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Over 600 million years left! Complex life may be gone by then (see silicate weathering).

It is never a bad moment to mention this. For planets with a single moon, the probability of such an occurrence has been estimated at 4% [1]. I like to think that this is what extraterrestrials would find most fascinating about our world.

[1] https://medium.com/@asorlik/the-probability-of-total-solar-e...

A most welcome addition to a webmaster’s toolkit. Congratulations!

This is exactly right; the phenomenon is known as axial parallelism.

> It should be a white flag.

And it will be.

Relevant:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/

Just wait till you hear Geoffrey Hinton’s “little pink elephants” routine; it will all make sense then (it won’t). The mystery is almost rivaled by that other mystery of why some of us fail to be mystified.

Library Genesis is living up to its name.

“Twain never said it.”

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-...

Curiously, “Sunlight” was the codename for the original CT spec:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-laurie-pki-sunlight/0...

That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

> What's the name of the law where the longer something has already been around, the longer it will likely stay around in the future?

The Lindy effect.

Not always. Here is Isao Takahata [1]:

“The response was different depending on which film was shown first. My Neighbor Totoro would make them happy, then this Grave of the Fireflies… Those who saw Totoro first didn’t want to see Fireflies to the end. Those who saw Fireflies first didn’t have that problem, and stayed to the end. The double featuring was a problem, I’d say.”

[1] http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/faq.html#totoro

A Vickrey auction is what effectively happens when bidders “snipe” on eBay.

> For file encryption, there's age. This uses all modern crypto and does authenticated encryption.

GnuPG offers AEAD encryption since version 2.3.0.

For command-line use, there is oathtool, which is part of the OATH Toolkit by Simon Josefsson.

https://oath-toolkit.nongnu.org

> Even the name of the island itself derives from Sanskrit: dvipa-sakhadara means the “Island of Bliss.”

Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (a book mentioned in the article) refers to this as an “academic myth” and suggests that the island’s name is of South Arabian origin.

One can definitely play Pong on MAME:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/machine...

“Examining Load Average” by Ray Walker:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001

Notes on implementation:

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...

“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.”

BlackHole [1] is a modern alternative to Soundflower.

[1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

We’ve been using JackTrip for a couple of years. I would recommend it to anyone looking into telematic performances.

Your song is amazing. It’s been a decade since I heard it, and the chorus would still occasionally play in my head.

Take a look at Mlmmj [1]. I found it well documented and easy to set up.

[1] http://mlmmj.org

From “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin [1]:

“The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit. The parks themselves are limited in extent—there is only one Yosemite Valley—whereas population seems to grow without limit. The values that visitors seek in the parks are steadily eroded. Plainly, we must soon cease to treat the parks as commons or they will be of no value to anyone.”

He includes a lottery in his list of possible solutions.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243

I believe the answer is yes. One example would be the use of the Karhunen–Loève transform [1] promoted by Claudio Maccone [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhunen–Loève_theorem

[2] https://doi.org/10.22323/1.056.0034