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L-four··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Most people don't know the traffic laws both of your stats are way to low.
L-four··on Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes
If failure rates went down wouldn't that increase the number of clinical trials until the failure rates go back up.
L-four··on Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
I am so building an arc furnace in my yard.
L-four··on Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
They have a monopoly on disks for the PlayStation.
L-four··on Your ePub Is fine
It's always CSS.
L-four··on Will you heed my warnings now?
Yeah 70 years ago right.
L-four··on NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
The classic we need a 3 month approval process to update software but at the same time use SaaS that updates daily and breaks every other week.
L-four··on Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
This post is propaganda. You don't own the phone. The term "buy" is defined as "revocable anytime lease".
L-four··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Windows is notoriously slow at opening files. So a common optimisation is to store all game content in few package files.
L-four··on You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
The number one feature which would resolve this is. A list all resources page.
L-four··on GPT-5.4
Gmail was in beta for 5 years, until 2009.
L-four··on Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation
The cheapest way to make hydrogen is to use fossil fuels.
L-four··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
The payment in mobile games are a one button click. Browsers will never support this, as they're all funned by advertising.
L-four··on San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k
No at 310k you get $1 dollar at 311k you get $0. But you know like you have 999 more dollars than before. Assuming Post tax income.
L-four··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
I think the correct solution is to use a keyring. On Linux there's gnome keyring and last time I worked on a IOS app there was something similar.

This does mean entering your keyring password a lot.

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

L-four··on The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing
It's a tragedy of the commons. Even if you don't use Cloudflare does it matter if no one can pay for your products.
L-four··on Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
Always use theses in testing don't ask me how I know.
L-four··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
No it's a neoliberal thing. Rather than the government doing the thing. They hand out massive subsides and hope it gets done.
L-four··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Developer time is more valuable than user data. The market is being efficient.
L-four··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Can we get "HTTP 402 Payment Required" working now?
L-four··on Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants
I think it's software is made with the American market in mind. And local businesses use it as is and profit.
L-four··on The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
It's malware it does something malicious.
L-four··on Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
Parse this JSON correctly ```json { "data": "XXX", "sig": "BAD", "sig": "GOOD" } ```
L-four··on We're Charging Our Cars Wrong
I agree, but there are aggressive subsidies around electric vehicles and general graft. Similar things happen in most countries but in dictatorships things can go to absurd levels when it aligns with the current policy.
L-four··on We're Charging Our Cars Wrong
Dictatorships don't care if things are practical.
L-four··on The cost of Go's panic and recover
Writing transaction code wrapping a user provided function which can error or panic is a real pain to get right. If the user code panics there is no error if the user code succeeded there is no error. So you have to call recover on success.
L-four··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
The trick to coding with LLMs is not caring if the code is correct.
L-four··on GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
+1 this has been my life experience.
L-four··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
The great thing about Azure is not the security it's the reports about how you are secure. The later is legally required the former is only visible experts.
L-four··on Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data
An unscrupulous individual might even send malware.
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