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While I wouldn't dream of standing up k8s on a bare metal cluster without a devops team, I set up managed k8s using EKS several years ago for a client and... it just chugs along, s…

Happily using Cloud66 but a strong recommendation for Northflank here. I already had a running cluster there and migrating a very complex Heroku app over only took 20 minutes today…

Thanks for building this! It struggled with tasks I asked for (e.g. download the March and April invoices for my GitHub org "myorg") -- it got errors parsing the DOM and eventually…

I developed a SaaS business to fund a nonprofit foundation, which is a little different from your situation. The key thing was to keep the SaaS-y bit as boring as possible, which m…

I agree that indigenous knowledge is rightly the property of indigenous peoples themselves, but that wasn't my point. My comment referred specifically to the products of evolution:…

Doesn't the concept of biopiracy imply that the products of millions of years of evolution belong to modern nation states? What if, instead, we either observe that they simply exis…

Agreed - but on the other hand (no flippancy intended) it's not hard to imagine AI would have done a better job in this instance.

Probably true - but having a great many soldiers in an area where there are an extremely isolated people such as the "uncontacted" Yanomami also poses its own risks. If they're foc…

Another point, and I'd love to be corrected here, is that with a container of water you're going to get a ton of convection currents leading to a much sharper heat gradient at the …

> I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed. Indeed it does: "Before answering, please note this i…

But if you make the input slightly more explicit: "Two trains on different and separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How …

Central London, and a particularly nice bit too. No red flags, until it got all Stephen King.

> Is there anywhere I can ready about this ABnB host who kidnapped your wife? No, we've never spoken publicly of it, though I don't remember her signing anything. > I am so glad th…

It's not my story to share the full details, but suffice to say it was wild and makes extremely good dinner party conversation. At the time though, definitely something out of a ho…

I've always had a few issues with Airbnb -- never knowing if the place I've booked actually exists, the hard-to-navigate app and broken login system, and that one time the "host" k…

In built-up areas, the numbering is typically sequential. In rural areas, houses are numbered based on distance from the start of the road. Our road in the _campagne_ has two house…

The paper you cite in [1] is interesting and worth reading. However, it doesn't support a claim that fires on Hawaii have nothing to do with climate change (and of course it says n…

French resident here. Received a bill from this week from a medical lab for some tests; the only payment options are either visit the lab in person (an hour's drive away) or mail a…

Very true. An alternative is to install a lower-spec off-the-shelf charger/inverter for closer to £1k though, and instead have a handful of sockets with backup power. Being able to…

I installed a backup system (in the greenhouse rather than the house... priorities) to cope with these kinds of problems. Using a Victron Multiplus 1.6kVA system with 2x 110Ah 12V …

Related to the quirks of in-app browsers mentioned in the article, the Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat apps manage to break file uploading every few months, and take several weeks…

Not only is the tech here astonishing, but full credit to the authors for producing such a clear, concise video accessible to just about everyone explaining what they did, how they…

Indeed, Mercury has been phenomenal for us too. It's painful to use other banks now. How they've executed so quickly and competently in a tricky space is quite something to watch. …

The road on which our house in rural France sits finally got a name two years ago. But still no-one can find us because Google Maps hasn't added it. UPS delivers parcels to an acce…

Is it really sleight of hand, though, when you'd get essentially the same answer when consulting the UN, Wikipedia or... a dictionary?