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sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."

what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.

Yes, exactly. I really thought the author was trying to argue that no one writes in assembly. But then when I reached the butterfly line, I realized it was just sloppy writing miss…

Oh my god, yes. I had to re-read that paragraph three times, and then open the xkcd to confirm what the author really meant. This absolutely killed the flow of the article for me.

"The software code was permanently repaired about five hours later." I always try to permanently repair the software when I find bugs.

after your finals, you should read about forward error correction.

> For compute - a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) t4g.small instance running Mastodon, it’s PostgresSQL database, and Redis. its

Yes. Idaho

Yes, I fully support this position by Meta but their reasoning is not quite right when it comes to astronomers and scientists. Passing around a leap second kernel is a major pain f…

That's what I have: fiber infra as a public utility, with a choice of ISPs on top of that. Funny fact, the ISP I chose is $10/month for 1G down/up. Want to add a phone line (which …

My city runs fiber infra as a public utility, with about a half dozen options of ISPs to choose from which provide internet connectivity on top of that infra. I pay $26/month total…