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> Many phone cameras are already quite good. Of course, you and I know that. But most people just listen to the marketing material. My mother's most used feature on her phone is th…

Yup, I had an issue filed against an open source project I work on. Was a crazy weird crash. The reporter actually spent the effort to track it down, turns out it _was_ a Go compil…

Also, it's not always about vulnerabilities directly, but how well / fast things are patched.

Cheap pans. Thin-walled that doesn't distribute heat evenly. So hot spots burn the pasta to the walls. Secondly, not stirring at all. Boiling will do some circulation, but you have…

> "none, loyalty goes only one way and trust me when I tell you that no-one is safe" Yup, I know someone who had been there since 2006 that was laid off. Not even high scores on Pe…

Many "blind" people are not 100% blind. Visual impairment is a sliding scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPymLgfXSY

Most of the water use is in evaporative cooling. Not really a way to re-use water that's now in the air. This, in part, is how Google gets an average PUE of 1.1. Which is _really_ …

In Finland, time of day electric use meters have existed for something like 20 years. Someone I know who lived north of the arctic circle had a home heating system that would heat …

Yea, it was great. But it was more lack of maintenance than anything. The original chat devs were passionate about open federation. The new devs were not. Add to that it was a big …

Google ended up with a bunch of chat apps because the culture promotes building new over keeping things running. The first chat was basically an XMPP service. It was decent, it fed…

This is spot on. The issue was a culture of new over improve. It had the upside of making some things more integrated. MR and issues and CI work much better together than GitHub or…

Ugh, speedbumps are so dangerous. Sure, they make you slow down for them. But drivers now want to "make up" for that slow down. So they drive even faster between them.

> garden leave It's called the same thing in Germany. The term also applies to when you quit, but the employer wants to cut your access to the company ahead of your contract termin…

This is functionally how it works in Germany. Usually reserved for C-level types. It's also done because it not allowed to have anti-poaching clauses IIRC.

Bonus points for the menu PDF file being hundreds of megabytes because it's their high res file for the printing company. Double bonus if their restaurant is a mobile service dead …

The fix is to make it so you aren't left stranded in life without a car. Car dependency is just as bad a disease as any. Cars give you the freedom to go anywhere, but take away the…

Not 100% silent, but lots of new projectors are based on LED/laser lamps, which produce a lot less waste heat. Plus there's now ultra-short-throw projectors that sit in the front o…

Yea, people are nuts with some of that stuff. My "Computer speakers" are a bit crazy, but all together cost me sub $3k for a Neumann nearfield monitor + sub + DAC combo.

I needed to source food for an event with 500 people. Burger meat was 0.80€ person for 125g, not organic/bio. But good quality from a German butcher. I got Beyond burgers for the v…

Dynamic Range Compression. Pretty much every HT system has had it for 15+ years.

Kids these days and their electricity. They'll never learn to be a good barrel cooper.

Yes. But it depends a bit on the climate where you live. What you're looking for is an air-to-air heat pump. Basically it replaces the outside unit of your traditional air conditio…

That seems unlikely. Driving testing is like a lot of public certifications. You fail because you're unsafe. https://yogov.org/blog/most-common-reasons-people-fail-their... https:/…

Hundreds of petabytes and billions of files in a single filesystem are now "easy mode". That was 10+ years ago. (Former GFS/Colossus/Borg SRE)

Atomic clocks are not required. That's a misunderstanding of what they're used for. The atomic clock thing helps improve performance of Spanner, by tightening the SLO of node-to-no…