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I’m excited for this to be used for paravirtualization of the arm64 port on an M1 Mac. Right now you have to use the EFI framebuffer which is not good.

I know ublock origin does because I have been using that on my systems and never see them.

Looks like they have a document on that. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/

For everyone down voting this framework already exists as the Treaty on Open Skies. It was finalized in 1989, but started as a mutual agreement between NATO and the USSR.

The majority of US debt is special bonds owned by the Social Security Trust Fund. Only about 30% of bonds are owned by foreign entities. And the top foreign holder fluctuates between China and Japan.

The “many eyes” hypothesis is routinely debunked when severe security bugs are found in things like the Linux kernel that have been there for years. The same is true for standards that end up being fundamentally broken at later dates. In the end software and hardware is so overly complicated that we cannot currently build secure systems.

That’s the thing it doesn’t stop. It’s just a rotary dial with the lightest detents I’ve ever felt. You just spin it and it’s a circular buffer through every setting.

I have knobs on the climate control on my car, but I still need to look at the screen. The problem is the knobs have no stops so I still need to look down to figure out what they're set to after they update the electronic display. On my old vehicle I knew the whole way to the left was fan blowing on feet, whole way to the right was defroster, and the 2 or 3 clicks in between were different settings of those extremes. Now I have no idea where it ends up when I spin the dial.

In general I've found electronics from the major Japanese companies easy to open, well labeled, and designed in a logical manner.

The capital V was just iOS auto-correct.

Ban nylon ties and get the Velcro ones. They’re as fast as using nylon ties, are reusable, and are soft and wide enough to save the insulation.

Much of this is thanks to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) which will celebrate it's 30th anniversary next year. I can remember how much people despised that the government was forcing another regulation on the poor businesses and how the world was going to come crashing down as a result. But here we are with at least a mediocre of accessibility and much of it can be traced back to the ADA.

That is exactly what Chuck Moore wanted when inventing Forth.

The name wins buzzword bingo.

I believe the op is not talking about a denial by ARIN. The 44 space is administered by a series of volunteers that I believe is distributed worldwide. Some people in the amateur radio community like to create little fiefdoms and the distribution of subnets in 44 is not immune to this type of gate keeping.

What was the first programming language you really understood and learned? I ask because most of the time people think something different is complex or "ugly" it's because they're using bad abstractions between what they fully understood first to other things they think is in the same domain.

Patricia Asa has an excellent presentation[0] on how she tried to learned C# and one of the biggest things she discovered was these bad cross-over abstractions held her back.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id2jBMJLz2Y

Python has a built in turtle module.

There exists a handful of EngD problems out there. It’s to be treated as an applied PhD where the goal is to develop as a leader of industrial R&D.

My graduate stats teacher used a system like this and it was horrible. His handwriting was so bad on the tablet, but much better on the chalkboard.

The history of cell phones seems to have been to make them smaller until they’re too small followed by making them bigger until they’re too big.

The cost of the people to support all of that, too.

I mentor people for the same reason I automate things; at the end of the day I'm lazy and I'd rather concentrate more on the things that matter to me. It that means I can teach someone else how to do the work that I don't want to do but they'd love to do, then more power to everyone.

There were never good times. I remember people running Sybase or other products just so they never had to deal with an Oracle sales person.

This exception already exists in current regulations.

There are some methods that are patent encumbered and the only source of ways to decode them are with tightly controlled modems/decoders. This is especially the case with the advanced PACTOR modems and some of the digital voice encoders. The FCC considered patented methods to be open even if there are no available methods to decode them.

I wrote off the airpods when they first came out, but then received a pair as a gift. They ended up being one of my must have items. I wish they wouldn't automatically switch to the lower bit rate when they connect to a mac or that I could tell the mac to never use them as a microphone.

However, I also see little reason to upgrade.

The OS/2 part was, the DOS/Win comparability later not so much.

Workplace Shell was so cool though.

It’s also easy to design paper ballots that are really hard to use.

Because voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the US. Now election fraud is a different issue.

Even the small libraries are great because of intra-library lending. There's a robust network of libraries across the nation that lets you get almost any book you'd like. In most states the public university system is also part of the lending network and any library in the state can get books from there.