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It’s akin to a qi charger, but also securely attaches to the phone magnetically.


Disagree. If one has physical access to your machine, they also have physical access to you. Practically everyone is vulnerable to rubber hose cryptanalysis.


Right, because every stolen laptop automatically comes with an abduction of the owner? No, getting "hardware access" to a human is much harder (more expensive in the best case and riskier in terms of drastic punishment) than for a laptop, even more so if you want to go undetected.


It would fail, too. ‘CON’ has been a reserved name since the days of DOS (actually CP/M, though that doesn’t have direct lineage to Windows) where it acted as a device name for the console. You can still use it that way. In a CMD window:

`type CON > file.txt`, then type some stuff and press CTRL+Z.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/namin...


This is a Win32-ism rather than an NT-ism. This will work:

    mkdir \\.\C:\COM1


China gets to project and grow their leadership in the EV space outside the Mainland while increasing their importance in a country that’s part of the US’s sphere of influence. Big win.


Seveneves is the only Stephenson book I haven’t reread, and it’s because I don’t want to encounter that event again.

I suppose I understand why he made that choice, but I don’t have to like it.


Do you want to catch a chair to the side of the head? Because this is how you catch a chair to the side of the head.


Even worse, many times SUVs are built on the same chassis as cars. Honda builds both the HR-V and CR-V on the Civic chassis, the Toyota RAV-4 is a Corolla underneath, and the Ford Escape is built on the Focus. This means many mid-sized SUVs are just tall cars.


I switch bt my Camry and my partner's Sportage. The Kia is a lumbering fatsuit of a vehicle only carrying marginally more cargo and feels like a cartoon beach buggy. But as a nation organized for war, we're conditioned to worship infrastructure, uniforms, equipment, clipboards, and the like.


It feels that way because it is. Depending on the age of your partner’s Sportage, it’s a Hyundai Elantra or Sonata in a fatsuit.


It has to do with the fact that “[a]t $2.5 billion per mile, construction costs for the 1.8-mile Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway were 8 to 12 times more expensive than similar subway projects in Italy, Istanbul, Sweden, Paris, Berlin and Spain”[0], repeated for every activity they undertake.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/in-nyc-su...


Matryoshka virtualization


Sockets remap pages without moving any data while pipes have to copy the data between fds.


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