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New comment by eep_social in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

eep_social — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:17:35 +0000

What you said is not what the linked video says, so at best this is terrible advice piling onto terrible advice.

New comment by eep_social in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

eep_social — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:59:47 +0000

Phone numbers have become the unique identifier used to build profiles of people and the providers can still claim “security” when they change it to pursue that revenue stream.

New comment by eep_social in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

eep_social — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:18:29 +0000

“great UI” and “burned to death because the door handle wasn’t” is a bold juxtaposition

New comment by eep_social in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

eep_social — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:13:31 +0000

My understanding is that as people age their skin stays drier and causes this issue.

The parent post is a chef’s-kiss-perfect illustration of the problem with modern tech.

New comment by eep_social in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

eep_social — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:16:04 +0000

which is why you went with Delta and not Nocturna I would think? Deltas are fine in an otherwise noisy environment but they’re misery in say a bedroom at night.

New comment by eep_social in "SFO Gate Explorer"

eep_social — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:26:05 +0000

I have also flown out of that airport. The early flights maximize viable onward connections but the logistics are a real pain.

New comment by eep_social in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

eep_social — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:11:52 +0000

He’s a hack, now you know.

New comment by eep_social in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

eep_social — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:50:47 +0000

If you tap into the address bar, start typing your search, type enough for it to be specific enough that autosuggest crap clears, and “On this page” appears. Wildly undiscoverable in practice.

New comment by eep_social in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

eep_social — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:31 +0000

In a similar vein, I remember encountering a site where the frontend enforced basic complexity requirements ala “use at least one number and one symbol” but the system would silently drop all non-alphanumerics when it saved (presumably in some kind of failed conversion on the way into the backend DB). So setting a password like “foo_bar4!” would become “foobar4” which was surprising. What blew my mind though was when I figured out the stripped password worked to log in, which was how I eventually figured out what was happening, escaped the reset flow, and generated a compliant password.

New comment by eep_social in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

eep_social — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:01:53 +0000

Unlike equity options, commodity future options are typically written with european style exercise rules.

New comment by eep_social in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

eep_social — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:26:14 +0000

based on my experience, I suspect the latter

similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include:

- wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step during installation - bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade

New comment by eep_social in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

eep_social — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:15:49 +0000

US dollars or equivalents mostly, money market funds, treasuries, sgov, etc

New comment by eep_social in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

eep_social — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:32:00 +0000

as an american I might call those “local ordinance” when they come from a smaller rulemaker like a town

New comment by eep_social in "Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance"

eep_social — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:24:12 +0000

edit: op also has this, disregard

hugged but someone caught it: https://archive.is/VrEtg

New comment by eep_social in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

eep_social — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:37:13 +0000

A company I worked for used start date anniversaries rather than birthday for a variety of reasons.

New comment by eep_social in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

eep_social — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:52:27 +0000

> bottom management

“line management” is the term I am familiar with

New comment by eep_social in "How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs"

eep_social — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:02:41 +0000

in high scale stateless app services this approach is typically used to lower tail latency. two identical service instances will be sent the same request and whichever one returns faster “wins” which protects you from a bad instance or even one which happens to be heavily loaded.

New comment by eep_social in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

eep_social — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:30:18 +0000

surely gp was referring to HD ;)

New comment by eep_social in "Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust"

eep_social — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:02:21 +0000

I wasn’t in C++ style land but my recollection is that distilled experience would be backed up by extensive mailing list discussions. in case of contention the discussion might extend into case studies or other quantitative techniques atop google3. It’s difficult for me personally to describe the impact (outsized)of a super-resourced monorepo for this kind of thing. also as gp mentioned, it was sometimes possible to automate changes to comply with updated guidelines.

New comment by eep_social in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

eep_social — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:21:16 +0000

My understanding is that the hardware is always installed but the dealer will not fill the liquid reservoirs unless the customer specifically requests (and pays) for it.