In Australia you can postal vote if necessary, but "prepoll" voting is much more popular (I believe 37.5% of registered voters, 90% of which actually voted, in 2025). It's just so convenient, with the same crowd of volunteers and officials as actual polling day.
In 2020's national election, nearly 87% of California votes were by mail[1].
California offers day-of in-person voting, and has ballot-drop boxes (unmonitored) and drop-off (monitored) locations for at least several weeks (I believe it was a full month in the past election).
The organization plans don't work for very small organizations, for one (minimum 5 seats). Any solopreneur or tiny startup has to use individual plans.
Though I worry that instead western governments will beat the judges to the punch and start asking things like DNS providers or even HTTPS servers to keep logs that can be subpoenaed much like a telecom company keeps a log of each phone call ("metadata"), or else be blocked...
Western governments just send a court order to the hosting provider to shut the site down / revoke their domain name. Site blocking is more of a problem for small counties trying to block sites the rest of the world allows to be hosted.
In terms of privacy, your DNS history probably isn't very interesting. It's almost all going to be requests for the top social media sites. Which governments have full access to the stuff you post there.
In my case, I'm way more active while WFH because I go for a run during lunch, lift weights instead of waiting around for a train. Commuting is mostly dead time for me (and I'm fortunate enough to not have that long a commute).
> floats can be NaN and integers should be low(int) if they are invalid (low(int) is a pointless value anyway as it has no positive equivalent).
I have long thought that we need a NaI (not an integer) value for our signed ints. Ideally, the CPU would have overflow-aware instructions similar to floats that return this value on overflow and cost the same as wrapping addition/multiplication/etc.
From an implementation point of view, it would be similar to NaN; a designated sentinel value that all the arithmetic operations are made aware of and have special rules around producing and consuming.
Yes, sometimes it's that, but what I've observed in the field is self-inflicted by programmers. It's the impostor syndrome. They don't know, but they don't want to show that they don't know. They look around for clues of what to choose. Monkey see, monkey do. And then, like monkeys, they bash their keyboard until it seems to work.
The portable lithium battery "powerstations" double as great double-conversion UPS in addition to their intended outdoors (camping, beach, etc) activities, and depending on capacity go for less than 900 USD. It's only noisy when fast charging or providing high currents.
Definitely had various computer equipment plugged in to ours and it was great (I didn't specically test for EMI).
In Australia you can postal vote if necessary, but "prepoll" voting is much more popular (I believe 37.5% of registered voters, 90% of which actually voted, in 2025). It's just so convenient, with the same crowd of volunteers and officials as actual polling day.
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