mikestew

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by mikestew 9mo ago
Let ‘em come. Even if I could delete my posts (you can’t, BTW), I’m not deleting shit. And I’m sure not obeying in advance.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Aurora seems to be flying under the radar, this is the first I've heard of them. They seem to be actually deploying trucks, and not just smoke and mirrors.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
There was no mental health crisis, it was a bank account crisis. As in, "I sold my options on the secondary market, and those numbers on my bank statement are now so large I'm scared to stay at my job!" It was no secret what
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by mikestew 9mo ago
It's like saying why should people use Windows if Bill Gates did not write every line of it himself. What? It’s nothing like that, at all. I don’t know that Gates has claimed to have written even a single line of Windows code. I’m no
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Years ago I wrote something similar to test a biometric security piece that used keystroke timings (dwell and stroke) to determine if the person typing the password is the same person who owns the account. Short version of a long story is t
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by mikestew 9mo ago
https://archive.is/2YGij
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by mikestew 9mo ago
HN hug of death: https://web.archive.org/web/20260207195051/https://theloop.e...
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I really do hate throwing shade on someone's article, but this reads like one of those "Pearls of Wisdom from Two Years of Junior-Level Software Development". Thanks, person who just a few months ago moved to a snowy, remote
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I grew up in the middle of nowhere Midwest (where it snows plenty), and our electricity came from a rural co-op ("rural co-ops", because no one else is going to drag electrical wires out here, so we'll do it ourselves). We ra
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I knew plenty of Midwestern Baptists that didn't participate in the triple crown of no-nos: dancing, drinking, and gambling. And cards aren't necessarily gambling, but cards are the bricks that pave the road to such evil. It'
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by mikestew 9mo ago
He was on the right track. I put truck trailer tape on the inside lid of the trunk, not so visible when in normal operation. All of our motorcycles, OTOH, have strips of trailer tape right down the saddlebags because safety over aesthetics.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Allez! Allez! Bonne chance pour demain!
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by mikestew 9mo ago
I’ve tried blocking the ads with a pi-hole, to no avail. I suspect the ads come from the same servers that the articles do. I can’t find obvious ad servers in the query logs. If anyone has a hint on blocking Apple News ads at DNS, I’d love
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Ah, thanks for pointing this out.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
No comparison was made, you're just reading a lot into one sentence.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
What office is Jeff Atwood running for? I can't seem to find that information in TFA.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
45 years of writing code, and I still commit fence post errors. :eyeroll:
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by mikestew 9mo ago
It wouldn't take much to have more violent crime in Seattle, according to my gut (yeah, I know, "show me the numbers"). Granted, it's probably gotten worse since we moved here 25 some years ago, but coming from places li
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Marco Arment of Overcast related an incident where his Rivian had a simple fender bender, and his insurance was billed $15,000 in labor and parts to fix it because of the monobody construction where you have to tear apart half the car to f
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Then future downvotes won't affect your karma. Who cares? The max amount of karma loss is 4 points, we can afford to eat our downvotes like adults.
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Given that my Apple Watch throws alerts when I leave a device behind (“mikestew’s iPhone was left behind at $PLACE”), it would be just one more step to flip that “no biometrics” bit. I’m assuming that those APIs are not available to 3rd par
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Also, iirc iphones have this feature where if you appear to be under duress, it will refuse to unlock and disable face id. Is this true? Sort of: if you hold the buttons on both sides of the phone for about three seconds, it will bring up
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by mikestew 9mo ago
It's a problem Apple could easily fix: put out another small phone. I'm in the "cold dead hands" camp with our 13 Minis: when the battery dies, get a new one and hope Apple comes to their senses in four years. OTOH, mayb
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by mikestew 9mo ago
…discontinuing the basic lane keep + adaptive speed cruise control they helped pioneer in cars sold going forward. [Citation needed] Cars had adaptive cruise control and lane keeping well before Tesla showed up. As for the feature itself,
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by mikestew 9mo ago
so you win X race/competition once and then what? So now you're on a Wheaties box and making millions in endorsements, that's what. Even if it shortens their life, many athletes would take a drug that guarantees athletic su
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by mikestew 9mo ago
A high-level athlete doesn’t need to see a sports doctor. Why is that? If one wishes to observe “begging the question” in the true definition of the phrase, there ya go. Many high-level runners struggle with constant injury. And those are
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Not OP, but I’ve been running competitively for 50 years (yes, I can collect Social Security). I ran 10x20” sprints yesterday, I’ll do tempo later this week. I still race, from cross country to ultramarathons. I ran cross country nationals
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by mikestew 9mo ago
“One of the higher-frequency harmonics inevitably created by any real-world DAC during playback will then be the original fundamental, which should leak to the environment as a short-range radio transmission via the ad-hoc antenna formed b
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"IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial(arstechnica.com)
106 points by mikestew 9mo ago|31 comments
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by mikestew 9mo ago
Oh, they’re coming for IG, too: “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-settles-h...

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