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I have some disagreements with how the HTTP specification for 501 Not Implemented is defined & used, and not sure where to think out loud about this. > 6.6.2. 501 Not Implemented >…

"According to the nonprofit Zero Waste Alliance, [zero waste] means diverting at least 90% of waste from landfills" So, the first "only 10%" waste airport?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-sco... "Bird and Lime deactivate scooter services in Santa Monica for a day in protest"

But the point of the original article is that "just rent it again" is entirely dependent on the renting authority deciding they still want to rent it to you. If Kindle decided (or …

Yes, but only for my coworker's sake rather than my own. It took me a while to find the "disable video on meeting join" setting in Zoom so more than once I was shirtless and unshav…

Not exactly the same thing but this is a similar idea of using data and algorithms to ignore the disadvantaged. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/books/review/automating-i...

Something about this rubbed me the wrong way and I realized it was because this pretends that ignoring much of the long tail of userbase is not only okay but beneficial to the majo…

One of the biggest benefits of off-site backup is stability. That's why something like a bank's safe-deposit box or my parent's firesafe are my preferred locations. A backup in you…

A lot of the replies either rely on third party services (albeit encrypted) or forget about the third part of the holy backup trinity of having something offsite. It sounds like yo…

https://xkcd.com/1319/

Sources? Copyright issues back then were a bit tricky. 28 years with mandatory registration, and so Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (1913) is around the line of 27 years to Disney's Fa…

Outside of San Francisco, a lot of the bay shoreline is not much more than acres of foot-deep mud and salt flats. http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/18651.shtml Sierra Point, …

> Over the years I have come to the conclusion that the real heroes of ideas are not the people who have them – they are the people who buy them. The power of the venture trifecta;…

I tied my email address to my USPS address three apartments and half a decade ago. Apparently I never updated it since I'm now receiving email from Informed Delivery with images of…

I was an engineer at Apple for a while and I never got the feeling that this was malicious behavior. New features and ever increasing codebase always makes things slow down, and sp…

> In addition to perfecting the StarChip itself, the initiative will need to develop sophisticated communications systems capable of transmitting data over interstellar distances, …

His website has a good list of ways to dive into his creations. https://brandonsanderson.com/books/where-do-i-start/

Digitally Imported has a very wide range of, well, digital music. They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion. My …