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vermontdevil··on Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month
Never assume free tiers will last forever. Recognize they are often a way to entice people into the system. And that often they change as the business grows. Thus don’t build your business that depends on free tiers.
vermontdevil··on Tell HN: Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month
Mailgun does not owe you or anyone a free tier.

Start charging your clients money to cover costs that comes with their business.

vermontdevil··on Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight
This site has some more info about the 777 etc. Some articles may be paywalled though.

https://leehamnews.com/2020/01/25/third-time-is-the-charm-77...

vermontdevil··on List of Twitter mute words for your timeline
What does "pyle" mean in this context?
vermontdevil··on Crew Dragon launch escape demonstration
During press conference, they said the highest the g forces hit was 3.5
vermontdevil··on Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper
At first I thought it’s a variation of the old Atari game of the same name [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

vermontdevil··on The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan
And they have nuclear bombs
vermontdevil··on Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
Yet the CEO was an engineer.

From his Wiki:

He graduated in 1982 from Sioux Center High School in Sioux Center, Iowa.[3] He received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, followed by a master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.[1]

I think there's more to do it that just having an engineer or accountant as CEO.

vermontdevil··on Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
The replacement is no better. A GE stooge. Boeing has become GE part deux.
vermontdevil··on Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak
Ironically they are using some sort of Clay Linux and SUSE for the new Big Red III
vermontdevil··on Red Hat Cloud Forms migrating to IBM Cloud Pak
Indiana University uses Red Hat for Carbonate large memory cluster. I’m sure many universities still use Red Hat for various projects like this.

https://kb.iu.edu/d/aolp

vermontdevil··on Police conducted search in the Nginx office due to a copyright claim
So what are the long term impact if any can opine here? Doesn't sound good for the founder.
vermontdevil··on FTC rules 5-0 that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices [pdf]
I’m sure they can refer to Justice Department to go down that path?
vermontdevil··on ISOC sold the .org registry to Ethos Capital for $1.1B
Translation: the annual max of 10% price increases are gonna happen.
vermontdevil··on Ohio bill would allow students to be scientifically wrong due to religion
Looks at the Senate and Governor of Ohio

Republican controlled

Oh boy - this is going to pass for sure.

vermontdevil··on 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
8 years? Try 20 years. I started driving in the 90s. It’s very much different in that time span. And I drove through rural areas all the time (have family in those areas).
vermontdevil··on 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded
I know it’s anecdotal but driving long trips in the summer usually ends with a splattered windshield of bugs. Nowadays not so much.
vermontdevil··on Ring used video captured on Halloween for PR
Arlo. It offers local storage.
vermontdevil··on Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows
They are not going to spend $ to rebuild - they'll have the government to bail them out.
vermontdevil··on PG&E may cut power to 850k California customers this weekend due to fire risk
Won't be surprised to see sales of batteries (PowerWall, etc) and solar to tick up due to this.
vermontdevil··on Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just Two Bulls
From the article

This doesn't mean that the bulls in the catalog are genetically identical. They still had lots of different mothers, as well as grandmothers. But it does show that this system of large-scale artificial insemination, with farmers repeatedly picking top-rated bulls, has made cows more genetically similar. Meanwhile, genetic traits that existed in Holstein cows a generation ago have disappeared

vermontdevil··on Sears Hasn’t Fared Better After Bankruptcy
Sears is basically a REIT owned by Eddie Lampert [1]

[1] https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1c33fqdnhf21s...

vermontdevil··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
They just removed tbe app. They caved. Shocked now?
vermontdevil··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
He sure isn’t standing up for Hong Kong. Jeez.
vermontdevil··on China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app
Apple is going to cave. And it’ll set a worse precedent because other governments are going to demand backdoors etc.
vermontdevil··on Starship Prototype Unveiled
Steel was used before for the early Atlas rocket models. But the skin was too thin and collapsed on its own weight. You can see YouTube videos of this.
vermontdevil··on “China's Tesla” NIO slashes thousands of jobs as losses mount
Yet Indy is using BYD electric buses for their new Red Line rapid transit. The line just opened a few weeks ago.

Be interesting how it'll function during the cold weather - there were problems with these buses that BYD is scrambling to fix.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/201...

vermontdevil··on Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
There’s one being built right now in Georgia. Vogtle Power Station. Yup you guessed it. Over budget and late. Though to be fair - I think the timeline was too aggressive when it was first proposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

Another utility canceled a project that was underway in South Carolina.

vermontdevil··on What it was like to fly the baddest airplane
Definitely worth your trip to Dayton Ohio at the National Museum of the Air Force to see this plane in person. It’s on the floor so you can see it up close. I believe the other one at the Air and Space Museum is hung above.

The Air Force Museum is just an all around one of the best aviation museums to go anyway.

vermontdevil··on The Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat aren't healthier
Odds are that the PR flack for beef trade association reached out to their contacts in various media organizations and encouraged these type of articles to be written. SOP.
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