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hdjdbtbgwjsnon Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC

I've started to encouter websites that just don't even render in FF.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Police are requesting data from smart speakers

I'm fairly sure there have been multiple stories about smart speakers sending things they hear without the keywords.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

Only if they have filed a police report...

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)

Those of us that support digital rights vote with our wallets. I would like to read ebooks. I don't have a source to BUY ebooks that I want. So I don't read them.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

Cleaning data is a major part of data engineering there are plenty of professionals capable of helping with this task.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

Yeah we should give up on controlling polio, measles etc as well. After all polio only kills 0.5% of cases as well. </sarcasm>

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel

Sadly it takes about 24 to get tested and 24 hours for the lab result. That gives very little time to trace contacts before they start entering the asymptomatic-but-infectious-to-others stage. A one day delay is a problem.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers

For Scandinavians doing e.g. banking the UK has previously been a good option.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder

HN is a very strictly policed safe space.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon An opinionated history of programming languages

Whilst I've worked with older PHP which was indeed awful. The modern stuff is quite OK. PHP has drifted into a decent design recently. I hope that any future language designer will take PHP as a case study of incremental improvement.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon An opinionated history of programming languages

He also missed PHP...

hdjdbtbgwjsnon The Deep Anthropocene

Southern France/Northern Spain is not a total wilderness. That level hunger after a two day detour implies a serious level of poor planning.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Structural studies of the global networks exposed in the Panama papers

In practice people that object to the taxes just move away.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Greenland Melting Fastest Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

Yes. Since then humanity has developed agriculture and become reliant on a stable climate to produce the calories need to sustain our enormous population. Sadly human activity has thrown the systems massively out of equilibrium. Such rapid climate change is going to seriously impact your and my lifestyle.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon An opinionated history of programming languages

PHP is far from insignificant in 2020.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon An opinionated history of programming languages

Some thoughts.

Fortran (especially modern Fortran) is quite well designed. PHP seems to be missing.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Someone has stolen my Instagram account

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming

I don't understand how he is 'spamming'.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?

We don't need to exhaust it. We only need to exhaust the easy to find sources.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Assange Hearing Day 16

When the basis for the charge is political rather than factual like this one. Then usually yes.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Assange Hearing Day 16

What crime? This is politically motivated punishment.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Assange Hearing Day 16

Potentially. It depends on the facts of the case as well as the guarantees around execution and torture'

But in any case if the US wants suspects extradited from western countries they should abolish the death sentence and stop torturing prisoners.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Assange Hearing Day 16

The USA started an illegal war. Assange exposed some of the war crimes (for which no one has faced justice). The USA wants revenge.

They are acting like a banana republic and this extradition request should be treated as such.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

> Yeah, it's kind of like the classic "break one law at a time" rule. If you're hauling drugs, don't speed. Getting away with just the one thing is hard enough.

I wonder if not speeding is enough to give police officers a reason to make a drugs search in some places.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon Firefox 81.0

Hasn't XML opened in the browser since forever?

hdjdbtbgwjsnon HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

That is already done.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

KYC compliance is already getting painful for ordinary bank customers. Please don't bring in more surveillance.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon I no longer build software

Yeah OK. But you see my point?

hdjdbtbgwjsnon I no longer build software

Personal trainer is fairly bad for your body and wellbeing as well. Its basically split shifts since clients want training either before or after their work. So sleep is an issue.

If work was easy then we wouldn't need to be paid for it.

hdjdbtbgwjsnon It was more efficient to blow up a real 747 than to use miniatures or CGI

But the economy has nose dived. The amount of goods will have also decreased surely?