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Calling a drunk person legless is hardly an euphemism.

I really dislike services that claim they'll be free forever. There is no infinite growth, so you'll never get a sustainable business with a service that's free forever.

Did you at try to lower the noise near your partner? Looking at the picture, I think a carpet and curtains would help. (I do realize that the picture was taken by the realtor before selling to you.)

This might help to remove your partner's remaining voice from recordings at least in your current situation.

This nicely shows how insane the world is that we live in. There are many core pieces of technology on that site and almost all of them go EOL within 2 or 3 years. Anything that builds upon these pieces of technology will take some time to support the new version, so the time frame is actually even shorter.

So in your world, almost every bugfix is a breaking change, right? Either that or all of your bugs affect only side effects. That seems impractical to me.

Which is why I would give this versionong scheme the name "honest versioning". It's not following semver and it's honest about it. If all semver projects took it seriously, we'd see far more v12.0.0's and the likes. But we don't.

Maybe they didn't choose Microsoft To Do as a replacement for Basecamp, but they are using Microsoft products anyway and this is just one individual's to do list for the sake of this screenshot? I just want to state the possibility, because they didn't say anything about their new tool.

I neither know Basecamp nor To Do that well, so I might be completely wrong. But I think Basecamp plays in a different league than To Do, doesn't it?

I think zlib/gzip still has its place these days. It's still a decent choice for most use cases. If you don't know what usage patterns your program will see, zlib still might be a good choice. Plus, it's supported virtually everywhere, which makes it interesting for long-term storage. Often, using one of the modern alternatives is not worth the hassle.

I'm mostly distracted by it. The cursive parts in particular are distracting me from the actual content, so, while it looks somewhat nice, it does a disservice. At least that's the case for me.

A good font should go out of my way in my opinion. When I don't notice it at all, the font is perfect. Android default fonts definitely fall in this category, for example.

With comments like these, I always wonder if they are talking about "RSS" as a standard or about RSS as a common word for feeds in general. Because I think RSS itself is quite complex compared to Atom and the latter has been around for many years as well and is much easier to implement, so its use even might be more widespread these days.

Just like the old joke: "I'm already 90 percent done, now I'm going for the other 90 percent."

I recently was on a 2000m high mountain in the Bavarian Alps during a clear night and it was truly breathtaking how many stars were visible. I grew up in the countryside where it's also very dark at night, but I haven't been out there at night for years.

So they switched to TCP before they went live and everything worked fine?

The correct way to compare these two approaches is to measure the difference on your individual program and not rely on benchmarks that measure different programs.

But I also understand that you can't do that for every decision you need to make, so at least this article gives a hint that lookup tables are something that might be worth measuring.

Can anyone explain why Cloudflare thinks it's their job to force CAPTCHAs or "Turnstile" on users? Why is bot traffic so bad for them? And in case it's about preventing DDoS attacks, can't they wait for an actual attack until they activate the check for a site?

To be honest I never even tried out Podman, even though I keep reading positive things about it. But the entire Docker ecosystem is complex enough on its own, so I fear that exchanging the container runtime entirely will cause a lot of problems that I don't know about today.

Why is this under src/test/java?

that's relative

They don't have to be nice to people, but it would be better if they (still) were not evil.

That's a good point.

But on the other hand: if it's worthwhile testing your private methods, shouldn't they maybe be refactored to a public/package-private scope, so they can be reused?

If you disagree, maybe an illustrative example would help. I couldn't think of one where I want to test a private method in detail that is not worth exposing.

> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder.

This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all.

I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problems I had at the start of _every_ LAN party.

Once I also accidentally turned off a handful of PCs when I had to leave a party early, because I didn't notice my multiple socket outlet was powering several other PCs.

It's a pity that kids these days grow up without LAN parties.

Yeah. Also Tetrapak (the company) is lying about the recycling ratio in order to avoid collecting "Pfand" for beverages. If the recycling ratio for a bottle/can/container is less than 70 percent in order to increase the number of container that make it back to the reseller. That's why there's no Pfand for milk in Tetrapaks, but you need to pay Pfand for milk in glass bottles.

Yes, Tetrapak.

But there's also the so-called "Einweg-Pfand" for single-use bottles. The reverse venting machines will also take those back but immediately cut them down into small pieces.

Supermarket chains lure you into believing that all of the plastic from those bottles will be reused to create new ones.

I live in Germany and I just buy milk, soda, water and yogurt in glass bottles from my local supermarket. All are from companies less than 50 kilometers away and will be washed and reused several times.

So there are places in the world, where this is still possible, although there no longer is a delivery service. But it's more expensive than plastic bottles and even more expensive than single-use plastic, so the majority uses plastic alternatives. Most milk here comes in some kind of cardboard containers that are mixed with a lot of plastic.

Huh, I didn't know browsers are behaving this way these days. I believe I tried this several years ago and it didn't work. Or did I just read the standard? I'm not sure. Anyway, I always assumed it wouldn't work.

That's why I said "if you could". I know it's not valid HTML. For some reason, style tags are only allowed inside the <head/>. My point was that I find it strange that HTML in general has this limit and that script tags are allowed in the <body/> as well.

Wouldn't most of these pains go away if you simply could include style tags (not attributes) in the body? I've always wondered why it's possible to include script tags pretty much everywhere but not style tags.

There must be some additional logic behind that, because I see this regularly behind GET requests and I'm not being unsubscribed from everything.