pmcollins

espionage != cyber warfare

> attack crippled thousands of computers around the world

in this case, bureaucrats are bending over backwards to get in the way

With increasing cookie warnings, email signup modals, adblock notices, nth article advisories, and other annoyances, I go directly to Safari reader view more every day. It works quite well.

The point of the email is that the submitter is indeed trying, trying to improve their stats within their organization, at the expense of maintainers’ time, rather than working on the kernel in good faith.

same. having read through microsoft’s horrifying open source code i thought they were doomed long term (they still might be). but either the market can stay irrational longer than you and i can stay solvent (and it will fail eventually), or it doesn’t matter that an implementation is so awful, software is so profitable in the limit that horrible coding practices are irrelevant.

> the likelihood of people ending up with a HLA-dissimilar partner was no different to chance. We might have a preference for certain smells, and there might be a genetic reason for that, but we don't act upon smells when choosing who we marry.

Perhaps we’re doing ourselves a disservice by using so much deodorant, at least while dating.

Sounds like power output is more like 100Mw.

> Each three-second launch can consume as much as 100 million watts of electricity, about as much as a small town uses in the same amount of time. “A utility does that using an acre of equipment,” says lab engineer Mike Doyle, but due to shipboard space limitations, “we have to take that and fit it into a shoebox.” In shipboard generators developed for electromagnetic catapults, electrical power is stored kinetically in rotors spinning at 6,400 rpm. When a launch order is given, power is pulled from the generators in a two- to three-second pulse

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-things-wor...

737 workaround introduced new bug

(2020)

from wikipedia’s 747 article:

> Boeing agreed to deliver the first 747 to Pan Am by the end of 1969. The delivery date left 28 months to design the aircraft, which was two-thirds of the normal time.

surely they can do a ground up design in under 5 years?

> Shi’s goal was to turn the bat CoVs into huACE2-binding molecules, that is, to design promoters of human infection.

what is the scientific use of creating viruses that are harmful to mankind?

if the epidemic of cell phone use while (badly) driving where i live is any indication, it’s a very large share.

why not give the suspect a choice? would you prefer your mugshot be published online, google-able for years, or would you rather not, and risk getting ‘disappeared’ by your local police dept without a trace. i know which one i’d choose.

The Economist magazine doesn’t let you cancel your online account online. You have to call. But they closed their call centers due to covid, so there is no way to cancel your account.

ABIA == Austin–Bergstrom International Airport

stereo separation is incredibly important to me (and i’m sure to others) so the homepod was a non starter. this seems like such a obvious fck up on the part of apple. it’s like no music lovers have a say there anymore. also RIP apple airport, the best airplay target ever made. seems like apple is run by MBAs and former IBMers now.

wow, username checks out

Seems like the NYPD could catch dozens of thieves per day just by setting up sting operations with honeypots around the city.

also had a similar experience with wsj. never again.

and with a new subscription to the economist. tried to cancel a few months ago, mostly because i didn’t like how they would charge my card without warning or an invoice. it was all just super stealth. worst part was you couldn’t cancel online, you were supposed to call. but you couldn’t call either because their phone staff wasn’t working due to covid. so convenient for them. had to file a formal dispute with my card. also, never again.

ironically both free market publications. may the free market flush these awful, consumer hostile companies down the toilet.

i feel like uncle bob’s opinion on static types arose when he became an aficionado of clojure, which doesn’t have them.

i didn’t learn anything useful by reading the linked article but i have learned a lot by reading uncle bob’s books. they have made a huge difference to the enjoyment i get from coding, and to the quality of my code. if you haven’t, i highly recommend taking a look and making your own judgement.

I was using a Microsoft ergo keyboard, among others, for years and suffered from what I thought was going to be lifelong tendonitis, making life rather difficult as a programmer.

Then I started using this keyboard and my tendonitis went away in a few weeks and never came back. Thank you Apple.

trend line is badly misleading since 2021Q1 just started and tesla delivers their cars at the end of the quarter

reminds me of the quote by Martin Fowler

> Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

couldn’t agree more. learning ruby and rails (in 2007 when things were much simpler) was a truly beautiful experience for me. i consider rails and ruby to be one of humanity’s great works of art.

apparently this company’s product is its ability to extract money from unsuspecting investors. i feel bad for them but the world will be a little bit better when nkla (and their frivolous lawsuit against tesla) is gone.

also putting Does He Exist? over the video is a tell

ditto but i downloaded it anyway and am very glad i did.

btw on mobile, the screenshots are hidden behind the hamburger menu at the top of the page.

for folks with a strong opinion on this, how do you square your opinion on youtube censorship with your opinion on net neutrality? youtube censorship is okay but isp censorship is bad? i have multiple isps available to me without any change to the quality of my life, but no comparable alternative to youtube.

according to this other article:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33435923/toyota-solid-sta...

toyota has a solid state battery that has a low cycle lifetime. it sounds like they need a breakthrough, thus the tentative, low volume production target for 2025.