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Re:Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:55PM (#37666304)
They _still_ don't support adding a custom feed?

That miss was what pushed me to google podcast in the first place, along with their absolute refusal to fix broken feeds for existing podcasts in their index.

Re:How fast is ASP.NET Core? on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @10:47AM (#33610606)
Really frustrating to see the amount of effort that went in to gaming those benchmarks when catastrophic performance issues in core Microsoft-authored libraries go unfixed for years. https://github.com/dotnet/SqlClient/issues/593
Re:The spam on Twitter on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @03:08PM (#32841828)
You can add keyword blocks instead of blocking the entire account. Isn't obvious, but it's there.
> For similar-sized vehicles in the U.S. today, per-mile lifecycle (including vehicle and battery production) greenhouse gas emissions for battery electric vehicles run on the present U.S.-average grid electricity are approximately 55% of the emissions from conventional internal combustion engine vehicles.

Electric vehicles have almost half the lifetime emissions. That's huge, no matter how you spin it.

> that's what you wish Mueller had written.

Pot/kettle/black

https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigati...

- Special Counsel Mueller declined to exonerate President Trump and instead detailed multiple episodes in which he engaged in obstructive conduct

- The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”

- Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016

- The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity

Re:James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:35PM (#32063005)
From the article: > The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it.
I mean... it isn't as if the CRTC is going to set up their own telco just to operate their own office.