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Unfortunately the most recent one was required for a kid's after school activity :/

TFA is suggesting that, in the future, you won't be allowed to use passkeys with 1Password

The "there is something wrong with you if you are at all off the beaten path" has cropped up a lot more for me recently; two examples both from 2026:

1. You can't use Firefox with our website (when I got this popup, I thought I had been transported back in time 20 years, but with Chrome substituted for IE).

2. You can't sign up for accounts with an e-mail from a "custom domain"

2a. I ran some tests; it's the domain itself, not the host, so e.g. foo@gmail.com is allowed but not a foo@somewhereelse.com, even if hosted by google).

2b. After a bit of back-and-forth with support: "No, we won't tell you the list of allowed domains, but gmail and hotmail both will work."

Fun fact, on Windows 95, minesweeper had a cheat code; xyzzy "shift" "enter" and it would change the color of the top-left pixel of the screen depending on whether or not the mouse was hovering over a bomb. It didn't work on later versions though.

Is it always wrong when it says "I think there's a mine here"? It seemed to to me on my playthough...

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Oh, it says "I think there's a mine here" when you mark a location, but the yellow-diamond is "click here because there's no mines" it's not related to what is being said.

Yes, 720x1520 24-bit display.

I don't use Instagram.

This happens all the time with human researchers.

e.g. one of the lemmas in the NL description is false, but a weaker version of the lemma (that does hold) is sufficient for the proof, so the (incorrect) lemma is never formalized.

Every gas station I've been to this year (not that many, my car is electric, so only when I'm filling my wife's car) has had a lower price for cash than credit, and this price is often on their big sign in front of the entrance. This is in California, if it makes a difference.

I do not own an HDR display. I agree that HDR has huge advantages, but it costs money, and little of the content I consume is available in HDR.

It's complicated.

It's trivial to make an image that you can see the 8-bit quantization in. Just make 256 vertical gray bars, equally spaced. In much of the image (usually the darker parts, but depends somewhat on monitor calibration) you will see the border between two values. Note that this is every single possible grey value in 8-bit RGB, so it is a proper un-dithered rendering of a gradient, and the borders you are seeing are definitely quantization artifacts.

Now, if you apply proper dithering, particularly on a high-dpi screen, you can make it look a lot better, possibly even undetectable.

And this is just with the dynamic range that is comfortable on a computer monitor! If we really want to represent vibrant images, then the glare of the sun off of shiny objects should be much brighter than the "paper white" background used in e.g. your word processor. It should be intuitive that the brightest highlight in a real-world image ought to be too uncomfortable to fill your entire monitor with...

Lastly, there's a question what and how the image gets to the browser. Sure for the images on the landing page for $LARGE_CORPORATION you have a graphic designer make everything look great, and since most people still have 8-bit displays, you'll want something that looks good on one. But what about e.g. a site for uploading photos? Are you going to quantize all of their photos before displaying them (possibly to someone with an HDR display)?

FWIW both CD- and DVD-RW are less reliable than the read-only counterparts. M-Disc is supposedly very good.

I have neither a macbook nor an iphone

The US has had tariffs and government subsidies for literally its entire existence.

Homeless:

FWIW, FEANTSA estimated over 1.2MM homeless in Europe in their most recent report[1]. That's over a population of 515MM so ~23 per 10k population. Us 746k homeless is roughly 22 per 10k population. I suspect that differences in methodology will overwhelm that 1/10k difference, but the order of magnitude seems similar.

1/3 of the US homeless are unsheltered ("Living Rough" in the FEANTSA terminology). A quick skim of the FEANTSA report did not show any countries breaking out their rough-sleepers from the rest of the data. I do suspect that this number is higher than in the EU.

1: https://www.feantsa.org/files/Themes/Overview/2024/Rapport_-...

One of the main points made in TFA is it's important to communicate that single-family homes outside of city centers will tend to see lower taxes if you go from property tax to LVT, because in the city most of the value in your home is the land, but that ratio flips the further you get from the city center.

Obviously this assumes a single tax-base; if you are not in the same tax base of the city, then you're probably still fine, since if everybody has similarly valued lots, the taxes will be shared similarly between them.

Author of TFA certainly argues that land and income is better than just income.

> I'll never understand why SoC manufactures insist on bespoke kernel/distro pairings.

Because getting your stuff upstreamed in Linux is more work than releasing a custom kernel.

> I will note that when I forget and leave clothes after a wash for more than a day, they do get a slight mildew smell. The same thing happens with the top loader at my in-laws. Another wash gets rid of it in both cases.

"More than a day?" It's about 3 hours for me. If I leave it more than a day, I need to run a load with bleach to get rid of the smell. Maybe I just have a terrible front-loader.

>> and thus they also have to use a lot more energy to heat it.

> Most if not all top-loaders don't heat the water.

That's a bit pedantic, since on warm and hot cycles the water-heater will use energy to heat the water.

Mainly it's just everybody grew up using top-loaders, though it's also easier to get clothes in and out of a top-loader than a front (unless you have a huge machine). [edit]Oh, and also the up-front cost of a top-loader was about $100 less when I last bought a machine.

I've used a front-loader now for years and the only thing I really miss from my top-loader is that I could just leave the lid open for it to dry out. The door of the front-loader is perennially in the way if you leave it wide open, so we have to prop it open to prevent mildew.

Top loaders also act as spin dryers...

I got a 503; maybe hugged to death?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260117044133/https://k0lee.com...

This statement just makes me think of a line from The Diamond Age in which two kids in a post-nanotech future first see a scrap of hand-woven cloth and after thinking decide that it must have been made by nanomachines because no human could make something so regular.

> Because there are two games going on, and they have different winners. In the code game the resource is the software itself, and free wins every time, because anybody can copy code, so any attempt to charge for it invites a copy that doesn't. In the supply game the resource is not having to think about where the code comes from, and that game is won by whoever is the default.

This is, IMO misdiagnosing what's going on. Spending money is always friction. The number of ICs that can spend 4 figures of company money on a whim is much smaller than the number of ICs that can download libre software on a whim.

Then once the company knows they are using the libre software and it adds value, people who can spend large sums of company money will want to do so to protect that value.

You missed the part where they have already pre-paid for the GPU-hours and they pay the same regardless of he electricity used.

Also, even if they were paying for electricity, they would lose less money mining crypto than factoring RSA numbers.

When's the coming age of crypto-anarchy?

That's a question without a good answer; compare asking the same question about e.g. Thomas Road Baptist Church (minus the "Bay Area" part).

Many members of the Effective Altruism movement have given away substantial fractions of their income to e.g. paying for mosquito nets in Africa. A non-trivial fraction have donated a kidney to a stranger. They're also an onanistic Bay Area group.

Anyone know why this site brings Firefox to its knees (I'm on a Ryzen 9700X with 64GiB of RAM and scrolling has about a 2-second lag)?