BHSPitMonkey

> The important part is that backwards compatibility became a focus after the Gamecube and it has been ever since. Like, this is just a fact.

It's a fact until 7 years ago, when the Switch was released without the ability to accept Wii U discs or connect to Wii controllers. Two upgrades with BC did not establish a pattern.

As of your post, several millions of ballots have not been tallied (half of California, for example).

The last time he was surrounded by chiefs of staff, generals, legal counsel, agency directors, etc. who would say "that's crazy, you can't do that" against his worst impulses. Now, all those people are gone and people like them will not be welcome. Now, he has a conservative judiciary (thanks to his last-minute appointees) who recently ruled that he will not bound by the law. Now, his inner circle has a plan to rapidly cleanse all non-partisan Federal government positions of anyone who might tell the Trump administration why something he wants can't be done.

There is no reason to expect things to go like they did the last time around.

Is becoming a "political opponent" supposed to be a legal shield against prosecution? Are laws simply unenforceable against politicians who break them to pursue power or abuse their offices?

That's an oddly cherry-picked version of a pattern. There was no compatibility between the NES, SNES, N64, or GameCube. Wii and Wii U each supported their predecessor's games, but the Switch did not. Those 2 out of 7 were outliers

I'll jump on the bandwagon here to shamelessly plug my own little spin on Readability-based EPUB generator: It's a self-hosted OPDS server offering feeds of articles from HN, Tildes, and Pocket which are converted to EPUB on-the-fly (as soon as you try to fetch one). You can add/bookmark it in Koreader, which can run on most e-reader devices. It's simple to self-host (it's published as an image on Docker Hub and GHCR, or you can run it on Node directly).

My local instance just runs quietly on a Synology NAS; I like not having to interact with a computer to use it. Unlike the OP, it can't be used to compile many pages/URLs into a single EPUB, though.

https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/news2reader

To what end is the government obligated to "notice" Starship? It's not enough that its FAA works with SpaceX to get launches certified (and coordinate air/sea restrictions, etc.), its NASA has already agreed to fund part of Starship's development (and be its first customer with a historic crewed mission) / routinely flies Falcon missions like Europa Clipper this week, and its DOD is a huge customer? I see no reason for a government agency to do media for an event outside one of their missions.

Edit: Plus, here is NASA Administrator Bill Nelson publicly congratulating SpaceX after the catch anyway: https://x.com/SenBillNelson/status/1845461454977196294

> Bob trusts all 50 issuers, but Alice doesn't want to reveal who her issuer is.

So, just a form of certificate chaining? With the same old challenges that come up if Bob learns that one of the issuers was compromised for some period of time?

SpaceX doesn't tend to share that kind of information, so we may never know exactly. Plus, it's R&D they expect will amortize over the operational life of Starship rather than infrastructure being built for a narrow set of missions that I can't see resulting in much future reuse.

"Early September". I'm not sure if any of the live streams of entry/recovery will be cancelled now that Butch and Suni won't be on board.

If you like platformers, give Celeste a try. The scene in that mockup is a reference to an opening scene from that game.

A hidden screen soliciting donations is certainly in poor taste when you're building a product meant to represent another entity, but "malware"? What is the attack surface on a conference badge that runs a Game Boy emulator?

They are both seasoned NASA astronauts who have done 6-month stints aboard the ISS before (Butch once, Suni twice). They know how to be useful and NASA has indicated that they've been working up there.

I think they mean for the continued costs of correcting the issues. It's a fixed cost contract, and Boeing is currently on the hook for the runaway costs this mission is incurring.

It's the eyebrow-inclination detection that really makes this a work of art. Being able to turn a serious stare into a serious aspect ratio is power I didn't know I needed.

It's a reskin of the EP-133, so likely reusing most of the manufacturing tooling as-is.

You'd really need to block fetch(), websockets, WebRTC, all external images/stylesheets/scripts added to the DOM later, and service workers (to prevent the upload from just being deferred). It's not easy to make sure a web page can't phone home.

> Once you land and park a plane. Well not too much will happen.

Except for massive disruptions to tons of people, businesses, and economies worldwide, with impacts rippling out for days after services have been restored?

Will they also be summoning the owners of airlines and critical infrastructure that had no fallback or continuity plans in the event of an IT outage?

> That's why it makes no sense to blame Microsoft. If the world run on Linux, ceteris paribus, Crowdstrike would be on those machines too, and would fuck them up just as bad globally.

CrowdStrike _is_ running on a massive number of Linux servers/endpoints, with the same kind of auto-update policies.

Another large parallel discussion thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002677

In this analogy, it would be more like if "barrel" was a standardized unit of volume that everyone understood and used, but then in the oil industry specifically they used a slightly different volume and still just referred to it as a "barrel" because it's what they're used to.

And, whenever pressed for clarification, the oil people admitted "yes, technically our unit should be noted as 'oil barrels' which are different from the normal kind, but we like to just say 'barrels' because it's easier".

> It's... an 80MB database. It couldn't be smaller. There are local apps that have DBs bigger than that. There is no scale issue here.

It depends. If that 80MB binary file in git is updated/replaced often, you likely have a problem (every 100 changes/replacements might grow the repo by as much as 8GB).

> If the author themself wants to profit from their work, sure, but once they die, that's it, and there's no excuse for it to not be in the public domain at that point.

So if Disney wants to make a TV show out of your novel series and you turn them down, I suppose they now have an alternative way of making the problem disappear and getting the outcome they wanted...

Joking aside, this idea really seems to create a perverse incentive to make authors die sooner.

AI will eliminate a lot of creative industry jobs regardless of what people at Adobe say.

Every new team has to start somewhere; even SpaceX had to learn to crawl before they could walk, and that was with the benefit of decades of prior art to draw upon. It would be a shame if SpaceX became the last company to ever succeed at designing a rocket because no one after them would try.

You're implying that the main/only "use" of public streets is to fill them up with car traffic. Fewer cars on the streets means they can be better leveraged by buses, cyclists, and pedestrians, which is how it should be in a place like Manhattan.

Not that you asked, but here's a great video about the history of this style of map: https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE

I'm sure you mean no _guarantee_ of stability, but clearly remaining in a current position is more "stable" than actively leaving it (by definition).

The tumbling sure made the footage a lot more spectacular than straight-and-level flight would have :) It's still pretty stunning that we could watch it live, in that quality, nearly uninterrupted.