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But that doesn’t explain games where as soon as you start it up for the first time, there’s a minimum of 20 minutes of (often unskippable) cutscenes before you can even control a character

I honestly wonder if this is done to reduce returns. Steam, for example has a <2hrs policy.

Put 30+ minutes of cut scene in, 60 minutes of intro/tutorial, and you’re past 2 hours of game launched time before discovering the game itself just isn’t fun for you (too predictable? Grindy? Too easy? Too hard?)

Overall: love the idea.

Any chance of updating the RSS feed item "summary" to something more useful than "significant news" and title to something more than the date? Or maybe an RSS feed of the newsletter format?

(I do see some of the older items have titles that include some info on what's included)

Basically, I think the ideal RSS feeds would be _two_: 1. RSS feed of every item that hits the 6/10 threshold (title and link to original, summary not too important, either same as title or paragraph summary of what the article is about) 2. RSS feed of the newsletter (title: "May 4 2023 - significant news", link: newsletter page, summary: list of article titles)

I suppose versions of #1 with diff thresholds could be nice, but I'd probably only use the default threshold.

Background: I run a bot that sends RSS feeds into discord channels (easily followable to any discord server) and this particular feed seems potentially quite handy for good news info. Probably overlaps with https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ but that automation probably means it can catch breaking news faster than a manually-curated site like that.

Not easily: no cross-instance global search in Mastodon/Fediverse.

I hate that design: you can't lock a bike to it with a U-lock.

Sonic.net is using bind9, where this "qname-optimization" is a default setting for protecting user privacy.

https://www.isc.org/blogs/qname-minimization-and-privacy/

https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html (look for qname)

(I work at Sonic)

I haven't seen "using Oracle Linux will result in me being sued".

What I've seen is "Oracle is evil", "don't trust Oracle", and something like "my prior history around Oracle has left such a lasting bad taste that I throw up a little in my mouth every time I touch something with Oracle in it, so I'd rather do almost anything but use something from Oracle, since using it on the daily would inevitably lead to permanent esophagus damage."

I mean... Oracle buying up MySQL was enough for MariaDB to be created and move to being the default. (well, and some of what Oracle did right afterwards).

Worst case is might have to also manually replace a few "release" and "logos" packages (which is what's involved now for switching from RHEL to CentOS or OracleLinux)...

More likely there'll be a simple script to swap from CentOS (or RHEL) to Rocky.. Or they could have a "rocky-release" package with `Obsoletes: centos-release, redhat-release` and a `yum install https://rockylinux.org/rocky-release-8.2-1.noarch.rpm ; yum upgrade` is all that'd be required to swap...

TL;DR: should be very easy, but there's minor variations in methods that I doubt are finalized.

They still make and sell new ones. Niche market for them because they can print onto transfer paper (with or without putting ink onto the top paper).

Your client asks for 1 file, the server comes back with 2 files (the 2nd one what you actually asked for), but the name of the first (tiny) file's name contains escape sequences that clear the line, move up a line, or otherwise obscure that the first file was sent.

As a somewhat picky consumer of hoppy beers, I really dislike beer cans in cardboard boxes for a simple reason: you can't see the canned-on date. It's not a problem with some of the smaller beer-specialty shops, but in both grocery stores and bigger bottle shops, it's not uncommon for beer to still be on the shelf well past a date where it doesn't taste as good anymore.

You can open the cardboard in the store to peek at the bottom of the can, but that sort of thing may be frowned upon.

I would call a purely ceramic cooking pot a casserole, but a cast iron (or enameled cast iron) version is a "dutch" oven.

I have both in my collection, but the "dutch ovens" can be used on a range or in the oven. The "casserole" can be used in the oven or in the microwave, but are not suitable for stovetop use.

When I've shopped for the cast iron version, amazon lists them under "dutch oven".

One of our larger enameled cast iron "dutch ovens" is a favorite pot used for many things. Originally got it for baking bread (basically allows a cheap electric oven to be as good as a high-end gas oven for making bread), but it's also ideal for braising, stews, etc. To use a ceramic "casserole" for some of those, I'd need to use a separate pan to brown things and then transfer them to the ceramic casserole; using the cast iron pot for them allows for everything to be done in a single pot.

The article is talking about a specific "string" cheese packaged in individual serving sizes (frequently seen in children's lunches) and specifically references it being originally based on another stringy cheese (mozzarella) with a much longer history.

It's kinda hard to get to 1TB with a 20,000 item limit...

Then you'll run into the 20,000 item limit faster...

Have they fixed the other problems with this service?

We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found:

- There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item limit. (files or directories) There's ways to get around this by creating additional collections, but that's hard and has its own limitations and issues. - Individual files had a 2GB size limit. - Those combined to mean that the "1TB" space limit was meaningless.

Note: "One Drive" and "One Drive for Business" are totally different. The stuff connected to "Office 365" is the business stuff and it's really some friendlier front-ends on some kind of Cloud SharePoint thing...

Yes. I learned recursion from drawing "trees" with it when I was about 12...

I prefer Homebrew over Macports, because the Homebrew default is to use the stuff your system already has. Macports always wants to pull in (newer versions) a bunch of stuff that's already in OSX.

There's benefits to both approaches. However, I really only need a few extras on my OSX laptop, and I don't really want to end up compiling dozens of extra stuff just to get the latest version. Sometimes I want to force that new version, but only if there's specific functionality I'm after. Others really want to get the latest and greatest of everything constantly...

Really depends on the source of your lard. Good quality stuff doesn't smell bad. Should smell like bacon without the smoke or meat part of the smell.

You can get a decent aluminum hardtail 29er for under $1k from most bike companies.

If the area/door is busy, they just might. Or they might tailgate through a door.

Tailgating through doors is a lot harder when everybody knows that the doors log everything.

Most uses of that kind of data are confidential and exactly the kind of thing you would expect campus police or IT to refuse to disclose any details about.

Titanium is probably safer, but a lot more expensive.

The salinity of the ocean isn't uniform and the ocean is connected to various bodies of fresh water. From a quick glance at the map of surface salinity[1] you can see that warmer waters are saltier. Perhaps tasting saltiness sometimes helps dolphins avoid dangerous fresh water, helps to locate different temperature waters, or generally helps them understand the current environment better? Maybe freshwater fish are unhealthy for dolphins to eat?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater#mediaviewer/File:WOA09...

Does the bandwidth a customer uses actually relate to your costs in any significant way, especially when measured as bytes per month?

Forget the theories and look at the data. When governments (such as Australia) have passed laws making helmet use mandatory, bicycling rates have gone down.

This registry isn't authoritative, just centralized.

You register your bike there, and if it gets stolen tell the registry it was stolen, then police and potential purchasers find it listed when consulting the centralized registry. You still need to prove the bike is yours. Traditional proof of purchase from a bike shop, pictures of you with the bike, etc...

Low spoke count wheels, like these, have substantially more material in the rim in order to make the rim stiff enough for the large gaps between spokes to work at all.

All that's needed is for all three spokes to have equal tension (and no excessive forces applied) and the wheel should stay true.

Here's a song from an album released October 1989 that debunks his claim of when pagers were available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Og1DuMu3k

Cyclist deaths get a lot more attention that purely automobile deaths, because they are so rare, which makes them seem vastly more common than they are.

In fact, in 2013 there were 14 cyclist deaths in London. 6 of those were in a two-week period in November. That was shocking enough that there was political attention and increased police enforcement around intersections. I'm sure also increased media coverage.

9 of those deaths were from lorries, as you said. I'm sure the majority are also at intersections, as you said, since that's where most cyclists get hit by motor vehicles.

Or, if you're on anything approaching a modern system:

1. Tap the power button (one single brief tap)

2. Wait a minute

3. If the system hasn't already shut down or isn't obviously in the process of shutting down or you just get impatient: hold the power button down

4. Now that the system is off: tap the power button.

Modern systems (whether server, desktop tower or laptop) have a "soft" power button, that when tapped briefly sends a signal to the OS. Most flavors of linux are configured so that receiving that signal initiates a proper shutdown, just like "shutdown", "poweroff" or a GUI shutdown. All of this has been true for quite a few years now.

If the system is so locked up that the power button initiated shutdown doesn't work, you might as well just pull the power, which holding the button down for a second or two will do. Even if this happens, you're probably using a journaling filesystem that comes back up cleanly.

None of that will help with unsaved data in an application, because you almost certainly have to tell the application to save, and if X has locked up there is no way to do that. A clean shutdown might signal the app with a terminate signal and allow for data to be saved before doing a hard kill.