jwandborg

Volvo Cars is still headquartered in Sweden, and employ 22.4k people in Sweden out of 40k globally[1].

Given that the market for Volvo is global, it seems to me that Volvo Cars is still overwhelmingly Swedish, while at the same time being overwhelmingly controlled by Geely.

[1]; https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/1000-personer-far-lam...

Experts deeply understand their subject.

- Experts that tailor their answers to meet the audience are experts, but not only experts, they also have the luck of finding good analogues for parts of a system or topic, and a skill, or luck, of story telling and structuring teaching.

- Individuals who use analogues and simplifications to describe a system or topic are not necessarily experts, they can also be lucky or skilled imitators, or just teachers.

- Experts who are experts by the definition of having a deep understanding of the subject, but who are incapable or unwilling to simplify and/or structure the story well (in your subjective opinion), are still experts, but unless you also become an expert on the topic, it will be hard for you, or anyone else, to trust their expertise.

Every person is part of the definition of the average person. Of course, you can take a look at the outliers, but they are rare, by definition.

If you start segmenting the set of people along all possible dimensions in order to find "local outliers", then eventually, everyone will become an outlier in one of the sets.

I think it's reasonable to say that everyone should do as well as they can, and if everyone does that, the average person will have an impact.

Imagine debugging hyperoptimized machine code. - Or would you just blame yourself for not stating your natural language instructions clearly enough and start over? I guess all of these complex problems would somehow be solved for everyone within the next 21 years and 364 days.

I figured out how to FCC-unlock my Lenovo-branded 4G modem to get it working under Linux based on a Lenovo snap with binaries to unlock another model from the same manufacturer, and then I was stupid and generous enough to tell the ModemManager devs and the rest of the world about it[1], but thanks to the devs and Lenovo's Mark Pearson it all ended up benefitting the world.

I didn't really know how to reverse engineer C, or even write C, but I was frustrated enough to stick to the task, and lucky enough to have at least some symbols still in the binary.

Ghidra is a nice tool, but kind of horrible to learn in a hurry, still easier than r2 if you have no idea what you're doing.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager...

Could be unnecessarily costly unless the files are written ahead-of-time. I propose some kind of GraphQL-like interface to only read what you need.

Just take the Unix philosophy and replace the word "file" with "JSON file".

Could be that I missed the joke.

In fact, 10 in any base represents the base number.

10 in binary _is_ 2 in decimal. I think you've made an off-by-one error in your critique.

I think it's a breath of opportunity to hear that there is tooling for Rust to write Kubernetes operators, previously my impression is that there is no match for Golang when it comes to writing operators, and that has invited me to try and learn Golang and the codegen that comes with writing operators, but I never enjoyed trying to learn things about Golang, the language feels like an exercise in ambiguous minimalism to me personally.

I've had motherboard, screen, keyboard, 4G modern swaps, all at my office.

> Apple has great support.

Apple does not have support good enough for professionals, my colleagues are suffering with defective MacBooks until they can justify a full replacement, because Apple repairs cost a lot of time, while Lenovo sends a repairperson with tools and replacement parts to my office.

I can't download any iOS apps. Sometimes I try but it doesn't work, even though I'm using the latest web browser.

> For broad-based usage, things are less likely to break with glibc. For a specific use case, that may be less important. As a dangerous generalization, musl is usually lighter on resources, but glibc is faster. If using ARM or very limited hardware, musl may in fact be faster, but with more available hardware resources, glibc usually wins, often by using non-standard optimizations (cheating).

https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/muoqis/comment/g...

Cell pagers are also deemed secure in some places, despite being broadcast over a wide area.

Both of the technologies can be seen as "secured" by laws outlawing listening to the information sent in cleartext.

I wouldn't call it "security theatre", i would call it "security through legislation" or something along those lines.

I thought "security theatre" was a routine that promised, but did not provide, additional security, and while there is no technical security, there technically is some security, in the form of legislation.

Relatedly, Linus Tech Tips has a recent video https://youtu.be/4YpRJtvFmP8 about a 3DS dev kit they got their hands on, in that video they also mention that there is a similar device for the DS that was used to capture video for live e-sports tournaments.

You can learn about feelings, but that means you misunderstand or is completely ignorant of the mechanics of the feeling until you are taught about it, once you're taught about it you can try to interpret the signs, but it's still hard and error-prone work.

> promoting kernel Rust will not fix anything, howsoever personally gratifying it may feel to engage in it.

I totally agree, you'd need to fix the broken things to fix anything, hopefully without writing more broken things on your way there and back, and ideally in a way that is unambiguous and easy to parse.

It could also not count as wiretapping, since it's about transcription, not about audio recordings.

If the transcription service's presence in the call isn't hidden from other participants, is it still wiretapping?

My interpretation of "it's hysterical to use canvas" was that it would be hysterical to draw content elsewhere and then send it to the browser for display.

Implementing something that looks like and behaves like a web page in a canvas on a web page is a "of course it's possible, but there must be a better solution" moment.

If you then have to pay for the amount of RAM of your central layout/rendering process, it would make it hysterical, as in "maybe we could pay less for RAM if we figured out how to offload layout and rendering to the client".

There's probably a niche for this still, because Java isn't inherently bad (pun intended), and if you run out of time but keep getting requirements, this thing could make your existing app be more like a web page, but if you're starting from scratch, why wouldn't you not use this?

Every other page load fails for me. I get 3 different pages

1. The page I'm looking for

2. A Content-Type: text/html, body: "The service is unavailable." page

3. A more elaborate "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance" page

IIRC factorio's blueprints are represented, or have one representation, as base64-encoded gzipped JSON on the clipboard (with a version byte as prefix in the b64 form, double-IIRC), meaning you can copy/paste blueprints between the game and anything other that accepts text.

I would say that the invention of the concept of "reputable ASNs" is the root cause.

Does Google Cloud also have that reputation? I've seen renames and well-motivated deprecations, but not the Google Graveyard kind of events.

You're probably right, the issue might be that there's no standard way for an OS to hook into that.

Datacenters sometimes have redundant main power providers, I'm guessing that could change the assumption to "there should be a number of supply boxes nearby, which all need to be interfered with".

Talking in front of a group can be a stressful situation depending on your emotional state.

It sounds like you've found a system that works for you, imagine not having that system, being sleep deprived, or simply focusing on the next thing instead of the last thing you did.

I know a lot of things about a lot of things, to the point where I know a lot of things I don't know a much about, but I usually end up forgetting what I did yesterday, how old I am, how old my daughter is, birthdays other than my daughter's and my own.

People are different, so empathy is key in communication, I'm not too good with empathy, but I try not expect others to behave as I would.

The filesystem is horrible too.

Isn't Belarus a dictatorship? If so, that's such a nice thing for a dictator to do.