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wolfendin··on The introverts are winning
The way this article is written feels very selfish with a distinct lack of empathy for how so called introverts might have felt in a similar position

Thing like this feel especially disingenuous

> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.

These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week

wolfendin··on The New Internet
That’s because nobody normal— anyone who isn’t a tech person— remembers IP addresses.

Hell I can’t get tech people I work with to give me their public IP.

wolfendin··on The New Internet
Because the fields are there for humans, in the packet itself it’s a 32bit integer, and you can’t just arbitrarily make the src/dest fields in the packet bigger— it stops being IPv4 then.
wolfendin··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
They are also a lot more vulnerable to flooding which is also a major issue in a hurricane
wolfendin··on Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning
In a hurricane, 90% of the damage is in distribution, the only thing that fixes it are boots on the ground
wolfendin··on Dark mode is not as good for your eyes as you believe
They would almost be writing it like that, if they were making statements without qualification.

But luckily they were not.

wolfendin··on AI's $600B Question
That really does say something about how unrealistic house prices are nowadays, doesn’t it?
wolfendin··on All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
Handheld was never specified directly, just “stood with a” which can just mean “next to.”

The HP 5061 was introduced in 1964, why do you think a counter that can reference the frequency standard is not possible?

You might want to be more rigorous about reading specifications.

wolfendin··on 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite
It’s copyright. Not authorright.

The exclusive ability to copy is granted as a conceit.

The restriction only came about because publishers got mad.

wolfendin··on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control
Back when I ran a nitter instance, I’d get emails about the GDPR.

I’d simply delete them, no problem.

wolfendin··on The Lost Art of the Negative
They’re not guessing:

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/~anorman/long.extra/Projects.F9....

https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ov...

wolfendin··on Forested wetlands are missing from maps
Feels like?

What evidence do you have for the sloppiness and how does the current model fail to explain the deviation in observations?

wolfendin··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
The mission goal was to land a man on the moon and return him to earth safely.

Where’s the barely? What would you have done better?

wolfendin··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
Robots aren’t performing science, they’re doing one half of one step of the scientific method: collecting data in an experiment. It’s humans doing all the rest.
wolfendin··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
It can’t have “all the same problems” because a number of the engineering problems came from having the spacecraft on the side of the launch vehicle
wolfendin··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
You’re getting scammed with the AWS cost calculator or anything more than $20/mbps
wolfendin··on Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
Good for you, I can’t and now I have to deal with endless pop ups about cookies.
wolfendin··on Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB/some rando are all different, independent, situations; as a reasonable adult I have decided that some of them are acceptable, some of them are not.
wolfendin··on I Built an Ld_preload Worm
I think thres’s also been a large sea change in the thinking that happens in finding the reason for anomalous behavior. Nowadays remote compromise is one of the first things on my mind when troubleshooting but, back in the 90s it was much lower on the list. I think the tooling would have been there to find it easy, but I think getting in the mindset where it needs to be found would be harder.
wolfendin··on How ECMO is redefining death
You get very close to the real issue here:

The important part of a flying machine wasn’t the machine itself, but the engine to run the machine itself. We’ve had flying machine designs for centuries but it only took 27 years after the Otto engine was invented to put one in the air.

ECMO is the flying machine design

wolfendin··on I Built an Ld_preload Worm
The real world of 2024, or the real world when this software was written?
wolfendin··on So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)
This is kind of a silly argument, for every item you shoplift: do you ask if you can take it without paying and then get granted permission?
wolfendin··on Visualizing malicious IP addresses
That’s perfectly consistent with sources of bad actor data I have access to and compile myself.
wolfendin··on Sad Mac – the tale of restoring an '80s timeless classic
To get around that annoying message about not being formatted for mobile https://archive.ph/IMj5h
wolfendin··on Broadcasting LoRa packets wihout a radio [video]
Why not?
wolfendin··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
Why does Epic get the privilege to force me to buy things through their store?
wolfendin··on Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon
If you have legs that unfurl, now you have minimum three more more systems that fail and cause the same problem
wolfendin··on Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU
“The competition” is just Google/Chrome.

Unless there’s someone else?

wolfendin··on Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
365 days ago was March 1, 2023
wolfendin··on Cloud Egress Costs
Anycast does not really make the pricing that different.

Especially since one does not have to backhaul the traffic to one specific PoP.

Cloudflare manages to run their Anycast CDN as a loss leader just fine.

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