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patneedham··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Probably Deutschwortsehnsucht (https://www.iamexpat.de/education/education-news/german-word...)
patneedham··on Re: Did AT&T leak their email list publicly?
Thanks for the suggestion (and thank you mods for making the update).
patneedham··on Re: Did AT&T leak their email list publicly?
No idea. The person who initially emailed that mailing list address said he'll write about it on his linkedin after the storm and after it's fixed. FWIW I'm not an AT&T customer (or business customer), I just happened to participate in some IOT hackathon they sponsored/hosted 6 or 7 years ago, that's the only way they've ever obtained my email address.

Only 9 unique email addresses have added to the "reply-all" thread within the past couple hours. Don't know if any estimates can be extrapolated from that though.

patneedham··on De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)
But did you still use booking.com for that other European city trip, or another platform?
patneedham··on Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT
> some humans actually do write like these newer language models, after all

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say these newer language models actually write like humans? Or is there a subset of the population intentionally trying to write in the way that these language models write.

patneedham··on Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash
Discovered by Eliza Callahan triggered by a poem in the middle of her novel. (Friend of a coworker) That poem can be found here: https://durationandthebodyelizacallahan.cargo.site/ - if viewing on mobile you have to Request Desktop Site for some reason, at least on Android it initially shows up as a Lorem Ipsum page
patneedham··on Half a million lines of Go
Why would an arbitrary number of lines of code be considered a milestone?
patneedham··on Every day at the same time, my internet dies for 1 minute. How do I investigate?
What piece of evidence or logs finally convinced Comcast that the issue was on their side?
patneedham··on YouTube-dl source code encoded in two images
But how would that be enforceable?
patneedham··on Google cancels April Fools’ jokes this year
The paywall on that site is skippable by disabling Javascript and refreshing the page
patneedham··on Burnoutindex.org
What effect does resizing your window have?
patneedham··on What's the longest distance that can be traveled by using free transportation?
I think the more interesting question would be which public transportation routes greater than X miles (or kilometers) in length have the highest distance to price ratio.
patneedham··on Go + Services = One Goliath Project
To be more specific (for anyone else who hasn't checked the link yet), the "Lifetime giving" section has: 9 donations >10m, 4 donations between 5-10m, 20 donations between 1-5m

So looks like there has been at least 120m in donations!

patneedham··on Start Your Own ISP
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3np4a/new-municipal-broa...
patneedham··on Project Xanadu
As a resident of New Jersey, I initially thought this was going to be something poking fun at the never-ending construction project formerly known as "Xanadu": https://www.nj.com/bergen/2018/06/american_dream_how_did_a_s...
patneedham··on Hyper.sh cloud service will shut down on Jan 15
Exactly what I thought the link referred to initially.
patneedham··on Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans
Gotta give credit to whichever cavemen/cavewomen discovered fire, and all the civilizations that invented the wheel, Ben Franklin for harnessing the power of electricity, and then maybe Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for inventing Unix.