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Before you get too far down this rabbit hole (like I did) for a home mail server, make sure that your ISP supports inbound/outbound mail traffic. Mine blocks it permanently, and I'…

> Previous commercial concentrating solar thermal systems could only reach temperatures of 565 degrees Celsius, the company said. That’s useful for generating power, but can’t meet…

Really cool site and instructions for an automatic watch. I recently switched to a manual watch, and I think personally I prefer it more. Winding my watch is now part of my every d…

The problem is you’re delighted by the code but everyone who comes after you can’t stand it.

For CLI it’s true to the Go mantra. If the flags library is “good enough” why not just use it and avoid being fancy? Besides, isn’t it feasible someone might confuse long and short…

"Python 2.7 only??!"

Here's a "partisan" topic: " Have Democrats Tried to Impeach Every GOP President Since Ike? "[1] According to their site it's 5 out of 6 presidents, or roughly 80%. Their rating: m…

> Actual headline: " Did CNN Purchase an Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News " What line does this walk? Things that are even physically possible and things that are not?…

I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering what was up with that. Also, snopes is not an innocent reference site. Their “debunking” of satire like Babylonbee can cause those sites to …

This can be done easily and without jail breaking on any iPhone with tools such as Charles proxy (provided they don’t do certificate pinning). They work by having you generate, ins…

My assumption was that the system had finite ram available, whether that's serialized in a database or read directly into the program.

A Tasmanian devil though??!

> The report doesn’t identify these “super emitters,” but notes that landfills give off more methane than any other source in the state. NASA’s equipment found that a subset of the…

Exactly! I have so many side projects I like to tinker with while I'm at home. I use them as a way to learn a new skill. Eventually those skills will come home to my employer, eith…

Sometimes I wonder if we were just a different type of people 100 years ago. People were standing in the balcony while it was being lifted? Going to work as normal!? Society would …

why would they pay for someone else to use their energy? It just eats into their profits and means that their normal customers have to pay more for the solar energy.

I paid $11k for my used 2015 leaf about 2 years ago. I charge it every other day (90 mile range) by plugging it in at work or at home into a DC charger that’s connected to my dryer…

You’re taking a loan out. How’s does it “make” money without negative interest rate? And I missing something??

> The increase in price funds much of their retirement. What increase in price? Your “profits” were simply transferred to the other home owners profits. To extract real benefit you…

> Because a housing crisis leads to skyrocketing home values. They benefit from increased housing prices. That’s the point I’m trying to make. A home’s value is NOT liquid. You can…

> huge money source for local home owners, who are the demographic setting the local policies. And why do you think this? A home is one of the least liquid assets one can own. It’s…

Personally I wouldn’t surprised at all . The people working in HFT are some of the smartest in the world, and they have the smarts, tools and the algorithms to smell blood/weakness…