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rabbidruster··on Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Interestingly I had an almost identical experience to this report in codex. It output a user memory file that looked awfully real and wasn't at all related to my work.
rabbidruster··on Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services
I have the pixel 6 Pro. By far the worse phone I've ever had. It's unable to hold a consistent phone conversation and I'll often cut out so the person on the other end can't hear me. Did a RMA and the new phone has the same problem. Support is also difficult to deal with. Ive been a loyal pixel owner until now, but can no longer recommend anyone buy a pixel phone.
rabbidruster··on Why do arrays start at 0?
I hope you haven't done this anywhere.

Makes my brain hurt, but I think this will only run through the loop one time looking at the last element of the array.

rabbidruster··on Google proposes moving ad business to Alphabet to keep regulators at bay
Thats quite a straw man. There's a pretty big difference between using a benefit as intended and taking advantages of loopholes in tax law by creating multiple shell entities around the globe. You can argue they have a duty to shareholders to optimize profits, but let's not pretend it's the same thing as paying your taxes as the law intended.
rabbidruster··on Lost around 150k of stock from my fidelity brokerage account (ACATS Transfer)
Fidelity 401ks are already much more strict in how you can withdraw
rabbidruster··on The Google home page is 500K
Doing anything too complex there would be pretty surprising to me. if they are it seems they didn't do too good a job since the test is emulating a old phone that should probably get a simple/smaller page
rabbidruster··on Crossbar.io – an open source platform for distributed and microservice apps
Websockets seems strictly more efficient than this strange attempt to create your own protocol. Not sure what challenges you've had with websockets, but I can't see how SSE is more efficient. Especially when creating protocols like client -> server where you'd need really custom edge proxy configuratings.
rabbidruster··on DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags
I think you misread that. It says you could spend your money on something better. like a juicero. Hard to know exactly how the author views juicero in terms of being a good product but I think the point is it's a much better kickstarter than this game. Seems you agree on that.
rabbidruster··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
This just isn't true. A large number of companies are building new applications with MongoDB atlas
rabbidruster··on OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
Where do you get the impression MongoDB is trending towards death? Seems to be growing by some metrics; the stock price has more than doubled in the last year. Not a fan myself, but still seems a long way from death to me and seem to be doing something right in enterprise market.
rabbidruster··on Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
If they did step two it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
rabbidruster··on Ask HN: What's the best way to get a remote position
I think a lot of companies would choose the 50% higher salary if given that choice.
rabbidruster··on Amazon Hub
The video says receive packages from anyone, so sounds like it might be a direct competitor to luxerone.
rabbidruster··on Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (2003)
Do you use an external display? Mine crashes about once a week after I've unplugged it from the thunderbolt display
rabbidruster··on Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App
Hmm I downloaded it just to try yesterday and I was not able to access it from uGuest. Not sure if it's Uber or blind blocking it though.
rabbidruster··on The Invisible Catastrophe: Record Methane Leak in CA
Not directly related, but another interesting potential catastrophe in St. Louis.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-st...

rabbidruster··on St. Petersburg paradox
I think if you get tails on the first flip you still get the $2 payout.
rabbidruster··on Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6
I assume they're figuring this revenue would continue for a while even if they all quit tomorrow. From their August numbers their churn rate is down to 6%. Even at this rate it seems like they could make pretty good passive income if they all decided to stop working on this today and pick up a new day job tomorrow.
rabbidruster··on Latest prototype self-driving vehicles cruising around Mountain View
I actually ran into a simple example of a challenge like this. The power went out in mountain view a few weeks ago and a bunch of stop lights stopped working. I pulled up behind the self driving car which had stopped at the disabled light. Instead of treating the light like a stop sign, the car remained stop. After 5 or so seconds stopped at the light (there were no other cars at the intersection), I honked at them. I assume someone took manual control because it started to move right after.

While this situation could probably be addressed, it is a great examples of challenges these cars may come across.

rabbidruster··on Interactive NYC taxi heatmap
Which also could be why Tuesday at 2am looks different. Many places are closed on Monday and people are probably less likely to go out.
rabbidruster··on Google Docs Users Targeted by Phishing Scam
I don't see how CSRF tokens apply here. They can login as you on another machine.
rabbidruster··on High risk transactions
Their site seems to be down. Scary!
rabbidruster··on Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road
I beg to differ. I don't see how an oxford comma would fix this confusion. In fact I think without it his statement is easier to understand. We can easily see he means three people. If he used the Oxford comma the second person would look identical to a preposition and would make your parents comment more valid.
rabbidruster··on Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints
The problem is this can be more of a hassle for you. I've been pulled over as a teenager and when I said no he decided to search my car anyway. Saying no doesn't always help, in fact sometimes it makes them give you more trouble and search harder.
rabbidruster··on Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints
Not sure how they do it in Ohio, but they've been doing this in Missouri for a while. They post the signs right before an exit that is rarely used that say something like "Drug checkpoint ahead be prepared to stop." I think I even saw it say something like last exit before checkpoint once. They then stop everyone that gets off at the exit. If you take a second to think about it, it's pretty obvious. Apparently it still manages to catch people.
rabbidruster··on Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010)
Again sorry I offended you. I wont make this mistake in the future.
rabbidruster··on Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010)
I had a hard time reading that phrase, and I thought it was because he didn't spend enough time editing the article. I like to think I am a cultured person, but I truly didn't know it was grammatically correct in British English. Don't judge all Americans just because I am naive.
rabbidruster··on Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010)
Thanks for the link. It sounded extremely weird to me. I didn't know corp were often plural nouns in British English.
rabbidruster··on Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010)
While I understand computer scientists are not always the best writers, phrases like "Amazon do have a breaking point" make it hard to continue reading this article.