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hinokion France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms

There’s no setting for mobile data, but for WiFi you can go into the network settings and override DNS.

hinokion Blog about things you don't understand yet

I think you’re looking for https://ciechanow.ski/archives/

hinokion Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn

We did a reasonable job with ozone depletion, but that has much lower costs.

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

hinokion ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light

To give more context:

The UK is not and has never been in Schengen.

I guess GP is taking about free movement of EU citizens, but that has nothing to do with Schengen.

hinokion Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight

Maybe one day it will be so casual that one could catch a Joby wearing some jobby catchers.

hinokion Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

I had to look this up, because I had never heard of it. How could a lens be damaged by infrared lasers?

It turns out it’s the sensors that are easily damaged by high powered lidar lasers.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/keeping-lidars-from-zapping-ca...

hinokion Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

That Wikipedia article has a nice picture comparing the two shapes which shows how they’re more complex than you’d think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerver%E2%80%99s_and_Hamm...

hinokion Anatomy of US inequality

Do you have data showing a drop in per capita median wealth?

I found this nice visualisation: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

But it’s totals, and not inflation adjusted.

hinokion Claude for Chrome

How do screen readers work? I’ve used all the aria- attributes to make automation/scraping hopefully more robust, but don’t have experience beyond that. Could accessibility attributes also help condense the content into something more manageable?

hinokion The enduring puzzle of static electricity

It actually helps the extraction from the coffee grounds too, not just for reducing mess.

https://youtu.be/nLnB99VJ0HE

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259023852...

hinokion Why Algebraic Effects?

Forget it Jake, it’s land of Lisp.

hinokion My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding

Safari on iOS 18.1 doesn’t render the second character properly either. (Unless it’s a 口 :)

hinokion Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

https://ui.perfetto.dev/

Won’t get you end to end latency, but should be able to trace the input events through chrome, and show the context swaps of all the Wayland/dbus stuff.

EDIT: looks like Linux system tracking is more work, but possible https://perfetto.dev/docs/quickstart/linux-tracing

hinokion Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive

It’s a mixture of Chinese Whispers and Telephone, two names for the same game.

hinokion A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)

They were the same a long time ago, but there has been some drift. If you use the wrong typeface, it’s still intelligible but looks strange.

Blog post I found with some examples: https://blog.skritter.com/2015/06/font-differences-between-j...

hinokion The brain has its own microbiome

Is there any evidence (yet?) of an autoimmune disease caused by the immune system accidentally attacking part of the micro-biome?

hinokion Intel's Redwood Cove: Baby Steps Are Still Steps

If you’re not speculatively executing, you don’t need a branch hint because you don’t need to speculate which way it goes.

Also, I don’t think executing both sides of a branch ever took off on any mainstream CPUs (unless Itanium counts). It wastes power to spend half your execution units on things that won’t be committed, why not use them on the other hyperthread instead?

hinokion Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain

I would also add the Peninsular War to the list of major conflicts in Spain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War

hinokion BART to offer final rides on original equipment on April 20

Sometimes you still get sketchy passengers sitting across from you: https://twitter.com/PrectiveGallery/status/17667709878137695...

(Tweet about bedbugs on the yamanote line)

hinokion Gravitational waves may have made human life possible

Is both. They cause gravitational waves, which is how the system gets rid of energy, which allows the orbits to decay, causing the collision (and more waves).

hinokion Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high

Maybe trickle down economics works if you ask nicely? :-)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-PM-Kishida-asks-compan...

hinokion Show HN: Aldi Price Map

(Spaghetti or butternut) squash

hinokion The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium

My uninformed opinion: lots of speculative execution is good for single core performance, but terrible for power efficiency.

Have data centres always been limited by power/cooling costs, or did that only become a major consideration during the move to more commodity hardware?

hinokion ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry

Does it need to get all the socks? Even the ones stuck between the frame and the drum?

That might be at least as difficult as folding.

hinokion Suica Technology and Strategy for Future Development (2016) [pdf]

One thing I really appreciate about Suica is the low latency. You can tap while walking quickly and not have to slow down to get through the ticket gate. Compared with e.g. London, where you have to almost stop because the gates take so long to open, it really makes it easy for a trainload of people to get out of a station.

The name is also a bad pun; Sui-sui is onomatopoeia for smooth movement (like fish swimming), so it’s the card for moving smoothly. Also, suica means watermelon so the card is green.

hinokion The Cassette-Tape Revolution

CD caddies existed for a brief time. I think early drives were much more sensitive to dust and scratches.

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/842/retr...

hinokion A Lot of Damage in Grindavík

Nothing specific to earthquakes and volcanoes or other bad omens, but there was probably some human sacrifice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blót

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ättestupa

hinokion I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

It’s by country of birth. So that applicant with the long wait could be from Canada if they were born in India.

hinokion Eye comfort a priority for all-in-one desktop PC with color E Ink display

Macs used to have nice matte displays in the Power era, but now the only matte display they make is the “nano texture” upgrade to the Studio/Pro displays. Only $300 or $1000!? dollars more.

hinokion Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints

Wouldn’t that race against any other thread in the process? I guess you could stop all threads when you hit the breakpoint and start them again after you restore the breakpoint, but the synchronisation of that would be really tricky too.