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mlnhd··on The Therac-25 Incident (2021)
This and Tacoma Narrows are literally the only topics covered in engineering ethics, which itself is literally only a one hour presentation.
mlnhd··on Student finds scorpion crawling inside Shein parcel
good
mlnhd··on Drying Fruits (2003)
The National Center for Home Food Preservation has an extensive website for canning, pickling, drying, and fermenting.

https://nchfp.uga.edu/

mlnhd··on Microsoft Appears to Have Lost the Source Code of an Office Component
Here is a nice white paper about a previous Excel 2007 bug, where a calculation that should result in 65535 is displayed as 100,000. The author concludes that since the patch only alters a few lines of assembly, that it was hand-coded.

http://lomont.org/papers/2007/excel-2007-bug/Excel2007Bug.pd...

mlnhd··on FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns
Is the US going to set up a Great Firewall to block tiktok.com? How is this going to work?
mlnhd··on A manifesto on shower temperature control
I want a valve that turns off the hot water supply completely after 10 minutes
mlnhd··on As Carvana crashes, used car dealers, not buyers, stand to win big
good
mlnhd··on Baker's Math (2009)
A “baker’s dozen” is 13. Presumably so that the baker gets one to himself.
mlnhd··on Qt signal is ten times slower than a virtual function
My TA in college said it stood for Quite Terrible.

I've used it once since then on an embedded vehicle guidance system, and it seemed fine, once you learn all it's quirks.

mlnhd··on Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation
This is also true from the labor perspective.
mlnhd··on Free book to master SSH tunneling concepts
Is this just the man page for ssh? I’m not sure what’s going on here. If you understand the tool you know the ways it can be used.
mlnhd··on Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
Jeopardy! hasn't had a $500 clue in 20 years
mlnhd··on 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
A Prairie Home Companion is also not a NPR program
mlnhd··on 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories
Marketplace is not a NPR program
mlnhd··on 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings
Is this even a trick? If you're setting up PiHole, you gotta recognize right away that this is an obvious way for devices to bypass it.
mlnhd··on How coronavirus infected my brain: anxiety, the internet, and keeping up to date
How can you tell it's a metaphor without clicking through? Since this is a "novel" virus, I thought it would be about some heretofore unheard of symptom.
mlnhd··on Why I Procrastinate (2019)
I think the bolded parts were really good for emphasis.

I’ve found myself thinking those exact thoughts ever since I suspected I suffered from ADHD, and I plan to quote them at my doctors when I seek my own ADHD diagnosis.

mlnhd··on Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator
I think the Married Filing Joint standard deduction for 2018 would be $13,000 under the current Code. Your comparison shows it as $12,700.
mlnhd··on Quitting Caffeine
No one can make them feel inferior without their consent. They are just projecting their own insecurities.
mlnhd··on Let's crash the integrated browser in Facebook
An iOS equivalent is Friendly
mlnhd··on Calling Yourself ‘Humbled’ Doesn’t Sound as Humble as It Used To
You think you're really righteous? You think you're pure at heart? Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art.
mlnhd··on The science of Westworld
Greg is white. Also, Greg is Lily.
mlnhd··on New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
I wrote a PowerShell script that does exactly this for Windows Domains.

http://pastebin.com/raw/ytwy0nCB

mlnhd··on “There is no justifiable reason to be working 100+ hours a week."
No politics.
mlnhd··on Share: The Icon No One Agrees On
I thought this was going to be about how I don't agree the icon should exist at all.
mlnhd··on It's time for the US to use the metric system
Celsius is based on arbitrary state change temperatures of an arbitrary chemical, just like Fahrenheit.
mlnhd··on What can men do?
I take it this is the first Jeff Atwood blog post you've read.
mlnhd··on Linkedin down
who cares?
mlnhd··on Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
What does "unicode snowman" have to do with this?
mlnhd··on Designing a modern email
I frequently receive marketing emails from sites I never opted into. Either the site didn't provide a choice to opt-in or opt-out on the same form where I provided my e-mail address or they ignored my preference.