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I don’t know much about GPS jamming, but I know a fair bit about how airliners navigate. GPS is usually not used for final approach, which is typically either visual or ILS (a radi…

I received this mail from Namecheap today with the subject line "Important: Potential Internet Access Issues". Apart from the weirdly misleading subject line, the advice in the mai…

Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running. I don't see how this woul…

... unless they decide that giving one year of notice would be too expensive or hard.

It doesn't seem relevant to the subject of the article, and it's private, so I don't see why it should be detailed...

Betteridge's law.

Chances are, a smartphone isn't going to give you the DoF you want (except by "faking it" using post-processing). There's a direct relationship between aperture for a given focal l…

Non-AMP URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/06/how-year-...

On a single project, I agree. But each time I start a new pet/side project I like to use a different stack. It's a good motivation to learn new technologies, and you learn more abo…

I know several people that are dual citizens of China and US. China doesn't recognise the second citizenship, but that doesn't prevent you having it. If China finds out, though, th…

There's no such thing as serverless, just someone else's server.

Wait... people who bought into a currency that is majority-owned by one entity would like some say in how that entity spends it?

OT but what do you mean by "English speaker with no accent"? Clearly every person has an accent, and every system that understands language must be able to understand the various a…

which will, of course, trigger the reminder as you walk down the street away from home, forcing you to go back and get the change of clothes that you forgot.

when in major cities in China, my experience is that Google Maps is almost unusable (not due to the censorship, as I use a roaming SIM which avoids those problems, but rather due t…

yes, I've done this

You left out the very important detail that practically speaking, your content also needs to be hosted on Google's CDN if you want to get any of the benefits that content creators …

There's a recurring theme in the discussion of this (and actually any time there is a discussion about email), that self-hosting email is really hard. That hasn't been my experienc…

Just wait until Angular 2 hasn't been cool for a while and you can't find any JS developers who are interested in maintaining your software rather than rewriting it in xyz_latest_f…

I've known plenty of developers whose automatic response to `packagemanager install packagename` failing is `sudo packagemanager install packagename`.

The article is fictional - but designed to sound plausible in order to make web developers think about a problem.

Out of interest, do you know if the game data uses XMPP or if it just uses the same port?

Right, but the address is "One Ferry Building" which works fine on Apple Maps. Not "One San Francisco Bay Trail", which only appears on Google Maps. So the problem seems not to be …

The problem actually seems to be that "One San Francisco Bay Trail" is not the address of the building. Only Google Maps shows that address. So, ironically, what the OP thinks is a…