It’s because the Sun is behind it.

All more proof that the Earth is a cylinder.

It’s a very popular joke. I have no idea how many people take it seriously, since those would probably not say they do.

I imagine most people that buy a candle like that do it for somebody else’s birthday to imply the other person is gay.

Last time I said “No! This is getting silly!” and decided to try all those language-server GUI text editors I lost a couple of weeks and decided to nuke my emacs config and make LSP actually work there instead.

You can always do pre-Modern web development. There’s nothing stopping you.

In fact, with the modern browsers, it’s better than ever.

If you want to look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakdown_voltage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschen's_law

Technically there are no arcs in vacuum. Things work differently there, the discharge voltage depends on the electrode material and temperature.

What are prerequisites for arcing?

Each insulator (air is one) has an specific minimum voltage/distance ratio for an arc to appear.

Those probably wouldn’t arc even if their surface was electrified. But as a sibling already noted, their surface is insulated. They would be extremely sensitive to any kind of dirty, though.

In some ways, that lag is good. You can cheaply replace batteries with just a thermal mass.

But it’s not good enough to make up for the cost difference.

Generating electricity by boiling water used to be the cheapest option, but nowadays it’s a bottleneck that itself is way more expensive than the alternatives that people actually build.

It only got cheaper with time, though. It’s the alternatives (PV, wind, batteries, gas) that improved a crazy amount.

Turns out that sunlight is very cheap. You need a lot of efficiency to justify any extra cost.

No, neither will it be cheaper.

People stopped building those some years ago.

(But those incredibly expensive concentrators with a single tower are more efficient. Nobody is building those anymore either.)

You mean sourceforge?

99.99%

TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.

But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it’s also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.

Even in recent movies, when people look at the stars, they are mostly not there anymore.

Well, that was his day job…

Oh, it’s limited. But you will only discover it if you look at the bug-tracker.

People have been losing their cursors since the Xerox labs days.

Demons on one side, microorganisms on the other.

And censorship.

TIL that Antarctica is an archipelago.