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Comment #49215831
The old testament was written primarily in ancient Hebrew. English version is a translation is not authoritative. The vatican does not use the English version for daily prayers (in…
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Comment #49127335
Incorrect. 80% of Muslims do not understand spoken Arabic. For Christians, virtually 0% read Latin to access the "original" Bible. They are depend on translations that do not prese…
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Comment #49051241
Most religious families in India have generational priests. Its a privilege to have one too as those priests can be discerning about who they provide services to. Recordings would …
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Comment #49002593
You 'could' also play the bible over a speaker and do away with a church father delivering a sermon then? If you have been to many hindu events you would know Vak (speech) and Pran…
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Comment #48955865
You should ask yourself - would most christians prefer baptism in a bathtubs at home or drive in weddings for convenience? No? Exactly. Hindu Vedic pandits and priests who come in …
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Comment #47430305
Such businesses will close shop.
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Comment #47427438
Keeping them clean is the easy part. Doing it well would require building the infrastructure, maintenance, manning the station, preventing drug abuse etc, and getting into liabilit…
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Comment #46941840
Plainwire - a Text-first News and RSS reader. Still in alpha. Please feel free to take a look. https://plainwire.live
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Comment #46883047
The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design…
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Comment #46883014
Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.
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Comment #46882993
National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon} Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml
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Comment #46882982
I've added them. Thank you.
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Comment #46882977
Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?
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Comment #46882974
Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.
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Comment #46882417
Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.
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Comment #46876060
The weather API call has been fixed. FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.
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Comment #46875352
It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here. Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.
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Comment #46873486
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme... 112 is also a national emergency number.
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Comment #46873300
The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN. The site was being patched based on feedback here. You should see it up and running.
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Comment #46873137
This has been patched. Thank you.
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Comment #46873113
Idea is to keep it light and accessible. PWA would be data heavy. The use case is in the article linked in the post description.
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Comment #46873094
You are correct. This has been patched.
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Comment #46873091
This has been patched. Thank you.
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Comment #46873090
Thank you. This has been patched.
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Comment #46873086
Thank you. This is fixed.