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Rational arguments and facts are banned if they don't support and follow proscribed opinions. Respectful debate is an ideal of the past that is no longer permitted.

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errcorrectcode··on New material that can absorb and release enormous amounts of energy
UHMWPE already can do that.
errcorrectcode··on Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
In ye olden days, you could run your home automation on MisterHouse on any old computer and use a parasitically-powered DB9 serial RS-232 wireless adapter to control X10 devices.

http://misterhouse.sf.net

errcorrectcode··on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
"I see a speck of dust on the tire. Minus $100."
errcorrectcode··on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
Fendi entered the chat. "We object! We don't use barbaric clubs anymore, we use proper pistols to dispatch baby animals in order to steal their hides to make Predator human trophy garmets from them. Please browse our winter collection."
errcorrectcode··on Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
I look at it as a value-investing opportunity. Non-investors and vacillating ones can scoff as I laugh all the way to said bank.
errcorrectcode··on North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
Either way, I don't know what you mean. What is this "Fight Club" of which you speak? Is it an agro baseball bat? It's probably some Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia Brad Pitt signed, right?

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errcorrectcode··on North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet
Please don't feed the trolls or the bears.
errcorrectcode··on Settings are not a design failure
It's a common antipattern to design away settings, and practical usability, with artistic purity. OTOH, providing an endless jumble of uncommon settings is overwhelming to almost everyone.

1. Make things work in the common-most use-cases, for power users and novices. I think there's a lack of respect shown to people who have difficult, edge-case, real problems to solve, like batch receiving orders while being forced into narrow pagination and sparse layouts suitable only for casual customers. Usable search and bulk actions are needed in more contexts than originally assumed.

2. If someone asks for it, there could be 100 who didn't speak-up but also want it.

3. Organize and explain settings succinctly.

4. Have a reset to defaults option.

errcorrectcode··on $256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
So it's "ETH escrow" where the trusted third-party conducting the atomic swap of assets is the blockchain in the form of executing a contract?
errcorrectcode··on $256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
4% net is a terrible money laundering rate. Better to keep it and mix it slow than take the first marshmallow immediately and lose way more.
errcorrectcode··on $256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
Idempotence and infrastructure-level rollback seem essential, especially in complicated transactions that require multiple external side-effects.
errcorrectcode··on $256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
The ledger is a central authority but with decentralized distribution. Central authorities can tell users what they can and can't do with their money, count their money, monitor, violate privacy, and impose sanctions, taxes, or trade restrictions on them.
errcorrectcode··on $256M in ETH stolen from cross-chain protocol Wormhole
Assuming it's a lone wolf and not a criminal gang (suits on Wall St. or sex traffickers in Bulgaria).

Also, that's what patsies and false credentials are for. It's easier to buy new identities in other countries where money talks and ethics are flexible.

errcorrectcode··on Origin of the Bluetooth Name
File sharing over BT is insecure, obsolete, and not widely-supported. It's better to deal with reality that BLE-capable apps and cloud apps are universal replacements.
errcorrectcode··on Origin of the Bluetooth Name
Do you mean AirDrop or BT File Sharing?

Edit: In general without Apple, BT File Sharing has never interop'd. It's better to use a third-party app that uses BLE or a cloud or chat app with file sharing.

errcorrectcode··on Origin of the Bluetooth Name
In '99/00, I remember a cartoon on a slide because the lecturer was involved in the BT spec. It took a while, but he was right that it would be ubiquitous.

I do have issues with BT compatibility between some devices with stuttering sound. For example, I have Edifier speakers that don't work properly with Apple devices.

Another issue is audio/video latency. aptX Low Latency isn't widely-supported. Receivers, TVs, computers, and any display device chain muxes or demuxes A/V should support an A/V calibration device discoverable by WiFi and BT containing a microphone and light sensor for automatic synchronization.

Pairing is a PITA. The behaviors of connecting, selecting, forcing, and moving devices are inconsistent and problematic. AirPods are terrible because they repeatedly connect when not wanted.

errcorrectcode··on Origin of the Bluetooth Name
I still have mine (v. 1). I called support once about it. It can get into a mode where it needs to be rebooted. Overall, they work fine. Be sure to download the app and install the latest firmware update.

Also, using the audio cable and charging cable at the same time results in annoying digital noise in the headphones. It may be a ground loop issue that can be broken by charging and listening with different relative ground sources (gnd of USB must be different than the audio gnd).

errcorrectcode··on Most people don’t read carefully or for comprehension
There are infinitely many different kinds of reading as well.

Skimming vs. careful understanding vs. visualization vs. holding a book to avoid conversation.

Steven King vs. Chaucer vs. Gibbon vs. so on.

Parents and the local educational system are primarily responsible for whether or not curiosity is murdered in young learners or it is given life-long inspiration.

errcorrectcode··on Most people don’t read carefully or for comprehension
There is a perfect storm of contributing factors to expository writing: writer blandness and TL;DR, infinitely more sources of information, and reader limited time and attention. If you want to be read take some responsibility with style and concision.
errcorrectcode··on Mesmerizing Labor
> Gleason went solo into the clairvoyant business.

This reminds me of the pickup artist scene and digital persuasion behavioral engineering: trying to sell some "revolutionary", "secret" form of human manipulation. The equivalent of a Love Potion No. 9.

I guess we're talking about a time of greater ignorance when the supernatural and "spirituality" were taken for-granted.

Nowadays, it seems like NLP-ridiculous, psychobabble, fortuneteller magic. Certainly, charismatic cult leaders exist and appear to project an ability to influence people.

Anecdotally and qualitatively, there does seems to be a phenomenon where respected, older, attractive men of higher relative status are able to influence groups of younger women. It may be the exploitation of competitive human nature to seek the approval and favor of the desired object. I've seen it in social and work situations.

Examples:

- A pleasant chat with most of an NCAA D1/D2 womens' sports team.

- Leading a tour of mostly ladies.

- Work meetings or groups where, again, it's mostly ladies and/or younger people. When facilitating, I shut my trap except to ask questions, coax the more junior members and shy ones to speak-up if they have something. If only the competitive talkers take all the space, the others maybe biased to those views, resent not having a voice, or give-up on participation.

- Being the only dude in a given situation.

I wouldn't call it "mesmerism," maybe "crush compliance" or "competitive social behavior."

errcorrectcode··on Sega quits arcade business after 50 years
Regardless of where one stands on warez, it's often the de-facto only source for obscure titles.

There are/were fairly-complete warez torrents of MAME sets. The ones up to the early 2000's were of reasonable size, but after that, the sizes balloon.

Best to get a stand-up MAME arcade which were the rage some years ago.

errcorrectcode··on Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
I think we cannot avoid another Dark Ages and deurbanization without reputable authorities, information, and criticism of popular dis/misinformation.

Deplatforming creates martyrs and conspiracy theories, as does the lack of communication or the lack of reputable authorities.

I don't know how we can scale the limited time of subject-matter authorities except to direct their cannons at the biggest sources and individual instances of nonsense.

errcorrectcode··on The Great Unconformity: Research points to glaciers being the culprit
Thanks for sharing!

Caused by glacial erosion, the "freezing" of sediment deposition by ice coverage, or both?

Are there any estimates on glacial thickness or "heat map" of thicknesses across Pannotia?

errcorrectcode··on Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?
Hey TX from ATX.
errcorrectcode··on Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?
Okay, so I'm not hallucinating it.

This just in - it's up for me at this instant.

errcorrectcode··on Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?
Haha. That's hilarious because a little redditfu shows there's an outage.

Edit: That's for AWS, not Alexa. I wish they had a dashboard for Amazon proper's major service components. I'm not sure how real or phony such a dashboard would be for internal/external political/business reasons.

errcorrectcode··on Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?
https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/sgocin/sorry_so...

Edit: Also there's currently a peak of user feedback at the following link, so it could be an outage

https://downdetector.com/status/amazon-alexa/

Edit 2: Working again, for this moment.

Edit 3: Broken again. ):

errcorrectcode··on Rust: Detect Unsigned Integer Underflow
If it can be assumed that only modern processors are that can deliver 2's-complement modulo (not saturation) results are used, then testing is easy:

    #define IS_UINT_SUB_UNDERFLOW (x, y) ((x) - (y) > (x))

    #define IS_UINT_ADD_OVERFLOW (x, y) ((x) + (y) < (x))

    #define IS_UINT_MUL_OVERFLOW (x, y, size_max) ((x) && (y) > (size_max) / (x))
errcorrectcode··on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
If bicycle helmets were essential for causal-speed, safe path, everyday bicycling, the Dutch would use them.

Interesting fact: in the US, riders without helmets receive more average buffer space from road vehicles than those with.

If you're downhill mountain biking, wear a proper helmet. If you're racing in Manhattan, wear an equally suitable helmet. If you're leisurely riding on a wide, empty side road in a residential area and cycle often, it may lend more placebo overconfidence to the rider than it confers necessary protection. It seems like gearing-up in knee and elbow pads to go for a simple walk.

errcorrectcode··on I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
I wonder if gifted and talented programs may also be used to inventory brain capital and feed into algorithmic threat identification, watchlist(s), and/or clandestine services recruiting.
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