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I'm not digging into the report, but as a general problem particularly in some niche fields I worry about the "Melancholy Elephants" problem as written about by Spider Robinson bac…

I assume that this is basically just not worth pursuing for small-scale orders (e.g. $15ish for Ciglue), but for larger ones what are the reasonable approaches for scenarios that d…

Can someone who's looked at the security of these systems give a bit more context on that? The thing that's always concerned me with them is questions of "what level of access is r…

These days Google fails at even the much simpler "Don't be fscking creepy ." That plus aggressive avoidance of anything resembling customer service and what sounds like an internal…

Doesn't China have that whole "social capital" thing where defaulting on debts and other bad behavior can have real long-term consequences? Or does that not apply if you're default…

Google made it very clear years ago that they shouldn't be trusted with anything irreplaceable/that would cause major problems if you lost access. Once it became clear that they'd …

Sounds like when I was asked to give minimum hardware requirements for something doing backend processing (receive text submitted as print jobs, massage, send to printers). The req…

Worth noting that http.dog includes 218 This is Fine, which is an Apache-specific response code. It does not, however, use a cartoon dog in a room on fire.

Huh, my initial expectation was wrong! I figured (even until close to the end of the article) that the problem was a dramatic increase in the amount of wi-fi or other 2.4GHz traffi…

I have three different generations of email addresses associated with United Airlines that all receive spam. Never any disclosed breaches AFAIK, but clearly email addresses got out…

So I guess I should watch out for scams being sent to "soundcloud@" on a personal domain. Oh no, how will I distinguish them from my legitimate banking email???

I think the Go stores mostly bit the dust after that reveal, but they were also mostly small convenience store operations. I actually saw one at the airport recently, that's a situ…

The Fresh store near me that I stop in at seems to double as a warehouse for some of those delivery orders, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of them just stop having customer acc…

The Fresh stores are kind of a weird shopping experience with a mix of normal, overpriced and bizarrely cheap at different times. I've gotten into the habit of stopping in to wande…

I'm just wondering if they'll end up revising the blurb about her on their website to include the words "craven pandering."

There's certainly no reason for Canada to consider significant EV imports from the US - I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla was tainted based on Musk's association with Trump and ther…

Not really, once you have any materials issues with the vertical portion ironed out you just need a fine but rigid shaft within the body of the 'key' to bring it all the way out to…

I feel like developing something that could actually pick locks including detecting binding pins, etc. is in the category of "not actually that hard if you devote the resources to …

I'm a bit surprised to not see mention in comments of "social vs sociable." There's often something nice about being around people that you're interacting with only minimally (soci…

If this is something you want to do you might consider a bike. A 6 mile round trip on for for coffee seems a bit much, but 3 miles each way on a bike shouldn't be bad unless you're…

Doing a quick bit of searching based on the 4680 makes me think that there has been or will be a change from NMC811 to LFP chemistry in the 4680, including one article talking abou…

In some cities with HOV lanes on expressways having an EV (with plates) lets you use those lanes with only one person in the car. How important that is to any given buyer obviously…

Amazon no longer having a record of it is absurd given the volume of data they store about all transactions. For a phone in particular I'd be demanding serial number/IMEI informati…

The future of data sharing with the US may be on shaky ground given the current US administration and its actions.