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At what point did OP say, "you're only allowed to be sad if you contributed"? OP pointed out that many people stated they were sad. OP also pointed out it's likely few of those who…

That comparison is fallacious too, I think. Something burning down is a tragedy, beyond anyone's control. It's also possible to love something for its beauty, and be sad that a glo…

Tcl/Tk was used by the first open source project I ever contributed to 25 years ago – a client for AOL Instant Messenger called TiK. It was such a thrill to be able to hack on the …

To summarize the article, I think... A will was rediscovered that was written by Shakespeare's granddaughter's husband, who never owned the home, stating that his cousin should get…

> Note: if you remove the Edit menu and call it Write, MacOs won't add its AI crap to your settings. Good to know.

> During its lifetime, Ratcliffe - commissioned in 1967 - has generated enough power to make more than a billion cups of tea every day. The most British unit of energy measurement …

How does 6lb of gas release 20lbs of CO2? I found this[1] link from the EPA with a number similar to yours, 8.8kg per gallon of gas, but they say it "creates" rather than "emits." …

I have had a 43" monitor at work and at home for a while, and the solution I've used throughout the pandemic has been to share only a region of the screen, or to share a single app…

If you enjoyed reading this story, u/Admiral_Cloudberg has been writing these kinds of well-researched post-mortems on air collisions and accidents on Reddit[0] for several years, …

This is important now as schools are working to figure out how to place desks so that each student is 6 feet apart from their peers.

The article mentions their increasing focus on Azure. I'm amazed by the number of people we're talking about. If you follow the links in the article back a few years, it appears Mi…

Presumably OP is referring to the walled garden of CompuServe, Prodigy, and others where you could only talk to other CompuServe customers on their proprietary message boards. If y…

But isn't that the idea behind Rails? Opinionated defaults with a config to change the setting somewhere?

Food was by far our largest expense, but not because we choose the fancy fish and steak options. Instead we picked lots of food we wished we had been served at weddings we had been…

They aren't using popular attachments. They are using customized attachments from the actual compromised sender. I commented elsewhere in the thread, but once they gain your creden…

Sysadmin at a school: we use GMail for our students and faculty, and we got hit by this hard right before the holiday break. Three employees and a handful of students all got hit b…

The fact that the grandfather comment is the top-rated comment (as of this writing) in the thread to me suggests that a great number of people agree with him/her, which sort of con…

So proud to see DanVK on the front page of HN. Way to go Dan!

Don't you think that removing all the extensions, bookmark bars, and extraneous UI cruft will make this browser consume a lot less RAM? Seems logical to me.

From the second paragraph of your own wiki link: > Government agencies also use XMetaL for tracking legislation.

The author wrote this in 2012, so at the time it may have been impossible to predict the 2013 update.

I believe your reading is incorrect (and the reading of other commenters here is more correct). Bandwidth.com will tell MyLocalPoliceDepartment that Google Voice is the "wholesaler…

Welcome * 11 instead, perhaps?

It's also, most confusingly to me, the name of Facebook's datacenter design. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-fabric-an-innov...

I'm under the impression that Android devices have had optional full disk encryption[0] for a long time, and that encryption isn't dependent upon cloud synchronization. [0] https:/…