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Re:World Magnetic Model 2025 Technical Report [pdf]
on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:29PM (#44917473)
1. First release of the new High Resolution (WMMHR) model, 2. The South Atlantic Anomaly is expected to intensify during the period 2025-2030.
Re:Compression Dictionary Transport
on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:32PM (#44468021)
If this interests you, I highly recommend watching this talk by Pat Meenan.
Re:After 16 years, we're renewing the StackOverflow Brand
on Saturday May 10, 2025 @11:48AM (#43946589)
Ironicry
Re:Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on ...
on Saturday April 05, 2025 @11:14AM (#43594102)
People forget that he already tried during Covid, when he tweeted that the election should be postponed.
Re:You suck at CSS (and that's okay)[2022]
on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @12:22AM (#43329125)
CSS is a language, but it is 0.1% syntax and 99.9% memorizing the standard library, which expands monthly.
Re:Tesla gets more than 20% of parts from Mexico, it will be affected ...
on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:26PM (#43275126)
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States..."
If the Line Item Veto was unconstitutional, then Congress surrendering its power to the President to not only impose tariffs unilaterally but then to _exempt_ favored parties from them, is not only blatantly corrupt, but clearly also unconstitutional.
But I'm not holding my breath for sanity from the Originalist Court.
Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google proposal divi...
on Monday October 28, 2024 @05:07PM (#41976303)
Example: Sindre Sorhus' FNV library uses BigInt to support hashes up to 1024 bits. It's quite popular (for a hashing algorithm) on NPM, with 80k+ downloads / week.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you keep your 401k investments?
on Saturday July 13, 2024 @03:59PM (#40956469)
VT and chill. Add BND / BNDW if you wish.
Re:California Senate Passes Bill Requiring Passive Speed Limiters
on Thursday May 30, 2024 @04:25PM (#40528216)
I have a bumper sticker that says "Vehicle speed monitored by GPS / Speed limiter in use", like some commercial trucks have. It dramatically cuts down on the road rage.
Re:How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020)
on Sunday May 05, 2024 @10:27PM (#40270588)
I remember JSSS, but a more vivid memory for me is LiveConnect: another Netscape-only project that was incredibly powerful and groundbreaking: it allowed Java and JavaScript code to communicate directly, e.g. plain JS could invoke the JDK and instantiate Java objects. In retrospect, also a truly terrible idea, but at the time, it was amazing.
Re:YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users
on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:18PM (#40123002)
It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding.
How far in the future probably informed this decision.
Re:U.S. podcast listening reach new high: 47% listened one last month,...
on Sunday March 31, 2024 @07:33PM (#39889276)
Meanwhile, at Google: "Let's add our podcast app to the long list of Google Graveyard apps and further erode user trust!"
Re:A Visual Interactive Guide to Bloom Filters
on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:56AM (#39456271)
What do you use to create the graphs?
Re:The Heart Shape
on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:50PM (#39433257)
I thought it came from the shape of two mated swans with their heads together.
A big part of my childhood was playing black & white games on the Mac: the MacVenture games (Deja Vu, Uninvited, Shadowgate); the World Builder and action games from Silicon Beach (Enchanted Scepters, Dark Castle, etc.); and the early Sierra adventure games (Space Quest I-III, Kings Quest I-III).
Re:Client did not pay? Add opacity and decrease it until their site fa...
on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @12:54AM (#39354917)
get-sued.js
Re:Toyota Cashes in on Booming Hybrid Sales
on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:26PM (#39282346)
MSRP for LE Prius is not "premium" at all. If the premium you refer to is from dealerships, there are plenty of dealerships that sell for MSRP.
Re:Huge proportion of internet is AI-generated slime, researchers find
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @01:59PM (#39071025)
enshittification intensifies
American Dialect Society nailed it.
Re:Jake Archibald on the web browser event loop, setTimeout, micro tas...
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @11:31PM (#39051580)
They're both at Shopify now, and they have a new podcast, with a coincidentally relevant (to this post) title: Off The Main Thread.
Re:Ousted OpenAI CEO Makes Plans for New Artificial Intelligence Company
on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:02PM (#38327087)
MariaAI
Re:Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower [video]
on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:05PM (#38165247)
I can't wait to see what he is going to make with all those prills.
Re:REI is Laying Off 275 Employees
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:50PM (#37865123)
5.87 lbs: https://lighterpack.com/r/89huvt
Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal?
on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:10PM (#37386777)
It has been deprecated for a long time but still available in Chromium. It is being removed in Chromium 119 at the end of next month.
See the aside about SQLite WASM on this blog post.
Re:WASM: Big Deal or Little Deal?
on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:22PM (#37386154)
It's pretty objectively a big deal.
(Feature-limited) Photoshop was ported to WASM in 2021.
https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/
With the deprecation and imminent removal of WebSQL, the official (Google) recommendation for SQL-in-browser is WASM SQLite.
Re:I Worked in Federal Prison Sweatshops for 23 Cents an Hour
on Monday September 04, 2023 @12:39PM (#37382136)
Prison-for-profit, either privately-run, with slave labor, or both, creates perverse incentives to convict more people of crimes and to keep them incarcerated longer.
This is not just hypothetical. The notorious Pennsylvania 'kids-for-cash' case was particularly egregious.
Re:Corrupted Blood Incident
on Thursday August 24, 2023 @10:46PM (#37257374)
Another notable WoW Classic incident: Biny of <Afterlife> discovers that the "Living Bomb" effect used by a raid boss, that targets both players and their pets/minions, remains applied to pets and minions even after they have been dismissed and re-summoned.
So logically, the appropriate thing to do is deliberately get his minion afflicted with Living Bomb, dismiss it, and re-summon it in the middle of the auction house, killing everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYOt3hETYE
IIRC, he got a week-long suspension.
They fixed that one pretty quickly.
I am also personally guilty of kiting Lord Kazzak from the Blasted Lands all the way to Stormwind, and watching him wreak havoc.
Fun times.
Re:Maui residents who disobeyed barricades survived fires
on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:24PM (#37239268)
Oh god, I was just reminded of a story that came out of the Station Nightclub fire, claiming a bouncer blocked people from using an exit that was "for the band only".
https://www.wcvb.com/article/station-nightclub-fire-20th-ann...
Re:Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library...
on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:31PM (#36647340)
Copyright infringement cease-and-desist from OpenAI in 3... 2... 1...
Re:Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing into Panels at 150 MPH Destroys Solar ...
on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:15PM (#36523423)
While this article is reasonably fact-based, just so everyone is aware of this paper's agenda, check the titles of other articles at the bottom:
* Wyoming Oil And Gas Held Back More By Taxes Than Regulation, Says Industry Group
* John Kerry's Claim Climate Change Kills 15 Million a Year Draws Ethics Complaint
* US House Stands Against Biden's War On Gas Stoves: Will The Senate Do The Same?