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now do that without dragging all the data through your workstation.

as someone who doesn't use heroku, so disregard my opinion: i'd probably prefer feces-by-email to surprise database deletion

the inch changed in 1959 from exactly 1/39.37 m to exactly 2.54 cm; the survey foot is for compatibility with large-scale measurements based on old inches.

the story seems to be set in a world that uses gas to weld steel as part of a production process, making a blue flame. are there any torches that can weld steel and make a blue fla…

part of the deal with cable tv a few decades ago was that the cable channels didn't have ads because you paid for them directly every month. (local stations obviously had their usu…

sunos4 disk devices were named like xy0a or xd2h or sd1b. the first 2 letters were the controller (xy/xd were different types of xylogics smd controllers, sd scsi), the number was …

if a pin expects rs232, and you give it 120v ac, or saline,

for instance, the shoe-mount roulette predictor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

i recently got an electronic product that said 中國 instead of 中国 on the label (traditional vs simplified characters). i wonder if this was meant as a subtle indication that it was f…

the search is to generate a valid signing key pair, where "valid" means the last 28 bits are as specified. once a poster generates such a key, they can use it for as long as it's v…

erlang/otp gen_fsm maybe? you define a function with a clause per state (and some other args including the incoming message), and each clause returns a tuple with the new state and…

Standard C provides only a few ways to obtain valid pointers. implementations can define behaviors in cases that the standard leaves undefined, such as allowing more cases of casts…

however, the safe logoff button avoids emergency warp. in exchange for sitting in space without maneuvering or activating modules for 30 seconds, you disappear immediately when the…

the action held up; the court upheld it.

Dolby digital could be used without replacing much existing equipment: the sound head looked like it bolted right onto the 1940s-vintage projector in the one installation I've seen…

the 6502 has a single 16-bit address space with some parts (zero page, stack) addressable by means other than full 16-bit addresses. the 8051 has 16-bit read-only code space, 16-bi…

GPL 2 says "machine-readable", which I read as meaning on a tape or ftp site or something in a useful form, not handwritten on paper or similarly useless form. Also, I doubt obfusc…

POP3 defines separate retrieve and delete requests. Some servers lose messages when you retrieve them, but I've only seen that misbehavior on major ISPs.

I don't think I've ever seen any of the stickers from the telegram company actually used in a chat. I've seen lots of stickers that people have had drawn, though, sometimes even us…

The ldd program that lists the shared libraries used by an executable at least used to exec with an empty argv, which the dynamic linker detected and listed libraries instead of li…

Letter shapes usually have curves a bit more complicated (in the sense of "how many parameters do I have to write down to reproduce it?") than this typeface. It feels like it's mad…

License classes. C (at least in my area) authorizes <26001 lb, B more, and A anything legal to put on a highway. I assume M1 is a motorcycle license or endorsement.

Jet and diesel are both kerosenes (particular range of problem distillate) with different additives, as is the stuff that goes in kerosene heaters.

Is this the FLCCC that pushes ivermectin (a fine worm killer, but no panacea) for covid?