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It's a good question. One thing I can think of is that drones can accurately use a pre-determined map of which areas need how much of an input, in a way that would be really diffic…

Local, small-scale food production used to be the only way food was produced - people didn't eat better then, and there were many, many fewer people to feed. There's huge variabili…

Agreed. You could make a very useful 404 page with the list of candidate URLs being used to do the redirect: It's exactly the thing you want to display in a "Did you mean x?" messa…

Part of the reason is that there are plenty of reused and refurbished shuttle parts included!

"Destruction is a form of creation" - Donnie Darko

I had the same thought - an off the shelf double-paned window module would be great, otherwise a homebrewed version with two panes and a partial-vacuum pumped out between them.

> Discharging water with a higher salt content than the ocean wouldn't cause any harm at the discharge point Sewage and hot, concentrated brine are not the same. Plenty of studies …

Agree 100%. There's _so_ much additional information that human faces provide outside of the spoken language. It's often hard to interpret, especially over a video call, but turnin…

Absolutely. This is the "ratchet effect" which is everywhere in software these days. The best you can do is defer clicking the ratchet forward for a while. You can't avoid it forev…

Presumably they pay rent in those malls, and the bigger the store, the more rent they pay. The problem with that arrangement is that you need to be at a certain minimum scale in or…

Different domains, too: it comes up frequently in my - admittedly limited - experience with woodworking: _"Don't cut it 'til you need to cut it!"_. There are some one-way doors (cu…

The key difference between tailwind and something like Pico is the semantics. Tailwind (AFAIK) totally divorces semantics and styles, so you as the dev have to apply everything. Pi…

Bootstrap and Bulma are both based on SCSS still - it's as popular as it's ever been (though I still cling to my beloved classic SASS syntax, it's not very popular at all).

This proposal seems to make the assumption that senders need their incentives adjusted - you need to pay some amount to send someone a message. I can't see anything that stops a pe…

Part of the problem is that so many of the 'actions' people take with email are invisible to the sender: If the recipient marks you as spam, filters you to junk, blocks you as a se…

I think I’ve missed something here: how is Pocket user-hostile?

Paraphrasing here, but I very much read that as "Every human has the right to work in just and favourable conditions", not "Every corporation has a right to operate under equal eco…

I know what you're saying, but we _also_ need to focus on this specific government, because they make the situation bad from the get-go, rather than just potentially bad.

> why would this particular one be differently treated? - Because the issuer has vastly more ability to use the app and the data it might collect in ways that impact you. - Because…

Particularly when we can't (easily) have disposable or non-identifying phone numbers in Australia: https://www.acma.gov.au/acmas-rules-id-checks-prepaid-mobile...

> A home ISP account typically came with an email address, some space to host a website But that's not really self-hosting is it? If my ISP can decide to poke around in my user fol…

Hmm. I'm running MacOS 10.14.6, Firefox 75. Happens very consistently here! https://imgur.com/a/PoimMZn

So, in a truly classic bit of 1am CSS rendering weirdness, I discovered that you can't transform (rotate/skew) Emoji by 45 degrees in Chrome, Firefox or Safari in MacOS, or they'll…