Such a prehistoric megastructure, a dyke to prevent the flooding of Doggerland in the North Sea, is the subject of the sci-fi novel "Stone Spring" by Stephen Baxter.
This headline immediately reminded me of the book. I very much enjoyed reading this story and the two sequels, and I can fully recommend it!
No, the checksum just moves to UDP; in the current system, the UDP checksum is set to 0. This is not allowed in UDP/IPv6, where the checksum, calculated over both the IPv6 pseudo-header and the UDP payload, must usually be set.
The openapi library seems to use requests incorrectly.
> If no authentication method is given with the auth argument, Requests will attempt to get the authentication credentials for the URL’s hostname from the user’s netrc file. The netrc file overrides raw HTTP authentication headers set with headers.
Explaining a joke ruins it, but as this has been voted down it seems necessary. This is a seemingly non-sensical quote from the song "If I had a million dollars" -- in the context of TFA it suddenly makes perfect sense. Chapeau!
From the article on the top balloon busting ace, Willy Coppens:
> Later when on another attack run, he got shot at from a balloon. He parked his plane on top of the damaged balloon, shut down his engine in order to protect its propeller, and waited until the balloon descended to slide off the balloon and fly away.
Don't try this with C++, unless you're certain that there are no interdependencies or side-effects in global variable initialisation. The link order (usually) affects the order in which initialisers are executed.