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rawlingon The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database

I enjoyed getting an instant rate limit screen trying to load that blob (and then the one linked from TFA).

I don't think I have anything on my network hammering GH...

rawlingon I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273638

rawlingon A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

But you can't, can you? Everything just goes into the context...

rawlingon Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

Easier to say when the source is your own material.

rawlingon Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

Neither the "before" nor "after" here have "small slimy"

https://www.ringgame.net/riddles.html

rawlingon This time is different

My 20k lines of unit tests say so?

rawlingon This time is different

What job are you in where you can even come up with problems that -need- 30-40k lines of code a day?

rawlingon Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Is it not possible to create a non-repudiable archive of what a website served, when, entirely locally i.e. not relying on some third party site who might disappear or turn out to be unreliable?

Could you not in theory record the whole TLS transaction? Can it not be replayed later and re-verified?

Up until an old certificate leaks or is broken and you can fake anything "from back when it was valid", I guess.

rawlingon Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Please get this token signed by our ad partner to enable your next ten requests.

rawlingon Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46929177

rawlingon When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

I feel like the author would have noticed and said so if she was getting logs for more than just the one host.

rawlingon High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39

From [2] (machine-translated):

> The accident occurred near Atocha station, on a curve where signage indicates a speed limit of 45 kilometers per hour. However, sources consulted by this newspaper assert that the train, out of control, easily approached speeds of 90 to 100 kilometers per hour, ultimately resulting in the derailment. [...] Two mechanics who were inside the wrecked train escaped injury.

Any indication they deliberately derailed the train?

Edit: yes! E.g.

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2024/10/22/railway-w...

(Non-specific?)

https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/10/26/investigation-reveals-...

(Says the train was diverted away from others, rather than deliberately derailed maybe)

rawlingon The <Geolocation> HTML Element

Ah, gotcha. So this change is giving developers a more standardised way to follow that "add a button, pop up permission dialog" pattern that will hopefully drive more of them away from the bad pattern?

rawlingon The <Geolocation> HTML Element

> The "issues" with prompts getting denied can already be solved by web developers doing this themselves

Does that mean identifying the browser and trying to tell the user how to go into the browser settings and un-block permission prompts?

rawlingon Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

Dupe

283 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471081

rawlingon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

He won the popular vote, but not a majority of it.

rawlingon Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders

Thanks, the site doesn't load for me so all I can read is the 3-year-old comments about it.

rawlingon I don't do GitHub pull requests – Linus Torvalds

(2012)

70 comments of past discussion, flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364697

9 further comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073974

rawlingon Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation

Isn't Frozen something you do to a set or dictionary to say, I'm not going to add any more values, please give me a version of this which is optimized for lookup only?

rawlingon I thought I was a "Free to Play" player until I audited my microtransactions

> I always tell myself I don't spend money on games, maybe just the occasional battle pass or a skin if it’s cool.

"Free to Play" player

rawlingon Many Epstein files can be unredacted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363939

rawlingon Trump suspends all large offshore wind farms under construction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357881

464 comments

rawlingon Shooting myself in the foot with Git by accident

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329328

rawlingon Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329290