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> although I wonder if a FOIA request would actually compel them to give it to you I believe most of it is open source: https://github.com/18F/identity-idp

Such frequent interventions means you need very reliable cell service. In times of heavy congestion (concerts, etc) that doesn't seem feasible.

Hardware tokens (Yubikeys, etc) are signed by their vendor. They support attestation which allows q site to disallow vendors not in a white list. Some banks (Vanguard was/is one) a…

> Regardless, the fact that companies raise their prices in response to shortages is not only defensible but desirable. Gouging is good. I'm sure they'll be lowered again when supp…

RedHat spends a lot of time back-porting security updates to older software (e.g. RHEL7). Stream is always only the latest RHEL version, I believe. The whole point of RHEL is the l…

I love these things: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804116114245.html There are a few suppliers, but the 4x Intel NICs open up lots of possibilities. They're very lower power, …

Even if we fixed all of the above, changing jobs would still require uprooting your family. In an era where you worked for one company for life it made sense. Today I don't think i…

Yep, this is why LIDAR is so helpful. It takes the guess out of "is the surface in front of me flat?" in a way vision can't without AGI. Is that a painting of a box on the ground o…

I've read the assertions section a few times and I still don't understand the argument. How is: if got == nil { t.Errorf("blog post was nil, want not-nil") } Better than assert.Not…

I don't think they were able to "become HBO faster than HBO can become us"[1] and now they're paying the price. They have effectively zero moat with their own IP and now they're co…

The bigger issue is that returning the error without wrapping provides zero context and after a crash you're stuck trying to figure out which of a hundred calls to Write was respon…

In things like rest APIs you need them quite a bit to distinguish between a value being the zero value and not present at all. Most libraries I've seen have an IntPointer or simila…

This prevents me (a Tello user) from getting the new phone. There are only like 3 US MVNOs that support eSIM. I wonder how long that will remain the case now that the writing is on…

This is addressed in the article: > A critical limitation in the IRS’s ability to audit millionaires is the availability of IRS revenue agents. Only this class of auditors, given s…

> IRS accomplished over 650 thousand audits last year by jacking up its already high reliance on so called “correspondence audits” – essentially a letter from the IRS asking for do…

For anyone looking for an open source web-based TI emulator I just ported wxWabbitEmu (which I believe supports the TI-84) [1]. I only skinned the TI-85 since it's the calc I use, …

Tangentially related, I just finished porting wxWabbitemu (TI calculator emulator) to WASM last week [1]. I recently switched to iOS from Android and sorely missed the TI emulator …

Isn't this the plot of a Black Mirror episode? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

I haven't messed with them yet but 1.18 add workspaces [1] This is definitely a pain point I've had with golang and the 'accepted' process has changed 3 or 4 times in the last 2 ye…

> What, exactly, are you saying that Go can't do that Java can? Runtime library addition (plugins) and dependency injection are two big ones. (We can argue the merit separately, bu…

I have an irrational dislike of go because for every X it's missing the community's answer is "you don't need X" (until they decide you do). Package management, generics, sum types…

I've been working on this but my family is pretty hung up on Google Photos so we're migrating most things there trying to preserve as much as possible. We're doing Google One famil…

You can transfer your Google Voice account to a regular GMail account despite their documentation claiming otherwise. See: https://github.com/marwatk/gsuite-to-gmail/#google-voice

We drop a statically compiled BusyBox binary on images like that as "sh". If we need more we can symlink to it in /tmp at debug time (or just call it directly). It strikes a good b…

Isn't Delta vs Alpha a pretty convincing counter argument? It was more transmissible, more severe and better at avoiding acquired immunity.