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onedognight··on Developer ends lucrative screensaver deal with Roku because Fox bought it
Disney bought 21st Century Fox, the movie studio and back catalog, but not Fox News.
onedognight··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
Nor California!
onedognight··on Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
You don’t need an LLC to do this. Just filing a Schedule C will do.
onedognight··on Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb thermostats
Google usually does certificate pinning. They know that the CA root store is not to be trusted to sign for their own domains.
onedognight··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court was created by a treaty between sovereign nations. These nations chose to for it to have authority over them.
onedognight··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
http://example.com/ works for me in Safari, warning that the site is “not secure”, but only if I type it in by hand.
onedognight··on What Meta got right with Muse
> my other Meta accounts have been 100% secure.

The word “my” is doing some work here. Maybe you personally have been lucky, but Meta has had quite a few data breaches.

https://breachhistory.com/blog/facebook-data-breaches-full-t...

onedognight··on Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Same wth Mazda. Every single time you start the car it nags you.
onedognight··on Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
Brakes! They sometimes rust on Teslas due to lack of use.
onedognight··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
I believe that for every joule of electricity used, 4 or 4.1 joules are pumped from the environment into the water. This is contrast to conventional water heaters which are bounded by an efficiency of 1, where, for example, burning gas directly heats the water with some heat leaking into the environment instead of the water.
onedognight··on Big Food vs. the People
When the Mexican government signed up for NSO’s spyware, who did they target? A woman who was working to pass a sugar sweetened beverage tax. And her children.
onedognight··on Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
They don’t support any recent rsync protocol, so there’s no 64bit timestamp support, so you can never actually sync metadata across newer filesystems.
onedognight··on Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
I’d guess because most don’t correctly account for wear and tear and depreciation of their car when they do their mental profit calculation.
onedognight··on Squares in Squares
Unrelated squares in squares, I think the interjection is PSYCH.
onedognight··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Choosing not to look at something is not denying anyone anything.
onedognight··on The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly
Support for Trump, or even Republicans writ large, means support for reducing taxes (both estate and income) on the wealthy, while increasing them on consumers (via tariffs). Musk has been an ardent supporter of Trump.
onedognight··on Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo
To hell with writing a test for you. That’s what you say to someone who gets paid by you. If the project doesn’t want the fix. That’s their issue, not the reporter’s.
onedognight··on A Faster Alternative to Jq
Having the equivalent jq expression in these examples might help to compare expressiveness, and it might help me see if jq could “just” use a DFA when a (sub)query admits one. grep, ripgrep, etc change algorithms based on the query and that makes the speed improvements automatic.
onedognight··on How to defer US taxes
If I have X dollars and get taxed such that I have X * T after the taxing, say T = (1 - .20), then I invest and that money grows by a factor, say G = (1 + .50), over the years, then in the mean time inflation hits and reduces my money by a factor, say I = (1 - .10), so that what I end up with in the end is F = X * G * T * I. If instead I invested and grew and inflated and then got taxed, X * G * I * T, it would be exactly the same. Multiplication is commutative.

What you are doing by delaying taxes is hoping you have a lower rate later. Say you make less in retirement or die untaxed and your kids get a step up in basis. But without a change in rate (which might go up even), there’s no difference.

onedognight··on Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike
> Nothing this administration ever does is planned.

You are joking, right? Project 2025 has achieved 50% of its goals in record time[0]. Trump disavowed both it and invading Iran, but make no mistake. Both were “the plan”.

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/en

onedognight··on Factory-built housing hasn't taken off in California
Prop 13 isn’t the reason old people hang on to their property. You can downgrade and maintain your Prop 13 tax advantage.
onedognight··on Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
> C99 designated initializers are not supported in C++.

They are, finally, part of C++20.

onedognight··on There is an AI code review bubble
I fully agree. Claude’s review comments have been 50% useful, which is great. For comparison I have almost never found a useful TeamScale comment (classic static analyzer). Even more important, half of Claude’s good finds are orthogonal to those found by other human reviewers on our team. I.e. it points out things human reviewers miss consistently and v.v.
onedognight··on Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
It’s loses them in the current context (say 200k tokens), not in its SQLite history db (limited by your local storage).
onedognight··on [dead]
For this model to be convincing, you would need to explain the motivation for the pension funds loaning the 90% that then goes to zero. They are repeat investors after all. As are the PE firms.

Are they getting kickbacks? That would be straight up illegal, but it would make the most sense.

onedognight··on A 'Holy Grail' Sleep Apnea Pill Could Be on the Market Next Year
The machine (AirSense 11) has been a god send for me. I can’t believe I waited so long. I haven’t slept a night without it since my first. I haven’t had to tweak any settings. It’s just worked. Sure it’s annoying to travel with, and you look odd while wearing it, but deep sleep is so worth it.
onedognight··on Pg_ClickHouse: A Postgres extension for querying ClickHouse
The name of the project is a reference to P. G. Wodehouse[0] for those unaware.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

onedognight··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
It’s a bit clickbait-y, but the article is short, to the point, and frankly satisfying. If there is such a thing as good clickbait, then this might be it. Impressive work!
onedognight··on KJS: A Complete Formal Semantics of JavaScript
This is a great result[0]:

> we found that there are 17 semantic rules in the core semantics which are not covered by the [ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite]

> we succeeded to manually write test programs that hit 11 out of 17 behaviors

> the remaining 6 semantic behaviors are infeasible, that is, they represent flaws in the language standard itself

[0] https://github.com/kframework/javascript-semantics/blob/mast...

onedognight··on Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government
Remember when Russia agreed[0] to defend Ukraine if they gave up their nuclear weapons?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

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