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What do you then do with the contaminated yeast?

How do you prevent it from entering the food chain again?


You can probably just burn it and recover the metals from the ashes chemically.


Imagine if all our gadgets had a repair manual. Even if it was just schematics and assembly guide. Wow.


most of them are not repairable. They are manufactured using one-way techniques like fusing plastics vs. screws or clips, or the discrete parts are amalgamated into a single component, or you need special tools (or software) to do anything.


The manufacturers’ service teams want you to think that, but the truth is there will always be aspiring individuals who can figure out the fixes, and through the power of the internet share with the world.

Is an Xbox meant to be fixed? I learned to hot air rework a tiny QFN40 chip and got it working.

I plug a usb-can cable into my vehicle, and unlock all kinds of functionality that was held back (ex. rolling windows down from key fob).

I like to hope that out there are all kinds of engineers making small opportunities for doors to be opened, perhaps for themselves or the collective. So perhaps you too, can contribute with that “secret” menu or properly labeling the PCB pogo pins.


In a way, an undergraduate education provides the "user manual" for a field, and graduate the "shop manual".


What a piece of shitty advice.


There was this sailor who always did extra knots and shit on his ropes and lines. Because he wanted it to be extra safe.

Then in a storm the ship sank because he couldn't undo that shit quickly enough.

I guess you can tank your software project too by too much or wrong testing.


> was 100% sure that I know how the code works and that this can’t happen again.

No, no, no and nope.


> Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now

I really don't like the tone of this article. Author, please change the tone to something more less aggressive.


That's far from the worst, though. At least this one says please.

The ones that irritate me are the ones with titles in the form of a direct order, such as "Stop using (technology)!".

That one makes me feel like starting to use (technology) just to demonstrate that I don't take orders from this person. :-)


Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.


But why don't use the nice smelling IPSEC if that ticks your boxes?


It doesn't. It just foresaw the need to be able to dynamically configure tunnels on first connection and specified all of that. Which seems to me is a lot of what fly io has just mostly reimplemented here.

In any case the point is I would prefer to just have the basic components available and let me piece them together however I want. Mostly to allow using the underlying technology in more contexts that it is currently available in.


Heh, it really sounds like your needs would be better served with IPSec or something. WireGuard was born precisely because they saw that the whole problem making other existing solutions difficult to audit and insecure-in-practice was their thousand ways to configure. So they did the opposite. Low lines of code, few possibilities.

In software you often choose between a small monolith and a big kitchen sink. Once you have 1 more need than the monolith covers, you have to go over to the kitchen sink.


> How does that count as a "marketplace"?

I'm assuming that Apple is going to profit from that catalogue.


$1 per call.


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