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keep_readingon Bug story: Sorting by timestamp

Then don't use UUIDs, use snowflakes / flakes

If you find other American manufacturers of quality appliances please share! I'm always on the lookout

keep_readingon Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws

> It'd take what, half a day, for some teenager to modify the firmware to double the 0-60 and blow up the battery pack at the same time?

this is basically why the NHTSA told car manufacturers not to obey Massachusetts' Right to Repair laws.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/06/14/federal-highway-traffic...

keep_readingon Generation Junk

You can, it's SpeedQueen

> We test our commercial quality machines to 10,400 cycles or roughly 25 years of life in an average household.

> You probably want to hear that we test our electronic controls to one million depressions…yes, we actually do.

https://speedqueen.com/speed-queen-difference/

keep_readingon What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?

Babcock Hall at UW is also like the world leading expert institution on dairy and cheese, too. (Try their ice cream, it's literal perfection from the ingredients to exact temperatures required to get the precise consistency)

keep_readingon What makes cheddar cheese taste so good?

I've talked to the Hooks folks, and they have disaster recovery storage plan for their cheese spread throughout the country to survive various natural disasters.

edit: 15yr Hooks is heavenly too

keep_readingon First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation

Nuclear is renewable for the same reason geothermal is renewable, and you can get uranium out of seawater for the same price as mining it

https://www.tiktok.com/@nuclearsciencelover/video/7092135813...

keep_readingon Bug story: Sorting by timestamp

UUIDv7 is sortable by time

keep_readingon Where Are the Sanity Checks?

The magic fairy dust is "really fast NVME" and "really low latency memory access" which for most users makes the 8GB give a performance comparable to slower 16GB memory (and not need to read from disk).

That's about it. If you're doing anything other than regular web browsing and word processing it's not going to be the same as having 16GB. But I'm certain the average Mac user is not a developer, video editor, or other power user.

Like it or not, tech nerds are not the average consumer of Apple hardware.

keep_readingon A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?

bclones were only one way to trigger the corruption. This is not a good way to check.

It's also not worth checking for because this bug has existed for many years. Your data probably wasn't affected. None of the massive ZFS storage companies out there ran into it by now either.

Your data is fine. Sleep easy.

keep_readingon NYU Student Owns a $6M Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out

And then there are anonymous LLCs

https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/New-Mexico-Anonymous-LLC...

keep_readingon Europe has a wolf problem, and a late Norwegian philosopher had the solution

Wolves do a better job of culling the sick deer (or cattle)

keep_readingon DIY ventilation heat exchanger (2010)

Exactly my concern... Just buy the Aprilaire 8100 and don't risk mold...

keep_readingon His electric vehicle battery died. A year later, still waiting for a replacement

Someone tell this man about Leaf380

https://leaf380.com/

keep_readingon Chevrolet Blazer first drive: GM's EV platform goes mainstream

Buddy you realize that the Model Y is the top selling vehicle in the USA and the top selling car in the entire world, right?

keep_readingon The Hyperloop was always a scam

Yes, it is. Do you think that everyone who would ride the train can afford a Tesla or any other new car? Of course not

keep_readingon Who are you going to call when your private jet breaks?

That's why you rent or lease them. Only the beyond stupid rich buy them.

"If it f*ks, flies, or floats -- rent it, don't buy it."

keep_readingon Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

Apple has released a paper about running LLMs efficiently with low memory

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf

keep_readingon Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

> but is it done by force?

Yes, of course. Do you really think most of these people even in the care of their own family would have complete agency over their lives? No, they'd be declared unfit and their Power of Attorney would be delegated to someone else.

keep_readingon Cisco to acquire Isovalent

Everyone wants free software developers to slave away for free. Give away your worldly things, don't worry about feeding your family or keeping shelter over your head -- just keep on cranking out new releases out of the goodness of your own hearts.

keep_readingon Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

It matters when it's -20C and the cable can't bend

keep_readingon Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order

You see all those homeless people? The tent cities? That's because they have nowhere to go anymore. A ton of those people are mentally ill.

Yes, those mental hospitals were terribly run. But we need to create a safe place for these people. We can't just give up because of mistakes made in the past.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/06/health-beat-bring-back-the...

keep_readingon USB-C Cures Mosquito Bites

> Vegans aren't a collective entity.

It's still human dominion over animals. And veganism is still veganism. e.g., don't tell me that "some vegans decide it's OK to wear leather" because they're not "a collective entity" or something like that. Veganism is very much a black & white ethos. There is no acceptable gray area for veganism.

keep_readingon Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

This is very true about 3 phase, but I have heard that there is interest in it being used in EU for AC charging in public garages because it can handle anything up to 277 volts vs J1772 which can only do 208/240. So they can give it 1 of the 3 phases @ 220V and it will work unlike J1772. Allegedly.

But I kind of doubt it will go anywhere when they've been forcing CCS2 on everyone.

keep_readingon Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug

CCS2 is terrible, I'd hate to be forced to use that giant bulky connector and cable. The EU got it wrong. Design by committee always sucks.

keep_readingon Why it's taking so long for Americans to get payments instantly

If the other end of the wire is a bank in the USA they certainly can get it back. It's only when the money has left the country that you're in real trouble

keep_readingon USB-C Cures Mosquito Bites

Vegans used to not own pets as that was deemed immoral. And now they do. The goal posts keep moving.

keep_readingon New scalable, fault-tolerant, and efficient open-source MQTT broker

Indeed, the correct solution here is emqx

keep_readingon Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling

Why do so many people think the economy is in a healthy position? Strong performance now means nothing. e.g., Department Store Sales 3-month average was $17B in 2008 and is now down to under $11B. It's a bloodbath. It has been steadily trending down since 2008.

"Bill Ackman warns economy will fall off a cliff if the Fed doesn't hurry and cut rates"

The Fed isn't going to cut rates for years. They're refusing to blink. These are Volcker-sized balls on JPow.

Any rallying now is squeezing blood from the stone. Any massive layoffs, sales, mergers, bankruptcies, or consolidations is hedging for the unavoidable cliff.

These are just smart, safe moves by corporations -- getting their affairs in order, per se.

And now the workers are going to suffer because they didn't organize labor when the economy was booming and they weren't feeling the pinch. Hopefully they learn this time and don't let the unions weaken if they want to avoid being battered and left for a cheaper workforce or replaced with automation.

keep_readingon Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS and iOS

It's apparently a feature of ancient Bluetooth