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eps··on Recycle – Floppydisks
Here's an example - https://remute.bandcamp.com/merch/limited-expansion-pack-35-...

I'd guess they use .mod files - instruments and tracks, rather than digitized audio.

eps··on Assert(): A Modern How To
> Can assertions be used in production?

Yes

> What should I be asserting on?

Invariants

> Can I customize how assert behaves?

It should abort the program, logging the stack and whatever the context you pass into in, printf-style. If it doesn't abort, it just buries the issue of the program being in incorrect internal state. It should never be OK.

eps··on Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences
Perfectly valid point actually, not sure why you are in gray.
eps··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Lol, it was a shortage of money, not the cards!

This was in '93 or thereabouts and they were really expensive and through that very sparse where I was.

eps··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
How does FT2 relate to the ScreamTracker?

The latter had a printer port output option that, combined with 10 resistors and 5 minutes of soldering, yielded proper sound on any standalone speaker. In the era of chip tunes and inaccessible SoundBlaster cards, it was nothing short of magic.

* The adapter was a DIY version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing

eps··on Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
It runs some sort of anti-ad-blocker script, which is likely the cause.
eps··on Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Paywalled
eps··on BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
It just quietly documents your life.
eps··on BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
Mercedes is famously a company with the widest range of models, from entry-level budget cars to high-end luxury ones. It's basically their MO.
eps··on Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted
Why not use RFC 3161?

Due to how the code signing works, timestamping servers are provided by all major CAs with full public access, e.g. timestamp.digicert.com, timestamp.comodoca.com, timestamp.sectigo.com, etc.

PS. OP, your comments are auto-killed for some reason. You may want to message mods to get this sorted.

eps··on Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico
The pricelist:

https://landlightfoundation.givingfuel.com/llf-donations

eps··on Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico
https://vimeo.com/1120315498 - 6 min overview, from their website

Fast forward to 5:50 and the "groovy" comment will click in.

eps··on I Changed My Name
So what happens when father's or mother's last name is already in FF FM form?
eps··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
Can you get raw data from Tellmegen?

Can't seem to find any info on this on their website.

eps··on Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made
This weakness is most likely due to slow caffeine metabolism.

That was the only practical thing I learned from my 23andme test results and it explained crappy night sleep quality when drinking coffee after 3 pm. Switching to decaf beans helped.

eps··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
Seeing how Beck operates, this is far removed from being a certainty.
eps··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
A close friend of mine worked for a company with a similar control structure. It's not a paranoia, leave alone an extreme one.
eps··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
The not-so-theoretical spooky thing is that the car requires an account to operate, and all its activity ends up being linked to a very concrete person, in most of the cases, and that's being vaccumed by China.

It's a perfectly valid concern, obviously. However in the current context of a blatantly corrupted government this might be a squeeze for money or just something done out of spite.

eps··on Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo
It means that Polestar's ultimate owner is a state-aligned Chinese conglomerate.

The devs, in the UK or not, will do what it tells them to do.

eps··on Big Banana Car
If you are on reddit, https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthiscar/ is excellent for this sort of content :)
eps··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
This dearly needs a "Don't know" or a "Skip" option.

Also, as others have said, mixing easy and difficult words would make the process less boring.

eps··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
This government is corrupt to the core, with individuals in it wanting a piece of the pie for themselves. Anthropic wouldn't share, hence the reprecussions.

It is an extreme edge case and the argument for a sane government oversight is still perfectly valid. No oversight makes corporations dump waste into the water supply and market asbestos-lined cigarettes. It's naive to think that no oversight is needed.

eps··on Leaving Mozilla
Who is this person?
eps··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
Conventionally, jokes not terminated with smileys aren't accepted on HN.
eps··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
Fwiw, I've been using Firefox for 20+ years, I hate ads with passion and yet I never heard of your add-on until just now.

I don't remember what I've used before uBlock Origin, but since its appearance it's basically solved the ad blocking on Firefox and became the de-facto standard for the browser.

You probably lost all your users to it, rather that they all stopped using FF.

eps··on The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)
A friend of mine interviewed for MS around the same time, albeit for a senior-ish position, and his question required knowing Fibonacci trees.

It wasn't an abstract CS flex on interviewer's part either, because apparently the fib trees were actually used in some part of the FrontPage.

eps··on Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket
Apparently, Infinite Jest is a book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

eps··on Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive
It looks like Hundai's homage to Ferrari.
eps··on Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48271629
eps··on Ferrari Luce
Kinda telling that the video doesn't show the front up to the very last moment.

I'm pretty sure they realize perfectly well how ugly it is.

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