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A blog post and the commiseration of HN randos does not a revolution make.

You're not patriotic unless you willingly overpay for things, you know.

Nobody cares what you would personally spend on a vehicle. The point is that it's a very good value, relatively speaking, for a new vehicle of its class.

> The 2027 Camry and the 2027 Escape both start at under $30,000.

Those are marketing prices. Almost no vehicles you can buy at dealers are available at those base prices. They almost always have packages and other upgrades pre-installed to meet customer demand.

Have you seen the Xiaomi SU7 yet? It's a very nice piece of kit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdSusCDZcDg

They'd sell even more if Americans and Canadians could buy them without paying punitive tariffs.

> How is that working out in China where Apple caved and gave the CCP control of the HSMs?

Do you have a reference to this?

`iptables -I INPUT 1 -m u32 --u32 '0>>24&0x0f=6:15' -j DROP`

(Taken from https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-160-...)

You can also use the following Suricata rule if your network firewall supports it:

`drop ip any any -> any any (msg:"CVE-2026-98432: drop IPv4 packets carrying IP options (IHL > 5)"; ipv4.hdr; bsize:>20; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:1000001; rev:2;)`

Firewalls can operate at Layer 7, too. The “F” in “WAF” stands for “firewall.”

As if engineers, especially those writing software to handle financial transactions (which are usually in regulated businesses), don’t know how to write conformance tests with invariant cases.

Good luck with that.

Maybe not Bitcoin in particular, but other cryptocurrencies might do. Consider that for a very long time (and possibly still), ransomware attackers were demanding payment in Bitcoin, so these traceability considerations might not be as dissuasive as you might believe.

Bitcoin’s price volatility also seems no worse than the possibility of losses of cash due to theft.

The real value in crypto is for storing black market currency. Before, it had to be stored in cash where it could be stolen by other criminals or confiscated by law enforcement. (Watch Narcos if you want to see a pretty good dramatization of how Pablo Escobar buried his money in caches around Colombia.) If Bitcoin was around at the time, Escobar certainly would have used that instead.

It does have speculative value, as well, but I suspect that if you subtract speculative investments, the remaining total market cap of crypto is the value of criminal profit.

And how might you solve this problem? Consider that nobody else has to date.

Do you think there should be a market for voluntary live organ transplants?

The more you learn about CPU design and the tradeoffs involved across different performance dimensions, the less surprised you become over time. :-)

Historically speaking, the Pro/Max versions of the chips have become available at around the same time the next-generation base chip does. So, M4 Pro/Max shipped when M5 shipped, M5 Pro/Max shipped when M6 shipped, and so forth.

I'm curious as to how the touch feature will work (if at all) with privacy screens.

Historically speaking, the Pro/Max versions of the chips have become available at around the same time the next-generation base chip does. So, M4 Pro/Max shipped when M5 shipped, M5 Pro/Max shipped when M6 shipped, and so forth.

If the remote machine doesn’t have the right support for your terminal, what do you suggest?

Minor nit: in a legal context, the word is "quashed" - e.g., quashing a subpoena.

Source article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/presidential-record...

How much did you shell out for this setup? What’s the TTFT and the output tokens/sec rate? How much electricity does it consume?

That’s pretty dismissive and insulting to a wide swath of people who in fact are experts and have decades of professional practice under their belts. I don’t think you get a very good reception if you went to a DefCon or B-Sides and said that aloud.

The evidence is that it’s happening right in front of our eyes. The fear and anxiety are driven by some people’s natural responses to that, as they see it, too.

I’m not going to produce a laundry list of how it’s already impacting engineering productivity and practice. You can look that up yourself.

How closely do you work with it already? How is your company retooling around it?

Unfortunately yes, but we’re working to improve that :-)

Those are completely made-up numbers. We don’t pay anywhere near that. About 10% of our cloud spend is on observability, and I targeted 15%.

That or you’re getting suckered.

The time series are derived from the events.

Is it really that cost prohibitive? Actual numbers would be useful to make sense of this discussion.

The question comes down to value. If you’re never actually using the data, fine. But once you need it, and you don’t have it, might the cost sometimes be greater than it would have been to preserve it?

The choice of how much telemetry to keep seems similar to how much you want to spend on an insurance policy. The same kinds of risk evaluation apply.