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Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".
We’re one decade into cookie banners and privacy regulations by jurisdiction. There’s some vague similarities with interference here.
either way, maybe a portent for the times.
apple’s secrecy agenda has been defeated to an extent by the practicalities of ubiquitous technology?
One factoid about Norman Mailer: he stabbed his wife.
there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.
Chaos theory and all but my career in tech doesn’t happen without haxor economist. My Econ major collided with it somehow and a year later ended up with a CS degree.
I was thinking more like interactive content. Do you remember when VH1 had a pop-up music video show?
Shows could synchronize additional content that’d be visible when Shazam mode enabled.
Perhaps obviously this is the same technique that enables ACR on TVs.
It occurs to me that Shazam has such a better reputation online because the intent and consent of the user is honored.
It makes me wonder if there couldn’t be an implementation on TVs that is similar and actually is a net positive for consumers. Basically would customers actually like TV ACR if the data wasn’t just going to sell more ads?
This is likely the first time I wish a page requested GPS sensor permission. It would make the visualizations even more compelling.
on his last show on the Tonight Show, he told his audience to be kind and work hard
Conan really handled that disaster with tremendous grace and it paid immediate dividends. I can’t really think of a similar situation in popular culture. It is a good reminder of how to handle oneself especially during turmoil.
it’s the claim of it being a file system that’s throwing me. obviously nbd but maybe my mental models broken again.
Satellite TV uses a file system called an MPEG transport stream that allows multiple audio, video, or data layers to be packaged into a single stream file.
Interesting read but that part really made me question my own sanity. It’s probably just lost in translation.
So much of the Internet is pay-walled now.
It’s sad. It never occurred to me we’d get here.
It seems to me this makes broadcast towers targets.
There’s no bottom to this line of reasoning, however.
One can always suppose the identified individual is a double, triple, quadruple agent.
Micro machines guy could be vibe coding at an absurd rate.
One theory I saw argued the punch card size was the reason for 80x24. But why were punch cards that size? They were designed off of the cards used for the census. Why were the census cards that size? Because they were modeled after the dollar bill size.
I do love thought experiments like this but do believe they’re insatiably unresolvable.
the Internet is a bad place
FWIW - it’s made of people
the URL slug
when will it replace the headline in editorial importance?
Thanks for doing the detective work for your friends on mobile. This fact severely diminishes the message of this medium. I’ll check for myself later; but until then, I will hope it leverages the techniques it describes.
Garage implements the Amazon S3 API and thus is already compatible with many applications.
I’m on your side with regards to the issue of flock.
So, we’re losing.
The work of democracy does not require action.
If you don’t respond to this comment, I’ll assume you agree.
I actually do real political work
I’m not even sure why but this sentiment rubs me the wrong way.
Perhaps it’s that what’s resonated most to me about democracy is the premise that it is all “for the people, of the people, by the people.”
There’s something exclusive about that statement.
There are more telecommunication lines now than ever. We’ve just gotten really good at organizing them?
80 x 24 is the original teletype size.
Personal preference are tautological.
The report covers the time period between April 2024 and March 2025.
It seems illogical to me to put the blame entirely on one administration.
is there a terraform module for a nuclear reactor yet?
We’re retiring something like this at work. The devices were manufactured between 2009-2017. They will continue to operate in non-smart mode until some other part of the device breaks. We’ve notified customers and no one seems particularly upset. To a large degree it seems like the fleet’s obsolete and we could’ve pulled the plug a couple years ago. There’s probably not a good answer in a general sense. It really depends on a host of things.
Anyone done the tedious work of figuring out the list length?
Just wondering how they determined the length was enough? Was it constrained by a datatype or just an assumption on user behavior?
associated images
fun to imagine whether images help in this scenario