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·el mes pasado·discuss
60 days before shutdown, a game company just needs to transition their game to subscription-required. That gets them out from under this law. Then if enough players subscribe, the company could decide to keep the servers going longer than planned.
boisterousness
·el mes pasado·discuss
They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.
boisterousness
·el mes pasado·discuss
These are good ...

"Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney (2018)

"The Go Programming Language" by Donovan and Kernighan (2016)

"Hacker's Delight" by Warren (2013)

"Algorithm Design Manual" by Skiena (2008)

"Purely Functional Data Structures" by Okasaki (1998)

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman (1985)
boisterousness
·hace 2 meses·discuss
No draft in 1948.
boisterousness
·hace 2 meses·discuss
[dead]
boisterousness
·hace 3 meses·discuss
In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header.

Also, in the Quick Filter, you can click the star button to "Show only starred messages".
boisterousness
·hace 3 meses·discuss
It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.
boisterousness
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Stacked Git (StGit) [1] is a git CLI add-on for working with stacked commits in your local repo.

Why are stacked commits useful? Multiple patches can be developed concurrently and efficiently, with each patch focused on a single concern, for a clean Git commit history and improved productivity. The tutorial [2] says:

> One common use of StGit is to “polish” a Git branch before publishing it to another public repository. The kinds of polish that StGit can help with include:

    Complete and correct commit messages.
    Each patch limited to one coherent topic.
    Each patch standing on its own: passing tests, etc.
    Considerate patch (commit) order
> Careful curation of Git commit history, as enabled by StGit, can be of high value to those reviewing pull requests or trying to understand why or how code came to be the way it is. ...

> As a concrete example, consider a situation where several Git commits have been made in a repository with commit messages such as:

    “Improve the snarfle cache”
    “Remove debug printout”
    “New snarfle cache test”
    “Oops, spell function name correctly”
    “Fix documentation error”
    “More snarfle cache”
> While the above may be the “true” history of commits to the repository, it may not be the history that is most helpful to code reviewers or the developer who needs to understand what happened in this area of the code six months after the fact. Using StGit, this history can be revised to be higher quality and higher value.

Originally written in Python (2005, pre-GitHub) by Catalin Marinas, the current version is in Rust. StGit is free and open source [3]. It was inspired by Quilt [4], an earlier system credited to Andrew Morton and Andreas Grünbacher.

[1] https://stacked-git.github.io/ [2] https://stacked-git.github.io/guides/tutorial/#development-b... [3] https://github.com/stacked-git/stgit/ [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt_(software)
boisterousness
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Drilling down, one finds a link to a paper from Usenix Security 2018: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels", by Damian Poddebniak et al. [0]

[0] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
2020 update: https://wateroperator.org/blog/featured-video-why-are-960000...
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Another contender: Russ Cox's "fast unrounded scaling" [1].

Cox writes: "The main idea of this post is to implement fast unrounded scaling, which computes an approximation to x · 2^e · 10^p, often in a single 64-bit multiplication. On that foundation we can build nearly trivial printing and parsing algorithms that run very fast. In fact, the printing algorithms run faster than all other known algorithms, including Dragon4, Grisu3, Errol3, Ryū, Ryū Printf, Schubfach, and Dragonbox, and the parsing algorithm runs faster than the Eisel-Lemire algorithm. This post presents both the algorithms and a concrete implementation in Go. I expect some form of this Go code to ship in Go 1.27 (scheduled for August 2026)."

[1] https://research.swtch.com/fp
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Great minds think alike!

For $99.95, you can own an exquisite 0.75m USB-C 2.0 "High-Definition Audio Cable" [1], featuring "high-purity 0.5% Silver conductors and a Metal-Layer Noise-Dissipation for the most efficient dissipation of radio-frequency noise."

It has "Direction-Controlled Conductors: All drawn metal strands or conductors have a non-symmetrical, and therefore directional, grain structure. AudioQuest controls the resulting RF impedance variation so that noise is drained away from where it will cause distortion. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. When applicable, arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality." Power Delivery: No. Country of origin: China.

My web search didn't reveal any $1000 USB cables - doubtless those are offered only privately to the most discerning connoisseurs.

[1] https://www.audioquest.com/products/forest-usb-c-c-digital-a...
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
> For things that are not visible, there are much fewer brands e.g. underwear.

Personal care products - shampoos, soaps, lotions

Nutritional supplements

are counterexamples
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Decentraleyes hasn't been updated since late 2024, so I switched to LocalCDN [1].

[1] https://www.localcdn.org/
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to.

[1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
boisterousness
·hace 4 meses·discuss
> These [cameras] are mounted above the stoplights and aimed against traffic at stoplights to read faces.

Those cameras are for traffic detection, so the signal can turn green when a car comes. They aren't reading faces.
boisterousness
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
boisterousness
·hace 5 meses·discuss
They're different. Multiplication by i gives a quarter turn counterclockwise. -i gives a quarter turn clockwise.

Opposite quarter turns cancel: (-i)(i) = (-1)(i^2) = +1

Quarter turn twice counterclockwise gives a half turn: (i)(i) = -1

Quarter turn twice clockwise also gives a half turn: (-i)(-i) = -1
boisterousness
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Drivers could change lanes safely if everybody wasn't tailgating.
boisterousness
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Not so. Keeping a constant distance from the car ahead means both cars are moving at the same speed. When a jerk cuts in, after a moment all 3 cars will be moving at the same speed.