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rawling··on The Flummoxagon
Can you arrange them to make dates that don't exist, or is it designed so you can't?
rawling··on Calendar Puzzle "Rhombus"
Have they made it so impossible dates are impossible, I wonder?
rawling··on How to check for overlapping intervals
Hah, damn. I just saw the date at the bottom and ignored the bit that said "last edit".
rawling··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
I think monitoring ATC comms is banned in the UK.
rawling··on How to check for overlapping intervals
> older

Hey, _I'm_ a source that's older than that one: <https://stackoverflow.com/a/13513973>

Not so sure about "more authoritative", though.

rawling··on Evidence that pianists can change timbre through touch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443662
rawling··on UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
> one (?) incident

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnnje4wlro

rawling··on Malicious-Looking URL Creation Service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45295898
rawling··on Why do some gamers invert their controls?
Yup, 3 minutes into this video: https://youtu.be/JvEJ6VmCR4g

(Halo 3 is the first one I played so I don't know if they did it before this one)

rawling··on Scream cipher
https://xkcd.com/3054/
rawling··on Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce
Some discussion, 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585707
rawling··on Nostromo - the Accurate Deck Plans (2019)
https://web.archive.org/web/20220318150427/https://forum.fri...

This has the images, which are currently showing as broken, at least for me.

rawling··on Eels are fish
I put in 399 and I got an apartment block.
rawling··on Eels are fish
That's 389
rawling··on Lego Will No Longer Ship Individual Pieces Thanks to Trump Tariffs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075400
rawling··on Google Will Require Developer Verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

2300 comments' worth of discussion from last week

rawling··on Android Developer Verification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028

2300 comments' worth of discussion (including this link in the submission body), 6 days ago

rawling··on RSS is awesome
Your site's RSS feed is just another view of the items on your site, no? It's the RSS _reader_ that "differentiates" it for you?
rawling··on Which is the stronger pw? g72$l#pT9a or ..COW……………….
Weird choice of examples for the title then. —.COW is both shorter and less complex than the other one.
rawling··on US Government announces 10% stake in chipmaker Intel
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44989773

683 comments, a day ago.

rawling··on The race to stop mirror organisms
https://archive.ph/F94RQ
rawling··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Finding conflicts in a PR between two branches that can merge cleanly if I do it locally.

Not letting you resolve conflicts in the UI if the source branch is protected, even though the UI gives you the option to commit the resolution to a new branch if you do it for an unprotected source branch.

Updating the source branch in the PR if you choose to do the above - something you can't do yourself!

Not showing branches in a hierarchy (as if they were directory paths)

rawling··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
I've just been shunted from TFS Git (Azure DevOps?) to GitHub.

The PR UI is taking some getting used to.

Dev changes code near a comment I made? Comment is marked "Outdated" and hidden. If I open it, can I see what change they made next to the comment? Nope, I have to go find it manually!

It sorts X.Y below X.Y.A, X.Y.B etc. in the file listing.

When I select a file in the listing I'd like to just have that file open, not scroll to it in a list of all the changes.

The first PR I did showed a ton of changes that had already been merged from common history. I can see the merge commit you made, GitHub, I know you know none of these changes are actually being made.

Not caring if a required action hasn't run automatically. No "run" option, not even a "this isn't ever going to run", just "waiting for result".

Weirdly, showing the result of an action on the source branch, when it needs to pass on the merge commit.

I've not yet figured out how to require different approvers for different branches, although that one might be on my org settings. It's either the people in the codeowners file or any contributor?

No way to allow a ruleset to be bypassable while making the approvers still manually bypass it themselves. I want to know if I'm getting it wrong as much as I want to stop my junior devs messing up.

rawling··on Sneaky Git Commits
Isn't the moral here, don't use patch text to review something which isn't being supplied to you as a patch?
rawling··on GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832908

2 days ago, 244 comments

rawling··on Why Paying for Spotify Mostly Pays Taylor Swift
"mostly" = 0.6%
rawling··on 19% of California houses are owned by investors
... and by the looks of it that's lower than (or as low as) any other state.
rawling··on Show HN: Daily logic puzzles based on Blue Prince Parlor room
No, today has some actual "if and only if" statements.
rawling··on Show HN: Daily logic puzzles based on Blue Prince Parlor room
When this says "only if" does it mean "if and only if"? I can't work out whether it does or not, which I think means the whole puzzle is a bit beyond me!
rawling··on Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Usually web servers can be configured so if you request a directory it will look in that directory for index.html and serve it if it finds it.

This page explicitly links to name/index.html for each submission rather than just name, an ironic waste of bytes given the subject matter.

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