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I, for one, like it when CEOs let loose a bit and show some personality. It's better than everyone walking around talking like a media trained robot.

For secrets management, I basically just use fnox everywhere (https://fnox.jdx.dev/). It's a frontend to tons more options than sops, although `age` is still included. I also think the DX is better but to each their own.

You're thinking of Phase II E911 in the US.

That's true, but you can always be triangulated down a couple hundred meters by figuring out which towers you're connected to.

I spent ~5 years volunteering for a search and rescue team in New Mexico.

We definitely got the cellphone tower triangulation data. I never once saw GNSS data provided by a carrier. We used FindMeSAR https://findmesar.com/, the subject would usually text back the coordinates from the phone.

Just one data point.

The revolution that's occurred since my SAR volunteer days is the wide availability of satellite messenging on consumer phones. I'm guessing that's really changed the situation quite a bit.

Good thing expectations are perfectly constant!

>assuming you have formalized the statement correctly

That's a pretty big assumption, though, isn't it? As we saw the Navier-Stokes psychosis episode over the New Year holiday, formalizing correctly really isn't guaranteed.

Is there an option for an NFC reader that doesn’t require 3d printing or soldering?

You don’t need a watch. You can estimate VO2 max yourself by doing a max effort 1.5 mile run and applying a regression equation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795745/

That’s all the watches are doing anyway. Even if you do buy a watch, keep in mind you need to run regular max effort runs to get an accurate value.

Sam publicly asking for a 10x bigger power grid and 7 trillion dollars is a pretty clear sign that they're out of short to medium-term ideas other than "MOAR PARAMETERS".

GiveWell can point you to various charities in 3rd world countries where you can be reasonably certain you can save a life for about $5000-7000. https://www.givewell.org/

Save 1 life in the USA, or take the same 7.5 million and save ~1000 lives in Africa. Interesting lens on which to view these numbers.

I volunteered in SAR for five years, and the topic of W3W would occasionally come up.

For me, it’s just already damn hard to make sure you can hear numbers correctly over the radio. In marginal conditions, it’s a hell of a lot easier to use numbers (and requires less time due to not having to repeat or ask for clarification).

Do I really want to be trying to say “arrows.midst.senses” over a handheld radio?

If what you care about is climate change, you should be in favor of cramming people into the smallest possible spaces in urban areas, not putting them in rural areas where they have to drive 20 minutes to get to the grocery store.

The carbon footprint of your average city dweller is far lower.

All your points about 25-year-old safety standards is perfectly valid.

However, re: "crumple zones":

The streets of the USA are basically an arms race. Bigger and bigger and bigger because "it's safer". Safer for you, maybe. This is how we ended up with pickup trucks that have hoods as high as your shoulders.

Kei trucks and cars are great, and in Japan they're quite safe (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24499113/) but the context is completely different. Cars weigh half as much, the drivers are twice as careful and traveling at half the speed.

That may be true. My unit didn't have a thermal camera setup. However, we're not always looking for live subjects that will give off a thermal signature, and thermal cameras don't help with spotting inanimate objects. I would say we found signs of the subject's passage (equipment, footsteps) 80% of the time before finding the actual subject.

I volunteered for a SAR team in the US southwest for 5 years, the last half of that or so we had an active drone unit.

Drones are good at covering terrain that's difficult to traverse on foot. Canyons, cliff walls, the like. As some of the rescues on the site show, they're also good for getting another angle that's not human-being eye level, which is sometimes all you need to spot a clue or subject.

Drones are not very good at covering large areas of ground quickly. It's also extremely difficult to spot anything small than an entire human being on the drone's camera. That means you miss valuable things like bootprints, pieces of equipment, etc.

They're a very useful tool in the toolbox, but I don't see them replacing human beings until image recognition technology gets another level-up. "Recognize a human being or signs of one with the background of literally any possible terrain on Earth" is a bit beyond what's field-deployable at the moment.

What language/stack?

Generally players like this target specific games for specific reasons, so I agree that there might be something to the table surface that makes it easier to slide dice.

It’s partly electronic. Players still throw real dice, there is no computer RNG.

I did the same with Streets of SimCity.

The bit about Sacramento not having water meters is particularly mad.

Driving through the Imperial Valley was a big wake up call for me as to the dire state of the water situation in California. We are transporting water hundreds of miles to grow food in the middle of a desert.

The old incentives and laws are clearly not going to be enough for the future, particularly on the Colorado. As usual, no one acts until the crisis is here on our doorstep.

Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.

There’s “USB condoms” available everywhere.

Fundamentally it’s just a USB-> USB connector with only the charging pin. Not a complicated device.

If you buy a residential property only to rent it out, it is not housing for you, it is solely an investment.

Overcast already does this for podcasts, and I really like it. I turn it on 100% of the time.

It passes most (maybe all?) of the Rails test suite. But it can't run a randomly-selected production Rails application.

This was based on my conversations with Chris Seaton before his passing, about 6 months ago.

TruffleRuby can’t run production Rails traffic today, and YJIT can.

> Market makers that redeem billions of USDT for cash with Tether/Bitfinex

Have people actually seen the receipts for this? I'm skeptical that this actually occurs.

It's pretty much always been like this. It doesn't resemble at all what tops the Trending charts in America.

I've been checking Twitter Trends here in Japan for the last ~3 months, prior to the Musk acquisition, and I've always thought it was fascinating how there's very little political discussion. I don't think this was related to the curation team being axed at all.

> I think the most important job for a browser is to stay in the background and let the user focus on the website.

Actually, this is my favorite part about Arc. Most of the time when using Arc I'm working in fullscreen mode with 100% of the UI hidden. There is literally zero on my screen except the page itself. If I mouseover to the left (or hit cmd-S) I can see the sidebar/addressbar etc.

It's absolutely wonderful and really puts the focus on the content. I find it much better than how Chrome handles fullscreen.

Preact is not a good comparison. If it "has the same API as React", then it's not solving any of the problems that the post talks about.

Bundle size is 1 problem of JS-heavy SPAs but the post goes into many other drawbacks not addressed by something like Preact.