What was the biggest age difference between you and your partner? How about you now?

With my previous wife the difference was 16 years by which she was younger, with my current wife (Bianca) it is even bigger, she is 31 Y and I am 55 Y

how is or was that with you?

I came across this on YouTube. It’s a worthy watch. They built a flashlight so bright that it broke through glass. We’re not talking sound. We’re talking light. And it’s about the size of a fiat 500. 



What a project. Absolutely amazing.

I have NEVER been a believer. I swore up and down it was snake oil. And most of it probably is, but I was anything but correct about them on a broad scale. 

I found some oil the other day to treat an ongoing sinus infection. Mind you, no other medication has been able to treat it. Not even prescription antibiotics could wipe it out as fast as essential oil based ones did. And one of them cleared up my sinuses within about two minutes of applying. They cleared up so fast that it actually hurt with how fast they drained. 

No medication has ever done that before. It was literally instant. Drained completely within about two minutes. I was completely and totally shocked.

I think I might have gone from a skeptic to a believer. There might actually be something to this stuff. 

Anyone else tried these before? What were your experiences?

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            Great, the security guard on the left runs away first, then he armed the fire extinguisher 15 meters away, then he started to extinguish it at a distance of 10 meters .. Um, what does it extinguish at 10 meters? and does not go closer than 5 meters .. Magic powder extinguisher? Throwing distance (spraying distance)? So if they are already employing volunteer security guards, then they should not only be there to watch for free, but also master their job. If the Saftycar team had not reacted so well and quickly, Romain ev would no longer be alive, look closely, the RACING DOCTOR even have to help the 2 security guard with fire extinguishers

Dave Prowse, the Bristolian former bodybuilder best known for playing Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, has died aged 85.

Prowse was cast as Vader for his imposing physique, even though the role was voiced by James Earl Jones.

But the weightlifter-turned-actor was most proud of playing the Green Cross Code Man. The role, promoting road safety in the UK, earned him an MBE.

"May the force be with him, always!" said his agent Thomas Bowington.

"Though famous for playing many monsters - for myself, and all who knew Dave and worked with him, he was a hero in our lives."

Dave Prowse
image captionProwse, a personal trainer, and his brother were responsible for starting some of the first gyms in England
Mr Bowington called the actor's death, after a short illness, "a truly and deeply heart-wrenching loss for us and millions of fans all over the world".

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, said he was "so sad" to hear the news.


R.I.P 

When I was in the cinema with my father as a child and Dath Vader saw it for the first time, I was completely AFRAID.

Yes folks, that was an event earlier, CINEMA ... it was a long time ago

Tc4me

This seems like a ridiculous, even laughable question. Of course it will. But why? 

Wordpress powers well over 1/3 of the entire internet alone. And among non-wordpress sites, many of them are using services such as Blogspot or Weebly, or other PHP related scripts. The consumer, entry level market for smaller websites is completely and totally dominated by PHP. 

Developers of course have largely moved elsewhere for larger-scale, commercial projects. Python/Django, Ruby, Rust, Go, Java, etc. are all far better for many uses cases, and are certainly faster and have picked up a lot of ground over the past decade. And truthfully, I would far rather code with Django/Python instead of PHP any day. PHP is one of my least favorite languages, but it's not one I have the luxery of avoiding. 

I started researching alternatives to CMSs and forums that are written in other softwares, and most of them (besides NodeJS options) are relatively obscure and not well-known. I then, naturally, started researching shared hosts (such as Godaddy or Dreamhost), in search for answers as to why. And most of them support other options, but not without a great deal of SSH setup. It isn't exactly a walk in the park to install these applications.

Granted, for any developer, the setup is easy enough to do on SSH. But for the average wordpress owner, SSH is a mystery and somewhat of an enigma. It's never been touched before and would be well beyond the expertise of the vast array of Wordpress websites that existence. Hence, PHP will likely always dominate the mainstream CMS market. And it's sad, in a sense, because other languages would perhaps be even better suited than PHP for writing these kinds of applications.

I'm not sure that could ever change unless we made other options much more accessible for everyday, non-professionals who set up websites. That's not to say that Python, Java, NodeJS, and otherwise have not picked up a ton of ground server side. They are much more common than PHP for companies and businesses, who typically avoid PHP when they can. Django and NodeJS are HUGE, all on their own.

But they're big for companies and developers, not for the everyday Godaddy site owner (who probably doesn't need alternatives anyway). But it's unfortunate, in a sense, because Django would probably be far better suited for writing WP/Drupal styled CMSs, and the market has a barrier to entry for alternatives such as these.

But for the time being, what are your thoughts on PHP's future? Will other options ever become more accessible? Is there a market for easy, ready-made shared Python/NodeJS options for hosting?

Most hosts provide a cPanel to their users. For many years, it's been laughable to even imagine a hosting provider (shared hosting that is) that would not include ONE, but these past few years, that seems to have changed. I'm seeing more and more providers hopping onto DirectAdmin instead. 

I'm starting to look at the differences a lot more closely now. cPanel has the "brand name" advantage, but it appears that "brand name" isn't stopping new hosting providers from looking elsewhere. For the past few years, it's always been a perceived "budget" move for hosts to move away from the industry standard, but lately, it seems that DirectAdmin's rise can be attributed to much more than just better pricing. It actually looks like it's a very serious competitor now. 

• Its software compatibility is FAR better. It doesn't force a CentOS install (and supports Debian/Ubuntu installs as well). This is a huge deal because although both CentOS and Debian are equally well-established, they do a number of things differently. I'm very comfortable on a Debian server (for example), but CentOS is a bit of a mystery for me in some respects. I'm certainly not as experienced with it, so it's nice to have other options.
  
• DirectAdmin supports nginx out of the box, and has done so for years. CPanel responded by finally supporting it last year, but it likely isn't as well tested as DirectAdmin's implementation. This is a problem for cPanel becasue although Apache is fantastic for compatibility, is not good for performance. Most VPS users have long switched to using Nginx as a standard.
  
• DirectAdmin doesn't force you to use limited, outdated precompiled binaries. To be fair, stability is important, so I won't dock cPanel completely on this. But Directadmin doens't force archaic MySQL 5.x releases like CPanel does, and generally seems to be more "with the times." (To be fair, 5.7 is still maintained to this day, but it's lacking many of the improvements that MySQL has been making years. Pretty much anyone using MariaDB has already gotten over the hump of MySQL 5.x compatibility, so I'm surprised CPanel hasn't jumped on board yet.)
  
• The appearance is very streamlined and simple. I personally love the look of DA (on their newer "Evolution" design is sleek). This might just be an opinion, but CPanel simply looks more cluttered and outdated to me. And ease-of-use is an important factor for control panels that are used by millions of blog, forum, and business owners who are not Dev Ops engineers.
  

Hello all, 

We have enabled HTTPS/SSL security for the entire MS community. We ended up using Certbot (as suggested by Thomas and S3_gunzel) - which massively simplified the process compared to the failed attemps for us to do so before. Everything worked without a hitch.

   

The site should be much more secure on public networks and will no longer display the "not secure" message on Chrome. It is also faster (HTTP/2.0) than before. That being said, we had to change a number of CSS/JS/Image URLs througout the theme, so there might have been a couple we missed. If anything looks incorrect or you get a "mixed content" error, let us know in this thread and we will address it promptly! 

Regards, 
-Makestation