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>...data centers are better neighbors than almost any other commercial real estate The biggest reason I wouldn't want a data center next door as opposed to an office building is th…

>No, of course not. I just do the surface-level things that make the lawn and shrubs thrive. And others want the green lawn and big bushy shrubs, but don't want to learn all of the…

Offsite retreats seem like a bad idea in general, I've never been to one where I felt the team or company worked together better afterwards, and I've seen some spectacularly bad re…

The parent poster said "Economy plus", not "Premium Economy". And while the names are confusingly similar, Economy Plus is usually a seat with extra legroom (but no additional widt…

>And I flat out do not understand how some of the supplement stores survive. I think mostly through placebo effect, people buy a supplement to treat condition X and they think it's…

>This radar system is ideal for protecting larger properties, with its range of up to half a mile and adjustable detection zone. It’s old school: With no Wi-Fi or app needed, you s…

If I go out bowling with friends, I'm there to socialize with my friends. If I rent the lane from a Kiosk, I'm fine with that being the end of the transaction I don't need the mana…

I do wonder if conversational AI has a place for those who don't otherwise have someone to talk to. We just moved away from a condo where my wife was the only friend our elderly ne…

I created a user for my wife, set up the Protect App on her phone and she has the same access to the cameras as me.

How is that not temporary? "Ok, you asked for an exemption for a minimum of 18 months, we're granting you what you asked for, an 18 month exemption".

And not just informed professional traders -- also insiders with privileged information about world events that let them trade before the news hits. Now AI agents are going to be c…

Does that really scale well? Thanks to cascading dependencies, even a medium sized project can import hundreds of dependencies. Can a developer really review them all to figure out…

>How are these fruits "stolen" if they still have what was allegedley stolen? If you write a book and I take it and embed its knowledge into my product that is so pervasive that no…

> PH = Plug-in hybrid (Same as a hybrid but you can charge up the hybrid battery at home) You can , but in practice most people don't. And I can understand why -- it's inconvenient…

>I don't believe it's necessary to have multiple GPS antennas (one per device), unless signal path redundancy is required Don't those splitters typically have an amplifier, so beco…

It's almost certainly caused by man as all of the evidence suggests that it is. But if it's not, that's a much more serious problem since if it's some unknown natural phenomena we …

I have a much higher BP when I first go to the office than after I'm sitting in the exam room for a bit. Usually they call me back to the hallway where they check my weight, then h…

But those idiots "in charge" are what matters, right? Since they set the tone for the department, and lately they sure are acting more like a DoW than a DoD.

I like having location in my photo album (so I can easily search for vacation photos, or figure out where a photo was taken), but I don't want it stored in the photo metadata I sha…

>the fact that it scans for specific extensions sounds more like a product of an API limitation (i.e. no available getAllExtensions() or somesuch) Why should a website be able to s…

Bars are dying and are on thin margins so they have to do short pours, but if I just talk to a bartender, he'll give me plenty of free beer?

No one likes feeling like they got less than they paid for, but without regulation, how do you know that you got less than you paid for unless you're going to carry around a measur…

The problem with buying a $2000 iPhone as a status symbol is that no one knows whether you bought the $1100 256GB model or the $2000 1TB model unless you tell them. But someone tha…

The requirement came from the investment house - they wanted data in the format they were accustomed to. What was driving that requirement at the investment house doesn't matter, w…

Their initial need for Office was some soft of forecasting model that they needed to update for a large investor. That was a big spreadsheet that ran on Office for OSX if I remembe…