In the end? When they bribed the ISO into making OOXML a standard, what Office actually saved was incompatible with that standard on day one.

OOXML becoming an ISO standard was entirely to undermine the development of OpenDocument as an open standard. If they hadn’t done that, governments asking for open standards might have required OpenDocument. Now, since OOXML is an open standard, they’re immune from that even if they never bothered to implement that standard correctly.

Canonically she uses Copland OS, which is named after an abandoned Mac OS 8 prototype but is functionally completely different. Given that Copland OS is built to access what works like a crossbreed between the internet and and the Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I think it’s reassuring that we don’t have it in our world.

Especially for her, seeing that we know she doesn’t use Windows.

I wouldn’t call that a good foundation for a diet.

yFood kinda sucks taste-wise IMO and I think meal replacement shakes from a sports nutrition company offer a better bang for the buck. (Plus the whole thing where Nestlé owns a share of the company these days.)

Piracy isn’t piracy. Piracy is copyright infringement. Real piracy involves boats.

So if you want to be a proper pirate, run your BitTorrent client on a boat.

Shared IPv4 addresses are not to deter hosting but because there aren’t enough v4 addresses to go around. Most ISPs will happily give you an entire block of persistent IPv6 addresses but won’t give you a v4 because of address space exhaustion.

Went mask off early on, caught the heart of a neurotypical. A personality consists of more than dopamine effectiveness and sometimes the rest makes for what someone considers a compelling package.

That’s my point. Being at peace with yourself only works until you have to regularly deal with someone who isn’t. Of course you can isolate yourself from those people if they fail to adapt but that means you get to choose between being in a relationship and feeling tension over your neurodivergence on the one side and being alone but at peace with yourself on the other.

I’m not saying that you can’t make a satisfying choice but it certainly ain’t an easy one. If you get a partner who meshes well with your brain, congratulations. But a lot of people don’t.

Also, making a choice about your relationship means making a choice that affects two people (or more if you’re poly or have a dependent). And sometimes you can’t in good conscience end a relationship because you know that doing so will majorly screw over your partner.

Life is complicated. Inner peace is a precious and fragile good and sometimes you trade that good away. Appreciate it if and while you have it.

Then you get into a relationship and feel your partner’s disappointment every day because it turns out that while you have gotten comfortable with how your brain works, the rest of the world hasn’t. But don’t worry; tomorrow is the day when it’ll all get better…

To quote that same document:

Figure 5 looks at the average temperatures for different age groups. The distributions are in sync with Figure 4 showing a mostly flat failure rate at mid-range temperatures and a modest increase at the low end of the temperature distribution. What stands out are the 3 and 4-year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more pronounced.

That’s what I referred to. I don’t see a total age distribution for their HDDs so I have no idea if they simply didn’t have many HDDs in the three-to-four-years range, which would explain how they didn’t see a correlation in the total population. However, they do show a correlation between high temperatures and AFR for drives after more than three years of usage.

My best guess is that HDDs wear out slightly faster at temperatures above 35-40 °C so if your HDD is going to die of an age-related problem it’s going to die a bit sooner if it’s hot. (Also notice that we’re talking average temperature so the peak temperatures might have been much higher).

In a home server where the HDDs spend most of their time idling (probably even below Google’s “low” usage bracket) you probably won’t see a difference within the expected lifespan of the HDD. Still, a correlation does exist and it might be prudent to have some HDD cooling if temps exceed 40 °C regularly.

Hard drives don’t really like high temperatures for extended periods of time. Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.

The same applies to low temperatures. The ideal temperature range seems to be between 20 °C and 35 °C.

Mind you, we’re talking “going from a 5% AFR to a 15% AFR for drives that saw constant heavy use in a datacenter for three years”. Your regular home server with a modest I/O load is probably going to see much less in terms of HDD wear. Still, heat amplifies that wear.

I’m not too concerned myself despite the fact that my server’s HDD temps are all somewhere between 41 and 44. At 30 °C ambient there’s not much better I can do and the HDDs spend most of their time idling anyway.

Honestly, I’m still very much in the “classes define what a tag represents, CSS defines how it looks” camp. While the old semantic web was never truly feasible, assigning semantic meaning to a page’s structure very much is. A well-designed layout won’t create too much trouble and allows for fairly easy consistency without constant repetition.

Inline styles are essentially tag soup. They work like a print designer thinks: This element has a margin on the right. Why does it have that margin? Who cares, I just want a margin here. That’s acceptable if all you build are one-off pages but requires manual bookkeeping for sitewide consistency. It also bloats pages and while I’m aware that modern web design assumes unmetered connections with infinite bandwidth and mobile devices with infinitely big batteries, I’m oldschool enough to consider it rude to waste the user’s resources like that. I also consider it hard to maintain so I’d only use it for throwaway pages that never need to be maintained.

CSS frameworks are like inline styles but with the styles moved to classes and with some default styling provided. They’re not comically bad like inline styles but still not great. A class like gap-2 still carries no structural meaning, still doesn’t create a reusable component, and barely saves any bandwidth over inline CSS since it’s usually accompanied by several other classes. At least some frameworks can strip out unused framework code to help with the latter.

I don’t use SCSS much (most of its best functionality being covered by vanilla CSS these days) but it might actually be useful to bridge the gap between semantically useful CSS classes and prefabricated framework styles: Just fill your semantic classes entirely with @include statements. And even SCSS won’t be needed once native mixins are finished and reach mainstream adoption.

Note: All of this assumes static pages. JS-driven animations will usually need inline styles, of course.

“Legally required”, so they’re seeing it in the local laws. Some countries require websites to disclose who operates them.

For example, in Germany, websites are subject to the DDG (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz, “digital services law”). Under this law they are subject to the same disclosure requirements as print media. At a minimum, this includes the full name, address, and email address. Websites updated operated by companies or for certain purposes can need much more stuff in there.

Your website must have a complete imprint that can easily and obviously be reached from any part of the website and is explicitly called “imprint”.

These rules are meaningless to someone hosting a website in Kenya, Australia, or Canada. But if you run a website in Germany you’d better familiarize yourself with them.

I work for a publicly traded company.

We couldn’t switch away from Microsoft if we wanted to because integrating everything with Azure and O365 is the cheapest solution in the short term, ergo has the best quarterly ROI.

I don’t think the shareholders give a rat’s ass about data sovereignty if it means a lower profit forecast. It’d take legislative action for us to move away from an all-Azure stack.

And yes, that sucks big time. If Microsoft stops playing nice with the EU we’re going to have to pivot most of our tech stack on a moment’s notice.

It’s not terribly exciting but I find myself using this a lot:

#!/bin/sh

echo "$*" | sed -e "s/x/*/g" | bc -l

Just a little shorthand for bc that allows me to write “x” instead of “*” to avoid shell expansion nonsense. I put it in ~/.local/bin/= so I can e.g. just write = 17+4x5. Combined with a Quake-style terminal this is much faster than launching a calculator app. It’s a script instead of an alias so it works regardless of the shell I’m currently using.

The call to bc -l could be replaced with one to qalc -t if you know qalc to be present on the system .

I’m not sure. The body blocks the nacelles’ line of sight so all you could do would be to give each wing its own warp bubble.

Also, of course, the Galaxy class wasn’t in service by stardate 2259.55 – that’s when Into Darkness is set so the best they could be escorted by is an upgunned Constitution class.

Because JavaScript and its complete absence of a standard library is a horrible abomination that should’ve been put out of our misery years ago.

Full stack developer:

The lightbulb is broken. Deploys a lightweight fix that involves 17 metric tons of chandeliers, stadium floodlights, sconces, and the necessary infrastructure to operate the street lights for a city of 500.000. His solution delivers a solid 100 lm of light using only 175 MW of power.

Luckily, people research these things.

Apparently the Voyager crew used the Thermos Nissan Vacuum Insulated Espresso Mugs, models JMJ-180 (a smaller one used by various crew members) and JMJ-185 (a larger one favored by Janeway). Apparently these did come with a lid.

They’re probably not pivoting but in FY2023 Azure made up 38% of their revenue, followed by Office 365 at 23%. That’s a lot of cloud service revenue.

Is it sustainable? Honestly, it might. They sell a lot of stuff under the Azure umbrella and corporations lap that shit up. (Seriously; my employer is about ready to hire consultants to come up with additional eggs they can put in that particular basket.)

Here’s my source; I couldn’t be arsed to look it up in MSFT’s statements directly.