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Fastmail Is “Under Attack”

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Launch of Mayday Labs

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Links 2013

worrydream.com

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Having worked in many languages and debuggers across many kinds of backend and front end systems, I think what some folks miss here is that some debuggers are great and fast, and some suck and are extremely slow. For example, using LLDB with Swift is hot garbage. It lies to you and frequently takes 30 seconds or more to evaluate statements or show you local variable values. But e.g. JavaScript debuggers tend to be fantastic and very fast. In addition, some kinds of systems are very easy to exercise in a debugger, and some are very difficult. Some bugs resist debugging, and must be printf’d.

In short, which is better? It depends, and varies wildly by domain.

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Whats your prompt processing speed? That’s more important in this situation than output TPS. If you have to wait minutes to start getting an answer, that makes it much worse than a cloud-hosted version.

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I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you use distillation techniques?

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I think you missed the last bit:

> scientists have found no evidence this phenomenon might make sounds that are audible to the human ear.

Which I take to mean they’ve measured ultrasounds but no audible sounds.

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Meta: Can someone with Linux/bootloader knowledge tell me whether most of these comments are as clueless as they seem?

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Many people in this thread are extremely cynical and also ignorant of the actual security guarantees. If you don’t think Apple is doing what they say they’re doing, you can go audit the code and prove it doesn’t work. Apple is open sourcing all of it to prove it’s secure and private. If you don’t believe them, the code is right there.

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This is what the “attestation” bit is supposed to take care of—if it works, which I’m assuming it will, because they’re open sourcing it for security auditing.

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I would agree, except the seller seems to have made a new forgery of their receipt on the fly in response to Cabel's inquiry, which leads me to believe they probably made the original forgery as well.

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It means you compile-in a direct reference to the node that needs to be updated when some property changes, so instead of searching the tree of n nodes to find it, you already have the reference.

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The fact that the data exists somewhere is small comfort if users cannot read the privacy implications in the app store itself when they're deciding whether to download an app.

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I do not like working with people like this, because I don't want to be anywhere near the maintenance burden of a pile of hacks that technically can run a single Excel spreadsheet. I don't even want to be within earshot of people complaining about this. If I even thought about it for too long I'm sure I'd have a giant headache.

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My notes on the upgrade from 14 to 15 I took during the announcement:

  * Twice as bright screen
  * Dynamic Island
  * Smaller bezel
  * Contoured edge
  * New better plastic back
  * Big camera improvements
   - 48MP main camera vs. 24MP
   - Faster focus
   - Much better telephoto
   - Improved portrait mode
     * Better color
     * Better low-light performance
     * No shutter lag
     * Turn on portrait mode after the fact
   - Smart HDR for better lighting
  * Live voicemail transcription
  * Longer battery life?
  * Satellite emergency / roadside assistance

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The article talks about why it's maybe politically or economically difficult, but not why it's physically difficult.

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> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think.

This is not even close to being true.

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Perfect pitch is actually kind of a curse in many, many contexts. I’d be very hesitant to experiment on my kids this way without their understanding of the consequences.

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Do NOT read a CSV file by splitting on commas. Python has a perfect CSV library built right in: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html.

If you split on commas, your code will fail for quoted fields with commas in them.

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There is no “serious competitor” in VR/AR, because there is no market yet. The number of devices sold is miniscule. When AR/VR actually takes off, it’s going to look very, very different from what we have today.

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FYI, you’re looking for “sticky wicket.”

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It is a potato battery—that's what it's called when you use a potato as the electrolyte for a battery.

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I'm not defending potato batteries, I'm just pointing out that the article already explains all of this.