I still use an incandescent bulb for my front door light, because I've gone through like 5 LEDs and they always start flickering when it's cold out. I don't usually have this light on long enough to warm up properly, so a CFL's warm up time is also a no-go.

Everything else I have is color-temperature selectable LEDs (One of my biggest annoyances I've seen people have, is mismatched color temperatures in the same room). I have them controlled by Zigbee at the outlet rather than having the bulbs themselves have wireless antennas.

You can get LED replacement tubes for those fluorescent lights, there's 2 different kinds that work with or without the old ballast in place. If you're replacing all of them you could switch to ballast-less LED replacement tubes.

I think there's been one or two image decompression exploits over the years, so a site with a malicious file could end up running code on your system. I remember this being an issue with Minecraft clients and player skins at one point, but I can't remember any specific times this happened in browsers tho.

What confuses me as someone who hasn't written PHP in ages, is why is it supposedly so easy for a request to hit the memory limit? Does this only work on servers that accept user uploads and other large request payloads? People are saying a static PHP page can be exploited, but I don't understand how if it's behind even a basic nginx instance with default request limit of 1MB.

That would be the AI denoising that basically every phone runs automatically, and pretty much the entire reason I bought a standalone camera...

Oh, it's been litigated alright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox_News_Network

The extremely dangerous high pressure vessel right behind the driver's head seems like it's not worth the trade off there... Better carry a bomb around just in case the car rolls over. /s

A fuel tank is not a pressure vessel (apart from being sealed to keep fumes in). If you get a puncture in your gas tank, it doesn't immediately and violently explode, it just leaks fuel out. Even if it does catch fire, it would not be as violent an explosion as a pressure vessel failure. In most scenarios it would burn, but not explode.

I think I'd rather read someone's prompt instead of having them paste me the output. I can always run it myself if I want, but a lot of the time I'd rather cut out the AI

I'm pretty sure the "production" process is just compressing atmospheric air and separating out the other gases. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen.

Didn't Microsoft just pull this same thing and now there's all these 0-days getting released publicly as vengeance? I swear, all these companies are sharing the same brain cell...

It's what Microsoft would do in the same situation. It's only fair

I downloaded the tarball and had a look through it. Almost everything has source code included, which is pretty cool to see.

There's an entire C compiler from 1972, bootstrapped to be written in C. There was also a SNOBOL III compiler written in C, and a Fortran interpreter in C (only 462 lines!), and every unix command like ls,cd,echo,cat,grep,etc...

Unsurprisingly grep was written in assembly, but it's source is there.

There's also a games folder, but unfortunately these look like they're just binaries:
bj, chess, cubic, moo, ttt, wump
I'll have to load up a pdp11 emulator later to see what they are.

So there's this thing called a Fourier series...

Basically any wave can be created by adding together individual frequencies, and with some fancy math it's possible to go the other way with a Fourier transform and get how loud every frequency is (like is displayed in a spectrogram).

I think the real black magic is in how our ears and brains can decode the mess of information coming in and identify meaningful patterns.

This really seems like something the FCC should be enforcing... T-Mobile has no authority to make anyone pay fines... Terms of Service are not legally binding like that. All they can do is refuse service, and report the activity if it's actually illegal.

How are they going to enforce this? Is side loading getting some extra signing step only Google can provide?

I shouldn't need to go through Google at all to release an Android app if it's not on their store. This is bullshit

I mentioned this last time this was posted, but linux only has around 20 million lines of code. It's funny how people always seem to overestimate the size.

"It is unacceptable that it is possible to buy tools that help car theft on major online shopping platforms.”

I can buy a hammer and screwdriver online, and those could be used for car theft. Does that make those also unacceptable?

Wait... that's not an approximation at all! That equals exactly pi. If I understand the math correctly, it's effectively a formula for the area of a unit circle.

This is honestly one of my favorite features of the linux filesystem. As a dev it makes things like replacing and hot-reloading plugins way easier.

It turns out you can kind of get the same functionality on Windows if you rename the open file and place the new one with the original name, but it's a bit of a hack.