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I wish that people would just stop looking at their phones while driving.

I think they mean that because people have been driving automobiles for over 100 years and that proves (somehow) that visual detection works for identifying hazards on the road. Bu…

> What are you protecting cloudflare? A cheeky response is "their profit margins", but I don't think that quite right considering that their earnings per share is $-0.28. I've not …

It's kind of amazing that this periodic check has not been implemented already.

Firstly, I love that website. It's simple and informative. I don't the average mileage or a hydrogen vehicle nor tank size, so I'll take your word on that. Using your numbers and t…

Anyone that get’s a telephone call from “Google” should be immediately suspicious. I used to work for a company that paid GCP about as much as my annual salary _every_ month, and w…

I used Alacritty until about 3 weeks ago, switched to Ghostty. I'm very happy with the change.

Fair play to them, it's a detailed paper. But I'm not sure that this would have much practicality in other caves. The terrain just changes too quickly (most of the time).

The woeful inconsistency between airport security checks within the same country and sometimes within the same airport, really lends itself to the theory that it’s all a farce. Tra…

I've never come across that myself, but the audacity of some firms is outrageous.

Part of me thinks that you're right, but I've applied to _so many_ jobs over the years (prior to AI) that use workday and required that I fill in all the info again. I've also neve…

Can you explain what you mean when you say "to be sound"?

I wonder how many U.S. service persons stationed in South Korea could have been affected by this? Do we know if it was exploited in the wild?

Who else noticed the pointers websocket for displaying the mouse pointers of other readers?

Something feels weird about the timezone arithmetic here, though maybe I am nuts. Take this for example: > Notably, on Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023, we see two commits: 23:38:32 +0800 and…

I've physically disconnected the modem in my Audi, though when it goes to the dealer for a service (still under extended warranty) I cannot help but imagine that they download the …

I agree with what you said but I'd further refine it by saying not just having testing and CI but actually having "high" test coverage and tests that actually test the code.

I was also confused by this, I had always (perhaps naively) assumed that the canal used salt water throughout. I did some searching and found this article. > Gatun Lake, which form…

> Got it resolved by reaching out to some high level executive contact we got via our investor. Oh man that is my nightmare. Nothing says "broken system" like having to circumvent …

Maybe we should be writing for the AIs. Leaving GitHub aside, I generally feel that anything a candidate does that adds friction to the general flow of the process will affect the …

Every now and then I dust off Xcode to try and build myself some (pretty simple) native macOS app – just for funsies. For reference I am a backend dev at a SaaS company dealing pri…

That was a good article & video, Julia’s linked post was also a great read. Though it goes without saying that getting a professional’s advice on these matters can pay dividends – …

I know that the air accident rate is pretty much at its lowest since records began. I have heard a lot about grounding aircraft in recent years, though being a relatively young per…

I know that the air accident rate is pretty much at its lowest since records began. I have heard a lot about grounding aircraft in recent years, though being a relatively young per…

I love these well written, slyly comical in a dry way, articles.