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This happened on the flight to my honeymoon, and my wife took the upgrade.

'production' doesn't equal 'multi-user concurrent access'. There are production uses where sqlite is a valid choice even if it may not be the best choice for multi-user production …

I do something similar for my kids, but offline using GNUCash. It's from a book called "The Bank of Dad." I track their funds, and provide a generous monthly interest rate. The ide…

Here is the study, the link is not clickable if you have an account, you have to view source to get at it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.g...

This is the the artist you are thinking of. https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

I left Amazon back when the 3-day RTO was announced. Their recruiters periodically ping and ask if I'd be interested in returning. So leaving on good terms will give you options to…

I remember this article from 2017 about the google snippet for how long it takes to caramelize an onion. https://gizmodo.com/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-... The gist of…

> It works with SMS as well, and I just don't have to think about it. I have a mac laptop and an android phone. My son has an iphone. Half of his responses to my text messages go t…

Essentially yes. Distribution, instead of funding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle "The Freestyle's beverage dispensing technology was designed by Dean Kamen, the…

I think there are limits on both. Floor area ratio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_area_ratio ) is how it is coded into regulations. The lot size and the height restrictions …

An Italian town did build a mirror to do that. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnvzn/viganella-italy-fake-... [edit] Looks like a town in Norway did it as well, and theirs tracks …

I love this goal, best of luck with it. I would like to build (or buy) a robot to protect my chickens from air and ground predators during the day so they can happily free range al…

I think that stat came from a chart in this article https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-...

Everything I know about this comes from the children's book "Pippo the Fool." Rivals refers to people competing against him in a competition to build the dome. For him to win and g…

A caught fish could be wild, or from a hatchery. You can tell the difference since hatchery fish have a fin removed but I imagine it's easier to not differentiate when labelling.

I had a similar idea, but wanted to build it outside of a single news organisation. Basically a news aggregator, but it would detect when different articles are about the same topi…

I had thought about something like this a couple of years ago. My idea wasn't really about tracking bias, but providing reputation for authors and news outlets. Users (via a browse…

Aphids are fascinating (if annoying in the garden). They are capable of telescoping generations [1] which means an aphid can be pregnant with an aphid that is also pregnant. https:…

Why not have both? Cities have parks that you can lie and eat out on during the evenings and weekends. They also have dog parks. Free roaming cats are bad for birds, so keep them i…

Their was a robot in 1999 that hunted slugs and powered itself from their decomposing bodies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/503149.stm