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number6··on One Man Armies
Sometimes it's not the article in itself but the discussion it creates, or the thoughts
number6··on BYD's Five-Minute Charging Puts China in the Lead for EVs
Filling a car with gas usually takes 5 minutes
number6··on After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
They will just start to use the onion Router.

Not even states can block internet access 100%

number6··on Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it?
Apparently, the less paperwork you deal with, the longer you live. Somewhere out there, a 132-year-old is thriving simply because no one ever processed their birth certificate — and correlational data suggests that weak administrative systems might just be the true secret to longevity, sparing people the existential stress of ever having to file anything at all
number6··on Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now
The manufacturer is encouraged to open source the product at the end of the life plus the government agencies now have a saying in what is EOL.

If you still sell EOL Products, you have to make sure it is still save, even as distributor.

Take control away from the end-user is a good point, I will keep this in mind.

number6··on Disaster awaits if we don't secure IoT now
You are the only one mentioning it.

I think the CRA is the right step in the right direction. Companies can finally be fined when they sell a product that has known vulnerabilities.

This is something that is discussed for years - now we have a definite Law.

And we already see changes: if you install Windows, the first thing it does is to get patches and the start over.

number6··on Web dev is still fun if you want it to be
Yeah we do this. Ninja is great.

React, not so much fun

number6··on Why do we get earworms?
In Germany it was always Ohrwurm but reading it in English I instantly thought of parasites
number6··on By default, Signal doesn't recall
The new outlook lost all these capabilities - I was stunned to find out that I couldn't search through my emails while being offline
number6··on OpenAI Codex hands-on review
They should use one of their LLMs to get some better naming schemes - seriously LLMs are pretty good at this set of task
number6··on Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture
Bittersweet - I reached them to ride a bike about a month ago. I still have to look out for the little one and as I see the older one ride to the next crossing I feel proud and afraid and a bit melancholic seeing his silhouette growing faintly smaller hoping I teached him enough to stop at the crossing fully knowing that I couldn't intervene at this distance. I am afraid that I might not have, deeply afraid, regardless that there is not a single car on the road. The I am relieved and proud as he looks back at us, waiting as we catch up to him.
number6··on Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture
You will have about 4 or 5 years until they grow independent and have their own friends.
number6··on How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school
Ah! This makes more sense!
number6··on How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school
My interpretation is, that he does not want to join the "in crowd" but to impress a girl and this is his undoing.

The crowd is only a way to impress her, old sports.

number6··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
The Greek writing visible in the image reads: ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΕΩΣ This translates into English as: Of Philodemus, On Nature
number6··on Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
Yes that's the most likely outcome, but OP asked for the benefits - and I guess my explanation is the naïve thinking that lead to the tarrifs in the first place
number6··on Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights
If they had bought American floodlights they had saved 255k in tarrifs. So if they had paid 200k for the floodlights they would have still been better of.

One could argue, that there might be no American Floodlight Company - well here is the incentive to build one.

Secondly the money isn't lost, it goes to the state. Like a tax, but it is called differently. With this 255k more the state can now subsidise the local floodlight industry.

If anything of the above comes to fruition... That's a different matter...

number6··on Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
I read it two days ago and found it fitting :)

I see your point - when LLMs just make stuff if to be helpful.

number6··on Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
Isn't this how proverbs come to life? "Bobs your uncle" - all these proverbs are made up...
number6··on Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing
A swan can't stop a hurricane
number6··on Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)
For a long time, I also somehow thought that people from earlier eras were less intelligent—simply because, in retrospect, all those obvious mistakes are so apparent. It took considerable mental effort for me to accept that people back then were probably just like us today, only living under different circumstances.
number6··on Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim
That's untrue
number6··on How to run GUI applications directly in containers
The X-Forward I have done just gives you the application in your own Desktop Environment. Shure depends on the application itself
number6··on How to run GUI applications directly in containers
Yes, exactly my thought, why not connect to the X11 server
number6··on BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells
Fusion!
number6··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
WEST beat EAST... what a bunch of nerds :)
number6··on Sunsetting Create React App
Most stuff ends up beeing Client Components - since what else do you really need react for?
number6··on If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metric
> I need you to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to one another

Maybe you are in the wrong crowd, but the crowd that does do recommendations on operating systems it is rarely windows that is recommended

number6··on Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M
Italy, Spain and UK include some shadow economy
number6··on "A computer can never be held accountable"
The unaccountably machine is a good book on this
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