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721.
by efitz 3y ago
Sounds like a 2025 summer blockbuster.
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by efitz 3y ago
I can’t think of a single time I have not been annoyed at scrolling video playback. Not because of performance, though. I just think autoplay is a cheap trick to try to gain my attention, and if I’m scrolling, it’s because I didn’t want to
723.
by efitz 3y ago
That was a great article. Archive here: https://archive.ph/QftwM
724.
by efitz 3y ago
Communication does not have to be bidirectional, but is has to carry information (meaning). Cosmic background radiation is not communication; your local FM station is .
725.
by efitz 3y ago
I was just a tad young to care when the voyager spacecraft were first launched, but I have followed the adventures of these spacecraft since the mid 80s. I remember being a little disappointed in the “Neptune all night” TV special during t
726.
by efitz 3y ago
I worked in Microsoft support for domains and security from the mid 90s through the launch of Windows 2000. I haven't worked for Microsoft in more than a decade and I don't speak for them; I'm just recollecting. Many of you
727.
by efitz 3y ago
How is this less secure than MDNS? Asking for a friend.
728.
by efitz 3y ago
I use a password manager that supports passkeys so overall I don’t care. However, I have two gripes with passkeys: (1) the workflow for getting a passkey is all over the place; I wish it was more uniform, and (2) diagnosability is crap. Th
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by efitz 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ndoUh
730.
by efitz 3y ago
I have no doubt costs are high (after all, it’s a government project and it has the word “nuclear” in the name). That said, the article reads like anti-nuclear fear mongering: “SEE! This is why we have to ban nuclear power because nuclear
731.
by efitz 3y ago
Swarms in nature are composed of nodes (organisms) that each have a neural network, and which have light and ephemeral connectivity (sensory input) to adjacent nodes. I guess if you wanted to be pedantic, there is no swarm, or in other word
732.
by efitz 3y ago
Many of us here grew up in the answering machine era where leaving a message was normal, expected behavior- when phones were not carried on your person.
733.
by efitz 3y ago
For my last house, I had spent years on smart home automation, I had a binder that contained clear instructions I wrote for everything, and receipts for every upgrade I ever made on the home, warranty docs, QR codes to download smart home a
734.
by efitz 3y ago
I was always a huge fan of SRV records; it gives you the ability to easily and quickly shape traffic centrally when clients and protocol are not under your control. However, I found very few allies in this. Most people that I talked to dis
735.
by efitz 3y ago
It’s not that great for blades as it doesn’t retain its edge as well as steel and is harder to sharpen.
736.
by efitz 3y ago
> I don't think it's literally impossible to avoid the same mistakes as our predecessors. Our predecessors didn’t make mistakes; they made rational choices that led to outcomes we don’t like. We (for some subset of us that be
737.
by efitz 3y ago
I was thinking the same thing. If the migration took more than one man-year then they lost money. Also what happens at hardware end-of-life? Also what happens if they encounter an explosive growth or burst usage event? And did their curren
738.
by efitz 3y ago
I have a lot of friends at work that have H1B visas. They try to get green cards but the process drags out often for more than a decade. Why is it so hard for people who want to be here, and who have well paying jobs, to get green cards?
739.
by efitz 3y ago
They should eliminate the license altogether and get out of the business of deciding who can practice law. Professional licensing is generally a scam that allows people in a trade to control competition among other things. Under color of g
740.
by efitz 3y ago
They are not giving me a free, local API. They are doing everything possible to make the API unusable except by their application, and they are throwing ads all over their app and using dark patterns to hid the open/close buttons unti
741.
by efitz 3y ago
They are afraid a potential partner will use the automation meant for customers. This is just more enshittification in order to exploit revenue channels other than direct sales.
742.
by efitz 3y ago
I wish I had known about ratgdo a few months ago. I spent a month trying to get a Meross smart garage door opener add on to work with the chamberlain that was already in my home, only to realize that the button was using some kind of obfus
743.
by efitz 3y ago
Not at all. Since the app is linked to a system that opens your specific garage door, it will be obvious because they push the button and the door in front of them does not open.
744.
by efitz 3y ago
I had an ex-Bridgewater colleague a couple jobs ago, who brought “Radical Transparency “ with him. One on one he was a nice enough guy, and he was super smart. In meetings or as a manager he was a nightmare and left a dumpster fire of pro
745.
by efitz 3y ago
I agree; let’s change the laws!
746.
by efitz 3y ago
I hate IP in its current forms yet I have trouble getting particularly outraged by this article. If we have laws protecting IP, why is it wrong to enforce them? Why is it wrong to train LE to recognize counterfeits? Granted the article did
747.
by efitz 3y ago
So I have to take a shell dependency on Node.js? Hard pass
748.
by efitz 3y ago
I am sick of everybody asking for feedback everywhere, and nobody wants to spend any human effort looking at the feedback. And the worst of it is the "Do you love our app?" dark pattern.
749.
by efitz 3y ago
But they don’t want that, and they are not wrong for wanting to live a more comfortable and less brutal life.
750.
by efitz 3y ago
Americans are way too materialistic and there needs to be a reckoning of this if anything is going to change. If this lifestyle works for you, then good for you. Try raising children that way. There is nothing wrong with wanting to live a

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