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Unfortunately Levi's has started making subtle changes to the same models. I have a drawer full of Levi's, all the same model. The older pairs are 100% cotton. The newer pairs are 99% cotton, 1% elastane, and have noticeably thinner fabric. Usage that would just scuff the older pairs will put a hole in the newer pairs. Very disappointing.

Love this article!

One nit: All three animations that show the governor and the flywheel have the governor turning the wrong way, causing the gears that join them to do physically impossible things.

My fantasy for the Laptop 16 keyboard: Optional taller hinges and thicker bezel.

Think about it... Replacement hinges that separate the upper and lower shell by an extra 1/8-1/4" plus a thicker bezel to fill that gap. Suddenly (at the cost of a thicker laptop, for those of us who don't mind) you have extra space under the screen for longer key throw, contoured key caps, trackpoint, arrow keys that overlap the lower deck to allow a proper inverted-T layout, etc. Maybe even possible to retrofit old ThinkPad keyboards in there.

Hey, I can dream, can't I?

> when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?

Three Body Problem

Good point. And if I remember right, tar allows longer paths than zip.

A tar of gzip or zip files doesn't make sense. But gzipping or zipping a tar does.

Gzip only compresses a single file, so .tar.gz lets you bundle multiple files. You can do the same thing with zip, of course, but...

Zip compresses individual files separately in the container, ignoring redundancies between files. But .tar.gz (and .tar.zip, though I've rarely seen that combination) bundles the files together and then compresses them, so can get better compression than .zip alone.

Yeah, annoying.

This one is better:

https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...

Poking around the map, it looks like red=towns, blue=water, grey=mountains. Not sure what yellow is.

Having HS grades count 100% is a really bad idea. Not because of anything about the schools, but because HS age isn't representative of people's abilities. I had terrible HS grades due to a complete lack of interest. After growing up a little and getting my act together, I got A's in college. Thank goodness they didn't base my admission on HS grades.

Looking forward to Derek Lowe's take on this.

I've got their R/C Flakpanzer Gepard in a box somewhere. It was great fun to build and run, except maybe the part where you had to assemble the tracks piece by piece.

Of course the old NiCad battery is long since dead. And R/C frequencies have changed since then, so the controller and receiver are probably useless. But from time to time I wonder about what it would take to modernize and revive it.

https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/56003

> As an aside, line 511 is entered when it fails to find matching values with the current game state for all 19 boards and flipped boards. It seems like it was originally intended to be a comment using the REM command like 511 REM REMEMBER THE TERMINATION OF THIS LOOP IS IMPOSSIBLE, but perhaps that part was omitted during editing, so it just starts with REMEMBER.

Actually, that line does start with "511 REM". There was no requirement for REM to be followed by a space.

Yep, those are pretty nice. It's on/off that's really hard to find. Discrete on, specifically, since with Flirc you can handle off in software.

That is one big reason, yes, but not the only one. I prefer hardware where I can install the OS I choose, and to avoid Amazon gadgets.

I've been thinking about replacing an RPi4 running Kodi, and N100/N150 seems with looking at. But one requirement is support for remote control support, including power on and off (preferably with discrete on/off commands). Anyone have suggestions?

Interesting. If the counter can be zero, does that mean passkeys can be non-resident keys? And which party gets to decide the counter value?

> So what exactly is being transferred with this new cross platform mechanism? Isn’t it the same private key, except that it’s a direct device-to-device transfer?

The sentence you quote is describing passkeys, not this new transfer mechanism. I assume this does transfer the private key.

Oh the other hand, while the article is short on details, it sure sounds like this only supports a move operation, where the passkey is removed from the first device and installed on the second. Which means it'll so nothing for disaster recovery, because they are still assuming your one passkey device will always be present and functional. For example, say your iPhone is smashed and you decide to buy an Android replacement. Nope, sorry, first you need to buy an iPhone to restore from iCloud, then you can transfer to Android.

It really needs to be possible to back up passkeys, no matter how much the advocates say we shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Or, maybe just retire.

I don't know how they measure it, but I assume they have some management dashboard they can view. The requirement is exposed to us in multiple performance objectives with phrases about x% of team making active use of gen ai, use gen ai to increase velocity y%, automate z% of tasks with gen ai, and so on.

And I work for an organization that does everything they can think of to make it virtually impossible for anyone to leak code outside, but is now mandating Copilot use to the point of including it in personal performance goals.

Related to this, consider that when an LLM writes tests for code, it's writing them based on what the code actually does, not what it's supposed to do. This is equally true when the code itself was written by the LLM. Sure the tests pass, but that doesn't prove the code is correct.

Friendly reminder that despite articles constantly saying "Real ID is required" as if no other option exists, the Real ID requirement only applies to using a driver's license or state issued photo ID. There is a long list of other acceptable forms of ID[1].

In particular, a passport remains the ultimate form of ID, usable for anything.

[1] https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification

I was hoping she'd let him have it for the way he kept interrupting her. But unfortunately it looks like he was just interrupting the TTS, so the LLM probably had no indication of the interuptions.

> (I have even seen some real examples of companies adding AI usage to performance reviews)

Sad to say, I can vouch for this.

"Woven by Toyota will also join the potential collaboration as Toyota’s strategic enabler, contributing its strengths in advanced software and mobility innovation."

Pretty neat. One tip it took me a while to realize is that after you tap on a country, the compass rose (now the same color as the country) can be used to rotate it.

But why do countries rotate to the left as you drag them north and rotate to the right as you drag them south?

Commenters in another thread were suggesting that the OTA updates would be via their phone app. Which opens the possibility of simply not connecting your phone to it, one hopes.

Of course, we are talking about a car that doesn't exist yet. Who knows what the facts will be once it does.

> "Apps were automatically taking screenshots of themselves and sending them to third parties. In one case, the app took video of the screen activity and sent that information to a third party.”

> Out of over 17,000 Android apps examined, more than 9,000 had potential permissions to take screenshots. And a number of apps were found to actively be doing so, taking screenshots and sending them to third-party sources.

Which permission is that, and how do you detect which apps are doing that and stop them?

Yes, they have a nice storage bin right behind where you put the optional tablet mount, but the only option I've seen for that bin is a speaker kit. I don't want a tablet mount or speakers in the bin. I want the left side of the bin (above the controls) to be a double DIN mount.

Sadly, their jobs site lists a position for "Flash Over-the-Air (FOTA) Validation Engineer".

That very first example instantly brought RPG to mind for me, too.