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No one. They were using an example to demonstrate why you can't compare these numbers. There is missing data.


Uninstalling didn't seem to work for me after reboot. If that doesn't work for you, try disabling it:

1. Install your new launcher through play store. (I used the Basic Launcher as well).

2. Settings -> Device Preferences -> About. Scroll to "Build" and click on it until it pops up that you are a developer (it will give you a countdown)

3. Settings -> Device Preferences -> Developer options (this was just unlocked in step 2) -> Network debugging (this will let you use adb)

4. Install adb (platform tools) on your computer.

5. adb connect <ip address of your shield>

6. adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tvlauncher

7. adb shell reboot

Should find yourself in the launcher you installed Note, I also stopped the google launcher (cleared data/reset defaults)/tested the new launcher in the middle. So if these steps don't seem to work, before doing step 5 try doing those and then retry.


You're a lifesaver. Wasn't able to get the 3rd party launcher going by default. Thanks!


It looks like some of the core parts aren't closed source (but definitely not open source). For example: https://github.com/WickrInc/wickr-crypto-c


I'm going to agree with the others here, this doesn't sound very complicated at all. This is week 1/2 of many programming courses: basic network request, write to a file and fill your app with a bunch of text. For many languages, this is often their intro tutorial. I wouldn't use this as an example that the person can do more advanced stuff.

But I do agree with your sentiment, people doing things like this should apply their talents to better causes.


At my house, I have a meter that I get a feed from. So I look at the graphs. From the graphs, you can learn about what is happening in the house. You know when someone is showering, left home for work (arrived home), doing laundry, went to bed/got up, used the microwave and so on. Some of that you could determine by watching the house, but that requires constant surveillance. A smart meter provides all this data with no effort and at mass scale. If I can glean that level of information just by glancing at the graphs, I'm sure someone better equipped could determine even finer grain details of what is going on in the house.


Except you are still storing the nonce/salt (not sure which you are proposing)...which means you can reverse it, so the data is subpoenable. It doesn't really buy anyone anything, in this scenario. It could help if the logs were stolen, but that isn't what is being discussed here.


was the double-negative intentional? I've used Go for sub-millisecond needs. So 20ms seems like it would be a reasonable choice from where I'm sitting.


It was not intentional, thanks for asking...very unfortunate typo ;)

Go doesn't give you control over inline vs indirect allocation, instead relying on escape analysis, which is notoriously finicky. Seemingly unrelated changes, along with compiler upgrades, can ruin your carefully optimized code.

This is especially heinous because it uses a GC; unnecessary allocations have a disproportionately large impact on your application performance. One or the other wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Time and time again we see reports from organizations/projects with perfectly fine average latency, but horrendous p95+ times, when written in Go - some going as far as to do straight-up insane optimizations (see Dragph) or rewrite in other languages.


But you think this impacts a 20ms budget? It’s mostly trivia to get sub 20ms p99 in Go.


While escape analysis in Go is finky, you can make it part of the CI/CD to keep it under control.

https://medium.com/a-journey-with-go/go-introduction-to-the-...

No different than running other kinds of static analysis for well known languages, unsafe by default.


I don't know, I'm able to get 150k grpc q/sec with p99 sub 1ms. It's def better than G1 and CMS.


There is a lot of weirdness in the wording. They say it helps outside work...but that the app doesn't work except while working.


My current monthly cable subscription is $135 (plus "fees"). And when people say, "cable", they generally mean TV service. For many, that may mean a pricey satellite TV service (very expensive back in the day). Basic cable is likely what you are getting, but many people want to watch sports or movies, which requires premium subscriptions and it adds up quickly.


That's an insane price, and hopefully you can shop around or change packages.


Half the country can't really shop around they need to buy internet alone from the same cable company and then replace TV with netflix hulu etc but long term there isn't much stopping the cable provider from jacking up the price of just internet to what you are paying for TV and internet and claiming to offer you a deal for just a little bit more if you pay THEM for tv.

Hi we've noticed you used to pay us $200 for internet and tv but now pay $100 to use and $50 for streaming services. How would you instead like to pay us 200 for internet and 220 if you want TV too. our $20 tv addon is cheaper than netflix because its subsidized by the monopoly rent we are charging you on internet access! Also we have noticed that despite bandwidth being cheaper than ever we can also discourage your netflix use by also charging extra for using "too much" data.


There’s one wire going into the house usually that carries media, a coaxial cable. Hence, your options were always Dish or DirecTV satellite or the cable company.

Being able to buy and cancel on demand streaming for $15 or less per month is a massive improvement over the previous situation.

It has never been easier, cheaper, and more convenient to consume basically all content and yet people still find ways to complain.


> hopefully you can shop around

i.e., if you're lucky enough to have more than one alternative (if any).


There may be places that have only one provider with only one option in that provider, but are those places really $135/month with all the TV channels? The issue might be paying for things that are already free over the Internet.


> There may be places that have only one provider with only one option in that provider, but are those places really $135/month with all the TV channels?

Yes, I've lived in places where there is one cable company and they abuse their monopoly position with predatory pricing like this. When you're a new customer, they offer you a deal at maybe ~$60/mo and then over the course of a couple years raise the price to over $120/mo, with price increases every year or two after that, as well.


In the U.S. the vast majority of places have only only provider, there is no shopping around. $135/month sounds about right for the complete package. If you're lucky that includes a "special" on including HBO.

Virtually all places have "specials" on the first year of service, wherein the price will increase 50% or even 100% after the first year, which will almost always put you well into the $100+ range.


I understand. For myself, I chose to solve that by not purchasing any TV, cable phone, or any other package and only getting Internet. Internet is the only useful thing for me from all of that, anyway.

If the prices get too high I call them up and cancel. At that time, they try to keep me as a subscriber by giving me lower rates. If they don't have any available I ask when their new packages are coming out and call back a day after that time.


I can assure you there are.

Comcast hides their real rates as well as they can but in some places they are required to publish them. In my rural area (where they are the only real option):

$139.99 gets you "Select+ Includes Limited Basic, Expanded Basic, Digital Preferred Tier and HD programming for primary outlet, 20 Hour DVR Service, and Blast! Internet"

You can't buy ALL the channels as s bundle but the top tier bundle is $189.99/mo (plus fees)

The prices don't sum reasonably at all and it's not really feasible to calculate a price for TV without internet (and its very difficult to order such a thing)

Source: https://comcaststore.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/wk/urc/585bc33c5b...


There may be places? Try half of America.


Depends on what you mean by "well for the acquired company". But if you just mean where the product (or possibly even the brand) went on to be successful, a bunch jump to mind: Pixar, Marvel, Google Maps, Ring, Zappos, Android, Woot!, Gatorade.


I'm impressed by this comment, and curious about what background allowed you to whip up that list.


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