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Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:23AM (#50335451)
Funny, similar patterns are super common in API traffic. A large spike at midnight UTC, a smaller one every hour, even smaller ones every 15 minutes, and a little bump every minute if your metrics have enough resolution. Of course, if someone calls your API every minute you should probably consider some kind of streaming, or at least include make the request cheap by requiring a cursor of some kind.
Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:41AM (#50181864)
Just pulled the new matomo that was published on dockerhub 26 minutes ago, thinking it has the patched PHP version:

  # docker pull matomo:latest
  latest: Pulling from library/matomo
  Digest: sha256:6e63589d31ec653f78e029084d21488640fdbbd9a42c96c872098f42c8678a02
  Status: Image is up to date for matomo:latest
  docker.io/library/matomo:latest
  
  # docker run --rm matomo:latest php --version
  PHP 8.4.26 (cli) (built: Oct 21 2026 00:31:19) (NTS)
  Copyright (c) The PHP Group
  Built by https://github.com/docker-library/php
  Zend Engine v4.4.26, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
      with Zend OPcache v8.4.26, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
The PHP build is from today, which is doubly misleading. 8.4.27 is the patched release, not 8.4.26. I wonder how many people will pull this image thinking they're good to go online again.
Re:Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:08AM (#50019969)
The problem with the Peace Prize in general, or this time? It's not entirely clear to me what you're trying to say.
Re:Nokia Design Archive (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:26AM (#49829675)
The captions are pretty great:

"Image of a man holding a woman and a phone."

Re:Chess Atlas on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:25AM (#49773713)
Both Bauhaus and Hartwig have "spheres for pawns". It surprised me that they both also chose distinctly six-sided spheres! ;)
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:29AM (#49626211)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617391

Did you comment on the wrong thread? The original one makes more sense :)

Re:Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:58AM (#49561388)
This is cool! The inclusion of z kind of breaks this for my fellow Scandinavians though. Many of us don't really hear the difference between z and s, and even if we do we can't pronounce it properly.

The P/B distinction will be difficult for many people as well.

I believe this is one of the reasons that Toki Pona only has nine consonants (/p, t, k, s, m, n, l, j, w/) and five vowels (/a, e, i, o, u/).

Somme kind of error correcting would be nice too, perhaps?

Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:08AM (#49507421)
Is it because KO and chaos are both pronounced /ka.o/?
Re:The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:20AM (#49499471)
"It isn’t possible to know what Einstein and Szilard might have accomplished, had their professional and personal lives not been interrupted."

Is it just me?

Yeah, I'm no GDPR expert but it seems completely unreasonable that the "legitimate interest" numbers add upp to 2825. Even though there's probably some overlap, the biggest category is "Measure advertising performance (695 partners included)". How does this dialogue help me control who gets my data or how it will be used?
Since at least you know where it was when you put the camera on it?
Myst was famously built in Hypercard, but they must have worked around the limitations somehow?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst

They make the TV heavier, I think.
Re:Djevops: Self-Host Django Easily on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:02PM (#48623060)
You can deploy Django apps on Apache with mod_wsgi, maybe that's what they meant. Not sure about mod_python... I think it's dead.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/howto/deployment/wsgi/...

Re:.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:50AM (#48618992)
Fixed now, thanks again for your feedback!
Re:.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:46PM (#48601095)
Oh no, I forgot to test light mode. Thanks for letting me know!

I'll fix it as soon as I'm in front of a computer. Happy Midsummer!

Re:.gitignore Isn't the Only Way to Ignore Files in Git on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:49PM (#48592689)
Here's how I use the excludes file to set a different config for a project directory containing multiple repos:

https://laszlo.nu/blog/project-level-git-config.html

Re:A website that lists websites to submit your website to on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:59PM (#48588290)
I'd really like a website that submits your website to websites that lists websites that lists websites to submit your website to.
Re:Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:01PM (#48389978)
Maybe we're the ones who are not conscious?
Same here. It just stuck immediately and now I've been using it daily for over 4 years. Was on DDG before but prefixed almost everything with !g

I get a weird feeling when I see people googling things using Google (hehe), the amount of bs is mindboggling.

I also found it a bit ironic that it comes from an "AI company" (whatever that means) with a GitHub agent as part of their product.
Being mindful is great. The article is just saying it's a health indicator:

> So why does walking speed even matter? It’s considered an important indicator of overall health. A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together. “We call it the sixth vital sign”

Re:I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up on Saturday May 09, 2026 @09:57PM (#48080254)
I enjoyed programming |fsuAI Bact1lon|, but I only got started with version 5.
I think it's just immutable once you've generated it. No need to update indexes or check consistency on writes, no need for transactions, etc.
You'll unsettle drought-stricken cattle in a considerable radius.
petrichor (noun)

1. The distinctive scent, caused by geosmin, which accompanies the first rain after a long, warm, dry spell. 2. The yellow organic oil that yields this scent.

From Wiktionary: "The term was coined by Australian scientist Richard Grenfell Thomas in 1964 for the article “Nature of Argillaceous Odour”, co-authored by Isabel Joy Bear and published in the journal Nature."

Some nuggets from the paper:

> There is some evidence that drought-stricken cattle respond in a restless manner to this 'smell of rain' which may drift with the wind for considerable distances.

> We have learned from the Indian Standard Association that the production and concentration of argillaceous odour from baked clay have been, for many years, the basis of a small perfumery industry centred near Kannauj, some 80 miles west of Lucknow, U.P., India. Baked clay disks, exposed there under the open sun during the hot summer months of May and June, are collected before the wet season and are steam-distilled and the vapours containing the odour and associated products are absorbed in sandalwood oil. The perfume so obtained is known as 'matti ka attar', which may be translated as 'earth perfume'.

> The diverse nature of the host materials has led us to propose the name 'petrichor' for this apparently unique odour which can be regarded as an 'ichor' or 'tenuous essence' derived from rock or stone. This name, unlike the general term 'argillaceous odour', avoids the unwarranted implication that the phenomenon is restricted to clays or argillaceous materials; it does not imply that petrichor is necessarily a fixed chemical entity but rather it denotes an integral odour, variable within a certain easily recognizable osmic latitude.

Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:13PM (#47855292)
It's beautiful. Just got a Framework 13 a few months ago, so I can't justify buying a pro just to get it in black... right?
"...that I'll never replace", I mean you will replace the whole phone, including the battery? (Unless this is your last phone, in which case you won't be affected anyway :P)
While you're here, why is Notion so slow on Firefox? I mean extremely slow.

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