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> Companies like NSO can easily obtain access. It's not a safe system. If NSO group develops exploits, why would they have early access?

Yeah, Roger is awesome. I bought a linnstrument recently, and he went to great effort to ensure some complicated shipping went flawlessly.

I also thought that DuckDB had acquired a company named Range. Interesting article regardless!

To me, the coolest is sqlx. It uses macros to do static type checking on plain SQL statements. It verifies types of bound parameters as well as results. It's async, which plays nic…

LBJ's home office in Texas was preserved, and is still on display as-is to this day. On the couch is a pillow embroidered "This is my ranch, and I do as I damn please!"

The emacs support is great. I use emacs 'racer' and 'lsp' packages full time for development. There are two popular emacs packages for rust-analyzer: lsp[0] and eglot[1]. lsp (lang…

Cool. It would be interesting to compare benchmarks the RPC latency under heavy load for pb-jelly compared to other RPC methods. Rust has such great support for performant zero cop…

The antibody fits the spike protein like a lock and key. They key might fit other locks in humans with varying degrees of fit, on other cells in the body. There are two such lock-a…

The performance and stability improvements in rust-analyzer over the last six months have been remarkable. Kudos to matklad and the whole team behind this. I'm using it full time n…

The twiddler is a chording keyboard that leaves one hand free and with the strap, can be used while walking. https://twiddler.tekgear.com/

It's helpful to have a chance to see hard it is to obtain an increase in Google API rate limits. The documentations suggests one only needs to ask, so this clarification is very mu…

I wonder why they didn't compare results for those that don't drink coffee at all?

Yea, for the first year of cub scouts with 5 year olds, that's the appropriate kind of activity that combines play, limited strength and skills, and allows you to mix in informatio…

For cub scout camp directors, the plan must include daily scheduled periods of 'down time' during which scouts can play on open fields or playgrounds. For a four hour/day camp, thi…

Did you engage any experts to provide any written opinions or testimony about the technology? (just curious about whether this is a factor at all.)

Wow, Sapolsky's explanation of a various neurotransmitter mechanisms, starting with transmission across a neuron synapse, is simply beautiful. Video link starting at 14:48 min: htt…

In 2013, "U.S. businessman held hostage by his workers in China, he says": https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/25/world/asia/china-us-busin...

In June, the Open Markets Institute [0] filed an amicus brief opposing Facebook’s motion to seal records in the case, arguing this matter “greatly implicates the public interest. […

Also, if metadata gets damaged, there is an option to roll back the filesystem to an earlier transaction using "zpool import -F".

Great point. This is the effect of a low base-rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy Here's a paper on it's impact on network intrusion detection. http://www.raid-sy…

To my ears, it's got a serious groove. Certainly very understated compared to Parliament/Funkadelic, but that's part of the charm.

This is my favorite George Clinton track. Ain't That Peculiar feat. Sly Stone, El Debarge & the P-Funk All Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vu9eNMKgQ

This kind of FBI involvement predates DHS, and has been continued in part because of the way the programs evolved. Much of the US critical infrastructure is owned and operated by p…