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jtbayly

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The GLP-1 boom is the biggest climate story no one is pricing in

fortune.com
7 points·by jtbayly·vor 19 Tagen·1 comments

Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list

krebsonsecurity.com
156 points·by jtbayly·vor 8 Monaten·34 comments

First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You've Never Heard Of

schneier.com
2 points·by jtbayly·vor 9 Monaten·1 comments

Apple is now offering a $2M bounty for a zero-click exploit

schneier.com
4 points·by jtbayly·vor 9 Monaten·2 comments

comments

jtbayly
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
My apologies. Apparently my own estimate about how high fireworks generally go was way off.
jtbayly
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
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jtbayly
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
Or buy it literally from anybody other than Amazon.
jtbayly
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
Given your statement of "hundreds of feet" I guess I can take the rest of your post with a large pinch of salt, too.
jtbayly
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
M80s were more like 1/8th of a stick, I think. My uncle bought quarter sticks of dynamite one time. Wow. Quite a bit bigger and louder than an M80, and M80s were LOUD! My dad's cousin blew off most of his thumb and parts of several fingers with one. It was old, and it had a flash fuse. He was planning to toss it, but it went off instantly. (Don't hold fireworks when you are lighting them.)

A couple of years ago my brother got some flat triangles from a guy on the side of the road. First thing I've seen in years that was like an M80. We put a flat soccer ball over one, and it went 50 feet in the air. Very fun.
jtbayly
·vor 5 Tagen·discuss
I'm not sure if being homemade was the reason, but I just heard about a medflight for somebody hit by a homemade firework.

I say this as somebody with a book on how to make them, but I've always been a bit too scared to try.
jtbayly
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
The existence of IDs indicates that people are not intended to be untrackable, whether on or offline.

This is a fair trade off, because…

By your logic, there can be no argument against universal web tracking, let alone universal purchase tracking, etc.
jtbayly
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
I mean, what’s the problem with taking such stickers off? I’d love if it we had fewer retarded warnings. And I fail to see how they have anything to do with enforcing consumer protections.
jtbayly
·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
Which is completely the opposite—running Apple software on non-Apple hardware—so they make no money whatsoever off such users.
jtbayly
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
More renewables means the need for more base load? This is the first I’ve seen anybody say that.
jtbayly
·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
I found the shift in what foods companies are making to be the most interesting part of the article.

Adding protein to foods, but somehow decreasing meat consumption. Seems odd.
jtbayly
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
By demonstrating an assumption that everybody knows nothing? I fail to see how that is beneficial. It is rude to everybody.
jtbayly
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
Reread what I wrote. The point is it is more rude to assume somebody is ignorant than it is to assume they are knowledgeable.

This is telling people to assume people are ignorant or at least pretend you think they are ignorant.
jtbayly
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
Is being surprised somebody doesn't know something putting them down, or is being unsurprised they are ignorant putting them down?
jtbayly
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
People doing that are doing it intentionally, and they aren't going to follow your rule.

People who are open to listening are not pretending to be surprised in order to put somebody down. They are actually surprised and (perhaps) unintentionally hurting somebody. If that somebody is hurt, they need to ask themselves which hurts more, having somebody surprised you didn't know something (aka they think you are smart), or being unsurprised you are ignorant of something (aka they think you don't know stuff).
jtbayly
·vor 22 Tagen·discuss
Either way, that’s not feigning surprise. Odd to call it that. What they are saying is when you are surprised somebody didn’t know something, don’t let it show.

So “feign unsurprise.”
jtbayly
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
A "perfect shuffle" according to the article:

>The riffle shuffle has to follow a realistic but strict model where cards are randomly interleaved from the left or right pile one by one. (Each card gets dropped from either the left or the right pile with a probability that’s proportional to the number of cards remaining in that pile. This means that the cards don’t simply alternate between left and right, which would result in a predictable structure; instead, the order might go “left, right, right, left, right, left, left.”)
jtbayly
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
Because they have held off on adding these companies to the list in order to avoid increasing tensions with China?

ETA from the first paragraph of the article: "The U.S. has held off... to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing."
jtbayly
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
Which is not what is being discussed. Often rewriting code to make it more understandable makes everybody more productive.
jtbayly
·vor 23 Tagen·discuss
A lot of "plagiarism" is not plagiarism. Feed stuff you wrote into those tools and it will call you a plagiarist every day because you wrote something similar to the person you learned it from.

I don't know about this case, but a lot of these kinds of cases truly are witch-hunts. It's not at all like the reproducibility crisis and faked data and images.