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Comment · 4 months ago
I guess eventually the whole process can be completely autonomous, what could possibly go wrong :-)
Comment · 1 year ago
When you flush the toilet in an airplane the contents is normally vacuumed in to a holding tank which gets emptied after the plane lands.
Comment · 1 year ago
Was a hardcode PHP dev for many years. A quick look at the code makes me glad I left this ecosystem behind - it looks like a brittle maintenance nightmare! It's no wonder there's trace log lines scattered all over the place. There doesn't seem to even a sniff of anything related to testing here. It's insane to me to try promote this over Laravel.
Comment · 1 year ago
Actually they don't consume a very large portion of the overall spectrum at all. Nearly all the bands you mention are in the Mhz range or less rather than Ghz and as a result they're not really even suited for WiFi use. The lower frequencies are less optimal for high speed data transfer and also broadcast to a longer range, as well as penetrate buildings more easily than their higher frequency counterparts.

As well as that those bands are already heavily used already - it would make no sense to open these bands up to WiFi.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nothing like a 3.1 MB PNG showcased as a 400-pixel-wide image :->
Comment · 2 years ago
Of course it will have at least some environmental impact if the water stops being directed in to plastic bottles and instead is left flow along on the land. 3 gallons a second is still a pretty significant flow of water - at least enough to power a small stream or creek. Nothing in the broader scheme of things of course, but you can't say there's zero environmental impact "whatsoever".
Comment · 2 years ago
If taken to the extreme I can't help but quote Carl Sagan :-)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
All the js asset sizes quoted in the article seem inflated compared to the figures I see when I try to verify the authors figures.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a real pity. With this latest move it seems they just ate the new kid on the block. Akamai in my experience is not cheap, certainly not to the level Stackpath was. I saw big cost savings by switching from an Akamai CDN setup to stackpath.

As a Stackpath customer, I also received an email from Akamai welcoming me aboard. They provided a helpful where I could start a 90 day trial of several competing services ... none of which seemed like a like-for-like match, leaving me a bit confused. There's also no indication of pricing (typical Akamai). Seems like it's time to look for an alternative.

Comment · 3 years ago
This article claims Fentanyl is the "leading cause of death for those aged 18-45 in the USA". I can't find any legit source for this claim on the internet which proves this to be the case, only the opposite in fact.
Comment · 3 years ago
Of course it sucks to have a company who makes it difficult to cancel your account but if you never even wanted the subscription the why did you upload your payment details ?

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