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It's more than likely you're getting the first since Chinese factories simply make more of what the big brand has ordered and sell the rest to drop shippers

Fable got halted by US make it a moot point but none enterprise is happy about the forced (and unannounced) 30-day data rentention

Installing a self signed cert system wide to do MITM? Sign me up!

Exactly, you can build 12nm but you can't quadruple the speed of light

As far as travel and hotel goes, another huge benefit is that the router enables devices without captive portal support, on a recent trip I can use: - Fi base station for my dogs trackers (huge for me) - FireTV stick (no need to trust hotel streaming apps will clear your credentials like they claim)

Also I can WireGuard back home automatically for select IP ranges (no need to configure WireGuard separately on many of my devices)

I named random Joe as the sole owner of "my" bank account and the bank wouldn't allow me to access "my" money!

WA tax revenue is going to drop from this

That'd be their next excuse to extend the tax to all

When did blatantly unconstitutional laws become modest?

SDE jobs are usually deliberately kept open to satisfy the H1B/PERM testing. Most big tech company does it so they can hire H1Bs and in turn do day 1 PERM sponsor as an incentive for H1B hires

Exactly they built one for the Chinese government. It's not if they have a back door it's who gets to use it

Was it ever?

This is an interesting point but if I may offer a different perspective:

Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

Now I've worked with many junior to mid-junior level SDEs and sadly 80% does not do a better job than Claude. (I've also worked with staff level SDEs who writes worse code than AI, but they offset that usually with domain knowledge and TL responsibilities)

I do see AI transform software engineering into even more of a pyramid with very few human on top.

Yup WSL feels closer to the Services for Unix which has been around since NT 4/5.

It was sad to see WSL2 taking the path of least resistance, that decision has always felt TPM driven ("we got unexpected success with WSL and people are asking for more, deliver xxx by Q4! No I don't care _how_ you do it!")

Great engineering work but as a user I don't get why we need these: I just want the OS native widget that allow me to play pause seek and maybe choose captions. Especially on iOS 99% of these web players behaves awkwardly when you tried to pinch to zoom to full screen (usually it zooms the whole webpage, iOS native player just works)

The main incentive to have these custom controls I see is anti adblocking

Looks very similar to the HBONE protocol the istio folks created for ambient mesh: https://istio.io/latest/docs/ambient/architecture/hbone/

I find it interesting that iPhone doesn't do a sanity check of these WiFi/cell fingerprinting based results against the GPS receiver it actually has. I can understand how WiFi only device would not have such an option, but why not do it on iPhones if Apple is known to be against location spoofing?

to be fair universities nowadays are more interested in supporting identity politics and liberal ideology than supporting science

I'm a gamer too and I worry that another likely scenario is all gaming moves to the cloud streaming model for maximum rent seeking :(

this is not true, `kubectl debug` attaches to the namespace of a container of your choosing (`--target` argument). You don't have to enable process namespace sharing at the pod level

Iirc you can also set that "green screen" as wallpaper and have video as desktop background!

We have wayyyyy too many MLEs coming up with these "different" ideas, manipulate AB to show a whooping 1% improvement in (random engagement KPI), get a fat bonus check for the quarter, then rinse and repeat.

hey now don't disparage plumbers they are usually certified and licensed, unlike engineers :P

unless you're suggesting providing 100s of different implementations of different parts of the operating system that people can choose from to run a specific game

You just invented "run in compatibility mode"

This is a welcome change but we can go even further: we should raise the bar for permanent immigration, but eliminate the intermediate steps in between (even green cards).

If you are exceptionally qualified you should just become a citizen (with the responsibilities and pledge of loyalty as a citizen). And we should fast track that for those who qualify (again, on a significantly higher bar)

I think coyotes can get desensitized to humans.

I live in a rather rural area in King county and we have packs of coyote that hunted down a deer one winter, and is generally weary of humans and dogs (the neighborhood has 2+ dog per household on average).

Then the past weekend we played a round of Golf at Newcastle and a pack of coyote pups pop up in broad daylight and one of them lied down to watch us tee off then left when we're done. It was very cute and we had to fight the urge to pet them like puppies

Golden Computer Centre in Sham Shui Po in HK itself is a fun destination too.

Yup, noticed I had it come n go over last year

Funny you mentioned Mongolia. Republic of China (Taiwan) still recognize it as part of its territory (together with mainland China).

It is the communist that ceded a lot of territory to the Soviet Union and the puppet state of Mongolia to appease the USSR by having a buffer between it and china

Maybe we shouldn't be supplying the machine (paying taxes) at all

Exactly, I feel a lot of my coworkers fell under this trap: if you need cashflow for mortgage on your 4m mansion in (affluent neighborhood), you can't really afford it.