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That practice is known as Block booking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_booking ) and was supposedly ruled illegal in 1948. The more things change, I guess...

> Suddenly turning off services when the billing cap is reached is a big reliability risk for customers. And yet this is exactly what happens if you exceed a quota limit, which are…

To provide a concrete example, this bit me in a typescript codebase: type Option = T | undefined function f (value: T): Option { ... } let thing: string | undefined = undefined; le…

There was one in a previous AoC that I think stumped a lot of AI at the time because it involved something that was similar to poker with the same terminology but different rules. …

As always, there is a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1968/

Twitch puts the ads directly in the HLS stream, but as seperate segments from the content (a HLS stream is made of many small video files, on twitch they're about 2s long). They're…

Twitch is HLS, but they've tightened the buffers and shortened the segments (2s is standard) so that latencies of down to a couple of seconds is common. It's quite impressive, tbh.…

In a weird way it kinda reminds me of `exec` in sh (which replaces the current process instead of creating a child process). Practically, there's little difference between these tw…

I'm surprised they don't see more activity for polar orbits. You want to launch north-west or south-west and into ocean, northern scandanavia seems perfect for that.

Sure, but the assumption here is that primary and backup (edit: probably, ie. they're not coordinating this) aren't going to the bathroom at the same time. It's also based on the i…

When I'm in charge of an on-call rotation I always try to make it very clear that this is not the expectation. In my preferred model of on-call, you have a primary, then after 5min…

> I wonder why that C file which maps a more abstract Rust-friendly C-API on top of the existing API can't live inside the Rust directory and build structure This is more or less w…

I do use it occasionally - mostly when Windows has thrown up some issue stopping Steam from working properly. eg. I need to dismiss a dialog that is invisible over remote play, or …

This isn't all that different to how I use my gaming PC - it's off in another room, with a monitor that is plugged in but almost always off (I don't think Windows will boot without…

What I'm confused by is how they got that far, to the point that 2FA was the only thing in their way. Did they already have this user's password?

> ownership moves to a new not-for-profit entity based somewhere in Europe, with the exact location still to be finalized. The organization is currently headquartered in Germany, w…

I'm no expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's much, MUCH easier to get "non-critical" systems hooked up to new, better equipment as it would undergo far less checks and approv…

It's a commonly-accepted way to refer to "Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense", particularly African-American culture. See for example the AP's style guide: https://apnews.…

In most cases this is just based on user agent. It's widespread enough that I just habitually tell requests not to set a User Agent at all (these aren't blocked, but if the UA cont…

> I disagree that strategic voting as a downside outweighs the downsides of RCV or FPTP - especially when FPTP itself is susceptible to strategic voting, too. To clarify, I never i…

Being vulnerable to strategic voting is a huge downside that outweighs other considerations. As the article mentions, in the real world score voting would just be approval voting w…

That's interesting. To me stack traces + default pass up the stack are the distinguishing features of exceptions. Suppose we had a version of the ? operator that automatically appe…

> Result is for expected domain failures. Panics are for programmer errors and unrecoverable constraint violations. The problem is that "unrecoverable constraint violations" happen…

Ok, so the original idea of Result was that you have to consider and handle the error at each place. But then people realised that 99% of the time you just want to handle the error…

I've noticed this effect pretty often, as one high-profile article leads people to go looking at the author's other work and then submit it.