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://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FForeign_Corrupt_Practices_Act) to worry about. They /can't/ pay bribes.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

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

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

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?!?!

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.

IMAP uses TLS.

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."

It's a lovely device, really. But windows, eww. I'd get one for myself, but the keyboard doesn't work with Linux, and is too cramped for my ogre hands.

Or equivalently "Graduate students are being exploited."

If enough of them have young kids (and your 40+ years - 10 puts many of your peers in the mid-30s), then they'll be going through the same stuff, only have less experience. Come in as the voice of wisdom and experience. It's useful!

Just don't spend too much time talking about old systems. Some older programmers do that, and it just distances themselves unnecessarily. Having used an older system isn't a technical merit, it's just saying that you're old. Interesting anecdotes, special features, and spectacular failures of old systems, however, are fun to hear.