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weaksauce··on After a decade of free Alexa, Amazon now wants you to pay
even better!
weaksauce··on After a decade of free Alexa, Amazon now wants you to pay
a cool tip is that you can name your timers... hey siri set a timer named pasta for 10 minutes. or hey siri set a timer for pasta... "how long?"... 10 minutes
weaksauce··on 4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor
voting is a right. driving is a privilege.
weaksauce··on 4.6M Voter and Election Documents Exposed Online by Technology Contractor
to anyone wondering what this looks like in practice... google "hanging chad"
weaksauce··on Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you
> but then you find people on the internet who claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs.

vocal minorities such as the aspca?

https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/general-cat-care

> Please keep your cat indoors. Outdoor cats do not live as long as indoor cats. Outdoor cats are at risk of trauma from cars, or from fights with other cats, raccoons and free-roaming dogs. Coyotes are known to eat cats. Outdoor cats are more likely to become infested with fleas or ticks, as well as contract infectious diseases.

weaksauce··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
yeah that's a weird edge case that's not really worth considering. it's obviously something that can be done technically even if some edge cases are not performant.
weaksauce··on Federal appeals court finds geofence warrants “categorically” unconstitutional
> do no evil

google dropped that slogan a decade or more ago

weaksauce··on Puppeteer Support for Firefox
are you using native messaging? there's a way to bridge a program running with full permissions inside the computer that could use puppeteer or the like. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

seems like it wouldn't be that hard to sync the two but the devil is in the details. also installing the native script is outside the purview of the webext so you need to have an installer.

weaksauce··on I Made an Extended Version of Vimtutor – Introducing Vimtutor Sequel
there is a vscode extension for neovim... works quite well
weaksauce··on Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
maybe there’s a firefox extension you could use that when you set the default file opener it works like that? or drag and drop it on firefox with an extension.
weaksauce··on Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
the british one was only on for two series with 14 total episodes whereas the american one was on for 9 seasons with 201 episodes... it's safe to assume the worldwide insanely popular one is the one being talked about. I loved the british one and wish it were longer too.
weaksauce··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
> but it's still a pretty clear path given the non-Presidential documentation all the conspirators kept.

it's my understanding that they can't use testimony or notes from advisors et. al. which is troubling since they are or can be the co-conspirators.

> Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. *Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial.*

weaksauce··on Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean
> TL;DR from the article is a newbie pushed the column forward

that newbie has at least 1500 hours of flying in order to qualify as a first officer. not exactly new to flying. in europe(and used to be in the US before one accident that was not really related to their experience flying) it's something like 300 for FO but the captain is much more experienced.

weaksauce··on Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
if it were really a problem moving forward and diy becomes the norm(which i doubt is the case) it's pretty trivial to apply an opaque sticker or cardboard covering to the panel during manufacture.
weaksauce··on Firefox development is moving from Mercurial to Git (2023)
and it's not like there is much of a problem moving from github to xyz later if they feel like they need to. this just makes their burden of infrastructure less and reduce friction with all the contributors. of course bugzilla is still the main way to file bugs/submit patches. the overhead on cinnabar was pretty tangible and real for doing any kind of meaningful work on the codebase with git.
weaksauce··on Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes
so what? it's 10 years of notes. even if you double or triple or quadruple the time editing it for inaccuracies it's still better than an ocr almost certainly.
weaksauce··on How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)
> Blog posts also bring marketing value to your company

there's an european engineering firm doing amazing work and they attract amazing engineers because, in part, they document their work via some youtube videos that rival the quality of most documentaries out there. fascinating work and fascinating videos. if anyone is looking for a video to watch today the drilling one and the moving bridge one are great https://www.youtube.com/@MartiGroup

weaksauce··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
I think it's targeting a really old bash for max compatibility... and also it's super early alpha software
weaksauce··on Riven
yeah that's the remake but if you don't have a fast computer I guess it's going to be slow. the original still plays very well though.
weaksauce··on Riven
> because I just can't find a version or remake that wouldn't suck technically

the recent myst remake is probably the pinnacle of them... that said the original is well worth playing still and i've played it through a few times now.

weaksauce··on Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes
it was worse than just a quick assassination... he was arrested and sent to a horrible russian jail where he was tortured repeatedly and then withheld from medical treatment for a period of time until he died.
weaksauce··on Doom didn't kill the Amiga. Wolfenstein 3D did [video]
computers were expensive and so was the software you ran on it. it was an investment and switching was starting from zero.
weaksauce··on Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
every contraction cycle the PE ghouls swoop in with a large war chest of money and buy up more homes/businesses/anything not tied down. it's a vicious cycle that eventually ends with them holding everything and everyone else is just sent out to pasture. no good way to fix it other than curbing the accumulation of wealth at the very top. it's unsustainable as a society imo.
weaksauce··on Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
so that's how react was made
weaksauce··on Ruby might be faster than you think
gitlab too.
weaksauce··on The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly (2022) [pdf]
yeah the language is slightly ambiguous enough where you can't for certain know. first vs newest.

the issue is that taken as a whole the quantization of the samples into 8 bins is a much bigger issue along with the problem of the no hardware watchdog or hardware malfunction alarms. along with the poor testing methodologies too.

weaksauce··on PHP in 2024
> I’ve never touched Ruby but it also sounds like we shouldn’t discard RoR in terms of productivity.

RoR is insanely productive.

weaksauce··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
I think I turned off autocaps on my ipad also it's not like we are submitting this for formal review or anything
weaksauce··on The Reddits
the app is absolute trash and the new.reddit is almost as bad. if they remove old i'm out
weaksauce··on Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
it’s written to an academic standard by the looks of it. they can’t claim things without proven research on it. the article says that the research into the toxin is not well characterized which is academic speak for that.

that said it’s common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about mushrooms that you need to cook morels.

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