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The internet archive is most useful for when you click a link and it is dead which is very often. The wikipedia references are filled with dead links which now point to IA.

There is probably a lot of junk data on IA though especially video site archives but its worth keeping stuff that isn't needed if it means keeping stuff that was useful.

Ancient posts rarely do get any attention though unless you are a politician and even then most people agree its worthless information. There was the recent event with the guy from Canada having photos of him wearing blackface almost 20 years ago and most people agreed that something so long ago is totally irrelevant to today.

Looks like its a huge amount of work to strip the DRM out of the games which stop functioning when the original website stops working.

I'm not sure what you would want from a standard. The basic idea is very simple, crawl the entire web starting from a few known points and visiting every single url you see on every page. Now you have an index of the internet you can run searches on.

The only problem is meaningfully ordering those results and having the computing power to do it. An open standard doesn't solve those.

Just like implementing global search across all websites is impossible

When you have a huge number of people working there its not unlikely that at least one person will do this and there is probably nothing you can do to stop it. What would be interesting data is if per person there is a higher rate than the general population.

No doubt. So far the only defense against crap products is buying them from a physical store so you can test and easily return them and having a good warranty.

The rating for a panel is the absolute best case where it has full direct sunlight and the panel is cold. Most of the time you will be getting less than the rated power.

Its ok. Stadia is a google product, it wont exist by the end of 2020.

Those prices look good. I remember last time I checked they had a very good free plan but you had to jump right up to the very expensive enterprise plan if you had an internal app even if it was tiny.

What do you mean requires a gpu? Doesn't all computing with a gui require some kind of GPU?

>I think eventually we will pine for the old way. Already you can’t get useful reviews anymore because all of the “comparison” searches are run by manufacturer mouthpieces.

Absolutely. A lot of reviews these days from google results read like someone who has only ever read the feature list from the marketing page. There is a bit of a search engine hack where you just put "reddit" after any search and it brings up fairly real results for now.

Its funny how our brains have a kind of built in adblocker named banner blindness. There have been a few times I was unable to understand a UI because the important part was rectangle and too prominent so I ignore it entirely without realizing it.

This is so prevalent already. Brands disguised as users posting "content" that is mostly just an advert for their brand.

It has got to the point where any time someone posts something that seems to too clearly show a brand name or speaks too highly of a product I suspect its the PR people at work and I downvote it.

What do you do when you need to debug an issue and the container contains no utils?

I expect someone will leave a comment saying "But you shouldn't be entering containers, you should be using Ansible/Kubernetes". Yes, that is how I manage changes but sometimes you just have to log in and see what is going on with htop/etc

They aren't impossible to find, there are loads takeaway sandwich stores as well as buritos. You just have to look a little further than takeaway that has a drive through.

Almost all foods seem to get destroyed in the freezing process and lose their texture. I have found that at my supermarket they sell refrigerated meals that just need to be microwaved and they taste outstanding. As long as you make sure to stir them half way through so they don't dry out at the top you could literally serve it at a restaurant and I don't think people would notice.

Yeah, I prefer unit tests over docs. Rather than writing a document saying "Make sure X does Y" Just write a spec checking that X does Y and if it ever stops doing that there will be a descriptive error in the CI.

Docs and comments go out of date and people don't know they exist/where to find them. Unit tests are always checked and always maintained.

Not sure if this is the case but it would be possible to fool fingerprinting by randomizing parts of the browser so each request has a unique fingerprint which isn't useful for tracking.

Its quite a large number of them but not any of the ones you can get from a store anymore. There are loads of them floating around ebay second hand. Just look up the serial number checker and you should have no issues snagging one.

Normal usage has already done this. New renewable energy sources are cheaper than new fossil fuel sources. Fossil fuels exist mainly today because they have already been set up but mostly for political reasons. Many political parties have built their personal brand around fossil fuels and will continue to use them even when it is illogical.

You are correct. I am critical of the practice of collecting items that have no continued use to the owner and would be better off sold or gifted to a new owner who could get more use out of it.

I will admit though that they can serve as art and part of the room decoration which is a valid usecase.

Overheating rooms which then have to be ventilated / air conditioned and aren't even an efficient way to heat an area compared to heat pumps.

Also having to produce more solar panels and wind turbines to run miners is not good for the environment either.

Hardback books seem like a magnet for collectors (hoarders) they know they could more conveniently get the book as an ebook or from the library but they are buying them primarily as an item to store on a shelf. I have seen people buy books they don't even intend to read simply because the hardback is well decorated and the edge of the pages is gold.

Perhaps they think the sight of a large bookshelf full of books they never read makes them look smarter. They are probably right as well.

I wonder what can be done about this. These crypto calculations are totally useless RNG and are trashing our planet. One solution I have seen is to charge for power on a non linear scale so for normal users its fairly cheap but if you start to use very high amounts of power it becomes more expensive per kwh.

This method doesn't sit too well with me but I don't have any other better suggestions.

I'm pretty sure its not downloading to the client since the dataset is apparently pretty massive. It looks like its downloading it to a vm or something and creating a new instance of the service for every user.

Insane but also expected. When I tried it out when it was posted here and saw it took multiple minutes to warm up I knew it was probably expensive.

>And it's currently costing 30-40 cents per download.

Is there no way to have a single hosted instance rather than downloading again for each user?

You get the general idea from the name anyway.

It could have to do with all the tracking the new reddit does. Just open the network tab and see it firing off network requests as you move the mouse.