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trollied··on Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them Within Weeks
I had a Brostrum procedure to fix my ankle. I researched lots before. Was expecting months in plaster.

The surgeon bandaged it and gave me an inflatable shoe. After 2 weeks I was allowed to walk on it.

I’m pleased he was progressive!

trollied··on Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
Linus replied:

    How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.

    You think you know better. But the current process works.

    It has problems, but problems are a fact of life.  There is no perfect.

    However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not
    want to have anything at all to do with your approach.

    Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social
    media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell
    wasn't the solution to politics.

    Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no
    than\k you.
trollied··on Psychedelic Graphics 0: Introduction
This needs a link to shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com
trollied··on Using 2 Editors Because Xcode Is Dumb
Could have spent the time filing a feedback request/radar instead of writing a blog post.
trollied··on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
My bank has a banner at the top of the app if you are on a call with them. It's great if you know to check...
trollied··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
Reddit also has feeds that they don't publicise. eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/.rss

Adding /.rss on to the end of lots of URLs works all over the place on the site.

trollied··on Cloud Efficiency at Netflix
Which is just crazy, considering lots of the $15 HDMI switchers on Amazon actually strip HDCP, and you can then use a capture card to record whatever you want from a 4k supporting device. I guess they're just preventing the easiest methods.
trollied··on After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly
People had doubts about Falcon 9 landing on a barge every time...
trollied··on More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
Yes, but not by man-in-the-middle attacks between the device and the network. There are systems internal to the provider that let you listen to any call.
trollied··on McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22231579
trollied··on Jeju Air Jet Crashes in South Korea With Over 170 Dead or Missing
The previous worst Korean air disaster was mostly caused by crew communication failures. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801

I'll add that I'm not saying that is a factor in this at all - the accident report will do that in time.

trollied··on Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
Expect ads to be interspersed with ChatGPT replies in the near future. It's another place to advertise.

Must go look for a patent on it, there will be one. (lol)

trollied··on Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement
Times have changed. Offices used to be full of people in full suits, with trousers. Now it is common for CEOs to wear jeans, and offices are much more tailored to working comfortably, rather than having a "posh" facade.
trollied··on Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement
Not sure I agree. Chess has moved towards a much younger audience over the last 5 years, and is incredibly popular now. Gets 10s of thousands of viewers on Twitch, for example & there are many players that could be seen as modern day celebrities in their own right.

FIDE needs to embrace the younger generation that think the game is cool. Ancient dress codes are a distraction.

trollied··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
It uses Tauri https://tauri.app/
trollied··on Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
trollied··on Hetzner – 20 times less traffic for a higher price
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
trollied··on Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices
They recently changed to bill by the hour. Not hard to destroy and reprovision once you're near the traffic limit.

Massive loophole.

trollied··on Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative
It really isn't though. Any native English speaker is going to see Hunt Lie.
trollied··on Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread-spectrum_time-domain_re...
trollied··on Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux
This dude does CPU and RAM upgrades: https://computerbooter.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showp...

He also streams the process live on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPWknjnQNOwSD15nNh4rhLg

trollied··on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
We can't accept drum and bass we need jungle I'm afraid.
trollied··on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
I'm going to see Bukem on Saturday, really looking forward to it!
trollied··on Somebody moved the UK's oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who
At the current rate of progress, when will it become physically impossibe to receive signals from it?
trollied··on WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill
>In a typical TCP/IP network connected via ethernet, the standard MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) is 1500 bytes, resulting in a TCP MSS (Maximum Segment Size) of 1448 bytes. This is much smaller than our 3MB+ raw video frames.

> Even the theoretical maximum size of a TCP/IP packet, 64k, is much smaller than the data we need to send, so there's no way for us to use TCP/IP without suffering from fragmentation.

Just highlights that they do not have enough technical knowledge in house. Should spend the $1m/year saving on hiring some good devs.

trollied··on SSH Remoting
Jetbrains Gateway also does this.
trollied··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandringham_time was a crazy one
trollied··on Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)
You might want to read this: https://deedpolloffice.com/change-name/restrictions-on-names
trollied··on Streaming joins are hard
I have worked on systems that used Oracle Materialised Views for this. The aggregates get updated in realtime, and you don't need to run a heavy query every time.
trollied··on Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)
They do get software updates. Watch "Stig Aviation" "Stig Shift" series on youtube. He's shown how to do updates in a few of his videos.
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