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rstarast··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
This seems to be the source article (Reuters, March 24): https://www.reuters.com/business/french-central-bank-books-1...
rstarast··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
First sell the gold, then buy same amount at a slightly lower price a bit later (on average)
rstarast··on The history of Casio watches
SDB-300W family is still the best running watch I've ever had. I still have 1.5 copies of the WS-110H around on their last legs.

The key features that I've missed from any watch since is 1. good buttons and 2. "immediate" reaction time.

rstarast··on Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant
> But admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to anyone other than white men is an instant rage-boner for the Trump administration.

And for half the hn readership, it appears

rstarast··on Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
Elaborate? I'm not
rstarast··on Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
Add musicbrainz to the list. It was weirdly comforting to rediscover it 15 years later with nothing really having changed (for better and worse)
rstarast··on Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
The interface makes it almost impossible to solve a puzzle in logical steps.

You might find some inspiration here: https://puzz.link/p?cave/10/10/i44t4g3r3g3j2h2h3zp3q5g32k4 http://pzv.jp/p.html?bag/10/10/i44t4g3r3g3j2h2h3zp3q5g32k4 (from http://blog.livedoor.jp/bachelor_seal-puzzle/archives/901448...)

rstarast··on Bikes in the age of tariffs
With the huge differences in per-country tariff, there seems to be a large incentive to reroute and relabel imports. E.g., build a bike frame in China, export it to a sister company in Japan, and export it to the US from there, claiming production in Japan. How effective are existing controls against that? (And what are they even, I'm ignorant.)
rstarast··on I've acquired a new superpower
that's why they mirror one of the images in "find the differences" in puzzle competitions, e.g. USPC https://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2024/
rstarast··on US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash
I'd prefer to count deaths per hour of travel time.
rstarast··on One Square Minesweeper
xbomb? https://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/xbomb/
rstarast··on Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation
Thanks, that one seems likely.

Hmm, though this seems to affect the case-hack thingy only, which seems like a macos-specific feature...

rstarast··on Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation
This is fixed in 2.24.6: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.24.6

See also https://discourse.nixos.org/t/vulnerability-in-nix-2-24/5190... for updates.

Can someone link to the actual fix? It's a bit hard to navigate the git history for me...

rstarast··on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Who's to say this "my bad, we'll do better next time" isn't part of the playbook?
rstarast··on Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe
What I'd like to know is how the YouTube ad income compares to medical expenses.
rstarast··on The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture
Last time I tried it was unusably slow
rstarast··on "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages
I mean it's basically just Rambo 3 in space innit?
rstarast··on Instagram's Toxic Video Mix for Adults Who Follow Children
https://archive.is/gwtwO
rstarast··on I kind of killed Mercurial at Mozilla
I want to say bitbucket started out as this, at least my first repos there were hg.
rstarast··on Cats are no match for New York City's rats (2018)
https://archive.is/8kgll
rstarast··on What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022)
Clearly I can't carry a bow as easily as a gun when weaving through traffic on my fixed gear.
rstarast··on Global CO2 Levels
What's the view on the immediate impact on elevated CO2 levels on humans? I know high indoor CO2-levels correlate with poor mental performance, but as far as I know that might just be because it also correlates with reduced O2 levels. But it seems reasonable that a 25% increase of CO2 in ambient air would do something to our health.
rstarast··on Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started
I would guess it's rather mathematical. Each coinflip has some number of half-flips. Now analyze the distribution of that number. If this distribution were to start at its maximum with 0 half-flips and decay as it increases, summing over the even values (same side up) clearly gives more than summing over the odd values. Now the distribution isn't going to be like that, but I expect that it's generally "front-loaded" in a way that causes a similar effect.
rstarast··on There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org
Same here, I get 403s from tile.tracestrack.com

Edit: I think it's due to referrer filtering. I can load the tiles fine if I pass 'Referer: https://www.openstreetmap.org', but Firefox sends 'Referer: tile.tracestrack.com'. Presumably that's a measure to preserve privacy, possibly due to some extension (though I've disabled various adblock, tracking protection things...)

rstarast··on Tesla buys German railway line, now hosting passenger trains
Map of the area https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/52.4039/13.7938

It's the link from Erkner to the factory.

rstarast··on Tcherepnin: Basic Elements of My Musical Language
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tcherepnin#Style_and...
rstarast··on Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes
The reception on the nixos discourse is worth a look: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044
rstarast··on Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night
Also, how many of those tiny plastic wrappers accidentally fell from someone's backpack side pocket or similar? You have to do a bit of "leave it nicer than I found it in terms of things I'm aware of" just to break even.
rstarast··on Rde: A configuration framework for GNU Guix [video]
So rde is intended to be a more user friendly variant of Guix System as a Linux distribution? It's quite hard to tell for me... http://trop.in/rde/manual#Introduction is the clearest project description I can find.
rstarast··on Zig Quirks
Re 9, would it be possible to change the signature of expectEqual from

    pub fn expectEqual(expected: anytype, actual: @TypeOf(expected)) !void
to

    pub fn expectEqual(expected: @TypeOf(actual), actual: anytype) !void
What would the downsides be?
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