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If you want an example of a sacrifice caused by regulation before technology had fully caught up, banning sperm whale oil in automatic car transmissions comes to mind: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/17/archives/transmission-pro...


Or phosphates in dish detergents. Some will remember when our dishwashers stopped working well for a few years.

Various consumer review sites were regularly doing pieces on newer detergents that maybe-kinda work.

We didn’t have an answer when the bans swept the country. It took a while for things to catch up. Then it was fine again.


My mobile browser gave up it was so bad. Shame, it seemed like it could have been an interesting read.


It looks good on Firefox For Android with the uBlock Origin add-on.


Works fine on Lynx (on Termux).


Wow, can't say I saw this one coming. Cloudflare has been putting out a lot of strong work lately. What percentage of their workforce is this?


20%


That's massive


I’ve seen this done as a carve-out or exception that has to be explicitly documented. Trouble is that documentation is not presented as simple.


Wow that's nuts. What a great idea! I wonder how much of this the commercial flying probe machines can do already. Pretty cool to be able to have this on a home scale.


Here it is for those who haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2jV5gJbM

When I looked it up, turns out I've seen it too!


They are arguing that Trump is controlled by a foreign adversary and doing these things at their direction.


Love your watercolors! What a fun addition to a technical article :)


Me too! It was a fantastic addition that I would not have expected. I wish I was artistic enough to do something like that. It had the interesting technical content, with the coziness of a children's book. Really a great piece that the author should be proud of


Not digging the desired outcome but yes the watercolors are great addition to an interesting technical article.


Curious why the CLI function is `mvd` instead of `mdv`?


What CLI function?


If someone put on their website and voicemail that they were available for calls only from 8-10am (for example), or that they would return my call at that time, I'd make a point to call them then. It's reasonable that people are busy too.


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