Mindless2112

"NTFS really isn't that bad" -- https://web.archive.org/web/https://lca2020.linux.org.au/sch...

> try running Console.WriteLine((object)new uint[42] is int[]);, and you’ll find it prints out True

I knew .NET's array variance rules were kinda bad, but that's really surprising.

Looks to be a continuation of Mozilla TTS[1]. I'm kinda surprised there's no mention unless you go back in the git history[2].

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/TTS [2] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/tree/e9e07844b77a43fb0864354...

> Only seven of the 59 countries allow elective abortions after 20 weeks, the group found: Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/...

Apparently you can unsubscribe: https://www.valpak.com/coupons/show/mailinglistsuppression

Per the form:

> The person who prepares this form states that he or she is the person, executor, guardian, authorized officer, or agent of the person for whom mail would be forwarded under this order. Anyone submitting false or inaccurate information on this form is subject to punishment by fine or imprisonment or both under Sections 2, 1001, 1702, and 1708 of Title 18, United States Code.

I'm not saying that CO₂ and wind turbines have a comparable effect on the climate. I'm saying that "it's small so it couldn't matter" is the same flawed thinking.

> Human CO2 emissions matter precisely because the math has exceeded change from natural causes.

Why? It's the significant detrimental impact of the human activity that's important, not how it compares to the amount or change from natural causes. (It doesn't even matter that it's human activity. If Earth were going to become inhospitable by entirely natural causes, that would still matter.)

> then maybe you might have a case.

I'm not making the case that wind turbines are harming the environment; that's just the example at hand. I'm making the case that casually dismissing (questions about) the potential impact of human activities is wrong.

"It's so vast that small human actions couldn't possibly have an impact" is literally the same wrong-headed reasoning that leads people to believe that human CO₂ emissions don't matter.

There seems to have been a lot of extreme weather in recent years. Could it be because harvesting energy from the wind alters weather patterns? A lot of people would rather just blame it on global warming than ask a question that might expose a flaw in our plans to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.

We need to have bit more humility and a bit less dogma about what we "know".

Not to mention the icon for the extension is "あ⇆a".

It should have been two types (UtcDateTime and LocalDateTime), and Unspecified should never have been a thing.

I suspect anyone who thinks landfills will ever be mined in the future has never been to a landfill.

If you want to recover metals from garbage, it's much easier if you burn it rather than bury it.

> It literally does not function on a modern Android device because of the permissions.

It literally does. I'm using it on Android 12. Far from "not functioning", it has the most reliable IMAP IDLE support of any Android app that I've tried.

No, each registration generates a new key pair; but maybe:

> The signature counter is a strictly monotonic counter and the intent is that a relying party can record the values and so notice if a private key has been duplicated, as the strictly-monotonic property will eventually be violated if multiple, independent copies of the key are used.

> There are numerous problems with this, however. Firstly, recall that CTAP1 tokens have very little state in order to keep costs down. Because of that, all tokens that I’m aware of have a single, global counter shared by all keys created by the device. [...] This means that the value and growth rate of the counter is a trackable signal that’s transmitted to all sites that the token is used to login with.

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2018/03/27/webauthn.html

At the end of that article:

> Update: It looks like Amazon is converting the uploaded EPUB to KF8 (AZW3). So, it looks like they might not support EPUB natively.

So I'm not holding my breath. Which is not to say Amazon couldn't add native EPUB support. KF8/AZW3[1] (Amazon's proprietary ebook format) is basically EPUB in a MOBI shell. But they're moving away from KF8 to KFX[2] for books purchased from the Amazon store.

[1] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KF8 [2] https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/KFX

Use HackerWeb. Top-level comments are highlighted, and it automatically collapses threads to show only top-level comments when there are a lot of comments.

https://hackerweb.app/#/item/31181595

Seems like the Android table is outdated. I just confirmed that I can register and log in to webauthn.io on Firefox 99 via NFC.

There's an easy fix for that though -- generate k deterministically using the procedure in RFC6979 [1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6979#section-3.2

How do you incentivize people to provide missing info if it will increase their tax bill?

The US system is intentionally designed so that you don't know what the IRS does or does not know. If you leave something off of your taxes that the IRS knows about then maybe they'll audit you and give you a big fine. So the optimal strategy is to report everything and pay the taxes you owe.

In Spain's system, it seems to me that the optimal strategy would be to either go with what the tax agency says or to report more information, depending in which gives you a lower tax bill.

Some people come to HN for the articles. Some just to read the comments. And some just to write the comments.

It isn't even fair to say that some of these products are dead. For example, you can still use Microsoft Streets & Trips today, as it's from an era when you bought (rather than rented) software. It's just not getting any more updates, so its usefulness diminishes as the road network changes.

Syscalls are not the only consumer of wall clock time, which is what was measured.

> To read in binary, you open with 'rb' and not just 'r'.

No. "The default translation mode is 'b'." [1] And even in 't' mode, it's still reading bytes in PHP vs UCS-2 characters in C#.

[1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

This is a pretty worthless comparison.

* The C# version invokes EndOfStream up to 4096 times for every 1 call to feof in PHP version.

* The C# version opens the file in text mode (and thus does UTF-8 decoding) whereas the PHP version opens the file in binary mode.

For some definition of "we". I wasn't alive in the 1970s; half of people living today weren't.

I bought the one he didn't like (the electrode boiler) after watching that video (and his tear-down video [1]). (I have hard water and have had trouble with ultrasonic humidifiers.) It works great! You do have to descale it regularly to keep it going.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9-t47tKts

> 18. Fees. Provided that Google continues to offer the Service to Customer, Google will continue to provide a version of the Service (with substantially the same services as those provided as of the Effective Date) free of charge to Customer; provided that such commitment: (i) does not apply to the Domain Service described in Section 4 above; and (ii) may not apply to new opt-in services added by Google to the Service in the future. For sake of clarity, Google reserves the right to offer a premium version of the Service for a fee. [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110429023658/http://www.google...

Of course, Google later removed this clause from the ToS.

EitherMouse[1] can do multiple pointers on Windows.

[1] https://eithermouse.com/

> Windows Calculator almost does that: you can see the full input as you type, but it disappears upon hitting the final "=".

This has been rectified, by the way.

This isn't a bug report. It's a Mozilla KB article about why they changed the search engine preference that you made.

Given current leadership, Mozilla might have required search engines to agree to a particular political stance or something of that nature.

Unless Arizona has a law that says businesses have to accept all forms of legal tender as payment, I would expect that businesses would not be forced to accept Bitcoin as payment.

Consider cash:

> There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...

It is, of course, a bit different since cash, check, and credit are all denominated in dollars, whereas Bitcoin is denominated in Bitcoin.