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I guess eventually the whole process can be completely autonomous, what could possibly go wrong :-)

When you flush the toilet in an airplane the contents is normally vacuumed in to a holding tank which gets emptied after the plane lands.

Was a hardcode PHP dev for many years. A quick look at the code makes me glad I left this ecosystem behind - it looks like a brittle maintenance nightmare! It's no wonder there's t…

Actually they don't consume a very large portion of the overall spectrum at all. Nearly all the bands you mention are in the Mhz range or less rather than Ghz and as a result they'…

Nothing like a 3.1 MB PNG showcased as a 400-pixel-wide image :->

Of course it will have at least some environmental impact if the water stops being directed in to plastic bottles and instead is left flow along on the land. 3 gallons a second is …

If taken to the extreme I can't help but quote Carl Sagan :-) "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

If the scheme is not lowercase it seems to erroneously detect malware and provides a zip file url for some malware which does not exist on the page. Seems like a bug ! example URL …

All the js asset sizes quoted in the article seem inflated compared to the figures I see when I try to verify the authors figures.

already posted ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201073

This is a real pity. With this latest move it seems they just ate the new kid on the block. Akamai in my experience is not cheap, certainly not to the level Stackpath was. I saw bi…

This article claims Fentanyl is the "leading cause of death for those aged 18-45 in the USA". I can't find any legit source for this claim on the internet which proves this to be t…

Of course it sucks to have a company who makes it difficult to cancel your account but if you never even wanted the subscription the why did you upload your payment details ?

i assume you have >0 backlinks to the site?

Can confirm, got covid in Dec 2020 and have it 24x7 every day since (-:

this is exactly me also

Does anyone here use stackpath for their CDN? I was evaluating it and had their us-west object-storage go down (throwing 503 errors for for all requests) yesterday. 24 hours later,…

Are you saying if you had the opportunity to do this you'd opt not to and instead pay taxes?

There's many ways to slow global warming. Is replacing power production with nuclear really humanity's best first to-go in slowing global warming? I would have thought not.

When was the last time you added a node? New nodes default to 'automatic' networking now which configures /etc/network/interfaces automatically

I use Project Hamster from the gnome project (I'm a linux user). It's free, integrates nicely with my desktop and is always available (unlike web based time trackers). It uses a sq…

I second the Carbon X1 .. Great laptop. It's small, light has an awesome keyboard and touchpad. I run Debian Jessie on mine.. Everything works 100% except for the fingerprint reade…