HN has become the place to check if any HyperScaler + Cloudflare is down.
I actually came here to check because downforeveryoneorjustme.com and downdetector are offline as well.
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Semi related: A couple of years ago a waste facility in Berlin measured increased levels of radio activity and traced it back to a restaurant where 13 cards laced with radioactive Iodine-125 were found:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42157129
I couldn't find anything about how the cheat actually worked, though. In Mongolia they found radioactive dice at an airport: https://conferences.iaea.org/event/16/contributions/7187/att...
> it's just hard to go up
Going up is the comparatively easy part, it's not exactly rocket science. Going fast enough sideways so you stay up there is the tricky bit.
There's an XKCD for that: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
I digitised our family photos but a lot of them were damaged (shifted colours, spills, fingerprints on film, spots) that are difficult to correct for so many images. I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces. This looks very good at restoring images without altering details or adding them where they are missing, so it might finally be time.
Do you happen to know some software to repair/improve video files? I'm in the process of digitalizing a couple of Video 2000 and VHS casettes of childhood memories of my mom who start suffering from dementia. I have a pretty streamlined setup for digitalizing the videos but I'd like to improve the quality a bit.
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It's weird to me how it often seems like the US and China are the only countries capable of mega-scale tech infrastructure like this (and even then, only in some industries). Can you imagine Wal-mart's website going down for multiple months?
I think a lot of companies (especially in Europe) have not internalized that, yes, you actually do need to expend apparently exorbitant amounts of money on highly-paid engineers if you want your tech to actually be good. Many countries, including the UK, are simply not wealthy enough to do it at scale. They produce plenty of engineers, but most of the ones capable of holding complicated stuff together probably end up working for US companies that can pay them market rates.
Interestingly the gov.uk website and everything around it is a prime example of software that just works. In terms of performance and accessibility. I work/volunteer for a non-profit design agency and we use the the uk.gov design system and I just love it: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
> 100 um is 4mil
Just checking, "4mil"? When I see (or hear) "mil" I assume millimeters, which clearly isn't right here, but I don't know if this is autocorrupt or if this is shorthand for something else I've never seen called this before, say "1e-4 meters"?
mil in this context is 1/1000 inch
zwog commented on Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023) superuser.com/questions/1... · Posted by u/Qision
I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.
Setting this up has become an automatic request from marketing people, almost as common as asking us to setup Google Analytics and such.
This is almost the equivalent to them to "have a CI/CD" for us devs: not having such things for them is strange, almost wrong. Of course the end goal is totally different.
> I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.
Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.
zwog commented on Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023) superuser.com/questions/1... · Posted by u/Qision
I wonder how anyone can think 'you know what, my website, that you don't even need to sign in to for 99% of the use cases, needs a big popup from google!'
Aside from the security/privacy considerations, why the fuck would you do that to a website? SSO from a login page? sure, whatever. a f'ing popup on every page for a SINGLE provider? That is just brain-rot. Do they pay you to do this?
> Do they pay you to do this?
I don't sites get payed (with money) but it probably improves the ranking in the search results (or at least some SEO guide claims that, so everybody does it)
They really want to be TikTok so bad. But hey, at least TikTok doesn't run like garbage on non-Chromium browsers, so maybe they should work on fixing that next!
I think this was debunked and caused by misconfigured/outdated adblock rules, wasn't it?
How is this with videos? Couldn't you just start recording a video from a safe distance and than continue to creep around?