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clon··on [dead]
I think Web 3.0 is currently a nickname for IPFS.
clon··on Facebook-owned sites were down
For sure. Reminds me of the difficulties of starting a power grid from total blackout, bringing generators and power stations to sync.. .
clon··on Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
Could not be bothered to try (my daily driver on Android is Firefox)
clon··on Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
> Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage".

Too late for me. Not even from intent. Chrome force stop later, it still tries to load it and immediately crashes.

clon··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
One example close from home, Belarus and Russian governments have gone to lengths in order to limit gun ownership. It is actually very difficult, at least legally. Perhaps when you are trying to stir a revolution you might speak to the nation arming itself. Once you have taken power, peacefully or otherwise, your next steps regarding gun control are still highly illuminating.
clon··on Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
Still, one of the first signs of a society approaching tyranny is the government cracking down on guns. So if nothing else, it serves as a great canary in the mine.
clon··on No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016)
That's actually very witty. I do realise though that eating good quality food is not a choice that everyone is free make in the US. Not when a decent carrot costs the same as a cheeseburger down the road [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180222-how-can-a-fast...

clon··on No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (2016)
> almost nobody finds it outright objectionable

Correction: .. among people that are into eating junk food

I can assure you there are many many people that would not touch Mickey-D, nor Wendy's, nor Burger King.

clon··on Cloudflare cookie folding change causing disruption for Chromium based browsers
Now an actual incident: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/30ptcb3b0s2w

Workaround seems to be related to disabling an AMP-related feature, bizarrely.

clon··on HN Search Is Down
Looks like their assets are not serving. Temporally very close to our observation of KeyCDN going down.
clon··on How the airline industry got wise to seat belts
So you don't ruin the slide
clon··on Fixing under-engineered code vs. fixing over-engineered code
That sounds over-engineered to me. But just poorly over-engineered, the worst of both dimensions.
clon··on Waymo has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones
Perhaps we should just bring back horses. BI as in biologic intelligence. Where I'm from it was common merely 100 years ago to exit the tavern, plonk yourself into the wagon, let the horse free and fall asleep in pleasant stupor. Usually the horse had no issues finding its way home. Usually. Sometimes it supercharged itself on a nearby pasture. Crashes were uncommon.

If you think this is sarcasm, it is not. That horse was clearly more reliable, adaptable and performant, not to mention safer, than anything Tesla or Wayomo is offering today.

clon··on MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
Thank you! That indeed is what I was hoping to hear.
clon··on MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
Your plans seem spot on for our needs, especially regarding geo search! HA and multi tenancy are a must-have for our use case, though. Would it be possible to have a single large highly available index with tenants of wildly different sizes?

I will surely keep a close eye on your developments. Thank you!

clon··on WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
Not all parts of a system are going to age equally well.

You are going to want to try to avoid that problem, while making your tool still useful. Wireguard hits the sweet spot particularly well.

clon··on New in Git: switch and restore
Another difference is that with git checkout you can create and switch to the new branch in one command using the -b flag:

  git checkout -b new_branch
You can do the same with the new one, but the flag is -c:

  git switch -c new_branch
A good example why developers should not try to be designers. Even of talking about "API/CLI design.
clon··on We Still Don’t Get Things Done
Thank you for writing this. It exactly aligns with my experience.

When such a rant actually feels sensible and pragmatic, there must be something seriously wrong.

I don't mean actual engineers wringing bug free code for a space telescope attitude control system. Seemingly they have it figured out - their code does not seem to fall down at a higher rate than bridges or office buildings. They have a method.

But this method, whatever they implement, is surely too costly for us regular chumps, at least provided your employer, as you put it, has competitors.

clon··on Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]
Presumably that means Redis is fundamentally single threaded?
clon··on Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light
Stereo vision is overrated. One of my buddies is a pilot with 1 eye (since birth) and around 11 thousand landings. Top of his game. There is more to depth perception than stereo vision for sure
clon··on Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
> You can think and discuss what you want, but if you broadcast your views to a wide audience you should also be held to a higher standard. The real issue is who does the accounting.

It is exactly because you, nor anyone else, can come up with an acceptable solution to your last point, it is surely a lesser evil to have free speech, however "dangerous" it may turn, rather than have a benevolent accountant with the speech monopoly turn on us.

clon··on Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
Firefox Mobile
clon··on After years of conflict and instability, Iraq is opening up to tourism
1 week in Iran sounds like torture. I spent 6 weeks there and felt like it was not nearly enough. Trip of a lifetime.
clon··on Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
Your comment is pertinent, so I won't change mine. Apologies.

In my country the word is frequently used to carry sarcasm towards the role that Lukashenko believes himself to have. In other words, it is meant as sarcasm towards the tyrant's ego, not the gullibility of the nation.

clon··on Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace
Seems Ryanair has not learned much though. PFO-->TLL RYR7BJ is traversing Batka's personal airspace as I write this comment.
clon··on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
It refreshes dormant memories of what Flash used to feel like.

For me the balance is still the same. Fine for highly interactive things such as games. For everything else, ugh...

clon··on Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
Do you have a reference for this? My SO still insists on washing our shopping, which, according to your information is totally unnecessary.
clon··on mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (2018)
> Hopefully can avoid a multiple-thousand dollar trip to the ER just to find out its nothing.

Seems that you live in North America. It is utterly bewildering that people are expected to make this determination.

I can go to the ER whenever I suspect a serious problem, to the ultimate cost of... 5 euros. That's the limit. Post-occupation EU backwater country.

clon··on Mars Helicopter Ingenuity test flight altitude graph
That is some fast shutter speed. I was under the impression that these little rotors would be rotoring mighty fast.
clon··on US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
As for the AZ vaccine, we are still learning: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840

The paper details several cases (and index case in more detail) as well as a plausible mechanism behind the thrombotic events. Even better, there are some therapeutic possibilities as well arising from the heparin induced analogue condition.

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