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New comment by seanalltogether in "Google changes its search box"

seanalltogether — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:28 +0000

"When is Stephen Colberts last show?"

"The last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is airing on Thursday, May 21, 2026. Based on your interest in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert you might also like the new Amazon Prime Video series of Last One Laughing, available to stream now"

Does that answer your question?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

seanalltogether — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:38:59 +0000

personally I just hate this -> http://[0123::4567]:5000/whatever

New comment by seanalltogether in "Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting"

seanalltogether — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:02:34 +0000

I've not really used Rust, and I can certainly appreciate the goal of the language. However this code bothers me, and I can't really articulate why.

    struct Node {
        value: i32,
        children: Vec>>>,
        parent: Option>>>, // Weak breaks parent→child cycle
    }

I understand its all boxes inside boxes inside boxes, but as an outsider it looks confusing mixing data type semantics with memory managment semantics.

New comment by seanalltogether in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet"

seanalltogether — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:29:10 +0000

People with cryptocurrency and no idea what to do with it.

New comment by seanalltogether in "3.4M Solar Panels"

seanalltogether — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:39:27 +0000

He just does this with all his blog posts, don't overthink it. The tech industry is full of people with unexpected quirks.

New comment by seanalltogether in "NASA Force"

seanalltogether — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:15:43 +0000

> The appropriated FY2026 budget has the largest discrepancy from the White House Request since 1987 at nearly 30%.[3] The request, submitted in May 2025, proposed a 24% cut to NASA's overall budget.[4] In January 2026, Congress passed the final budget, rejecting nearly all of the proposed cuts.

From wikipedia. The white house is pushing for major cuts to Nasa

New comment by seanalltogether in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

seanalltogether — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:12:58 +0000

Does this also apply to sites like instagram that simply erase your entire back button history if you visit the site.

New comment by seanalltogether in "The Physics of GPS"

seanalltogether — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:23:03 +0000

Do the satellites broadcast their own position, or is that all held in a database on your phone? Also why is it so draining on your battery to get GPS location, if it's just solving a simple calculation.

New comment by seanalltogether in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

seanalltogether — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:26:04 +0000

I remember reading something awhile ago in regards to why people were investing in NFTs when it seemed so clear they were a scam. The gist of it was that it's easy to get into cryptocurrency, but it's hard to get out. KYC, taxes, age requirements, currency fees, etc are enough of a barrier that many people would rather just keep those assets in virtual space. Polymarket is the answer to the question "Well what else am I gonna do with this crypto I own"

New comment by seanalltogether in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

seanalltogether — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:40:19 +0000

I wish I could donate without entering an email address.

New comment by seanalltogether in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

seanalltogether — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:50:26 +0000

When I was in college I got lured into one of those pyramid schemes advertised in the middle of the night hoping to make extra money. I wonder how much money I would have lost if I had instant access to betting on a "sure thing" back then.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

seanalltogether — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:07:44 +0000

I think about this a lot. How much anxiety do most people feel from the millions of options that are available to them daily, or young adults that are told they can be anything they want, but clam up and choose to do nothing instead.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Android Developer Verification"

seanalltogether — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:16:01 +0000

"This is so clearly a matter for government oversight: prevent abuse, protect the citizen's safety, rights, welfare, etc. It's not reasonable to expect consumers to figure out if the meat they buy is tainted, just as it's not to figure out if the APPS THEY INSTALL spies on them, manipulates information, or sells their data"

Do you see how quickly that argument can be flipped to support what google is doing here? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if half the reason to to lock down phones is because governments keep pressuring them to do so.

New comment by seanalltogether in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

seanalltogether — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:12:12 +0000

I wasn't surprised to learn that when Linus Tech Tips released those new usb-c cables, that they all sold out almost instantly. They put their entire reputation on the line to claim (and label) the exact capabilities of their usb cables. Isn't that all we really want?

New comment by seanalltogether in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

seanalltogether — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:46:20 +0000

I agree. The biggest lesson I try to drive home to newer programmers that join my projects is that its always best to transform the data into the structure you need at the very end of the chain, not at the beginning or middle. Keep the data in it's purest form and then transform it right before displaying it to the user, or right before providing it in the final api for others to consume.

You never know how requirements are going to change over the next 5 years, and pure structures are always the most flexible to work with.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

seanalltogether — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:42:37 +0000

I believe it was related to both Israel gaining statehood after WW2, and the panic of nuclear disaster leading up to the end of the Cold War. It feels like a idea that really took root in the minds of evangelical Baby Boomers and early GenXers, but likely has lost all meaning to millenials.

New comment by seanalltogether in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

seanalltogether — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:36:49 +0000

I grew up in a pretty religious household and my parents fully believed that Armageddon would happen in our lifetime. It wasn't until I was older that I realized there were a lot of American Christians that secretly held this belief, and that it has a meaningful influence on how voters want American politicians to deal with Israel and the Middle East in general.

New comment by seanalltogether in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

seanalltogether — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:54:38 +0000

He specifically mentions this story in the LTT video from a few months ago.

https://youtu.be/mfv0V1SxbNA?si=hS4ZMRYqqLXMkxJW&t=526

New comment by seanalltogether in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

seanalltogether — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:52:29 +0000

Same, in fact the only reason right now that I would upgrade my m1 pro is if they threaten to change the design by getting rid of the hdmi or sd card slot, or doing something stupid like when they added the touch bar. I was locked into my old intel pro for so long because of all the bad hardware choices they were making.

New comment by seanalltogether in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

seanalltogether — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:29:20 +0000

And yet I guarantee that with permanent DST, they will start pushing school start times later and later in the morning, then they're all right back to where they started.