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andy81··on Supersizing vehicles offers minimal safety benefits – but substantial dangers
No mention of crash frequency, non-car collisions (roll etc.), or handling either.

Despite the title, the entire article seems to have missed the mark and become a marketing piece for SUVs.

andy81··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
It's Microsoft's actions which lose them trust, regardless of what they might state in official communications.

Actions like the C# dev kit license footgun/rug pull, the closed source remote development extensions, and training copilot on GPL while pretending that you own any code it generates.

You don't need even need a rant on the Windows team, it would be beating a dead horse.

andy81··on Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia
The CLI tools have a great record.

curl and invoke-restmethod and hurl etc.

It's the GUI tools that keep getting monetised.

andy81··on No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard? Here's why
Being anti-cryptocurrency as an organisation really is an important differentiator.

Fidelity knows that investors in their cryptocurrency products will lose money in aggregate, but offers them anyway. It's a black mark against their integrity.

andy81··on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
Power Query, Powershell, and .net core were revolutionary in their niches.
andy81··on The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
Bit of an understatement, should be "always have access" if state attackers are included in the threat model.
andy81··on Costco’s butter recall, explained
The government could apply a fine, and shops selling that butter could put up a sign warning that butter is made from milk.

That achieves the same result without the destruction of perfectly good food.

andy81··on Non-elementary group-by aggregations in Polars vs pandas
Here's an example implementation in MSSQL - https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/1873...

No need to filter within the window function if you use subquery or CTE, which is supported everywhere.

andy81··on Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch
League of Legends and Minecraft came out ~15 years ago and never left the top 10 most played PC games.

It's hard to release new live-service games too. Many people will just be happy to play LoL for the rest of their lives.

andy81··on Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
Nobody complaining about Dev Kit would be unaware of the base C# extension.
andy81··on Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
The C# experience already got rug-pulled with Dev Kit.

I'm not going to spend time working for free on tools that MS charges a subscription to use.

andy81··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
It's not just the regulation.

It's the knowledge that users will mark your messages as junk if there's no easy unsubscribe button.

With the re-centralization of email, reputation score in Outlook/Gmail is critical.

andy81··on Project Euler #912: Where are the Odds?
Check if the sum of number's divisors divided by the number itself gives x.5
andy81··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Assistant PM.

He gave the largest party a majority in exchange for a referendum on first-past-the-post.

andy81··on CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon
The company should be fined so heavily that they become a goverment asset.

With current shareholders wiped out entirely, it should then be re-listed.

andy81··on Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?
Use of many natural resources jumped by orders of magnitude since the industrial revolution; comparing the current situation with historical records would give you a false sense of confidence.

That's actually part of the problem with climate change.

andy81··on Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb
You can use the -ExecutionPolicy argument to get around that.

It's not a security boundary, just something to stop users accidentally opening an email attachment like they will with bat/vbs.

andy81··on Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
Even if there was a canary release process for code updates, the config updates seem to have been on a separate channel.

The expectation being that people want up-to-date virus detection rules constantly even if they don't want potentially breaking changes.

The missed edge case being an untested config that breaks existing code.

Source: Pure speculation, don't quote this in news articles.

andy81··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
Aside from aimbots, there's plenty of abusable legitimate information exposed to the client.

E.g. For CS:GO, the volume of footsteps and gunshots vary by distance so you could use them to triangulate an enemy's position.

andy81··on Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
Other countries have a larger denominator to reduce the proportion of visits vs arbitrary detention and torture.
andy81··on Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?
> Pissed that my taxes were subsidizing their bullshit

Accurate

andy81··on RC4 with a Deck of Cards
Old encryption algorithm, don't use it.

Infamous for "kerberoasting", among other exploits.

andy81··on Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit
Diminishing returns on more pixels is also a factor.

4k vs 1440 is 2.4x the pixels (and related compute/heat/energy), but a barely-visible difference in visual clarity.

We can see successful consoles like the Switch that have given up on competing on resolution already.

andy81··on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power
That would require the price to drop proportionally (or waiting for halvings).
andy81··on Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]
Yeah, but nobody applies for those.
andy81··on Let's talk about joins
A CTE would work too.
andy81··on Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop
You're not the first to come up with that exploit-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash

andy81··on Let's talk about joins
If I was going to add anything -

"Vertical join" is normally called union.

"Right join" is just (bad) syntax sugar and should be avoided. Left join with the tables reversed is the usual convention.

The join condition for inner is optional- if it's always true then you get a "cross join". Can be useful to show all the possible combinations of two fields.

andy81··on The case for single-stair multifamily
Use two trucks when needed?

This is a really simple fix that the rest of the world does better.

andy81··on ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails
In a moment of frustration several years ago I marked my mobile sim provider as spam for the same reason.

They later deleted my account, and had apparently only notified me via SMS using the same marketing account (and no other channels).

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