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Re:GPT-5 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:33PM (#44828543)
Re:A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid (2022) on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:21PM (#42267449)
Was this made with a visualization library? Or is this custom code on top of Mapbox?
They didn't even bother to update their website from what I can tell.

You can still download a backup of all your data (in Pivotal Tracker, click on the MORE menu, then on Export CSV).

Re:Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box on Friday November 24, 2023 @01:46PM (#38406854)
The game is certainly not lost. There are many of us running their own mail servers. Gmail will accept mail from your domain if you don't send spam.

You should try it.

Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2023 on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:48AM (#38264726)
I'm using rclone to sync with Backblaze nightly, executed directly from a cronjob.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:24PM (#37693586)
It's still sea-level. The transition altitude just changes the altimeter setting from one that matches the current air pressure to a standard pressure setting.
Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:22PM (#37693543)
Planes report pressure altitude via their transponders. 20-30 feet up and down is very normal for an autopilot.

GPS altitude is used for vertical guidance for certain types of GPS approaches (i.e. "LPV" approaches[1]) and requires the airplane's avionics to be equipped with a WAAS[2] receiver that provides accurate altitude information.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System

Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:30PM (#36525556)
Could you share the percentage of traffic coming from Google News, roughly?
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:22PM (#36525446)
You might be underestimating the amount of traffic Google sends to publishers through Google News. Anecdotally, I get Android notifications from CBC, Global, etc. through Google News daily and do sometimes click on them.
Re:Why is my dryer radioactive? on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:55PM (#35991655)
We had such a remediation done recently, in Alberta close to the rocky mountains.

Costs were around $2,000 CAD to install a sub-slab depressurization system (i.e. a fan that pulls air from below the house and vents it away from the house).

Radon values dropped from around 500 Bq/m3 to less than 20 Bq/m3.

> why play blame games

Because of the question of liability: If it was lab made and accidentally released, was it due to recklessness or criminal negligence? Is someone guilty of involuntary mass-manslaughter? Or if this was state-sponsored research, could they be found liable for the damage caused?

Hologram.io or Twilio
Have a look at Canada for a recent precedent: People had their bank accounts frozen for having made donations to support the protests.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...

Re:Imgur Acquired by Medialab on Monday September 27, 2021 @05:25PM (#28676229)
Try OVH
Re:German city wants to ditch Microsoft for Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:14PM (#23406691)
I'm curious, what are the technical reasons OpenJVM won't work for you?
Re:Reddit Security Incident on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @01:23PM (#17664646)
How does SMS interception actually work in practice? Wouldn't this require physical access to the phone/SIM, or are there any known remote exploits?
Re:Stripe Atlas for LLCs on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:48PM (#16960684)
What would be the combined fed+state corporate income tax rate for a Delaware LLC?

Quick google says this is 21% (federal) + 8.7% (Delaware). Is my understanding of this correct, that a Delaware LLC pays 29.7% taxes on its profits?

GPS by itself isn't accurate enough to determine what lane you're in.

Even WAAS GPS [1] (used by autopilots for airplanes) is specified to be accurate only up to 25 ft, although the measured accuracy is usually around 3 ft.

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