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jeffbee··on Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim
Your main takeaway from this tale should be that the quality of trial court judges varies widely.
jeffbee··on California closed the Montana license plate loophole
Window tint isn't nonsense, either. I think every stanced-out pickup with a tinted windshield should be apprehended and destroyed the instant it crosses my state's line.
jeffbee··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
I think this comes down to the DEM they are using. I think it would have come out better if they had used USGS 3DEP DTM at 25cm.

Edited: which apparently is hosted for free on AWS S3.

jeffbee··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
You want OpenTripPlanner. Their triangle lets the user trade distance, climbing, and safe facilities.

https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner

https://github.com/opentripplanner/OpenTripPlanner/blob/dev-...

jeffbee··on Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)
In my personal opinion, the fix[1] for that issue clearly implicates C-style habits polluting a C++ code base. No right-thinking knower of C++ initializes objects with memset! Also I believe that -Wall would have flagged that, and I know for certain that cppcoreguidelines-init-variables + cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init would have flagged it.

1: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/905a88b923433eb8...

jeffbee··on Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)
Object lifetime is the entire point of C++ and it solves ~100% of the emergent flaws in C programs.
jeffbee··on Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped
It's not just phones, either. All modern computers are full of non-architectural cores running all kinds of wacky stuff.
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
It's all contextual. If the energy inputs are carbon-free and local water is scarce, then for that given situation a closed-loop system might make sense. People are building such a thing in Tucson, Arizona right now.
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Water in Omaha, Nebraska isn't all that scarce, either.
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Google prints the water usage of each of their sites in their annual report. What other industry is more transparent about water usage?
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
"Recirculating" water isn't thermodynamically the same. Evaporating the water is THE POINT of the system. You can make closed-loop coolers but they use more energy.
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
The data centers in the article aren't ever running on generators.
jeffbee··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
13 "megagallons" per year is almost none especially in the context of the Missouri River.
jeffbee··on Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
> works completely ... Trouble is map updates

Do you hear yourself?

jeffbee··on Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening
Why rely on your car's built-in software for navigation? Smartphone navigation is going to be a lot better (in my experience) and Google, Apple privacy terms are greatly superior.
jeffbee··on NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]
Speed brakes can be deployed whenever, even in flight, because they are flight controls, too. Deploying them would have settled the aircraft on the ground, where the brakes would have worked better and the thrust reversers could have been used.
jeffbee··on From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
Apparently I'm the only person to whom "from the creator of Redis" is a warning.
jeffbee··on NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]
> without deploying speed brakes and thrust reverser.

I don't think they were able to, since their aircraft never really touched down firmly enough to satisfy the weight-on-wheels interlock system. The aircraft won't allow the crew to reverse thrust until it settles into a "ground state" which we have today because some past guys managed to crash airplanes that way. Also, these guys commanded go-around power when they should have been hitting the brakes, so there's no way the flight systems were going to open the reverser.

jeffbee··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
The corresponding thread count has increased by much more than 4x.
jeffbee··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
The memory capacity wall has been coming at us at high speed in plain sight for decades. We've been ignoring it.
jeffbee··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
The coverage of known vulnerabilities is complete, from the beginning of time to nearly the present day.
jeffbee··on Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
Linux has never, at any point in history, lacked flaws that could be exploited to escalate privileges. The only question has been how well-known the flaws were, and when. The count of latent local privilege escalation bugs has never been zero.
jeffbee··on Gemini 4 Argon
It's dumb to have to think through multiple levels in indirect descriptions to remember which model is which. Only ADHD dipshits think this is a way to name products.
jeffbee··on Gemini 4 Argon
And that makes sense to you? From where I stand, here on Earth, the apparent sizes of those things are, from large to small: Earth, Moon, Sun, Stars. And I don't think in Latin.
jeffbee··on Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
Most of them work very, very poorly with either of those, by ChromeOS standards. Webcams, touchpads, energy management, etc.
jeffbee··on Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
Because a Windows laptop is a nightmare?
jeffbee··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Thank you for perceiving the core issue here.
jeffbee··on Gemini 4 Argon
Astra, Sol, Terra, and Luna are also complete nonsense that I can't keep straight. I have a reference card under my monitor to remind me which one is which.
jeffbee··on Gemini 4 Argon
Putting an inert element in the name is a weird choice. Personally, I think "Gemini 4" is sufficient.
jeffbee··on Gemini 4 Argon
It obviously is pretty low key on the public relations front, but it's also very active as a project and I think it would be weird to look at their commit rate and conclude that the project is dead. If Fuchsia is dead then 99% of major open source projects are dead by the same standards.
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