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dylanh··on X-Clacks-Overhead
Thank you for putting Matt trout there.
dylanh··on ISO 8583: The language of credit cards
this is the way. Shove everything into field 47.

dear god will I never forget all of these terrible details

dylanh··on Building static binaries with Go on Linux
This sounds like the musl allocator. Using mimalloc or jemalloc would probably fair a lot better.
dylanh··on Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers
Terrestrial state, a state of (the planet) earth.

Not an LLM but maybe a francophone or a logophile.

dylanh··on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?
https://twitter.com/fellowgritty/status/1052190131376087040
dylanh··on IT Without Software
A base 10 with symbols only for 1 through 10, where zero is represented with an empty set is a Bijective Base 10 numeration. The columns in excel are bijective base 26.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration

dylanh··on U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
Citation for this? The opposite seems to be the case based on reporting from Propublica among others:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...

dylanh··on The majority of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US are now living with their parents
Pretty much everyone I know is being priced out of market in the tampa bay area. Rent under $1k/mo means looking on the extreme periphery and suffering a long commute.
dylanh··on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
If your OS doesn’t already detect the captive portal, Firefox will.
dylanh··on How to Read “Gilgamesh”
This rap rendition is quite entertaining https://youtu.be/_Q9yKDwcDOc
dylanh··on SF tourist industry struggles to explain street misery to horrified visitors
I'm from Florida -- and have deep roots going back more than 100 years.

Florida is significantly less developed than it has any right to be, on a range of measures.

dylanh··on Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accused of Sexual Harassment
Consent is not negotiable.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bdsm-consent

dylanh··on Female Congressional Candidate Ends Run After Being Accused of Sexual Harassment
Nobody is going to feel flattered by being kissed without consent.
dylanh··on MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles
It is reasonable to assume that safety is the primary concern for school buses. There are are a lot of safety standards.

"Pursuant to these requirements, federal safety regulations applicable to bus manufacturers have been developed. There are a total of 37 federal motor vehicle safety standards that apply to school buses. Many of these also apply to other types of motor vehicles, but several (among them standards 131, 220, 221, and 222) are written specifically for school buses."[1]

As for seatbelts,

"Large school buses are heavier and distribute crash forces differently than passenger cars and light trucks do. Because of these differences, bus passengers experience much less crash force than those in passenger cars, light trucks and vans."[2]

It seems that even weight[3] is a safety consideration.

[1] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2004/rpt/2004-R-0730.htm [2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/road-safety/school-buses [3] http://www.americanschoolbuscouncil.org/love-the-bus/educato...

dylanh··on Small, slick design makes Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 the PC laptop to beat
2015 macbook pro retina here, which is 1920x1200 (or 1440x900). 1920/1200 = 1440x900 = 16/10 = 1.6...
dylanh··on Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers
Firefox for android runs nicely using the new android layer on chromebooks.
dylanh··on A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System
This is true in Dutch to a larger degree than English. It seems several English people learning Dutch on duolingo are confused that there is a verb that means "bike". https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3786991 for instance.
dylanh··on Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses
On a laptop. Otherwise I wouldn't know the uid. All users (including services) are allowed outgoing port 53/udp, except my son's user.
dylanh··on Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses
I run dnsmasq locally (and silently redirect all traffic from a certain uid with an iptables rule) to do adblocking and ... minimal parental control on my son's laptop. it is pretty great, I don't have to worry about him using the neighbor's wifi to get around my rules. ;)
dylanh··on How Tracking Protection Works in Firefox
It breaks in the case someone has multiple email addresses associated with their github account. That bug was fixed and will be out soon. :-)
dylanh··on How Tracking Protection Works in Firefox
Really sorry about that -- there was a snag in the case when someone has multiple github emails and no bugzilla account. It was fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223590 and that should be going live this week (last weak was a rarity, no code push).
dylanh··on Firefox for iOS now available
Seems to be pretty common for restaurant chains to have QR codes.
dylanh··on Firefox for iOS now available
Anyone that tracks their calories with a calorie tracking app? It's really convenient.