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Trees are wonderful for a number of reasons, and the need for them for local climate, which includes shading and their contribution to local humidity, is important as well. They ar…

The funny part is that people think that Zigbee and Matter are open :) All three of them have their shortcomings. Matter requires an unsecured IPv6 network to operate; I have my do…

A mixture of threads and processes that can be used to match processors, disk I/O, and network interfaces. A very long time ago, there was once a feature called "Data Blades" which…

Why not use a crossover driver? The loudspeaker would have used one; a driver is both cheaper and of higher quality.

If you don't need to manage cooling? Then you are likely needing to manage humidity.

It does have its use cases :)

"I’ve noticed that we just don’t have outdoor cats in our neighborhood" Stop neutering cats, encourage alley cats.

You obviously have not been following Subaru, while what you are saying was once true, it has not been true for several years now. Google "Subaru battery", read about all of the ad…

US Law, i.e. Federal Law, for e-bikes is 15 U.S.C. 2085(b) and additionally Title 28 Chapter I Part 36 Subpart A § 36.105. Pedaled vs throttle is an ablest issues; not everyone has…

MySQL never had a problem with scaling to multi-core systems; Linux on the other hand did have a problem and its problems became everyone's problems. In the early 2000's the answer…

A number of years ago when my daughter was in the second grade the school expected them to turn in homework via this crappy power point knock-off app that would constantly crash. I…

Trump's attorneys did not say "the special counsel that prosecuted him was not properly appointed by an act of Congress", Justice Thomas brought this up in oral arguments. Trump's …

How would Meta/Facebook accomplished this without reading Amazon's communication with its customers? You have at least two parties in any conversation, I don't see where Youtube or…

Running a VPN service would not be wiretapping, but that is not what they were doing, and understand they had multiple avenues that they explored. If you want to focus on just the …

That story links to a different document filed with the courts. Additionally, the scope is wider than just what Onavo did for Facebook. There are comments being made in that post a…

What I find really surprising is that Amazon has not sought criminal prosecution of Meta. Even if in all cases a user selected to allow Facebook/Meta to see what they were communic…

Has Subaru been doing this as well with their STARLINK?

With vim you can restrict syntax highlighting by scope and/or folding, limelight.vim provides a good example how to implement this.

Privileged myopia is certainly is alive in thriving! I say this as someone who bikes their kid around most of the time; I love biking but it is way of life that only a minority of …

The description on the OpenThings website is misleading, the add-on module is an off the shelf commerical remote that is being shorted in order to operate the door. The ratgdo devi…

You are describing the plot to Robert Heinlein's short story "Coventry".

The film "War of the Worlds(2005)" has effects going down to 20 Hz; to play it you will need an ATMOS AV receiver that has an LFE port to feed the signal to an amp that has LFE inp…

There are no announcements by Hue to developers that the CLIP API is going away, so I suspect there is a lot over speculation based on a clueless Twitter post made by some droid th…