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> I’m skeptical that the problem they are trying to solve is truly unreasonable bandwidth demands.

Not necessarily bandwidth demands so much as processing demands. Scrapers have a tendency to hammer on parts of web sites that are computationally expensive to generate - e.g. search results, diffs and blame views in git forges, sorted/filtered/paginated lists, etc. Ordinary users may click a few of those links for things they want to see; scrapers will try to request all of them, even when 99% of them are redundant.

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> Unfortunately whatever HN is using routinely blocks my login with "Sorry."

I believe that's the HN application itself, not a WAF in front of it.

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Unless you're an astronomer, you probably don't care about condition 2. Many countries still shift wall time around by an hour twice a year for DST - if people are okay with that, solar time being offset by a few seconds is insignificant.

Even for astronomers, I suspect that preserving conditions 1 and 3 is probably more valuable than 2. It's easier to correct for the uneven rotation of our planet than for an uneven timescale.

Someone who's having a medical emergency is certainly in no position to go comparison shopping for ambulance services.

And a bit of "if Farage really wants the seat, he can fight for it". There's something unsporting about letting him win unopposed.

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It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.

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> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol.

Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...

It's literally based on the (estimated) number of search engine hits for e.g. "Python programming" on Google and a handful of site-specific search engines (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Walmart, microsoft.com, etc), with some manually applied tweaks for languages with easily confusable names. Many of the fluctuations in rankings - like the big dip in the ranking for C between 2015 and 2018 - probably have more to do with changes in search engine algorithms than any real change in popularity.

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They were also using NiMH batteries - a completely different chemistry from modern lithium batteries.

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> I simply will not buy a car that won't easily accept a double DIN head unit.

Are those even a thing anymore? The vast majority of new cars have some sort of custom all-in-one dashboard display.

8 giorni fadiscuss

You're correct on both points.

Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone.

There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux, which emulated an SD storage card and exposed its contents over wireless. The latter are what that article was about.

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> under normal conditions BSD is a wonderful license for game devs since you’re free to use the code and only have to add an acknowledgement somewhere.

And it's not as though libopus is an outlier in using a BSD license. A lot of other commonly used libraries have similar licenses; a few examples that come to mind which are likely to show up in games are zlib, curl, Lua, and SDL.

11 giorni fadiscuss

Because one of the requirements the law sets out is that the content be removed "expeditiously" upon receipt of a takedown notice.

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"First of its kind since the 1940s" still seems a little questionable given the Cecil Kelley incident (Los Alamos, 1958).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid...

Interestingly, both the Tokaimura and Kelley incidents involved a radioactive solution in an unfavorable geometry.

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> Chernobyl is the only accident in commercial nuclear history that has exposed people to large enough doses of radiation to poison and kill them.

The Tokaimura incident (Japan, 1999) comes to mind as a counterexample.

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TOAC_web.pdf

TL;DR: enriched uranium solution was poured into a tank with improper geometry and reached criticality; three workers were severely irradiated, and two of them subsequently died.

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Air travel has also become ~100x safer on a per-passenger basis:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/aviation-fatalities-per-m...

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> 'Run by one individual in Denmark.' is an interesting statement of bus factor

I find it more interesting as a statement about organizational oversight. If there are multiple people involved in operations, they can keep an eye on each other and speak up if they see anything weird going on (e.g. a DNS resolver implementing selective logging or interfering with results). If there's only one person running the show, there's no one to call them out.

(And if you're thinking, "but so-and-so is a principled person, they would never do anything like that" - pressure from law enforcement can be a powerful thing.)

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> Quake III Arena had no single player.

It... sort of did, but it was extremely shallow. It was a preset sequence of matches against increasingly difficult bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmJgXT8WSY

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> It was a wristwatch back then, right?

Only if the application explicitly set the cursor. There was no default indication that an application had stopped processing events - your only clue was that everything stopped responding.

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pngcrush is pretty old. A newer, more effective option is oxipng: https://github.com/oxipng/oxipng

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> They've wanted Larry Gone for years

Larry was essentially inactive* on Wikipedia from 2002 until he started stirring things up last year. Nobody "wanted him gone" - he simply wasn't relevant to the project.

*: Aside from updating his user profile and commenting on talk pages about himself and his projects.