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deburoon ‘Liz Truss hasn’t understood a word I wrote’, says PM’s favourite author

I don't follow you at the end of your comment. Shrinking the spending budget doesn't necessarily imply cutting on defense & all other services they deem essential.

deburoon The Fed plans to sharply boost unemployment

You must be underestimating the negative effect high long-term inflation has on a society. Labor doesn’t gain leverage, it loses a lot of buying power.

deburoon Software engineering changed my life

It is true, and I’d guess that most of those who put the economy front and center in their view of society have empathy, they just differ on the ways society should provide to its members. While socalism focuses on existing wealth and how best they can redistribute it, economic-minded folks are concerned about wealth creation and how not to be overburdened by bloated budgets, which is very risky.

deburoon Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster

I blame the devs before I blame the platform. Relational databases are mature enough and yet devs still find ways to create queries that time out with only a few thousand rows in their tables.

deburoon NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles

Requires a starting sample and samples at random times afterward. It’s very intrusive.

deburoon Iranian Citizens Charged in Broad Hacking Campaign in US

>in the US

honestly it seems that nobody cares about it, carelessness is not limited to the US sadly

deburoon Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices

>but we cover WAY less for individuals.

That has to be related to the fact that American drugs are sold to a lesser price abroad than at home, right?

In Quebec, cancer treatment is free. Given that even late-stage cancer patients live much longer nowadays, and those treatments are probably expensive as heck, I wonder how we can afford it.

deburoon CERN drafts plans to idle accelerators due to Europe’s energy crunch

>This is what you get when you rely on fossil fuels as an energy source in 2022.

The root cause was to source your energy needs from an old enemy. And it seems that what made this happen was the green transition at home.

deburoon Engine Simulator: produce realistic sounds from various engine parameters

Absolutely amazing. I wonder, do games like GTA simulate those sounds as well, or is it pre-baked somehow?

deburoon Excel never dies (2021)

I will ramble a bit, but for complex data transforms, you can use PowerQuery instead of formulas. For semi-serious programmers like myself, I started doing C# add-ins to Excel using Excel-Dna. There’s also Query Storm. :)

deburoon The Press Is Already Working Overtime to Elect Trump Again

Reminds me of this piece: https://www.commonsense.news/p/why-the-democrats-are-funding...

"Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent"

Pretty funny.

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I wonder if people criticizing these acts of bikeshedding are seen as being anti-LGBT. Modern activism is so off-putting, at least on social media.

deburoon I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday

Would you say the same thing if investors didn't fall over themselves to make Elon the wealthiest person on earth?

Anyway, people can still believe in the cause. Even then, it's not the only thing that matters. My company isn't public and it's not doing anything world-changing but I am still devoted to it for below market pay.

deburoon Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives by 2023

In my experience, Windows 10 on older entry-level HDD computers (2010s) is already terribly slow. Slow RAM isn't as bad as a slow HDD for whatever reason. Though Windows XP still feels snappy on them.

deburoon When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"

I blame the disagreement on online communications. Can you imagine this conflict lasting this long if these guys had been talking about it in person over coffee? They would probably behave with much more restraint and respect for each other.

deburoon A story about planning for Desert Storm

All wars are bad and the US doesn't go to war because it thinks it's funny. Unrelated people may joke about it, as usual.

deburoon Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak

Thanks for the details!

deburoon Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak

Would the cypher negotiation be the problem? I checked that Chrome supports Chacha/Poly, and it seems it does.

- https://chromestatus.com/feature/5355238106071040

Chrome seems to support TLS 1.3 since v70, and I'm on 99.

There's only the 0-RTT/EarlyData as far as I can tell that may be messing things up, is it required for TLS 1.3? It's not enabled by default yet (still in dev?).

- https://chromestatus.com/feature/5447945241493504

- https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/edge-certificates/addi...

deburoon Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak

How odd, your website gives me "ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH" on Win64 > Chrome.

deburoon EU negotiators agree new rules to rein in tech giants

>If you are in the EU, try out surfing the web via a non EU IP once. It is an eye-opening experience. No cookie banners! Only Europeans have to deal with those.

I'm in Qc, Canada and I see them very often. Is it only checking for a US IP, and everything else gets the banner?

deburoon Higher-income people are worried about the economy

Are you talking about Axio?

deburoon Ubuntu Has a New Logo

It's really funny.

deburoon UN Climate change is so severe we're running out of time to adapt

Nuclearize all the things, like we are in 1960s. It’s actually exciting that it came back in force.

deburoon Germany announces vast defense spending increase

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-step-up-plan...

They plan to..

deburoon Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?

It probably uses Edge WebView2, which is based on Chromium and can be updated on its own.

ZeroTier uses it for its control panel, and installs it on first launch which caused me some confusing as to why i always had to launch it twice to make it appear after a new install.

deburoon We are closer to Bradbury’s dystopia than Orwell’s or Huxley’s

I think hearing about the pushback against cancel culture is important just to know it's not as one-sided as it appears in parts of the Twitter sphere. I find it reassuring quite frankly.

deburoon California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-t...

Is that center right?

deburoon California sues Tesla over ‘racial segregation’ claims at factory

Warren labeled a centrist is pretty rich considering she keeps yelling at clouds about corporate greed (her explanation for inflation)

deburoon I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

In smaller stores (fast food restaurants for sure), when the cash doesn’t balance, the employees pay the difference i think. does it hurt walmart or does it hurt the employees in that case?