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My electric mower has lasted longer than the gasoline mower before it, which literally had plastic valves inside the carbeurtator.

Passkeys on my iPhone works awesome. Too bad for Yubikey. I don't need them any more.

Just the other day I was creating an ID on a government web site, which offered a list of security questions such as "Title of your favorite movie" or "Someone that you admired as …

Deep dusk will be quite a disco ball.

Because their economy is almost exclusively oil? Quite a few countries of the world would qualify if that's the case.

"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just u…

Why do you think that a platform with so many customers as to be industry defining, with dozens of interface options, with a massive feature set, with a global footprint and basica…

If that was good business then presumably the brand could have done it at some point during their long slow decline?

Expect an error but this will depend on the brand. "Smudging" is a common trick. Just dab some face oil on the lens, just enough so it can't get detail but not so much that the sys…

Because the "other side" is busy trying to anthropomorphise AI into solving the trolly problem, while being mostly clueless about the actual problems. They'll show up after the fac…

How? Training and operating models seems to naturally focus on those willing to invest quite significantly in these operations.

It's remarkable how often I hear about brilliant products being released by asshole personalities who were hard to work with, but still stayed engaged. The other two extremes tend …

Which just goes to show that technical chops and business chops are entirely unrelated. I think John Carmack did alright anyway.

Actually yes. Pretty much most credit cards are in fact JavaCards. Weird but true, and quite obscure.

Well, Oracle may have done fine, but IIRC open sourcing the JDK was Sun's very penultimate move on its deathbed. Oracle inherited the license to the trademark, but the actual JDK w…

Personally I loved it. The Japanese aesthetic is subtle and delightful. Also, riding my bicycle in the countryside with very few traffic signs to mar the view. Just the necessary o…

Ah, the fixie benefit is in every stroke, especially the ones where I'm slowing down with my legs and doing whatever else I want to be doing with my hands that doesn't involve the …

You do you. I have a fast and light road fixie, and I have a nice carbon fiber road bike. Do I ride my road bike in fondos? Yes. Do I ride my road bike around town and for training…

Are you thinking of affirmative action? Affirmative action is by design discriminatory, but not against nationality. It's discriminatory based on race and sex. So I think your grud…

Could it be a right-to-repair issue? That seems to be the only legal wrench available for forcing automakers to open up access to anything.

It is kind of a hard problem to solve. Sure, we can have expensive and custom equipment flying around, but the invasion of Ukraine (and really, any war when it gets bad enough) is …

Ah hah, this is it. I was also confused - the tool isn't the thing. It's the behavior analysis capability.

If anything this video is kicking off a storm of amateur hacking enthusiasm for these wild bikes. Do us all a favor and sell yours!

Autonomous weapons are actually a really interesting branch of this and deserves a little more. Yes, autonomous weapons were explored and were found to be poor performers compared …

Check back in 5 years. This is going to age poorly. The reason is that, despite what many think, AI actually is able to create novel ideas and solutions. That's why AlphaGo was so …