I've been using DeleteMe. It generally works well, with two caveats: 1. They seem to largely rely on automated or semi-automated workflows, and that sometimes breaks down. For me, they removed ~95% of the stuff, but I…
> if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers. That's not even true within the ARM ecosystem itself. The chips from Infineon are not source-code compatible with STM, STM is not compatible with Microchip,…
It feels like you're making a bad-faith argument here. You can implement 'yes' in a straightforward way in a couple lines of C, too. main(int argc, char** argv) { while (1) { if (argc > 1) for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)…
While I'm sure the FCC has an end game of actually mandating these labels, the vast majority of IoT devices are not exposed to the internet and just aren't a major attack vector in most environments. How much money and…
It's really no different than people who pay more than they need to for a car or a home. It's some combination of it being a status symbol and an "I can afford it and it's fun" kind of a deal. There is a variety of…
It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the "hit by lightning" territory. It's very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this…
People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh…
Facilities and real estate are among the most significant expenses for any tech company in a prime location such as Seattle or SFBA. If remote work turned out to work flawlessly, there would be a huge financial…
I Can Eat Glass was definitely a thing, but in the late 1990s or perhaps very early 2000s. Sites such as knowyourmeme.com don't go nearly as far back.
High-performance STM32 chips have been in short supply since 2019, with backorder times in the range of years. There's a reason why you don't see a whole lot of hobby boards using them today. So, as a hobbyist, I…
I know a bunch of ex-Googlers who spent 8+ years with the company, and what cracks me up is that they all have some version of this "how the mighty have fallen" story, but it's always relative to their tenure dates.…
Yes. There's plenty of rodents in urban and suburban areas, but above all, cats have an inborn instinct to murder small critters for fun, and don't need to be taught that. Rodents are their strong preference, but if…
> People are listening to white noise podcasts when regular white noise is available at a cheaper licensing cost. There is something incredibly surreal about this statement.
This is precisely what put me off in these discussions. Not the idea that we might have found a room-temperature superconductor - that part was exciting. It's the part where people confidently talked about its…
Does this include line employees who worked at Google or Facebook or Microsoft if the company is found liable for doing something sketchy? The sums sure are substantial. You can argue they know their employer was no…
I'm not aware of any laws in the US or in Europe that generically prevent "phoning home". There are laws that limit your ability to collect certain types of sensitive information without some quasi-meaningful user…
I think it's easy to come up with such delineation after the fact, but OP was looking for a more comforting answer. By the sound of it, they just didn't like the implications of the initial diagnosis. It wasn't about…
> You can thank Mel Gibson and industry lobbying Why do we always need a boogeyman? Melatonin appears nearly harmless. Isn't it strange that we've grown so accustomed to so many things being restricted that we're taken…
> People do it all the time and to far greater extremes. A mortgage to buy a house to raise a family at 30 instead of waiting until 60 is also a form of consumption smoothing. I wasn't advocating against risk-taking. I…
I mean no disrespect, but this reads a bit like an over-confident take of a person who never went through a financial calamity. A bit like leveraged house-flippers of 2006. The value of your margin loan collateral can…
Mandatory? Unless I'm seriously out of the loop, I don't think there are mandatory annual wellness checks in the US?
I think the argument rings hollow to me mostly because it's not that Harvard has to charge this much. I'm sure they could be providing the same quality of education for 1/5th the price. In fact, with the endowments many…
Yeah, it would be sad for Harvard to get unaffordable.
> With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. I've heard this repeated nearly verbatim in a couple of places, and it's such a puzzling framing. Why was this practice…
Right, but that voltage modulation scheme can be distorted by the changing electrical characteristics of your car. Again, imagine a diesel heater kicking in, or windshield wipers, or some other variable load (phone…
I've been using DeleteMe. It generally works well, with two caveats: 1. They seem to largely rely on automated or semi-automated workflows, and that sometimes breaks down. For me, they removed ~95% of the stuff, but I…
> if you go RISC-V, you are free to switch CPU providers. That's not even true within the ARM ecosystem itself. The chips from Infineon are not source-code compatible with STM, STM is not compatible with Microchip,…
It feels like you're making a bad-faith argument here. You can implement 'yes' in a straightforward way in a couple lines of C, too. main(int argc, char** argv) { while (1) { if (argc > 1) for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)…
While I'm sure the FCC has an end game of actually mandating these labels, the vast majority of IoT devices are not exposed to the internet and just aren't a major attack vector in most environments. How much money and…
It's really no different than people who pay more than they need to for a car or a home. It's some combination of it being a status symbol and an "I can afford it and it's fun" kind of a deal. There is a variety of…
It is not common at all. You have maybe several people dying every year, which is in the "hit by lightning" territory. It's very well-publicized whenever it happens, which probably helps keep the numbers low. But this…
People in Germany and France buy about as much cheap junk and have about as much attachment to material belongings. Which I don't blame them for, but it's remarkable that in both countries, it's fashionable to pooh-pooh…
Facilities and real estate are among the most significant expenses for any tech company in a prime location such as Seattle or SFBA. If remote work turned out to work flawlessly, there would be a huge financial…
I Can Eat Glass was definitely a thing, but in the late 1990s or perhaps very early 2000s. Sites such as knowyourmeme.com don't go nearly as far back.
High-performance STM32 chips have been in short supply since 2019, with backorder times in the range of years. There's a reason why you don't see a whole lot of hobby boards using them today. So, as a hobbyist, I…
I know a bunch of ex-Googlers who spent 8+ years with the company, and what cracks me up is that they all have some version of this "how the mighty have fallen" story, but it's always relative to their tenure dates.…
Yes. There's plenty of rodents in urban and suburban areas, but above all, cats have an inborn instinct to murder small critters for fun, and don't need to be taught that. Rodents are their strong preference, but if…
> People are listening to white noise podcasts when regular white noise is available at a cheaper licensing cost. There is something incredibly surreal about this statement.
This is precisely what put me off in these discussions. Not the idea that we might have found a room-temperature superconductor - that part was exciting. It's the part where people confidently talked about its…
Does this include line employees who worked at Google or Facebook or Microsoft if the company is found liable for doing something sketchy? The sums sure are substantial. You can argue they know their employer was no…
I'm not aware of any laws in the US or in Europe that generically prevent "phoning home". There are laws that limit your ability to collect certain types of sensitive information without some quasi-meaningful user…
I think it's easy to come up with such delineation after the fact, but OP was looking for a more comforting answer. By the sound of it, they just didn't like the implications of the initial diagnosis. It wasn't about…
> You can thank Mel Gibson and industry lobbying Why do we always need a boogeyman? Melatonin appears nearly harmless. Isn't it strange that we've grown so accustomed to so many things being restricted that we're taken…
> People do it all the time and to far greater extremes. A mortgage to buy a house to raise a family at 30 instead of waiting until 60 is also a form of consumption smoothing. I wasn't advocating against risk-taking. I…
I mean no disrespect, but this reads a bit like an over-confident take of a person who never went through a financial calamity. A bit like leveraged house-flippers of 2006. The value of your margin loan collateral can…
Mandatory? Unless I'm seriously out of the loop, I don't think there are mandatory annual wellness checks in the US?
I think the argument rings hollow to me mostly because it's not that Harvard has to charge this much. I'm sure they could be providing the same quality of education for 1/5th the price. In fact, with the endowments many…
Yeah, it would be sad for Harvard to get unaffordable.
> With the end of affirmative action, legacy status in admissions becomes much harder to justify. I've heard this repeated nearly verbatim in a couple of places, and it's such a puzzling framing. Why was this practice…
Right, but that voltage modulation scheme can be distorted by the changing electrical characteristics of your car. Again, imagine a diesel heater kicking in, or windshield wipers, or some other variable load (phone…