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We're currently using supabase in production. I was already planning to leave them. I feel like it's close to good, but still really does have a _lot_ of bugs. It really doesn't fe…

The desire of fastener tension is clamping force or fastener stretch in some cases, not fastener torque. I think what the parent is saying is that a perfectly torqued fastener is o…

I would highly recommend that you check out the documentary ”Pianomania” if you haven’t seen it already. It follows a Steinway piano tuner as he tunes instruments for a few famous …

Where did you find the tracker in the car?

I frequently think about doing writing an app or web service, but then talk myself out of it by thinking that the effort is much greater than it sounds and those efforts would be b…

The author clearly should have gone into the specific use-cases he was talking about. An IDE _is_ nothing more than a text editor with advanced features. There's a huge continuum f…

I think this also ignores that video games are _vastly_ more complicated than the space shuttle - from a "computers" perspective. The did some very impressive things with some nove…

My headphones are only paired with my macbook and my android phone. I always am walking with the headphones paired with my phone, so that's one of the two devices. The only other d…

My bluetooth headphones connect to my macbook pro when come home from work and my laptop is sitting on the kitchen table. My headphones tell me "two devices connected" when I walk …

Because they are made of human beings and live on planet Earth. A better question is why do we think companies shouldn't care about that? Why isn't it their responsibility?

The movie theater one is actually kind of interesting. There is a certain maximum audio power that a room can sustain before loosing fidelity. I think _all_ sound engineers know ab…

The final point you made, where you stated: > Note that I am using browser extensions, like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger, but I'm only doing so for privacy reasons. is, I think,…

I think this largely ignores "how" ads are distributed. The website you are looking at did not select _any_ of the ads you see. They chose a network who is delegating that placemen…

I think a lot of this is just some weird expectations. You cannot _use_ a database without knowing sql. ORMs work great, but you have to know sql to use them properly. What if you …

Came here thinking that this was _finally_ a way to cap your costs and set your own quota and price caps for various aws services in hopes of avoiding that random 1k bill for a per…

I probably own the final Mazda that has a "touch screen"... If you could ever really call Mazda's touch screen a touch screen. A lot of the things that drive a poor experience with…

It seems to me like this is going to come up in the future "everyone who bought an iDevice" vs Apple antitrust lawsuit. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/supreme-court…

It seems like there's something getting lost here. A lot of comments and even articles make it sound like Apple is retaliating against fb at random, which is not true. FB had an in…

It's interesting to see so many new businesses forget the lessons that previous businesses learned. Brand identity and trust used to be the foundation of businesses, and at some le…

Since a lot of this has been coming up I thought many people might like to know the basics of how the auto-thrust system is used. Some of this information could be slightly inaccur…

This should help a little: -400 : Likely the 747-400. One of the variants of the 747 UAL : United Airlines Asiana : This is the airline of the plane that crashed at SFO. Right Seat…

I believe the weather information comes from both an on board doppler radar and ACARS. ACARS is basically text messaging for airplanes over VHF.