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The last week of January, the site was intermittently serving back a 429 response (too many requests) as recorded by the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/web/2026000000000…

I recall reading about this in The Code Book by Simon Singh when I was dabbling with writing single and double substitution cypher solvers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganogr…

Consider the rate of job hopping that would be evident on that resume. I'm not sure how many companies would be willing to invest in sending a FTE who stays somewhere for likely less than a year…

As a note, Sanskrit is a "sibling" or cousin of Latin or Greek in the family tree of languages ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/IndoE…

I believe you are confusing what an editor does and proofreading. In the time before LLMs, for some of my occasional blog posts I'd first post it to whatever messaging system my colleges used a…

https://www.etymonline.com/word/*teks- > Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to weave," also "to fabricate," especially with an ax, also "to make wicker…

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/anne-frank-... > But the manuscript that Otto Frank pitched to Dutch editors didn’t contain his daughter’s entire diary. …

Kurzgesagt typically does STEM focused videos... they've got a new channel "After Dark" which focuses on history and historical figures. Their first one: Kurzgesagt After Dark The Fina…

> The qualities of American writing have clearly been on a precipitous decline for a very long time now, predating AI slop and even spell checkers and computers. https://www.literaturelu…

> Well, for one example, it inhibits your desire to improve against those very blind spots. I'd contend this is not true. Even professional authors go to an editor who identifies things that n…

I thought the guillemet was French rather than German and the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table …

I was amused that Dank Mono wasn't in the lineup (though there was one that had some of its aesthetics) https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono The one use case I've s…

> It is a shame there isn't a preview button when composing posts. The delay setting in your profile (mine is set to 2). New Feature: Delay - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

I suspect you're referring to Massachusetts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#... Massachusetts (only "secret" recordings are ban…

A news broadcast for a commercially run news network does not need releases nor does it need to compensate people who walk through the background. Likewise, journalistic photographs (for commercial us…

The regular site (rather than aggregator): https://apnews.com/article/airports-shutdown-long-lines-trai... This also includes some images that aren't part of the netscape.co…

They'd be a couple years late on that. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-comprom... (reported last year)…

Is this a reference to https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-... > "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,00…

This tickled an old memory... while some of those are classic designs, I don't think they're the old ones that I had as a kid in the 80s. So I looked. I think it was things like "100 p…

You're probably correct in that (edit: re-reading this... no, I'm not an AI - some people write this way and I tend to prefer to defuse potential arguments where two people are arguing for t…

Consistency of interface. I've got the phone number of the mechanic I go to in my phone's address book... and the various medical services for appointments there. If they were to have an ap…

Voicemail alone doesn't have information about someone's schedule. "I'd like to schedule a smog check tomorrow or Wednesday?" rather than leaving a message and hoping for a ca…

It's also a "how much exposure do people have if the private key is compromised?" Yes, its to make it so that a dedicated effort to break the key has it rotated before someone can imper…

A key part of that is a that its dominated by kids. The video I linked is one to start with... https://www.takeaway-reality.com/post/roblox-demographics-st... There are 15…

For game dev, I believe that it is remiss to not include mention of the change in the gamer landscape. Ten years ago, it was console vs PC as the big game question... and various studios took bets …

Digging more into this... because why not... it appears that he (Kirk Thatcher) also wrote the song and there's a nice bit of real life lore in the Wired article. https://memory-alph…

Could have also gone for Dogma (which of course references that clip) https://youtu.be/PpckOsftaP4?si=DDlDY3ZK7FoUcKrn&t=41 …

He returned in Picard (notice his reaction with his neck). https://youtu.be/r6wDR6heQcU What I did not know is that he was one of the producers for Voyage Home. https://…

Mankind will help restore your faith in mankind. https://youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4