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illusive4080··on M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued
I’ve never thought about a tsunami when visiting the beach in my life. Are they much more common in the Pacific? We go to the Gulf and Atlantic and it’s never something I think about. We usually go in June/July, so we don’t worry much about hurricanes either.
illusive4080··on Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents
Not for me. It gets worse when context is nearly full. I like to compact or clear context more often than it does automatically.
illusive4080··on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Question, is this just a joke about AI taking over our jobs, or did someone at Microsoft call Copilot a Principal Engineer?
illusive4080··on 'Your showerhead is lying to you'
Captured, reused, or cleaned and discharged back into the adjacent river.

(I didn’t work in a paper mill but have family who has and I’ve been to them plenty of times to ask questions of the engineers)

illusive4080··on I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
I once bit into a lemon like that. It ate away some enamel on my teeth and they were sensitive for a few weeks. 0/5
illusive4080··on LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode
700 real watts of LED has got to be intense. Also your room would be very hot.
illusive4080··on Paxlovid: You'd have expected more
I had Covid once. No drugs, no vaccine (don’t jump me it wasn’t available yet). No long covid or brain fog. Sleepiness, loss of taste, flu symptoms for 5 days. Completely better in 10 days.

Anecdotes aren’t usually helpful for effectiveness testing. My experience can vary greatly between my neighbor even with identical demographics and characteristics.

illusive4080··on Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
This seems like a worse approach to me than a cookie.

My IP and UA don’t change, pretty much ever.

I can delete a cookie anytime I want.

illusive4080··on I set my phone to 'do not disturb' three years ago – and have never looked back
Maybe I’m an outlier but I keep notifications enabled, aggressively disabling them at the slightest annoyance (ad, too many for an app I don’t care about, etc). I also use focus modes for sleep and other activities.

I like that I can control when I get notifications without having to completely disable them.

illusive4080··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Back in my first house, we upgraded our bed and triedto move the old bed into the basement. We had a very small hallway with a door leading ti the basement. The mattress fit, of course, because it flexes. The frame fit because I could disassemble it. The box frame, made of iron and wood slats, could not fit. That day, I cut all the wood slats in half, bent the metal, and got that box spring downstairs. Then I but bracing brackets on the slats and unbent the metal. A few years later, we did the same process over again when moving.
illusive4080··on Imapsync
Microsoft has deprecated “legacy” auth methods, which makes this sort of thing very difficult to accomplish nowadays.

I used to use IMAP/SMTP for Outlook Mail but they force you to use proprietary clients now, forcing OAuth. It makes scripting nearly impossible.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobil...

illusive4080··on Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
Maybe the vscode extension is just an npm package? I also couldn’t find the link to npm in the article.
illusive4080··on Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)
In general I agree. Sometimes, when diagraming DNS cutover and failover strategies, it is applicable.
illusive4080··on Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)
One that I see is commonly misconstrued is having a user stick figure going to DNS and DNS going to the app.
illusive4080··on Adding cooking oil to asphalt to create self-healing roads
You have to factor in the additional cost of these micro capsules: How hard is it to mix those in on site? What’s the cost to produce them? How fragile are they to work with? Do they hold up in real world conditions?

Traditional methods of resealing roads are effective when done at the right time. It takes proactive maintenance.

Until this is actually tried in the field in real world conditions I’m not holding my breath for this as a successful method.

illusive4080··on Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive
I wonder how long until these will be $200 a piece on serverpartdeals? 5 years?
illusive4080··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Doesn’t matter what he thinks. Executive cannot override legislative action.
illusive4080··on Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad
No you didn’t miss anything. Everyone is freaking out about “processed” and “chemicals” and ignoring the obvious answer: high calories and low nutrition.
illusive4080··on The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired
GenAI is obnoxiously verbose
illusive4080··on Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito
Being live in more than one region at the same time
illusive4080··on Apple's 80% Charging Limit for iPhone: How Much Did It Help After a Year?
I tried to get my wife to use the feature day one on her new 16 Pro. She turned it off that night. It was going to be too inconvenient to her.
illusive4080··on Can We Hear Temperature? New Study Says Yes
Relevant video demonstration of how you can hear water temperature when pouring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_4dDvcZeM

illusive4080··on Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead
This is why I prefer Rust over Go. Go is far too simple.
illusive4080··on Covering All Birthdays
I wonder if most celebrate March 1 or February 28 most of the time? March 1 is more accurate time-wise but February 28 keeps within the same month.
illusive4080··on Factorio Friday Facts #421 – Optimizations 2.0
I love reading about these optimizations, it’s my favorite part of FFF.
illusive4080··on Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
I struggled with volume control on my computer, it’s always too coarse. I found out that you can hold Option+Shift when pressing the volume button on Mac to do more fine grained adjustments.
illusive4080··on Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
Classically ‘he’ was used to be more universal. It was always understood to include women as well. But that language is frowned upon. When I read ‘they’ I think plural people not singular like ‘he.’
illusive4080··on SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
I didn’t know what WAL/WAL2 mode was, so I looked it up. For anyone else interested: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
illusive4080··on Mistral NeMo
I love that domain name.
illusive4080··on Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
In corporate world, everything must be tame and beige. Conflict or differences of opinion are avoided to focus on the areas where everyone agrees. It’s exhausting sometimes to try and change methodologies. Introducing new technology can cause so much headache that many passive leaders just shun it in favor of keeping the peace.
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