And all that while they’re off the air? Oh, duh, time travel.

No thank you, not interested. I’ve wasted too much time giving the benefit of the doubt to people after they misattribute such decisions. It never leads to anything worthwhile.

Unfortunately I can’t take you seriously if you really think this:

Are you telling me the people behind the decision to ban certain mods due to bigotry were holding a stance of “we are more than happy for you to publish your content, just not here for completely unrelated reasons” or are we being serious and we accept the fact that the stance is an explicit “these mods should not exist and we don’t want any part of them”?

The “people behind the decision” are business people who were worried about ad revenue due to being associated with such mods. These people don’t give a fuck about the mod being available anywhere else as long as it doesn’t negatively affect their own bottom line. So yes, I’m telling you exactly that.

But there are realistically always some rules on what kinds of hosted content is allowed on a page. Open racism/transphobia are, I’m guessing, not allowed. Why is this a step too far compared to other cases that go beyond legal limits?

It’s also important to note that 1) they weren’t barred from publishing the mod, and 2) they’re totally okay with using said tool in lots of cases where it was never used before - why would they suddenly care about it?

I don’t think it’s realistically possible to do that totally undetected. Since the earth’s magnetic field is so weak and field strength goes down rapidly as distance increases, malicious actors probably couldn’t spoof patterns well enough to make the data look real, at least not without coming very close and staying near their target.

Even better is a single downloadable HTML file. Downloadable programs will likely degrade over time, web APIs are highly stable and portable.

I still wish there was a “pledge” API to allow websites to disable functionality they don’t need. For example, this could be a perfect self-contained app that never needs any outside connections.

I’m not sure I agree. The real world is never going to run perfectly, so some slack must be included (either by adding buffer time to schedules, or using the way you mention). Of course there are examples like Japan that have done a really good job at optimizing these systems, but you won’t be able to successfully apply their approach to every country. Some locations require more work to achieve this, others require less.

Generally the closer you get to an “ideal” performance, the more costly every further improvement gets. If 7 min isn’t reasonable, what number would be? Say we manage to shave off two minutes, at twice the cost of the current system. Is that really worth it?

The better approach is to include reasonable slack time in people’s train schedules, while increasing frequencies so missing a connection doesn’t result in hour-long wait times.

Wait guys, I know how to deal with this one. There’s usually some kinda royal living inside a vase nearby…

It’s so XBOX’s new management doesn’t fire Bethesda’s management.

Yes, that’s why they’re investing so much into AI. They can’t wait to get rid of us.

I used to fairly frequently hit dead ends on Linux, e.g. regarding Wifi drivers or getting some (Linux) applications running. But the driver situation has improved greatly, and thanks to Flatpak, Distrobox & co. I’ve only ever run into one application I couldn’t install - a corporate antivirus. Whoopsie!

They’re actively burning it down. The website often has issues while navigating etc. (while logged in), I frequently have to refresh after clicking on a link because it still isn’t loaded 10s+ later, or because issues/PRs search just won’t load results. The uptime is terrible, if you’re using multiple of their systems they don’t even hit 99% every month anymore.

Aggregate uptime for the last 90 days doesn’t even hit a single 9 anymore: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/#about

His 100% hit rate is truly amazing. He has never dug up a not-hole!

Capitalists in general hate information being freely available, because it reduces arbitrage options.

oooooooh big stretch

I love the movement etc. in Prototype 2! 100%ed it more than once, it’s just too fun. Surely we’ll get the sequel any day now 🥲

I remember a Rick and Morty episode where it was spaghetti

Yeah, I find it hard to believe this wasn’t their goal, especially considering they found this bug in testing and still released the update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193

Oh cool, that worked, thanks! I’d have never found that, to be honest. If possible it would be perfect if this setting shows up when searching for “language” :)

My cheeks clap when I walk so yes, I expect princess treatment