iodiniemetra's comments

Well, the increased power consumption of the hardware not entering sleep mode would be a non-marginal amount of power theft.

Not to mention consent...

They don't work as advertised - they're terrible.

Besides Microsoft, Google has come the closest, but they're not pushing it as convergence.

I think it is the future, but it's going to be a difficult one that requires an excellent launch - at least 3 years off before the next major inroads.

Azure is a good product, though. And, more importantly, the person is familiar with it.

If I was doing something similar, I'd probably use GCP. Not necessarily because it's superior (i like it a lot, btw), but because I can achieve my goals faster that way.

I am not offended by someone's personally held religious beliefs. I am, however, deliberately excluded if participating means adhering to a code of conduct that targets my beliefs.

> disagree with specific details

Ah yes, "is there a god or not" is a specific detail, especially when it's in the context of a whole series of religiously motivated directives. /s

I hardly think that a repudiation of a set of CoC terms that I find directly exclusionary to me counts as warranting "calm down". I won't, thanks!

When it's in relation to a post asking, "who's really excluded", I think it's appropriate.

#1 on the list is: First of all, love the Lord God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength.

I'm an atheist - I am unable and unwilling to comply with this CoC. So yes, I would say that I am affected.

Other well known religious folk in the foss world, such as Larry Wall, do not insist on this kind of exclusion.

> there's no "View As" which will show you someone's search and location history

Not in the UI, no. But once you have the token, which is what this was, then you can request that from many of the UI API interfaces facebook provides.

When this first leaked, anyone who worked with auth systems immediately assumed it was a game over scenario.

It's because sometimes, such as when Apple takes a year to update a line, that you can find an ultrabook that costs half of what Apple is offering for similar specs (or in some cases, same price, much worse specs).

Take a look at the MacRumors buyers guide release date graph for the pro-line https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac

It's not as severe as it used to be now that returns are diminishing on new generations of components, but even three/four years ago, it could be startling.

This has been happening for years, especially in the "botnet community". Either someone takes down someone else's botnet through the same bug and patches it or figures out a bug in the botnet and caps it for themselves (for example, getting ops in the CNC channel). I think Microsoft has even done in cooperation this a few times; it's dubious legal territory.

You can see some historical examples, both recent (Mirai had some viruses that went around closing the bug), as well as further in the past (there's one that escapes me, it must have been around 2010?)

I wish I could cite more, I'm going to spend some time researching this and make a list for myself, it's surprisingly interesting!

English has a lot of unwritten rules as well. Which sounds correct?

I have a large red ball.

I have a red large ball.

I imagine german has the same, and I wonder if it's one of those cases. For example, to a german speaker, it would be completely clear that Dave is the one who forgot the book because the first subject mentioned is always the relevant one, or something like that.

This already exists and is being deployed as a consumer-grade feature.

I think that this will be a necessity for mass rollout of self-driving cars.

If you're going to be pointlessly pedantic, at least be correct.

hack is going to become incredibly widespread before slowly dying off due to market forces?

That's not the takeaway that you should have - simplicity doesn't matter if minor language versions make breaks.

This is absolutely implemented in modern CPUs, as debug or management features. Usually switched off - being able to turn it on from ring 3 would be a massive bug.

I was judging active by their standards. It's still very short.

Difference in power usage isn't that great, and carriers are provisioning 4g capability - in areas where 3g is over-used, it's not being improved.

The biggest benefit this could have is a smart-ish phone with multiple days of active use battery life. Instead they specced a 500mah battery

Also it's $3-400. Insane.

I can get a commodity android phone for $150, remove all of the apps, and with a little self control have the same thing.

It looks good, though.

Considering that the darker edges of "app engagement" are trying to replicate gambling addiction, I hesitate to call users dumb when they don't act in their best self interest.