Ciri has a relationship with a woman in the books, so I’m not sure you will miss what I assume you’re referring to as “the masculine indulgences” as much as you think you will.

On the other hand, CDPR retconned a shedload of that book so we shall see.

… Is this a trick question? The object, provided by the library (net/http which is about as default as they come) sets “DefaultMaxIdleConnsPerHost” to 2. This is significant because if you finish a connection and you’ve got more than 2 idles, it slams that connection close. If you have a lot of simultaneous fast lived requests to the same IP (say a load balanced IP), your go programs will exhaust the ephemeral port list quickly. It’s one of the most common “gotchas” I see where Go programs work great in dev and blow themselves apart in prod.

https://dev.to/gkampitakis/http-connection-churn-in-go-34pl is a fairly decent write up.

Eh, I don’t know anyone who managed to get themselves to Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome without legalization. Easier access to high quality highly concentrated doses has been increasing prevalence.

Any of the video game console companies.

Gridiron. There’s also Rugby, Australian rules, and Canadian Rules Football. Most of the world plays association football.

“Young child in Mexico has novel influenza” was Swine Flu’s start. So I always get a little nervous reading about it.

The slightly better news is that compared to COVID, influenza sucks at spreading, so our non-pharmaceutical interventions are liable to stall it out pretty well.

The Canadian teen mutated to a human to human form, but she did not spread it forward.

It’s coming. We just keep rolling the dice.

Between the capacitor plague and the tin whiskers from the phaseout of lead, hardware from that era failed constantly.

You’re real close to the “capacitor of death” models there. GX270s failed like a motherfucker.

And yet: You’ll still be limited to two simultaneous calls to your REST API because the default HTTP client was built in the dumbest way possible.

I saw an ad request with an inline 1.4 MB game. Like, you could fit Mario in there.

Which makes it all the more Pooh-esque.

Throw in some misspellings and I would have sworn it was Winnie the Pooh.

From what we saw in the Canadian teen: It’s only a mutation away from ripping through humans in a real bad way. It picked up the mutation it needed to switch from preferring the alpha 2,3 receptor plentiful in birds to the alpha 2,6 sialic acids that are plentiful in the human nose, throat and lungs when the teen was infected. That teen then developed ARDS and she needed to be intubated.

Salted roads during the winter, dusty conditions in the summer. The salted roads when it’s too cold to rinse the bike would usually work its way in and the bearings would be creaking before spring.

Bike maintenance is a matter of what kind of equipment you’re riding, how far, what conditions, how much you weigh and how strong you are. When I was putting 40 miles a day commuting, my cheap bike needed maintenance about once every 2-4 weeks depending on the weather and taught me that I fucking hate cleaning and repacking my bottom bracket.

The proliferation of Ebike caliber equipment changed a lot at least for durability and comfort.

Instead, you got the party that sent 2000 lbs bombs and wants to eradicate the people of Gaza so he can build some casinos.

I’ve done workstation maintenance in a previous job. Every part of the Linux centralized management was worse than Windows. We did it to support our coworker’s wishes, but SSSD constantly shits the bed, and having to code (config management) to write some pretty simple rules like default printers is super annoying compared to the Active Directory built ins.

Microsoft’s biggest strength is the Active Directory. Linux user and computer management is a huge PITA.

Steve Jobs loudly announced FaceTime would be made open source. Then they lost a patent lawsuit against https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114

Apple paid up and could keep using the patent, but could not just let anyone else use the tech they developed as it now needed a non-open license.