m_eiman

Ah, so it's "initial window size" than than "ping round trip". Interesting. The RFC they reference doesn't seem to be elevated to official standard, and it appears different OSes have different default values.

On my Mac sysctl net.inet.tcp.maxseg_unacked says 8, which I assume is the relevant TCP option. But in the case of a server responding to a HTTP request I suppose the server could set it to basically any value, so why stop at 10? :)

> under 14KB ( a single TCP roundtrip )

That's not a single roundtrip in any TCP stream I've heard of... Still, a lot smaller than 10MB of course.

Sure, but if I don't know what they're changing it's hard to know if I want to cancel or not.

This is a nice tool to see what's actually changed, useful!

Also, I don't understand how it's not a legal requirement to show an easy to understans view of the changes made when a company changes the terms of your agreement with them.

Almost every company sends a "we've updated the terms, yay!" with little to no details on what's actually been changed. A few provide a high-level overview of the supposed purpose of the changes, which I suppose is a start.

> All phones and computers can be completely powered down. They're hardly ugly switches.

iPhones (and I assume most Androids as well) can't be completely powered off. Neither can Macbooks. In fact, I'd guess that most modern digital things with non-replaceable batteries can't be powered off.

My Spanish isn't perfect, but the suggestion text "hombres denudos xxx" seems like it might not be to everyone's liking. Too bad they don't have a Swedish site, I'm curious what they'd come up with for us!

Yes, the water is heated to 90-120 Celcius before being circulated.

Then you can't edit or view it in a normal text editor, which is part of the appeal of CSV.

The Swedish government has about a million (literally!) historical maps available online, unfortunately it seems the interface is only in Swedish…

https://historiskakartor.lantmateriet.se/

Here's an example, a regional map from 1654 including Gothenburg:

https://historiskakartor.lantmateriet.se/hk/viewer/internal/...

It's cultural of course, but the funny thing is that kinda-insects are already culturally accepted food in the west – but only ones from the sea such as shrimp, crabs, etc.

Hopefully you have another heating system that's more efficient than direct electricity, though!

While an IR camera is a good tool (and terribly fun to use!), not everyone has one. Almost everyone has another tool that can be nearly as efficient though: a hand.

It's quite easy to use too: if something is warm when you touch it, it's burning through watts. If you expected it to be sleeping, it's either not sleeping or it's very bad at it. Don't forget the AC adapters, they can be worse than the devices they supply.

Yes, it’s a shame that there are only two 5K 27” displays to choose from, and both are expensive. The industry has dropped the ball on this for years, all those 32” 4K screens may be cheap but they’re no use to me…

> now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out.

Use a high-DPI screen, for starters.

Well, you can just comment out the garbage you create to match the hash so that's not a big problem in the case of source code. Creating a correct binary file may or may not be a bigger problem, depending on the file format.

Do you know what a ”cheap” pure gold coin costs, if there are such coins?

TIL that you can get a Roman coin for as little as about $30.

It's very common in Sweden to heat single family houses this way (300k installations). It costs about 15k EUR to install, and according to ads can lower you heating costs by "up to 80%".

Looks like there's a lot of opportunity to install geothermal heating systems.

In my opinion there's an interesting middle ground, where you don't have comments but allow (moderated) linkbacks (I forget the name of the modern variant of this…) from other blog posts mentioning yours.

Give it a few hundred generations and we’ll see!

I can image in a USA where the population is divided in half, each half with so widely different world views that they might as well be speaking different languages…

macOS also has support for local file history, even if many apps try to ignore these features: https://support.apple.com/sv-se/guide/mac-help/mh40710/12.0/...

When they introduces this they changed the standard file operations and replaced "Save as…" with "Save a copy" - this was not universally welcomed.

I like the dance I have to do to log in’

- username

- password

- 2fa

- username

- password

- 2fa (but not too soon, or they’ll say I’ve used up my token supply for the day)

- maybe logged in, maybe do it again

I flagged this, because this is the most toxic ”discussion” I’ve ever seen on HN.

For those interested in the EU regulation on this, a couple of starting points are:

REACH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration,_Evaluation,_Auth...

RoHS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...

IMHO REACH didn't go far enough, it should be up to the maker of a chemical to prove that it's safe before it's sold and used.

> as long as the latency is good.

Which is what rules out wifi :)

There are plenty of passive houses in Sweden.

There are wok pans designed for induction, eg https://www.electrolux.se/accessories/accessories/cooking-ac...

Steve Jobs: "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace."

https://www.engadget.com/2008-10-14-steve-jobs-calls-blu-ray...