Them being able to offer this service, and them proxying 30% of the internet are completely unrelated. Any other company could offer this scrape protection if they wanted, with roughly the same cost of entry.

You can hate cloudflare all you like, but only a certified dumbass would try to pretend this feature is somehow enabled by their market dominance…

To answer your question without being a dickhead: The given x indicates the point on the curve you need to find the slope at. In other words, find the derivative and then evaluate that function at the given x.

470 upvotes on a post which isn’t a meme? Come on, we’re better than this

There are a fair few examples in the book itself. https://qntm.org/clean

Secoooooond… paaaaaaaarts… iiiiiiiin… ooooooorchestraaaaaaaa… muuuuuusiiiic

Yes

Originally? Probably lack of options. These days the aim of the game is sounding “like a violin”, so naturally there’s very little innovation in violin technology.

Violinist here.

Violins make sound by dragging the bow (stretched horse hair) over a string, causing the string to vibrate. At the micro level, the bow pulls the string to one side using friction, until the tension on the string pulls it back - this happens hundreds of times per second, and forms the basis of the sound we hear. Horse hair is slippery by default. To create the necessary tension violinists apply a small amount of solidified tree resin by wiping a piece along the length of the bow. This piece of hardened resin has the same approximate texture as glass or hard candy, and is called rosin.

If you’re moving away from text formats, might as well use a proper serialisation tool like protobuf…

2026-2027

Little told Checkpoint the weather had been “devastating”, with some previously existing homes that had never been underwater getting submerged as well as new homes built after Cyclone Gabrielle.

We’re pretty stupid, aren’t we

Oh, it wasn’t bought… It was bough

“They were always green”. I wish

https://youtu.be/22vbhTi1ieI?si=pS1mcII10zdelEan

This is legal? BRB just setting up my own “repair service”

Google operates the same way, and unfortunately individual schools don’t have the expertise to go open source. Needs to be a government program to host the open source solutions - could save heaps of money that way too.

I’m not AI, I’m just I

IT Crowd is cringe even for British humour, and has an unusual level of absurdity too

Just finished S02 of The Wire. Absolutely incredible so far

Lab grown dairy protein will be sold wholesale long before it’s available as milk. We’ll be eating it as protein bars and chocolate, then processed cheese. Who’s going to know the difference? Who’s going to care?

That guy’s talking shit and he knows it.