darwingr's comments

darwingr | 3 years ago | on: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

Could I use it to power my iPhone? Frankly I’m fed up with the need for charging.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Impacts of lack of sleep

I have this too. Someone had a good list of things to be doing to optimize your environment. They definitely help. I would add: 1. putting on pyjamas at a certain time every day (e.g. 9:30 pm). 2. not eating anything after 8-9 pm, only drinking water. 3. have other activities like reading to do in the 1-2 hours before bed. 4. no stimulants in the afternoon. No chocolate in the evening. (easy to ignore but makes a big difference).

The biggest psychological bad-habit I had to get over was ignoring my body/mind when I felt tired. If that means falling asleep in weird places, slightly earlier than expected or when there was still something I felt I needed to do, then just accept defeat for that day and let sleep take you over. Allowing my ego to accept defeat at the end of every day, to let sleep be the victor, that is the best way I can frame it for myself. In the end we're creatures that need sleep and to deny my own biology in that regard will lead to my own undoing.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

The Liberty was also very far from where the Americans had told the Israelis where it would be. Finding the ship there was unexpected and calls to confirm its identity were not being answered.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Canada tells Boeing its bid for fighter jet contract falls short

It's not a land dispute. The USA has been making the claim that as an arctic nation it has an at will right to use the Northwest Passage through Canada's most northern shore and the archipelago. This shipping route is MUCH cheaper in fuel compared to using the Panama Canal, which is not obvious on a map because the world is round. Now let's say the canal has a million dollar toll, well Canada sure wouldn't mind having our own toll since keeping that channel clear isn't free. But that just ignores the whole natsec/sovereignty issue of are we just ok with having people pass in and out as they please and how will international courts treat it if we allow that but later wish to change our minds.

The issue comes down to whether the passage is qualified as territorial waters or just exclusive economic zones and how the islands are connected to the mainland may determine that. Regardless, the US is pushing it because it's a useful way to get concessions on other issues. Like him or hate him, understanding and using that aspect of negotiation is one thing Trump was always very good at and in this case Mike Pompeo was the one putting it forward and lobbying other countries to see it their way.

Purchasing the F35s has been discussed here since at least 2007 when Russia was flying bombers into Canadian northern territories. Something is needed to respond assert sovereignty over the area. A potential issue in theory of purchasing the F35s is a strategic one of maintaining those water rights if in the moment Russia starts moving in suddenly the planes don't work or need parts and the US suddenly has a great point leverage.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacement design since 2012

IMO apple’s peak ridiculousness had to be the Magic Mouse that required you turn it on its back and unusable in order to charge it.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Refactoring vs. defactoring

The is actually already a specific word for code changes to behaviour that contrasts well with the structural change of refactoring: Transformations.

The word fits well in to TDD's red-green-refactor with the "Transformation Priority Premise". The premise goes as follows: as the tests get more specific, the code becomes more generic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_Priority_Premis...

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Secret military aircraft possibly exposed on TikTok

Not just on TikTok, I saw it on YouTube clips from outside the USA. I've know people who've worked on such bases and have heard how strict they were with orders to stop and look away or at the ground when an alarm went off. Well I was pretty surprised to see it and like others, the thought crossed my mind that it wasn't an accident. Furthermore, it looked familiar...I think I saw another diagram picture about a year ago, possibly on a military-tech YouTube channel, possibly by an eastern-european creator. There was discussion at the same time that the next generation was not just approved but already created.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Did a Chinese hack kill Nortel? (2020)

The sheer amount of bugs planted in buildings, especially at time of construction, has been an astonishing revelation to me. It’s funny to think that this is a full time job but many people have no idea it happens.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Samantha considering the prospect of being monitored for violations by OpenAI

lol by that logic we should be careful in how we trade because we wouldn't want to make "the market" fearful. Also, that link interesting because I've only ever followed the VIX and didn't know about the others in that list.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

Honestly, that's what I assumed they did in MacOS 11.5.2 where they refused to give details of the change. It's likely the last update for many intel devices.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

So a hash for a public key used to encrypt something could be in there? Banned books? A video of unsavoury evidence to an institution?

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity [pdf]

You're probably better off if what's being said about anti-body monoculture from vaccine acquired immunity is true. You'd have higher probability of resistance to variants given the greater diversity of anti-bodies leftover from naturally acquired immunity.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: macOS 11’s hidden security improvements

But can it ignore your firewall settings?

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Google introducing tool for under-18s to remove images of them from search

This is my favourite take on this, honestly.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Rails 6 with Webpacker 6, Tailwind 2 with JIT, Postcss 8 and some default setup

They are only generators. You don't need to use them but they are there if you choose to use them.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'

I am not confused. Apple Inc's about-face on backdoors for "good guys" and engineering tools that create the potential for "unmasking" says to me that they are the ones confused.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

So even if they go back on this the announcement served as strong signalling of capability.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading

I just went over the CRA's rules for how it treats cryto and all I can say is oof. Worse part to me seemed to be that you can't deduct expenses (hardware, fees, power, etc) from your capital gains lest it then be considered income and therefore have the full tax rate.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: A dubious writing style emerging in science

"fog computing" is an actual thing though, was discussed in one of my undergrad courses.

darwingr | 4 years ago | on: Patients died from neglect, not Covid-19, in Ontario LTC homes – military report

A friend of mine is a nurse in Nova Scotia and was telling us how the staff felt so sad last summer when they were directed to put elderly/at-risk in isolation. If you work in that profession you don't need to see the research to know that you're starting a countdown to their passing. In this case it was just as true. They may as well have broken their hips.