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Closer to 9 miles (15km). That's plenty (even though it doesn't sound like much), considering what kind of eruption this would be and how the fault lines lie.

Already exists: https://vaxafarm.is/pages/english . They are growing for the local market only.

To be entirely fair I had the exact same problem with a "knob" interface. The variable resistor in the AC knob broke down putting the AC in the "just blow air as hard as you can, a…

Reminds me of the time I decided to always start using braces for if statements. I was figuring out why this line didn't work: if(condition) doSomething() And naturally the obvious…

I spent two summers planting for the Icelandic forrest service and I imagine that is more or less how I and my coworkers looked like (well, somewhat less feminine I suppose). You s…

It's actually fish, aluminum being a close second: http://px.hagstofa.is/pxen/pxweb/en/Efnahagur/Efnahagur__uta... To answer child, the type of electricity production is split 70 h…

A few years back I had a short interaction with Kenneth Reitz. I sent an email about some issue in requests and got a reply within a minute telling me that the issue had been fixed…

Well if the official stance is that there is no problem then why should they do that?

I think you're forgetting the cookie warning.

Actually, I think the strictness of python3 with regards to bytes/strings is particularly useful for people who speak English as their first language. python3 will force them into …

Generally speaking, if you have physical access to device, all bets are off. Which when you think about it is the point of the whole article.

Huh, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the name was this thing: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html . Apparently forest animals are popular in the SSL impl…

I'm an Icelander and I quite like this article, it is one of the better written pieces I have seen on a cultural phenomenon I relate with - and it is no exaggeration, swimming pool…

Or better yet, build your own: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-raspberrypi

You'd want to separate that complexity from your kernel modules by using some intermediate, e.g. mqueues, named pipes or shared memory.

I always viewed the cause for slow IPv6 adoption as a lack of incentive - while IPv4 addresses are effectively free then where is the ROI in building an IPv6 infrastructure? I gues…

... and street cleaning is on the 2nd and 4th monday of each month (got towed on that premise once)

That's a really clever site, seems like an elaborate way to say "It depends" when the question is "What is the best country in the world".

Cost reduction being a key factor! The greatest breakthroughs provide something for the masses at a lower cost than previously possible. An important part of engineering is leverag…

I think the main issue with fragmentation is dealing with 2.3 (as the article mentions). Now that that's going away it's getting much better very soon so I can't agree that "it is …

The raspi has a hardware video decoder for some codecs (e.g. H.264) whereas the bbb doesn't. Hence the bbb is not very practical for htpc setup.

Namecheap. Also just bought SSL certs from them and felt the the service was really good.

One thing I'm really curious about: How can you measure the accuracy of the world's most accurate clock? By definition there would be no more accurate timing device to benchmark it…

They might be running AS/400 as their backend systems, I recently saw a terminal to one of those in a bank and to my shocking surprise the passwords were not even encrypted on that…

From what I hear from my co-workers in the quality department (I work in a medical device company) it's even harder to get approval to go through regulation in China than in the US…