steventhedev

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[–] steventhedev 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Speed of light in glass is about 2/3c. Internet routing does not follow great circle routes either, so add an extra 20% fudge factor for that.

From experience, voice calls sometimes get extra latency added in for no good reason whatsoever. Calling again usually resolves the issue.

So while there's a bit more delay, despite being noticeable it doesn't change how you talk on the phone.

[–] steventhedev 20 points 6 days ago

He was the ringleader of an illegal anti-poaching agreement between tech companies that kept worker salaries down.

He's the root cause of much of what is broken with modern tech hiring. Bill gates is responsible for the other half (trick questions, etc)

[–] steventhedev 52 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Bottom rack retail workers distributing replica weaponry is hardly a good basis for a system of government

[–] steventhedev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

ISO-3166-1 has a lot of "countries" that aren't actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.

[–] steventhedev 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it's deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO

[–] steventhedev 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

GW are notorious for demanding creative veto. Not because they want to interfere but to maintain continuity.

So even if the quality goes, it won't ruin the canon.

[–] steventhedev 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Nope. They already have .mu

[–] steventhedev 68 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Once the treaty is signed, the .io cctld will phase out over 5 years.

Unless ICANN get greedy and grant an exemption.

[–] steventhedev 5 points 3 weeks ago

Jokes on you - they were sugar free.

Enjoy turning your guts inside out for the next day

[–] steventhedev 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this based purely on UTC offsets?

Are there polygons available for the tz database?

[–] steventhedev 18 points 3 weeks ago

Even if this were true, it wouldn't matter that much. Because Orks are psychic, if enough of them believe that the Lost Primarchs are Mork and Gork then they become Mork and Gork for all intents and purposes.

Unless a Primarch is now suddenly psychically strong enough to resist being transmuted by the collective psychic pressure of all Orks across the entire galaxy.

[–] steventhedev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Tell that to the strawberries I bought and left on the counter instead of putting in the fridge

 

The last post that was federated to LW is from three days ago, and I can't see the community at all via https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

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The Israeli military said on Thursday that it is investigating the possibility that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the devastating Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war.

At this stage, his identity cannot be confirmed, said the military.

Hamas has not commented on the fate of Sinwar, who was recently elevated to paramount leader of the Palestinian militant group.

 

Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Kassem said Sunday that his group is now in an open-ended battle with Israel and he threatened more displacement for people in Israel’s north.

 

The family of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin announced the young man’s death early Sunday, ending a relentless campaign by his parents to rescue him that included meetings with world leaders and an address to the Democratic convention last month.

Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seized by militants at a music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7. The native of Berkeley, California, lost part of his left arm to a grenade in the attack. In April, a Hamas-issued video showed him, his left hand missing and clearly speaking under duress, sparking new protests in Israel urging the government to do more to secure his and others’ freedom.

 

103 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 33 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.

 

The game was first suspended due to weather on June 26th, and Danny Jansen was traded back in July. The game resumed on August 26th - with him now playing for the other team.

 

The 52-year-old is from Israel’s Arab Bedouin minority and was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen, one of several farming communities that were attacked on Oct. 7.

 

Hezbollah has launched 320 rockets at Israel in the last two hours, alongside at least dozens of drones, but no exact number on the drones. Those numbers are based on a single source, so please take the number with a grain of salt - this source is generally correct, but it is a single source publishing those numbers.

2 injured so far, and extensive damage to civilian homes and infrastructure.

 

The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta Platforms said Friday.

 

Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Haim Perry

 

From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they've backpedaled on it.

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UPDATE: 10 dead, 6 in critical, 3 moderate, 4 light, and several dozen unadmitted injured people

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