True but Ocean Gate were planning on multiple use, surely a higher bar.

> Ocean Gate were planning on multiple use,

FTA: "up to 10,000 times, according to internal design documents."

That seems like an absurdly high amount.

> surely a higher bar

was that a pun?

It would be a lot more useful if country contours were drawn too like https://gpsjam.org/ does.

> The message was somehow intercepted by British security services

"somehow" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There are multiple routes to alert the authorities by the public that don't involve randomly intercepting internet traffic.

> The extra hardware registers might have been discovered by examining the chip itself.

Perhaps. But it's easier to phone the technical librarian and say "Hi! I'm Bob from the password inspection department. Can you verify your current password for me?"

After the scene is filmed/photographed then one can re-position and re-point a virtual camera and have it correctly render the scene. And do so with higher quality results than photogrammetry and NeRF techniques.

Thanks!

> Are people frustrated by the latency of the incumbents?

Not me, no. And I'm not even frustrated by pretty much anything. I have some Cygwin SSH sessions on the go and I'm running 'screen' in those terminals. It works and has done since the '90s.

I would have fired this person immediately. Gross misconduct -> instant dismissal.

> It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days.

Still pretty competitive in the gambling and cryptocurrency space IMO.

I like the fact that there is still lovely design-stuff on HN. Well done.

XML: The greatest productivity destroyer of the 20th century.

Only when developers insist in using stuff like vi to write it by hand.

I always expected the great boon of XML to be a proliferation of tools leveraging XSD to provide GUIs for managing the XML files. XML seemed like a great way to manage config files, but even auto-complete wasn't enough IMO. I'm thinking specifically about Apache Jakarta config files.

Not sure if any ever existed. Of course, I'm unsure if XSDs were much used outside of big Java shops.

They did exist, on the domains where development tools actually get paid for.