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60 days before shutdown, a game company just needs to transition their game to subscription-required. That gets them out from under this law. Then if enough players subscribe, the …

They call it a FLOP (Functional Loss Of Performance, or something like that), I was told on a tour of an FAA ATC computer facility.

These are good ... "Python for Data Analysis" by McKinney (2018) "The Go Programming Language" by Donovan and Kernighan (2016) "Hacker's Delight" by Warren (2013) "Algorithm Design…

No draft in 1948.

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In Thunderbird's message list, you can bring all the starred emails to the top by sorting on the star column. Just click on the column header. Also, in the Quick Filter, you can cl…

It appears to belong to another subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation: MZFO GERMANY GMBH, which would be subject to German, not US, law.

Stacked Git (StGit) [1] is a git CLI add-on for working with stacked commits in your local repo. Why are stacked commits useful? Multiple patches can be developed concurrently and …

Drilling down, one finds a link to a paper from Usenix Security 2018: "Efail: Breaking S/MIME and OpenPGP Email Encryption using Exfiltration Channels", by Damian Poddebniak et al.…

2020 update: https://wateroperator.org/blog/featured-video-why-are-960000...

Another contender: Russ Cox's "fast unrounded scaling" [1]. Cox writes: "The main idea of this post is to implement fast unrounded scaling, which computes an approximation to x · 2…

Great minds think alike! For $99.95, you can own an exquisite 0.75m USB-C 2.0 "High-Definition Audio Cable" [1], featuring "high-purity 0.5% Silver conductors and a Metal-Layer Noi…

> For things that are not visible, there are much fewer brands e.g. underwear. Personal care products - shampoos, soaps, lotions Nutritional supplements are counterexamples

Decentraleyes hasn't been updated since late 2024, so I switched to LocalCDN [1]. [1] https://www.localcdn.org/

There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to. [1]…

> These [cameras] are mounted above the stoplights and aimed against traffic at stoplights to read faces. Those cameras are for traffic detection, so the signal can turn green when…

Maybe at last we'll find out who wrote Shakespeare's plays.

They're different. Multiplication by i gives a quarter turn counterclockwise. -i gives a quarter turn clockwise. Opposite quarter turns cancel: (-i)(i) = (-1)(i^2) = +1 Quarter tur…

Drivers could change lanes safely if everybody wasn't tailgating.

Not so. Keeping a constant distance from the car ahead means both cars are moving at the same speed. When a jerk cuts in, after a moment all 3 cars will be moving at the same speed…

That's fine when traffic is light. At rush hour, all lanes are full and nobody is overtaking.

Code golfing originated in APL.

One place to look is https://thedailywtf.com/

It's the "Lava Flow" antipattern [1][2] identified by the Gang of Five [3], "characterized by the lava-like 'flows' of previous developmental versions strewn about the code landsca…