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You can always check available ram: https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

Is it possible to tap fiber-optic cables without the owner getting wise? Even if you could tap modern cables, I assume everything is now encrypted and carries so much bandwidth that it becomes possible to sample the interesting intelligence.

Getting a demand to increase the payment by 40x is shocking no matter how much you make.

Google Slides is Actually Hilarious

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30227588

Article: https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hi...

LoRa was already taken.

Sleep has become significantly worse in Windows. Many complaints of how a supposedly sleeping laptop cooked itself to death in a backpack overnight.

I also think it would be worth considering changes in underlying hardware. A modern laptop no longer has a spinning HDD, probably a much bigger battery, and a CPU that is better at entering low power modes when possible.

Just yesterday, I purchased a game from GOG where the Linux build cannot start, owing to who knows what expected platform profile. Maybe, technically, I could have fixed the problem. The Windows build worked without issue in Wine.

Microsoft's offerings are rarely the best, but they can be sold bundled together, have long support contracts, and a wealth of integrations tying it all together.

Teams is not winning due to technical competence. It is Good Enough and bundled with the other Office products a corporation is already going to license.

Plus, if there is wasted space, you can jam an ad in there.

That is wild. Could not believe how many people were wearing sandals or completely barefoot.

Wait - they are still stuck on the ship after all this time? Is this a company/government rule? Some kind of maritime law?

Not like I expect any of them to keep their jobs after this, even if they acted impeccably during the failure.

What's next? Cannot write a lewd letter to your partner? Too many suggestive emojis?

I have to imagine more than one erotic publishing house has content hosted on Google Docs.

Random website claims that 39 million printed romance novels were sold in 2023.

  And this creates a bit of an oddity, because in the Clone Wars, the Republic fleet is essentially built around fast carriers – the Venators – and their fighters, whereas it is the CIS fleet which has specialized gunboats (along with the slower Lucrehulks that function as carriers), but by the time we get to the Empire, the doctrine has switched: the ISD is clearly a gun platform first and foremost, which carries its own fighter screen, but expects to win with its primary battery, not its (flimsy) TIE-Fighters

Not steeped in Star Wars lore, but I thought there was an in-novel explanation that the Emperor was planning on defending against a superior alien threat who had enormous planet-sized ships. For which the Death Star and other heavy guns would make sense.

  The lead Senators, Maria Cantwell and Ted Cruz, probably didn’t realize what had happened, as they did seek to do something useful for consumers, and the FAA reauthorization bill is sprawling and it’s easy to lose track of the details of every provision.

Sure, a completely honest mistake. No way our caring politicians would have let that language be inserted into the law.

I would love if these documents were version controlled so we could see exactly whose office inserted the language. Which makes so much sense, I doubt it will ever happen.

I know it is not technically Python, but seeing `list` used as a parameter made my eye twitch.

I am not sure what other options are really on the table. I have several grievances with Python, but it has the biggest community. If I want a library for...well anything, there is going to be one written in Python. Stuck on a problem? There is probably a blog post or SO thread from someone in the exact same situation.

Bootstrapping a new scripting language sounds incredibly difficult unless you have the cash or mindshare to get others to follow. Which is unfortunate, because I think a new language with lessons learned since Python could have a lot of performance and usability improvements vs where we are now.

On the gripping hand, traveling with cash should not be a crime. We already surrender so much privacy to the TSA.

I would fear that we would be hearing about more "TSA vs $20k in stacks of cash" civil forfeiture cases.

>...they booked a $5m loss and made a policy to never trade with that particular bank again

Maybe I am too cynical, but would many businesses retroactively agree to a deal which would cost them a ton of money? If the Process requires Is dotted, Ts crossed, and a phone call confirmation which was never placed -why eat the loss when the other party should own the error?

Citi just had a lawsuit because of paying back a loan too quickly. I expect everyone in finance to play hard ball on written agreements when it works in their favor.

No mention of Julia's Pluto seems like a real miss. I am Python day-to-day, but the Pluto demos I have seen are very attractive.

I think Pluto also lets you reassign a variable.

Is consumer spending on these kinds of services significant? It feels like chasing pennies, but then again, numbers must always go up.

I could instead believe it is different enough to make an internal splash and that usability concerns were not considered.

Probably a lot different when you are working under a bridge with cars whizzing about your head. There is not a lot of margin for error or an abundance of space to leave extra equipment.

Anecdotally, it seems like I see more wild driving when posted speeds are higher. People are more aggressive in higher speed zones, which inevitably leads to more crashes. Severe accidents being one of those things which can dramatically hurt traffic throughput.

This is a question I have wondered all the time (predominantly while stuck in traffic). Frequently wondered if, during rush hour, posted speed limits should be dropped by X to actually increased throughput.

Having not yet read the paper, I am curious if this was factoring in just typical average speed or if lower speeds are also going to have fewer/less severe accidents (accidents having an outsized impact on my road delays).

I once heard an unsubstantiated claim that federal funding was dependent upon length of the road work. Over-provisioning blocker barrels was a loophole to extend the distance and receive more funding.

If you are super duper serious about securing yourself, recovery email is non-viable. Every piece of data is a potential vector towards exposure.

Which comes directly into the problem of security vs convenience.

While an IP address is not an identity, it can still zero in on a location. I suspect governments and ISPs all keep historical logs of who was assigned what address.

I think they should do like Mullvad claims and keep zero logs. You cannot share what you do not have.

Always worth giving a shoutout to the "Scalability! But at what COST?" paper (pdf https://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf)

  We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread. The COST of a given platform for a given problem is the hardware configuration required before the platform outperforms a competent single-threaded implementation. COST weighs a system’s scalability against the overheads introduced by the system, and indicates the actual performance gains of the system, without rewarding systems that bring substantial but parallelizable overheads.

The EA account linking is the only thing keeping me from purchasing It Takes Two. Companies are so desperate to track my data they would rather not have my sale.

If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.