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flerchin··on US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
They have backup power at the airport, and no, jetliners are not arriving and departing in the event of a power outage in the tower.
flerchin··on US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028
I was in a tower last year. They were sequencing aircraft with little loops of paper placed onto a wooden dowel. It can and should be better. Doesn't need to be whiz-bang, but it should not be paper slips and wooden sticks. (and floppy disks)
flerchin··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
Of course not. I'm asking how to protect oneself during personal activities.
flerchin··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
If she hadn't done it on her work laptop, her personal would have been pwned anyway. It's not clear to me how to protect oneself while also looking for work.
flerchin··on WTF Ubuntu?
Interesting. Given the tone you must use MPTCP with options. Hardly anyone does.
flerchin··on BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it
It's interesting to me that I pointed to fun game mechanics as primary and you point to Tetris and Minecraft as counterpoints.
flerchin··on BioWare co-founder: game execs "have never made a game" and don't get it
We don't really want creative games. We do want fun ones. Fundamentally, games are fun mechanics paired with a narrative that supports the mechanics. Note that the narrative is supportive, and fun is primary.

Maximizing profit often points the gaming cos towards gating the fun behind a paywall, or teasing the fun that could be had behind the next payment. It turns out that players don't find that fun (see Star Wars Battefront 2).

flerchin··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
The argument made in the article seems inarguable, but I don't see how a coronary artery calcium score is going to prevent a heart attack. You gotta do statins, exercise, and eat right basically no matter what. FWIW I had a coronary artery calcium score ordered by my doctor at my last checkup. It was $120.
flerchin··on It's now official, tech is the new tobacco
Social media is demonstrably bad for mental health. Paired with phones it's even worse. Facebook stopped their internal research before it began calculating the body count, but there absolutely is one. I've attached one source, but these findings are widely reported, and you will find many more with a cursory search.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/meta-internal-research-socia...

flerchin··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
> You want changes? Go ask your agent or something. I’m told that’s what you’re supposed to do now. I’m out.

Totally fair. The source code is open. Thanks for all the fish.

flerchin··on AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities to train robots
> AI lab offers free plumbing and HVAC repairs across three cities

Cool! VC capital at work for the common people.

> to train AI robots

LOL total bullshit.

flerchin··on Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges
This is the justification you make to yourself. People drive the speed limit. I do, never had a speeding ticket. It has never been dangerous.
flerchin··on Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet
It just shows up in the box. Their inventory is comingled.
flerchin··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
I also would not want those in my neighborhood.
flerchin··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
A new reason to not want a DC in my neighborhood.
flerchin··on All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
Naively I would have thought $500 for 20TB was a good deal.
flerchin··on [dead]
Sure seems to be hosed.
flerchin··on After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi
Polymarket is only popular since they went legal and started taking US dollars. If they were illegal and crypto-only, it would crush them.
flerchin··on After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi
Nope, we're talking about online gambling and prediction markets. It should be illegal in the US.
flerchin··on After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi
In no way is it better now that we have online gambling. The entire industry should be illegal and barred from participation in the traditional banking system.
flerchin··on US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
Pretty unfounded wrt Ukraine.
flerchin··on When did Google get so weird?
Yes but they didn't make $112B in profit last quarter by Goodhart-ing their way through it. Google of course cares about the stock price, but search makes them money, and chat therapy does not.
flerchin··on When did Google get so weird?
I don't get how it makes google more money to play therapist in the search engine. It surely costs a boatload more to generate that kind of response, so where's the payoff?
flerchin··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
Yeah if they know they can't succeed, then imo they have a fiduciary duty to not try. Which only leaves resigning.
flerchin··on Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
It says he has 84% of the voting shares. Is there any possible way that the board could have been successful? Regardless of Mullenberg, (and I know he's controversial) a coup that is pre-ordained to fail seems like value destroying negligence.
flerchin··on I don't like passkeys
I think the point with a passkey is that those very loose backup methods are required, since just knowing the password is not a thing. Everyone gets a new phone and is at risk of the previous one being unavailable. So passkeys mean that there's no way to deal with that reality, and also be truly secure.
flerchin··on Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
It's frankly insane that y'all have to do that, and yes Americans cross the border, perhaps haplessly.
flerchin··on Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
Yeah the plain language is unambiguous. That there is an historical border search exception simply doesn't matter to me. We fought a war for this, and it's bullshit.
flerchin··on I don't like passkeys
I don't get it. I recover an account at ticketmaster by receiving an email. I recover an account at google by???
flerchin··on I don't like passkeys
How can it be saved and synced without credentials? I'm in that overwhelming majority, but I don't grok how I can recover the account when my phone is lost/stolen/damaged. The answer appears to be, use another device that was already logged in?
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