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I noticed users in the United States can't sign up. ("United States" is not in the list of countries in the required Country field, and it's also excluded from "18. Regional Servic…

I've got a similarly sized ground-mount array, and I push the snow off with a triple-telescoping aluminum pole with a large squeegee on the end. An actual snow rake might be better…

Privacy Badger has three modes for each host (other than the origin) from which content is loaded on a page: Allow, Block Cookies, and Block Entirely. This lets you load things lik…

For the same reason dealing in counterfeit money matters — just because I can't tell it's fake doesn't mean the person I try to pay won't know or care. If your reputation is your c…

I have this problem with my Logitech mice too. They work great for two or three years, and then they start registering about one in every 50 clicks or so as double clicks, with the…

> We also ensured that these links remain invisible to human visitors through carefully implemented attributes and styling. Additionally, I wonder how this works on sites with a Co…

> because the parents were too stupid This sums up all of the school pickup problems I see and/or deal with daily. I also see many parents making dangerous decisions, most of which…

I can't pass by this comment about Network Solutions without an enthusiastic second. Several times per month I help various customers with their domains, and when I see that one is…

The flip side can also be true, where the replacement cost of a home is higher than its market value. Always be sure to insure your home for at least the replacement cost.

I’ll second the Bobiverse series, one of my favorites. Its descriptions of new technologies is at just the right level and depth, I think, and it’s subtly hilarious.

Useful link to the JetBrains blog from the Reddit discussion: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/12/06/update-on-jetbrai... From that blog post (2022): > In addition to terminati…

I got an Ember mug and use it every day and love it. It keeps my coffee at a set temperature (controllable via my phone over Bluetooth) so it doesn't get cold right away, and I can…

I have solar panels and battery storage and have been very happy with them, but there are two aspects (in the area of the U.S. where I live) that made obtaining panels a lot more d…

One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happe…

If we're talking about handwritten letters or even typewritten, one would have to have a plan for what they wanted to say and then execute their writing linearly from beginning to …

This is a neat style, and I was pleased to see that the author included accessible text since the visible text on the page is all in images.

“fail to find” is one of my favorite aspects of Kagi. When I get that message, I know I need to adjust my search terms. In contrast, Google wants to show me something even if there…

The electric utility in my area is this bad and worse. I once reported a power outage when the power wasn’t actually out (explanation follows) and they had no way for me to cancel …

The Atlantic seems to have no problem linking to multiple outside sources in seemingly every article I read.

I've long wished for built-in browser functionality that converts times to the user's preferred time zone, with perhaps a dotted outline indicating that a change was made by the br…

I remember reading once that every time you shuffle a deck of cards, it's almost certainly the first time any deck of cards has ever been in that configuration. Seeing how outrageo…

I've wanted to implement this on a distributed web server environment I manage. Right now there's a centralized MySQL database that the web servers read from when rendering a web p…

GP's comment is talking about checking multiple feature flags, not checking a single feature flag multiple times.

For me, it's Sandlot . Relatively small part, but it was impactful for me as a kid.