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New comment by golf1052 in "The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States"

golf1052 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:54:37 +0000

They mention bats multiple times in the article

>In the United States ... contact with infected bats is the leading cause of human rabies deaths.

> The same goes for people planning to ... explore caves in regions where rabid bats have been.

>The clearest example is someone who has been bitten by a wild dog, bat, fox, raccoon or other animal known to carry rabies. If someone had direct contact with a bat — for instance, waking up to find a bat in the room — this is also considered a possible exposure unless a bite or scratch can be definitively ruled out. ... If you find a dead bat, do not throw it away. Do not touch it or allow other people or pets to touch it. Instead, call animal control so that the bat can be tested.

>In addition, try to prevent bats from getting inside your home through windows, chimneys or other holes.

New comment by golf1052 in "Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git"

golf1052 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:35:00 +0000

The author mentions the list of products that were impacted with this migration

> Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sway, Publisher, Access, Project, OneNote, Shared Services (OSI), Shared UX, + everything in the web

New comment by golf1052 in "Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS"

golf1052 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:54:53 +0000

According to reporting Rosetta will still be supported for old games that rely on Intel code

> But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-en...

New comment by golf1052 in "C++ is an absolute blast"

golf1052 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:07:57 +0000

I used to work on a codebase at Microsoft that was classified as a microservice. Pretty much entirely written in C# and it was about 12 years old.

New comment by golf1052 in "1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day"

golf1052 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 09:42:27 +0000

My major reason for using it is how open the platform is. I run a community project that involves posting pictures to multiple social media sites at once. Posting to Twitter was fine up until Elon's takeover broke a bunch of things. My API access got turned on and off repeatedly for unknown reasons. Checking the Twitter forums showed that this was happening to other developers as well with little response from the team there.

Bluesky on the other hand has been open first. You can now host your own Personal Data Server (PDS) which means if you ever want to post to the network you are basically never blocked from doing so.

I kept posting on Twitter manually (along side automatic posts to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads) because people were there but with this latest shift in interest having to post manually is a pain so I'm dropping Twitter.

New comment by golf1052 in "Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency"

golf1052 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:46:37 +0000

To the shock of some people as well, some people use Windows because they prefer it over other operating systems.

New comment by golf1052 in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

golf1052 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:42:40 +0000

This is no longer the case. I signed up for Informed Delivery last year with frozen credit with no issues.

New comment by golf1052 in "About Passkey – the password-free tech Apple is betting on"

golf1052 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 02:51:55 +0000

I implemented them for a personal project about 6 months ago. The library support is pretty good. The biggest draw for me was that it's easier for the users of my site to use passkeys.

New comment by golf1052 in "How America moves homeless people around the country"

golf1052 — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:04:41 +0000

I haven't seen any data showing if people became addicted to drugs first and then became homeless due to that or if it was the other way around. I can totally see people becoming homeless first and then getting addicted to drugs because being homeless sucks. Again, haven't seen any data to show which way happens more often but the data showing rates of homelessness are lower in areas with lower housing costs is pretty telling.

New comment by golf1052 in "Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes"

golf1052 — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:36:36 +0000

Glad to see Cowboy release an app to potentially save us VanMoof owners. For US residents VanMoof had a leg up because there were brand stores open in the US to take bikes to for repair. There's a couple of other features VanMoof bikes had that I preferred over Cowboy's so it's sad to see them go.

At least in Seattle both Amazon and Google partnered with VanMoof to let employees rent or buy bikes so there's a ton of VanMoofs around. I wonder what's going to happen with them.

New comment by golf1052 in "Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech"

golf1052 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:05:43 +0000

I'm coming up on 6 years in Seattle. Lived in SLU or Denny Triangle (parts some people consider "downtown") the entire time. I've learned to just largely ignore the incredibly negative comments because my experience and the experience of all the people I know who live here are vastly different. While the city still has its problems I would like for people to approach solving them from a realistic point of view.

New comment by golf1052 in "Bing thinks Mars has 2.5B people based on an AI generated blog wrong answer"

golf1052 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:32:37 +0000

Either you're getting a different result due to whatever config you're getting served or they fixed it already because I'm getting 0.

New comment by golf1052 in "Running Windows 7 on a 5 MHz CPU with 128MB of RAM"

golf1052 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 02:49:42 +0000

I just timed the boot speed for my Windows 11 desktop. Once with a regular shutdown, once with fast startup disabled (which was introduced with Windows 8). 10-12 seconds to get to the login screen (after typing my BitLocker password). 7 seconds to login using face authentication. I do have very modern specs (Ryzen 9 5900X, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus) but my suspicions are that your boot speed could be dramatically reduced by just upgrading to an SSD.

Here's metrics from Tom's Hardware comparing an HDD to two types of SSDs (SATA and NVMe)[1] on a Windows 10 machine. The HDD had a boot time of 42.9 seconds. The SATA SSD a time of 17.2 and the NVMe SSD a time of 16.1 seconds.

With the advantage of fast startup the HDD machine was able to boot under a minute but the SATA SSD still cut the boot time of the machine by nearly 2/3rds.

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ssd-vs-hdd-hard-drive-...

New comment by golf1052 in "Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Cast Vote Record [JSON at the Bottom]"

golf1052 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:30:24 +0000

Jacksonville

New comment by golf1052 in "Alaska Ranked Choice Voting Cast Vote Record [JSON at the Bottom]"

golf1052 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:17:33 +0000

>Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you have many humans ready to read/transcribe.

Of the largest 20 cities in the US, all but one have open data sites where you can programmatically pull down datasets. I feel like this is more becoming the norm rather than the exception. Maybe it's just smaller municipalities that don't have open data sites?

New comment by golf1052 in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"

golf1052 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:35:14 +0000

No it's never happened.

New comment by golf1052 in "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture"

golf1052 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:46:22 +0000

I don't really understand this post. I'm a supporter of open source and free software and I can also understand wanting to avoid vendor lock-in. However I don't understand how this is Microsoft's fault for building closed source tooling. I'm upset with Microsoft's hypocritical stance on .NET and C# being open source without all tooling being open source as well but when it comes to useful tooling like Codespaces, Pylance, or the Java debugger in VSCode I don't see why Microsoft should be blamed them being closed source. Microsoft came into the Java and Python space and made tooling that is being accepted by developers.

The author does touch on why companies like Microsoft are able to succeed against open source software. It's because they have the money to pay their own developers to make good software.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not under DevDiv or Azure.

New comment by golf1052 in "Video shows self-driving Tesla head into oncoming traffic"

golf1052 — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 07:50:15 +0000

>The car opted to turn right — straight up the wrong way of a one-way street in San Francisco (around the 6:35 mark below).

Not sure where they got San Francisco from, this took place in Seattle. The video description they link to plainly says this

>Here's a vid of Tesla's FSD Beta driving through Seattle

Funnily enough this is the same guy who's Tesla lurched towards pedestrians crossing an intersection last year https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1542555188279517184 and once he started getting flak he copyright struck the Twitter videos and deleted the video from his YouTube account.

New comment by golf1052 in "Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire"

golf1052 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:54:38 +0000

Large companies try not to be stupid. If they had a lot to lose if web3 became successful wouldn't they invest resources into it?

See Facebook trying to make a cryptocurrency and then abandoning their plans.

New comment by golf1052 in "My First Impressions of Web3"

golf1052 — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:10:03 +0000

This is a really interesting breakdown of web3 (or as he calls it later on web2x2). I haven't dove into the world of web3 yet but it does seem incredibly ironic that there's already seemingly a large amount of consolidation around platforms to make web3 more accessible to people. This is good for early adopters and artists who are generating wealth during the gold rush but I don't think it's good for "web3 the idea" as a distributed protocol.