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There is a fantastic episode of Sawbones that goes into how we discovered vitamin K and why doctors started giving it to newborns. It cut infant mortality by a significant amount. I recommend it for anyone who has doubts or who just geeks out over science.

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-vitamin-k/


I remember when creating a zip file from the finder filled it with a bunch of resource fork files that confused the hell out of anyone opening it on windows.

It didn't have access to any db. In short: It went looking in the codebase for a credential to manage the staging environment, found a testing credential unrelated to anything it was doing, that the devs didn't know had permissions to administer anything, and then used that to delete the wrong db.

Given that the layoffs began in 2023, we're well into it

It's linkedin fluff. Probably LLM generated as well. It has that long-running-paragraph-repeating-the-same-points-multiple-times that speaks to someone asking an LLM to make an essay longer.


You only think it's soft because nothing in your life relies on it. For the companies who were hosted there it was a pretty big deal.

Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.

A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.


I think "soft target" means it doesn't have a lot of military defenses, not that it's unimportant.


It all makes a lot more sense when you find out they want to declare anything lgbtq related as pornographic.

The right has figured out that they can keep queer kids (especially trans kids) in the closet if they don't let them learn what their "difference" actually is. It's "don't say gay" applied to the internet.


> Maybe it's time to build a new Reddit? :)

Lemmy is serving my former reddit needs quite well.


Shame it keeps blowing up


I would love to see a new take on backbone in the modern web without any jQuery integration. I genuinely miss how easy and powerful backbone views are.


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