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dingaling··on Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland
Well it's how Denmark defended their claim on Greenland in the late 1800s, attacking any European ships that tried to land there. But this time, the other side has more "might".
dingaling··on Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files
You can still access the traditional save dialog by pressing F12 instead of Ctrl-S

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/customize-the-sav...

dingaling··on Google broke my heart
> If googlers dont have an internal org

> chart they can check, then how do they

> verify who is on what team?

Having worked at some very large companies, none of which published org charts, it's done by word of mouth and making informed guesses.

"Alice, I saw you were the last editor of this document. Are you still on that team, or can you point me to the best PoC?"

dingaling··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Unlikely to be ann invasion, they appear to be SOF Chinooks so probably a snatch or pinpoint raid.
dingaling··on Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
> People can buy shares in Berkshire Hathaway.

They can buy stock, but B-H doesn't pay dividends. So the only way to make money with its stock is to flip it to someone who's willing to pay more.

dingaling··on Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
Likewise the absence of a stroke through the zero. Without context, for example in a Wifi password, indistinguishable from uppercase letter O.
dingaling··on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe
Even take-off doesn't really need a pilot; the production Lockheed TriStar airliner had full automation and on at least one occasion ( 25 May 1972 ) flew entirely from runway to runway, across the USA, without pilot intervention.
dingaling··on Stop Breaking TLS
I absolutely do not want to be constrained to a single system cert store controlled by the OS vendor.
dingaling··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
"This was tough to use while bicycling or carrying stuff."

That seems an incredibly limited set of use cases for the complication of adding another device to one's life.

dingaling··on 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
> it reduces the validity period of private keys that could be used in a MITM attack if they're leaked

If a private key is leaked, 45 days is sufficient to clean-out the accounts of all that company's customers. It might as well be 10 years.

If cert compromise is really common enough to require a response then the cert lifetime should be measured in minutes.

dingaling··on Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself
> Ireland having any sort of military

> capacities would directly contradict

> UK military interests.

Contradicted by the fact that the Irish military forces were entirely equipped with UK-supplied aircraft and vehicles until the 1960s, at which point Ireland turned towards France instead.

The UK never intervened to prevent Ireland acquiring any weapon system, in contrast it was Irish budget frugality that consistently undermined the military.

At present Ireland is considering the purchase of Gripen interceptors, and the UK seems at worst indifferent and probably actually quite relieved.

dingaling··on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be
Windows 95 and 98 VersionStrings were 4.00.nn and 4.10.nn
dingaling··on China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights
If a nation with RLVs can sustainably launch 10 anti-satellite interceptors per day but the nation without reusables can only launch 10 satellites per month, they're going to lose access to orbit.
dingaling··on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
£5.09 is about 25 minutes work at National Minimum Wage ( £12.21 per hour ), about 5.6% of daily income at NMW and standard working hours.

A bacon & egg McMuffin provides 336 kcal, which is 13% of an adult male's RDI. So on a purely kcals:price level it does seem to provide decent value.

dingaling··on NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
The entire MD-11 project was a budget-limited rush-job to try to capture some market share before the A340 and 777 came into service.

It produced an aircraft that failed to meet its performance targets, was a brute to fly and was obsolete the moment its rivals flew.

Douglas* by the early 1990s was a basket-case of warmed-over 1960s designs without the managerial courage to launch the clean-sheet project they needed to survive.

* as a division of MDC

dingaling··on NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]
And with Omega Air, for contracted air refuelling

https://www.omegaairrefueling.com/

dingaling··on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40
It's curious that of all the famous American syndicated strips, only The Far Side, and maybe Garfield, seem to have bridged the Atlantic divide to the UK.

Maybe C&H and Peanuts were just too rooted in US suburban family culture. Dilbert had a niche following here and beyond that I struggle to even name another strip.

dingaling··on Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal
The FDIC currently holds a reserve of 1.28% of deposits. It can handle a single bank run, but not a widespread one.
dingaling··on iPhone Pocket
"They are just not popular enough."

The various Mini models accounted for 3 to 6% of sales, which was still millions of units.

dingaling··on How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
Well I doubt they'd be using Growlers, but even if they needed to they cost too much ( $80 million a piece ) to be thrown into modern naval air defences, and don't have the range to be deployed where they could actually reach ships causing trouble.
dingaling··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
The DC-10 was a rushed programme to avoid Douglas being frozen out of the 1970s widebody market by Lockheed and Boeing.

Similarly, the MD-11 was a cost-restricted update of the airframe to avoid McD being frozen out of the 1990s widebody market by Airbus and Boeing.

McD management wouldn't fund the more ambitious four-engined MD-12, so the trijet's fuselage was stretched and aerodynamic tweaks applied.

The MD-11 never met its performance targets and heralded the end of the Douglas commercial line. It was fairly quickly relegated from pax to cargo service where it has a good payload but little else to commend it.

dingaling··on How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela
> was seen as a chance to test out a bunch of Reagan's new weapons.

The F-117, the wonder-weapon of Panama, was funded by the Carter Administration.

As was the B-2.

dingaling··on How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise
What's shocking is the gulf between those companies and corporate 'normality'.

Eastern Airways, a UK airline, has just gone bust due to accumulated debts of £26 million. That's not even a rounding error for Google, yet was enough to put a 47-year-old company into bankruptcy and its staff out of work.

I think the only historical parallel to this disparity was the era of the East India Company.

dingaling··on Ground stop at JFK due to staffing
For comparison:

Terminal ATC in the UK is a competitive market. Each airport is free to tender for private companies to operate the service.

En route ATC remains a government-granted monopoly awarded to NATS, which is the privatised former national provider.

dingaling··on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
> and let him pick a couple stocks to put some money into

And yet we complain that corps today are too focused on their market valuation over everything else; customer experience, longevity, worker conditions, R&D are all being neglected in order to make the needle go up.

'Investing' in stocks in order to flip them when the price goes up is feeding this insanity. Teaching kids that this is perfectly rational seems selfish and short-sighted.

Our children should be encouraged to invest into something like bonds which actually help promote economic growth.

dingaling··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
Windows will never succeed on the desktop if it relies on arcane CLI configuration...
dingaling··on Floss Before Brushing
No, mouthwash after brushing removes the fluoride that the toothpaste has just deposited. Similarly, avoid rinsing after brushing.

There's not really a 'good' time to use mouthwash. Maybe an hour or more after a meal, if you're in a rush - but no sooner than that, as the tooth enamel will still be softened by the food.

dingaling··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
GE's appliances business was sold to Haier of China in 2016
dingaling··on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App
OsmAnd is a commercial product ( by OsmAnd BV of the Netherlands ) that uses Openstreetmap data but it isn't related to that organisation.

There are other apps that use Openstreetmap data, such as Organic Maps.

dingaling··on I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
Kagi, who up to now have been respectful of their users, have just introduced a floating 'Quick Answers' AI summariser button in the bottom right of their search results page on mobile - precisely where one would place one's thumb to scroll the page.

I've already inadvertently clicked on it once.

Very disappointing and they don't provide any toggle to remove it.

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