Notices by vriesk (Jan Srz) (vriesk@hachyderm.io)

@dalias @Remittancegirl it's not enough that the wet bulb is exactly the body temperature and you're OK. The actual not-getting-into-heatstroke are is more around 33C, because your body not only needs to cool down passively (like a thermometer), but it constantly produces heat due to metabolic activity.

So 36.5C makes is more or less impossible to ever cool down below 41C or so body temperature. This is lethal, even if some people can survive fever spikes higher than that.

@inthehands they were way too expensive and the width made then much less practical.

@molly0xfff Techbros operate on 100x time, which means that their 10 minutes is equivalent to an average person spending 0.6 seconds on it.

Because they're so fucking dumb from overconfidence.

@skinnylatte That's like one (and only) thing I miss from the in-office work: more than once I had some really nice bicycle and/or running commute paths that gave me regular exercise regime.

Now it's been much harder to keep it up for me.

@akareilly Back in the days, some window managers (like `awesome`) could be scripted (and some scripts were readily available to download) to make an (almost) mouseless experience.

But that was 15 years ago last time I checked, and then they got harder and harder to integrate to the everbloating GNOME/KDE ecosystem.

How is it now these days?

@project1enigma @akareilly No, sure, that's totally different aspect. Of that, I have no idea.

@thomasfuchs @CMDR_Royal_Mons And yet, we're definitely missing South Korea. They would be such an awesome fit.

@0xabad1dea but, have you seen timestamps (expressed as seconds since the Epoch) declared as a 32-bit float?

Because I did. In production code. In a BIG company.

The result was a ~2-minute precision of said timestamps, which triggered interesting bugs elsewhere.

@feld @RandomDamage @mathaetaes early 2000s in my case. Worked at a hosting provider with around 7k individual websites hosted (around half being e-commerces), and I remember spending a week polishing a "petition" to RIPE to grant us some IPs and the screams of joy when we received a /24 share (from /21 or /22 requested, don't recall now) up from the /27 range we were squeezing in previously.

@feld @RandomDamage @mathaetaes "IPs weren't that hard to come by" is a strange way to say "I haven't worked for a non-US hosting provider".

@mathaetaes @feld @RandomDamage also, multi-hosting (multiple web services hosted on the same IP/port) didn't work with SSL at all, each SSL-enabled service required their own dedicated public IP.

(multiple certs on the same IP require SNI which was only fully included in OpenSSL 0.9.8j in 2009)