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OptionOfT··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
Yup. Built a house in 2016 in Belgium. Perfectly insulated. You didn't have to run heating in winter. Kept it all inside.

Also, it overheated instantly.

OptionOfT··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
This is interesting for the point of saving space. You need a lot less space between cars and can easily park multiple rows without having to leave egress space. All you then need to do is move 3 other cars.

Give a buffer that should be feasible.

OptionOfT··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
Yes. If you can get under it.
OptionOfT··on Did they ghost you?
Which should be illegal. You should be able to formulate why you prefer someone.

And it would prevent companies from ghosting people.

OptionOfT··on GitHub Mobile: Fix failing Actions checks with Copilot cloud agent
I posted this because I find it funny. 99% of my failing Actions are because GitHub's Container Registry times out.
OptionOfT··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Wife and I use bitwarden. For shared accounts we put them in a shared folder, and the passkey is attached in there, in bitwarden, meaning it survives device resets.
OptionOfT··on Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions
Ground infrastructure.

E.g. for the 777X it fits in Category E. Without folding tips it would be in Category F. Less gates can accommodate Category F.

https://skybrary.aero/articles/icao-aerodrome-reference-code

OptionOfT··on Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After over 70 Years Lost at Sea
> The team stated there were no plans to recover any of the 39 un-recovered bodies, with exploration team member Russ Mathews saying “That is the only grave marker they are likely to ever have.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_526A#:~:text=The...

Are the bodies still there? Wouldn't they have dissolved like the bodies from Titanic?

OptionOfT··on Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After over 70 Years Lost at Sea
https://archive.is/20260721155114/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
OptionOfT··on Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
Sorry, but both Switserland and definitly the Netherlands are further North vs a significant percentage of the USA.

Bern, Switzerland is very close to the same latitude as Quebec City, CA or Fargo, ND, USA.

The Netherlands is even further North. Due to the lower angle of the sun hitting them they might get completely different results vs here in the South-Western USA.

Also weird in the article:

> Het aanbrengen is behoorlijk arbeidsintensief.

Really? How is driving a machine over the rail labor-intensive?

OptionOfT··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
Which is very hard, because most of these devices don't work locally. They communicate via the cloud to your app.

In most cases companies don't want to give you Matter or HomeKit, because it means they cannot sell you more through their app.

Wyze has ads everytime you open it. So does Honeywell. Hell, even the internet-loved Ecobee has a banner that shifts everything down most of the time that you open the app. And for that last one, you _have_ to use their app to control the fan, as they don't expose separate fan controls over HomeKit...

OptionOfT··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Windows urgently needs to revamp their driver consent model.

You can't block a just one driver. E.g. for my touch screen on the Lenovo website there is version X. When I install it the next day Windows installs X-1.

On Lenovo's website the latest version is 7.7.2.66 (https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netb...).

Windows reverts that to 7.7.2.44.

I tried blocking that update with the Powershell command-thingy, but even that doesn't work:

    Administrator in ~
    get-windowsupdate -isHidden | ft Status,KB,Size,Title

    Status  KB Size Title
    ------  -- ---- -----
    ----H--    92KB Wacom Technology - HIDClass - 7.7.2.44
(this command by the way takes 20+ seconds), and the filtering doesn't work because there is no KB.
OptionOfT··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
This is already the case in France since I believe 2016.

There's was uptick around this story 4 months ago, so I'm not sure if those were bots resurfacing it or whether something changed in the law.

OptionOfT··on My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software
As a licensed driver also living in the Sonoran Desert, I absolutely love my heated steering wheel. I live just South of Anthem, and we get a couple of hard freezes per year, and it gets cold enough that people wear gloves certain parts of the year.
OptionOfT··on If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe
IIRC Firefox was the first one to move extensions to a separate process so a hung/crashed extension wouldn't take down the whole browser.

That's when I learned about the halting problem.

OptionOfT··on LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft
I hate that pop-up when I'm browsing around and it shows a popup: do you want to sign in to this website with your work Google account.

NO.

OptionOfT··on T. rex named Gus sells for $50.1M to become the most expensive dinosaur
https://archive.is/20260714155008/https://www.nbcnews.com/ne...
OptionOfT··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
I went through lightning cables fast. Unsure why, maybe I sweat a lot, or keep my phone in humid places.

But every so many months I had to replace the cable because the 4th pin would be burned.

I don't have that issue with USB-C. But I do feel that the lightning receiver is less fragile over the USB-C one. Removing lint from a USB-C receiver is harder.

OptionOfT··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
I'm going to say: yes.

I think partially it is because of the amount of data you can get out of an LLM and because it looks pretty good, a lot of people treat it as authoritative.

This means they send it around and then other people have to go through the work of actually validating it before being able to act on it.

So what this really means is that the person you go the information from offloaded their thinking to the AI, while cannibalizing on yours.

OptionOfT··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
That's not infinite. There is an end to the novel.
OptionOfT··on Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
Don't you need the previous iteration to find out how much you need to shift right?
OptionOfT··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
My couch is 2 years old and all the pillows collapsed.
OptionOfT··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
I'm not gonna argue the car thing. I like cars, so when I spend money on them there is emotion involved, and all logic goes out the door.

But for the couch, is it unreasonable to want a couch in which I can replace the foam? For not wanting a throw away product?

OptionOfT··on Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices
To add to this, I think that spending more money these days helps a lot less.

Higher prices these days mean more features, but not necessarily higher quality.

Everything is a subscription, can only be controlled by their app, and is mass-produced in a factory in China, brought here and then sold with a story plus a huge markup.

A less connected example:

You want to buy a new couch. Budget: $2k. You get:

    * bad construction, it'll creak
    * badly joined, so the pieces will come loose
    * barely springs under the cusions
    * non-removeable cushions
    * foam that collapses in 2 years
But even spending $6k isn't gonna mitigate all of those issues above. You're probably closer to $10k.

And then if you want a recliner, finding one with removeable cushions is nearly impossible. So far I found 1 brand that does it. ONE.

OptionOfT··on A dock that wakes up reliably
I have a ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Workstation Dock - Type 40B0.

Last time a firmware update came out I couldn't run it from my Lenovo laptop. I had to use a non-Lenovo one. Really made me angry about their quality control.

Next to that the dock has this weird behavior when the laptop is asleep, the monitors wake up every 5 minutes.

OptionOfT··on I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it
From my point of view, a lot of frustration is tied to LLMs not evolving at the same rate/manner as people around you do.

We're using human language against a system that produces human-like output, which tricks our brain into having similar expectations.

OptionOfT··on My burner email blocklist blocked me
You can go to outlook.com and add unlimited aliases for your @outlook.com account.
OptionOfT··on Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
I am the organization owner, so I still got confused.
OptionOfT··on Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
Thanks for clearing that up!
OptionOfT··on Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
I got the same email, and I don't have a credit card on file with them. I wonder what they're going to do?
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