Funny I never read the original example. And in my book, it is harmful, and even worse in JSON, since it's the best way to have a typo somewhere go unnoticed for a long time.

The original example is very common in ISAs at least. Both ARMv8 and RISC-V (likely others too but I don't have as much experience with them) have the idea of requiring software to treat reserved bits as if they were zero for both reading and writing. ARMv8 calls this RES0 and an hardware implementation is constrained to either being write ignore for the field (eg read is hardwired to zero) or returning the last successful write.

This is useful as it allows the ISA to remain compatible with code which is unaware of future extensions which define new functionality for these bits so long as the zero value means "keep the old behavior". For example, a system register may have an EnableNewFeature bit, and older software will end up just writing zero to that field (which preserves the old functionality). This avoids needing to define a new system register for every new feature.

Many rightfully interpret the RFC as "CNAME have to be before A", but the issue persists inbetween CNAMEs in the chain as noted in the article. If a record in the middle of the chain expires, glibc would still fail if the "middle" record was to be inserted between CNAMEs and A records.

It’s always DNS.

Given the seriousness of outages they make with instant worldwide deploys, I’m glad they took it calmly.

> OpenSSL allowed replacing any algorithm at any point in program execution

Just this is completely nuts. What in the world is the usecase for this? Fanatics of hotpatching systems for zero-downtime-ever? No wonder the performance is crippled by locks left and right, it's pure recipe for disaster.

Surprisingly, Big Tobacco does not really likes vapes because it's not them, and eats in their profit margin. If any, they lobby against vapes and specifically disposable vapes.

That hasn’t been true here in New Zealand. Although the nuance around what counts as a vape may be where this is happening.

YMMV, but it's been the case in France. They were behind the ban on disposable non rechargeable vapes, because kids bought them as a candy. They'd prefer they buy actual cigarettes.

that's pretty much what I get with i3/sway and why i'm sticking to them. is it ugly? probably. does it gives me screen real estate? definitely. does it get out of the way? heck yes!

in the days before I went full on tiling, xfce was one of my go-to choices.

One of the really interesting thing (to me) in this video is that the very distinctive "your whole mouth sticks and is slimy from the sugar and even your teeth feel different" can be traced from a single component that's added seemingly for this purpose. And it's the thing I can't stand with regular non-zero coke (well the sugar level too, but that's pure health thing).

It would also be very interesting if he could get his hands on coke from different markets as the formulation varies from country to country. One of the most obvious is the amount of cinnamon, but it would be very interesting to know if more differences were there.

Another interrogation of mine would be if, sugar aside, the formula is different between regular coke and coke zero. I'd bet is is, simply to offset the aftertaste that aspartam/artificial sweeteners have, but I'm curious if other non-sweetness related ingredients do change.

"cloying" is the word you're looking for for that sugar mouthfeel

I've always assumed that's either the corn syrup or something else that's in the American version, because I swear growing up in Italy I never noticed this.

Haven't done a side-by-side comparison, though, so maybe it's just my memory of my childhood tastebuds.

I live in France and there definitely is this feeling. I may be biased, because I only drink coke zero, which has a distinct "dryness" to it wrt other sodas. However, it's the only non-zero soda where I notice this feeling.

Children have a much more sweet tooth than adults, so it may be the reason you did not notice it, as it would not necessarily register as bothersome. I liked to bite into direct sugar cubes as a kid, which I would definitely not stand today.

At grid scales, kW is a rounding error. Even MW is somewhat the decimal place, especially for a country as large as China.

Snake was my very first OpenGL program (well, past a cube). You learn quite a bit about the basics and why one more dimension is not always better.

Fun times, this takes me back quite a bit. Definitely from the "what if" mindset, I was seeking something complex enough for learning and simple enough to actually finish. I must have been 15 or 16 at the time.

Pretty much, yes. And they don’t have much as far as isolation goes. It’s a bit frightening honestly.

It does unlock some interesting things to be sure, like sqlx’ macros that check the query at compile time by connecting to the database and checking the query against it. If this sounds like the compiler connecting to a database, well, it’s because it is.