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I agree. NAT, while occasionally limiting, was a godsend. Just imagine how the world would look if everyone out there was at the mercy of a well configured router with firewall.

Could it be non-proctoring has served Princeton by inflating grades due to some cheating, but only now have cheating become rampant enough that it must be curtailed to destroy the …

Very interesting. I got this vaccine (needs to be taken twice) last year. Since then my back pain linked to possible beginning bechterews, which I have had for about a year, is gon…

I used MariaDB in Azure, but got notified it was retired. Anyway, migrated to sqlite.

The arrow must have been a drag. "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the neck."

Memory is expensive. In the cloud especially. Using a succinct structure could enable cheaper computing for specific tasks. This benefits everyone.

There seems to be some copy pasta in the FAQ on if any node can be contacted for writes or reads, the paragraph on reads mentions writes.

The same (pros use less, consumers pay for more) goes for internet connectivity. A techie knows he will never need or saturate more than, say, 200mbps. While a consumer will see th…

Just out of curiosity, is there no clever way to solve this within nginx with rules instead?

This is very interesting and completely new to me (I'm European). Suddenly so much of the situation in the American health business makes sense.

This 20kg figure sounds wildly inaccurate. Fish feed is in general 75% plantbased. It is also very efficient (in terms of conversion rate to growth). Could this 20kg figure be deca…

Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.

I enjoyed this :)

To "the" or not to "the" before a name or noun.

Haskell added a function popCount in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.18.0.0/docs/Data-... some years ago to allow easy use of this operation where present.

It would be interesting to read more about this. You should start a blog :)

Most interesting functions use other functions. I did not find how they solve using existing functions, avoiding duplication of basic functionality, but also handling how things mi…

This is so cool, a nice push towards low cost repairs and de facto "right to repair" for hobbyists. The MX5 is also a cool and inexpensive test vehicle. Hope more models are added.…

Shorter is better

Over 20 years later, Guantanamo is still here. While most of the detainees are surely there for a reason, due process has not been observed. This will be a blemish on US history fo…

Different areas of the world have different trust levels. In northern Europe nobody would think twice about letting in the repairman, we trust each other. It is a great place to li…

They did the same with rain sensor a few years ago. Result: auto rain wipe is still in beta in 2023!

I have been hit by this many times. Do you know of any good resources on how to reduce this overhead? (Choosing other data structures, choosing other string types etc)

I love when one can't tell if someone are serious or not. This made my day.

Fond memories of web startups using these in aftermath of the dot com bust, such as Euroweb in Norway early 2000's.