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BorRagnarok··on Leaks indicate 2018 gas attacks in Syria may not have happened
Chlorine is available in every super market, and chemically impossible to distinguish from the type of chlorine used in attacks. Same chemical. Although it is hardly ever used as a weapon, since there are far more effective chemical weapons than Chlorine. Basically, you need a lot of chlorine to kill people.
BorRagnarok··on The F# development home on GitHub is now dotnet/fsharp
Not really, and the highest Core test spews errors in that test. [0]

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

BorRagnarok··on Fukushima 8 years on – photo essay
I'm afraid the link to the article has died or isn't available otherwise, here's the archive.org version https://web.archive.org/web/20180430120502/http://time.com/5...
BorRagnarok··on MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
Interesting. This could mean that Intel actually discovered and thus knew about all those security-holes before the non-Intel researchers did.

Or they're just being awkwardly disingenuous here, that's also a possibility.

BorRagnarok··on It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video
> Looping is up to the video player, not the format or container.

Says who? First of all, it really is debatable if animated gif even is a movie. It has no sound, is usually far shorter than the usual video clip, etc. Second, animated gifs are very often created solely for the purpose of displaying them in a short looping fashion. Third, the fact that all this can be done in a single image format makes them ideal for sharing through the web as well as private chat applications. And fifth, and this is what this is of course all about, sharing short animated gifs gives the user the possibility to share rich content not tied to any private business or entity. You can share 'em via Whatsapp, Telegram, e-mail, usb-stick, have a collection of them stored somewhere, without the need for a Facebook/Google/Amazon account and internet connectivity. You can look lovingly at them, even when your phone is in flight mode. Let's keep it that way. Let's not kill one of the nicest image formats around, and make everybody visit your website to see the embedded movie including horrid player that's supposed to be better but just isn't and never will be. Lot's of companies already did this (hi Twitter) and it's really disheartening to know that while I was able to collect a nice bunch of animated gifs over the years, my kids will probably never have that chance because the file format will just be walled off by the internet giants.

BorRagnarok··on PowerToys – Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
That is a horrible set of shortcuts. Who uses the Game bar or dictation bar? Who needs a shortcut for Settings? Are you really opening your settings screen so often that a shortcut actually improves your efficiency? If so, do you do actual work on your machine or do you just play with Windows on it. How many seconds in a day are you going to save with the Settings shortcut, and isn't that number going negative when counting the time it takes to learn and remember the short cut?

Who needs a shortcut to Ease of Access settings, or to the narrator? Who needs Start+, if you already have Start+D?

Start+Ctrl+D opens a new virtual desktop? Despite me never using virtual desktops? And now I have to learn all about virtual desktops (while I don't need them) to correct my accidentally pressing the Start button too when I was typing Ctrl+D. Thanks guys, for making every key-combo some or the other shortcut for stuff I don't need. My windows experience is quite good but for the growing fear of accidentally hitting some unknown shortcut and screwing things up.

Microsoft, please start removing shortcuts that no one needs, you surely must have all the telemetry data to support my point by now.

BorRagnarok··on Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
Thank you for your constructive argument. I now know I don't need Web Components either ;-)
BorRagnarok··on Russia blocks ProtonMail
1st, Russia is not a 3rd world country. Second, if you'd read the article, it wasn't a case of someone seeing "encrypted email" in a description of protonmail and blocking it, they were having problems with bomb threats.
BorRagnarok··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
From that article: "leading the manufacturer to suspect and insist that the pilot had responded incorrectly"

After a few years of course it was concluded that it wasn't the pilots fault.

I find it appalling that Boeing is always and every time trying its damndest to blame the crew, even before the investigation has concluded. This is a pattern, and imho should be penalized by law. Its disgusting to blame people who are dead and cannot defend themselves against the allegations, when there's no conclusive evidence. I wonder if they apologize to the crews family when they do that and are later found out the be in the wrong. I suspect they couldn't care less though.

BorRagnarok··on Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond
I'm surprised you're surprised. Why wouldn't you want to verify your theory? Look at all the missions to comets we did, they all returned totally unexpected results. Results we wouldn't have if we had never gone out there to verify our theories.
BorRagnarok··on Earth’s Atmosphere Stretches Out to the Moon and Beyond
It's hydrogen atoms as well, which is funny because the solar wind is mainly protons, which is hydrogen minus one electron.

Leaves me wondering if it varies in size much, because electron flow is quite easy.

BorRagnarok··on Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
Good example, but I still think it's better to have conflicting information out there, let people write what they write and read what they read. And above all, think for themselves, or at least try. Sure, a couple of people end up not vaccinating their kids. The rest shouldn't have a problem with that, after all, they do vaccinate, so their kids are protected. It's an extreme example but I don't see anything that warrants curtailing free speech here.

And also, I think science is never settled. Science is a never ending stream of questions, with every answer evoking multiple new questions to be answered. The idea that the "science is settled" has reared it's ugly head multiple times in the past, to be proven wrong every single time. What if bloodletting was as some point considered "settled science" and no discussion of alternatives was allowed? We would still be doing bloodletting, wouldn't we?

BorRagnarok··on Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published
I think censoring the "fake news" is far more dangerous than to just let it exist and have people think for themselves about what's true or false.
BorRagnarok··on EU cross-border payments outside Eurozone: MEPs scrap excessive fees
Wow, look at the percentages these people have been scamming off of everybody for years! That must amount to massive numbers of euro's total. Hilariously, people will be happy with this news.
BorRagnarok··on Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word or Sentence on a Page
I use both, Chrome for client side dev, Firefox for everything else. Chrome is just the dev tool. Works like a charm because switching between tabs inside a browser is just as quick as alt-tabbing between browsers.
BorRagnarok··on Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
If you're not allowed to change state on GET requests, how do you implement timed session expiration in your api? You can't track user activity, in any way, on get requests, but still have to remember when he was last active.
BorRagnarok··on Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute
I've heard this "get requests shouldn't have side effects" argument before, but I don't think it works. At least, not for me, or I'm doing something wrong.

For example: Let's implement authentication, where a user logs in to your api and receives a session id to send along with every api call for authentication. The session should automatically be invalidated after x hours of inactivity.

How would you track that inactivity time, if you're not allowed to change state on get requests?

BorRagnarok··on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
Now if they do publish those photos, you'd only have to add 'his' to that headline.
BorRagnarok··on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
Yeah why wouldn't he just pull the plug on them? I know I would.
BorRagnarok··on No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
Even if that happens, people will now blame AMI for any published or leaked photos that fit the description, regardless of their denial.
BorRagnarok··on HTTP/3 explained
Happy for everybody, but since it only really delivers benefits in less than 2% of use cases (those with crappy connections) I personally can't wait to have it be as quickly implemented and supported as ipv6 was.
BorRagnarok··on The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries
Exactly. Psychopaths have no morals, they only feign them when necessary.
BorRagnarok··on Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (2014)
The title is very misleading though. I would argue more people die from addiction than grow out of it.
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