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The traditional pattern seen here of serving pages under a hierarchy called `~cks` indicate this is the personal site of someone who is affiliated with the university. Unless otherwise noted you should probably assume all the content is from "cks", not an army of dozens of coders.

I am assuming the "SMW3 cable" mentioned is SEA-ME-WE 3, which was mentioned multiple times in "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (1996, Wired) [0]. It was noted as a competitor to FLAG, the cable Stephenson was mainly following.

That seems like a very long lifespan.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

It doesn't talk about a senate at all:

> It is divided up into 10 districts, each of which sends one representative to the national legislature, which consists of 10 people.

They take this as a given and try to come up with convoluted ways to 'fix' the problem, when just fixing this axiom would solve it much easier.

Why do they need to only have single-member districts? How about having fewer districts with more members per district? It seems like Fix Gerrymandering is a solution aimed at the wrong problem when the entire problem could just be eliminated.

Read Snow Crash

Allow 3rd party resources, it has visual aids and buttons.

> PGP is still fucking awesome and should always be used for any sensitive communication (best case scenario: all for every contact you can get to use it) - in addition to secure providers and all the other stuff we should be doing.

Sorry, I actually live in the real world, not whatever fantasy land the author comes from.

Printing presses are also giant, asynchronous CPUs. Depending on what you put in, they can cause society to take certain actions.

Perhaps in recent years their effectiveness has been dwindling, though.

If someone knows your account number, they can take money from it, there is no separate secret or anything. It would be illegal, but they can do it.

Stands for 3 monitors should be broken down by whether or not the middle one is fully adjustable.

Do you know why there are no wall mounted 3 monitor stands?

I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with.

Putting in the effort to get them all set up nicely and then having them either blown away (I think this happened once...) or needing to get that over to another computer has made me limit my use to fewer containers than I probably would otherwise use.

In many places, the frost line is more like 3 to 6 feet, than 6 inches.

I have had this happen to me twice as a pedestrian, in 2011 and 2012. I didn't care about what it does to the environment, it felt like a personal attack upon me.

> I can't use my Twitter!TeMPOraL_PL account to talk to you, because there's no transport between Twitter and HN. And even if it was, now two brands would be involved in communication.

You could almost do it if things like the Keybase identity graph were widely used. It seems like that concept would lift the identity out of the brands. As long as you linked back to an identity chain from your identity on each brand.

Hmm:

- Are variables allowed in the links?

- Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to the Zapmarks site each time?

Firefox's built in keywords already do great for this, and I have seen https://shortmarks.com/ for other browsers. What does your site offer that those do not? They are both free options.

Probably was supposed to be \notin rather than \not\in? They are not pixel for pixel identical.

I was able to complete one problem within the 3 minute time limit. I had to try multiple times to get the right code for two of the symbols required. The linked symbol drawing site would have helped on one of them.

I really like the format of the user interface with instant response/feedback.

It seems like you're pretty close to having an genuinely useful page.

Suggestions:

- As-is, this is really only useful to people who already have some familiarity with this material already. It would be way more useful if it had an additional mode for an absolute beginner

- Instead of being just a memory/recall test, the primary usage mode should be a tutorial and response format for learning

- In the learning mode, first present information on one new concept, then allow the user to test their new knowledge on a problem similar to the way the existing system works

> are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS

Actually, yes:

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

User stylesheets are supposed to be applied at a precedence level below the page author's style, so any time the page author did not specify a style, the user's style can be used as default.

Browsers should have made this an easily accessible feature, but they seem to instead like to remove access to it. Think "Developer tools window", but persistent.

> Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while.

It looks like Chrome removed these several years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329855

Plugins are a thing but why should you need a plugin for something that is a core part of the CSS specification?

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade

> the average user

This is (mostly) about accessibility. Even if the average user does not need it, some do. And those that do would be quite glad to have it easily.

> there is no "quick and easy" way to do that for any but the simplest sites

Just because user stylesheets have been ignored for many years doesn't mean they shouldn't be acknowledged. Design your site with them in mind.

What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it?

Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature.

Users should be able to quickly and easily set their default styles for various elements and choose at what precedence level they apply.

The length of the line corresponds to the number of people.

Can you add a column for whether or not these have cellular data capabilities? The HP Chromebook I bought in 2014 has cellular data and if I ever replace it I'll probably want one with the same.

The author of this page has made critical errors in either interpreting or creating many of the graphs on the page.

> Another housing trend that popped up in 2014 was the rise in homes with four or more bedrooms.

If you actually look at the graph, the rise in 4+ bedrooms had been going since 1985. In 2014 it just became the most popular.

> Demand for fireplaces has been cooling since the ’90s with 2007 being the first year that more homes were built without the feature than with.

Actually, that would be 2010. The "None" point is plotted higher than the "1" point in 2007 but still definitely below the 50% mark.

> The average square feet of floor area in a newly completed single-family home was down 2 percent or 56 square feet in 2017 from the high mark.

The graph above has percentages in the y-axis rather than square feet...no idea what happened there. Plus, it is somewhat misleading! In the real data chart [0, page 9], the median square footage actually increased in 2017, while the average did decrease. Additionally, this difference appears to be within the relative standard error window.

[0]: https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/pdf/squarefeet.pdf

Here are some details about this process. Basically, your submission can get a second chance if a moderator thinks it was a good one that everybody missed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926

My Discord <-> IRC <-> Slack <-> Matrix bridge with Matterbridge [0] still works as of today, I didn't notice anything being shut down.

[0]: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

By Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684832674

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I read the Audiobook version of this book. It presents a narrative of the development of the very early stages of the internet. I enjoyed it. I think it would also have been fine in print or ebook formats. It is not too long and seems to present the events in a mostly linear fashion.

You'll get a great overview of the names, organizations, and machines that were used in this period.

That's what the 'all' option does. It shows all items that made the front page that were submitted on any given day, whether it was on the front page for 2 days straight or for just a few minutes.

Thank you.

The issue thread/request for this had been open for something like 2 years and I waited patiently for someone braver than me to implement it.

Now my custom domain on GitLab Pages automatically redirects to HTTPS. I'm happy.

Next up is to add an option to automatically renew Let's Encrypt certs for GitLab Pages.

I suppose they have even less incentive than internet service providers have to implement BCP 38 spoofing protection.

If it made business sense to do this, it would happen. Until then, it probably won't. Perhaps serving millions of robocalls are more profitable than the number of consumers who will totally cancel their telephone service as a result of them.

> and then using "type" again to refer to generic type parameter T

I was curious enough to grab a nearby textbook on Java. The author very clearly calls these things "type parameters" or "type variables". Imagine trying to write the whole chapter just calling them "types".....

"Your generic type will have two other types T and E and we will fill in Grape as type T and Fred as type E...."

It'd be a disaster! Instead he's used clear language, every single time he refers to one of those things, he uses the specific term. Much better experience.