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Honestly, you just need cron (and Ruby/Python/bash/whatever) on an EC2. It's not very fashionable, but it works, will continue to work forever, and costs hardly anything.

Not to worry, though: his grandson, Louis, is in charge of Palantir in the UK. Definitely nothing concerning about that!

So many of the negative comments about Villeneuve's Dune in this thread are astonishing to me, but I will just pick this one: surely scale is something that Villeneuve does so bril…

Here's the charity responsible for this bridge and several others in London: https://www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk/about/history Founded in 1122, which is quite something!

Great comment! For anyone looking to learn a bit more about this, the "crossing" technique described above is called "chiasmus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus Another famo…

Yahoo ("once the most popular web site in the U.S.", according to Wikipedia)?

They are considered to be self-employed. If they're earning more than £1000 a year, then they need to file a self-assessment tax return with HMRC, and if they're earning more than …

This is such a helpful comment - what looks, to the uninitiated, like line noise actually starts to make some sense now!

I'm slightly surprised no one has commented on the custom infix operators. I think if I encountered the example in the wild, I'd understand it was a clamp function based purely on …

You are right, I did - sorry. I wrote something similar in Ruby to check!

A word of warning: a few years ago, the related page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact took me down one of the worst Wikipedia procrastination rabbit holes I'v…

There's a "b" in "about", but there's no "k" or "m".

Thank you for posting this! I gave myself a pat on the back for being able to get through the first chapter unaided thanks to my A-Level in Greek mumble years ago...

I like how they've misspelt "misspelling" there - I wonder if that was deliberate! (I also like how there's even an open pull request to fix the same...)

I only bothered to check `details`, but that one dates back to at least the 2008 working draft of the HTML5 spec, which makes it ~14 years old - not absolutely ancient, but far fro…

I wouldn't say there's a big name star in there, but I've seen Peter Mullan in quite a few things, Nazanin Boniardi is moderately famous, Lenny Henry is definitely famous in the UK…

Not the OP, but if you search for "random country generator" you will indeed find a few similar sites which do definitely have a lot of ads.

Indeed. "Crypto" has very much gone the way of "hashtag" (which is, amongst non-technical people I know, overwhelmingly used to refer to the hash symbol).

I actually have quite happy memories of working with Backbone and jQuery - there were obviously all manner of problems, but everything was quite easy to understand and a lot less m…

You're definitely not alone. I was trying to watch Netflix's newest Harlan Coben adaptation, "Stay Close", and it all looked very nice (especially the title sequence) but the scrip…

As others have said, you're not going to get a lot of purchases without being able to preview what it does first (maybe build some slightly contrived examples?). I wish there were …

> Yes, I believe that's the approach Windows NT is taking. I really like this one - would anyone care to make a suggestion for a modern replacement for Windows NT here? Perl 6, per…

While I broadly agree with this, I would say that my own attempts at making mint sauce were fairly disappointing in comparison with shop-bought - Colman's mint sauce is an awful lo…

If you read the English line first with a ridiculous French accent (like you might hear in Monty Python) and then read the French in an equally silly way, with a bit of imagination…