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So this is strange, it popped up on Cloudflare’s RSS feed so I thought it was new. I’m guessing they edited the article but haven’t been able find a a diff against the original 2022 version.
The Indiana variant of this phrase was “tighter than two coats of paint” which meant a person who was tight with money (cheap).
For tracking uniques, why can’t we just set a “first_visit=false” cookie if not present on first request? The number of new unique users is then the number of requests that came in without that cookie in whatever time window. Expiration timeline left as an exercise for the reader (month, week, whatever).
This zero-entropy cookie cannot be linked to a specific person and would not require consent under any privacy law I think.
Guild-style unions seem to be about setting and enforcing cartel pricing, not work quality. At least for the construction and remodeling subcontractors I encounter.
Why can’t Postgres auto-tune these values itself in 2026? Microsoft SQL Server has mostly done a good job of this since about 2005. It will set parallelism thresholds, soak up as much cache RAM and CPU as the runtime environment allows, etc. It will give RAM back when the OS is under memory pressure, and schedule worker threads based on current resources.
A DB with a privileged supervisor process could generally detect how much free RAM, CPU usage/layout, etc at startup and re-evaluate periodically while running.
Illinois bans nearly all fireworks, not just commercial grade. You can basically only buy sparklers or tiny fountains.
You have to visit Wisconsin or Indiana to get anything that pops, spins, bangs, or flies. Even those little ground spinners are banned in Illinois and they are hardly “commercial grade”.
That’s generally too slow though; these things run in kernel space as they scan every I/O stream. Context switching and memory copies would kill performance.
they have not hiked up their prices yet
That one aged poorly. Apple massively hiked prices 2 days later, by thousands of USD on some RAM-heavy configurations.
This is market-dependent. We offer email OTP login for small business customers because it is “poor man’s SSO”. You’re basically validating the recipient is still at the company, able to receive at their work email.
Larger customers have IT staff and set up OIDC or SAML with us. We don’t add an SSO tax.
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The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity.
The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that was never tested before combat use. The physics and engineering were comparably straightforward so the scientists were very sure it would work assuming the Urnaium enrichment was pure enough.
Vena is one of the most popular enterprise budgeting/forecasting packages. It ships as a new-style Excel extension making Excel the UI for department heads contributing to a rolled up enterprise budget
The key is still in the TPM in that scenario it just requires a password to unlock it.
Luxury goods are funny. No way an owner of this $650K car can stomach the same app as the peasant who owns a $250K Ferrari Amalfi.
Purple-gray text on a black background is totally unreadable. Text zoom being overridden as well. Can’t use product with middle-aged eyes.
One thing that gets neglected by policymakers is that our top priority for energy policy should be resiliency. That means distributed systems with varied generation sources, without dependence on foreign suppliers.
This requires regulation unfortunately as it is inherently less efficient and cost optimized than the 1-2 solutions the market will coalesce around.
Solar + batteries are great but if the panels and cells all come from China we can’t base our energy future on that. We’d just be trading the Strait of Hormuz for the Taiwan Strait.
I know the USA can build forests of wind turbines that stretch from horizon to horizon. I’ve seen it in central Indiana. But can we do the same with solar cells and batteries?
Because “Page-cache write into any readable file” is a memory safety bug? All of these recent Linux LPEs are memory safety issues.
Bitcoin has no dispute/chargeback mechanism in case of error or fraud. That inherent unsafety trumps just about all other safety concerns for a practical payment network.
Jira is justifiably derided, but Bamboo was truly Atlassian’s entry into the worst software of all time derby. Basically a random event generator masquerading as a CI/CD system.
Not sure what the appeal is for Anthropic.
I’ve observed airlines will do this as well if they have maintenance or gate queues. They will sacrifice 1-2 flights (hours late or even cancelled) to keep many other flights near on-time. Fewer angry customers, better reported average “on-time” metrics.
Concur. My kids and watched a “small” Falcon 9 launch from the mainland park nearest the pad at Cape Canaveral. The noise alone was astonishing; bring binoculars to see detail.
FIPS-140 allowed encryption using 3DES up until Jan 1 2024, and allowed certification of modules containing SHA-1 through the end of 2025. There is some transition-timeline nuance involved, but those examples are in general pretty horrible from a security perspective.
The shortage of ATC staff dates back to the Clinton Administration. It’s just hard to attract people into a 5+ year training program for a very stressful job where you might get bounced near the end with no payout and no transferrable job skills.
Unlike in sports/stocks there are no rules / punishment for insider trading.
Wouldn’t the good old-fashioned fraud laws present in basically every jurisdiction apply?
This article states higher per-capita horse deaths in 1900 New York City than automobile deaths in 2023. This stat does not account for the significant disease caused by all that manure mixing with water supplies. Its unclear if automobile pollution is overall worse from a public health standpoint than mountains of horse poo.
https://horse-canada.com/horses-and-history/the-poo-conferen...
Before the introduction of cars, “poor road engineering practices” wouldn’t result in those deaths.
Death by adverse horse encounter was very common before the 1920s. Not sure how many of those deaths can be blamed on poor quality road engineering. But putting a bunch of humans, carts, and excitable half-ton animals in the same crowded streets seems like poor engineering practice.
Title has been modified by this submission. Actual title of article is Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer.
This same scenario happened to me as well, and my “appeal” was instantly automatically denied.
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Please stop with the hyperbole. Shit is bad enough; more fake news from any direction doesn’t help.
Perhaps it was actually an authorized drone?
Here in the USA quad-copter drones are used to inspect powerlines and other infrastructure; I see them a few times per year in my area. I don’t see why they wouldn’t use drones to visually inspect train tracks as well. Very cost effective and energy efficient alternative to manual inspection in a vehicle of some kind.
Liquids are heavy. A large chunk of the retail cost in bottled drinks of all types is transport and distribution.
The same is true of liquid detergents and soaps and anything else you buy that is mostly water - even fresh produce.