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Comment #48337112
Looks like https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/issues/1197 . Still open as of now, with a potential cause noted in the latest comment.
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Comment #45689910
If you have solar panels or time-of-use electrical rates, you charge the car when power is cheap/free, and spend stored power when the grid costs are high. During a protracted outa…
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Comment #45686753
In the US, V2L limits your ability to output power from the car to about 1500 W. It's not going to power your house as more than a stopgap, even if you do have supplementary house …
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Comment #45478504
You're talking about one of the best-reviewed movies in years. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8936-one-rave-after-...
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Comment #44903638
This is the January 2024 ruling allowing Apple to resume imports of Apple Watches to the US with the blood oxygen feature disabled. Hopefully the recent ruling will show up on this…
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Comment #42102238
My go-to ice cream book is Jeni Britton-Bauer's https://jenis.com/products/jenis-splendid-ice-creams-at-home (which won a James Beard award), and her base for all but a few custard…
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Comment #38006793
If you're assuming that the homeopathic stuff is incapable of harming anyone, you're mistaken. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/fda-warns-amazon-to-s...
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Comment #32707254
If rapists and terrorists used their water or electrical service as a primary means to rape and terrorize, then those infrastructure services would find themselves feeling justifie…
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Comment #31646453
Previously, each developer had to do one or more of: * use TestFlight for centralized distribution of pre-release apps, through Apple (with some lighter-touch app review involved),…
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Comment #14176083
The article's conflation of things being broken down into their component parts and recycled, vs things being "destroyed", is maddening and tendentious. Try not to fall for it.
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Comment #11004220
For good reasons: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
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Comment #7995746
Despite appearing the New Zealand Herald, the story comes with a byline from the Daily Mail, which, for a story related to terrorism, reduces its credibility to zero. To pick an ex…
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Comment #7855260
It's not credible to suppose that Comcast's network is built around equal exchange of traffic. The broadband connections they provide are wildly asymmetrical, often by an order of …
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Comment #7644035
Your assertion that Netflix "doesn't pay an ISP" is at odds with their description of having previously paid Cogent to carry traffic over long distances. Now, "Netflix is itself sh…
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Comment #7204588
Google Sync was only disabled for free accounts. It's still available for paid accounts.
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Comment #6697040
That's incorrect. The old comcast system took congestion into account. I routinely ran 500-600GB/month offsite backups, but I scheduled them for the middle of the night and midday,…
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Comment #6582504
Gerrymandering probably isn't as dominant a factor as people think: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-09/gerrymandering-didn... That story is based on 2009 research: http://www…
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Comment #4307128
Unilaterally resetting the scroll direction to the 10.6 standard is insanely presumptuous.
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Comment #4169254
Not to mention the huge-type "Click here for all the detials" typo. Painful.
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Comment #4056964
I'd agree with you that sandbox entitlements offer a path to the future, if their proper name wasn't "Temporary Exception Entitlements": https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#do…
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Comment #4056950
1Password and Coda are both sold direct — what do you mean by "it's already happened"? A developer big enough to set up a direct payment channel is likely to see it pay for itself …
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Comment #4005656
Nobody's specified the browser where CSS3 animations look bad yet. I'm not a web developer, but I use Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to varying degrees, and I don't see single-browser…
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Comment #3936247
They've been selling the 3GS continuously since summer 2009. Of course they're still making new ones. Tim Cook wouldn't have his current job if in his old job he'd accidentally boo…
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Comment #3932752
Stephenson really should have been called out in the article on the assertion that every megabyte downloaded has a marginal cost. There's no way to squint at that hard enough to ma…
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Comment #3823020
The study found at a general level that people with meningioma were more than twice as likely as people without the brain tumor to have had a bitewing X-ray sometime in their life.…