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Probably just the simple economics of cost of land vs cost of construction of a new building + ongoing maintenance. I'm sure if they ever saw need to place this in a city they woul…

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I used the Fastmail site today after a long time to change some setting and noticed the UI had been updated. Really liking the new look, great job to you and your team! I was inter…

For those looking to secure their systems from external source failures, I'd recommend taking a look at Sonatype's Nexus Repository [1]. It supports a wide range of package sources…

I believe the usual answer to this is that you need a certain percentage of working poor to do the types of menial tasks we haven't been able to automate yet. If they could make mo…

That is an interesting take on it. I guess my problem with debloating is two fold. One, when I bothered trying to debloat my Windows gaming machine in the past, many of the changes…

But given that you are only gaming on Windows, why run the debloating script?

I have to ask, for anyone that cares this much, why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux? I know the usual argument is that you need Windows t…

If you're in Canada, and want to stop supporting TurboTax, I recommend giving SimpleTax.ca a try. It's free for everyone, but you can donate after you file your taxes if you want. …

I actually work on a JS project that needed to heavily rely on macros to reduce build file size (the project is from before ES6 and rollup.js). I ended up going to MetaScript [1] a…

Possibly Expensify? There was that news that came out a bit ago that their "SmartScan" actually fell back on Mechanical Turk [1] even though it was sold as a AI-type thing. [1] htt…

Yeah, I have to agree here. If this is a build server, I'd argue that they should be running Windows Server and just disable the UI all together.

It's weird that this is being talked about as if it's not something that companies/sellers have been offering for ages. This "special" car vinyl with the air channels is 3M's Contr…

There is quite a bit that can be done. IANAL, but I can point to this episode of Planet Money that has a similar situation: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?…

Is running a server really that cheap if you include the up front costs, maintenance, and your own time? What about the costs of having an offsite backup? As someone who also has t…

Based on the information in the article, the following items would have been required to stage something like this: - Foreknowledge of the bombing by the Syrian/Russian coalition, …

For me personally, anxiety would cause me to have gut issues (i.e. bloating, feeling sick, diarrhea, etc). After a while, the reverse started happening too, things like feeling blo…

I can add another anecdata point for that one.

While it is probably nigh impossible to find a facilities company that would pay the staff that much, I don't think simply saying it's another company and therefore out of their ha…

Heh. Someone should have reconsidered that title given the recent controversy with Nest devices having hidden microphones.

It really is going to depend on what test you are running. HT has the greatest effect when the running process has a lot of "downtime" for things like memory retrieval or any I/O a…

Not to be a cynic for the sake of being a cynic, but with a service like this, how can they guarantee that they will continue to respect privacy moving forward? What's to prevent c…

>Not sure this is the type of article for juniors. Most definitely. I worded that poorly. I meant "my juniors" as in those with less experience than I, but not fresh out of the ove…

Wow, this article does such a good job of concisely explaining these concepts I've been trying to put into words for so long! Definitely going to be sharing with some of the junior…