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For those unaware, if you want to use the latest Office Suite (2024), but don’t want to pay a monthly fee, Microsoft still offers a one time purchase [0] for $149.99 which is now c…

The data is indeed public [0]. But beware, it’s huge to download; it’s also available in a hosted/queryable interface on Google Earth Engine [1]. [0] https://scihub.copernicus.eu/t…

This causes some interesting knock on effects on society: 1. more pollen (as mentioned in the article), leading to more more allergies, leading to more allergy med sales 2. no free…

This is an amazing educational experience for students but it is also such a great way to crowd source hyper realistic 3D world replicas - it reminds me of the Minecraft replica of…

There is a discussion on that thread about the bounty being rather small compared to the damage it could have caused the crypto market and/or Coinbase’s stock/reputation. It’s low …

You are doing exactly the right thing by reaching out and asking for advice in communities you are a part of that may be able to offer you a job or a connection to one. One piece o…

The email domain where the messages originate is from some sort of federated identity management system that was created in 2010 (here is a proposal deck [0] with technical details…

I can speak using MIT as an example and I assume Harvard is the same way for the same reasons. Big research institutions that were present when IP addresses were being allocated go…

Not to mention that the "single quote" in the article is hardly from a "unknown" author (Charles Dickens), this BBC article on the same topic [0] has several other quotes from well…

Yes, they get enough donations to cover their costs, just like Uber has enough VC cash and loans to continue its operations. It's non profit tax status is not strictly relevant to …

I've considered this question a number of ways. The fact that capital holders are gatekeepers to innovation is unequivocally worse for federated innovation, but it has created an i…

It's worth comparing Bitcoin's proof of work to other schemes of maintaining currency value to understand this in a relative sense. The Military Industrial Complex which arguably i…

A DNS record lookup points to ddos-guard.net which provides both hosting and DDOS protection (like cloudflare) and is based in the Netherlands. I don't think they care much about P…

This is fascinating, I didn't realize there was a spec for this for the web. But this begs the question: Apple Privacy Labels "caught on" because Apple has unilateral control to en…

The most insidious part of mega bills is the surprises that get snuck into them that I'd like to believe would have been adequately thought about and debated if someone actually ha…

This appears to be a two part question. Part one is how space efficient the language representation is (words, sounds) and part two is how much mental RAM is needed to extract mean…

> A user could log in daily, cough into their phone, and instantly get information... While this model is indeed extremely useful and interesting work, this seemingly casual quote …

Really any cheap VPS provider with cPanel should do what you are asking to provide unlimthed domains, aliases, users, mailboxes, catch alls, forwarding, etc. if you are not looking…