Gas is likely mixed with cheaper Ethanol now. Depending where you live there's likely less taxes on Ethanol, too.
Ethanol has an Octane rating of 114%, meaning that you can run your engine with less fuel in the fuel/gas mixture, if your engine, pipes, fuel pump and rubber hoses are made for that.
Ethanol is pretty awesome in terms of HP output, but you have to reprogram the maps in the ECU to correctly use it. The timings of "how fast" Ethanol explodes inside your engine cylinders is also faster, meaning if you don't remap your ECU there's chances of backfire because the valves don't close fast enough. That means if you don't have a V-Tec or similarly digitally controlled valve steering you have to also modify your camshaft.
Source: Rebuild 3 cars and their engines to be fueled with Ethanol because I live near a race track with cheap access to Ethanol.
Edit: some gas stations in the past were using shitty additives to boost the ethanol mixture with toluols and methyl ethylene variants, so could also be that. They're really bad for your engine block. Like, reeeeally bad because their mixture is very unpredictable and varies too much for a proper ethanol ECU map.
China telecom regularly has BGP announcements that conflict with level3's ASNs.
Just as a hint in case you want to dig more into the topic, RIR data is publicly available, so you can verify yourself who the offenders are.
Also check out the Geedge leaked source code, which also implements TLS overrides and inspection on a country scale. A lot of countries are customers of Geedge's tech stack, especially in the Middle East.
Just sayin' it's more common than you're willing to acknowledge.
Tried to use the new slices package or comparables? It's a nightmare to debug, for no reason whatsoever. If they would've used interface names like Slice or Comparable or Stringable or something, it would have been so much easier.
The naming conventions are something that really fucks up my coding workflow, and it can be avoided 100% of the time if they would stop with those stupid variable names. I am not a machine, and there is no reason to make code intentionally unreadable.
I am just using Go at this point and stopped caring about my own opinions.
I live in the happy place in negligence. Go software has almost zero maintenance costs and it will continue to build my programs in 10 years with zero changes to my codebase being necessary.
I probably will never touch C++ again, even though CGo is the most painful FFI/ABI implementation I've dealt with.
Just today I tried to build a project that's using bergamoth and a shitload of broken C++ dependencies and decided to not give a damn after 5 hours of trying to fix crappy code that changed for whatever reasons between c++14 and c++15, well, or the dependencies are broken, or the dependency versions are broken, or the maintainer's code never compiled in the first place... I just don't care.
My hopes were higher during the conan peak days, but now the ecosystem is just so broken even with jinja and whatever build framework the new kids are using.
I guess I just really hate the C++ ecosystem, and the lack of self reflection in there about the self inflicted pain that shouldn't be necessary in 2026.
In regards to agentic coding: I am toying around with codestral:22b right now and xiaomi's mimo models, and am building my own local dev environment which makes this kinda nice.
It's local and I like it, sometimes need to use claude still but it's getting there. But I am delegating only the gruntwork, not decisions, so I use temperature usually below 0.3. My approach is to make this sandboxed per folder I run it in and that agents are only allowed to communicate via notes or tasks, so that they are forced to use better documentation. Specific roles don't have write access to certain things, e.g. coder can't touch tests, and tester can't touch code.
I don't think this has anything to do with sanity. This has to do with people for seeking self confirmation instead ot disproval.
For pretty much everything there is a conspiracy theory out there claiming the opposite, and these types usually started out searching the internet for someone else who believes the same that they did at the time.
But, as we all know, this technique will eventually lead to overfitting. And that's what those types of people have done to themselves.
Well, and as lack of education is the weakness of democracy, there's a lot of interested parties out there that invest money in these types of conspiracy websites. Even more so after LLMs.
Whoever controls the news controls the perpetual presence, where everything is independent of the forgotten history.
"Haussystem Didot" in the article's referenced typesetting catalog refers to the typesetting of the Didot family's printing agency. And they used that symbol 1700 and onwards in their map navigation descriptions in these books:
I am gonna repeat myself, but search for the Gallica links in each of those books to find the scans. There you can see earlier usage and evidence that as I pointed out in other - downvoted comments - that this was commonly used for sextant navigation instructions.
The image referencing "Haussystem Didot" is an example of a catalog not containing the Angzarr symbol in question.
I did not find any evidence for earlier examples in any of the very few scans I looked at, nor does a search through the Google Books scans give any indication for words that seem related to the concept.
This would be such a fantastic find! Could you point out a specific example?
Fascinating links, but I could not find an example of the glyph in question? My point was that a sextant is not (and cannot be) used to measure azimuth. It primarily measures the angle between a celestial body and the horizon (i.e. altitude). It can also (theoretically, very rarely) be used to measure the horizontal angle between two or more landmarks, but that is not azimuth in the accepted sense of the word. I am happy to be corrected though; my experience of sextants may be too narrow or modern for this context.
Ethanol has an Octane rating of 114%, meaning that you can run your engine with less fuel in the fuel/gas mixture, if your engine, pipes, fuel pump and rubber hoses are made for that.
Ethanol is pretty awesome in terms of HP output, but you have to reprogram the maps in the ECU to correctly use it. The timings of "how fast" Ethanol explodes inside your engine cylinders is also faster, meaning if you don't remap your ECU there's chances of backfire because the valves don't close fast enough. That means if you don't have a V-Tec or similarly digitally controlled valve steering you have to also modify your camshaft.
Source: Rebuild 3 cars and their engines to be fueled with Ethanol because I live near a race track with cheap access to Ethanol.
Edit: some gas stations in the past were using shitty additives to boost the ethanol mixture with toluols and methyl ethylene variants, so could also be that. They're really bad for your engine block. Like, reeeeally bad because their mixture is very unpredictable and varies too much for a proper ethanol ECU map.
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