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eatingCake··on A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift
The ticket prices start high and are gradually reduced at a set rate until they reach a pre-defined minimum. The idea being that scaplers can't profit off of purchasing early since the official clearinghouse is lowering the price all the time.

People have to make a judgement call on the value of the tickets and purchase at an appropriate time.

eatingCake··on Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
The assignment to match returns undefined. The value of match is null.
eatingCake··on Feds sue auto repair shop that paid former employee in pennies
The pennies were in payment of his final paycheck. The suit is in regard to unrelated wage theft from unpaid overtime and discrimination/retaliation (presumably for reporting the wage theft), as well as failure to maintain required records.
eatingCake··on 'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
The most jarring Dazzle camouflage[1] imaginable.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

eatingCake··on Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe
To your point, I think that you could generate the duplicate geometry pretty easily but the issue would be making sure no overlapping sectors were visible at the same time, as that would cause glitches in the Build engine.

You might be able to subdivide the build engine's sectors into visleaves (borrowing terminology from Source) and clip all sectors in the mirror-verse according to the aperture + view-frustrum. To work correctly you'd need to do this every frame, probably an unthinkably huge task for the hardware at the time.

eatingCake··on T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out
Unfortunately, they are being purchased by DISH network.
eatingCake··on USPS Awards Contract to Modernize Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet
This way the driver can put mail in suburban mailboxes without leaving the seat (while driving on the right side of the road).
eatingCake··on The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court
Yes, this is very much a "dad's in charge, mom said so" moment.
eatingCake··on Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes
> they often backup everything in a central location like Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal which put everything in your Google account without any additional crypto layers

I don't know about the others but I don't think Signal does this. Signal offers the user the ability to backup their messages, and lets them password protect them, but the way you've written this implies Signal is uploading messages to Google of its own volition, unencrypted, which afaik is not the case.

eatingCake··on US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs
Who decides that they are "different matters"?
eatingCake··on Ask HN: Why are 5 inch USB floppy drives so uncommon?
Doesn't the magnetic data on the disks fade over that time scale?
eatingCake··on Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs
Are you sure? I was under the impression that, for instance, diamond's value is mostly manufactured, but gold is actually useful for various electronic and chemical properties.
eatingCake··on Going All in on the Mac App Store
I agree it could take years to get right, which is why app developers should not pigeonhole themselves into immature stores.
eatingCake··on Ask HN: Can non degree-holder use the title Software Engineer?
Same with Architect. It's use in software is completely unregulated compared to Registered Architect (the equivalent to P.Eng).
eatingCake··on In 'Cyberpunk 2077,' the Only Truly Punk Move Is Not to Play
I thought it got delisted because CDPR said they'd refund people and Sony said we-dont-do-that-here and went nuclear?
eatingCake··on FlashFloppy: Open-source Firmware for floppy emulators
I'm surprised there isn't some open source hardware for this to run on. Could be an interesting project.
eatingCake··on macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
I would like to get a thinkpad, but I'm not sure Lenovo can be trusted any more than Apple can, especially since Apple atleast pretends to care about customer security.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-scanda...

eatingCake··on Anatomy of a Binary Executable
It may be worthwhile to point out that the example is built in debug mode, and also Rust is including the whole standard library in the output. Re-configuring some low hanging fruit [1] reduces the binary size on my test machine to 27K. This is still not small, granted.

[1] https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

eatingCake··on Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself
The flipside of this would be that anyone from out-of-town would be shunned under the assumption that they had left their previous town for negative reasons.
eatingCake··on Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
> Perhaps American culture is more receptive to this

As an American I don't think people like corporations feigning social intimacy either.

eatingCake··on Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in
> someday I will write a book

That would make a great coffee-table book. Some image on one page and a short narrative on the opposing page.

eatingCake··on Google TV
What about Microsoft Bob, can I use that?
eatingCake··on Amazon Employee Warns Internal Groups Being Monitored for Labor Organizing
> presume to be able to use company equipment

I think this is the central point. You can do all those things, but are you entitled to use company equipment to do so?

The term spying becomes less clear-cut in that context too. It's spying if I get your personal private communication, but monitoring one's own internal network would not normally be considered spying.

eatingCake··on U.S. Justice Dept weighs stripping federal funds from cities allowing 'anarchy'
The suggestion is that these cities are potentially paying more money to the federal government than they get back in federal aid. The population is irrelevant.
eatingCake··on A Tour of the Tiny and Obfuscated Image Decoder
> I've posted a new image file in this format

I couldn't resist the urge to follow along and rewrite the code you've presented in Rust, and what do I find at midnight after finally getting it to work and running your test image through? You got me.

eatingCake··on Scrollbar Blindness
That thing is the worst!

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
set DisallowShaking dword to 1
eatingCake··on 2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
FYI, 12,000 acres are on fire in the Sequoia National Forest, where giant sequoias grow.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7048/

eatingCake··on Satellite images of the Beirut explosion site – before and after
You'll notice one area that went from above sea level to below sea level.
eatingCake··on Mao Kun Map
I'm hoping if it goes core they will allow importing the layout just like hideouts.
eatingCake··on How to survive a ransomware attack without paying the ransom
My understanding[1] was that these types of devices sync by sending a blob over bluetooth to the paired cell phone, and then the cell phone uploads this to the cloud to be decrypted. What kinds of devices are you talking about?

[1]: https://hackaday.com/2017/12/29/34c3-fitbit-sniffing-and-fir...

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