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I had a short browse and I was really impressed by how much nicer to read you have managed to make wikipedia. Normally I much prefer static HTML to whatever mess the latest javascript framework manages to conjure up but what you've done really seems to work.

The text actually fills the screen rather than just hiding in the gutter on the left, and even though you've removed most styling cues around links and actions, it's done in a way that it's still obvious what everything does, so the main content can be clearer.

The dynamic sidebar table of contents is also particularly effective - on desktop, everybody has a widescreen monitor now and it's disappointing now few sites take advantage of it.

My only two critical points are your choice of typeface, which is awful and significantly degrades the experience (browsing with fonts turned off is a great improvement), and the speed - not only does clicking a link take several seconds to do something but there isn't really any indication whether things are happening or not.

If you find yourself zooming in to new websites more often than not, it's possible to set the default zoom level in firefox. In about:config, set "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" to the decimal zoom level you want. It will also grow the UI scale but you can reduce that by setting it to "compact" mode in the Customise menu.

The server doesn't support java plugins for bukkit/spigot. Because none of the internals are shared any interface layer would be needlessly complex and a drag on maintenance.

The lua plugin system is well-developed and documented [1] so most plugins could be changed over easily.

[1]: https://api.cuberite.org

Thanks for taking the time to critique this - it's only something I put together in a few hours for fun. I'm sure somebody with more skill than me would be able to make something like this for multiple languages / accents.

Price of 24 hour lighting is about £1 - £2 per watt year (standard overhead fluorescents). For typical office building lighting intensity, that's around £15 - £50 per m^3. Assuming the high end of that scale, for the building you mentioned, the yearly lighting bill would be £5 million.

No, plastic can be very tough, but is not generally very hard (although there are exceptions to both).

Since plastic can stretch a large amount before breaking it absorbs more energy than a (inverse of tough) object, so it is tough.

Since it is easy to stretch inelastically, it is not hard.

The headline is very confusing - "Microsoft beats Wall Street predictions with $22.6B revenue" would be a better choice.

I have heard that such devices already exist. They are a NTC cap that goes over the end of the bulb.

http://donklipstein.com/bulb1.html#ss

HN Guidelines:

> If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

The wikipedia article is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier

Basically, the repeater is another laser, but the emmission of new photons is stimulated by low-energy photons exciting the partially-excited atoms in the amplifier.

The same number of amps will require the same cross-sectional area of Copper, for both DC and AC.

You can use less copper for the same power with higher voltage as a reduced current is required for the same power. This is also independent of AC/DC.

I haven't, but there are other clients that work nearly as well. I use a modified version of letsencrypt-nosudo [1], and setup.sh should do everything you need.

[1]: https://github.com/bearbin/nfsn-le

Potato peeler? https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/5/5c/Peeler.j...

The LetsEncrypt root is in-house, not third party. Certificates are also cross-signed by IdenTrust, but once the LetsEncrypt root is in all major browsers, it won't be necessary to have a cross-signature.

That's not to say that they don't have some other motive for the 90 day expiry, but I don't think they need the support of major CAs for what they're doing at the moment.

> FIR is not greedy performance-wise. It will run smoothly on a Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine with 1 core, a 40 GB disk and 1 GB RAM.

It's a simple CRUD App, why does it need a whole gig of RAM‽

Also, Is there a demo site, or more screenshots than in the README?

I've used NearlyFreeSpeech.NET for quite a few years now. It's not a cPanel host, but it's actually very easy for beginners to get started with. It's also very flexible and they have some really cool features.

If you're going to use a shared host, you should use NFSN IMO.

Google does automatic refunds if you uninstall an app within 2 hours from purchase, which seems like a good system to me.

I believe they are inductors, part of a switch-mode power supply to reduce the voltage of incoming power to the level required by the cores (AFAIK ~1V).

MCServer is actually an older project than mineserver, it was originally created in 2011 by FakeTruth.

Yes. The API is very good, and we already have some plugins that work quite well - for example a copy of the Bukkit WorldEdit mod: http://forum.mc-server.org/showthread.php?tid=870

Tokyo alone has 25% of Japan's population. So I think it is fair to say that Tokyo and a few other cities == Japan.

To some extent these already exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera_back

But they're more for medium/large format cameras.

The bugs you've linked at the bottom look like they're the right ones.

Thanks for the help, and I hope the fix gets pushed down soon.

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PushBullet - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pushbullet/chlffgp...

Hckr News - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...

LastPass - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lastpass-free-pass...

NearlyFreeSpeech.net offers comparable value to S3, and you can use apache features like .htaccess for redirection. Only problem is that it's still SNI, if that's important for you.

ST3 is no better at this, IME. When I edit files over SSHFS it at least freezes the file that's being saved, and maybe other files too.

This looks great. It seems like the extension of what they've been doing with Now for a while - all the information you need in easily actionable cards.

It's actually $0.02 for the first process (which can have as many databases as you like) AFAIK.

Yes, the 10ms out of 50ms blocked, plus at maximum 25% of the CPU time otherwise is only when the GC is running.

This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.