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> forcibly take the gas from Russia Surely, you're not suggesting invading a nuclear power to seize their natural assets.

How do you mean?

Mentally summarize the old context in 1-2 mins and then completely forget the old topic and focus 100% on the new one.

You'll quickly run of out 16. You'll always need some apps that are bad at memory management.

Rule of thumb in dealing with domain and hosting vendors - always gauge how educated their support staff is. They should be at least slightly more educated than the average develop…

Namesilo, Porkbun, Sav.

Do they delete old records of a website if the site owner simply asks for it, or do they need any substantial reasons to do so?

As part of an embeddable video player I'm starting to build, I need to have some way of keeping track of viewer behavior. The easy way is to integrate something like Mux (YC Winter…

Hypothetically, consider a social photo platform - each pic gets its own url, this page contains the image, text about the image, buttons for the user to click, related pics, and s…

Yeah there are a couple of 8K ones. The one which is called a prototype (from Japan Display Inc) on that page was already released. Check also the list here https://pixensity.com/l…

Yes and in a 3 sided platform these assumptions are multiplied more than 3x. But thanks, this is a very helpful starting point.

lxc was rather new when I started looking into this stuff. Since jails were much older, I just went with FreeBSD. Also because I was a little biased against Linux because on my per…

Check https://www.sven.de/dpi/ All of the 8K displays have a higher ppi than the Apple 5K display (215 ppi).

There are. It is a branding and trademark issue. The point of a retina display is to have a higher pixel density than the human eye can distinguish (at a certain distance). There a…

I understand the meaning and significance of testing the key assumptions, In order for the idea to be viable, the key assumptions must hold true. These key assumptions need to be v…

It might be slightly easier to use sshguard instead of fail2ban for protecting against ssh attacks. Using passwordless (key only) login is a given. As soon as your server is provis…

Printers can be harder, especially if you have driver trouble.

Some people might interpret that as taking a stand in the politics of language.

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed to see Donald Trump dragged into this, almost arbitrarily, and almost needlessly. Then I remembered I was afterall reading the Vox.

Of course it isn't new. Very little is truly new. It is the same old stuff repeating in different contexts, leading us to comfortably believe "yeah, but this is different".

Have we already forgotten of the ilk that harassed and harangued Galileo and Copernicus? Even Socrates?

This is especially applicable to the scientific cadre; sometimes leads me to think that some scientists are just as close-minded as the religionists of yore. The same applies to "b…

You're right that there are few rewards to humility. An example that immediately comes to mind is during my thesis, I set upon the task of creating a multivariate model to predict …

The US Gov has a very nice little book on the topic - A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis. Just google and you'll find it on the…

The idea of selling to people based on their needs assumes that everyone has needs/insecurities which, if correctly targeted, will result in a successful sale. To this extent, we'r…