Ah, that makes sense. I didn't realize from the screenshot that the colored circles are radio buttons.
If the change for the "before/after" color bars only removes the gray space between the bars, I think this is an improvement. Found it surprisingly hard to determine if the color bars are identical with that space inbetween. Maybe there is some unintended optical illusion at play.
That doesn’t make much sense and seems quite nonsensical. Are you really sure about that?
And if so, wouldn’t this or how it’s possible differ greatly between phones were the GNSS and cellular radio are separate isolated components in contrast to ones where they are the same component running a unified firmware?
For example, on the most recent Google Pixels, gnss is provided by the Qualcomm baseband, with it and for example cellular implemented by separate separate sandboxed process on their rtos.
Could someone confirm if they do any non consensual data sharing?
But on the ones with Exynos modem, GNSS is a separate chip from a different company (Broadcom iirc).
All the kernel drivers are open source. And the userspace gal blobs are sandboxed with selinux and other.
And the modem and GNSS chip are isolated unprivileged components, like on most modern phones similar components are.
Surely if this what you said was the case that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny, and it would be documented by all the major aosp based alternate os.
The Qualcomm modem pixels are sometimes stated as having security advantages, as Qualcomm does a better job hardening their firmware than Samsung, use a nice micro kernel.
But it is difficult to find discussions of the potential for the different functionalities provided all in one chip as sandboxed processes to share data (like WiFi bt on these pixels also on same chip iirc) without consent of OS.
If the threat model is you trust the soc, and want to rely on the Linux kernel and os to maintain separation instead of Qualcomm, don’t trust the baseband to not act maliciously, couldn’t this be considered potential downgrade ?
I'm not an expert on the baseband implementations, but I have the same impression as the parent, that in the 3GPP protocols the devices location can be requested and it's processed without any OS level interaction.
There's no end to arguing with someone who claims they don't understand something, they could always just keep repeating "nevertheless I don't understand it"... You could keep shifting the goalposts for "real understanding" until one is required to hold the effects of every training iteration on every single parameter in their minds simultaneously. Obviously "we" understand some things (both low level and high level) to varying degrees and don't understand some others. To claim there is nothing left to know is silly but to claim that nothing is understood about high-level emergence is silly as well.
Is there a book or paper where I can read a description of how high-level emergent behavior works? The papers I've seen are researchers trying to puzzle it out with probes, and their insights are very limited in scope and there is always a lot more research to be done.
To someone who is shocked at the prevalence of female genital mutilation in other cultures, the widespread acceptance of other types of genital mutilation in (probably) their own culture is an important piece of context, I'd say.
Whether removing the tip of your finger or the whole arm, the imposition on bodily autonomy is equal. It is a violation of your personal sovereignty at the deepest level.
Absolutely. Let's switch away from fingernails to hair because that's something I can talk about with person experience. I have long hair, plenty of people have jokingly threatened to cut it in my sleep or such. To have my hair cut like that would impart no physical injury or ailment to me at all, but it would be such a severe violation of my bodily autonomy that I would have no reservation about considering it assault and bringing charges as such.
I think your point is that fingernails are just a bit of extraneous keratin that is universally removed as part of grooming and so the violation cannot be equal to having your entire arm removed, but perhaps you forget the many women and some men out there who like to decorate their fingernails and that this is an expression of self.
My point was merely that it's a matter of degree, and while having part of your fingernail removed against your consent is assault, it's not exactly the same thing as having your whole arm removed.
It does nod in its direction, though. Or at least it used to. Mass production printing was high overhead, and publishers had reputations to protect. That wasn't perfect but they'd usually try to avoid the worst propaganda.
(Or at least shove it off onto an imprint with less of a reputation. Or into a category, like Self Help, where people know its shaky relationship to truth.)
It was far from perfect. But these days the publishing gatekeepers have largely lost the battle. People prefer the hot takes they get from tv and social media.
From wikipedia it sounds like the advantage is not really speed of recharging but just that it will repeatedly fire for as long as the lever is turned without any other actions or pauses needed in between. Maybe not losing 10% (or whatever?) of the time on bolt feeding was sufficient advantage? Maybe the ease of operation in a hectic battle situation was advantage enough? Or maybe the continuous power requirement made it more feasible to use multiple soldiers at once working at higher speed, without them having to synchronize starting/stopping/waiting every x seconds?
I think rahimnathwani's point was not that they get extra pay so it's fine, but that it seems economically irrational to overwork fewer staff if it's actually more expensive.
Here in Norway it's similar with doctors, they get paid a lot because they work crazy hours. But the doctors' association is fighting to keep it that way, as the old timers who didn't burn out along the way enjoys the high pay more than their spare time.
It's hard to argue you're underpaid if, as a result of short staffing, you're getting paid more (both in absolute terms and per unit of effort) than you signed up for.
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