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I think battery life is the most important. My Garmin Instinct 2 goes about 3.5 weeks between charging (the older non-OLED screen). It has solar, so I usually go over a month. But …

our family has had a special 'code word' we have had since the kids were in elementary school. If someone ever needed to pick up our kids from school (they never did) our kids were…

Here in America, if you or I get shot, a detective gets assigned the case along with 30 other cases on their desk. When a CEO gets shot, the largest city assigns an unlimited numbe…

Only if we also add Social Security numbers, since it was supposed to be a unique Identitifier (like an email) and not a secret.

A commercial driver has a physical every year, severe restrictions on how they can drive, hours behind wheel, etc. But if you have 2 cataract surguries, oncoming dementia, and a bo…

and when they can't get lots of "we don't accept unverified calls" messages, they will fix the problem.

Logical replication needs a special 'upgrade' use case that will automate most of its pain points away. I understand why DDL does not replicate, and that you may want to replicate …

My State is essentially screwed for budgeting, because for years, our public retirement system garunteed "AT LEAST 8%" to accounts. Some years was much higher. I have a parent that…

Their insurance rates will go up. Its not like they are cutting a check from their county budget...

Does your company require the pin? Or more importantly, does the company that your company pays for Cyber insurance require the pin? I have never seen a company where they require …

are you seriously arguing that Teacher unions are just as bad? Teachers don't have the power to weild state sanctioned violence on you. I mean, maybe you could argue about Fire Dep…

That was our struggle with implementing "blocking" tech at a school I worked at. Is a kid looking up how to do a breast self exam porn? What about a self testicular exam.. What abo…

I looked at taking the train from my town to Glacier National Park along with my bike. The route goes from Portland and Seattle to Chicago, and has a stop at south glacier. Step 1,…

> Not adjusting for inflation and quality really damages the integrity of the comparisons, as does cherry picking your base examples. But then they also need to make sure to also m…

gorge = george

We recently moved from Barman to pgBackrest. Our main complaints with barman were that incremental backups utilized hardlinks. Which was great, we could have our 7TB database backe…

The project has never even had a donation button on its page, only a link with a few sponsors.

Ozempic in the US just had its price reduced to $499 for a pen with a few 2mg doses...

Kids are smart. My school district has sealed pouches.. Its amazing how many kids throw an old phone in there, and put their actual one away hidden on silent. Which I guess gets lo…

its a blanket rule, which has almost no exceptions. So there are some silly parts. One of my kids is in band and the school uses YONDER pouches. They have had to dig out some reall…

A famous case of this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile where the man identitified he had a concealed carry, the cop told him not reach for it, he starte…

Its a double edged sword. yes, it stifles renewable energy innovation, but those rules are usually put in place in a more general sense, and you would really want them in place if …

They both showed up in person, because that was NOT the first time that had happened.

I have seen what happens with garbage-in/garbage-out in databases, so this kind of stuff terrifies me. I often think of a case where we had a person listed twice in our database, w…