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New comment by dcrazy in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

dcrazy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:24:47 +0000

Seems like every subdivision in central Maryland has an HOA managed pool.

New comment by dcrazy in "They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went worse than you think"

dcrazy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:38:09 +0000

I suppose you’re talking about cloud seeding?

New comment by dcrazy in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

dcrazy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:19:37 +0000

Why would you assume that? There’s no prohibition on selling a home with code deficiencies as long as you disclose them.

New comment by dcrazy in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

dcrazy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:58:24 +0000

As a non-citizen I don’t think you are eligible for TTP.

Edit: derp. See below.

New comment by dcrazy in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

dcrazy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:31:14 +0000

DHS requires 7 or so years of residence and travel history for Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry.

New comment by dcrazy in "I Became a Citizen of Japan"

dcrazy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:26:44 +0000

It helps catch attempted identity theft. Lots of people who are not eligible for employment steal the identities of those who are. But they will have to make up any data they don’t know, or that is inapplicable because the true holder of that identity died a while ago.

New comment by dcrazy in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

dcrazy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:41:24 +0000

I remember hearing that the concern with our best techniques for rescuing coral reefs is that they would create a monoculture, and monocultures tend to be very susceptible to specific diseases.

New comment by dcrazy in "Your C is not standard C"

dcrazy — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:34:55 +0000

Swift: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/binaryintege...

> The << operator performs a smart shift, which defines a result for a shift of any value.

> - Using a negative value for rhs performs a right shift using abs(rhs).

> - Using a value for rhs that is greater than or equal to the bit width of lhs is an overshift, resulting in zero.

> - Using any other value for rhs performs a left shift on lhs by that amount.

And while the docs don’t say it, `Int.max << 1 == -2`. And in fact, `T.max << 1 == -2` for all `T: BinaryInteger`.

New comment by dcrazy in "Passkeys are not a trap"

dcrazy — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 03:31:46 +0000

Account recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118574

Recovery key: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109345

New comment by dcrazy in "Passkeys are not a trap"

dcrazy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:33:03 +0000

You do the acccount recovery flow. Options include providing your recovery key or proving your identity to Apple customer support. Do you really think Apple did not account for this?

New comment by dcrazy in "Recording device found in cabin of HMAS Leeuwin navy ship"

dcrazy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:43:19 +0000

> The ABC understands the device was found in a female-only cabin.

> Senator Lambie told the Senate she had received a letter from a person who said the device had been found in the "shower facilities".

So not espionage, just a creep.

New comment by dcrazy in "Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware"

dcrazy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:39:45 +0000

Given their proximity to chunks steel being flung around by newbies, I suspect the VM-per-bay solution is part of a thin client deployment that makes the customer-facing hardware as cheap and efficient to replace as possible.

New comment by dcrazy in "Passkeys Are Not a Trap"

dcrazy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:37:22 +0000

Why would they be lost? They are synced to iCloud Keychain, which is E2E encrypted.

New comment by dcrazy in "Topgolf saved over $11.3M after leaving VMware"

dcrazy — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:07:49 +0000

Unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to how much they’re losing on the actual business.

New comment by dcrazy in "The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)"

dcrazy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:19:52 +0000

I was confused why you mentioned haptics, as the Rumble Pak did not exist when the N64 launched. But Wikipedia cites EGM as saying later versions of the game had Rumble Pak support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak

New comment by dcrazy in "The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001)"

dcrazy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:17:12 +0000

Yes, Doom renders walls in a way that is broadly similar to to how contemporary GPUs work. Doom sorts the walls in view space via the BSP tree, transforms them to screen space, breaks them into non-overlapping spans of screen columns, and then fills each column’s pixels with the wall’s textures. The floor and the sky are not geometry.

New comment by dcrazy in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

dcrazy — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:06:49 +0000

Maybe those people who’ve spent so much time A/B testing where to put the signup buttons can use those skills to figure out where to put the cancel buttons so that they are as easy to find.

New comment by dcrazy in "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"

dcrazy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:07:32 +0000

Dante’s default latency compensation is 1ms: https://dev.audinate.com/GA/dante-controller/userguide/webhe...

New comment by dcrazy in "The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)"

dcrazy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:36:26 +0000

Yes, sometimes when your cat is looking at you like it’s half asleep, it’s really expressing its comfort with you.

New comment by dcrazy in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

dcrazy — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:33:04 +0000

You don’t need to kill the quarantine bit if you notarize and staple. If you do still get prompted, the dialog will have an Open button on it.