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kitd··on A modular impact diverting mechanism for football helmets [pdf]
Rugby is having the same discussion as well. Despite the lack of helmets, there are comparatively few skull fractures but the incidence of CTE is way too high. The insidious problem is not so much the big hits, but the accumulated result of "microconcussions", lots of small hits, something that rugby is more prone to than US football AIUI.

Alix Popham's story is particularly poignant:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kgjdxxz7qo

kitd··on 1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
That's literally what Have I Been Pwned is for.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

kitd··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
The survey excluded veterans with no commercial ties. Maybe those publications not mentioned used them instead.
kitd··on Why Janet? (2023)
Age verification with facial ID? ;)
kitd··on My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin
Huh?
kitd··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
Hmm, same day as RH and IBM announce Project Lightwell to help detect and fix supply chain vulns.

https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell

kitd··on Restartable Sequences
Go to the end. Those machines were provided by the companies discounted so she could continue her llm research. She's not saying "anyone who's anyone" has a 1024-core workstation these days.
kitd··on Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
Interesting post. I'd never thought of it that way. Not consciously anyway.

Might that make an air-launched system more reliable? Even if it's less efficient, the TCO would be lower using a winged system for the initial phases of launch.

kitd··on Magnifica Humanitas
the arc of history

The history of arcs?

kitd··on Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)
AIUI, Reddit uses it for some internal tools. They would be a good backer.
kitd··on UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
That happens at all large organisations. I worked at a large oil company and if our contracts with a vendor represented (or would have represented) more than a certain % (i forget what) of that vendors business, they didn't get the contract. As well as having vendors more likely to stay in existence, it stops the org being "morally responsible" for keeping them afloat.
kitd··on Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
I'm no expert but that looks like an impressive feat of skill, coming blind through the clouds and picking out a relatively small patch to land on. Remember also it is late autumn there, pretty windy (according to TFA) and the wind would probably be doing weird things off the sea around those cliffs. All in all, very cool.
kitd··on Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI
I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about Wails.

https://wails.io/

kitd··on Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity
"So good, you can't put it down"
kitd··on Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity
Best of luck to you! My son is doing them too. This is a great project btw. Doing this sort of stuff teaches you far better than endless lessons.
kitd··on Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity
Funnily enough, I actually prefer the VSCode model for git. On the occasions I use IntelliJ, I find the git actions spread across multiple panels or dropdowns. In VSCode, it's all in one place and the current state clearly visible. YMMV ofc.
kitd··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
He basically invented the natural history documentary, maybe even the science documentary. Before him, there was little to no serious natural history programming, or what there was was quite "folksy". And with it, he created, sustained and increased the public interest and concern about the natural world.

I suspect many scientists can trace their early interest in science back to him. And I believe the green movement would have had a lot less impact without him.

kitd··on GeoJSON
There's a map facility not linked here that allows you to build GeoJSON graphically:

https://geojson.io/#map=12.42/51.50593/-0.13003

kitd··on HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker
A radio report I heard said that hantavirus is nothing like coronavirus. It is not new, endemic, and there is plenty of immunity around to slow down local spread.
kitd··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
Agreed. I found compose overlay files merged list values differently between the Docker and Podman versions, which was a PITA in teams running Docker & Linux dev machines.
kitd··on UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations
The majors that do upstream (taking it out of the ground) as well as downstream (refining and selling it on the forecourt or wholesale) make their profits on the oil markets.

When crude is high, it's upstream that earns the income. When it's low, it's selling it to the customer.

Fun fact: when I worked at BP, the product with the highest margin on the forecourts was the Wild Bean coffee.

kitd··on Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
Isn't that (part of) the purpose of using something like Ariel OS, to isolate you from changes?
kitd··on Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
> I've also found that using those attributes inherently pushes your code to make ownership more explicit. I personally stopped being terrified of double-pointers and started using them for ownership transfers, which eliminates a large class of bugs.

This is very interesting. Do you have a practical example?

kitd··on K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes
Missed the opportunity to call it Kink ...
kitd··on New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
Yeah, that threw me as well.

Also worth pointing out that the Old English version at each of those dates probably varied quite a bit. This was the time period over which Old English was being influenced by external factors such as Norse and Latin.

kitd··on Before GitHub
"countryclub.com" - ie, a bunch of fossils :)
kitd··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Google could invest in Graphene as a hedge.
kitd··on Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
Nice work. The hot-reload dev cli looks very cool in a compiled-binary world.
kitd··on DeepSeek v4
I can't find any info on what exactly is open sourced.

And in any case what does open source actually mean for an llm? It's not like you can look inside it to see what it's doing.

kitd··on Laws of Software Engineering
Did you get the job ... or were you overqualified?
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