I realize it might be easier to write a puzzle than solve one. Writing them seems quite hard at first, but you have the solution and can choose words to break into clues, and from there do the same again until you have a properly complex puzzle.
Congratulations on getting it picked up by the Atlantic.
The S in RISC does not stand for simple. What the? If someone's going to write about assembly programming, they should at least know what CISC and RISK are.
I'm not saying 6502 assembly can't be an interesting endeavor, but it's a bit restrictive for a first language. Maybe if you already know some low-level programming like C. But it's still easier to do things with a few more registers. And it's not like you have to use every register and instruction available on the CPU to write some assembly.
I asked Framework that repeatedly, but no progress. I think they might be violating EU Regulation 2018/302, which is rather common, mostly due to ignorance. The problem is that it is rather hard to enforce such regulation to non-EU/EEA companies. You can still send your wishes to support@frame.work.
Update: you can buy from Norway now, but you need to get it shipped to a different country. You need to select a different country and then chose a billing address different from the shipping one. The message that the website displays on not being able to order from Norway is misleading, and it looks like no email to Norwegian customers has been sent with respect to this possibility. Not perfect, but they got better.
Talking about rabbit-holes. I used to have prototype OS/2 PowerPC 64-bit hardware from IBM before they killed the project. I should have kept that early EFI-based system. When the EFI boot sequence would panic, you would get an error message of "Danger Will Robinson".
Mixing personal and work data in the same directories on disk can be an issue. Requires extra work to cleanly separate private stuff and confidential work stuff.
This is still very general, and in opposition to the previous advice. A solution to this seems to be "use separate directories", not "use separate machines".
Using separate directories makes improper deletion likely.
Using separate computers with full-disk encryption and shredding procedures makes proper deletion a happy path.
It's not that you cannot properly isolate environments on a single computer.
It's that a single computer is, unless you're a Qubes/BSD/Hypervisor fanatic, not very isolated at all.
So if/when your personal computer gets compromised because of a browser zero-day, your work's intellectual property is potentially compromised.
When you combine that with likely not deleting files properly (or at all), the window of opportunity for IP theft is much bigger.
When you further add the complete unlikeliness that former employees/contractors will report that their personal computers were compromised after having neglected to properly purge your intellectual property, the case for buying your employees/contractors dedicated machinery becomes a no-brainer. Simply from a corporate risk perspective.
It's not a practical problem, but a principal + legal problem.
I fully agree it's a legal problem, which is what my point was from the beginning — depending on the circumstances, it might apply to you or not.
Companies both have to have a set of "processes" in place for legal/compliance reasons, and an employee is liable if they do something that's outside the recommended practice (like using a personal device when forbidden by such policies).
Still, the focus should be on liability and ensuring compliance with legal terms, and an employee needs to make sure they do that. In some cases, that's easier done with a separate computer. In others (when there is no direct spelled-out requirement), downsides of using a separate device outweight the benefits of making compliance with legal terms easier.
As a side note, a browser zero-day is probably even more likely to target work computers, so that example is pretty bad — company data remaining on personal devices by accident is where the problem really is.
Comparing unbinned to unbinned, you get 10 P cores on the M4 Pro and 12 on the M4 Max. Regardless the original comment was regarding the M3 series, where there was an even larger difference between the M3 Pro and M3 Max (6 vs 10 P cores).
I realize it might be easier to write a puzzle than solve one. Writing them seems quite hard at first, but you have the solution and can choose words to break into clues, and from there do the same again until you have a properly complex puzzle.
Congratulations on getting it picked up by the Atlantic.
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