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Kallikrates··on IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media
Same government cut off internet to the Palestinians who were live streaming their own genocide to the outside world.
Kallikrates··on EFF is leaving X
no
Kallikrates··on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
The mountaintop panels add shade to those regions and actually reverse desertification, increases water retention and create useful agricultural land.
Kallikrates··on [dead]
Can't be any worse than the previous and current flawed systems https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/10/questions-and-answers-is...
Kallikrates··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
propaganda, keeping it in the ground away from china or others, handouts to friendly companies, it has uses
Kallikrates··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
the president just announced that they are directing US companies to take control of Venezuelan oil.
Kallikrates··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> ... we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision

they have already signaled that this is not what will be allowed to happen

Kallikrates··on Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for Ercot
Is this the same "minimal water loss" they define for all the leaking wells in west and south texas that threaten water supplies? https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/04/texas-leaking-abando...
Kallikrates··on The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)
the station: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tc2Hs8kdwbFcbaxC6
Kallikrates··on Swift's native Clocks are inefficient
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/73429
Kallikrates··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
The wifi Mac address is obscured from native code
Kallikrates··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Keychain used to persist data and are shared, this was a very recent change in iOS to "fix"
Kallikrates··on Uber CEO Plays with Fire
Could be via other apps using ubers native sdk writing to a common key store. ala Google sharing auth between apps on iOS.
Kallikrates··on An Oral History of Something Awful
It's a shame that nearly all of gamequoter's history is gone.
Kallikrates··on Exponential time complexity in the Swift type checker
This information is currently partially available. Not line by line but definition by definition. It's hidden behind a compiler flag but there are open source tools that consume it and display it for developer consumption.
Kallikrates··on Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox
one example is Popover controls on iPhone. http://marksands.github.io/2014/05/27/how-apple-cheats.html
Kallikrates··on Facebook's iOS Bug Led ComScore to Overestimate Time Spent
ComScore is one of the larger providers of these statistics similar to Nielsen ratings they provide a library you setup in your app.

see # 18: https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/libraries-used-in-th...

Kallikrates··on Cast-Free Arithmetic in Swift
The Swift patterns Emerging definitely favor explicit conversions over implicit. One of the QA questions begins eluding to some issues with this pattern with under and overflows, but the author also doesn't mention safety around Nan's or Infinity. Last thing I want as a consumer of an API is surprises. There are good reasons why these value types are non interchangeable without being explicit.
Kallikrates··on “We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer
Is "Producer" the right word for his job title? Or is psychopath closer to reality?

Talking about other humans in such a disassociated way. At least one armed bandits in vegas don't create fake facebook profiles for some scheme to extract more money from you.

Kallikrates··on Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
Correct but most non toy apps don't hard code URL's even for their own services. If my service is getting ddosed/updated I should be able to push a configuration change out to apps and have them request another arbitrary URL. I might not know ahead of time what that URL will be, and ATS should be enforced on those URLs.
Kallikrates··on Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9
If you read the article you would see that it's not a whitelist for specific 3rd party domains. Without knowing every possible 3rd party domain ahead of compilation such a white list is not possible. The recommendation is a white list for connection types. Which removes App Transport Security checks from all outbound URL requests.
Kallikrates··on The Man Behind Common Core Math
"you can't subtract 5 from 0, so borrow 10 from 4, now its 5 from 10" and so on
Kallikrates··on German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing
In another life I had to take aircraft crash response training, and was in charge of recovery (salvage, battle-field repair etc). The response to an aircraft with composite materials is totally different. With normal construction we could get to work as soon as the fire, was out and any hazardous liquids were taken care of. Crashes involving damage to composite structures required that the damaged areas be sprayed down with a varnish like chemical by the same troops who handle Chemical weapon response (they had special suits). Then there would be air particulate tests before we could move in. Here is a military study: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a420193.pdf
Kallikrates··on Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force
I suppose they are running out of converted F-4 drones.
Kallikrates··on IBM to Acquire SoftLayer
Many of the extremely large east coast customers have directives to move away from licenses as fast as they can. The recent news of IBM's protest against Amazon is very related to this acquisition.

http://washingtontechnology.com/Articles/2013/05/31/amazon-p...

Kallikrates··on Using HTML5 prerendering to speed up a multi-page registration process
"... Some of the reasons prerendering might not happen: ... * Chrome encountered another prerender directive within the last 500 ms." [1]

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender

Kallikrates··on [dead]
I shot github an email when the feature was first released their stance is that what is out in public, is out in public.
Kallikrates··on [dead]
Alternate source: https://www.google.com/search?q=BEGIN+RSA+PRIVATE+KEY&as...
Kallikrates··on [dead]
How is it different from: http://goo.gl/YfHF5
Kallikrates··on Redux: 12 Steps to Better Code
If an engineer steps infront of a bus does your company cease to exist?
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