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I just checked my closest Microcenters (in Illinois.) 12 in Westmont and 25+ in Chicago (for $18) Zero W were 13 and 25+ respectively at $15. Long gone are the days when they would…

> Not sure what that has to do with the owl--"teasing" I wonder if they're just amusing themselves (by being little jerks.) One day in early spring, I thought I heard a Red Tail Ha…

I already do: https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3 The tool chains that Espressif seem to work pretty well with these as well as their earlier (some sort of RISC) pr…

I suspect they're looking at the cost of implementing a one time refund/credit vs. reducing prices without the need to implement anything special. Yes, I'm being charitable but not…

Would it make sense to consider anything that prevents a process from completing it's intended function an error? It seems like this message would fall into that category and, as y…

> A good old ICE car will be cheaper to make than an EV How much of that is the result of the relatively maturity of the technology? We've been continuously improving ICE based tra…

Our kids have a Rottweiler that loves to chase a ball, Bring it back and then dare us to try to take it away from her. She can drop if convinced. Or I have a second ball that is mo…

I was thinking of that in terms of siloed web sites but your description of walling off information is broader and more appropriate.

https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic looks like it is no longer maintained. Is there something more recent for syntastic? Agreed WRT shellcheck.

Coincidentally the 2.5 admins podcast just published an episode on ZFS basics: Why ZFS https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-256/ ZFS relates to backups. In my case (among the many thin…

It shipped in the release version but was disabled according to a note on Wikipedia. > Microsoft disabled the AARD code for the final release of Windows 3.1, but did not remove it …

I'd like to emphasize "Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets" because I don;t and I suppose anyone not intimately familia…

> A lot of that power currently gets discarded instead. How is power discarded? I would expect peaking generation to be cut back or perhaps even base load plants can reduce output.…

> sword I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but I bet a fair bit of metallurgy was learned producing a better sword.

> customers always wanted to change "something" ... > multiple drafts after each other with the first one being the "lightening rod draft". This reminds me of something I learned i…

Will I be struck down or downvoted into oblivion if I mention man2html? Definitely not light weight since it also installs Apache, but I do like to view man pages in the browser. I…

The budget for the NPS is so small that if they shut it down, the effect on the deficit would be too small to measure. But someone would still need to manage those properties so it…

> I'll take a Lexical editor with SQLite to store my data any day. Do you have tools that do this or an example? I'm pretty happy with Markdown and mkdocs (on Linux) to manage and …

https://photos.app.goo.gl/wEJJAqsyXVjhT5jW7 Maybe jumping spider? The iridescent colors were spectacular.

> > this is more like "requesting the data to be deleted". > Ideally the court can compel the purchaser(s) to destroy the data. I suppose a court order holds more weight than check…

As a teen I worked in a pet shop and a Mynah - the shop pet - had learned to imitate a squeaky hamster wheel.

> Blue Jays imitate the calls of Red-tailed, Red-shouldered, and Broad-winged hawks, for example. I've seen this. We've had Red Tailed Hawks nesting in the area and used to hear th…

> DDR5 memory training. That makes sense. I also have a newer host that uses DDR5 RAM. The first time I powered it up, I thought it was not working. While I was sitting there tryin…

I have an old server motherboard that does not support UEFI. Otherwise it still runs fine. I came here to ask why it matters to the GPU how the host boots. Does it need to load som…

Before that I tried to get to the moon. I climbed the nearest tree. Good progress at first ...