leptons

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931.
by leptons 1y ago
"Buyer beware" always applies, no exceptions.
932.
by leptons 1y ago
A common practice by shady sellers with 18650 lithium cells is to advertise a group of 4 of them as "2000mAh", but it's the total of each cell, not the individual cell ratings. So you're really getting four 500mAh batter
933.
by leptons 1y ago
I imagine the counterfeit market for lithium batteries is quite large, so maybe not always amazingly safe.
934.
by leptons 1y ago
eBay. Plenty of excellent vintage un-shittified sound equipment for sale. You may need to re-cap the amplifiers, but the speakers should still sound perfect.
935.
by leptons 1y ago
If more people read the cases against Apple by the DOJ & the EU, they probably wouldn't have such a high opinion of Apple.
936.
by leptons 1y ago
There's about a million steps after that one.
937.
by leptons 1y ago
>but Safari and Chrome have Not on iOS. On iOS, it's all Safari, all the time, for every web browser app. Apple forbids any web browser engine other than Safari on iOS.
938.
by leptons 1y ago
Eyewitnesses. Often the police and the news narrative are very different than eyewitness accounts. Even if everyone knows what happened, it's completely obvious, the news and police still obfuscate.
939.
by leptons 1y ago
Was the axe or the chainsaw designed in such a way that guarantees that it will definitely miss the log and hit your hand fair amount of the times you use it? If it were, would you still use it? Yes, these hand tools are dangerous, but they
940.
by leptons 1y ago
The chainsaw doesn't sometimes chop off your arm when you are using it correctly.
941.
by leptons 1y ago
I don't care that they aren't web standards, and I don't care if Apple ever implements them in Safari. ** What matters is that Apple is still blocking other browser vendors from using anything but Safari. ** The fact you ca
942.
by leptons 1y ago
It's from the movie "Back to the Future"
943.
by leptons 1y ago
I'm pretty average, living in a small home, and my electric bill is already >$500/mo in the summer, and that's with the A/C set at 76F during the day.
944.
by leptons 1y ago
You could do a simple google search and find hundreds of articles. Here's a few... https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/experts-warn-clima... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/
945.
by leptons 1y ago
Rising global temperatures will likely lead to increased pathogen activity.
946.
by leptons 1y ago
It depends on from what angle you are looking at it. If the goal is to destabilize the US, then yes, the tariffs are working.
947.
by leptons 1y ago
I've done plenty of custom binary protocols before. I can't say they were any better or easier to deal with. I also can't say that the "parser" for a binary format was any easier than a simple, limited JSON parser.
948.
by leptons 1y ago
I controlled both ends. There is nothing "insane" about JSON. It's used far and wide for many purposes. The system sending the JSON was based on Nodejs, so it was pretty natural to use JSON. And I did it with JSON just becaus
949.
by leptons 1y ago
I was using a checksum to protect against "bitrot" since this was over a very noisy serial transmission line (over a slip ring). So, no, there was no "undefined behavior" and it's quite easy to avoid.
950.
by leptons 1y ago
JSON does not necessarily come from untrusted sources if you control the entire system. Not everything needs to be absolutely 100% secure so long as you control the system. If you are opening the system to the public, then sure, you should
951.
by leptons 1y ago
quality > quantity
952.
by leptons 1y ago
It's both.
953.
by leptons 1y ago
Not everyone doing things on the web is a pro developer using typescript. There are millions of use cases for plain-old javascript in the browser to get work done, probably many more cases of that than there are pro developers using typescr
954.
by leptons 1y ago
>It's Apple doing the whole "extinguish" thing that Apple pioneered by forbidding other browsers so they can lock people in FTFY Without IE we wouldn't have XMLHTTPRequest, something used by practically every web deve
955.
by leptons 1y ago
The last straw for me was when I received an email "from my boss" telling me of my holiday bonus with a link to click. Well I knew that was a phishing-test email right away because that cheap bastard has never given me a holiday b
956.
by leptons 1y ago
I used to have [firstname]@gmail.com when gmail was in beta. They took it back when they went live :(
957.
by leptons 1y ago
I use [vendor name]@[mycustomdomain].com which is a catch-all email, [anything]@[mycustomdomain].com goes to my inbox, so if I use something like disney@[mycustomdomain].com and then I have to talk to someone on the phone about an order and
958.
by leptons 1y ago
The phishing-emails-as-a-test emails were so frequent that I started flagging all emails from our company that had a link in them as phishing emails and let the IT staff tell me which ones were real. They didn't enjoy that so they stop
959.
by leptons 1y ago
A lot of people don't understand the performance limits of the Raspberry Pi. It's a great little platform for some things, but it isn't really fit for half the use cases I've seen.
960.
by leptons 1y ago
Apple sez: We don't want to implement any of those APIs, and we forbid you to use a browser that implements them, because reasons. Your comments are some Stockholm-syndrome level nonsense you're spouting to protect your favorite b

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