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Conversely, as a hobbyist photographer, I want to do the exact opposite for most photos I take. I would like my camera info, especially the body, lens, focal length, and settings i…

Measurement trains filled with cameras and LIDAR For example, in the U.K.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train

A writable file closing itself when it goes out of scope is usually not great, since errors can occur when closing the file, especially when using networked file systems. https://g…

Or it’s simply an indicator of a schema that has not been excessively normalised (why create an addresses_cities table just to ensure no duplicate cities are ever written to the ad…

Via Wikipedia: > The developer offered full refunds to the game for macOS and Linux owners regardless of how long they had the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_League#Fre…

I’m from the U.K. and I consider the government’s actions around digital privacy to be somewhere between incompetent and malicious.

>waiting for 2 different lights just to get to the opposite corner. A solution sometimes seen in London is a “Pedestrian Scramble”, where pedestrians are explicitly given full (and…

With SSO, the party running the SSO decides what the authentication policy is. For example, where the authentication request is coming from (on-site, managed device), what methods …

Reuse of identifiers seems to be a theme in aviation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864

If we replace “YAML” with “JSON” and then talk about naive text-based templating, it seems wild. That’s because it is. Then we go back to YAML and add whitespace sensitivity and su…

A lot government funding stipulates open access publication of some form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_mandate

A smartwatch for kids could be so good if it was designed in a way to be educational, but most importantly, which respects a child’s privacy utmost, even from their parents in term…

At 2.6 megabytes per dollar, it is at least cheaper than the price of a (very legal) kdb license, which can hover around 3 bytes per dollar. Comparing apples and oranges here but I…

This seems to be about GitHub’s annoying CODEOWNERS feature where every matching user in the CODEOWNERS file is forcefully added as a reviewer of opened PRs. To my knowledge this “…

There are clauses in many Hollywood contracts which prevent the use of an actor’s likeness. See what happened in Back to the Future Part 2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_…

https://youtu.be/MgNItWdfEIU?si=QGZbjRIh50InkiHV Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name

> What's the risk here? A monopolistic stock exchange could, off the top of my head: increase fees, engage in rentseeking behaviour, impose unfair rules, discriminate (against comp…

At least for AirTags before today, this functionality allegedly only triggers when the device is not near one of the owner’s iPhones/iPad/Macbooks.

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They leave oxygen tanks littered up there. They leave human bodies up there, too, but those are usually moved out of view.

I try to do this when writing error messages I expect to be seen by other engineers. I also try to state why this is an error condition. “ERROR: Database query returned 0 rows” ver…

It is the rule in Europe, which is mentioned in (II)(C) in the link. I failed to link it properly.

More altitude means more time to work the problem.

The rule (edit: in Europe) is now 25 hours for aircraft over a certain weight, though it is not (currently) retroactively applied to existing equipment. https://www.federalregister…

Storing CCTV footage on-prem is at odds with preserving said footage. It’s usually easier for an intruder to destroy or steal the physical storage device on site compared to gainin…