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The 15% cap likely only applies to IRS-reportable gains on the congressperson's personal tax return. That unfortunately doesn't preclude insider trading by spouses, within IRA accounts, or within wholly or partially owned c-corporations controlled by the congressperson or a close family member.

We need a federal law that says: "the definition of material non-public information (MNPI) is extended to mean any non-public information those in federal, state, or local government are privy to that may affect securities prices, and individuals in or adjacent to government are equally subject to prosecution for trading on it".


I think a better counter is the question "Is there a meaningful difference between binary discretization and Planck units? Aren't those discrete/indivisible as well?"

That's not really a good counter - Planck units are not a discretization. Space-time is continuous in all quantum models, two objects can very well be 6.75 Planck lengths away from each other. The math of QM or QFT actually doesn't work on a discretized spacetime, people have tried.

I should add one thing here: no theory that is consistent with special relativity can work on a discretized spacetime, because of the structure of the Lorrentz transform. If a distance appears to be 5 Planck units to you, it will appear to be 2.5 Planck units to someone moving at half the speed of light relative to you in the direction of that distance.

2 is only weirder if you don't already accept non-material reality, i.e. the proposition There exist real things that are not themselves composed of matter and/or energy.

That's crossing into metaphysics, which isn't usually a welcome topic here, but the fact remains that more than 80% of the current and prior world population believes/believed in a non-material reality.

The persistence and stickiness of that belief throughout history ought to at least make us sit up and pay attention. Something's going on, and it's not a mere historic lack of scientific rigor, notwithstanding science's penchant for filling gaps people previously attributed to spiritual causes. That near-universal reflex to attribute things to spiritual causes in the first place is what's interesting - why do people not merely say the cause is "something physical we don't understand"?


Tiger got to hunt,

Bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"

Tiger got to sleep,

Bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand.

—Kurt Vonnegut


Ubiquiti is really taking up the slack in some areas Apple has abandoned.

I bought a UNAS-2 (and a couple of 12 TB IronWolf Pro drives) a few months ago when the "time capsule will not be supported in a future version of macOS" warning first appeared. It has been outstanding alongside the rest of my UniFi setup, and perfectly supports Time Machine backups. The UniFi Identity macOS app means my family's computers always stay authenticated/connected and my wife & kids don't have to do anything to make Time Machine just work.

If you're a power user who loves the Apple aesthetic and you already have a UniFi setup at home, you'll feel right at home switching from Time Capsule to a UNAS.


What format is the destination drive? My ideal is APFS clone backups to a remote drive, but I don't know if there are any network setups that support that, even though you can do it to a local drive.

I was under the impression that's how SMB TimeMachine backups work currently

Have you tried it also working to backup files from Linux and windows machines ? Was hoping for a good mixed backup solution and I'm getting Ubiquiti would deliver here.

Also why the 12TB ironwolf drives specifically ? Personally I always was a fan of buying true enterprise (the ones designed for "online" or near line storage) but sometimes specific models and sizes of random drives do very well in Backblaze testing


I don't have any Linux/Windows machines, but I've seen nothing that would dissuade me from using it when I eventually migrate my current laptop to Asahi Linux.

As for IronWolf Pro drives, I chose them because they seem to have similar longevity to enterprise drives with less noise (my equipment is in a closet under the stairs).


I'm baffled as to why folks downvoted this.

They discontinued sales in 2018, but continued to support Time Capsule backup over AFP through macOS 26 (Tahoe).

It's been more than a decade since they replaced AFP with SMB as the default protocol for file sharing, and they've been warning that AFP would be going away for years.

Yeah but AFP is still performing way better than SMB on Mac for any fast networking. Like 10GigE and faster. Apple SMB stack is a disaster, and thoroughly unprofessional. NFS is faster, too, but unfortunately the Finder, being the rat nest of bugs it is, has often trouble with NFS shares.

macOS 26 still has a hard kernel panic if you try to mount an NFS share with krb5 auth but don’t have a valid Kerberos ticket. 100% reproducible.

Every OS update I try mounting with no ticket, get a panic, fill in the error reporting dialog with a nice “hope you had a nice holiday break!” message or whatever is seasonally appropriate, with the same simple steps to reproduce. It’s just kinda comical at this point.

My guess is kerberized NFS has absolutely zero users within Apple, and it’s likely hard to find an engineer there who even knows what Kerberos is anymore.

I used to work at Apple and I’d have filed a radar for it but now I’m just a customer so I’m powerless.


> I used to work at Apple and I’d have filed a radar for it but now I’m just a customer so I’m powerless.

I filed a radar while working there on a bug that was introduced in 2009 and it's still not fixed because it was low in the stack and the person responsible for it said they didn't think it was wise to make changes that late in the beta cycle (it was close to the annual release). It's never been fixed. I stopped checking major releases about five or six years ago.


Hah. I actually had opendirectory, OSX clients, and CentOS/RedHat clients running krb5 NFS off of netapp filers circa … 2008? Lots and lots of NFS in the (mansfield) hardware org at that time. I think krb on osx started getting hard around 2010 when they moved tickets and other credentials to a process aware in memory store. Became difficult to use TGT or machine identity for automation.

And yes, Im sure theres a very lonely radar bug for this. But even MM of revenue wont fix “edge cases” like this.


Yup, judging by your username I was on your team! I’m Ken, I was in that org 2011-2013. You were one of the best teammates I had, you taught me a lot.

Small world!


Nice! Awesome coincidence, happy to hear from you. I feel like that team was somehow both the tail end of the system admin hacker era and on the forefront of what would become “devops” and system management infra. And now, cloud… cloud, as far as the eye can see.

It's been a while since I worked at Apple, but back in the day the entire OS X Server team made extensive use of kerberized NFS shares for moving around large files...

...the last version of Server shipped in 2021 (and the last real version shipped almost a decade before that).


Apple was still using Kerberos when I was there not that long ago.

Hmm, the more I think about I think you’re right, they likely still do use kerberized nfs, but I think the auth layer they use is… different. Without giving too much away, the internal SSO software ends up either wrapping or providing Kerberos tickets in some way, so I’m imagining that code path doesn’t panic.

In fact that’s probably the clue… everyone internally at Apple using krb5 auth with nfs is probably using the internal SSO software and the code path for “vanilla” Kerberos (ie. Ticket Viewer.app and so on) has zero testing. Maybe I’ll write that into the next crash tracer report I type up :-D


If you want a slightly different black hole to send your report to, you could use Feedback Assistant: https://developer.apple.com/feedback-assistant/

What's the panic?

IIRC I had some really nasty move/duplication issues with NFS the last time I tried it in Finder.app. (and the whole UID mess)

It's not "officially" supported, but iFixit has a guide for swapping the drive on a time capsule. I used mine with a 4TB drive for years with no trouble.

Sure, but still just a single drive.

My old trusty readynas should still work i think.. probalby. Supports smd for time machine and smb3 generally. If it doesn't I might finally be pushed onto a nas that isn't discontinued.


From a risk assessment standpoint, I’ve seen my Time Machine backups corrupted much more frequently than I’ve experienced drive failure. Happened with both my Time Capsule and then my Synology RAID.

It’s a “nice to have” automatic backup, but not a primary backup destination for me.


I had an early ReadyNAS that was a champ for years. I wonder if the fact that it was based on SPARC had anything to do with its longevity.

the one i have is my second readynas.. its a later one and is x86 but it's still kickin'. The first failed suddenly so i bought the second hoping to migrate the disks, but they changed the architecture so that wouldn't work. I determined that all that happened to the first was that the power supply gave up. Sourced one from ebay and it was back to working but i went ahead and did a migration then gave the old one to a friend. It's apparently also still doing just fine.

Personally, a static analysis PR check to catch some types of preventable runtime production errors in application code

I too deeply appreciate the commitment to user privacy they've demonstrated. Their head of user privacy is a man of integrity and commitment.

At the same time, privacy on internet-connected devices is like true liberty and justice -- rare, precious, fragile, and easily lost without active pursuit and sacrifice.

I hope Temus has the courage and principle to keep fighting the good fight.


Perhaps the author is being outwardly cautious but knowingly borderline-obtuse as a form of protest against a dumb law.


> This too is universal

Could that be used to derive trigonometric functions with single distinct expressions?


The exp and ln are infinite series. Exp is roughly the infinite series for cos AND the infinite series for sin. Hiding that every op is an infinite series behind a name doesn’t make things free. It just makes even trivial ops like 1+2 vastly more work.


They are not infinite series per se. They can be represented by infinite series in several ways but there are standard ways to define them that do not involve infinite series. The logarithm in particular is not even represented by an infinite series (in form of Taylor expansion) defined in the whole complex plane. And knowledge/use of trigonometric functions greatly precedes such infinite series representations.

Moreover, the point is not always numerical computation. I don’t think anybody argues that eml sounds like an efficient way to compute elementary functions numerically. It may or may not still be useful for symbolic computations.

The article is about producing all elementary functions, which 1/(x-y) clearly doesn’t, as it doesn’t produce any transcendental function. Like many of such universality-style results it may not have practical applications, but may still be interesting on its own right.


Any transcendental function can be produced by arithmetic, since its complete for R.

Go ahead and show how to compute exp or ln without an infinite series without circular reasoning. You can’t, since they’re transcendental.

There are infinitely many ways to make these binary operators. Picking extremely high compute cost ones really doesn’t make a good basis for computation.


> Any transcendental function can be produced by arithmetic, since its complete for R.

Not without some form of limit process or construction. You can approximate e with the basic arithmetic operations but not actually get an exact form in finite steps. And you definitely cannot transverse an infinite binary tree, so the main point of the result in the article is missed by your arguments.

Again, you are mixing separate things. Nobody said that eml is some way to approximate elementary functions more efficiently. It is a way to express elementary functions in a finite amount of operations. Meaning, computing symbolically, not numerically. Eg I may care that exp(3)*exp(2)=exp(5) without caring to approximate exp(5) numerically. The paper is literally under "Computer Science > Symbolic Computation", not "numerical analysis" or "engineering" after all.

And to be precise:

> Go ahead and show how to compute exp or ln without an infinite series without circular reasoning. You can’t, since they’re transcendental.

You don't necessarily need "infinite series", you need some limit process. A basic example is that exp(x) can be approximated by (1 + x/n)^n for large n. For the logarithm you can use a formula involving the arithmetic–geometric mean which you can approximate using an iterative process/recursion without infinite series. You can also approximate the exponential by using Newton's method together with that, see [0].

[0] Fast Computations of the Exponential Function https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49116-3_28


Yep, I’ve written numerical methods papers, and am very well aware of the field.

A limit process is a definition. Try computing with it. You’ll end up with an infinite sequence, or an approximation.

An iterative process is an infinite series. They’re equivalent.

Newtons method is the same. Completely equivalent to an infinite series as you increase precision.

And both require constants, infinitely precise. So you’re still not doing anything the 1/(x-y) operation cannot do, and to do those series you’ll compute using things amenable to being done via ops easy to do by hand or machine via the 1/(x-y) op.


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