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> He said Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) or glare-free high beams — a system that automatically dims a person's headlights when other vehicles are nearby — is common in Europe and other parts of the world, and has been for 15 years or so. That's not so in the U.S. or Canada.

Not sure if it's the same thing, but automatic high beams are a big problem in the US. In locations where there are lots of hills and curves, you are almost always briefly blinded by high beams for a second before your vehicle falls into detection rage. I'm not entirely sure why they exist either; rarely do I find roads are dark enough to require them.

I've also noticed when taking an Uber or Lyft that many drivers just turn their high beams on all the time. I once asked why my driver had them turned on, and the driver responded that he can't see without them. I feel like this is something that should be caught by a regular driving test and eye exam, but that's wishful thinking.

I feel like I'm overly sensitive because I have an astigmatism, but the bright headlights have become dangerous and unbearable.

Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very young) and GameBoy Color in '99. I got a Xbox in '01, Xbox 360 in '05; but they didn't quite have the same "magic" that they had when I was young. Also as a young kid, watching the Rankin Bass stop motion movies on the days leading up to Christmas. Then talking with my brother and sister while we tried (failed) to sleep on Christmas Eve, watching more and more obscure Christmas cartoons and whatever else would come on TV late on Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning.

The best non-Christmas morning memories were just random times I was at family Christmas parties or gatherings. Seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins dancing talking having fun. As a kid, we used to have the parties at family homes, which was always fun and super memorable. Later we moved to a hall as the family got bigger and cousins started to bring their children, in laws, and friends. I can't really point out any particular memory as good; just all the time spent with family, not necessarily caring about what else was going on in the world at the time.

Its not clear to me how much this will help; but based on how tags work, it seems like it should help at least somewhat. I use Privacy Badger on both Firefox on PC and Android and haven't run into any sites that break, other than maybe something like Ticketmaster? I'm sure it makes less of a difference on an Android device, where Google has other hooks to track me, but any little bit helps.

Agreed - the edge-to-edge text can seem daunting and be a bit of a pain to read, depending on your display. I used reader mode to make it a bit more managable. Also worth noting the last ~30% of the page is two appendixes.

I think the article is worth a read, but doesn't necessarily introduce a new concept. Its basically stating that there are many broken products that you can buy, and they simply do not work. Typical wisdom says you should buy something you're not specifically good at building, or something that you're not "supposed to" build yourself because you specialize in something else. This article basically says that wisdom can be wrong and that there is value in building yourself. There are some good examples, but its definitely a position that you'd have to push to management at some companies because its a very bottom up position that many managers would not agree with.

I was considering switching over to Tuta, but haven't spent the time on it yet. Did you end up moving to another provider or hosting your own?

Common command line tools are often the best for analyzing and understanding HPC clusters and issues. People have often asked me for tools and web pages to figure out how to understand and figure out issues in our cluster, or asked if we could use some tool like Hadoop, Spark, or some Azure/GCP/AWS tool to do it faster. I've said that if they want to spend the effort to use those tools, it could be valuable; but if it takes me 10min to use those tools and <1min using command line tools, I'll always fall back to the command line.

That's not to say that fancy tools don't have their use; but people often forget how much you can do with a few simple commands if you understand a pipeline and how the commands work.