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I can't get prices on my local supermarket's website (in Germany) without selecting a specific branch.

Seems kinda suspicious to me.

> We don’t blame the telephone company

A phone company should have no idea what its customers say during calls.

Blogs are public.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

They only need hi-res where the user is looking, don't they?

We can't see what's in our peripheral vision clearly, so they should be able to get away with most of the FoV being blocky af, shouldn't they?

I don't see how EVs are any more viable than ICEs if they continue to be as crassly oversized and overpowered.

A 20 KG e-bike can get a person around with 0.3 BHP, so 200 KG and 30 BHP is already pushing the boat out.

But people want another order of magnitude on top of that.

> Why this isn't applied to software engineering is a whole nother story, but i think it probably should.

Money, for one thing. Actually building the thing IRL is the expensive bit, but it's effectively free for software. So engineers are incentivised to get things right the first time, and software developers are not. It's much cheaper to skimp on QA, let users find your fuck-ups, and push an update.

You do enter encryption info: your password.

FF sync "splits" your password into an encryption key and the service password on the client side. The service never sees the key (or real password).

Bitwarden works in a similar way.

For the life of me, I don't understand why they do this.

It's not 2003. I don't have a separate bunch of WAP bookmarks for my phone.

> They just need a signature.

And you need to pay Apple for the certificate to sign them. And never piss them off lest they revoke it.

Can’t you just ask the client which timezone it’s in? Every browser knows, and it will be a more accurate answer: the user might be on a foreign VPN or temporarily in another TZ, but not working on that timezone.

> but we certainly care a lot about fixing issues like this when we hear about them.

What then should we make of the fact that Google practically ensures that they won't hear about such issues by making it next to impossible to report them?

It's explained in more depth here: https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wik...

Essentially, git is designed for the "bazaar" development model, while Fossil is designed for the "cathedral" one, which is what SQLite uses, being developed by just three guys working very closely together.

Isn’t this misuse of DNA data literally called the “prosecutor‘s fallacy”?

The DA says, “there’s a million-to-one chance it wasn’t this dude.”

Without any other evidence linking the purported perp to the crime, the reality is that the DNA only shows he’s one of 350 people who could have done it (assuming a population of 350m).

This blog post explains it a bit:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/10/16/falling-...

Did you read the articles?

The suspect tweeted "I know he has epilepsy" and "I hope he dies."

But sure, a judge and jury could only possibly conjecture about intent…

There's an API, but I'd rather not have to write my own script to export the data. Which I'll be doing lickety split.

Not a fan of Pinterest (the company), not one bit.