CottonMcKnight

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World Magnetic Model 2025 Technical Report [pdf](library.oarcloud.noaa.gov)
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by CottonMcKnight 1y ago
1. First release of the new High Resolution (WMMHR) model, 2. The South Atlantic Anomaly is expected to intensify during the period 2025-2030.
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by CottonMcKnight 1y ago
If this interests you, I highly recommend watching this talk by Pat Meenan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt0H2DxdAPY
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by CottonMcKnight 1y ago
Ironicry
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by CottonMcKnight 1y ago
People forget that he already tried during Covid, when he tweeted that the election should be postponed.
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
CSS is a language, but it is 0.1% syntax and 99.9% memorizing the standard library, which expands monthly.
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform th
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
Example: Sindre Sorhus' FNV library uses BigInt to support hashes up to 1024 bits. It's quite popular (for a hashing algorithm) on NPM, with 80k+ downloads / week. https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sindresor
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
VT and chill. Add BND / BNDW if you wish.
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
I have a bumper sticker that says "Vehicle speed monitored by GPS / Speed limiter in use", like some commercial trucks have. It dramatically cuts down on the road rage.
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
I remember JSSS, but a more vivid memory for me is LiveConnect: another Netscape-only project that was incredibly powerful and groundbreaking: it allowed Java and JavaScript code to communicate directly, e.g. plain JS could invoke the JDK a
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
It is a certainty that, some time in the future, the bandwidth cost of not re-encoding will exceed the one-time cost of re-encoding. How far in the future probably informed this decision.
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by CottonMcKnight 2y ago
Meanwhile, at Google: "Let's add our podcast app to the long list of Google Graveyard apps and further erode user trust!"
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
What do you use to create the graphs?
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
I thought it came from the shape of two mated swans with their heads together.
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
A big part of my childhood was playing black & white games on the Mac: the MacVenture games (Deja Vu, Uninvited, Shadowgate); the World Builder and action games from Silicon Beach (Enchanted Scepters, Dark Castle, etc.); and the early S
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
get-sued.js
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
MSRP for LE Prius is not "premium" at all. If the premium you refer to is from dealerships, there are plenty of dealerships that sell for MSRP.
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
enshittification intensifies American Dialect Society nailed it.
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
They're both at Shopify now, and they have a new podcast, with a coincidentally relevant (to this post) title: Off The Main Thread. https://open.spotify.com/show/5clRioNPZJY8ORMhJZZOYA
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
MariaAI
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
I can't wait to see what he is going to make with all those prills.
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
5.87 lbs: https://lighterpack.com/r/89huvt
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
It has been deprecated for a long time but still available in Chromium. It is being removed in Chromium 119 at the end of next month. See the aside about SQLite WASM on this blog post. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
It's pretty objectively a big deal. (Feature-limited) Photoshop was ported to WASM in 2021. https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/ With the deprecation and imminent removal of WebSQL, the official (Google) recommendation
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
Prison-for-profit, either privately-run, with slave labor, or both, creates perverse incentives to convict more people of crimes and to keep them incarcerated longer. This is not just hypothetical. The notorious Pennsylvania 'kids-for-
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
Another notable WoW Classic incident: Biny of <Afterlife> discovers that the "Living Bomb" effect used by a raid boss, that targets both players and their pets/minions, remains applied to pets and minions even after the
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
Oh god, I was just reminded of a story that came out of the Station Nightclub fire, claiming a bouncer blocked people from using an exit that was "for the band only". https://www.wcvb.com/article/station-night
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
Copyright infringement cease-and-desist from OpenAI in 3... 2... 1...
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
While this article is reasonably fact-based, just so everyone is aware of this paper's agenda, check the titles of other articles at the bottom: * Wyoming Oil And Gas Held Back More By Taxes Than Regulation, Says Industry Group * John

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