Same! Their “agony” sorting (basically sorted flights by a combination of # of stops, total hours, and price) was a breakthrough at the time. It seems to be factored into most flight searches today, even though it’s not labeled as such.
> It kind of annoys me that they all require $ on the left, whereas shell only requires it on the right
Interesting - it makes it look like Bash uses $ to “read” from the variable, while in PHP/Perl $ only indicates that the rest of the symbol _is_ a variable.
It's not. Ice core isotope evidence gives you resolution all the way down to a year or two. We're seeing a first derivative of temperature that is simply unattested in any of that data. Or any other data source, honestly.
It's true that over thousand year timescales the earth has seen excursions larger than this. We have no evidence anywhere for anything happening this fast in the climate other than large impact events.
This is really cool! Curious if you've heard of or been put in touch with Prometheus Fuels - another YC company that's working on synthetic gasoline/diesel production using direct air capture (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842240). Seems like it could be a good combination - offload the stored CO2 from trucks at fuel stations, and put it into a fuel synthesizer that would likely work more efficiently with CO2, rather than raw air, as an input.
Ah, I remember those days - I had the same situation at home.
As the article mentions, you could dial the 67 prefix to block your outgoing caller ID on an individual call.
With the blocking-of-blocking, you had the opposite - the 82 prefix _disabled_ outgoing caller ID block on an individual call, allowing you to call subscribers that blocked blocked numbers.
I think my folks finally decided to drop the caller ID blocking after the phone company switched from 7-digit to mandatory 10-digit dialing for all calls. It was just too many digits to dial with the prefix, especially since half the time you would dial without the prefix, get the "blocked" message, then dial again with the prefix.
I've been on the receiving end of this from one or two online invitation services (Paperless Post, maybe?). Had a friend say "can you come to my party or what? You're the only one that still hasn't opened the invitation email". I never had to sign up for an account to imagine what the service was doing - showing "opened" stats straight out of Sendgrid or the like.
I had a similar reaction - email open tracking is something you assume, by default, that regular individuals can't do. And I found it very invasive, even though I know the same tracking exists on all the non-personal email I received.
Since then I've made it a point not to open those invitations until I know I'm ready to respond - since "I never saw the email" is a less harmful conclusion for my snooping friend to draw than "I opened the email and decided not to respond."
Just make it so that images don't appear by default. I only open images if I want to. Opening an email... I can't possibly understand why anyone would allow images to open by default. Based on the people I communicate with, less than 5% block image opening.
If that becomes more common, I will have to just only use Thunderbird, with its build in blocking tools, because it is one of the features I loath most in Facebook Messenger.
Having a dishwasher makes using a grater so much less dreadful - perhaps more than any other single kitchen implement. When I had a dishwasher at home we even got a Microplane zester. It's amazing how much flavor and aroma exists in lemon (and other citrus) zest that's not in the juice.
