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zurn··on Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
Re using Pyodide outside the Jupyter stack, the documentation has some things about that: https://pyodide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using_pyodide_from_...

It seems easy to consume from the JS app POV, if you are using the builds from upstream.

zurn··on Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
How does this compare to the wasm based approaches? (eg Pyodide)
zurn··on Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
> Take a look at all the places that high speed rail works, and you'll note that they're all pretty linear lines.

I'm not sure that's correct..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_France#/med...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#/medi...

zurn··on Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
Hopefully telepresence will improve. It's a much easier problem to solve than emissions free long distance air travel.
zurn··on Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
It's not quite as dramatic as that, you can take the train or bus for some travel (either shorter trips, or long ones where you stay for a good while at the destination). How limiting this is depends on where around the world you live...

The COVID-19 crisis teaches us a lot about remote meetings and remote work, and will impose friction on air travel for a while yet, so hopefully this will become a culturally easier choice to make for business meetings.

zurn··on Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
We really need to cut air travel because of the climate crisis, it would be good to reduce production of new airliners but it's not nearly enough.
zurn··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
Legally speaking, you could have legit access to the verilog by working for one of the existing licensees - eg Nintendo, chip companies, fab companies. Or by buying or otherwise acquiring (eg patent trolling settlement) a license to it from Nintendo.

It's not really likely, but it's within the realm of possibility. Somewhat less likely than legally acquired game ROMs, sure, but only a matter of degree...

zurn··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
It's of course possible to acquire the N64 Verilog legally too.
zurn··on Nintendo has reportedly suffered a significant legacy console leak
I'm betting the emulators will use this. They develop against the ROMs without permission too, after all.

Of course they won't incorporate unlicensed copyrighted things from the leak in their own code, but they don't need to.

zurn··on Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
IME cellular connections don't exhibit much packet loss. The lower level layer of the mobile network usually ensures that the packets are usually eventually delivered, they just take a while. This makes sense since internet protocols are designed to interpret packet loss as congestion and will slow down transmission when it occurs.
zurn··on Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (2017)
Docker would probably diverge less from LXC, because it was first built on LXC and only later got its own low level implementation using namespaces and the other low-level things. Hard to say if the alternative world would have been better or worse, a lot of LXC/LXD implementation details seem more technically competent than Docker.
zurn··on Spanish flu helped create Sweden's modern welfare state
The relevant parts:

"As the epidemic raged in late August, when around 20 people were dying daily, the city’s bank director Carl Lignell withdrew funds from Stockholm without authorisation and requisitioned a school for use as a hospital (the city didn’t have one). "

..

"“What is interesting is that, after the epidemic, the state dropped investigations against Lignell and made tentative steps towards a cooperative approach to social reform. Issues such as poor nutrition and housing were on the political agenda,” says Hedlund. Anyone trying to date the inception of Sweden’s welfare state cannot overlook the events of autumn 1918."

You can argue about the causality but it's not clickbait in the sense that it interviews a local expert who is making a case that it was a significant factor.

zurn··on Helsinki Energy Challenge
Reading the description, it's a competition of detailed proposals (evolved along the way). There are other competitions for novel energy technology ideas.
zurn··on Space Frigates
Click saver: linked game is Windows-only
zurn··on Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, including uBlock Origin
Javascript has eval(), it's a much better target for obfuscated code than the trivially disassembled wasm format.
zurn··on The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
What are typical data sizes for this?

I think the OLAP term has been around a long time, some OLAP tasks of the past are probably not so huge today, I wonder if the shrunked-by-time tasks are still called OLAP or if the smaller ones are implemented differently.

zurn··on Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?
Is it really better for money-wise to make frequent renovations if you plan to eventually sell?
zurn··on Performance First
But we are using other, more precise terms already, no? Speed, fast, slow.
zurn··on Performance First
Using performance as a synonym for only runtime speed doesn't feel satisfying. Shouldn't we include quality of results, such as correctness and fulfillment of requirements, in the evaluation of whether a program performs well?
zurn··on Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/intercepting_...
zurn··on Still Why No HTTPS?
They're likely be part of a cafe/hotel/guest wlan or a poorly managed "intranet" full of vulnerable stuff that needs to be shielded from CSRF. That's in addition to having ambiguous addresses. So should definitely be treated as less safe.
zurn··on Still Why No HTTPS?
You need a registered domain for this. It's a good idea for other reasons too.
zurn··on Still Why No HTTPS?
If you could get certificates for them, so could anyone else including your adversaries, since there is no system of ownership for them. It would be like issuing certs for https://192.168.1.1
zurn··on Still Why No HTTPS?
It works over DNS. There is a lot written about it on the net, I don't have any specific recommended article.
zurn··on Still Why No HTTPS?
Let's Encrypt works on internal networks too.

Fun fact: TLS doesn't require certificates, and some browsers even used to support HTTPS in these TLS modes many moons ago. See eg https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/23024/can-diffi...

zurn··on It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
Only a handful of countries operate .gov.countrytld, they are mostly named like someoofficename.countrytld.
zurn··on It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
But those others are not US-only, except .mil
zurn··on It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
It's just a name, doesn't hold any special assurance for most people.
zurn··on It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
Or too hard - why are they US only?
zurn··on Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil
I don't think this dichotomy is a thing. But there are many examples of companies being active in societal issues and doing well. Eg http://www.tradeready.ca/2018/topics/supply-chain-management...
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