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larusso··on Transit rewards
Might want to visit Budapest. The charm are the old trams etc. and they have tons of modern cars.
larusso··on Transit rewards
My understanding of the initial commend “But then you are on a bus” was a negative one to buses and or public transport in general.

I know the geology of SF and drove both bridges a few times myself but was always lucky to not end up in traffic. I would also always prefer the train over the bus. But currently where I live this also is put to the question. I live in Berlin and we have a great public transport network which at the moment struggles a bit on multiple fronts. This happens every few years at least in my experience.

I like to try out the public transport situation in different cities for my own comparison. Funny enough one of the best times I had was driving the metro in D.C. Met a very energetic metro employee who explained the machines and the system :).

larusso··on Transit rewards
Yeah. I took the bus in NY and SF and I’m also not sure why the complained. Maybe because I’m a tourist but especially in SF I had always nice interactions with the driver. Mind you I took the Bus in the City Centers. Is it that much worse in the outskirts or is it just the concept of taking a Bus with multiple other people the problem?
larusso··on Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino
I see what you did there with the 250 years. I just assume you were not talking about football anymore.
larusso··on Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
German here. What I understand is that we Germans use the folding technique instead of crumbling the paper. And we love our sweet 4 layered paper so everything is super soft down there. I can say growing up the first years of my life in the GDR with literal recycled paper as toilet paper, that I wouldn’t go back to that. But I see especially with kids etc that we overuse toilet paper. But I can only speak for my family. Toilet paper usage etc isn’t a dinner conversation topic.
larusso··on Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
Yes. Or in case of Berlin where whole places and other places get renamed when the sponsor changes. O2 Arena -> Mercedes Benz Arena -> Uber Arena. Even other locations around it changed as well as the plaza name.
larusso··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Microsoft constantly deactivated my hotmail account due to no usage (I only created it when buying the XBox at launch back then and them insisting it needs to be hotmail). So they deactivated the account. I can still log in with my credentials on my old Xbox but not via web or newer Xbox models due to TFA which I can’t setup.
larusso··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Reminds me of the fact that I lost my Xbox account because they shutdown hotmail. My account is working on my Xbox but the password reset options are not supported by the OS on the Xbox. And I can’t change the email of the account from an Xbox. The support wasn’t helpful either. I read that somebody with the same issue got them to change the mail by logging in and out while on the phone. I don’t have the energy to jump through these hoops.
larusso··on BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
Just saying that these brands have different offerings in different countries. Here in Germany all big brands: Audi, BMW, Mercedes and VW etc have offerings from low lever to luxury car.
larusso··on Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch
And every checking runs a whole CI run?

We had it internally with our teams that open a PR to then push like 10-20 more commits but never actually interested in the client builds etc. turned out they opened the PR as a checkmark/ way to share the current state. We set cooldowns and auto cancel for the ci. And then there is the developer who uses the CI compute to run tests instead of running them locally for various reasons. We had to remind that compute isn’t for free.

larusso··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Great that it works for you. I gave my daughter my old Canon 70D and she needed a way to process pictures. She only has an iPad and I didn’t push her to adobe ^^. She produces great results with Photomator.

I need to do the jump myself to something better. The last update of Lightroom classic runs so damn slow on my Mac mini (M4). Was super annoyed yesterday while working on some pictures.

larusso··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Stacked you mean each node works on the input from another nodes output? So I could add a node to make green blue and another node to make blue green again? Because Lightroom mask only work on the base adjustment. Sounds good if I got this right. I wanted to play around with it anyways.
larusso··on DaVinci Resolve 21
Lightroom maps support color range and luminance range. Can you explain what the difference is?
larusso··on DaVinci Resolve 21
I think non native speakers may not have a good feeling how charged a word or phrase is.

In their defense you only spoke about dropping your raw workflow for something simpler not that you looked for a special HDR RAW support.

I know it’s Apple and may not what you look for but does Photomator tick these boxes?

larusso··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
Sorry the article is paywalled and I reacted to the comment about sanded surfaces. I remember seeing documentation or other nature documentation’s about the shark skin effect. I had the chance to touch a shark and a ray in an aquarium but never felt the shark skin foil. I assume the properties would be the same though.
larusso··on A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned
I thought that shark skin foil was a thing for years. Where they tried to emulate the micro roughness of shark skin.
larusso··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Most sandbox systems today, take seatbelt from Apple for instance, only strip permissions. If your extensions without internet access calls a tool that needs it, boom access denied or worse, weird network issues.

One would need some kind of ring system where less privileged processes can call higher privileged processes with their own sandbox permissions.

larusso··on Starship V3
But for the shuttle each title was kinda unique and had a specific spot. If they managed to find a shape where you don’t have to mark each tile but can just pull them from a box for replacement is a huge win. Maybe even have some spares and allow them to be replaced during an EVA. This was all not really feasible with the Spaceshuttle.
larusso··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
I pushed a gist https://gist.github.com/Larusso/82c9aa8effb3031d149d3b5a1b96...
larusso··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
I ran quite early into the same issues with my rust pet projects. Single structs with tons of Option<T> and validation methods etc. enums for type fields combined with says optional fields in the same layer so accessor methods all return Option<T>.

I add now a long list of instructions how to work with the type system and some do’s and don’ts. I don’t see myself as a vibe coder. I actually read the damn code and instruct the ai to get to my level of taste.

larusso··on I’ve banned query strings
> there is no security benefit to filtering out unneeded url parameters.

What about passing extra data to fill the server memory with either extra known junk or a script / executable to use with a zero day in an internal component or something.

To misuse the nightclub analogy: it’s like checking for bags not being larger than A4 and disallow knives and other weapons.

larusso··on Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)
Interesting. Sadly my super biased personal issue with any tool that needs nodeJS and its infrastructure is an immediate downer. Last tools like openspec and oh-my-codex etc I tried via a nix shell. Will take a look.
larusso··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Yes quality. I forgot the Chinese manufacturer that resells their bricks to pantasia or moldking. But the quality especially for metal or translucent bricks is on par and in a lot of cases better than the Lego offerings. And calling Lego a toy company is a stretch. Their main demographic is 30-50 year olds with disposable income.

Just want to mention I have no beef or issue with Lego. I say that you get great offerings from other brands as well now.

larusso··on AI didn't delete your database, you did
I also swing a bit back and forth with the assumption the OP makes in the blogpost. My current fear using agents is not really supply chain attacks (yes of course as well) but the fact that I witnessed multiple times that agents are so eager to finish a task that they bend files and other things around. Like “oh I have no access to ~/.npmrc let’s call the command with an environment variable and bend the path around etc. They can get very very creative. I luckily have no ssh keys just laying around. But I had to change the setting of 1Password to always prompt for key use not just once per shell session. Just in case I spawn an agent from said session. I wished we already had more and better cross platform sandbox solutions. I mean solutions where the agent still interacts with the same OS etc not inside a docker container. I think for most web / server development that makes no difference but for some projects it does.
larusso··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Explains why LEGO had a leg up for multiple years. You can’t just change the color pigments and hope the parts fit in the same way. Of course these times are over and other brick manufacturers caught up or overtook Lego.
larusso··on Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
Other GitHub metadata goes into the .github folder as well. And that is expected to be commuted. Like action workflows/actions and CodeOwners Pull and issue templates etc.
larusso··on Zed 1.0
Zed is my daily driver for the last couple of month. I tried it a few times before but had to switch to various other editors for different projects. But my plan was to finally ditch VSCode as my normal file editor. I really love how fast the editor fires up. I also love the fact that it has great vim binding not just in the editor pane.
larusso··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
There is Apple enterprise for this reason. Depending on the set of APIs you want to use (which should be limited since you spoke of webapps), it allows you to distribute internal business apps.

Don’t know how known this is. But we use it mainly for internal testing.

larusso··on GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
Yeah. Unless they plan to move more local git operations in the tool and blur the line between git and gh.
larusso··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
So this means no iPhone Air 2 in Europe? I can hardly see Apple wiggle around the special tools requirement when these batteries are glued and sealed shut in the devices.

[edit] didn’t see the fine print with the cycles requirement etc. so it seems Apple etc is still safe.

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