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GPS does not account for leap seconds (2002)(leapsecond.com)
61 points by uncertainrhymes 4y ago|53 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
I like deno.com, but I am deeply suspicious of their speed test methodology. I hope I am wrong, but it really looks like they are comparing time-to-first-byte (TTFB) including TLS, i.e. a 'cold start'. It should not be almost 400
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
Carriers assume most people most of the time won't use their full allocation of minutes and data -- this is 'breakage' and is built into their pricing. If they charged on usage, the rates would look worse even if it was &#x27
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
This is very similar to old-school journalism advice: The most important thing goes first. If your reader doesn't care about it, they will move on anyways. It is also a pyramid because the editor is likely going to have to cut it to fi
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
The steps outlined don't go far enough in my opinion. They stop at 'deliver' as if that was the goal. I've had several roles that involved a lot of presentations and public speaking. I've also been subjected to hund
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
If only we had some other long term home closer at hand.
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
There are plenty of shows that had no idea how to get out of what they started (looking at you, Battlestar Galactica). However, no show will ever fail to end more spectacularly than Lost.
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Nuclear reactor costs – US Navy Edition(constructionphysics.substack.com)
4 points by uncertainrhymes 4y ago|0 comments
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British Columbia experiments with decriminalizing small amounts of hard drugs(wired.com)
3 points by uncertainrhymes 4y ago|0 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 4y ago
I am not an apologist for Bell any other the other terrible providers in Canada. There are many reasons to hate them. But why are Canadians surprised it is expensive? Landmass larger than the US with 1/10 the population. Yes, most of i
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
I am not associated with this product, but a very happy customer. https://simpl.fyi/about It is a plugin that emulates some of the now-removed Inbox functionality, and generally makes Gmail more pleasant to deal with.
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
The bikes were secondary to them being a media company. I wouldn't be surprised if they sold those bikes at a loss. I am not in their club, but their instructors were celebrities with celebrity-sized followings. Even if people entirely
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
On the cloud providers, you are paying for your usage (yes, marked up, but they have costs too). Cloudflare has the same model, but they distribute the costs. The vast majority of people never use anywhere close to their share, so they subs
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Neither the Dorset nor Beothuk people overlapped in that particular place at that time. Newfoundland is an (enormous) island, and while there were various migrations over time there is no record of other peoples c1000 in that (rather inhosp
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
The inventor repeatedly suffered lead poisoning, and many of the workers died at the plant developing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr .
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Canada has highest mobile data prices in the world [pdf](research.rewheel.fi)
3 points by uncertainrhymes 5y ago|0 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Fastly has published their server specs: 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 @ 2.90GHz 768 GB of RAM (384 GB per Processor) 18 TB of SSD Storage (Intel 3 Series or Samsung 840 Pro Enterprise Series)
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
When you were young, those ticks may not have had lyme. More importantly, you removed them. They have to be attached for 24 hours before the bacteria comes back out of the tick's gut.
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Github pages already has a CDN in front of it, but I like your workflow with Hugo. The widelands site seems to go directly to netcup in Germany. It is likely just a DDoS detector mistaking sudden interest as an attack.
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Clickbait. Cloudfront is not a 'premium CDN', its performance is notoriously mediocre. I'm pretty sure Cloudfront only compresses text, so no idea why they are comparing compressed images. Riddled with factual errors. This is
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Let's be generous and assume they outsource this -- which is a huge mistake. Your contracts are going to be an enormous pain, or if you use the paper from your customers you will be at a disadvantage. Have a sharp general counsel _earl
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
If you use a CDN to front your traffic, you need the CNAME for www (or whatever) to be pointing at their DNS infrastructure, so they can return whichever closest POP is going to serve your traffic. e.g. dig @1.1.1.1 www.nvidia.com +trace ..
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
Old. I kid, but it does seem a function of age. I've always seen a dividing line between people whose fondest memories are in the past, versus how much they look forward to making new memories. I am right in the middle right now, and t
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Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar(bugs.chromium.org)
266 points by uncertainrhymes 5y ago|202 comments
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
I lived in an ancient finance building that was converted to residential in the 80s. All the layouts were bizarre, twisting around to give every unit the barest slice of window. The bike storage in the basement was a vault with a 24" t
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
If they have a bug that can crash their servers, they likely won't want to publicize the details until it is fully patched. I wouldn't expect that detail for a while.
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by uncertainrhymes 5y ago
This may be true with some, but it is not true of Fastly. Each of their edge nodes is a varnish cache. Because they are multi-tenant, when varnish crashes it crashes hard and takes everyone with it. The question in various threads is why no
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by uncertainrhymes 6y ago
The very first useful cooking website I remember was cookingforengineers.com. From 2005, it predates the nonsense the has become the typical clickbait recipe sites. I also always loved the tabular layout that included both ingredients and a