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It seems strange to me to attribute this to the 70s oil crisis vs factors like expectations of unceasing profit growth leading looking for any and all efficiencies, or globalizatio…

And not merely "some developers", but a member of the Redis Core Team: https://redis.io/blog/redis-core-team-update/

It took me 4-5 attempts to not read: > If you saw that code, you wouldn't _defy_ it

Looks like it's https://smallandroidphone.com/

Oh wow, the 2024 Prius Prime has a full 3 seats in back. When we were Prius shopping in 2018, we were disappointed to learn that getting plug-in capability cost an extra $10K and r…

I mean, Planet's been doing that since before Starlink had a constellation, and what it can do is "image every inch of the globe at least once each day". https://www.planet.com/

> It's not as though you'll be rolling it out across multiple environments. Definitely not for home use, but I could imagine a place for an open source server to manage a commercia…

> Why would they all fail at the same time unless they're networked? Because temperature swings in the area over the weekend caused some physical issue in the devices? Because some…

Is there an actual indication that these are connected to a network? Depending on how these devices work, some failure may have caused them to get reset to a factory default, requi…

> essentially second hand smoke This is a weird argument to me, since second hand smoke causes cancer. I agree that we're probably more distracted than is good for us, and there ar…

My table has made great use of https://shmeppy.com for remote-play maps. The maps it makes are much less sophisticated (just painting color on the squares and lines of a grid). Wha…

In the chain of custody that is shipment, though, it IS easy to check for violated detectors before accepting custody of the package, and refusing to accept responsibility for it.

Rounding 4.7 years to 5 seems like a perfectly acceptable estimate for a comment.

Wasn't it WordPad that shipped free, and Works or Word that were upsells?

Because of the elevation of parts of CA & AZ, it's absolutely possible to encounter snow and ice (and even whiteout conditions on interstate highways!) in those states, if you make…

Good News! AWS Support is saying that the cancellation was an error that they're working to correct: https://twitter.com/AWSSupport/status/1151567356394659849

Many manufacturers DO have discounted student pricing (not that it's publicly mandated).

I'm not sure the takeaway here is that anybody's conferring personhood on Alexa. I think they're just pointing out that there's meaning conveyed in speech beyond just the content o…

Kauai (home of one of the rainiest places on Earth) has had hydro power for decades. It's currently only a small percentage of the island's total generation capacity, but it absolu…

I think it's fair to assume it's "not a lot" because they weren't attempting to create an exhaustive list of mutually beneficial mergers and acquisitions.