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Re:Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator on Thursday January 29, 2026 @12:53PM (#46813716)
The LHC is a project of CERN
Re:What to Expect from Debian/Trixie on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:13PM (#44660845)
The page about upgrading [0] does have this warning:

  Back up your data
  
  Performing a release upgrade is never without risk. The upgrade may fail, leaving the system in a non-functioning state. USERS SHOULD BACKUP ALL DATA before attempting a release upgrade. DebianStability contains more information on these steps.
[0] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade
Re:How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git on Thursday June 12, 2025 @10:28AM (#44258233)
Can you not achieve the log history on a subtree with `git log my/subfolder/`? Tools like TortoiseGit let you right click on a folder and view the log of changes to it.
Re:Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:32AM (#43182207)
There are also some lovely cut in half shots in Chris Young's YouTube videos (one of the people that worked on Modernist Cuisine). e.g. https://youtu.be/IZY8xbdHfWk?t=239

Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165566

Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @07:24AM (#43024645)
That’s the date format used in the UK
Re:XYPlorer Is Written in VB6 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @08:28AM (#42665721)
They actually have a new year deal [0] on a perpetual licence to all v1 versions for £249, equal to 10 months of the subscription.

[0] https://twinbasic.com/NEWYEAR25

Re:The PayPal Mafia is taking over America's government on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:26AM (#42387988)
I see 1 USD/user/month, billed annually
This is called MVHR (mechanical ventillation with heat recovery) in the UK. We're looking at putting it in, but have a fairly poorly insulated house, so it's not clear if the heat recovery is worthwhile. There is also PIV (positive input ventillation), which blows fresh air into a property (normally the hallways), but does not recover heat, or duct air from the rooms. So it's much simpler and cheaper to buy and install. It relies on the natural 'leakiness' of the property to vent stale air out.
Re:Readyset: A MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @09:46AM (#39454452)
Regarding the new database version issue, I wonder why the caching layer can't just pass any query it is unable to process on to the underlying database?

This would be more complex if the feature you are using does not return a normal table of results back (e.g. the pub/sub support in Postgres).

My point is that the lower risk for the majority of the journey will offset (partially or fully I do not know) the increased risk on take-off and landing. I would guess that the overall risk will end up lower for a WIG craft than a traditional high speed foiling vessel.

Also rocks are only a concern in a small area of ocean around the takeoff and landing areas, which will presumably be fairly well surveyed.

It's only hydro-foiling on take-off and landing, in flight it's a plane in ground effect flying just above the sea.
Re:The failure of self-checkout technology on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:12PM (#39030493)
My coop has the worst of all worlds. There used to be four self checkouts, but they removed two during covid, and another one after it developed a fault. So you have one self checkout, with a member of staff that has to juggle baby sitting it and manning a basket checkout. It would be much quicker if they just removed the last self checkout and had the staff member man the checkout full time.
Re:The failure of self-checkout technology on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:04PM (#39030399)
In Waitrose (UK) stores at least this is not the case. When you are spot checked the staff member spot checks that a few things in your trolley have been scanned. They tend to check some higher value goods like alcohol.

Also those stores, at least where I live, have no physical barrier to exit.

Pressurised airframes also have a pressurisation cycle limit
You can see the video here https://youtu.be/kIxJobVCRTI
I would be concerned that the carbon fibre has been significantly weakened by the impact.

https://www.resinlibrary.com/knowledge/article/can-carbon-fi...

> Since fibre strength significantly exceeds that of the matrix (epoxy), damage usually occurs in the matrix before the fibres for laminate composites. In some instances, this is relatively easy to detect; snapped fibres protruding from the object’s surface. Yet more microscopic damage – something which can spread through the object – is harder to detect even though it can significantly reduce the mechanical properties of the composite.

Re:Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015) on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:15AM (#37870885)
The Highway code states that those waiting to cross also have right of way

> At a junction you should give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross a road into which or from which you are turning

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction#ru...

Re:The most unusual magazine ever published: Man, Myth and Magic on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:59AM (#37403150)
I think the substack linked in the grandparent is a continuation of this?
Re:The Alexander Piano on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:27AM (#37047340)
Is there a reason (apart from looking cool) to put the keys/player at the top, rather than have the keys at the bottom, with the strings going up?
Re:South Pole Signage on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:28PM (#36909333)
But not 100% of your income goes to paying for labour in your local economy. You buy goods and services that are from elsewhere (food from France, entertainment from America) etc.
It sounds like they already do:

> He said that emails sent directly from the .mil domain to Malian addresses “are blocked before they leave the .mil domain and the sender is notified that they must validate the email addresses of the intended recipients”.

One of the examples is a hotel booking confirmation, which would come from a third party.

Re:Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:55PM (#35616586)
I'm a big Tailscale proponent, implementing it at work in early 2020. But for us I'm not sure this is great news. We have a small Tailnet of 5 users, paying $30 for the Team plan. If we went for Starter we'd save $18, but loose a lot of cool things Tailscale has come out with recently that we have been looking at, like user/group level ACLs, ACL Gitops,Tailscale SSH and Tailscale Funnel.

Alternatively we'd pay $36 for (3 free, 2 * $18) for Premium, which doesn't sound too bad. But the cost for each new user would be three times higher than it currently is (and Tailscale our most expensive SAAS product per person).

Or we stick to legacy pricing for now, and live with things like the Subnet Router limit which makes e.g. connecting home VoIP phones to the Tailnet price prohibitive.

I went and looked this up, because it sounded horrible.

from https://www.billionoysterparty.org/oysterfarms

> Oyster farms travel to the Billion Oyster Party from across the country, bringing their unique oysters for you to try — and pair with your favorite beverages.

Re:Pinboard vs. Raindrop: Two bookmark apps enter on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:39AM (#33559088)
I think a feature of these bookmarking services is that you can search through the text on bookmarked pages?
Re:We handled a recent phishing incident that targeted Dropbox on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @10:07AM (#33421424)
> The code and the data around it also included a few thousand names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees, current and past customers, sales leads, and vendors

There isn't an explanation as to why customer, lead and vendor data is stored in GitHub? Or (less likely?) they allowed GitHub OAuth to log into other Dropbox internal services?

Re:Starlink Maritime on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:07AM (#32024652)
I might be misunderstanding you, but $100/mo is $1.2k/y not $12k/y.

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