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I noticed this trying to get to the Heroku homepage, then checking another couple Heroku hosted sites I know of. Neither this nor the prior DNS issue affected our applications usin…

This is the same path we're on. Migrated to Crunchy a month ago or so to remove the major migration risk and are using Render to host an auxiliary service while our core applicatio…

The patterns aren't licensed for a single pair of shorts.

If you like this there's a meaty seven part blog series by historian Bret Devereaux about the mythology surrounding Sparta. It offers an account of what Sparta and the Spartan mili…

> As others have said, I don't really get the fascination with LaTeX. I have gone down this path with other types of documents (reports, proposals) not because I love LaTeX but bec…

Capital One customer here! This is interesting to hear. Capital One's website is easily one of, if not the most annoying bank website I've engaged with in memory, inclusive of behe…

It would be convenient to have links included, however they seem to be discoverable by replacing the domain with "github.com" and then removing extraneous paths. https://github.com…

> Many places require you to deprecate assets such as computers over many years, so the deductions are not all taken out of your profit the year you buy them It's likely that in so…

Don't forget that it's nitrogen fixing, too!

simonw published a searchable copy of this via Datasette: https://sba-loans-covid-19.datasettes.com You can filter by state, city, zipcode, bank, business type, and search by emplo…

In the US you are required to have your drivers license while driving, but I do not believe there are any blanket requirements (since it would vary from state to state) that you mu…

I think the reason GP and LP weren't defined is that they're abbreviations for common[ish] terms that apply to partnerships generally, not specifically to venture capital or financ…

My first real experience with sleep deprivation was when I was 12 1/2. My friends and I stayed up all night and sometime the next afternoon decided to go for a short hike. I made i…

Yeah, I think I've mixed something up. I was [lightly] researching this a few weeks back and am pretty sure I found that the net effect of the final ruling was that for the purpose…

The court later issued a clarification basically upholding the logic of their ruling but stating that because the chalking was part of valid [regulatory] activities (below) the cha…

My mistake, he wasn't a US permanent resident. He was merely a person residing in the US.

Khashoggi [resided in the US and has two US citizen children] (edit - was not a permanent resident). He had developed standing in the US, including journalistic circles (he was a j…

This wasn't a web service that was unavailable for a couple hours; planes crashed and people died.

I rather doubt any of this harms the contractor here in any way whatsoever. Keep in mind with federal contracts that 'disadvantaged' is a designation, not an assessment. One of the…

Are those SV companies aligned with the values they claim?

Given SF's reputation for feces-free streets this does seem rather odd.

Someone should invent a mechanism that "locks" the door in place from the inside so that this can't happen.

I noticed this when I was [briefly] in Seoul. It was a combination of individual and presumably municipally employed workers cleaning up trash throughout the city and private emplo…

I do this with Fastmail, including specialized subdomains to help me segment the addresses and then distinct email names for each sign up as necessary. You can also do something si…