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Microsoft has a terrible habit of doing that. KB's used to have a predicable URL, they may again, but they keep changing them. Or any of their docs really. It's terrible as those U…

I've seen induction with dials for the stove. Ovens have had electronic buttons for decades though.

When it comes to empowering, I am not sure much beats Excel. It lets non techy people codify amazing things and get real work done.

This parent wants a form of that that doesn't require identity disclosure. Like zero trust assertions. Without that, the risks are too high.

mullvad has been one of the good ones.

There are a lot of people writing really bad scrapers and running them on far from high compute power systems. This is the prevent DoS because of those. The big companies are often…

Other way around, a horse does more like 5-15hp

1hp/750W or so sustained is insane power for all but a few and that is still for relatively short time periods.

Some code definitely does, but it isn't the product. People, outside the devs making it, don't value how good the code is, but how well it solves the problem.

More and more I have realized it was not the coding that I enjoyed, but solving problems/puzzles. This fits into the beautiful code not really mattering to more than myself but the…

From personal experience, one can get practically close guessing such that the error isn't going to be more significant compared to the errors in insulin to carb ratios/sensitivity…

Out of my area, but yeah, I have never heard of an optimized read using that. On the surface, it seems like a task much better suited for HW and there are companies that would prob…

I wonder if there will be a hardware solution in the future that duplicates memory over multiple channels and gives the first result back transparently without threads and racing.

This is one of my fears with this, losing ones voice. Everyone's expression distilled to the mean. This has ramifications in things like recognizing if a person is who they say the…

There is a lesson in Ukraine and Iran being that invading a prepared country isn't easy and takes full commitment. Taiwan is most likely very prepared to defend itself.

I've used docker buildx to do this in the past. Easier to work with than qemu directly(it does so under the hood).

std::string since C++ 11 guarantees the buffer is zero terminated. The reasoning being thread safety of const members. https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.string#general-3

I don't want my vehicle connected at all. It's an open invitation to privacy reducing tech and exploits.

The issue I have with Thunderbird and RSS is that there's no good way to do a show me the unread only and keep the feed folders. You can do a search folder or show unread folders b…

I'm reading this on my RSS reader right now :)

I don't think the oil exports from Canada ever stopped. If anything, they have grown.

I think that it comes down to that people often like to talk about their interests but worry that the recipient may not be. So we end up with two people who want to talk but worrie…

The US exec probably doesn't want to order them either. So the game would be played and they did their best. There's another article about the US fighting data sovereignty requirem…

Not sure Canada has the leverage/market to get them to sway here. But a body like the EU has the leverage to force local operation and control.

It isn't usually an American company doing the local operations, but a local subsidiary. Like Walmart Canada telling Walmart corporate to pound sand in the 1990's over Cuban pajama…