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I guess we'll find out after Tuesday, November 3.

Isn't Bending Spoons the one who acquired Vimeo then fired all but a skeleton staff?

Forever burnt into my mind is PNG alpha work-arounds in IE:

    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png');

It seems like billionaires somehow develop a deep resentment and drive to change the world, whilst not spending any of their money to do it. (I wrote before remembering that lobbying exists.)

What is the use-case for a WAF/proxy/etc. to block unknown HTTP verbs? It feels like a pathway for obsolescence with no actual security benefit?

"Ports of Half-Life to unusual platforms generally lean on Xash3D, an open-source engine compatible with Valve's GoldSrc"

One of the main points of CSS was to decouple presentation from markup — trying to maintain a separation of concerns. Over the years, the HTML standard has deprecated nearly all presentation attributes, preferring CSS classes and style to convey... style.

So with that in mind, and the extensive use of Comic Sans, this has to be a joke...

I was reminiscing with some mates about LAN parties when we were younger — pushing mattresses against the wall to make room for folding tables so you could pack 20 people into a house. Cat5 running from daisy-chained switches (since this was pre-WiFi). Hunking over large beige monitors. Slamming network shares as everyone tried to download the same game ISO.

Then we realised we're the adults now, we can do what we want. So about once or twice a year, we'll block out a weekend and do an old-school LAN. Maybe just 4-5 of us. Order in nice take-away, drink nice whiskey, try and squeaze in as much game time as possible. Its harder now that we have kids, but worth it! Hardware is different, games are different, but still the same experience!

"Search without JS" and "static site generation" doesn't make much sense. Without client-side search, you'll need a search product or back-end search functionality? (both of which are not "static")

When we talk about an artist being overrated, we're talking about whether their works are deserving of the reverence, praise, and patronage that they attract. Its largely subjective — built on interpretation, comparison, retrospection, etc.

Elon Musk is a truly proficient capitalist. Great at creating capital. So, in that sense, no he is not overrated. There is nothing really subjective about capital — you either have it or you don't. And despite all the warning signals, people still heavily invest in his ventures.

But is he overrated as a leader, as a visionary, as a genius — the subjective measures. I'd argue, yes. Doesn't take a genius to create capital. As he's done nothing artistic or altruistic for us to debate the merits of his life, I can't imagine what other criteria he can be evaluated upon.

Firefox — Everyone loves to play armchair CEO and dictate the ills of the company. But I think they do so because Firefox is largely the only independent rendering engine and with Google's foothold on browsers (to protect their ad revenue) I'm nervous about the future of Blink. Independent players are always good for competition.

"First-mover advantage" — its not a guarantee of success. But its more of a guarantee than the guy trying to vibe-code a copy.

A novel idea. Once the tumour is gone, I'm curious as to whether any of the C. sporogenes byproducts would be toxic if they were to get into the blood stream (or maybe they'll be in low-enough quantities to not be a problem...)

Then you go to jail (penalty is 6 months for impersonating a person and voting on their behalf.) It's not like polling locations don't have cameras.

(A few people voting more than once is unlikely to change the results of an election. If enough fraud is detected to impact the results, they'll run a new election.)

Australia has a system where you are anonymous and can prove that you only voted once:

You have to be registered and must vote within your electorate, so your name appears on a certified list for that electorate and each voting location has that list. When you vote, they strike your name from the list.

After the election, the lists from these locations are compared. Anyone who votes twice has their name struck twice, and are investigated for electoral fraud.

Whether people know if you voted or not is immaterial, as voting is mandatory in Australia.

Works pretty well for a paper system.