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New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

SAI_Peregrinus — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:36:20 +0000

Yep, it's Murphy's law of online content. Anything you want to reference later will be gone, with no archive copies. Anything you want deleted will be available forever.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:31:22 +0000

It certainly can be a good thing! But it can also be considered a bad thing that you have to keep taking them, and have to keep paying for them forever. A one-time fix (a cure) can be more desirable than a lifelong treatment regimen.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:20:10 +0000

SOC2 requires a company to write policies in a large number of areas, and to demonstrate that they're complying with the policies they wrote. AFAIK SOC2 does not require anything meaningful about the actual contents of the policies, nor does it require the policies to remain constant.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:58:12 +0000

I think they mean they're drugs you have to keep taking forever (for the rest of your life) to keep the effects.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Claude Is Down"

SAI_Peregrinus — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:55:50 +0000

It's not just down, it has errors. Not merely some, but elevated errors across all models.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

SAI_Peregrinus — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:42:24 +0000

By "runny scrambled" I mean a folded omelette with a runny center, just-set exterior, and no browning. Classic French style, not just slop on a plate.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:29:12 +0000

I do French-style omelets in a carbon steel pan, on an electric cooktop. Mine's an 8.5" omelet pan, perfect for two egg omelets. I treat it a lot like a wok: heat up until a bit of water dropped in shows the Leidenfrost effect, dump out the water, dump in oil, let it smoke for a few seconds, dump out the oil, then reduce heat, add butter, and drop in the (pre-scrambled & strained) eggs & start mixing while moving the pan back & forth. As the eggs start cooking through, begin rolling by folding up the side & back over, once fully rolled slide onto plate.

This takes practice. I made an omelet a day for a bit over a month to get it to the point I could make one perfect every time. The first few were garbage, after about a week I got a decent result, and the rest was just refining my heat control to get it correct reliably.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:00:36 +0000

Runny scrambled (French omelet) isn't too bad on carbon steel IME. And certainly possible on cast iron, since that was the type of pan used when Carême wrote his cookbook. By Escoffier's time carbon steel was more common. Neither of them is famous for having invented a time machine, both predate non-stick cookware, and they're the most famous French chefs in history.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

SAI_Peregrinus — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:56:57 +0000

To add (and agree), if you've got (say) a 10-word Diceware-style passphrase with ≥128 bits of entropy, the point of a KDF becomes solely for the domain separation that KDFs provide. That's not particularly relevant for the USB drive case, but it's very useful in the general case of deriving keys. If I'm writing encryption software for my own use where I know I'll be generating a secure (≥128 bits of entropy) passphrase, I just use HKDF or Blake3's KDF mode.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage"

SAI_Peregrinus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:53:40 +0000

Not all providers tread dots and plusses the same. Gmail ignores dots (strips them out), and omits a plus and anything after it. Some providers include dots, so stripping them will be a different email address. Same for plusses and the content after them.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

SAI_Peregrinus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:44:10 +0000

Schemes like this just indicate they've joined the USB IF.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]"

SAI_Peregrinus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:44:58 +0000

On the plus side, in electroplating the positive ions are what actually moves. So in the experiments where you can visually see something move from one terminal to the other the conventional current direction is obviously correct.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

SAI_Peregrinus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:36:07 +0000

Name it `-->result.txt`

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "We want Texans to know their rights"

SAI_Peregrinus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:54:08 +0000

They also believe in eternal torture as punishment. If someone doesn't accept their god, their god will send that person's soul to hell to be tortured forever. Therefore, essentially anything can be justified to force people to accept their god, since no finite amount of harm can exceed the infinite torture of hell.

People who believe that sort of thing are, IMO, extremely evil, and worshiping an evil deity.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone"

SAI_Peregrinus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:08:44 +0000

Nearly every bug is at best a denial of service. If the service worked as expected, there wouldn't be any bug. CVSS considers any denial of service a security issue. Therefore, all bugs should have CVE numbers. The Linux team took this to heart, became a CNA, and assigns CVEs to pretty much every bug.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

SAI_Peregrinus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:12:50 +0000

This is why I like to keep the concepts of "config" and "plugin" separate.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

SAI_Peregrinus — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:32:40 +0000

How would that work? If you only pay for one day, your access (read and write) gets cut off after the first month. Then if you don't pay the bill for the entire grace period, your data gets deleted.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

SAI_Peregrinus — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:02:46 +0000

> and they also imply deleting all your data so that you don't pay for storage.

Not necessarily. They could imply that your storage becomes inaccessible immediately, but only gets deleted after some time period (say, 1 month). What spending limits do depends on the implementation.

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology"

SAI_Peregrinus — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:35:05 +0000

It's unmaintained, and off-topic for this discussion, but the Luminous JS event blocker¹ was cool because it allowed blocking specific event handlers while still allowing JS to execute.

¹https://gbaptista.github.io/luminous/doc/en-US/

New comment by SAI_Peregrinus in "The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars"

SAI_Peregrinus — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:16:30 +0000

> Our inferred A⋆ is consistent with the 13.6 Gyr expected in CMB-calibrated ΛCDM, assuming the first long-lived stars formed when the Universe was 0.2 Gyr old. This agreement casts doubt on solutions to the Hubble tension solely through new physics prior to recombination, which generally imply a cosmic age of 12.9±0.2 Gyr to match low redshift probes. It is difficult for stellar modelling uncertainties to reconcile such a low age with our result given the low metallicities of the oldest stars in our sample and independent asteroseismic constraints.

So the expected age of the universe hasn't changed, but some alternatives to ΛCDM look less likely.