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rudolph9··on NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
This.
rudolph9··on The IRS is increasing the standard deductions for 2023 as inflation intensifies
So does this apply to 2022 paces paid in 2023 or will effect the next tax cycle?
rudolph9··on California man fined for selling maps of property boundaries without a license
I think the point was the auto-expiration.
rudolph9··on Tesla Virtual Power Plant
I thought a lot of these were recycled from vehicles when their energy density doesn’t meet the needs of a vehicle anymore but make sense in a house since the house doesn’t move?
rudolph9··on Sending spammers to password purgatory
Would it be “Tor on Google” or “Google on Tor” unless you mean you’re running a Tor node on gcp I would think it would be the latter?
rudolph9··on Zipcar will charge your credit card for no reason
I’ve been contesting random zipcar charges for over a year now and had to change my credit card number because of it (which takes time to take effect with subscription type charges).
rudolph9··on Effect of fruit rich diet on liver biomarkers, insulin resistance, lipid profile
Pretty sure fruit now days, is bigger, looks prettier, and ships better but definitely not sweeter.
rudolph9··on Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
Op of thread here: there seems to be a lot of back and forth on running Arm64 containers and executing Rosetta in them to run something x86 but as far as I can tell (correct me if I’m mistaken and I think I might be) that doesn’t really help because my production containers are x86 so I would need to compile my container for Arm64 then run Rosetta in which is a totally divergent image and kind of useless for running production images locally.
rudolph9··on Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta
How would this affect running an x86 container on a M1/M2 Mac?
rudolph9··on Texas’ Unconstitutional Social Media Law Allowed to Proceed
People seem to confuse freedom of speech with antitrust issues when it comes to social media curating content. They’re private companies, they can curate content as they see fit. If someone doesn’t like it, use a different platform. If one platform is too dominant then it’s an antitrust issue.
rudolph9··on Mushrooms: Next big thing in environmentally-friendly packaging, construction?
Same way there’s a small amount of cyanide in most apple seeds
rudolph9··on I feel dumb(er) when typing, and smart(er) when writing
Same here! I have never felt comfortable hand writing things but the act of typing in an editor such as vim feels very liberating.
rudolph9··on Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
I don’t think you appreciate that everything at “Dollar Tree” actually costs a dollar or at leas did.
rudolph9··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
The flu doesn't overwhelm hospitals in recent history. Covid-19 regularly causes governors to declare state-of-emergency in order to care for the massive number of people who need medical attention due to the disease.

I can't help but think like your comment is more intended provoke heated responses than encourage constructive discussion.

rudolph9··on The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms
Obviously there are a lot of reasons a mortgage can be declined but that doesn’t change the overall statistics. What specifically in the article is inaccurate?
rudolph9··on The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms
> “If the data that you’re putting in is based on historical discrimination,” said Aracely Panameño, director of Latino affairs for the Center for Responsible Lending, “then you’re basically cementing the discrimination at the other end.”

They site numerous objective data points to support what is well summarized by that quote. Whether or not you are convinced is up to you but suggesting that AP news is withholding information and doing everyone a disservice in publishing the article seems like a bit of a stretch.

rudolph9··on Could You Go for a Month Without Coffee?
In my experience, caffeine tolerance is dependent on how much you regularly intake. I switched to decaf about a year ago (which still has a not-insignificant amount of caffeine in it) and I get the boost I normally would from a fully caffeinated cup once my body adjusted (a month or a so). I have to go out of my way to find good whole bean decaf but the taste is great, the effect is very similar, and the headaches I get on the weekend when I don’t drink any are far more mild. Highly recommend switching to exclusively decaf.
rudolph9··on Trussed – a new Rust framework for security chips that could replace JavaCard
This is step in the right direction. I hope to see more open source project based on trussed flourish.
rudolph9··on Energy Mess in Texas
Markets are great when the rules they are bound to are well defined and protect consumers. None of this would have been a problem if they required producers to winterize their equipment.

The markets in Texas generally work pretty well except for where they don’t. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that basic regulations that power generation needs be winterized (among others thing) may cost slightly more on a day to day basis but costs consumers far less in the long run.

Everything in life is a trade off and unfortunately the voters of Texas have prioritized centralizing regulatory authority (a little counterintuitive but ERCOT runs basically everything and local municipalities are not allowed to much wiggle room), blind faith private entities that are accountable to no one and loose very little when something like this happens (the generation companies aren’t paying for everyone’s burst pipes, the property owners who’s insurance premiums are going through the rough do and the American people in general through Federal aid).

rudolph9··on E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper
Your response makes me think of the phrase “More Perfect”.

Agreed, patents are flawed. But so is basically every law in the United States. However, laws can change and we have influence on that so rather than chalking the idea of patent law as “fundamentally flawed” let’s look at ways we can tweak the existing system to work better for everyone.

For example, one commenter had an interesting suggestion of increasing the patent fees exponentially over time incentivizing only orgs that are using the technology and disincentivizing trolls long term.

It that tweak perfect? of course not, but rather than viewing it as an all of or nothing game of us vs them let’s keep working together to make it “more perfect”.

rudolph9··on Nasdaq says they will halt trading if a stock has unusual social media chatter
The do https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/circuitbreaker.asp
rudolph9··on Nasdaq says they will halt trading if a stock has unusual social media chatter
They already could. And despite what most comment on this thread is asserting this is probably a net positive for the average joe. I used to work at a small futures exchange and this hardly strikes me as a self serving move but rather a way to avoid a bunch random Joe’s from getting screwed by the powerhouse companies and bad actors out there and avoiding more regulation when it starts happening regularly.
rudolph9··on E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper
It’s important to remember every laws has trade offs, including patent laws. Perhaps patents stiffened e-ink but OP seems to have issue with patents in general which it would be hard to argue universally prevent innovation.
rudolph9··on CDC now says valved N95 has better source control than cloth/surgical masks [pdf]
I would just put a cloth mask over my valved N95 mask if I wanted to wear one on a flight. Someone probably won’t have got the memo, then you can avoid the whole conversation.
rudolph9··on Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Isn’t it a dual license, and the existing license isn’t going away?
rudolph9··on U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
The problem is Apple actually makes quality products. I personal don’t buy Apple products anymore for the reasons you have listed, and am transitioning from my iPhone 7 to my newly purchased pine phone. However, from both the standpoint of an engineer and a consumer I’m continually impressed by the quality of the products Apple makes. Not as impressed as I was when I got my first Mac in 2007 bu despite conducting the same shady business practices that have landed others in hot water, as long as Apple makes quality products I doubt any antitrust “changes” will be more than symbolic in-practice.

I’m all for putting pressure on them with antitrust lawsuits but ultimately consumers are who will drive meaningful change

rudolph9··on Why scientists are turning to Rust
Rust may or may not be a good choice for research scientist needs but the biggest missing piece in my opinion is reproducibility.

I haven’t worked with it extensively (I use nix on my workstation) but I’m a big fan of what the Guix folks are doing targeting the scientific community https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2019/05/gnu-guix-1.0-foundation-f...

rudolph9··on Ethereum 2.0 launches
Personally I like the approach the Cardano community has taken, working towards interoperability with pow and pos

https://medium.com/@schwartz4live/invitation-for-community-d...

Congrats to the Eth folks though, this really was a big undertaking.

rudolph9··on Next.js Commerce store, one-click deploy to Netlify
I have mixed feelings about this example app but I’ve used Next.js in the past and had a really positive experience. The SSR model they use is top notch and a really compelling reason to adopt, among other things.
rudolph9··on Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS
Ipfs has something called “bitswap” which solves some of what you’re describing but is lacking in areas such as long term file availability. That’s where filecoin sort of finds sort fills in the gap.

https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/bitswap/

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