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This reminds me of the steam.com domain - for the longest time I've wondered what the relationship is like between the owner and Valve Corporation...

It used to have an actual page, it looks like it's just a registered domain now with a page that times out.


I'm there with ya - one of the images in the article had me immediately think of that part of the level.


Is this helicopter exclusively for war, though?.. are these not used for rescue missions or other humanitarian things? If not then should anything that is used for battle or violence be retracted?.. I had a lot of Legos with guns (westerns), blasters (star wars) and other tools.


It's not and it's a Transport vehicle. That's why this is nonsense. An apache would make sense because it has one function, this is a utilitarian vehicle. It's just stupid all around. The fact that a large company like lego bows to this ridiculousness is stupid. I'm an AFOL and probably spend around 5k a year on Lego. I've been a pretty consistent purist with exception of some Moc Cars (mould king). All this does is push me away from the brand.


And I'm over here imagining a Max Max Lego set :)


They sort of had some of them in the lego movie 2 sets :)

Lots of MOC sets out there, if you google image search mad max lego, there are some really impressive sets.


Script tags (added programmatically) should support such errors via "onerror" functions. Though, I don't know if integrity errors could truly be determined. If they can then you can do whatever you want with such an error.


"In local news, stranger off the street walks through residence's open door and moves around furniture."


Well, even in such a world, that would still be considered trespassing.


For sure, and I believe Twilio did not intend to "have their door open" and that whoever modified their code knew that they were "trespassing" similarly.


Sure, but would you want to hear that from your bank? Who needs vaults when you can declare trespassing.


I am not a lawyer, I'm definitely not your lawyer. Trespassing and possibly theft, I think. Theft includes moving stuff without the owners permission. so if I ,say, have a tow truck and move a car across the street without the owners consent, I'm a thief.

I only know this because a friend talked about a case where they rotated a car in-place, and there was a question about is that theft? its center of mass is still where they left it, so it wound up not being theft. Moving furniture in a house is a weird one. Probably leans on ill intent, moving a chair to block a door seems like it's pointed to giving the owner a hard time. moving a chair to perform cpr has much purer motives.

So anyway, there's my ill-informed view.


I thought in common law countries theft required you to have the intent to permanently deprive the victim of the property. this is why there are separate statutes to cover stealing cars because people just claimed they were taking it temporarily.


Ha, that README grammar fix years ago finally pays off!


It looks like a Wordpress site, but caching or a CDN should resolve a lot of what feels slow, right?


P64 Sysadmin here: We are using heavy caching, on WP and also browser-side. It's still not enough.

We previously used Cloudflare, which obviously fixes most of these problems, but people in these types of circles tend to get pissy about CF.


PHP 5.4..?

I'd recommend setting up WP Super Cache (which you're using now) to serve static HTML files (not sure what caching method you are using). Then you need to configure Apache (or switch to nginx) to actually look for those files, otherwise the plugin won't do much (it generates PHP files by default which are taxing on the server). Another option would be to switch to the Cache Enabler plugin (along with Apache or nginx configuration) - static HTML page caching as simple as it gets. Oh and upgrade PHP.

Edit: For Cache Enabler, check suggested advanced configs at https://www.keycdn.com/support/wordpress-cache-enabler-plugi...

Edit2: CF would just by default cache your CSS/JS, wouldn't really solve the issues you're experiencing (most likely heavy PHP/MySQL load due to poorly configured caching). That said I haven't looked into the site that much, might be that you have a lot of portions of the site that can't be properly cached but then again most users shouldn't need to be logged in so doubt it.


Trust me, PHP 5.x is going to be one of the first things to go in a few days. Moving to PHP 7 should fix many of our issues in one go -- I hope. Along with a move to nginx (which the rest of our web infrastructure already uses). There's a long story as to why all this hasn't be done previously.

I'll look into changing the caching once we're over the worst of this. Forgive me if I don't want to make significant changes during a massive traffic spike. ;)


Haha, of course. :) Hope it turns out well!


since it's a webshop it will mostly be cache misses anyway for the static generated pages, not sure that will help a lot.


Yeah that was my only reservation, but the per-user customisation shouldn't be an issue unless you're logged in or have stuff added to the cart, so a general spike in traffic shouldn't (theoretically) affect it.


Maybe it makes sense to load off as much as possible from the static assets to another host, e.g. gitlab pages as "static.pine64.org" or similar?

I mean, most of the WP related assets do not have to be served through PHP necessarily, so they can free up some connections very easily.

If you need help with the webdev side of things to optimize/simplify more on the CSS/JS side, I'd love to help out in this project.


I wonder if you can serve directly on a different domain and put CF on the primary?


I've enjoyed working on an enterprise, GIS-focused application over the past few years (with no prior, formal geographic background) and one of the take-aways I always enjoy sharing with family and friends is the "point in polygon" question [0] and it's simplicity. I'm fun at parties. I have certainly learned how much more intuitive data is for users to explore when you offer (if you can) spatially.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon#Ray_casting_a...


Are you really doing the test in the wikipedia article over and over? Why not convert a complex polygon to triangles? Things like this were established in computer graphics in the 70s.


What has this book taught you that could be applied outside DynamoDB? I'm close to buying but the price is kinda steep... if however I can take away some general NoSQL insight then I'm sold.

Edit: nevermind, I see another review elsewhere and the author replying. Though, your opinion would still be appreciated! :)


Huh, I've been using Fedora on my personal T460 for a few years (now on 31) without any major breaking issues. Performs well, upgrades well, bought refurbished for ~$500 of Amazon, bought it extra RAM and an SSD, good life w/standard battery, I can't remember ever hearing the fans run medium/high, uses the standard Thinkpad docking station just fine, and more I'm sure. I'll edit my post if I remember anything worth mentioning.

A few minor issues that seem to get resolved by software updates within weeks of breaking installations:

- The touchpad goes out, so I'll use the red keyboard nub or reboot the machine.

- Sometimes can't use the touchscreen (between larger upgrades) but I don't use this often, it wasn't supposed to have one!

- Screen can flicker in GNOME when bouncing between workspaces (Windows + Page Up/Down)

Even then, these issues may just be my own machine/configuration!

Others have mentioned being wary of pre-installed Lenovo support, and I can agree. While I'd still replace their Fedora for my own install, they'd certainly help my confidence that the laptop was built to fit Linux expectations.


I had the same issue with the touchpad going out on my Thinkpad, running Ubuntu. This would always happen after coming out hibernation so I wrote a systemd service[1] that runs a small shell script [2] after coming out of hibernation.

[1] https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/bfa498000f52fbf1b581b9a0...

[2] https://gist.github.com/briandeheus/3c765d520680053da54b680d...


Thank you!.. I'll keep your gists in-mind if I ever come across this trackpad issue again. Thinking about it, since Fedora 30 or 29, I don't actually remember encountering this problem - I know where to come back to if I do though! Thanks again!


Thanks for sharing. I've been running the same modprobe commands, but manually using a bash alias. I'm going to use your systemd script going forward.


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