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x0054··on M1racles: An Apple M1 covert channel vulnerability
You are working here with CPU registers. At this point the OS has no say, it’s a hardware bug. Not a particularly serious one though.
x0054··on Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions.
Not sure why you are down voted, I completely agree.
x0054··on California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
What proof do you have for that? Why isn't it more likely that what people actually want is good paying jobs without having to spend 2 hours in traffic every day?

Say you have 2 options, one is to live in a lower density area with plenty of playgrounds for your kids, space to decompress and have fun, and a good paying job that you can do from home or close by.

Option two is being shoved like sardines into a 20 story high density apartment building for the privilege of what? What's the point of high density living? So you can all die from a pandemic faster? Or so you can eat at fancy restaurants unhealthy food?

Are you sure that your bubble isn't shaping your opinion?

x0054··on California’s housing crisis: how a bureaucrat pushed to build
Have you seen what happens in those projects? I lived in Chicago and those were not a good place to live because of incredible levels of crime.

What we need is to stop clustering so much around SF and LA. There are lots of places in CA that are basically empty. What we need is more ways for people to make money remotely so they can live in lower density areas and still make good living. High density is not the answer, people need space and we have space.

x0054··on Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
Not everyone wants to spend time on setting up drivers and figuring out why something no longer works after an update, even if they have the skills. I can setup Linux on almost any HW, I choose not too, and use Mac and Windows instead because I have better things to do with my time. Out of the box hardware works out of the box and allows you to do something you actually enjoy. If you enjoy setting up and maintaining Linux, by all means, you should do so, but other people have other hobbies.

Mind you, it’s not like MacOS or Windows are a joy to setup either, especially on obscure hardware, but if you buy first party hardware, that hard work is usually done by people who get paid to make it their full time “hobby” so I don’t have to.

As an example, there is a YouTube dude who does nothing but installs Linux distorts. He is an expert VIM user even though he doesn’t code, just edits config files and plays in the terminal while looking super serious. I spend time in VSCode writing actual code. It’s less cool looking but far more productive for me to use MacOS for that. To each their own.

x0054··on IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services
I feel like most commenters in this thread didn’t read this page that explains the goals of the project with far more detail:

http://www.includeos.org/technology.html

x0054··on IncludeOS: a minimal unikernel operating system for C++ services
Nope, you are right on the money. It’s just new and different, and people don’t like new and different.
x0054··on Ask HN: Pocket Server for Digital Nomads
Ocean server is pretty close to what I want, just doesn't have the storage I would like to have, and the CPU is a bit slow.

Currently I use RPi 4. I plug it into the USB-C port on my iPad and it's picked up by iOS as an Ethernet gadget. The RPi acts as a router and has a static IP address over USB. So all I have to do is use a VMC app to connect to it. It's as simple as plugging in one cable and starting one app.

I want to stick with RPi architecture because I want it to be really flexible for people to use any of the Raspberry Pi compatible distributions on it.

The SD cards are mostly for video production. I want to have a one button clear SD card feature, where I can insert an SD card, press one physical button, and a script would copy all of the files from an SD card to the destination directory on the main SSD storage drive, and then empty the card. There would be an LED light to indicate progress.

Maybe I am making something only I would really care about here. Thank you for the feedback.

x0054··on Ask HN: Are we in a top down simulation?
Think about it this way. You take a crisp photo, blur it a bit, then sharpen it, then blur it a bit again. The first and the second image will not looks identical. The first blurred image is the simulation, then we “sharpen” it by observing it at a subatomic level, then “blur” again by calculating up from the subatomic observations. The calculations and the “reality” would not match, but only because the quantum data was generated complexity not necessarily exactly representing the original.

So, if the base of the reality is designed around something on an atomic level, when you zoom in past a given level, it would stop making sense if the program was designed to continually add complexity as it is studied more and more, perhaps in the effort of discouraging people form thinking that they are in a simulation :)

x0054··on RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
Ironically no one is downvoting him. Just you.
x0054··on CVS turned a tobacco ban into a financial win
It’s business 101, you have to make your customers need you :)
x0054··on Apple Accused of Selling iTunes Customers' Listening Data
I can't find any information about where such a list can be purchased. Something tells me that this is stollen data, weather from Apple or a third party, and crosscoralated to perhapes Apple info. I seriously doubt that Apple is actually selling data. The far more likely outcome is that this a bullshit extortion suit.
x0054··on Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python
Haha, me too. Still interesting, just not nearly as interesting as expected.
x0054··on Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for not sharing passwords
Next project: figure out how to add a fake user to my MacBook and only have the real HD / user boot if a key combo is placed. Apple should add users and this as an option if they care about security, to iOS.
x0054··on Vladimir Komarov went on a space suicide mission to save his best friend, Yuri
He is pointing out that there is a difference between sending people to space for political reasons and sending people to space for political reasons in known to be unsafe aircraft knowing that the possibility of death is significantly above average. One is risking someone’s life for achievement and glory. The other is killing someone because your fragile ego can’t take the hit of not being ready on time for some stupid political deadline.
x0054··on Shutdown Will Be Worse for Economy Than First Thought, White House Says
It’s not about the wall being immoral. It’s about it being monumentally stupid and a waste of money. There are much better solutions.
x0054··on Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps
I thought those were restricted to specific area codes. I think the phone company should be liable in scams like this. Also, there should be a way to block all pay-per-min calls on your phone. This is one of those areas government needs to regulate.
x0054··on Plane drops to 928 feet after autopilot set to 0 altitude
This shows the necessity of reasonable defaults. Not a pilot, but somehow I think the default setting for ALT should NOT be 0.
x0054··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
I live off grid, 2+ hours from any store that would carry such arrows, and I used to buy them just fine from Amazon. My comment was about the decline of Amazon, not a request to solve my arrow buying problem :)
x0054··on Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews
Amazon is going downhill quickly. I target shoot with a compound bow as a hobby, and as a result I usually buy a set of arrows a year. In 2015 when I would search for "target arrows" on Amazon the first page results would be for legit American companies who make exceptional arrows for about $30 per set of 6. Now, and for the last 2 years if I search for "target arrows" I get pages and pages of Chinese crap arrows (I purchased several sets and returned them). The crappy ones are also selling for $30 per set but they are made out of weak aluminum and come bent up. To get the nice American made ones I have to got 10-20 pages deep or search by brand name and even than the real ones are usually on page 2 with page one featuring the same crap from China. Now, don't get me wrong, I am sure they can make quality arrows in China, but what makes it to the top of Amazon is utter crap.

I noticed this with many other products as well, but the arrows is a particularly noticeable example because it's something I regularly replace as they get beat up and destroyed (I shoot a lot).

x0054··on Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
All I want is an iPhone 3G with an all screen front. It would fit 4.2-4.5 inch screen with ease and it's the size of my wallet. iPhone X specs in the iPhone 3G body. Thicker is fine, just make the battery last a long time. Honestly, there must be people like me out there. I'll gladly pay $1k for a 4ish inch version of iPhone X.

Large phones are fine, to each their own. But some of us what small phones. And I have large hands, but I want to be able to comfortably use a phone with one hand.

Typed in iPhone SE.

x0054··on Anki Vector: The Home Robot
Are you considering adding app capability : SDK? Also, do you need entry level ML people?
x0054··on What Businessweek got wrong about Apple
You clearly not an Agatha Christie Fan
x0054··on Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
I have been using Resilio Sync on Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, and it works a charm for me. In case this turns out to be a problem for you, maybe give them a try. Never an issue on Linux with Resilio Sync. I run a copy on my VPS in the cloud for remote storage.
x0054··on 5 World Ending (as We Know It) Problems for the Near Future
Thanks, I think I did, see, I need better AI spell check. I actually disagree with the AI comment, but it's a long conversation, I am writing an article about why I think it's a real problem, and I'll be sure to post it. As for the QC, I agree, but imagine if a company announced tomorrow that they have QC capable of cracking public key encryption. There are algorithms that resist QC, but they are not being implemented in a wide spread way at the moment. So it's a solvable problem, like you pointed out, but it has yet to be recognized as a problem by major financial institutions.
x0054··on Ask HN: Getting into Machine Learning?
Thanks for the advice! Yes, reading in any field is paramount. Not sure about the screen limitation, since most of my library is on my laptop as is, but I get the point. :) And I know what you mean about actually experimenting with the tools for yourself and not chasing the latest thing. I am not getting into ML for the money, I would keep doing what I am doing now if that was the goal. I really do find it interesting and fascinating. I always loved math, but never really found an interesting application for it until stumbling on this subject while doing research into Micron, of all things.

Anyway, thanks again!

x0054··on iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
Why 7 days though. It's should disable within 2 hours at most, and users should have the option to disable USB when ever the phone is locked.
x0054··on Windows 10 1803 Update Failure
But unless things changed quite a bit (I am still on 10.11.6) doesn't Apple always give you the option to update or not update MacOS? Even with iOS it's a positive action, you have to click something to update, no? I am fine with that, I just want to do the updates on my schedule, not Apples and Microsoft's. On macOS I have a lot of dev stuff setup and I would be pretty pissed if it did an update without me specifically and affirmatively concerning to it.
x0054··on Windows 10 1803 Update Failure
Thank you! That was driving me crazy. It's in the "Other" tab of the "Tablet PC Settings" in Control Panel. One problem solved :)
x0054··on Windows 10 1803 Update Failure
You would bet and loose. I did do a clean install from a Dell recovery USB image, that's part 2 of the article. Also, I don't "openly admit" to jailbreaking my iPhone. I nonchalantly mention this :)
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