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Mindless2112on Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's

It's not "ChatGPT's tariff math" any more than it's "ChatGPT's Pythagorean theorem". ChatGPT learned it from somewhere.

Mindless2112on Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)

The methodology is pretty limiting; it excludes books that Amazon has banned in all countries (e.g. [1]).

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/03/12/amazon-...

Mindless2112on Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users

Then you use the "lost my passkey" process, which should be the same as the "forgot my password" process. Most services should treat passkeys like unphishable passwords.

Passkeys do not (and are not intended to) solve the problem of lost credentials.

Mindless2112on Unplanned exposure during diving in the spent nuclear fuel pool (2011)

You might say it was NSFW.

Mindless2112on Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason

Here's a talk about how CrossCode was ported to Switch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBzlzvt8RU

Mindless2112on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning

TL;DR:

> “The grid is a whole different issue which we’re addressing, have been addressing, and will continue to address,” Patrick said. “The power is down because the lines are down, and the transmission lines are down primarily because trees fell on them.”

Mindless2112on Walmart first major retailer in North America to deploy hydrogen semi truck

Hydrogen (HFCEV) is electric. Electricity is produced directly from the chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is not combusted, although that [1] is an alternative.

I'm hoping for a future with hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and battery EVs. The battery could be small because you'd have hydrogen as an option for longer trips, and it would still be all-electric.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_e...

Mindless2112on Passkeys: A shattered dream

If you want passkeys without Javascript, leave a thumbs-up on [1].

[1] https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1255

Mindless2112on Generative A.I. arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR

Have you seen how generative AI thinks hands work? Just a few edits and reality can catch up.

Mindless2112on Glibc Buffer Overflow in Iconv

You can set the code page to UTF-8 now.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/global...

Mindless2112on US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest

You don't even have to go that far. TikTok isn't available in China. (There's a Chinese app that's similar, but it isn't TikTok.)

Mindless2112on 5-year study finds no brain abnormalities in 'Havana Syndrome' patients

This study isn't evidence against it.

> The NIH study, which began in 2018 and included more than 80 Havana syndrome patients, wasn't designed to examine the likelihood of some weapon or other trigger for Havana syndrome symptoms.

Mindless2112on On Migraine Scintillating Scotomas

As a migraineur, just about the last thing I want to look at is migraine art. That said, none of the pieces shown in the article are particularly good visual representations of the scintillating scotoma that I experience.

Mindless2112on Understanding every byte in a WASM module

A UTF-8-like encoding would probably be better than VLQ encoding because the length is known up-front, which allows for the decoder to have fewer branches.

Something like [1] or alternatively [2]. See also [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#FSS-UTF [2] https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/varint.wiki [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11263378

Mindless2112on I want to convince you to have an on-premise offering

Yes, please. "Premise" means something entirely different: "A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn."

Mindless2112on De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon

> Microsoft's post notes that Windows uses the region picked during Windows install to offer the EEA-exclusive options. Only a PC reset can undo the options.

Looks like I will be telling Windows that I live in the EEA next time I install.

Mindless2112on PixArt-α:A New Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Challenging SDXL and Dalle·3

I suppose it won't work for generating images of Winnie the Pooh then.

But seriously, it's open-source, so it hardly matters.

Mindless2112on People no longer know how much to tip

People are innumerate/irrational and cannot understand the difference (or lack thereof) in pricing at restaurants that do not accept tips. See [1].

I've become convinced that the only way tipping is going away in America is if it is made illegal.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHKMovMWaQ&t=149s

Mindless2112on Razor 1911

Another Razor 1911 musician runs an internet radio station: https://scenesat.com/

Mindless2112on WebAuthn.wtf

Aside from your email account and maybe a few other critical accounts, you should probably just not bother. If you lose your passkey there should be a "lost passkey" flow just like there has been for a forgotten password.

Mindless2112on California population drain: State is hemorrhaging residents to other states

New Mexico is a blue state [1], and Arizona is a purple state [2], so I wouldn't be so certain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Ne... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Ar...

Mindless2112on Colorado Law Would Charge Owners for Driving Giant Trucks and SUVs

The average truck/SUV driver has also changed.

Mindless2112on Google.com tests a news-filled homepage, just like Bing and Yahoo

I don't know if the price is too high, but the limits are too low. I can't deal with niggling thought that I might exceed the query limit -- every time I'd be thinking about whether I'm going to have to do another query because I made a typo or didn't pick the right search terms.

Mindless2112on Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015)

I used to put "Computer Programmer" [1] on my tax return. Based on BLS definitions, I now put "Software Developer" [2].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm [2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm

Mindless2112on Electric cars aren't affordable because America's workforce is underpaid

As an American who drives a subcompact, I kinda do have something against people who buy an unnecessarily big SUV/truck -- when they hit me, I die and they walk away -- so they feel safer and drive less cautiously than they should.

Mindless2112on Google now requires and lists phone number in Play Store listings

What phone number will Google be listing for their own apps, I wonder.

Mindless2112on Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet

I've had this happen to me. I ended up configuring a proxy feed in Feedburner.

Mindless2112on How to Yubikey

Here [1] is Yubico's draft WebAuthn recovery ("backup authenticator") extension spec, which is possibly what you're thinking of.

[1] https://github.com/Yubico/webauthn-recovery-extension