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ArchOversight··on For polyglots, there's something special about their native tongue
I'm Dutch, my first language was Dutch, my second language was German and my third language was English.

I count and do all my numbers in English, UNLESS I am in The Netherlands and I have just been talking Dutch then I do it in Dutch. I do not switch to Dutch even internally for my internal monologue when I encounter numbers.

ArchOversight··on EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long
I am in EU citizen but I live and work in the US. Gimme them alternate app stores please!
ArchOversight··on Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)
macOS did migrations. Linux is just supported on those architectures at the same time without any real layer that allows users to switch from for example x86 to ARM without recompiling the entire world to match.
ArchOversight··on Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap
In my local jurisdiction (a part of the US) the recycling bin is only allowed to be filled with cardboard and metal cans.

Glass/plastic/contaminated cardboard and others are all required to go into the trash.

Which makes no sense, glass is infinitely recyclable, yet it is not, it is instead brought to the local dump.

Now here's the kicker, I was talking the to the trash collection people around the winter break (tip your trash collection folks well, and they will make all kinds of stuff disappear) and they mentioned to me that because there is no demand for cardboard/metal recycling while they load it into two different trucks, they end up at the exact same dump.

This was confirmed not too much later when I went with my contractor to the dump to get rid of a ton of construction material, where I saw two dump trucks right next to each other, one filled with trash and one with recyclables.

So very little actually gets recycled in the United States. Most of it ends up in giant piles, buried...

ArchOversight··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
> Noone thought self-driving cars would actually work.

Many people thought self driving WOULD work and that we'd be further along than we are now. We have vastly overestimated how far we'd be, and vastly underestimated how much time and effort it would actually take.

Self driving cars as they exist today are still mere toys compared to where the industry thought they were going to be. Look at Cruise, Waymo, Zoox, Uber's ex-self driving car division and others.

We are not anywhere near the self-driving autonomous cars we had hoped for.

ArchOversight··on [dead]
This is one of the few times that I wish Hacker News would allow the poster to edit the title... because crypto here means cryptocurrency, not cryptography.
ArchOversight··on Nginx Security Advisory
Asking for what?
ArchOversight··on Nginx Security Advisory
This has been an issue in the past, where NGINX disagreed with a CVE being assigned, but a CVE is the easiest way to get a vulnerability fixed across the ecosystem and in the distributions that distribute NGINX.

Each time something is silently fixed it takes much longer and is much harder to actually get the fix approved/backported/whatever is necessary to get it fixed.

ArchOversight··on Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck
Magnesium Chloride is used in most parts of Colorado. It's absolutely terrible for your car.
ArchOversight··on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
Squatting on DoD IP space was also the norm for an ISP I worked at...
ArchOversight··on ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
> 2. It is infrequent that RFC1918 space is used internally in telecom networks. It does happen, but it is rare.

I have worked at 2 different ISPs... RFC1918 is used EVERYWHERE, including on networks that customers can reach by sending packets through their modems/CPE. I am also familiar with the internal network of 3 others because we closely worked together during a bunch of merger/acquisitions/divestments/territory split-ups.

This caused a lot of fun when one customer ran nmap across all of RFC1918 space and hit internal security systems that were advertised across the ISPs backbone but were not properly filtered for traffic coming from customers because of a bug in a CMTS that failed to properly apply ACL's.

ArchOversight··on Apple to EU, Drop Dead
That's not the macOS App Store. There is no version of Chrome that is installable from the macOS App Store because Google does not publish Chrome in the macOS App Store (probably owing to the sandboxing that would be required and Chrome wants access to all the things).
ArchOversight··on Ubuntu Looking at Discontinuing Its Source ISOs
The ABI for CentOS Stream can move forward while RHEL stays frozen in time at time of cutting the snapshot. Compiling/building a binary on CentOS Stream at a RHEL release + 1 may mean the binary does not run on that RHEL release.

So unless you know the exact timestamp that RHEL cut their release from CentOS Stream you no longer have the guarantee that it matches RHEL.

Whereas before CentOS WAS an exact copy of RHEL and if I compiled a binary on CentOS 8 it would work without issues on RHEL 8.

ArchOversight··on Impulse Induction Stove: boils water in 40s and has backup battery for outages
It causes heat spots in the pan.

It's most noticeable with water or a pan of food you want to simmer, it will turn the heat on high for a few seconds leading to items to burn/boil for a few seconds, before turning back off.

That means that if you are making something that needs low and slow heat you get these moments where the heat is WAY too high.

I like to make things like candied mango pieces or strawberries for on top of pancakes, and with an induction stove that has an on/off cycle vs being able to modulate the sugar will quickly burn to the bottom of the pan because the temperature is far too high while it is in its "on" cycle.

It's not about heat retention between cycles, it's that during the on cycle it's too much heat.

Very thick bottomed pans can help dissipate some of it by capturing it, vs just dumping it directly into the cooking surface of the pan, but those pans are heavy and cumbersome and fairly rare.

ArchOversight··on Impulse Induction Stove: boils water in 40s and has backup battery for outages
I have a high end Bosch induction cooktop which can modulate the power, and doesn't just do the on/off cycle that so many induction cooktops do to get to a certain power level. It feels more like a gas cooktop than anything else and it is fantastic.
ArchOversight··on Ubuntu Looking at Discontinuing Its Source ISOs
Not exactly. RHEL is a point in time snapshot of CentOS Stream. There's no longer exact ABI parity between CentOS and RHEL like there used to be in the past.
ArchOversight··on Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries
There are unwritten rules everywhere. The nice thing is that when the unions in Sweden do strike unlike in the US where maybe they will get some support, there is massive groundswell of support behind them to actually get the company to make a change.

The fact that the whole country collectively agrees gives the workers far more power.

ArchOversight··on Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away
The only supplement you can't get from a vegan diet is B12, because farming is too clean (it is in dirt, and eating dirt is how you'd get the B12 needed). Everything else you can get from eating plant based products.

You do not need heavily processed oils and grains nor do you need a variety of supplements. Beans and Rice contain all of the necessary proteins a human body needs for example.

B12 deficiency is an issue even for people that eat meat due to the cleaner practices and feeding where animals no longer graze but instead get their food delivered in a way that doesn't allow the animals to ingest the B12 from the dirt.

You can absolutely survive eating food that is not cooked with oil.

ArchOversight··on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
No, in this case it is actually a full size TV that has the same OS as the FireTV stick.
ArchOversight··on Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes
It's Security+ or Security+ 2.0, it is literally obfuscated serial traffic over two wires. It is DRM. You can't just get any random button to open/close the garage.
ArchOversight··on Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024
No, it's an operating system. Sadly they left out the text editor.
ArchOversight··on macOS Sonoma Broke Grep

  % type grep
  grep is /usr/bin/grep

  % echo -n "a" | /usr/bin/grep -o 'b*'
  Assertion failed: (advance > 0), function procline, file util.c, line 732.
  zsh: done       echo -n "a" |
  zsh: abort      /usr/bin/grep -o 'b*'
Your alias is not part of the macOS default.
ArchOversight··on Apple's Safari browser is still vulnerable to Spectre attacks
Trying the mitigations, it fails:

  % defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1
  2023-10-30 16:25:46.182 defaults[71906:4790936] Could not write domain /Users/poppopret/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari; exiting
Does this require disabling SIP?
ArchOversight··on Apple's Scary Fast event could spell the end of its Lightning port
Define "regular USB cable".

Which ends are on this regular USB cable? micro USB? mini USB? USB-B?

I honestly have far more lightning cables lying around than I do mini USB or micro USB. I don't own many devices that use either micro or mini USB. Lightning also made sense because it was a solid connection, that did not wear out quickly, insertion and removal had no chance of damaging anything whereas I have had several mini and micro USB boards that I've created myself where I've had to replace the connectors over time.

ArchOversight··on Keyboard Maestro 11
I have Moom installed from the App Store, it requires the Accessibility feature to be flipped on in Privacy and Security -> Accessibility before it'll work.
ArchOversight··on Snapdragon Oryon, faster than Apple's M2 chip at 30% less power
The bar chart on the same slide is what causes the confusion. It's really nice sleight of hand.
ArchOversight··on Matter 1.2 – New device types and improvements
Which is exactly what Blockchain is good at.
ArchOversight··on Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
There's thousands more packages than listed on that website.

Also now you are moving the goalposts. Python wheels exist but not all Python packages are distributed as wheels.

If I am going through the effort to build wheels myself, then I don't need a resolver since I can just make sure to pick all the versions I need. Then I don't need rip to install anything.

ArchOversight··on Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
That's great and all for packages I control, but I publish wheels already.
ArchOversight··on Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
How well does this work for projects that include dependencies that are still reliant on the old setup.py and don't have wheels published?
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