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highesttide··on First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)
I have to admit, not working at a startup or FAANG-scale company, I'm amazed to see the place I work mentioned, even just as a note, on here. Fun little double-take!
highesttide··on [dead]
I absolutely agree that plaintext email should be kept alive, but is it really "many" for 99% of companies? I'd be shocked if anyone I know told me they disable html emails, even when I do it myself most of the time.
highesttide··on FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad
In my experience with recent thinkpads, my battery life never really beats the w10 install it comes with. Not sure if there are some very clever windows-only optimizations or what, but that's what I've noticed.
highesttide··on Google Cloud networking issues in us-east1
Complaining about the communication and response time of a company is different from yelling in the direction of some stressed engineer that they are useless and incompetent at everything they do. Sadly you get too much of the latter around the Internet.
highesttide··on PHP in 2019
As a note, typed properties are coming with 7.4.
highesttide··on Henrik Ibsen invented realistic theater, and now he bores. Why?
Interesting, over here I would say et Dukkehjem (a doll's house), Vildanden (the wild duck), and Peer Gynt are his most known works, probably not-very-closely followed by en folkefiende (Enemy of the people). Fascinating.
highesttide··on Henrik Ibsen invented realistic theater, and now he bores. Why?
As in Norwegian, I have to ask... is Vildanden (the wild duck) not one of his most known/iconic plays outside of Norway? I would say it's easily one of the three defining plays people would know about over here, so it confuses me to see it mentioned like this.
highesttide··on Ikonate – fully customisable and accessible vector icons
Those look like standard OS font emoji
highesttide··on At Blind, a security lapse revealed private complaints from tech employees
It's worth noting that the current standard encryption and password hashing in the php core is great, with no external dependencies added
highesttide··on Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
What has my compiler done for me lately? - Matt Godbolt

https://youtu.be/bSkpMdDe4g4

Entertaining talk, not extremely in depth, though.

highesttide··on How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
I'm pretty sure there isn't a ton of background fetching asides from marking servers as unread, it can take a bit to actually load the messages when you click an inactive server, and it won't have any new messages if you don't have a connection (even if it had a connection when it was sent)
highesttide··on Why We Need Web 3.0
I honestly don't think I would want to keep working with webdev if I had to go back to relying on server side rendering for everything, the workflow is just _so_ much worse (to me).
highesttide··on Droppers Is How Android Malware Keeps Sneaking into the Play Store
There was a straight up jailbreak app that got through the process with a single button and all it did was apply the exploit to your phone. So I guess I wouldn't put too much faith in their reviews.
highesttide··on Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless
All my flights in Europe the last few years have had that as a part of the initial safety message
highesttide··on GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB
Do you genuinely believe anyone should be regulating using modern technologies on the web like that, asides from stuff related to accessibility?
highesttide··on GDPR: Don't Panic
I've seen a lot of people talk about having a separate table for ids that should be removed when you restore a backup. It seems like a plan pretty viable solution, at least from what I've seen.
highesttide··on What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like
I think they mean "time" for the botnet in this case
highesttide··on JupyterLab is ready for users
Related to that idea, there is a game called screeps [0] that has a lot of that general idea and executes it fairly well. The payment model discouraged me from sticking with it, sadly.

[0] https://screeps.com