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Many OEMs have "commercial" / "corporate" displays that may be applicable:

* https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/

Smart TVs replaced dumb TVs not out of consumer demand […]

The consumer demand was/is for cheaper, and data mining is how OEMs got there. The general public got what they want, and OEMs got to keep their margins: "win-win".

It's the same thing with (US?) airlines: people wanted cheaper, and that's what was offered and they chose.

Crazy how cheap gasoline is in USA.

1 USgal is 3.78L, and so US$ 4/gal is a little under $1/L. Convenient comparison page:

* https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

"Federal Agents Were Told F.B.I. Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations":

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/pol...

“For my friends everything, for my enemies the law.” ― Oscar R. Benavides, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Óscar_R._Benavides#Later_life

Tom Hanks

Recency bias? Why not Jimmy Stewart? Gregory Peck? Humphrey Bogart? Paul Newman, Robert Redford?

With that and Flock I would think police work has never been easier.

“A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.” — Touch of Evil (1958), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfgNNfnNAa8

I think there are only two 70mm IMAX theaters in BC, right?

There are a number in Canada: Scotiabank Chinook & IMAX – Calgary, AB; Scotiabank Edmonton & IMAX – Edmonton, AB; Cineplex Cinemas Langley & IMAX – Langley, BC; Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga & IMAX – Mississauga, ON; Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan & IMAX – Woodbridge, ON ;Kramer IMAX, Saskatchewan Science Centre – Regina, SK; Cineplex Cinemas Bayers Lake & IMAX – Halifax, NS; SilverCity Riverport Cinemas & IMAX – Richmond, BC; Cinéma Banque Scotia Montréal & IMAX – Montréal, QC

Most of these theatres are run by Cineplex:

* https://www.cineplex.com/movie/imax70-the-odyssey-the-imax-e...

* https://www.imax.com/en/ca/news/the-odyssey-in-imax-70mm-fil...

Except for one at the Saskatchewan Science Centre:

* https://www.sasksciencecentre.com/the-odyssey-the-imax-exper...

For those unaware, PHK created (amongst other things) the MD5crypt password hashing algorithm ($1$…). It came before bcrypt (1999), scrypt (2009), SHA2crypt (2016), etc, and was committed in 1994:

* https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/lib/libcrypt/crypt.c?re...

* https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/3b2b7f71deba2a...

* https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp

On home editions sans gpedit.msc:

I've managed to generally avoid running Windows (at home and at work) for a long time now, but if there was a situation where I needed to get a PC (at home?), is there a recommended least-sucky way of living with?

Are there editions or scripts or a setup workflow that would make it suck less?

What is the difference between say a UK garden suburb and a new build suburb outside dallas?

The ability to do stuff without needing a car.

but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own food, which is all tied up in different experiences of war

The neighbourhood of "Cabbagetown" in Toronto is so-named because yards were not used for 'ornamental' plants:

Cabbagetown's name derives from the Irish immigrants who moved to the neighbourhood beginning in the late 1840s, said to have been so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards.[2] Canadian writer Hugh Garner's novel, Cabbagetown, depicted life in the neighbourhood during the Great Depression.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbagetown,_Toronto

If something actually saves money then it doesn't require a subsidy because people would be doing it regardless.

…assuming people are good at math.

And given that most people probably don't have a bunch of cash just sitting there doing nothing, they will have to take out a loan and most folks probably don't like going into debt even though 'the math says' it's a good ROI.

The idea that 'ROI good, therefore people will do it' is the 'spherical cow' of economics. In reality there are all sorts of other motivations for human economic actions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_economicus

The City Beautiful channel goes over the restrictions that Houston has:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaU1UH_3B5k

For example deed restrictions, where, when a sub-division is created, the use case of the lots can never be changed. See also "residential buffering ordinance", parking requirement ordinance, historic districts, etc.

The construction companies don't continue to get paid much after the construction is complete.

Perhaps construction companies could hire some copyright lobbyists to get a law passed so they're paid 75 years after the creation of the work.

Take the revenue generated from congestion pricing, and put it into public transportation.

Public transportation is often not viable for the car-centric design of many American communities. The above is necessarily to do, but development probably also needs to also change to pre-WW2 designs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

See also Dutch suburbs:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nImFJ7KKjAo

The same things keeps happening every time I find myself stuck in traffic on the interstate.

Reminder: you are not in traffic, you are traffic. :)

How are you at riding your bike through mud? Pretty good? Got nice chunky tyres?

Bicyclists were the ones to first push for paved roads:

* https://www.history.com/articles/good-roads-movement-bicycli...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_American_Bicyclists#...

I feel like apartment living as a family is worse than a spacious single family home and yard and all that. I suspect that preference holds true for most people.

And families do it in NYC, and Hong Kong, and Germany, and Spain (AFAICT, 65%), and…

This is possible if you’re not picky about where you live, where you work, your career options, how crowded your local vicinity is, or how much you pay for your residence.

Perhaps the problem is the lack of options for those people that want human-centric (versus car-centric) communities. Maybe if we let The Market™ decide, versus forcing low-density sprawl via zoning, more options would be available.

Right now, if you look on any real estate web site, you'll probably find walkable neighbourhoods have higher prices non-walkable ones: there is demand for them, but a fixed supply since they're not being made anymore, and so they get bid up. Perhaps if there were more of them, especially around commuter rail stations, it would help.

If someone purposely dug up emails you wrote 19 years ago, I'm sure they'd find some of your "dumber takes" as well.

"Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him."

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_the_man_and_I_will_giv...

In your opinion, do you think Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) [1] stands a chance to fix the mistakes of IPv6 after more than 20 years now?

IPv8 solves precisely zero of the problems that is causing a 'slow' roll out of IPv6 / replacement of IPv4:

"""

So it's a matter of mathematical and physical fact that to expand the address size, you must change the protocol, and that means two things immediately:

You have to change the version number.

You have to add new code to handle the new version.

Furthermore, you don't want to split the Internet in two, so you must design a method of interworking between the old version and the new version. Annoyingly, you need to do that in a way that can be done completely in machines that know about the new version, because other machines don't know anything at all about the new version, by definition. So,

You need a coexistence technique so that updated systems, with the new protocol, can connect to old systems that know nothing of the new protocol. Two minutes of thought show that this third requirement has only two solutions:

(3A) Dual stack, in which the new machines speak both the old (IPv4) and new (IPng) protocol.

(3B) Translation, in which something translates addresses between the old and new protocols.

[…]

Incidentally, "IPv8" proponents often ask why IPv6 didn't simply stick some extra bits on the front of IPv4 addresses, instead of inventing a whole new format. Actually, we tried that: the "IPv4-Compatible IPv6 address" format was defined in [RFC3513] but deprecated by [RFC4291] because it turned out to be of no practical use for coexistence or transition. The related "IPv4-Mapped IPv6 address" format is still valid and has a role in the POSIX socket API. Mappings of this kind also figured in the moderately successful coexistence technologies known as 6to4 [RFC3056, RFC3068] and Teredo [RFC4380], which have now been overtaken by events.

"""

* https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/blob/main/01.%20Introdu...

* Interview with author of article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3jkZ1Ulz-s

We ended up basically solving encryption by pushing everything into TLS anyway, which I guess solved much of the same problems although at a very different layer.

The "solving" of encryption with TLS should not be celebrated.

Everything needs to go over TLS/HTTP-443 because of middleware boxes basically blocking everything else by default in many cases, and so application/protocol designs have to shoehorn / kludge everything into a round hole even if it's a square peg.

Certainly I'd want everything to have encryption at the higher layers (OSI 5-7), but having opportunistic encryption at IP (OSI 3) would also be great because snoopers could tell that two nodes are communicating but not how / what: RTSP? Torrent? Mindcraft? PvP2 game? If every node could (say) do an IKEv2 negotiation with every other node have IP-level traffic wrapped in IPsec that would help with traffic analysis.

Al Gore is definitely one of them!

Al Gore Jr.'s father, the Sr., was instrumental in enacting the US Interstate Highway system:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore_Sr.#U.S._Senate

Which transformed the economy for physical goods. Jr saw parallels with the transportation of information, and coined a term (in 1978!) about it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...

Going to leap hours I think is a sufficient kick of the can down the road, one is only needed every few centuries.

The drama of rolling out the Gregorian calendar to replace the Julian so that the seasons went back to where they 'should' be shows how convoluted things could get in coördinating things.

The US killed two birds with two nukes: they prevented Japan from continuing their rampage and they prevented Russia from taking Japan.

While this is coïncidentally true, and a benefit given the later situation with the Cold War, it should be noted that there is no documentation from that time period where the 'Russian threat' was taken into account when the decision to drop the bomb has made.

There was, in later years, speculation that this was one of the reasons, but there's no memos, telegraphs, or other documents to show it was the case.

I think that everybody who supports the use of nuclear weapons should […]

I think that everybody—pro and con—should read 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon by David Dean Barrett who uses Japanese sources (including Cabinet minutes) to look at Japan's decision making process before, during, and after the bombs were dropped.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51089656-140-days-to-hir...

* https://www.nationalww2museum.org/about-us/notes-museum/140-...

The first bomb was dropped on August 6. On August 9 the Japanese War Cabinet met in the morning and got confirmation that it was a new type of weapon—and decided to not surrender. They then got news around 13:00 that in the morning a second, similar bomb was dropped, and they—could not decide to surrender or not. The War Cabinet was dead-locked 3–3, so they called in the full Cabinet and it was also dead-locked, and so they called in the Emperor, who broke the dead-lock and decided to 'stop the war'.†

And even after the Emperor himself made the call, there were still elements of the Japanese military that wanted to keep fighting and attempted a coup:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūjō_incident

So if it took two bombings (and the Emperor's personal involvement) I'm not sure how people can think zero bombings would have allowed the war to end. (The Japanese had already known for a year before the bombings that they could not win militarily).

The other two options were blockading Japan, causing mass starvation, or an invasion:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

[…] and think critically about if any creature deserves to be subjected to that

I would think critically about if any creature deserves to be subjected to the being ruled by Imperial Japan given the Rape of Nanking and other things:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

† The Japanese do not use the word "surrender" in their announcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito_surrender_broadcast

Whenever I leave a company I make sure everything that belongs to the company goes back to them […]

At $WORK we have the option of getting a work smartphone or having the company pay for (at portion of) our monthly mobile bill.

I chose a work device because I do not want any cross-contamination. (Others chose payment because they did not want the 'hassle' of carrying a second device (and to save some cash).)

The FreeBSD folks test their code for these things and it works:

* https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-Nove...

Of course third-party userland code understanding what happens is another thing.

The US manufacturing capacity was a huge factor in winning WW2.

Not wrong, but the British were outproducing the Germans in many things (e.g., aircraft[1]) even before lend-lease was a thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_producti...

The Nazis were really bad at running the economy:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction

Yubi makes an 'actual' HSM product:

* https://www.yubico.com/products/hardware-security-module/

See also perhaps less expensive option:

* https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nkhs2-nitrokey-hsm-2-7