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I'm still in charge of a production system serving around 2,000 small to medium websites from a 2-machine MongoDB cluster. It's been running on MongoDB since around 2010 and we hav…

Great read, thanks for posting. To me, one thing that's not being discussed much is that Europeans only settled in New Zealand around 200 years ago, pretty short in the history of …

Update: http://articles.os2voice.org/category/voice/17-new-web-brows... They've raised $12,650 and think it will take around 18 months.

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Cafe in Chiang Rai, Thailand: $ ping -n 1.1.1.1 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.696/18.643/22.571/2.056 ms $ ping -n 8.8.8.8 round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 38.410/45.663/57.684…

Correct, I'm living in Thailand currently and the local bananas all look very much like Gros Michels. They taste great to me and are super cheap, very good joules per money.

Can you really spin one of these up on demand? That obviously means that they have machines of that size (or greater) sitting idle, waiting for someone to use them. That's mind-bog…

There's also Aerial America by the Smithsonian Channel. They're one hour narrated documentaries with exclusively aerial footage. One per state (they combined the Dakotas). I'm not …

Why the use of a placebo in a trial involving babies? Surely they would be immune to any placebo effect?

If you are interested in learning /music/ and not just learning the /guitar/, I would strongly encourage you to start on the piano. I started on the piano and moved to the guitar l…

How did they decide what is West Antarctica and what is East Antarctica? Isn't it all North Antarctica?

That's why they didn't say "Iff I don't pay for the product [...]"

The org is called Destiny Rescue -- https://www.destinyrescue.org/ We've rescued just over 2,000 children since we first started in 2011. I've been involved for about a year now. T…

I'm from New Zealand and I'm currently living in Thailand volunteering for an anti human trafficking organisation, rescuing children from the sex trade. I was thrown in the deep en…

VGA port? In 2017?

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They don't mention this, but I believe this can cause extinction of mosquitoes within an area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique

To me, the problem is that all this kid really did is hike up the bid price of competitive keywords, therefore earning more money for Google. I have the same issue with them giving…

Would filtering based on the bogon list fix this? Is the bogon list still a thing?