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And sometimes security can’t be a high priority. When it comes to building things: fire, building codes, inspectors, public, utilities, lenders, and insurance all go before securit…

Genuinely curious, does the telephone system have enough scope to make it dangerous? Elevators are extremely hackable all over the world. It’s generally not considered a problem be…

This is how you get a callsign like “Jumper” or “Rocket”.

UUID 7 does not hash the date. It uses 48 bits to store a millisecond resolution timestamp. This allows you to sort uuids by time.

Who exactly is supposed to be fired for this? If you don’t have price controls, it’s easy to run up a bill. If no single person had the responsibility to check the cost, then no on…

> Linux may break more often, but you can almost always fix it with a quick google search. And that’s where the problem is: a quick google search. Laughably trivial for technical u…

I’ve seen the raw json before. I didn’t realize that was an actual failure mode. I’ve also had it fail to respond in long chats but I thought it was a network error despite having …

I’ve done long conversations with ChatGPT and it really does start losing context fast. You have to keep correcting it and refeeding instructions. It seems to degenerate into the s…

Yup. There’s the concept of “mission kill”. It’s very difficult to sink a battleship with 5” guns. Use them to blast off all the range finders, radars, and secondary battery and th…

I 100% believe this was done by somebody inside our administration. It’s totally in character for them. Look at what they do to immigrants and our own citizens. They intentionally …

I was thinking of doctors offices and pharmacies when I asked. My doctor has a physical fax machine in the back of the office. I was hoping things might be a little bit more advanc…

How many fax lines still go to a physical machine that prints on paper? It’s a lot less paper to have a pdf of the fax emailed.

I think it’s a lot simpler than that. Verifying a credit card is probably the easiest and cheapest reliable method to verify identity. If you look at it this way: they’re trying to…

United aircraft did a high speed abort (80+ knots) and afterwards, fumes from hot brakes were entering the back of the cabin. (Not uncommon.) Source: Mentour Pilot. https://www.you…

Oil doesn’t make self-oxidizing metal fires. You can easily put out an oil or gas fire with water and it will stay out once cooled off. You have to just let lithium batteries burn …

They didn’t make it past the drones.

Fuel density matters to things like cars and semi-trucks. Right now you can’t build an electric version that can fully refuel in minutes. That makes fast, long-range travel impract…

Renewables require power storage. Batteries are large, heavy, expensive, and the power dense ones have absolutely horrendous failure modes. There are other storage options, but the…

> they do interact with the environment. Yup. Got plaster walls, vinyl flooring, narrow room, different sizes of rattling single-pane windows… Neighbors with leaf blowers… I really…

> When you increase the resolution too much, the problems in old/remastered sources become apparent, and you can't enjoy that material anymore. It doesn’t need to even be that old.…

They were also supposed to be for state’s rights. My entire life it’s been about nothing more than domination of the “immoral” and the end justifies any means when the alternative …

I absolutely believe it could be 90%. And it happens a lot more often than people think. The estimated average across the general population is roughly 1 in 4 for girls and 1 in 6 …

That's because the applications in macOS are in the sealed volume as part of the operating system. On iOS, apps are managed by the operating system. On macOS, they're files.

From the article, it was reported to the police. The lawsuit came later and Uber didn’t try to deny it happened. From a civil law perspective, it doesn’t matter who did it. The pol…

Emergency services (with the proper software) have been able to get your precise location from your phone for a while now. This isn’t a new capability and shouldn’t be surprising.