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marticode··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
"Sorry, you have been blocked"

Well I guess I won't be reading your article then.

The way so many web sites are now banning whole parts of the world is killing the Internet.

marticode··on Minimal Phone 2
That seems excessive. In many parts of the world, WhatsApp is the default app for texting people (ie the one you use to contact a plumber or a restaurant) and not having it means the phone fails at its most basic requirements.
marticode··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
It blows my mind that a bunch of adults, prosecutors, CPS employees, etc all decided the fair, reasonable and best thing to do was prosecute and punish this mother.
marticode··on Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica
Oh wow thanks, I had completely forgotten about the Ultrasound even though I loved mine back in the days.
marticode··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
Lucky you, at least you can load it. My IP (from a generic run of the mill ISP) just seems outright blocked.
marticode··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
From my understanding this one is used for hiring tech workers only. The (very) widely used Workday application system for ex seems to have its own built-in ATS.
marticode··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
I try to stick to plain HTML5 / Javascript validation. Trying to not reinvent the wheel and use what the browser already has built-in seems best.
marticode··on Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
This is great but at this point you should also give the calories since you have all the precise ingredients
marticode··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Are we talking about bonds or government bonds here? The former will beat inflations assuming you don't just buy AAA rated ones. Investment grade perpetual bonds in US dollars yield over 6.5% on a Yield-to-call basis.
marticode··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
I use a plain Firefox on a plain Windows 11 PC on a plain regular mass market ISP in a developed country and I get completely blocked by websites daily.

At least let me complete a "prove you are human" challenge or something, but don't outright ban my IP address?

marticode··on Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)
Well my IP (regular plain residential Asian ISP) is blocked on this site. Zealous Cloudflare-blocking is breaking the web.

(also thanks for the useful message telling me to "contact the website owner... while blocking me from the website where the contact info should be)

marticode··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
> It's people who stopped believing anyone was watching.

Which, in the era of social media, video surveillance, smartphones and dashcams, is crazy. Once you leave your home, you have to assume everything you do is recorded and might end up online or in court.

marticode··on Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990
I spent countless hours as a teen on that game. I feel it might be faster to rewrite it from scratch though than reverse engineer it.
marticode··on A brief history of oral peptides
AFAIK it's a meme stock, reality doesn't matter anymore than it matters for Tesla or Gamestock.
marticode··on Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
> higher caffeinated coffee intake was significantly associated with lower dementia risk (141 vs 330 cases per 100 000 person-years comparing the fourth [highest] quartile of consumption with the first [lowest] quartile; hazard ratio, 0.82 [95% CI, 0.76 to 0.89])

That's a very big difference.

marticode··on jQuery 4
It's fairly close now but so much more verbose: ie document.getElementById('theID') vs $('#theID')
marticode··on jQuery 4
Indeed. Though a lot of its feature found their way into plain vanilla Javascript and browsers, the syntax is still so much easier with jQuery.
marticode··on OLED, Not for Me
Same here. OLED is fine for gamers who use it a couple hours here and there but for a system that's on 8+ hour per day with a taskbar and the usual work apps, this is just not adequate.
marticode··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
It's ugly, poorly built, expensive and not very good as a truck. A gas engine will not fix all these flaws.
marticode··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
I have almost zero spam (that isn't filtered properly). Once in a while I catch a false positive in the spam folder but that's about it.
marticode··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
There's worse than having to prove (over and over and over again) that you are human: having your IP just completely blocked by Cloudflare zealous bot-filtering (and I use a plain mass market ISP in a developed country and not some shady network)
marticode··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
As a user I do care, because I waste so much time on Cloudflare's "prove you are human" blocking-page (why do I have to prove it over and over again?), and frequently run on websites blocking me entirely based on some bad IP-blacklist used along with Cloudflare.
marticode··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
It wouldn't be hard to select and accredit at least the better universities. Giving an automatic work visa to every foreign Ivy graduate should be a no-brainier. You could take the top 30% or 50% ranked US News universities and accredit those, or some similar heuristics.
marticode··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
Basic cakes are fairly trivial. A pound cake (or butter cake) for ex is just egg, butter, flour and sugar in equal weights and a bit of baking powder.

The other issue the article's author doesn't discuss is that boxed mixes are usually country specific. What you find in the US is usually not available in 90% of the world, nevermind in the right box size.

marticode··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
Lack of construction is likely the problem. High financing costs, expensive construction material (a lot of it is imported, like Canadian wood) and disappearing construction workers is probably all contributing.
marticode··on My phone is an ereader now
Reminds me of that phone that had a regular screen on one side and e-ink on the other side. Maybe someone should make a foldable where the outside screen is an e-ink and the inside a regular foldable OLED.
marticode··on BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
BYD makes a pickup truck (the BYD Shark) and SUVs (though none as large as a Tahoe or Suburban - yet)
marticode··on BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
I mean Toyota is now the #1 car manufacturer in the world and Japanese brands have about 1/3 of the US car market, so Japan didn't do too badly really.
marticode··on On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots
I had and followed that advice but in a slightly different delivery: "take photos of peoples, not things".
marticode··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
They'll blame Biden and Soros, as usual.
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