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The geopolitical stability is now cheaper[1] than the debt service. Naturally, that calls into question the incredibly low interest rates, and the reserve currency status. If you n…

Layman's guess: wings push air down, air pushes wings up. An everyday experiment is sticking your flat hand out the window of a moving car. With slight wrist rotations, you'll find…

Not to pick on Rails, sorting files into "models / views / controllers" seems to be our first instinct. My pantry is organized that way: baking stuff goes here, oils go there, etc.…

Not Linux specific, but the thermal paste is pretty poor. Mine disintegrated in two years of heavy use. (13", Intel 12th gen) Popping off the heat sink to apply a fresh dab is no b…

If it had any "parts," there would be seven trillion dollars' worth. But it's actually all just taxes.

> To say that the government is too big and complex and it should be smaller and simpler feels like a drastic oversimplification and incredibly simple thing to say. I can stipulate…

Terminal, sadly.

Turnkey web hosting. Drag and drop your build folder, get a URL. Or point it to your git repo.

> in my experience drug addicts are not very good at hiding it when they lose control Not sure if it's relevant, but psychedelics (mushrooms) broke a college friend after minimal r…

The opening paragraph is occluded by a cookie consent banner. That's perfect.

The "shuttle" concept dates to the late 1960's. Great marketing, but the program was intended to finish once a destination was built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_Fr…

Not really. "Post-war" means 1945. "Fiat money" means 1971. "Largest era" means 1981. Grandparent said "collapse," which is what Jenga towers do. Here's the era, in two charts: [1]…

I'd like to remind everyone clamoring for law enforcement that the person who arrests you will be driving to jail at 70 miles per hour, in a 35 mph zone, while using a laptop.

"Hey Google, give me showtimes for Aquaman" opens the assistant on my phone, and transcribes my request correctly. There's a Nest mini (2nd gen) two meters away, but the device tha…

The fan at full load (i5-1240P) is noticeable, but not obtrusive or unpleasant. My noise floor is a Be Quiet! desktop case. In a normal workday, I don't hear it.

"If there is no banner, your Actions project is not a Conversational Action and won’t be affected." Here, "conversational" means your voice command should prompt the app to ask you…

> "Hey Google, add to the shopping list"... was very useful... Then one day Google decided to disable that integration. Now the only shopping list you can add to is one Google prov…

The concept of voting includes the possibility that a plurality of voters reject your preference. You consent to this outcome by participating. When half[1] the population refuses …

Money is never something governments "have." They collect and spend, not necessarily in that order. Accordingly, "their" costs inevitably exceed revenue. It is obvious they're spen…

FWIW, I see no difference. (hyperfine 1.17.0, jq 1.7, jaq 1.2.0) $ hyperfine -N -w 100 -m 1000 -L bin jq,jaq "echo '[1,2,3]' | {bin} '.[1]'" Benchmark 1: echo '[1,2,3]' | jq '.[1]'…

> [Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm's] advance team realized there weren't going to be enough plugs to go around... So an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric…

> you're really wasting a lot of cpu cycles on building up the garbage collector. Are you sure you aren't thinking of JIT compiling? The context where I think of "warmup" is (say) …

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> The BMW Mixed Reality Slider is the central operating control that gradually transforms the windscreen into... a fully virtual world > BMW i Vision Dee is a distinctive companion…

Significant sectors of us (irritated end consumers) are not merely "playing with free products." We purchase hardware (Assistant, Pixel, Nest). We make a living (Play, YouTube, Ads…