What a gentle cat ... I know cats that would have immediately dismantled the things for research purposes.

Cats are scientists.

Market share of WordPress as website platform in 2011 : 13% In 2020 : 38% Yeah, php is not growing. Growing might start to become difficult when you en 40% of the web.

Which of these new websites have large userbase? Anyone can start their Wordpress blog with some limited free hosting and thus increase Wordpress market share. And since internet has grown considerably in the last 10 years more people tried to make their own website. And with Wordpress that is incredibly easy for people who are not technologically inclined.

Sure, websites like TechCrunch, BBC, Playstation Blog or Variety use it but they have done so for a long time. Newer websites/companies are not using Wordpress and maybe not even PHP. Medium runs on combination of Node and Go, Twitch has gone with Ruby on Rails among others, Trello runs on MongoDB and CoffeeScript on the frontend and I could go on.

I think its website need a fast cache.

Actually the web site uses Redis as the only store. And Redis is using 0.1% of CPU. The problem is that Ruby sucks at doing anything scalable. It's just a Ruby/Sinatra app. If you do that in PHP, it will work out of the box with many concurrent accesses. With Ruby not the case. There are ways to deploy it better, but it should be fast as default, which is not the case.

As a lover of Tcl (https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.co...), I'm surprised you're using ruby and not something Tcl-based with its built-in concurrency

I guess it would be interesting if you re-wrote your website in PHP and wrote a blog post about it with the title 'Why I Moved From Ruby to PHP?'

Or just build a proper Ruby implementation

That sounds like a good area on which you might work! :D

NGINX supports Lua scripting. Many years ago I worked on a system which ran a full website on NGINX + Lua + Redis.

Aren't safari users more rich on average, and more willing to spend money on your website?

If you need to track your visitors without thinking about their privacy, perhaps your business model isn't great.

That would be leaving a lot of money on the table up for grabs by your competitors that do know how to see through this situation.

Is there a difference between eclipse and bringing tour plant inside? How is it difficult to simulate a eclipse all year round ?

That's my question. Could you not just put a box over the plant for 5 minutes? Even if it needed to be a more elaborate system to simulate the correct rate of light falling and rising, it would surely be easier than waiting for an eclipse.

That's how biologists study changes and shift in diurnal cycle and circadian rhythm with pretty much every organisms. Rapid eclipse-like changed have been studied in automated incubation chamber. And all this was already known, and was part of my biology text book 20 years ago. That scientific news in NYT is the new normal sensationalism. The plants aren't really shocked. They've dealt with that for millions of year. It's not like they can escape, or turn on the artificial light bulb.

There is an argument for posting articles on established science more often (or well, ever) in the news. Not everybody paid attention in biology class and there is a benefit of not having to post reversal when the next cutting edge article comes out with opposite findings.

"BOATS EXPLAINED: Centuries-Old Problem Solved By Bathtub Nudist"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ndGYn7ZFiZyernp9f/the-beauty...

I guess you don't really know unless you test it.