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calebeggon Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm?

The first element of the array is A[1], rather than A[0] like it would be in nearly all programming languages.

"For Deck, we're vastly improving Proton's game compatibility and support for anti-cheat solutions by working directly with the vendors."

So presumably they are working on this

calebeggon Quickdraw with Google AI

The data is available at least: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

calebeggon Bad TypeScript Habits

I think calling your generic type 'Element' is a bad choice -- that's shadowing a built-in type (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element) and it makes the code confusing to read at a glance.

That's one thing I like about T, it's very self evident that it's just 'the' generic type. But maybe I'm just used to it. With multiple generic types I can see how longer names would be useful.

calebeggon Wyze $20 Smart Watch

[citation needed]

calebeggon Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

Still works fine for me in Chrome 83.

calebeggon Onfim

The article says "One of the drawings features a knight on a horse, stabbing someone on the ground with a lance"

It's not that long and worth reading!

calebeggon WHO Changes 'Social Distancing' to 'Physical Distancing'

Yes, 6 feet.

calebeggon Google's Abandoned Android Authenticator App

> This and ZDNet's article don't claim this is a vulnerability or bug

> The article doesn't even claim Google Authenticator or third party apps should mitigate it

Second sentence of the article is "I doubt Google will ever release a fix for this issue". We could argue about the semantics of "issue" vs "bug" (though I'd rather not), but it seems pretty obvious the author thinks of this as a fixable "issue", when the parent comment's point is that it absolutely isn't.

calebeggon Tesla's self driving algorithm's overlay [video]

The proper rules[1] of a 4 way stop are probably pretty straightforward to encode, and probably easier for a computer to apply than a human, but the real issue is that you can't trust the other drivers (or AIs) to understand/follow them consistently. So the interesting part is how these kinds of systems can almost instantly react when another driver starts to go, and let them go.

In NYC, where I live now, the de facto rule seems to be if you hesitate at all then the other person just goes, rules be damned. In the rural south, where I'm from, there's a lot of "no no, you go first" waving/gesturing/light flashing, which I'm curious if/how a self driving car would handle. (Do we need to give the self driving cars hands to gesture with?!)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-way_stop#Operation

calebeggon I just lost my wallet on the way home from work

>How do you do something like transfer your friend some money? Or pay someone who did some work for you?

Venmo mostly.

calebeggon Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead

Comodo said the revocation was a mistake:

https://sectigo.com/blog/on-comodo-cas-recent-revocation-of-...

calebeggon What’s New in ES2019

If your array is contained in itself, flat(Infinity) gives a stack overflow. My guess is they wanted the default behavior to be safer/saner.

calebeggon Stadia Founder's Edition

They link to https://projectstream.google.com/speedtest

calebeggon Death rates from energy production per TWh

This older article has estimates for more production types including those:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

calebeggon Death rates from energy production per TWh

The associated article has more discussion and context:

https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy

calebeggon Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

https://xkcd.com/1138/

calebeggon Let’s Destroy Robocalls

Yeah, I noticed that the bill was called "Stopping Bad Robocalls", implying that there are "good" robocalls too, and I knew immediately that it wouldn't help with the political ones.

calebeggon Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D

This is a column that answers reader-asked questions, not just a general/news article.

https://www.nytimes.com/column/ask-well

calebeggon Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)

I was curious, so here's a source for the Michael Phelps tidbit:

https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/08/06/breaking-news-fro...

calebeggon Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Chrome has a solution to this that doesn't involve individually vetting sites. It's based on an individual user's behavior on previous visits to the site, and what percentage of those visits involved media usage.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...

calebeggon Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)

Snowclone is a popular term for it:

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

calebeggon Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (2017)

It might be obvious to some, but for reference the title (and associated tweet) is a reference to Michael Pollan's oft-quoted advice for eating healthy: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t...

calebeggon Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry

Most beverage cans are made from aluminum, which is not magnetic.

calebeggon NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster

The change isn't to the top speed, it's to mis-configured time signals that forced trains to slow to a crawl unnecessarily.

In this article (which you probably also won't be able to read, sorry; try incognito?), the Times explains why some mis-configured time signals are the cause of many delays, with compelling evidence to back up the claim.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subw...

calebeggon Fifty Fizzbuzzes

Vi Hart isn't a guy.

calebeggon We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them

It seems they did buy ads attributed to Mike Pence and ISIS previously (linked to from this article):

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9mny/facebooks-politic...

calebeggon Can Beethoven send takedown requests?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

IANAL, but as I understand it, Content ID is part of how they justify being a safe harbor under DMCA.

calebeggon World Airports Voronoi (2014)

It's at the very top of the description, just below the globe.

"2,980 large and medium airports with scheduled services from OurAirports."

calebeggon Michael Pollan on Psilocybe Azurescens

Sorry to bikeshed, but I feel like the new title is much less clear; I don't know how many readers would know what "Psilocybe Azurescens" means. I sure didn't.

If I may, I suggest: "Michael Pollan on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms"