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The linked BBC article above says the Starlink terminals are made in Texas.

It’s an Australian charity group that does a lot of cancer prevention and education activities. One part of it is having stores and lines of sun protection products like hats, swim…

Starlink connects you to the internet via a ground station in the country where you are registered, and the antenna will also only operate in an approved zone (depending on your co…

TLDR: the program prints a pseudorandom sequence of characters 205 and 206, which on Commodore 64 are graphics characters similar to / and \. When repeated across multiple lines, i…

The future is now with Microsoft Excel Web Services, which is part of SharePoint. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-dev...

No, Rust functions have to declare their return types. They cannot be inferred.

Looks like a great start. Using Rust and TOML configuration are good choices. With a project like this where there are many (many) existing attempts to solve it, I think it helps t…

> As a reader, I don't want page authors to start hard coding sizes into these elements … They mean h1 elements without a font-size specified in CSS (or style attribute) will be fl…

This article has a good summary: https://www.apogeerockets.com/Peak-of-Flight/Newsletter533 The key challenges called out are a) fuel, b) robust airframe, c) active guidance to han…

NYT was right and AP has now corrected theirs. Reload and check errata at the bottom.

The interview mentions the word "protocol" 26 times, but sadly no detail on what a successful social media protocol might look like, or how it could get adopted given where we are …

> In a statement to 404 Media, the Times said: > > The Times has no issue with individuals creating similar word games that do not infringe The Times’s “Wordle” trademarks or copyr…

He did pay himself a salary in 2023. See the P&L included in TFA.

In most English-speaking countries, “Swiss” cheese means cheese like Emmenthal - yellow, medium hard, with holes in it. I imagine this is what the calculator means too.

Discussion on CNBC article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38893909

> Focus is about saying “no”. Always loved this advice from Steve Jobs, but it can be hard to put into practice in a startup. From my own experience, I’ve found there is a strong t…

What a fascinating trip back in time. I had almost forgotten all the time I spent typing up code listings from the back of Usborne computer books as a kid in the late 80s. It was r…

Not sure if you read TFA, but it was about games whose code you “type in” from a book or magazine. I did it a lot back in the 80s when I first started programming. The Sierra games…

The Chandrayaan-2 mission had an orbiter, which is still operational, as well as the lander which crashed.

Yes. Nerve signals travel at about 50-60 m/s through the limbs, so it takes about 20-30ms for a signal to travel from brain to the hand muscles. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…