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Support looks pretty reasonable (works for 95% of global users) with some caveats around Safari: https://caniuse.com/input-datetime

(Not the parent but) one cool CGI-specific problem that always comes to mind is HTTPoxy: https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/server/configuration/ht... You could write this off as…

I believe the parent comment was thinking of 1 round trip time. Typically the TCP initial congestion window size is set to 10 packets (RFC 6928), hence ten packets can be sent by t…

For GCP you can enumerate and graph the publicly visible dependencies as per this blog post: https://binx.io/blog/2020/10/03/how-to-find-google-cloud-pla... However, that does not …

"The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking" by Barbara Minto. This approach is taught at consultancy firms to help structure clear written business communication, especi…

OP here - thanks for that! This blog post represents my slow realisation that PID 1 is even more special than I thought, and the fairly common pattern of running applications witho…

I've been thinking about the naming of this library, and I don't think "science" is a good metaphor for what it does. You can only test hypotheses of the form "A is exactly like B"…

The ruling itself is available - it's quite a long read: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/david-davis-and-other...

I suspect it's also partly an artifact of the article being from 1998. :)

Just for fun, I found a hash collision (hardly surprising on an 8-bit hash): aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Copying/pasting the above password doesn't imme…

The first thing I spotted was that full domains weren't showing next to the links, so for example, story 3 is currently: Hosni Mubarak has resigned (co.uk) Showing just the last tw…