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How is it retaliating if you turned off the servers that host it?

(you, just like the chatbot, can come up with a random hypothetical explanation, but like the chatbot's answer, it will be illogical, based on the premise that the chatbot only exists on the servers)

Tried to play it, but the player name entry page bogged my CPU so hard I couldn't even type. This is really where we're at with technology today... the modern equivalent of a Flash applet is so slow I can't even use the computer.

Volvo's Class 8 electrics get around 275 mile range, which is more than Daimler's. Naturally, carrying more weight is gonna limit that range, dunno how much (any auto engineers around?)

The size of the fire from one of these trucks getting into an accident is going to be impressive

For others' reference: the "one leg over, then the other leg over the other way" is how you hang a bespoke suit's pants. No special hanger needed, the cloth's opposite drag provides enough friction to keep it on. The hangar for the cuffed pants is good for keeping the cuffs in shape (but who wears cuffs?)

I want to make V1 of this myself, but actually the cost of the plywood and the metal hinge is probably more costly than this product. I hope they can get it into big stores.

The shortest time to pizza dough is the one you pick up from the grocery store in 10 minutes. No difference from whatever you'll make at home, and makes a great pizza. I've brought it with me in a cooler when camping and made pizza over the campfire. Next time to avoid having to ice it down, I'll just start a no-knead one the first night I make camp. Whatever works, works

It's interesting to see her with Jacques Pepin. Jacques is a master chef and an absolute beast in the kitchen, but his recipes often skip steps or "cheat" in order to get something about as good with less time and work. Julia insists on doing it the "right" way and is more opinionated. Both are master chefs, but they each have a different approach to cooking, and both are great. I don't take this as a cooking lesson but as a life lesson.

  > > I don't mean to pressure or be rude but if @minimaxir could share his
  > > thoughts on this I would really appreciate it.
  
  > To be perfectly clear, this absolutely is applying pressure and being rude.

It's really not.

I've been in open source development for two decades. It's not rude to ask if a project is abandoned. If asking that question causes somebody to quit, it's probably for the best.

That's due to increased carbon dioxide uptake. Essentially you're feeding the plant too much carbon dioxide, so the end result is unbalanced production of starches/sugars.

It does seem these electrical effects are well established, and seem to mostly have positive benefits: https://www.ehow.com/list_7531004_effects-electricity-plant-...

> Capitalism has a way of solving these things.

Just depends on what kind of "solution" you allow for. Job shortages may be filled by illegal workers, unqualified workers, or workers cutting corners.

The Docker image is more useful

Here's what a container gives you:

  - Isolation of networking
  - Isolation of process namespace
  - Isolation of filesystem namespace
  - CPU and Memory limit enforcement
  - A near-universal format for packaging, distributing, and running applications, with metadata, and support for multiple architectures
  - A simple method for declaring a multi-step build process
  - Other stuff I don't remember

You're certainly welcome to go without them, but over time, everybody ends up needing at least one of the features containers bring. I get the aversion to adding more complexity, but complexity has this annoying habit of being useful.

I don't think any method is gonna make it easy to grok 3,336 added lines and 5,421 removed

There's not a lot of detail on this page. Shenandoah definitely has a mix of wild and disturbed areas...

I'm kind of amazed they finally introduced ticketing for Old Rag: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/faqs-oldrag.htm We've known for years that way too many people try to go on this difficult hike, to the point where if your hike didn't start at 9am you might be out there all day due to the log-jam of people in the narrows. Happy to see that they're improving the overall experience by putting reasonable limits on the number of visitors.

> How many more dumb decisions of the past will we have to continue enduring just for the sake of, well, keeping things the same?

I dunno. When do you predict all national, ethnic and religious identities will go away? I'm going with 100,000 years.

I've made small woodworking projects by hand with clearances like this. You just need to understand the grain and type of wood and be careful. Once it's assembled it'll be strong enough for general use.

OTOH, here is a hash table in C implemented entirely as macros. It's super cool: https://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/

The holes could be tapped before shaving down the wood, and then screws with less thick threads could be used. That would prevent splitting and still provide a secure connection.

This actually wouldn't be that hard to make with hand tools. You basically make it in sections and then combine. Layout can be made exact by using an imprint.

If all I'd ever seen is rednecks in pickup trucks picking up milk from the gas station, I guess I'd think it was cute.

Visit a hamlet in the UK some time, tell me what you think then.

Ya caught me. My 15 years of road trips across the US, moving across multiple states, and frequent visits to the UK have made me ill-equipped to comment on the state of US cities and villages. Dang. I thought I could get away with it too.

Something tells me there are 100x as many cute country villages in the UK as there are in the US. Here if it's not a big city, it's a depressing shamble. The exceptions are insanely expensive retreats for the rich.

looks like doesn't support 802.1Q?

There's a fundamental misunderstanding of what The Cloud is that seems to pervade discussions like this. Too many technical people don't understand what they're looking at.

The Cloud is not "a computer". The Cloud is a public utility. You don't rent the transformers at an electric utility company - because why the hell would you? It's just one component of a much larger system that is valueless to the consumer without all the other components.

What these people are selling is more like a battery that you can purchase that plugs into the electric grid. But why would you want to purchase a battery? It degrades over time, losing value, and eventually needs to be recycled, and somebody has to deal with all that. Renting is the perfect way to push all of that time-consuming and complex maintenance out to someone else who can lower cost with volume.

The idea that renting servers is not sustainable would suggest that somehow computers are not like housing, cars, shop vacs, or any of the million other things you can rent. A computer is an expensive commodity like any other, and renting makes perfect sense a lot of the time.

If you need to purchase, for economic, load, tax, regulatory, or other reasons, there are already ready-made computers with (or without) service contracts and supported OSes that can be plopped into any colo, and colos sell dedicated machines already. This pitch doesn't include anything new other than buzzwords. Yeah I'm sure they did a bunch of engineering - that nobody will ever need. I'm calling shenanigans.

I mean, not over the wire, but an average developer can definitely grok either protocol pretty quickly. IP is connectionless and fairly simple. TCP requires a more complicated state machine, and has more extensions if you want to implement the entire thing. IPv6 makes both more complicated. But the actual functionality is limited, so there's not a lot of complexity outside of "Did they turn on option 1? Do a thing. Did they turn on option 2? Do another thing. Is option 2 on but option 3 off? Do another thing."

It's not like implementing transport encryption and multiplexing and congestion control and etc etc etc. I doubt many people in the world actually know how to implement QUIC. I implemented tcp/ip as a teenager when I was bored over summer break.

It's probably not any more dangerous than being tethered to another being when you need to get out of the way quickly.

It's going to be sad when the browser oligarchs deprecate HTTP/1.1. The last web protocol that humans could understand. But, perhaps it will force people to go back to the drawing board and develop new protocols that aren't dependent on web browser tech. Maybe the state of the art will finally advance past this networked document reader.

Hard drives are the best drives.

Everybody wants to make an app.

But nobody wants to make An App.