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And Florida did not have a major hurricane this year, so it will likely be worse next year.

I assume they kept these in a database, which was sent or exported in some way to use Move-IT to transfer somewhere else. The hack was at Move-IT's servers I think, which allowed people to read the contents. The question I have is was this information encrypted by DD or did they just assume Move-IT was safe? If the latter, it's pretty stupid.

There is no article yet, it hasn't been posted.

My programming blog (https://thecodist.com) sees Chrome 52%, Safari 27%, Firefox 9%, over six months covering a fair amount of the world. I use Plausible. I never found GA to be very reliable.

I bought a copy of Turbo Pascal at the 10x10 booth they had at the West Coast Computer Faire in SF when it first released in 1983? or 1984. I used it to build a TSR app on DOS 2.2 in my first job. Still the fastest dev environment I have ever used relative to anything else at the time; it was amazing to use.

Assumes an artist has existing success, so they only want people who already don't need them much, unlike YC which often takes on people with no existing business.

I wonder if we can afford the energy cost of the ever-increasing need to compile more and more information into ever larger AI baskets. Is there a point when the cost exceeds even what a Zuckerberg can pay?

It brings back memories of when I spent six months fighting a company (one person doing the work) writing a cheat package for our game by trying to make his life hell in our binary. Both obfuscation and the opposite are amazingly fun to work on; you have to understand both ends to be effective. Eventually, I made the guy give up as it was too much work for insufficient money (the cheat cost more monthly than we charged for the game, but in reality most people did not use it). In my case, it was not Python (our game was C/C++), but the difficulty was similar. It's hard to cheat in WO* games as the server validates everything.

Why does Python use an un-comparable version number scheme? Not being a Python programmer, comparing version 3.9 to 3.13 seemed bizarre until I caught on.

That's the point. Politicians get paid (donated, contributed, whatever) to vote businesses' laws to benefit the business, not you. Toothless laws make a good sound bite but do nothing to help you.

Great analysis. I wonder if Spanish town planners have different powers than we do in the US. Town layouts are generally historical, you get to today by the sum of decisions potentially made decades or centuries or even millennia ago. It's very difficult to change a town layout drastically.

Any time you try to do something complex you have to start with the state of the art at the beginning of development time; like in this case, you might have to use something not quite ready for prime time, hoping it will improve enough during development. If it doesn't, you have to roll your own, which is often hard to do since you didn't start out that way. I worked on a MMO game engine 10 years after it was released years too early, it was still loaded with horrific code and architecture that was hard to correct or improve since we still had to ship regularly. The engine was designed (if you can call it that) in 1998 and was entirely too complex for that era.

If you only stick to the mature tech, then you may wind up being potentially unable to even produce your (advanced) game. It's always a challenging tradeoff. As long as the game is playable and you make enough to continue improving you might be OK; but of course you might go belly up before you fix it enough.

By the time CS2 makes it to Mac, it might be improved enough to actually play!

I wish I had saved something from my 40 years of programming, but I alwayds left everything behind when I moved to a new job. I did manage to keep my commercial memory allocator from the late 90's (single threaded, only supported Metrowerks CodeWarrior and the old MacOS), it was the fastest allocator on the Mac, and bug-free, but became obsolete with MacOS X. Not sure anyone would care today. I lost my source code to Trapeze as I mentioned yesterday ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapeze_(spreadsheet_program) ). I guess I never throught about saving most of my work for a day when no one cared if I shared it.

Okta is promoting Rightway as a benefit of Okta: https://rewards.okta.com/us/healthcare/medical/rightway-heal...

https://www.rightwayhealthcare.com is the company mentioned in the article. Okta is shown as a customer on the website, and the company's marketing says "Our members love using Rightway". There is zero mention of security on their website that I see, but the website is entirely marketing and self-congratulatory. I would expect that other Rightway customers were likely also affected, but they had no comment mentioned in this article so how wide the breach was is unknown. Okta is a well-known company so that's why this article focused on them, which is not the real story, but I guess like you said clickbait.

Yes, every single spreadsheet was killed by Excel being in Office. There were a lot of attempts to do something new, all failed.

At one point I found it, but since its gotten lost in various Mac transfers so I am not sure it still exists. I do remember it was uncompilable (ThinkC I believe from 1988). If I find it I will put it somewhere and mention it on my blog (https://thecodist.com). I also have the original manual, buried somewhere as well, which would be enough for someone to try recreating the engine).

Fortune tellers and stock gurus make lots of predictions, and randomly one will be right; they then promote how smart they were, and all the others are forgotten. Why would this be any different?

I built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapeze_(spreadsheet_program) in 1987 which is the spritual ancestor to a lot of alternative spreadsheets. We were killed by having to compete with Excel with something not a row and column spreadsheet (it's named block-oriented). If it hadn't died in 1989, a lot of what people are doing today would have been possible over time, but decades ago. Some of the recent attempts were aware of Trapeze, but it's been so far in the past I have no idea about these folks.

I'm an artist and I've never heard of him until now, but then again I am not into TikTok. Drawing people in public is pretty basic stuff for people who get a degree in art; it's not anything new or original. He is clearly very good at gaining an audience which is a good skill, and his portraits seem very skillful from what I can see. Realism is a very minor type of art since photography exists; outside of TikTok it's not a big market. But dealing with criticism is also a necessary skill which he seems to lack. One person is an artist; the other 8B people are critics.

The security folks I dealt with in London recently laughed at the TSA because of this.

I don't think you can have a mortgage without insurance to at least cover the bank's portion. If you own the house with cash then possibly.

I really admire the creative bullshit these execs come up with, AI can't compete: "This means adapting our organizational structures to improve agility and accountability, establishing unambiguous ownership and driving improved efficiency and transparency through reduced layering".

Would be fun to read an article about how websites abuse browsers. I keep getting frustrated with https://www.macrumors.com and its insane amount of network calls, ads, bits of javascript, and other endless connections. Browser features started off so easy to understand, and now it's crazy. I had to write a webapp for the USPS in 1998 using IE 2, which had almost no features, and occasionally the features they had actually worked...

Someone years ago gave a random number (which was mine) to some telemarketer, and now I get many many calls and texts every day from people who think I am her. Impossible to block since they come from everywhere. https://thecodist.com/i-am-not-betty-and-i-cant-do-anything-...

I never answer my phone anymore.

I haven't been a chemist in more than 40 years, but even I know that pyrolysis of plastics makes a horrible toxic soup. There is no way to recycle many plastics in this way, the chemistry to reuse this resultant material doesn't exist. All it does is reduce the volume of material, which you then have to put somewhere. Also, the volatiles you generate have to go somewhere, and I highly doubt you want to breath them. You may as well live next to a battery recyling plant that uses coal for energy and raises pigs.

If you don't pay your rent and other obligations, profit is easy. Of course it might eventually catch up to you...

I could never get this sample trace despite many attempts. Clearly there is a feature that triggers this behavior, or it has been fixed in the latest OS update. Given the enormity of an operating system and its many moving parts, things will fail occasionally.

I wanted to go on a trans-atlantic cruise but the one way return flight (Premium economy, I am too tall for regular 30" seat pitch) was $2000. Regular economy was closer to $600-$800. Not even round trip.

I stood in front of The Starry Night at MOMO in New York City for a long time, trying to imagine what it felt like for him to stand in front of a blank canvas, thinking what should I do today, and come up with that.