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by kd5bjo 2mo ago
I fall somewhere in the middle these days- I really like knowing in advance that I have a place to sleep each night and that I have a way to get there, but then just do whatever I feel like in the moment for everything else.
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by kd5bjo 2mo ago
Who said anything about GDPR? If someone reveals to you that they are in some kind of protected class, then there’s a risk that anything you do they don’t like could see you tagged for discrimination even if it’s how you’d treat any custom
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by kd5bjo 6mo ago
That's also an option available to you: Mutex::new() is const, so there's no trouble putting one in a static variable. If the inner value can't be const-constructed, you'll need a way to prevent access before it's
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by kd5bjo 9mo ago
There's some precedent for this: Back in the 40s, the movie studios were forced to sell their stake in theaters due to antitrust issues around exclusivity. Streaming services owning studios feels like the essentially the same situatio
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
The law says that toys have to look like this, but there's often no restriction against painting an orange tip onto an actual firearm.
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
`Send`, `Sync`, and `Unpin` are special because they're so-called 'auto traits': The compiler automatically implements them for all compound types whose fields also implement those traits. That turns out to be a double-edged
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
> There’s no difference with a password, except that the sign-in process can be streamlined when everything works There is one other major difference behind the scenes: With passkeys, the service you’re logging into never has enough in
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
It’s an attack that lets the malicious actor hijack the passkey registration flow to insert a key that they know, so that they can later log in as the victim.
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
A quick read through of their anonymization process seems to indicate that they didn’t scan the message contents for PII (other than usernames). If true, that seems like a huge oversight. I also wonder what would happen if someone finds
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
I use Anki more as a serendipity engine than for memorization: Whenever[1] I have an interesting observation or thought, I'll write a couple of sentences about it and file two copies: One in Obsidian, with links to any adjacent/re
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
From my understanding, it's more that the explosion phase of a detonation is more fuel-efficient than the burning phase, but can't last very long under normal circumstances because the flame front is moving so fast-- This is a tri
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
This is one of the annoying constructions in English that has two common meanings which are the opposite of each other. It can either be referring to the worst possible/conceivable setback (as here) or to the worst encountered set
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
> You buy back shares and 'retire' them, thereby making everyone else's shares more valuable. But the cash outflow to purchase those shares makes the company less valuable at the same time. In a completely efficient marke
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
I admit that I was unaware of that order, as I currently live overseas and don’t follow US news that closely. However, the order opens with the line “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
For one thing, the US has never had an official language. English is obviously the most widely used there, but contracts and official documents written in other languages are also completely valid.
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by kd5bjo 1y ago
It's worth noting that this post is 8 years old, and some things have moved on since then. In particular, trait object upcasting is on beta now and will be promoted to stable in a couple of weeks. I know that there has also been activ
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
> The part that troubles me is how an unenforced law is practically any different than a canceled law. In the case of the Tiktok, if the Justice Department refuses to investigate, gather evidence or file charges against Tiktok or app sto
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
My parents have always gone for an absolutely huge number of white mini-lights on the tree. So many that they have to be plugged into a dimmer circuit so that the intensity isn’t blinding.
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
US congressional districts being an order of magnitude larger than UK constituencies probably has something to do with it. Also, there are significantly more MPs than representatives, so you have to swing more legislators to your side in t
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
The key thing that you get by integrating the two tools is the ability to more easily extract a single file from a multipart archive— Instead of having to reconstruct the entire file, you can look in the part/diskette with the index to
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
> There are diminishing returns but they don't really kick in until you're already pretty fit, they are only really a concern that athletes need to think about. Unfortunately, it's people at both ends of the fitness curve
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
Striking/pressing with a shaped die is the traditional process, not least because the material itself used to be the store of value rather than the provenance of the mint— The coin shape was really there to certify how much gold/s
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
At one point, I worked out that US dimes, quarters, and half dollars all weigh $20/lb (iirc), which made the task of counting my accumulated change a lot easier.
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
That's an old decision to open an investigation into X. Presumably, that investigation has now concluded producing the finding being announced today. According to the press release, "The non-confidential version of the decision w
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
Back in the Justin.tv days, we used this for some messages that were passed by the client between two of our systems: The main authentication was done by the web stack which gave the client an HMAC-signed viewing authorization. That was th
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
Because `OptionIterator` implements the `Iterator` trait, the function signature can be simplified to return just `impl Iterator<…>` like the original version did, leaving the additional type as an implementation detail. Also, a simil
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
When I was a kid, I developed a strong aversion to anything described with the terms “healthy” or “exercise” because anytime they were used, it inevitably meant that the activity had nothing else to recommend it and would be unpleasant. I
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
For completeness, Icelandic also requires Þ which I somehow forgot when writing the above comment.
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
> Was this an oversight or is there some locale that has just æ and not ø? Well, Icelandic uses ö in place of ø, but also requires ð and ý which are not included. Æ is sometimes used in older English texts, though, in words like “encyclo
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by kd5bjo 2y ago
He talks about this a bit in the final three paragraphs, that the people writing the work orders are already overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork they need to deal with, preventing them from paying enough attention to what these reports a

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