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In Vancouver specifically, they'd have issues distinguishing your car from any others on the road, because there's lots of foreign (US/Alberta) plates there for some reason (I understand it's some insurance thing). At least, that seemed to be the case when I was there recently.

Weren't the Google TPU stuff that already? Wikipedia says that's from a decade ago.

Too bad dependabot cooldowns are brain-dead. If you set a cooldown for one week, and your dependency can't get their act together and makes a release daily, it'll start making PRs for the first (oldest) release in the series after a week even though there's nothing cool about the release cadence.


The cooldown is to allow vulnerabilities to be discovered. So auto update on passing tests, which should include an npm audit check.


Wouldn't it be precisely because archives are important that using something known to modify the contents would be avoided?


> something known to modify the contents would be avoided?

Like Wikipedia?


No, not like that. There's a difference between a site that:

1) provides a snapshot of another site for archival purposes. 2) provides original content.

You're arguing that since encyclopedias change their content, the Library of Congress should be allowed to change the content of the materials in its stacks.

By modifying its archives, archive.today just flushed its credibility as an archival site. So what is it now?


> You're arguing that since encyclopedias change their content, the Library of Congress should be allowed to change the content of the materials in its stacks.

As an end user of Wikipedia there are occasions where content has been scrubbed and/or edits hidden. Admins can see some of those, but end users cannot (with various justifications, some excellent/reasonable and some.. nebulous). That's all I'm saying, nothing about Congress or such other nonsense. It seems like an occasion of the pot calling the kettle names from this side of the fence.


But Wikipedia promises you that it will modify its content. They're transparent about that promise.

An archival site (by default definition) promises you that it will not modify its content. And when it does, it's no longer an archival site.

Wikipedia has never been an archival site and it never will be. archive.today was an archival site, but now it never will be again.


This is your imaginary archive from the world of pink ponies.

Meanwhile their IMA on Reddit: no promises, no commitment. Just like Microsoft EULA :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1i277vt/psa_ar...


What I don't see on that page is where they explicitly don't promise to not modify anything in the archive.


> What I don't see on that page is where they explicitly don't promise to not modify anything in the archive.

I'm quoting all of that because is lacks an explicit promise of non-modification /i

Meanwhile seriously, if you were disappointed not to see e.g. "We explicitly don't promise not to modify", then perhaps you should consider why, regardless, this site was trusted enough to get a gazillion links in Wikipedia... and HN.


> I'm quoting all of that because is lacks an explicit promise of non-modification.

And I'm quoting all of that because it lacks an explicit (or implicit) promise of modification. :)

It was (emphasis on past-tense) so-trusted because it advertises itself as an archival site. (The linked disclaimer is all about it not being a "long-term" archival site. It says it archives pages for latecomers. There is an implication here that it archives them accurately. What use is a site for latecomers if they change the content to be something else?) If they'd said or indicated they would be changing the content to no longer reflect the original site, Wikipedia would not have linked to them because they wouldn't be a credible source.

In any case, now I can't use them to share or use links since we can no longer trust those archives to be untampered. When I share a link to nyt content on archive.today or copy and paste content into email, I'm putting my name on that declaring "nyt printed this". If that's not true, it's my reputation.

Just like it was archive.today's.


> When I share a link to nyt content on archive.today or copy and paste content into email, I'm putting my name on that declaring "nyt printed this". If that's not true, it's my reputation.

What if the nyt article itself is the problem? How does that square?


Obviously not, since archive.org is encouraged.


I use it in particular for bash, mostly because it has better expositions for parameter expansions. To the point that I know searching for "%%" in particular will get me to the correct section.

For everything else… I think it's also necessary for GNU find expressions?


Unfortunately only the first one (arborist) actually links to something that the workflow outputs (a created issue), so it's hard to see actual examples of what those things do. Some of the earlier comments said they output giant workflow files, but there weren't really any examples either.

Basically it feels like a long article that says "we have this new thing that does cool things", but never gives enough concrete details. It probably worked great for you, but it needs to communicate to random people off the street what the win is.



> unlike anything we've seen before

They probably haven't seen (to pull a number out of a hat) negative three billion percent growth before either…


Didn't Nadella come from the Azure side? In that sense it'd make sense that what they were doing would spread to the rest of the company.


If anything, it might unbreak things.

I have my browser set to request, in order, English, a different English, then a non-English language. Some sites (Android docs, Gitlab, F-Droid) will send me the non-English content; Google even preferentially does their AI translation thing instead of the original English.


Then for some web sites it won't matter and display the dominant language of the country that you're accessing from. My Firefox sends US English as the only preferred language, but a ton of US tech companies default to showing web sites in Japanese without a way to change it because I access them from Japan. It's pretty typical of American companies that don't understand localization and accessibility.


Most infuriating is when they do it based on GeoIP. So what I'm in Istanbul currently, I know maybe a dozen words in Turkish. But no, and also they insist on having broken language switchers.


Isn't 32bit counter 49 days? Assuming that one was counting milliseconds, at least.

Only remember that because that's the limit for Windows 95…


100ns intervals. My favorite part of that story is how long after Windows 95 was released before anybody discovered the bug.


That's because people actually powered off their computer after work/leisure sessions. Someone on an unlimited night dial-up could had discovered it well before "anybody" but it's not like there was a built-in function to actually send a crash report to Redmond.

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