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March coincides with the first month of the Jewish calendar. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2164005/jewis... It was also the first month of the Roman calendar until…

Related: The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/

My hesitation with hybrids is that I keep all the associated maintenance costs of an ICE engine. Now I have two power trains and energy systems to maintain instead of just one.

Yep: bill.com

At the time, Utah was located in Mexican territory.

Being a pessimist is easy and lazy. You don’t have to lift a finger. Things can actually get better and do when people believe it and do even just a little bit.

An acquaintance of mine worked for Mozilla on a project to add tor to Firefox. Code was done, but Google, as it’s primary funder, squashed it.

So basically everyone affected will have their hours cut without a change in hourly wage. All these people are then going to have to find a second job to avoid losing 20% of their …

It’s still to early to see all the effects of the sanctions. That was something repeated several times.

I was curious to see how each state was doing and Google didn’t disappoint: https://artbabridgereport.org/state/map

The Jetstream has been my favorite for years.

I see it more as idealism vs pragmatism. We need both. I think older people tend to be conservative because they've become jaded by idealists and/or politics in general. To many, c…

Ideally with decentralized identity, you use a separate identifier with every relationship. Otherwise you have created the ultimate super cookie.

Remember that you are the product and not the customer for these companies. Google’s customers are the advertisers who pay and (I’d argue) those who want to show up in search resul…

This also explains the supply chain issues we are experiencing now because of the move to just-in-time manufacturing across the board.

> Scott Pelley: What is the legal theory behind going to the SEC? What laws are you alleging have been broken? > John Tye: As a publicly-traded company, Facebook is required to not…

Just like with IP traffic, companies terminate calls through multiple providers. While bandwidth might be the primary termination provider for 911 for a company, the calls can be r…

Some highlights since the last LTS (JDK 11): Language Features 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof 395: Records 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics 409: Sealed Cla…

I’m sorry for the world you live in. It’s not that way for everyone everywhere. I hope you can find your way to some place better.

> I personally think Snapchat shot themselves in the foot with bad product strategy. Seems to have worked out poorly for them.