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Someone has already reserved my very unique company name and a bunch of variants. Without domain validation, what is this user's intention other than fraud/impersonation? I've alre…

I've come across a road like this in Singapore, although with a road barrier https://maps.app.goo.gl/bEEvRkgGQPhfM7198

I call BS. > We want you to tax us. We can afford it. If you're so desperate to distribute your wealth for the greater good, then do it already. Why wait for the govt to mandate it…

What's the general process for the initial separation of unwanted dirt? I've worked in a zinc smelter a long time ago, the initial stage was roasting, heating the ore to 900C to bu…

Were there cases of finalized invoices and fund transfers while the error was in place? The sudden loss of working capital while awaiting a refund would be extremely disruptive for…

I'm an experienced software engineer with essentially no hardware experience. Areas like PCB design, embedded systems, SDR and biohacking all seem interesting, but I'm not sure whe…

In the AWS Console: Cloudwatch -> Logs -> Log Management It shows "There are no log groups." when there should be many log groups. Occurring in at least us-east-1 and us-west-2. St…

Why London of all places?

> Stripe advices to refund based on signal's they get that a disput is requested. I think that's if you're lucky enough to receive an early fraud warning, in which case, you have m…

I can't find an official source, but I suspect the blast radius isn't limited to the AZ. I have systems running in us-east-1, and over the course of the incident, I noticed unexpla…

Related: AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057294

For me, a long running and historically stable ECS service suddenly stopped. Ordinarily this would result in failed health checks and auto service restart, but in this case, the se…

Software is being overwhelmed with AI-generated noise with no sign of slowing. This makes it increasingly difficult to find value and to feel valued. I want to feel the enthusiasm …

Nice shots of Australia on Apr 02, 6:41:23 PM (left = north) and 6:42:35 PM (down = north), including Tropical Cyclone Maila (I think).

A good lot of them seem to be from Matt Lakeman, whose writing I highly recommend. He goes into detail about history, politics, and tries to understand why things are the way they …

> can't buy smokes at all ever They can, they will be available on the black market along with every other widely used illicit recreational drug. Banning tobacco won't make the pro…

> As a consequence there is a quiet crisis in young people, 18-30, deeply in debt, working second and third jobs so that they have a bit more money to gamble. Do you have a source …

> We installed mitmproxy on a Mac, configured an iPhone to route traffic through it, and installed the mitmproxy CA certificate on the device. > All HTTPS traffic was decrypted and…

There are a huge number of factors to consider depending on your company's goals and your personal goals. Things like access to investors, access to talent/staff, your desire to re…

The TLD owner in this case was Radix, which also owns .store .online .tech .site .fun .pw .host .press .space .uno .website https://radix.website/

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Between 2017 and 2022 (pre-LLM), it appears to show a clear downward trend, ignoring the covid surge. Any ideas why this might be? The query also filters to PostTypeId = 1, what do…

Thanks for the video link, it's way more informative than the original article.