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graton··on Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
For $168/year you could get YouTube Premium, which comes with YouTube music and ad-free YouTube (not counting ads inside the videos done by the content creator).
graton··on Argentina's economy is growing beyond expectations
If you search for: blue dollar argentina

You should find the "unofficial" rates.

graton··on An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
> Submitted on 31 Mar 2024

Almost looks like an April Fools Joke.

> The above model contains several Extremely Reasonable Assumptions (ERAs). The first ERA is the very conservative assumption that there is only one gender, with all children and all names adhering to the same gender. Thus any child may be given any name, so long as it exists in the names list1. Another ERA is the Mayfly Parenthood Assumption, in which all parents perish immediately upon naming their child, which makes the math substantially easier.

graton··on What I've learned about open source community over 30 years
The one I have seen the most is Mailman.

https://list.org/

graton··on Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree
From the very beginning I've been reluctant to use Ventoy. In the beginning there were no instructions on how to build from source. Then after that there were binary blobs that were used in the build.

So far I've never used Ventoy due to these issues. The concept sounds great though.

graton··on Why curl closes PRs on GitHub
I'm glad to see someone else annoyed that GitHub doesn't allow commenting on the commit messages directly. One of the things I miss from Gerrit.
graton··on PyCon US 2024 Recap
I was wondering the same thing. In fact when I saw this post (the top-level) about PyCon 2024 I went and re-checked to see if they had published any videos.

Like you I see "144 unavailable videos are hidden" and only 9 videos available to watch.

I'm looking forward to watching some of the content when they do publish :)

graton··on History of the Italian electrical system
From what I have read Italy uses a mixture of Type C, Type F, and Type L. Ouch!

And when I went to Italy I also stopped in a store to buy an adapter when my Europe adapter didn't work.

graton··on Micron Ships Crucial-Branded LPCAMM2 Memory Modules: 64GB of LPDDR5X for $330
iFixit did a video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zB9EFntmA

graton··on Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
Is the default to record all audio conversations in the office? No.

Is the default to record all chat conversations? Yes.

Then Google enacted a policy to have employees turn off the recording of chat conversations if they were going to discuss certain topics.

graton··on Judge mulls sanctions over Google's destruction of internal chats
Google records chat by default. But it appears they had a policy if they were going to discuss something that could look bad if subpoenaed that chat recording should be turned off before discussing it.
graton··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
Not in my experience. In the Admin console I said do not use Passkey and it still created it as a Passkey :( This was about a month ago, so maybe they fixed it. Turning off FIDO2 made things work.
graton··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
As someone who happily uses Yubikeys, I really don't want to use a Passkey. I want to still use a username/password and the Yubikey. Not just username and Yubikey.

Google tries to force use of passkey now that if you enroll a Yubikey it will now be a Passkey, instead of a second factor. With no option to disable it. I have to run the Yubikey Manager tool and then disable "FIDO2", so that I can force it only be used as a 2nd factor.

graton··on Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights
But only to those who are involuntary bumped. So they look for volunteers who will take less than that first. So far when I have traveled the offer hasn't been enough that I have wanted to give up my spot. But the person above's offer sounds like one I would have considered.
graton··on Don Bluth's Garage Band
And a different site says that Cinderella was the #1 film of 1950.

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/1950/top-grossing-movies

graton··on Bash Debugging
Very useful is:

    PS4='+ ${BASH_SOURCE:-}:${FUNCNAME[0]:-}:L${LINENO:-}:   '
When using `set -x` this makes it so that it shows the filename, function name, and line number. Which in larger Bash scripts can be quite handy in debugging.
graton··on Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Agreed. I wonder if anyone read the entire article. Firefox reader mode says 293–372 minutes to read the article. Which is 4 hours 53 minutes - 6 hours 12 minutes.

Though I do think reader mode can overestimate by a lot. Still a 53,000+ word article is going to take a long time to read.

graton··on The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
Take a look at what the pros are using. Most of the tools they are using are going to be cordless these days.

As a DIYer, I have my cordless tools and rarely need to charge them. For the most part they go many months between charges as I don't use my tools very often. I do have multiple batteries so it isn't a problem for me when a battery dies, I just put it on the charger and grab another battery.

graton··on The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
For the small driver I recommend the Bosch 12 volt tools. They can be bought on sale for a good price. And the batteries last for a very long time. I rarely charge mine, but I only use them occasionally.
graton··on The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools
I'm a big fan of my Bosch 12 volt tools. I like the small size and the power works for almost everything I do. As a DIYer, I rarely need to charge my tools as I don't use them that often.
graton··on Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
You get used to it if you work long enough in the industry. I've had multiple products go poof over the years. Best to try not to let it affect you emotionally.

Part of maintaining a healthy work/life balance to be able to keep things separated.

graton··on A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime
The article mentions buying a custom map for a portion of the UK but then didn't mention the website. For anyone else curious about a custom map for a part of the UK here is the site: https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/custom-made/
graton··on Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
As I suspected the four bolts were not installed at the time of the Alaska Airlines incident, based on this article. From what I had read and watched it seemed impossible for the door to slide upwards if any of the four bolts were installed. And if installed correctly with a castellated nut and cotter pin, seems highly unlikely the bolt could fall out, let alone four bolts.

The NTSB stated that the door did slide upward and also stated they could not find the bolts and were unsure if the bolts were there at all.

graton··on Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu
Another thing with digital menus is it will allow restaurants to do dynamic pricing. A bit harder with paper menus.
graton··on US regulator considers stripping Boeing's right to self-inspect planes
> Those bolts may have very well been in place and passed an inspection during install, but rattled loose and fell out (and then subsequently were blown out of the plane when the plug failed.)

The bolts the NTSB can't find are not the ones that have been found to be loose. The bolts they can't find are the ones with the castellated nuts and cotter pin. Very hard to imagine those vibrating loose. And for the door to transit in an upward direction it would really require all four of those to fail or for them to not exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o at around the 7:26 mark has a great explanation of how the door is secured and it seems like as long as there is at least one of the four bolts installed the door can't move.

graton··on Cloudflare lays off new hires
I'm not sure that California's law applies as this does not appear to be a recording of a telephone call. It seems to be a recording of some sort of Team's type meeting, which I am unsure the law applies to.

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632-7/

graton··on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
It is the former.

I have a workspace account that is my main email and such. With the Pixel 2 watch I had to use a @gmail.com account in order to use it. Not a huge deal, but annoying for sure.

Would be the same issue for someone who doesn't have an @gmail.com account at all. They would have to create one in order to use the Pixel 2 watch.

graton··on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
I was in the same boat. Kind of annoying, but I just used my @gmail.com account to use the Pixel 2 watch.
graton··on Alaska Airlines NTSB briefing: what broke on the door plug
That is interesting. Though I'm not sure that even if one of those came loose it would allow the door to move. There are supposed to be four bolts installed and if just one of them is installed I'm not sure how the door could move up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o at around the 7:26 mark has a great explanation of how the door is secured and it seems like as long as there is at least one of the four bolts installed the door can't move. Now as you pointed out those loose nuts could effectively mean that bolt could become useless. And the NTSB didn't mention those other nuts, which I think they would have.

graton··on Alaska Airlines NTSB briefing: what broke on the door plug
My mildly-informed opinion is that none of the four bolts were installed in the door plug. Otherwise it doesn't seem possible that the door could move up. I guess we will find out in the future as the NTSB said in the briefing that they will be able to tell if there were any bolts installed in the door.
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