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xrayarx··on Hawaii wildfire offered insights into wireless alert system relies on cellphones
https://archive.is/HEmGe
xrayarx··on Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style
I always enjoy the analysis of this guy. Thorough and to the point. Apple and Google should care more about usability and readability.
xrayarx··on U.K. Air Travel Will Be Disrupted for ‘Some Days’ After Traffic Control Glitch
Archive Link

https://archive.vn/JNVHD

xrayarx··on FAA investigation into pilots hiding major health issues. Most are still flying
https://archive.md/yKcyk
xrayarx··on The Russian effort to build 6k attack drones with Iran’s help
Very interesting article, the shahed drone requires a lot of western electronic components like the Kintex-7 FPGA by Xilinx/AMD.
xrayarx··on Buffer Overflows in Notepad++
The interesting part seems to be that the bugs were disclosed in april and there still is no fix in sight, but there is no word from the maintainer about the situation. Also no info on how realistic an attack would be.
xrayarx··on More falsehoods programmers believe about time
Previous discussion (2012):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208

xrayarx··on So you want to learn physics (2021)
The author is aka Susan Fowler and author of three books and has a degree in physics.

The Post is basically about how to get a degree or at least the equivalent and would require an effort of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rigetti

xrayarx··on Tesla’s ‘ultra hardcore’ work culture – as told by its employees
I don’t listen to podcasts. Aren’t there usually transcripts? Could someone please help me out?
xrayarx··on How Spam Is Made
This is about spam, the meat product and how it is produced in the factory
xrayarx··on Ask HN: What is the best desk chair for small spaces?
I would recommend a kneeling chair
xrayarx··on InfoSecAlert – Newsletter
Site seems to suffer from the slashdot effect / flash crowd effect
xrayarx··on Scraping Hacker News like a leet 10x haxor
Nice 90min live code in js, but tldw

I believe the code discussed is this:

https://github.com/jawerty/HN-topic-search

Maybe jawerty can confirm?

xrayarx··on Fuel Logistics for a Pacific War
Great article explaining fuel logistics for the pacific theatre. I’m always fascinated by fuel logistics. Sadly also worrying as it sounds like a more and more likely scenario.
xrayarx··on Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia
Does anybody know how MS does Windows development these days? Just curious…
xrayarx··on US Used Potent Global Surveillance to Track Russians in $4B Crypto Investigation
The title is:

The U.S. Used Potent Global Surveillance Power To Track Russians In $4 Billion Crypto Exchange Investigation

xrayarx··on Ask HN: What problems/ideas would you like to see someone else work on?
A decent split keyboard with Bluetooth would be a great hardware project, similarly a nice trackball.

Building a quadcopter might also be nice.

A one/two wheeled selfbalancing robot.

A lawnmower robot that doesn’t maim small animals like hedgehogs.

A small submarine or sailboat with remote control.

xrayarx··on Waterfox Browser cuts ties with System 1 to celebrate independence
Link to latest release

https://www.waterfox.net/docs/releases/G5.1.9/?update

xrayarx··on 15-20 more federal holidays
Please note that many european countries have between 30 and 50 days paid leave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

xrayarx··on Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500M bill
It is not a real prison. She will probably go to Bryan Minimum Security [1][2]. No fences. Dormitories. Visitations. Gym, etc. The fine is large, but symbolic. From the article, chance of full recovery is very low. No mention, if this would be converted to house arrest at some point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Camp,_Bryan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes

xrayarx··on [dead]
Basically the ad site for a 10 $/€ App
xrayarx··on Learning DNS in 10 Years
This is great! How do you make the graphics?
xrayarx··on The seven programming ur-languages (2021)
Where does TLA+ and PlusCal fit in?

They do not match any of the listed families, do they?

xrayarx··on Google Cloud Europe service disruption
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region

https://twitter.com/GCP_Incidents

xrayarx··on Google Cloud Europe service disruption
From what can be seen on the Status page, more than just Europe seems to have a problem.
xrayarx··on Open source espresso machine is one delicious rabbit hole inside another
Maybe you care to share your setup?
xrayarx··on Ask HN: What are you Words of Wisdom?
This is so true, also applies to what you say. One wrong sentence and you will be judged by it for years.
xrayarx··on Innovation Power: Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics
This is a comment written by ERIC SCHMIDT.

He is Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project and former CEO and Chair of Google.

He is a co-author, with Henry Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher, of The Age of AI: And Our Human Future.

(That's what it says at the end of TFA)

xrayarx··on How Your Phone Knows Up from Down
20 min Video that explains accelerometers and gyroscopes in MEMS chips. MEMS means Microelectromechanical systems. So there actually are mechanical systems, that work in your phone, etched into silicon chips. The video uses 3d printed models to explain how the accelerometers work, the gyros are also explained, but a little shorted, because they are very complex and therefore hard to explain.
xrayarx··on Digital Market Act Workshop in Brussels
One could argue that the headline actually reads "digial" but we all know it is the "Digital Market Act"
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