When you flush the toilet in an airplane the contents is normally vacuumed in to a holding tank which gets emptied after the plane lands.

Then why have people died from getting hit by frozen pee icicles?

pretty sure that's never happened, it's an urban legend

Was a hardcode PHP dev for many years. A quick look at the code makes me glad I left this ecosystem behind - it looks like a brittle maintenance nightmare! It's no wonder there's trace log lines scattered all over the place. There doesn't seem to even a sniff of anything related to testing here. It's insane to me to try promote this over Laravel.

That’s fair at first glance, but Dataphyre actually includes a built-in diagnostic engine (Dpanel) that: - Validates PHP syntax before runtime - Runs JSON-defined unit tests with dependency checks - Supports perf assertions, expected types, regex, and even custom scripts - Auto-discovers tests inside each module’s unit_tests/ folder - It’s designed to diagnose, trace, and stress-test production modules, not just simulate behavior in CI.

I get that the structure may look unorthodox, but it’s built for resilience and self-healing. Would love for you to take a deeper look, I think you might be surprised.

Actually they don't consume a very large portion of the overall spectrum at all. Nearly all the bands you mention are in the Mhz range or less rather than Ghz and as a result they're not really even suited for WiFi use. The lower frequencies are less optimal for high speed data transfer and also broadcast to a longer range, as well as penetrate buildings more easily than their higher frequency counterparts.

As well as that those bands are already heavily used already - it would make no sense to open these bands up to WiFi.

Nothing like a 3.1 MB PNG showcased as a 400-pixel-wide image :->

Of course it will have at least some environmental impact if the water stops being directed in to plastic bottles and instead is left flow along on the land. 3 gallons a second is still a pretty significant flow of water - at least enough to power a small stream or creek. Nothing in the broader scheme of things of course, but you can't say there's zero environmental impact "whatsoever".

For perspective - 3 gallons a second (180 per minute) is a 2-3" pipe at maximum possible flow rate. In other words, a decent sized fire hose.

For perspective, Strawberry Creek is surrounded by desert or semi-arid biomes, so 3 gallons/second is a lot of water for the area.

I should have been more clear, I think that 3 gallons/second is quite a lot of water; much more than many creeks that I enjoy in the outdoors.

3 gallons a second is not enough to power a small stream or creek. It’s roughly ‘rivulet’ or ‘wet spot’ territory, and only roughly 10x garden hose flow rates at typical household water pressures.

I’m honestly shocked they could run a commercial bottling operation off that. That’s only 180 gpm, or .4 cubic ft/s.

A typical 5000 gallon commercial water carrier truck is going to take about 30 minutes to fill off that, and that isn’t much water by natural standards.

For instance a 100 ft diameter pond, 3 ft deep (quite small) holds 176,256 gallons, and due to soil absorption and evaporation might never fill up from that source. Even if plastic lined and in a non-desert environment (this one isn’t) that’s over 40 hrs at full flow rate to fill it.

On other hand calculating it in roughly 0.5 l bottles make numbers seem tad more sensible. 1 gallon is what 8 0.5 l bottles. So 1440 bottles a minute or 24 per second. And total would be 800 million bottles a year. Which actually seems not unreasonable number to run factory on. Gallon is not 4 litres, but less, still it is not that slow rate if you think of how much waters go to each bottle.

Good point with those tiny bottles!

Well I'm drinking out of one now, and coke cans are way smaller than this, so tiny isn't the adjective I'd pick.

Doubt you're walking around with a gallon jug in your backpack either.

Most beverages are sold in 0.5L to 1L bottles (a wine bottle is 0.75L), so "those tiny bottles" make the most sense when we're talking about a bottled water company.

I carry around 1 liter bottles, which is about the smallest before ‘consume in one gulp’. But I do drink a lot of water.

Sure, 0.5L is a small bottle, 1L is medium, 2L is large.

I feel like tiny sounds a bit too sarcastic though.

Apparently Nestle bought the operation, and it's been using the water for something other than bottled water:

    ... "for months BlueTriton has indicated it has bottled none of the water taken,”
    while also significantly increasing the volumes extracted.

Sounds like they've been up to something shady.

If taken to the extreme I can't help but quote Carl Sagan :-)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

If the scheme is not lowercase it seems to erroneously detect malware and provides a zip file url for some malware which does not exist on the page. Seems like a bug !

example URL "with" malware: Https://cnn.com example URL without malware: https://cnn.com

All the js asset sizes quoted in the article seem inflated compared to the figures I see when I try to verify the authors figures.

already posted ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201073

This is a real pity. With this latest move it seems they just ate the new kid on the block. Akamai in my experience is not cheap, certainly not to the level Stackpath was. I saw big cost savings by switching from an Akamai CDN setup to stackpath.

As a Stackpath customer, I also received an email from Akamai welcoming me aboard. They provided a helpful where I could start a 90 day trial of several competing services ... none of which seemed like a like-for-like match, leaving me a bit confused. There's also no indication of pricing (typical Akamai). Seems like it's time to look for an alternative.

May I ask how much you were paying Stackpath per year, as Akamai "welcomed" you aboard and I don't think they are doing that for all customers?