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rawlingon Nearly More died in rehearsal of DDay in UK than DDay itself

What's the comparison here? Just from the Wikipedia pages (and just the allied side),

Exercise Tiger:

749 killed ~200 wounded 2 LSTs sunk 2 LSTs damaged

Operation Overlord:

United States 124,394 casualties; 20,668 killed United Kingdom ~65,000 casualties; 11,000 killed; 54,000 wounded or missing Canada 18,444 casualties; 5,021 killed Poland 2,097 casualties

rawlingon Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App Store downloads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203945

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rawlingon Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199164

rawlingon The Hallucinated Rows Incident

404?

rawlingon Why Teens Hate Android Phones

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37184864

rawlingon YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history

Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674 Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835

YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718

YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817

Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702

rawlingon FYI YouTube home screen does not show any videos if watch history is off

Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674

Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835

YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718

YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817

Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702

rawlingon Nintendo is trying to patent some broad Tears of the Kingdom mechanics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062820

(Commentary on a different source, 1 week ago)

rawlingon Shamir Secret Sharing

Not deliberately? Old key used for the backups was accidentally erased halfway through the story, shredded key was just the last cleartext copy of the new key.

rawlingon Researchers Say They Found IP Addresses for ‘Anonymous’ Econ Forum Posts

This is a weird use case (deliberately making the hash public) and the usual concept of a salt feels weird here. Any kind of server-side secret would have effectively stopped this attack, even if it was the same in every hash.

rawlingon Debugging GraphQL N+1 Issues with Open Source Tracing Tools

When my tech lead decided we were going to move to GraphQL, one of the reasons I was told it was great was because it solves/avoids the n+1 problem.

But from this it sounds like that's something you have to detect and code for directly... which we'd have happily done in the existing code anyway?

rawlingon CIA 2010 covert communication websites

That report is about them registering their vehicles at their GRU office address, nothing to do with passport numbers.

Here's one about two agents with passports 3 digits apart: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/20/skr...

rawlingon Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

> Did you not prepare any real answers ahead of time to obvious questions? You could just be copy/pasting detailed statements with actionable items in them right now instead of typing non-answers every 5-15 minutes. That would be a level of preparation appropriate for a potential billion-dollar company.

Elsewhere I've seen people complaining that one of his responses started with "A:" so he was "obviously just copy-pasting rather than actually answering".

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/146h9d6/reddits...

(E to put the last part in quotes)

rawlingon Why F# evangelism isn't working (2015)

> Just look at building a simple HTTP endpoint in C# compared to Node or even F#!

It's... basically the same? Include library, create server object, tell server object what request to handle and what to return, start server object.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/m...

rawlingon Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Well in this case that's, uh...

> An old torrent I’d guess?

Wrapped in a 9-month old Reddit comment https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/wwjy5j/_/ilmr5s3...

Wrapped in a 1-month old blog post https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html

Wrapped in this article

rawlingon Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons

Can we have "right click on an item pinned to the Start Menu to see its recent document list" back next please?

rawlingon This account can no longer post all Tsunami Warnings, Advisories, Watches

As a positive, everyone who clicks the submission can now see that this has been fixed.

rawlingon World’s last dedicated Meccano factory to close in France

Can you still get Technic kits to build machinery? All I seem to be able to find now is replica vehicles, albeit some still seem to have pneumatic parts.

rawlingon CSS System Colors (2021)

I had some fun inverting and then rotating the hue back around.

rawlingon WebKit Supports Nested CSS

Any way to turn the second use of `button` into a second level of nesting there?

E: or would you have to use `>` somehow?

rawlingon Nullness markers to enable flattening

Having briefly dabbled in Kotkin before returning to C#, this is one thing I really miss. C# has added non-null reference types but there's a number of places I really wish it acted differently.

rawlingon How We Nearly Lost Discovery

He doesn't write "blame". But if you thought that was the cause, and you want to eliminate that cause, what else can you do but tell the people who did it that you think it was the cause and they need to do it differently?

And even if you handled it as gently as possible, would you still not want to go and apologise if you found out you were wrong?

rawlingon Gripes with RSS after one week

> A page can declare an RSS feed using a <link> tag in the <head> something like this:

> ...

> But browsers won’t surface that to you.

Do they not? I thought FF put an icon in the address bar.

rawlingon Subtleties of working with nullable reference types (C#)

I started using this on a new project, and I want to like it, but I ran into a couple of quirks (`var` gives you a nullable type even if the RHS isn't; checking a non-nullable variable for null makes the compiler start treating it as nullable, rather than just telling you the comparison is always false) and the response to the person who raised them as an issue on GH was so unhelpful that it put me off.

I'll keep using it, it just saddens me that it's stuck in a half-lenient state and there is no way to make it more strict.

rawlingon We have to build differently with concrete

Well, Wikipedia lists an example built in 1958.

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

rawlingon Mercedes-Benz new subscription model: increase performance for only $1,200/year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33736262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33722092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33698565

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33692713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33692285

rawlingon Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

Per Wikipedia, the "United" came with Ireland, not Scotland.

> The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 formed the Kingdom of Great Britain. Its union in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which formally adopted that name in 1927.

rawlingon Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin

Ah, thanks. I figured it might be something like this but the documentation is very dry and doesn't seem to mention it.

rawlingon Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin

Oof, I don't like that Matrix3x2 type. "It's a 3x2 matrix, but we're going to pretend it has a last column going 0/0/1 so we can get a determinant or multiply them together, but when we negate or add or subtract them it's still going to be 0/0/1."

rawlingon Idiot Proof Git

If you don't want to blow away changes you haven't merged, you shouldn't be doing force at all?