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XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd

Hold on, (even though kicking JSON while it's down is funny) how do you make sure that the reply you've got is to the call you issued with this thing? Surely not pinky promise?

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd

JSON's everything is "indefinite length". Also its implementations are wildly inconsistent [1] (is anyone going to read the code to figure out which is the blessed systemd parser?). Also it doesn't have integers. A lot of things with JSON will deteriorate into stringifying anyway, for example dates.

[1]: https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon 'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid

Comparing this to net neutrality just poisons the well when discussing NN. Internet service providers being able to arbitrarily adjust pricing based on data source stifles competition. Is there competition in the power supply industry where a client can pick their source? Well, aside from having their own generation. In this case transfer is the service and if one day huge demand cluster disappears the capacity for it is left to rust.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations on Boeing 737 Rudder System

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XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Overbooking – how providers divide up the bandwidth

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XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake

It should be expensive to make business out of it.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

Believe me, I was blown away just the same. And it's not like the accountant clicked a save button of a on-close dialog, no. Opening a CSV file was enough.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

This information doesn't help anyone.

The fact is the person was double-clicking a file in a list to view its contents and Excel was trampling it. Nobody in their right mind will waste time to open Excel first, use import feature, re-navigate to the file they were already looking at, and go through the import dialog just to see what's inside.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

A bad dancer finds even his ballsack annoying.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

Excel chews up CSVs that it opens. I know this because an accountant checked each file our code produced using Excel before trying to import it into another program. We proofread our code before we realizing the problem was somewhere else. Shoulder-surfed the process, found the giant bug with a green X on it.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Rust error handling

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XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)

Introducing checkboxes somewhere in the bowels of settings adds more ways for things to go wrong.

What is the default? Do the defaults differ across versions? How do you keep it consistent across computers and installations? What if you actually need the function ad hoc?

This reminds me of CSV export. I haven't used Windows for a decade but I remember that if you wanted to change how decimal numbers were exported you had to change the locale and reboot the computer. To change a setting in Excel. That is insane. Sprinkling checkbox patches isn't too far from this.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon ReMarkable Paper Pro

I find it very useful when doing CAD (with intent to 3D print something). It lets me quickly sketch rough shapes and note measurements I've taken, visualize ideas to show them to colleagues, do geometry "math" with less chance of messing up. Paper would work just fine, I guess, but RM has editing and undo, so reworking large regions doesn't result in attempts of striking out with more ambiguous lines.

So, to generalize, I'd suggest it for people that do bespoke construction of some sort often.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them

Why is your life more worth than mine?

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users

> API necessarily provides at least the data point of, "Did they select an option in the permission notification?"

If a bird app (or, heck, pancake recipe site) asked for WebRTC or GPU access I would be rightfully suspicious. It's a shame these things don't happen.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

Didn't work out for Organic Maps. Merely allowing to access map data makes you un-family-friendly. Or at least that's what we can assume, since Google won't indulge in specifics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272925

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control

Amazing. This is probably the correct way do make amp controls. I'd say the volume should be a multi turn trim potentiometer in the back of the device so you don't have to brief your guests on correct operation.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Preliminary Post Incident Review

Okay, but who has more domain knowledge when to deploy? A "security expert" that created the "security product" that operates with root privileges and full telemetry, or IT staff member that looked at said "security expert" value proposition and didn't have issue with it.

Honestly, this reads as a suggestion that even more blame ought to be shifted to the customer.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Preliminary Post Incident Review

>Now that this Global Outage happened, it will change the landscape a bit.

I seriously doubt that. Questions like "why should we use CrowdStrike" will be met with "suppose they've learned their lesson".

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Preliminary Post Incident Review

That would be equivalent to asking "would you prefer your fleet to bluescreen now, or later" in this case.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)

You don't have to do a full loop if you need an adjacent exit. Eases load on the rest of entrances.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

According to cheema33 React is most "popular frontend stack", but I'm not allowed ask questions of why websites demand JS to display basic content... I suppose my reply could have been more _constructive_ as to ask "by whose count" or "how does popularity correspond to quality" but that's like playing chess by one step in front of you.

Look, I'm seeing an increase of blogs made with an implication that _infinity_ amount of visits requires less resources than one and I don't just find it true.

XlA5vEKsMISoIlnon MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec

>React

Ah yes, the <body id="app"></body> websites.