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Spectators don't watch the game on the same server that's hosting the game. The host server sends the traffic to a 'relay' on a delay, which spectators then connect to. Similarly f…

This absolutely still exists - I have a library for reading Source 2 (CS2, Deadlock etc) demo files and streams (HTTP ones like CSTV). https://github.com/saul/demofile-net

Just to add a piece of data to support this: > It turns out the phone signal inside the station can be better than the one above ground I was surprised when I noticed I had 5G in t…

> the fact that Post Office Ltd has inherited the ability to prosecute crimes committed against itself Any private citizen or business in the UK has a right to prosecute crimes. It…

This ultimately resulted in a new restriction in a bill making its way through Parliament that "a company must not be registered under this Act by a name that, in the opinion of th…

Worth noting that Hadolint[1] raises warnings the issues mentioned in the article. Some examples of warnings: - https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint/wiki/DL3007 : Using latest is p…

On Linux, .NET does write ANSI escape sequences to stdout for you. ConsolePal.Unix.cs (Pal in this context referring to 'platform abstraction layer') does the work for you behind t…

I believe this tweet has been twisted from the original tweet, which is that _cross origin_ alert (e.g. from an iframe) is the thing being removed. Using alert etc from the main fr…

iCloud Private Relay, coming in iOS 15, does appear to be native IPv6. I wonder if this will have a noticeable effect on IPv6 adoption stats when it's released to the public[1]? [1…

Edge supports WebDriver: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-ch...

If you're in the market for an F# job in London, please reach out to me at Saul.Rennison@gresearch.co.uk. We have an full-time F# engineer open right now.

G-Research | F# Engineer | Full-time | London - ONSITE after COVID | https://gresearch.co.uk G-Research is Europe's leading quantitative finance research firm. We hire the brightes…

The companies using F# are definitely few and far between, but G-Research in London are hiring an F# developer at the moment. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, …

I have several years of full-time F# experience and I’ve also made some contributions to the F# support for Rider. 1. As part of my job I flip between C# and F# often and with each…

I believe newer Valve multiplayer games (e.g. Dota, CSGO) use Steam Networking instead of the game sending UDP itself. Packets sent with Steam Networking are encrypted[0]. Before C…

Funny to see someone linking to one of my tutorials :) I'd completely forgotten I wrote all of those!

Hey Philip, great post - really informative. Especially happy to see that the nightly releases are coming along considering the pace of improvements by the likes of Vasily and all …

WSL does support network adapter enumeration as of build 14965. Take a look at this blog post from November: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/10/ifco...

If you disable hibernation then the hiberfil will disappear. With low power states in modern computers, sleep is suffice (hibernate is a relic from old Windows): > powercfg -h off

Very interesting. Just to clarify, am I right in saying that 10-bit colour just provides more precise colours within the sRGB gamut? 10-bit colour does not extend the colour gamut …

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They definitely do - I signed up to one the other week. Three do "all-you-can-eat" 4G data + 200 minutes = £23/month (50% off first 6 months)

Completely agree except the light argument -- having my lights cloud connected allows me to control them remotely. The main use for this is for time or sunrise/sunset scheduling. H…

The standard is only a hint to the user agent, not a MUST.