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digitalPhonix··on Reviving Papers with Code
I still don't see where HF is explained?
digitalPhonix··on DuckDuckGo displays a special logo when you search for FreeBSD or OpenBSD
But no new easter eggs (that I'm aware of). I think those easter eggs could only have been created in the 2000s Google culture.

The fact that they're still around doesn't really say anything about the current culture (but the lack of new ones does, somewhat).

digitalPhonix··on FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right
> No broadcaster has a 'right' to use the pubic [sic] spectrum,

(Last line on page 5: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-530A1.pdf )

The lack of any proof-reading seems pretty emblematic of the thought process of this "threat".

digitalPhonix··on Self-Driving bus in Sweden crashes with tram on first day of passenger service
I’m guessing you’re not from Melbourne?

“Tramways” are a specific type of road dedicated for trams, separated by dividers. “Tram lanes” are regular roads with tracks that are for exclusive use by trams, usually for part of the day and shared with cars for the rest.

The majority of the tram network is on roads shared with regular vehicle traffic (ie. neither a tramway nor a tram lane).

When trams are moving on shared roads they have no right of way special to them EXCEPT at roundabouts.

(I also know a PTV tram operator who lost their job for rear ending a car that suddenly stopped to turn right)

digitalPhonix··on Self-Driving bus in Sweden crashes with tram on first day of passenger service
The context was

> If I have to slam the brakes on to avoid hitting a pedestrian

In that case you will not be at fault.

> in lane dedicated ONLY for trams and buses where trams have priority anyway

I’m not sure about Swedish road rules, but I don’t see any note about it being a dedicated lane

digitalPhonix··on Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C
> At least that's how it always in American English

You already found the answer.

To me, all of ()[]{} (and depending on context <>) are “brackets” in the sense that they bracket whatever is between them. Then a brace is a single side of a bracket (ie. opening brace plus closing brace make a bracket).

So to distinguish between the different brackets/braces you use “round”, “square”, “curly” or “angled” respectively. And “round” is the default so you often skip specifying that.

That’s been the convention in programming and maths everywhere I’ve worked outside America (in English).

digitalPhonix··on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Sure, for context the image in the article captioned

> Jarczak’s code shows that his fork of OrcaSlicer identifies itself as “BambuStudio,” but mostly just by saying that out loud and hoping Bambu’s systems don’t ask any questions. Image: Bambu

is the “security gap” claimed by Bambu

digitalPhonix··on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
> that possibly exploited a security gap

It set a HTTP user agent string...

digitalPhonix··on Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
“About 5 grams”, “approximately 250ml”.

Precision is orthogonal to the unit.

digitalPhonix··on Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
A lot of the commonwealth countries switch ~1970 (UK, Australia, Canada at least).

Why does the absolute number matter? Every trades truck/stockpile will need to stock double for some time, not some absolute value increase.

digitalPhonix··on Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
> scooping something by measuring cup or trying to get a specific weight by 0.1g precision

Why are you conflating speed and precision? A cup-ish measure would be 200g and no one is measuring that to .05% accuracy.

On the flip side, good luck getting .1g precision out of a measuring cup if you need it.

digitalPhonix··on Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
> Half of our houses were built 50 years ago

That’s true of everywhere in the world at the time they made the switch (give or take a decade). Why is that a problem unique to America?

digitalPhonix··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
> If Iran had a different foreign policy

That's my point. Iran did, and it did not work out for them so why would they try again?

> Polling of Iranians citizens show 69% of people

67% of people believe Trump is doing a bad job; 56% believe the US shouldn't be in this war; 63% believe the US should stop supporting Israel. They're all roughly the same % as your quote, does that mean the US should change foreign policy?

> Iran's situation was entirely avoidable

Sure, by not dropping bombs on them while negotiation with them?

digitalPhonix··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
That's the difference - they have well defined and bounded errors. LLMs do not.
digitalPhonix··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
You know that the Iran of then is almost completely unrelated to the Iran of now culturally, politically and even religiously due to... err... “foreign intervention”, right?
digitalPhonix··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
The question wasn’t about a hammer robot, it was about a hammer
digitalPhonix··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
That wasn’t the question though? A hammer doesn’t have a chat interface, that’s the point.
digitalPhonix··on PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
When used according to it’s datasheet/user manual, how?
digitalPhonix··on New open source city-state, with new constitution functional on one site
> I also enjoy the crowing about having only a 6 page constitution and then halfway through the font size is changed to make everything fit, the same way I’d modify line spacing or font size on a paper in high school to hit the teachers demands without actually doing so.

Those are patch notes (page 7 onwards). The text ends on page 6 with the same font the whole way through.

digitalPhonix··on California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply
> Because the US is overwhelmingly urban sprawl and is not Europe

That's a bad excuse

a) because Europe isn't one single demographic but still public transport is useful, reliable and safe everywhere (from Dublin/Zurich on the low side of the population density scale to London/Paris/Madrid on the high side and Amsterdam/Hamburg/Prague in the middle).

and b) there are plenty of examples outside of Europe. Melbourne is urban sprawl. The metro area is 50 miles east to west, 30 miles north to south (more, but there's also a big bay) and a population of only 5 million. A lower population density than the Denver MSA but manages to run a train/bus/tram system that's useful, reliable and safe.

digitalPhonix··on Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview claimed he was a sex offender
Even if you accept that (I don't, and neither should the courts), Google controls the next hundred processing/routing/rendering/middleware steps and is fully in control of the content that makes it to the user.
digitalPhonix··on Why airlines are always going bankrupt
> I am irrationally angry about this

Did you notice that the 2,500 mile flight earned/generated/conjured 2,500 miles?

(I know, I know, things can change the number you get...)

digitalPhonix··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Did you read the things you're linking?

> https://owasp.org/www-community/pages/attacks/ip_spoofing_vi...

Isn't an actual technique, it's describing the observed result if the server were to blindly trust some HTTP headers which is just the application payload in a TCP stream. It's not spoofing the IP at any network layer.

> https://github.com/ParsaKSH/spoof-tunnel

Requires mutually agreed spoofing on both sides... at which point it's not really spoofing and also clearly not applicable because Wikipedia will not agree to it. (It is useful in the context that they're using it, just not at all what you're talking about)

Without controling a router that's on the path or being able to publish a route that contains the IP address you're trying to spoof, there is no way to spoof an IP address in bidirectional communication.

digitalPhonix··on Russia Poisons Wikipedia
That doesn’t work for an HTTP request (or any stateful communication that requires return traffic)
digitalPhonix··on SFO Gate Explorer
Most large US airports do (although it’s a little more subtle than in Asia/middle east).

It’ll also usually be branded “priority” or “premium” with the dominant airline for that airport/terminal (eg. Sky Priority or Premier Access).

Large airports like SFO, DEN and LAX have all combinations of CLEAR/PreCheck/Premium. Smaller ones only have some (ie. premium line doesn’t have precheck or clear).

The only airport I’ve been to recently that I don’t recall having a line like that was Bozeman.

digitalPhonix··on SFO Gate Explorer
That might be dependent on terminal.

Terminal 3 definitely has a United “Premier Access”/Star Alliance Gold line.

digitalPhonix··on Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
Losing your licence and many fines are FAA administrative processes so they don’t care. No courts involved.
digitalPhonix··on Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them
Putting words in their mouths makes it harder to get the actual statements, which seems counter to getting actual information about (or from) these companies.
digitalPhonix··on Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare
Cloudflare feels like yet another tech company living too long and becoming the villain.

Early Cloudflare days I moved all the infrastructure I was responsible for over to them for being so developer friendly. Now they are both developer unfriendly (eg. horror stories around pricing and plan swaps) and consumer unfriendly with way more frequent intersitals than I remember from ~5 years ago.

I think every time I log in to GitLab I get a Cloudflare check. Doesn’t matter if I’m on a residential connection, starbucks, airport or VPN.

digitalPhonix··on Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition
Specifically a coalition of parties that are not in power and seem to be unable to figure out why they aren’t in power.
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