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fyrn_on NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again

I think age cohortand school makes a difference. Personally I had a perfectly fine time in highschool, most people just got along. Same problems as other posters though, it's just anecdote, and a heavily biased sampling (pretty decent chunk of CS people with poor social skills)

fyrn_on Apple reports fourth quarter results

Wearables may include lightning charger cables :) ?

fyrn_on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading

Forcing ADB may as well be a ban, if you don't see that, you're pretty out of touch with consumers. Sideloading is already hard enough for many, forcing the use of an extra computer, a dev tool in the CLI, and dev mode is way way outside what people will do

fyrn_on Ubios: China's Alternative to UEFI

This article feels super AI written. It explains what a virtual bus is like like 6 times in different ways

fyrn_on A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec

https://github.com/whatwg/websockets/issues/16

No, I don't think you get it. `new Websocket()` from JS takes no arguments for headers. You literally can't send headers during the handshake from JS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket/W...

Actually will look into using the subprotocol as a way to do auth, but most impls in the wild send the auth as the first message.

The fact the protocol in theory supports it doesn't really matter much since no browser implements that part of the spec.

fyrn_on A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec

Worth noting that wbesockets in the browser don't allow custom headers and custom header support is spotty accross sever impls. It's just not exposed in the javascript API. There has been an open chrome bug for that for like 15 years

fyrn_on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars

I think it's also in large part due to the demographics of ev buyers today. Still a lot of wealthy early tech adopters who specifically want the newest thing. Not yet driven by utility value ( not that cars ever really are, lower end but ICE vehicles are much closer to that)

This isn't car specific, it's new technology specific.

fyrn_on Everything you need to know about California’s SB 79

Right but SB79 will never go into effect in counties if existing homeowners vote to prevent public transit ststions to stop the upzoning..

fyrn_on Python developers are embracing type hints

You can use a Protocol type for that, makes a lot mote sense than nominal typing for typing use case.

fyrn_on She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook (2021)

2016 is before repair mode existed

fyrn_on The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset

If only the US had some kind if law to limit the power of a single company over markets a broad as "information services"

fyrn_on My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

Yup

fyrn_on How to be a leader when the vibes are off

"How be a good C-suite sycophant and not trigger a revolt from your team"

fyrn_on 'Dystopian' toilets won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

I wouldn't trust a blanket statement like that on a ciuntry the size of the US. They are common on the west coast at least.

fyrn_on 'Dystopian' toilets won't give you loo roll unless you watch an advert first

They are basically totally extinct in the US, so from a US perspective they are very unusual.

In the US they fell out of favor during the 1970s because it was argued that they discriminate against women, as men could use urinals for free.

fyrn_on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

What are these batteries?

fyrn_on Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

If you're trying to imply Vegas is and easy place to drive.. Well I suggest trying it. It's a nightmare of 6-8 lane mega streets , multi tier traffic junctions, and high seed limits with poor signage and markings.

fyrn_on Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

No way will that happen with how expensive robotaxis are to make

fyrn_on Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

The musl pthread muxtexes are also awfully slow: https://justine.lol/mutex/

fyrn_on Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry

Quite different, but also geometry shaders have fallen from grace for quite awhile because it turned out to be practically impossible to optimize them

fyrn_on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

You're nutz, no one is enslaved when they get a tech job. A job is categorically different from slavery

fyrn_on Time travel is self-suppressing

1. Genetically superior 2. Tate Descendents

Pick One.

fyrn_on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

You won't be double taxed, the US taxes the difference between your local income tax rate and the US federal tax rate. So if you live in London you're not paying any US tax because the UK income tax rate is higher. It helps stop rich people from "totally live in <tax haven>". If only we had that for companies..

I think where people get confused is that it's implemented as a tax credit which is equal to the income tax you pay locally.

On top of that the first $130k earned is also exempt, so it only applies to high earners as well

fyrn_on States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option

Japan has more SROs than the US does.

fyrn_on Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

Sadly nothing I can share publically. I work for an AV company

fyrn_on A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C

This mention this alturnative in the article, and also point out how it does not work in embeded contexts or with WASM

fyrn_on Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

I work in the GIS space, and I've even built some simular systems, such a multiplayer map editing.

Even with that background I'm having a hard time understand _what_ this really is? Is it a git wrapper with some geospatial features? Why git for geospatial at all?

fyrn_on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

Part of that is US policy makers have barely changed, they are just older now. Very troubling trend that.

fyrn_on Preliminary report into Air India crash released

Do we know that the pilot noticed they were in the wrong physical position, or did some other status indicate the engie fuel had been cut? I would be surprised if there was only one channel for this information

fyrn_on New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source

I think "with strangers" is the important bit. If a nuclear engineer is talking to some lay person and uses hyper specific jargon, then grandparent is correct. If you've established a shared competency with the person, and are therefor no longer total strangers, that's totally different.