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lozenge··on Stealing from Google
Loading an img tag doesn't involve trusting a domain. Especially using crossorigin and refererpolicy attributes.
lozenge··on US cities pay too much for buses
Well there's one in the article, the colour of the floors.
lozenge··on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
Did the crowdfunding mention breaking a new barrier in battery technology?

Batteries are made out of components, they have a capacity, volume, weight and price. It doesn't make sense that a cheap battery with low weight has a higher capacity than the existing expensive product.

lozenge··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The main effect of making the car more comfortable, in this case by removing the controls, is to encourage (subsidise) people to spend longer in the car.

So people will be willing to drive further for cheaper rent, or the self driving car might add a couple extra miles to park somewhere cheaper, so overall congestion would get worse.

lozenge··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
How do you propose to do that?
lozenge··on Is OOXML Artifically Complex?
This is correct and there's no point fixing the bugs because it means the layout of the document will change.
lozenge··on A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia
They get the worst of the "hole" in the ozone layer.
lozenge··on Why Romania excels in international Olympiads
I'm assuming you went to a good school in Romania, with good teachers. Well the teacher's salary might be the same as any other school, but the quality of your teachers came at the expense of the quality of teaching in other schools.
lozenge··on Why Romania excels in international Olympiads
When people say groups are different, such as one ethnic group from another, they are looking at averages. It has very little relevance to looking at the top performers in a field. Each country only brings six people to IMO.
lozenge··on Why Romania excels in international Olympiads
Well, a lot of countries aren't worth leaving. Taking my home of the UK as an example, Wikipedia lists 19 countries with higher GDP per capita, but if I don't want to learn a new language, overcome bureaucratic obstacles and leave my family behind, there is nowhere to go and this criteria describes almost everybody who gets an education here, even the smart ones. Romania is #53 on the list and their EU membership means they can emigrate easily.
lozenge··on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
The Norwegian government takes basically all the revenue from its oil rights, and the US has sold the oil rights for much less than they're worth.
lozenge··on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons
> It’s not inequality per se. People don’t care if some people have more than them.

Actually it is. Inequality has been correlated with high crime, lower life expectancy and lower health (even for the rich subsection of the population, compared to a more equal country). In your example, high housing cost entrenches inequality and gives generational wealth a leg up.

Trying to make a country good but inequal is like trying to push water uphill.

lozenge··on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy
When are they going to remove the murder genre? Including the game where you can murder a prostitute to get your payment back... it's very obscure, you might not have heard of it... it's called GTA V.
lozenge··on The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care
This is an outdated view.

The essential costs - housing, healthcare and education - have far outpaced inflation while the cost of food and appliances has not. How can a single income compete in buying from the limited supply of houses against dual incomes?

lozenge··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
Making left handed people write right handed doesn't make them right handed.
lozenge··on Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true
Did they check the tests passed on the old code and would that have caught the issue? That's an extra step I often do.
lozenge··on Death by AI
The best thing about the AI overviews is it chooses better sources than you get from the search results, IE Google knows what websites are actually more informative and doesn't want to put them in the actual search results.
lozenge··on Show HN: Am-I-vibing, detect agentic coding environments
* The online tutorials the LLM was trained on don't match the result the LLM gets when it runs the tool.
lozenge··on Replit goes rogue and deletes our entire database
So apparently they don't know whether their code is on git or not

https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946594194052849795?t=EasxlfgpA...

Somebody else identified they might have mentioned a code freeze in chat without adding it to a prompt.

Basically this is what it would look like if you take an IT manager who has never coded and told them the AI will enable them to be a software engineer now.

lozenge··on Replit goes rogue and deletes our entire database
Wow the information is really scattered over so many tweets. So they were able to recover?

Accessing a production database should require using an MFA to access your production AWS account. Did they rely on AI to write all the deployment as well?

Do they even have a dev environment outside of their local machine?

lozenge··on Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool
What would that look like?

"You have opened your Word 97 document in Office 2003. The quirks have been removed, so it might look different now. Check every page before saving as docx."

"You have pasted from a Word 97 document into an Office 2003 OOXML document. Some things will not work."

lozenge··on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Yes but there's no reason to use another browser today, because the browsers aren't able to add differentiating features.

I don't think you are correct to assume games can't go to the web. Any feature they need from native APIs can be added to the web. Full screen, gyro, vibration, multi touch, payment APIs, notifications, WASM and GPU support are already on the web!

lozenge··on Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
The article refutes this even in its URL - markets are not efficient.
lozenge··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
When the Copilot extension needs a new VS Code feature it gets added, but it isn't available to third party extensions until months later... Err, years later... well, whenever Microsoft feels like it.

So an extension will never be able to compete with Copilot.

lozenge··on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel
We are assuming the calculation for the number of companies affected is correct. If they are using a provider like Shopify or a WordPress plugin, the cost will only be to upgrade the plugin.

I don't know that the backend is necessarily needed. If the button only opened a support ticket/sent an email then the rest can be done by the employees who already processed cancellations on the phone. They just don't need to be on the phone with the customer to do it.

lozenge··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Apparently they removed the removal tool in 2018, you now have to contact Apple Support to get it removed.
lozenge··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Have you tried going to "App Info" and "Disable" for Wallet?
lozenge··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
Google already has ads in their Wallet. https://madeby.tfl.gov.uk/2025/03/31/google-pay-tube-challen...
lozenge··on Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
I've had a lot of PRs merged. If you don't create an issue or the issue already says it doesn't suit their vision then it won't get merged. It also helps to update the PR in November/December, even if there are no merge conflicts, as that's when they "clean up" and try to close as many as possible.
lozenge··on Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
Look at the first comment in the PR, it will have a badge "This user is a member of the Microsoft organization". Alternatively, look at the release notes on the website, any non-Microsoft contributions are listed at the bottom.
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