lukegb

Open access rail operators are not permitted to compete with franchisees (on the same routes/proposition) - there's a test that is applied before granting a license to ensure that the services will be "not primarily abstractive" - that is, that the operator will generate new revenue rather than simply taking away from the franchisee.

MLS is currently being adopted by Google Messages for RCS (https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-to...)

(I'm a Google employee, but don't work on this, not speaking for the company, etc etc etc)

It's still there, although it too got rebranded: https://sitereport.netcraft.com

It does if it has to go through the Windows Defender check. Enough that sometimes I end up launching the same thing multiple times because I get gaslit into assuming I haven't launched it.

According to the first post in the linked thread, the switch to clang is transparent enough that the VS IDE-based debugging experience still works.

My guess (not being a Chromium developer myself) is that this is an exercise in consistency across platforms - I can imagine that using the same compiler on all supported platforms makes the language features supported consistent and removes the risk of one compiler generating much worse output for the same code. But I'm just postulating, I don't actually know for sure.

As long as the other application is Firefox, Safari, IE11/Edge, or Opera, then it probably has a HSTS preload list that is at least in part generated from the Chrome one.

Firefox have some scripts which go through and check to make sure everything still on the Chrome list is still announcing the preload headers, and will autoremove if that isn't that case, IIRC. I wouldn't be too shocked if Apple/Microsoft were doing something similar.

As an interesting, although unrelated aside: platform data is available in the UK's National Rail's feeds, but the terms and conditions[1] explicitly prohibit displaying platform numbers early, as mentioned in their developer guidelines[2].

I guess the wording doesn't technically ban you from displaying historical platform information, but that would likely be a bad-faith use of the data anyway...

[1] http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/Terms_and_Con...

[2] http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/static/documents/Developer_Gui... "Occasionally Time-Bound Data will become available through NRE feeds before it is ready to be published to the public. [...] One such example of Time-Bound Data is platform numbers. Early display of platform numbers, particularly at origin and destination stations, can lead to platform overcrowding and/or staff not having sufficient time to prepare the train for oncoming passengers. In some instances, platform numbers will be available in Darwin before being displayed on screens in stations."

That might be because they're the CA underlying Cloudflare's automated SSL issuance - at least for free tier customers.

Google's also been looking to limit the maximum validity lifetimes in general through the CA/B Forum[1] in a ballot that ended up not passing (with hints[2] that Chrome would end up enforcing something similar itself even if it wasn't part of the Baseline Requirements).

This seems to be indicative of the general indication that Chrome wants to head in anyway[3].

[1] https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-January/009373.ht...

[2] https://cabforum.org/pipermail/public/2017-February/009746.h... - there was a more explicit post elsewhere but I can't find it in the archives right now

[3] https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/829804370900426752

There's a 2 swapped with a 3:

https://gist.github.com/lukegb/243952e51ee1f7f9b6e1ed4177421...

Here you go (from my mobile): http://i.imgur.com/X1M5YZn.jpg

Someone else was reporting that it's not showing up - I use unlock Origin on desktop and it was appearing for me.

Screen cap from mobile: http://i.imgur.com/X1M5YZn.jpg

Some examples of these seem to be:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues

I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"

From what I remember, Polymer before 1.0 had some severe performance issues on browsers that didn't have native Web Components support, because it shipped with a polyfill that tried to emulate the shadow DOM properly.

I suspect (but have no evidence) that this caused lots of people to dismiss it because of that, and they might not have taken another look at it since 1.0 released.

Only if the content is "live TV" or you record live TV, which Netflix doesn't fall under.

Source: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one which I assume would have the broadest possible definition

Also relevant: https://www.facebook.com/notes/alex-stamos/the-sha-1-sunset/...

Interesting - reminds me of Python's doctest[1] module and all the associated caveats, though!

1: https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html

The idea is more that when you process data, if you can fit it all in memory (and you don't need lots of CPU power, etc, etc, etc) then just use one machine and don't worry about "clusterising" it.

If you're expecting growth in the size of your dataset (beyond growth in RAM size availability), then, well, maybe don't just use a single machine. Same goes for a whole bunch of similar "it's too large for a single machine" considerations.

Storing data should probably still be persisted to disk, and backed up.

> There's no a single simple answer, but sure, whenever less computers are enough, less should be used.

This - if you're using this website as your sole calculation then something has gone seriously wrong.

It was more intended to provoke discussion and thinking around overengineering things which can easily be done with, say, awk or a few lines of <scripting language>.

If you have large CPU requirements then sure, use Hadoop/Spark/some other distributed architecture. If you have a >6TB dataset but you only need 1GB of it at a time, then, well, maybe you still only need one computer.

It wasn't intended to snark - I apologize if it was seen that way. I whipped this up super quick and perhaps should have expanded on my meaning.

Well, hate to break it to you, but you probably have some overhead associated with your data, like your operating system or structures related to processing your data.

Me too. The links are mostly to back up my claim rather than as a suggestion of servers to buy (or I'd have found some affiliate links!)

Inspired by https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546

Looks interesting - does this library do animation of states from old to new (e.g. adding new data) in the same vein as, for example, c3.js?

Yes, it looks like it - they would have completed the assignment last year.

I have to say, this assignment in general has been my favourite part of first year (my group extended our assembler to look enough like GNU as that we could assemble the output of GCC, so we could compile CSUD).

Nice work - love it (might play it at some point to see if I'm any good).

That's not the point - the point is to stop them from updating to a new version and blacklisting the new method names. They already have a license that allows them to use the existing code.

Damn, you went for the same solution as me. I didn't think anyone else would so obtuse as to use a canvas to access the raw image data.

Here's my equivalent solution:

  var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
  canvas.height = 1;
  canvas.width = 1;
  var twodctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
  var blockImg = null;
  var qs = document.querySelectorAll('img');
  for (var i = 0; i < qs.length; i++) {
    var img = qs[i];
    twodctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 1, 1);
    var imgd = twodctx.getImageData(0,0,1,1);
    if (imgd.data[0] == imgd.data[1] && imgd.data[0] == imgd.data[2] && imgd.data[3] == 255) {
      var badDiv = document.createElement('div');
      badDiv.style.display = 'none';
      document.body.appendChild(badDiv);
      badDiv.appendChild(img.parentNode.removeChild(img));
      break;
    }
  }

What's amusing (for me) is the first I heard about this was via their Twitter account - I was on the internet at the time using their data network, having just turned my phone on!

Three seems fairly reliable, with a decent signal strength in my area, compared to O2/giffgaff (which my friends like to use).

Their support on Twitter is fairly quick to respond, but I suppose that's more indicative of the way support over social media is nowadays.

That said, for opening links, Google's devised [1] for Chrome-ish on iOS to abstract everything, but I believe (as an Android user and developer myself) that all it takes is a

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:targetURL];

where targetURL is an NSUrl.

Chrome on iOS even allows you to specify a callback URL to return to.

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/ios-links