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Submitted, because I just found out that even after 28 years, the definition of "upstream" and "downstream" is still heavily contested. > Umm, no. Fix the Envoy proxy terminology s…

Less than Singapore for sure. Less than European cities, I’m not so sure. I don’t have the numbers but if you do an image search of Jakarta (probably one of the worst vegetation-wi…

Yes, Singapore is great for that. But to be fair with the other cities, it’s very hard _not_ to have abundant vegetation in tropical rainforest climate. Everything grows rapidly an…

I would see that as an absolute win. Socialization is the main point I send my kids to school. Socialization leads to discourse which leads to learning.

I really like Mimestream, which is a native client for Gmail. Very fast and supports all the usual native macOS keyboard navigation, e.g. shift or command to amend selection in a l…

Maybe not in your corner of the internet, but businesses used server side includes (SSI) for that, not iframes. You add “include” tags to your HTML file and your web server like ng…

We have been authoring HTML by hand for decades with ease. Text editors are very good at it, and many have commands to auto-wrap, auto-close etc. Reading and writing is simple.

For a long time this was a common concept: that more central authorities should only come in where more local cannot effectively do it (subsidiarity). This was of course pretty uni…

My partner and I are from two different European countries that speak different languages. When we wanted to marry in the country of my partner, both our (catholic) churches needed…

Speed is a quality in itself. We are so bugged down by slow stuff that we often ignore that and don’t actively search for another. But every now and then a well-optimised tool/page…

And recently even dropping the negation itself while keeping the meaning: “je sais pas” I never thought about that. Interesting. This negation related cycle is apparently called Je…

Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it. Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, Fr…

Yes, this is unfortunately still the way and was very common back when iOS Safari did not allow embedded video. For a fast start of the video, reverse the implementation: instead o…

Contemporary historic preservation sees itself as the guardian of historical substance. The content of a monument is bound to the preservation of the inherited material. Georg Dehi…

iCloud surprisingly works without issues for me. You can switch on “keep downloaded” for the folder in question.

On the last point on Apple Notes: iCloud has the “keep downloaded” option now on iOS and macOS for folders and files. This makes every app that saves into iCloud files behave like …

Most countries have mandatory tax withholding by the employer, but not all (e.g. Singapore, Indonesia). In that case you would pay the taxes yourself. What I haven’t heard yet, is …

It’s actually not harder thanks to HLS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming Live streaming with HLS is equal to distributing static files and can be very low latenc…

Not taking away from your point, just for comparison: A British Airways first class LHR-JFK roundtrip is $10K today for an 8h flight. Supersonic would be 3h.

Socrates says that profound knowledge is gained through interaction. He compares the written word to a painting, meaning it can be analysed but it doesn’t respond to questions and …

I haven’t been to UK airports, but often I find one of the more prominent bottleneck to be central checks per terminal instead of distributed checks at each gate like they happen a…