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  • I have a toddler. Takes me half an hour just to get out of the house. A diaper and clothes change alone with a 1 year old with the strength of Atlas and the personality of Sheogorath is pretty much like one of those sped up Benny Hill scenes.

    If I ever get to fly again, I’m packing a damn week in advance and arriving at the airport 4 hours early.








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    Orrrr they have a u8 chat_participant_id of some kind and a binary data format for message passing. The GROUP_CHAT_LIMIT const may have a bigger data type, but they may very well be trying to conserve 3 bytes per message. Ids can easily start at 0.

    150 gigs of bandwidth saved per day doesn’t seem like a whole lot at their scale, but if they archive all the metadata, that’s over 50 terabytes a year saved on storage - multiplied by how many copies they have of their data. Still not a lot tbh, but if they also conserve data in every other place they can, they could be saving petabytes per year in storage.

    Still weird because then they’d have to reuse ids when people leave, otherwise you could join and leave 255 times to disable a group lol





  • And you’re absolutely free to use it that way if the registry that handles is OK with it, but you just can’t expect people to instantly realize that your .tf site is a Team Fortress related site based on just the TLD, because the .tf doesn’t officially have anything to do with TF2, that was my point.






  • That’s the official purpose of 2 letter TLDs, like it or not. Some countries have opted to sell them to everyone, but .ml definitely means Mali, not Marxism-Leninism.

    Since Mali lets anyone register domains with their TLD, you’re free to use it however you want, but you can’t expect everyone to know you’re using it because it also stands for Marxism-Leninism. It might also be a Machine Learning instance!

    They do mention their politics in some places but it’s definitely not outright obvious from their usage of the Mali TLD.