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Manufacturers know people do this. The TV will attempt to connect to any open network (neighbors) and I'd be shocked if they haven't at least considered packaging them with 4G/5G antennas. You're gonna need a Faraday Cage.


Well... I got lucky then: none of my 3 TVs from different brands (two of them being used as screens for computers) did this.


Provide any evidence at all that this is happening.


If you try to render tables with millions of cells the browser does a really poor job and the performance is abysmal. The only solution when you need to render that many cells is to virtualize the table and only have the visible cells (plus some buffer) actually in the DOM at a time. That plus weird restrictions browsers put on certain table elements (looking at you thead) that prevent them from being "sticky" headers means that the developer is left with absolutely positioned divs as the only solution. Blame browser vendors for not providing a native way to present tabular data with more than a few hundred thousand rows without causing performance issues.


there's table-layout:fixed that makes rendering of large tables much faster.

I'd argue that if you have so many rows that DOM can't handle, humans won't either. Then you need search, filtering, data exports, not JS attaching a faked scrollbar to millions of rows.


You also miss out on standardized HTTP caching mechanisms since those don't work with POST requests.


We don't want this on our use case so it's fine.


The term "range" (in the context of a "home") typically describes a multi-function cooking appliance that features a rangetop for heating pots and an oven directly beneath it. Why is this page about lightbulbs? The subtitle even has the word they should've used instead of "range": "products".


Range (noun): a set of similar things https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/range


To be fair, I think most usage is of the form "range of ____". Even the definitions provided illustrate this with "range of options", "range of opinions", "range of model railway accessories". The exception is "This jacket is part of our autumn/spring range", which is a formulation that I've personally never heard; I would generally expect "autumn/spring line".


Range (noun): a large box-shaped device that is used to cook and heat food, either by putting the food inside or by putting it on the top https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/range#ca...


Observe how you have to scroll down past the other senses mentioned to reach this one; dictionaries usually put the common senses first.


"Range" here refers to a range of products, in this case a collection of Matter supported devices


"Products" would have had no such ambiguity.


Counter point: yes they are.


Noah writes a whole long article stating and backing his point. You write a five-word rebuttal with neither argument nor evidence.

Noah wins.

If you can't bother to tell us why we should believe you, or even why you believe you, then we can't be bothered to believe you.


After reading the portion of the article made available to readers who do not opt to pay, none of it supports the claim "health insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system". At best, it presents other issues plaguing the system, none so much as insurance companies.


if that is long I don’t want to see his short stuff. all content is above the fold in an article that is supposed to make a claim such as “it ain’t insurance companies…” not worth the read (even though it is 57 second read…)


Would be funny if individuals could do the same. "Sorry IRS, even though my income is $100k, the cost of living took all of that revenue."


When you own your own business that’s pretty much how it works.


The amount of times I've seen Twitch streamers say "I want this game for myself to play off-stream, but I will play it on stream once so I can write it off as a business expense".


>But this does fall apart for very very large grids, as you get close to the height limit described in this article.

This was solved by a now unmaintained virtualization library that predates both of these libraries: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized

The react-virtualized library works around this issue by scaling the the scroll position it sets for a row based on the ratio of "max CSS height allowed by browser" to "computed height of all rows" if the latter is greater than the former: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized/blob/master/sou...


I can and do assume a monospaced font when using spaces to align code. Folks using variable width fonts will get what they deserve.


Really please stop aligning with spaces!


>But it takes a while

*Checks watch*

We're going on 45 years now.


Naaa ... most "new" languages are just reinventions of stuff that's been around for ... 45 years, by people who should know better.


You can still read it for free according to the author: https://qntm.org/scp


My favorite one from qntm is probably Miguel Acevedo [1]. It is pretty spot on wrt. several topics related to the current AI boom ; for instance the licensing topic.

[1]: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo


MMAcevedo, the TV series Pantheon, and the play The Summerland Project are all excellent treatments of the topic.

If you enjoyed any one of those three, then I recommend the others.


That's one of those ones that really sticks with you. First time I read it I had to sit alone and just think for quite a while afterward.

It's like four pages and it lays out the fiction better than many 400-page novels or entire films dealing with similar subject matters have, IMO.


I just completed the work and have to agree with you.

My timing is poor. Should have taken that "sit alone" part more seriously. I have an intense need to do just that!

I can give myself some time. Unlikely to be enough.


I'll wait for the re-release regardless. No need to jump through any hoops to get it on my Kindle plus the author gets paid for their work. Plus, I imagine it'll benefit from the work of an editor.


You may want to read both, they are going to be pretty different. For starters, AIUI the new published version is not going to be an SCP story, probably because of rights issues. I assume it will be "SCP with the serial numbers filed off", but we won't know for sure until it comes out. I'd read the existing one and then decide if you like it enough that you want to preorder the new one.


“SCP is the the serial numbers filed off” is sort of a funny concept. Conventionally each SCP story is considered to exist within its own canon and the author is able to pick-and-choose which other stories “exist” from its point of view, right? So there are n SCP continuities, and after the book is published there will be n+1, but that +1 is special for copyright reasons, haha.


SCP is CC-SA-BY anyway, so you can download it from torrent, modify it, resell it, if you want to[0]. It's basically GPL, so you can do that with anything that has any relation to an SCP (derivative of a derivative of a derivative)

[0] : https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/licensing-guide


No you cannot. There is no such book.


The author's page links to the original SCP Wiki page, where you can read it in parts, as it was being created. It's not a straight book download, but you can think of each red link as a chapter.

Beware: SCP is as enthralling as TV Tropes.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub


404 not found


Which link? Because the one I posted works, and it says:

> Suggested reading order is from top to bottom. For those wishing to read the book There Is No Antimemetics Division, begin with "SCP-055" and finish with "Champions of Nothing."

Checked every one of those links, which also work. I can't understand why are you... wait, what were we talking about?


The book exists. You just can't remember it.


What book?


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