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I always wondered why people in Florida don't build houses out of bricks instead of wood as we do. I thought they would do much better against a tornado. It's now obvious that's not the case - quite the opposite, in fact, as the bricks and other heavy materials torn apart cause more collateral damage, crushing whatever (and sadly, whoever) is around on fall.

> 11 Calls were answered with only music. The music could indicate something, such as being in queue for some service. All music variants except for one sounded like generic elevator music that could be the default hold music in PBXs.

Someone told me that there used to be actual phone lines playing music 24/7 that elevators would dial and output to a speaker. Speaking of elevators, their emergency lines are also usually just phones and, as someone already pointed out in this thread, with enough knowledge you can call the elevator and listen (and talk) to people in it.

While reading through the Quake 3 source code, I noticed that whenever the FS functions were reading from a CD, they were doing so in a loop, because the fread/fopen functions instead of hanging and waiting for the CD to spin up sometimes just returned an error. It wasn't just slow, it was also hilarious at times.

What I really had an issue with was the timespan between modifying a file in an editor (running in Windows) and the change being actually present in the container. I had to restart tests way too often because the old code was executing, which was really annonying, as sometimes you can't really tell if it failed because of the old code, or because the implementation was wrong.

The problem here is the delay between Windows and WSL2, once the files are in WSL2, it's fine.

I may give it another chance, though. Thank you.

This is also true for Windows. WSL2 made containers faster, but FS is painfully slow. Sounds like the best thing (apart from switching) is running Linux in a VM (Hyper-V does OK) and having IDE, Docker and all the data in there.

I could also live without hiding the protocol for non-secured websites. I mean leave the label there, I don't care, but whenever I want to copy the domain of a HTTP website, it also automatically prepends it with the protocol, which more often than not is not what I want.

I wish developers just stop experimenting on URL bars and leave them simple and consistent...

This made me realize that despite not using SMS 2FA, my accounts still could be hijacked if they offer a password reset using my phone number (or if they offer a fallback 2FA to SMS, which I recently encountered somewhere). I should probably deliberately forget my passwords and test what it takes to regain the access...

And if you have been exposed to a very loud noise, to the point where your ears are ringing (probably not from headphones, but like starting a loud bike in a garage or gun fire), go to hospital, as soon as possible. They can give you medicaments and prevent permanent damage (tinnitus).

The people pushing the agenda see racism everywhere. The attribution probably has never occurred to most people in tech, because they are not obsessed with other people's color or beliefs.

I'd love to hear your standpoint on the agile.

> and everything that is sent through them

Are you seriously comparing letters and private IM conversations? I don't know about you, but I received/sent maybe 5 letters in last 10 years, none of which were from/to another private entity.

> I'd much rather have the government spying

I consider this very short sighted and dangerours, but that's your choice.

> at least if that were my only two choices

Those are not your only two choices, that's kinda my point. We actually don't have to choose between a greedy company or a state. The only decision people need to make is centralized or decentralized system.

I don't like the idea of government having full control of these services.

I believe that we need fully decentralized system, much like the e-mail, but realtime and E2EE. Sadly, it seems to me that we're taking the opposite direction. Just few widely used messengers, all of them are centralized, some of them have E2EE, but who knows for how long - EU commission seems to like the idea of breaking in. No matter what their intentions are, I didn't sign up for that.

Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY3jm34RFU

I can't find it right now, but I also saw someone doing this with some version of Google Now (or what it was back then) and serving different assets into it.

This might be different elsewhere, but here, the apartments on lower floors are typically rented and they're cheaper than those on higher floors. It's the case at the building I currently live in, although it's because on the lower floors, there are more apartments (smaller ones) than on the higher ones. Roof apartments are all sold out, not rented.

So, I could imagine, that the higher floors are occupied by more wealthy people, who might be less prone to alcoholism. This theory, however, doesn't check out for high rise prefab houses. But it could perhaps cause the deviation?

By definition (or at least by a definition I recognize), model is a person or thing used as an example to follow or imitate. Personally, I don't really care, but I can see why it might be difficult for some to accept some of the performers as models.

Turn off wake-up by alarm in BIOS, if you can. Windows just wakes up whenever it wants and if you, somehow, manage to make it stop in the settings, it only works till the next update. At least that was my experience.

And the colors are inverted with dark color scheme.

I do the same (well, I don't use OneDrive all that much).

I use my e-mail with Outlook exclusively and what I did was creating a new local Outlook account, in which I move all my e-mails from time to time. That way, there's an offline mailbox you cannot loose in case of a ban or anything like that. Just make sure you set your Outlook to download everything, not just last year or so.

My motivation was a bit different, I didn't like the idea that someone could make it to my account and see literally all my e-mails sent and received in last 15 years. I mean I do have 2FA setup, but I don't trust MS over my offline backup stored on an encrypted device.

What's horrible about it? I just download it, unzip to Program Files, add the folder to my %PATH% and that's about it. I didn't find myself in a situation where I would need an Apache or other webserver, the built-in one is good enough. It also makes using different versions easy, no need to deal with Apache and CGI/FPM. You just use other PHP executable.

At where I live, trading water is forbidden. We rent appartments and we must not have any profit on the water. Usually, the consumption is separated per person, but sometimes that is not possible (when there are stores, for instance).

For an odd reason, however, flat rate is acceptable, so you can charge tenants a fixed monthly fee and make an actual profit out of it. Sure, there's a risk you set the flat rate price wrong.

Czech Republic. There are few exceptions to this (power plant control computers, stuff like that), but generally, it's illegal. EU is a bit less restrictive about this, but company-wide, systematic monitoring is forbidden everywhere.

I have recently scanned addresses within a radius of my town and there's still a lot of cameras with default credentials or with no password at all. It's getting better over the years, but not quite.

Years ago, it was too complex for me. I recently switched to Gogs and I'm satisfied with that. But that's Git only.