idlephysicist

I wish that people would just stop looking at their phones while driving.

I think they mean that because people have been driving automobiles for over 100 years and that proves (somehow) that visual detection works for identifying hazards on the road.

But they seem to be conflating human vision with computer vision.

It's kind of amazing that this periodic check has not been implemented already.

Anyone that get’s a telephone call from “Google” should be immediately suspicious. I used to work for a company that paid GCP about as much as my annual salary _every_ month, and we still struggled to get GCP on the phone when we needed assistance.

I used Alacritty until about 3 weeks ago, switched to Ghostty. I'm very happy with the change.

Fair play to them, it's a detailed paper. But I'm not sure that this would have much practicality in other caves. The terrain just changes too quickly (most of the time).

The woeful inconsistency between airport security checks within the same country and sometimes within the same airport, really lends itself to the theory that it’s all a farce.

Travel time makes a big difference too, e.g. at peak times please keep your shoes on.

I've never come across that myself, but the audacity of some firms is outrageous.

Part of me thinks that you're right, but I've applied to _so many_ jobs over the years (prior to AI) that use workday and required that I fill in all the info again. I've also never ever heard back from a company that used workday.

Today I will only apply to a job that requires me to make an account (like workday) if at least one of these criteria are met (i) I am exceptionally qualified (in my own eyes), (ii) I have a reference, (iii) I already have made an account previously. Though thankfully there are many (smaller) companies these days (at least in my current field) that don't require me to make an account.

Can you explain what you mean when you say "to be sound"?

I wonder how many U.S. service persons stationed in South Korea could have been affected by this? Do we know if it was exploited in the wild?

Who else noticed the pointers websocket for displaying the mouse pointers of other readers?

Something feels weird about the timezone arithmetic here, though maybe I am nuts. Take this for example:

> Notably, on Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023, we see two commits: 23:38:32 +0800 and 17:27:09 +0300. If we do the math, there is about a 9-hour difference between the two commits.

Putting it all into UTC we get:

    23:38 - 8 = 15:38
    17:27 - 3 = 14:27

That's not 9 hours by my numbers. Or another example:

> Even more damning, on 6 Oct 2022, we see the following: one commit at 21:53:09 +0300 followed by another at 17:00:38 +0800. This is only a difference in a matter of minutes!

Putting it all into UTC we get:

    21:53 - 3 = 18:53
    17:00 - 8 = 09:00

I think these timezones were swapped (accidentally) by the article's author. If we do the calculation again:

    21:53 - 8 = 13:53
    17:00 - 3 = 14:00

That _is_ a matter of minutes.