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by bux93 6mo ago
Here's my hot take: just get rid of bicycle bells and horns altogether. When's the last time you heard one and were usefully informed about some behavioral change to avoid accident? How often does that happen as opposed to needles
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by bux93 6mo ago
"Any unvested restricted stock units, however, were forfeited immediately." wow.
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by bux93 7mo ago
Those LED people marketed themselves out of a job, then. I repaced one (1) broken light bulb over the past 10 years, as opposed to 5 a year before switching to LEDs.
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by bux93 7mo ago
Apparently, all of the audio cassette players being produced now use the same mechanism (perhaps from multiple factories). Some upscale brands like Fiio use basically the same mechanism but use some more premium parts in places, swapping ou
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by bux93 7mo ago
What a terrible headline and introduction. Designed to pique your interest by being mysterious? The ACM's announcement comes straight to the point: https://www.acm.org/media-center/2026/march/turing-award
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by bux93 7mo ago
They know. They're hoping you don't notice the line doesn't intersect.
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by bux93 7mo ago
The article doesn't share the actual math, but also not the relatively easy intuition. When you roll a pair of dice, there are more combinations that add up to 7 than any other number. Change the numbers on the dice (change the 1 to a
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by bux93 7mo ago
Or, as featured in 99 percent invisible, https://www.theamdash.com/
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by bux93 7mo ago
Telcos and insurers (especially life, pensions) too. Not rocket science.
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by bux93 7mo ago
Roman empire is obsolete. Men can't stop thinking about it.
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by bux93 8mo ago
The IRS can issue Private Letter Rulings (which are anoymized but public so you could check if they treat a company preferentially - although not which company) and Advance Pricing Agreements. Rulings from different countries are typically
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by bux93 8mo ago
There's a list of the supported opcodes on the page if you scroll down.
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by bux93 8mo ago
DeskTop Publishing - WYSIWYG design of printed matter (What You See Is What You Get) on PC(Personal Computer)s. George R.R. Martin (No idea about the Rs), author of A Song of Ice and Fire which was adapted into Game of Thrones.
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by bux93 8mo ago
Well, let's start with banning debt push down and then move on to the next tool used to privatise profit and socialise risks. You know, it used to be that unfair business practices were researched and banned, simple as that. Just throw
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by bux93 8mo ago
I've heard/read the expression "to indulge in a hobby" many times and never thought it was pejorative or paints hobbies as extravagancies. If you google indulge hobby, there's plenty of hits. Strangely though, ChatG
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by bux93 8mo ago
It's for online payments only. You click on the wero button on a website/app, if on mobile takes you to your banking app (on desktop, you scan a QR code), you do MFA on your banking app and confirm, and the payment is done. Wero a
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by bux93 8mo ago
Seems like an unforced error to implement this before being forced to.
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by bux93 8mo ago
PKI certificates weren't even intended for SSL, it predates even that. X.509 was published in November 25, 1988 ; version 3 added support for "the web" as it was known at the time. One obvious use was for X.400 e-mail systems
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by bux93 8mo ago
An already radio controlled clock would probably be a better starting point to GPSify or NTPify too - at least the one I have already has the feature that it can move the hands to an arbitrary position (when you replace the battery and it s
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by bux93 8mo ago
There's also a station in Shangqiu City, Henan province, China, BPC 68.5 kHz Casio brands watches that receive all 6 stations as multiband-6, and older ones that don't have the Chinese signal as multiband-5. The analog display, ch
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by bux93 8mo ago
I mean, the argument boils down to "the language I'm compiling FROM doesn't have the same safeguards as rust". So obviously, the fault lies there. If he'd just compile FROM rust, he could then compile TO rust withou
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by bux93 8mo ago
You could also present 4 hexadecimal digits in a rectangle to represent values from 0000-FFFF. Currently used to display unicode characters for which your font has no glyph (the kind of tofu known as hexagana - on the wikipedia page on .not
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by bux93 8mo ago
That's also my take, vibe coding as a non-deterministic 4GL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_... 4GLs are productive yes, but also limited, and still require someone to come up with spe
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by bux93 8mo ago
It's exhausting to read. I can't quite put my finger on it; obviously the "it's not this. It's that." is part of it, but even without the obvious tells that writing was AI-generated/improved, it's jus
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by bux93 8mo ago
You can now find 1.5V Li-on AA batteries with, and that's a game changer, built-in charger and a type-C port! I have one in my wireless mouse. If it dies, I change it to a spare and charge it right from my laptop (and the battery that
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by bux93 8mo ago
Having savegames online is nice. Being able to just download the game without the launcher is massive, though.
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by bux93 8mo ago
You're not replying to the author of the article.
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by bux93 9mo ago
You should still practice minimization of PII, also known as Data Minimization. Especially in the EU, where it's the law (GDPR).
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by bux93 9mo ago
Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union "A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States." - for example, GDPR. But even if t
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by bux93 9mo ago
Those holding a "highly skilled immigrants" visa that get fired will have 3 months to find a new job, or their residency permit expires. ASML hosts quite a few expats. The internal competition won't be pretty.

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