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IANAL but US law allows making backups/copies for private use and you aren't redistributing/making the copies available to others.

Productivity went down because an engineer spent 2 weeks doing what nobody would have previously done /s.

On a more serious note, the productivity increase is the time which will no longer be needed to maintain two production systems instead of one.

Bring back WML sites?

note: WML/WAL was a way to enable browsing a web-like thing on low powered devices.

For a bit of time, popular websites were available in two variants, wml and html (more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol)

AFAIK, party lines were when N people were physically hooked up to the same phone line. All N people could talk to each other at the same time without dialing out/having to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

Ouch. Related, https://www.explainxkcd.com/ has been taken down for now.

http://caltechrejects.com/ takes you to https://mit.edu/: you don't need a .sucks TLD to be funny.

Would be fun to build this using cryptography (probably some kind of MPC).

Pokémon is the trademark (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon). Pokemon is common spelling in countries where keyboards don't have é and/or where people aren't used to inputting é.

It is common for brands to localize their names. E.g. Axe (the deodorant) in some countries is branded as Lynx.

This is great! I wish more knowledge bases realized their barrier to entry. Eg even Wikipedia can be scary to edit the first time, if you want to present things like citations the right way.

Orthogonal but related: where I live, homeowners might get charged negative prices at times for solar re-injected in the network. This doesn't make a ton of sense for me since you could just unplug the panels instead of being charged for the production! However, the electric company charges you retroactively (on a 15-min bucket) so you would need an accurate model to "beat them at their game". Negative electric prices in a country with a huge amount of solar/wind/hydro is surprising, since all of these production methods can stopped on demand (and even reversed in the case of some hydro setups).

Corona zero and Guinness Zero aren't that bad. A Guinness Zero on draft is pretty much the same taste as the regular stuff.

Reminds me the Bill Gates and the fisherman joke/story (which is based on an older/similar story): https://sampatpatnaik.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-gates-fisher...

The following example (from the spec) seems quite fragile:

    <message>
      <body>This XEP supports many things:
    * inline markup
    * code blocks
    * lists
    * and possibly more!</body>
      <markup xmlns="urn:xmpp:markup:0">
          <list start="31" end="89" ordered="false">
          <li start="31"/>
          <li start="47"/>
          <li start="61"/>
          <li start="69"/>
        </list>
      </markup>
    </message>

Do this as a captcha ;)

In many cases, the cold-start time might not be visible to users. E.g. if you serve your static content from a CDN, maybe you have stale content in local storage you can show while fetching updated data. If it all happens on a sub-100ms timescale, it should feel quite instant?

You are right, it's double-edged. In some cases it can hurt companies (e.g. luxury good companies) while in other cases it can benefit them (e.g. car companies benefit from the second-hand market in many ways). It's a fascinating economics+psychology topic.

Imagine the tides if our system were https://www.threebodyorbits.com/orbit/simo2001_sc002_1_1_1

Walking around wearing Meta’s hardware supports them by you advertising their product (unless you never show anyone that you own the hardware).

The existence of a used market also slightly increases the value of new things. By buying used, you’re supporting/signaling the used market and indirectly supporting the company.

If you don’t want to support a company, don’t go near their products.

If you buy the DVD and rip it to make it easier to watch / as a backup, it might be legal in your jurisdiction.

There’s a startup in Switzerland (https://www.pimpay.ch/) trying to offer no per-transaction payments (at the Swiss-level). I wish them good luck but it’s not going to be easy to disrupt the existing players in this field.

This is something governments could fix by running the payments rails.

Astra has so much more detail. It did take 5x more time, but that's usually negligible when it replaces x hours of human output.

There must be tons of research reactors around the world. E.g. https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lrs/facilities/crocus-reactor/ runs at 100W and is used for teaching/research purpose.

This is even older (I think), similar idea of building interactive experiences using off-the-shelf lasers: https://web.archive.org/web/20040202205307/http://www.monzy....

I love this diagram: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1tda6wl/european_in...

There are so many treaties besides EU.

Apple could release a new on-device LLM model every year and keep the hyperconsumerism going...

Cupertino-designed you mean? Everything is made in China…

Thanks for building this / sharing it. Wednesday is also when Perseids meteor shower peaks, so you get to enjoy two celestial events in the same night!

It's fun that the same algorithm applies to two different problems. In the disk case, the only unpredictable thing is future requests. Elevators have to deal with two unpredictable things, future requests as well as how long humans take to get in and out of the elevator. So it's doubly fun that the same algorithm works in both cases!

There's also https://gandalf.lakera.ai/baseline. Note: I'm the author of neither, just enjoyed playing the former.