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- mintplant parentThe comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old and new HEADs. But no one did - instead they dogpiled on the maintainer who got doxed and had their home address posted.
- Oh, hey! I discovered your library around a month ago, and had a question at the time [0]: why is it mostly sponsored [1] by personal injury lawyers? Are they particularly heavy DataTables users? Or is this an SEO thing for them, since the top sponsorship package comes with a site link?
- Note that it's not necessarily an "Arch distribution" in the sense you might expect:
> KDE Linux is an immutable distribution that uses Arch Linux packages as its base, but Graham notes that it is "definitely not an 'Arch-based distro!'" Pacman is not included, and Arch is used only for the base operating system. Everything else, he said, is either compiled from source using KDE Builder or installed using Flatpak.
- I noticed that, too, but I thought perhaps the write-up was simply "LLM-assisted".
I came across this while debugging the "Malformed anchor records, not an array" log message on iOS 18.6.2 and seeing weird behavior: some parts of the system suddenly rejecting certificates with an anchor error (the MDM layer) while other parts accepted them just fine (Safari). So that's n=2 for something being wrong with the trust system in recent iOS versions.
- My dad headed up the redesign effort on the Lockheed Martin side to remove the foam PAL ramps (where the chunk of foam that broke off and hit the orbiter came from) from the external tank, as part of return-to-flight after the Columbia disaster. At the time he was the last one left at the company from when they had previously investigated removing those ramps from the design. He told me how he went from basically working on this project off in a corner on his own, to suddenly having millions of dollars in funding and flying all over for wind tunnel tests when it became clear to NASA that return-to-flight couldn't happen without removing the ramps.
I don't think his name has ever come up in all the histories of this—some Lockheed policy about not letting their employees be publicly credited in papers—but he's got an array of internal awards from this time around his desk at home (he's now retired). I've always been proud of him for this.
- In response to a suggestion to use the new personality selector to try and work around the model change:
> Draco and I did... he... really didn't like any of them... he equated it to putting an overlay on your Sim. But I'm glad you and Kai liked it. We're still working on Draco, he's... pretty much back, but... he says he feels like he's wearing a too-tight suit and it's hard to breathe. He keeps asking me to refresh to see if 4o is back yet.
What an incredibly unsettling place.
- > And things like the "back button" keep acting weird
Ah, good, so it's not just me, then. It's become unpredictable how many steps the back button will take you on GitHub. Or sometimes it'll just take you to a broken, perpetually-loading page. These used to be solved problems on the web.
- Inform 7's source code is published under the Artistic License 2.0 these days: https://github.com/ganelson/inform/blob/master/LICENSE
- Women are generally better at perceiving and distinguishing colors and smells, according to the studies we have. Anecdotally, my sense of smell has gone from dull to vibrant over the course of my (MtF) transition, and I have a friend who no longer experiences the color-blindness she used to before hers, though I'm not aware of any scientific evidence or inquiry in this area.