Even so, there are elements in the second Back to the Future that still play like gangbusters today, particularly in the sequences set during 2015. To be sure, part of the charm now is what those wild guesses about the future got wrong—such as the idea we’d all be driving around in flying cars, or even simply own cheap cars that didn’t run on fossil fuels. There were no real hover boards in 2015 (or 2021 for that matter), nor even automated Texaco pumps....

Santa doesn’t get special treatment in the first episode of season 1, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire,” which was titled onscreen as “The Simpsons Christmas Special.” The episode premiered on Dec. 17, 1989, when the world still treated Father Christmas with respectful kid’s gloves. “There’s only one fat guy that brings us presents and his name ain’t Santa,” says Bart, who never wears mittens, not even in winter. Little did he know, but his father would live up to that bit of foreshadowing in ways no one, except for writer Mimi Pond, could have seen coming....

Are you in the same situation as I was? Here is how I fixed it, and you can do it too. Using Code If you are comfortable editing the PHP file, then this is recommended. Login to your WordPress server or if on shared hosting then go to cPanel » File Manager Traverse to the theme folder and add the following in functions.php file Note: as a best practice, take a backup of the file before modifying it....

After Elon bought Twitter, blue check marks have become a topic of debate among social media users. The original idea was to fight off bot accounts (and generate revenue). But the paid subscriptions paved the way for comedy (as promised) and countless parody accounts. This created uncertainty and misinformation, undermining the intended agenda. So now that we have many blue check marks on Twitter, it’s important to differentiate between the paid ones (Twitter Blue) and the legacy verified accounts that met the previously set standards....

Even in this era of social media, the effectiveness of email marketing is still on. An email can reach the inbox of the recipients, making it a fruitful marketing channel for large businesses. Using the email blast approach, you can reach thousands of potential customers. Let’s dive in to know more about this email marketing component. What Is Email Blast (eBlast)? Email blast is a type of email marketing. It refers to the act of sending one email to a large number of subscribers simultaneously....

Metascraping is extracting the webpage’s metadata from the meta tags of a webpage. The metadata of a webpage is information about the page but not the page’s content. For example, the metadata may include the author’s name, title, and the web page’s description. It helps users and search engines understand what the page is about. Scraping metadata allows a user quickly collect information about web pages in less time. Several approaches can be used to scrap webpages for their metadata, including scraping manually, using a library, or using an API such as the Geekflare Metascraping API....

NFS lets you share the file system on more than one server, but implementation requires some administration skills. In a traditional infrastructure environment, you may have to involve multiple teams, and it would take time to create NFS. But if you are using AWS, you can get it done in a few minutes with their EFS (Elastic File System) service. AWS EFS lets you create scalable file storage to be used on EC2....

Node.js popularity is growing faster than ever. If you recently started learning Nodejs development, then one of the first things you need to do is to install them. Technically, there are multiple ways to get things installed but following the easy and right process will make life much easier. The following, I’ve tested on the DigitalOcean server. Let’s get it started. Ubuntu 16.x or 18.x The latest version of Nodejs is not available through the default repository....

In 2014, Solidity was proposed for the first time, and Ethereum’s Solidity team consistently worked on developing it. Currently, there are thousands of developers around the world using Solidity for creating blockchain-based services. You will find plenty of use cases of Solidity in the current world. Now, let us understand a bit more about Solidity so that you can get a good idea about it. What is Solidity? Solidity is an object-oriented programming language created by the Ethereum Network team for designing and developing Smart Contracts in the Blockchain world....

The next digital revolution is upon us, with plenty of opportunities for early-bird users to earn. The virtual realm known as the Metaverse opens doors to exciting income-generation opportunities. Individuals and some big tech giants are already betting on their metaverse projects being the next big thing. If you know very little about it, you are still in time because an estimated 99 percent of the world’s population doesn’t even know it exists....

Slicing Python supports negative index slicing along with positive slicing. Negative index starts from -1 to -(iterable_length). We will use the negative slicing to get the elements from the end of an iterable. The index -1 gets you the last element from the iterable. The index -2 gets you the 2nd last element from the iterable. And it continuos till the first element. Let’s see an example. The above program will print the last and first characters from the string using negative indexing....

We will build a database service using SQLite and allow users to access it via a REST API using HTTP methods such as POST and PUT. In addition, we will get to know why JSON web tokens is a suitable way to protect rest API instead of digest and basic authentication. Before we proceed, let’s understand the term JSON web tokens, REST API and Flask framework. JSON Web Tokens JSON web token, also known as JWT, is the secure way of transferring random tokens between two parties or entities....

HTTP3 or H3 is the latest HTTP protocol developed by IETF. It’s still in a draft and expected to be supported by major browser/clients soon. H3 is based on the QUIC transport layer network protocol, which was originally designed by Google. It’s different than earlier versions like H2, which was derived from SPDY protocol. Cloudflare published a great blog post explaining the technical implementation. Worth reading it. At the time of writing, very few server-side application/webserver/network devices/CDN support H3....

Mark Zuckerberg is far too excited when it comes to voice technology. A yet to be named Facebook Assistant is in the works. And he is personally testing “Jarvis AI” in his home. Fun fact: Morgan Freeman provides the voice of Jarvis for Zuckerberg. Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Imagine being as cool as Tony Stark in a few years? That dream is not far from turning into reality today. That’s how we know we have arrived in the post-mobile world!...

And the star obliged them recently when he donned Logan’s fabled adamantium claws on a Broadway stage. So to speak. In a moment that went viral over the weekend, especially after Jackman shared it, a fan at the curtain call of The Music Man in the Winter Garden Theatre had good enough seats to catch Jackman’s eye when he brought along a foam set of Wolverine’s claws. Ever an actor who knows how to work a crowd—Jackman’s first Tony came from the semi-improvisational role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz—Jackman had those claws brought up on stage and happily put them on....

Sketch comedy has gone through endless permutations that have ultimately turned the medium into one of our most subversive and digestible forms of humor. Sketch comedy can placate the mainstream or go so far in the opposite direction it makes anti-comedy blush. Sketch comedy can embrace its inherent lack of a larger narrative or push the form to break boundaries with other sketch series that thrive on structure and connective tissue....

As a site owner, who doesn’t like to make every possible thing to load the webpage faster? Ensuring site loads faster consistently worldwide is challenging. There are several things you can do to load the site resources quickly, including enabling the following browser hints. They are also known as pre-browsing techniques. Note: browser hints techniques don’t help much when you access the website for the first time, but subsequent requests are faster....

WARNING: System settings for this system do not meet recommendations for this product See the log file at “/tmp/mqconfig.4192.log” for more information Are you experiencing the same issue? IBM MQ recommends having a minimum configuration as follows: – fs.file-max = 524288 nofile = 10240 Configure fs.file-max Take a backup of /etc/sysctl.conf Open /etc/sysctl.conf with a text editor and add the following Save the file. To load this setting immediately, you have to execute sysctl –p command else it will be loaded in the next system reboot....

A viewer could be forgiven then, for approaching a drama about a cohort of graduate interns at a top London investment bank in a spirit of mean-hearted glee. What knobbers has the show lined up for us to loathe? Will it be all burning £50 notes in front of homeless people, doing bumps off the face of a Philippe Patek and high-fiving over sex workers’ backs, or just mostly that?...

“This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.” In this statement released to The Register, Dell confirmed that these shipment restrictions were enacted in response to power consumption laws imposed by California and other states: “Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs, and mobile gaming systems....