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You might want to read this then: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/585370/ai-on-australian-trave...

Farthest Frontier is a recently released game in the same vein: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044720/Farthest_Frontier...

In my experience, the sharp edges are browser compatibility issues, and I've been gratefully avoiding them for years by using jQuery.

It's marketing drivel, and marketing loves the "rule of three".

Since noone else has posted it, I will: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1iL0fYmMmariFoSvLd9U5... The OSI Deprogrammer

Quoting _khhm who posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850091 > On iOS there are no web browsers other than Safari, per the app store rules. "Chrome" / "Firefox" / e…

One of my favourite lines is from Three men in a Boat: "George has a cousin, who is usually described in the charge-sheet as a medical student, so that he naturally has a somewhat …

yes, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_e...

Doesn't pass the sniff test ;-)

You might enjoy Grace Hopper's leacture which includes this snippet: https://youtu.be/ZR0ujwlvbkQ?si=vjEQHIGmffjqfHBN&t=2706

beer => whiskey wine => brandy

Heh, in New Zealand, the card alone is $3500NZD

This is a fantastic book if you have difficulty sleeping! I had no idea such an interesting topic, the fundamentals of the operation of computers, could be rendered so lifeless and…

The Path of Exile wiki moved off fandom to https://www.poewiki.net and has been very successful. If I google "path of exile wiki" it's the top result for me (in an anonymous window…

Is that what they mean by "used as the primary key in a database while ensuring good locality"/"database locality"? That read/write access will hit fewer disk pages?

Also, New Zealand. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/hu...

Traffic. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Please.

It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS Credit: https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/

When are we going to accept that we are just a life support system for a bacterial colony?

re PIA, have you seen this? https://restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn...

Nowhere does it say what an "IC" is. Is it so hard to provided the Full Name(FN) and the abbrevation the first time you use it?

I did this literately yesterday following this guide: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-r... Kids played for a couple of hours last night without issue.

This one did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamahere_coolstore_fire