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As someone who pays attention to Texas energy rates, I'm gonna call BS on atleast the TX portion of this as rates are at multi year lows. Here are the current rates (1 year contrac…

If you delete all your backups, AWS maintains shadow backups they can restore? Is that right?

I've been using Finch ( https://runfinch.com/ ) for the last few years, it basically is a managed Lima, nerdctl, containerd and BuildKit. I just alias docker to finch and it just w…

This looks great. Something I'd like to see in a recipe app is scale is not only reflected in the ingredients list but also in the directions. The linked recipe is a great example.…

This is very much college/program specific. My tenure track wife has tried with two different different universities to get tenure credit by writing an open access text book. In bo…

Or the AWS commercial east/west regions. All of which have FedRAMP moderate ATOs.

Market cap now exceeds top 5 US hotel chains combined. How much can it grow from here?

> One big factor is it often comes down to which worker group has a stronger union Exactly this. For reference see why there are still humans on cargo trains.

Here's the amendment that was rejected. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2020/05/13/sen... > On page 7, strike lines 13 and 14 and insert the following: cell site loca…

I've used Linux as my daily driver for over 10 years. While not popular with some I've had zero issues with Lastpass. Browser plugin, Android App, supports MFA, just works. Most im…

Here's[0] a menu from my kid's elementary school in the midwest (Lawrence, KS). School lunches have certainly declined over the years. Continued relaxation of nutrition standards[1…

I've used Simplenote ( https://simplenote.com/ ) for years. Can recommend.

In my tests 4.2.2.1 performs 50% faster than 1.1.1.1 and is twice as fast as 8.8.8.8.

Using namebench[0], CloudFlare is about the 6th fastest for me. Just ahead of google. 1) Level3 2) DynGuide 3) UltraDNS 4) OpenDNS 5) Quad9 6) CloudFlare 7) Google [0] https://code…

3) The grocery stores in my area (midwest) already provide this service at no additional markup and free delivery if you spend over $100.

Every single retail brokerage including all the companies that charge "fees" also sell order flows to market makers. All of them.

I bought a Precision 5520 with Ubuntu pre-installed one year ago and it is still one of the best laptops I've ever purchased. My previous three were Thinkpads with the latest being…

Great collection here: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love

> The problem is that external costs like pollution are not being priced into the cost of ICE vehicles by, say, a pollution tax. This limited subsidy is a backhanded way of doing t…

I've used Gnome (on Fedora) for 10+ years as my daily driver and just recently have been using the pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04 and Unity that came with my new Dell laptop. One of th…

Exact same price. You are quoted a price when you checkout online, but a human shops for you and goes through a normal checkout process in the store which weighs the fruits/vegetab…

A grocery chain here (Kansas, so I assume most of the US) offers their full store online with free delivery ($100 minimum). Our weekly trips have been replaced by a few minutes on …

Presumably this works exactly like Skype. All new messages are scrolled but if you manually scroll up to read old messages you'll get a button for "new message" that you must click…

Video game soundtracks on spotify. Specifically: * Bastion * Fez * Assassins Creed No vocals, just great music designed to keep you focused.