golf1052 (u/golf1052)

golf1052 commented on The US Is Tracking 14 Potential Rabies Outbreaks in 20 States accuweather.com/en/health... · Posted by u/treasure2seek

izend · 3 months ago

I'm surprised they don't mention bats, every summer night they fly within a foot of my head and some poor guy died on Vancouver Island,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rabies-death...

golf1052 · 3 months ago

They mention bats multiple times in the article

>In the United States ... contact with infected bats is the leading cause of human rabies deaths.

> The same goes for people planning to ... explore caves in regions where rabid bats have been.

>The clearest example is someone who has been bitten by a wild dog, bat, fox, raccoon or other animal known to carry rabies. If someone had direct contact with a bat — for instance, waking up to find a bat in the room — this is also considered a possible exposure unless a bite or scratch can be definitively ruled out. ... If you find a dead bat, do not throw it away. Do not touch it or allow other people or pets to touch it. Instead, call animal control so that the bat can be tested.

>In addition, try to prevent bats from getting inside your home through windows, chimneys or other holes.

golf1052 commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker

airstrike · 6 months ago

> Today, as I type these words, I work at Snowflake. Snowflake has around ~2,000 engineers. When I was in Office, Office alone was around ~4,000 engineers.

I'm sorry, what?! 4,000 engineers doing what, exactly?

Excel turns 40 this year and has changed very little in those four decades. I can't imagine you need 4,000 engineers just to keep it backwards compatible.

In the meantime we've seen entire companies built with a ragtag team of hungry devs.

golf1052 · 6 months ago

The author mentions the list of products that were impacted with this migration

> Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Sway, Publisher, Access, Project, OneNote, Shared Services (OSI), Shared UX, + everything in the web

golf1052 commented on Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/gok

izacus · 6 months ago

No, and with sunset of Rosetta, they'll kill off many of the few games that fun on macOS.

golf1052 · 6 months ago

According to reporting Rosetta will still be supported for old games that rely on Intel code

> But after that, Rosetta will be pared back and will only be available to a limited subset of apps—specifically, older games that rely on Intel-specific libraries but are no longer being actively maintained by their developers. Devs who want their apps to continue running on macOS after that will need to transition to either Apple Silicon-native apps or universal apps that run on either architecture.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-en...

golf1052 commented on C++ is an absolute blast learncodethehardway.com/b... · Posted by u/ok123456

jacoblambda · a year ago

So that's a fun one. C# the language people know first released in y2k and the 1.0 release was 2002.

So it definitely is old enough to fit and it certainly has it's warts from age that show up in long lived projects.

golf1052 · a year ago

I used to work on a codebase at Microsoft that was classified as a microservice. Pretty much entirely written in C# and it was about 12 years old.

golf1052 commented on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day bsky.app/profile/bsky.app... · Posted by u/davidbarker

herdcall · a year ago

Is there anyone here who uses Bluesky for its own sake rather than protesting against Twitter/Musk/etc.? Trying to understand if it have any inherent pros in terms of design or operation. IMO all these platforms thrive on network effects and their value grows exponentially as their size grows.

golf1052 · a year ago

My major reason for using it is how open the platform is. I run a community project that involves posting pictures to multiple social media sites at once. Posting to Twitter was fine up until Elon's takeover broke a bunch of things. My API access got turned on and off repeatedly for unknown reasons. Checking the Twitter forums showed that this was happening to other developers as well with little response from the team there.

Bluesky on the other hand has been open first. You can now host your own Personal Data Server (PDS) which means if you ever want to post to the network you are basically never blocked from doing so.

I kept posting on Twitter manually (along side automatic posts to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads) because people were there but with this latest shift in interest having to post manually is a pain so I'm dropping Twitter.

golf1052 commented on Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency github.com/ChrisTitusTech... · Posted by u/aquova

noncoml · a year ago

I thought I make a generic reply instead of replying at every comment below:

People don't use Windows over Linux because they prefer the Windows environment/experience. They use it because of the applications, and to some degree the drivers, that are not available in Linux.

golf1052 · a year ago

To the shock of some people as well, some people use Windows because they prefer it over other operating systems.

golf1052 commented on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach techcrunch.com/2024/07/12... · Posted by u/impish9208

kodt · a year ago

One interesting thing I ran into with frozen credit, is that you cannot sign up for USPS informed delivery without them running your credit as a method of address verification IIRC. If it is frozen the process gets stuck in limbo (at least it did many years ago when I ran into this situation)

golf1052 · a year ago

This is no longer the case. I signed up for Informed Delivery last year with frozen credit with no issues.

golf1052 commented on About Passkey – the password-free tech Apple is betting on fastcompany.com/91146873/... · Posted by u/gautamsomani

Yaina · a year ago

The biggest hurdle to passkey adoption is going to be, how complicated they are to implement for developers (relative to their advantages). I think that's the much more pressing matter than user adoption.

golf1052 · a year ago

I implemented them for a personal project about 6 months ago. The library support is pretty good. The biggest draw for me was that it's easier for the users of my site to use passkeys.

golf1052 commented on How America moves homeless people around the country theguardian.com/us-news/n... · Posted by u/gmays

toomim · 2 years ago

Building housing can address the housing-prices problem, but the homeless problem is actually a drug problem, which is actually a mental health problem, which is actually a deep social problem.

You can't solve fentanyl with housing.

golf1052 · 2 years ago

I haven't seen any data showing if people became addicted to drugs first and then became homeless due to that or if it was the other way around. I can totally see people becoming homeless first and then getting addicted to drugs because being homeless sucks. Again, haven't seen any data to show which way happens more often but the data showing rates of homelessness are lower in areas with lower housing costs is pretty telling.

golf1052 commented on Cowboy rides to the rescue of VanMoof owners with app to unlock threatened bikes techcrunch.com/2023/07/13... · Posted by u/j-a-a-p

golf1052 · 2 years ago

Glad to see Cowboy release an app to potentially save us VanMoof owners. For US residents VanMoof had a leg up because there were brand stores open in the US to take bikes to for repair. There's a couple of other features VanMoof bikes had that I preferred over Cowboy's so it's sad to see them go.

At least in Seattle both Amazon and Google partnered with VanMoof to let employees rent or buy bikes so there's a ton of VanMoofs around. I wonder what's going to happen with them.