It’s always funny to me the ways they “went metric” but things like cans of beer are 473 mL (16 US fl oz) or iced tea is 341 mL (11.5 US fl oz).

It’s worse when it’s professionally. Yesterday I wrote and sent an email before lunch, except near the end of the day I saw I had an email in my Drafts folder and had never actually hit send.

Peanut butter, jelly, and mustard?

I really need to look into getting Civ 2 running. Maybe just set up an old VM for it. Civ 3 was probably my favorite, but there were a lot of concepts I didn’t understand until playing 3 and I’d be curious to see how I fare in 2 now. Plus I love that old aesthetic of games with a user interface like every other program on Windows.

I got a late appointment for my dog at the vet’s office. A tech walked out and was kind of freaking out that it was already dark at 5:30. She said she’d never experienced DST before. Turns out she’d moved here fairly recently from Puerto Rico and they don’t change time there.

You still have Kmart in Australia? They went bankrupt in the US. I have fond memories going there as a child in the ’80s and ’90s but it went downhill in the new millennium.

They realized how much revenue they were leaving on the table

What was the book and would you recommend it?

The original headline on Hacker News is misleading. This is not a breach of 183 million Gmail account passwords. This is a collection of credentials, largely stolen by infostealer malware and circulating among cyber criminals, which was collected by a security researcher and passed on to Have I Been Pwned. Over 90% of the data has already been seen in previous releases.

Adding the details of website URLs, email addresses and passwords to the Have I Been Pwned database, owner Troy Hunt said the data consisted of both “stealer logs and credential stuffing lists” including confirmed Gmail login credentials.

The “confirmed Gmail login” bit comes from contacting one of the victims at random to verify the data and he confirmed the password was his Gmail password. It doesn’t appear to be a Gmail breach, just the results of credential stealing happened to include some people logging into Gmail.

Edit: Perhaps a more useful link is the original blog post from Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt.

Thank you!

Oh wow, I thought I read it was university studies (which I’d still say is more important priority-wise), but that’s really young!

Flack? Giving someone some slack is giving them a break. Giving someone flack is giving them a hard time. If something’s outside someone’s control, giving them slack about it is a kind thing but giving them flack would be unfair.

I’m going to guess, based on the only other comment on this post from @[email protected], that the “beloved” qualifier might be overselling the level of appreciation for Unity. Either it’s not actually that beloved by Ubuntu users or there is only a relatively small number of people for whom Unity truly is beloved. In any case I’m guessing it hasn’t had enough users to justify funding from Canonical.

In fact, just looking up Canonical on Wikipedia to verify the company name and see if they were for-profit I found this:

Canonical achieved a small operating profit of $281,000 in 2009, but until 2017 struggled to maintain financial solvency and took a major financial hit from the development of Unity and Ubuntu Touch, leading to an operating loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year 2013. The company reported an operating profit of $2 million in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees.

It may be surprising to learn that very basic, low-level support for M3 has existed for quite some time now. m1n1 is capable of initialising the CPU cores, turning on some critical peripheral devices, and booting the Asahi kernel. However, the level of support right now begins and ends with being able to boot to a blinking cursor. Naturally, this level of support is not at all useful for anything but low-level reverse engineering, but we of course plan on rectifying this in due time…

I mean I think it was basically a dictionary lookup, nothing like the negatives we see with today’s LLMs

Just as an addendum, the letters predate touch tone phones by a lot. They were originally used for the central office prefix, which in a lot of smaller places was also just the town name. If you were within the town you could just use the 4- (or later 5-) digit phone number of the person you were calling, but if you wanted to call the next town over you would need to dial the 2 numbers corresponding to the letters or tell the operator the name and number, like “Lakewood 2697”. That’s my understanding, anyway, from talking to people who lived in that time or seeing it in movies.

OP said it’s US District court, and I think the federal courts tend to be stricter. It might vary from district to district, not sure about that.

Yes, 8477. And back when SMS text messaging was a new feature on cellphones, the earliest way to enter the letters was to hit the number multiple times until the right letter was on screen. So to write “cat” you would hit 222 2 8. This was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.

[A] ton of games were released on Steam this year. Valve’s store has seen nearly 13,000 game launches since January 1, 2025, according to Steam data hound Gamalytic, and a majority of those games went straight under the couch to be forgotten for the rest of time like lost batteries.

This sounds like too many games are being made. I suppose a lot of these are hobby/passion projects or learning exercises people have made, but that has to be more games than there is any viable market for.