I want friends like that!
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Thank you!
Spend some time on it. Find your own style.
It said "Partial output was kept at <...>", but I dont see a obvious way of picking it up in a new scan? (The failed run cost me ~$13)
10 users with simple needs = complex software.
But his collection of space things? Oh, I'm green with envy!
What made Opera great was the people working there. The amount of knowledge and raw talent that lived in the tight hallways of Waldemar Thranes gate 98 was impressive. Looking at Vivaldi's "Our Team" page, it looks they have almost recreated the same team from back when I joined. I miss that period!
I miss all the Tim Tam's they brought to our Oslo office!
At Opera Software, where I worked for a decade, both speeddials and bookmarks was important streams of income, but it was nothing compared to the income from searches.
Opera Mini can be looked at as a browser running in the cloud, sending OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language, if I remember correctly) causing the (very thin) client to draw things on the mobile screen, like text, images, etc without having to transfer, parse, execute, flow and paint every thing on the device.
Opera Link did not encrypt bookmarks and speeddials etc, but had datatypes encrypted with master password, even while syncing. We where two people with the access and knowledge to access individual user information, and we took it very serious.
Favicons got included in the data from day one, and it was awesome to get the look and feel of your bookmark bar/UI with the correct icons right away.
Back then we stored the booksmarks in a home grown XML data store (built on top of mysql, acting more or less as a key-value store). This worked quite nice, and it allowed us to easily scale the system.
One night the databases and backends handling the client requests suddenly started eating a lot more memory, and the database started using much more storage than normal.
As one of only two backend devops working on Opera Link, I had to debug this, and find out what was going on. After a while I isolated the problem to a handful of users. But how could a few users affect the system so much?
As a part of the XML data store, we decided naively to store the favicons in the XML, as a base64 encoded string. While not pretty, a 16x16 PNG is not that much data, and even with thousand of bookmarks, the total overhead on compression and parsing was neglishable. What we did not foresee was what I uncovered that night; A semi-popular porn site had changed something on their server. They had started serving the images while also pointing browser to the same images as the favicon! Each image being multiple megabytes, sent from the client, parsed on the backend, decoded, verified, encoded back to base64, added to the XML DOM, serialized, compressed and pushed back to the database...
Before going to bed that night, I had implemented a backlist of domains we would not accept favicons for, cleaned up the "affected" user data, and washed my eyes with soap.
I miss those days!
If I'm right about the time between the light and the sound, it was around ~60km/37mi away, but still clearly audible!
What do you mean with "inert"? I'm pretty sure most radioactive elements are quite happy to react with other chemicals, like salt water.
Some of the new compounds will be water or fat solvable, and can find it's way in to our food chain. The gasses and particles from the nuclear tests around the world was also fairly localized, and if something was spread, it was diluted in a vast vast amount of air. Still, there was long lasting effects on humans and animals, some of which we are still discovering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXw9jGTdBy0
It's worth noting that the word "troll" in norwegian references a type of being in scandinavian folklore, not your typical "internet-troll".
But, yeah, when they do boost-back to the Cape, the analogy breaks down even more.
I'm no expert, so excuse my ignorance: Wasn't the "origin" of auroras know long before her time? I recall reading about Kristian Birkeland's terrella experiment where he demonstrated how the earths magnetic field would "focus" particles from the sun around the poles.
Of course, this does not change the fact that she was a great scientist, and did important discoveries about aroras and astronomy in general.
I mean, it looks like the optical and near optical was the focus for spysats from the early days an up to the 80's. What are the frequency domain for the current sats? Can they listen to cellphone traffic, wifi-routers and bluetooth devices?
The capacity to target cellphones seems like a given. Being able to collect location and unique ids from wifi and bluetooth devices seems like a useful tool. Maybe even collect network traffic from and to specific networks and devices.