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catfish ,

Perhaps worth pointing out that the attacks require the attacker to position a piece of hardware between the Qi charger and the power source.

catfish ,

In which countries is sugar added to skimmed milk? It is not in Sweden - skimmed and semi-skimmed are purely the result of removing fat from whole milk.

catfish ,

It’s a little unfair to criticise a CS course for not being a SWE course. But I agree that graduating students in CS without having covered the basic requirements in the SWE day job most of them will move into is a disservice.

I did CS (30 years ago) and things entirely missing in the syllabus back then:

  • any and all soft skills
  • version control
  • refactoring
  • testing and the value of testing
  • staging and replicated environments for raw dev, QA, live, etc
catfish ,

My experience with my yubikey is that it just works. I know that’s not terribly useful info, but it’s really all I have after several years of occasionally using it. Oh, it’s been on my keychain all that time so isn’t terribly flimsy.

catfish ,

The only thing worse than people using WD-40 instead of a better product, are the mental gymnastics performed by people pretending a product which is 35% oil and sold as a lubricant, actually isn’t.

catfish ,

I had horse steak from the UK, it was superbly tender and a lovely mellow taste. I was quite surprised.

catfish ,

Use a toothpaste or mouthwash containing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorhexidine

catfish ,

If you add Lenny Henry to the end, you win a prize.

catfish ,

On this topic, on this instance, it’s far far worse than the standard of discourse on reddit

catfish ,

I have a brand new Apple product with both a headphone jack and an SD card reader.

To be fair it only has HDMI and not a VGA connector, and there’s no floppy disk drive or serial port.

Everyone loves to hate.

catfish ,

Maybe not quite so much these days. I use Outlook at work, but that’s been the limit of my MS contact in tech for a few years now (apart from the odd Teams meeting I’ve been invited to). It used to be worse in terms of lock in, IMO.

Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism...

catfish ,

When Argentina occupied the Falkland Islands, the UK military who fought them weren’t described as a terrorist organisation. Not by anyone with an ounce of sense at least, and certainly not by the islanders who’s land and homes had been occupied.

catfish ,

Well done, that’s less false than your initial comment.

catfish ,

I agree from the opposite direction:

20 years ago I switched to zero drop minimalist footwear for running, hiking, and almost all everyday activities (everything except weddings and funerals). I only wear footwear that has no relation at all to my foot’s arch, my weight, or my gait.

Best decision for my knees, ankles, and hips I think I ever made.

catfish ,

I’m Swedish centre-right, and the last US political poll I did put me further to the left of Bernie Sanders as he was to Trump.

tl;dr: it’s relative. shock.

It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)

The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here

catfish ,

If it wanted to work harder, it wouldn’t be going to Europe… 🤔

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    catfish ,

    Absolutely. Fucking. Everything. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_…

    catfish ,

    somewhat tongue in cheek answer:

    people who think that our brains were designed.

    How racist/controversial would this skit from the 90's be today?

    To summarize, this scandinavian comedy trio from the 90’s made a parody of Miami Vice. This being 90’s scandinavia, you can probably guess that the actors/comedians didn’t exactly have the melanin-credentials of parodying the black guy from Miami Vice, so one of them instead wore blackface (well, brownface would perhaps be...

    catfish ,

    Would you say that this was racist, or shouldn’t have been performed?

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkzox_t3Z-Q

    catfish ,

    My opinion is based on an older gentleman commiserating on how difficult it was for young impoverished students to pay for everything nowadays. I was in debt, and had at just that moment come out at the LGB soc. That person was my bank manager.

    Subs that pay doms don’t bother me at all.

    catfish ,

    The Telegraph is a broadsheet not a tabloid for goodness sake.

    catfish ,

    Regarding the F16, Ukrainian pilots are going to start testing the Gripen as well, although that path is obviously far behind the F16s given the glacial pace of such developments…

    New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 (youtu.be)

    No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.

    catfish ,

    I just got an M2 MBP. In my personal experience it is very much not “shit”.

    Expensive and a PITA to fix? Quite possibly.

    catfish ,

    It sucks completely if you try to use it in different way so if you don’t like magic mouse (which sucks) and don’t like using their laptop keyboard (which sucks) and touchpad you will not enjoy it.

    This isn’t true for me. I use the same (cheap Logitech) mouse with Win11, Linux, and my MBPs. What’s meant to be the issue? It’s just like every other setup I’ve used in the last 30 years.

    catfish ,

    That’s a really interesting answer - it all makes sense that those things can be irritating, and also why I had no idea about them:

    For years I have had my applications and windows (IDE, tabbed console, browser(s)) set up in fixed positions. I rarely switch between them in a way which isn’t a keyboard shortcut (99% command-tab) or involves the mouse anyway (for testing, or video calls). I never normally move windows between screens or anything like that in my workflow.

    In the good and very old days I literally just had emacs maximised and that was it, all day long 😇

    I guess I got lucky in a sense - that not needing functionality meant I wasn’t affected by it being missing, but it might partly be a positive side effect of desiring simplicity and less from the WM so I can focus on my own things.

    catfish ,

    I recently saw this: What are some great YouTube channels worth checking out? which indirectly answers your question I guess for the people that posted suggestions.

    Mine were:

    catfish ,
    catfish ,

    FWIW I’ve been a continuous Linux user for 30 years and prefer macOS as my “daily driver”.

    Always have a Linux server running though, so in a way I could be described as 50/50 I suppose.

    catfish ,

    I’d pass so hard. Thank goodness the only “interviews” I’ve ever needed in 30 years have been the polar opposite of this kind of cringe.

    catfish ,

    Windows 95 was dreadful.

    Yes I am old and my knees do hurt, thank you.

    catfish ,

    And people who iterate over 3D space using firstDimensionIndex, secondDimensionIndex, and thirdDimensionIndex instead of x, y, z have no sense 😜

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