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Oh that sounds fun. I’m in.
Title should state "US Government..."
>Supreme Court might be sympathetic to some of the industry’s arguments

No surprise here, the US Supreme Court is now just like the rest of the US Gov, they are very happy to take bribes. And due to how the US Gov is structured, no way to stop them from holding out their hand. So getting appointed to that Court is a great gig, you do not even have to care about the law these days.
Adding to the todo list. Should not be too hard to implement :)
Thanks for the suggestion!
Show me you’re a part of the problem, corrupt drug maker without telling me you’re a part of the problem, corrupt drug maker.
For anyone interested in solid-state battery usage, Mercedes-Benz has already released vehicles with such batteries to customers, even as far back as 2021 [0].

[0] - https://www.electrive.com/2021/12/20/mercedes-buses-with-sol...
I have a small amount of experience making cheese, and have only made it with pasteurized milk as it is not easy to find raw milk where I live. However, in the US at least, there is both pasteurized and ultra pasteurized milk. Pasteurized uses a lower temperature for a longer period than ultra pasteurized. The vast majority of milk in the US is ultra pasteurized. My understanding from reading articles on cheesemaking is you can't really use it to make cheese as the curd doesn't develop correctly. While I haven't made cheese with raw milk, there is no doubt it tastes better than processed milk. I know because I worked on a dairy farm when I was young, and used to drink it practically straight from the cow. I did get sick once though, so it's an actual risk.
> And [Boomers] have enormous needs.

I extrapolate this to be saying "Compared to other named generations, Boomers have much higher per capita needs". How so?

Or are you rather saying the size of the Boomer generation, being enormous, causes them to collectively have "enormous needs"?
There is a good Munro and Assoc video going into the packaging differences between ICE and EV vehicles. The Prius (of which I am a happy operator) is ICEV packaging-wise. The battery is relatively high, small and not integrated into the frame.

As a huge company Toyota may well have the people with ideas about EV transition. Unfortunately as a huge company there are a thousand interests that will be harmed by EV transition. Can Toyota (or VW, MB, Stellantis, etc) overcome those internal conflicts to produce something out of their wheelhouse? Or will it take an acquisition that moves with distinct branding that eventually becomes the entire company?
A few years ago I was hired on at my local sheriff's department and I was so disappointed that we did not have a dot gov domain.
> Amongst its responsibilities was frustrating the German war effort, and to that end, it wrote a short set of “best practices” - the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

I read anything that's referring to Germany or Austria as a group of people close to or on the spectrum. Perhaps this is why the saying exists "it takes one to know one" when thinking of Hans Asperger!

And you have to question, are govt budgets a representation of the characteristics of society, ergo are large military budgets reflecting the violent nature of a country?
How does that take care of the accessibility issue?
You never come up with the right interface at first because there is no right interfaces. There are better interfaces, but you usually need to encounter more situations to find it. Balancing up front time designing an interface with velocity to test it is a principle problem of software development.
It's unlikely for a scammer to get a gov domain.
This sounds like a decent idea until you realize that means one of two options:

- A US Government controlled CA root preinstalled on computers. Privacy advocates would be in arms.
- Constant untrusted CA warnings when trying to access any government site.
Right? Why all these accessibility tags and features if we have to outright disable meaningful features for the other 95% of users?

We can have both!
Cool, here's something I can talk about!

At Toradex we provide an operating system and OTA platform called Torizon which is Yocto-based but uses Debian containers with custom packages for hardware acceleration, so our customers have the customisation of Yocto (if they so desire) while getting a very familiar programming environment (Debian). "The best of both worlds", so to say.

Customers are very happy to not deal with the usual Yocto mess.

[1] https://developer.toradex.com/torizon/provided-containers/de...

Disclosure: I'm a software engineer at Toradex.
GSA had that chance when they wrote the rules for all government services to use https. They didn’t even offer letsencrypt, much less build their own CA. The corporate CAs wanted their cut of more tax money.
Hacking Little Computer People on the Commodore Amiga
Whimsy has its own merits at times.
Very legitimate concern and one I've been thinking about a lot. Honestly, I think the best way to address this is to just go open source, which I'm totally open to. I think once I've validated the idea a bit and know it's something people are interested in, I'll focus on this issue and come up with a solution (whether it's open sourcing or something else)
This isn't about take-out, it's about dine-in-but-do-the-service-yourself.
Note that the Soviets invaded Manchuria on the same day as the Nagasaki bomb: 1.5m men, 27k artillery, 5.5k tanks.

Not sure how much this factored in the actual Japanese decision to surrender, but it certainly needs to be mentioned in any discussion of a non-nuclear endgame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria
It's kind of implied, right? Since .gov is only for the US.
Rather than increasing the complexity even further, we need laws that anything longer than two standard pages of 12 point text is prima facie invalid. Exceptions for when attorneys are involved, or negotiated contracts that go back and forth a few times with substantive changes. Subjecting individuals to unbounded contract terms, often by contracts of adhesion, is an anti-feature.
Is Rome still being actively developed? Haven't heard much about it in years.
Yeah what’s the hesitation for having an API?
I don't know much about Miami. But some urban areas of the US absolutely do have very nice transit systems. The trick comes when people need or want to travel outside of those transit systems' boundaries. People seem to forget in this conversation that the US is one country that is more than double the land mass of the entire European Union. If you lived in Portugal, would you take a train to Lithuania? That would be like taking the train from San Francisco to Chicago. As mentioned before, people have friends, family, and jobs spread all around this land. I knew many people who took the train into work in the suburbs of Chicago. I used to ride my bike 16 kilometers into work every day. But what we all needed a car for was visiting our family out in rural Illinois.
Agreed. This makes me incredibly uncomfortable. I'd rather a simple SDK that pushes the contact details to their API.
I’ve always thought it was weird that the Canadian federal government uses canada.ca almost exclusively. You see a lot of

https://service-service.canada.ca/sign-up-sinscrire.aspx

.ca is open for registration by anyone, and people are used to seeing that TLD. Combine that with the bilingual super long domain names and every once in a while you’ll see a phishing scam like:

https://service-service-canada.ca/sign-up-sinscrire.aspx

CIRA could set up a .gov.ca second level or something if they really wanted to keep the .ca, but I don’t think that will happen at this point.

It’s at least consistant in looking like a phishing scam!
First shop I worked at in 1998 was hosting dozens of websites using all BSDi —-it was the first thing I really managed as a sysadmin. Such a pleasure to run! Everything very sanely laid out, it was easy to compile the extra tools we needed, the serial consoles were trivial to set up without extra boards, and provided the hardware was good it was stable as hell. The only downside was the lack of certain tools: we had a single Sun box for running Oracle and ColdFusion, for instance. I was sad when we were bought and the new owners converted everything to other platforms.

Seems like today, given the proclivity of open-source/non-platform-locked tooling, someone would be looking at making that a viable solution for boutique design-plus-hosting. But maybe those days are gone.
Call to action page:

https://www.recodingamerica.us/take-action

For "Technologists and Designers," options include

Volunteer with government
Do a tour of duty
Learn about working in government
Finding job opportunities
* Become a policy entrepreneur
Early career technologists

The only "outside-in" option is the starred one, I think.
The original adapter for mikrotik 750 is 24V/380mA (9.12W). This is not a sufficient way to supply power to 3 devices, no matter how you dice it.
"No" — Tejay Fletcher
Actually exactly what was used for washing the hands and the body in the Ancient World is a bit of a mystery, I have never seen an adequate discussion of this.

In the Ancient World, at least from almost 4000 years ago, i.e. when the Epic of Gilgamesh was written, until less than 2000 years ago, by the time of Pliny the Elder, the main use of the vegetable oils, including of oils like sesame oil or olive oil, was not as food, but for body massage, preferably mixed with perfumes.

Starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh, but also in many later literary works, until in the early Roman Empire, the greatest pleasures for civilized people were described as eating bread, drinking beer or wine and being anointed with vegetable oil.

While it must have been pleasant to be smeared with oil, all good things come to an end. Greasy hands or greasy clothes are undesirable, so they must have had some means to wash the abundant oil from their bodies, at a time when they did not have soap.

The most likely method for removing the oil from the skin is that they have used lye made from plant ashes (i.e. potassium carbonate) or from mineral natron (sodium carbonate).

However, at least for a modern sensitive skin such harsh washing methods seem rather unpleasant, which seems inconsistent with the pleasure associated by the ancients with anointing.
There's reason to think otherwise: Natural Gas is being replaced and is due to see price increases. It will likely be replaced by electricity (namely Heat-Pump HVAC systems, and induction cook tops).

In some states some developments aren't even hooked to the gas network, and the homes standards are such that electrification is the default.

You have to measure electricity demand over years, not months, because seasonal changes and or weather can really corrupt your data.
The numbers aren't really supporting this claim, though? They continue to pull in record crowds. The past few years were hit hard, but we have a solid reason for that. Most everything else will be secondary. Not non-existent, but not the primary driver.

Even the concern over AI generated content seems odd to me. Video games have shown that complete photo realism is not needed to attract ever growing numbers of consumers. Such that I can absolutely see AI and procedurally generated content being used in clever ways by creators.

That is, I largely think it will be a new market that exists along side existing ones. But it is definitely coming.
Partially agree, partially disagree.

Yes. Absolutely, Church-Turing is a claim not just about math and computation but about physics too, because any and all math "runs on" hardware or wetware or some other system that obeys the laws of physics.

But I disagree with your assessment of the halting problem. It is not possible to have, even in theory, a machine that solves it. This is from the classic proof of undecidability of the problem, which involves, just as you have, supposing the existence of a machine to oracularly answer the question. You can then construct a logical paradox using a machine that enters an infinite loop if its input is a halting machine, and halts if its input is a non-halting machine, and simply run this machine on itself. It cannot both halt and not halt, so you have to back up and invalidate the assumption that the halting-problem machine could exist. No appeal to physics is required for this proof.

Ok, so now the fun part: Let this mathematical impossibility speak into the domain physics by way of Church-Turing. Your accelerating machine is not only mathematically impossible, it _must_ also be physically impossible, else we have to throw out Church-Turing. We deduce that the laws of physics are somehow constrained so as to make it impossible.
I think it's particularly interesting that the US use .gov and not .gov.us (as a Brit). I'm sure there are oversights on who can acquire an inherently international .gov domain, but for example here in the UK .gov.uk domains have a strict application process [0] managed by central government.

It just seems to me that it would be more secure, and more reassuring to citizens and visitors that they are on the correct site it's under a cctld that's clearly affiliated to and managed by that government.

0: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-and-manage-a-gov-uk-domain-name

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Edit: turns out .gov is exclusively for the US, not sure I feel good about that, particularly as .com and .net are very much not just for the US.

The possibility of the US government creating a .gov specifically to confuse uses in a foreign country isn't ideal.

I get it, you invented the internet, but the special status you have over it is a little frustrating.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/M-23-1...
My wild guess would be 20% smaller. Css, layout, rendering, images, video, audio, etc still huge.
I got an official email from New York State's Office Of The Comptroller with a link to osc.state.ny.us. It came from an email address @osc.ny.gov. I don't understand why they couldn't use an official TLD in the URL too.
When things like the pandemic and disrupted supply chains happen, companies sometimes need to move in a different direction than planned. Or is Tesla's massive growth in the last few years and sales numbers not enough to convince you they might actually know what they are doing?
Successful companies don't adhere to arbitrary announcements and timelines; they change plans when necessary.
Along similar lines, the only scenario I've found where auto-focus on input can be obnoxious is with mobile devices. Causing the virtual keyboard to appear by default can make the display scroll and shift unexpectedly, reducing accessibility (if unexpected, of course).

I hadn't thought about assistive technologies in general, so this is useful to consider.
The doctor isnt the one in danger dying or getting sick, that seems like a big distinction and probably the reason people were skeptical of it.
Justice Thomas said (in 2001) that for the pay they receive no one would take the job if not for the gifts.
Do you have a source for those numbers? They don't agree with the Fed's statistics: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ALTSALES
Always found it arbitrary that .gov is only for use by the US.
It’d be more interesting to see a list of sites that end in .gov but aren’t government associated. I feel like the creation of such a site would involve some inside connections and shady backroom deals.
I believe that current approach to diversity is too focused on race\gender\orientation issues. I suspect that this rather brings more imbalance. To make things truly shine the scope must be widened. The first criterions which come to mind are general intelligence and skills. I strongly believe that the current sad state of Google search which everybody complains about can be easily attributed to their policy of hiring smart and skillful employees.
Debugging tools I wish I knew earlier
1Password is a must have nowadays for me, which is why I couldn't use even Orion [0] which supposedly has support for both Chrome and Firefox extensions. I miss automatic password saving and instant 2FA autofill without the extension.

Mate Translate is another. The builtin translate feature of Safari is good but it supports very few languages.

The others are nice-to-haves, but I could live without:

- uBlacklist: block websites from appearing in search results
- Rekt: removes annoying "use our app" popups
- Dark Reader: well-made dark mode for websites that don't support it
- Super Agent: automatically accepts cookies and hides those cookie nags and popups

[0] https://browser.kagi.com/
You won't die... if you drink a gallon of water a day, and get enough electrolytes. If you don't, though, 120F can certainly kill you.
But they're very closely related. A complex item is going to have a more complex manufacturing process than a simple item. Have you ever seen how big an aircraft factory is?
> One trick pony.

Care to explain? Because by this metric every carmaker is a one trick pony. Tesla even more so.
Dashlane seems compatible with the browser. As well as Omnivore. I want to be able to set Kagi as my primary search engine.

Also, the input fields seem to be wiped if I switch tabs.

I think I will try to switch for a while.
> The Prius in 1997 doesn't count? Sure it was a Hybrid mainly because of no charging network.

A hybrid is not an EV. It gets 100% of its energy from gasoline. Plug-in hybrids have a better claim to being an EV.
The grid is going to explode. Let's start with California. Because they're a large economy, a large population centre and a famously leading on environmental issues, they tend to run into scaling and environmental problems first.

Do you remember news about the California grid straining under the heat wave in 2022? The governor sent text messages to every Californian asking them to minimise their power usage? Power consumption across the state* reached 52GW.

Every April, by the rules of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, each state receives submissions of new projects that people want to build and connect to the grid. Each of these is called a "Cluster". In April 2021, cluster 14 included a proposed 110GW of new power generation. This was so many submissions that the state couldn't even finish their legally mandated analysis of all of the proposed projects in time for the new submissions for April 2022, so they pushed Cluster 15 back to 2023 (approved by FERC). It's past April 2023 and Cluster 15 projects proposed 354GW worth of power. If we take that CA can produce 50GW now, and add clusters 14 and 15, that's a little over 10× our current maximum power generation. You could argue that maybe some of these projects won't get built, that always happens in every cluster, but the number of withdrawn applications is a smaller percentage than usual.

Estimates are that EVs will require us to double our current power generation.

The glut in new power construction is not a California-specific phenomenon. https://www.ferc.gov/news-events/news/ferc-proposes-intercon...

* technically across the California Independent State Operator, https://caiso.com , which is about 80% of California and also includes a tiny bit of Nevada for geographical reasons.
So every time the FBI/CIA sets up a domain for a sting operation it has to be listed here? Seems like an Achilles' heel, no?
This comparison doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It's like saying "when I need a dessert, I prefer pie to gelato". I mean, yes, they're both dessert, but they're not the same category of thing.

Debian is great, and it's somewhat famous for the wide varieties of architectures it runs on. But fundamentally, it's an OS meant for use on systems that look a lot more like a computer than an embedded device. It's true, there's a good amount of overlap these days -- the most common OS for Raspberry Pi's is a Debian derivative, Raspbian -- but if you were building an IP camera, it's hardly the first thing I'd recommend.

Yocto, on the other hand, isn't really a distribution of Linux as much as it is a pile of code that lets you craft your own distribution. In a way, it shares some attributes with Gentoo here, though much more narrowly focused. Yocto is meant to produce images that get "flashed", even if not literally to EEPROM; it has integrations with tools like mender, that allow A/B/x style failover on updates. You'd expect things made with Yocto to be upgraded in a single block -- OS, code, all of it -- because it's all meant to run together. Updating a single package isn't really how Yocto is meant to work.

All in all, I mean... yes, I agree with the fundamental point: in most circumstances, when working on low-resource embedded devices, you're probably going to want something more like Yocto than like Debian, but, also, it's a very strange comparison to make.
Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk (2019)
Am on FF on Android with uBO in UK via Virgin Media (fixed line), I just get "This video is not available" with no further explanation.
Isn't it just that .gov is the US one? Like .com vs. .co.uk (though since it's not actually important that's blurred) or .org vs. .org.uk.

Or .edu vs. .ac.uk; .mil vs. .mod.uk.

They got there first and just spread over TLDs before consigning other nations to fit under one I suppose.
I mean, a friend of mine was recently travelling through the Netherlands and asked some police officers for directions, but because he didn't have ID with him he was arrested and put in a cell overnight.
Probably closer to the PM didn't specify, the PO had a deadline, the Scrum Master wanted a lower estimate, the devs don't want to argue, and QA followed the acceptance criteria and didn't want to be seen as an impediment, especially since the devs had already surrendered.
I needed 22 tab presses to achieve the comment field here w/o mouse and tab enter to send.
I've been working at an organization for 3 years that contracts McKinsey (and others, like BCG) frequently. Based on that experience, I automatically ignore everything coming out of these consultant companies.
Eh… I don’t think there’s anything to say there. Companies tend not to have data on the sexual orientation of their employees. Such studies are not possible to do.

Promoting inclusivity for sexual orientation and gender is different from trying to improve diversity. I think it’s pretty rare to see the latter relative to racial diversity efforts.
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I see no "sponsored" labels on Google shopping results. Does anyone else? How do you tell when it's an ad?
While OpenWRT is really good and often the best one for really constrained Linux HW, adding features like secure-boot and secure storage to the builds can be much more difficult than on Yocto. Especially when vendors like NXP provide that functionality in their Yocto BSPs. This can be important for commercial projects because a lot of customers are now asking for such features to secure end-devices.