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reorder9695··on Why is Zig so cool?
Rust's solution to this is quite good, that's 0..9 and if you want to include 9 it's 0..=9, it looks a bit funny but knowing one with an = sign in it exists removes any doubt
reorder9695··on Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
It's not unheard of near me in a rural area to have a diesel generator in your garage as the electricity's unreliable just enough of the time, and especially given working from home is common nowadays losing electricity for 6h now and again isn't acceptable. That's not running your own generator for electricity as in your analogy, that's having a reasonable backup for short term redundancy. I think it's reasonable for companies to act similarly, rely on cloud but have a backup that provides at least degraded functionality as opposed to none.
reorder9695··on Creating an all-weather driver
Just vision is a very reductive way of describing how we drive. We use sound to hear if something else is coming and where from, or if we're losing traction on the road, or if the road surface has changed. We can judge acceleration and deceleration in all directions using our inner ears. We can feel if the car's performing differently to usual indicating an issue with the car or different conditions. In addition when we are using our vision, if it gets obscured (i.e. snow covers the windscreen) we know how to get it off with wipers, and most importantly we're very adaptable to new conditions in a way that computers aren't, if we experience something completely new to us, chances are we'll make a reasonable in the moment decision.
reorder9695··on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
To be fair the situation LMNT and alike is useful in isn't one where you just eat healthier in general, it's specifically useful when youre losing a lot of electrolytes usually during exercise, counterintuitively eating healthier may make that worse as healthier usually means less salt which is the primary electrolyte lost. LMNT and alike comes in there to replace electrolytes when needed without messing up your diet too badly, it's just 95% of the population don't exactly need this, but for people who do it's a genuinely valuable product.
reorder9695··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
That's not the point I'm making, I'm saying whoever in Mom & Pop Co. set up the website may well not understand the difference between the cookie types and even if they are using no tracking cookies and sharing no data, they may well put a cookie notice on their website anyway as they're so common they think they're normal, the law allows for huge fines, and they're doing it out of an abundance of caution.
reorder9695··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Most likely took the picture after landing the plane and sorting out paperwork, calling the company etc, that could be multiple hours no?
reorder9695··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
A lot of websites for smaller businesses will not be run by technical people, they'll be run by business people or otherwise who don't understand cookies beyond "I see cookie banners on every website I visit, therefore to avoid legal trouble I need one too", you can't expect someone like that to understand the difference between tracking cookies and technical cookies.
reorder9695··on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
To me there's a difference between an offline ECU that just locally monitors sensors and controls components, and a connected modem and software updates. The former seems perfectly reasonable, and necessary for things like abs, which is obviously a good thing.
reorder9695··on Heroin addicts often seem normal
I would wonder though how many opioid addicts are more addicted for literal pain relief reasons, to give a bad comparison someone like House on the TV show. In that case I could see it working out fine, that's much more like buying pain medication illegally because you can't afford or can't see a doctor for some reason.
reorder9695··on The government ate my name
You'd think the UK would be alright with it given Irish names are and were reasonably common (at least in parts of the UK), which commonly have fadas in them (i.e. Béibhinn, Seán, Ciarán, etc)
reorder9695··on California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
How do we define what food is ultra processed though? Do we need "cake (commercial)" and "cake (home baked)" as I can bake a cake with all the standard stuff I have at home, but commercial cakes are usually chock full of E numbers. Another example would be like a jar of pasta sauce and a pasta sauce I've made, I don't think it's arguable that a pasta sauce I've made is ultra processed.

Like that definition doesn't seem to work when there's foods where the commercial variant is made differently to the normal version.

reorder9695··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
Honestly KDE probably gets close enough to windows. I have only used it on top of arch, which was a decision knowing that I'll be messing about more with the system, but if you installed KDE over something like Debian, it may be very close to the Windows experience. It certainly feels like Windows 10, and KDE's settings page has most of the important configuration in it.
reorder9695··on The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users
Additionally, how would this work for people who have sensitive information on their phones? There's plenty of people who would have information on their (work) phones that they'd not be allowed to if the backups weren't encrypted, if Apple even potentially has access to it, this is not acceptable for that use case.
reorder9695··on Sora Update #1
No, but the current system is totally idiotic. Why not have a fixed timeframe i.e. 30-50 years to make money? Life of the author + x years is stupid not only because it's way too long, it keeps going until way after the creator is no longer benefitting, and it can cause issues with works where you don't know who the author is so you can't cleanly say it's old enough not to have copyright.

I'm not sure for most (specifically smaller, who need the most protection) creators this would actually change very much. Media typically makes money in it's first few years of life, not 70 years on.

reorder9695··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
I think trusting data you post publicly to only remain exactly where you publish it is naive at best. I think it's much more sensible to think that as soon as you put something public, it will exist somewhere forever, and it's foolish to believe otherwise.
reorder9695··on Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]
There's no reason email clients can't make PGP keys easy, proton actually makes it quite easy to add a PGP key for an email address.
reorder9695··on Pharma is a small component of US health care spending
Not in Northern Ireland weirdly, they have free prescriptions there
reorder9695··on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine
That would require trusting a government such as the British one to implement it well. That's far too big an ask for them, so the current situation is preferable.
reorder9695··on Show HN: Every single torrent is on this website
I wonder how hosting a torrent is different to google showing a link to a pirated movie, both are just holding data that tells you where to find the content, not the content itself
reorder9695··on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
The UK government has justified this with reducing the amount of illegal workers. To work legally currently you need an NI number, this is not an improvement on that system other than requiring everyone to have a phone (probably with safetynet checks to ensure it can't be running a custom rom).

I personally do not trust the government one little bit and am sure they'll find some way to abuse this, as they have just about everything else they do at this point. This possibly sounds far fetched, but why couldn't they ask for GPS permissions on the app then use it to quickly find out who was at a pro Palestine protest for example given their recent penchant for arresting protesters?

They have given us no reason to believe things will improve with it's introduction, and have given us plenty of reasons to believe it will be abused. It's almost perfect for that, "install our software on the device you have most places you go, or you can't earn a living anymore".

reorder9695··on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers
I am not going to download an app to work. If they need some form of ID they can provide me a physical one, oh wait that sounds like an NI number. What's the point of this again?
reorder9695··on The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset
I'm happy for the EU to decide I control what software's on my phone and where I got it from, these are 2 separate issues
reorder9695··on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees
Absolutely not in my experience, maybe I've just been really unlucky but I can't remember more than 1 Ryanair flight I've been on that was actually on time. Most delayed by less than 4 hours, but delayed.
reorder9695··on As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried
They _are_ the only options if you want banking to work reliably, which is essential for me at least due to 3DS requiring mobile app verification for transactions. I have to run stock android for pretty much this reason only. Everything else I could manage with, but not being locked out of certain banks.
reorder9695··on Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured
In Ireland this isn't something the public really even knows was proposed, I highly doubt the public would be in support of this, although can't be sure about it. You would think given the country's history they wouldn't be in favour of government overreach in this way but you never know.
reorder9695··on ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
What phone is that? I've been wanting a phone with mic/camera especially hardware kill switches
reorder9695··on How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
Proper road, very common type of road in the countryside. You're lucky there it doesn't have grass up the middle. You'd realistically be doing about 20mph on it, although speeding up when you can see far ahead and it's straight, slowing down coming up to a bend where you cant see what's coming.
reorder9695··on How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
I like the 60mph limit. I'm coming from a rural background where it's unlikely anyone would set the speed limit for each individual road correctly. National speed limit is saying "you can go up to 60mph, this isn't necessarily the correct speed for the road"

There are quite a few rural roads where it is a perfectly reasonable speed (straight, wide, 2 lane), and plenty of roads where you physically couldn't get your car past 40mph without fecking it into a hedge. It's a limit, not a maximum, and it's that way so we can trust people's judgement based on the current conditions of a road, which is (at least in a rural context) almost certainly more accurate than what a council would set.

reorder9695··on European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
I actually do think that's significant, if someone took 15% of your yearly earnings this year that would definitely be noticed. I'm not saying it's the right amount, I'm saying that is enough to be felt and therefore isn't the tiny fines you often tend to see
reorder9695··on Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
I have no credentials here but I'd be interested in knowing what environmental impact things like this (like relatively high overhead things like filc, vms, containers) as opposed to running optimised well designed code. I don't mean in regular project's, but in things specifically like the linux kernel that's potentially millions? billions? of computers
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