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Far from it. This is the game that turns your calm book-and-armchair grandpa into a wild competitive lunatic. It turns your sweet auntie into a table-flipping animal. It's up there with Euchre for turning old people into unhinged gamers, and I absolutely love it for that.

Will CF be funding IA for using the service so extensively?

A super easy way to protect yourself is to just block any IP that hits `/.env` or `/wp-admin`. I've taken this as far as to ban any IP that hits my default vhost (hitting the IP instead of actual hostname) more than ten times, and I get about about 99% less scanners and spam as a result.

https://nbailey.ca/post/block-scanners/

This seems very normal and healthy.

This won't work. None of the "safety technology" we've added in the last decade has worked. Not that the individual subsystems don't work effectively on their own, but that the entire vehicle is becoming a less safe place.

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

There's two main contributing factors, weight and distraction.

Weight is easy to tell by looking around. More people than ever are driving around in huge SUVs and pickup trucks.

But the bigger issue is distracted driving. The majority of other drivers I see are on their phones while moving. Almost everybody is checking their phones at intersections. And those that aren't have another distraction, the big tablets built into their cars, the use of which is required to change trivial settings.

Adding more tech won't solve this. Only removing and limiting its use will roll back this trend.

Works the same way as old-school junk mail. Your postal service gets paid well by junk mailers to put trash in your mailbox, so they're disincentivized to fix the systemic issue. I can't find a good quality source on this, but it's been said that about 45-50% of USPS & Canada Post's revenue comes from junk mail. They could fix it, but it would probably lead to a collapse of the entire post system due to revenue shortfalls. A true tragedy of the commons.

It's a very strange price point - "Utility Coffee" like Dunkin or Tim's is usually around $2 for a medium, but "Specialty Coffee" like Starbucks or local cafes is $5 to $8. I'm not sure where they got their data, or what they qualified as "coffee" for this. The omission of the UK in their data is also quite strange.

I suspect based on the graphics that they're orienting this more towards the "specialty coffee" subtype, and getting this information from a supplier network rather than any sort of broad data "census".

Speaking as a Canadian, that's not bad. Our toll bypass for Toronto is about $.50/km, so traveling from one end of the city to the other (~70km) costs about $40-50 depending on the time of day. So it's not great, but it could be a lot worse.

A big part of it is that the 407 is highly privatized and owned by offshore corporations, pension funds, investors, etc.

https://www.407etr.com/en/trip-calculator

I have an old X201 with OpenBSD. My setup on that machine is deliberately "gimped" with all ads and most JS blocked to make webpages load acceptably fast, and with the `apmd` enabled and hw.setperf at 10-20.

With a 3rd party 9-cell battery, I can easily get 4.5-5 hours runtime like this. I think the biggest power draw at this point is the display, since it's an older and less energy efficient panel.

Granted, most of my usage is either SSH'ing into another machine or X11 forwarding apps from another machine. I think with hw.setperf dialed up, SMT enabled, and the blockers turned off I'd be lucky to get 45 minutes of runtime...

Either way, not bad for a "museum" computer :)

There's an interesting gap when discussing carplay/aa.

Cars from the 90s up until about 2013 can be easily fitted with a $500 head unit upgrade, and support carplay quite well. With the right tools, it can be done in about two hours right in your driveway.

Cars from 2018 and up pretty universally support carplay, and it's generally quite well integrated into the car's infotainment system.

But, between 2013 and 2017, things were a complete mess. In-car systems were too integrated to be replaceable with a third party 2-DIN unit, but too primitive to run carplay/AA. People who have cars from this era either sell them (for less than they're worth, since only 21% of people will buy a car without carplay!) or put up with it for another 8 years or so until the car's wound out.

For example, my rustbucket '06 Toyota has a great sounding stereo with carplay but my sibling's 2017 Nissan is stuck with flaky and poorly integrated bluetooth.

Or, if you do want to upgrade your 2013-2017 car, you end up replacing half of the in-dash components with ones from a couple model years up, tapping into the car's CAN bus to recognize the new controller, and then running some sketchy scripts to patch the firmware to remove component protection since the VIN's don't match up anymore. Not for the faint of heart.

The real takeaway from this is about controlling sensory inputs. My wife is "neuro-spicy" and we have to consider those things when we go adventuring. What we've found best is to make sure there's always enough "controlled" things each day. Going to a museum, walking around a city, or going for a hike are great, but unpredictable. One or two each day are fine, but too many can cause burnout. Earplugs, books, snacks & water can help a lot with this stuff. Planning ahead is very important.

As an example, she absolutely hates airports but doesn't mind flying. The noises, announcements, people moving around, never knowing if your gate will change, all of it is awful to her. I don't mind the airport but once the plane is in the air watching the time tick down is torture to me. Everybody's a little different.

The "spoon theory" [1] can help things make sense, and it's a great start, but it's a bit more nuanced than that. It's more about controlling exposure to "unexpected" stimulus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

Same with "real" servers. For a while there, it was trendy to boot ESXi from an SD card stuck to the system board and use all of the 2.5" disks for just data storage, no OS. It worked great... until it didn't. It turns out that writing logs and swap to an SD card roasts it after 2-4 years pretty consistently.

This has been largely known since the 60s, when the Starfish Prime exoatmospheric nuclear test knocked out all communications and damaged power grids over the Pacific.

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

Debian stable has 5.4.1, the backdoored versions are 5.6.0-5.6.1

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/xz-utils

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/liblzma5

Unless this has the capacity of a 737-700 / Max-7, there's no way six emergency exits are enough. They're also all up at the front, making egress difficult if an isle is blocked.

Yes, it's a nitpick, but if that's a design flaw that jumps out to a complete amateur with moderate aviation knowledge and no industry experience, it doesn't inspire a great deal of confidence.

Of course. Because cars don't spend money, people do. The more efficiently humans are packed together, the more money-per-square-foot there is available. You could have a drive-thru with six lanes and a mile long driveway, and it still wouldn't do the same numbers as the dingy coffee stand by a bus station at rush hour. That a bicycle is more space efficient than automobiles shouldn't be surprising to anybody.

It's incredibly funny that despite the sophisticated high-bandwidth data channels available to them, they ended up using a half-duplex modem connection to a custom ground station. It still feels like our world is full of hacks like that, maybe more than ever -- "stupid", and shouldn't work, but do.

It's a cultural perception issue, mainly.

In the west, when we see plastic, we think of litter. And we should, because there's way too many coffee cups, cigarette butts, and fast food wrappers lying on the ground in our towns and cities.

But in Japan people don't litter. So when they see plastic, it's associated with clean new products. The trash still ends up in the ocean, but they don't see it happen - out of sight out of mind.

The amount of overpackaging in that country is absolutely insane. But counterintuitively, they're going to have a hard time getting rid of it. Here, there's a decent amount of public consent for paper straws, biodegradable packaging materials, etc, thanks to the cultural guilt we have because we're surrounded by litter. Over there, people "do their part" by simply not littering - but that's not good enough.

Copying this over from the other thread - It makes sense... EV's pay for themselves over the long run, much longer than rental cars stick around for. They typically lease them for up to three years and then flip them for newer vehicles. EV's have lower TCO, but only if you keep it for a decade. With a higher sticker price and insurance, it makes sense the rental sector is having cold feet.

Anecdotally, the exception was Japan, where my wife and I rented a pristine ten year old Aqua direct from Toyota, but that sort of vertical integration seems to be rare here.

It makes sense... EV's pay for themselves over the long run, much longer than rental cars stick around for. They typically lease them for up to three years and then flip them for newer vehicles. EV's have lower TCO, but only if you keep it for a decade. With a higher sticker price and insurance, it makes sense the rental sector is having cold feet.

Anecdotally, the exception was Japan, where my wife and I rented a pristine ten year old Aqua direct from Toyota, but that sort of vertical integration seems to be rare here.

Microsoft's spam filter is fundamentally broken. It's been that way for decades. There's an entire cottage industry of snakeoil salesmen that want to sell in-line antispam gateways to bolt onto 365, and the worst part is that they have a very good reason to exist...

From what I've seen, the value in QA is product familiarity. Good QA'ers know more about how the product actually works than anybody else. More than PM's, more than sales, and more than most dev teams. They have a holistic knowledge of the entire user-facing system and can tell you exactly what to expect when any button gets pushed. Bad QA'ers are indeed a source of noise. But so are bad devs, sysadmins, T1/2 support, etc.

The old-style "tube" trains are all DC third rail IIRC, but the newer trainsets such as the Elizabeth and Thameslink are all overhead AC. So this would actually be one of the few metro trains where it would be remotely safe to walk the tracks provided all the trains were stopped...

The article was paywalled, but I'd imagine it's two main difficulties. One is fairly normal for early-production, but the other is much more fundamental to the design:

* The battery - Tesla is using some new battery technology on this model, which they haven't done at scale before. This will come together with time, as it did on the S, 3, Y, etc.

* The body - Unlike practically every car on the road, the CT is made out of stainless steel. Instead of stamping typically used on body panels, they have to be bent on very precise folding machines. The higher strength causes a lot more wear on the dies used for stamping. The only other production car to be made with stainless was the Delorean, which was also a mass-production nightmare.

https://wisconsinmetaltech.com/why-dont-we-see-more-stainles...

I've found that the most effective way to secure a webserver is to just block any IP that pounds on the default vhost by IP. No WAF, no fuss.

After a few months of building up a denylist, I get almost zero hits from scanners and spambots.

https://gist.github.com/noahbailey/474922b752ee733d639c91e27...

https://nbailey.ca/post/block-scanners/

Waze is good, but it does have some very weird over-optimizations.

Anecdote: A couple years ago, while driving into Toronto on the 401, we hit some traffic as always. Waze told me to get off at the next exit which I was fortunately right beside, so I assumed it was going to route me around the accident and back onto the highway after it cleared up. What it really did was take me up the off ramp, do a U-turn, and get back onto the on ramp to gain about 700m of distance from where I was before. It theoretically saved me 5 minutes of travel time, but it only really moved me a few dozen car lengths ahead.

Their wealth of real-time and historical data is certainly beneficial, but it also causes some truly bizarre navigation now and then.

Chemical weapons are already a solved problem. By the mid 1920s there was already enough chemical agents to kill most of the population of Europe. By the 1970s there were enough in global stockpiles to kill every human on the planet several times over.

Yes, this presents additional risk from non-state actors, but there's no fundamentally new risk here.

7" is a little small for typing, but it's so adorable.

What I really want is a slightly larger 11-12" mini laptop that would be the spiritual successor to the ThinkPad X220 which is to me the gold standard for portable and useful machines.

I've rescued pretty messed up systems before. In one case, a service went haywire and created tens of millions of <1kb files, eating up all the available inodes in the filesystem. The volume was only ~45% full, but you couldn't make any new files. If that happened here, it's unlikely the ssh process could start correctly since it creates locks, logs, and pid files. Those are mostly in /run, so it might be okay, but it does make me a bit antsy.

The original Blackmagic Pocket Cinema was about $500 on sale, but only shot in 1080p. The new generation is about $1300. And then you have to buy lenses :)

So, overall it's not bad value. It's not going to replace pro gear any time soon, but it's great that it can do stuff like this now.