hyperdimension

> I remember in the 2000s, there was some site using a decimal IP address (as a single number, not dotted quad) that had hacking/crypto puzzles. Something with a "Alice in Wonderland" theme. Does that ring a bell for anyone?

Was it called ninebows? I was looking online for that a while ago to show a friend, and I remember in school reading pages and pages of forum threads about it: speculation of what this or that meant, ideas for solving the next puzzle, et c. It was a website with some hidden puzzle that, once solved, would leave you with another link somewhere else with another puzzle that needed solving.

Someone eventually won, too, but it looks like it just vanished off the face of the Internet like many things from that era. Either that, or my search engine skills aren't good enough.

> The dot over i doesn't have a name

Well you've just nerd-sniped me. I can't resist adding this bit of hyper-specific knowledge: it is called a tittle.

> They respond that this sounds very convoluted and they'll only agree to do it if you call them "colonel".

Cute.

That's pretty funny and makes sense. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more from Google. Thanks for the clarification.

Wow, that link is such a great example of Google's "support."

"This channel is for troubleshooting Google devices. It is best to report this with YouTube support for better assistance. [...] I'll be locking this thread after 24 hours."

...just because the initial report contained the keyword 'YouTube', presumably. The reporter clarified the situation, and a different "support" team member comes in and regurgitates the same canned response! On Google's side, why even bother replying at all if that's all you're going to do?

Yeah, UDF. UFS won't get you terribly far with cross-platform support... Thank you.

To your last point: try UFS! I use it for cross-platform flash drives. Better than FAT32, anyway.

> rewiev

Did the keyboard review site skip the most important test? ;)

> "animal health space"

I mean, some of the files might very well be cat photos.

Base 10? We're always using base 10! :)

I don't really consider this a solution since I'm opposed to ads creeping into everything on principle, but try hitting the first or second button from the top on the right side. That mutes them around 80% of the time in my experience.

That, and the opposite of 'continue' (making this permanent change) being 'remind me in three days' or Google's 'not now' comes with this nasty implication that we're all just foolish users who don't know what's best for us and that we'll eventually come around to what we really want to do.

It really, really irks me.

I like your analysis. I think you could generalize it to any (even more-hotly) debated topic. People can hear the same thing and imagine two (or more) very different things by virtue of life experience, upbringing, morals, or any number of factors that make us unique.

I don't think that's a bad thing. It's a good perspective to keep in mind when disagreeing with someone though.

Do they make laptops with internal USB ports? I've never heard of one, but that doesn't mean much.

I've seen the feature on servers for the same reason they can come with (dual) internal SD cards, but I can't imagine a manufacturer putting in a full-size USB-A port in an ultrathin laptop. I'd really like to see an example if I'm wrong however.

I know I'm running with the off-topic comment, but I like to point that out whenever possible. Companies know that if they just change their name, they lose any bad connotations they had with the previous name.

Comcast changed the name of its Internet service to "Comcast Xfinity" for a few years, then silently dropped the "Comcast" at one point.

Spectrum is also Charter, and Altria is Phillip Morris. It's crappy that it actually works most of the time, so I like to point it out to try to counteract that.

"Repeated Tropes Considered Harmful"

> ...like talking to someone who has a superficial understanding of the topic who thinks they know more than they actually do, and who has read enough pop science articles to sound somewhat convincing.

...trained on HN too, I see.

> The only thing that AI introduces is automation.

Hmm...Automated Inference? Automatic Infringement? Maybe we can make a nice backronym out of this.

An example: the TrackPoint tab in the Mouse Control Panel applet on a Thinkpad.

Happy Holidays from someone working in another utility who only gets noticed when we do our jobs poorly which is, luckily, not often. :)

Don't forget to thank your sysadmin today!

That's how Active Directory Domain Controllers handle the distributed creation of SIDs too.

I'd guess it's something truly 'Orrible.

Maybe helmed by a vicious lawnmower?

One of my favorite papers. :)

That's very insightful. You said as much, but I think that goes for anything that provides any sort of satisfaction. The less effort required to achieve the satisfaction, the more likely you'll gravitate to it. I do, anyway.

I might even take the liberty to generalize it to a sort of long-term-thinking blindness. For me, anyway, there are things I get much more more satisfaction from, that I could be doing, but require effort to do. Yet here I am on HN. I know this. I know that, on a satisfaction:time ratio, I'll get more out of one day's effort and finishing a project than a week's worth of mindlessly reading HN. That's a more fulfilling life.

It seems most of the time life just passes me by as I watch other people put in actual effort (in areas I have skills in! I could be the one doing that!) and achieve cool things. It's a difficult cycle to break. I'll figure it out tomorrow.

That...was excellent.

Huh, strange. It seems they seem very interested in 'remembering' your "2FA" phone number but not your view preferences. Must be a bug somewhere in their DB.

Yeah, regardless of the two it is, I'm saving that for later.

> "is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier"

Can someone clarify why that's done or how it could even be useful? It just seems (to me, naïvely) like if you're going to rotate the identifier every fifteen minutes, why even bother?

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

-- Leslie Lamport

What carbon footprint? The consultants are not much more than sequestered carbon!

(A fancy insult, now that I think of it. Nice.)