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Here's an excellent example of the latter, from a short ways up the BC coast from me. Not caught on film, but found later by heli pilots, and on seismic data: https://hakai.org/sto…

It doesn't hurt here that the OCaml compiler is very fast, which makes for quick feedback loops when dealing with errors.

Doing what you feel necessary or useful at a local scale is still empowering. Understanding that the effects will be mostly local as well is a good thing, but choosing your battles…

Not if the company implodes...

The files are huge (in pixels and bytes), plus the HN hug of death.

It's probably hard to come up with something messier than SqlAlchemy here. Not an expert, but spent more than enough time spelunking queries in the debugger. I much prefer bugs tha…

Maybe if it can start colluding with my other devices over HDMI!

I've found a workable approach, browsing HN with my feed reader (FreshRSS, in this case). I have bookmarks for various things, one of which is what I've labeled "AI nonsense". It's…

Sure, but what can it do without a network?

No, in the case of all the desync attacks that James Kettle has found since, HTTP between servers is more like "worse really is worse." At least until they all speak HTTP/2.

I've had good luck with my Kobo, for those books bought through their store. (I strip DRM from everything I can, if I can't buy without in the first place.)

Flares will burn, and keep burning, once lit. I wouldn't consider them to be especially spicy in the whole context though, since anything that has set them off has already lit the …

How does your car move around _without_ containing explosive, highly combustible stuff?

That... seems like a good thing!

That works for the books you copy over, but those that come from Kobo will be downloaded as part of a sync that also does updates.

I worked for a small company that did work for a cross-border manufacturer. Coming from Canada, we were told explicitly that "meetings" was a perfectly good reason for a day trip, …

I think the issue here is one of informed consent. You might say, "OK, this makes sense" when agreeing to location data for a weather app. In the context of whether it's going to h…

At that point, why bother to make any posts at all?

Yeah thanks, but it doesn't hurt to mention!

On the other hand, the morels that seemed to come with a load of wood chips were great for the year or two we had them. I tried growing a little wine cap bed once, and it hadn't go…

Along with all the general discussion, I found the concept of defensive parsing striking a chord when reading this as well: "The Seven Turrets of Babel: A Taxonomy of LangSec Error…

The language here is Forth, the odd naming is for a specific implementation.

Need to do more, but here I am: https://fractaldragon.net

Back in the stone age, I worked at 7-Eleven while in university. Nothing was really computerized at the store level then, even cameras were rare. What was done all the time was a s…

Well, yeah. The point was that there are changes that could be made, without having to make it possible for everyone else to build, that would enable continued binary support.