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by eadmund 2y ago
> there was no evidence that the pilots of flight 804 smoked during the flight. But even though the BEA found that a cigarette didn’t cause the fire on flight 804 … the BEA recommended that EASA examine these risks and amend regulations
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by eadmund 2y ago
If they’re not as often used nowadays, I imagine that they must be pretty cheap to get license for … perhaps they could be repurposed for some useful project?
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Sharing Stories of Harassment on the NYC Subway [video](youtube.com)
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by eadmund 2y ago
https://notmuchmail.org/ is an excellent way to search through gigabytes of email extremely quickly. It’s faster than Gmail, Outlook or any other webmail provider.
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by eadmund 2y ago
It’s possible to synchronise secrets without sharing them with a third party: just encrypt them locally, transmit to third party, download to other device, decrypt. This could be made easy for users by having each device share a public key
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by eadmund 2y ago
> 9/11 changed the game. Almost a quarter century later, I remain amazed that Americans put up with locks the government has the key to (on our luggage). As someone who grew up in the Cold War, that’s the sort of thing we would hav
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by eadmund 2y ago
It’s not keeping them safe: it’s recording in order to facilitate an investigation if someone harms them. That might serve a deterrent effect, but given how much crime is a result of poor impulse control, it may not have as strong an effe
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by eadmund 2y ago
> While complimentary, the various policy, legislating, rules making, procedures, and enforcement are distinct activities in the governmental stack. I agree that there are distinct activities. In our system, there are three distinct act
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by eadmund 2y ago
> By what legal means is this happening? Article I, section 1 of the Constitution: ‘All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.’
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I'd say the success of REST I think that you mean the success of JSON APIs. REST is orthogonal to JSON/Protobuf/HTML/XML/S-expressions/whatever.
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by eadmund 2y ago
I think that it’s one of those dichotomies. One needs both a design and a prototype. As you say, weeks of coding can save hours of planning. But weeks of planning can be wasted, too. It’s easy to write things on paper which don’t make
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by eadmund 2y ago
I like it. Are these the best palettes ever? No. Are they better than what someone like me would come up with? Yes! Good for the author!
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by eadmund 2y ago
Why do people write ‘Claude thinks’ or ‘ChatGPT says’? It’s literally less reliable than ‘some guy down at the bar said’ or ‘my mother’s cousin’s ex-boyfriend’s cat’s previous owner’s dad thinks.’
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by eadmund 2y ago
> you are making a choice on whether someone gets life-saving care, or lives in immense pain Is the care life-saving or pain-preventing? There is an additional option: the person pays for it. Or someone else pays for it. Since the 1980
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by eadmund 2y ago
In that case one should also have a type for dates. What I’m getting that is that a format ought to commit.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> What's wrong with Unix? When you read 847548, is that a number or is that Saturday, 10 January 1970? Having a type removes that ambiguity. It would be more JSONish for it to be human readable, maybe @1970-01-10T19:25:48.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Why have numbers, true, false or null then? Why not only support strings? {"foo": "2", "bar": "null", "baz": "false"} I’m not really being facetious: that’s what canonica
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by eadmund 2y ago
I don’t want to be able to use Common Lisp in addition to Emacs Lisp or Guile Scheme. I want to be able to use only Common Lisp, never Scheme or C. I do not want to ever have to see #include (C) or #f (Scheme) in any project.
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by eadmund 2y ago
I read the article. The bit you quote talks about putting the device in a firewalled subnet, because it is not a local-only device: it will try to dial out to a third party server, so it must be placed in a subnet which will block those at
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by eadmund 2y ago
By putting it in a "comment" field the comment survives round-tripping, which is a virtue rather than a vice.
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by eadmund 2y ago
We should’ve kept S-expressions!
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by eadmund 2y ago
If an application stores its configuration in JSON, and I edit it by hand and leave a commented ‘// I did this because the other way was broken,’ then I open the application and change the configuration there … then I expect my co
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by eadmund 2y ago
I appreciate Phil’s writing much of the time, but in this particular case I believe that he is very wrong. The whole point of JSON is that it is an object notation: JSON parses into a kind of lowest-common-denominator object, either a numbe
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by eadmund 2y ago
It looks neat, but is there a U.S. vendor? Ordering from aliexpress seems pointlessly risky.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Nicotine’s fine. The issue with smoking and chewing tobacco is the delivery system, particularly smoking. It’s a shame, because pipe tobacco tastes and smells absolutely divine. I think it’s still worth it, but understand how others disa
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by eadmund 2y ago
Does anyone here have decent suggestions for a local-only IoT dog feeder? No server, no Internet access at all, just LAN.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I don't think that many Americans would appreciate someone eating horse or dog meat in public I believe that it’s actually worse in America: to my knowledge, it is illegal to sell horse or dog meat at all in America. Which is
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The comparator would be eating pork in a Islamic State. Not really. Mohammedans don’t revere the pig; they think it is filthy. > The ban on beef is not intolerance, but a form of tolerance. That’s nonsense on stilts. It is textbook
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by eadmund 2y ago
Don’t forget that because it’s proprietary you have no idea what it’s doing to you network. Do the latest versions include a cloud service that exposes things like passwords to Unifi? Looks like that’s what Unifi Cloud is.
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by eadmund 2y ago
I really wish folks building these things in Scheme would build them instead in Lisp. Common Lisp is a better language for systems, despite a few design decisions which turn out to have been howling mistakes (the single worst is the defaul

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