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_xerces_··on Why haven't password complexity rules gone away yet?
Because it took someone a long time to understand lookahead and other regex rules needed to get it setup on their system and they're both proud of it and loath to replace it!
_xerces_··on How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
I think it got bought out a long time ago and the articles are filled with tons of crappy ads and split over multiple pages. Nothing like it was when Marshall founded it. I still have the book they put out way back when too!
_xerces_··on SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
Served at cellar temperature, so around 55 F, sometimes cooler.
_xerces_··on People running Windows 11, are you all running Sluggish Incarnate?
After some update (Dell XPS) either from Microsoft or perhaps Dell, I noticed that my CPU was thermal throttling despite being only around 50C. I was using the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to diagnose processor state. Digging in some more with the Throttle Stop app, for some reason my system was activating BD PROCHOT and throttling the CPU down to 0.8 GHz.

A quick search shows that this can be a bad sensor on the motherboard or something to do with the power supply being identified as non Dell (incorrectly in my case).

_xerces_··on Deadly mushroom poison might now have an antidote – with help from CRISPR
There are a lot of cases where the people eating them were not the ones that foraged, but were fed them at a meal at someone's house. Further, there are reports of immigrants accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms in the US, Europe and Australia because the poisonous ones bear a resemblance to otherwise safe mushrooms found in their home countries.

Finally, you have to a be a little cold to think someone deserves death because they ate something unknown to them to be poisonous.

_xerces_··on High Performance Browser Networking
Doesn't that rather depend on what your career is? Not everyone on HN is some sort of web developer.
_xerces_··on Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
Research paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33432-4
_xerces_··on Only laptop factory in Europe: Panasonic Toughbook plant in Cardiff
If I got special access, paid travel and hotel I'd certainly make more of it and write more in-depth than this author. What they did write could easily have been written using just Google searches about Panasonic.
_xerces_··on SCIF and Radio Frequency Secured Facility Design (2021)
Interesting WaPo article on what SCIFs are and how many people have access.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive...

_xerces_··on GM killing off Chevy Bolt and Bolt EUV by end of 2023
Cultural issues aside, electric trucks have poor towing range, cost more and are inconvenient and slow to charge assuming you can even find a charger in rural areas. All this gets worse in cold weather which the Midwest has a lot of in winter.
_xerces_··on Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail?
I got four of those over a two day period, random domains but always from smilie or similar. Every time I marked as spam, but they kept making it to my inbox. No idea why as there must be thousands of people telling Google that those are spam.
_xerces_··on I’m ready to trade in my electric car
She's not blowing past any muscle cars in her Kia Nero EV with a 0-60 of 6.5-7 seconds. I guess everyone in an EV assumes their vehicle is superfast?
_xerces_··on Sonic hedgehog protein
Ah, Hacker News the place where people go to find posts of Wikipedia articles.
_xerces_··on Smartphone shipments plunge to a low not seen since 2013
Starting in 2011, I used to upgrade my phone every 18 months or so to get better cameras, more responsive UI, better battery, etc. About 3-4 years ago for me phones got good enough that I no longer feel the need to upgrade. Are the new cameras better, are there more of them? Sure, but they're not an order of magnitude better and any advances in hardware are offset by more bloat in the OS.

Similar story with my 'good enough' laptop.

With some people, the pandemic may have contributed to keeping their phones longer - one reason to upgrade is if the battery starts lasting less and less, but if you're at home all day, plugging it in is no big deal.

_xerces_··on Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety
What kind of tape do you use? I've just started trying this and best I have found so far in my local grocery store is Nexcare Absolute Waterproof tape. It stays on all night, but I wondered if there was something a bit easier to remove.
_xerces_··on Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?
I have a Dell Latitude at work and a Dell XPS at home, both running Windows and both have always and constantly had issues with docking stations and also sleep. I have to hibernate them instead of sleeping to avoid random crashes, and I power up each laptop and log in before connecting to the docking station. Kinda dumb that I have to deal with this in 2022 on flagship laptops running the vendor's chosen OS.
_xerces_··on Ask HN: Are Protonmail.com Addresses Snubbed?
I see Proton Mail addresses and think the owner is paranoid, hiding something or odd in some way. Similarly, if I see aol or yahoo addresses I think old or not tech savvy. It is not necessarily fair, but they are my first instincts and I am sure it is true of others.
_xerces_··on Illegal annexation shows gulf between Putin's wants and what his forces can hold
More readable, non-diet link:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/europe/russia-ukraine-annexat...

_xerces_··on Systemd support lands in WSL – unleash the full power of Ubuntu today – Ubuntu
Oh, lucky me I get to use snap now.
_xerces_··on ‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US
The article just mentioned McDonalds is getting rid of their fake meat burgers, so try it while you can.
_xerces_··on How sustainable are fake meats?
While almond is better, the article does suggest that almonds themselves are not the best when it comes to water usage.
_xerces_··on How sustainable are fake meats?
When you get time to read the article, you'll see that this point was addressed and that it turns out people won't change their behavior despite knowing for decades that meat can be cruel and terrible for the planet. You need to give people and easy low-friction alternative, and eating beans and rice in place of a juicy burger isn't going to cut it.
_xerces_··on Interest in heat pumps has increased dramatically in recent years
The packs are just powder pressed into a cube with some colorful liquid added to a little pocket to make it look high tech.
_xerces_··on Ask HN: How do you and your spouse handle big income differences?
As someone married for the same length of time and with a shared account, your situation sounds very odd to me. I'm sure it works for you, but if I were in that situation, I don't think my marriage would feel as close. Each of us reconciling big purchases at the end of the year sounds so cold and transactional. We just have one pot of money, don't care who earns the most and have conversations about big purchases and get agreement from the other.
_xerces_··on Young children may benefit from having more male teachers
Talk of "mate options" is not how most normal people approach relationships. Also, language discussing and finding a woman you desire being difficult if you don't make a lot of money is just odd and incelly as it casts the aspersion that all women are mercurial. It also paints women as objects of desire and not people with personalities, interests, dreams and a rich life - according to your language they're mercurial mate options.

I just think you could have phrased things a little better.

_xerces_··on YOLOv7 – A breakdown of how it works
Is this the one where this group stole the name YOLO from the original authors because they're no longer working on it?
_xerces_··on Young children may benefit from having more male teachers
Sounds like a very odd, incel thing to say.
_xerces_··on Tom Scott: British Plugs Are Better Than All Other Plugs, and Here's Why (2014)
They're great until you step on one in the middle of he night.
_xerces_··on Deepest infrared image of universe
They're from the mirrors, just one is from the struts.
_xerces_··on Linux Sucks 2022
>Pretty much, Windows with WSL, and Android emulation, you can do anything.

Unfortunately, they haven't figured out hardware access in WSL2 so doing stuff with serial ports and the like is impossible or requires annoying workarounds like creating network tunnels and connecting them to a pts using socat. In WSL1 you did have access to Windows COM ports.

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