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Open TCP connections can also be wildly cheap and efficient - Apple Push Notifications (APNS) and Android's push systems maintain open TCP connections to just about every mobile de…

Trampolines are great. They're also super cheap! One of my favorite trampoline hacks is to rip the legs off and use them as a giant tree swing, or portaledge when tree climbing. Th…

I'm curious how this feature chooses to turn itself on with automatic detection. Somehow managed to fool it the other day by shutting a car trunk, helping someone load up, with me …

Isn't high-ductility associated with creep, especially under static loads? That would seem to be a downside of an adhesive like this.

Just in case anyone else is wondering, that article mentions that you get to keep your keys no less than eight times, while being light on all other details. I miss publications wi…

Setting up the strawman of writing "by hand" only to attack it as being ableist is facile and asinine. Nobody is arguing that Hawking, or anyone else who uses dictation or other as…

The fact that the network concentrator co uses DoD v4 address space to avoid conflicts implies that their clients are bringing v4 addresses, so IPv6 is utterly irrelevant in this s…

As a unicyclist, all the sideways-riding caught my eye for being especially silly. However, I'm very surprised that most of the models make the same sideways mistake with only some…

Branding was usually based on FCC callsigns. But not always... many people in the US grew up with some Z100 or morning crew brands too. Other countries have similarly arbitrary bra…

No. I'm surprised Comcast or some other ISP doesn't step in with a claim of tortious interference. Reselling or granting access to the ISPs services like this is almost always agai…

Say more about the one exception you know of? While it can overheat and become problematic if taken to extremes, I've become convinced that this kind of tension is healthy in the p…

Yeah, that's fair. On the history, everything I know is from this excellent article, so might as well cite it here for the curious, and just in case you haven't seen it: https://ww…

The number of hitches which come out of the arborist community is pretty mind bending. It's one of my favorite things about climbing. Tons of tree climbers are pretty experienced s…

> The Zeppelin bend is exceptionally good and was invented in the 60s. I'm not so sure about that. The history of the Zeppelin bend is incredibly contentious and apocryphal.

> Data can't be "stolen", only copied Though, scrapers can certainly steal capacity through conversion for their own use. When they do so, they permanently deprive the site owner a…

Thanks, that makes the parallels with "trash" clear. I could have chosen a better example.

Is it transitive? As an American I know the word, but rubbish as a verb is utterly unfamiliar.

The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language. "Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?

When people here are saying "credit cards" are we talking about purely domestic networks, or what? Visa and Mastercard payment rails are somewhat disjoint, even for large Indian co…

We were a provider very intimately dependent on Apple's ecosystem and had no appetite whatsoever for a fight.

It rounded down to nothing. Might have been $10 or $100 to make it real consideration.

As someone dealing with similar on a large site, I'd love to see a private community to discuss some of these issues.

Elaborate enough? Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reac…

Can only speak to my experience here in Washington, but 40 years ago you still needed to go to the reservation for the fun stuff. Even basic small firecrackers were outlawed in my …