Orange Site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32046724

Calibre support high dpi scaling ootb now. Very nice

https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/fifteen

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32047747

basically hacker news went down yesterday and in this screenshot someone chimes in talking about it saying that they had a batch of SSDs manufactured by SanDisk all get bricked after exactly 40,000 hours (4.5 years) uptime because it overflowed an internal counter and corrupted the SSD's internal state.

someone from hackernews replies and says that the SSDs HN was hosted on were in fact SanDisk Optimus Lightning IIs and almost exactly 4.5 years old.

never trust a firmware

• get file from https://xanthophyll.xyz/files/rdrama.py (bravo admins for not allowing text uploads)

• get API token from https://rdrama.net/settings/apps

• add token to your environment as RDRAMA_API_TOKEN (or add it to your rdrama.py directly)

• run the file (it's legit I promise)

• enjoy the company of your favourite online intellectuals

Update:

• can now reply within the app, uses whatever your $EDITOR is set to

• reply API still not working

• replies aren't formatted correctly, will fix ASAP

• replies working

After many years of remaining static, HN's IP address changed.^1

Old: 209.216.230.240

New: 50.112.136.166

Perhaps this is temporary.

Little known fact: HN is also available through Cloudflare. Unlike CF, AWS does not support TLS1.3.^2 This is not working while HN uses the AWS IP.

1. Years ago someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long. I used HN as an example of an address that does not change very often. I have been waiting for years. I collect historical DNS data. When I remind HN readers that most site addresses are more static than dynamic, I am basing that statement on evidence i have collected.

2. Across the board, so to speak. Every CF-hosted site I have encountered supports TLS1.3. Not true for AWS. Many (most?^3) only offer TLS1.2.

3. Perhaps a survey is in order.

> dang: It's temporary.

> > Maybe you should pin this comment? I almost lost it in the shuffle.

> > > dang: I thought about it, but it's fun to leave rewards for people who read entire threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031136

The algo is more concerned with engagement than who you're subscribed to, but you can sidestep this effect by deleting your viewing history.

Orangesite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031591

Features

• Lots of combinators!

• Generic across input, output, error, and span types

• Powerful error recovery strategies

• Inline mapping to your AST

• Text-specific parsers for both u8s and chars

• Recursive parsers

• Backtracking is fully supported, allowing the parsing of all known context-free grammars

• Parsing of nesting inputs, allowing you to move delimiter parsing to the lexical stage (as Rust does!)

• Built-in parser debugging

https://neal.fun/deep-sea/

https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

https://neal.fun/universe-forecast/

This is pretty neat.

https://ten-years-ago.neal.fun/youtube.com/

Starlink Maritime allows you to connect from some of the most remote waters in the world → https://t.co/Qa48wiYN5f pic.twitter.com/Vd3Bli6id2

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 7, 2022

Piracy

I was installing helix-term and I noticed that my WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04 distro compiled it faster (41 seconds, in the native Linux partition) than on bare-metal Windows (64 seconds). Has anyone noticed this as well?

Recently I got a feedback from a user, who has suffered from Notepad++ for several years:

Feeling sorry and guilty, I replied him with all my compassion:

My bad conscience has been relieved for Tom. But then I think of other Notepad++ users in pain.

Unhappy Users' Edition is dedicated to these users. All dissatisfied users of Notepad++ will get a refund, just print and fill out the following refund request form:

Notepad++ refund request form

Product price: 0 USD

Name:  _______________________
Email: _______________________
Purchase Date: _______________________

As soon as the form is filled up, you get your money back immediately.

In version 8.4.3, there are 3 main features added:

1. New option allows to show only 1 entry per found line in search result. 2. EOL (CRLF) display customizable (via Editing section of Preferences dialog). 3. New shortcuts of document management on the right side of menu (2 more shortcuts "plus" (new file) and "arrow").

There are also crash-fixes, bug-fixes and a lot of enhancement are done in this release, please check the following link for the detail information or download 8.4.3:

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v8.4.3

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v843-unhappy-users-edition/

A bit old, but a rather interesting take on the right-to-repair issue.

Video game sales are set to decline annually for the first time in years, as another industry that boomed in the coronavirus era faces the grim prospect of a recession.

The global games and services market is forecast to contract 1.2% year-on-year to $188 billion in 2022, according to research from market data firm Ampere Analysis.

The sector expanded 26% from 2019 to 2021, reaching a record $191 billion in size. Sales of video games have consistently grown since at least 2015, Ampere data shows.

Gaming got a huge boost from Covid-19 shutdowns in 2020 as people spent more of their time indoors. The launch of next-generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony that same year also bolstered the industry’s fortunes.

However, the arrival of Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S machines and Sony’s PlayStation 5 proved something of a double-edged sword — logistics disruptions and shortages of vital components have meant that shoppers are facing great difficulty finding any of the new consoles on store shelves or online.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — along with supply chain bottlenecks and rising inflation — further worsened the outlook for gaming. Numerous game software and hardware makers decided to suspend their operations in Russia, including Microsoft and Sony.

Russia was the world’s 10th-largest games market in 2021, according to Ampere. But it is expected to drop to No. 14 in the global rankings this year and lose $1.2 billion in value, the firm said.

Piers Harding-Rolls, research director at Ampere, said the figures show the games industry isn’t “recession proof,” with cost-of-living challenges inflicted by higher prices likely to weigh on consumption.

“After two years of huge expansion, the games market is poised to hand back a bit of that growth in 2022 as multiple factors combine to undermine performance,” Harding-Rolls said.

“Even so, the year will end well ahead of pre-pandemic performance, and the outlook for the sector as a whole remains positive, with growth forecast to return in 2023,” he added.

The market is expected to return to growth in 2023, with sales expected to hit $195 billion, according to Ampere.

Other challenges facing the industry include privacy changes from Apple that make it harder for mobile game developers to track iPhone users, as well as delays to blockbuster releases like Microsoft’s Starfield and Redfall.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/07/video-game-industry-not-recession-proof-sales-set-to-fall-in-2022.html