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Given all the y2k fuss how did they not see this one coming?

> can not guarantee it will be make available always True! However I trust the wikimedia foundation, and the fact that because it is a valuable dataset there are many copies of it. If they really d…

There are trains between Moscow / Beijing and Pyongyang, which is interesting I think.

Handover to Bluetooth potentially? Or stream data directly peer to peer.

Probably because they're so small they're overlooked by the salespeople and lobbyists from the big corps. I imagine that helps a lot. In the UK there are plenty of smart people in Government…

I want an offline voice recognition speaker that can do timers and stream audio from my phone, although that's optional to be honest. I wonder how hard making such a thing is.

I wonder if the 'Sweet Nothings' scent is even supposed to smell of anything. https://twitter.com/UndeniablyAlex/status/146855520298691789... …

Orthostatic tolerance, I think, means your ability to stand up without passing out. Basically drinking water means that markers of othostatic intolerance improve dramatically in healthy subjects. htt…

How long before plastic rots/degrades like wood or other materials?

The best example of what modern journalism can (should?) be is Ros Atkins's work on BBC Outside Source. https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1471755622651682816 Brut…

This is something I've pondered many times. It seems inevitable that at some point in the future, plastic will rot and decay as it is consumed by bacteria, the same way wood rots today. The impli…

Assuming life had a single origin—which is the accepted version of events—every organism on earth is your cousin. You have a common ancestor with every bacteria in your gut, and with the the animal, o…

This is Web1, if anything.

So ebooks then? What bad could possibly done by providing free access to public domain works, and access to library schemes?

Nobody wanted a smart home. It does not solve any significant need in anybody's life except maybe those with reduced mobility or other impairments. Anything a smart home does beyond a very few th…

Not another reverse proxy

You can also see him on stage in the West End. Quite the talented chap. https://www.austentatiousimpro.com/cast/ …

I don't know if there's such a thing as good taste, but there is definitely such a thing as bad taste.

> They have been selected, by humans, to build flat sheets What? The flat sheets are nothing to do with selection. They are to do with leveraging 'bee space' in the design of hives. Man-m…

I wonder how long it will be before async lambdas are a thing, as in you can yield while awaiting a response - avoiding this issue.

I have had a long-term phobia of needles. This is excacerbated by the fact that I'm usually in some sort of stressful situation at the point at which a needle is being put into me: be it a part o…

Factorio does a great job of modelling some failure modes of scaling systems. For example, your train bus smelting depot is fantastic until you suddenly realise you have train throughput issues and ne…

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An insider told me that their internal secret store became overloaded, which caused every other service to suddenly fail to have access to any credentials.