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excalq··on EVs are starving states of tax money to fix potholes and build roads
I forsee even more dead vehicles ending up in blackberry thickets if that happens.
excalq··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
Isn't that per year? I'm on their bigger $90/year plan which is excellent.
excalq··on Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
I've noticed that it's trivial to install addons directly from their xpi packages on GitHub release pages.
excalq··on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Tab containers are a godsend when managing multiple AWS accounts as well.
excalq··on Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
On 17 October, there was a multi-AZ network failure at us-east-1. It only lasted 3m35s, but it was enough that our customers were calling about our site being down.
excalq··on Watson for President
What if Watson read Conservapedia thinking it to be factual. That's a startling thought.
excalq··on Ask HN: How does a 1990s web developer get back on track?
I took several years away from the front-end to focus on Backend and DevOps, only recently re-upping my front-end-fu. Since I knew CSS 2.0, I found Bootstrap quite easy to pick up and be productive with in about a day, not previously knowing CSS griding. And I found myself saying over again, holy shit where was this back in "my day"!
excalq··on Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
They also make a ridiculously amazing Solar charger array, which when I took across a border to Israel, had the inspectors in serious awe and wishing they could get one as inexpensively as we can in the States.
excalq··on So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Why not Ireland? You do have a .ie domain, afterall!
excalq··on 'Silicon Valley Is Coming' Warns JP Morgan CEO
In my experience the Canada DMV has incredibly hot young women working at the DMV. Back home, it's Patty and Selma.
excalq··on Graham's Number
Related to that is Tetration, which can be expressed with complex numbers resulting in some beautiful fractal graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Extensions
excalq··on Mexican Lady blogs to warn about drug violence is Killed and uploaded to Twitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine's_Day_Massacre http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organ...
excalq··on Mexican Lady blogs to warn about drug violence is Killed and uploaded to Twitter
This is the same shit as happened in cities like Chicago during the 1920s, with the same cause: prohibition. I wonder when our incompetent politicians are going to realize that ending drug prohibition is the counter-intuitive, but well evidenced solution for this tragic decades long tragedy?
excalq··on iMac with Retina 5K display
That's easy to fix. Use iTerm2, and tell it to remap modifier keys (to unflip them). If you use mission-control shortcuts (like move workspace), configure those keys in iTerm2 to "don't remap modifiers"
excalq··on Why They Called It the Manhattan Project (2007)
I actually work for a tech startup in the Chambers Street building that was the original HQ of the Manhattan Project. It kind of blew our minds when we found out!