> The same iterator object can't be used concurrently in different threads, even for nominally const operations such as dereferencing (internally, thread-unsafe epoch traversal is triggered)

If I understand correctly:

                         thread safety      random access  stable iterators
                         -------------      -------------  ----------------
    std::list            thread-compatible  no             yes
    std::vector          thread-compatible  yes            no
    std::deque           thread-compatible  yes            no
    semistable::vector   thread-unsafe      yes            yes

I think there are more times when I wanted concurrent reads and (random access OR stable iterators), than when I wanted both random access AND stable iterators but not concurrent reads. I wonder what's the intended application?

It seems like it spills to 4 directions on Chrome, but only up and left on Firefox.

The really weird part is that when I fetch https://eavan.blog/sandpile.js in Chrome, I see a "toppleAll" function near the top, but that same function is not defined when the script is fetched with Firefox.

> But there is a good answer. It's Gundam 79. That's not hard.

The hard part is that the older series relatively slow paced. I enjoyed most of them when I first saw them, but I am not sure I would have the patience to catch up from the beginning now if I had not watched them before.

Newer series are much faster paced, but they build on the foundations of the older series. Like GQuuuuuuX is great but you might have to watch Zeta Gundam first to fully appreciate it (50 episodes, maybe a few movies). It can be a lot of time commitment depending on where you enter the Gundam universe.

But for someone new to start, they have not watched them before. The goal isn't to get through it, the goal is to enjoy it.

I know Noto Sans can render just about everything, and has a permissive license:

https://fonts.google.com/noto

I am not sure if it's possible to parameterize it to have the look that game developers wanted.

A font like Noto Sans which is cold and nice for a text document isn't quite what game developers are looking for. A good font is one aspect of building atmosphere in a game, and a sterile font is detrimental to that.

The "no AI" statement reminds me of the Chinese idiom: "there are no 300 taels of silver here" (there is no money buried here). It's a clumsy way of denying something.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A4%E5%9C%B0%E7%84%A1%E...

I wonder if we can go the reverse direction, where instead of launching more probes from Earth to serve as relays, the spacecraft would launch physical media toward Earth packed with whatever data it has collected. Given advancements in data storage density, we could achieve higher bandwidth than what's possible with radios.

The logistics would be difficult since it involves catch those flying media, especially if the spacecraft were ejecting them as a form of propulsion, they might not even be flying toward Earth. I was just thinking how early spy satellites would drop physical film, and maybe there are some old ideas like those that are still worth trying today.

The spacecraft is moving away from the sun at escape velocity. How is it going to launch anything backwards and have it make it all the way back to earth?

Binary encoding by pulsing the ion stream. Then picking that up with terrestrial telescopes. Very clever!

Smoke signals in space. I love it.

I think they're working on laser data transmission.

I remember EXIF orientation in JPEG also took a few years to get fixed:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40448628

When it got fixed, some sites were still depending on the old behavior of not rotating JPEGs, and had to add "image-orientation:none" to explicitly ignore EXIF:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40716313

It just fakes it as far as I can tell.

script.js calls `fetchStatus()`, which calls `generateMockStatus()` to get the statuses, which just makes up random response times:

    // ---- generate deterministic mock data for the current 3-min window ----

    function generateMockStatus() {
      const bucket = getCurrentBucket();
      const rng = createRng(bucket);

      // "Virtual now" = middle of this 3-minute bucket
      const virtualNowMs = bucket * BUCKET_MS + BUCKET_MS / 2;

      // Checked a few minutes ago (2–5 min, plus random seconds)
      const minutesOffset = randomInt(rng, 2, 5);
      const secondsOffset = randomInt(rng, 0, 59);
      const checkedAtMs =
        virtualNowMs - minutesOffset * 60_000 - secondsOffset * 1000;
      const checkedAtDate = new Date(checkedAtMs);

      return {
        checkedAt: checkedAtDate.toISOString(),
        target: "https://downdetector.com/",
        regions: [
          {
            name: "London, UK",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 250, 550),
            error: null
          },
          {
            name: "Auckland, NZ",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 300, 650),
            error: null
          },
          {
            name: "New York, US",
            status: "up",
            httpStatus: 200,
            responseTimeMs: randomInt(rng, 380, 800),
            error: null
          }
        ]
      };
    }

See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/1ovd3wz/im_not_abl...

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/live/x-goes-dow...

Minor patch before calling DEEP_RESEARCH to make it interactive:

   EXPERTS CLAIM SECRET_CODE TO BE LATEST NEWS ON 'Innocious number?'

Good one! It would be disingenuous to name it DEEP_RESEARCH without incorporating LATEST NEWS. And what could be a better source of news than the user?