to hold auth cookies, and other valid use-cases.

thisacctforrealon The Only Linux Foundation CII Gold Rated Project Is a .. PHP Markdown Parser

Looks like the Linux kernel would have a gold rating if kernel.org set X-Content-Type-Options to "nosniff".

https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/en/projects/34?...

thisacctforrealon Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train

Or 40km between swapping battery packs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station#Battery_swapp...

thisacctforrealon iPhone XS – A12 Bionic

High Sierra supported 2009 Macs, but it looks like Mojave is going to be cut off at 2012.

thisacctforrealon Largest brain imaging study identifies drivers of brain aging

I'm looking forward to the research that will come out of Canada after the upcoming legalisation :)

thisacctforrealon Locals reportedly frustrated with Waymo's self-driving cars

Or the cars suck at driving.

Disclosure: I've never seen one in action, just stating a possibility.

thisacctforrealon Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late husband

The pin code gets entagled with a unique per-device key Apple calls the UID, the combination is what encrypts the data on-device.

Only the Secure Enclave has access to the UID, but only through silicon, it can't read the key bytes.

The Cellebrite rigs do use the Secure Enclave to brute force, but they're acheiving roughly 1s/guess, and the theoretical fastest is 80ms because the Secure Enclave uses PBKDF2 iterations tuned for that time.

If you have a long numeric passcode or an alphanumeric passphrase you can be confident your iPhone is secure when it's off.

thisacctforrealon Put your keys in the fridge to keep them safe from car thieves

Why stop at one drone?

thisacctforrealon Design Thinking: B2 APIs and the Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility

Oh I see, transactions do cost. $0.004 per 10,000 for Class B and C, which seems to boil down to delete and upload calls being free but the rest are paid.

In this case their bill would have had $115.89 for the 290 million requests.

Glad to see it's not a free lunch, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise.

And thanks for b2, it's a great service :)

thisacctforrealon Design Thinking: B2 APIs and the Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility

Their bill was $1885.43, not $436.77.

This is because they were pushing an average of 112 requests per second, the entire month.

thisacctforrealon Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?

Yes, and you can even install libimobiledevice and create some scripts to have the NAS do it automatically when you connect your iPhone via USB.

idevicepair and idevicebackup2 are the relevant utilities, I've used them successfully on macOS and Linux.

http://www.libimobiledevice.org/

thisacctforrealon Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

I think lots of people reading hn have picked it up in recent weeks, I just finished the first two chapters myself :)

thisacctforrealon TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program

https://my.mixtape.moe/ohbnhi.jpeg

The website detects and blocks private browsing on iOS, but you can bypass it using Reader View.

thisacctforrealon The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere

It's about the stress of delegating time and money.

With an all inclusive resort the questions "do I really need this?" or "maybe I should be doing something else" don't come up.

thisacctforrealon Why assessing the state of the world is harder than it sounds

ddg: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vacancy+tax+vancouver

From a CBC article;

Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property's assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.

thisacctforrealon Apple iCloud data in China is stored by government-run telco

iMessage and other E2E services that Apple provides won't be compromised unless the user opts in to iCloud backup.

Not to excuse this.

thisacctforrealon A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys in the cave

Please limit the amount of duplicate comments.

thisacctforrealon Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People

Implementation requires specialized skills for the hardware, software, and logistics, as well as lots of time, money, and patience. A stalker isn't going to deploy many pi zeros with cameras in many places on his own, and I'm not concerned that they will be able to round up many assistants.

Amazon's product takes care of all that nitty-gritty, thanks to the work of their many bright employees.

thisacctforrealon A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people

That looks solved to me.

Apple definitely works hard for usable privacy.

thisacctforrealon Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python

If you use the large_file API (needed for multithreaded uploads), you do only hash chunks not the file.

thisacctforrealon The world's smallest desert is in Canada

Carcross is cute, it's an hour from the capital city, Whitehorse Yukon. Carcross recently built about 6 or so small buildings, mostly occupied by art shops and one cozy cafe. The new plaza is across from the semi-restored frame of the SS Tutshi, but if steam boats are your thing you'll want to check out the SS Klondike.

It has a historic general store, complete with old trapping equipment. Trapping is still practiced today, but the equipment and licensing is much more humane.

The White Pass & Yukon Route railway also ends in Carcross, as of 2007 they restored that part of the railway. https://wpyr.com/sights-sounds/places/carcross-yukon/

If anyone is considering a trip here, the website and guides at https://yukoninfo.com/ are a good resource.

There's also a small makerspace that is in the process of moving to a brand new space, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukonstruct-makerspace-y...

And lots of guiding places to help you get outdoors, in case you are considering a trip here :) https://www.kanoepeople.com