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Re:Do Frameworks Matter Anymore? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:40AM (#50082848)
For example, this blog may have had syndication (RSS/atom/jsonfeed) by default if a blogging framework was leveraged.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:46AM (#50073583)
Do you know of a CEC adapter which can do HDMI2.1 4K120Hz? What has held me back from this setup is only being able to find 4K60Hz CEC adapters.
Re:The value of not getting to the point (2015) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:58PM (#50011227)
Read it while you can, third-level .name TLDs are being discontinued next year by Verisign. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name#Discontinuation_of_third...

Re:Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:28AM (#46717431)
Modern PCIe NVME drives typically see a few microsecond latency, but even DDR2 latency was around 10 nanoseconds. Memory remains top dog by a long shot.
Re:Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025? on Sunday December 28, 2025 @02:38PM (#46413763)
Fall of Civilizations: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

Each episode is of exceptional quality and retells history in an engaging manor. Since it's history, the entire backlog is still relevant.

> Tax dollars don't fund the government. The government funds the government. That's what "Fiat currency" means.

There was $4.9 trillion in revenue and $6.8 trillion in outlays in 2024 [1]. 95% of that revenue was from taxes. In spite of the high deficit, it remains a true statement that the federal government is funded by taxes as they account for the majority of funding.

[1]: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61185

Those lending to the US government are doing so by purchasing US Treasury bonds, which have due dates and earn interest.

Based on the credit rating of the US government, they will certainly not end up with less in nominal terms.

Considering that the current deepest borehole in the world is 12km [1], 20km is a lofty goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:02PM (#29688999)
Those statistics are for New York State, not NYC.

See page 27 (PDF page 33) of [0].

Commercial natural gas usage in NYC is roughly 40% of non-power generation natural gas usage. The actual proportion varies greatly depending on time of year, presumably due to natural gas heating in residential properties in colder months.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/air/nyc-combin...

Re:Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:05AM (#28987944)
I believe part of the reason for American companies to not list teams publicly is to guard against easily poaching talent using that data.
I have had this taken to me. Taxi drivers "accidently" take the wrong turn into a tunnel that adds at least an extra mile to the trip. You are billed directly on distance traveled so it is not surprising.
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:51AM (#23311076)
Interesting edge case. Perhaps we need something other than MST for Arizona (excluding Navajo Nation) if we want a lack of ambiguity. If only politicians knew how annoying dealing with time is for software developers!
I would work remotely from a small town, away from the fast life of urban areas. Property costs are significantly lower, as with crime and traffic. Possibilities include somewhere on the DelMarVa peninsula. Constraints include 50+ Mbps internet and a newer house without asbestos/lead paint.
Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:15AM (#23272999)
I'd argue that DuckDuckGo's behaviour is the correct one, but they should display a warning when the east cost is on EDT and someone requests conversion with EST. Maybe we will stop using daylight savings before the masses learn the difference between ET/EST/EDT.
I can't see them doing this in College Park with the goal of reducing driving. This Ikea is in the northern-most part. Unfortunately, retail is spread out thin along Route 1 and is absolutely awful for walking to if you are not near the university. And riding a bike on Route 1 is a significant risk on your life.
Re:Homelab: Intel NUC with the ESXi Hypervisor on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:43PM (#22931012)
You can assign them static IPs in DHCP, then run your own DNS server that returns local IPs for those hosts.

Or bridge those VMs on your macbook so it's a flat network, then use Avahi for mDNS so they all have .locals.

Re:Our list of free software for remote work on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:32AM (#22700452)
I switched to Evolution from Thunderbird recently and I must say, it is way more pleasant to use than Thunderbird.
Re:Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:53PM (#22368025)
You can use pre and post renewal hooks in order to temporarily disable those firewall rules.
Re:Ending Support for macOS and Linux on Thursday January 23, 2020 @08:21PM (#22134426)
Solutions exist to translate Vulkan to Metal.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

Since Apple just added support to HomeKit for cameras I am sure this new standard they are making will support them too.
Re:Oracle v. Google and the future of software development on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:23PM (#18995545)
Would this make the WINE project in violation of copyright for MS Windows?

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