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I am surprised they haven't come up with their own Truth font instead. "Everything is written in Truth".

Just a note with the Bash encoding method. It should be with the -n option: $ echo -n "abcde" |base64 Otherwise, without the -n, echo injects an extra newline character to the end …

There has to be some amount of competency becoming a founder, CEO and a millionaire, with the various ventures he was involved.

The French research ship Atalante is almost there: "It carries the Victor 6000 autonomous robot, capable of descending to a depth of 6,000 metres, beyond the 3,800 metres of the wr…

In their EC-Type Examination Certificate it mentioned the harness "in 3 different wire rope lengths: 30m, 50m, 80m".

"Others still have reported that the internet outage could be circumvented by connecting through a virtual private network (VPN), giving a hint of where the wider problems lie, and…

George Hotz has just been hired to rewrite Twitter search in 12 weeks. No code change is going out the window.

Must be, the flock votes with their feet.. umm hooves.

In no part of the news article mentioned they were actually admitted into the building. They were just standing around outside in the cold waiting for who knows how long. Nothing h…

I empathize with those remaining with a H1B, they would be worried sick. They would have less choices and would otherwise have less of 60 days to find a new job or to leave the cou…

I think we are missing some contexts here. I have been trying to find more information about them. From what I found [1] (hopefully accurate) it looks like they are a new team - Be…

To put it in context, P&O Ferries has always been UK based and flagged until it's sold to a Dubai owner in 2006 and it's reflagged to Cyprus early 2019. That opened up the opportun…

Can the reversers be opened independently on left and right side? From some of the 3D plots on various threads it looks like the plane took a sharp left before diving. Could it be …

It mentioned the lawsuit was filled at the Tverskoi District Court. Is it equivalent to a US district-level court, say, Court for the Southern District of New York?

I had a suspicion that the Tennis Australia and Victoria State Government did not want to take on the publicity battle and kicked the ball down to the Federal government. The perso…

I kind of sympathize the engineer who had to code this in the first place years ago. I could see it, it was probably a junior person being thrown into it. He would have had to deal…

Can language be delinked from culture? Maybe. But can a language survive without a culture to encompass it? If you strip culture from a language, wouldn't the language would become…

I wonder how do they link back to the main network? Would it require a fiber backbone in place as a prerequisite? Or through satellite uplink? i.e., would somewhere really remote, …

I think !$ takes the last argument on the previous command in history, not previous one on the same line.. at least in bash. For example, if you do: $ ls / $ ls /tmp/junk; rm !$ It…

To me, space is not static. Black holes, as probably all objects in space, are continuously moving and rotating. I don't think gravity waves are fully understood. I doubt they woul…

I am curious as well with the last questions: Encrypted at rest? And can the owners (service maintainers) see the saved data? Scanning through the faqs and privacy pages, the only …

> Write a damn desktop app I can run locally, I didn't ask for people from Turkmenistan to be able to login as me, so you could sell me a halfassed web version of something. Authy …

Or keylogger?

From AWS's dashboard: "We're continuing to address connectivity issues to impacted instances in a single Availability Zone (euw2-az3) in the EU-WEST-2 Region. Services that use EC2…