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Proof at last! I always felt that the chimney sweeps seemed way too happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-b_GJ4ltk

Yes, I demand full and final information about what the heart attack I am currently suffering is going to cost me to be treated at this hospital.

If I think you are trying to extort me, I am just going to go to another hospital.

Still no IPv6.

Clock arithmetic.

Modulo 4: a clock with only four evenly-spaced marks on it.

17 is congruent to 1 (modulo 4) means:

Starting at the top of the clock, go clockwise one mark.

Starting at the top of the clock, go clockwise seventeen marks.

You'll end up at the same position.

That's congruence.

Genuinely surprised that someone applying for an internship at NASA does not know who Homer Hickam is.

Looks like Carbon to me. In other words, fake.

https://carbon.now.sh/

1. Playing World of Warcraft all day, every day.

2. Stop.

KeePassXC and Dropbox "just works," and it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS, ...

Dropbox can be swapped out with other storage services.

Your transactions are recorded in the ledger FOREVER.

Are your addresses going to stay private forever? Are you sure?

There are two certainties in software development:

0. A new technology will arise and it will be named 'X'

1. Eventually someone will write an article titled 'X Considered Harmful'

If companies had to give a penny to Sun for every device which used Java, nothing would be written in Java.

What?

Oracle threatens to sue people who use the word "Java" without paying them.

GNU would very much like you to use "GNU" to recognize the contributions of GNU software in providing a usable operating system around the Linux kernel.

How exactly does one remind you of the other?

I think we should rename it to anything else which starts with the letter 'J' and ends with 'Script', or can be initialised as 'JS'. Anything else is a non-starter, because we're not going to rename countless millions of .js files.

Good.

I was far more concerned about the application of AI to healthcare. Did they not think about the possible abuse from telling hospitals or insurance companies which of their patients are very likely to need urgent care within the next week?

Michael Abrash's assembly optimizations for the Quake engine.

But can the interpreter interpret itself?

They're not lost. Eth and Thorn are still in use in Icelandic.

I, for one, look forward to a ten-fold increase in ticket price when the airlines know my grandmother has just died and I need to fly to the funeral. Rah rah Capitalism!

One of the most important tools we have for social encounters like interviewing a stranger as a potential new roommate is our "gut" reaction, which is our hard-won evolutionary instincts warning us of potential danger -- warning that something is off about the person or their situation.

Trust your gut.

It would be nice if 5x duplicates didn't show up in the RSS feed.

Anecdotally, I'm one of the people who walked away from Facebook this year, due to exhaustion, disinterest, disgust, protest, or other (negative) reasons. I don't miss it and won't be going back.

Amusingly, after about a week, Facebook started emailing me to try to entice me to come back. So I logged back in to disable those emails.

Is it possible to modify Promises to be lazy through a Proxy?

Steve Gibson specifically recommends TunnelBear because they submitted themselves to a public security audit.

https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_public_security_a...

Other than TunnelBear, ProtonVPN is run by the ProtonMail folks and is based out of Switzerland, so they would respond to any foreign subpoena with a polite "fuck off."

First, the First Amendment protects the speaker from being punished by the State for his speech. That's it. It does not protect the speaker from losing their job, or social ostracism, or anything else.

Second, no one is rationally a "free speech absolutist," which is an absurd position. For example, no one thinks their doctor has a right to lie to them, and that deliberate lies by a doctor to a patient must not be punished by the state.

Third, Christopher Hitchens summarized my own opinion when he gave this speech, and he did it far more eloquently than I ever could, so I'll just link to the speech here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY

#1 best practice for managing passwords is: don't try to implement password management yourself because you will get it wrong.

I use Route53 for two reasons:

1. $$$

2. certbot certonly --dns-route53 [...]

This is worse than that. Imagine your Trump-supporting extended family voting down CNN news stories as "not credible."

Expect mass brigading by The_Donald.