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Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:32AM (#50337342)
Practical Engineering did a great video on power grid black starts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:26AM (#50337256)
Package managers like apt will delay automatic updates for a random time to avoid this problem:
RandomizedDelaySec=12hr
Re:Patrick Stewart has died
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:46PM (#50295654)
Make it not so
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:57AM (#50178840)
This has been the norm for years
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:24AM (#50178554)
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177916
Critical Token Guard Auth Bypass in Laravel
Re:JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:34AM (#50104287)
From the article:
> for those of you who don't have the time, here are the headlines:
> For lossy photos on the web, AVIF almost always produces smaller files than JPEG XL.
> At default effort settings, the best JPEG XL version is typically 15–25% larger than the equivalent AVIF
Automattic Applies for a .php Top-Level Domain
Re:The United Kingdom Generates Less Electricity per Person Than in th...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:41AM (#50084351)
> Buildings are engineered to trap heat, so the heat doesn't dissipate at night and every day the indoor temperature rises, and rises
This makes insulation sound like a bad thing. The more insulation you have the less the indoor temperature is affected by the outside temperature.
Is PHP a Rusty Language?
Re:OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:24PM (#50037339)
Re:OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:21PM (#50037317)
The BOSL2 library makes it easy: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/shapes3d.scad#modul...
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:53AM (#49994586)
Firefox 158 will ship with it on by default: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YM...
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:52AM (#49994572)
I think it might have something to do with a Rust based decoder becoming available. IIRC one of the reasons for not implementing it before was expanding the attack surface.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:45AM (#49994460)
Seems Firefox will get support in version 158
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YM...
Re:ESP32-C3 Adblock
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @02:44AM (#49989188)
Still faster than using a remote resolver: https://www.dnsperf.com/
Re:Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:48AM (#49830547)
Re:Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:40AM (#49830444)
You might appreciate https://kagi.com/smallweb
Re:OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution...
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:12AM (#49814905)
Re:Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:22AM (#49798970)
I used to do this purely so that I could attach a name, then I found out that you can add a message when stashing: `git stash push -m "trying a thing"`
Re:Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:09AM (#49797639)
It appears that BitBucket also does not currently support SHA256 hashes.
Re:I don't like passkeys
on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:55AM (#49756247)
Some would consider spending over $200 on hardware keys an issue.
You Don't Need Initial-Scale in Your HTML
How to Calculate 0.1 Plus 0.2 Correctly in PHP
Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge
on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:23AM (#49564275)
> Submissions close on September 4th, 2026.
https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic...
Watermarks Track AI Generated Content [video]
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:02PM (#49493310)
Because serialisation and deserialisation have a price and you almost never need what you describe
Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:55PM (#49493254)
Where are you getting those numbers from? The minified code is about 40kB before compression and about 13kB with gzip.
Re:Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:33AM (#49388773)
Not sure what you mean by "private payments" but Kagi accepts Bitcoin: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/payment-methods.html