I do wonder if these will fundamentally be different OS's or just track each other forever.

Yeah, but Apple's got the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act) to worry about. They /can't/ pay bribes.

Apple made the ref-counting choice decades ago and now has to keep supporting it to maintain compatibility with their APIs.

I don't know who's dumb enough to be surprised that any technology can singularly solve a problem as large as privacy.
Tor solves the network connection problem, moderately well. There's more to privacy than that, and it's ridiculous to expect Tor to solve that all by itself.

Big surprise! If you use tor to log into facebook, facebook knows who you are! Where's the outrage?!?!

Poop, I read the headline and thought it was about Vector Grafix, Ltd., the early 3-D games company (ie. the "3-D wireframe Star Wars" company). I would have definitely loved a retrospective on that, especially how they were able to do 3-D on limited hardware in the 1980s.

SCTP, for one, doesn't have any encryption. QUIC integrates a TLS layer into it, in a way that avoids a lot of connection setup time. The best you could do in SCTP is to put it under DTLS, which won't be as fast. Second, SCTP has horrible fragmentation behavior -- NDATA was supposed to help, but didn't make it in. It uses TCP's congestion window system over the entire association, while QUIC also has pacing. And looking at RFC2960, you'll see the names: Motorola, Cisco, Siemens, Nortel, Ericsson, and Telecordia. Generally someone has to pay engineers to make the standards.

As for the article, the UDP vs TCP discussion is a red herring. AFAICT, QUIC's use of UDP is for compatibility with existing IP infrastructure.

I guess they don't teach English at this school either.

I do lots of scientific computing (radio astronomy signal processing) on consumer-level NVIDIA cards and it is *all* FP32. These kinds of cards (and the 12GB of mem) could be very useful for my work, and others who do DSP-type of *scientific* computing.

Yes. In fact, exactly this has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

What is amazing about this is that you perfectly described Fringe, another JJ franchise. Which was also, ultimately, a massive disappointment.

IMAP uses TLS.

There will always be people willing to capitalize on the ignorance of others. O'Brien may be laughable, but he wasn't the first, nor was Michael Synergy, nor will either of them be the last.

PhD in industry here, I interview a candidate a week.

I'll keep it simple. Every time that you didn't feel like you did well in an interview question, go home and study to get better at those questions.

Unless you're applying to a research lab, realize that you're applying to jobs that you're probably underqualified for. Your PhD says that you haven't been making production quality code for a few years.

E.g. Learn the damn stl containers. It takes a fucking weekend. They have very similar APIs and are mostly sensible. Just because you finished a PhD doesn't mean that you're done learning, much the opposite.

There's an offline gmail chrome app that lets you work that way. Also, turn on two-factor for them. They can receive the number via SMS, and it'll help prevent them from being phished. Once set up, it's easy to understand how to do it, and they only need do it every month. (There are a few email providers that provide 2-factor).

gmail can check a pop3 account on your behalf, and you can set your 'from' address (I haven't checked the constraints on what you can set it to...). So there's not necessarily a need to change email addresses to use gmail.

if gmail is blocked, then you're in an unusual situation where nobody here can give you good advice without knowing more about what's going on.

I'm advocating gmail here for three reasons:
(1) Really good spam filters and phishing warnings that can help keep out scams
(2) Two-factor authentication
(3) Easy setup with a chromebook.

With the last, they can keep all their stuff on drive (and you can just log into drive to help them), and you can chromote in to see their desktop and help. Even video-chat while chromoting.

Much less define what "general intelligence" means, beyond "solve problems I can solve, but not necessarily the ones that I can't."