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EwanToo··on WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says
It's unlikely to go into liquidation and actually shut down.

This bankruptcy is about renegotiating and possibly exiting leases where they're not making money, and pushing that loss onto the building owners instead.

There will be fewer WeWork locations, but the company will still exist.

EwanToo··on Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
The Pi Zero 2 W is $20 and reasonably consistently in stock now.

https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2

EwanToo··on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search
In some system apps it's deeply embedded, others not at all.

e.g. The Google phone dialler which is pre-installed on a lot of phones can bring up the phone number for nearby places without them being in your contacts.

EwanToo··on Costco gold bars are selling out within hours
People in Turkey are also massively using Euros, Dollars, and other foreign currencies, right?

While I was there last year nobody wanted the local currency, everyone wanted you to pay in Euros.

EwanToo··on How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
Have you considered making your database available for download as Parquet format so people could just copy the file to S3, Google Cloud, etc, and query it immediately with various tools?

I know it can be done with CSV but it's not as smooth.

EwanToo··on Reasons to not use your own domain for email
That's good to know, though I'm skeptical for the future and it doesn't appear to be in the policy itself from my read through.

They'll have to tackle email exhaustion eventually, and so far they don't seem interested in add new alternative domains.

EwanToo··on Reasons to not use your own domain for email
Unfortunately if you stop paying for fastmail or your Google account becomes inactive, they terminate your account and the email address becomes available for a new user.

I think the concern that your email address is subject to takeover is valid, but unfortunately relying on generic domains isn't the solution.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en

EwanToo··on Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)
I expected someone to write a rust-based scripting language which tightly integrated with rust itself.

In reality, it seems like the python developers and toolchain are embracing rust enough to reduce the benefits to a new alternative.

https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

EwanToo··on Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender
Try JustWatch, it's the closest I've found.
EwanToo··on Aurora I/O optimized config saved 90% DB cost
Our commit latency dropped when we turned it on, so _something_ changed on a technical level
EwanToo··on Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU
That's correct yes, if AMD is bought then the cross-licensing deals terminate in both directions - i.e. Intel also lose access to the AMD patents.

It's a poison pill which means Intel themselves would be the only serious buyer.

EwanToo··on Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro
Do you not remember the queues outside Apple stores for early iPhones?

https://youtu.be/bWgd5crvB0U

EwanToo··on Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?
The modular hotels I've seen built like this come with each room pre-plumbed, pre-wired, etc.

You just "plug in" each room to the central connections.

EwanToo··on SUSE Liberty Linux: secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in.
This is from 2022, not a response to this months Redhat announcements?
EwanToo··on PHP packages for Ubuntu EOL releases put under paywall
Am I misreading this, or would you have to pay €250?

If so, why wouldn't you just pay?

I can see it being a question for the higher tiers where it's €10k or more.

EwanToo··on Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website
Google considers that passkey with biometric authentication as multi-factor.

The device in your hand being the first factor, and the biometric value as the second factor.

Whether you consider that strong enough is a question for each of us individually I suppose!

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/10/bringing-p...

EwanToo··on Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Because Github Copilot is an interface into OpenAI Codex:

"GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI."

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/overview-of-github-copilo...

EwanToo··on Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?
Not really, no, it's doable but not easily
EwanToo··on Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time
London had a -8C night earlier this year

https://www.mylondon.news/weather/london-weather-coldest-nig...

EwanToo··on Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch
I have a Withings Scanwatch

30 day battery life, looks like a regular watch, but has health tracking built-in.

https://www.withings.com/us/en/watches

EwanToo··on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky
They have around 60k registrations, they've stated that in the last 48 hours or so
EwanToo··on Westinghouse announces a new small modular nuclear reactor
The Rolls-Royce SMR is pitched as exactly that, based on the submarine plants they already build.

No takers yet as far as I know.

EwanToo··on Neverssl Uses SSL
Since November 2021, not sure this is news..
EwanToo··on RIP HTTP
I'm not sure the specification says what you describe, it doesn't in my reading.

I don't believe Alt-Svc is required, and as you say Safari is behaving this way already.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9114.html#section-3.1-3

Discovering an HTTP/3 Endpoint

A client MAY attempt access to a resource with an "https" URI by resolving the host identifier to an IP address, establishing a QUIC connection to that address on the indicated port (including validation of the server certificate as described above), and sending an HTTP/3 request message targeting the URI to the server over that secured connection. Unless some other mechanism is used to select HTTP/3, the token "h3" is used in the Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN; see [RFC7301]) extension during the TLS handshake.

Connectivity problems (e.g., blocking UDP) can result in a failure to establish a QUIC connection; clients SHOULD attempt to use TCP-based versions of HTTP in this case.

EwanToo··on RIP HTTP
Or they just optimistically connect to both TCP/443 and UDP/443, create both a HTTP/1 and HTTP/3 connection in parallel, then see which one responds quicker.

This already happens with some major apps.

EwanToo··on Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages
Lots of people write complex, latency dependent code.

Previously they would write in something like C/C++ or use the JVM but try to avoid all garbage collection events though very carefully avoiding allocations, etc.

For them, Rust is a gift!

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/12/01/disruptor.html

EwanToo··on FAA K-12 Airport Design Challenge in Minecraft
Depends a lot on the child but I'd say 7 or 8 they'll probably be able to play the basic game by themselves.

At 5 or 6 they'll likely need a fair bit of support, but that's a lot of fun too.

EwanToo··on Responsible Cyber Power in Practice
The better link is probably https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/responsible-cyber...
EwanToo··on Optimized Rust is Still Slower Than Python+NumPy
I assume this is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367520
EwanToo··on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
I believe that was the case with Amazon until a couple of weeks ago.

Now your manager can no longer approve it, and even if your manager did previously approve it you might need to request approval from a higher authorisation level.

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