Sekoia
@Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
- Comment on irresistable 1 week ago:
Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 1 week ago:
They can, but it’s not trivial. The challenge uses a bunch of modern browser features that these scrapers don’t use, regarding metadata and compression and a few other things. Things that are annoying to implement and not worth the effort. Check the recent discussion on lobste.rs if you’re interested in the exact details.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
They’re trying to block adblockers again, it seems. I got the “adblockers are not allowed” popup again recently.
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 5 months ago:
So… databases? Especially in data centers? Still a nice boost in that case