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The amount of traffic was too high. Unsure if they were being throttled or if they use a task queue that went bad. Who knows. https://comicbook.com/irl/news/funko-pop-comic-con-202…

Unfortunately they are still highly dependent on other APIs. When San Diego Comiccon went live on funko.com (shopify) the website was fine but the checkout was bottlenecked by the …

Back in mid-October I needed to make a drastic change in my life. I spent a lot of time doing the following: - Mindlessly browsing the internet (FB, YT, HN, Reddit) - Dating apps -…

Beautiful images. They use "A high-resolution method, called Airyscan super-resolution microscopy" I'm guessing this type of microscope: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/us/product…

> They identified organic matter and calcium crystals with ultraviolet light, which uses different wavelengths to make distinct minerals glow. > A high-resolution method, called Ai…

This was the email our team received: Our monitoring app has been unable to reach your database (name) since at 2018-05-31 21:57:34 UTC. This is likely due to an underlying hardwar…

Was asking myself the same thing, there's not much helpful info here and this keeps getting upvoted with no discussion, makes me feel like inflated votes for exposure

My favorite example of an 'ordinary' person who gained an extraordinary mental ability is Daniel Tammet. He learned Icelandic in a week. Spent 2 weeks and memorized pi to 22,000+ d…

> The people are also -- in general -- much friendlier. This is the biggest factor for me as someone who grew up in Texas and is now in Los Angeles I feel like this happens in citi…

Getting text alerts for Star Wars movie tickets as well as the NES and SNES classic :)

> During our review, we noticed that a handful of consumers (less than 0.1%) who consumed Powder 1.6... Very much acknowledge the blog uses the same 'handful' terminology but they …

It's 0.1% of customers, not a samsung s7. If they are willing to pull their product for 0.1% of customers they will probably announce a refund, give it a week .

LA Times did a bad job of reporting this. > warning that a handful of customers reported stomach sickness after consuming it. It's actually less than 0.1% The blog article is clear…

Wrong, it came from the book Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison in which "Soylent Green" is based off of. However, in the book the soylent is not made from people. The movie a…

Agree to an extent. Personally, being aware that this only records for 10 seconds and requires a tap to activate, I can feel pretty confident nothing is recording. Then again, even…