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One of the most memorable cycle touring blogs I have read is of Bill St Onge's tour down this road. In addition to the natural difficulty of cycling this extremely remote road (bot…

OP says the US portion of eastern divide trail, which is on bikepacking.com : https://bikepacking.com/eastern-divide-trail/

A major factor was that early Java in the browser did not support.jar (really .zip) files. This meant every class (and every inner class) required a separate http request (on the m…

Brave has written their own (open source) adblock engine (in rust) that is directly integrated into the browser (ie. not an extension, so is not affected by Manifest V3). https://g…

The article wasn't entirely condescending - sometimes it was patronizing instead.

As long as you have access to a phillips screwdriver, you aren't stuck in the little ring - you can tighten the high limit screw to pick your one gear (at least from the higher one…

Laplink had a really neat feature for when you didn't have your laplink install disk with you (or had the wrong size laplink install disk). You could connect the two computers with…

My (crude) version of the same thing requires that I go 1000 meters from my house to press the button to enable the DNS for another 30 min of browsing (button is on a custom phone …

The website says that he uses: "Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy." Source: https://we…

They tell all the Canadian banks and financial institutions that they have to ask all customers whether they are US citizens (and you lose account access if you won't answer). The …

I was born in the US to Canadian parents who promptly moved back to Canada where I have lived for the subsequent 55 years. Other than a US birth certificate I had no interaction wi…

I mean the postgres parser (and semantic changes) for ZetaSQL. The zetasql parser is in a file called zetasql/parser/bison_parser.y, I strongly suspect they now have a file called …

The Cloud Spanner SQL frontend/analyzer has been open sourced by google as ZetaSQL. https://github.com/google/zetasql It is amazingly good. You give it textual SQL (+ schema + all …

> Their adblocker is just a fork of uBlock Origin, This does not appear to be true. Here is the github repo for their open source adblock engine written in rust: https://github.com…

I made a (much less fancy) rowing machine program in 1984 (for the original Concept II). It was written in 6502 assembly language for the Apple II. It had a really nice display: - …

Details from sciencemag.org (A magazine from the American academy for the advancement of science): https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-...

The link to the paper in the article requires an ACM subscription. Here is a link to the version hosted by the authors: https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/ceph-exp-sosp19.pdf

Another crazy excellent (and free) ES6 reference is http://exploringjs.com/es6/ by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer - one of the ES6 committee members. JS is a very complicated language - and …

Datahand palm rests detach really easily and come out of the dishwasher super clean.

A network effect applies to revision control systems. Mercurial is a much better fit for how my mind works than Git (I feel that Git is from the school that thrives despite complex…