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fourthark··on Tesla’s toxic superfans are giving community a bad name as stories go mainstream
Imagine tying your identity to a consumer product...

That said, is Tesla responsible for some fans being jerks?

fourthark··on Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
... Creating a central point of failure / censorship?
fourthark··on The Battle Inside Signal
There are no things that "absolutely everyone agrees are bad", kind of by definition.

So, who decides, or is there a cutoff on what percentage of people must believe an idea for it to be allowed to be communicated?

fourthark··on Military intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
That's not exactly true. The phone has GPS, which is precise location data, and independent of cellular service.

The carrier only has tower triangulation, which is less accurate but still valuable.

fourthark··on Horrifying PDF Experiments
Today was the first time I encountered a paper with a Docker image. Fantastic to be able to try it out with no effort.

I suppose this only works in a few fields though.

fourthark··on Working at Apple (2011)
And that was the mistake.
fourthark··on Hell Yes CSS
> that’s why CSS syntax looks nothing like HTML syntax

Also because CSS is rule-based rather than hierarchical.

fourthark··on No, SAR Can't See Through Buildings
The blow-up picture doesn’t make sense either - hardly any difference in zoom and the little circle contains only a small part of the image in the big circle.

Do they understand how these diagrams are supposed to work?

fourthark··on Plants can grow quickly or accurately, but not both
I think the argument was that it’s easier to grasp a thin support, so the pea needs less accuracy.

It wasn’t spelled out in the article or its reference, from what I could tell.

fourthark··on Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
You are presumably not an intelligence agency.
fourthark··on Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory
> WEIRD: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic.

How precious.

fourthark··on Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data
I got 12 sites in 40 clicks, and some of those I still wasn’t sure. I think it really is!
fourthark··on AT&T’s current 5G is slower than 4G in nearly every city tested by PCMag
Should improve reliability, but carriers don't want to talk about that because they would have to admit reliability is not already good.
fourthark··on Apple II and Apple IIe emulators written in JavaScript and HTML5
Close, but the logos were really styled that way, with ASCII brackets and slashes, on the cases.

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

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

fourthark··on Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
Hah, knew I’d take heat for this but had to say it anyway.

I tried to say it in the least snarky way I could.

I am seriously concerned about nuclear power plants that bluescreen.

fourthark··on Bill Gates' nuclear venture plans reactor to complement solar, wind power boom
Please consider the reliability of Windows.
fourthark··on D3 6.0
D3 is pretty low level - geometry and binding data to create DOM elements. It’s not really a charting library - look for libraries built on top of it for abstractions like “composite chart” or whatever.

So yeah at the D3 level you would just draw one chart and then draw another chart on top, probably each wrapped in a <g> if you’re using SVG. Maybe they’d share X/Y scales.

fourthark··on Starlink WiFi Router FCC Approved
Usually not a promise, usually “best effort”.
fourthark··on Three authors retract study on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine
Set showdead true in your profile.
fourthark··on US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests
Can anyone find the visualizations or figure out why an opt-in app provides enough data for such a study?
fourthark··on Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits (2019)
Rebasing a PR is also good - the branch has been pushed but everyone knows it’s unstable.
fourthark··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
It is very rough though. Like “with 60% probability we think these two people are on the same block”.

Totally oversold technology.

fourthark··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
That’s what they are doing.
fourthark··on Google Apple Contact Tracing (GACT): a wolf in sheep’s clothes?
Tower triangulation doesn’t have very much precision, for one thing.
fourthark··on Theia: Cloud and Desktop IDE
It really depends on the situation. There are both friendly and hostile forks.
fourthark··on What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
You can't do that because of the rvalue problem I mentioned above. Only (++C)-- and (--C)++ are allowed!
fourthark··on What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
Looks like you could have (++C)++
fourthark··on What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
No, postfix increment returns an rvalue, so it can’t be applied twice. (jk)
fourthark··on Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond
FWIW this looks like her current summary of the situation:

https://where.coraline.codes/blog/ethical-source-osi-electio...

fourthark··on Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it
I hope this is satire, but I’m not sure if it is.
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