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And even worse when the full-disk encryption requires you to unlock the computer after every reboot. It's just enough that the entire installation needs to be attended, and prevent…

Based on this comment’s [0] comparison of historical aerial photographs, the houses were there first. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254291

The problem with feature tests is that you then rely on the test code being correct. A typo in the feature test can erroneously be interpreted as lack of that feature. One step of …

> I thought the unsafety couldn't "spread" like that in Rust. The goal of a library is to provide the encapsulation such that the unsafety doesn't spread. If undefined behavior occ…

The trick is that you make it something that humans want to do. Using [0] as an example, the interactive elements move, with context-dependent environment interactions. [0] https:/…

At least cargo places everything in a .cargo directory, so it doesn’t display by default. Go will instead write to $HOME/go, without even the decency to use a hidden directory, unl…

> I think one of Markdown‘s biggest sins is how it handles line breaks. Single line breaks being discarded in the output guarantees that your nicely formatted text will look worse …

I run into this issue when building against different environments, each with a 1. A library depends on a system package. To test against the different versions of the system packa…

I looked into it at one point, as I was disgusted by the unskippable advertisements when paying for an ad-free tier on one of the myriad streaming platforms. Apparently, they disti…

I particularly love how they will periodically choose to only use the selected Bluetooth device for audio output, and will instead switch back to the builtin microphone. The builti…

> Emacs is not primarily a TUI program (although it does have a TUI with the -nw). The TUI version of emacs lacks visual customizability and introduces unnecessary overhead (termin…

> Making these extra stops causes the bus to 'miss' the light cycle at almost every stop. This would be a much bigger change, but it's also possible for the lights to give priority…

> Oh man. The infinite loops of impossible verification by large companies that should know better are massive pain peeve of mine. I got hit by this from google. 1. Gmail added req…

> There are always weird systems with old drivers (looking at Ubuntu 22 LTS) While I agree with your general point, RHEL stands out way, way more to me. Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 wer…

Google will lock you out of an account even if you remember your password. This happened to me, when Google decided to use the recovery email address for 2FA, locking me out of my …

I'll admit that I've done that type of bugfix in the past. Though, usually it's because the bug is caused by an underlying design flaw, and the 10-line fix would have only papered …

Last time I needed to install Windows 11, avoiding making a Microsoft account required (1) opening a command line to run `oobe/bypassnro`, and (2) skipping past the wifi config scr…

In Rust, this can almost be expressed as `arg: &'static str` to accept a reference to a string whose lifetime never ends. I say “almost” because this allows both string literals an…

There’s a difference between the owner having telemetry on their own car, and the manufacturer having telemetry on the cars they’ve sold. One is taking care of your assets, and the…

> Why are you assuming that a human would be more efficient and better for the environment than an electrically powered robot? Because bicycles use 5x less energy per mile than ele…

This was something that I paid close attention to when designing a QR code to be hand-carved into a set of coasters. To minimize the amount of detail carving required, I wanted to …

Full-disk encryption, as useful as it is, also makes this a royal pain. Updates can't be performed unattended, because each restart done during the updates requires providing the p…

And actively ignoring state law in others, then violating cease-and-desist orders when told to remove the cameras. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382434 (discussion fro…

Even their so-called conservative assumption is also insufficient. > if a machine word's integer value, when considered as a pointer, falls within a GCed block of memory, then that…