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chabska··on An inside look at NSA tactics, techniques and procedures from China's lens
In Shenzhen if your product doesn't perform up to spec, you just lose customers and go bankrupt. Not sure why the court has to be involved here. Isn't a free market capitalism economy supposed to work like that?
chabska··on Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy
> the MCMC backed down after massive public outcry, but the government's authoritarian tendencies remain palpable.

That contradicts your thesis. They did listen to feedback from the people, that's democracy.

chabska··on Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
The need to process the large amount of data gathered by the fusion test rig drove many fields of computer science. The freaking internet was supposedly invented because the physicists at CERN needed a way to collaboratively process and interpret this data.
chabska··on United States Power Outage Map
How do those stores report to HQ when they don't have power? Even cell towers could be down if the situation is bad enough.
chabska··on iOS indie app development looks like
The Swift devs drank the koolaid that Java's method of implementing generics using type erasure is bad, so they implemented Swift's generics by concrete specialization. Turns out that caused a lot of complexity in type lookup.
chabska··on Simulating water over terrain
That violates conservation of momentum. To get realistic flow, you need to use continuity equation to preserve the energy of the flow and let the shear dissipate and diffuse into whorls. Which is a lot of extra calculation, as pointed out in the article, so you need to ask yourself if that level of realism is really necessary for your use case.
chabska··on What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
This is a funny take. As researchers, half of their job was just writing grant applications to get more money. Lab supplies don't grow on trees.
chabska··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
Put a short straight-to-the-point instructional video on youtube, gets praised for being the best of humanity, "You win the internet today sir". Put the same video on TikTok, suddenly it's brain rot.
chabska··on 43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on
It needs to be said, since there is such a big vocal group of people that are outright denying economic laws. Regarding rent control, minimum wage, price control etc.
chabska··on Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]
That "five" people are people with disabilities but cannot afford the custom car, elderly people who can't see the road, blind people, people with random seizures, people who don't have a financially-stable parent that can guarantee their first car purchase or loan them the money for their first beater car, people who just got out of prison and can't apply for a loan, single mothers thrown out of her house without anything from her abusive husband.

If the bus-riding experience is as dreadful as you imagine, then surely the people that still decides to do so despite all this are at their most absolute desperation. And you want to take away their last lifeline?

chabska··on Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
I just typed "48 inch monitor" into amazon search bar and got one that seems to fit your spec. What's the problem?
chabska··on The humble for loop in Rust
What languages would that be?
chabska··on China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert
US southwest is a desert, but there are significant areas that used to be grassland and shrubs that turned into bare rocks due to excessive grazing in the 19th century.
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