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> Handshake doesn't solve that problem. TLD owners will still be able to rent-seek, and they'll still hold monopolies over anyone who buys from them.

This statement is cryptographically false. Handshake does give ownership of names in the form of TLDs to people and therefore, the owner of said TLD will not be subject to rent from name ownership.

That being said, you are right that someone could still take a TLD and rent seek. Handshake benefits from not being monopolized in this process - you can always get your own TLD if you want to avoid this.
The filament bulbs are almost all like this. Not too bad if they're using an H-bridge (120Hz with high-ish duty cycle), but Christmas LEDs I think might use no separate diodes at all, just relying on their own diode-ness. That means they're 60Hz with a less-than-50% duty cycle.

Filament LED bulbs (the ones that look almost exactly like clear incandescent bulbs with a visible filament when turned on) do this because they have to fit their electronics in the tiny metal base. Room enough for some diodes (and maybe a capacitor), but usually not a full set of high frequency switching electronics like in most other LED bulbs (although I've seen some filament bulb tear downs that might show more advanced electronics). But again, doesn't bother me due to their high duty cycle and relatively okay refresh rate.

(At least, this is all my impression. Please correct me.)
What about its successor https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook ?
Wouldn't like to be in shoes of GitHub engineers right now. Must be a lot of pressure. I am wondering how does the outage processes look like in a company of this scale.
Weekend trip turns into ordeal after app-rental car loses cell service
What's new is that everybody is doing it now, instead of only vain aristocrats.
It's projected to level out sometime around mid century and then start declining. And that's because birth rates decrease to a below replacement level everywhere women are granted the freedom to control their reproduction, which is a global trend.
They are a forced payment. To add insult to injury they are wasted on stupid things in a very inefficient way all the time.
The problem is, the market equilibrium is usually the worst possible garbage that's still fit enough for purpose that it won't break (on average) before the warranty period ends. Some of the money you save on this isn't really saved, you just pay for it in having to replace the product sooner, or being constantly stressed and irritated with the quality and fragility of your tooling (it's essentially death by a thousand cuts for your psyche).

So there is a reason to add some extra pressures to the market to raise the floor.
Does multiplexing over Ethernet exist?
There's also this: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/143 (Weird slowness scolling text in the console )

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It's caused by conhost.exe excessively hammering the registry to query the following two values:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\TabletMode
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ColorPrevalence
Having previously reported this issue through Feedback Hub (to no avail), let me offer my observations from debugging this issue:

It's not specific to Dell's XPS series - I've been able to reproduce on any Windows 10 installation from version 1703 and up
It only occurs when the console application writes output that causes the console to scroll
It only occurs when the console application in question is in foreground/focus
Each reg value mentioned above is queried 6 times, per scroll!!!
"""

The solution I use is to minimize the terminal when it's scrolling. When I compile my projects if I don't minimize the terminal it takes forever to finish.
Another version of “back in those days everything was so good”
This post must be 5 year old, nobody says “AJAX” in 2020
What makes Google Maps bad? My computer in 1983 didn't have a map application at all, how can Google Maps possibly be bad compared to that?

And if I had had a map application (I'm sure they existed) it would have taken several minutes to load from cassette tape. That's not faster than Google Maps, either perceptually or objectively.
Ruby on Rails vs. Laravel: Which One Is Better for App Development?
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>If you can build it from the basic blocks, it's not a basic block.

The idea behind the author's post is that a directed acyclic graph is a basic block that is just one layer of abstraction above raw bytes. JSON, YAML, TOML, INI, .properties, environment variables are all just different ways to represent a graph and if it were possible to store the graph directly in the filesystem then one would not have to manually [0] serialize the graph to bytes and deserialize it back later.

[0] graph -> byte conversion is the job of the graph filesystem
I do wish shortcuts on web apps would be more universally implemented and more universally discoverable. I wish browsers had a common hotkey that would show available shortcuts, for example.

The biggest problem with his argument is that, done correctly, a mouse augments the keyboard and does not replace it. If you've ever seen a good print production artist, that person can absolutely FLY around a very visual program like InDesign... without leaving the keyboard.
How do you transition from print design to web design?
This concept was probably what inspired that plot arc.
I like fork bombs that actually limit or halt the system. Creating a sub-process of some kind in language X usually boils down to multiple processes getting killed/stalled or - if there is one - a VM to crash. Meh.

Example: JavaScript vs "%0|%0"
MIT's Ground-Penetrating Radar Looks Down for Perfect Self-Driving
ValentineC, this is the best hacker news response I've gotten in a long time! Excited to mark those cache folders and stop syncing 200mb every hour.
Filament LED bulbs usually flicker at 120Hz (with high duty cycle) and Christmas LEDs at 60Hz (with a short duty cycle). Other LEDs are, indeed, high frequency like you describe and are perceptually effectively constant.
Provider knows what IP/sni you go to but not the domains you query, DoH resolvers knows what domains you go to but they don't know your real IP.
Susan Fowler is a hero; it must have taken a tremendous amount of courage to hit the 'send' button while knowing her life was going to change. My niece is about to graduate into the SDE work force and I have little doubt that the culture is incrementally better because of Fowler.
> It also doesn't change the fact that Google Maps is very bad at being a map. It's entire UI flow is oriented for giving turn-by-turn directions for people who know where they are and where they are going;

As it turns out, that is probably the most popular use case for maps in the world.

Note also that for most smartphone users of Google Maps the use-case is actually much broader than that. The UI flow also totally accounts for users who only know where they are going—thanks to GPS and Google Maps knowing where you are often isn't necessary.

I'm confused by the complaint that the "Maps" app only caters to the 90-percentile use case for maps, but doesn't cover the other uses-cases well.

> I agree 100% with the author that one of the primary functions of a computer is enabling easy cross-referencing of information. This ability has been degrading over the past decades

I just find this not the case at all. For expert-users the tools that existed decades ago are still there and still usable. Or you can craft your own!

For non-expert users the information in the world is orders of magnitude more accessible than it used to be.
Having worked at a rapidly expanding SV company during the same time frame I witnessed & experienced similar wildly juvenile & unprofessional behavior. My own experience parallels Fowler's in some disturbing ways and makes me think that the complete lack of corporate oversight or HR professionalism is rampant throughout the entire industry. Kudos to her for having the courage to go public.
"password re-use across an environment is endemic..." What is the solution against this? I just can't identify with the "D’OH!". People want to get their work done. They will use whatever gets the job done. If there is an easier, better way they will use that. So how can we provide them systems where the easier, better way is also safer? What is the current best practice in this area?
Then you got the wrong printer. Some manufacturers do a good job of supporting Linux (HP is probably the best actually; their drivers all ship standard in most distros), others don't bother.
This can change. Sure HR will almost always protect the organization, but I hope we are coming to the point where it is unequivocally more damaging to these companies to sweep these issues under the rug rather than dealing with them properly.
It's simple. The number of checks converts to consumption of application resources.
The lowest subscription plan includes a low number of checks and simple features (like only uptime monitoring).
The higher plans offer more checks and more advanced features that need even more resources (like page speed monitoring or transaction monitoring).

That way, if you need only simple monitoring for your small website you don't have to pay too much.
And if you're a web agency or a large e-commerce store, you still can find a plan that suits you.
This is remarkably similar to the DIY version of a high-end soldering technique I've just learned about called Vapor Phase Soldering.

I'm waiting for a bottle of Galden LS230 to arrive so that I can try this DIY method on some whacking great big Xilinx BGAs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=czwRntpEzgg
Oh, I apologize.

I have employed an exotic concept called an example, which would allow me to reply to an insightful comment such as "Ethics. Where were yours?" (a magnificent contribution, might I add) with an explanation for the apparent lack of ethics in some situations.

These examples are usually not completely related, but also not totally unrelated, to the original article.

I sometimes forget that not everyone learns this communication concept early in life. It's a worthwhile endeavour, in my humble opinion.
Considering how popular unpolarized plugs are all over the world I don't think a fused neutral is much of a problem in a lamp.
something else will come along that's even more superior, and the tooling surrounding your once-superior codebases will bitrot as the community jumps onto the next passing ship and you're caught holding the bag.
Check bios settings a lot of them let you configure that time. Worth keeping for a few seconds so you can hit the appropriate key to access bios again but can certainly turn it down.
These tax dodges are corporate shenanigans, and to me it’s no different than tax evasion.
Women in Tech Become Badass Women in Tech
Not anymore for all practical purposes, but it once did for the very old 10Base-2 standard for Ethernet over coaxial cable. This is practically why the old MII Ethernet PHY interface protocol had the collision-sense lines to indicate to the MAC to stop sending data if it detects incoming data, in attempts to minimize collisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2
> would you go with rust again

Absolutely. Even aside from safety, rust has so many quality of life improvements over C++ - algebraic data types, pattern matching, checked errors instead of exceptions, sane standard library, easy packaging, readable error messages, #[must_use], immutable utf8 strings, traits instead of templates, hygienic macros etc.

Other than compile times and editor tooling, which are being actively worked on, the only real pain point I can think of is the poor support for custom allocators.

As for other alternatives, I don't personally have strong opinions on go but I think it's notable that none of the ex-cockroachdb folks at materialize suggested using it instead of rust.
They already have regular dns resolvers. This helps in DoH adoption and decentralization.
Try Manjaro w/ cinnamon. I think it looks pretty good graphically out of the box and the latest stable release is still blazing fast on my old hp 8440p laptop with an old dual core i5 from the early 2010s. I dont know but cinnamon on Manjaro feels pretty damn snappy to me even on older hardware.
The article explains all the ways that make Google Maps' UI bad. Your paper map or driver's atlas in 1983 offered better xref functionality. As they do in 2020, if you can still find them.

Sure, hardware progressed in the past 40 years. CPUs are faster, storage is larger, we have a global network. But it's all irrelevant to the point that Google Maps UI is optimized for being a point-by-point nav/ad delivery tool, not a map. That's an absolute statement, not relative to last century's technology.
Yep ... it's the digital (meaning on-off) version of the slow moving line you see if you point your camera at a TV (or computer) screen - the speed that it happens at is the sum and the difference of the two frequencies (and perhaps at the sum/differences of their harmonics).

In the CATV industry, we used to send 110 analog channels across roughly 800MHz of spectrum (54MHz to 860MHz). Other than background and ingress noise, a major source of noise (effectively) was distortion - non-linearities in the amplifiers that kept the signal at a reasonable level. Composite Second Order (CSO) and Composite Triple Beat (CTB) distortions were two values that equipment transporting these signals would generally call out - they are analogous to the summing and differencing of two signals and three signals (respectively) as described above for the lightbulb, but imagine doing that with 110 different frequencies simultaneously.
Don't forget that there is a sub-shitshow inside USB-C cabling all of their own, as well as DisplayPort enabled USB-C, docks that do some modes but not others, monitors that run 30hz on HDMI but 59hz on DisplayPort....
It's always been through the floor. If it seemed like it was good before, that's the nostalgia filter kicking in.

Wawa for life.
The Whole-Grain Grail: A Sandwich Bread with Mass Appeal
I recommended it as well. I had no issue in 10 years with mine at home, and the ones at work are reliable too.
Underused Power-Features of Nnn
can you name a few?
I just wish the author used actual paragraphs. I find a string of 1-2 sentence "paragraphs" to be difficult to read. I glanced through it, thought "he's got a good point here and there but its not THAT big of a deal" and then closed it.
Twitter botfarm scamming users out of crypto
https://twitter.com/search?q=ripple&src=typed_query&f=live

This has been going on for about 12 hours now and for the past week. I don't think it will stop unless someone at twitter actually shuts it down. Just posting this here in the hope Twitter does something about to or maybe this will get attention.

Given all of the controversy about bots influencing the 2016 election you would think Twitter would have put better controls over such blatant spam
Oh, Big Clive might say something to that effect, I'm sure.
Benchmarking: You're Doing It Wrong
mice become worse when they switched from ps/2 to usb. ask the quake community.
These videos compare a few on offer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osauwVoP4a8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZPo7C3PDT4

I also highly recommend the Smart Home Solver YouTube channel if you're interested in home automation

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwOBG77Tm8cE24FPxHb_abw
My description's the typical case for the US system, in my experience, not a worst-case, and I've not seen evidence that my experience is unusual—quite the opposite. At least we haven't been bankrupted by it yet, so there's that, but only because our family's pretty healthy.
The American Conversation is an argument, after all, and way worse than our fear of error or anarchy or Gomorrahl decadence is our fear of theocracy or autocracy or any ideology whose project is not to argue or persuade but to adjourn the whole debate /sine die/.It's this logic (and perhaps this alone) that keeps protofascism or royalism or Maoism or any sort of really dire extremism from achieving mainstream legitimacy in the US---how does one vote for No More Voting?
I was buying ES40s at work around that time for the same reason. It was a lot of memory in one box, and close to the most memory you could stuff in a single rack. Unfortunately dealing with Compaq sales at the time was horrible. They basically did not know what the web was, or why anyone would want to serve it.
This is the typical CS undergrad way of looking at the world. You don't know why things are the way they are or how they work but you know you can nitpick things and always describe a "wasted" MB here or a "slow" CPU cycle there.
How to Deploy Your Website or App on IPFS
Server Side Rendering vs. Static Site Generation
I'm surprised the city of kitchener did not get sued for the lack of maintenance on the streetlamp.
Pretend the modern web made computers worse and then try Figma in the browser. It's glorious. Granted it's not written in React but it really shows what the web can be. It's BETTER than any desktop equivalent I've tried. It requires zero installation. Plugins are added instantly. It has native collaboration. It's scary fast. I'm not at all nostalgic about the old days.
people went with HTTP and other shitty models. now we live with the pain. good for selling new hardware tho, so who really cares!

There could be tons done to still have our modern looks, but have old skool performance. issue is mainly in how we store and subsequently use data.

tons of people still use DOS era softwares just due to this very fact. their old programs they can perform the same work 1000 times faster due to how data is stored / presented. It generally doesn't go through 1000 layers of processing each click, and a lot of data is stored as a 'view', not some raw binary blob to be parsed out again on demand..
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Palm oil is the most efficient oil to extract by practically a factor of 2 [1]. So in the long term, if global supply increases or stays stable, if we replace palm oil crops with another crop, eventually we'll make the problem worse and face more deforestation.

[1] according to this http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html

I wish the article would go more in depth into what it would take:

>Because when done right, oil palms can yield the highest amount of oil per acre of land, and if Western countries drastically decrease their demand for palm oil, that could bring a harsh disaster for many now reliant on a Western thirst for the oil.
The number is big, but simular to when they faced the 5Bn file for antiprivacy in SF also, it's not that big of a deal for Facebook.

In 2019, Facebook's revenue amounted to 70.7 billion US dollars, up from 55.8 billion U.S. dollars in the previous fiscal year.

Thats revenue.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/revenu...
I have several atlases and IMO they have considerable advantages over Google Maps. As does Google Maps over them. But none of that is relevant to the matter at hand: "Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than in 1983".
Think outside the box (outside the bulb?)

z-wave "behind the switch" modules are super easy to install (you pull out the switch on the wall, and you put a small box in between the switch and the mains wiring), and you can control a whole circuit with one ~$40 switch. Depending on which one you get, they also support 3 and 4 way circuits (although with some caveats).

And it comes with the additional benefits that it will always work with the manual switch (turning it off or on), and it will work with any lightbulbs you may want to use in the future, but the downside is that you can't really get full RGB colors in the bulbs if that's something you are going for.
Yes, but IPv6 is still at a higher level than Ethernet, Wifi, et al and is therefore subject to the limitations of the lower level framing
I'm not sure where everyone else comes down on these navigational tracking techniques? Here's my view.

There are times when I do want to let everyone know where I am and who I am. This allows others to avoid running their vehicle into mine and improve rescue efforts if I'm in danger. So I think these sorts of digital beacons and aggregators can be a great improvement to support that mission.

If the nav beacon is mandated for safety reasons, I do not think that I should be required to give my personal information if I choose not to, and if there is a navigational concern, I don't think I should give more information than I need to to enable safe navigation. I think it's enough to provide telemetry (e.g. there is a boat, plane, car or drone at location x, y, and z).

I personally believe that people should own their data and forcing people to give more information than required to accomplish the task (e.g. navigation) is a problem for me. DJI's position is closer to what I'd prefer to see in this case.
Facebook made $70B in 2019. This fine amounts to about 7 weeks of their time.

During the time it takes for the trial / etc, they'll make enough money to pay the full fine.

That's just revenue, obviously they'll have other expenses... but still, this isn't as large of a hit to them as $9B sounds.
Consider a VT100. It could only go up to 19200 baud…

The VMS manuals suggested that system administrators may want to keep the hard wired terminals down to 2400 buad and hide the fact from users by turning on "smooth scroll" (which only scrolled about that fast anyway) in order to keep the interrupt load down on the Vax. Something about batching of interrupts on the multiport serial cards.
I don't understand the point of this. I don't understand WHY they would waste my money on changing something that worked perfectly fine.
I'm not interested in getting into a political flame war over some windmills, but I think it's a bit of a gross oversimplification to say that the people gained nothing from them.

There were extensive public consultations. You can view the outcome from that here:

https://whitepineswindfarm.webs.com/20120901%20WPWF%20(1-41-...

Some of the "sidelined" concerns were pseudo-scientific complaints about health effects but those were still addressed with sincerity.

Nothing was "rammed" through, and suggesting such a project was is pretty dishonest.
Some people are essentially unable to experience empathy, only sympathy. This also seems to co-occur with lack of self-awareness.

Thus, they cannot "put themselves in the shoes" of another person experiencing different challenges than themselves. For example, think of every Republican who is anti-gay until their kid comes out (Cheney), misogynistic except when it comes to their daughter, or opposes abortion until they need one, etc.
> How so? The article is based on an assertion that directly counteracts my memories.

Human experience is subjective and one account is not invalidated by another.

> If the author makes an assertion that contradicts my experiences, they better provide SOME evidence, or be dismissed (which is presumably NOT their intent).

This is inconsequential.