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Civilian uses? Perhaps not, but Iran has always wanted to have a respected navy. Compact nuclear reactors like the type used in submarines with nuclear reactors for their power pro…

I am a big fan of The History Guy ( https://youtube.com/@TheHistoryGuyChannel ) He's very affable, good voice and cadence, and it's enjoyable even in an audio-only format. He's als…

Many of The HN clients that I use have their own bookmark system that doesn't actually trigger the bookmark feature on the website. It makes bookmarking a totally local client feat…

This seems disingenuous to me, but my personal experience with Coinbase colors my opinion. I had my Coinbase accounts canceled more than 5 years ago. Despite my merchant account wi…

I live in Ithaca, and Cornell is about to start drilling a test borehole in the coming year. Once the borehole is completed and some tests made, they'll drill a pair of production …

It looks like a group at the University of Exeter is working on that exact plan. "SeaCURE harnesses two natural properties of the ocean that can circumvent this problem. (1) The am…

Well, there also incidents about 5 years of people making vape juice with Diacetyl, a food additive that gives a creamy buttery taste. Turned out that while it was food safe, bring…

You do make a good point. It makes me think of the occasional video of a registered nurse standing in front of a City Council saying things like vaccines cause Autism, or the COVID…

I didn't know that was a Kodi feature. It's actually enough for me to consider migrating away from my Plex setup, or at least running them in parallel.

I disagree. The truck going through the crowd model requires a sacrificial group member. In our country, the lack of terrorist group members makes their individual value higher. th…

One of the other issues that your comment shines a light on is that police often book someone under multiple charges. A safe one that the person is likely to be able to be convicte…

I remember reading about a year ago how thieves have been seen using BLE scanner apps walking through parking garages looking for computers and phones to steal. Even in "sleep stat…

From what I understand, ransomware insurance is already a thing. With the policy you get someone who negotiates the price and pays the ransom directly to the ransomware gang, which…

It's getpocket.com, actually. The io one is just a domain for sale. You know, I was furious about the pocket integration and partnership when it first happened almost six years ago…

It's a feature on some money counters, which seem like something banks might use at the end of the day to check the balances in the drawers.

This looks very promising. I use several self-hosted solutions to handle several of the things this provides. The one thing that will keep me using Monica instead of this is the ab…

Cloudflare lets you create custom error pages [1]. I would recommend making one for any geo-restricted pages. The benefit is that you can emulate your site theme and have an opport…

I find it interesting that there were spikes of readings at certain times of day and night. Coupled with the information that the apartments have a VoC barrier, my intuition is tha…

Nuclear power is expensive and complicated, but not inherently so. A lot of the causes of the problem is political decisions and bureaucratic processes. There are many designs for …

I think it might just be a way for staff at embassies to make some money on the side. Embassy employees are allowed to import vehicles without paying import duties or taxes. Buying…

Because controversial campaigns are usually not welcome on other platforms. Niche platforms that court those kinds of controversial campaigns exist, but they struggle to stay alive…

I get that you're trying to say that Ransomware is a kind of evolutionary pressure to force IT ecosystems to adapt and improve, but that's far from saying it should be legal. It's …

I had a business idea last year that would take advantage of a similar concept. Basically, it would be like GoFundMe, but users could also pay money to defund a campaign if they so…

They have scripts to import from Asana, Notion, and Trello https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/tree/main/import

One possible use case of solar panels on a car in bright and hot environments would be running the air blower to continually replace the interior air with the exterior air in order…