MrRadar

37 ms·

391.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Thanks! It's amusing how the entirety of Gopher fits into a 1.6 GB archive compared to the petabytes (exabytes?) it would take to archive the entirety of the WWW.
392.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Do you still have the raw crawl data? If so, have you considered uploading it to the Internet Archive to help preserve it for the future?
393.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Looking at the Wikipedia article for the Peugeot 106 most of the engines that were offered in the 1995 model year only put out around 100 HP. Since you had a "cheapest" rental Dart I'm assuming it had the base engine which i
394.
by MrRadar 9y ago
When I opened my account with my credit union they gave me 2 free boxes of checks. In the 5 years since I haven't even used a single book of them so this should be a sufficient supply for a lifetime.
395.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Thanks. I was on mobile at the time and didn't feel like looking all that up.
396.
by MrRadar 9y ago
> I do wonder if it was pot luck they got hold of a VW Jetta. IIRC the grant they received came from a European air pollution advocacy group which wanted to prove to European regulators that the EPA's stricter diesel emissions stand
397.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Carbon nanotubes and other nanoparticles probably. They have similar properties to asbestos when they get into your body.
398.
by MrRadar 9y ago
There was a case[0] of a man in Turkey who was murdered because he sent a text message with a Turkish 'I'[1] and the recipient's phone didn't render it properly, causing the message to be interpreted as a grave insult.
399.
by MrRadar 9y ago
> Not sure if it's worth including in my script though, since WARCs aren't easily browseable (correct me if I'm wrong). I've had good luck with WebArchivePlayer: https://github.com/ikreymer/webarc
400.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Because cmd.exe sucked until at least Windows 10.
401.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Yep, this goes all the way back to "Windows for Pen Computing"[0], a version of Windows 3.1 for very early tablets. Here's a video of Bill Gates showing it off: https://youtu.be/eenDjMXfVBQ?t=2m22s [0] http
402.
by MrRadar 9y ago
Here are the changes from the changelog, looks like it's just bug fixes: * Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer be vulnerable to hijacking by specially named DLLs in the same directory, even the names we missed whe
403.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Cash itself isn't cost-free for businesses. There's the extra time it takes to count change for customers, the mistakes cashiers make when counting change, there's the time it takes to count the register at the end of a shift
404.
by MrRadar 10y ago
To throw in a bit of confusion, most US debit cards can also be run on credit card networks (mostly Visa or Mastercard, though when I worked as a cashier I saw a few debit cards that used Discover or Amex). The cash is still directly debit
405.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Why is the PIN so important? It only protects a very narrow scenario: your card has been physically stolen, you haven't noticed yet, and the thieves try to use it at a physical location which verifies the chip (some places still let yo
406.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Sounds like the plot to For-Profit Online University[1]. " I'm a digital gardener." [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLdhVpLBVE
407.
by MrRadar 10y ago
It looks like Ken is currently employed by a company called Voxon Photonics which is developing glasses-free 3D holographic displays: http://voxon.co/about-voxon-photonics/
408.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Those web page printouts at the bottom of the PDF are incredible! Most of the time the Internet Archive's snapshots are missing images or other assets but these are complete and excellent examples of the web design of the era.
409.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Is there a sitemap, index, API or other way to discover pages? If not it would be very hard to index or archive.
410.
by MrRadar 10y ago
> 2. https is a must if it is to be successful The use of unencrypted HTTP is probably deliberate to allow it to be used on even very dumb devices like feature phones (see http://txti.es/images/images ) and to remove
411.
by MrRadar 10y ago
You said 8K video with thousands of streams. That thing just looks like a normal video chat app that any modern CPU should have no problems with.
412.
by MrRadar 10y ago
If those are your needs you're well beyond enthusiast/prosumer and into workstation/enterprise server territory. Their upcoming Naples platform will probably be right up your alley, with octo-channel memory and up to 32 co
413.
by MrRadar 10y ago
OTOH AT&T in the US has already shut down its 2G network and T-Mobile US has reduced their 2G capacity to the point where they can operate it in the guard bands for their 3G signal. 2G is basically on life support in the US at this poi
414.
by MrRadar 10y ago
This release also adds support for the ChaCha20 AEAD cipher and encrypt-then-MAC modes for non-AEAD ciphers. Not sure why those aren't included in the release notes.
415.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Add .compact to the end of add reddit link (before the query) and you can still access it. A few minor things are broken but it still works well enough that I prefer it over the modern mobile site.
416.
by MrRadar 10y ago
I also use an add-on called Decentraleyes. It caches various common scripts from popular CDNs within the add-on itself so your device doesn't need to make any network requests for them. It was originally meant as a privacy to but the c
417.
by MrRadar 10y ago
The key is that now all royalty-free codecs can use MPEG-2 technologies as their base instead of having to work around the lack of them.
418.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Daala uses quite a few innovative approaches to video encoding. There's a good set of articles on some of the approaches they've tried at https://www.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/ . Since the formation of the
419.
by MrRadar 10y ago
> Tesla proved that eco-minded cars didn't need to be ugly, yet ALL other manufacturers continue to produce only ugly cars (they don't get points for bootstrapping hybrid models of existing cars). Part of the reason is that Tes
420.
by MrRadar 10y ago
Their TLS configuration is very strict. Only TLS 1.2 with only ECDHE + ChaCha20 or AES-GCM cipher suites. A lot of clients can't talk to it (including IE 11 on Windows 7 and 8), so it makes sense that they still offer non-encrypted co

More ›